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MAIDEN
VOYAGE
Vol. 2
No. 3
February 1971
�CALENDAR OF COMING EVENTS
MAIDEN VOYAGE IS PUBLISHED BY BOSTON DOB
.Thur., 2/11-Maiden Voyage comes out .
Myrna Lamb, female liberationist, 8 p.m ., Hayden
Kall, B:U., 685 Commonwealth Ave.
Sat., 2/13 -DOB Valentine Party at Diana Travis' house .
Call 5 22 - 1070 for directions .
Mon. - Tues., March 8, 9 - Women Today , WBZ, plans
to produce a program on homosexuality . More
details coming.
Fri., March 12 - DOB Business Meeting on incorporation .
Fri. - Sun., March 19 - 21- Congress to Unite Women at
Boston University . Kate Millet and Florence Luscome
will be among the speakers . Saturday workshops
include a session on gay women . This is the result
of the New England Women's Coalition Jan . 23 at
B.U.
.
Sun., March 21 - DOB plays football, l p.m. Lars
Anderson Park, Brookline . Rain date is Sunday,
March 28 .
Contributors this issue, Kirn Stabinski, Andy Cox,, Diane
_
B(!nison, Diana Travis, Martha Shelley, Pam Boy a, Laura
Robin
Cover by Diane Benison
The opinions expressed in the publication are not
necessarily those of the organization, but the opinions
of the individual contributors .
DOB OFFICERS
President - Andy Cox
Vice President - Jo Peckarsky
Rec. Secretary - Vacant
Corresponding Secretary - Laura Robin
Treasurer - Rose Tuttle
GAY GROUPS
Gay Women's Liberation -
Call Mary or Nita - 787 -0439
Homophile Union of Boston - Meetings every other
Sunday, 33 Bowdin Street, 282 - 9181
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o
Boston Women United, P ·. . Box 278, Allston, 02134 or
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DOB recommends these persons to members who want
professional advice.
LEGAL
Alan Cook and Michael Buckman , 1514Dorchester Ave.,
Dorchester, Mass. 288 - 4041
PSYCHIATRIC
Dr. Richard Pillard, 6 Bond Street , Boston . 423 - 9722 or
262 - 4200, ext . 5251
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RELIGIOUS
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Martha Shelley
---- 'A gay woman who's a feminist '
byPAMBOYD
More than 100 women crowded into rhe Clarke Room at the Arlin gton Street Church Jan 29 to heat lesbian radical Marth a Shelley offer
her views on subjects rangmg from her arrest for criminal tre spass to bathroom conditions in the New Yo::k City subway system ,
A free lance writ er whose articles have appe ared m 'The Ladde t, ' 'Sisterhood is Powe :fu1' and Women's Liberntion: Blueprint fo r the
Future', she described how attempts to establish a Women's Center in a 40 -year -old,
14story abandoned building in New York City were
thwarted by city official s
'The city sta _rte d an illegal pe rin on saying the building was unsafe and that people wanted the women out , 1be only people complatning were thos e
in the front office and the manage r of a nea rby stme,' she said, She accused the city of 'acting in bad faith' and claimedthat city building
inspecto rs 'deliberately'
damaged the prop eu y so they could declare it unsafe .
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Now facing criminal trespass, Martha and othe rs involved in a pro rest leveled agains th eir eviction have seCllied the services of four lawy ers.
' If the case comes up right away, we can do a big deal because it will rnll
be fresh in people 's minds ,' she said 'We plan to generate
a lot of publicity to bring our plight out in the open . We even have a film chat makes us look great - it will warm the heart of any jw:y !
Although the re are currently more gay groups in New York
'rhnnyou can shakea stick at ,' they are not doing much beyond 'holding
dance s and sending out speakers, ' according to Mar-cha . · "!h ere is no concentrat ed effort to do much else A lot of people are talking, bur
that's about all .'
Martha, who describes herself as a 'gay woman who 1sa fenusisc,· hasn' t done much pub lic speaking in recent month ,, no r is she
active in the Radical Lesbians or New York DOB.
Members of the audience par·tidpated in th e program with qu estions aimed at discovenng mor e about Martha 's views on revolution,
gay philosophies and women's libera tion
In concluding she asked, 'how do you get
1t
into women' s heads that they need to be liberated, when they
think they've been free all along?'
FEAR NOT SHAME
Keepsthe closetdoor closed
..
'Wenwst no longerlook at our closetsas ourprotection \from a hostile straightzoorldthey areplacesof hiding
;
'
by DIANA TRAVIS
I think the only answer for real gay liberati on can come by aboh shing closets We must no longer look at ow do sets as om. ptotect 1on from
a hostile straight world --- e mus e look at them as what they a. e: places of hidin g.
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What seems to me co be keeping mrn.t. people in theu closets is fear of one kind or another --not guile Fear:of what p.uemal 1eact1 will be,
ons
.fear of!~ ing a Job,~
fear of ,ocial..;ostndsm from suai ghc friend s.
WhenI havequeriedthe reasons
many of my fnends havefor remaining their closets,I haveneverheardone say, Im not letting anyone
in
know because ashamedof it'
I'm
Quite the contrary .
.1t
run s moce like , 'Now don 't get the wto ng idea, I 'm proud to
be gay, only i can't nm the risk 0£,. , ' etc . Again and again
I have argued my philosophy of re-evaluating what is important in one's lik- -but I wonde r how much one 's own phil9 sophy can mean to someone
ds e.
Anyway , my arguem ent runs some thing like thi s: ls h 1111po
! tam ro have 'good' family relationahips while denymg part of your self? And in
all reality , how good is th e relationship if you ar e failing to relate as a whole pe rson? Is it impo1 cant to keep the job you are now working ac,
if keeping it means lying about your personal life to your friends at wmk and
to your employer
(if you 're one of thos e few who actually have
that dose conrac t with her employer)? If you can't tecogniz e this as a day to day opp ression that you are putting yourself under, th en surely
(see page 4)
�DOB President And y Cox introduced Martha Sheil ey
Info rmal rap sessions were part of t he< eekend too .
w
·'
Martha Shelley as she spoke in Arlington St reet Church .
' Although
there are currently
more gay groups
in New York
than y ou can shake a stick at
the y are not doing much
beyond
holding
dances and
sending out speakers .
There is no concentrated
effort
to do much else .
A lot of people
o.re
talking,
but that's
about all.'
�Out of the closets
(contim
,
""
•'._'.j
you can see that you are denying part of your exist cnc,:, rati , )l}aii,i th at th is j ob is more important to you than being a c;,ompletein dividual .
112:
Th ere's also th e fear of Losing your friends, whether the 1 he liCc
-long churns or school friends or people y ou enjoy working with . ·1 can only
your 'frie nds ' in one way- don 't you really want to be liked and accepted
attack th e ration ale for hiding your identity as a h omosexual fr u111
for your whole self ? Is a person really what you'd call a friend if she or he would freak out or 'cool ' a friendship
if tha t persons learned you
are gay?
I have been trying to examine th .ese fears head-on and I firmly believe tha t wer are
making
mountains out of what often aren't even
mole hills.
For years my biggest fear was my family finding out I was gay. When it happened (not because I suddenly got any courage, but
because my mother found a letter) I received quite a surprise I found my family loved me a lot more than I thoUf11t I think most of us don't
.
.
give our parents credit enought to really love us as the individual s we are and to want us to be happy our way, not theirs . I thought
my mother would totally freak at my being gay; she only freaks at my using my real name on television , and she' s even changing in that
way .
Practically all my other friends who se parents know- parti cularly
if thye ha d sat down and told them-hav e had similar reactions, ranging
from 'so what else is new? ' to ' I wishyou had told me years ago, we could have been so nruch closer.' It's the rare oc=ance
for this new
knowledge to alienate one of us from our family,..and in the few cases that I've hear d of this happening, as soon as the initialshock
wore off, through open and unashamed discussions the same result of acceptance and continued love followed:
This is usually true for most jobs wher e any hurnaness is to be found--your fear itself usually far outdistances the actual risk oflosing your
job. I am a teacher and after a recent television appearance on Channel 44 the mothe r of one of my students came to me and said she had
seen me. She told me she was impressed that I would go on television, and that she thought people were changing and more
willingto accept
gay people . Other friends of mine ... nurses, secretaries, social workers, physical therapists, teachers, medical supervisors, etc., have not lost
their jobs and have not hidden their homosexuality behind closet doors, either . This is not to say that we don't lose our jobs when found outthis is probably the area in which we are most discriminated against in any concrete way ... and we should fight it, because we have the power ...
economic power ... to do it.
And now the last fear, and for most of us this ha,s;been the least of the fears to conquer because either all our friends are gay or
because we've just got to have some level of honesty somewhere . I've only lost one friend because she found out I was gay - and that
was my fault. I fumbled for words, I didn't know what to say, I looked at the floor, and I finally denied it. She came to me, wanting ,me
to tell her and fear is what kept me from being honest with her and what kept me from being honest with her and what consequently
cooled our whole friendship , I have no doubt that had I been able to speak for myself, •. or shall I say had I known-how t~ speak ~a
myself, things would have been nruch different. None of my straight friends whom I have told in an unashamed and honest manner
about my homosexuality - in other words by acting totally
if there was nothing to hide - have turned away.
How dnes one, then get out of the closetsucessfully For those of us u:Jw out, it didn't happenovernigh You haveto leamhow
,
?
t
are
t.
ther
radio
.
to talk topeople,uh.e they'reyour friendsoran unu:kntifiable audience
I think what helped me most t o come ou t of my closet was the knowledge of a real gay communi ty forming here in Bosto n '"""people
who want to work together so th at eventually no ne of us will have to submi t to opp ression
again. I am, personally, one of those people
who find strength in numbers . I lost my friend in high school because I h ad never talked with another gay person. If you want to get out of
your closet , y ou can start
by talking with people in th e organiz ed gay comm unity who have come out , You know, it's really not that hard to
do it ... an d each step y oo t ake away from y our closet becomes easier.
The resp onsibility for educating the public lies with all of us, not just the few of us who are willing to go on T . V. or the radirn, or speak
againand again to groups from this and that organization . Education comes with talking i with people, and not at them It 's quite hard tJO
( Seep age 5)
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Out of the closets
(continued from page 4 )
talk with whole groups of people . I remembe r reading an article last year that said if each gay person only told her or his immediate
andl deeply
family and six or seven friends, that that would take care of educating everyone . But we've got to know how to tell them"..:.
feel that it is telling them out side of our closets, where we are all free and proud.
'WHY I QUIT DOB'
by MARTI-fA SHELLEY
(With this articleexplaining
uily she left New York IXJB, MarthaShelley becomesa regul r monthly columnistfor the MaidenVoyage.Ed.)
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Quitting an organization is not a decision one makes lightly, par ticularly if one has been involved in the inner workings of that organization
and given it a considerable amount of time and energy.
I was both treasurer and pre sident of DOB-New York for brief periods (not simultaneously), and I must admit that I was not
particularly competent at either position . At the time I accepted the posts , I was full of enthus iasm and ignorance, much better qualified
for public speaking (which duty I ful£lled) rhan for administration ( at which I was a good-hearted bungler) .
A lesson for other organizations: your most captivating spokeswoman is not necessarily . your best administrator.
And a good
administrator may be a dull speaker.
I resigned the presidency of the New York chapter after becoming aware of my inability to fill the
· post properly , both in terms
of the day-to-day supervision of work and as an arbit rator among the various factions in the chapter .
Somepeople aregood at beingpeacemakers, I uxis not one of those Blessedare the peacemakers If you know any, let'em run
and
.
.
.
for office,preferablythe "1ziteHouse
Aft er resigning my post, I stayed with the organization for a while, and finally my membership lapsed, as a result of the formation
of Gay Liberation . Front, and my activity in it Let me explain in greater detail:
Shortly after the Stonewdl Riot , it occurred to me that the gay organization in New York had to respond to the event or be forever
discredited in the eyes of the gay corrummity . I proposed to DOB that we spons or a rally, along wtih the other New York groups.
DOB was disinterested. I then went to a town meeting called by the Mattachine Society, and made the same proposal . The hierachry of
Mattachin e was also reluctant to involve itself , but the response from the general membership was overwhelmingly in favor, so Mattachine
agreed to let those who were interested in working on the rally use its office as headquarters . We did so, and some of the
younger women at DOB came down to help out.
At th e same time, a number of homos exuals and lesbians who had been working in th e peace movement and with various
radical groups began to meet at :a loft in Greenwich Village to discuss their problems as gay people .
They had beenfighting for freedomfor blackpeople, Vietnamese,
PuertoRicansand other oppressed
groups,but had been
hidingtheirhomosexual from straightcoworkersin the Movement,had beenafraidto fight for their own liberation.
ity
Eventually, the two groups-the committee that worked out of the Mattachine office and the group that met at the loftcombined to form Gay Liberation Front. I was one of these . At the time , I was still a member of DOB.
For a long time, I had been pushing for an alliance between DOB and other groups-not a coalition, but some sort of mutual defense
treaty . I wanted to be part of an organization which would not be afraid to take a stand on the · way, or join with black people in a picket
line, or support a cause which did not directly concern gay people . GLF was that organizat ion.
At the time, I felt that IXJB memberswere too selfishin their insiste that other organizationspoliticalgroups,etc., takepositions
nce,
,
with respectto the oppressionof gaypeople, but that IXJBshouldnot alienate possible member by takinga position on the uxzror any
any
other issue
.
We were delighted to have the support of some brave churchmen who risked alienating their congregations and losing their jobs by
(see page 6)
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'WHY I
QUIT
DOB'
(continued from page 5)
taking a moral stance in our favor, but w-ewouldn 't even ri, k the possible suppo rt of lesbians who dug the Ku Klux Klan .
Finally , I felt opp ressed as a human being by some of th e OOB women , Since I was also involved in GLF , I was suspected of treason by some,
and of Commu ni st tendencies by othe rs, (Tendenc ies have always been a problem with me - homosexual , he terosexual , Communis t,
Jeff ersonian, you name k
Actuall y, my worst tendency is procrastination,)
At one point, I even resigned from GLF , and had to endure a humilia ting cross ::..examination by th e governing board of the chapter to
determine
if I was loyal to OOB ., Th is was no thing official, mo re or less a private session to which I submitted in order to keep peace . The
peace was ruptured sho rtly the r.eafter. New York 's chap . ter still contains people who would like t o wring my neck and I daresay that in some
instances, th e feeling is mutual. On the other hand , ome of the ~ople
the re were very generous with me in many ways, and that
includes som e of the right -winger s with whom I had my bitte rest arguments .
As I ,growolder, I grow more uncertai n of my adolescent conviction , It seems to me that the best feature of the women 's mov ement
is plural ism-that
any group which sees its needs somewhat differently tt'otri anothe r group can form a new organization and go its own way .
Sometimes, sadly enought, two groups which are almo st identical to an outside observer are very hostil e to one anothe r- like jealous lovers who
have separated, and who cannot tole rate the minor diffe rences between them, Each takes the other's need fm separate developmen t as an
insult; neither can let go and wish the oth er peac e, So we hate each othe r instead of
Public Education
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real enemies .
Committee review
DECEMBER 5, 19 Diana Travis, Laura Robin spoke to a sociology class on the family at Emmanuel College (Catholic, wome n 's school )
70
in Boston and afterwards stayed for informal discussion in school snack shop . 30
kidsin class, reception from the thir d who said anything
was friendly .
DECEMBER 1 1970Diana, Laura and 3 HUB Homophil e Union of Boston ) membe rs and one psychiatri st (HUB and OOB referal
7,
psych Dr . Richard Pillard) spoke in the evening toiORT group (Organization for Rehabilitation and Training) (a women 's service
organization for the temple) at Templ e Beth Am in Randolph , Mass. Men and women in audience , mo re oor less friendly .
JANUARY 12, Ellen and a friend of hers spoke to a class of teache rs, nurses and othe rs
taking comse
a
on youth problems like
drugs,seocalcohol at Braintree High School. Th e course has me etings once a week all semeste r. The re wasssome bad interaction betwe en
speake rs and audien ce.
JANUARY
1 Gail King , Jeb
4,
Boswell (latter fro m Harvm spoke t o a group ·of ~ clozen:rhlnisfernv.fil.oareclraplain$-at~
rd)
,iierletal,dl,;~
Hospital for .an hom, Discussion was friendly but slow m oving. Th e grou p meet s once a week t o hear people on sex .
,
JANUARY 18, several membe r~ of DOB (Gail King Diana Travis) talked with about 25 women in Femal e Liberation about gay
liberatio n, upon invitation of F! L
JANUARY 21, Lallia , Kathy Rowe from OOB and Harry Phillips from Harvard Homop hile Assn. spok e t o a similar class at Higham High
School. Discussion slow, reacti on 1ese::vedly friendl y.
JANUARY 21, 22 David Reuben , autho r of 'Everytlung You Wanted to Know About Sex ,,.! was on WBZ-TV channel 4, Boston 'Fo r
Women Today' show, 9 a.m, The re wer e many ques tions from audience. Diana made statement on the first day saymg his chapter on male
homosexuality and statements on~
µii th e.,chapter on prosti tu tion) only perpetuated unt re ste neotyp es, dealt wit h the se catego ries of
people as less than human, so the re were hardly any questi ons she wanted t o ask of him, Dr .. Richar d Pillard also spoke abo ut a new
counselling service, the Homophile Heal th Service, dudn g the que stion period and Rita Hecht was on 'Women Today '
(See page 7)
a.s some questions .
,king
�-7JANUARY26, Diana , Rita, Sharon Earll, and a HUBmember, Chucky, went to First Parish Church (Unitarian) Framinghamto speak to parents
and their children, a followup to a visit that was made·last year. It was lively, interestingand the kidsasked a lot of questions and made
a nwnber of comments.
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I don't like the name 'MaidenVoyage'. It has a flavor of maiden aunt
and voyeur about it It is emban assingto tell people this is the name
of our newsletter, I suggestwe callthe newsletter 'Boston Daughters of
Laura Robin
by Ki m Sta b ins k i
First leaf, gold and red
How enviable••.
I sent her, with
other falls'
Wee, fluttering
firefly
Tender memories,.,,
Dear Ediotr,
tter
Bilitis Newsle ".
Call Diana at 522-10 7 0
Ha i ku
EDITOR
Lighdng on her breast
TO ALL OF DOB:
I'm very son y to withdraw from DOB at this time, but I've thought it over
~ great
deal, and no other road is availabledght now.
ion
I am announcing my re:Signat as RecordingSecretary and also withdrawing
from membershi in DOBuntil a time when I can devote all my effort and
p
energy in the dght way,.
at
Glassy
--"eyed work,
SomedayI hope to be able to participate in this terrific gropu, but for
my mind accepts
,
just last night..
very important reasons now, it is impossible.
Then sunrisesnugglin
g
me
Thank you for making feel so wanted and appreciated;not just :,, for
Those soft snow-print trails
betray where we
side ~y side
_
being Gay, but for being myself.
Peace! Jeannie O'Brien
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�SISTERHOOD
IS POWERFUL
a review
by Del Martin
An anthology of writings from the women 's liberation movemen~ edited by Robin Morgan and publ ished by Random H0use , New York,
[970. 602 pages, $8.95. Paperback edition, $2;45.
This book , originally called ~an
d Th at Cra dled the Rock was prevented fro m using this title beca use of th reaten ed court
action by humo rist(?) S' J , Pere1man , wh o had wri tte n an obsc ur e sto ry by th at name , om e decades ago . Acmal ly , as it tu rned out,
Mr. Perelma n did Edi tor Robin Morgan a favo ir.. F or th e volum e, she with the aid of countl ess c wom en aci oss th e countyr, pu t together
is a def inir.ive stat ement of th e wom en 's mo vement (pa st, pre sent an d futu re - ) an d ,pells ou t for th e dou b ters tha t inde ed
SISTERHOOD IS POWERFUL .
The int rodu ction by Ms. Morgan sets th e tone with milita nce , humo r , pathos , artistry and love t o b e found th ro ughtout the
book in th e wri ting s of women , in dividual ly and collecti vely . Th e book covers the testi mony of wom en fro m the profe ssions to th e
y
factory worke r , fr om a p oem by a seven-- ea r-old woman to a piece on th e ageing woman , from wh ite mid dle class to ra dical
lesbians and th e addit ional prnbl em s faced by Black an d Chicana sister s, from psychological an d sexual re pressi on to changing
consci ou sness of hjgh school women , from the lesson s of the ninete en th centu ry wom en 's mo vem ent to the h isto rical
document ati on of to day 's women's organizations , from a general bibliograph y t o soun seling rc:feranc es in maj or U ' U.S. and
Canadian citie~.
Member of the Daught ers of Biliri s will be partic ul ady in texested in the two p ieces by Gene Dam on an d Martha Shelley .
Ms. Damon wri tes a glow ing rep or t on effo ~ts to attain civil ti ghts for Lesbians by DOB as an organizat ion wh 1 is 8till, for th e
ch
mos t part , af ter 15yea rs of operat io n , plagued by the feais of those it w oul d h elp . She add resses herse.lf to h et eros exual wom en and
challenges them ro und e!Stand and accept Lesbians as the ir sb te rs. Ms. Shelley speaks fro m a m on. radic al stance , of Lesi
Lesbia nism as a road t o freedo m fro m opp ressio n by men , as a sign of mental health in a mai e=do m inat ed society , as a~ ;
alternat ive lifo style for wom en .
'Sister h oo d ' is pllp owerful b oo k th at can 't h elp but raise th e conscio usness of any w oman who re ad s it, Th e pages weld
rogeth er an alienated 51 % m ajority of th e popula ti on who h as he ret ofore 'enj oyed' mino ri ty stat us , bu t wh o will no lon ger
accep t any th ing less th an equal ity as pers ons in a socif ty tha-cmu st and will be reshaped .
Ms. Morgan indicat es tha t all prn ceeds fcom th e boo k will go to furrh er th e wo m en 's liberat ion mov emen t., Keep this in
mind wh en you do your Chnst ma, shopp ing '
Interview with the Speaker of the Mass, House of Representatives , David M Bartley, Reported in the
Phoenix, Janu ary 5, 1971
PHOENIX:
BARTLEY:
What about repealmg laws agarnst homo sexuality?
One bill iwa5 introduce d last year and it was summa nl y killed wi thou t debate ,.,, it is really in tha t nevet never
re
land oflegislative ducki ng, the legislarttu duc k s anyt h ing th at ihn't pushed upon it,, ,.
PHOENIX:
Do you see the need for these laws?
BARTLEY:
No, 1 have never felt any need for this type oflegi.slatiion on the bo oks
PHOENIX:
Well, 'what abou• •epe.J '
BARTLEY:
1 JU~t don't know
I 've neve( h ad tt pu t to me by any grnup just like that
, I mean, neve, had any g1oup rhat
,aid rhey we•e bemg pu shed around or hu!t by the law, .. there's never been any group p1e,su 1t "" ,gdn ning)
,
maybe because they hav en't had a full Orne lobby ist on th e hill """
(Editor's Note . This exerpt from the PH OENIX is impo rtant It shows NOT that Bartley is unp ercep tzve; he is quite
fercepti've , It reminds us as members of a homophile group that we haven 't made mu ch of an impact m the State
Legislature.)
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Vol.2 No. l
I
January 1971
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I
�CALYNDAR ·~MTNG
- EVENTS
Mon., 1/11--Maiden
voyage comes
out.
Fri.,
1/15--DOB business
meeting,
8 p.m. clarke
Room, Arlington
street
church~
open to all
women.
sat.,1/16--A
third self-defense
c
class,
3-4:30 p.m. clarke Room,
Arlington
street
church.
Fri.,
1/29- ··•
Martha shelley
-::,f
New york DOB will be guest
spe~ker,
8 p.m. clarke Room,
Arlington
street
church.
MAIDENVOYAGE
·
IS PUBLISHED'
BY · -
BOSTONDOB
contributors
this issue, . Kim .
stabinski,
Andy cox, Diane o'Keefe,
Diane Benison, aail King
c-::,ver by Joan
The opinions
expressed
in the
those
publication
are not necessarily
of the organization,
but the -::,pinions
contributors.
of the individual
DOB OFFICERS
D'J you enj-::,y skiing?
president - -Andy cox
Vice president--Jo
peckarsky
Rec. secretaryJean 0 1 Brien
corresponding
secty--1aura
Robin
Treasurer--Rose
Tuttle
yes?
Then you should plan to
attend D,O,B- 's snow week -End1
The Maiden voyage is published
in
monthly so as to be delivered
the mails by the 11th.
Deadline
is the 2nd of each month.
please
observe the deadline.
SNOW Wr'EK-·END BEING PLANNED
,Sledding?
skating?
sn-::,w sh-::,ing7 :Riding
ar-::,und -::,nski mobiles?
DQ you
in front of an open
like sitt5ng
fire place,
drink in hand, with
1-::,ts of girls
all ar-::,und7
The prog ram and Finance committee
has been investigating
a lodge
in the sunapee area of N-H· At
this lodge, us ed by H.U.B. for
a similar
outing,
the cost would
r un approximately
$25 per person.
This would include
l~dging for
two nights with breakfast
and
dinner included
both days.
The first
week-end in February
has been discussed
as a tenta tive date . H-::,wever, since
advance reservati-::,ns
are quite
naturally
required,
NO PLANS
CAN BE FINALIZED until it is
known how many are definitely
interested
in such a week-end.
Definite
plans will be made at
the business
meeting 1/15/71.
If yoG. are interested,
please
If you
attend this meeting.
cannot attend,
notify
some officer
or member who will be the~e
Response
PRIOR to the meeting.
at the 1/15/71 meeting will
determine what definite
plans
are made .. ·. or n'Jt made.
1et
your wishes be known!
classified
ad rate~ are $1 for the ·
first
15 words and 20f) for each
11F-::>rsale,•
addi tiona 1 word.
: · ·
· 11
wanted,"
etc. : do not count as words.
Anything given away free will
receive
a free ad.
Figure your
charge and mail your ad with
check or money order to the Maiden
voyage, Box 221, prudential
center
station,
B-::,ston, Mass. 02199.
Thinking of a valentine
present
for your sweetie ... . give her a
subscrip_tion
to the Maiden voyage.
!:flt will~{$5 you 1 11 both enjoy.
send
your name, complete mailing address
and check or money order to the
Maidea voyage.
F nll page ads are $30; half page
ads $15 and quarte r page ads '$7, 50·
an ~ssue.
�-2 -
GAY GROUPS
1
GAY NEWSAND 'REVIEWS
Gay women's Libe~ation---call
or Nita--787-0439
Mary
ttomophile union of Boston--Meetipgs
every other sunday, 33 BOWdin st.
282-9181
WOMEN'SGROUPS
Boston women united,
P.O. BOX 278,
Allston,
02134 or 253-6498
Bread and Roses, old c ambridge
Baptist
church,
115 1 Mass. Ave.
492-4130
Media wbmen, P.0.BOX 8926,
station,
02114
JFK
Female Liberation.
1126 Boylston
st.,
Boston, Nancy - 445-3987
National
orga ~ization
for women
(NOW) P.O. BOX 346, ca mbrL 1geJ
62138.
492-5533.
women's center
a t B. U., 232 EBY
state
Road, 2nd flo or . Mon-Fri:
9-5 - 731 6858
DOB REFERR.A
LS
DOB recommends these persons
members who want professional
advice .
LEGAL
Alan cook,
norchester,
to
1514 DOrchester
Ave .,
Mass.
28 8 4041
Michael Buckman, 1514 Dorchester
288-4041
Ave . , Dorchest er, Mass
PSYCHIATRIC
Dr . Rj chard Pill ard, 6 Bond st . ,
Boston . 423 - 9722 or 262 - 4200,
ext. 5251
RELIGIOUS
Roman catholic
il05 Boylston
EPiS c ".)pa -pev
1
876 :)220
cont, on page
New york DOB and LOS Angelos
the~'ve
moved
DOB both report
which will
t ~ new quarters
for the '
be permanent centers
clubs ,
the jounnal of
Tod ay's Education,
The National
Education
Association,
(November) carried
a fair article
on homos exuality
by Dr. Martin
Hoffma n, aLlthor of a book on
male homosex uality , some brief
qvotatiJns
.. .
nr-tY C'.::mviction is that
we are going
~o ha ve to accept homosexuality
as
a valid way of life and remove the
social
and l eg al stigmas that a r e
now attached
to it 1'
''Actually
t i1e q clestion of why
peop le become homosexual is part
of t he larger
question:
what a re
the origins
and mechanism of sexual ident ificati
on and sexual pre ference?
when we do find the ans wer
to th is q uesti on we will know not
exists,
b ut
on l y why h omosex~ality
a lso why indi viduals
become het cro s ex
L,J. 1
. :,
'' only recently
have hom".)sexuals begu n
ta beli e ve that they have any
civil
r j ghts.
Hence they are sl :w
to respo nd to what rea lly amount s
to a n a tt ac k on their
human dign i t y. i ,
''1;.::• ,:-th2 l ess , if .. the parents
·,r::.:
se 2m
troubled
by the stedent 1 s behavior,
th2 c nt i~ e family should be refer red
for co~nseling.
In many of these
l at2 adJ l esc ent cases,
it is the '
parents
wh".) need help and not the
s tudent . I be lieve what the studen t
really
needs is acceptance
from t h e
fami l y , a nd in many cases this is
if t he parents
are
only ~ossible
told (b y S".)
meone they will listen
to)
chil d ' G
that they cann".)t change their
sexual preference.
The only choic e
they hav e at this stage is how
much gu ilt they will burden the .
child with ,
church)
- -pathe~ Kevin , Newman c2n ter (st . element's
st.,
Boston.536
2376 or 277 4847
-Gi 1be •'t Dent, ch ris t church , zero aarden st. , cambridge.
1
3.
i
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!
�-3DOB REFERRALS, RELIGious ·cont.
from page 2
Methodist--Dr.
cambridge st.,
old west
William
Boston.
Alberts,
Methodist
church, "'
131 ·
277-5088
First
congregational
church,
Mass.
01906. 617-233-3028
Kenneth claus.)
central
(church)
The women of the Green cafe
by Diane O'Keefe
come
and Hamilton
streets,
saugus,
Rev.
617·-233 - 0085 (parsonage,
out
The Gr eeks had a word for it -- hubris--an
arrogant
self-destructi
act from which one can never turn back or emerge as the same human
being.
For Jacq ueline,
it happened in a cabin in New Hampshire
where she fulfills
her childhood
fantasies
at the age of fifteen.
causing his ultimate
she blatantly
seduces he r artist
father
· s uicfde,
which in turn brings on the e'arly death of her m'Jther .
Haunted by guilfl that no analyst
can remove, she emerges a strong
human being, however driven as she is by a life ··long need no man
·
can satisfy.
The women of the Greeh cafe
published
by Dell publishing
co.
remain anonymous.
is availabtle
#9635.
rts
After her father's
death Jackie
French convent by her mother.
Here
and the hypocricy
of religious
life
who graphically
depicts
the frequent
include
a little
more than the rosary
in paperback
for 75¢,
author choses to
is immediately
placed in a
her lesbianism
is engendered
is exposed by the author,
soirees
at the convent,
which
and benediction.
Life eventually
carries
Jackie to a chateau at the south of
France where she tries
to lose herself
in painting,
but instead
succumbs to both the sadistic
charms of the beautiful
Genevieve and
the psychotic
passions
of her homosexual husband, Bobby.
For
awhile they become a menage a trois,
but after
a cruel degrading
encounter
with Bobby she flees in horror to French Algiers
for,
Her self-destructive
instinct
ironically,
a little
more of the same.
drives her f:rom one man to an-Jther)
but her life reaches
its lowest
ebb after
she is caught up in a sexual circus with a group of
American sailors.
A breakd-Jwn ensues and she
a state
in which the mind breaks
functioning
without c-Jnscious di
amnesia and can last for several
is thrown int'J a psych-Jlogical
fugu edown but the b-Jdy goes on
r ection.
1t is acc-Jmpanied by
months.
nEach man kills
the thing he loves , 1' oscar Wilde said . wi th
this unconscio us thought Jackie returns
to the chateau and the arms
of Genevieve.
only death can quell Jackie's
wild cravings
and dire
need for Genevieve's
special
brand of love.
she inadvertently
causes the death 'Jf oenevieve
thus augmenting the guilt
'Jf her
already
overburdened
conscience.
(continued
on page 4.)
v2
�-4women of the areen
cafe~continued
'
TO resolve
her guilt
she reconsiles
with her own ~omosex~al
husband, .steve, who is only too willing
to feed her masochism
while she agrees through marriage
to protect
him from society's
ktigma.
·
women of the Green cafe is well worth :reading. - rt is a fast
will
moving human drama of' a talented,
g uilt-ridden
lesbian
who__
elicit
your list measure of sympathy and whose self-destructive
drive will move you to tea r s.
yo u in your window and
I in my cape,
Dark bl ue to my white shoe,
holding between
a load of light
the folds
lilac
buds.
The stream -::if my yellow bow lies
quietly
on the stiff
collar
of
my cape.
rt
is cold and I hold
lilac
tightly
the
light
And you stand
looking down at me
tired,
leaning
and laying your hand on
the wall for support·
your other flat on your hip,
asking the bone what to do.
And in answer
t'.) your bed
it
And you in your
and warm inside
I)lovesyou
light
Diane
And I in my cape
the folds tight
together
lob:king up
and you lie
Gail
King
Benison
HAIKU from 1962 by . Kim stabinski
down :
And I in my cape to cut the
inside.
and wind came
The ocean squall
but, we were three hundred miles from
the ocean
the desert
s un bu r ned us and heated us
but we were five times three hundred
miles from the desert
the thunder of the city reached us,
shook us
but we were alone
the pastoral
touched us
but we were surrounded
our bodies shook
but we: weNe lying quiet
our t ongues were silent
but our minds raced the garnet of
thought
we reached olympus
but we were on earth
we were siblings
to the mountains
in
thei ~ age
·
but we were younger than the summer
rain
our unity was consumated in our ljVe
and we were everything
and we were nothing.
cold
I have drunk too much
DO my eyes show
I love you
Here in this straight
crowd?
Fresh sheets,
clean body
and scented powder
wasted . ..
Off to bed alone
j
�-5THINGS TO DOiPLACES TO GO
r2::omrerts
Andres segovia,
3 p.m.
classica
l guitar .
17 (sunday)
Jan
symphon y Hall,
Boston.
Theatre
Headpla-y . Theatre workshop,
Boston.
Boston center
f'Jr the Arts.
549 Tremont st.
482-4778 . A new play about drugs and mysticism,
done
envir'Jnmentally.
perf'Jrmances
Thursdays
through su ndays at 8:30 p.m.
Ticket s $3-50.
How to Make a woman, caravan Theatre ; 1555 Mass. Ave., cambridge.
491-9579. 868-8520. satire
on male and female roles
in contemporary
perfo r mances Fridays
and saturdays
at 9 p.m. Tickets
$3society.
Excellent
and worth making an effort
t'J see.
Groove Tube . 24 Brig~ton Ave., Allst'Jn,
782-2235. A videotapped,
cl'Jsed c~rcuit
par'Jdy of American television
shown livingr'Jom
style.
performances,
Thursdays
at 7:30 and 9:30 p .m . Fri and sat at 7:30,
9:30 and 11:15 p.m. sundays at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.
specia 1
Alternative
yellow
skills
or resources
864-3150.
pages now being compiled.
people or groups
to sh}e free 'Jr for a fee,
For info
call
------
LAVENDER
VISI ON
Boston 1 s newest
paper
sees
--- - --
the world
with
-through
the
eyes
of gays
Lavender Vision is B'Jston 1 s newest newspaper.
It's
a double
newspaper , half published
by Gay M~n~s Liberatioh
for men, the other
1
half by i G8Yr women-· Lib.
·s
If you 1 re interested
in working on it or in Gay women 1 s lib they
meet wednesday nj _
ghts.
call 782-5162 for inf'Jrmation
'Jr write
Lavender vision,
c /o Media collective,
2 Brookline
st.,
cambridge,
or 491-7809.
The women 'JD it cail · themselves
ra dical
lesbians
and
are looking
for contributi'Jns.
Maiden v oyag e is always 16oking for
material
t'Jo, remember.
Boston DOB's free Christmas
party nee. 12 drBw about 50 W'Jmen, ~any
non - DOB members, but ~ctive
in other aay groups or women 1 s organizations.
It was a slow m'Jving party,
but good t'J see so many different
women
together
despite
their
differences
of 'JpinionJ
and goals.
Note a correction
about b'Jbk titles
in last month's
issue of Maiden
voya~e.
Martha Shelley
of New york DOB has chapters
in two women 1 s
Liberation
books, sisterhood
is powerful
and women's Liberation:
Blueprint
for the F uture . The Hand th~pocks
the cradle
was the
original
title
for s:t.~ferh2=?=c1 -row~ _ _
=-~~_ff--C1 ----· --- ---L
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Collection #0011
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(Boston chapter) records, The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston.
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Title
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Focus/Maiden Voyage, a publication of the Boston chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis, 1969-1983
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1969-1983
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Daughers of Bilitis (Boston, Mass.)
Description
An account of the resource
The Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) was a lesbian organization founded in 1955 in San Francisco by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon for the purpose of self-knowledge and self-acceptance, public education, involvement in research, and lobbying to change the laws criminalizing homosexuality. Starting primarily as a private social group for lesbians focused on the integration of the lesbian into mainstream society, the aims of the group shifted during the 1960s due to the changing political, social and economic conditions of the decade. The DOB took up political activism to lobby for the rights of lesbians, promoting individualism with a decreased emphasis on societal conformity. During the 1960s many regional chapters were chartered around the country and globally, continuing the organization even after the closing of the San Francisco national office in 1978.<br /><br />The Boston chapter was founded in 1969 during a period when many homophile organizations were forming in Boston. Early leaders of the Boston DOB included Lois Johnson, Shari Barden, and Laura Robin/McMurry, who were prominent promoters of the group and its activities.<br /><br />The Boston chapter published a newsletter, originally entitled <em>Maiden Voyage</em>, until 1971 when it was renamed <em>Focus</em>. The publication runs from December 1969 to October 1983.
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The Maiden Voyage: A Daughters of Bilitis Newsletter/Boston Chapter, 1971 January
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1971-01
Description
An account of the resource
Volume 2, issue 1 of the newsletter of the Boston chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis. The first 14 issues of the newsletter were called "The Maiden Voyage." The publication was renamed "Focus" in 1971.
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Daughters of Bilitis (Boston chapter)
Subject
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Lesbian newsletters; Newsletters (LGBTQ); Boston (Mass.); Cambridge (Mass.); Daughters of Bilitis
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The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston
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THP-0011-maiden-voyage-197101
Daughters of Bilitis
lesbian organizations
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�CALENDAR COMINGEVENTS
, OF
Fri ., 12/11--D POB meeting.
·niscussion on, ~can we function
in the
name of DOB?11 8 p.m. clarke Room,
Arlington
street
church.
sat.,
12/12--DOB Christmas
dance.
see details
page 8.
Tue., 12/15--Finance
and program co rnr::'...t.
:
committee meeting,
~ p.m. Ginger's
call:
453-6059 (Lowell)
meeting for all those
wed., J2/16--A
interested
in DOB's upcoming
production
of Hair, 8 p.m. at!
Jo and Gail 1 s,-i+J6-7913.
Thur . ., 12/17--officer's
meeting at
Rose and Julie's,
8 p.m., call
261-1130.
Fri.,
12/18--DOB business
meeting,
8 p.m . . c~arke room, Arlington
street
church.
open to members
and nonmembers.
sat.,
12/19--A class in basic selfdefense techniques,
3-4:30 p.m.
clarke Room, Arlington
street
church.
SUN., 12/20--HUB christmas
and New
year's
party,
call:
436-9181.
Tue., 12/22--public
education
committee
meeting,
7:30 p.m. at JO
and Gail's,
call:
436-7913.
sat.,
1/2--DEADtINE FOR COPY FOR
MAIDENVOYAGEJANUARY
Tue., 1/5--Finande
and program comm±tt
ittee
meeting,
Ginger's,
8 p.m .
call:
453-6059 (Lowell)
wed., 1/6--A second meeting for all
women interested
in DOB's production of Hair, 8 p.m. Gail and
call::186-7913,
Jo's,
sat.,
1/9--A second calss in selfdefense for women, 3-4:30 p.m.,
street
clarke Room, Arlington
church.
Mon. ., 1/11--MAIDEN VOYAGE
COMESOUT.
1/15--DOB business
meeting,
8 p .m.
1 Fri.,
1
clarke Room, Arlington
street
l
chu r ch. open to a 11 women.
1
sat.,
l/16--A third self-defense
class,
3-4:30 p.m. clarke Room,
Arlington
street
church.
DOB functions
are open to all interested women. when coming to a committee
meeting,
call the number listed
for directions,
to check for any
change of time or place and for
transportation
aid if necessary.
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MAIDEN::VOYAGE published
is
Boston DOB
by
Editor,
Diane.
Laura
contributors.,
Jo peckarsky,
Robin, Diane O"Keefe, Kim stabinski,
sandy cavanaugh,
Andy cox.
The opinions
expressed
in the
publication
are not neccessarily
those of the organization,
but
the opinions
of the individual
contributors.
DOB OFFICERS
president--Andy
cox
Vice president--Jo
peckarsky.
R c. secty.--Jean
O'Brien
corresponding
sEcty.--1aura
Robin
Treasurer--Rose
Tuttle
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OVER THE FENCE (Garitinued
· fr om: page
2)
she was a great
one to find _fault-:-:-sitting
therewith
her hairy
arms
mortis · face . looking
like . a druck driver
in drag ··
·
and legs and rigor
waiting
for the undertaker
to . arrive
. . she bored me to deathwith
her
c3bout her sister
that mine would
lousy recipes,
crummy jokes a nd _ stories
have shot me at sunrise
for telling.
And every time she opened her bag
for ,a cigarette
her rotten
k1eenex
kept popping
out , along with a beat-up
1 s · book,
,. , 9opy of nrl Rueben
her coioring
book and crayons,
a half
a tube
of . ugly kids only she could have
of contraceptive
· jelly
and som e pictures
had. •·· Her psychiatrist
husband
s.itting
next to her was no prize
either.
- •,How ..did I know he was a psychi a trist?
Who else goes around
in argyle
socks,
high-water
pants,
patent
leather
shoes that
don't
match and a
dog-eared
captain
Marvel
comic book sticking
out of his back pock~t.
;,When ·he found out I was a Lesbian
his face turned
green
( the color
of
~
money) and ,he began to wring his hands and foam at the mo11.th. when they
g_ot up to dance there
was a short
discussion.
rmagining
it was over who
I su g gested
she put a bow in her hair
so as not to
was going t o lead,
confuse
people.
I don't
we ar chocolate
cream pie too well,
so after
" . regaining
my composure
I decided
to keep my mouth shut and mind my manners.
.
.
.
.
~
I can!t · 1magine them makjng love,
though.
she .probably
puts on tights
_and a -black
mask and ·dresses:
up like an executioner,
and he puts on a
Mardi aras
suit
so they ·cah 11pretend
. 11 r'm only kidding.
They're
probably a lovely
c o uple who enjoy cutting
their
toenails
over the toilet
together
and taking
in a stag movi e on saturday
nights
like any other
q,ou.ple.
1ate-r he whisp e red to nl.e that
his wife .was going to b~ away ; the
following
week-end
and would . I :like
to come up to his apart1ner1t
and .watch
.him do !'arouno
the world;! on his ;Jo -y o.
I wasn''t . fooled.
_·I know that
.~
type.
rrh'ey get you up to their
apartment
and all they really . want to do
is play jump rope and ride
their
hobby horse.
Besides,
it might crush
him to see how well I do :rwalk the dog" and nover the waterfall
. ,.,
: ..
.
:
.
.
-
.
so
after
gently
letting
him down, I gathered
up my schizop .hrenic
body
~hd headed
for home.
wheh I a rrived,
however,
I was overcome
with a
maJ8.i 9 e of euphoric
melancholy.
some unfinished
. business
plagued
me and
'I realized
it was the first
-time I'd been to a wedding
that
I h~dn 1 t shed
a tear .. Frustrated,
-I poured myself
a brandy >and put on Herschei
1
Fiddler.
' 'wnen it came to the band :iTo Life,n
I listened
. Bernardi
intently
to the words as his rj _
ch voice drove home their
philosophy.
I
it _ove~ and over ag~in .
·
played
s
. f-'If Monday w:a s ·rio VJOrse than sundaY was .-:-.,:drink
L ' chiam --to
life . .. rt
us, blessing
an .p bruising
us---,-drink---L'
chiam--'
has a way of . c'OhfuSing
to life • .And if good fortun e never
comes, here 1 s to whatever
comes --drink
L 'chiam--to
-life.,
: No longer
frUst:rated,
the tears
finally
came.
REV.
TROY PERRY: FE.ATUREDAT CONFERENCE ON THE CHURCH AND THE HOMOSEXUAL
old west church
was packed to capacity
Nov. 10 for The council
on
Relig ,ion and the· Homose.xua l's EC umenica 1 conference
on :'The church
an?
conferences
bE;gan at . 9 am with
Th~ Homosexual :;.n Registration
·and coffee
the first
address
at '' l0}
The Rev. 'Troy perry
spoke · in th .e afte rnoon.
-continued
on page 4-
�4
The Rev. perry is pastor of the homosexual,ly-orientea
community church in ca lifornia.
Metropolitan
'
nuring his opening remarks, David shannon, chairman of Boston CRH,
used as an example c_omments made , by DOBI s Gail in a talk at old west
some months back.
He told of how Gail had symbolically
placed her love
if any one of them wartted to
on the altar
and had asked the con~re~ation
step forward to remove that·offering.
rn his closing
remarks at the end
of the conference,
nave again referred
to this symbolic offering:,
stating
that no one had yet to remove it.
He did comment that perhaps it would ·
have been better,
.rather
than to let it lie there dormant all these
months, if respo~sible
parties
had ~emoved it in order to study and nurture what it Signifi ·es to the gay community.
speakers
and discussion
leaders
during the day included
clergy from a
number of denominations,
a sexologist
and marriage couns~lor,
authorities
homophile
in sociology
and psychiatry,
and representatives
of Boston's
organizations.
professor
R, A- Laud Humphreys, Episcopal
priest
and author of Tearoom
Trade, who .is With the s ..U.N.Y. nepartment
of criminology,
stated
that
the gay =litieration
movement is the fastest
growing, most dynamic of all
movements today, women's liberation
included.
prof. Humphreys predicts
a
coming .repression
of thought and free expression
which will hit blacks,
gays; the church itself.
··
·
· After lunch there was a discussion
with speakers .from HUB, SHL, GLF
addressed
the group for
and J)'oB/ on last minute no.tice .Kim stabinski
DOB, explaining
our formation,
purposes and current
activities.
A number
of clergy expressed
the desire to have DOB speake~s visit
their
congregations in the future.
There was an influx
of people just b~fore th~ featured
speaker,
the Rev.
spoke.
He discussed,
"The oay c urch:
A Neces~ary
Heresy? 11
Troy perry,
The R,ev~ perry began Metropolitan
community cHurch in LOS A geles oct. 16,
1968. , MCdhad a slow ' beginning ' with only a handful of the gay community
gathering
in the ·Rev. perry's
home. Now, two years later,
MCC has
literally
exploded.
rn . additiori
to regulare
attendance
of more than 500
persons at the home church·, . MCChas 10 other churches across the country.
MCC,. lcnown commonly as . "the gay church'',
does not close its doors to
comm4nity.
Th:i:s would be discrimination
in reverse.
rn
the heterosexual
fact, MCC lists
among · its memoership a number of heterosexual
singles
and
young married couples.
rn closing the Rev. perry said he does not like
the idea of a gay church as such . . He feels that as children
of Qod we
should worship as a family, heterosexuals
and homosexuals together.
He
ended with a plea and a challenge
to the clergy present--the
church of ,__
Christ
on earth will open its arms to the homosexul .a community, MCCmust
exist.
He received
a standing
ovation.
·
·
persons attending
the conference
saidthe
spirit
of the enti~e day was
and inspiring.
Near the end of the conference
many
warm, enlightening
members of the ciliergy expressed
the desire to see CRH sponsor another
conference
soo~.
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BAIR, HAIR; HAIR!!!!
..
The program and finance
committee is going to produce a GAY version
of HAIR. Those who have seen the stage ·production
will know this can
be aTot
of fun, and fun is what we are after.
This is to be an all female undertaking.
we have had offers
of our talented
male counterparts,
which we have gracefully
feeling
we can .do a really
great thing with just women.
from some
declined,
- we need all
you don't need to be a member, just join in the spirit.
sorts of help---actresses,
singers,
directors,
scenery,
etc.
we are
planning
a performance
in February,
so that means we must get started.
we have set up meetings fo r nee. 16,at Gail and Jo's (see their
phone
number elsewhere).
we can 1 t do it without you .... so h~ssle your bussle.
GINGER AND ANN WIN AUTO RALLY
held Nov. 22.
Fourteen women
Ginger and Ann won the DOB auto rally
started
at the parking of a supermarket
on Memorial Drive in cRmbridge.
Each car was given a set of riddle
clues.
The first
clue took them to
the Howard Johnson 1 s parking lot at Fresh pond Circle,
where they then
had to ,,find the next set of clues hidden in the aood Will box there.
:
This set of s ~lues took them to old North Bridge in concord,
where they
had to find berries
to bring bauk agd also the next set of clues,
hidden
under a stone in the stone wall.
Tis
third
set of rhymed clues
brought them to walden pond, where 'they ma:de their way to the site of
Thoreau's
house and cop~ed a part of the inscription
on the plaque there,
also bringing
ba~k pine cones from the area.
Then they were off to the final
destination,
Russo's Restaavant ~in
Maynard, where all met in the cocktail
lo.unge and later
had dinner.
Ginger and Ann had a winning time of an hour and fifty-five
minutes.
They received
a free drink and lots of congratulations.
COMINGAT'IRACTIONS
~
.
watch for the snow weekend in January.
This will be a trip to some
skate,
snow shoe and sit by a
snow spot where ·-members can ski, sled,
roaring
fire with a drink and watch the girls.
netails
will be in the
next ,Maiden voyage.
The program and finance
committee is in the process
of contacting
Martha
3helley
of the New York DOB· Martha has long been active
in gay liberation and female liberation
through several
organizations
and on an
individual
basis.
A frequent
contributor
toThe Ladder under several
pseudonyms,
she also does some related
free lance writing.
she has
recently
had chapters
in three books on women's liberation.
They are,
~he Hand That Rocks the cradle,
(editor
Robin Morgan, Random House)
·
' 'Sisterho')d
is powerful,
( edi t 'or Robin Morgan) and women's Liberation:
Blueprint
for the Future (editor
sooki stambler).
, : .
_ .
�-6LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
ACROSS THE EDITOR'S DESK-----
At the Nov. 20 business
meeting the
Boston DOB members voted against
granting
a charter
to the New England
DOB 0NEDOB) group.
The vote was
not unanimous because some members
near DOB friends:
The sentiment
behind the
I am leaving as of nee. 1 to go to the abstained.
action was that Boston DOB and NEDOB
unitarian
church of urbana,
Ill.
I
would be confused and Boston DOB
have certainly
enjoyed my association
could possible
be mistaken for an
with your group.
please take me off
affiliate
of NEDOBby the uninformed
your mailing
list
and put the Rev.
public and other gay groups.
Renford Gaines on at the same address.
nr . Gaines is a good person
we don't know how the other bOB
and you should not hesitate
to seek
chapters
will feel or whether the
him out on any problem you encounter.
governing
board will grant NEDOB
with every good wish, a charter .
w. Edward Harris.
(copy of a postcard
from the Rev.
w. Edward Harris of Arlington
stFeet
church)
GAY NEWSAND REVIEWS
prom L.A.--rt was recently
announced by the Rev .
pastor
of the Metropolitan
Troy perry,
community church,
that the LOS _
Angeles county probation
department
has approached
church officials
concerning placement
of disturbed
homophile youngsters
in the homes of
homophile couples as foster
parents.
s uch ·a move is interpreted
as a major
breakthrough
in communication
between
two communities.
prom Chicago aay Alliance--SEXOLOGY
PUTS DOWN
DR. SOCARIDESAND.
AMA • • . tiiri ting
in the November issue
of sexology
magazine,
nr. rsadore
Rubin, editor
of the magazine until
his recent death,
dePided .an article
in which nr . Charles w socarides
characterized
homosexuality
as a
"dread 11· and 11malignant n medic a 1
disorder
that had risen to epidemic
proportions.
He also questioned
the
of the
motivations
of the Journal
American Medical Association
in publishing
socarides'
obviously
unscientif i c piece of work.
ISN'T PHALLIC
STRENGlliH
we can understand
Boston DOB's ·
feelings,
but wonder what the solution is.
If the women who formed
NEDOBwant to be a DOB group and gain
approval
from the governing
board
there is nothing Boston DOB can do.
BUt the question
remains will the two
groups really
be confused?
we don 1 t
think so---each
group will probably
be very conscious
of pointing
out the
distinction.
what's
of more concern to us is
making Boston DOB so distinctive
it -will establish
a reputation
and
carve out a definite
identity
. :~
Now
is the time to redouble
our efforts
to
make ours a more visible,
viable
organization
serving
our own members and recruiting
more who will
make a real committment to the group
and the liberation
of her sister
lesbian ~
·
OTHERCHURCHES
OPEN TO GAYS
First
congregational
church
central
and Hamilton streets
saugus, Mass . 01906
. .,,617-233-3028 - (church)
(parsonage,
R~V- Kenneth
617~233-0085
c laus)
�'
-7SELF-DEFENSE TIPS OFFERED
some knowledge of basic self-defense
is a necessity
for all women, , especial:
gay women. The number of women raped, molested
or shaken up is large.
you may never be bothered,
but it doesn't
always happen to the other
person.
There are many problems involved,
making it impossible
for all women
to be able to study self-defense;
some of them are, time, expense,
and
the coordination
and energy requirements.
some of us have been studying
a Korean form of self ·-defense
called
Tae ~w~n no _ an excellent
,
technique.
we have set up three SJ turday
to show any woman interested
some of the basic and
afternoon,rnessions
surpisingly
easy methods.
see the calendar
for dates.
Julie,
Nancy, nee, Diana, Jo.
GAIL KING, DIANA TR.AVIS ON TV
six members of the HOmophile union of Boston
educational
television
WHDX
channel 44 (UHF)
on the
half hour discLrnsion among themselves
which offers
free use of the program time to
reaches
10,000 persons.
(HUB) appear.ed on
Nov. 16. T ey created
program, 11c2tch 44 11 ,
any groups who apply .
Mark
participating
were prank Morgan and Dick york, HUB officers,
Charles,
Joe Mccauley,
and Diana Travis and aail King who are also
members.
a
rt
DOB
The most impressive
aspect of the evening was that those appearing
were
exposing themselves
to employment troubles . one participant
works
with negotiable
securities
for which he is bonded and no bonding company
has been known to bond a homosexual.
Another worked in a hospital.
Gail King said,
"rt's
not only the economic business
of I you may lose
your job and have no money to live'
but the fact that our job for most
of us is something that we want to do--that
we enjoy doing--and
to take
away the job, and I think most gay people have this hanging over their
heads, would really
be a hurt to all of us. 11
I
RECIPES FROMSANDYS KITCHEN
Chicken Tetrazzini
3½ to 4 lbs roasting
chicken (cut up)
~ tbs
dry sherry
4 cups water
2 tsp
peppe r
ltsp salt
½ tsp nutmeg
1 truffle
(finely
chopped)
½ lb fresh mus hrooms (sliced)
3tbs butter
or margerine
1 pkg think spaghetti
(cooked and
2 tbs fl our
drained
1 cup heavy cr eam
½ cup parmesian cheese
s immer chicken in water with 1 tsp salt about an hour or until
tender.
Remove chicken save broth bone , the chicken andreturn
to broth.
simmer
20 minutes.
cool and skin off fat,
cut chicken into small pieces.
yo u
should have about two cups of broth . combine all other ingredients
except cheese and simmer five minutes .
continued
on page 8
,',·
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-8SANDY",S
KITCHEN ( continaed
' from p. 7)
,
.
.
Drain spaghetti,
sprinkle
cheese
,
..
put on platter,
throw chicken mixture on spaghetti
then
on top and bake in hot oven for 15 mrlmutes at. 375 degrees.
THINGS TO DO/PLACES TO GO
nrama ---continuing
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living
Hotel, . for a limited
engagement.
in iarisi
at the cabaret,
soierset
nrama---coming
porty carats,
at the shubert
for two weeks, a touring
Barbara Rush.
comedy about the generation
Hollywood's
authors
of cactus plower.
opens Monday, nee. 21.
For the past
the Arlington
year Boston DOB has held
street
church.
its
meetings
company headed by
gay by the French
on Friday
night
at
some members find that this is an inconvenient
day and would like to
meet at some other t i me during the week.
sunday afternoon
has been
alternative
day.
suggested
as a ~ossible
To help us determine
a t;i_me convenient
for the majority
of members to
meet, please indicate
your preference
below and return
the block to
center station,
Boston,
the Maiden voyage, P.O. BOX 221, prudential
02199 tiefore Jan. 2.
I prefer
to meet
---
Friday
nights
---
sunday
afternoons
---
other
time
f. i \NCE
J,
/\Dl -t!ISShJN FREE
58 EAST ALBION STREET, MEDFORD.
FOODAND DRINKS AVAILABLE. ALL PROCEEDS BOSTONDOB.
