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                    <text>April, 1992
Dear President,
You'll remember that we wrote to you last month to invite your
organization to take part in the very first Community
Challenge, a two-mile race for gay organizations and businesses
which we anticipate will become an annual event as part of the
Gay Pride Weekend. Please find enclosed a couple of application
forms for your members. You will remember that we are
encouraging organizations and businesses to enter as many
runners as possible. Simply photocopy one of the application
blanks as many times as you have members who want to run and
then get your members to fill out the forms.
The run will take place on Saturday June 27th at 9 a.m. in
Central Park - the day before the Gay Pride March and Rally.
There will be prizes for the first men's, women's and mixed
teams to get three members home to the finish. In a0dition the
Guy Zelanek Award will b ~ pr~sented to the organiz 3 tion or
business that enters the most runners.
If you have any questions or queries please call (212) 265
6845. In addition if any of your members would like to
volunteer to help on the day as a course marshal please call
Paul Harris on the same number. We look forward to welcoming
your organization to this great new addition to the Gay pride
Weekend.
Sincerely yours,

Jim Battaglia

Tracey Primavera

Race Directors

FRONT RUNNERS NY
BOX 363, VILLAGE STATION , NEW YORK, NY 10014

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Lesbian
Gay

Pricle Run
5-mile run and new 2-mile
Cltallenge 11 team run

Community

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Benefactors: Christopher Street Financial, Inc. •!•
Chelsea Gym •!• N Y Q •!• Nora Beverages USA

SATURDAY
JUNE 27, J 992

9:00 a.m. (2 miles)
9:30 a. m. (5 miles)
CENTRAL PARK
Sponsored by Front Runners NY

ALL RUNNERS WELCOME

Certified, TAC-sanctioned
course. With the cooperation
of the New York Ci~
Department of Paries and
Recreation and the New
York Road Runners Club.
David N. Dinkins, Mayor
Betsy Gotbaum,
Commissioner of Parks
and Recreation
Race Directors: Tracey Primavera &amp;
Jim Battaglia

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90th St. &amp; Fifth Avenue
Entry Fee: $8 through
June ll, $9 through June 26, $10 on race day.
Mail entry form and check (in U.S. funds) payable
to Front Runners NY, Sox 363, Village Station,
New York, NY 10014. Your cancelled check is
your receipt. There will be no confirmation of
your acceptance. Free entry to PWA's.
Numbers may be picked up prior
to the race at the International Running
Center, 9 East 89th Street, NYC; on Friday,
June 26 &gt;- 12 noon-7:30 p.m., and on Saturday,
June 27 &gt;- 7:30-to-8:30 a.m. (2 miles) 7:30-to9:00 (5 miles). No numbers will be issued after
9:00 a.m. on race day. Race day entries will be
limited so please enter early.
They maybe
picked up during the above registration hours.
Size satisfaction subject to availability. Not
guaranteed to late entrants.
Located at the
race start. Items to be checked must be in a bag.
5-miler: lst, 2nd, and 3rd place
overall awards for men and women. Awards for
men and women in the following age categories:
19 &amp; under; 20-24; 25-29; 30-34; 35-39; 40-44;
45-49; 50-54; 55-59; 60 &amp; over. 2-miler: lst
men's team, lst women's team, lst mixed team,
and team with most entrants in race.
Follows race at finish line.
· All entrants eligible for
drawing of merchandise prizes.
For information about the race or Front Runners
NY call 272-724-9700.
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June27 , 1992

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and release any and all rights and claims for damages f may have against the Front Runners NY, the New York Road Runners Club, the
City ol New York, the Department of Parks and Recreation, and any and all sponsors and their representatives, successors, and assigns for
ar&gt;y and all injuries
sullered by me in said event. I attest and verify that f will participate in this event as a footrace entrant, that I am physically fit and have sulliciently
trained for the
completion of this event and my physical condition has been verified by a licensed Medical Doctor. Further, I hereby grant full permission to
any and all the
foregoing to use any photographs , video-tapes, motion pictures, recordings, or any other record of this event for any legitimate purpose.

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If you know anyone who wishes to volunteer for the Lesbian &amp; Gay Pride Run, please call 2 72.724. 9700

Front Runners New
York is a running
club for lesbians ,
gay men, and
support ive nongay
people of all
athletic abilities.

COME
CELEBRATE
JJ YEARS
OF RUNNING
FOR GAY
PRIDE!