TO
MUSIC AND DANCING. WOMEN
ONLY.
TELL YOURFRIENDS AND TELL THEMTO TELL THIERS.
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me;nbe1°s:·1ip ~ I ;:ro;_1_d 1i :rn
a f ew observ a t i ons for the
of th o s e ~ember s who have
att end i ng our fun cti ons r2gu l ar ly
and ,;r'h0 na.y b e e onf u s e d. or u p se t by
t he s t atesen t mail e d out by the new
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fr om
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int e r na ll y
and ne C'.:- s 0.ry to l ea v 2 .
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a ttr a ct pe ople who woQld n ot ha ve
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ma:i..led t o 3 ost on ~ embers . I' ve been
to a l mJs t a ll mee ti ngs fr om ~e c. 5,
1969 to t je nr ss e n t and I' ve found
th a t the l e~~ership
ha s al ways made
to Ea t a ll members
a g reat effort
to a t t end and t ~ spe8k ou t, to
off ~r th e ir i deas fo r .the benef i t of
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The Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) was a lesbian organization founded in 1955 in San Francisco by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon for the purpose of self-knowledge and self-acceptance, public education, involvement in research, and lobbying to change the laws criminalizing homosexuality. Starting primarily as a private social group for lesbians focused on the integration of the lesbian into mainstream society, the aims of the group shifted during the 1960s due to the changing political, social and economic conditions of the decade. The DOB took up political activism to lobby for the rights of lesbians, promoting individualism with a decreased emphasis on societal conformity. During the 1960s many regional chapters were chartered around the country and globally, continuing the organization even after the closing of the San Francisco national office in 1978.<br /><br />The Boston chapter was founded in 1969 during a period when many homophile organizations were forming in Boston. Early leaders of the Boston DOB included Lois Johnson, Shari Barden, and Laura Robin/McMurry, who were prominent promoters of the group and its activities.<br /><br />The Boston chapter published a newsletter, originally entitled <em>Maiden Voyage</em>, until 1971 when it was renamed <em>Focus</em>. The publication runs from December 1969 to October 1983.
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ANDYCOX ANNOUNCES
CANDIDACY
FOR PRESIDENT
,F-01:" many m'.)nths n0w I I ve been terribly
W'.)rried a b::>Ut the f J:;t
ture -::>f
-D<O-B· r've tried to analyze the needs and wants of 0ur members from ·
the organization,
the needs and wants of the '.)rganization
fr'.)m its
members.
This means each and - every '.)ne as an individual,
not as
cliques.
As a member of the finance C'.)mmittee : r helped plan the Homophile
H'.)stel, hoping a large undertaking,
as it was, would bring some
esprit
de corps to '.)Ur group.
I felt it would insure our W'.)rking
together
in spite of any personal
or p'.)litical
differences.
we who
were actively
involved did get this feeling
and also the great satisfaction,
after it was over, that our effo r ts were n'.)t in vain.
HH
was a success in all but one aspect.
rt was a failu r e in what I most
desired--a
real joint effort.
where were the rest of usy our guests,
thank God for them, far outnumbered us. There is something drastically
wrong when a great number of members can, by any means, work Jigainst ·
the .: r'.) up as a whole.
g
rn an endeavor ·of such magnitude,
not working
for the groL1 is in effect W'.)rking against
p
it.
·r want to know just
I want to wor k to stamp out whatever such
how this can C'.)me about.
a sick attitude
stems from. ·
I have been with Boston : D.O.B. since its very first
organizational
meeting.
I have W".:>rked :rd as a member and an officer
ha
t".:>bring aboo.t
an organization
any Lesbian sh'.)u
.1d be proud to join.
rn tu r n, I have
g'ained a great deal from D.O.B., things I woc'.d like all members to
l
Last week I wrote a letter
f'.)r this MV whicr;i says pretty' much_.
feel.
what I feel, and Lord knows I am L
1sually vocal enough for my views
t'.) be known;
·
I thought with the pending elections
I WOL be happy to relinquish
1ld
my offi :ce and watch others,
aiding only from the side lines.
This is
what I thought,
m::mths ago.
I had an image of young, vigorous,
tireless office r s who would be able to work miracles.
_Bbt this past weekend I suddenly realized
I am not ready to retire
t6 the sidelines.
Ther~ is too much work to be done, work I am vitailf
' interested
in and
feel capable of haridling and delegating.
MY pr:i,rnar,y" goal is unity within our group with programs to encompass all members as pa r ticipants
and
workers.
por thes~ reasons,
and only after a great deal of considera·
tion., ·r am annouri'cing my candidacy _
for the presidency.
·
Andy cox
..
.
DIANA TRAVIS WITHDRAWS
TO SEEK TREASURERS' POST
'
.
rn the interest
of the ~rganization,
i have decided to withdraw
my candidacy for the preside 'nt · of
D. O.B. Andy cox has my f ull sup:)0rt ' in her candidacy.
I would
like also to announce my candidacy
fo r treasurer.
I feel I could
better
serve D.O~B. in this capacity ··at this ·-time~
·
! am doing this
for personal
reasons,
and I W'.)Uld
once ag~iri like to sttfss
that .
whethe ~ I am an ~tfici~r Or a me~~
ber I pledge · my ene r gies to help
make b~O.B. a viable org~nization
for all its members.
Diana Tr avis
0 'BRIEN LS CANDIDA':J:
:~:
FOR RECORDING
SECRETABY
.
I would like to anno L
mce my'c;~ri:
didacy for re9ording
sec:r~ : ary _. of t
f
D.O.B~ I'm a fairly
new membe
·r,
but I'm . Very · interested
ip work:i,..ng
for a succ~s~ful
D.O.B. no0 and in
the future.
r'm on the public - Edu-,
cation committee,
as I arri comrincecl
that ~ducating the genefal pu~lic
·
is an extremely impo ~tant area.
I
would do my best to see that accur ate minutes are takeh at business
.
meetings~
I would :~ery 'much ~ppre- .~
ciate your vote.
,Thank you.
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the . :s'.al e from n9pmRp1bers .
se~ving
spaghetti,
sandwiches,
pie s and .
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beverages
·a - ·ou.rid n'.)on, and the 'ki '°tchen st;ayed open until ·10 p .m. . The .
r
.
bar ')pened ·•
and dan_cing began at 2 p~ '., tw-:) J1our s earlier
rn
than sched ule d,
beca u.s e o f popd1a1'."._
demand .
·
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.
..
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5 0 p·eople left
their
t a bles at 8 p . m. to join in th~ g r a_nu
marc h., organized
a nd led by sam , who late r acted as auct io neer. · A~Jh_(=
march ~ff c frc led the floor
and came u.p the ce-nter in twos, fou rs , '- nd. _
a
:
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fe1~ale, chose _the ' _,-.
eigh 'ts)''. ;,~ :;P
a1Je1 _of ..s.. ·ju dges, th r :e :male. an9 three
twelve ' 'f,inal ,ists
for the last
p'.)r tion of th e _ march.
Dlck yo r'k, vice,'.'.
·jf':' HU:S,
arid DOBIs Ki m stabins'1ci
wire crow ned as the Homophiles' _
''N
pr esident
Homophiles . · . . . , .
.
'. '
girls$
The big ' ·r aff-le- followed
the' mar ch with DOBIs two birthday
with a bi r thday cake and cha~pagne,
La ~ra and Rose, who wer e presented
eight
p:cizes went to people who we r e
drawihg l the tick e ts -. ' The first
presen t fp r- ' the 'drawihg/ · arid each was pre'~~'nted amidst much applause-e
the blow- u.p chair
the ele ·ctrj:c ;·b l anket t6 Ar d i , , the bl onde wig to sandy,
to suz~hhe/ ' trir ee ' p oLn
'ids of 's\ :iaghett:i
t o S tard,
purple
stationery
to Ja n ,
the thawet? ' , f rbze ·h 9i½ange· ju~ce to Jo's father
~ / o Jo, the polaroid
alb um
to Jeafm:ie, ·,aria"•
the kitty
litter
to aail.
The other two prizes
will be
deliVci~ed jiri Boston.
Finally,
the b~sket
used tb hold the st ubs was
offe red <,as;a · bop by prize;
J ulie was th~i/ h tcky -:me. . · .
.
,scmfe,::,f<the ±terns not sold in the rcttnmage sale tivere then auctioned
off ,
stayint
~ove0 began spreading
sleeping
and a pproxima tely 35 weaty people
Andy and Kim had wall -to-w a ll people
in their
bags.
s andy and Bette,
The
homes, while others
slept in the o ra nge and in a n~ar -b y hotel.
Lmexpecte :cr·· o ic!'-weather
E
'pro hibited
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anned . ..
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a:n'd p'lenty . of h ot coffee
perked u.p th e clean -u p c r ew su nda y
morning,
and ea r ly evening ,f ou nd the last
of - the tired
but happy travele rs
r et u.rnHrg _tj _~he · :E?b:ston area.
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SQ trE;diifndO'L ly .
is
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u.r . . Firial ' adjustments
,y
a r e still'!'he?fng
made.
rt
seems : s?,:te·
to r'eport
that th e: :nE:ar°ly' $600 taken in will , afte r expenses',
_
more than double ' the . 't reastb:.;,y · a's it. stood befo r e the HOSte 1. · And in
:pp
non-pe:rishable
food
addi ticm we have a : g'ood.lY ·s L ly . of liq uor; ' 'tonic'
items ··and Ltensils
1
left
oV'e'r to cut '-_ :ie'xpenses of f ut ur e 'rta 'r t ies , alo ng
'
the
m ge
r
'.(~'. '.' ," '•
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with sever;al .boxes of' :cu. rriei ,fo\=, OL'. next · sal e .
1
one _of 'the' mds't 'be·autif\1•l '' t:hings to behold over thi 'S we;elc.:;Ehid was ' t h'.e, .
iriteracti'Jn
between:" ·th<.; .J?eop1.e' '.irtv61 ved- - b~tween .inen ·arict·worlien; member 1
and non-me 'mbe i;~:. '';Gi ,r ls · whohad 'nd i'.)revious c0ritact ::w.:tth D~ ~.?'rked sfc!_~i ..
o:e?
by side ..with _ meITlbe,s ..se r vipg fo'.)d, deco r ating · 'the n~:hl, h'e1t5:i_ g with r~J1e·.
r
n
mt.:( itu.de•·~f' tasks that g·o· with a pr ')d uc tion of thi .s ~
lt
Jype.
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And the fellows
we:re in there
pitching,
too.
some of them shou.ld be
were . it not for the initials!
The spirit
was
dubbed as ,sons of Bilitis
the comments a boi.lt the affair
were glowing.
C'Jntagious;
A bout half
of the gi r ls in attendance
were DOB members arid they '
represented
about a thi r d 'Jf ~ur ~hapt~r.
Lack of space and t'Jtal
r e cal i prevent
person~!
thanks
to all those
who work ed to make the H □ mophile Hostel
a success .
..·,
TEMPORARYNEWSLETTEREDITOR NAiv.lED
nue to the fact that
pam BOYd has not been acting
editor
of the ·
Maiden voyage for the last
th ree issues,
and also due t'J the upcoming
to appoint
a newsletter
editor
not running
f'Jr
elections,
I have decided
office.
None of her staff
i s ru nning f'Jr 'Jffice
either.
I.hope
our
newsletter
will always remain an unbiased
publication
with ,· the supp6 r t
of all our members.
But remember,
readers,
~hat the MV's
;:ind· faith
comes from us, so it is only as good as we can ,;rnake i't . . so show
-material
· your support
regularly--send
in y'Ju.r opini'Jns,
st'Jries,
poetry,
or · what·
Help the Maiden v oyag~ g r ow, along with our g ro wing membership.
'.: ave you.
h
LETTERS TO ,THE EDITOR
D .O.B.
::r ·•
Beats
N.Y. C . Mother
Tr ucke~s
nea r .Edito r ,
Last week I was faced with a di+emma.
MY gi r l and I had made plans
on rather
sho~t notice.
we were half packed ,
to move to New Hampshire
and no muscle to move.
I was S'J low on cash,
had a u-Ha u l t rLlCk rented
I didn't
dare look. MY main problem was that I had two very heavy piecei;i
; of fu .rri it ur e that would· r eq uire much muscle ( an ·old refrigerator
and
·
EVeryth:i,.ng h1.,p_;;t!
, < ·
_
s'Jfa-bed).
what to do!
With all the hassle
and sepe :;~tipn
a
in D.O.B. and the strong , feelin gs
flying
aro i:m / well,
d
my girl
and I just decide<;l to d r"op· o·u.t:
in ·other ···
wo "ds we lc)S t faith.
There was or didn't
seem · t'J ·be anymore s is .te r h'Jod 1
just hassle
and division.
I spoke to Andy cox and let me tell
you this:
one never tells
he r
on that
crucial
night when I got home with the
something
CAN'T be d~ne!
ful surpri~,e
·
t ru ck, Andy, and more worry than I needed} the most wonde ;~
greeted
me and my girl.
Ten of my sisters
f r om D.O.B. were waiting
and
arriving
}:lelp L move.
'.S
Ten people,
eage r; t'J help.
They . Cthese te,r:i'.·
wonderf\H
gay womeh) m'JVed us, refrigerator,
a,nd sofa-bed
t? ,New . . _
,,
in r ec ·ord time,
la ughing arid clowning, . all the while handling
Hampshire
all ·'Juf> belongings
,L
with care and 'concern .. (Nothing
was br oken, chipped.,
or · 0oeht ed:!,)
.
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·•· . ,;;MY a-ad· - ·Moved by aay power!
<
!
BY my sisters
from D.O . B. ! This is
what .-b. ·-0.B. :;._- .all about!
,
is
This is what sist _rho'Jd is aLI' abo 0_
e
t.
I am
ashamed ' to :ha ·ve lost
faithj
:·be ,cause this
fo1~ us :was a me·anipgfLll
-exµerernce.
•
JJ.o:".!=3.
sisters
beat the Mather Truckers
Movers ih N.Y ,.G. ;
_,
any day :J hJt meant so mLJ.ch to us.
More than I could ever say here. ,.. : 1
Much mor e!
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Thank you aail
and Jo, Rose and Julie~
DOri and Joan, IZZY and Ginger,
Andy and Kim for yo ur wonde r ful efforts
to help us when we were too
1
pr'Jv.d t'J ask
BLJ.t most of a 11, thank yo u my bea Ltiful
sisters
for
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�LETTERS TO THE EDITOR cont .
reneiAr,ing our
faith
and teachi ng us that precious
Lesbianism
is Love .
aette
lesson
of · sisterhoo
d.
and charlotte
Ed's Note - The Mother Truckers
is a legitimate
moving compan y made up
complefeTy
of W'Jmen-straight
vJe pre sume-which
calls
itself
The Mother
ran stories
about the cC>mpany
Tru.ck ers . All the maj or wire services
recently
.
1'.!1:.~Ar~_YO.:::,£
t
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1nterests?
near _ Edi tor,
:
.
D. O!B . 1s now undergoirtg
a very important
period
of change.
we ,ate
l§;arning
:what ;the needs and interests
of ou.r . members
and interested
..
non - members ,a:-i.7e.. HOW many of us have said in the past we don ' t go to
•D . O.B. meeting 9: because
n othi ng interest
s us or we don ' t know anyc:me?
a
finding
a _arge group of unfamiliar
l
pe'.)p'le; we
we wa llc into _ meeting
fF=el unyvelpqme, don ' t know how to app,"oach the grov.p- - nor do they
app~oach
u~ . I think you will find that
large
groups tend to be like
this no matter
what the gr'oup is, if they have as many new people coming
in and out as we do.
we have t r ied to make our Fri day night meetings
interesting
for all,
but have found this
impossible
. severa l mon ths_cijti
g'J by before
a topic
of interest
comes up.
· -- ---HOW can We meet our needs
and interest~
?
so how can we change this?
organized
by D. O. B . so that
Two ways -- to inc r ease the number of functions
we all can be involved
actively
. offer
people a chance to gather
in
smaller
gr'OL.lps with th'Jse wh:i h'Jld comm')n interests
.
··
has sent out a list
of functi'Jns
to be '
The rn-R(::ach committee
established
and those already
set ~p . we sent o ut another
l ist of
any or want additional
additional
activities
. · 1f yo~ have not received
i nformation,
call me, Jo, at 436-7 913.
Many of you i.n the past have expressed
your inte r est in these
chang~s in D. O. B . but we have , not heard from you now that your
opportunity
is here . what ar :e your j_nterests?
,,re nee-d your help so that
we can give you wh~t you w~nt fr:im D. O. B.
Jo peckarsky
near'
Editor,
TO f .·
1)lfill
the needs and inte r ests of our tnembe-:rs sho Lld be, I feelJ .:..,,
':
1 s :really
1 s main c')ncern.
D. O. B.
And at last
it
Happening! ''>gnthusiat
ic ..
,,T,
and energetic
people have gotten
togethe r:: iri the new 1n-Reach CO~llTiitt.ee ,
and are setting
up nume roLlS excit:Lng
p:cograms . T'?rere has already;
\?'?en
a fai r ly good reaction
accompanied
by phome calls
regarding
the shEfe't.:~
that were sent out by the committee,
and I urg e any of yo u who hav . cr.ot
e
ca l led the numbers listed
on the sheets
please. to . do so . Let up know your inte :eest .s ! Let L1.S
help yo1, get together
.-c
with like - minded gay
,-,:,
women to lea r n; discuss,
'Jr have f un . r ' m certaih1Y
looking
forwar~
to t
learning
aLit'.)
mechanics,
g'Jing horseback
riding,
:rar1d -talcing
part in · some:.
i nteresting
'disc uss ions . wha t about you??
Diana
T~\ vTs .:·:
a
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR cont .
near
Ed i t m.
I am wr i ting
as a 111
.ember 'Jf the PL b1ic Edu.ca t i".)n c ".)mrni
'
ttee .pr e s ent
a t t he ,Se p t ember 23 meeti ng repTcted
in the Maiden v'.)yage.
'
I was h ".)t aware at that meetir1g that the unsigned
3L'.th~_i:i_,,
was
t
for t he Maj_
den v".)y ag ·e . r t
p1"epari ng a repo J_, of 'Jl'.l,, c".)mmit 0ee meeting
seem s t 'J me that
j_ the putlj_c
f
Educati.'Jr'l
comm:i.ttee had been mad e a waI' e
deal 'Jf the confusion
and
of th~ au t h'Jr 1 s intent ion s a g reat
mj_sre pres entatioil
Jn that
artic J.e c 'JLd_d have been avoided .
The unsign ed ~ut hj~ see~ s t'J h 2 ve been unduly ann'Jyed by nian a 1 s
r e p'Jr t on th 2 s cti v-:i.ties
of thf: 110-ay GL.
l2Ti ll8 Tl:.eater 11 , MBY :~ re mind th e
aut h'Jr a rep'Jrt
is not ari endorse n~ n~.
rn rep'Jrtin3
th e se activities
,
Diana was acti~~
quite
praperly
ss a ~!iffih2r 'Jf the public
Educat i 'Jn
tl1 2 cornmj_ttee,
apa:ct fr-om the u. s i gned au thor ,
n
c'.)111mittee . It scel il:3 that
feels
it abs'Jlu.t.Jy
nec~::;ss a ry for th2 · ~ ubLLc EclL.
.catior1 comri1jtte e t'J be
_
mrnre o:f th 2 v81'J_
::dl mea ns e ,11 l oy,.30, by oth2r
;_::i
gay g:.,..
::iu.ps in estab li sh ing
of hornosexu.2ls ,
t he c iv i l rights
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near
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11 :i::
ovc do es ~at con ois t in g2Zi~~ a ~ eachbther,
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in lookt w ': L.1!..: a]'' c~ ,_ r" e,.,.l-1c, -v, 7 D ):'. 1 c , "' uccfilP- 'c 1 ,~ a
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a·.:.1 th - r2 j..c, : . , L ,)vic ~.
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th e gcme , fo lk s ...
it !s a l l abou t . , . LOVE.
1Ihat 1 s v1\1y 1 1 m s ltt in 6 E(C C- type \r~;·<_ t' ,'-lh n I can ' t type;
te:
s
that ' s why
yoL'.' r e J"eDdinc ~
-;hs'..; I i:~,--)_t,.:;; -:;:1tt 1 ;;. ·,:· 11r ycJL~ 2nd care · ab l e t o · d o th e
,
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thin g s t Je }RS d'J1rn; .. , LG 'c1~ " ' '.1L1 ~..'. Y :10t c :1r c fo1 me as a person , n or I
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you, b ut w~~ h2v ::: :J 0 '-,:2tli: 1 1v~ :~r c, te: n tr:::i, , that
:
dra~:ing
us toge t her and
t1.r. ting
,-=L
us a~ one . v-T:•FJ.t ·c:1L1k it 1:..:, .. ,:\'l,_::i·G rnyse l f fee l ... is a c l ose
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'JY- h2 te-rny <: is •:~er- but-she-· ie - s t j 11- my;
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bthf ~r as onJ.y w"" ca n ; foJ,, e2c~·1 of u.s share
so many
con r•1. boncl ccses . cur fea :cs , f1~ ·stro t ions,
or1
-L
h'.)jJet,
and Greams can n e v er
b-:: fu l 2-y LmdeJ"st,yy:1 by an~I o'G~1e1,, than ouJ?,3Cl\ '~::.;.
0:...11aj_lrr_ents g'J far
02 c per thm: ·c:uy moc}::_cjJ_ d o c tor can d:i.0gr•.o ~
,eJ dec,;er
than th e aveJ-age
rsychJa·i,r:
::-; can :Ce:':rct
i:.
o0.t. , w2 neecl eac l1
bther .. . S'.)me need to give ,
SY .~e ,J.!:'e usec:i to reflect
the ;'Jast., wishfL ,1 prese n t,
,._:thers to tal:e,
0 r desil "'ab 1e , (o:c L'.1102,sirable)
futc,1 -e . But :,;e c.lJ _. serve
in some
11
capa c::_ty ... ~ e 2,~~ thE: coi:-·,, the t:cuit,
t :1": OL'.ter slci n ; we make t h e 1
Hh0Ie
api)l e "
J\nd as a ll fr L:it , we ar e extTemely
pe:ciC"h2bJ _e.
we b:cu"ise easj_l y.,
we s L.
·,ffer
f~:o ·11.exti,eine,
-:->
we are subject
to :Lntcrr,a J. de c ay.
Jf we are
to sur~ivc,
we must pr o~ect
'Jur-D r rhard
wit~ un dyin~ vigi l 3nce . we
mu.;t guard against
uny f or □ of ~ot that wil~ attack
the tre e f r '.)m wh ic h
r,r'letake e:dst:;nce,
th;:-t 1r'Jll spi ea cJ d<"ccay to t·:1e very J.j_
i
mbs f r om wh i c h
T:-Je take
J_j_fe ,. F'J, 7 '.)nee the t t>Lml it:; gone, no l j_\n1:i ll Sl'J~vi ve ; we wi l I
,:
wi
t h en retc.rn
fr'.) rJ ·,,hc nc 8 we cam e} r12kec1 to all s~or.'11:::l; wit h ou t '.)Ur
p!notective
L mbL 2 lla"
S-:J pay y)u.:~ :='ae 2r.d tat: ,: your LOVE. ... t c:ke j_t t o give , '.) Y' t a ke it
to recej_ve,
bL.~ take :Lt in the p:eescl ib2d f-:J;'m as sj_s ters ; j o in to g et h e r
0 on gca1 .. . the very g :.>l that
a
sta:"tecl
this
whol e org a n i z at i on, •
in a C'.)r m
wo:rldng
t'.) br1nn: a n_ s5_'':,e ,-r:; tog t t· ·er :i_n a far,1ily
t
~:nit.
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LETTE TO THE EDITOR c ont.
RS
Now that y ou and I are together,
along with 57 othe r s ; · the ~o r k
has j ust beg un. we must continue
to r each out with o ur ever inc r easing
reach.
tentacles
to br ing home as many 'Jf the family as we can possibly
we must r each the sisters
who avoid us beca use they don't need us ... we
we must reach those who need us but are afraid,
not of us
need them.
s ·J many of us and prohibits
b L OL of the deep- r oot e d fea r that besets
:t
it
the f ulJ, rich life we know we deserve artd a r e capable of.
Join hands with the sister
beside y ou and r each the othe r hand out
by . And sh ou ld yo ur reaching
hand be grasped,
hold
to one passidg
tightly
as to a feather
ca ught in the wind but not tight
eno ugh to c ush.
NurtL F' e it gently , as a mother cat a kitten ; show it yo ur LOVE and
understanding,
teach it to stand and hunt on its own ... and then you will
with her hand also outstretched
into
have a siste r be s ide you standing
the wilderness,
se eking t o ret urn what she has been given . Then you will
that can only come from
have you r r eward, the great inne r satisfaction
eceived . Thj_s will be all the reward you can expect ...
an act ')f LOVE well i~
the r e i& no plush s uite h e re, no exec utive washroom to attain ... the r e are
fo r that level).
no queen bees ; we are all worke r s (or hope fu lly striving
.st teach ...
only a pe r s on who can LOVE can be happy, and this is what we mu
only those who can LOVE ca n giv e of themselves
selfless
ly.
00
Andy cox
THINGS TO DO/PLACE, TO GO
S
The following
community.
i s a calenda r of events
in Boston
of inte r est
to the Gay
STAGE
TWOBY Two is a new musical
by Richa r d Roge r s, sta r,~ing nanny Kaye
at the sh ube r t Theat r e on Trem ont s t.
at the Wilb ur Theat r e . cross the generation
gap--oo ! :
~air is still
is: If y0 u know who •
'Jacques Brel IS Alive and well and Living In pa ,~
Edith piaf was, remember world war I, or even the second big
The songs are charming and sentimental.
po r
bash, go and see.
gays there is one song 1 11The De spe r ate ones . 11 Listen and hear
you r self in those da r k nights.
HOWTo Make A woman at the ca r avan Theatre.,
9 p . m. , every Fri. and
sat.
phone 868 - 8520 or 491- 957 9 ,
EVENTS
Bill c0sby-- s ymphon y Hall, 7 : 30, oct. 25
nod MCKuen in conce r t-- s ymphony Hall, 8 : 30, Nov. 20-21
Laura NY --Music Hall, 8, o c t. 25
ro
s ly and the pamily stone-- Bos ton Garden, 8, oct . 24
7 and 9:30, NOV. 1
cha r les .Aznavour--Kre sg e Aud i tori um, M.I.T.,
Dick Gr egory--s uga r sh ac k , oct.26 , phone 426- 0086
Br ook Benton--pa ul 1 s Mal l th rou gh o ct. 25 , phone 267-1300
The Kingst on Tr io--Lenni e 1 s th r ough oct. 25, phone 1-535-9806
Bel ow is a brief
ART GALLERIES: Newbur y s t r eet has 29 a r t galle r'ies.
of some of the be st.
listing
s kifin oalle r y is the fi r st galle r y owned by and exibiting
Black
artists.
A nLJ.mb of the best Black a ;-tists
er
cm the East coast
will exhib i t he re .
(cont.)
�THING TO DO/PLAC:C: TO GO cont .
S
S
puc ke ~~ c;afrai is n oi~ showing ;•
,ecent chaga11 · pr ints.
The gallery
its e If ' is -:m of , the best designed
e
buildings
in- fB'.)S t '.)n.
Edna Hibel : Fo r ~h6~e ~ho enjoy 'S'.)ft colors and gracefu l 'lin~~j ) ·J
· Edna Hibe:j.. is _ master Qf t he· Bar-jque _toucp.
cl
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IS
vJOMEN LIBERATION
p ernale 1,iberati-Jn,
1126 Boy lst -Jn s t r eet, Ooct. 28, is having
a panel discussion
on the Eq~a l Righ t 1 s Amendment . As a woman if
yo u· ca r e about equal pay fo r equa l W'Jrk, y~u wi ll be interested
in
this le gislation.
' If you are a GBY woman this : J_egislation
will
pr6hi bit disdriiliination
'.)n th e basis of sex . · jhe right
to marr y
aaysJ pay attention!
ca nnot be pre mised on sex distinctions.
There will be a conference
on Aborti-Jn,
oct . 24, Arlington
street
chu rc h.
·
CHURCHE OPEN TO GAY
S
S
Roman cath-Jlic
s t. clement 1 s, 1101 Boylston
st ., noon polk Mass
Episcopal
s t. J ohn the EVang i list,
33 Bowdin st ., 10, High Mass
church of the Advent, 30 Brimmer st ., 11, Hi gh Mass
chu rch 'Jf our savio r , 5th and L s t., sou th B-Jst on , 10,
11expe:r~imenta
1 i: se J:" ice. -:EV
Jnte r - denomina ti ona l
chu- ,-ch for women only , 1126 Boy l ston st ., Boston,
the pemale
Libe~ation
office,
ll a .m. For furthet
info r mat i on call
Rev. Magora Kenne dy, 296 - 2578
GAY HAPPENINGS
wei ght watchers-The weight watc hi ng gr-Jup will have it~ first
meeting fo -r any inte;...,e sted W'Jman on wed., oct ,, 28, 8p.m . , at
J udy 1 s . call 787-9498 fa \ informa t io n and di~ect i ons.
Nov. 3 ?nd Wed. ,
BOWling- - D. O.B. will be cand1epin bow ling Tues.,
Nov . lf at 8p.m . J0IN .. u,s! ·! call sa ll y Miller
at 296 - 25 7$ for
direct i ons.
·
,
. ,swimmin g- -A po'Jl i s available
fo ._--, every Mon:. and . r_rnu s .' eve11L1gs
us
r
between 7 & 9 p .m,. · call 296-25 ·78 for dir eGtions.
11costL'ime
Ball 11--oct.
23, -c c :1 ystai Room of H-Jtel continental,
he
~
29 Garden ,st., cam br idge. · Tickets · are fp5 ca 1l ' Mark Charles
;.
a t 282 - 9181.
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SPECIAL OPEN HOU ES
.S
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Three -Jpen houses to meet the candidates--c
orne discuss
yo ur views
of the future
of Boston DOB and the problems which conf r ont us ' now,
1. ,This ,sunday oct. 25, aail and Jo 1 s 2 492 Harvard st . , J 3,
Dorchester,
Mas~.
02124 2 phone 436- 7913~
2 . Next ,sund ay NOV, 1,, R,ev . and sa 1 l y I s, 6 1 c la rkwoo d s t . ,
Matta pan, Mass., phone296 -2578 .
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3, _ ,sund ay l\f'JV. 8, Ka:ti,e 'r!i:r; 622 M-Jrton ,st. _ f3 , Do:.c hestel''/
,
c
1v1ass., phone 2$5--2709 · ·• · _ _ · ·
·
·
Join us each or any cir the s undays bet~een 2 and 5 p;m . The
Financ e committee wi l l haye the D.O. B. Bar avai lable.
we 1 r e
lo oking forward to talking
with you .
cont . ,
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THINGS TO DO/PLACE.'3 TO GO c cmt.
game:., ,S . , 9ct .2~-.,
·at
FOOTBALt- - come ->n :iu.t .for th e D.O . B . _t'.)uch f'.)otball
:
1 p . nr'. Meet on the f'J-btb r idge acr'.)SS the cha J:-es Rive: r which
l
the Harvard
Bridge.
see you there!
is rtearest
D . O.B . FRIDAY NIGHT MEE'rINGS:
oct.
23 --Memb er ' s meeting,
8 p.m.,
clarke
Room, Ar lington
and B:>ylst:in
s ts . ,
street
Ch Lr ch, c:irne r · of irlington
BOSton, ...
' s Night,
8 p.m., ClaI 'ke Room, members only,
Nov . 6 -- candidate
Nov . 13- - Ele0tion
of officers,
8 p .m., clarke
Robm, members
,Jnly.
1
NEED l\ RIDE TO D . O. B . MEETINGS?
~all
any :if the following
pe'.)ple in your
Vivian- - camb ~idge
354-1318
Ramey- - Al lst-:rn
731-1080
Viola- - south
s hore
96 1-2958
Ginger--L'.)Well
453-605 9
--Lf36--7913
Gail & J O--BOSt'.)n A 1 ea
over
The Fence
area:
l'Jitr1 Diane
o 'Keefe
li~t
1:ir the
The week af ter I put n~ name on the substitute
primary
grades
I called
the ·s uper intendent
' s 'Jffice
'cO' see if my
t .r 9 nscript
had · ar ,~ived.
I was accosted
by a pleasant
but panicky
voice ~.
, 1;c ou ld
you 11'/Cirktom a ,:.., 11 ?
row
.
A little
su ~prised
sine~ I hadn 1 t had an inte~view
oi ah x-ray,
SLt
anxious
to get W'.)rk, I agreed
to take a second grade at a schoo l in a
ne ighb'J, ~ing city.
_
'
··
Now I lrn:iw why the panic . . When I a rrive d at the schocil ' yard the
irLthe
playgroL;md
pr"-Jmpted me to check the
following
day, the 11 child.renii
sign 'JVer · the L'."'ont door.
Reassured
this
was a school
and not the
F ~anklin ·park zoo or Benson's
Wild Ani~al Farm,
I proceeded
into the
buildin g·. I g0t my first
indication
things
were a little
bizarre
when
I saw a p0 l icema n stationed
at every doo :r an~ late r learned
ther~
were six
0n cal l at th~ principal
's 6fttce
.
·. ·
psychiat
r ists
one thing
about substit □ tlng~~jou · tan b~ hit with orie 0£ two
situati0ns
-- beautifu
ll y Mritten
le sson plans
that
a first
year student
tea che: e c ou.ld be proud of , bL:.t coup led with the wor st delinque nt s yoLl I d
or the sweetest
kids in the w0rld but n'.) indicijtjpn
ever waht to handle,
as to what pre-prime:
· , prime r, workbook
:ir seatwo r k to use.
Either ~way
it ' s a challenge
. r don 1 t know which is worse~ th0 ugh ... disciplining
a
bunch 0f hoodlums
a ll day while ybL) 1 , e t'. ying to teach
or fal{ing it for
five
hou :i.s without
any lesson
plans . .MY l . ck J I was hi .t the first
u
day
of each . As a for . instance~
- r . had one r;gem" with a l~-3 I. Q .
with a little
I co~ld see I w~s going to have to stay ~one hou r ahead of this
guy.
cl'.)wn C'.)mplete with di :rt y hands ' and face and
EVidehtly
he was tne class
a matching
sweat shirt.
He made ·animal
so1,,mds all . day long and cracked
t"i1e kids L walking
,.p
a ,-·-rn nd _ 0n all fou r s, and to break up the mon0tcmy he
, ::
gave karate
less0ns
d ur ing r ecess.
A lth :rngh the J egu l a, teo:cher I s -less on
p1ans vvere well detailed
f r om phonj_cs t0 fLm with chapter
headings
f,jr
each subject,
find~ng
the b'J'Jks th e.c ha p te rs we r e ih tookhjlf
the day
while
the kids tore
the ~0o m apa r t . .
cont.
0
4
1
4
4
4
�9
over
Th§ Fente
with
Diane
0 1Keefe
cont .
;Luckily
the tea6hers
get an hour's
break at noon while
the kids
go home •for beer and crackers.
, o after
s
scribbling
some before
school
1s
i led it down - to the principal
office
to get
work on the board I high-ta
ih line with the othe r t~ac~ers
t o see a psychiatrist.
BY then the lin e
and after
mu.ch pushing
and shoving
I finally
got t::i. see
was twci ab r east.,
cine . However,
he was a.troubled
soul--not
only had his electric
train
broken
d'Jw.n bL1t he had f'.)1'.'g'.)tten both his lunch and his r ubbers..
After
sharing
my l unch . '.)f cottage
cheese
and an apple.:i he discreetly
popped a
· Libri ·um i11to his mouth and told me this
job was bad for my ne r ves,
At three · 0 .1 c1ock the bell
rang.
I clung to the wall in ter ,··'.)r as
o ut of the bL1ilding
like
they'd
the kids t ~ ampled over me and barreled
just ~on a ball
game.
After
I regained
consciousness
I weari ly put .on
my coat and crept
cautious .Ty '.)ut of the bu.ilding,
checking
Ol't all the
,f8r last
minute
pi~anksters
or dirty
old men offering
sugar-coated
exits
, · 11 bubbl.e
gum. 11 when I, g0t to ·my ca ;.., I checked
unde i· the hood and ail fou.r
tires ., thanked
God and headed
foi"' home . peace at last.
H0we ·11er , when I
'
a.rrived
I found a dunning
1.etter
':in_my mailb'ox along W
:ith two ·re ' jection
'
slips
fr,om a local
publishing
conipany--and
a very zealolxs
Jehovah
p0unding
0n my do0r . Jn his best ministej--like
voice he asked me
v,itness
if '.I knew why human beings
live
such sh0 r t lives.
11
yeah,
c;lggy,avation ! 11 I spat ciu.t' violently~
cutting
him .off . I
•
him a dime; picked
up .his disintergrated
body and laid
it gently
slipped
on the sidewalk,
re l ieved him of his literature
and took a well neede d
res t.
at 7 :45.
A little
less
The following
morning
the phone jangled
panicky . but w1th .great
cauti0n--wou
l d I tal:e the same class
aga ,in :t .oday .
I a1n.rE2ithe r the wo1 ld I s biggest
:'>
foo 1 or gi ~eate.st
masochist
or both,
bu.t
I consented,
th rew two Alka-selt~er
into
a paper bag along with a medium
onion and a half
a pound of liverwurst.
New strategy--the
kids give me
I'll
breathe
on ~hem .
.
_
- -.. ·
any troubleJ
Howev _r, a good substitute
e
needs more than bad bne!:lth 'to get
five hour voice
that
does
through
the day . To name a few --a non - stop,
• not
get hoarse
or crack
under stress,
a good supply
0f vitamins
and/or
tTanquilizers
, along w;Lth an ample sLJ.pply of J ronwear
hosiery
tha:t
·
doesn I t catch
on chairs,
a strong
wcioden pointer
that
do .esn 't break at
the board cracking
everybody
up, al6ng with built-in
radar
f~r findin g
the milk list
and '. the attendance
b . ok and the memor y of i:lD e lephant
o
for
and Whimazaki,
and finally
the imaginative
su.ch names as .s·eidenstriken
geni u.s of scott,
Foresman
and co. f0r making up wo,...,ksheets coupled
with
the combined
dete r mination
of eris
columbus
and Job himself
and the
you are very definitely
a drowning
man going down fo r
recognition
that
the third
time.
0
d:;
1:
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PUBLIC EDUCATION COMMITTEE REPORT
Jean o ' B •·ien
OCTOBER 7,1 970
,
on oct.
7, a public Education
committee
meeting
was held in
Dorchester'
at aail
and Jo I s apa r tment.
-,After
discu.ssing
·va, -·ious topics
of special
interest,
individual
assignments
were g :;_ en to the members
v
p ,··esent.
1t 1 s felt
b V the committee
that
a great
deal of progr>ess
can be
11 communication
OLt own special
r
gap'' by
. made this , vvay . ve hope to close
0.ti lizing
all
ot..r membe r s I ene 'igy and talents.,
not jus t those
of a few .
:cegarding
a speaking
engagement
in
More info Tmati:Jn· was re ·ceived
(cont . )
�10
verm'Jnt.
JVIr Leo .Emmerd informed
.
us he'd arrange
for us to stay the
night
afterwards,
as the ride to attend
his class
~ould t?ke three
and
decision.
was reached
9n this
one half, t~) four hours . · No definite
pa ·rt:ic"ti la r 'Jff er, as t r ansportation
and 'work s ched Lles a :re , a 'pro b1enf.
!.
The en t ire committee
feels
that
taking
the first
step in contac ·ting
the public
must be made by us . · we cann'Jt
be co ntent
to ,sit back ana
expect
them to act first.
To get things
going,
prom otiona 1 publi.c
releases
inf0rming
of 00 .r availability
· to speak were sent to womens 1
-colleges
.
Realizitig
.the ~iilipor tant
part television
and radio
play,
it was
decided
to wri te to l ocal stations
.
and contact
persons
in charge
of
prog; ~amming .
1
A genero Ls offe :" was made by WILD 's paul yates.
He su.gges ted that
!.
so we can practice
'Ju r ·
we mal-ce LSe of a 11mock set. up " in the studip
inte:rviews
and bec0me accustomed
to on-the- ·,;:Li procedu:re.
r
A file
of lette r c'Jntacts
is being _statted
in order
to have a
co 11e ges , womens I g r·oups , etc . ,
comp lete
back listing
of organizations,.
to which we send . The :records
kept will
give : a11 the info r mation
peT tinent
to our reaching
them . Names of specific
heads of depa r tments,
p:rogra6
coo r diriato rs ,. women in charge
of p rb viding
speakers
for thei r
clubs
- ~all thes e names and telephone
numb~rs w~ll be ~n the files
fo ~
futu r e r efe rience . ·
'·
When the invitations
sta 1;-- pou.ring
t
in (hopefully),
it wil 1 mean a
t o see a few familia r faces
in' the
great ·deal to those who are spe,aking
audience.
we ' 11 need the s Lt port
p
of al l of D . O.B. to make our committee
yo~ don't--riave
to stand
up and be counted-succeed . so plea s es gi:rls,
j ust be the r e!!
OCTOB
ER 13,
1970
·
The pu.blic tducation
c o.mmi ttee
met oct.
13 at aail and Jo's.
present
Diana,
Mary , Anne,· Kip; 'and Katy . The committee
dpafted
a
were aail/
suryey
to be distri
b uted to all members at the oct . 13
pub lic education
business
meeting~
The -survey
is a r esource
too l enabling
;the p ublic
Edu.cation
committee
to draft
willing
arid r esoL ,r cefu .l speake rs.
we wi ll
co mpetent
to speak and a li s t of
ask for those . areas
in which yo u feel
gro ups which yo u wnuld feel
ccimfo~table
speaking
t~ .~ we wi ll wor k irt
conju n ction
with ' the rn-Reach
committee
to train
tho se wi11ing
to speak . ·
The public
Ed uc ation
c omrnittee
h8pes to build
a tearri .: of adept
public
speakers
.
· . · •
, ·
.
. .
··
. ·· ·
.
Ed dcation
committe ,e have .p l anned a
The membe rs of the ,public
bib liog raphy to be available
t • D. O.B. and · th.e . public . The ,·committj;e
'J
has
vo luntee :C' to reprint
ed
articles
of interest
to the genera l membership
and
available
on ;-, que st .
e
.
to make :;:;uch art1cies
RECIPES
4 lbs . chuck
:Roast
FROM SANDY ' S
c ut in
Greek stew
1/2 inch
pieces
2 lbs . small white
onions
1 can tomato p~ste .
2 tbs . r ed wine .vinega r
2 tbs . da r k b r ".)wn s ugar
1 clove ga ,, 11 . .(minced}
c
KITC
HEN
2 bay leaves
o
1/ 2 t sp: ,g ;i7 und cinnamon
1/ 2 tsp~ ~ 0 ?und cl0ves
1 cup yvateY! .
cut
1/2 lo' . aauda cheese
·c u.l)e8
1/2 c~i ' tpasted
pe ~ ans
1
.
'
s p ri nkle meat with f.lou:r a nd salt
and pep1Jer and br~ir/ in frying
pan . .•
combine
all i ng r edients
exce pt cheese
and nuts . 1et simme r on low heat
fo r th r ee hours . sti~
in cheese
and nuts
just
before
se r vin g.
�THIS MONTH-LIBRA
'I'HE D.O.B • .S R GAZER
TP.
s ept . 24~oct: 23
11
LIBRA GOES EVERYWHERE, WITH LOVE.
n
Neve r unde J"
estimate
a Lib :,'an.
Her smile may be waJ'm; he r· to uc h may
be soft . But i nside he r velvet
glove lies a hand of steel .
s ympathetic
and kind, Lib r ans demand and give (air treatment.
If
abLlsed or imposed Lpon, howeve r ., theL " antagonist
-'
may as well be dead}
as fa r as Lib r a is concerned . she won 't fight.
She mer ely goes into a
deep f:reeze .
with Lib r ans} the most feminine
of all sig ns } you have a charming
evening ahead.
They f:'Lnd something
i n common with eve c:y one} even if it's
manufactu~eJ
on the spot.
Lib r ans are gene r ously endowed with imagination.
If they ~fen't
informed on the spot about a subject,
they are still
able
to generate
,in intelligent
Lnde r standing
::if it dL
1e, i n part.'I to their
fac ulty for acq uiring
broad experience
f ~om occ urr ences wi th others .
They love beauty,
and they love l ove.
Howeve r , they are not fli r ts.
Their affections
are deep arid always seek a prope l" plane,
although
what 1 s
pr oper in theeyes
jf '.a 'Libran may n'Jt be so in the eyes of anothe r sign.
Libra believes
in 11all fo r ' 16ve.'I and the wor ld well lost. " Her emotions
are cTystal
c l ea l".,; he ;,., affection
is direct.
whatever
she d'Jes, J"ight □'"
wrong, she d 'Jes f ,,om the hea :et, which to he r- mi rid makes it right. ·
_
Librans
do very poorly at physical
work.
In any type 'Jf job; th~y ·
hate to be tied down . a ·eat dabb)e :cs., they tend to be mo e 'dilettante
r
'
than artist.,
but their'. ' natural
enthusiasm
fo ;J- beauty provides
·
gre · t
a
enco w· agement to "boher s mo1° gifted.
e
Li b "a 1 L'.nlike S'.) many othe r signs ,
1
hasn't
an envi'Jus bone in he r body .
,
If yo u find you r interest
di rec ted towa r ds a Libra love r , you'l l
have t '□ be 10 0<:?1, ' :real.
fcF
~he inte ,~ests easily,
but becorrt~s bored
q L:
:ickly if y'Ju a r e n'Jt the gal fo r l':te . - . and s'he has 1 q knack for
,- :
getting
to the bottom of things
fast!
0
0
0
1
my '.)nly name!
VITA
dashing
and
clatte, ~ing and
bab"l;lling and
searc hing and
s t · u. g ling
g
0
on
'.)n and
on
pL
cshing and .._,:, ching a'Ba
ea
hrnting
and
c lLitching
and
falling
in the da:-k a:rms of
this f tagi le n i ght
I can n'J t find y'.) u;
the y'.)u that is me.
yet deep within
I see the r eal morning
ahd in this lonely moment ,
I knew what it was
that made
me in this shape.
I r eached o u.
t
of
t~ t~uch eve r y surface
life
my~elf in tht=
defacing
~nirro :,"
~ Llt
'.)n
and
'.)n
always
-
..
whil~ in that t~ fy {bl~ ·
cente :c"
;
something
spoke t'J me and said)
ii you
are not a l'.)ne. •i
and the tr uth of
this tho ught
:,- ise d me f r om my death.
a
�D O 13- R E
FE ..
R
l?
R A L S
GAY GRO
UPS
· · uomophi l e union of BOS
ton
H-U·B· s~nday meetings
starting
NOV. 8 and every othe ~ su nday
the r ~afte r ~ 33 Bowdin st.,
phone : 282-9181
Alan cook, Esq,, 151~ Dorcheste r Avenue,
Dor cheste r , Ma~s ., Ph?ne : · 288 -4041
· aa y women's Libe ratio n
,, '·
.
Cal 1: .· Mary-l~92-2281
Michael Buckman, Esq ·., 1·511l Dor cheste r Ave.,
·
or Nita-787-01.~39 ·
Dorcheste i , M~ss ., phone : 288 -4041
aay Liberation
F~ont
.
call:
stan - 868-8018
r
PsYcHiA m' c
D.O.B. r ecommends the se men listed
belciw to membe- s who want pr ofessional
advice.
LEGAL
'n-c. .Ri'cr1ar d
pi llaro,
6 BOnd s t., ·
Bost::rn, Mass., phone : ' 423-9722 or
262~4200 EXt. '.)251
'RliLIGIOUS
noMAN CATHOLIC
.
Fathe r Kevin, Newman cente r
( s t. element's
chm~ch)
.
1105 Boylston st ., BostonJ Mass .
ph:me:
536-2 376 o:r 277 -~-81.~7
D.O.B.
BOSTONOFFICES:
· · p-·esident
.. Diana Trav1s, Boston
::.
254-2714
T,"'easure ]"' - Andy cox, weare, I\T.H.
vice-p ~esident,
cor r es p onding
,seccetary
and Recording
secretary
vacant pendi ng elections
NEWSLETTER
STAFF:
'Editor-D •ane .
i
pfoductionaail,
Joan,
EPISCOPAL
Rev. Gilbe~t nent, Gh~ist chu r ch
zero aa ·!-den .st., cambridge,
]Vlass.
ph-:;ne : 876-0220
neadline
METHODIST
Mai l co nt ributions
Dr . Wil lia m Alberts,
Old west
Methodist
chu :rch, 131 camb r idge
Boston, Mass., phorie .~ _
277-5088
SUBSCRIBE NOW
Members may find gift : subsc · j_
ptions
to the Maiden voyage to be a most
convenient
way to solve this yea r 's
Christmas
shopping.
next
iss ue is Nov,2.
to:
The Maiden voyage
D.O.B., Boston chapte ~
P.O. BOX 221
pruden tial center station
Boston, Mass.,
02199
s t.,
Nonmembers may subscribe
to the
Maiden V~yage for t5 a year.
simply
send you 1." name, complete mailing
ess, and check -Jr money
mailing adld;"'
0r de r , along with a note fo :r cla r ification,
to the Maiden vo y age at
the ~.O.B. mailbox.
·
f'.)r
Kim, cha r,
Dori
october.,
V'Jl.
1,
1970
No, lJ
I am in 1-Jve ahd
I
Am
Happy., so impatient
am I to
Bite
The moon
And
Roar.
she says
she says I am a fool.
.le, yes!
A mu
aail King
aette,
�13
D.O.B.
1970-71
The following
is a •more complete
list
of the groups(discussion,
activity,
hobby, study,
social,
instruction,
etc.)
now ~eing established
by D.O.B. for all members and interested
non-membert.
'If
you are interested
in any of the below, have any questions,
or new
suggestions,
contact
us at any of the phone numbers listed,
or write:
p.o . Box 221, prudential
center
sta tion,
D.O.B . Boston rn-Reach,
Boston, Mass.
02199 .
JUDY - 787-9498
,3p'.)r
'
(after
5:00
p.m.)
s
Bowlin g, Baseball,
Basketbal l, Golf
Riflery,
Archery,
Hun ting
Discussion
Groups
aay women p~esently
or formerly
in
st~aight
marriages
aay mar r ied couples discussions
aay relationship
discussions
aay Black women
Adtivities-Hobbies
photography,
painting,
Art
camping, sailing
Tropical
fish
D'.)g or cat grooming
Misce l l a neou .s
weight-watchers
S .O.S. (stamp out smoking )
VIVIAN - 354-1318 (After 6:30 p . m.)
Instruction
aiven
spanJ.sh course
TYPJ.ng course
C'Joking
Activities
- Hobbies
scrabble,
probe, cribbage
poker, Bridge
Monopoly, pokeno, checkers
Music-singing,
jam sessio ns, etc .
Hiking,
Mountain-climbing,
Fishing
Disc L'SS ion Grou.ps
with Tamilies,
straight
Dealing
friends,
fellow employees
Dealing with religion
and
homosexuality
Butch-femme discussion
grou p
s tudy of Lesbianism
and the law
The aay student
sports
Bicycling,
Hockey, Boxing
REE - 335-0220 (After 5:00 p.m. )
Gay women w i fh~ cni---iare n
P . O. P . (put p'Junds :on Skinny
people) Also.,
Major
D. O.B. standing
committees
would
Jo-436-7913(After
4:30p . m. )
sports
skiing,
ska ting, snow shoeing
Tennis,
sw imming, Horseback-riding
snow -mobiling,
Motor cycling
Activities
and Hobbies
Karate or self-defense
stamp and coin co ll ecting
ECOl'.)gy
sewing, Knitting , crocheting
poetry
rnstr uc tion Given
lessons
Beginning
guitar
speaker
Training
Folk and square nancing
Discussion
~roups
in
Gro up interested
pemale Liberation
wha t is involved
in
pemale Liberation
aay women within
the
class
structure
Group interested
in
discussion
with gay
guys
Miscellaneous
"The Mother Truc ke r I s 11
moving company
career
guidance
and info.
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The Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) was a lesbian organization founded in 1955 in San Francisco by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon for the purpose of self-knowledge and self-acceptance, public education, involvement in research, and lobbying to change the laws criminalizing homosexuality. Starting primarily as a private social group for lesbians focused on the integration of the lesbian into mainstream society, the aims of the group shifted during the 1960s due to the changing political, social and economic conditions of the decade. The DOB took up political activism to lobby for the rights of lesbians, promoting individualism with a decreased emphasis on societal conformity. During the 1960s many regional chapters were chartered around the country and globally, continuing the organization even after the closing of the San Francisco national office in 1978.<br /><br />The Boston chapter was founded in 1969 during a period when many homophile organizations were forming in Boston. Early leaders of the Boston DOB included Lois Johnson, Shari Barden, and Laura Robin/McMurry, who were prominent promoters of the group and its activities.<br /><br />The Boston chapter published a newsletter, originally entitled <em>Maiden Voyage</em>, until 1971 when it was renamed <em>Focus</em>. The publication runs from December 1969 to October 1983.
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a daughters
of bilitis
newsletter
bOston ch.a))ter
p. o. box 221
prudential
center station
boston 9 mass.
02199
we onJ:-y have love
~ie can reach t ;-:;
ose in pail1.~
~'Je can heal all .our wo:m1ds,
We can use our oim names. :i
11If
--Jacques
Ilrel
s ~r/:c· "::i r, 1970
e
vol. 1, no. 9
TO r.i OR..J OT TO :Ji:il
~
by Ramey Thayer
s
,;1e0 ro
As .all of us can see from the last nage of the ne ~r . t~tter;
It ' s being well-pla.11ried, and will be a good thine; .to go
havil1g a party!
to.
How much more could a.nyoi1e want than an entire day of woods ..wandering,
into t he night?
·
bingo, food, _ drii1ks and dancing--on
s
··From the Trea.s u:•~r~ ,,oi ,1t of view, and tr 3rin g to view the fuf.ure . of the
Boston D.O.B. chc:pter, ue hope everyone does want to go. 1ve, sisters,
are
in serious fino.mial
t1-oub l c because of lack of turnout for past D.O .B.
functions.
If He don~t have a lot of support for the Octobe;..~ party 9 our
chapter will fin er itself
bankru.pt a;1d in potential
danger of disbanding.
1)orta; yt, D,O.D. is to you as an individual
and to the
Think about ho1:r ii·11
comm
unit y . D. 0. B. should be a YaJ.id gr oup~ a mea;,1ingful part of our lives.
D.O.B. needs fincmci a l su~ por t, and needs it now. Come to the October
party and help keep us a(:tive--and
have fun doing it,
lJOT0S :;T}'l.01'l JAR
a
by Gail Kin g
·- ·Jude~ s ·For um is .the only gay bar? just for women, in the Bo si;,o.n area.
At
. least that is what iTI
::>st of the gay. girls who go to t he bar t hink until they
are thE:re. · As the ;.1ight goes on, you beco;:;1e aware of an audience that
surrounds y ou.
I counted at least seven strai ght cou,)lcs :ien masse:i augmented by th3 five "little
boys ii sitting
behind us~ all guffawing in their
·
beer sud s.
I do not object to mixing with strai ght people in a bar.
I do object to
bein1i ga.,,.Jlc at by straight
ed
people, workin'.5 out their mm particular
fantasies o:f homose:,G1ality , I "..vish th ey would save their beer :noney : and take it
to a SiU' ink. '
Jude~s Forum is advertisw
in Boston After Dark and The Phoenix as a
·dath1g or sin [sles bar J. !1d that accounts for the growin3 influx of straights.
the sincerit ~, of the bar owners.
They adOne at this point could question
vertise
to th e str .,.::.ght comm
unity as a sin gles bar and to gay women as a bar
just for us.
Who do they ,rant? ~
.
foo are t hey using?
I ain sure as the news
spreads in Kenmore Squa r e that the number of ga,iking l:i.ttle boys will inc~ease .
(Con;t page 2)
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VOYAGE
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HOT.ES
FROn.A
J,.AR~con ' t .•
,
Lay I l'em:i.nd.you tha.t a m
ale who
::.s ..:.n--..:xo ''.hi s ;,us culi nit y s·oc':
s
of
s
..Y :~ay women as a threat
.
to be dealt
·-' •-· ·· ·with in the only meanin gful way to
·
this ty1)e of male-- physically.
I ask gay women to assert their
rights.
Do not go to Jude~s Forum
until the management decides who
Boycott Jude 0 s
they will serve.
Forum!
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Pr es i d9nt. --si faJ.v. 'l'r a1is
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Boston (277- 8952)
Treasurer--Andy Cox
Weare~ H :-:i:ampshire
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Vice President and Secretary
pending elections
vacant
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300 PERSOS PAR.ADIN PRO
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by Laura Robin
Gay is Love:1 balloons 9 posters
proc: .ai ming bein g gay is nothin g to
be ashamed of 9 and banners idei.1tify -~
ing several participant
m hing
arc
groups, rose above the heads of 300 .
people who m ched in Prov i ncetowns
ar
1 ass. on Labor Day9 Sept. 7 9 1970.
'.i
The pur pose of t he m
arch uas .:('or
homosexuals to demonstr a t e th e ir self
resp ect and det ermi nation to be come
freed fj '.'Om t he r os t :d .ctions society
has put on the m.
Gail Kin g ; who helped or ganize the
rnarch 1 Daid t he police captain gave
a pe r mit for t he pa r ade about 3 weeks
in advance, holp ed plan the route,
and pro vi ded a polic e escort for the
m cheJ'.' o The m
ar
s
archers l eft Tmm
dharf a.t 1 pm, s-;, ourn ed down Commerj
cial St. and a few oth er stre e ts , and
return ed to the wharf.
Then they
went to a rall y in a near by at hletic
field.
Groups re presented included Philadelphia0s Homophile Action League,
Gay Activist Alliance fro m i-Je York
w
City, and the San Fr ancisco Tavern
DonQ
tworry,
nobody ca rr ied
Guild.
a D.O.B. sign.
Diana Travis reported that little
old ladies l ea ned out of their doors
cryin g 0 Ri ght Oni •1 One of the chants
was some thin g li >0 · c1Boom boom, ban g ,
bang, gow uh 9 GAYP0~'1"UH
i ti
Provincetown i s t he gay capital of
ifow England.
11
.
;
Editor--Pa m Boyd
Assistant Editors--Rose
r-arie Turner
~
Candace L. HcGonagle
Production~-Beth Restrick
Rose ~i rie Turner
a
Viola iT.
Candace L. i·i Gonagle
c
Ramey Thayer
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Dear Editor:
Concerning the moot point of what
should take precedence;: ..the question of
whether a Lesbian should th }nk of . herself first as a hom
osexual or as a woma119which was brou c; t up in the 1'~
h
ay
issue of THE i'L.\.IDENVOYAGE, should like
I
to express an opinion.
I think that a perso n , any person$
should think of him- or herself primarily
as an individual , considering , secondarily, one I s own distinct
personality.
· Of
course, anyone Q sexual attitudes
s
make. up
a definite
part of this personality,
but
they do not represent its entire being;
for the entire bein g of a personality
encompasses feelings on many subjects
ply sexual attitudes.
A
other t han si m.
person "s sex, race 7 and nationality
by
and matters
birth are merely incidental
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in society
a
poin_t of cst:ibli9hing
place for us l l I
•·
The pur-pose of the church: To estabevaluation
lish a place for sp'iritual
of self.
Spiritual
inedi tation
and con:..
sultation.
· Fbr worship and prayer.
To
1
educatG 11those = Lesbians to the fullriess
of and teaching
of the niblo from a
'woman's point of viGw.
There are thin s:s available
for the
or e;anization
through th0 use of tho
church that would not and cannot boobDear Editor:
t2 .ined because of the nature of the or..., ·
It is 1vith heart-felt
frustration
ganization.
The mat ter of tax exempt .ion,
and blac . an ge r that I write this
k
·
fund raising 9 sponsors -for tho church
letter.
where donations
could be used for the up
There is 9 it seems~ some question
lifting
_
and better ment of D.O.B.
I have
been told that I should have a church
as to •.the beginnin g of our church.
for gay people not just for ,-mmen so said
The name is in question
and I must
say it was stated:
for lack of a
C.R.H. of Old West Church.
I caimot tell ·
BETTER
~e
it would be called cl1urch · you the untold misery that I have suffored
of D.O_.B. This has offended "some of
because I chose the minist:nr as a orothe membership.
It see ms that per- · fession
and career 9 of bein g gay a~d fia
nally of b0ing Black.
mission is needed to ,establish
place of spiritual
evaluation
if D.O .B.
Since the advent of. th e anti-war
rally
is used.
Am I in error to believe
<.at 3oston Com
mon I was kicked out of t1vo
at this point that . tve as .,women first
(2) churches because of my political
·
and lesbians
consider
ours e lves so
activity
and my radical
vio, - on Lesrs
nothingl3~ t ha t a church under D.O.B.
bianism and adi;1
ittance
of being so.
Now
is unthinkable???
Have we in this .
horo I am among my or,m kind offering
my
age of progre.ss become so barbaric
services
and professional
career for
it can be said D.O ,B. may not even
which I was trained
and ordained
only to
be told it may not be ua;.1ted or accepted
want a church! · That D.O .B. does not
want everything
U:sing D. O.B. banner
by D.O.B . It hur"~5) it really
hurts! l !
(and I quo to!).
·
--Rev. Lag ora E. Kennedy hiller
I say ,, f Rev. Perry · can establish
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a church in California
why can°t we
Tm BATTIE OF THE SEXES
here in Boston?
Are we so over or
by ,Candi iicGona.gle
underdeveloped
that we feel no need
tuidance?
The church
for spiritual
There seems . to be a. bit of discussion
is non-denominational.·
It is for
wjthin D .O .B. about tho ques·!;ion of
women. And unt i l we .can secure a
ie
building 9 services
are to be held in · 11butch /fe m. 1 11 role playin g . Some memting on tho cartoon . on the
our home. Since when did I as a min- bers, co mmen
, ront pa.go of tho August ~den
f
Vb¥_,age
ister
or a person ever do anything
9
have asked if this is tho image we want
to doi-m-grade D. 0 .J3.???
I feel that
world.
tci l?ro sent to the outside
because of ..rho we are we should be
I , have always thought the main strength
about dignity
and.love
spiritually.
to be honest ' ·
The whole process of education
of the of a group was its ability
rith itself,.
part of which is being able
Lesbian should at least
start· fro ;1 a 1:
1
to laugh at its e lf, to satirize
itself.
spiritual
evaluation
of self.
So in
This was the purpose of the cartoon.
Yet
confusion
I am askin g thos e .of tho
membership and you who read i-1 V. · to
.
it has stirred
dissent
witbin D.O.B.
LeV s :evaluate
tho butch/fern rne aspect
seriously
consider
tho value of a
Lesbian lifci.
Flora. Rheta Schreiber,
· church for us that can be a focal
over which the person has no control.
Although these may contribute
to
persons'
attitudes
to~·r
arcls themselves,
I do not consider
them the .12£..~iicl:J'.X
factors
in a pe rson ~s life.
They
are only J?_art1! of a pe rson ° s individual self, ·a nd this individu a lity 9
in its totalnoss,
ma.de up primarily
of a person ~s feelin gs on many sub·jects,
is what is important.
--0°1.ea.ry
of.
�l:iAIDEL VOYAGli
(4)
in her article.
' 1v
lomon ~vho 0 M:arryt
In that same August issues Jeb Boswell
~iomen9 : 0 has said, '°Tho answer to the · is quoted as saying 9 c:You shbuldn•t ,
usual question;
~,fuo plays the mari 9
have to prove t hat you 0 re a wonderful
0
person;; you should be accept()d just as
who plays the ,;.1oman? is generally
nei thor.
Ordinarily
two women
person like everyone else. to Thero
9 tho
alternate
butch (the a gg ressive
male) ,vill always be butch losbians 9 complete
and femme ( the compliant
female)
i:..ri uw.n; s suit a;1d haircut.
th
· But are we
roles. :;
so ii.1socure or paranoid
that ·;-J worry
e
Tho stereotype
butch 9 dyke 9 truck
about th0 impression
those uomen will
die sol dyke; if they T,roe
r
make on tho public.
The so 1romen are
driver,
ever accurate
descriptions
at all 9
part of our image just as much as the
are nm., painfully
archaic.
?iany
clinging-vine
little
fo r:i;.no D ,0 .B., s
.
heterosexual
women have short hair 9
i inago is as varied as its c11ombe 9 as
rs
wear tailored
clothes 9 appear everyindividual
as each member.
Our image is
whore in par1ts.
i;ocktios
are part of not a cartoon on a newsletter,
it is
today~ s ;9iiod 11 fashion
scone.
Yet 9
each member herself.
at one time 9 those thin ;_?; marked a
s
And are we so insecure
or so naranoid
woman ?butch" without question.
The
that
cannot laugh at ourselves
,;.,hon
term ~butchr' as a physical
connotation
·we satirize
ourselves
wi th cartoons?
duo to the
t 1111111111
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is no longer accurate9
liber&tion
of women in terms of
fashion and comfort.
OVERTHEl:._NCEWITHDIANE
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Therefore 9 ,-re must 0xamine butch/
by Diane
femme roles in terms of emotio11al and
psycholo gical structure
9 ra thor than
iirst,
let me. apologize for last
as a physical
cat eg ory.
mouth's maniacal twaddle lest you get
In every wor king rclationship
9 one
the idea that I am flaky beyond help
partner
will be more a gg ressive
than
and should be immediately committed to
aggressive
to
the . other,
perhaps 905{,
an observation
ward at Boston CHy.
It
the other"s
10% passivity 9 perhaps
didn ' t have a mooicum of sanity about
51%to the oth e r ~s 49% If both
.
it, but desperately
lonely people go to
partners
were equally passivo 9 tho
equally desperate
lengths to draw attenrola tionshirJ would ;1cver evon ha76 a
tion to themselves.
However, writing a
beginning;
each person would be
kooky column in which I humiliate myself·
waiting
for tho · other to make tho
· and -people around me is just
harmless
first
crucial
move.
If' both 1-rere ·
form of exhibitionism
and should not be
equally aggressive,
tho::ce would be a
viewed .-· ·· , · · ..,, seriously
than a mild
power stru 2; le, perhaps subtle,
g
per- ·
neurosis.
It is far less precarious
haps overt.
.4.nd a g irl who is "butch 11
than flag-pole
sitting
in front of City
in one relationshi
p mig ht very well
Hall and far more dignified
than falling
bo -~ imn 11 in another relationship,
fe e
·
down drunk in the middle of Central
depending on her -partner in each reSquare.
lationship.
Tho roles are inter-Th~ Desperately
Lonelies is not a
changeable.
secret society.
It crosses over class
.As lon g as one person-in
a couple
barriers
and knows no race, color or
makes most of tho decisions,
is more
creed.
Many people and some of my own
out-going 9 is th e spokesman for the
acquaintences
suffer from this ty~~ of
couple 9 assur:10s more of th e ros pon siloneliness
and it manifests
itself
in
bility 9 has a stron ge r personality
9
various ways.
this person will be· the 1abutch. c1 The
\.-.Then twelve year old nephew feels
my
loss a gg rossivo 9 -mor e pa ssive partner
neglected,
he comes to the table with
1 :i
will be "fe;::, 110. This is true evon
his pet mice and hums in a monotone
if the aggrossivo
tlbut c h:; woa rs
through dinner, annoying everyone.
A
dresses
and lace and rufflos.
librarian
I know, who is a sweet but
,-.fe
should have no fear,
then? of
lonely soul, thrives
on notoriety
and is
11image 11 to
the publi c.
our physical
a
,re
J.
a
~
�.MAIDEN
vc:AGE
(5)
not happy unless .sh .e is in the center
of
controversy.
· She incurs
the wrath ' of the
Board of Trustees
by deliberately
spending
funds inappropriately
and ,-,ill enea Ee
periodically
in a power strue;gle
with the
Friends
of the Public Library.
·
My art teacher
is a delightful·
man; but
l-,hen 'he feels
he is not getting
enough
attention,
he will :)ick .'.l fight 't·dth his
neighbor
who feel:.:: he is runnine; his studio
:tl10~ally
bccc,use their
neie;hborhood
is ·not
2:o·.1 d fer business.
8
. She gets irate,
writes
~~ot~er na sty letter
to the Board of
c;.alectr:1en a:1d the '::hole controversy
starts
ull C,
·;cr ngai.n .
.Another acqu;i2.;1t :· :1.ce, who is a s;_:orts
i - ·.;r.i te:;:, dresses
. outJ.c.::Jishly.
The la s t
tLnc he s:1ow0d np :::; the solf course fer
::i natch,
he -c:a \;e.'.l,..-in :3 pink e;J.en plaid
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g~een soc~s , vhite
loafers,
p ants,
kelly
that uere run doc:m .:lt the heels,
and
red,
w~1:ttc and blue E·.rci-;;eieer beer shirt.
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a::e tha . p.rcr .test
offenders.
~:,::incj Milfr·cd,
a•..1thcr c -.: the best·~seller
?"'Td ;:1 ·~·Trites cf hc:-1 F . f' : ctt F i tzge ·.r:itd 'G
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the-golf
co urJc r i e, ~e ~rc~ked his ball
! into the rour::h. T:'..1 T ~ .1 ch,ar fo t: 1e:n all,
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~~is c-.:s t:i.i. ncc1 rcr::.. od o::
exhibition
.:il i c:.1 :t.8 c,:12cr 3en ius ·and its
originality
c o~ l~ ~~v~r . Lc e ~uallcd.
Ir wi n Cor ey, the 2 c n7 professor/~c~edian
rho n-ue"'t"' o·"' d"'""·t·'~,c . ~-· •·-:"''·y· s 110•·1"'J ;s a
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comcdi.:: ;1. ~ o di~C:~, a laugh poking
h
·· :.': at himself
un
a:;d the ,~ 1:cld around him.
o~ a more se~~ous note, ~f _it weren't
tor rlccth o•1en I s p:-,tiwlo3ical
loneliness,
the! 1 n:1.d would h fl'i."C been deprived
,7,:
of the
plcc w ures 0£ his r.1:1.nysto".'~,y symphonies.
All c2 thin b1:1.ris-:; :~o t~'.e point the fret
that lonelh,2so
· :1 ~ n cc~:::itnnt companion
to a hoit o~ peo,l e, t~e r esol ution of
·,.h ic'.!"i can ta~w Jny c:E se7eral
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making·. · : '· Li:ll.ir~ ~ ' beset · by two problems
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inability
to shake the memory of
her father's
cruelty
and the conflict
between her desire
to repress
het ,· Les- ,
bianinm with her overwhelming
need for
a close female relationship.
After a running
battle
with herself,
her isolation
becomes ~nbearable
and
she is catapulted
into a homosexual
panic.
He r initial
relationship
with
Beebo is pure~.~· physical
and rather
sadiJtic
on Beebe's p3rt.
But after
their
friendship
is cemented,
Beebo
sr:.oHs great empethy for Laura and they
find in ecch other a soul mate and
confidante.
L~ura is sensitive,
shy
and bookish,
and her pernonality
is
by the more aggressive
complimented
Beebo who is 8ragarious
and outgoing.
Later,
after
a confrontation
with
her father;
laura
e,wnerates
him
through
insight
and understanding.
She
realizes
hie abuse of her was the result
o f his th:: a".'.'ted desire
to have her
r,hys:i.c:.:::lly; his avm wife,
Ellie,
having
been dead fo-r m;,ny years.
of gay bars is wellThe sordidness
der,ici:ed
and it .is assumed that Laura
and P,eebo will build
a mature relationship for themselves,
eschewing
the
degradatio
n and sleazy
atmosphere
of
such dreary bars.
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· In Ann Ba:mb n I s · I Jn A Woman'. (paperback
75¢) Laurachooses
to resolve . her abject
loneliness
in the mere. common 'tl8Y-"~that is,
. withdrc:uin3
.:; d bnryin;:; herself
n
:!.n her
work.
Sl1e is 2 youn g , vulr .e rable
Lesbian
_ c nug:1t up in a \·:orld not of h e r own
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Female Li6~l;'ation
is having an open
house on :fa~urday,
September
26, 1970.
It beiins
af1O:OO A.M. and runs all
day.
At 3:00 P.M. there will be films
and discussion.
The cddress
is
1126 Boylsto,n . St :r~et
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OCTOBER 1970 - - ];'arty
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The
blast
begins
at 8:00 P.~.h__J'he
addreas
is
- , Dorchester.
Call for more information--436-7393.
BYOB and ccme on over!!!
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I woul d like to see our or gan ization
go forward in two main arcas--that
of
; inreach, ;. or establis hin g pro gr ams,
s ocial event s, or any kind of en counter
gr ·oup th at i s nee ded for our members,
and that of :;outreach, I! or public
educatioi.1.
:: ·~.;,.tt: D.O ,B. to be unified,
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so
that disa greements con b0 .worl:ed out
healthfully,
and so that we will be come
strong and not be always on the ver ge .
of a schism.
I hop e to incorporate
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more people to be 17
orki t1f1;_etnb.e of
:~
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D,OoB, ··· ·to cont r ibute their time and
energy into mak in g it a v i ··<;, or gan i ~ntion fo r everyone .
As far as -workin g with other or gaa '."
izatio ns goes , this and all other
func t io ns should be decided upon by
fee l that
our mem rs.
be
I personally
we have much more to gain from wome 1 s
n
rights
gr oup s than the male domin at ed
homose,mal gi:oups, but there ar e times .
when a showing of solidarity
\-7ithin the
gay community would be most benefic ial
to us. In the pnst f ew months our
straight
sisters
in the wo~en's movement
have Bone out of their way to ask us to
join and work with them. . This has n ot
been j ust a tacit acceptance
or a 1·do_
. your mm thing " att:i.tu de, bu t an act iv e
i n us as gay womei.1
,vith our .
i nterest
own specialptoblems
i n soc iet y. I do
not feel that we can afford t o pas s up
the ch an ce of communicating wi th and
en
being accep t ed by all wom .
I feel D.O. B. h as the potential
to be
a st ron g and active organization.
As
a member, or as pr e si dent, I pled ge my
ene r gies tow ard help i ng our or ga niz ation
be relevant
to all our members and to
the world i n which we live.
-- ·Diana Tra v is
I feel s t ro ngly that mainta inin g our
own identity
shoul d t al:e preceden ce
over part i c i pation in any other groups
such as women's li b, male homophile
groupo . or . any -polit ical organization.
I think D.Q.B. sho ul d be less act:i.vu-eand more adapti ve :.:.1 t he political
scheme; less publicl y demonstrative,
less extrem i st . Hopefully,
society
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that in where our business ,-has to be
will become honest enough with itself
to
done.
I think we should re-order ' our
accomodate all factions
within its boundagenda.
:Weroust gear our e.fforts to
aries without being overthrown.
I think
The public ca n
our own people first.
we should be lesa Gtridently
demanding;
wait.
We can 't !
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so many confron tati ons haye :t;~ot potential
and D. 0. B, does not need'. this:·· .We.havG to
·,_-Jo .,Peckarsky
be able to. gi ve a 1itt le. before r,;e are
able to receive .. if we demand results,
As Vice President,
I would strive
to make each committe e within D.O.B.
people will fear us.
I feelthe
role of
D,O.B. sh ould be to win.society 1 s respect,;
active,
productive
and successful.
not its fear.
I am in favor of public
.
I ws,uld kee p the membership aware of
whclt_each C('.mmittee is doing, its planp
education,
but against r;ra phic illus•
tration.
;r think D.O.B. should encourage.
and accomplishments,
at all times.
I feel D.O.B. should be an active
self· -awareness in each member, enabling
part of the community, worki ng always
her to function more adequately within .
to win the . approval of the community.
the group and within society.
I would
like to discover why peopl e don ' t join
We should also be concerned with
D.O.B. and why GO many mf.mbers do.not
meeting the needs of members and
prospec ti ve members. D,O.B • . shoul<l
particip~te;
is it becau~~ of the ero up
be a type of: 1 Lesbian Aid Society,,;
structure
or per sonaliti
;?
I would like to be the kind of · leader
where women can feel at ease, :voicing
who does not exclude people from a cti ve
their opini6nG and experiences
freely.
I woul d like to see more interparticipation;
to preven t control of the
chapter communication, now that
group by cliques~ to ~ncourace a crossto
section of membership participation;
Nat~9nal no .longer exists as our
foster communication;. to ei:pand the , . .
so that we can learn
coor dinator,
trcaoury;
to l earn.why social 'e vent s .
from the experiences
and exa~plcs of
our oister chapt ers.
have been so poorly attended and
I belie ve D.O.B. should be a place
unprofitable.
I am committ ed to D.O.B, :for the sake
wher e the Lesbian can feel us ef ul,
working toward chan ges in the structure
of its members, for its future r.:;
oals.
I
believe in ~,hat D.O.B. is ., what H stands.
of so ci ety . D.O.Br should be a major
force in reshapin g archaic prejudices
for, what it hopes to be.
.
I have the immediate goaJ. of having and myths about ·Lesbianism.
women feel accepted in D.O.B. and the
--Beth Restrick
long - ren 3e goal of havi~i D.O,B.
accepted in society.
Ylfillli OF CANDIDATEfOR CORRESPONDING
:,-Candi L. McGonagle
SECRETARY:
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My main concer n ' with D.O.n • .·::iowis to :
meet our internal
needs.
I thin:-: wi t h.
the best intentions
we have rushed into
arcao - - pcace marches, oth er gay groups,
female liberation;
that can always wait.
We need to answer the needs of our own
members first.
We have a beautiful
group of people;
people of all t ypes and agea .
wher e people
We are an organization
can feel comforta ble; at leaat we should
be.
If peo ple don't }e el free to talk
then there is something wrong. When
there is something wron z with home then
I am a candidate for ~orrespondin g
secretary.
As correspon ding secretary
I would answer all mail as promptly as
po ssible . I would try to build a . ·
reference
file of people and -plac es
to which inquireFs . may be referred
if
they need help outsid e D.O.B, I would
also like to have a few r~printed
articles
to send to people, in addition .to the bro chures and newsletters.
I :.,
of meetings s_o_I
ara. a regular attender
would be able to inform of current
activities,
--.Laura Robin
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VI}filie_Qf..'.fHE CAJ."\JDIDATE TREASURE~:
;FOli
I am announcing my can dida cy for
treasurer.
After readin.0· The Ladder and
our local newsletter,
I do feel that I
ca n help out in some sort . of v1ay to hold
My nane is ~ev. Magera
D,O.B . . together.
E. Kennedy. My eoal ia to wori( for the
uplifting
and progress of Boston D.O.B.;
to encourage,
enlighten;
to make spiritual
awareness a part of the organization;
to
work unceasingly
in the never-ending
struggle
for equality
and social recognition and le gal acceptance;
bring fresh
and new ideas into the orSanization;
·
or
raise money by any means necessary
avnilable;
c<Y
.racsel, marry; pray for
total acceptance
in Boston first,
then
the ~-7orlcl. I remnin sincerely
yours, . ·
··-Rev . Magera E, Kennedy
Thank you.
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/Below is a copy of a resolution
pa6sed at the 1970 General Assembly of
Unitarian
UniversaHst
Churches and
Fellowships.
:7.t is reprinted
from
Un-itaria.1 Universalist
Worlq_, August 1,
J.970.
Rev. Edwa::-d H.:1rris, Arlin3ton
St.
Church (where Boston D.O.B. holds meetings)
s~nt us a copy of the resolut i on . He said
it was offered nt the assembly by their
Youth cooperating
with
Liberal Relieious
Q caucus
of homosexuals.
·
1iDiscrimination
agn:Lnst homocexuals and
6isexuals 11
Recognizing that:
1. A significant
minority in this
;cou ntry are either homosexual or bicexunl
in the ir feelin3s
and/or beha vior ;
2. Homosexuality has been the target of
. severe discrimination
by society
and in
by the police
and other arms
particular
of government;
3. A growine number of authorities
on
the subject now see homosexuality
as an
inevitable
so ciolo r;ical phenomenon and
not as a mental il-lness;
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There are Unitarian
Univeroalists,
clergy and laity ,iho are hornosexuo.ls or
bisexuals;
Therefore,
be it resolved:
,that th ~
1970 General Assembly of the Unitarian
Aaaoaia tion :
Universalist
1. Urges al . people ir::1mediately to
1
bring an end to all discrimination
against homosexuals, homosexuality,
bisexuals,
and bisexuality,
with
speci£ic
immediate attention
to the
following issues:
a. Private consensual behavior
between persons over tha age cif cons 'ent
shall be tho business
only of those
persons and not subje ct to.legal
regulations
b, a person;s
sexual orientation
or prnctic e shall not be a factor i n
the gnmting
or renewing of Federnl
clearance,
visas,
and the
iecurity
granting
of citizenship
or employment.
2. Calls upon the UUAand its member
church es, fellowships,
and organizations
immediately to end all discrimination
against homosexuals in employment
practices,
expending special efforts
to
assist
homose1mals to find employment
in our midst consistent
with their
abilities
and desires.
3.. Urges all churches and :fellowships,
in keeping with our chan ging; social.
patt erns, to initiate
meaningful
progrrcns
of sex edu catio n aimed at
pr oviding a more open and healthier
in all parts
under standing of sexuality
of the U.S . and Canada, and wi th the
particular
nim to end all discrimination
against homosexuals and bisexuals. 11
Other rcoolutions
passed.i nclu ded
ones on withdrnwal from Southeast Asia, ·
supporting
population
control, · legalization
of marijuana,
and equa l rights
for women.
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Call any of the followin g peo ple
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VIVIEN RAMEY ·· J.
VIOLA ·· S
GINGER GAIL & JO
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Servi ces will be held every Sunday
startins
at 10 :0 0 A.M. at tbe home
of Rev. Maoora E. Kennedy . The
addr ess is
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fu1:rru~x in~nr~atiou,
Ser vic es are open to all
one is we lcome,
call
women, every-
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WITH D.O.B.
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1970. Return to D.O.B. Boston, Box 221 9 Prudential Center Station,
Boston 9 Mass. 02199
I entrust
NAME:
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my vote to: ________
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OR I vote for:
------PRESIDENT
Diana Travis
Candi McGonagle
VICE PRESIDENT
Jo Peckarsky
Beth Restrick
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SECRET.ARY
CORRESPONDING
SECRETARY
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TREASURER
Viola N.
Rev. Kennedy
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COMING
ATTRACTIONS**********
Sat.
2
Oct. •3 - Party at Gail & Jo 0 s
Details elsewhere in newsletter
Sat.
9
Oct. 17-Homophil o Hostel in New
Hampshire. Details elsewhere;
Open to men and women.
Fri.
2
Oct. 23-Mombersu meeting
8:00 pm9 Clarke Room J~rlington
9
St. Church 9 corner of /.:.r.-li
~gton
& Boylston Sts. 9 Boston .
Fri.
2
Nov. 6 - Candidates 0 Night
8:00 pm9 Clark e Room B.Y.O.P.*
Mem
bers only
Fri.
2
Nov. 13-Election of Officers
8:00 pm9 Clarke Room
Members Only
Unless otherwise specifiod 9 all D.O.B.
Boston events are open to women only
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Kim Stabinski's
article
which was
originally
scheduled for the October/
November issue of The Ladder will not
appear until the December/Janu ary
issue.
Editor Gene Damon chang ed the
publication
date in order to use th e
religious
theme in th e Christmas
11The
issue.
This article
is entitled
Roman Catholic Homosexual ••• THE OLD
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CH.11.NGETH.
ORDER
PUBLIC EDUC.i~TION
REPORTS
On Wed. Sept. 23 9 the new public
education committee hold its first
meeting.
Gail told of a course on homosexual1ty that is being taught at
Goddard College in Vermont. Tho
professor,
Leo Emord, has invited
D.O.B. to attend his classes at any
timo.
Diana Travis reported to those
present on the nGay Guerilla Theatre"
whose tactics are to confront tho
public with illustrations
of homosexuality
(kissing 9 hugging, etc.)
hoping to invoke comment from tho
straights.
I'm sure it is successful
-- in getting comments, that is.
Right on, fellast
A documentary film of Losbian
life and/or D.O.N. was discussed.
D.O.fr. would want full l egal control
of this film if tho photographer
makes it and Gail is contacting
.i(tt • .Alan Cook. Don9 t worry, gi:>ls -it Os films of meetings, nothing else.
The Public Education Committee
set up nothing in the way of Friday
night programs, feeling this was
tho concern of the In-roach and
Program Committees.
WILDhas made an offer for a
radio program sometime soon.
A form letter
has be en drawn up
to send to colleges and scho ols
(especially
girls 0 schools) announcing the D.O.B. 1970-71 speaker
series.
The committee hopes to
make new contacts for speaking
engagements in this way.
The committee is going to try
to meet with hospital chaplins and
nurses to see if one girl can visit
her spouse in the hospital when
visitors
are restricted.
Public
Education would also like to change
this so a lesbian spouse can be
allowed to si ·,~'!Pfor surgery ,etc.
It was decfdod to cooperate with
the gay boys on speakin g engagements
when we are asked.
Tho first meeting really started
the season off with a bang.
The next meeting will be Wed.
Octe 7, at 3:00 P.M. at Gail and Jo 0 s.
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The Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) was a lesbian organization founded in 1955 in San Francisco by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon for the purpose of self-knowledge and self-acceptance, public education, involvement in research, and lobbying to change the laws criminalizing homosexuality. Starting primarily as a private social group for lesbians focused on the integration of the lesbian into mainstream society, the aims of the group shifted during the 1960s due to the changing political, social and economic conditions of the decade. The DOB took up political activism to lobby for the rights of lesbians, promoting individualism with a decreased emphasis on societal conformity. During the 1960s many regional chapters were chartered around the country and globally, continuing the organization even after the closing of the San Francisco national office in 1978.<br /><br />The Boston chapter was founded in 1969 during a period when many homophile organizations were forming in Boston. Early leaders of the Boston DOB included Lois Johnson, Shari Barden, and Laura Robin/McMurry, who were prominent promoters of the group and its activities.<br /><br />The Boston chapter published a newsletter, originally entitled <em>Maiden Voyage</em>, until 1971 when it was renamed <em>Focus</em>. The publication runs from December 1969 to October 1983.
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a daughters
of bilitis
newsletter
boston chapter
··
p;, · o o box 221
pruden t i:al center sta tj_on
.:boston, ,. mas$,, 92199
I' for med a shawl of the water's
shinihg,
a seabird •s wing.••
for th e skirt I took the mist from over
a •su rrm: fieldo • •
or
and uj_th these I clothed her •• •
he r heart beating,
beating ... u
0
· a cla sp from
--Kenneth
Patchen
THE 1970 D~O,,B,, NATIONAL
C01W
~:tl'I0N Alm GE ERAL ASSEMBLY--=WHERE flE'NOW???
l'J
A.RE
The biennial , con ven ti o:,:iof the Daughte rs of Bilitis
was held in .•New York City
on July 11 and 12~ wit:1 s:i.x BqsJ,on memb rs in attendancec
e
In the absence of all
of f i ,:>,os tt .e General .Assembly was chaired by Ros, president
:
c
of the
our National
New York chapto :t·(' 'Ihe .:'o::1
.lowing measures wore approved by the chapters
present
(Boston, No Yo!?c~ Los fu"'i.geles, Sa n Francis ,'.'!o and l'1
w
·~
iilbourne
represented
by
letter):
th e old ~;:,· d::n: Natio n2 l officers
st
of
for DoO.B. was abolished.
A National
Governing Board uD.l t ake the place of the Hational
officers•
This Governing
Each chapter is to
Board is ma.de up of Ua p rz sido:nt.:: of t he local chapters.
appo:i11t someone t o a s slur. the r e sponsibility
o
of cor.irrrunication with all other
chaptersc
With the c:::.
c0ption of tho requir em
ent that only women may be members,
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fQNVEHTIONcon °to
9
each chapter was given full autonomy. The
Constitution and by-lm-i's were done away
with on a National levelo Because _g_
-~~:fe
.DDER
disassociated
itself with DoO•B•s
DoOo is legally separating itself
Bo
from
~ LADDER. This is being done under the
direction of the president of the Los
Angeles chapter? so tho.t D.O.B.. will not
· 'bo . held re sponsible in libel suits or for
future debts of 1]§. LADDER. is hoped
It
that each chapter will improve its nows·lotter in light of the lack of an official
I) ;O ;n. niagazine.
The noxt convention will
bo held in Los J\ngeles in 1972c
Nany members of the Boston chapter
have put much time and energy into
debating the legality of th o 1970 General
Assemblyo There was a question if _
tho
six Boston members who attended tho . o:mvention could be called recognized delegatese
However as those Boston members who
9
could have been call ed delegates decided
to boycott tho conv<mtion without notice
to th e membership, this question sooms
pointlesso
Tho six who di<;i attend the
General Assembly (Gail, Jo, Laura, Diane,
Beth and Candi) participated
in a convention which, legal or not, prevented the
demise of DoOoBe
It is hoped that tho Boston chapter
can put aside arguments about the
le galit y of the convention and go
forward with the united aim of creating
a strong Boston chapter • .
A committee was appointed on August 16
to write the proposed Boston by-laws.
Those will be presented to the membership for consideration on Friday night,
September 11e ~m members please attend!
Your chapter needs your support, more so
now than it ever has•
Q oQoB~-...BOSTON
OFFICERS:
President~-Diana Travis
Boston (277-8952)
Treasurer--andy Cox
_Weare, Hew Hampshire
.
Vice President and Secretary
pending elections
vacant
NEWSLETTER
STAFF:
EditoJt-Pam Boyd
Assistant F.ditors--Rose ~arie Turner
Candace L. iY"lCGonagle
Production-Beth
Restrick
Bose !vhr,ie •.Turner
.Viola. .N. ··
Candace L. McGonagle
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..•
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PERSONAL Apartment wanted to share starting
mid ...
August or September •. Writes
, ,_
.
Joel Rehmer
P., o. Box 192
Westford, Jvhssachusetts
01886
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1'Q CHRISSY by Renee
I gaze in the mirror•
What do I see?
Howcan that be?
They say IVve upset my entire world
Simply by loving another girl.
what real difference can I make
1
/hen it 0 s my life to givo or take?
Howcan I cause so much harm
By lying in a woma.nvsarms?
Will society ever raise the ban
And accept what we are, the · Lesbians?
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
A normal girl~
!f)M ~ .QJiTHEA~iAYS by Laura
*1
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I
Robin !
Four Boston homosexuals were on the
Rap 0 70 show on Bostonvs black radio
from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.,
station, WILD,
1•·
Friday, July 17•
These guests wore Gail King (D.O.B.),
Steve Russo (Boston University Student
··,.'
Homophile League), Bruce Gordon (Gay
Liberation Front) and Harry Phillips
(Student Homophile League•) . ·
The host for tho program was Jim
Davis., · It was a talk show itith a few
phone calls•
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DIANA, GAIL ANDJEE STAR .91-i
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BOB--What do you feel is the greatest
source of discrimin ;ation a~d intolerance
Diana Travj_s and Gail King of Boston
toward and against the homosexual
D.O.B., and Jeb Boswell of the Harvard
··community in the United States today?
Graduate Student Homophile Association,
.
GAIL, DIANA, JEB--Trnditional
,,.
appeared for half an hour on the "O.B.W. 11 · Christian
morality.
;t,:
. , : show on WHDH-T. 0::1 Sur:.day, August 9 at
V.
GAIL··-The Old Testament spoke of he
1::
,.lQ: 00 a .m. The host was Bob Sterlin g
Law and the New Testament continuall
.n~
.
Smith.
Some of the excellent
dialogue
speal , s of Love. And when I find the ,t)
included:
' institut ional ,;;bur ch (and I think th jf,s
BOB-~Is there a basic difference
an impc ::t nnt: cor rect:!.on) speaking in {j
·.
'
· :::
'"
;;;, ♦
thi s c1.me u1 r:,y 1 :1. e to me o f La w an ~ 1
between.the
mGle and female hom,osexual
communities?
Do you think they really
not of the Love t hen this--to
me--se ·~
ari very separated,
very distinguished,
arates me f::o rn the Church as an inst
very segl:'.'e
gatcd communities?
tut i.on.
;'i.r
· GAIL;.-! don't think there's
any basic
B0i3--Do you f eel society is keepi ,;.;?
diffe'.rence in the communities.
I think
step with these ve,."y bold declaratio
jJ
th~re 1 a differen~e
in.the way the
(on acceptance of homosexuality
in s '~
'j
churches)?
·.,•,;
,
comniunitie .s are treated.
There :is a
distinction
between the way a gay woman
DIANA--As far as society really
_going sornethin g-.:.no. The laws have
is treated
in our world and the way a
gay euy is treated.
not been chanied.
Legislators
are
scared silly to give any approval at all
GAIL---I think it is absolutely
to the fact that these laws might be ·
necessary--to
be a healthy gay person-to choose.
I thi nk in a certain
sense
unfair.
I don't think society has kept
bl _ck people have to choose to be black
a
pace--but maybe as soon as education ·
take s place--·when you 're floored by the
in our society,
choose to claim their
blackness
and the beauty of it.
And
myths of everythi.nrr, it 's very easy to
do nothing.
this i s what I'm talking about in relation
JEB-·-A lot of times homosexuals end
to gay people. rrrt is no longer going to
you're a
up bein g acce pted--"Well,
be a burden on my shoulders,
a defect.
wande:i."ful person so I' 11 overlook the
That I choose this way of livin g and this
fa c t th.::it you're a homosexual."
You 1
way of loving."
BOB--Do you feel that this (homosexual-.
ohouldn' t have to prove that you ' re f-:··
wonderful pe;.-son, ycu should be acce1ted
ity) is a disease?
DIANA--No--not a disease.
I think that
just as a person like everyone else. t ·.
the fact that many people choose to repress All t hat the average v:i.ewer has to d ·. •
it--not
to repress it, but to be so afraid,
to m1dc::t~ . nd .,~h:.-. ~o-mosexuc,alis ~o t .··
~..
,
·.nk
to undergo so much strain from their jobs,
of him .:· a z.. P- t. Si...
,:
:
:U-: a peroon entitle
" r::
the possibility
of losing their jobs, they to the 1·esp8'.:t that he would give an:y,
···
.;
p;;rson he didn I t know.
!t
always have to lead a double life.
This
At the end of the p-:: gram, the ad~ +'
o
can lead to much tension in your life and
much strain on your personality.
Then I
ress of D.O. B. was fl as hed on the sc t e~
~n
do not think the cure would come from
and, althcu 3h the name was misspellep. -.·.··•
helpin g that person change--but
the cure
and th e adc
h·ess \ JBS not perfect,
it
can come fro,o society by helping society
hoped that many people will write to l \\$·
This pro gram was an example of publi f ·
chan ge. I think that 's the cur e for any
unhappiness in homosexuality.
lt should
education at its best.
f
--C.L.M.
be the change in society.
The usual myth that all lesbians
are
"truck drivers"
was refuted,
reason given
bein g that these are the only ones society
can recognize.
·~
t
s
.. '1
fs,
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LEl'TERS TO THE EDITOR
approachin g a plainclothes
plant--safe
l
to wall~ own_tfil L..si .ee"t_in fu .11 drag,
Dear Editor:
<
· .
holdiri g; hands- - safe.
Cynthia -Shippee's letter
in the June/
At the risk of being accused of
11
11 to
· . July MV did ' it- ~ finally
,1
decideq ,to
name..:callin g or queer-baiting,
speak up on one particular
bit.of
drivel
borrow a phr a se from another letter in
that we ' ve been fed over the past months
the June( July MV' let Is stop to think
?
until I 1 m afraid some of us might start
about the effe ct this freedom may have ·,
to believe it simply through the parroton the fellows.
Certainly not allot
like recitat·ions
bein g implanted in the
.
them--not necessarily
the members of
s1!bconcious, much t _ e same as a record
h
any of the male-oriented
. homophile gtou •
bein g played over and over in the sleepeven- -but a number . of them .(likely a \
1
learning theory.
sufficient
number to do· the job) will
·
From the letter
in question,
urgin g
flaunt this freedom.
They will use it '
cooperation
with all within the homoto the hilt--ri
ght und.er the noses of .t 'e
11
very public from which we women are · ·
ph.ile movement, I quote!
Are we not all
.. working for the identical
cause?"
trying to gain social acceptance.
NO-- in capital
lett .ers and underAnd that general public is going to
lined, NO!
turned off--and that s.ame general publi
is sure to rGmember that organized
Gh, sure, if you want to lc ok . t the
a
broad (ver:y broad) view--:as quoted from
Lesbians worked side by side with the
11 •••
the day when gay
the same letter,
organized males to obtain this freedom-people, men and women alike, can walk
~nd that same general public, in assocopenly and proudly, without guilt or
iating an of us in the homophile movefear 11 --in that sense we are workin g for
ment with what they see being flaunted
the , same cause, ideally at least.
before them, wi11 throw us all into the
same kettle
of stew as far as social
But we all know that £Q. group can
acceptan 'ce ..gqes.
work toward a broad goal as such,
specifically,
alone.
What we do is work
I am:·not a man-hater--not
by a long .
toward particular
immediate goc1ls ,;rhich,
t certainiy do not begrudge gay .
shot.
will brin g about the
when accomplished,
males the right to be free from police
har:: nssment, to have more job security, :
realization
of the broader r:oals.
And what are the specific
goals of the and so on. But I do not want to go doftl
in the public mind as fi ghting with the
men's groups as opposed to D.O.B.7 To
condense into two words the driving aim
boys for their sexual freedom.
I feel ! it
of each group as evidenced by the type of is their fi ght, not ours .."'.that we have ·
efforts
to which they are committing them- enough work ..of o'µr own ,to . do, some of ~t
and techniques
selves and the attitudes
in the ~ame direction
arid some not.
can't see our working toward le 3al reform
with which they approach these efforts,
the men '.o groupo are after sexual freedom which will benefit
only them, our par- I'
ticipating
in grqup endeavors (even in
and the women are more after §2..Cial
the educational
line) where the male
acceptance.
Now, are these two specific
goals the
view far overshadows the female sides
same? Are they ·e ven compatible?
that the public gets a male angle with ,
Let ' s project in time to the point ·
the added impre~sion of Lesbians sitti
g
wbere the boys -- with our help, working
beside them in agreement. . By the samej.
at their sides--have
gained the sexual
token, I feel many of our gay male
;
A n1 io of laws
. ,e.r
m
friends would not · begrudge us successe :
s
freedom they seek.
have been wiped · from the •-·books, gay bars
in the women' s lil>eration movement--bu 't
without fear of raids; ,
are .fl6urishing
• if we asked _
them to work with us in this
police forces are concentrating
their :
tellus
that
area, they would politely
effor t s in other areas and police harresanot theirs.
1
is ou_t fight,
ment has become a thing of the past.
The
It is highly likely that there will
boys are now "saic "--safe to solicit
sex
be special programs in which we can, as
at will in public places without .... fear - of
a group and under the D.O.B. banner,
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LETTEa'~,
con . t.
--grat - them into our . <:>wn_.
e
- society,
to say
nothing of better preparing
them to cope
._
heterowith the "non-understttndineu
·1:::oo~erate with the ·other homophile groups
s·exual . society.
Here we have all come
fot-1ai:d specific
ends ' advanta geous t _ us
o
but too
_ to joiri in a sexual sisterhood,
all.
Such_ cooperation; · thou gh, should
many are treated
as po~r relations.
We
be selective,
should he 'approached with
have instructed
them where they could
di &
nit.y, an9 should .be undertaken only
after
majo:tity ' vote of the ~oston D.O.B. find a sympathetic priest or psychiatrist,
how they should make out a will ··n1e,1J!bership to participate.
- - Such joint
but as for a relating
or workin g to ge theffort-s
should ·also . carry some assurance
er, we have failed_, ·
that the f_emale attitude
will have equ~l
The second purpose of D.O.B. is nEd··
pub lfcation
rather than bein [:; expressed
ucation of the public, developing an
to the male
as a r a-ther weak post script
understanding
and acceptance of the
views , . , .
•'
You cap. le gislate
laws.
You cannot .
Lesbian as an individual,
leading to an
you
legislate · public acceptance--that
eventual br~akdown . of erroneous taboos
must work for in a d:i. ni:Hed manner
g
and prejudices ..• 11
which proves you worthy of a• first-rate
This we have mc,1de
.our primary goal.
place irt the social structure,
For this we' have spent most of our
Is this 11s phere of cooperation 11 for
energiofJ and, unfortunately,
most of
- all ·of us ''working for the same cause" ,
_
our worldng members. And this, my
::,: r; to hasten the day·when Lesbians are friends,
oin
I feel is where all of our
sci2ially acceptable ··-or is it goin 3 t9
troubles
lie.
We have broken into
set us back 5, years' worth of ~,erk in
separate camps and have started
name
Think about
the public . -~cfucation area?
callinc,
the names bein3 radical,
liberal
it.
It ' s s omethin g we must decide ··But the one thin g that
and cmiservative,
and w0 _
must decide how the maj ority
se ems to escape the guilt} ,est of us is
(yes,_even the silentmajority)
of our
that there arc radical
co11'servatives.
membel:'. feel about it before we adopt our From the dictionary,
,s
some definitfons:
chapter c,aristitution
and by-law ·s and
Radical--an
extremist,
especially
before we elec~the
officers
to l~a d
one who advocates complete political
us in the direction
we want to gcf_
or social r _
eform.
durin g the coinin g year.
Liberal--one
who is prf'?,rcssive
in
-· :Kim 'Stabinski
thinkin g or principles,
bro ld-minded
or politesp~cially
'as to religioub
Dea r Editor:
ical ideas.
The first
purpose of D.O.B., as
Conservative--one
__
who opposes
stated in each edition of THE LADDER
sudden chan ges in government or
thus far, is: 1,1E~~c~t: :on of th~ ::Lesbian,
policy ; a believer
in things as ..
enablim: ~.,- her to · ~nderstand - herself
and
they are.
.
to ma'.<:eher adjustment to society in all
So, you see, any extremist,
whether
i t s social, _civic and economic _
implican be called
liberal
or cons~rvative,
catio ns ••• .by providing the Lesbian a
radical.
forum for the - interchan ge of ideas
I have been called a_ conservative
within her own group. 11 _
many times recently, - c,1n~i"Iobject. ' l,
This, our suppo - e<:llr -primary purpose,
s
among others who have shared like· fate,
we have failed in -- no, we haven't really
consider myself _more liberal
than I have
failed,
we never started.
We have _
been given credit for.
I for one will
provided a fo . r,um, yes--a place to theet -:
not lend my support or my vote to a
but not a 'plac-e to interchange
ideas.
radical
in either camp~-both are -equally
We have $pli_t: into cliques or factiops,
··
deadly in any or ganizaiion~
those of us viho came here fairly well
We have now coming up a most important
adjusted and scimewhat self - oriented.
·what we decide this
time, elections.
For the majority,
the great silent _
·
year will probably make or break our
majority~ we have done nothing to inte chapter.
We have all been too intim1
a
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look lousy in black anyway. Besides,
my voice isn ' t deep enough and my
..t·:,.
. '''
idate<i. by the cry 11radica,l";..;;or even the · cauldron is · cracked.
Or is it · my yoice
that is . ,cracked ' and my cauldron that
cry _
flliberaL"
Too 'many people have b.een
isn't deep enough? I don't know.
jud3ed guilty by association,
thus the
lu1yway; a few weeks ago I went to
misnoma of myself arid oth_crs bein g called
my second D.O.B. meeting.
As I was
conservatives
and s·ome good, honest,
. comin g around the corner of Arlington
bein g called
very hard::-working liberals
a girl pulled up on a motor•
Street,
radicals.
• Now's the time for us to smarten up if
Itrn:nediately I was impressed.
cycle.
She was very adroit as she got off and
It may be our last
we ' re ever going to.
I can ' t imagine
walked up the stairs.
chance.
We have to start workin g to ge ther as a group of Lesbians with . a common
myself on one of those things,
though.
On the first
try I 1 d probably end up
goa l, overcoming personal prejudices
in a hospital
with a concussion and 25
and jeal ousies, in a selfless
effort for
stitches.
I know, because when I was a
somethin g we believe to be worthwhile.
kid I got more stitches
than a basebqll
In looking over the membership for
and twice as many as any kid on the
potential
leaders,
utmost in our mind
should be the good of all.
There will
block.
I was the only kid in the
always be personal little
power struggles
neighborhood who kept driving her trike
- ··without this . we wouldn I t be human- Finally,
after three
into a tree.
but it is t he duty of every votin g
· tricycles
and 21 stitches,
the intern
member to cast her ballot
for the good
at the Efflt~ge~ay ward felt sorry for me
of the chapter rather than for the sake
and bou ght me a scooter and I rve been
· of any misguided loyalty to any individdrivin3 it ever since.
·
ual or clique.
I followed this girl
But seriously,
I personally
believe we have enough
admiring her very much.
up the stairs
good . people oLvarying
viewpoints who
I tried to walk just like her and when
wouid be able to ~ooperate in the
she sat do'ym I sat down beside her and
16adership
of this chap~~r if all the
everything
she did I did.
When she put
fuel for the petty differences
was put
her hand in her back pocket, I put my
·aside and we go under orie ·name as one
When she
hand in my back pocket.
group--,-all ·Lesbians of D.O.B. _ Boston.
crossed her leg, I crossed my leg.
--A1~dy Cox _ .
__
Everythin g was fine until she pulled
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wooden match.
So I
out a ci gar and a _
turned to the girl on my left.
She was
OVER +HE FENCEWITHDIANE O'KEEFE
givin g a humorous account of her recent
by Diane O'Keefe
nervous breakdo"vm, her . involvement in
Bread and Roses and the poetry she was
I am so sick of rollin g bandages for
writing.
She was impressing everybody
lepers in Tanzania on Wednesday mornings
while I sat there with a worn ~out
you don't know. In five years I haven't
pacifier
and a rubber duck that went
gotten one thank you card or a sin gle
quack. What am I doing wrong?
telephone call.
No one over there knows
got around
Finally the conversation
I 1 m a live and I ' m sick of bein z a robot.
to bras, girdles,
make-up and hairdos.
I 1 m sick to death of the Ladies' Sodality;
Most everybody agreed they were han gloo k ing at pictures
of other people ' .s ·ups.
I sat there with neatly coifed
ugly kids and listening
to crummy stories . hair and tons of make-up on looking
of ""hy Johnny still
can I t read.
...
like Greta the Goon with :a Shi~ley
So a few months back I joined D.o ·~B.
Temple haircut.
· I vasc:t"llated quietly
hoping to find a golf partner
(what a
betwe(3n silent rage and qutright
indigsneaky way to get an ad in).
Actually,
nation.
Finally I muster - d up enough
e
I would have joined the Women's Inter coura ge to climb on top of my highchair
national
Terrorist
Conspiracy Frot!i' Hell,
and with my tap shoes in one hand and a
but the wart on my nose cleared up ai.fa I
lollypop in the other, I announced to
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OVER
1HE FENCE, con't.
cryin g for my blanket and· 'my Raggedy
Ann. That would be a l~ttle
inconvenient,
, !':,, , . all
that withoU:t any make- up I look like
in -the middl~ of a Jpeech.
especially
Also, I am very highstrung.
somethin:3 that should he walked on ·a
The
other day I broke a shoelace and went
leash from 7. l:!. m. to 10 p .m. and every
··· tied and telephone pole should he watched
into a fit of f1yflfe:ria. ~ As if that
weren I t enou gh, th.e $t}me day I lost my .,
closely.
No one was terribly
impressed,
but at least they knew I had an opinion
comb and my typewriter :ribb6n broke
1
I paniced anq called my psychi '
on somethin 0 and that I wasn 1 t one to give again.
trist.
He told, me to take a lon g walk · .
up my individuality.
One woman--she was
a hot bath and : wo 9.sprin.
t
Of course,
~
type- - cocked her head
the bi g , masterful
to one side in dinbelief
and looked at me the typewriter
ribbon:.is : still
broken, ;, ~
.· rather strangely
like I had two heads ,,
but I feel jus~ great·. .
::~
I w~sn It
,·four arms, and my fly was open.
Also, mak:ing small decisions
is a
problem for me. The other day I was
goin g to argue with her with a ten foot
driv:i,ng into Boston and Tcouldn It
pole.
I'd have ended up wrapped around
it and a steak over both eyes.
Of course
decide bet.i-1een the tunnel or the bridg ·
Fina Uy, . cit tj:le last minute', I chose
I could have g:j:ven her a karate punch if
"checked
•.
she· came after : me except I , _on t know any the bridge ·and inadvertently
d I
guy into the boards" at Bell Circle.
f ·!
karate;
so instead I took . my foot out of
So, you see, · I'm not quite ready for the
my mouth, climbed down from my hi ghchair,
bi g stuff.
Until I am, I 'll leave the
jumped it'1to ·my pocketbook and wasn't
responsibilities-of
the world to the
heard from for the rest of the ni ght.
hard-core
feminists
and stick to my
by other
Why am I so easily intimidated
apd
women? Because I 'm a coward, that 1 s why. Raggedy Ann Mondays through Fridays,
my rubber duck on weekends.
I t011·you,
though, it's no fun eoin s
through llfc an absolute thr?at to
no one. -' -··
Rowt:ver ', : thin woman<was· mo1:1~mentally
built.
You know the t:ype ··-Army boots,
epaulets,
and a stained sweat 9?,irt. · I 'm
only kidding. · She was probably · a delightful wdman who kisses her father good
mornih 3 'every day and means it and takes
her kid brother fishin e; every ;Sunday.
You can't knock that.
Seriously,
though,
I didn't
see one stained sweatshirt
there
that ni ght.
Of course, there were a few
tor'J. sweaters here and there, put to each
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cookie jar ; I keep mine in the bread box
LA BATARDE a bdok revie _ by Pam Boyd
.
w
where they belong.
..
Fra.ikly, I ;give _hese radical
t
feminists
"My mother never held my hand. 11
all the credit;
She is the type that will
begins Violet LcDuc I s journey throu gh
lead tomorrow I s women out of slavery
..
in the jofai with my thumb her sometimes sordid, sometimes h~ppy, ~while t 1 m still
always gay life.
,;
in my mouth and an enerria .up : mY posterior.
Althour;h currently
out of general
, ''fl
h
· ·· · ..
There's t - e difference.
circulation,
Miss LeDuc's autobiography,
I would like to get more ac .tively
11La Batarde,"
enjoyed a eood literary
involved, but 1 am so vulnerable.
Every
r eception in this country.
It first
time I think of picking up a cause or
appeared here the week of the great
joinin z an activist
group I get the
northeastern
black-out
and a couple of .
"vapors.n
One tiny slight
from someone
years later it was out in a Dell paperor one moment of self-doubt
and I start
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LA BATARDE,ccin I t
I . was leayin g and _ ill
w
. -Lett in f; g ()-
bac k edition.
to ·
Written with a woman's sensitivity
detail, the book covers the perio d of the
f
around
author 's U.fe _rom her birth,
1907, thrQu gh her day8 a8 a black market,irin g World War II. ·
eer ch
She covers her Lesbian affairs,
first
with I8abelle and later with Hermaine
v1ith a clear eye. She lays b lame where
blar,nc is often due -- on herself.
Her
chot tcomin s s as a person and as a lover
.·ar e real and she knows what tb.ey are.
dpcs the reader,
Perhaps the most intri guin e; section
of t he .book is her description
of .her
days as a black marketeer in the South
ot' France and Pnris durin g World War II.
. . Althou gh occasionally
hard to di ~; st,
e
11La Batsirde 11 wm.1ld- iake a good beach
u
companfon for , sunimei- e.adin g .
·
r
_: It is intereiit:in g to note that Miss
i eDu~ is the author ess of .the book
"Therese and Isabelle 11 that 3av e us the ·
movie. She t-bof··11bc incident of her
first affai;~ with fzabelle
(beautifully
wri t t en in " i 1La . B'atatden) and expanded
it into a poorly written,
murky limited
editi on novella.
Quite a success in
Parisian liter?rY circles,
the book did
not appear in print in this country
unt il the mqyi~ was released.
.
So
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LYRIC FR01'1
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REUBEN
GAE'S COUNTRY
PLACE
b y Shayna Reuben
Leavin g you don 1 t come easy
,by.e
Each time we say good~
on Sunday morn
I ' ve eot to talk to the boy
who drives me home
Three -hours long
., .
With a bottle of wine between my feet ·
And the lunch you made for me
You feed me oran ges, feed me earth
lam. of all I see
Your hair was chestnut in the sun
~he sun is on my jeans
On Tuesday night my tired eyes
Blink quickly up and down
C2tch me, love me dark and li3htly
always be
,- .
Just to see you now :
I slept all ni ght, I _
did not reach
To find today would be
Some other kind of Sunday
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SUMMER
READING
The books listed below ..all have
a gay _
theme. They represent fiction
and non- fict;i.on, hardcover and
paperback.
GIOVANNI'SROOM by James Baldwin
by
ANOTHER
. COUNTRY · James · :Baldwin
THE Il'11".IO~LISTby Andr.e. Gide
·:
CORYDON. Andre Gide
. by
IF 11\ DIE...
by . Andre Gide
THE Wi;:LL o:r: LONELINESS by Radclyffe Hall
i
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LA BAT~E by Violet · LeDuc
THER~SE
ANDISABELLE by Violet LeDuc
A PLACE
FOR US by Isabel Miller
OF LOVEFORBIDDEN
(previously titled
THE SCORPION) by Anna Elisabet
Weirauch
_
THE PRICE ·OF SALT by Claire Morgan
SAPPHO· translated -by Mary .Barnard
by
THE GAYCOOKBOOK Chef Lou Rand Ho3an
UNLIKEOTHERS by Valerie Taylor
THE UNASHAMED March Hastin r;s
by
I AM A WOMAN Ann Bannon
by
THE SONGSOF BILITIS by . Pierre Louys
THE GAYWORLDby Martin- ·Hoffinan
LESBOSIS FOR LONNIE by Arthur Adlon
WON'TLAST, WETOO MUSTLOVE,
WETWO
IN
WEWALK
ALONE,CAROL A . THOUSAND
CITIES all by Ann Aldrich
THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGEby Frank
·
Marcus
THE MESH· by Lucie Marchal
FROM
TORMENT RAPTURE Sylvia
TO
:by
Sharon
MY LOVELY.ADELE Adrian Bennett
by
THIS SIDE OF LOVE/THE
· EDGEOFTWILIGHT
by Paula Cht"i.stian
WOMEN' l3A..~RACKS
s
·_ by Tereska Torres
,
: TH~ llEA,RTH
.ANDTHE STRANGENESS
by
N.- Ma t: in ~ramer
.
r
THE PR;[NCESS
. ,A.ND GOBLIN by Paul
THE
Rosner
THE STORY MIA by Judith Piccone
OF
STEPPENWOLF Hemann Hesse
by
THE DAUGHTERS LONGINGby Froma Sand
OF
NIGHTWOOD Djuna Barnes
by
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SUMMER
READING, can't.
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make us that much different
from the
A relationheterosexuals
of th~world.
ship is a relationship;
it has the same
THE FOX by D.R. Lawrence
basic needs and requirements,
and it
GIVE ME MYSELF by Susan Sherman
OLIVIA b y Olivia
functions
in more or less the sarae wa
NO JOHN NO by Cressida
Lindsey
matter
if it is two women,
It doesn't
THE MICROCOSM.·by Maureen Duffy
two men, or one of each.
So you have
AND. OTHER STORIES by John (?'Hara (espec lists
that
to go bat:k to · those hayseed
ially
Th~ Broken Giraffe
i3nd !':_Few ·
Grandmama handed down to you on how to
l)ick a husband.
Doubtlessly
you 1 re
J'rips and Some Poetry)
not .in the market for a husband,
but
THE EXHIBITIONIST by Henry ·Sutton
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d.
o
t·o mean. ::a.s
to .yo:u as , a ;husband
means to . the ~verage ·wife? .· Sure, you
MAKE LAST, BABY
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say, maybe even more.
Then you must
~~
by Zee Paulsen
r~p.r .inted with permission
select
ller . just . as you would select
an
for a'. meaningful
relationship.
~
from the May/June 1968 iss~e of fHE !ADDER partner
•.;,,
ft'l;
She should be someone. you -can trust
an ·:.ire
~1
Every Lesbian relationship
is goin g to . respect,
someone you c.:m work with as , i ">
· 1ast for':'ver,
right?
Then one morning you well as play with, someone whose basic ; ·r
wal~c up 8iid · realize
that the love I affair
values and standards
and · interests
'
of the century
slipped
down the drain
agree with your own.
when you weren I t watching.
There are · a
· •. The two ·of you cart 1 t exchan3e lon g
few who thrive
on impermanence,
bu t most
lan gorous loo k s across
a smoke-filled
tired
of playin z merry room · one ni t;ht' .: nd move in together / the
a
,of .us 6 ct rather
i 'c o .'. ound from girl
r
to girl to girl.
And
next daj> '1 Not if you want it to last.
Tonight in bars across
the . ·
There are :' a few happy e:l:{ceptions but
then what?
tragic
tales
are
; they!ie
r?~e. : No, 3ive yourselves
plenty
country,
a thousand
unfolc1in~ ; across
th e table to a friendly
. .of time to get acquainted.
See each
e ar.
We talw to drink,
if we hadn I t
other in many different
moods and surr. b efore.
Or we get a li;ttle
r:iore desperate
. oundings.
Desire should be there,
but
as time z oos on, a littfo
more frantic
to
companionship
too--because
it is com'.'"
c rab that gold ring of to getherness.
Or
. :panionship
which will hold you two to-1 !:rf:l
l
w settle for the next thin g that comes
C
z ether at tit:les when little
else is le f¥.
1)
al one , and close up our bmccs of dreams.
Eventually
there will come a time,
· :',:
The hell of it is that it is all -so
she is the right
girl for you, when yo 7
~'
•·i,
unnecessary.
· We need ;to adjust
our
cannot bear to live apart from her.
I .i: '
,
thinkin g on several
counts,
and then
not ·ju 'st art urge or a nice idea or bei
a· ·
able to spend all night in the same be
pe rhaps we can find what we 1 re after:
you that won ' t
lifetime
relationship.
First
of 211 comes There ts an clche inside
is it love or sex?
disappear.
This is the girl you want t
that horrid
question,
Face up to it honestly;
if it ; s an itch ;; ·
laugh with and nurse . throu gh the flu an
scratch
it - -but don I t try to build 3
shar 'e :yo.ur life with.
Then is the time i}}~
relationship
out of it.
Too many of . us
to move in tozcther,
. be·cause you· re
ffnd ourselves
screaming
across
the kit ready for it.
You've seen her at her
~~~j
chcn at someone we found physically
· .
. best and her ,iorst,
and you still
like
·:.~
,\~~
· attrac t ive · once upon a time, arid ;made ...tbe . .her c1s well as love her.
mistake
of scttlin
r:; down with~ . Now we ' r(;!
Don' t wait too long, though. i Separa~e l
and want out, and who cou1d i. ,
es~ablishnents
seldor:u;:ontribut1
to the
i-cbtlc.ss
. blame us? · It w~q. 't love to bc c;in with,
n
. development
of a lif l') time love:
rtot:teally,
and it . was .n 1 t destined
to last .. . , So you move in. •Nnid all thbse
tumultous
first
joys 9 t joint
l~vin g ,
··wo, you've got to choose .a partner
A0:d don ' t l~id yourself;
try to find time for the most important
more carefully.
thing of ail:
a definite
honest comj ust because we're queer,
dear, doesn 1 t
much
ti~
iffi
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yourshlf ·on y6ur ability
to lead a
life.
tf you see a
trouble-free
problem developing,
dis~uss it~-don't
m~~~en~ by both ;arti~s
to the relation let it becomi '.so huge - that not much
. ship . . Decide, then and there,
that both
can be don~ _;,ith it when you eventually
of you will work like hell to make it
allow 'Yourselv .es to notice it .
last: · Decide that staying together
is
. We- could talk about joint
bank ac ..
'.:'.
the most important thing in the world fol,"
counts and other such m~chanics of a
you both, and that it deserves all the
LecJiian ~ouoehold, but the only other
effort possible.
You must be totally
vital things here are to begin thinking
devot ed to the relationship
from this
''us ti icotaed of 1.111, and to watch for
time on, or odds are that eventually
the moment when that rosy glow of first
you will part.
lt 1 s not a one~sent~nce deciiion.
.
love fades.
The rooy e-low is part of
the Vine-Covered.,..Cottage Syndrome, when
This is the kind of oath of . allegiance
love is idyllic,
She is perfect,
and 1
you pledge daily.
Love must be nurtured
you are both deliriously
h4ppy.
One ·
and labored over, or it will die.
When
day you realize
that she has so damn ,
you 1 re madder than :hops at that idi~~.
many faults
that you don't know if you
you must still
feel deep inside you ·
can spend · nother minute with her--ano
a
that you will always live with her and
•
that I fr when the rosy glow fades out. ·
love her--not
because it :proves some- .
Far to o many Lesbian relati _
onships end
thing, but simply because :she is someone
But what a pity-··for
now
at that point.
too special. to live without;
·
that the rosy zlow is gone, the two of
From here on out, honesty is the key
y~u can begin to live together
in the
word. As soon as possible,
face up to ..
real world, the here and now, with
the problems that await you in the
things as they really are.
Your
future.
It: doesn't do much good to ;hide
and all
relationship
is juot beginning,
from problemn or the possibility
of them;
the real joy of it io yet ahead of you.
no one in this world has ever led a
So don't panic juo:t because she ' G human;
. troub:1e-frce
existance,
an'd ' you ' re no
be gV:ici you've got her, faults nnd all.
·exception.
You 1 ll get a giant step
Those faults
that irritate
you oo much
ah ead by planning for the future.
help . make her the uniquely fascinatin e
You're bound to meet other attractive
individual
that she is.
Learn to snile
women. So is she . . So talk about it;
at yourselveo;
the, .let-down will pass
di s cuos how you 1 l1 handle it when it
comeo. Talk about boredom and arguments.
oooner than you tn°ink.
1
Ancl c10 for that "I ~ feeling;
toso it
and the aging process and friends
and the
out sot:1ewhere. By moving ,in with her
importance of sex in your lives.
When
problem~ do arise,
you'll
have : an idea
and committing yourself
to the permanence
how t o face them together.
you lost )'our indepof -the relotionship,
Theri keep . on being honest.
Develop the pendence.
Now you have another human
ability
to sit down together
and discuss
being to consider ,besidcs yourself.
how each of you feelo,
Learn to place as much importance--if
frankly and operily.
not more'--in how she feels as well as
Sure, botnetimes it will be a mighty hented
disc:ussion,
but _ that doesn't mean you
how you feel; her happiness and con•
can 1 t be honest ns well..
If you ' re going
her gripes and problems,
tentmeot,
.: to live· with her, you might as well know
..should be of ns much concern to you ns
your own are.
You can't · ·take off on
what che I s really
like and how she really
foiels.
Anc:lshe deserves to know the ·
she is D part
your ovm now, not renlly;
real you.·
•. of you and you're a part of her.
Now
Martyrs and ,$aints are lovely, but
and forever,
wasn't that whc1t you
they'd be difficult
to share :a lifetime
So thia io it,
promised ~ach other?
with.
Better to come out with a gripe
kid.
Shc.1riri and compromise,
g
One day
or an opinion as soon as you feel it,
after a 0hastly qucc1rrel., you'U .kiso
talkin 6 about it then, instead of hugging
her goodni~ht,
and smile to yourself,
it secretly
to your bosom ivhile -'you pride
:
thinking,
"Boy, that one was a lulu I 1:
MAKE IAST, BABY, con't.
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MAKE LAST, BABY, con't.
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With this poem I thee cherish.
Written with my need, ,.
When thnt happens, you ' ll know you made
Its words are the words
it.
Of faithfulness
and pain,
Come around oometirne and see if I'm
Punctuated with wonder.
f oll owin e my own advice. , It. '.s a long
And although other eyes will e lance
hard r oad , but I wouldn I t trade it f{)J.:.,.
over it,
the world - -even if I do for ge t, all n,o
Thoughtleos nnd uncomprehendin g ,
often, just how to travel it.
Yet it remains your poem,
Never to become ~brtble~s
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Or nn unpleasured
thin g ~
Artists-may
be gaj~
With "_
thib :poem· I bid thee , remember
And w:e can ,acc::~pt. thnt , ,
How it feels ·
To ·:b.e v1hole ! ~ - ::- -:.:i
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Provided 'that t~ey · don ' t . write · about it,
And provided thrlt :they - don't ment ion that
Pre::i'siri g your head hard against
· myr;shoulder
· ·
We to o may he , gay,
And provided ·that they don't try to make
With a savnge joy,
it look
Rufflin g yol,lr .hair; .: . ,;,
, .
s
Saddene d by the -, hadow .
Normal
Or like an ancient and universal
act,
leave-takin g .
Of pnrtin g , inevitable
And provided that they don 1 t admit that
We have so little)
they ' re happy,
We have nothing.
Or evencontent,
It is enouzh,
Or even HUMAN.
·
With this poem I' thee wake.
If it must be dincussed
Wntch the gray.October
come
Smiling.
._
(An all obscene iooues are);
Let 1 S · use mi;erably,
unhnppy examples,
- - Candi McGonagle
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And let 1 0 cata gorize people we didike
"O of them,n
ne
And "let is nhow our children
b. SPY JJ1THEFAMILY
this perverted _ A Book Review by Diane O'Keefe
How tempornry and insincere
life iG
And how sadistic,
masochistic
and animalIf you like a gripping tale of
iotic
snuggling, .international
intri 3ue mixe d
These horrid people are.
then Alec
with sadism and blackmail,
We munt be pleasant with them
A
Waugh's 1r Spy in the Family " is for
And accept their cheques
you. It is a fast .moving\ loosely
And· the.ir advice
written novel, 248 pp., $5.95 in hard· (On certain
issues), .
cover published by Farrar,
Straun and
And even their
exist~ince. ·
Giroux.
It is brand new, so not yet
But their actions?
·
out in paperback.
But your local
"'
.. '.)
·W must think of our children
e
librnry may have purchased it.
And our children ' s children
Myra Tra~l, the lovely wife of a
And ourselves,
Treasury o~ficial
in London finds her•
All lec1ders of one generation
in the
self :in . Malta on vacation-and
Or another.
middle of n narcotics
ring.
She is
And it is our duty to teach them -··
surraptitously
seduced and nbrou ght
To straighten
their crooke d lives
out" by Naomi, a German Lesbian.
They
And accept·their
apology,
hnve a three-day affair
and because of
As one must if he wishes
s
her husband = job in the Treasury,
· To understand ·
Myra is vulnerable
and ultimately
The issue
is
blackmailed.
The tape of her affnir
At hand.
presented to her back in London by n
- -S helley Swartz
fro□ .the undereround.
.... shady character
·In ord~r to obtain the tape, she must ·
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�MAIDEN VOYAGE
(12) .
f::._SPY IN
THE FAMILY,: ~on 1 t.
t3?THERIM'.i'ORTANT
ANNOUNCEMENT
On Friday ni ght~ Se ptember 11, 1970 ,
a c t ao a .c ou ri e r and smu gg l e holf n
r;1illion
do ll a ro worth of h ero in d ioat8:00
in th e Clarke Roon of the
guis .ed a n a box o f choc o lDt es out o f
Arlin gton Street
Church,
there will
. be - a metibers'
meeting
o f Boston D.O.B.
Bei ru t~ . Tension mounto as she goes
thr ou gh custonid . .and th e pl o t thickerls
.
At this
time,
the proposed
by-lawa
when ohe dfocovers
thot her blackT'lailer,
and conotituti
on fo~ :, Boston D.O.B. will
M Fr ank ., wants orte r:16re·, f avor :~- she
r.
be presented
to th e membership
for
must ..p.rocure
another
cour .i e r. . With her .
approval.
CorJ:ec,tio.ns
a rtd final
- hucibanci 's job in mind at}d th e fact that ·_.
:.eh_p,ges will b~ n1ade _ .this
a
at
time '
a n ew- foun d · and fin a l acceptance
will. be voted
Leobi .::
miDm has given Jier life
upor1.
oavory t p imenni on; she c onsents . to c ontinue
thia dual lif e.
This meeting
is extrer.icly
import a nt
Myra'o next adventure
fi ndo her at
the Roy a l Sandwich,
a lux e ry hotel
in
nnd should be t:>laced nt the top o f
Kent where ahe rneCts th e lith esome
e v12ryone 's calandar
.o f evento for
the month o f September.
Pl ea se-He.,ath e r who r is com'p~tin g in an Amateur
a ll nembe re--be
sure to attend
this
· Mi:iced Doubles match with a r.:iale fri e nd .
ALL members (and only
·l ·
meeting.
She is graceful
and supple
and Myra is
members) ohoul d be .preoent
Sept.
11111
c apt ivat ed by her athletic
chariscia :
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and quiet masculinity.
Her s e xual
i nno c en c e heightens
· Myra's int .e.re.ot,
NOTICE : THE CHURCHOF D.O. B . will b e
Heather
is a
and ao luck would have it,
ho l d i n ~ serv ices every Sund ay
perfect
tar ge t becaus _e o f her job as an
startin
r ::epte,;n b er 13, c1t 10: 00 A. M.
Et:13Jisl::i school
teacher.
The schene of
and every Sund~y here af ter at the
,,
h ome of:
bia ~km
nil continu es _ as Hea ther becomes
an o ther pawn a nd th e ch a in of events
Rev. Ha c or a E. Ken .1edy
61 Cla.,.+:. ood ' Str eet
w
3oeo on . But an i n tcr co tin g twist
MEttapan,
Mas_a chusett s 0 ?126
s
ch an r,ca the cours e o f fat e ao a member
For further
inf:onnation,
c:all
o f th. e C. I. D. irit· e rcepts
th e tape
" •
')
.
2 ':\'' 2 _.7 ·..1
fr om Mr.,,. Frank. -, Hea th e r io opnred
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.
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,
and
huMiliation,
Mr. F'.tank ge t o his'
Come swimmin s with D. O.B. ·every Monday
Myr a 'doco mi. :about-face
and joine tlM
.
and Thur s day from 7 - 9 P . M. · F or
C. I. . D. to help Sr!laoh the narcotics:
further
information
or tranoporta
t ion
ri n :; . It is hoped that Hei.:ither and
Myra mee t in the fut1'r e cind tti e r e is
c al l 2S6-2 57J or 442- 0550 .
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.
for e :i.veness and underst and in g ·, and
.
maybe a ~econd chance at l ove.
THE D.O.B. DEEP-S EA fI SHING TRIP
has b een c an celled.
. Treasurer,
And{
Cox r e ports
t h at only 9 peo ple had
IM!>ORTANT
ANNOUNCEMENT
SECTION
sent i n pa id r e se rva,tion s by the
'
: . :r ''
i
deadline
dc>te . Andy'. reports
that
Will Helen Baker pl e6s 1
e<scnd her
the f is h i n r tr ip has · b~en ca ncell e d
ndd r eo .s to the staff
·of th e Maic;1cn
due to lack of s upport.
.
Voyage · oo· that we dm forward
all th .
e
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Th e )1V
l et t c ro we have received,
add r ess is :
The dea d line date for the Se ptem ber
MAID.ENVOYAGEc/o Candi McGonagle
.
issue
of the Maiden Voya 3 e i s
P.
Box 55
No . -Qufncy · Ma os -. 02171
Se p tem b er 15. All copy sh ou ld b e sent
b efore
t his date t o the Maiden Voy a:'.e
a ddres s , :iven elsewhere
in the newsletter.
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The Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) was a lesbian organization founded in 1955 in San Francisco by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon for the purpose of self-knowledge and self-acceptance, public education, involvement in research, and lobbying to change the laws criminalizing homosexuality. Starting primarily as a private social group for lesbians focused on the integration of the lesbian into mainstream society, the aims of the group shifted during the 1960s due to the changing political, social and economic conditions of the decade. The DOB took up political activism to lobby for the rights of lesbians, promoting individualism with a decreased emphasis on societal conformity. During the 1960s many regional chapters were chartered around the country and globally, continuing the organization even after the closing of the San Francisco national office in 1978.<br /><br />The Boston chapter was founded in 1969 during a period when many homophile organizations were forming in Boston. Early leaders of the Boston DOB included Lois Johnson, Shari Barden, and Laura Robin/McMurry, who were prominent promoters of the group and its activities.<br /><br />The Boston chapter published a newsletter, originally entitled <em>Maiden Voyage</em>, until 1971 when it was renamed <em>Focus</em>. The publication runs from December 1969 to October 1983.
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a daughters of bilitis
newsletter
boston chapter
P• o. box 221
prudential
center station
boston, mass. 02199
june - july
D, 0 . I 3 • t,J E w S L £ T , £ R
"I love you.
1970
vol. 1, no. 7
But I am told I love you too much.
I love you in this way the world calls
outrageous.
I will not stop.
And I will do what must be done
To protect you."
--0:ie,lt; .&mmer
LUTHER.A.NS
CA.LLFOR F.A.IRTBEA'JMEN't'
by Pam Boyd
by Candi ?-bGonagle
The Lutheran Church in America h&s
publically
called for fair treatment ot
homosexuals.
In a statement issued July 2 in
Minneapolis by delegates
to an eight
day biennial
Intheran convention,
members declared that it is "essential•
that homosexu.a.ls receive "understanding
and justice•
in the church and in the
community as well.
The 6oo delegates representing
3.2 million Intherans in this country
also emphasized a belief that individuals
engaged in homosexual behavior were
no more or less sinners than were
heterosexuals.
The text of the church's stand,
entitled
"Sex, Marriage and Fa.mi4r,"
is as followss
"Scientific
research has not been
able to provid~ oonolnsive evidence
regarding the causes of homosexuality.
Nevertheless,
homosexuality is viewed
biblically
as a departure from the
heterosexual
structure
of God's creation.
"Persons who engage in homosexual
bel:w,vior are sinners only as are all
other persons-=eJiens.ted
from God and
neighbor. · However, they are often the
special and undeserving victims of
prejudice
and discrimination
in law,
A Lesbian is a woman. She is not
just any woman; she is a special breed
of woman. Her thoughts and habits and
feelings
are different
from those of
most other women. With a few exceptions,
she does not worry about getting an
abortion if she forgets to take her Pill.
She does not participate
in hen-se-s&i.omt--which debate breast feeding vs. bottles
or how early Johnny should be toilet
trained.
She wants her rights as a
Lesbian.
She does not clamor for free
abortion or child day-care centers.
Nor does she clamor for homosexual rights
per se, such as abolishing the dangers
of being approached by a plain-clothes
policewoman.
The rights she wants are
not women's rights,
not rights as a
homosexual.
She is a lesbian,
a woman
unique, with a desire for unique rights.
She is usually not interested
in the
right to have sex as such.
She would
prefer to have recognized and accepted
by society her desire to live with
another womanopenly ~.J.OR
--reJatjon.ship.
--- --She is d.i.ff'erent.
She may- say to
straight
people, "I'm no different
than you are," but this is untrue.
She
is different
from heterosexual
women in
that she looks to another woman for her
cont.
on page 2
D.0.13 THE
•••
VOICE THE
OF
I.ESBIAN
cont. on page 2
·-
�LUTHERANS,
conto
¥ill.IDEN VOYAGE
(2)
---- ----· -- V.OICE. '.
--_
cont.
fulfillment
rather than to a relationship with a man. She is different
from the homosexual male in that her
sights are set on a permanent love
relationship
rather than on casual
She probably goes to a bar
cruising.
for companionship and to see friends
more often than straight women; but
she goes less frequently
than gay men.
Like the straight woman and the gay
* * ~ * * ~ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * male, the Lesbian looks for job securitye
And she wants it for the reasons both
.J?~~
;~-- ~-~ Q 9
~ .If.fQ_E
P.
S:
groups want it--to
earn as much as a m
an
for the same work, and not to be fired if
?ros i dent- ...An F..aey
n
l
her Lesbianism is discovered.
In this
Eol::.oso
·
way, the Lesbian can benefit from
working with both Women's Lib and the
Vic 8- P:::-sident- •.Dian a Travis
e
homophile groups.
Bost on (277- 8952)
But -Womens Lib is seeking equality
'
with th~ male in a heterosexual
context,
Socret ary- - Donna F~rguson
and th o homosexual males are seeking
~Voce st '3r
i~
sexual freedom.
The Lesbian is looking
for something elusively different,
'J.'eas ur er~ -Ancl r C.:;x
:c
:somethin g .more subtle, a type of recogW
oare , Ne H3.mps re
w
hi
nition and acc0ptal'l.9e of what she is,
equality as a Lesbian, freedom to love
Itowslett er fil !3- ~
ff
and create a homosexual home.
This is where D.O.B. comes in. D.O.B.
F<ltor - -P am Boyd
i
should be the bridge for the Lesbian
between Women's Lib and the male homophile
Assista nt Editor s- movement. I~ should be the halfway point
r
,.~
:·.'.)se Ma i e Tur:r:,'.)
betweon the militant demands of Women's
CaEdace Lo iYfo
Gor:aglo
Lib and the sexual-f~edom
oriented
D.O.B.
demands of th~ homophile groups.
Prd.duc tion- - Bet h Restrick
does not wish to avenge the Black Panthers
Rose M
arie Turner
·
and it does not condone the almostCandace Lo McGonaglo
pornography found in some of the male
* * * * * * * * * * * * * ~ * * * * * * * homosexual publications .t It seeks only
understanding and acceptance.
Perhaps it is because of this lack of
'.·n.e June and July issues of the
_
stridency that s0mo members of D.O.B.
Ea::.'.en Voya ge a r e ap pearing as a
\look to ally themselves with Women's
ccJ1'i ed sunm:e issue o
bin
r
Lib and others with the more maleDue to th e cut-off in acti.viti0s
oriented homophile groups.
Perhaps the
and tl: e sumrno comm mo
r
itt
nts of some
younger members of D.O.B. find it too
m bers and i nte rest ed parties,
em
the
conservative.
But D.O.B. has been around
H.Vo st a ff felt that tho combined issue
longer than most of the other civil
would be more effective
at this timeo
rights groups--straight
or gay--and it
pick-up again,
As soon as activities
1 has
(so far) had a better record and a
wo will r e turn to our monthly
better reputatione
publicat i on o
Just as the Lesbian herself is a unique
-·=Pam Boyd
individual,
so is D.O.B. a unique
organization.
It serves the Lesbian and
Deadline for th e A
ugo issue: August 150
law enforcement, cultural mores and
congregational
life.
1' In rela.tion
to this area of concern,
th e sexual behavior of freely consenting
adults in priv at e is not an appropriate
subj ect for legislation
or police action.
97 It
is ess ential to see such persons
a s entitled
to understanding
and justice
in chur ch and co~
mnunity."
�t-'LtIDEN
VOYAGE
(3)
VOICE, cont.
it needs the lesbian°s full support, for
it is the voice and the strength of the
lesbian in a heterosexual
society.
* ** ** * * * * * * * * ** * * * * *
*
LETTERSTO THE EDITOR
:,
,'
Dear Madam:
Re the Open Forum Question #5. I
feel I must reply.
All involved in the
homophile movement, heterosexuals
included,
must, in my mind, stay within the sphere
Are we not all working
of cooperation.
for the identical
cause? Are we not all
working towards the day when gay people,
and women alike, can walk openly and
men ·.
proudly, without guilt or fear?
Separatism
certainly
will not help to hasten this day.
11~ho needs Charlie
Brown?" The same
pooplo who need Lucy and Peppermint Patty.
We need each other.
I.vfyhope is that
members of tho homophile community will
work with each other and thereby show
more heterosexuals
that the homophile
community is serious .?.nd responsible,
and will not be dctered from its aim.
--Cynthia Shippee
Ed. Note: There seems to be a communication gap. It was Lucy and Violet-not Lucy and Peppermint Patty.
JUso,
how can anyone take us seriously when
HUBpublishes such things as the "article"
on page 16 of its ¥1ay Newsletteri
.A
sense of humor also seems to come in
handy in our striving to solve our
problems.
Lucy and Violet, portrayed
in our last issue as Lesbians, do not
need men for everything!
Dear Editor:
I can hardly express my hurt, my
frustration
and my anger on reading the
last edition of The Maiden Voyage.
I am very concerned with both the
~ and tho content
of the letters
from
Rita Laporte and Gene Damon. I would
suggest those of us who do remember the
sting of name-calling or "queer-baiting,"
could refrain from labeling any of our
fellow members of tho gay com..munity.
To speak in exclusive,
limitinB~
rhetoric is to con~ributo to division.
A schism within D.O.B. is inevitable
if within our organization
there is no
room for difference
and no right to
disagree.
The health and vitality
of any
organization
is indicated by its
ability
to encompass a spectrum of
ideas and approaches to a given
problemo
I believe firmly in tho concept of
gay community •• •
The working together of gay men and
women to change the attitudes
and
actions of the straight world •••
Tho breaking down of inhibiting
sexual role play •••
These are common causes for both
straight
and gay members of our sooiety,
,ts race was once thought of as a
prohibitive
factor in movement within
society, sexuality for many of us has
confined the course of our lives.
Tho collapse of sexual stereotypes
will bo an important step in freeing
tho human person in each of us.
At this time, in this country,
every attempt to free man from
externally
imposed definitions
is a
political
acto The freedom to be and
the ri ght to decide who I am is no
more than what millions of my fellow
citizens
are seeking.
I join them.
--Gail and Jo
Dear Edi tor:
Since the last issue of the Maiden
Voyage was sent out, I have hoard much
discussion on the Open Forum Question
and Answers. Most of the comments
I have heard have been against the
opinions of the people who answered.
As a member of D.O.B., I feel I have a
right to state whore I stand on this
issue,.
when I joined D.O.B. it was sinco.I'm
a Lesbian and I wanted to meet with
and work with othor Lesbians.
I wanted
to help educate the public about
Lesbianism, help with Lesbian social
functions,
and help other lesbians in
any way I could.
If I had wanted to
help homosexuality in general, I could
have j oined any of the other groups,
�MAIDEN
VOYAGE
(4)
but I joined D.O.B.
Recently Boston D.O.B. hasn't been
strictly
a Lesbian organization
as far as
our meetings appear.
One week we are
"homosext1als 11 (male and female ) , the
next week we are 11women in America" as
one~
sees us, and the next week we
are part of Women°s Lib. Finally on the
fourth week we are Lesbians, having a
business meeting.
Don't misunderstand me;
I think we should have open meetings now
and then, but not as a steady diet.
I'm
not a man-hater, but I don°t always want
them at D.O.B. If I want to be with the
gay guys I go to them. HUBis open to
both sexes.
I think there are times
when we £fill help each other and when we
can, we should.
Thero are also times
when wo should stand alone.
Because we
are Lesbians we have special problems
the guys can°t help us witt.
Lot's koep 99%of our D.O.B. meetings
I enjoy bein g with the
for D.O.i. onlyl
girls and I think most of th o other girls
would agree.
Those who want to be with
the guys as well can join HUBbut on an
individual basis.
There is no reason
why we can 1 t be members of both groups.
Just don't involve D.O.B. as a whole.
There are mony things for D.O.B. to do
that don°t involve the gay g-uys, Women°s
Lib, or guest speakers.
There are problems
within our group to bo discussed • .. Let° s
,As_
.Gene Damon said,
stay indopendant.
"we are unique."
Lesbians are unique
and so is D.O.B. Let 0 s keep it that way.
--Beth Re:s:trick
*********************
DEFICIT by Kim Stabinski
Reprinted from Opus, 1960
half moon
slinking
through a murky sky
you may fool others
young lovers
who look to you
in hope
but not me
half
is never enough
EDITORLU, by Pam Boyd
,·
Organizations
are usually formed
by and for individuals
who share a
commonbond. These people work
together to promote their ideals.
Unity is tho key to their harmony
and herein lies their strength.
But when the faint line of a schism
begins to appear wit.hin the organization,
the time has come to take a
lon g, hard look at those original
goals--the
onos that brought everyone
together in the beginning.
The Daughters of Bilitis
is an
organization
founded by lesbians for
As an organization,
its
Lesbians,
first responsibility
should be
restricted
to the Lesbian, her place
in society and her place with herself.
when this committment has been fulfilled--and
only then--should
its
members seek to support outside organizations.
In any group there are going to be
differences
of opinion, but these
diffe..rences must not move on unchecked
and widen the schism.
Quite simply--not every woman is . a
women°s liberationist,
not every
Lesbian is a woman's liberationist,
and _
not. every womenQ s '1:ibe-ra.otionist
is . a Lesbian.
women's Lib is dedica.ted to fre_e.ing.. .
women from the bonds of society- ( "Man
is born free," said Jean Jacques
Rousseau, the French philosopher,
"but everywhere he is in chains.")
~-Jhat is the stated purpose of D.O.B.?-the one we acknowledged was of prime
importance when we got involved?--the
one that br ought us together?
A tree must have a trunk before
branches and leaves will growo
Edi tori s Note:
All opinions
are welcome •
on editorials
�Nii.IDEN VOYil.GE
(5)
BOSTOl'PSFUTURE: THE EIECT!ONS
by Tho Saint
ably como up with more. Think about it.
The coming elections
are 9ur future.
I do not mean to imply that tho end is
ne ar, but t o draw your attention
to tho
fact that you must vote as wisely here
as you would in any other electi on.
Fri end ship must not t ake priority
here.
Those who cannot be present on election
ni ght shoul d be sure to vote by proxy.
H
opefully, everyon e will vote, not just
th o usual handful of m
embers.. Whether
you think so or not, your vote makes
the difference.
Other chapters are saying that D.O.B.
Boston is doin g a great job. A job well
done is th e result of good leadership,
chosen by you. All lea ders can make
mistak es; but a good leader is ono who
listens
to all opinions (bravo, Annt)
and tries to do what tho majority wants,
who tries to do the best thing not only
for Boston but for the good name of
D.O.B. evorywhero.
losin g Ann Haley
will not be ea sy.
It is unfortunate
that th e San Die go
chapter fell apart.
Boston must not
follow this path for any reason.
(And-we hope--San Die go will rise again?!)
Pleas e remember--your vote~
count.
D.O.B. needs your active and
whole-hearted
support now and in tho
days ahe ad. LotQs kee p it to gether.
Yours for a new and free tomorrow,
The Saint
After a two month absence from D.O.B.
meetin gs, I fin ally maneged t o attend the
July busin e ss meetin g . I walk ed in with
a fr e sh mind, wonderin g what had been
happenin g at D.O.B. I noticed a different
air about this particular
m
ootin g; and
that ni ght I l eft with a good many questions in my mind and an almost sa d f eeling.
The M
aiden Voyage is announcin g the
coming election of officers
f or the Boston
chapt er, and one cann ot help but f ee l that
D.O.B. Boston is goin g into a stru ggle
for its very life~
Althou gh no nominati ons havo been made
yet 9. one can n1most pr ed ict who will run
for each office.
A this is the sad
nd
part; for it seems th be in the wind-no one ne ed say it, but th o feeling is
mn
th oro--b ecause our pr e sid ent, ~ Haley,
t ol d th e m
embers pres ent a t the July
m
eeting that she f elt nothin g got done
unless she kept pushin g . She sa i d that if
she stopped pushin g , everyon e and every§hin g als o stopp ed. imd Ann is tir ed of
pushin g . She se ems t o be sayin g a lot
m e here than appears on th e surfac e .
or
She seems t o be tollin g us th at she will
not acce pt re-nomin ation as pr e sident.
il.nd if lmn quits D.O. B., it seems th at
Bost on will l ose a l ot more th an just a
presid ent.
nn
Since it is impossibl e t o fo rc e A to
remain president,
it is of th e utmost
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importanc e that all Boston me ers rea d
mb
and listen t o th e views of all the candida tes.
You will need to make a solid
choice not bas ed on fri endship, but
ba sed on th e issues important t o D.O.B.
There are som issues th a t have caused
o
a l ot of d iscussi on recently;
juicy items JULY 24, 1970 , FRIDAYAT 7:30 IN THE
such as: shoul d wo allow men into our
CLARKE
ROOM THE ARLINGTON
OF
STREET
m
eetin gs? Do we nee d m
en? Should we
S
CHURCH355 BOYLTONST. BOSTON
become -such str ong a lli e s with Dr ead and
Roses that wo chanco sacrificin b our
D.O.B. MEMBERS--BRINGCOLDDISH OR
A
Wh t can be done to
a
in dividuality?
CA
SSEROLE SOMETHING EAT.
OR
TO
attract
and kee p new me bers? VJhydo so
m
NEWPEO
PLE INTERESTED LEARNING
IN
f ow members att end D.O.B. pa rti e s and
MORE
ABOUT
D.O.B.--JU ST BRINGYOURSELF
activities?
If we have app roximately 50
me ers, why is it th a t only 15 or so
mb
FOR MORE
INFORMATION,
CALLGAIL AND
att end moetin ~s re gul a rly (job and transJO AT 436- 7393
port ation problems underst ood)? These are
THIS I S YOUR
CHANCE LEARN
TO
MORE
but a few of thq issu e s. You can pr obABOUT
D.O.B. l ! !
;,
;
�BOS'I'ON
D~O.B~ ELECTIONS
Nominations and election of now
officers
for D.O.B. Boston will be held
a t the next busin e ss meeting on Septe 11,
as voted on a t tho July 2 meetin g .
The el ecti on of ded icated, r e sponsible,
cap able officers
to l oad our chapter
during tho coming year is of vital import anc e to the continu ed growth and development of D.O.B . Bostono Therefore, please
. r0ad th e foll owin g points carefully
and
bogin givin g this matter your serious
com. derat i on NOW~
d
1" Only full y,.paid members will be
eli gible t o run for office or to vote
in t he election.
Partial members
shou l d make every effort t o have dues
pa id in full prior to Sept. 11 (or
pri ol' to their 3-month expiration,
·· i' partial
payments were begun before
Juno 11).
2o The August issue of the J.v1aid0n
Voyage
will feature candi da cy announcements
(and vie ws if desired) of those m
ember s who wish to run for office.
Even though nom
inati ons not previ ously anno unc ed will be acce pted
fro m th e floor at the ele ction,
potenti al candid ates are urged to
announce th eir plans in advan ce via
H.::i.iden
Voyage for a two-fold purpose:
n.:pr ior announ cement will give
cancl:::.da
tes a chance to express their
goals for D.O~D. if elected to office;
tho memb
ershi p will have time to
consider~ quosti on, woi gh th e candidatos be f ore makin g docisi ons o
b ) th e August issue of th e }faiden
Voya ge will also cont a in a proxy
form for thos e members who will not
Those
be able t o at tend the mooting.
votin g by pr02'."Y
should know which
m
embers are pla nnin g t o run for
which offices so that vot es will be
ef fectively
used.
Agai n , th o dead lin e for the l~u
gust issue
ugust 15.
of th e Maidon Voyago is A
CHAPTER
CHt .. TTER
LOS ,i.NGEIES: The new name of the
Los li.ngel e s newsl e tt er is now LA DOB.
They were r ecently debating the pros
and cons "for coming out of the
cl oset, f or priv a t ely and publicly
admitting one 0 s homosexuality."
JY
IELBOURNE:On June 1 Mo
lbourne D.0. B.
held a ~~d Hatters Tea Party where a
prize was awarded for tho best hat.
The newslotter
initiatod
a discussion
on the differences
in gay life between
England and Australia.
SANFRANCISCO: San Francisco
D.O.B.
A
is planning a trip to , ngel Islamd,
a fle a market, and a joint dance with
SIR. The chapter is planning to take
a new office and would like a store
front t o provide space for both social
activiti e s and office equipment.
The
Maiden V
oyage is grat eful to the S.F.
newsl e tter for its kind words about us
and its reprints
from us.
NEw
YORK: Now York, as everyone knows,
was hos tess for the National Conventi on. Their weekly meeting following
th o General Assembly will be a Rap
Se ssion.
They are planning a discussion
on "Lesbian Life Styles--How Open is
Your Mind?" Speakin g of New York, we
would like to remind you that the
Gertrude Stein Bookstore ca rries a
complet e lino of Lesbian books.
Tho
address is:
The Gertrude Stein Bookstore
291 Mercer Stre e t
New York City, N.Y. 10001
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PERSONAL:
35, desires
NOTICE.-,~
-EFfECTIVE IHl.VJEDL,TELY:
Part-time teacher, past
to meot other women with
enjoy cultural
pursuits,
etc., especially
during
If interested
and free,
The--~a
,ilin g add ress for tho Maiden Voyage
J.V'iaidon
Voyage
is as follows:
c/ o c. McGonagle~ P.O. Box 55,
No. Quincy, l''.fass 02171
.
Helen Bakor
c/o D.O.B. Boston P.O. Box 221
Purdential
Cent. Sta., Boston 02199
whom to
travel,
the day.
please writes
�MAIDEN
VOYAGE
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CHUR
C
-~-- H i\JEEDSHELP
--
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i
l
t
The .All Souls Univorsali s t Unitarian
Church of Draintr eo suffered more than
a quarter of a milli on dollars worth of
damage in a general alarm fire Juno 1i.1-o
The auth orities
sus pe ct arson a r.d th o
controv er sial pastor of th o church wa s
the ta 1'.',
Ho ha s supported people
5 et,,
in ne:,d for more than seventeen ye ars
in th e toim and nationo
I-ioney is not th o most available
thing
around for a lot of us, but if anyone has
a spare dollar or two, it would be a nice
ge sture to send it to tho All Soul s Fundt
c/ o The Braintree
Savin gs Bank~ Wa
shin t~
ton Sto, So. Br r:
dntr eo , Mass", 02185.
Like most Unitarian church e s, All
Souls wa s open to everyone,,
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JJvIPRESSIONS·=THE- ..,
OF
IDGE
- - -- -SNEEZE1--CJ\MBR
COMMON ,JAYS
SU
by Candi lHcGonaglo
It would be an 1nt or 8sting way to
spend a Sunday afternoon,
exce pt for
th e fact t ha t Pm alle r gi c t o L - smell
of gr a ss bei ng s:nokod, I spent the whole
aftern oon rub bin g my i t chin g eyes and
sn ooz in g o Ecology st·L1de ts should
n
campai gn to clear the a ir ove r the
Cambridge Co!llr:lon
fol' the poor, square
poop l o lil rn rne 1vho prefer th o smell of
fr e sh , cl ean airo
Tho placo was j ammed with wee kend
hip pies looking for a piece of tho action;
ol d 1ac'_ies out for what th ey thou ght
woul d be a Eluiot Sunday stroll
throu gh
tho Common~wit h th e ir st artl ed eyes
bulgi ng; some com...'11e al minded
rci
cap i tal ists in th e ir M Softeo trucks;
r.
and somo ve r y unbe li evabl e pe ople in
soma voi~y unbo l.iov abl o cost umeso
The gay people I saw wore doing
their thin g--th a t is, watchin g th e
straights
surrepti tously to see if they
were roc ogniz odo A f ew bol der Lesbians
held hands, a f ew r eckless girls did
some obvious cru :·'; .'".:g of my gi.rlo
It was fun 9 t i1
ough, to sec everyone
tryin g to out-shock everyone els e , and
everyone pretending th ey weren 9 t shocked
at allo
How
over~ it was a relief
to leave
at tho end of tho afternoon and
return to Quincy and tho familiar
sme-lls of diosol and .'soot and ot her
moro common forms of ai r pollution.
As I said, Pm allergic
to grasso
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QUIETUDE by Kim Stabinski
Roprint od from Opus, 1960
Ah~-what a ple a sant interlude
To spend a sum..merin tho nude,
To sook a hi gher altit ude
Ji.nd all society elude o
I shuddered at tho magnitude
Of such a comfort able hab it udo
.A l aug hed at the multitude
nd
Who0 d consider this a turpitude o
Prepa rin g for my solitude~
I disrobed, and sorrowful ly viewed
My definite
lack of plentitudo
At just th o ri ght latitude
1md vice ve rs ao Subdued,
I put back on my clothoso
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PHOTOCONT
ES'f
Am t eur and prof e ssional photoa
graphers mi ght be interested
in
submittin g entries to tho Travel
New Engl and Photo Contosto
First
priz e is a Ford Maverick, $1000.00
in ca sh and other itomso
Tho photo must have been taken
between February 1 and November 30~
19700 Entri e s must be in no later
than December 15, 19700
For additional
inf ormation,
write:
Travel Now Engl and Photo Contest
P.O. Bo 1970
x
Boston, Masso 02184
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ANNOUNCEMENT
ON JULY 24, 1970 .AT 7:30 P.M. IN THE
CL
iillKE ROOM THE.. I NG
OF
1RL TONSTREET
CHURCH AN ORIENTATION
,
SUPPERFOR
POTENTLi.L
JvIEMBERS D.O .D. 11J
OF
ILL BE
HELDo .'i. YONE INTEn.ES'IED LE/u'ti"\JING
N
IN
M
Ol-l.E OUTD.,O~B~, BE SURE TO .(i.
J.B
TTEND!!
�(8)
,ATTENTIONi ANYONEINTERESTED IN SELLING
IEJ.VION s COOKms) ETC • ON' c ••NBHIDGE
...DE
SUND.iYAFTERNOONS, TO l'1 KE $~$
••
COJvlMON,
FOR D,OoBos CONTACTL 'i.URAROBIN AT
625~
-1263
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.AN OPEN LETTER TO READERS OF THE M.V c
by Laura Robin
This spring
Boston D.O.B~ has had its
sri1:no of intornal
dissension
(sec,
oogo!'i
0Don For11m letter
from 0 Namo iili thheld 17
i~1 tho Nay lV.ioV
o) I feo1 we should not
be surprised
at our lack of unanimity.~
after
all , wo havo different
jobs~
di::ferent.
politicai
ou t l ooks, andj ospoc-,
ic1.::i
_
J_y= di _ffe1~ont reasons
for being in
D.,OoBc
I t hink we forgot son:otimos. ,c~as l'.Name
D.OoDo has
With>o ld 11 has forgotton~=that
sevoral
function s~. .~soc ial ovont s, fer
Le sbitt:C.3 is one, public
ecluca tion is
another~
1fo have had meetings
and
activities
geared to each of tho ,,o
functionse
Pleas e , "Name W:;,,tllhold, 17
j_ y ou f ool wo need more actj_vi'.:,j _
f
es Lir
Los-c:lans only~ offer
your help to
orgo .nize some"
Do sto: t1 D .O ,B ~ is so
ti~ ·1y that evory men:ber who does s omo.-,
thing plays 2-11 important
part in making
it goo
Ono last
thin g~• WO a ll hav e c ur own
=
lj _
ttlo
thing . ; WO wan t ot:.t of D.OcBo~
:
bu-::, we must consido:r
each other and
kocp talking
out our clis ag reementso
j\. li v ing, functionii1
g DoOoB. is r ory
i mnortant
for each of ns~- and for many
,
othors still
UYi.kLOWYlo
COHii'JG EVB.;NTS
A'I'
rosTON .o oB
D
Cl
July 2li,. Friday)
?:JO p..,r,t,_.,..
Orientation
Supper for those
intorosted
in le arn ing rroro
of Bilitl .s,
about the Daughters
in tho Clark e Room of the
Arlington
Stroot
Church,
355 Boylston
St~oot 9 Boston
.August 1/1, is tho d ea dline
for deposits
on th n f ishii'l g h·:l.p scheduled
for
Sopto mbor 19~ Sat. ,.uclayc
Dotails
on tho f olJow:b 1g page o
0- •
j
I
Sopt ombcr 11, Fr:i.day, 9~00 PoMo-1'1.embo:;_~s
1'.icet:1-: in tho Clarke
r.g
Room of tho ;ir li ngton Street
Chm:·ch .. E}_,
'3eJ:ion o f officers
1,.rill be hoL ; at thj_s time"
UNLESS OTllE
RvJISE SPECIFIED, ALL
EVENTS FOR THE BOSTON CIL~PTEROF
TilE Di\.UGrI'l'.FHS BILIT - 3 ;\.RE
OF
Kim Stabim ·ic. . is in THE
1
_
LWDER
again
soon with the publ5 cation
of hor
t:!.rticl. u
t 1'1'ho Fbnn.n Ca·tholj_ c Eomocez:ual., o o
THL OLD ORCF CHAIJGETI 1
R
-F
This ar tic1o 1,~iJl aonear ej_ther
in tho ,1.ui;ust/S8r__,-c,o;il:ier o::· the October./
November issuo of T1-:o Laddor 0
.A m_l;)J!.r eE.dfo g for oY<n
:~
·yon e l t I
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I N V I T :.;. T I O N
18' YOUQRE IN THE STURBRIDGEVILLAGE
AREA THIS Sl! -IMER,
:
: J:)P IN AND VISIT MY AR'l' STUDIOa
CALL FIRS'l'- ••NIGHTS OR ANY TIME
vJEEiiliTmS.
PHONE iV.fAE DUDLY, MASS AT
IN
o
D01'P FO
T
RG:::/
:'--T HE: DKi.DLINE FOR THE
AUGUST LSSUS OF THE h11IDEI1T
VOY.~GE
.YUGUSI' 15 ii.ND .hLL H,~TERLi.1 SHOULD
rs
DE .SEi(T mn:,Y TOi
THE M.\ID:2:IJVC
,L~G.E
C,, HC GOi GIE
:iLl
c/o
P. 0, BOX55
N0o QUINCY, M,1.SS
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\CFlJS
ETTS
02171
943-7232
vvE NEED v
JRITERS~ 1
1.EPORTEP.S,
HEVIE'.,mR3 LND AriTIS TSo
v!1:LL YOU CON'iRISJTE TO YOUR
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�MAIDENVOYAGE
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HERE IT u · - - WHATYOU VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR
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THE D.O.B. FISHING TRIP
SATURDAY,SEPTEMBER19, 1970
1:30 P .M. to 5:30 P ,M•
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$4. ',Q I,
Pr i. ce per person:
MUS be paid by Aur;ust 14
T
as we must pay for
charterin g the boat
i n advance!
J
This will be d half day trio
sailing
from the Al Gauron
Mackeral and Deep Sea Fis hin g
f ier, located
at the st a te
pier,
Hampton End of Brid ge, ·
Hampton Beach, N.H.
·,
(\/
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FEE INCLUDES:
Bait
'"'Drop lines
·Can openers
~-~
-. ...
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_;
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...... ..
v'--·- ·.,,
·
(::i me people actually
o
fish)
(For the refreshments
everyone b rings )
(Al says beer is ok--but nothin g s tron ger please!)
(For the b i gg est fish--if
we c an get a pot going)
'Pri zes
$1 . 00 if you plan to catch fish too big to haul
'"'Rod and ree 1 rental
drop line.
YOU SHOULDBRING: a cooler of
sea sick--t a ckle, if you have
sea breeze,
no matter how hot
oil if you' re going along for
--a sturdy pl a stic bag or pail
up on a
liquid
refreshment--food,
if you plan not to r et
it and plan to fish--WARM clothes
for the evenin g
it is when we start
out--bathing
suit and suntan
the ride--a
camera to record this memorable '·first
if you plan to carry your catch home.
In order to charter
this boat, we must pay for it in advance-- and we must pay
for a minimum of 20 fisherme n and/or fun-lov~rs.
Th is means we must fork over
$ ) 0. to hold our boat ! r LEM;E HELT US MAKE THIS TRIP A SUCCE
~
'
SS--SEND YOUR
$4.50 NOW, ALONGWITH THE !TUB BELOW, TO THE D.O.B. ) ,0. BOX. If we don't have
20 payments by August 14, we will refund your payment and relinquish
our cl aim
to the boat.
We don't claim that we will "cheerfully
refund" your money,
because we hope we don't have to--but
we will refund it.
If you pay in advance
and if we have enough to go ahead and charter
t he boat and then you can't
go at
the last minute, we wi l l !!.Y to sell your place to last-minute
fishermen
and
still
refund your money.
The boat will hold 4 5 people--we
need 20 of you to
si gn up immediately
or it wil l hold s omebody other t han our group!
Do it--NOW!
NAME
_____________
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_ HOME·.-HONE.
______
TUWN
______
$ti .SO enclo s ed for:
__ _ me; ____
guests
(sh ow number of guests )
(? le as e be sure to enter phone no. so we can notify you in case of last-minute
postponements
due to inclement
wea ther,
sunken b oat, etc.
Return stub to DOB BO TON, Box ?2 1, Prudenti a l Center r:t a tion, Boston, l'fass . ,
f
021 99 . Mark envelope "Attention:
Andy and Kim" so that your reservation
won't get mixed in with ot her mail.
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The Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) was a lesbian organization founded in 1955 in San Francisco by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon for the purpose of self-knowledge and self-acceptance, public education, involvement in research, and lobbying to change the laws criminalizing homosexuality. Starting primarily as a private social group for lesbians focused on the integration of the lesbian into mainstream society, the aims of the group shifted during the 1960s due to the changing political, social and economic conditions of the decade. The DOB took up political activism to lobby for the rights of lesbians, promoting individualism with a decreased emphasis on societal conformity. During the 1960s many regional chapters were chartered around the country and globally, continuing the organization even after the closing of the San Francisco national office in 1978.<br /><br />The Boston chapter was founded in 1969 during a period when many homophile organizations were forming in Boston. Early leaders of the Boston DOB included Lois Johnson, Shari Barden, and Laura Robin/McMurry, who were prominent promoters of the group and its activities.<br /><br />The Boston chapter published a newsletter, originally entitled <em>Maiden Voyage</em>, until 1971 when it was renamed <em>Focus</em>. The publication runs from December 1969 to October 1983.
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Volume 1, issue 7 of the newsletter of the Boston chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis. The first 14 issues of the newsletter were called "The Maiden Voyage." The publication was renamed "Focus" in 1971.
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Daughters of Bilitis
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a daughter of bilitis
newsletter
boston chapter
p, o" box 221
p:r1d.ontial center station
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boston, mass~ 02199
may, 1970
vol11 1 9 no. 6
'Who needs Char lie Brown?! "
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CAREER
WOMEN
LESBIAN'S FREEDOM
FROM
MALEOOMIKA-:1:0N
ENVIED SOME
BY
HETEROSEXUAL
WOMEN
By Ann Haley
AIR MUTUAL
PROBI.Elf1S
business, industry, and tho professions, conflicts over sexual identity
are growj_ng. These women find
difficulty
reconciling their active, .
dynamic .working-world personalities
with the pa ssive, supportive roles
their husbands demand of them in
tho homo. Charged with being
Lesbians because they want to ·
realize themselves instoad of
catering to their husbands, somo of
the more cou~a~eous of them a~e
making tentative inquiries inlo wh,t
1('° is like to be a LesB1an. I.asoians are seen as Wur111;m-..-,. havo
o
,
Male bosses who have the titles
and womenundor them to do their
work were victims of a discussion
among professional womenwho
attended the Working Women's Conference May 2 at the University of
Massachusetts in Boston. Figurehead
bosses who hold rank by virtue of
their sex instead of their brains
and achievements are increasingly
resented by thoir underpaid and
underrecognizod professional women
assistants.
Professional women
scored the need for a woman to work
twice as hard to got half as far as
man, and citod the vast disparity
in both starting and top salaries
in the various professions between
"A Harvard
male and female workers.
cont. on next pa.go
cont. on page 3
As mtre of today's women escape
\
the dr oary life of a subur ban
housewife and enter the world of
a
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LESBL~N'
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had the coura,ge ·to ' make the .ir . own
way, froo of male domination;
in a
predominately
rnalo world,
That it
has boen possible
for Lesbians ' t ,1, do
this and lo ad rich and sa.tisfying ·
lives londs support to the view that
women can havo a destiny
outside '
th oir homos, and enc our a ges these
hete!'.osexual
women who want to b0 ·
more than housewives .:to develop a ·· ~
life beyond th o hor,1~ · ·
•,
At th o same ti mo 9 conventional
attitudes
toward homosexuality
give •
.
rise to anxfoty in many of those
women. Indoctrinated
since childhood that the place of wom,"?.n ·to ·.
is
assist and support,
and that Lesbianism is an insiduous evil to bo
shunned at all costs, and equating
their dosiro f or self-realization
with tentative
Lesbian tendencies-or, they say, why else don°t wo want
to be housewives and sex-objects
for
men?--th oso women are naggod with ·
doubts about thcmsolves and their
own solf-worth.
1rwomen who assert
themselves must
want to be meno vJomen who want to be
men are Lesbians. ·. Lesbians are bad,
There must be something · w~ong with me
if I wn.nt a career outside , my home.it
So runs the logic with . whi9h these
women. torment themsolvos.
:"sLes~ ,
bians, we can roadily spo.t errors
in each of the so ~remises.
· Tho. only
things about mon Lesbia . s usu?lly
n
envy aro the . pportunities
o
P'J.O.n
. have .
to realize
themselves. . Host Lo.$bians prefer to be women, . and vrhen
they· assert
themselves ., in no senso
do thoy deny their womanhoodo, Much
of the anxi e ty hotorosex1.g1.l women
find as tboy try to r e conc}lo th0.ir ·
need for self-realization
with their
sox rol es stems from a misundersta~q,..
ing of the psychology of Lesbianism, .
The implicati ons for D.O.B. arc
great.
It is hum.'.lnto fe ~r .what is .,
not understood,
Noro women· must
learn 'to und oi·stand Le sbianism so
thoy will c ea se to fear.· it.
Thoy. · _ ·
.
t~~~..e.,.,~
must learn that the neod for self.
realization
is a human nood, not
merely a m
ale or a lesbian need.
Losbianism is as much a heterosexual
issue as a homosexuAl on o . lesbians
who value th oir wornahhood, mus·tfind
·the c:,urago to come out of h.iding and
show the world their lives aro rich
and meanin gful ·'so'.hot orosc:x.L1e women
,l
will have better insi ght into their
own homosexual feelin ~s. Lesbians
should work t oward tho day when
sexual or;i.ont1;.tion is no 1ongor a
. c.ause fo:r ' anxiety in anyone because
both hoterosexu~l and homosexual
foolings
are fr · 0ly accepted.
e
Tho
char ge or suspicion
of L0sbianism
. .. should be totally
irrcvelant
in a
woman° ovalua tion of herself,
s
and
in tho world 0 s evaluation
of her.
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Prosidont--.lln
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· Vi . e:..pre:sident--Diana
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Secretary .. -Doima: Ferguso ·n
Worcostor
Treasurer~-Andy
Weare, N.H.
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NewBletter
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· Editor--Pam
Boyd
.~ss 0 t
Editors--Rose
Ma~io Turner
Candi :L. ,McGonagle
Production
Deadline
.. -Beth Rostrtck
Rose Mario TU:rnor
Candi L. McGonagle
Friends from HUB·
for
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CAREER
WOMEN
cont.
from page
1
graduate
is given an aptitude
test,
but a Radcliffe
graduate
is given a
typing test, 0• one woman obsorved wryly.
The conference,
soonseNd
by Bread
and Roses~ was hoaviJ.y atter.ded 'ty
women ranging in a~e from 20 to JO.
In a(!.clition to the discussi on for
professional
womon, there were group s
for facto!'Y workers,
secr0ta:~i0s,
and
hospital
workers . Emerging from each
discussion
was a sense of frustration
on the pa rt of women who felt that
they inherited
this work fror.i me:1 who
felt that such work was properly
benoa th them and per . se 11'-t-1omen
°s
work., 11
The conventional
attitude
that
girls
do not fi gh t was blamed for
tho feolin g s of physical
inferiority
womor:. ha vo when confronted
wj.th an
ov 0rpcweri!1g ma::'..e Tho sJ endor loader
~
of the for n~oon karate demonstration
claimed that knowing how to fj_ght
gav0 her t he confid ence to stand up to
tr..oir
men instead
of mr,eLly followir.g
11Tr.e eff a ct, 11 she
said~ ''ha s
ord.0:r-s"
been good for th em and good for mo.
They hav9 learned to respect me as a
person ilith my own ido a s and opinions
instead of mer e ly a sax-object;
and I
have now respect
for myself."
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SODOMY FORNICATION
&
STILL ILtEG,\L
IN M,lSS,tCP.USE'i'TS
By Laura Robin
Three bills
to repeal Massachusetts
l aws proh:~bi tir1g "U!'l!'l<'t'J.ral and lasciv.l.
io..:s acts, 19 for r;J cz.ti o.n, and the
11c:r.ime against
na turc 1• wore given an
un:f\3.-;rore.bJ.e repo1·t to tho House by the
Ju c.lciary Comi--r.ittoe on .i.pr·il 22.~ 1970.
The Houce a'!coptod this report by voice
vote ,lpril ;.;8, The.so hEJ..s ~ H.~ 3272,
H$ J482~ and H~ JL!
,8.ti-, had b0on given
a publi~ hearin g on Fetruary 23 at
which Boston homophiJ.o g:::
·oups and William Baird, ori ginator
of the bill,
wore
represontod~
(Soc March nowslottor)
.A fourth bill,
H., 1')i~ co::itaining
-9,
was
everythi .;.g in the oth,~:;:-throe,
:
transf e rred from Jud~.ciary to House
Ha~rs and Moans Committ00 early in 1970.
Here it received
no public hoarj_ng
( accordi::-ig to the Eo1Jso Clork» this is
ust:.al. f ,)r W s 1::nclM,s,ans); hut it was
ay
report.eel. unfavorably
on March 23 and
the r epori". was a c(:epted Mc1rch 2L~.
"Jo mus·~ make s·.,;,re those b:i lls are
reir.tr od~c0 d n ex t year (deadl:ne is
th:. s ))0c0mb0r),.,
T,w m0r al s to this t:3.loi
(1) Legislators WJ not vote fo::· touchy bills
.J.J.
lik e thos€: just ber::aufio the bills make
se"1se; th 0;r 1·m:1t to be ro ••electod .
Tho:; 1111::.;t sae a lo.r g0 p1;;.bJ_ic support
for tl1use b:.:.llf; fir.st ,1~:l we have to
rr.'.i.r
-:";e:, i t.(2.) wr,
muct got to know
ou::.~state le gis le..tor:; b~~ contacting
th 0m about ot ~
.er 'issuos--start
now,
it t c1.
kes a whiloe
Who aro they?-F1· 00 list
f ro m Mass. Tttxpayors Found ..
atfon,
l4.5 Tremont St,., Boston 02111.
0 offi ce phone
Get legislators
numbers
by calling
72'7-2121.
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•personals
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�MAIDENVOY.~GE
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LIBER.~TION--wHY
ME?
By Gail King
·. ON THE..••
IRWAYS
Tr/o mombor.s · of ~oston' s H0mophile
Fomalo Liberation
is a reform
com:r'..1r.ityand a ministor
wero gu011ts
movor,1()nt,·of . glob-9.l dimondon
that
on Bob Storli:r.g Sr:::i:i:,}:'s 11Colloquy 11 .
wiJ.: .~ . if . off;,ctivo 9 involve . ovo.ry
·
ov0r WilG:I~FM
ro0t:ntly .•
mernbor of our socioty~
a movom'Jnt
Gail Kir:g of Bo~to:n D.O.B,~ F:rank ·
the .t will t::·r.msr.end race, . color, creed.
Morge.n of HUB and the Rev~ R0bor t .
movome~:.t is 110t bo~.nG W'l.god by . Wir:.got f:r.. the Ch'..1:r:Jh
'Jm
of o-.;;_r
Savior ·
a ·belp1ess .minor:it~, in isolated
gt:io- .
· in s ,)-uth Bos.ton di.,,cussod th@ a.'. rns of
~
graph::..c. areas.
Worne who aro mombors
.m
tho honmph:.10 grcups. ,
of overy . stat.fon o.f life will open
Bob Sm:.:.th asked uh::,t.hor male ?
.nd
th eir mo·mn.ont and w:al work f;:'om
femalo h0rno~1ox:cal&wer-o cooporatinp; with
withintho center of societyo Ti10
oac:h other in th0 homophilo 111ov0mentin
movomont will exploclo th0 ·at10-old
Boston,
Both Gail and Ji'r·ank felt there
definiti
ons of f l,mily, tho c.cinccp.t of
was considerable
frictior.1 bet;voon the
the nation and r :fj ::i:1: 9 , the ways
.:lly
mon anJ tho wom::11~ Gail attrib'ut0d
womer! aro now doi'in ,:i o
d
for
th~-s 'Lo tho Le.:,b:Lan~s antipathy
Libora.tion
will challenge
women
heterosQX'.:;.al mon bofatg ca:r : :'iod over
l
engage t~ioir ovm oxisto11co; to
to homobGX'..!al . mqn • Franl< th ough t ..
·
moot the t?.\Ting t ask of ,fr·0odci.; to
re8en!;; Losbians
thc1.t homosexual :mE:>n
answer tho quostior..i.
itvJhoam .I?"
bG.:' ':l".lGQ th0y
e;ould mask thqir homqsox ..
,~o!TI.or1
.-rill no longor bo tho
, uality
more easi:!..y:; Both look0d for a.
nat ionijs mo.st markc)tc1bl0 comlllod
ity; .
way t o ,resolve
the .fricti on between tho
woman w{J.l claim Hto :t~olo of Por~on.
two ~r0ups ec
Tho Lo sbio .n hc:1 , t o~)· qfto n
s
,i.11 par.·ticipa.ntB• 9mph3,s:iz0d the
con: id~re~ horsolf
to
apart from
irnpo:";+,c.nc0 fol' a ho,;10
1,c.rx1,;,a:l
norson to
LE1C
lration.
Why'( ;~ro Lesbians,
too,
himself -,
accopt hi.L-nsoJ.f apd :i;,o f'..llfili
not th9i:'.gb~. of -a s 11things 0 .
.. in all Mpocts of his life 11 cour1t ing
socfo-tyr
DoWO really bolio-rn that
more t.h;m ~ust h~.s homos04UJ.litylJ
.
wo aro abovo boing nsod by men?
R,.:,v, Wi1: e t u.rgod hot(,:ro sox;~e,ls not to -;
g
Losbi&ris have lorn~ hold an
sn ok to inpose tho scxuc1.lity that fools
hono :r-ud po sHion
in tho , fantasy
life ·
ri ght for- th.em upon othars.,
fie urged ,.
of (JV3!'Y m2
.:Lo, Tlv:i nar.10 11 nughters
D
ch:.::rcho c to ·t-:olco:cie b 'J,r,oi:;GX'1a.l.:; ·~
11 c~mos fror:i Q!)o.malo 9 s
of Bj_l~t~.:;;
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'l'h0 fti?st. prcgr.am i:1 ;tiis . ;,bries
orotiq. f ancy put to print t. ,ire
w,rn a.i.N.ld ,\.n:!'il 12 ano. : foa. tured
we fr~gJ
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speako::.~s, from HUB and the Student .
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�MAIDEN
VOYAGE
(6)
HETEROSEXU,4-LITY
~
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~
CURED
t.
high school, and my folks kept asking,
11
Why don 9 t you and Bruce get married?"
A Satire by Candi McGonagle
Bruce was willing and the thought of a
Reprinted from "Psychology Yesterday"
big church wedding with lots of presents
was exciting~
My parents kept urging me
Tho purpose of this article
is to bring to marry Bruce and I didn~t know what
to the reader 0 s attention the new breakalso to do, so I married him. 11
throu ghs in psychiatric
counseling and
This marriage failed when tho husband
segment of
began to be unfaithful
to his wife with
help for tho heterosexual
society.
a variety of amateur prostitutes
in the
neighborhood bars.
During and after
Pranks.
Catrio, M.D., in his book
"Female Heterosexuality"
calls hetero..
divorce preceedings,
the patient lived
sexuality a symptom of a deep-seated
with her parents who ur ged her not to be
neurosis, and tracos some causation to
disillusioned.
She got a job in a facparental .and other environmental _
tory and four years later she remarried.
11I got so sick
influences,
psychic tra:umas, frustrations,
of listeninr,
to them
heterosexual
seductions in childhood and
(my parents) harping on what the neigh.
use of alcohol; that heterosexuals
aro
bors were saying, how I was going to be
doomed to unhappiness becaus~ of ~he 1
a spinster after all, how they wanted
impermanence of sexual relationships
grand-children.
People would say, vWhen
and their numerous neurotic com~laints.
are you going to get married again?
You0 ro not getting any younger. 9 So I
The vast majority are "emotionally
unstable and neurotic ..11 Weknow~ howmarried a co-worker at the plant--a
ever, that with the holp of a competent,
widower."
well-adjusted
homosexual psychoanalyst,
The patient is enveloped in guilt
and with a sincere desire to be cured of
feelings because this second heterosexundesirable
heterosexual
traits,
a person ual marriage is also feiling.
She comcan be cured.,
plains of headaches, intense fears of
-Lot
us take tho above causes of
cancer, sleeplessness
and tension.
These
hetoro-sexuality
one by one. .md, as we
are psycho-neurotic
manifestations
of
do, let us keep in mind what Dr. Harry
guilt regarding her attempts at making
these ,socialli
unacceptable relationships
Benjamin once said: 11Nobody knows as .
yet wnat is normal--we only know what is
successful.
·
custon:ary • 11 We a.re out to destroy what~~ tr~™:
ever and whoever is not customary!
Psychic traumas consist of any event
Parental and other environmental
which is likely to be traumatic to tho
influence~
psychic development.
For instance, one
nine-year-old
girl was discovered by her
This case history involves a young
woman, age twenty-nine, who has been
mother while indulging in sex play with
married (heterosexually)
twice.
She was her girlfriend.
She was whipped severely
married the first time when she was 17.
and forbidden to see her friend again.
"I had graduated from high school and
Of course, this warped her normal homo.
I didn't know what to do. I had never
sexual development and forced her to
worked, I had no training in school for
turn to men to escape her neurotic
any trade.
My parents thought college
mother's wrath.
I had
Parents who flaunt their heterosexwas a waste of money for a girl.
been dating the same boy all through
uality in front of their children run
the risk of inducing psychic traUllltl
in them.
1Noto rising rate of divorce, high rate
Frustrations:
of pre- and extra-marital
sex, high
Most heterosexuals
have been frusrate of illegitimate
children and
trated in their development.
Many
abortions.
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MAIDEN
VOYA.GE
(7)
female children
have an outward hatred
for malo children
(a dofonso reaction
against an unconcious attraction
to
them) ·~ They manifest a strong urge to
be lo\•ed .·uhich, duri.~g ch:iJ.dhood 1 increases tho-ir suscoptibil:'Lty
to the advanc0s of tho mal q . If thoy havo a strong
pa:rcmta:i. fixation
in t:1 hich the .affection
is 1.;:nr
Jturn0d~ tr.oy may- feel it ;is through
some fault of their own that this love is
not l'Cturnod.
T:iis causes a guilt
punit:.vo theory, which means thoy become
masochistic s need7.ng to punish th~mseJ.ves.
So thoy become involved in uns3.-..rory
heterosexual
cxperien:,es.
This, . in turn,
can result
in hotoroscxual
paranoia,
or
the fear that evoryone hates her , for
becoming enga r
~cd in a hetoroscxual
relationshipff
She may blame the man for
her paranoia
(psychic transferon00
at
the unconcious f£.ntasy lovol ...-an attompt
to find some juctification
for boing
neurotic).
~~11 of this boils down to
ono thing: Hoto1·osez-,1als arc sick.
Het.eros0x,1aJ. sedu0tior.s
:t.n cr-i)choodl
BaE';)Q
tr.e clfr::GaTpicturo:S-OY-sovoral p1ti0nts
as well ns tho anam:nesis,
these victims of hotorc)so;::ual seduction
·
suffer from a.~ anxiety hystoria
manifested
by periodic
states of panic with hystor·.
ical or cor..version phenomena.
A femalo ..
child seduced by a male naturally
fools
incestuous
guilt feelings,
associating
.
the seducer -w~.thher own father. ·
On the other he.nd, a. young }'Toman
ma.y
be so immature that she finds tho male
attention
attractive.
She may feel' she
was "born" heterosexual,
the.t there is .
no chance of a cure since . it is .a con,;.
genital
state.
She may rationalize
by
sayir,g a penis is better
than a finger
because it is biggGro
This is 9 of .
course~ ra tionaliza. t:i.,pn .a!ld ~o bo corr,.. .
ected.
It is meroJ;y a symbol of rebellher mother.
·.
ion against
Manr emotionE'.lly .unste.bl0 men will
seduce yo~mg gi:rls and thereby ruin .
their normal path of homosexua .l development.
Use of alnohol:
Mi:l.ny-fiorr.os:-xwl women with repressed
heterosexual
in0linations
find an outlot
for theso cravin 0 s through tho medium
1
.n
o
of companionable
drinking.
They can
always blame any overt heterosexual
gost~ro thoy might make to their
drinking.
This is .easil:r provr.irl by a v~.sit to
any so=Cc-.11\:ld II strl'.igl~t bar)'~
The
women there 9 r.ioaring tho stage of
drunkenness
(or already having · reached
.that point) are easy marks for any man
who lookn halfway docent and who can
·
talk a . good lino~ 2
.Any girl who has nur-sod her mother
through consecutive
hangovers is apt
to turn. to a tAetot~.ling man as a
compensation . reaction.
This is, however9 metely an over-reaction.
S11mmar:v-:
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~
--In conclusion,
.
·
we can state that
the followtng
are the main causes of
he taro s.ex-.1ali ty:
An o\•er-pl·otoctive
mother, an uncar :ing mothe:.·, a dominating mother,
a pacsive mother, an abs0nt mother, a
wo:ck~.ng_
mother, a hous0•::~.fe. ,type
· motl;.er, ' a rejecting
fathGr,
a:-i over- ·
pow2i•b.g :fat!1er,~ a "prud,J; 9 fa the~, ·an
alcohoJ.ic fe.the::-, a tyrannical
father, . ·
a suhmir.:sive father, precocious
sex ...
ual:;.ty in the ch:::.l.d, lt,ck of s:ax-.ial
k~,owledge and o::r.:pe::,:,ienc.e the child,
in
too ma9h pai·ental love, not enough
parental
love; guilt feelings
in the
ch:;.J_c~,cal~oucness
..
in ths cl1ild~ too
much in tho way of mafo::.--ial tM.n:gs,
deprivation
9 s}:µm onvironmGnts, _ plush
sibling ·rivalry,
and
environments,
being an pnly child,
Ir{ 6,ther.- words, two different
people in ' the same· conditions
will
·
react differently.
- One will not bend .
in the face of adverse conditions
and will matt:re to become a l-mlladjusted
homosexual; the other will.
fail and be.come a neurotic
hetoro. Z"'l.lso ~.~ this ·category~ wo can place
the ·use of mor.ey,, There would bo no
fomalo prost.itutes
if there wo:re no
mv:n with monay to buy their abnormal
fav or-s9 •· To their pr ·ivate lives,
however~ most p:::-ostitiites · remain
no:i.·m
ally µ9inoso;:;..1.ni9
·
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�MAIDENVOYAGE
(8)
sexual.
In the face of overpopulat:i,on,
the
rising
tide of divorce and abortions,
Jrverd.le delinquency,
and the 5lorious
lib01•a ~ion of womon~ it has beer. definitely
shown that homos0X"J.i.iliti is the
only normal and sane (:ou:r.s0 of development; that hoto:rosox:aality
is a deviated,
wasteful,
selfish
way of life,.
It ha.s
beon proYen that sinco tho majority
of
tho population
is now homosoxual that it
is tho only normal statej
the only ono wa
ca!'l accept.
All oth•Jr courses of sexual
development aro ps~1chopa thic and unstable,
The majority
rules and the minority must
either be curbd or wiped out 0
New laws are noedod to help curb the
heterosexual
influ.onco on ot~:t·young ·
people until homosoxuali ty is so ,;,riclosproad t:v.i. t thoro aro no more young
people left.
Only in this way can tho
problems of overpopt:la tion~ j•1venile
delinc;_uency and toonago drug abuse 'be
abolisr.odo
If you know a heterosexual
person,
urgo tr.em to see a ps~'chia trist
immedia to}y ~ HotoroseX'J.£>
.lity is merely
arrested
devolopment.
It £!ill be curodl
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ISR HEADSPE
,~KS TO HOMOPHILE
GROUPS
Institute
for Sox Research President,
Tom Mau:ror, spoko t o mem'oers of Boston°s
hor.iophilo cornm~~ity at St, John the
Evan 1
~elist Church ro•'.:ently.
Mr~ I~n.urer, tho head of SIR, is
currently
workin G on e. study of homosox-J.als in tho San Francisco areaq
.-1.n
·
ex-minister
who atten ::lGcl Bos'ton University, ho b:cought up saveral inter0sti!1g
points co nee rning hor.iosoxuals especially
as they are regarded as 11sick 11 by tho
st:raj_ ght world.,
"What can be ur.n~tural
in nature?"
he
asked,
Mr,, Maurer protested
th e use of
tho word 11devia!1t- 1 as dehumanizing and
insultir.g.
He prefers
tho w::,rd "variant,"
-ti. monbor of Boston D;O.Bo vr!-loattended
the discussion
s'1id, "Mr. Mo.uror is a
very beautiful
parson in his thinking and
in his rop,ard for all persons.
Tho homophilo population
is lucky to have him in
its midst,"
CHAPTER
CHA.TTER
CLEVELAND The Cleveland Chapter o:t
D.O.B, held its "first
public showing
of taler.V' in their organization
when
they presented
''The Beld.ted 0 69 Va:i'iety
Show and .~rt Sr.ow,1 °° Cornedy acts, musi c,
a rock band e.nd art work hi r~hlightod
the event,
The group is now moving
ahead with plans to hold an ar~ ~how
in Ju::10.
REHO- R0no 0 s chapter library
is
bep;in;.'ling to take shape with 11a small
solac'tion
of the better
novels of
Radclyffe Hall, Valerie Tay:Lor, .~nn
Bannon and others
Also available
ar0 non-fiction
studios of homose:x--1als
by Doctors B':cank Capr:i.o, Louis London
and H2rry Benjamin~
Thoy are now
looKing out ·for pertinent
magazine and
newspape~.~ articles.
·
Apparently the
p1."tblic library
in Reno has many selection:, to offer its readers on this subject.
Throe members of D,O.B. met
with some thi:::·ty members o:t·C°"'isis Call
to 'di . cuss losbfani:::m 9 D.O.B. and ·
s
me-1:.l..ods
thro1:,eh whj_,.:h interested
members of D.O.B. could assist
i11 cot:nselin g troubled
gay poopla b tho cornra'J.n.
itys
The t'ilo groups a:..~0now working ·
on approaches,
·
S.l.l~ FR.UJCISCO- The San Francisco
chapter is thinkinG about holding a
Floa Market in July o:t• ,tc,g·,L3t, La.st
sur.ID1erD.O.B. netted more ttan $100
from the sale of donated it0ms like
books 9 records,
ciothing,
etc.
Eleven
mombers of tho chapter counted ballots
at the Annual Lulu Awards Presentation
( the gay v;orld O s answer to the ,.:~cademy
Awards) and earned $1000
LOS A.HGEIES Tho president
of L,A.
D.O, B. reports
she was fired from her
job when a girl from work, whom she
invited
to a meoting, bocame hysterical
and said that tho president
had accused
her of beinc a homosexuale.
The reason
for dismissal
was given as 11an act of
11
indescretion.
Howovor 9 when the
incident
was brought up at a union
grievance meeting, tho management
agreed that tho president
had been
unfairly
treated
and she was fully
r einstated.,
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�MAIDEN
VOY,;~GE
(9)
.&DITO RIAL
ment, it is obvious that I know we are
an oppressed
group of people.
You need
not toll me what I already
stated.
imBoston D.O.B. has mado its first
I do not think holding hands in pu b.1. ..
portant
broakthrough
in presontinG
the .
lie is filtho
If I do not choose to
.hold hands with a wom-'.'.n p1iblic at
in
aims o.f the orGaniza tion to tho public
at large~
this tir.10 9 it is because this is tho way
I feol.
I do.not
think I should bo acc.i fou:i:- column half pa.go article
in the
used of thinking
it is filth
just bo.;.
Hay 10 edition
of tho Boston Globe covered
cause we de not agree~
.ire you always
some of tho highlights
of the April J
so quick to pacs judgr.1,.mt on tho.se who
symposium held at tho .~rlington
Stroot
are not in agreemsmt with you? I am
Churcho
At that time, a number of ~lorgymon, psychiatrists
from
free i:r:sido,
.'l.nd tl-:.at is :nore important
9 r.ncl educators
to mo" tnal1 'just being freo in public o
the straight
comr;mnity had boon pors: : ally
m
Yes, Diana, I am s~B.rcdo I am not
t.o· . ttend
a
the mooting aimed at
invited
too pr 1)Ud to. admit ito
"creating
a long overdue dic.lor;uo botwoon
If a person is
hotorosoxual
and ho1riosox:ual mombors of tho not afraid
at times,
then one must be
very foolisho
Boston cornmunit3r and to build a greater
vie livo in a wo.rld where we can not
of .the homosexual woman
understanding
·always do as we ploaseo
Unfortunately,
in society.,
it takes blood 9 sweat and tears to win
Tho artj_cle was a strai:-:;ht-forward
tho right to bo free.
news story of the ovonts as thcJy unfolded
It is only my opinion that we, as
did what any
that nii:?,htft Tho reporterL0sbians,
cannot go out in publfo 9 hold
good reporter
should do ,~-wri to tho facts
ha::.1ds9 and expect to win acceptance
to
and not succumb to tho temptation
( tohranco)
a.t once•
You cannot forco
editorializo.
an.;y-cne to . accept you 9 your i.doas 9 or
This is a stop in the rieht direction
yo~:r feelin,;s ~ You muct make th3m
arc
and a s~:.gn that somo attitudos
understand
before you can do anything
indood beginning
to chance.
· else~
But there is another
sido to consider.
You havo not convinced mo that the
what happonod to 50 to 100 professparonts
at tho Florian wore not thinking
ionals who woro i1:vitod to attend?
As
th0 worst of Shayna Rsuben and her e;ir l
tho Globo article
pointed
out, tho
that night;,
You have not convj_nced
audience was m:3.doup of about 50 people- me that anyono (stra:i[';hts)
preser1.t that
two of them we• o c le rp;;ymon--but it was, ·
r
eveni::s did not fin::l tho incident
too
as someone said, a "mostly gay 11 audience•
much to tako at this th1e,
Those aro tho neople who can do so
You are rici;ht.
We should not be
much to'holp
us work to educate tho
lau ghed at, insulted,
or i~norod~
public h1tolligentJ.y.
How can we
But neither
shou],d we bring it upon
reach t},9m?
ourselvoso.
They just don°t understand
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yeto
Someday, bocauso of you, me and
D.O,B. 9 they will,
Pm s11roo I think
!ETTERS TO THEEDITOR
D.O.B. 9 s Education
Corn.'11:1.ttoo
will go a
To the Edi tor-long way in helpin~ straights
undor.A.d<.lr0ssod to Diana Travis:
_
stando
.
fi~st
of all? I think it was great to
So until
they can understand
and
see a response
to my lotter
in 11.V"
see tlw t our lcvo is a pure love 9
Pm a firm boliovor
tr•.a both sides of
t
I am yours fora
now and froe
an issue should be airodo
Howoverj I
tomorrow ••
•
do not think you really
road my letter.
Tho Saint
mysolfc
My
I did not contradict
woz:ds wore: ''wo are a eroup of Lesbians,
loo}:ing and workin c toward the day f:reo
;
from oppror,sion. 11 From that ono state********************
By Pam Boyd
�Mli.IDEN
VOY.~GE
(10)
OVERTHE FENCEWITHDI.~NE
By Diano ,
Whatdo · you do when the urg0 to write
is so c1•f;. ::·.1 h0l."'ling that it talrn s p:•t·ce1 :
dence 070!' e•Jery".:,r.2.:nr;
else','
Morl!over,
whn.t <lo yo'J. do -.-ih.1:mit is three o O clonk
in tr.e mc1•r.in0 ~ t.ho typewr:aer
riblion is
brol-::0t~!' ;you.r typ :;,.r:gpa.par is miss:l:ng, and
evo"!'y 'ulastod ba2.lp o int in tho h:n.i.so is
dry?
You temporize
wj_'th a Lfori'..lm and go
back to bod.
By m.orninf; 9 when all tho
have bee::1 cou:nt,ed
cra •:!ks in th0 cei1 j_i-:.g
and ton of your fingors
arc in search of a
throat to strangle~
you call a friend~
Doe s she come over with typing paper or a
new :ribbon or over. holp yo· wj_th your
u
spollir ,g ? libsoltctely
r.ot,
n .,t' s because
...
9 s boon dead
sho
for t -w-E:myeal'.·sQ t on °t
ty
got me w:.--on ,he sti::.1 brc,athosi
g--&
walks,
eats,
and makes a gutte:i.•a:. sol:nd wh0n she
wants tl10 salt pass ,,dj :i.t9s juc.-:. that· her
parent.:, for~ot to bury ho:rQ Call:rne 'hor
when I am 0:i:tho: doprossod or maLic is
absol1.:te2.y fruitlE:.ss.
I would g0t a. .
quic! :or response j_f I 'cal lod the tomb of
Amo:.:~obp IV' i!'l a.m:0nt E~ypt d 1 1ri:1g a
toloph or.e st'.!:"ik0 o Why do . I bo-1-,hor with
her~ Because her cat::i.t on ic stut':::lor·n0ss
intri g.19s mo and I don° t giv0 up oasily;
but, I tell you.? 5..t 'is no fun hav~ng a
.
withdraw:1 corpse fol' a i'ricnd..
It was Sa.tu:dny and I Wi;iS j_n a · "kick
meII mood; so I imri t od Rip Vap wir.Jcle up
for tho ovaning,. · Sho brought along a gay
'l'heso · two ha:\-e abo 11t as
male friend.
much in common as Na~..=;e:rand Ben--Gurion;
but ho is a cl 1rrmir..g 9 ,-1it '.:.y guy with a
.
sado-r.iasochistic
:rel a tior~shj.p with the
world a::id a n1easure more oxcitemont about
him. He . has a way of hara?sing
and ,
amusing you at t.he samo time1t Ho can
inflict
pai::-i one minute and ' soothe it .
away t:-1e next.
,'i. ro:11 Dor ian Gray,
.
-i:'i.r.ywey, I forgot
there wasa ball game
on; and wh': h0 a.rrivod
m
he ti:- ,j.-r hi.11solf
on my couc:i, dra~iJ: my ·ch::.vas Regal,
smoked his smelly ci ~nrs , sc,re amod at my
boob-t1:be all ni ~ht and tuned the two of
us out w:1~ he flicked
. 10
back and for·th
from one ball g2.mo t o an oth e r,, ·
Now, I don°t expect people to come to
my houJe , and expound _. .~lbort . Ca.mus. or
on
S¢ren Kierkegaard or string
upa· ~i~o
and do a balancing
act across my Ii-ling
roo~ 9 but I .;ra,s look:l::::.g forward to a
lit t.le light c_
o.nvcrsa.tion and a . fow
l a').g:1
::;,,
My at tempts at soc ~.il ir.tcir , ourse
~
thwarted r I turnod to my fri m1d9 tho
"scint.il:i.D.ti:-ig conv ersationalist
, 1~ \/ho
as I ha.Ye said~ is a.bout as GXd t1ng ·
as a burr.,:;d.,out fll.i.lC bc::r.:p as d(,op · as a
pu~ldlo and as :fot.Qr0sti:1g as a wot · newspa'. or o She so.t thor0 th o whoi0 ni ght
p
twi .::;tng hor hc:i.i:'.'?chair, 1:;mok:.:-ig and.
i
9
m1:..kln an ina110 r emar k about a.very th:roo .
g
hours to pro .. t ·hat tho d:l. bulb in .her
i.·e
m
. hoad was still
workin g a~1d that sl)e
kr.o\• something about t:r.o G2.J10e ·
r
: 1Bu.t I t ole!. you the:."a w- .s a ball
3
game
on tonight 9 n she s2.id ·meokly throu gh a
face t.:i.at would stop a rhino i:.1 full
fli ght e.:1d which reminded mo of a Yahoo
frcm G:111.:r..:ir~ s TrP.'i.roJ.s
'.
:
.
H'=7i71g·:;~thin
3.
g ,?I?.ot o do except
r.y
chew 1 nails and cot:.nt the sl3. ts in the
· vondt:J .an b J.i nd,:;, I be :;an ·'.:,o exc..mlne
tl·,~~s girl~
Ono thin s I .;"_ll say about
. ho:r-,,;,the k~ows what 0 s- ri git in ctyJ.e.
She ha rJ. or. a m::..dl sk:..rt whjch she: h9.s
·· be0!'). wearing sine °:: 1950 ar..;p~
)
·ay; and the
..
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.
1c'; O wec.gJos Gh o :.:.n'.'lor::..·.,.J.P~r om h_or
9....- ' ·.
,ec.
motl10~:oare rea.l hauto couture.
They're
· ri ght in style again, too ,~ Hers wuro
run-down at tho hsR:l:; c, 1:..ttlo 9 but
they locked as if ·thoy~d bo good foiher .hair was
anot~er ton yoars~
somot1:1 g else,
in
too~ It looked ' like
the swallo..;s of . Capistrano
had used it
, fc,r at l0ast three seas ons~ and it
· hadn~t boon set by a hairdr o ssor sino ,e
the wook .of Tru,rnan°s inat1garation.
Fed up, I made coffoo a.t 11,L~5,
cnr , 0 back in t o find th (.l game oYor and
1
-His Nibs f a.st asloepo
I vwko the bum
up, thanked him for a stimulating
company,
evening and his effervescent
said gc6d nii:;ht ~o rrry othG!' friend-tho "goni1:s 1' •• -and th:r·ew them .out.
I never felt more liKo murdering
anyono so ~uch in my life« .. I fa:icied ·
rrrysoif cutting
him "..lp into little
pieces and boldly mailing his 1 loody
remains to my dear little
friend.
I ·
doubt if this would arouse uiuch
�Ml DEN VOY GE
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( 11) .
emotio n in he r be c ause she hasn 't s hown
a spark of life
si .nce the sixth grade
when sho inadvert e ntly stuck her finge r
in th o pencil
sh a r pe r.e r., Al so, alth oug h
th oy have no t us ed the e lectric
chair in
IY1a a chus e tts s inc o 194'?, I do no t r olis h
ss
sittin g in 11Dec.\ Row" o r in a din gy cell
th
f o r th o next n:'...noty,.n in0 y ea rs.
So whi t do I do ,vr.en life be come s
d is appo i r.tin ~ a nd th e s e c ar na l d o si ro s
:;
ar e thw a :. t od r I e a t a 1;01
:
:ind o f li ve.rwursto d r own mys olf •in i ur p ,m ti n0 arid .
po pp y~e od o il 9 W\'!!P m se lf '..l in rr.y ·
y
p
se curity 'blanke t with my Ragged y .tnn, o r
I ge t out ·my dri vo 1· o r my th!· Ge wood .and
wha ck th e d evil out of that little
white
b a llc
.
But lately
I fi1 id liv e rwurst t a steles s,
turp entin o is b oth orin p.; m sinus., my
y
s e curity
bl anket is full of hole :-; a nd my
Ra 0r,edy Ann ~s mis s in g·o . .,: .to boot, . it 's
md
rainin g and th e ·drivin g ran ges a r o c:los od .
I think Pll
just r~o suck my thumb
for a while,
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SPE.1.KINCr AG ENTS
ENG EM
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Four Bost on D.O.B.
members and one
homo sexuality
with two mod0r a to:::-s on cl o s ed ci:i:-cuit
n rJ:i.o WCSB-L.'1at Grari.1 j·uni o r Colleg e,
,
~
1
Bo sto •r !'e c e ::itly,.
i
Sov e :ta l misc onr;ept fo ns wore cleare d
up du r in g th e dis~u s sio n with the mode:ca tors and fr om the ha lf do~en ph one
c a ll qu es ti ons,. For 0xo.1r: e , on e pe rpl
s on th ou ght th a t homos'3J::ua 3..ity mi g ht
bo a 11f a ll nb1 0k." po si t i on .for peop le .
who had fail e d at he te:.: osm r'.w.l r e latio nshi p s" 0:::1 of th o moci :rat ors~ impresse d
0
o
by c opnnonts on emoti onal inv o lv e ment ,
seemed to be sp e akin g for himse l f whe ri
11The po pular
ho .said:
c once p tion of
homose xu a lity . is ( t hat it is) · on a
pu~oly physical
lev e l; I don°t thin k t oo
many pooplo re aliz e that th ore is any thin g cmo ti onal . in vol vod o 1t •
Inter e stin gly, s ome f;ri ends : of the
moda :rators expected
th a t tho moderato rs
would sit in a s op a rato room from t ho
horn s exu a ls -durin r, the intorviewl
o
Tho se
pe op l e pro b abl y list e::1ed t o the show ,
an d J1st th r:, i do a tha t U10y w0r0
li:,t onin g to re a l homo se xu a ls who were '
at th a t mom0::it :ln the G:ra: im r ad io
·
st:.ldi o mu0t have opened th oir eyes · t o
our o rdin a 1·iness .
HUB
membe r discussed
�M.~IDEN
VOY,~GE
(12) ..
D,0 ,B .~-EDUC.~'.l'ION .PROTES'l'?
OR
By Candi MeGonagle · ·
put .,it .is a possibUiiy,
Revolution is one answer to the
problem of'.' gaining rights for ·homoAfter a thorough perusal of the Sunday
s1:3xuals; but it is not D.O.B. 0 s way.
editions or · both the Boston · Globe and ·
··
Telling your · family a.nd trying to
Traveler, I find myself reviewing mentally · educate friends and relatives
is not
the problems I ha:ve been confronted with
always the answer, either. . The result
in various articles.
They 0 re the same
old might be alienating
the very people you
p;roblems written up with now angles-':"
a.re trying to educate.
Telling somo
poverty and welfare, biaq~ power, .drugs,
people that you're gay might either
.
the war . in Vietnam. Not a word on the
disgust the m or make them enemies.
.
·. . J
proble1ns faced by homosexuals,
Some of
Public educati . n in a. dignified
o
;;J f.Q~
us al'E) poor and on welfare, some of us are manner seems to be the best answer.
black, some of .us smoke grass . or pop pills, , ''Write to you:r ' congressman" has become .
some of us are mombers of the womens9
a cliche; but it isn°t a bad idea.
If
brancht>s of the li.,rmedForces • . We are
everyone in D.O.B, sat down and .wrote .
beset with problems ~l ,so exper~enced by
letters,
there might be more attention
he:terosexµa:l.s, · so . thesa articles
can also . paid and more action taken in our . favor.
pertain to some of us, · But we have .other,
write to newspapers a~ magazinos and
more individual
problems, too. ·What of
demand (nicely) coverage of proplems ·
these?
. . . ,
.. .
. .. .
faced by homosexua.ls--who arE:'las ~uch
What about the problom:s of, having our
· .an'.oppres .sed minority as rac .ial groups.
insurance cancelled because a nosey
write to . people (lilco "Dear ,~bby," Dr.
neighbor puts the . hex on us? . What about
Charles Socarides,
television
and radio
the :1.esbians who get pooked on dr1,1gs to
shows, writers and columnists,
etc.)
escape the har;;her retllities
of gay ;1re?
who give. . a bad review o~ 1,~correet
What about the · _ ish,onorable dischargS"S on
d
view of homosexuality.
Protest in
the grounds or 1esbia~ism? · And what about letters.
.And--by all . means--22, write
r
to your congressman.
If you 9 re old .
the bl,aclc lesbian--:who is c. ushed under
the heel of three-fold
discrimination-enough to . yote, you're old enough to ·
because she is gay, because she is a
demand civil r:\,ghts for homosexual~ ·• .
· .· Anothar common alternative
is in- .
woman, because she is black?
Okay, I won't bore you with all the
forma,l alienment with o_her homop_hile .
t
. groups.
Those in favor of this must ·
. problems involved in having a varied
sexual orientation.
If you've been a
realize that not everyone favors this
approach. ···Commonooui-tosy will inc~ude
losbian for any length of time, you know
the problems .from first-hand
experience•
.. re .spect of other . people Os feelings on
Enough said. But what ca.'r1be done??? . · ~h:i.s ma. ter. · Inviting . man to D.O.B.
t
Tho Black Power Revolution is success.:. . meetings may be a cooperative gesture,
ful in that it has put tho . problem 'of
. b~t it will .alienate many women who just
discrimination
smack-dab in the public
do no. want men around all the tima-t
eye •· It has done little,
however, to ·
,. especially at a mooting of a group
accomplish much more than token reform~•
organized specifically
for lesbians.
The more militant
black groups are hated
The answer, it . seems to me, is
and feared by whites for their sometimes .. dignified
education of tho public,
.
violent approach.
·
".·.·Riots and pic'~eting get results •• but
,Ubert Ca.mus saids 11Every revolutionthese techniques are old-hat and
aey ends by becoming either an oporesso .r
unblaginatiVEH the results are not
or a heretic."
always .those we want. Educating the
Many pooplo feel that if a black
public (for those ·ot us who can do 'it)
revolutionary
group succeeds in overis living a cirCUlllipoct, ordinaey way
coming our established
fonn of governor lite vitho~t de~ing ~ur hollo1ex-.
~v
ment, the whites will become the op-pa
re11ed group. This is purely theoreticalt
ulit)"•
w•re
It'•
.,
in"'"
a ·way ot
ju1t like you
ry
"See••
vq euep\
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VOYAGE
(13)
our sexual orientation."
. )t;i.ot~ and
9 l ove uou ,:i ,tc, t!:c:Jit!t2 NUc MA·
o
milHant
aDproachos only cau~e the
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st:rai r.,;ht world to th j_nk: 11Look at them!
lio,t,c th..c:J,i f1011.,C:,
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If we - gi v- them equal. ri ,~hts, they OJ,l
e
/ i'o1r ;f}ic,11,
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the fl,lp-1-lw..ue,,jfUJw-c...ouc.A.-Cd
t ake ov0r and whore will we be th eri ?
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a bd.> .ha~-tJ-1'.Ytl/11- ,i.it-1, c}icdv..._
it
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P•1bb. c ed-..:cation is open apnroval cf
.9 love r,1ou --t :tlv:,,n,· ., o,t uciv..✓-w n_
1:io c
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all bM~-:s doP.lirn~ with homosexualit y
9 lov e qou i:io,tc tAcc11 : k,CC[
lL4_ lM.d
r atfo~aliy
ar,cl t ruthfu;!..ly--a11d openly
.
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r.,QJ1,.
c ondor.1
!1i~;;r,tho .•trash writ.ten Sl;)cc::.fica lly
for tho m;,10 hetoN t;G~{Ual consuril.0~~-•boo ks
.
9,-Louc lfOU f:iO/(,C ;/)1a,n; /{,("1!
~ -i , ;
whic h deliberat0l;7
cU
.s·vort homosex-.1ality.
f io/t.,c tJ1,a11., M.1;1,
,t/w
,dfe, ,itcd.-.,,..,O/U;,,.,
Someone once sa:. .,;1.8i•J::f a bo ok wsre wr-~t tcn f ,olic t/u;,11.
cli.,c,,r,C/l.,:J, -:··c/cc oJJlcd cu1.clJYi.YlJ,1,ed,
about gay life
the way it D~)l .z is ~ it
find 11.0-t a· bd -~vl-.A :tl0i ,tl-,,c,,
dcv,<Jv
/ic-r,d
would be the d.u_ lost bool-:: c ver writ.te n, 11
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Me.ybe someone ough t t ,) write i t--tho
9 l ouc qov.,1::.01c, tAc.Ji 0//P&LC;& ~Jcw"'"'1•
c.
a,te
str aight world might w.:mdcr then what 'a:11 9 ,Laue 11 coie,e,,th.011,
oii
Cic/c),,,.~c
hcl.c·A,th"1"
the l aws agair ,st us ar-o for- ,,
Public oducatio~
j_3 goin.6 t o a strnight
9 .love ½'OU. r.~o--tc
.t)w,.i1,(-llcd: .,a,
: ,t/j,
bar arad b oin ~ open ab o•.it you r hor.i.os0x• ( 10 1-, ,t/w., !(1·wi (;,i_.,c'-c,£ cc-AL
.,
c
1,
:t)c,, :1e,edh-1 c.:
. ,1. old;
.
1
ualitye
Not bo~.ng ofi'Gnsivc e.bcut i t,
. ( 1; ~c ;th,01 . a: ¼\'.»✓-1)1- h.c-0..,
bcc;t..crtc d;,u-fglit,
but not bei:1 :; asl·an,ad of iti- 0it::i,0:-:· ~ ·
Con,,j
;,F_dc/UJ.b;io,tc., rtlic:Yt dc...pfu::1,t;l .
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Pu:ilic education
.is a.ccoptin g all the
wu:...O..fv:..,,
•
, _·
s pe aking ong,1.
gerr.onts you can 1-:.ar.dl -o
9 -l.orJc~oa, noic,, ,tfw::1-iScc/"vL, ,L.ovcd
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11\,;0 t:cy hardnr~ 11
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Pub::..J.c oduca 4:,ion j_3 ceacd.:ng to li:e a
9 :...crJC l/01/4 ,:tuelir!,O/c,C .t.h.cJ1- c),1,t/,.J:tp
l fo ~ r·efusk ~ -to bo a!,yt) .-.i.ng but ·what
fl~vc,,,£,1',r,,,ta,;
-,
you ,az,0 9 rofusin g_to be thou ght of as
l ess tJ-:..3.n ·wholo rierson.
a
..·
Pt:b~ie! od~~c
2.U.on i:; quiet~ dignified
rov olutior,~
Slo '. Dr a:r.d less exciting
l
.
th a !1 bur:!;"lin stur Gs a ,,c1 s:;ia,shin ;. wi!cdows ,
g
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Not as obvicus n s n ick3-r,~.::g a rest.2..:1r ant whkh cti .s::!o'l:rarc~ gay cl;i cntelo . _
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Not a& . f'l:_:: boyant as ere a ti : 1g a gay
.ia
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ghetto~
h
B~1t, jn the long run~ it is m:uc
more offectivo
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MAIDEN ,1.
VOY
GE
(14)
OPEN
FORUM
QUESTION __
NUMBER
FIVE
- ---- --- _,, -D.O,B. is a. woman°s organiza ti on for
homosexuals.,
Do tho nembcrs consider
tho ms e ~_vos as women f:i.:rst or as p:".'imc1.ri
ly
homo s:c1·..1ls?
x a
W ~
o,_ld D.O,D. benefit
more
by aJi .gr:iE f'i itt ;elf v;ith the wcmen 9s lib er a d:::::r. movement or b;f joining -~r
:'i.th some
of the mor e r.1c1.le~orfo"1ted gr ot:.ps?
Q:
A: I 11mone of the many mGmbers of the
Bost ort Chap ter who do 'JS no t want to see
ar guments in OU? grou p because pouplo
take sides over th:i.s issu e ., arid. r;o Pd
lil-::e to ancw o:::-w::.thout g ivir ag my m.me.
I don° t thi!:J< W3 s hcmld bo jo :i.r.ir:.g with
any ot~or r,r oup ver y often 9 and Pve had
too much of it lat oly9
I th: .rJt we al:;_ a groe D.O,B, itself
must be built
·0
.p.. h :my momber.s~ m self
y
includ od, ha ve becm st ~~in g · aw9.y from
y
recent Friday ni p; t moetincs bo~auso
h
we 0 ve had rrnito enou i:'. 000:1 rceet j_
i.1
nGs,
0
We ro bogi;.~i~g to f ~ol Boston D,O,, .
B
d oesn°t have much id e!'lti.ty its olf~ it is
so bucy welc oming gay mon and fe:::ialo liberation
p eople ard di3tin guishod clergy
ar.d, it s e e:::-is .son::.i:.rn.os ~ ov 3r yo n0 in the
t
whole ;,mrld9
v!hon I joined D.O.B. I
tho'.l ght it wa s goin g to be a place where
Lesbians could moot and got acquainted
and Lave fi.;.n, Now, it seems, ,-re can° t
do a:r.ytt.in g by ot,.r-::,olvos wi tho'.lt invit in g
everybody e lse uho might possibly
bo
intor-ostod ~
I :-h:5
.nk we should have some open
moet::.r;g s, and Pm no t a gainst mon9 but a
littl0
goes a lon g wny~ Most of our
stuff
st:ould be for us, because wevre
the onos who ,; oinod, not all theso
g110stsa
If thir g s kaop on this way Pm
afr a id the~o 0 ll be ha~Qly any members at
g uests•
A lot of
our moetings--only
to
peopl e feel t his way h'.:t w0 hesitate
speak up because we donQt want to start
arguments.
--Name withheld
upon request
A: The very form of this question is
\ _:-\- seri ot1
.sly in crrcJr.
D.o. : is not ngw
n
\;)NJv and , vor has been a homl)SOX11[?'.'.. ~nor
'
iz~o
~ "1
i.s not, in mo ::;t respects,
~ , q ail or 6anization
for 11f;::J 2.le homosexr:1
~\5 • ua lo 11 'Khich is, at best, a misused
q medical
term.
go., ..f),O . B. is an organization for Lesbfans,
thou gh it has always been open
to 711 womor:~ providi::1G only that they
w2ro 21 years of a ge o
In our ea:rly ye a r:., in tho late
195o r- D.O.El u aLt er.1pteJ to wo r~
s,
closely
with vari:)".~3 F·:Lna:r~i:ty male
hom::,philc and sim:U a t> o:r. a:-, :3.. :'::-i ns •
g . ze. o
J
T!i.i:. sim ply did not work, for r.'. \~,.Y
sound reasons 0 Fi1·,d:..,.. .'.ld forer ::ost ,
a
maloss , homose:r:i.1. or not, tend to think
al
:
of womrm as ,taddod m0P1bors 9 " 11conven~
icncos'° to help THEM ass:..st them ~ in
1
roaching
THEIR goals.
This is not a
matter of malo preji.;;.dico, this is a
nocmal occuranco co. sed by the way in
u
wh.~ch yonr:,7, p eo ple a: ·e t::-ainod in ou r
sod.,7;ty~
Thero ha.va always been those
w;.,nen who felt tl:oy couid best serve
:
tho horr. philo or homosex:te.l movement by
o
wor!dn g with the mono •• a!'ld the so have
an d stilJ. do join tho ma.le groups in
s~.:1:;_1
nc1::r,b0r
so Fino, le L th01;1 D. 0. B.
o
is 1Aorki.ne; fo;r :Lesbians~ and thei r
ri ght , ;, primd.1·llyo
:
Boca'.lSO ,JO aro , all
of us 9 wom 9 whsther all of us like it
cn
or not, wa do ha ppen to have rr.cra in
c orm1 n wi -th vomer. in go:noral ti1an we do
o
wi.t11 men :i.n general~ •• and we always will
h,~
vn, however urLpa.latablo that mi r,; t
h
be to the male ch au.vid.s:,ic
Lesb:tar1s •
This does not moan -,;e &D.o'.lld ally
ourselves
stron gly wit.h ar~y one or a ll
womon9 s ri ehts or womE:1 s liberations
:1 ~
it l:olp::; ·i.; p o i1:'.:,
o
grot..pso, .j,n fdct,
out. tho fact that wh~lo wo h£.Yo.e. few
thirn 7 s in common with the male homosex(a fow more at
uals .,'and a few things
that) with the women° s liberationists,
wo are uniqueo
we have our own set of
problems O We will benefit,
surely,
from tho inevitable
law changes that
will help male homosexuals a groa t
deal and us very slightly.
Those ·
th::.n 3 s will help all of us in area s of
emp loyriento
But these battlas
indeed
are be::r:g fouglYt ar,.cl woll by all of the
S O!:l-3 70 male gro-.ips_. o .let
them, they
have a. lot mor e to gaj_n than we do.
On th,3 other ha.r.d, if all tho laws
were c han ged tomorr;w 9 that would
still
leave Lesbians a lon g . wa;,(s be ~
tfio male homosexualso •• and ~tis in
'
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these areas (whore we are counted,
after
all. 9 as 1'moro womon°1 ) th3.t we hav o thinf!s
t ,.:i fi ght with tho women 9 s liberation
"'
groups for~
vJhat. this boiJ.s clovm to is that wo lw.vo
basic problorr.s tba t concern us as Losbians.
Somo of tho :so 11avo to do with malo 1.nmo.
soxuaJ.s and t r1oir problems,
some of ti1ose
· th
~
have t o do w:,_ won::.:;ns rights 9 some of
them have nothin c~ to do with eithor
group .
D.O . B. would do bost t o ali:m itsoJ.f
wit h D .o .B., a:1d with Horkirn; to b1 i11g a
fow hur:dred U1Gus,l;1cl of our 01,,m mi) .li ons
int o tho battL; 9 s .) th 2-t wo rnj c:ht 9 with
s ome sens e of pr:i.do :1nd a cc ompJ.j_shrnont,
move into the naxt con:':,m•y w:l.th some o f
our battles
Wt'. 11~
'
No 0 ~1'0 olm, is r1-oin,' to
ca~ ,7 ou.,· b1P•d0.ns ~ w~: h'.•
.ve too fc,,: ~.ocpl\c/
'.
and to ') lit tle rr,onoy to waste oithcj~ any
of our pownr o r oui\ fu11di " or ou r time
1t:;
on anyo:10 o r anything ol::;o o WlxJro we
c 2..n b8110fit wc:tki .n :~ with the me:r 9 fino o..
.
when wo can bonofit
,;;orktr:,,r,- wj th womon7 s
,
ri ghts s fir;,q but wo must ;lways c ons ::.der
oursolvus
fh ·st)
,1.2 individuals,
we will
alw1.ys havo i::1<:-..11:r
different
interosts
9
goals and int ont.i.ons o
sts Losbiar:s) ·,m aro tho most downtrodclon peoplo ~ on on.rth 9 in history o
'That is by f a r m,ffi.cfont
bac; to c 2.rr y,
suf fi~iont
work for thousands~
r
Many years ai',O it wns formc:'.J.ly a ,:; ood
by the vast maj ority of mombors th at we
c ould not e.s a gro up ally ours e lves with
any other gr oup.
NOT boc &
uso wo do not
i21'.:l.
ividually
and co:.1 itivoly
.1.G,
np prove of
many ot!:lor gr o,lp s 9 m£ny othe r goa ls 9
,
but because when womon como to us 9 to
D.O.B. 9 tboy como t o j nin a Los bian
o r r;anizati on work in is .fo1 Les~)iar:.s o .~s
·
in dividua:.ts , do as ycu ploaso , but a s
members of D.0. B. give a ll you c an f or
all th e Los}:j .ans in this world who need
you 9 your tim o 9 your enor[:zy and lovo and
c aring a I f "1,, al::i.. do emugh of this,
,0
th oro won° t bo r oom for other e;onls for
a t imo ••• but the r e, will bo , some(lay ~ a
now way of life in frocdcm for a ll our
peopl8o
Is that no t enough ?
--Go ne Damon9 Editor
'l'HE 1,illDER
oH
wow
A: I favor D.O.B. standing
on its own
tv,o f eot s completely
independent
a nd
th ·.:s ~ ablG · to c ooperate wj_th
ot her or 3:c1.
nizntions
whore we have goals
i n con:r.:n,·i
o
TLe wc,:rd 11r ad ica:.." li:is m.1.r,y
meaning s
to da.:, o I c.:onsidcr mysol.f a: rad i.c:al in
t hought;,
Th'.l.t isq I .soo t :10 opp ression
of ovor :;.alf th o hum".n rf.'.co (\iiLa, some
t
c alJ. so:xj _
srn) as tho r oot tr ouble in our
so~iet.y')
P:n :radical~ too~ in tnat I
boliev-e our society
sb :r:. ld a ccomoda to
1
many life
styles
that h:1y•, no ono olso.
t
P m f or ri r-;
hts for hotor o sexuals o r
Dl'1cks or In dians or J ows or ~,hatever .
I uso the die tior.ary moanin;;:; of tho
To most pooplo it se ems
word radical.
t o m.oa wild behavior
r.
and a form 6f
l c?t ..,~in.:::;l~i gc.t:r-:",i Hor8 D,,0 ,B. is conS8~·va cJvo.
Wo fav o 1· tho qt:i.iet, d.i.gnifi 0d app ro a.ch . It is perh11ps ·sl owor
and less exc itin g . But it is tho only
way to m.'.lko real p:ro ~rossJ
I have forosoon tr.o possib ility
of a
s chism iri D.O ,B . sfr..r:o 1::-ofo:ro I took
offfoo,
l'Jow that olocti rms a.ro c orr.ing
up again at tho Gonoral Acsor:1.bly in NY,
I want ou r mombor s to know wh8ro I
st an d., (:{v l ott o:r.s in No,rnwoo:-::and tho
S.J. :,rd.a.y R.oviow state my vi8ws) 0 The
t
s eh if.m 9 as I tioo it, is b0twoen those
who ·L
hink of tl1e:.1:1 ;olv0a · as fem ,tle
homc:-;ez1:.c1. who w:P1t. t" holp t\.io male
ls,
holl~O exu,:ll 9 ~- . d who.- la (;k the Rr .i..do and
s
an
--corlf idor,,oo · in thoms0J.v ,'1s t ,:, f:i.7ht
or
Le s ians ,1,,.l
and those who realJ.z.0 thoy
are women before tho y a re Lesbians
an ct th.J.t ou r best allios
aro womon.
But abo ve and beyonJ this,
D.O.B. is an
indop ond.tmt organization
, not to bo
confusod. with any othor o
My. feE:J.iu g is that th o se who must
havo th u men around a r o in tho wrong
or ;~aniza:bio n--tho y should j oi n HUB or
s omu su.0h, Tho so who w,c::.ntto p lant
boitbs should j oi n tho Woathorwo men.
Those who want t o s:::roam in the
st roe ts shottld joinGay
1,ib or some .
such.
D.O. B. is not and cannot be
every Losbianvs cup of tea.ooShould
D.O.B. turn into a wild and ra di cal
0
-
j
�-
group or vote to lose its identity
in
a. soa of male homo
soX'..1als, I for one
will leave it.
--Rita Laporta
Nati onal Pr osidont~ D.O.B.
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COLUMN
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Do you nEJed a roommato for thf J sunnnor?
Woll~ so docs Shb.yna Rm:i.bon,, If you
can share yo-i..1.r
rent. w:ith Shayna,
.
contact Katy and Diana 2'77-8952
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COMEJOIN THE HOMOSEXU.~L
SQUARE
Tho country D<'.'. ·s ocioty is holding
nco
n
an auclionco participc ,t :i.o danco on
Boston CommonJuno 6 at 2 pom., and
wo want to dan~o, too--as gay
couples l F'or infor1111:i.t:.on, call
Laura Robin at 625.12630 We hop0
thn.t couples frcm all the homophile
groups will corr;o and join in.
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L~STMINUTEREMINDER I t i
11
JUNE IS BUSTINGOUT ALL OVERP.ARTY
Saturday,
Juno 6, 8:00-midnight
Candi and B0th 0 s mj_ni-apartmont.
Price of ad:t11ission; a snac!<:o
at
ENTERT.~INMENT
E V E R Y.
Boor provido o.--wo0 ro askj_ng a donation
of 50¢ po r bottlo,
If you dongt liko
boor, b:d.ng your own choico.
Wom
en
only (not counting tho :rosidont mo.le
Spaniel),., For d::.roctfons on how· to
get t o this 0sot0ri~,
phenomenal
1'1.,.,, ~ .... i~•-:...,nnn gl,: fo,,. 1'n~ .,
c;t,,
11
::>
.~r~
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PL~CE YOURAD IN THE M,UDENVOY
~
~GE.• •
GE T
RE S ULTS
Six inse:rtions
two dollal"S
GE T
S .1 T U R D .~ Y
M,\.RIE
*
,'l.ND
HER
MIRRY
MAKERS
N OW
THE
fo:r ten dollars
or
and fifty
A N D
F R I DAY
con
ta.po:r
THE
LA N ER N
_T
LOUNGE
ad
LONG
POINT
RD.
T YNGS B OR 0
MASS AC HUS E· T TS
GAY
TRADE
COME THEL~NTERN
TO
TONIGHTltl
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D .O .B • 'S c.:.LENDAROF EVENTS
(Un1oss otherwise
spocified 9 all events
of Boston D.OoB• :1ro opon to women only.)
Fri.
.Speake1: s
•
9 M:i;;-Z9-cJ ~ CO p .m~--Guest
fr c-1 B:rcc.d a nd Ro ses wiJJ. lead a dj_s:1.
cu::;s:·, on tho abus0 of women in a .:-1
.cn
.vortis :tr.g . C:~ rlrn Rooino .i",
.r-,
.rlin gton Ste
. ') r·5 ~OY.j.G v'.:ln sl, ;, 9 DOS ·t O n 0
C,..
·n,.:::.·cn, .):) B ' ..
L
L
D
Frio~ Ju:r.o 5~ " 00 p.m..,--M ombc rs Mooting.
--9
l"iEl ERS ONLYi 11 Clarke Room.
iJ
Sat.,
June 6--2; 00 p ,me ~- Dost on Common-Tho Country Dar: · o Society au.diorcl!O
•
partic :i.pati on d r.nc o v
.m.
Sat. , J1:r.e 6- -8: 00 p
till
midni r;ht.
Party at Candi and i3oth 1 s. De tails
elsewhere in this nowsl o ttor.
Sat.,
June 20-~Fiold
Da~
ba::.•beqao
at Betty~ s B!':.ng your
own fo od (and t,ott le ), sl oop in g ~o a:r.-p
otc 0 Fo r fu r th er in :forn:at.ion, call
GJ.il and Jo £..t 52J~ctn.
Tues~, ,Juno 23--D.O.B,
Nl ~ht at the Pops.
Tick e ts m'J. t be purch a sed in advance.
s
For f ·'-4:;:•
t hor information
call Rec at
JJ5-022•:Ja
Sato, Juno 27--Cvorni
ght campin g trip.
c all Gail
For fr;,rttm• in: ormatlon,
and Jo--5 ~3-21?7.
July 10~11-1~ .. -D.O.B. Convention in
Now York Ci~y a Full in.for1".:atfon
availabJ.0
to n:0mb
or·s i::1. ~1.pril/Hay
issue of THE LADDEH..,
in Boston D.,o,B. is $15~00
'Zh·'._saY1 1 l::1t rr.,-i.y pa.id on
,J
be
th o insta~J.r.cent -pl a.L ,:,.s f ol:01:s:
L, $5 :}00 do·w:i :e:q ;:,.!.:;:
' ·ed
2 o T!'.:.o
bal a.11 0 r;::. . t b0 fu::..l;:r y.
°~ "J s
,3.id
within thr ee r:ioaths O~ mon:'c3 S
"
al : coady pa id w:l.:'. be co:nsj .ci.::,red
.
.l
a ci.ons.t:L:in to D<
.C,.B" .s.nd t t o
pr ocess r-n.1 bo a ..a :::-t. a ga ::.:-1.
,t
~ cd
Jo The }fo.ic'i.011
Voya ge wil:i. be s0i1t
upon reC(➔ ipt of the fh·t:t
$.5.00.
4. The I.£,.ddo~ 1,il::;_ not bo sent
until
th e :f.'ull mombership is
pa.5.d in full.
.·
...
5• E ~., O~'C J.Ve Wl'th+· .. l::.8 f' 1:r.s1- $50 00 '
.;,ll
,'
acicr..
j_ssion to D.,O.B ~ meetin gs
(th-:is o wl:.:l.0h haye an adm::.ssion
fee) will be 50¢ instead
of $1~00.
Me~bership
p o r y e a!'.-·
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TE IESB:i:.. I!J I.~:TERA F:
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.A Bibliogre.phy by G8ne iJa,non
and. Loo Stua~"t
An 6.lphabetLal
listit1 g by 8.i..:.t!1orof
all kr,cwn bo oks in th e Engl if:h
la:n sua ge s in th o gor.eraJ. i'ieJ .cl of
lj .t e ra ture j concor:r. od wi,;:,h lesbianism
or havin g l.e sbi.r.n cha;:· a c ·:,ers(I
Price:
$2,,CO pluG 2:,( r.0ndli:ng
vJrite:
D11'.J.
ghte1:s o. .' Bllitis
7
10•)5 Market Sti ·o0t
'
San Frar.cL:co
Califorr.la
94103
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In view of the age.old
Sat.
.Aug. 8--Doach
later.
9
Party.
glitterings
EVENTS TO CONE: deep~sea fisM .ng trip,
overni e; t b:ick:p, ick :mo
h
:
u]'.;.ta:'..::1.
trip~
horseba'!k ridi~1 g t1·;_p, ca:cd party,
and a ca noe trip with lessons
for
bo gim1ors.
nor
iron
FURTHE
R DETAILS IN THE JUNE ISSUE
conditions
Mi.IDEN
VOYAGEI l
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Details
all
OF THE
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TO
OF THE l\LlIDENVOYAGE
cannot
part
birds
in all
arc
not rhinestones
a cage make; then we
j1:stification
or whole of purchase
refund
under
which.
RMT& CLM
any
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The Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) was a lesbian organization founded in 1955 in San Francisco by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon for the purpose of self-knowledge and self-acceptance, public education, involvement in research, and lobbying to change the laws criminalizing homosexuality. Starting primarily as a private social group for lesbians focused on the integration of the lesbian into mainstream society, the aims of the group shifted during the 1960s due to the changing political, social and economic conditions of the decade. The DOB took up political activism to lobby for the rights of lesbians, promoting individualism with a decreased emphasis on societal conformity. During the 1960s many regional chapters were chartered around the country and globally, continuing the organization even after the closing of the San Francisco national office in 1978.<br /><br />The Boston chapter was founded in 1969 during a period when many homophile organizations were forming in Boston. Early leaders of the Boston DOB included Lois Johnson, Shari Barden, and Laura Robin/McMurry, who were prominent promoters of the group and its activities.<br /><br />The Boston chapter published a newsletter, originally entitled <em>Maiden Voyage</em>, until 1971 when it was renamed <em>Focus</em>. The publication runs from December 1969 to October 1983.
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the
ma1ben"oY~e
april,
a daughter 0£ bilitis
newsletter
boston chapter
p.o. box 221
prudential center statio~
boston, mass. 02199
vol.
1970
1, · noa
5
"For ever:, petal on a rose
I shed a tear of pain-That maybe I will lose you
.Andnever love again." -Dori
DliI.OGUE
Boston patrolman Richard NcEachern,
the controversial
president of the
National Patrolman's Association,
spoke at a recent meeting of HUB.
Dr. Theodore Lindauer, the psychia.
tric consultant for HUBand DOB,
commented afterwards on what was
said. Vu-. McEachern, who was shot
a couple of months ago while on his
beat (reportedly by someone against
patrolmen unifying), arrived at HUB
with a bodyguard and a very tense
expression on his face.
He was
warmly received and loosened up
considerably during the forty minutos he was there.
He made a short
introductory remark saying that his
views did not represent the Boston
Police De,pa.rtment--only that of the
Patrolman's Association--and
also
that he c,ould basically only defend
himself for his own actions because
patrolmen were as different from one
another as all other human beings.
There then followed a question and
answer period, which was too short
to get into any really good dialogue.
The question was asked if entrap.
ment was still a legal deviee that
could be used to arrest homosexuals
(entrapment is when a cop poses as
a homosexual to trap others into
making a solicitation)•
He said it
was mostly used to get prostitutes
and junkies (in fact; every night)
and very rarely to trap homosexuals;
however, he made the - point that it .
is still a legal de'v1ce, and could
asked about an "arrest
be used. ~-/heri
quota," Mr. McEachern said that any ,
such thing was a pure ?!lYth. He also
said that much had changed in Boston
regarding the relationship
between
police and homosexuals in the last
ten years and that the situation was
much better today. McEachern made the
statement several times during the
evening that the police were mainly
just too _
busy with so many other
problems (anarchists was one that he
mentioned) to bother about homosexuals.
"Policemen are not going to bust you
for walking down the streets.
Unnatural acts are what they•re
trying to push · against ••• and what is _
unnatural since we all have different
nature st 11 (Applause)
When asked about police pay-offs
by gay bars, he answered that a gay
bar is not illegal.
However, it was
brought up by Frank Morgan that there
is a city ordinance against dancing
together by members of the same sex.
Mr. McEache.rn said that he had not
realized there was such an ordinance.
He admitted that here one would
find reason for pay.offs, but that
the patrolman on the beat was not
the one who got it.
Mr. McEacharn
ended by saying that he hoped homosexuality would be eventually accep,tod socially and that he would try to
holp as head of the Patrolman's
Association.
,tfter Mr. McEachern spoke, Dr.
Lindauer commented on what was said.
He said that patrolmen on the most
part were very defensive people in
the realm of community relations.
"They are up against a paramilitary
system within the department ••• a faceless bureaucracy that never lets them
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question their superior's
judgement
or their own.'' Still,
a patrolman
is often faced with making split
second decisions on little
evidence,
which leads to tremendous errors at
times; thus one can begin .to appreciate the defensiv eness that the
patrolman starts developing for himself as he continually
r eceives
criticism
from th e community. Because of this def ensiveness,
the
two-year old community relations
department of th e Boston Police
Department has made a "half-heart ed
effort" to do a tremendously hard
job.
Dr. Lindauer said that we should
concentr a t e our fir e on what happens
in October, election time.
Then
the mon runnin g for reelection
step
in and have arrests made on certain
groups of socially unacceptable
'peopl e . Ho gave as an example the
raid last Octob er, s~~god by a
sheriff runnin g for r ee lection,
on Bard Coll oge •• ~for marijuana •••
as if th ere wero not any during
th e other months! (Bard is quite
well-known for its drug scone,)
October is notably th o month th at
"queers" ar e drag ged in, . too.
Dr. Lindau e r conclud ed by saying
that our whol e l ega l system needed
He said that the
. to be overhauled.
Mafia - would not exist except th at
it caters to groups of people
(homosexuals, gamblers, prostitutes)
whose nee ds are not rationally
handl ed by our soci ety.
"Our laws
bec ause
must becom~ more rational,
having a bad law is worse than
havin g no law at all.
You can 9 t
enforce it prop erly, so it leads
to harassment."
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Browne
Production.-Rose
Marie Turner
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OPENFORUM
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NUMBER
4
Q:
living in a gay marriage, and are
quite content with your partner,
but find yourself strongly attracted
to someone else?
•seach other, but
"love does not
at
consist in gazing
in looking outward together in the same direction."
-~Ultoine do Saint-Exup 1 ery
This quote could almost be used
as a good answor to your o. F. Q. #4
without any further elaboration.
love consists of much more than
mere physical attraction.
when we
choose a partner, we (hopefully!)
choose one who fits into our longrange life plan--our ambitions, our
needs, our dreams. Anyone choosing
her partner otherwise, merely on a
physical a~noal basis, will find
herself sorely short-changed.
Contentment and desire can easily
be found in two separate people.
Only an adult realization
of ill the
factors can enable a person to make
proper decisions.
Before falling prey to one's
physical attractions
by acting on
these desires, there is a lot more
to be considered than just a revitalized sexual drive, which often is
fairly short lived.
More often than not, a new part..
ner involves complete changes in most
of our ordinary functions, even in
eating and sleeping.
Very often it
interrupts
our work pattern.
In
general it causes an upheaval in our
whole way of life.
And for what?
Can we continue to go through a life
of major upheavals by changing partners with every new strong desire
we feel?
Real love is sometimes impatient ••• but if it is real, it will
last long enough to survive a period
of consideration.
If what seems .to
be an attraction
should really bo
more than that, there 9 s always time
to make the proper evaluation,
whether you happen to be single or
unhappily married.
But married and "quite content
with your partner"?
Go take a cold
shower and think it outl
-1.ndy Cox ·
I don't see how you could be
strongly attracted
to someone else
beyond the temporary infatuation
level
.if you're truly content with your
partner.
If you wore to become deeply emotionally involved with a third
party, it would show serious discontent with your partner.
Otherwise,
there would be no nood or desire for
tho third party.
If I found myself strongly attracted to someone other than my partner,
I would weigh what I know I have now
against the risk of settling for
something not quite as good with the
third party.
. This has only hapnened to me once
in the three years of my gay marriage;
and I resisted the impulse by facing
the fact that my marriage, although
gay, is as binding and sacred to mo as ·
any between men and women. I don't
approve of cheating in marriage-gay or straight.
I think you should
either make a clean break or be
faithful;
no middle ground.
I also feel that as long as I love
rrry partner as much as I do, no one
could ever attract me enough to
threaten what wo have spent so long
in building together.
Marriage is
built on selflessness--not
on selfishness; not in the sense of being a
martyr to marriage, but in the sense
of being a sharing partner in it.
-Candi McGonagle
Al
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DOBis a woman's organization for
homosexuals. Do the mombors consider
themselves as women first or as primarily homosexuals? Would DOBbenefit
more by aligning itself with tho
women's liberation
movement or by
joining with some of the more maleoriented homophile groups?
ill
opinions welcome! l
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To the Editor-Let me tell you a little
story.
Not so very long ago there was a girl
This
who happened to be a lesbian.
girl lived in the great state of
i'-iassachusetts 9 and she found the
inhabitants
less than liberal
in matters of morals.
This girl wanted to
educate and inform the heterosexual
inhabitants
of Massachusetts;
she
wanteQ and deserved acceptance and
understanding,
not pity and tolerance,
She joined a homosexual organization
and participated
in a panel discussion and on Saturday night dated a nice
gentleman to keep her parents from
suspecting anything.
She succeeded
in educating a few clergymen who were
interested
enough to come to the panel
discussions;
she did not oducate her
parents.
i~ice story, huh? ,md short.
l,nd
to the point.
DOB
wants to inform
and educate--somewqere along tho line
its members cop.,out.
vv'hodo you
suppose comprises the straight community?
I'll tell you whom--just
these parents and friends that everyone is trying to pr.otect from the
·
"awful truth. 17
In an article in iast month~s
J.Vi.V Del M9.rtin and Phyllis Lyon
..,
state: ll'The Lesbian minority in
America, which may run as high as
•••
ten million women " Now let's
~ume·each
woman has two parents,
_
one brother 9 one sister,
and three
.~ grand total of
straight
friends.
at least seven close friends and
Now suppose that each
relatives.
·woman educat ed those seven people.
Now we have seventy million educated
people plus ten million lesbians-eighty million educated people., That
is _approximately 40% of the population of these great United States.
_ Byany standards that is a hell of a
. ; lot of educated people. .
You know, kids don° t learn how to
·
read in reading class, nor do they
learn about sex in their sex education
cia.s~es.
No, they learn at home or on
the street corner from friends • •illd
arc your parents to learn about homosexuality from a lecture in the church
basement on a wednesday night?
Think about it and then don't give
me any song and dance about "it will
hurt them or upset them." That is a
bunch of junk and neck deep~ Do you
really think tho priest or tho minister or rabbi will give them the "wordvt
and then--and only then--they 0 11 em.
brace you and your social phenomenon?
If you, yes you, can°t inform thom 9
then no one can.
Hang in thero.
Koep pitching and
maybe by mistilke Momwill find out, and
then you can inform and !clducate hero
That 0 s one small step for man and
one •••
--Donna ~fyat t
To tho Edi tor-I would like to comment on the
letter
in tho last issue of M.V.
from ."The Saint."
She contradicted
herself in hot first paragraph, saying
that a boycott of the Cafe Florian
would be a good idea if 11DOBBoston
w~re comprised of all blacks or some
other supr(?ssed group.n She goes on
to say that we are not a black group,
"we are a group of Lesbians, looking
and working towa:rd tho day free from
Saint, we are an
oppression."
oppressed group ••• and th;;; are many
of us who believe that open confrontation with our oppressors at times
There are many of
is a good thing.
us who are going to march on Moratorium Day, April 15; who are go-ing
to march as homosexuals, and who, no
doubt, are going to be holding hands.
I understand your point of view about
the Cafe Florian incident;
however, I
fail to see how anybody--oven the
could
great monsters• ''parents,"
regard holding hands as filth.
I feel
,that you are really too super-sensitive to your oppression as a Lesbian.
I thinks Saint, that you are scared •••
and I thinK that some of the "filth"
that comes from two homosexuals
holding hands in a public place
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I.ETTERSTO THE EDITOR
Continued from page ·:1
HOMOSEXUALITY SOC
AND
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might boa little
in your mind, too.
I say educate, too ••• but I also
say let's start now and be as free
as we can--at least let's hold hands
in public sometimesll After all,
hand-holding between gays has been
going on for years in New York and
California.
Why not in Boston? And
I'm all for demonstrations,
too •••
if th~y•ro peaceful.
A. demonstration
can be an education, also--it
means
standing up and saying bluntly that
homosexuals are humans, too, and
deserve equal rights, and are going
to stop taking derision, laughter, or
indifference
as society's
(another
great monster) answer.
I am yours for a free and
new today.
--Diana Travis
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Six members of Boston DOB
participated
.as a panol in a course,
at Brandeis University, entitled
"Homosexuality and Society."
Described as "perhaps one of the
first of its kind devoted as it is
solely to the topic of homosexuality
and not hidden or couched within some
social problems or deviance class,••
the course is student organized
and run.
DOBwas asked to participate
in
the course by the instructor who cited
the "awareness that there is very
little
material available on
Lesbianism."
Members of the Homophile Union of
Boston and Student Homophile groups
have discussed their organizations
and personal experiences in meetings
with the Brandeis students.
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Dear, you know your mother and I
disapprove of hippie boys with
long hair.
I TOW you we could trust
judgement t I l
her
�0S
MOTHER COMING
Raise your voice an ootave,
Wear a skirt around,
Mother doesn°t get the bitp
And sheQll be in town.
Call some faggots darling,
Ask them by for drinks,
Mother 0 s on her way, my love,
And I 0 m straight,
she thinks •••
Push our bods apart, pot,
Put 'our rings away,
Mother doosn°t understand,
She arrives today.
(anon)
Somo people forget,
When th~ years grow long,
The sound of a voico
And-tho depth of a song;
But ·· y memory
m
Will never moro fado
Of all tho be auty ·
In 'my life :;,-ou mado·.
Qvo
For your eyes are a poem,
Your lips are a prayer;
·
And always the ocban
Murmuring th oro • ·
And so I shall chorish
ill of our days
Tho joy you aro giving
In hundreds. of ways •
-Candi McGonaglo
A silver
shadow comes to mo
-tho only color I desirowhon the sun breaks away
from massive structures
the wood-stone daytime life
and rests for a fow salty hours
beneath tho oarth 0 s brown
blanket.
This silver shadow aches for those
hours
begs the day to dio sooner
so she can light her way homo
myst erious, silent
speaking only with _her soft
wings
and I answ0r with my eyo s s
0 silvor
shadow, it is nighttime,
ours. 0
-Linda Susan
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THE IESBIAN
Scat terod vio. are~ over land and sea, ·
How many wo·number· willnovor
bo
·
. .. .
,,
kno,..no . _ _
Each one must learn froI!l the •st,art,
,, ·
She must wear a mask \m,,hpr heart.
We live in a world sot apart-: -'',
A shy secret world of our own.
Horo 0 s to the day wo ,yoarn for
To give our hearts ,as wo may.
love's always lovo in sincerity
given
Despite what others may say,.
They cannot dare to qeny . us,
0
Wo vo been here since centuries past;
And you can be sure our , _ranks
will endure
As long as this old world will last.
So horo•s to a finer tomorrow,
When weQll face tho world with
a· smile,
Tho right one boside us
To cherish and guido us-This is what makes life worthwhile.
(anon)
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WOMEN'S AND IESBIAN
,!:m
THE
The March 23, 1970 issue of
Newsweek carried a special report
9
on ;'Womens Lib: The War on °Sexism ii O"
In reading-th:i.s article:
Ifound
seva:ra.l interesting
and enlightening
points worthy of note•
Some of tho women interviewed
felt tho need to give up sex and love,
both fundamental male means of enThoy also felt that
sla~ing females.
born to
a "woman is a •sexual object,'
be a man's toy, limited and defined
by her sexual role rather than open
to the unbounded human possibilities
hold out to men--or at least, to some
men. Usually she is not yet out of
diapers when she learns that girls
pl?-y with baby dolls, boys build
thingso"
The basic tone of tho article
is
one of hostility
to tho male who has
imprisoned women, exploited them,
denied them equal advantages and
laughed at their requests for fair
tre!'l.tment. , ''When she has children,
she is chained to their needs for
most of tho yoars of .her vigor and
youth~ She is Fred's wife and
Jenny's mother and, beyond that, she
may roalize one l~te day, sho has no
other identity."
Although this role of woman as
wife and mother has little
bearing
on tho life of tho fomalo homosexual,
I think tho foulings expressed by
these heterosoxu~l woman is interesting because they sh!:tro the s11moantimale feelings hold by a .good many
lesbians$
In discussing fomalo
homosexuality,
Franks.
Caprio, M.D.,
states .that lesbians "express their
protest in the form of anti-malo
psychology, convincing themselves
that all men are alike--solfish
and
inconsiderate.
This resentment of
tho male sex (masculine protest
reactions)
often loads to the development of a prefer ence for their own
sex (Lesbianism.)"
Dr. B. Bauer
statosa "Freedom for women means
freedom to love.
But we cannot go
against Nature.
Womanis intended
for reproduction;
she has been apoointed to take an active part in the reproduction of tho race by pregnancy
And while those laws
and child-birth4
of Nature remain every attempt at
emancipation is futile,,"
It is pertinent
to note that if
woman is appointed to take the part .·
of child r~ising for fulfillment
because of hor biological
design,
that mon have just as much rosponsi~~ftor all, how many babies
bility1
were born without some very active
male participation
in their conception?
Mon, however, do not feol that they
are unfulfilled
bocauso they cannot
stay homo all day long to t.9.ko care of
tho children they helped to create.
Maybe when tho first tost-tubo baby
is finally created» the doctors and
scientists
in charge will fool unfulfilled if they do not give up their
jobs and stay at homo to take care of
this child they have created,
Tho theory that wife-and-mother
is tho only fulfilling
role for
women is shot so full of holes that
Or
it needs a diaper desperately.
maybe that theory is ready to bo
trained~
Nanotto Rainone of
toilet
WB,U in Now York saysl "The guy on
tho assembly lino doosn 9 t want to be
a woman. It's not that tho work at
homo is worso than at tho factory.
It;s that ho realizes
it's nothingness, total nothingness."
It is no wonder women in the liberation movomont today fool so antimalo. Caprio fools that this is
unhealthy.
i•somo authorities
foar
those trends have seriously affected
tho sexual hapninoss of mccle:.::•n
women.
They claim it has more than likely
influenced the susceptibility
of
many women to a homosexual way of
thinking and livingo"
There are somewhere between
10,000 and 500,000 women who are
~ctive members of the lib movement
oontinuod on page ~ •·
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LIB A1\JD
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canto fr~m page-2,_.
deprived,
they're suffering
greatly,
not only from that but from tho
basic anxieties
that produce their
condition,."
Dr~ Socarides is a heterosexual
who f 2c. 1 s +..he. .G om
~1 -f ale union is
'the most meaningful in li.fe .. .my
homosexual would disagreeo
VI/ho
is
ri ght? Is anyone? Isn't it just a
matter of live and let live, with
Dro Socarides keeping his prejudices to himself?
Pooplo are oriented
in a particular
dir~ction--to
the
institutio'n
of heterosexual
marriage.
·.-!hat of the pe·ople who do ~ want
to get married?
Are they 11sick, 11
too? what of tho person who
remains single to pursue a c~reer?
Is this person 11sick?n
It would
seem th at everyone who does not fit
into the doctor's
neat little
pattern
is labeled 11sick" to justify
his own
anxieties
about his need to conformo
Homosexuals do not f ee l th ey arc
deprived or suffering
greatly,,
Neither doe s th e woman who divorces
her husb and for cruel and abusive
treatment.
Noith e ~ does the man who
divorces his wife for adulteryo
Not
everyone, as Dr~ Socarides would
like us to think, who can find happiness without marriage is suffering
from emotional illness.
I think tho doctor 9 s attitudes
do much harm to all people, gay or
straight.
..ls any member of the
women°s lib movement can testify,
just because a woman decides to
forego marriage in tho chance to
establish
herself as an equal human
being with a career and a life independent from a man's, she isn't nsick."
Maybo Dr. Socarides should be
psychoanalyzed himself by someone
with a more enlightened
and tolerant
view of mankind today.
-Candi McGonagle
P.S. Please withhold my name and
address as I hold a job where people
in charge do not agree with me--and
I'd like to keep the job for a while.
Thank you~
todayo Does this mean there are
between 10s000 and 500,000 new
lesbians on the loose?
This seems
rather dubiouso
The new hope for the lesbian in
the liberation
movement is groat,
and tho promise seems to justify
tho hope,
preoccupation
is
"Tho recurrent
sext tho disappointments
of sex,
the failuros
of sex, the failures
of
orgasm, the ineptitudes
of men. Mon
seem transfixed
by tho notion that all
any of those women nood is really
s~ell copulationa
Few men pause to
ask whether .causing the oarth to
shake for a woman each night will
obliterate
her boredom, frustration
and sense of injustice
each day~ And
they are all very puzzl ed by her complaint that the predominant male view
of women is sexualou
lesbians have
fol t this way for centuries o It
seems as if the straight
womon are
just beginning to catch up in their
thinking~
In fact, ther e arc now
some :•sobor dobatos over whether
lesbianism is a viable alternative
to heterosexuality.
A woman who
doosn°t mind any other insult--'go
'what you need
homo and take a bath,'
is a good screw,' 'dirty,
Communist
pinko 0 --will dissolve in tears
because someone calls her a dyke."
So women have "started
asking why
women react that way, to welcome
lesbians into the movement as 0 our
sisters•'
and to consider the idea
of homosexuality as a moans of
population control and a path to
oquality., 0
Whether sho is straight
or gay,
just about every woman has known
fury when she is addressed as ''Hey,
honoytu on the street by men or
11Casual
yelled obscene entreaties.
annoyances to tho unenli ghtened, this
masculine custom becomes, in tho
hei ghtened atmosphere of women's
liberation,
an enraging system of
continued on page 9 •
�LIB ANDLESBIAN
cont. from pago_!_.
DOB
SOLICITS
M.~NUSCRIPTS
manvs
m.alo supromecy reflecting
expectation
of female passivity.
andi more important, the knowledge
of her vulnerability."
· For years, since Freud started
dissecting
and dogmatically classifying every minute emotion,
lesbians havo boon told they woro .
"sick," neurotic c> immature.
.nd
Their anti-male attitude
was said
to bo · a symptom of their homosexuality.
But with so many straight
womon in tho lib movement expressing
their own anti-ma.lo fe 0lings, Dr.
Judd Narmor, an eminent Los imgolcs
psychiatrist,
warns against dismissing
11
Womon
tho protostcirs as neurotic•
throu ghout history have become
sensitized
to tho inequities
of a
male oriented society.
Many have
boon sisters
in a family whoro
tho broth er got tho bettor of it~the brother got to go to collogo 9
though tho girl was brighter~
Is
angry?''
sho neurotic or justifiably
Perhaps someday tho world will
accept tho lesbian,
too; not as a
neurotic,
maladjusted,
sick individual~ Maybe one day we will be
women
accepted as people first,
Not
second, and homosexuals third,.
mental cases, not neurotic; moroly
justifiably
angry ..
-Candi McGonagle
Tho Public Education Committoo
· is continuing with plans to compile
a marketable book on tho homosexual
experience.
Anyone interested
in contributing
should submit typed doublor.,spacod
copy of any length relating personal
experiences.
Editing will be dono
by members of tho committee.
Please contact Katio
coordinator,
at 277-8952 for
additional
information or
assistanco.
Getting dialogue
DOBbook --
for
vtMother, thoro Os something I want
to toll you.••"
�N,HDEi~VOY.~GE
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BOSTONHOr
iOPHILE ORG.rnIZ.~TIOHS
Tho groups listed below offor homosexuals a chance to meet one another and
interact
as persons o They also work to promote the civil rights of homosexuals and their acceptance by society as worthwhile members. The groups have
a variety of social events? loctures 9 discussions,
ans social reform activities
Somo offer legal, religious,
and psychiatric
referral.
,myone interested
(including heterosexuals)
in joining or supporting any one of these organizaarc welcomed and will -be
tions is invited to contact themo All inquiries
confidentiala
kept strictly
BOSTON
UNIVERSITYHOMOPHILE
CLUB
Membership open to tll studeii.t=;, faculty, and staff of Boston University
Phone: John Rennell at 387-5287 or
H01'10PHILE
UNION OF BOSTON
Me';b~·ship
~;n Tc; i'n"cn women
"'md
Phone: 282-9181
Writes P. o. Box 217 9 Dorchester
Station, Boston, 02124
353-3653
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DOB PL~NS SPRING WALK
Boston DOBis planning a Spring
Walk along the Squannacook River in
West Groton on Sunday, 1".iay o
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Walk along a well-worn fishermon°s
trail beside the Squannacook River.
It 0 s a two hour round trip at a
relaxed pace. Bring a picnic lunch
and--sinco some spots may be muddy-use your own judgement on shoes.
Meet at 1:00 p~m• in front of the
wost Groton Town Hall.
To get to West Groton from Boston,
take Route 2 to the Concord Traffic
Circle, follow Route 119 to Groton,
then take Route 225 to West Groton.
or
If you need transportation
want to offer a ride, please call
Charlotte at 665-3976.
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~
.fil.~
2£:SOCARIDES
"For WomenToday," a television
pro gram on wBZ,channel 4, Bostonp
at 9:00 a.m. 9 devotod tho week
before Easter, 1970, to discussions
about soxo On wodnesday, March 25,
tho topic was ''Homosexuality. 11
Guest discussants
,:. re Dr. Charles
e
Socaridos, psychiatrist
in New York;
Rev. Robert Weeks~ minister in Manhattan; .AnnHaley, president of
Boston DOB; and Frank M
organ, president of HUB.
Q110stions from two moderators
occupied half of th o hour; then
questions came from memb rs of a
e
This article
small studio audience~
includes mostly quot e s from Dr. Socarides because th o r evi ewer found
them int er e stin g . They are taken
from a tape r ecording.
The lar ge st numb of questions
er
were dir ected to Dr~ Socarides 9
probably because ho wa s the psychiatrist,
had written a book, and
so was consider ed an authority~
illn and Frank said they did
ilthough ~
not f ee l 11sick 11 and Rev. w
eeks
spoke of tho many well-adjusted,
happy homosexua ls he had met through
his church pro gram for homosexuals,
Dr Socarides said: t 11-foll, that 1 s
wonderful ••• I 0 m not going to tell
anybody they 0 r e sick when they say
they aren°t ••• But I think that if
ivi.r. Norgan or ,inn went to a psycho ...
analyst and subj ected themselves
to in-depth psychoanalytic
penetration ••• we would probably find in
them similar psychop athology which .
accounted for their having to choose
a mate of th o same sex ••• That doe sn°t
mean anyone should force them to
ch..'.lnge •• " 11There are forces in
•
those individuals
which compel them
to live a ce rtain way, which deprive
thorn of the most meaningful r elation
is, th e m
alein ono 0 s life--that
fomale sexual union and all that goes
with it~ They are terribly
deprived,
th oy suffer greatly,, 11
Tho moderator asked Dr. Socarides
why he felt that homosexuality was
.~t first Dro Socarides
an illness.
replied by way of analogy with
di abetes, that he had treated enough
homosexuals without tr ea tin g th em all
to be abl e to tell thoy were sick,
just as doctors can toll that a diabetic is sick without treating
all
diab e ticso
Tho moderator pursued
this point, saying, 11... nd yet you
havon°t drawn th o same conclusion
about all (the) heterosexuals
(you
troat). 11
11
Dro Socarides repliedt
woll, you
see, het erosexuality
per se is not
is not pathological,
but
an illnos~,
to mo, homosexuality .:1-.[
patholo gical.
Now !011 tell you why6o. , through
cultural
indoctrination
and upbringin g ••• wo are pro grarmned in that direction, and also, wo have about 2½ billion years of evolution out of which
came a male-female standard pattern
of sexual procreation.n
Dr. Socarides also explained why
so few of th o homosexuals in Ameri«a
have joined or ganizations
such as
DOB. Frank suggested they were
afraid to. Dr. Socarides said that
his homosexual pati ents had given him
another reason: 11They say that those
or ganizations
make a te~rible mistake
and I agree with thomi that they accept homosexuality as a normal form
of sexuality,
co-existing
with heterosexuality,
normal and equalo••
If you sell this bill of goods, •• you
do tremendous harm to the growing
adol oscent ••• to tho marginal het ero- ·
sexual.
The majority of homosexuals
won°t join in boc ~use they say, 'You
people have giv en up ••• v You could
got these people into th erapy."
Rev. weeks offset Dr. Socarides
rin
so m hat by sa ;i, g that from his
ew
the problems encountered
experience,
by many homosexuals wore caused
by the attitude
of society towards
homosexuality, and ho hoped that
gr ea ter acc ootance would be forthcoming in th e future.
Frank Morgan
pointed out that thor o aro psychiatrists
who do not agree with Dr. Socarides that homosexuality por se is
continued on page I A. •
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MEETINGS~
REVIEW
EMPLOY11ENT
DISCRIMIR:..TION
On Friday night, March 20, we were
priviledged
to be led in a discussion
on employment discrimination
led by
Mr. Douglas Glassman, who employs
people for Automotive Market, Inc•,
in Mattapan, hassachusetts.
The discussion
touched on such
sub-topics as th e reliability
of
homosexual employees.
Hr. Glassman
felt homosexuals are not consistent
in attendance.
This was vigorously
contes ·ted., He said 11 poll showed
that employees looked for security
bu_ that
t
over all other ben efits,
homosexuals never stayed on the job
long enough to reay the benefits of
this security.
Discussion was active and everyone participated
in an enjoyable
eveningo
HOMOSE.X:U ,iND THE THE.i..TRE
..
~LITY
Tho homosexual is an accepted
member of tho th eatre community.,
What haµpens in tho theatre?
why
is it differ en t?
.tccording to actr e ss, director
and
iray who spoke at the
teacher Phoebe v
Harch 27 meeting~ 11a person in the
th ea tre is allowed to do his thing.
It doesn 9 t matter what his thing is
as long as it doesrtQt infringe on
his or her creative life. 19 ~-Jhenshe
queried members of one of her theatre
arts classes at a loc al colle ge ,
they took it li i hthoartedly
because
they felt "it doesn°t matter, no one
gives a damn in tho arts."
Tho role of th e homosexual in
society was discussed in terms of
A quick glance at the
acceptance.
flood of fairly r0cent films dealing
with th o theme might indicate that
the public attitud0
is chan ging.
Som films t end to lean on the sensae
tional to r oach the audience, such as
"Therese and Isabelle''
described
by Miss Wray as "pornography dr e ssed
as artll :, while others like ·'The Fox"
lean in a more realistic
direction~
The point came up that there are people
in every-day life, who might have these
tendencies;
who are using films as a
source of identity.
Perhaps what has happened, sug ge sted
Miss W'ray is the.t "we have created an
9
society,
I have found, in
artificial
terms of the arts, there is a growing
acceptance--like
Truman Capote going
on television
and not fearing a loss of
his book sales ,:09
Other areas discussed woro attitudes
transfortoward int o~ior decorators~
onco of rol e s and reality botwoon the
performer and tho audionco and writers.
HOM) HETEROSEXUAL
...
DIALOGUE
Boston DOBinvited by tolophono and
mail a lar go number of clergymen, colle ge and hi ~h school guidance counselors, psycholo gists,
social welfare
people, doctors, and others to a
question and answer evening featuring
a panel of six DOBmembers at 8:)0 p.m.
on Friday, April 3, in the chapel of
the Arlington St8 Church. DOBhoped to
11
crcate a long overdue dialogue between
het ero sexual and homosexual members of
the Boston cornmunityn with emphasis,
naturally,
on lesbians.
However, very
few of the people invited from the
heterosexual
world came, and tho
meeting became largely a discussion
between tho DOBpanel and gay members
of the audience, osµeci~lly men from
other homophile groups in Boston.
Boston DOBconcluded that either
its method of invitin g people was
wrong or tho people invit ed woro not
interest ed, for whatever reason, in
coming to such a panel discussiono
All was not lost, however; the unexpected discussion between gay men and
women was valuabl0 and showed that
moro of this kind of communication
would be holpfulo
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THE S.lYINGS OF SOC~lqIDES
cont.
;;-ilLvioss.
Wh en D;:- Socarides was
pe rmitted to plug his new book on
homosexuality, Ann Haley squeezed
permission from the moderators to give
the address of Bost.on DOB.
--Laura
· fo bi n
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COPYOF A IETTER TO THE PLiYBOY
FORU}'1
To the Pl ayboy Forurni
On March 25, 1970, WBZTV in Bost on proso :ntod, on its pro gram itFor
.-omen Today, 11 an hour-long discuss,
ion of homosexuality.
The guests
included Dr .. Charles Socarides,
from Now York, a t oachor of clinical
ort Einstein
psychiatry
at ,:..lb
School of Medicin e , and a private
psychoanalyst;
Rev~ Dr. Robort W ks,
ee
an Episcopal minist@r at St. John
th e ~postl e Church in Manhattan;
and two homosexua ls, Fro.nk M gan,
or
pr e sid ent of th e Homophile Union
of Boston, and Ann X., pr e sid ent
of th e Boston Chapter of th e Daught ers of Bilitis.
Ono woman que stion er from the
aud ie nce as kod Dr. Socarid e s why he
wa s fi ghting hom exu als by insisting
os
th ey wor e risick 9 11 emotionally illo
She sa id: ;'Lot 9 s just say the homo
r evolution is her e to st ay ~..,.Let O s
embra ce it., 11
Dro Socarid e s 0 answer was;
"You see , what you don°t seo is
tho man who 0 s t aki ng the tr ain home
to Sca rsdal e or to Brockton, Ma
ss.,
or wha t over town th er e is nea rby 9
and who is sudd only ovor 1-J
holmod by
homosexu al impulsosj and this is
complet ely unacc eptable to him,.
,ind th en what can he do? If he I s
sold a bill of goods that homosexuality is normal 9 and he cannot
tol er at e it, he 'll go home and blow
his br a ins outj or ho 0 11 have a
psychotic br ea k from his t erribl e
anxi ety.
But if ho ha s a fo oling,
throu gh public educ a tion, that
somethin g can be don e for him, th at
this is a product from his own
conflict
from ea rly childhood,
this
man ha s a chanc e 9"
I'm not a s woll- educ atod as the
oh so eminent Dr. Socarid e s, but I
can°t help f oolin g that my logic is
somewha t superior t o his~ I think
th at if this poor f ollow on his
commuter train,
who is "sudd enly
over w
holmed 11 by homosexual impulses
(which is most unlikely.
If ho wore
at all self-knowlod 1;;-1
ble, he 'd h!:' o
v
had somo inklin g of his tu r.doncic s
boforo this eye-opening train ride,)
and ho believed that homosexuality is
nor m
al, co-existing
al ongsid e het orosoxuality,
th en ho would havo no
r eason to do something as drastic
as
havin g a psychotic or worse, blowing
his bra ins out.
If he f elt th at homosexu ality is normal, if ho had been
tau ght th a t homosexual pe rsons were
merely people with a diff e r ent sexual
orientation,
not horrible monsters
doomed to et ern al hell-fire
and
damna tion, th en ho would not fe el this
t erribl e anxfoty in th o first place!
Ho would be able to tol erate it
because ho was not brainw a shed, as so
much of th o public is, th at homosoxu, .ls ar e somewhat bolow "ordinary
1
people."
.~nd if he couldn 9 t toler ate it, if
he f elt ho must blow his brains out,
it would bo because psychiatrists
like Dro Socarid e s have told him that
ho is iv
omotion ally ill" if he is a
homosoxualo
Tho public hc=tsgot to bo informed
th1t homosexuals ar c not mental cases,
or degonor atos, or monst orso They
are people, just like everyone olso,
who choose to love somoono of tho
s,qmo sox ~
Dro Socaridos,
however, f ools:
"Homos exuality is pathological.,
Our
choice of pa rtn ers in soxuql relations
is not in ato or inborn.
From tho
ent
momont you 0 ro born till th o mom
you di o , youQre ori ent ed in a particul ar dir octiono
Blue cloth e s for
a baby boy, pink cloth e s for a baby
girlooethe cultur al indoctrination
and upbringing from th o institution
of m..l riago and all th at goos with
'r
it, we qro pro ~r amm in that dir eced
tion (h et oros 0xu 1.ity).
l
Ther e aro
f orc e s within th ose individu als
(homosoxu2. s) which compel th em to
l
liv o P. cert a in way sox1H lly which
depriv es th em of th e most meanin gful
r el ationship in one's lifo--that
is,
th o rnalo-f omalo sexu al union and all
that goos with it.
They're t orriblv
continued on pago~.
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CHA.PTER
JUNE IS BUSTING
-------- OUTA.LLOVER
P AR T Y I t t t l 1
(bras optional ••• )
Saturdayp Juno 6, 1970, 8100 P• m.
till midnight at Candi and Both 0 s
place.
Planty of froo off-street
parkin g available•
On MBT.~lino•
All-IISSION: .A S1UCK (potato chips,
pretzels,
crackers, dip, otco)
TlL~T'S ALLt NO STRINGS (or straps)
ATT.~CHEDt
Boor will be sold for 50¢ por
bottloe
If you want str onger
stuff--bring
your own. Ico
and glasses provided.
Plenty of
music. Plenty of fun.
fi >
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DON° MISS THIS ONE t
T
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Anyone who would like to go with }
us should send a stampod selfaddressed envelope and $3000 per
ticket to:
,.- ,
DOBTickets
{i,,c;k..
P~ O. Box 221
~;J{I -
Prudential
Center Station
}
Boston 02199
r
before May 12. Tickets will be sent
Moro on\_,,
shortly after this date.
this forthcomin g .
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l'i!EwYORK Plans for the DOBConvention to be held July 10, 11 and
12 in New York City are in the final
stages of planning.
Registration
and all meetings, other than the
banquet and dance, will be held at
the Overseas Press Club. Registration
fees have been set at $25 per person
$45 per couple and $15 for students'
with identification
cardse
Fees will
cover attendance at registration,
brunch at the Sunday morning session
as well as admission to the dinner
NoYo DOBis
and dance on Saturday.
also olanning to hold an auction
and a June cruise up the Hudson River.
~IEVELAND On May 10, psychologist
Elaine Hammond
will speak on dynamics
and sensory awareness with reference
to lesbians.
There are now more
than 100 books on the chapter 0 s library list.
The books are available
to members for 25¢ a week.
For directions
to this evont- oftho-year, call Beth or Candi-any night after 6;30c Tho
number is 773-6978.
\\ THE CIRCUSIS COl'UNG TOWN
TO
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Sunday, flay 24, 1970
' DOBgoos to tho Rin gling Bros.
( Circus at Boston Gardenl
CHaTTER
"'_,-
~~if ( ~ AJ
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S,~NFR.~NCISCO Hetropolitan
Community Church in San Francisco
holds Sunday services for "hundreds
of believing male and female homosexuals who have had to be as secretive in their church life as in their
. b
JO s iO eac h week. S.F. DOBrecommends
GrandmaQs House in Oakland for the
gay gourmet.
It is a combination
bar and restaurant.
-Charlotte
Boudier
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PERSONJ~LS
COLUr'.iN - Two ex-ENC girls
gay ENCers.
underground
colleges.
want to meet other
Discuss ENC, Nrs. Arnold,
gay life
in church
Call 773-6978 after
Ask for Beth. ,
6:00
0
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PEACE
MARCH
.ANNOUNCEMENTS
.April 15 marked an anniversary
for the gay corrnnunity.in Boston.
Fifty men and womencame out of
their closets, grabbed signs and,
as members of the gay community
of Boston, marched from Harvard
Square to Boston Coill!lonto demonstrate support for Vietnam withdrawal. This was the first time
men and women representing six
homophile organizations stood to- .
gather as a community.
For each of us to stand as
brother and sister; to demonstrate
on behalf of our community, was
a joyous affirmation of our whole
selves.
--Gail King
TheOOB Program Committee is looking
for ideas on things we can do. We
would, naturally,
prefer any fundraising suggestions.
It you have ariy ideas for
recreational,
fun-type things,
please contact any member of the
Program Committee. Or call Cand1:
at 77J-6</'/8after 6:oo p.m.
Thanks.
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"Revolution is a dangerous scene,
and you are apt to lose people.
This generates protective instincts
for the preservation and continuation of life, meaning antihomosexual attitudes."
--Julie lee in "The Ladder"
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DOB
REFERRALS
DOB
·recommends those men listed
want profO'ssional advice•
below to members who
--
.IEGAL
Alan Cook, Esq.
· 1514 Oorchester Avenue
Dorchester, Massachusetts
Phones
288-4041
Michael Buckman, Esqo
1514 Dorchester Avenue
Dorchester, Massachusetts
Phonec
288-.4041
PSYCHIATRIC
Dr. Theodore Lindauer
262 Beacon Street
Boston, Massachusetts
Phone:
266-1717
RELIGIOUS
EPISCOPAL
Rovo Gilbert Dent
Christ Church
Zero Garden Street
Cambridgo, Massachusetts
PhonG:
876-0220
METHODIST
Dre William Alberts
RELIGIOUS
ROMAN
CATHOLIC
Father Kevin
NewmanCenter
(Sto Clements Church)
1105 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts
Phone:
536-2376
or
277-4847
Old West Methodist Church
131 Cambridge Street
Boston, Massachusetts
Phone~
-an
5ggg
227-s
-o gr<
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COMING
EVENTS
FOR
DOB•
Fri •• May 1 -
9:00 p.m., Clzke Room. Slide Show. Arlington Street Chur.ch,
355 Boylston Street, Boston. Pam, Jo and Betty will show
Th
M
**theii: slides•
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7
urs
ay
Puhl 1 c Educat i on Commit tee meeting ( see below) . **
Fri., May 8 - 9:15 p.m., Clarke Room. Members• meeting.
Fr~_., May 15 - 9:00 p.m., Clarke Room. Homophile Community Night.
· -~ , ·
All homophil~ .. organizations
in the Boston area are
invited to git. acquainted with each other and to discuss
~QtllP.'lQn . ::cooc~rl'lS,. - Both MENand WOMEN welcome•
are
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elsewhe:re · in the Newsletter •
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May 10 - 8:00 p.m., st. John the Evangelist Church, 33 Bowdoin
Street, Boston.
1hree ~9stQn ar~a cl~rgyl:!le.n ~ill lead discussion on
Homosexuality.
May 23 - weekend of - Mattachine .Annual Meeting in New York City.
HUBfor more info.
Phone 282-9181.
sun.,
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'1Ulle 2 ~ j'epta t,ive-.,.Bill Bairq will- speak 6n ·tndivid~al
·
. tr:pedQm and. law reform,
4F,~,. ~ohp' s.
June 21
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Call
sexual
pY boat tq Geqr.ge's Island,
HUBpicnic
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* PLEASE~:
Unless otherwise specified,
open to women only.
all
Boston DOBevents
are
We look forward to seeing youtll
**Public Education Committee
meeting (works to promote public acceptance
of homosexuality)
at 8 pm at Laura Robin's house (phone 625-1263 or Ann
· · ··
Haley for direct ions) ; everyone interested in possibly j oi lli.u.g ~his
committee to give- help. or ..tde.a~ s1;r9ngl y invited . to at t end.>
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The Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) was a lesbian organization founded in 1955 in San Francisco by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon for the purpose of self-knowledge and self-acceptance, public education, involvement in research, and lobbying to change the laws criminalizing homosexuality. Starting primarily as a private social group for lesbians focused on the integration of the lesbian into mainstream society, the aims of the group shifted during the 1960s due to the changing political, social and economic conditions of the decade. The DOB took up political activism to lobby for the rights of lesbians, promoting individualism with a decreased emphasis on societal conformity. During the 1960s many regional chapters were chartered around the country and globally, continuing the organization even after the closing of the San Francisco national office in 1978.<br /><br />The Boston chapter was founded in 1969 during a period when many homophile organizations were forming in Boston. Early leaders of the Boston DOB included Lois Johnson, Shari Barden, and Laura Robin/McMurry, who were prominent promoters of the group and its activities.<br /><br />The Boston chapter published a newsletter, originally entitled <em>Maiden Voyage</em>, until 1971 when it was renamed <em>Focus</em>. The publication runs from December 1969 to October 1983.
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the
ma1ben
voyaqe
a daughter
of bilitis
newsLetter
boston chapter
p.o. box 221
prudential
center station
boston, mass.
02199
"Equal protection
of the law",
we had always thought,
was a facet
of American life so secure it
could almost be taken for granted.
No matter who we are, or where we
live,
or how we look, according
to the civics books we read in
high school, we can expect the law
will affirm our right to personal
security,
and assure us our day in
court when we have a grievance.
Not so, we have been increasingly aware latelyo
Two incidents
of' police disinterest
in the right
of homosexuals to equal protection
of the law have come to our attention within the past few weeks. In
one, the less serious
of the two,
a young woman was grossly insulted
by a police officer
on duty in the
vicinity
of a gay bar.
V!e say the
i n ci dent was the less serious
of
t he two not because we condone the
right of police officers
to make
provocative
and insulting
remarks,
but because we understand
policemen are products
of the society
they live in and we realize
they,
like much of the rest of society,
have yet to learn we are not legitimate targets
for contempt. The
young woman was personally
hurt,
but will recover.
It is one of
the costs of being homosexual.
In the second incident,
another
young woman was badly beaten.
This incident
took place IN a gay
bar, and between homosexualso Desiring
to press charges for assault
and battery,
the victim of the unprovoked assault
notified
the
police.
She was told by them that
if it happened in a gay bar, it
would be best to drop the matter.
march,
1970
vol.
1, no. 4
"What we have done will not
be lost to all eternity,
Everything
ripens at it's
time
and becomes fruit
at it's
hour"
-DiuyauadanaWe were not aware that gay bars
are regarded by police as freefire zones where one enters at her
own risk.
We personally
would like
to feel as safe from assault
inside
a gay bar as we do outside when we
are wearing our middle-class
citizen's masko The bartender
is angry
with the young woman who was assaulted and who complained to the
police o "What are you trying to do,"
he asked, "get this place in trouble?"
No, she is not, because if she does,
she will have nowhere at all to go tc )
to meet her friends.
She would just
like to feel personally
secure when
she sits down for a drink in that
bar hersalfo
We do not know whether these are
isolated
incidents,
or whether eq ual
protection
of the law actually
does
atop short of areas of the city popular among homosexuals.
If it does,
we believe
it is a serious wrong that
ought to be remedied.
The Mattachine
Society in New York had considerable
success promoting understanding
between police and homosexualso Bosto n
OOB has people who can contact local
police and begin a dialogue with th en1.
If there is a problem here, rational
will do
talk with people in authority
much to ameliorate
it.
But we need
to KNOW
the extent of the problem, i f
there is oneo
If you know of other incidents
of
police disinterest
in homosexual
rights,
please write to us about the m,
an d
giving as much detail
as possible,
1 e
omitting
your name if you wish.
!:
are not beginning
a crusade to refol't rl
the world here, but if correspondence
in answer to this editorial
is heavy
it will be evidence of a need for suc h
a dialogue.
Quiet talk with the
proper people, we believe,
can do much
to ease the situationo
�MAIDENVOYAGE
(2)
OOB-Boston Officers:
Edi tor's
President--Ann
Haley
Melrose,
(665-3976)
Vice-president--Diana
Bost.on, (277-8952)
Secretary--Donna
Vforcester
Newsletter
Ass•t
Travis
Cox
The March issue of Pagent magazine features
an article
entitled
"The Heart of the Lesbian!!
staff:
Editor--Pam
Boyd
Editor--Pat
Production--
..
The December, 1969 edition
of
Cosmopolitan
magazine contai ned
a "dreadful"
article
entitle d:
"Homosexual Men; How I kicked
the Habit" which prompted Donna
Ferguson t.o write a letter
to
the editor.
Donna's letter
has
been published
in the March
issue.
Her name was withheld,
and her letter
is somewhat out
of context.
Ferguson
Treasurer--Andy
Weare, N.H.
Notes:
Look for the film version
or
Matt Crowley's
:ifow York stage
hit II Boys in The Band II to be gin
an engagement at the Astor
Theatre soon.
Browne
Rose Marie
Turner
ARTISTS: don't forget
that we NEED
a series
of pen and ink
sketches
to use as fillers.
We can use any size up to
2 inches by 3 inches.
Your
choice of subjecto
.'VRITERS: we are always interested
in
receiving
stories,
features,
opinions
and poetry from our
readerso
If you write,
and
would like to contribute
work to the Maiden Voyage,
please do not hesitate.
ODOOAND ENIB
$1.00 gets you a 30 word ad
in the M.V.. personals
colu :n:1,,
Contact lost friends••••o•••o
Advertise
your business,
etc.
Send your ad with payment to:
1
PHOTOGRAPHERS:
Maiden Voyage
limited
number
in each issue.
must be black
no larger
than
Any subject.
Submit
Deadline
can use a
of photos
Photos
and white,
5 x 7.
copy to:
Editor,
The Maiden Voyage
Box 221
Prudential
Center Station
Boston, MA 02199
for
the April
issue:
April..!£_.
Box 221
Prudential
Center Station
Boston, MA 02199
buttons
LESBIANS ARE LOVABLE
are still
availabl e, do YOU
have yours yet????
�MAIDENVOYAGE
(3)
CENSORSHIPIN ENGLAND
ANDTHE UNITED STATES
a storm of controversy
swept England and the
In the late l920•s,
United States following
the publication
of Radclyffe
Hall's dignified
and sympathetic
novel on lesbianism,
"The Well of Loneliness"
e
The furor arose following an
hysterical
attack on the book
by a writer in an English Sunday newspaper.
The attack
sparked authorities
to take
action against
the publishers
of the book to cease publication, and also sent prurientminded readers racing to bookstores to buy the book before
the ban went into effect.
Although critics
praised the
book , and the defense council
Norman Birkett
assembled a
"distinguished"
body of forty
men and women who were ready
to testify
that the book was
not obscene, court magistrate
Sir Charles Biron judged the
book an obscene libel,
and
ordered all copies of it to
be dest r oyed.
In his final statement,
Sir
Biron said, "I agree that the
book has some literary
meritsI t must appear to anyone of
intelligence
that the better
an obscene book is written,
the greater
the public to whom
it is likely
to appealo 11
The English publishers
withdrew the book and made arrangements to have the original
text
republia~ed
in Paris expressly
for the English market.
Thia
plan was carried
out, but any
copies discovered
being imported into England were
seized by customs officials.
An appeal against
the magistrate's
order was
upheld, and the book was labeled
as "most dangerous and corrupting."
It took more than twenty
years before the publishers
felt
it was safe to reprint
in England.
Meanwhile, in this country,
the
Secretary
of the New York S~ciety
for the Suppression
of Vice, John
s. Sumner, instigated
prosecution
proceedings
against a bookseller
who had sold copies of the book
in Macy's store.
The ban on the
book went into effect in this
country, but the ruling was reversed when a court handed down
a decision
disagreeing
with the
English ruling that the theme of
homosexuality
is, per se, indiscussable and indecent.
Publishers
celebrated
the new ruling by
printing
a victory
edition of "The
Well of Lonlinesso"
Miss Hall, who had been advised
by friends not to publish the book
in the first
place, was pleased
with her victory.
However, she
did not "press her advantage by
writing more controversial
thesisnovels."
Her other works include "The
Forge", "The Unlit Lamp", and the
prize winning "Adam's Breedo"
Miss Hall died at the age of 57.
An untitled
novel she had been
at her
working on was destroyed
request after her death.
�MAI
DEN VOYAGE
(4)
Letters
to~
Editor
To the Edi tor-
To the Editor:
Shayna Reuben's request for a
boycott of the Cafe Florian would
be a good idea if OOBBoston were
comprised of all blacks or some
other suppressed
group.
For any
such group, other than homosexuals,
a boycott could be a useful weapon.
But, we are not a black group and
we are not a poverty
program.
We
are a group of Lesbians,
looking
and working toward the day free
from oppression.
Boycot ting the
Florian means placing ourselves
against
the straig hts in open confrontation.
I think we'd be laughed at and defeated in this particular situation.
First of all, let it be known
that I, too, want to be free to love
who I want to love. (A woman, forever.)
But, I think holding hands with another
girl in a public place is too much at
thi a time.
I t's like hitting
the
st 1• ights right in the face with it,
a
only to make them even more resistant
to our cause.
The straight
world
isn't
ready for such bluntness.
They
nee d to be educa t ed a lot more before
we can be free in public.
Any straight
parents who may have
been in the Florian that night probably
reacted with something like "is this
the kind of filth my children must be
exposed to?"
Seems to me that we must
not let them think that way. WE know
know it isn't
filth,
but they don•t.
I say educate first,
then demonstrate.
I'm sure I 1 ll get jumped on if
this is printed,
but I'm always ready
to listen
to other opinions.
Yours for a free and new tomorrow.
I have read the last two
issues of Maiden Voyage and
have especially
enjoyed the
poetry.
Once again I myself
have taken up the pen and
would like to share my thoughts
with other readers.
Therefore,
I have enclosed two poems you
might be able to use.
The Saint ••••
WANTED:
Couples interested
in skiing,
Cal l Gail and Jo at 523-2177
Maiden Voyage has its own
distinctive
literary
quality
which I, for one, appreciate
and admireo
Congratulations
to all writers
and staff of
Maiden Voyage1 And thank you
for all your efforts,
- Linda Susan (see poetry
poems)
page for Linda's
SHOW
DOB
- ARTS - ------'- and CRAFTS -
Members of Boston's Homophile
community gathered on March 6
to exhibit paintings
and other
Arts
Art work at Boston's first
and Crafts Show.
Oil paintings,
water colors,
and
acrylics
dominated the show. The
themes of the paintings
included
seascapes,
harbor scenes, still
lite,
people, and a large,
very
striking
study of leaves.
Those present had a chance to
test their artistic
abilities
with finger paints supplied for
the eveningo
Live entertainment,
a sing-along
and refreshments
were also featuredo
skating,
and snowshoeing.
�MAIDENVOYAGE
(5)
CHAPTER
CHATTER
CLEVELAND
CHAPTER
has decided to give as much as possible
to two
families
in the name of the club, for Easter.
So far, they have
provided two turkeys,
canned goods, and clothes.
They are also
going to provide flowers and companionship
to people in nursing
homes.
Great ideal
SAN FRANCISCOCHAPTER
has printed
a news item which appeared in
!fie" Chronicle concerning the firing
of 5 stewardesses
from Western
Airlines.
It went as follows:
"Notes of Newsnik:
F'ive stewardesses
on the S.F. - L.A. run,
fired for alleged
lesbianism,
have retained
Attorney Melvin
Belli to figb.t their fickle
fate•o••"
Their Action Core answered this by pointing
out that there were only
three girls involved,
and that they were not stewardesses,
but held
high managerial
positions.
Only one of tb.e girls had specific
charges brought against
her,- implied lesbian activity
so absurd in
nature that the charges were dropped and she has been rehired.
One
other girl had been dismissed,
but no charges were made. She was replaced by a man who has been at Western only one year as opposed to
her 18 ye ars of service.
Sb.a is fighting
her dismissal
on the grounds
of female sexual discrimination,
and is taking her case through EOC.
Only one woman is being represented
by the Belli office.
They pointed out that whether or not a woman was gay was beside
the point,
and if the Chronicle wanted to titillate
the general public,
was hardly a matter of
they could tell them a person's
sexuality
public concern, and that a homosexual can function
just as well in any
job situation
as anyone else.
CHICAGOCHAPTER alive and well.
is
They have stQ.rted
and welcomed Rita for the radio and TV show.
their
library,
SAN DIEGO CHAPTER
had Reverend Troy Perry speaking on March 13-15.
His church, Community Church of L.A., welcomes all homosexuals.
Their recreation
committee has set up bowling for one night,
and a weekend at Stallion
Oak Ranch swimming, hiking,
and riding.
MELBOURNE,
AUSTRALIACHAPTER
has grown to fifteen
present at their
last meetingo
They have social get-togethers,
and charity work is
planned for the future as well as trying to create a better
image of
themselves to the comm.unity. "Helen and Jean are Lovers" is the title
of an article
in the Nov. 22nd edition
of English Women.
NEV: YORKCHAPTER
announces the resignation
of Becky Irons as President.
Tros,tne'ir
Vice-president
is taking over immediately.
On February 19th New York DOB enjoyed a pleaaaat evening with their
guest speaker,
Isabel Miller,
author of "A Place For Us" (Bleeker St.
Pr ess, NYC)o
They are busy making plans for the National Convention which takes
place July 10 through 12, and which will include a panel discussion.
Panel members will be: a psychologist,
sociologist,
representatives
of
the feminist
movement, and Rita (we hope).
There will be a dinner and
dance at a well known reataurant
in Greenwich Village,
a business meeting and various workshops on Sunday.
There will be several "fun-city"
attractions
including
the theatre
and gay bar tour with New York DOB
(cont'd on page 6)
�MAIDENVOYAGE
(s >
(chapter
chatter
cont'd)
chapter members as guides
YOU folks, but I wouldn't
for us out-of-towners.
miss this meeting for
I don't
anythingl
••••• Charlotte
know about
Boudier •• o••
OPEN FORUM QUESTION #3
Q:
Wha:t do you do if
good career,
you are living at home, have a good reputation,
and your parents,
friends,
etc.find
out you are "gay"?
A: Although I am personally
from my family and employer,
were asked.
trying to keep my Lesbianism a secret
I would never deny that I am gay if I
I accepted the fact that I was a Lesbian a long time ago, end recently I have begun to tell my friends.
No one I have told thus far
has suddenly started
to ignore me, and I feel better for having been
honest with them.
On the other hand, I do not want my parents
to find out bec•use
it would shock and hurt them, and I know their attitude
toward me would change.
I am afraid
If the people you work with, and you parents,
friends
and even
members of your community know what tolerance
and understanding
are,
you should not have any terrible
problems if you are "found out".
If they are not understanding,
that is their problem really
and you
will just have to take their reaction
as it comes and perhaps practice
a little
tolerance
towards them.
0 ••••
OPEN FORUM QUESTION R:>R APRIL
Name withheld
upon request••••••o
ISSUE:
What should you do if you are living in a gay marriage,
quite content with your partner,
but find yourself
strongly
to someone else?????
and are
attracted
�MAIDEN VOYAGE
(7)
Who set fem homosexual
will -the ale
· freet
DEL MARTIN and PHYLLIS LYON - (From Kaleidoscope)
T_he Lesbian minority . in America, which may run ·as
tugh as ten million women, is probably the least understood of all minorities and the most down-trodden, She
has two strikes on her from the start : she is a woman,
and she is a homosexual, a minority scorned by the vast
majority of people in this country, If in addition she
is a member of a racial minority, it is'hard sometimes
to understand how she survives.
A Lesbian is a woman who prefers another woman
as a sexual partner ; a woman who is drawn erotically
to women rather than to men. This definition includes
women who have never experienced overt sexual relations with a woman-the
key word is II prefers." There
is really no other valid way to define the Lesbian for
outside of the sexual ar ea she is as different in her' actions, dress, status and behavior as anyone else. Just
as there is no typical heterosexual woman there is no
typical Lesbian.
'
However, there is a popular misconception, or
stereotype, of the Lesbian. She is believed to embody
all the worst masculine attribut?s of toughness, ag~gressiveness, lack of emotion or
of sentiment, overemphasis on
sex, lack of · stab111ty-the need
and desire to dress as a man or,
at least, as much like a man as
possible,
At some time in her life the
Lesbian may tit this stereotype
-usually when she is very young
and just finding out about herself,
After all, the Lesbian is a product of her heterosexual environment and all she has to go on,
at her first awareness of Lesbian feelings in herself, is society'S image. Part of the reason
for her over-masculinization
is
the sexual identity of being attracted . to women. At this point
the Lesbian feels that in order
to be attractive to another woman she must appear masculine.
Another reason is for identification purposes. How will she meet
other Lesbians? How will they
know · her to be one of them unless she indicates herself in her
outward appearance? A third reason is one of releasing her hostility against society, of defying
the mores which she finds stifling to what she considers her
very being, A fourth reason is
comfort, Any woman who says
that girdles and high heels are
comfortable is simply lying.
While it is true that occasionally a Lesbian gets trapped in this
way of life (emulation of the male)
and never finds her way to being
a person rather than a symbol,
the vast majority pass through
this phase and learn to accept
their femininity, As a Lesbian
she comes to realize she is a
human being first, a woman
second, and a Lesbian only third.
Unfortunately, however, society
places the emphasis on the third
--5exual identification-and
does
not acknowledge the Lesbian as a
woman or a person.
But the average Lesbian (if
there can be anything approaching •average" in our very complex world) is indistinguishable
from other women in dress, in
~anner, in goals and desires,
rn actions and in interests. The
difference lies only in that she
looks to women for her emotional and sexual fulfillment, She is
a member of the family-a distant cousin, or perhaps, a maid·en aunt, But more than likely
she's closer to home-111aybe a
daughter, a wife and mother, a
grandmother
or a sister. She
may work in an office, in a factory production line, in the public school system, at the corner
grocery. She is not bound by
lines of class distinction or eduCil!ional level, race or religion.
Why then, if the Lesbian is by
and large indistinguishable from
other women and if her sexuality is not abnormal, does she
face such genuine problems in
her search for self-fulfillment?
For struggle she does against
myriad obstacles presented to her
by a hostile society, Through
our work with the Daughters of
Bilitis, Irie., a Lesbian organization started in San Francisco
in 1955, we have talked to literally thousands of Lesbians (and
almost as many male homosexuals). And, although each case is
different, each person individual,
through all is a searching for
self-identity and self-fulfillment
to the utmost of the person• s
ability.
Consider the stereotypei •box"
most women in this country are
placed in from birth: that of becoming wife and mother, nothing
else. Consider then, the girl
brought up in this box who finds
her sexual identification to be
Lesbian. How then express the
11wife
- and - mother"
role?
This conflict often starts the
process of self-searching which
goes on for years and which, for
some, is never resolved.
•Toward a Quaker View ,if
Sex," which came out of 'England
and is more enlightened than most
religious
treatises
on male
homosexuality, fails utterly in its
chapter
on the female homo sexual. The only statement with
which we can agree is the first
sentence: "Homosexuality is pr obably as common in women as it
is in men." The Quaker view of the
Lesbian is apparently that of the
wishy-washy,
namby-pamby old
maid . who holds hands with another old maid (or preferably
an adoring younger girl, if available) because she never was
able to catch a man and fulfill
her deep yearning for the rewards of the pangs of childbirth.
At least the American stere otype
of the predatory,
aggressive,
masculine woman has a little
more color!
The art of motherhood in the
human species is not instinctual,
It is learned. We have courses
in the care of the baby, and there
are countless books on the market to help the young mother with
the problems she may encounter
during the course of her child's
growth and development. In some
cultures, babies are taken fr om
the mothers and raised by the
community without any apparent
psychically traumatic results for
the biological mothers or their
offspring. In other cultures it is
the male who tends the young.
It simply does not follow, then,
that every Lesbian is suffering
untold qualms because she is
frustrating her •natural" birthright for giving birth. There are
many other ways for women to
contribute creatively to society,
and at this particular point in the
history of the population of our
globe, they may also be highly desirable. The Lesbian who does
feel frustrated because she doesn•t have any children of her own
may work in the teaching profession, she may be a playground director or asocial worker who comes in contact with
families and children, But the
majority of Lesbians we have
known have not expressed in any
way the •void" they feel because
they have no children. To the contrary, the expression, "I would
prefer to lead a heterosexual
life if I could," is much more apt
to come from the male homosexual than from the female.
(cont'd
next page)
�MAIDEN VOYAGE
(study
(8)
cont'd)
.
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Sh S Sb
!.! 0 I.Y.d ..
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The teenage Lesbl~ has a particular problem which has . not
been met. Homophlle organizations, like the Daughters of Bilitis, have had to refuse membership to those under 21 for fear
that they will be char?ed )Hit~
"contributing to the delinquency
of a minor." The teenager has
no one to turn to. Socie!y th inks
only in terms of counseling of th e
variety that would tend toward
reestablishing
the sexual identity in heterosexual vein, and
the teenage Lesbian is whisked
off to the family doctor or clergyman to put a stop to this nonsense. However, in the cases th at
have come to our attention, th e
teenager has no doubt about her
sexual orientation.
What she
wants to know is what to do ab?ut
it. She wants to meet others l~ke
herself; she wants to socialize
and to discuss the problems she
faces. She is looking for Lesbian
models, those who have worked
out their problems and have. established
long-term
relationships.
.
When she is denied this social
outlet she very often wwids up in
unsav~ry areas of a city like th e
Tenderloin
in San Francisco,
There she may find oth er youth ,
but she als o finds. herself ~n th e
company of prostitutes, pimps,
drug addicts and dope peddler s •
There have been several attempts
in various cities to set up coffee
houses where there is dancing
for the teenage homosexual. But
they have lacked the influential
backing of sa~, the chu_rch, to provide protection agamst police
harassment
while creating
a
wholesome social fabric for th e
teenage homosexual.
Because of the absence of role
models in working out her way of
life and because the only marriage she ha5 known is that of
Mom and Dad, the young Lesbian
usually gets hung up in the •butchfemme" syndrome in her early
relationships,
It is only with
painful experience that she learns
the Lesbian is attracted to a wornan--not a cheap imitation of a
man. The lasting Lesbian liaison
(and there are many) is one based
on mutuality of concern, love,
companionship,
respon~ibility,
household chores, outside interests and sex,
'
re~
tionshlp cannot be based on society'S exaggerated male-female,
dominant-passive
roles, as depicted in the flood of Lesbian
novels on the newsstands which
are for the most part written ·
by ~en for heterosex~al male
consumption. It is the realizati-0n that contrary to cultural
myths, ai1human beings have
both feminine and masculine
traits and that a person has to
find her own identity as a woman
and as a partner in this love relationshlp that makes for suecess The fact that Lesbian relations hips are generally longlasting without benefit of religious ceremony or legal sanction
is indicative of a strong bond of
love and respect which sees the
couple through all the obstacles
society places in their way.
Fortunately
for all women,
there is a growing awareness in
this country that woman needs and
is more openly demanding an
identity for herself as a human
being, an identity over and beyond the societal role of housewife and mother This awareness
coupled with mo~e openness about
sexuality and homosexuality, ls
making it easier now _for the
young girl newly aware of her
Lesbianis~,
to cope with the
negative sanctions of society. But
it is still true that in most areas
of our country she has no place
to turn for counsel no one with
whom she can talk about her feelings without running the very real
risk that the counselor will turn
away from her with horror· and
revulsion
The Q~akers state• •Female
homosexuality is fre; from the
legal and, to a large extent, the
social sanctions which are so
important in the problems of
male homosexuals."
This is a
myth that even the male homosexual has come to believe, It
is true that in England there
-were never any laws pertaining
to female homosexuality. But
this ls not true in the U.S.A. The
Lesbian is just as subject to arrest when she sets foot in a
"gay bar;" she is just as subject to blackmail and police harassment. The stigma attached to
homosexuality has just as much
1
on~
to deal with fear and soclety-imposed guilt in the problem areas
of employment, family relationships and religion. Just because
the record of arrests ls so much
smaller ls no indication that the
Lesbian ls relatively free from
legal or social sanction. It only
means that she ls less obvious
and less promiscuous. She has
done a better job of covering up.
The most serious problem a
Lesbian faces in life ls that of
self-acceptance.
Like everyone
else, she has been taught the cultural folklore that a Lesbian ls
something less than human-a
sick, perverted, illegal, immoral animal to be shunned and desplsed. Needless to say, with
the first glimmering of selfknowledge, of tendencies, she becomes bogged down in doubt,
fear, guilt, and hostility.
some Lesbians claim they have
·been aware of their Lesbianism
since early childhood. Others
first become aware during adolescence.
Yet there are some
women who make this discovery .
about themselves much later in
life-after
they have been married and have had children. Still
others either by choice or lack
of oppirtunlty, never admit or act
out their Lesbianism.
It isn•t easy for a woman to say
to herself, let alone anyone else,
"I am a Lesbian." But once the
words are said, has she really
changed? Isn't she still the same
person she was-the dear friend,
the competent employee, the loving sister? And yet the words
become a barrier in her personal
and working relationships.
To
protect her family and her job,
she ls forced to live a lie, to
take on a dual life. No wonder
many Lesbians seek out some
type of psychiatric or therapeutic help. The miracle ls that so
many are able.to function sowell
and to contribute so much to
society.
(
t , d)
con
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{9)
{study)
The Lesbian ts thus a secretive, chameleon creature. She is
not easily recognized. The old
adage, "It takes one to know one,"
is not true. Not being distinguishable from other women, she
has difficulty meeting others like
herself. The "gay bar" is still
a meeting place, but there are
few such bars which cater towomen exclusively because they do
not constitute a steady clientele.
Besides, a Lesbian, as a woman,
has no doubt heard many time~
the old saying "nice girls don't
go into bars," or "no lady would
ever go 1nto a bar alone." The •
Lesbian goes out on the town
only occasionally, and is more apt
to settle down with a partner, to
build a home arid a lasting relationship, and to develop a small
circle of friends--usually
both
homosexual
and heterosexual.
Another s ocial outlet for the
Lesbian can be homophile organizati ons thr oughout the country
(if she knows about them), such
as Daughters of Bilitis, which
has chapters in New York and
San Francisco.
If she divulges her identity,
she automatically becomes vulnerable. She faces loss of~.
family and friends.
Yet, until
s he opens herself to such possibilities, no one will have the
opportunity to come to know and
to understand her as the whole
person she is.
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(Jo)
STEVE FREDERICKSSHOWDISCUSSES
BILLS TO REPEAL LAWSON PRIVATE
SEXUALBEHAVIOR••••••••••••••••
radio talk
The Steve Fredericks
show on ~1..{EX,Boston, devoted an
hour Friday night,
Feb. 20, to a
discussion
of 3 bills
which would
repeal
some of the Maasaohusetts
laws concerning
private,
sexual
behavior
between consenting
adults.
This was in anticipation of the public hearings on
the bills
before a committee of
the State Legislature
the following Monday.
Panelists
on the program were:
Alan Cook and Peter Connolly,
Boston lawyers;
Frank Morgan,
president
of the Homophile Union
of Boston, and Laura Robin, a
member of Boston Daughters of
Bilitia
(OOB). The program informed the public of the existe · 1e and content
of the bills,
)f their upcoming hearing,
and
-1ld where letters
of support
(or opposition1)
should be sent.
Some of the panelists'
arguments 1.n favor of the bills
were; that private,
consensual,
s exu al behavior
did not harm
other members of society,
and so,
should not be regulated
by the
state;
that even though the laws
l n question
were not often enforced,
they COULD
be, capriciously,
against
anyone, (homosexual or heterosexual)
at any
time, and that the existance
of
such laws was conducive to blackmail.
The potential
for a lively
debate did not materialize
because none of the persons who
phoned in presented
any argument
against
the repeal.
HOMOSEXUALS TESTIP!
AT PUBLIC ..HEARING
A few members of the Boston homosexual community surfaced
Monday,
Feb. 23, to testify
before the Joint
Judiciary
Committee of the Mass. Legislature.
Representatives
from the
Homophile Union of Boston, the Boston
Student Homophile League, the Harvard
Graduate Student Homophile Ass•n, and
the Boston University
Homophile Club,
spoke in favor of three bills
which
would repeal
certain
state laws that
sexual behavior
of
regulate
private
consenting
adults.
Together these 3
bills
(H. 3482, H. 3472, H. 3484)
would abolish
the laws against
fornication,
unnatural
and lascivious
acts
and the crime against nature
(repeal
of Chapter 272, Sections
18, 35, and
34 respectively).
No one from OOB
was bold enough to read our testimony,
so we submitted
it as a letter.
(Donna Ferguson has a copyo)
Most arguments boiled down to saying
the state had no right
to regulate
the
private
behavior
of consenting
adults,
since such behavior
did not harm other
people.
William Baird, originator
of the
bills,
wrote a letter
which was read
by one of his supporters,
(Mr. Baird's
having a "previous
commitment" in the
Charles St. jail for handing out contraceptive
foamo)
The Americans for Democratic Action,
together
with the Mass. Civil Liberties
Union, turned in a 3-page argument.
These latter
two groups had originated
another bill,
H. 1949, which has disappeared in the legislative
by-ways,
(see Herald Traveler,
Febo 22, Seco 5,
pg. 13) and which would have repealed
the same three sections.
The newly
formed local Council on Religion
end
the Homosexual was also represented.
The committee paid an average amount
of attention,
but asked no questions.
of the
There were several proponents
bills
speaking as individuals.
There
was no testimony
in opposition
to the
bills.
The committee's
report
to the
Legislature
on their bills
has not
been madeo
�MAIDEN VOYAGE
0.1)
COKING
EVENTS
specified,
all Boston DOBevents are open to women only,
Clarke Room, Arlington
Sto Church, 355 Arlington
St.
Unless otherwise
and are held at:
Friday,
March 20 - OPEN DISCUSSION- "Do employers discriminate
against
9:00 p.m.
Homosexuals and women?" How likely are you to be
fired if your boss finds out? What kinds of jobs
can you hold without the mask????
Friday,
March 27 - GUEST SPEAKER* Phoebe Wray, New York, Hollywood, and
Boston actress
and director
now teaching at Boston
9:00 p.m.
will speak on "Homosexuality and the Arts."
Conservatory,
Friday,
April
8:30
Friday,
3 -
p.m.
(IMPORTANT
NOTE: all those who wish to go bowlin£ on
Friday the 27th should meet at 7:00 pom., at the Turnpike Bowladrome, 195 Concord Tpk. (Rt. 2), Cambridge.)
ON
FOR
COMMUNITY
LEADERSSYMPOSIUM HOMOSEXUALITY BOSTON
Six members of DOBwill appear on a panel and answer
questions
from clergy,
guidance counselors,
and members
of civic groups who have been invited
to attend by the
Public Education Committeeo Other members and friends
of DOBare urged to attend and give their support!
-
April
10 - BUSINESS MEETINGfor BOSTON
DOBMEMBERS
ONLY.
p.mo
Come and
Fr iday, April 17 - OPEN DISCUSSION* 11Can a Gay Marriage Last?"
share your opinions and experiences
with others.
9:00 pomo
9:15
Friday,
Old West
April 24 - GUESTSPEAKER* Reverend William Alberts,
Methodist Church, Boston, will speak and lead a dis9:00 p.mo
cussion on, "What can the Church do for homosexuals?n
Saturday,
Friday,
April
May l -
25-Spring Party at 12 Carver st.
See party ad elsewhere (pgo9)
Buffet, dancing,
this issueo
- SLIDE SHOW* Pam, Jo, and Betty will share their
slides on many subjects.
Refreshments as usual.
etc.
�MAIDEN VOYAGE
(12)
WHYI AM GAY
Grandma insists
it's
heredity
Mother's side isn 1 t ordinary.
Daddy swears the fault is Mother's,
She always favored my brothers.
Mother explains
the fault is Dad's,
His lack of discipline
was bad.
My doctor declares,
Our Minister
says,
The analyst
thinks
But it was because
just a phase,
badly raised.
I need a beau,
of love,
I know1
(anon)
Mit If II lHt
I will
not forget
your feathery-soft
JtIt It II II ~.n,.a.
love,
But cover myself
with memory:
snowcrushed
Of your desire,
upon my willingness
to give, and give;
or your happiness, cotton-fluffed,
spun golden around both
you and I: one thread;
or your desire, rain-washed,
icily ebbing away
to new crystal
streams;
Of your happiness,
dark-stained,
unravelling
our union,
leaving me threadbare,
worn.
Child-like
screams
cried from meo
Adult-like
tears
drowned me.
Your wine-sugared
love
was drained away.
Even the charcoal
coffin
evicted me;
Death refused my hand,
Leaving me frozen-aloneo
With feet crumpled-cold,
Bones blue-bruised,
but heart awakening I looked to the crimson-beaten
That wanted not my soul
body •
Nor my left-over
sky
••• Linda Susano••
�MAI
DEN VOYAGE
(13)
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
On April a, DOBwill face
religious
leaders at Brown
university
in Providence,
Rhode Island.
After the
leaders hear what DOB has to
say, they will decide whether
or not to expand the dialogue
to the entire
student body.
Graham Jr o College has invited DOB to participate
in a
closed circuit
radio talk show
on the school's
radio station
on April 10.
A new approach
to public
education
is getting
underway for Boston DOBas this
issue of the Maiden Voyage
goes to press.
Members of DOBand HUB
planned to address a gathering of 30 clergy of all
denominations
at Temple
Emmanuel in Newton, Mass,
on March 17.
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(14)
,,
THE LEGALASPECTS OF HOMOSEXUALITY
The legal problems homosexuals
might encounter in dealing with
child custody,
joint ownership,
sexual behavior and the police
were discussed
by attorney
Michael Buckman at the Feb. 27
meeting of Boston :OOB.
Mr. Buckman cited the vague
statutes
that make things so
difficult
for lawyers to say
what is a violation
and what
isn•t.
"Each state has added
to and deleted from the laws
and most states
don't make it
clear if these acts (crime of
sodomy, unnatural
acts of copulation with an animal, etc.)
ap ply to women as well as men."
It is up to the individual
judge to decide what is lasciv"Few judges will
i ous behavior.
ac tually convi ct on sodomy,"
he added
Some countries
- Denmark,
France, Switzerland,
Italy,
and oth ers, and the state of
Illinois
have begun to delete
these statutes.
There is currently
a series of
bills
before the Mass. legislature designed to repeal "in all
or in part,"
these laws on sodomy.
'Mr. Buckman said he doesn't
see
any success in Massachusetts"this year, anyway.
"The authorities
are politely
ignoring the statutes
as long as
the acts are carried out in private."
But he wonders whether
this might change.
A felony allows a policeman to
arrest
a person if he has probable cause, but it is almost impossible
to get probable cause
unless a party volunteers
information about what is going on,
said Mr. Buckmano
With the increaaed publicity
Boston OOB is putting forth,
it
IS possible the police might come
in, but he doesn•t think we would
really
be bothered.
An officer
might come in and just sit down to
listen
to the proceedings.
He
would not be in a position
to demand identification.
However, he
would be perfectly
within his
rights
to demand identification
in a car or in a bar.
On the subject of child custody,
Mro Buckman said that the courts
are only interested
in the welfare
of the child.
There is no requirement legally,
that partmers be
married to adopt children,
but it
is extremely difficult
or "almost
impossible"
to follow through on
an adoption otherwiseo
In discussing
police harrassment,
Mr. Buckman said the real problem
is trying to prove a caseand get
an injunction
against the police.
A person has "really
got to be ready
to atand up and be well armed with
information
to build a case to present before a judgel
But, until
you have public opinion on YOUR
side, you are going to have harrassment," he concludedo
Mro Buckman also discussed
joint
ownership,
trust,
and answered
questions
from the audienceo
�' '
MAI
DENVOYAGE
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Effective
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the Maiden Voyage will be
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ma, oen voyaqe
,
a daughter of bilitia
newsletter
boston chapter
p.o. box 221
prudential
center station
boston, mass.
02199
!'ebruary, 1970
vol. 1, no. 3
"It doesn't matter who you
love, or how you love, but
that you love."-Rod McKuen
LEGALREFORM MASSACHUSETTS
IN
Several bills
dealing with state
laws on sexuality
have been submitted to the 1970 session of the
Massachusetts
legislature.
The present laws particularly
are found
relevant
to homosexuals,
in Chapter 272 of the Maas. General
Laws. Thia chapter is titled
"crimes
against
Chastit{,
Morality,
Decency,
The relevant
secand Good Order.
tions are:
Section 34. "Whoever commits
ab, abominableand
detestable
crime
againat nature,
either with mankind
or with a bea1t, shall be punished
by imprisonment in the state prison
for not more than 20 years."
Section 35. "Whoever commits
any unnaturaland
lascivious
act
with another person shall be puniahed by ••• (varioua sentences
follow-imprisonment
and fines)."
The crimes forbidden
are not
further
defined in the law itself.
The crime against nature has been
variously
inperpreted
in different
states at different
times to mean
genital-oral
union, genital-anal
union, or both.
"Unnatural and
lascivious
behavior" was explained
by a 1954 Masa. case {Jaquith v.
indulgence
Comm.) to mean "irregular
illict
sexual
in sexual behavior,
relations,
and infamoua conduct
which ia lustful,
obacene, and in
deviation
of accepted customs
and manner ■."
The following is thought to be a
submitted
complete liat of the bills
to the 1970 legislature
which deal
with these laws on sexuality.
The
was discharged
from the joint
first
Judiciary
Committee to the House
Ways and Means for unknown reasons.
The last three will have had a public
hearing Feb. 23 by the Judiciary
Committee.
H. 1949 Change and repeal varM
1ou1 parts of Chapter 272, includ34, 35, & 18.
ing repeal of sections
k 3272 Repeal section 35.
H. 3482 Repeal section 18, (prohibiting
fornication).
H. 3484 Repeal section 34
The most inclusive
bill 1a clearly
H. 1949, spoaaored by the Americana
tor Democratic Action and othera.
The other bills were submitted by
William Baird.
It is clear that legal re~orm ia
far from being the panacea tor the
homosexual's
problems in society.
However, {l) the public discussion
generated over whether to enact the
bills
should work in favor of more
reasonable
laws because society
today haa a more non-regulatory
attitude towards sexual behavior than it
{2)
did when the laws were written.
Even though few people are actually
convicted of these crimes, some are.
The possibility
of such a conviction
and puniahment should not exist.
(3)
Making auch acts legal will reduce
that portion of antagonism or guilt
which is aroused by their illegality
per se.
(Ir YOUwant to hel~ in
planning and carrying out aOB procall:
gram to SU'DPort these bills,
Ann Haley
Laura (625-1263)
or write to the DOBaddress.)
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VOYAGE
(2)
19th CENTURY
GAYLIFE
IN PARIS
Women and love in any form
fascinated
French artist
Henri
de Toulouse-Lautrec.
In the last decade of the
19th century, he frequented bars
and brothels which dotted bohemian
Montmartre painting a aeries of
and lesbians.
studies of prostitutes
Lautreo•s interest
in a lesbian
dancer at the Moulin Rouge increased
He behis attraction
to lesbians.
came a fixture at La Souris, a gay
bar near the Place Pigalle where a
"group of women of common inclination
met and were quite at home."
,&t La Souris, Lautreo mingled
with ease among these women, some
aggressively
masculine and others
very feminine, and painted their
that conworld with a sensitivity
tradicted
his voiced opinion that
there was not a "more foolish woman than she who is the woman of
another."
by his attention,
Flattered
customers at the bar were happy to
pose for the crippled artist,
and
often sought his advice tor their
problems.
apSome ot his observations
peared in a lithographed
album
"Elles",
a study of all women.
A few of his paintin~s
- "In
Bed", "Breakfast'',
and "At the
Circus" are well known and are
exhibited in museums. Others,
because they are labled "obscene"
remain in private collections
or
appear in limited edition publications.
------PJB------
OPENFORUM
•.
On th• open forum question of
Butch and Femme- I think that when
you are comparing any two people-here, let us say, a Lesbian couple
that on• ia bound to be more aggr••ive in aome areas than the other,
just as one will probably be taller,
than the other, or weigh more. In
other words, two people are rarely
exactly alike.
Should we call this butch & femme?
As far as couples go, I think not. I
have found that in all the Lesbian
couples in my acquaintance,
once I
got to know them, I could not make
a definate butch-femme distinction
between the two. They are simply
two women living together sharing a
common life with its usual problems
and happinesses.
On the other hand, I can more
easily make butch-femme distinctions
between my "single" friends,
though
such is not always the case.
Here,
there '' seems to be much more role
playing-and I think the reason tor
this is the very fact that·the
person
is "single",
or at leaat not living
with another woman. They then seem
to identify
with the society around
them. And our society says that to
assume any responsibilities
or aggressiveness,
one must also assume
the role of the man-thus the mascuand it
line or butch role-playing;
also says that to be gentle or
passive,
one must assume the role
of a woman- thus playing the "femme"
also develops.
I feel,
though, that onoe a gay
woman enters into a long-term relationship
with another woman, then
the butch-femme role playing begins
to slowly drop off and she can finally
relate to her lover as another person,
an individual •
••• Diana Travis •••
EDITORIAL: The purpose of any publication
is to inform without bias.
If
we say something you do not like, let us know about it. This
of
newsletter,
the MAIi& VOYAGE,is Boston D0B1 a circuit
communication to all members and interested
parties.
�MAIDEN
VOYAGE
(3)
Q!!. MOTHERS
"You don't realize
how many
ot us there are," our friend Ruth
■ aid, carefully
ironing ruffles
on a tiny pink dress.
"We don't
get too much chance to get together and talk because we're too
busy with work and taking care of
the , children.
But there are a
lot of us, and we should talk.
"Some gay parents are torn
with doubts about the effects
of
their homosexuality
on their children - many feel they should tolerate marriage for the sake of their
children. - I believe it ia better
to be alone with my child than to
bring her into the hostile
environment of an unhappy marriage.
It
took me a long time to think all
these things through, and I wish
I'd known others who were thinking about the same things at the
same time, because we could have
shared our insigµts."
.
"Won't your daughter miss
male companionship?" we asked.
"Everyone makes too much of
that issue,"
Ruth said.
"Susan
has her grandfather,
she'll
have
male teachers at school, and she
will have neighborhood boys to
My mother asks every
play with.
once in a while when I'm getting
married again to give Susan a
father,
and I say Susan has everything she needs with me now.
Marriage is taking a chance. Some
people are happily married and some
are happy single.
Susan is better
off with a single mother who is
happy than with a married mother
and father who are both unhappy."
"Would you have given up your
custody to give her a more conventional life?"
"only if there were some kind
of prolonged court battle
threatened that would air dirty linen
and leave emotional soars on her.
She ia surrounded by love here
with me; her grandparents
worship
her;
I can support her well.
What kind of "conventional
life"
could any lather offer her that
would be better
than that?"
"What if you couldn't
support
her, though?
Suppose you only made
$50 or $60 a week? You couldn't
even pay a babysitter
to take care
of her while you worked. Would you
give up oustodJ: then?"
"The moat important thing is
love.
Money, usually,
you can work
something out.
A friend of mine in
that situation
advertised
and found
an older woman who lived in and took
care of her baby son while she worked
in exchange for board and room. It
was good for both of them.
Then,
too long before the
too, it isn't
children are in school and gone for
half the day anywe:y.
"Are you going to tell her you
are gay?" we asked.
"That's the most difficult
problem - how much to tell and when. I
guess it will depend upon her personality.
I know I will prime her with
an understanding
toward all minority
groups.
I suppose the realization
w111 come on her gradually."
"What if' the other children in
the neighborhood taunt her with •your
mother's queer' or some such thing?
What would you ch then?"
"I don't think they ever will.
Children cannot type a person by the
way she looks.
Even if I were living w1 th another woman, I don't
think the question would arise.
Ot course, actions
could not be
overt if I were living with someone,
but they couldn't
be ia
1 marriage.
Many transient
relations
pa could
be damaging, but a long-term relationship with the right person could
be very good for Susan.
The most
important thing for a dlild is love ••
so many of these
I've come to realize
other so-called
"needs" of children
are socially
imposed.
A loving family
regardless
,of the sex of the parents
will give the child the confidence
and understanding
he needs to grow
up and race the world."
61
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VOYAGE
(4)
BUSINESSREVIEW
January 30th business
what we decided:
meeting;
-That a checking account will be
opened for DOBBoston, and that
Ann Haley and Andy Cox are authorized to negotiate
financial
transactions in the name of the chapter.
-That Ann Haley will be reimbursed
$12.00 by the treasury
to cover
costs of printing
the DOBbrochures.
-That the treasury will pay $50.00
for the use of 12 Carver st. for
the party Feb. 14, and $30.00 for
decorations
and refreshments.
-That DOBwill investigate
the
possibilities
of opening•
club
and that all members will look
for a suitable
location
at a
reasonable
cost for such a club.
-That DOBwill allow women to pay
their membership fee in $5.00 installments
until the necessary
$15.00 is paid.
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has your
donation and would like to send
you a subscription
but we do not
Please get
have your address.
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business,
etc.
Send your ad to:
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PLAN
February 13th business
what we decided:
meeting;
-That the Public Education Committee would invite a Boston Globe
reporter
to a meeting, the subject of which would first be
approved by the members.
would be asked
-That said reporter
to write a press release covering
the meeting.
-That as many people as possible
should write to newspapers and to
their State Representatives
recommending passage of the pending bills
pertaining
to the sodomy laws.
-That Boston DOBas an organization
send a letter
to the committee heading the Feb. 23 hearing of these bills.
We have
plan for
DOBbut
$15 all
set up an installment
those who want to join
cannot afford to pay
at once.
You may now pay $5 a week or
every other week until your dues
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she will make arrangements with
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DENVOYAGE
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POETRY
The Wheel
I Remember••••
7ou nod as you pass b7,
I smile
and I remember the many times
we laughed and loved.
aloneness is the axle
togetherness,
the wind
each spoke is a person
who has touched and been
the wheel lives on becoming.
--Shayna Reuben--
At one time we were together
we were one.
I knew life was only good
until nowo
Now, because of some
words,
careless
we have parted
Life is neither
good nor bad
it is only empty.
And I remember the time
we laughed and loved ••••••••
Bab7love
In the twilight
of the year
Rebecca changed the seasons
And I never felt the wind
And the dawning light was meliow
And the streets
an esplanade.
My home lies in our wandering
Though we never said a word
And we never tried for nothing.
--Shayna Reuben-ARTS & CRAFTSSHOW
Boston DOBwill hold its first
arts & crafts show March 6 in the
Clarke Room at Arlington St. Church.
ALL members of the homophile community are invited
to exhibit paintings, photographs,
jewelry, ceramics
and other crafts.
of entertainment
There is a possibility
by a folk singer and a woodwind quintet.
An astrologer
will discuss "Signs of the
Times."
Exhibitors
should plan to
arrive at the Clarke Rm. b7 8:15 p.m. to
set up their work. The show will begin
at 8:45.
Refreshments will be served.
CRITIQUE
Starting
with the next issue
of THE MAIDEN
VOYAGE,
we
would like to run a monthly
critique
of films and books
dealing with homosexuality.
If you have anything to say,
good or bad- please let us
know by sending your comments
to:
Editor/Critique
P.O. Box 221
Prudential
Center Station
Boston, MA 02199
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VOYAGE
(6)
Letters
to
the
Editor
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * -,'f, * * ·* * * * ·:t- -lt, *
*************************************
Dear Bos ton,
Thank you for the newsletter,
and please keep it eoming1
You are a month or two ahead
of us - we only started
in
November, stirring
that is,
and will be born at the end
of this month. all going well.
So, it was interesting
to hear
We have
about {our beginnings.
a pro- em committee of three,
and six to ten prospective
members.
Hope our growing is as
rapid and as strong as yours
seems to be.
*
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* {I-* *
*
-:1-
*
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NEWSLETTER
STAFF
To the Edi tor :
On our way out, while paying the
checks, she asked us not to come
there again.
My friend said we
would not, and that neither would
any other "gay" person.
~
*
* Editor: Pam B 07d ·
* Assistant Editor: Pat Browne
*
* Production: Rose Marie Turner
* Circulation: by courtesy of
a friend.
*
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* * * * * * * * if- ii- * * * if- * *
Best wishes anyway, from your
Aussie mates.
--Marion G.N.-(Auatralia)
On Friday night, Jan. 16, my
girlfriend
and I were holding
hands in the Cafe Florian,
at
85 Newbury Street.
The manager
came over to us and asked us to
behave, (which I clarify means
"act straight").
Being pacifists
by principle,
we complied with
her request.
*
We are asking a gay boycott of
this establishment,
and a letter
aent to its manager ••••••••••
Communication is the pitfall
&
responsibility
of all mankindo
Comm:unioate by being yourself,
all you are.
I think people
trust you only when you are
natural.
So don•t look down
and all around, and don•t
think twice - it•s all right.
--Shayna
Reuben--
(Editor's
note:
The opinions expressed in the letters
to the Editor are
· the personal opinions of the writer and do not meQeasarily reflect
the
thoughts, ideals and/or goals of DOBBoston).
�MAIDEN
VOYAGE
(7)
SHOULD
------YOUTELL YOURSTRAIGHTFRIENDS?
"Should you tell your straight
friends" was the topic for the first
discussion
group sponsored by DOB.
Diana Travis acted aa moderator tor
the meeting held in the Clarke Room
ot the Arlington St. Church on January 30.
Many women told of friendships
with straight
friends who knew that
they were gay, but did not discuss
the subject.
It was generally
felt
that tacit acknowledgement or Lesbianism without overt discussion
created a barrier
that was difficult,
11' not impossible to surmount in a
friendship
between atraight
and gay
people.
Most women felt that having
friends ignore their Lesbianism was
worse in more ways than overt rejection.
However, all agreed that
that
it waa with utmost discretion
those told should be chosen for all
conseare aware of the possible
quences of telling
the Wl'ong person.
Hopefully, all real friends will be
able to judge the person and not the
or the person.
sexual orientation
Changing the public image of
Lesbianism through a comprehensive,
intelligent,
educational
campaign
was the solution agJin offered to
Lesbians who hold jobs which they
would surely lose if their sexual
were to become knowno
orientation
point
Many women made the excellent
that society muat be made to realize
that Lesbians who hold such positions
as teachers,
nurses, and social workers can adequately fulfill
these roles
without supposedly corrupting
the
morals of those people over whose
lives they exert vast influenoe.
Generally the most adverse reactions to homosexuality
come from
men and women who are insecure in
their present sexual role.
If a
heterosexual
peraon is secure in
his or her sexual role, then homosexuality
poses no threat and they
are more apt to accept it gracefully; but insecurity
breeds ·
hoatilit7
and resentment because it presents
an alternative
to their present sexual role
wh1oh these people find frightening in that it indiredtly
preaenta them with a situation
which they are not emotionally
capable o:r handling auccesafull7.
Analysia has brought many of
our women into unhappy and very
situations;
some of
frustrating
the women were able to report
understanding
and intelligent
but
help obtained from analysis,
unfortunately,
the psychiatric
field generally has yet to accept
homosexuality as a normal and a
basic part of maay women•a perMany analys,a tirmly
sonality.
believe that heterosexuality
is
a biological
fact and any deviation from such is abnormal and,
therefore,
must be changed.
Since the United States is based
on the family unit premise, analyata tend in many cases to exert
preaaure on women to marry and
reproduce - one woman responded ·
to thia presaure by simply in- forming her analyst,
"I'm not a
rabbitJ"
We are in agreement
that reproduction
is essential
to the continuation
of the hwnan
race, but we also firml7 believe
that a person's
contributions
~
to the present society are equally important,
and that the Lesbians can and will contribute
In essence
much to this aociety.
we feel that it is tar more important to the individual
to be
whatever ahe wishes to be, rather
than to conform to the wiahea of
society.
J
�MAIDEN
VOYAGE
(8)
CHAPTER
CHATTER
San Francisco
has just formed an action core, similar to our oommi
ttee
Ollpublic
education and law reform.
Their first
project is to investigate the reported firing of stewardesses
by Western Airlines
on the
charge of lesbianism.
The women involved have been contacted by the
of the investigation
will be announced just
action core, and results
a1 soon as possible.
Two members of action cor ·e spoke on homosexual! ty to a speech 0las1
at a local High school.
Representative
members of the Cleveland Chapter and Rita Laporte appeared on both television
and radio.
Members were invited to the
taping of the TV program, and the next evening a party was given in
Rita's honor.
Cleveland's
library
is growing by leaps and bounds
with seventy-five
books plus periodicals.
The San ,ego Chapter had an interesting
discussion
on the "miserable
picture o womanhood which advertising
presents".
A few members went
to Disneyland, but their spirits
were dampened by cold, foggy weather.
New York has an interesting
schedule of programs for February.
Among
inem-;-iLtalk on "Homosexuality in the Theatre" by Matt Crowley, author
of "Boys in the Band."
Speakers from the Fortune Society will discuss homosexuality
in prisons.
---Charlotte
Boudier--Open Forum Question~
ATTENTION:-
Q: What would you do it
you are living at home
in the suburbs, have a
good reputation,
career
and so forth, and your
parents,
friends,
employer and/or neighbors find
out you are a Lesbian???
What do you tell them???
Photographerswe will be able to
use photographs in future
editions of Maiden Voyage.
Photos must be black & white
and no larger than 5x7. Any
aubjectl
~-r.•**{HHh-'~HHHh'HPJ-
Boston DOBOfficers
Ann__Ha.1A,,.
President:
_
Melrose,
MA
Vice-President:
Diana Travis
Boston, MA(277-8952)
Secretary:
Donna Ferguson,
Worcester, MA
Treasurer:
Andy Cox, Weare, N.H.
Please contact
any time.
these
people at
Artistswe will need a series of
pen and ink sketches in the
style of the New Yorker Magazine to use as fillers
after
Any size up to 2 in.
stories.
by 3 inches.
Please
submit to:
Editor,
Maiden Voyage
Box 221
Prudential
center
Boston,
MA
02199
station
�MAIDEN
VOYAGE
(9)
COMING
EVENTS
Unless otherwise
and are held at:
specified,
all Boston DOBevents are open to women only,
Clarke Room, Arlington St. Church, 355 Arlington St.
will discuss
FRIDAY-Feb. 27 - Guest apeaker Alan Cooke, attorney-at-law,
p.m.
His talk will cover
"Legal Points in Gay Marriages."
such areas regarding homosexuality as the criminal law,
wills,
child custody and financial
plalUling.
Th.ere will
Men are invited.
Clarke Rm.
be a long question period.
Arlington St. Church-355 Arlington St. Boatoa.
8:45
FRIDAY-March 6 - Homophile Arts and Crafts show. Exhibits of photos,
8:45 p.m.
jewelry, ceramics and paintings
by men and women in
Boston's homophile community. Live background music
Clarke Rmo
and a short talk by an astrologer.
FRIDAY-March 13- Business
p.m.
meeting
for OOBmembers only.
Clarke Rm.
9:15
SAT. - March 14- A party at 12 Carver St., upatairso
BYOB, buffet
Tickets $2.50 at the door.Women onlyo
8:30 p.mo-1:a.m. and dancing.
FRIDAY-March 20- Employment Discrimination
Against Homosexuals.
A
p·"'member of the Massachusetts
Civil Service Commission
and possibly other major local businessmen will participate
in a discussion
on discrimination
against
women in general, and homosexuals in particular
in
Clarke Rm.
various employment areas.
%~l\S
ANNOUNCEMENT
I
With regret
as editor.
MAIDEN
VOYAGE
announces
the resignation
of Marty Kelly
We on the staff,
and members alike would like to express our appreciation
and gratitude
to Marty, who, because of her concern for
OOBled MAIDEN
VOYAGE its suocesatul
to
debut.
)
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VOYAGE
( 10 )
~
!Q. WRITE~
The Public Education Committee is moving ahead with plans
a marketable book on the homosexual experience.
to compile
any really good books on the
The book, undertaken because there aren't
will consist of chapters written by people connected with the
subject,
autobiographical
.form.
organization,
and will be in a .fictionalized
Anyone interested
copy o.f any length,
on the subject.
in contributing
should submit typed double-spaced
relating
personal incidents
which will shed light
Preliminary
editing will be done by the committee but the .final major
The committee further
editing will be done by experienced personnel.
hopes to interest
a well-known paperback book publisher
in the idea. ALL
proceeds from sales 'Will go to our Boston DOB.
Please mail copy to:
Katie
at 277-8952 is the coordinator.
Boston DOB
•••• P.O.Box 221 •••• Prudential
Center Station •••• Boston, MA02199
--------------~---------------------------~------------------------------On Friday, January 23rd, the first meeting o.f the committee on law re-
.form and public education took place.
A dozen 1t0men gathered to start
working on what is one of the essential
aims of DOB--social acceptance of
the homosexual.
There was a high degree of enthusiasm and willingness
to
work, and many good ideas brought up at the meeting are already being
acted upon.
Before the next scheduled meeting on Thursday, Feb. 5th, at Diana Travis'
apartment,
the committee has set out to accomplish the .following activities:
Getting the LADDER
sold on su more newstands, and getting at least two
libraries
to carry it as a periodical;
preparing a press release tor the
contacting
Jerry Williams
Boston Globe about DOBand encouraging .followups;
to see about getting members on his talk show on WBZ; contacting
Boston
After Dark to see if it will carry announcements of our events in its
"What•s Happening" section;
contacting
Steve Fredericks,
WMEX,to have him
getting permission to reprint
announce some of DOB's forthcoming events;
an excellent
article
on Lesbianism .from the magazine Motive, published by
the Methodist Church (the article
will then be sent out to inquirers,
le.ft
in churches, libraries,
etc.);
and drawing up a Recommended List of what
we consider valid books or articles
on Lesbians.
Also discussed were: a possible meeting, well publicized,
for straight
and having
people to come, hear one of us speak, and to ask questions;
speakers for such groups of public power as the League o.f Women Voters,
the Chamber of Commerce, the Urban Priests
League, and the Priests•
Senate.
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MAI
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Support Boston OOBYour $15 membership fee gets you:
- a subscription
to THE LADDER
- a Subsoription
to THE MAIDEN
VOYAGE
- reduced admission to all Boston DOBlectures
!!nolosed is my check or money order
membership in Boston DOB
and discussions.
for $15 (do not mail cash)
I would like to join on the installment
plan
•
check for$ ___ •
I am 21 years of age ore>ier.
NA.fi:
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ADDRESS:
____________________
Enclosed
for
is my
ZIP _____
_
PHONE:
ALL membership applications
are confidential&
Mail to:
Boston DOB, P.O.Box 221, Prudential
Center Station,
Boston,
02199
11 lNOTICE 111
we have learned that: a member of DOB (Boston); Frank
Morgan of HUB; Peter Connolly, a heterosexual
member of HUB; possibly
Allan Cooke, an attorney;
and possibly a member of the Legislature
are
to appear on the Steve Fredricks Show on WMEX,Friday, Feb. 20 at 11 p.mo
about Homosexuality.
Details on the outcome of the
for a discussion
program will be reviewed in the March issue.
As we go to press,
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The Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) was a lesbian organization founded in 1955 in San Francisco by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon for the purpose of self-knowledge and self-acceptance, public education, involvement in research, and lobbying to change the laws criminalizing homosexuality. Starting primarily as a private social group for lesbians focused on the integration of the lesbian into mainstream society, the aims of the group shifted during the 1960s due to the changing political, social and economic conditions of the decade. The DOB took up political activism to lobby for the rights of lesbians, promoting individualism with a decreased emphasis on societal conformity. During the 1960s many regional chapters were chartered around the country and globally, continuing the organization even after the closing of the San Francisco national office in 1978.<br /><br />The Boston chapter was founded in 1969 during a period when many homophile organizations were forming in Boston. Early leaders of the Boston DOB included Lois Johnson, Shari Barden, and Laura Robin/McMurry, who were prominent promoters of the group and its activities.<br /><br />The Boston chapter published a newsletter, originally entitled <em>Maiden Voyage</em>, until 1971 when it was renamed <em>Focus</em>. The publication runs from December 1969 to October 1983.
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The Maiden Voyage: A Daughters of Bilitis Newsletter/Boston Chapter, 1970 February
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Volume 1, issue 3 of the newsletter of the Boston chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis. The first 14 issues of the newsletter were called "The Maiden Voyage." The publication was renamed "Focus" in 1971.
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Daughters of Bilitis
lesbian organizations
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the
MAIDENVOYAGE
a daughter
0f bilitis
~rudential
center
newsletter/boston
station,
toston
chapt er/p.o.
, mass .
02199/vol
box. 221
. 2 , n6 ~ 2
"Two women,- a kiss,
and a sin of beauty
is born . 11
(Pat Browne)
DOB BOSTON SUR.VEY
At DOB Boston 1 s Dec . 5th business
~nn Haley passed
mee tin g Pr e sident
out a surv ey to a ll those attending
the mee tin g and requested
that they
complete
it and return
it at the
close qf the meeting . The purpose
of this survey was to assist
DOB
Boston to plan functions
for . the
or ganization
by determining
the
areas of most concern and interest
to members .
When th e surveys were tabulated,the
officers
found the results
quite
interesting.
Most women returning
the surv ey expressed
their
interest
in the more serious
and educational
aspects
relatin
g to the Lesbian.
Interest
was expressed
in social
events-especially
in the areas of
dances and hobby exhibitions
, but
the emphasis was placed on the more
educational
areas .
The survey results
indicated
that
the preferred
t opi cs for proposed
speakers
were: psychology
of homos~xuality;
discrimination
against
women; and the work being done by
other Homophile groups . Arrangements for speakers
on these topics
are in operation
and, hopefully,
we can book them for meetings
in
th e very near future .
The favored
topics
for discussion
meetings
should certainly
evoke a
reRp onse from all ou r members .
Since every woman has preconceived
ideas on these subjects , and the
areas themselves
being somewhat
controversial
( discussi ons on th e
topic If homoRexuality ; Lesbians
who have chi l dren; changing
the
public
image of Lesbianism,
and
lon g term Lesbian r el ationships)
it should insure
some very int eresting
evenings .
(c ont td pg 7)
LET'S GET TOGETHER
11 seemed
" Help yourselves
to be the
main theme of a t alk given by Mr.
Edward H1;1..rris Pastor
,
of the
Arli ng t on Street
Church ,( Unitarian)
at the DOB meeting of January 16.
M
r.
Harris
spoke to the first
" mixed" (men and women) audie nc e
pres ent a t DOB meeting since its
formation.
After an introduction
giv en by Ann Haley, Ed Har r is began his speech wi th the announce ment that he was not going to discuss the scheduled
topic,(What
Organized
Re li gion Says About
Homosexuality
) because he was .
"convinced
that no one really
knows
th a t much abou t it. 11
Instead,
Mr. Harris
preferred
to
discuss
the humanist
theory with
11
\!ilhat
r ega r ds to the homosexual.
11 he asked . Mr.
is a human being?
Harris
formed the rest of his
speech by answering
this question
while reminding
us, simply , that
ho~osexuals
are human beings 1 st ,
thei r sexual identities
being sec ondary .
A few of the many good p0ints
Mr.
Harris
made included:
Tell th e world you are here.
Convince the clergy
to have
contracural
gay marriages.
Prove homosexuality
to be a
l egi ti mate alternative.
Smash false
images imposed by
society
by exposi n g yourselves("I'll
never be th e same
person as I was when I came
into t h is r oom because
of
th e impression
you have made
upon me11 .)
11 Go s lo wl y until
you tr e ready
to accept
the responsib ilit y
(con t ,( pg 5
�MAIDEN VOYAGE
( 2)
• • • letters
to
th 0 editor
•••
Dear Marty:
Let mo introduce
mys0 l f , I a;11 Gene Damon, odi tor of THE
LADrJER, and among tho seasonal
fluff
and frolic
toni gh t when I got home
issue
of Hl\.IDE?T VO~[AGE ••• •Fhat
an ove:rir1helming
underI found
the first
on almost
slick
paper
vi~tually
free
of
taking,
an 8 page newsletter
error ••• I am astounded
••• astonished
••• what a glorious
effort
and what
as a fu l l chapter
.
a delight
it will
be to see BOSTON DOB cha r tered
I 1 ve been in touch wi th your new president
, you r chapter
secretarys
and I know Kim and Andy very well ••••
I know I speak
for Rita
LaPorte
as well
in wishing
you the very best
with this
our Na tional
President
I know she will
be amazed too at how well
you have debut under taking .
I have no intention
of cutting
it up to send that
ed this
newsletter
.
coupon back to you , assume you will
keep me on the mai l ing list
( it is
necessary
for me to publi c ize ;you properly
in the L.i'I..DDER) Ah , I see
.
on the radio
show ••• I 1 ve already
written
you were among the 3 pioneers
that
up to some extent
in CROSS CURRENTS fort
he Feb . / I"I rch
a
issue
of
the LADDER. Your open forum question
is a l ul u/ that 1 s been being
argued
for 15 years
that
I can reca l l ••• 1 1 11 be glad when you all have
of the LADDER, some of the self-help
and
a full
file
of back issues
situation
articles
that
dominate
about
4 yea r s of t he earlie
r issues
would be valuable
today
for the chapters
•• it makes me wish for someone
witling
to cull
them and work up a b o ok l et ••• must think
about
that .
typing r I wanted
though
to quickly
congrat Sorry
this
is such sloppy
those
who did the bitchy
labor
ulate
you, and won 1 t you be sure that
involved
(assu ming you had some he l p ) get thanks
too?
I 1 m mildly
~r $ Fredericks
r estrained
your desire
to appear
as Donna
pleased
that
that
any city
is QUI'11 E ready
for that .u HowDyke •• • I cannot
imagine
ever,
you might
be amused to know that
there
really
is a girl
whose
to us ••• far , far away from Boston •••
l ast name :Ls nDykell who belongs
Goodni ght and merry what eve r to you and yours .
Gene
Enclosed
is my contri b Dear J\Iarty:
ut ion to ?Tai den Voyage ••• "Thoughts
se v era l
and snow . n I have written
com mentaries
and artic l es of poetry
in the past
for the local
town news & magazine
paper
9 • I have enclosed
;i this
bit"
- by -£,c vvay - written
.
during
a stroll
in Weare , TTH., at
l
the party . (By the way ,- beautifu
country
- beautifu
l peop l e .)
If the
poem is not appropriate
, please
dis regard
it . Also in the newsletter
,
you mentioned
coming events - such
as sports
, etc ••• Count me in ! I
play
on a softball
league
of women
& we play
agai nst the women at the
Mass . Correctional
Instit
u te for
Women (which
is a mi l e from my home . )
By the way - they always
welcome
etcp ,
outside
teams in basket - ball
so if anyone
is interested
, please
contact
me . Until
I see you aga i n
(probably
every
2nd meeting , ) take
care & keep up the good c au se .
Lo1"'i
Dear Marty ;
Please
find
enclosed
a donation
towards
distribution
of the "Maiden
Voyage . 11 ••• I would
l ike to offer
assistance
with
I
your next news l etter
- thought
could
take
on the boring
but
necessary
tasks
like
s t apli n g ,
envelopes,
addressing
or
filling
If you need any help
whatever
.
at a ll,
p l ease feel
free
to call .
See you at the next meeting ••• I
thorough l y enjoyed
Vo l. 1- No . 1
of the Voyage , a n d fel".t you did
an exce l lant
job for the first
time ou t -- congra t ulations
.
Rose
Marie
�(con
1
t from
MAIDEN VOYAGE
( 3)
pg . 2)
Dear M2rty:
11Rolationships
with other
people
ofte,1
turn
action
into
phobic
reor i'neffectual
because
o:( learned
action.
A _person
may b8 passive
11
6r disap~roval.
This statement
is very factual
fear
of rejection
reg a rding
our organization
here i.n Boston . Each D.O .B. chapter
1 This
1 By the
people,
for the people.
problem
has been esta.qlished
to me and . to others
concerned
because
it is a
has been pre~ented
drawback
which could
p0ssibly
make or break
our chapter.
Such a
problem
grows· like
a cancer
and should
be removed • .
have been elected
and have been doing
an excellent
job
Our officers
concerriing
their
appointed
responsibilities,
but we are faced
with
defina tely
overlooked.·
Ohe l"eason
our
a problem
which has quite
of.fice
i .s to hear important
viewpoints
leaders
have been voted
into
of everyone
in the group , and to strive
to keep unity
within .
active
in D.O.B.
is an individualOf course,
each and ever y per~on
but t .he ideas
and proposa person
with different
idea's · 'a.pd tastes,
and cast
away into
the
als of the younger
set seem tq_, be smothered
background
and the older
set appears
uneasy
thinking
perhaps
the
overn . Hovv, under
the present
situayounger
set is out to "take
tion,
can we ever hope for society
_
in general
to accept
our viewissueB
to be pnesented
if we involved
in our
points
on the numerous
will
not readily
accept
our own??
new chapte - canno .t . and/or
r
Our leaders
are ;EJ mbols of the values
y
which the gr_oup _desires . They
to g ether
various
members of 'the ·group in
are a means of tieing
terms
of their
common purposes.
Unfortunately
, they also
appear
at
to be -a, fearsome
force
intent
on presuming
·: their
plans
to be
·. times
censorthe only plans .
It seems to .me that
there
is an underlying
ship,
grt~wing its
way through
and slowly
defeatin~
pur purposes.
It
PeTsons
are appointed
to take over
is felt
deeply
and it is ijnju~t!
and,are
expected
to carry
them through.
certain
responsibilities
arert 1 t they allows~
to do just
that?
Let 1 s contribute
Why then,
without
the stern
censorship.
Let our leaders
avoid'the
magisterial
and do gmatic
approachl
Great
lea ders a re the interpreters
for a
1•
1 dicta
avoj_ded
torship
groups
ideals
and have always
We ban and MUST strive
for unity
among all
of us.
Let ua open
and contributions
being
offered
by
minds and ears
to the ideas
very own members and friends.For
the benefit
of our organization
6n the whole and before
we risk
the los•
of our individualism,
and
say,
listen
carefully
to ALL proposals
made by our grciup,
to ye 11 the word,
nvE'rOED" • ·
·
us not be tcfo hasty
our
our
I
let
Before
I end this
candid
letter
on one of our most destructive
problems
within , let me say that
this
solution
as proposed
could
p,_
rove very beneficial
and reward i n g to all,
and j_n the final
analysis,
WE WILL G:o'
"FORV
TARD, all working
and striving
as one _ D.O.B. l
1
May i implore
con:imon cause
yo~ - to continue
so as to insure
with your greaiest
its· ac:complishment.
efforts,
for
our
Pat
1 s note:
(Editor
·?!TAIDEN
VOYAGE vmuld like
to thank
all
& we ..welcome
all. letters
shown the interest
to write,
•
troversial
or Gbeery.)
those
who have
cha tty,
con-
�EPITORIAL
COi1MENT
Ivf
AIDE ,\ VOYAGE
(4)..._ _______
FE.~RSO !'lE FOUR F.L
WO~ FAIR
••• c ongr a ts to Ki~ St a binski,
whoso
a rti cl c , ''Wha t 'Ihe Bibl e Sa ys ,:i. out
b
Homos e xu a lity"
(Jun e /July,
1969,
THE L:rnDER), ha s boen requ c s t od by
th o Motr op olit !3. GO Unity Church
n
DD
in Ca lif orni a for r e print
as a
br ochur e •••
--..i--------
FELLOSHlP <
Dc9,r P0.t,
Uo'r c s urpris ed t o .,b c C3.],.lod a
f ea rso 'nc f orc c - if 3.nythin g , we
,
think of ours e lv e s a s th o "f e arful
f our•• - a 11 ttl e ove rwh e l med by th o
r e sponsibilit
y of l oa ding Boston
D.o.B. int o be c omin g a ch a pt e r with ,
meaningful
a ctiviti
e s f or a ll.
I
1
·
I
. dh :1. spcciticAsugg
t
c stions
do y ou
••• s eems t o me ••• Aro those who a r c
a cous bd of ~trying
to rush" thin gs
Boston D.O.B. needs wor e
have?
pe opl e t o be lo ad e rs .'). no r o
nd
Tha t
a t D.O.B. r ea lly i mpa ti e nt?
is, we r e th e y nqiv e t o think wa lkin g peo ple to off e r ido~s t o th o gr oup.
int o th e Cl a rk e r oom would '.TICa
n
Sinc e r e ly,
ga th e rin g in a sisttrly
f a shi on,
,: .n He·1 e y
4 n
,
joinin g o th e rs in a c omnon b ond, a nd
Di a nSt '.Ira.vis
th e r e f or e c s t a blishing
a n a ut 01:1a
tic
Donna Fe r gus on
r a pp ort?
Somo ha ve wa it ed f or yeQrS i
Andy Cox
~*****~~******** **C•~ ~~ t ~*W*** *
**~}
for this or ga ni 7 a tion:
th e y f e lt it
would 7Ca n a pl 8- whor e th e y could
co
be r c l ci.
xed a nd drop th e "d oubl e
r ol e II bit.
Thos e who s a y '' to ge th c rnc ss will c oqo - d on't rush it~
Edit or - M rty Kelly
a
we 'r e new11 , sh ould think a mo•. Why
,issist a nt Edi tor - Po.t Br owne
we t a ke ti me be f or e we ca n be our- ·
Pr oduction
M na ge r - Rose M rie
a
a
s e lv e s whe n wo 9 ve be e n W
Giting
t oo
Circul 2 ti on - La ur a
lon g a lr ea dy?
••• NOTICE: The D.O.B. d.rts & Cr a ft
sh ow is t o be hGld March 6 in the
T'S HUB DOC?
Wffi~
Cl a rk e Roon , ~rlingt on St. Church.
The Hono phile Uni on of Bost on is
11a b8. y th a t
.~d,::i s i on i s t o nc:::i c rs 'lnd fri e nds
is
b
b
the Matt 9.chine Soci e ty
of D. o. B., no t th e ge ne r a l public.
pr oduced~ a cc ordin g t o its pr e sident :
Bo th men a nd wooc n a r c invited
to
Fr a nk Mo ga n.
r
exhibit
a nd/ or off e r for s a l e - a rt
For n ed just a yea r ago this month
work, ph o t og r a phy, cr a fts,
or oth e r 8. S a chapt e r of th e i'll tt a chin e s ,)ci c•
a
cr ea tiv e work.
Thos e who wa nt t o
of New York, HUB ha s ha d t o fi g ht t o
e x.hi bit sh ould c ont a ct Cha ir • ::i.a Kris r ega in acc e pt a nce in the Bost on
- n
r
The peo pl e who r a n th e
o.t 783-9669.
.Us o includ ed in th n t Co,:r: nnity.
'.1.
nd, old M tt a chin e Soci e ty "app a r e ntly
e ve nin g 's pr og r sv::i - liv e nusio,
a
if th e woa th e r a nd th e one ns a r e
dr ove it int o the gr ound" a nd all
goo d, a n astr ol oge r.
Bost on hotels nnd r e st a urants
issu ed
st op ord e rs on a ny r e quests
fr on t he
l
••• Speak in g f or .inn H:J, e y as we ll
t o us e functi on r oon s a nd f a ciliti
es
a s mys e lf - nust s a y r a th e r fri g htThe new n e ~J ers s e ve r ed th e ir
b
e nin g (th e c old e ye of th e cane r a
a ss oci a ti on with th e old M tt a chin e
a
& a ll th a t) a pp ea rin g on Ed Miller 0 s in June when they r e na~e d th e or ga nCha nn e l 7 Sp e'l k O
ut.
But quit e
iz a ti on HUB. Sinc e then ''thin gs
r e wa rdin g t oo , be c <J. e of th e goo d
us
ha ve L n. oved '', s a id Fr a nk.
pr
n.udi en ce r e sp ons e . Thos e i nv olv ed.
HUB is n ow wor k in g t o cr ea t e
with pr oducin g this sh ow we r e just
":: tu a l und e rst a ndin g betwe e n s oci e t ;
m
wond e rful
t o us - na de us fe e l c on - a nd the hono s e xu <?.11 thr oug h r a di o
1
f ort a bl e - e ve n s ugges t ed doin g a
a nd t e levisi on a pp ea r a nc e s and spe a k
sp e ci a l on hono s e xu 'J. it y for th e
l
in g eng qgen en ts.
'Ihe y "lr e a ls o
futur e . Thank yo u Ed f or givin g us pl a nnin g t o s e t up a diml ogue with
th e opp ortunity
t o a pp ea r.
th e Bos t on Polic e De pa rt- :1
ent a s t l1e
M tt a chin e Soci e ty of New York did
a
(Edit ori e.l Co:::::E:1e Cont. pa ge 5) with excellent
nt
results.
(Hub c ontinued,
pa ge 5 )
1
�MAIDEN VOY
,~GE
( 5 )
EDI TORI.~L COMMENT(cont.
pa ge 4 )
' fr o--:i
..
.. . .,EXTRA! EX'IR,U Rit a LE1.P e , Nat8.rt
i on a l Pr e sid e nt o f D.O.B.
will
not
b e sp e akin g on th e Mik e Dou g las-be on th e Al a n
sh ow, but sh e will
Dou g l a s sh ow s oe n on Cha nn e l 56.
Als o - th e sh ow wa s r e p ort e d t o be
on Frid a y, Jan.
23 - but that's
in
Cl ea v e l ~nd a nd sinc e we'r e in
Bost on we d on't
go t it until
Sunday
ni g ht, 10:30,
which ·1.ea ns it will
b e J a n. •.25, (we think) e Wh•• ?
~ l a n, n o t Mik e ; Sun.,
not Fri.;
Ch.
56 n o t Cho 4 - HUH? Ne v e r :·_1
indo
, Justd
on 9 t J.is s it!
Su gge sti on f or . th e Pr e sident
i
how ab 'Jut a pp CJntin g 1 ch a ir rn::m fr o:1
11 th e old e r se t 11 2.nd 1 oh a ir :1a n fr on
11 th e y 'Jun ge r s e t' 1 f or v a ri ous
0 0:1.ni tte e s s o th e s o"".'c ll e d g en e ra
a ti on ga p in our ~ idst
c 'Juld be
brid ge d n nd th o functi on inv olv e d
would be appe ~ lin g t o Qll?
e ••
• o oHe y~
how a b out S ') / 18 of us ge ttin g
t og e th e r f . r c o.rd g ,'".:::ie ch e ss ::.'. tches,
)
s,
n
otco?
'1ny one int e r e st e d?
Le t ·:ie
kn ow, och a y?
•• ~One l a st word ••• It would b e wise
ag re e
t o r en.liz e th a t if me d oe sn't
with s rx.1ethin g c . nce rnin g D. O. B.,
o
sh e sh ouldn't
c op out but work fr on
within
t o i 7 pr ov e th e situ'l.ti
on .
Pr e si den t:
OFFI CERS
Ann Ha l e y , Melr os e , M'l. s.
s
665-397 6
Vi ce Pr e sid e nt: Di n na Tr a vis,
Bost on, M
o.ss.
Se cr oV1.ry:
Tr eri.s u r e r:
277-:-8952
Don na Fe r g us ons
W
orc e st e r, M ss.
a
And y Cox, W
en.r e , N . H.
Pl ea s e c ont a ct
ti ne .
th e s e peo pl e at
ffo ,:1 pa ge 4 )
,
~ •• Like
t '.) tr:tke a ·:1
01.ent to thank
e v e ry one wh o has assist
e d M~IDEN
VOL '\GE a nd D. 0. B. in its
.
va ri ous
pro j e cts.
BOS TON D.O.B.
HUB (o ont.
a ny
'.Iw stud e nt b .:: phile
o
no
g r ".:l
ups 'l r e j
th e b eg innin g s t n t e s in Bos ton - one
on e 8. t Bos t on Univ e rsity
cmd q n o tho :
p ossibly
a t Hn rv n rd.
Two u.e 1 b e rs O;
HUB f ee l tr. e g r ·'.J sh ould b e gea r e d
UP
t o th o student.,
Fr srnl{ puts a l ,J t oj
e --:t o.sis ,'J th o stud e nto
ph
n
He b e li e v e
th e y " a r c th o g r ea t e st r Ry of li g ht
t o c o~e out of th e wh ol e thin g e If
we c a n°t d e p e nd on th e::1 we 'r e sun1ro ·
It is th e y wh o d on 9 t a cc e pt a ll th e :
V'J.lu e s s oci e ty pl a c e s on thin g s."
4~ tt e nd smc e
a t HU ' s ~ tin g s ha s
B
1ee
gr )Wn fr on 30 in th o er,,, ly d !J. s t o
r
y
no!J. ly 150 r e c e ntly.
r
M tin g s h'J.
ee
d
bee n dr agg in g a l on g with littl
e resp ons e until
th e g r oup's
tr ea sur e r
su g 6 est c d th e y t a p l oc a l p eo ple t o
sp o 2..k inst ea d of lnvi tin g p o o pl e i n
fr o:-, j_' w Yo r };: a ll th e ti 7C o
qe
Until
rec e ntly
Hub ha d n o pl q c e t
·7.ee t c,th e r th em a t st. J ,J hn 9 s Churc
on Becw -: Hille
)n
Fr "ln k r .l.n thr ou g h
'
th e e ntir e r on l e st a t e li s ting in
th o ph one b ::iok in rm e ff ::it t o fin d
r
..J. pe r =-1c e nt
'
m
hn ll or buildin
g . · Mos t
J f th e age nts we r e c oo p e r a tiv e u n t i
th e y l en rn e d wha t HUB is.
Howe v e r~
with th e he lp . f .-:1 fri e nd, t he y
J
u
fin a lly f ::i nd q pl 8.c e t ,J ::eo t.
HUB0 s ·:iain obj e ctiv e n ow? Findi n
r oo:1 f or e v e ry one in Bo st on!
H!..RRIS:
( cont rd f ro m pg • 1
of r e sponse."
Choo s e yo ur is s ues - don tt b e
a fr ai d to get into other t hing s
b e sid es ho mo s exu a lity.
Most impo1~tant, Mr. Harris brok e
t he ice f or t ho se pre sen t, and we
pa rt i cipat e d in a most excitin g
op en di scu s sion.
I n closi ng , M Harris
r.
en co ur age d
Boston DOB t o exp a nd i ts or ga nizati on, and n if that means ;l. lin gton
r
St. Church is t o bec ome th e hub of
New England Le sbianis m, well, th a t
is a lr ig ht too,n h e saido
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,iIDEN VOY,:.GE
( 7 )
SENIOR SISTER SPE. ..KS •••
l o t of the y oun ge r Da ughters
in
mr ()rganiza ti on ha.vo bee n sp esi.king
our " ge ner r:1
tion 0 ap"
, ut l ate ly about
9r oble :,1 (?) o
i1.
;\.c tually
v oices
hn.ve b ee n heard ar i sing fr o. . th e o th e r e nd of th o g::i.p,
7
l::;C)O •
One such v o ice is thn t of a W
T:.i.a
n
~n her 7 iddl e f orti es e Bev 1 (n o t her
:-eq l no::te ) f e lt th a t if she sp oke ()Ut
,t a neeti n g sh e '7.i 0 ht get ju :1pe d on
-iy the ynuthful
e l e,:::ie t a s be in g '' oldn
_'':. hioned 11 •
s
Fee lin g that
the low e r
,nd 8f th e D.O.B.
age spectru u is in
~he no.jo ri ty 9 ;v=:
my ov e r-thirties
hesit;a t e to sp enk out 9 Bev cl 'l.i 1s.,
The whol
3pli t int o
Bev
3trike
L1p oss ible
)lassification
they o ld 5 11
e id eG of th e g r oup being
tw 0 2.ge f 2.c ti ons doesn it
11Itqs
a s b eing just.
a l 7 ost
t o lu 7 p e v e ry one into a
b e th e y y oun g or be
s a ys Bev~
Bev went on t o e xpl 'J.in th a t o.ge
3houldnvt
necess a rily
be d e t e r 1in e d by
9hysical
age , sinc e "p eo pl e sh ow 1:-ge
JY how th e y think''•
(in a ttr o.ctive
it wa s ha rd
·.nd liv e ly pers nn herself,
1o t t o think
of Bev as being a t ee nyp ep p e r ha ir!
Joppcr with s q lt
&
" When y,u get d own t o it,
we D
.11
~qv e basicly
th e s nne opini ans 9 but
.1sve different
W ys of e xpr e ssin g the '7.
'J.
md
pe rh a ps, 0f c 3 rryin g th e-.: out 9 ''
1
3t n tes Be vo
ttThr ee -f ourths
of any
C,e
sbi ::i.n9 s prQbl e7 is that
sh e d oe sn't
. 0.ve nn y on e t o go t o - str a i gh t wo 7.en
1
.} m t ::i. t o th e cl e r g y, a nei g hb or,
<::
lk
.;tc. - we hs.ve only eo.ch ot he r.''
j
It
s been s a id we c a n a ll b e n e fit
fr YJ ea ch o ther;
this
is evidenced
by
this
r e p ort e r wh o was gr e':l tly influen) e d by hear in g Be v 9 s e xperi e nc e s.
F or
_:; up l e :- sh e vs heen on he r own since
x.::
her ea rly teens
- e xp e ri ~e nt e d with
lru g s be f or e B ODO of our y ounger □e:1bers we r e e v e n b orn ( "I think
,·18. b e
y
1.y
dru g s be3ot 1e of 1 g r oup cri ticizo
f or e they e v e n list en b e c a us e they
think
th e y 9 re expe ct e d t o . 11 ).
She's
had lov e rs (th e lon g -ter3
kindt
for
a total
of tw en ty-fiv e yea rs - ( 11I 0 ve
(cont.
next colu ,1n)
9
~a d e e very ~ist ak e in the book!")
o. wise observer~
(ttYou t ak e
She's
tho ·1ost f e -1inine
fe -1 ., ., ., ·she's
.
s"till
no re ci..::rnressi ve th a n any
s tr --:, t wo,-:i
i::;h
an" ) ..,
This rep orter
W8.S convinced
th a t
th e r e wa s a l o t t o be l ea rn e d a b ou t
0 This
gg_ life
y
frori Bev.,
gap tri e y
t"llk ab out ca n bo sp a nn e d if we a l }
just
try,••
c onclud e d Bevo
1'1.K.
SURVEY (c ont.
fro -1 pag e/
)
,tt
our 10,st business
1ee tin g it
a nn ounc e d that an 8. tt orney
sy, 1pa thetic
to the c a use had offer
to the ch a pt e r .
his servic e s gratis
Attorney
~lan Cook will
also
be
a v ~ il a ble t o ~ive le ga l a dvice
to
individu
a l :1e :1bcrs for a f ee . D. 0 ,
Bost on is also
pl a nnin g t o offer
a
c ounselin g service
t o its ne □bers
as s oo n a s it c a n b e arrangedo
W'J.S
M ny of the aspects
a
of public
e duc a ti on su gge sted
thr ou gh the
survey
have o.lr ea dy been institute
c
g the r e ce :c
by our ch a pt e r, includin
l
int e rvi e w on a l ocal TJ t G.k sh ow
pl
::;.n the ph ~,11 e t bein g pr e psi.red f01
d
distributi
on e xpl q inin g th e work of
our ch ~pt e r.
a r eq s of public
aduca ti on includin
g l obbyiqt
f or
l eg isl a ti on favor a bl e t o the Losbi
i
servic e pr o
:-i..nd e n c;'1,:;n c; in public
j c cts t o pr o7 oto sood will
will
in
':'.l pr ob::1.
l
bili ty be undertc:i .ke n by t·
co --;1i tte o ,:n
1
ch'lpt e r' s newly foried
public
od.uc n.ti on n.nd l o :;1.l r e f or :'.J.~
in
Fin'J.nci 'J.l susses ti ons o bt c1. od
fr ~n th e quostionn
~ire hq ve b een
he lpful
in e st a blishing
n 7o r e
s olvent
treasury
which is e ss en ti a:
Hop(
if th o ch a pt e r is t o succ ee d.
su ;g ostion:
uo r e of those excellent
can be utilized
a s D.O.B,
Bost on
'7.8. tures
..
�Mf1IDEN VOYl1.GE
( 8 )
TING
2 BUSINESS i'.IEE
FE DEer Dz
'b
·
ON FORKING OVER FIFTEEN
vrH.,.·l
T
nwhy bother
j oini:µg D. 0. B. ?"
a friend
of ours asked the nther
- That men wotil d be welcome a t all
da y . nyou dpn t t. have to be
Boston D. OoB. meetings
where there
member to go tc:5,'things , and , so
is a guest speike r.
who knows , after
we all fork over
$15 e00 to join maybe D. J •.
B. will
- That a donation
of 501 from
collapse . Fifteen
doll ars is a
members and 1. 00 from non - member s
lot of money to speculate
with
would be co l lected
at the door at
these days • 11
each program meeting , and that
We didn't
argue with her
free refreshments
wil l be providedd
because
it 1 s her opinion
and she ' s from the money taken in . Admission
·entitled
to it. But we don 1 t think to business
meetings
wi l l .be free
she 1 s ri ght .
.and persons
attending
a D. O. B.
"' e don 1 t know of a ny comparable
even t for the first
tim e will be
attempt
to do something
for
admitted
f r ee .
Le sbi&ns in the whole history
of
Bos ton . Sure, th er ha ve b een a
- That TH r,L,IDEN VOY
E
:iGE will go
scattering
of gay b a rs , but di d
on a budget after
this issue .
you ever ~et the feelin g when you
went into a bar that it wasntt
- that the treasu r y wil l pay t he
you they wanted but only your
costs in keepin g the mai l box ,
money - as much of it as possible?
costs of stamps , envelopes , and
1\nd sure , there have been psychi a t 0ther office
supplies
for the
rists
and psycholo gists
and cler gy Chapter .
who were wil l ing to talk to
Lesbians - but did you ever get the
- Tha t there will be clean - up comfeeling
they secretly
thou ght you mittees
appointed
monthly to pick
were some kind of albatross
to be up afte r our meetings .
pitied,
cur ed or perh aps put away?
1\nd sure,
ther~ is plenty
of news - That a committee on law reform and
copy and literature
about under and pub l i c education
will be form ,.,.
standing
homosexuals ., but do you
ed to l e~d Boston DeO..B. in it~r-:g.·
really
think reducing
Sister
Ge orge pro grams of social
reform .
to a cow sheds much light
on you
or your way of life?
- Tha t a comm tee to plan a party
it
The thing is true of us , as it
for Sa t. Feb . 14 , wil l be formed .
is for any minority
group - if we
bother
to do something
for our - Tha t we wil l l ook in t o programs
selves,
certainly
no one else is
on homosexua l psycho l ogy , job
going to bother
for us . The fact
discrimination
against
homosex of the matter
is that there
are an
uals , and spor t s pro8rams for
infinate
number of l iterate
, intel
th e nea r future .
ligent,
sensitive
Lesbians
around
POSTSCRIPT
New England(you 1 re probably
one
of them if you 1 re reading
this
In the Dec , issue of Maiden Voyage
article)who
have been put down
we told you Boston D.O . B. 1 s efforts
unjustly
, forced into a double
had led our loca l newspaper
of the
life , obliged
to meet f r iends in
thea b"e & arts , BOSTON1\.FTER n ~RK,
dingy bars,
had no one to turn to
to change its policy
and accept ads
fol' counsel
and advice , suffer e d
pertaining
to homosexuals . Sure en va rious
degrees
of lonliness
ou gh , after
carrying
our ad, a recent issue , we note,
carrie d an ad
(cont . on pg . 9 )
announcing
formation
of a Student
Homophile Leag ue in Boston~
a
,
"
�NL.'\.IDEN
VOYAGE
( g )
FORKING OVER ( Cont r d from
pg . 8
)
and alienation
from p a rents
a nd business
a ssociatesand who so meh ow
have retained
their
s a nity
and become,
despite
these
socially
imposed
h andicaps,
dyna mic car e er women , leaders
in their
fields,
and assets
to the very straight
community
which imposed
these
handicaps
on them.
Boston
D.O . B . Wants to do something
about
it,
We want to work for
oursel~es
in various
wa ys - give ourselves
better
places
to meet each
other , gi ve ourselves
more interesting
'things
to do than
just
drink
beer when we meet each other , give ourselites
better
people
to turn
to
for advice
and counsel,
give ourselves
self-~espect
based
on what we
r ea ll y are , not wha t the straight
world
likes
to think
we are . We
want to ch nn g e the world - not by violence
and th~eatsbut in small
who· condemn us and show
quiet
ways th a t reach
out to the thousands
them the injustice
of their
prejudice
against
us.
Should
it be done?
That will
be answered
as we see how many of ·you
join us in our efforts
.
If we ou'.rs sl ves don rt care,
no o.ne vvi 11.
Can it be done? Yes - perhaps
not perfectly
, but v,e can help to make
thin g s better
.
Some of us ar e in the position
to take
the lead,
to
appear
in public , and talk
with community
leaders.
Others
of us will
help in quieter
ways , doing small
jobs for the organization
or donat in g money or perhaps
merely
lending
moral
support.
There is a need
for all kinds
of ,rvo
men to show th e lr support
for OlJ-'R·n.o . B . in all
kinds
of ways .
Is what we are doing worht your 0 15 to be sure it continues?
Then Join us no w. Is it worth more than that
to you? Then
1t
please,
won
you help118
to help you?
THE W Y IT WAS -i'i.
Christmas
season
has finally
come
to an end, and for those
who at tended
the first
Social
in Weare ,
N. H., Dec . 2::ith, it was just
the
be g innin g of more functions,
laden
with fun and frolic,
to follow
throu gh tout
the nNe v1 Year" .
r
D.O. B .'S activities
be s an at 5:00
p.m. Saturday,
where an officers
meeting
commenced over a delectable
dinner,
prepared
by our very oun
Kim . 11Keep up the good cooking,Kimn
Officers
and their
guests
prepared
and planned
for the festivities
which were to follow
at 8:00 p . m••
Everyone
was filled
'l!Vi holiday
th
spirit
but still
a bit apprehensive
11
as to what was to t ake place.
Who
nwho isn't?"
n,Nas the
is going?"
11 There
hall
suitably
decorated?
is
a first
for everythin
g , and for
D.O~B. this
was ours l
Considering
this
was the first
so c ial
for Boston,
D. O. B ., the
majority
ot the interested
and, I
11the
must add,
curiousn
, attended
.
For those
who could not attend,
we
mus t i.1
ot forgrt
the dre a d antici
p a ti on of snow-storms,
and anything
~t 7:30,
fully
rested
and well nourelse
that
could
occur
unexpectedly
, ished,
we persued
our plans
and dirwa y up North .
ected
ourselves
across
the road to
the Gr a nge Hall.
Fantastic
l The
Thanks and sincere
appreciation
is
cheerful
decorations
and delect a bly
extended
and most a ssuredly
for
buffeted
spread
put us all
in a very
11 Gay " mood.
Andy, Kim, Betty~an d Sandy . Their
Members and friends
of
marvelous
our organization
began to arriv o p
hospit~lity
seemed to
of the
bring
a warmth to the chill
Such a long journey
for many, but
winter
night.
.
)
well worth
it for all .
(contf.d.r
g , 10
�(cont
1
d from
pg . 9)
Mi1.IDEN VOY.l\..
GE
( 10)
As guests
and members arrive~
, our President
Ann Haley;
Vice President
Diana Travis;
Secretary
Donna F'erguson;
and Treasurer
Andy Cox transmitted
their
pleasure
and welcomed
everyone
with their
bi"g , winning
smiles.
All was well indeed . ~
Music ran through
the air , pe0ple
danced and got to know e~ch otherpersons
from all walks of life , all-joining
together
in merriment
. A
perfect
way of 11Breaking
the Icen,
for in the future
we will
all be
united
toward
one cause , that
being
the liberation
of the homosexual
.
Toward midnight
lights
went off as candles
flickered
on to create
a
moNintimate
and inviting
atmosphere
. Responsibility
for the 11Heat
of the Night 11 goes to Betty . The delicious
l y prepared
food diminished
rapidly;
many thanks
to you, Sandy . Stickers,
both r ed and green
proved
to be very , very amusing
and most he l pful,
I must say . Liquor
flowed
quite
freely,
and friendships
constantly
budded .
-,:- - -::---,c--::-- -::-- -:}- -ll-- 1:---,:-- -::-- -,:-- -1:-- •:l-- -lf- ➔:-- -1:-- -::-- Comes the hour when all
good t hing,s'
••• OPEN PORUM • •
.
- must end; tempo r ari l y, of course .
_ The crowd began to thin and the hands
OoF'. Q •. #1 (What do you tell
your - on the old clock began caressing
family
and straight
friends
when - 2:00 a . m. We all
gathered
our be they ask who or where your boy
- longings
and for those
who had to
- face many a mi l e home , you could
friend
is???)
- read the expressions
on all
the
Re: O.F.Q . #1 my personal
answer
happy fac1aj - ''Wow, what a wonderful
some - way to start
the Hol idays
off;
now
came to me quite
by accident
years
back in the form of one of - we are prepared
for the serious
my college
beaus,
a tall,
ath l eti c business
of the future . 11 FAREWELL
11
"BIG :NIL\N
ON C;\MPUS •
One of the - TO l'.lLL AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT l
reasons
I enjojed
this
fellow
so much was that
I never
had to
••••• ~Pat Browne
worry the requ,ired l good - night from : .,,_ ,,_ .,_ .,,. .,, ., .,,--,.--,.-- -''- ""· -''· "'"- ·'"- ""- -':· -l'· -lc
about
sexua
advance:s
., " .,_ " _ .,
.. .. -'' ,.,.-,." - ·- him;
kiss
._.,_._
",.'
on the dorm steps
was as agressive
through
DOB, I have been a little
as he ever got .
It was several
- dismayed
at one fairly
recent
dis years
before
I knew for sure why - covery:
as strongly
as most of us
he was such a perfect
gentleman --feel
about wanting
to end stereo my beau was gay l
: typed images of truckdrivers
with
F'or years
since
I 1 ve kept family ,
vvhich others
brand all
of us, some
- of us sti l l tend to stereotype
all
straight
friends
, and business
associates
quite
happy with my
_ gay boys as a bunch of mincing
assortment
of boyfriends
, all
of _ queens ,
It jus t isn ' t so !
them in the II fraterni
ty 11 of course~ •
Of far greater
j_mportance
than
_
.
Kim Stabinski
bluff~ng
the straight
world,
how - ...- .0 "':.F~-Q.i! - t:,,-l'fi?i+chr-f~~:,vf 'b -t-di'
-_
~
er
1
ever is the fact
that
these
fellows
~~d ~~~u 7
'
u
fulfill
my need for male companion ,':t l l ett~rs
l
: c/o D. O. B .
ship . Before
anyone misinterprets
P.O. Box 22 1
me, I am not bisexual
--- but even as
Prudentia
l Center
Station,
do not feel
I am terriBoston,
Mass • 02199
a Lesbian-;-Y
bly unusual
in having
a definate
need for male companionship
and
PLEASE NOTE: ALL copy and/or
friendship
.
It is only with the
of M. V .
letters
fer next issue
gay fellows
that
I can enjoy
this
no late r than
MUST be received
without
risking
sticky
emotional
3 1 1 J'14
January
scenes
or physical
aggresiveness
.
In meeting
a wider
group of Lesbians
�Ho,ve you jo1 necl -Bostoh
Merribersh,p
D:Q.G.
gois you:
- a. sub~crrpt-1011
.
yet"?
-fo JV)RI Of.:..J\/ \/Oy,9
SE.
-J. s-ubsc.r1pT1 TO. THF
on
LRDD!~R
-redu,ced.. ~drri,ss,an t-o alt Bos-ron D.0.8, JecTures
ana:
\~oun1'
d.,J
SC.USS/ 0
n s.
rrie iD. · E.nclos~d,, ,s ':1'j chec/-< or ins in
Boston D,0.f3. {l)ernbE>,-sh1p. r am a.i leas7 ~J
cash f.or
lj<?B~s oF- ~9e.
{\fa me
( t/.)
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please
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away
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in almost - friend s hip withdrawn
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that
t o A.
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dam n ation
awaits
those
vJho l ove unwisely
.
Stay the han gma n with logic
But re membe r the truth
does not dw~l l with words .
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is,
a fter
all , a feelin g .
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s tar e d out the window I hear i t is Sunday
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day
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h o urs i t wi l l be M
ond a y
and a l l I see
M
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stop r a inin g and
, is th e rain
coming down
1 1 11 s e e t h e p e ople .
b etween
you and me
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:Hair shine
g o l den Stefanie
I 1 d be o ne day safer
-Would you follow
If it we re Sat lirday .
would y ou fo l low me
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·wa.t ch my shawdow on the wa ll
and sma l l
Wa'tch how I gro w tall
~and disappea r
11I tl l t ake you wit h me
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p l e a se don 1 t go
ln ob_' t. tu r n arou n d
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1 b n ti l darkness
hits
the groun d
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take you with me
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Thou gh ts
an<:1 Snow
In th o quietness
of the sno w 1 s cove red cr~st;
I wa lked alon e - whe re I knew I c ou ld thi nk best~
Vii th eac h st e p mar ·ked life;•
past;
present
·; steps
yet to liv e .
11here
has lo ve l ed me - how much more can I g ive?
The snow reminded
me of pu rity
and how our love
beg~n.
The moon spoke to me of chan ges - as only it can.
-- I have not changed -o nly time has . passed
and I 1~ e lost
you .
Or have you lost
yo ur se lf and can 1 t think
of what to do?
- I had to face re alit y~
As my feet
cru nche d on a branch
Was it because
y ou resented
my ri ght in wanting
to be me ?
So methi n g ~o re - so~ething
less
- or greater
than I am?
When I felt
tenderness
- should
it have beeri r~prim an d ?
It Is getting
..darker
n ·ov-r- a storm is very near.
I th:i_nk of li fe without
you - a meanin g less
yea r. ·
A snowflake
- and I think
of you - runnin g - a lways running
from lif e .
·
new lo ve and findin g only strife
.
, ~hinking
you 1~e found~
Had I sheltered
you too much - t o o littlB
- or perhaps
not a t a ll?
Will
I ever know - sho uld I hurry
to the phone an d call?
I s snowing
Funny --it
novr -t he blizzarq
is b li nding my eyes .
I r emembe r ed call ing you r · name - my fri gh t - my cries .
Can you find
your way - in ou t of the storm ' s coldo•••
Or can you say "I love yo u", the story ts . been told?
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sun
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co nvers at io n
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clo u dy
cloudy
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Make something
pretty
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Blow my mind toni gh t - you
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Anna - Marie
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throu g h my years
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Newsletter
DOB MAIDEN VOYAGE, Box 221
Prudential
Center
Station,
Boston,
Mass.
02199
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FEB.
FEB.
P. H.
F'irst
meetin g of committee
on law reform
and publ5.c
education
, to be held at Diana Travis ' homec This
committe e wi ll su gge st and/or
undertake
projects,
such as writing
literature
on homosexuality,
th8..t
will
correct
misunderstandings
society
holds
about
us .
Committee
members only are asked to
come, but there
is room on the committee
for a
few more people .
If you are interested,
contact
Ann Haley or Diana Travis .
The success
or failure
of Boston
D. O. B . may well
depend upon the success
or failure
of this
co mmittee.
This work is essential
- i t is social
prejudices
that
make life
difficult
for all
of us.
We need you to help change
all
this . Questions?
Call to find out more .
30 -
OPEN DISCUSSION - 11Should You Tell Your Straight
friends?n
How did they react
when you did? Is it
r ight
to be frank
about
your homosexuality?
What
are the costs?
Come and share
your opinions
and
experiences
with others
who have had similar
ones.
Clarke
Room - Ar lington
Street
Church
355 Boy lston
Street,
Bos ton.
6 -
OPEN DISCUSSION - 11Th o Gay Scene in Hew England
What ts Right
and ·wrong Wi th It? n vrher e are the
go od bars?
What do you think
of bars as a place
to meet people?
What other
kinds
of places
should
be available
for gay women? What should
D.O.B.
do about
i t? --- 11.rl i ngton st . Church - Clarke
Room
13 - Bu siness
meeting , open to membe rs and non-members.,
followed
by an auction
of gay books.
Those old
ga y books in your attic
- donate
th em to D. O.Bo
for the auction
and bring
along
a co uple of doll a rs to bid on the ones somebody else brought
in .
SATURDAY PEB. 14 - VALEHTINE 1 S DAY PAHTY in Boston - detai l s else,
8:30
P . M.
whe re i n this
issue
of the Tu1AIDEN
VOY/1.GE.
Admission
by advance
sale
tickets
ONLY.
FRIDAY,
8:45
FEB . 20
P .rn
.
- Karate Demonstrationtion
Women ' s Lib e r a
Clarke
FRI 11:\.Y FEB. 27
,
8:45 P.M.
-
Rm.-
.
Discussion
"What Does
J'Iovement
Offer
Lesbians?"
Arlington
St . Church
the
"Legal
GUEST SPEAICER - Ala n Cook , ;,tto rney-at-Law:
11 •
Points
in Gay Marriages
His s peech will
cover
such issu e s as le ga lity
of ho mosexu a l ity , the
criminal
l aw , wil ls,
child
custody,
and financial
planning
. The r e will
be a lon g qu es tion
periodo
too •••• clarke
Rm.- Arl.
St.
Church
Hen are invited
FRIDi\.Y, IVV1-fl - Homophi l e art
. 6
& craft
show.
Details
elsewhere.
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The Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) was a lesbian organization founded in 1955 in San Francisco by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon for the purpose of self-knowledge and self-acceptance, public education, involvement in research, and lobbying to change the laws criminalizing homosexuality. Starting primarily as a private social group for lesbians focused on the integration of the lesbian into mainstream society, the aims of the group shifted during the 1960s due to the changing political, social and economic conditions of the decade. The DOB took up political activism to lobby for the rights of lesbians, promoting individualism with a decreased emphasis on societal conformity. During the 1960s many regional chapters were chartered around the country and globally, continuing the organization even after the closing of the San Francisco national office in 1978.<br /><br />The Boston chapter was founded in 1969 during a period when many homophile organizations were forming in Boston. Early leaders of the Boston DOB included Lois Johnson, Shari Barden, and Laura Robin/McMurry, who were prominent promoters of the group and its activities.<br /><br />The Boston chapter published a newsletter, originally entitled <em>Maiden Voyage</em>, until 1971 when it was renamed <em>Focus</em>. The publication runs from December 1969 to October 1983.
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MAIDENVOYAGE
a da ughters
prudential
of bilitis
center
newsletter/boston
station,
boston,
chapter/p.o.
mass.
02199/vol.
box 221
l,
no. l
"The responsibility
of
tolerance
lies with those
who have the wider vision."
december,
·l!l-
*****
1969
George Eliot
<MaryAnnEvans)
~- .r.•
* * * ~-* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * -:}*
~"'UN ION OF OFFIC ERS IN AN
CT
ORGAN ATION
IZ
Peo ple sometimes find that when
of f i c ers are elected,
the course
of an organization
such as ours
is chartered
by their
personaliti es and ph i losophies.
Your
off ic ers in Boston D.O.B. hope
they wi ll be an exception
to this
pr i n ci ple.
We believe it is for everyone to
su gge st ideas,
officers
and
rn
emb~rs al ike . We believe once
an i dea from any source has been
acce pted by the group, it is our
job to s ee that it gets converted
int o action.
We believe
action
must come from both members and
officers,
and we will look for
and work for active participation
by a s many people as possible
in
eac h of th e group's projects.
We be lieve the function
of officer s in an or ganization
is to
ser ve the group--to
put people in
con ta ct with people,
to keep records , to make su gg estions,
to tend
to t he deta i l s , and, above all, to
see that thin g s get done.
We make promises to Boston D.O.B.:
that this will be an or ganization
that does thin s s, that welcomes all
as members t and that lis t ens to all
its mem s .
ber
BOSTONCOM OUT
ES
Now that DOB Boston seems well on
i~s way toward becoming an active,
progressive
chapter of the national
organization,
those new to the
group may wonder how it all started
here in the Commonwealth.
Joan Kent, National Vice President
East, ran an announcement in the
June issue of the New York Newsletter
asking that those interested
in forming chapters
in their areas
write her.
This Newsletter,
sent to DOB members in various cities
where there
is no chapter,
was given by a
friend
to Teddy Andot of Boston.
Teddy was not a member of DOB, although she knew of tho organization's
general purposes and had read
some copies of The Ladder years
back.
She read Joan's announcement:
"a place where you could meet, have
discussions,
dances, and work for
le gal ri ghts"; and she reco gnized
the need for such a place in the
Boston area.
Accordin gly, Teddy
wrote immediately
to say she would
be interested
in h elpin g form a
Boston Chapter.
In addition
to answerin g T~ddy•s
letter,
Joan n~tified
Gene Damon,
editor of The Ladder, knowing that
another Bostonian
was helpin g Gene
with the magazine.
Gene promptly
put Teddy in touch with Kim Stabinski.
�(cont.
from page 1)
MAIDENVOYAG
E
( 2)
Teddy and Kim met early in June and
spent many hours discussing
D.O.B.
3oston. The last weekend in June
they went to New Y01 to visit
·k
with
Joan Kent end discuss
a chapter
in
earnest.
Aided by referrals
from national
officers
and another 7chepter
pr e sident,
Teddy, acting as president
pro tem and a~sisted
by Kim as
secretary
pro tern, be gan makin g contacts,
settin g up the first
or ganizationa l
meetin g for September 12.
Althou gh only six women were present
for this meetin g , the group had hi gh
hopes, spurred also by Gene's promised
publicity
in th P. LADDER. Our first
actual mention _in the national
magazine came as a flyer,
attached
to the
cover of the August/Sept ember issue.
This flyer,
typ ed end attached
to all
copies comin g into this area by National President
Ri ta Laporte,
announced our Boston address an d brou ght in
a number of inquiries.
The second meetin g on October 24 found
16 prospective
members present,
while
the third meeti ng on November 7 dr ew
a group of 15 interested
i n formin g a
chapter.
When 21 women came forth on November
21, it became obvious that the gro up
would soon out grow Teddy's home,
wher~ the first
four meetin gs were
held. Accordin gl y , Ann Haley made
arran ge ments for us to move tempor ar ily to the Clarke Room of th e Arlin g ton
St. Church. It was here that 46 wom
en
gathered for th e fifth
meeting on December 5, electin g officers
in one of the
final steps bef ore applying to National
Headquart ers for a chapter.
In with all this activity,
we
should pause and rBmember that
this chapter was the idea, the
ideal,
of individuals
who recognized a need and cared enough
to do somethin g about it. Our
hats are off to these pioneers
who laid the groundwork for
D.O.B. Boston.
BOSTONDOB OFFI CERS
President:
Ann Haloy, 2~ Linwood
Ave., Melrose, Mass . 66,5,-~er
Vice President:
19 Frawley St.,
.,.,,
Diana Travis
Boston, Mass.
277-8952
Secretary:
Worcester,
Donna Ferguson
Mass.
Treasurer:
Andy Cox, Weare,
Please contact
any time.
these
people
N.H.
at
BOSTO DOB ADDRESS
N
We are experiencing
difficulty
in getting
our mail. If you
have written
D.O.B. et the J.F.
Kennedy Post Office Box and have
not received
an answer, please
keep the faithwe'll get and
answer your letter
as soon as
possible.
In the meantime, please
do not use the J. F . Kennecy
address any lon ge r. Boston D.O. B.' s
new mailin g address is: P.O.
Box, 221, Prudential
Center
Station,
Boston, Mass. 02199
D.O.B. Bo~ton will be bu sy , as any or ganization
n ew to an area is busy, D.O. R.
NOT OF THANKS:
E
Boston wi l l be particularly
busy because
THIS IS SUE WAS MADEFINAN
CIALLY
of th e pressin g n eed , too lon g unfu lfi ll ed , POSSIBLE THROU TH PERSONAL
GH E
for a chapter in this locality.
D.O.B .
CO~PLIMENTSOF RON KUMIN.
Bos ton will be active,
moving i n numerous
dir ect ions to fill
the ne eds of th e individuals involved and to touch th e society
in which they fin d themselves.
�MAIDEN
VOYAGE
(3)
OPEN FORUM
DEARREA : We are your product;
DER
therefore,
it is essential
to know
your opinions and viewpoints
on matters that should be re ,.
levant · to us
all. this space will be devoted e~ch month as a podium for you to
speak out on various questions
that will be posed, hopefully,
by you,
the readers.
~his bein g our first
newsletter,
VOYAGE
has taken the
liberty
of choosing this month's O.F.Q. (open forum question).
o.r.Q.#1:
What's your answer when par3nts and business associates
ask you where or who your boyfriend
is?
I
Ple~se mail your response and/or 0.f.Q. ~ to Open Forum, P.O. Box
221, Prudential
Center Station,
Boston, Mass. 02199.
VOYAGE eagerly awai tin ~ rour letters.
is
YOU ARE OPEN FORU
:1.
**•., -;'}•,d'r·*·IHHH'r*·*
PROGRESS
A cen tral purpose of Boston D.O.B.
ls to gain social acceptance
for
homosexuality.
Although our organization
is very new, we have
already made some pro gr ess in this
area.
-Donna Ferguson and Diana Travis
succeeded in gettin~
the LADDER
pub l icly sold in tw~ bookstores
in M&
ssachusetts.
Both the Paperback Books m
ith in Worcester and
the Paperback Booksmith in Kenmore Square, Boston, will carry
the magazin e which is clearly
marked a "Lesbian Review".
-Diana Travis convinced theeditor of BO
STON AFTER DARK that
his paper should abandon its
policy of refusing
advertisments
pertaining
to homosexuality
and
5CCept Boston D.O.B.'s
ad which
was desi gned to sell copies of
the LADDER.
-Marty Kelly, Diana Travis and
Ann Haley appe ared on Steve
Frederick's
show on radio WMEX,
November 22, and for three hours
answered telephone
calls about
Boston D.O.B. and Lesbians.
Marty wanted to appear on the
show as Donna Dyke, but the talkmaster Fredericks
convinced her
that Boston was not yet ready for
this.
-Ann Haley found unexpected social acceptance
when she contacted
the Arlington
Street Church and
found the church would welcome
D.O.B.
EXTRA'
,
1
BOSTON
D.O.B. WILL APPEARON
THE ED MILLERTELEVISION SHOW,
DECEMBER
29, FROM11:30 A.M.
TO 12:00 NOONON CHANNEL
7.
D.O.B.
REPRESENTATIVESWILL
BE RECEIVINGTELEPHONED
QUESTIONS FROMTHE VIEWINGAUDIENCE.
YOURSUPPORTIS ALWAYS
WELCOME.
GENERATION
GAP?
There is no generation
or age gap
for those who wish to belong to
D.O.B. 1 s activities.
The only necessity
is that you must be 21
years or over to take part in the
actual voting and to be an actual
member.
We are all striving
for the
same cause and should all help in
achieving
our goals. Age is definately
no barrier
- for those
who are willing
to give and share
and enjoy are ageless.
So whether we're teething
or
to othless or in-between - just
remember - we're all"
Daughters
Of Bi.litis"!!!
�From Boston, take either Route 93 or Route 3 to Route 101 West
until it runs into 114 Nor.th (just past 3 traffic
lights).
At
the blinkin g yellow li ght where 101 hits 114, take a left and
follow 114 North throu gh Goffstown and into Weare.
At the junction
of Route 77 (marked by a Phillips
66 station),
take an extr eme sharp left onto Route 77. Turn right
on to 149 goin g about 300 feet. The Grange Hall is the first
buildin g on the ri ght; park in front of it or in the driveway of th e house imm diately
e
across the street.
Allow approximately 1 and .l/2 hours for the trip.
Inter e s te d in a car pool? If you need transportation
or
i f you plan to come with less than a full car and could bring
another pas s enger or two, call either Diana or Katy in Boston
at 277-8 952 (evening up to midnight).
Also call to let it be
kn own what liquor setups (those over 21, only - please) you
wou ld car e for.
D.O. B. off ers very special
thanks to Sandy Cavana gh for
making our party possiblet
So circle
12/20/69 and we'll see
you theret
MAIDEN
VOYA
GE
(4)
�MAIDENVOYA E
G
(5)
POEMFOR PARENTS
And a wom who held a babe
an
aga inst her bosom said, Speak
to us of Child ren.
And he Said:
Your childr en are not your children.
They are the so ns and daughters
of
Life's
lon g in g for it se lf.
They come throu gh you, but not from
you,
And thou gh they are with you, they
bel ong not to you.
You may give them your love, but not
your thou gh ts.
For they hav e their
own thou ghts.
You may house their
bodies,
but
not thair
souls,
For their
souls dwell in th e house
of tomorrow, which you cannot visit,
not even in your dreams.
You may strive
to bo like th em, but
se ek not to make th em like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries
with ye sterday.
You are the bows from which your children
as livin g arrows aresent
forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path
of tho lnfinate
, an d He bends you with
his might that Hi s arrows may go swift
a nd far.
Let your bending in the archer's
hand
be for gladness;
For even as ho lov es the arrow th at flies
so He lov es also th e bow that is stable.
Kahil
Gibran,
THE PROPHET
ODD ~ ENDS
S
Wh we have here
at
is
an anpty box.
ANNOUij
CEMF.NTS
.w~are actively aolicitin g peo ple to he]p out
with cl ea:nup mfter meetin gs ~ But don't ~ait to
be drafted-just
pitch in
if you have the time.
.Rita LaPorte~ Nati onal
Pr~sident
of DOB, tells
us we're pronouncing
"Bi Lilia " wron g .. Seems
it sho ul d be Bil-eet -us
instead
of Bil-ite-us.
Well we're new.: at thi;s ·!i~nd Boston ians have always been noted for the
unique wa y th ey do thiDgs .
.We're askin g everybod y
to provide herself
with
a last name. By all meansr
creatA one if you wish.
But if you make VOYAG,
E
Sue Smith sounds more
compet ent than s~e s ••
Do let
an officer
know
who you are goin g to be.
(For mAilin g purposes
we 'll continue
to us e
the na mes you hav e already g iven.)
.Arlin gton Str ee t Church
asks that we leav e and
enter by th e door marked " Honeywell Clmpel".
a
The oth er gro ~p mee ting
in the church Frid ay
ni ghts is Th~ Dama3ed
Angels , a coffehouse
with dim li gh ts and
che ckered tableclo t hs.
(s@/Jftl/]{J@
Please fill
it.
Al l co n tr i bu t i o~s in vi te d .
Poet ry-j ok es - or wha t ~ver.
jOri~inAl or an old favorite
.
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(p3,?)
�MAI
DEN VOYAGE
(l-}
NOTICE
.
Bylaws of the national
organization
rule that no DOB newsleiter
·
shAll be sold.
MAID VOYAGEwill also be such a ser vice; subEN
scriptions
are free to rr.e:ribers of DO alon g with their membership ,;.
B
VOYAGE l also appear in th e
wil
our maili r.v list . Thi s is how
be : n~ a nonprofit
or ga~i z8tio n
in ar eas of producti on and circ
otions hav e already mat e rialize
mai l box of any interested
adult on
it shou].d be.
Unfortunately,h
ow
:ever,
co es h ave its problemsespecially
ulation.
Fin~nciAl and staff
limit d.
So much is happenin ~ that is of interest
to us all-a ctivity
within
DOB withi n t he homoph ile comm
,
unity,
and society
at lar ge -th at
1
M
AIDS~ VOYA is sur e to beco me a va 1 ue ble service
GE
th e t can end
shou ld ex~and as we expa nd.
Theref ore •. •
We ne ed your 3up por t,
pl ease-h elp us to grow.
??6n tions ar e requested
a
becaus e we have no oth'3r source
but. the donati on s of 011r member s, friends,
ond interested
of inoo nre-2
pa:r.ties.
·
If you can ai d in produ c tion,
circulation,
reporting-anythin
g,
ple ase let us hear : l"orn you. -:H:--::--::·Y.·
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SUBSCRIPTION
*
Editor,
Edito r: Sos t on Chspt er Newsletter,
* Contact Kelly,c / ct
DOB V.A D~N VOYAGS Box 221
I
,
. •::- Marty
Pruden tial Center Sta ti on,
* Ma iden Voyage or
Busto n,Mass. 02 199
* telephone 581-1869
*
Dea r Edito r :
Ple ss e co n tir.ue
Enclosed
my f ree
subs cr iption
to the MAI EN VOYAG.
D
E
pleas e f ind rny don a ti on (option al!)
#amt·
.
L1cidY'c_~s.:
"ZIP (!OOl
PL EASE COM
PLETE
AND RE TU RN Tn r~ AB OVE FORM PROMPTLY .
•
�MAI EN VOYAGE
D
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VIEWPOINT
The Killin g of Sist er George,
The Fox, The r e se and Is~belle;
what did you think of t h ese movies?
Did they infuriate
you or did
you cons ider them fair portrayals?
It 's obviou s that th er e could be
no one movie or play that depicts
gay life in a nutshell.
Strai ght
life is var ied with thousands of
stories
to tell,
and of course
it's
the same i n the gay ~orld.
But t here is much disag reement
among the homophile community as
to the ac curacy of not only the
movie s mention ed above, but
doz en s of other product i ons.
Is bad publicity
better than !12.
publicity?
And what ·of gay ref er ences in
"straight
films"?
Are you erfended when a superstar
screams
"Di rty qu eer" on th e great sil ve r s cr een? It se ems tha t almo st
every rece nt movi e has s ome kind
of ga y sequ ence in it.
What
VIEWPOINTwants to l earn is how
you feel about either
the refer en ces
or the produ cti ons that actually
have homos exual plot s.
So if you cried when Sis ter Geor ge
was reduced to a "cow", while
t he s tra ight coup le next to you
l augh ed- or if you crin ge when a
script
screams PERVERSIO or
Neven if th at's what you liketh en please let us know. C 1 mon,
ev eryone's
a cri tic!
VIEWPOINT P.O. BOX 221
,
PR
UrENT
IAL CF.NTERSTATION
BOSTO MA
N,
~S.
02199
WHO
WAS BILITIS?
It's
a lon g story,
folks.
Seems that when D.O. B. was
first
organized
they wanted
a name that would give a
clue to the nature of the
or ganization
to it&!',potential memb
ers, while s till
not letting
the strai ght people
-know what was going on. So
they went to French literature,
and found the work
of one Pierre Louys, a hoaxter
who put on vhe whole French
intelligent!ia
• some hundr ed years
ago by tellin g them he'd discoverec
manuscripts
written
by Bilitis,
a girl frien d of Sappho on the
isle of Lesbos, such that woul d
make Sappho's work look lik e
"greasy ki d stuff"? . So all the
French started
r eading Louys
until someone spoiled the fun
by sayin g he saw Louys writin g
the thin gs hims elf by can dleli gh t in a garret room. Poor M.
Louys was reviled
and dis graced,
and has since be en forgotten
by
all but us.
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MAID VOYAG
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CALENDAR
December
20 - 8:30 P. M.: Barty
(Detail
January
2 ..
s elsewhere
at Gran g e Hall in Weare,
in .this issue.)
9:00 P.M.: Busine s s meetin g in Clarke
St.
Chur ch,
355 Boylston
St.
New Hampshire
Room, Arlington
Boston.
10:00 P.M.: Auction of gay books to raise money for
D.O.B. will follow business
meeting.
Everyone is
asked to try to donate
funds : t o bid with also.
a book or two, and bring
Refreshments
will be served.
January
9 ...
8:00 P.M.: Meetin g to hear the tape of the D.O.B.
radio program which was br oadcast Nov. 22 over WMEXo
Meetin g in the Clarke Room, Arlington
St. Church.
Discus s ion will follow.
Re freshments
will be served.
January
16 -
8 :45 P . M.: "What Does Org anized Religion
Say About
Homosexuality?"
.. talk by Edward Harris,
Pastor of
the Arlin g ton St. Church.
Find out why Arlin g ton
St. Church welcom e s D.O.B •• Discussion
and refreshments
will follow.
Clarke Room.
ALL D.O.B. EVE S WILL BEGIN PRO PTLY AT THE ANNOUNCE
NT
M
D TIME.
Meetin g plac es will always be open early f or those who wish to come
early.
Unless oth erwise not ed -women only, please.
COMING
SOONIN BOSTON
DOB
- Formation
o f a commitee to d i r e ct our activities
in law reform
and publ ic e ducati on.
If yo u would lik e to serve on such a
committe e , be sure one of th e officers
is aware of your interest.
- Formation
of a comm ttee to plan parties,
i
danc e s, and social
events.
Let one of the offi c ers know if your interested.
- ~iscussions,
mor e s p eakers,
s po rts events,
and more parties.
Watch your mail for details.
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Focus/Maiden Voyage, a publication of the Boston chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis, 1969-1983
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1969-1983
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The Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) was a lesbian organization founded in 1955 in San Francisco by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon for the purpose of self-knowledge and self-acceptance, public education, involvement in research, and lobbying to change the laws criminalizing homosexuality. Starting primarily as a private social group for lesbians focused on the integration of the lesbian into mainstream society, the aims of the group shifted during the 1960s due to the changing political, social and economic conditions of the decade. The DOB took up political activism to lobby for the rights of lesbians, promoting individualism with a decreased emphasis on societal conformity. During the 1960s many regional chapters were chartered around the country and globally, continuing the organization even after the closing of the San Francisco national office in 1978.<br /><br />The Boston chapter was founded in 1969 during a period when many homophile organizations were forming in Boston. Early leaders of the Boston DOB included Lois Johnson, Shari Barden, and Laura Robin/McMurry, who were prominent promoters of the group and its activities.<br /><br />The Boston chapter published a newsletter, originally entitled <em>Maiden Voyage</em>, until 1971 when it was renamed <em>Focus</em>. The publication runs from December 1969 to October 1983.
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The Maiden Voyage: A Daughters of Bilitis Newsletter/Boston Chapter, 1969 December
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1969-12
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The inaugural issue (volume 1, issue 1) of the newsletter of the Boston chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis. The first 14 issues of the newsletter were called "The Maiden Voyage." The publication was renamed "Focus" in 1971.
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Lesbian newsletters; Newsletters (LGBTQ); Boston (Mass.); Cambridge (Mass.); Daughters of Bilitis
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Daughters of Bilitis
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