Saturda y, June 27, 1992, Central Parle, New Yorlc City
Two Mile Run - 9:00 a.m./Fi ve Mile Run - 9:30 a.m.
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                    <text>10 SAPPHO'S ISLE jUNE 1992

NYCGMC To Premier

"OfRage and

Remerilbraltce"
by Corigliano and Ho_ffinan
at Carnegie Hall

The 150- voice New York City Gay Men's
Chorus will perform "Of Rage and Remembrance," by internationally acclaimed composer john Coriglianio and playwright Wil1iam M. Hoffman, in its New York Premier,
during "PROUD 1" , a concert which will kick
off Gay Pride Week 1992, 8 p.m., Sunday,
june 21, at Carnegie Hall.
Under the direction of Gary Miller, The
NYCGMC will bring to New York audiences
the vocal realization of the third movement
of Corigliano's recently premiered First
Symphony, inspired both by the composer's
feelings of loss. anger and frustration for his
many friends who have died of AIDS, and by
the "The Names Project," or "The Quilt." "Of
Rage and Remembrance;· featuring Metropolitan Opera mezzo- soprano jane Shaulis,
was jointly commissioned by the NYCGMC,
the Seattle Men's Chorus and the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus, with a grant from
Meet the Composer /Reader's Digest, and
the three commissioning groups will join to
present the work during the upcoming GALA
Choruses (Gay and Lesbian Association of
Choruses) tri- annual Choral Festival. june
28-july 4, in Denver, Colorado.
The NYCGMC, concluding its twelfth (and
first all- Carnegie Hall) season, will also sing
World Premiers of works by David Conte and
Dean X johnson. plus popular music and
show tunes including a medley of songs from
"The Gay Nineties," arranged by Mr. johnson,
"Sometimes When We Touch," by Barry
Mann, arranged by Mark Riese, "One More
Time," by Pitchford and Snow. arranged by

Mr. Johnson, "What More Can 1 Say," from
Broadway's "Falsettos," by William Finn, and
special material to celebrate Gay Pride week
by Larry Moore,'incorporating songs by the
Gershwins, Rodgers and Hart, Sheldon Harnick, jule Styne, Noel Coward, and Billy joel.
Tickets to " PROUD ~'' priced at $1 0, $12,
$17, $25,$30, and $50 (Patron) are available
at the Carnegie Hall box office, or from CarnegieCharge, 21 2-247-7800.
In response to the ongoing health crisis,
the membership has voted to create a special NYCGMC AIDS Outreach Program,
which has already disbursed thousands of
dollars to organizations on the front lines in
the fight against AIDS, and continues to find
ways to help its core community through
this crisis. -

LESBIAN
SWITCHBOA RD
212-741-2610

If you want information,
or you'd like someone to talk to ,
· or if you'd like to volunteer,
please call

MONDAY-FRIDAY
6-10 PM

SATURDAY An All New Comedy Show!!
JUNE 13 Featuring Deb Peters, Kelly Brower,
Linda Herskovic &amp;Ann Stengal
$5.00 - Showtime 10pm
SUNDAY Sunset Fishing Trip
JUNE 14 4:30PM- 8:30PM
$25 Includes Rods/Reels &amp; Bait
Buffet on Return to Forever Green
Limited Advanced Sale Tickets Only
WEDNESDAY "No Clue"
JUNE 24 8:30PM - 12:30AM
$5.00 Cover
SATURDAY Fragile Affair
JUNE 27 A Women's Band
$5 Cover
Bar Is avallablr ror Prlvalr Partlrs on Sat.IJrday &amp; Sunday Arternoons.

Bar Opens at 8pm
Sundays 7pm
841 North Broome Avenue, Lindenhurst, N.Y.
On Sunrise Highway (Route 27). 2 blocks east of Wellwood Ave.

(5 16) 226 9357
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,ronf Runn ers New Yorlc
5-mile run and. new 2-mile
Commu nity Cltallen ge 11 team run

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Benefactors: Christopher Street
Financial, Inc. •!• Chelsea Gym
•!• N Y Q ·:· Nora Beverages USA

•Priztts Awardee/ for bolh I1HIS: T-Shirts To AH Finishers
For Info or Race Application, call: (2 J2} 724-9700, or write:
FRNY, P.O. Box 363, ViRoge Slation, New York, NY JOOJ4

Elev entl a
Ann ual
Les bian &amp; Gay
Prid e Run
SATUR DAY
JUNE 27, J 992
9:00 a.m. (2 miles)
9:30 a. m • .(5 miles)
CENTRAL PARK

�JUNE 1992

Not For DeafWomen Only
by Laura Post
Preeminent questions in the feminist cultu ral network are how to communicate with
other lesbians - especially those who seem
very different from ourselves - how to understand each other, how to be inclusive, and how
to coalition. We continue to self- educate about
access and disability, about race/ ethnicity/culture, about age, size, class/ economics, and
about sexuality. Nonetheless, despite apparent
familiarity with the language of deaf lesbians,
the actual knowledge of most hearing lesbians
remains limited to signing, "I fit Wasn't For The
Women" along with Alix Dobkin, recognizing
ASL interpreters who work alongside performers on stage, being able to do the sign for
"I love you" that we nash as Pride Parades, or
fingerspelling our own names.
For example, do you know about the technologies available to deaf people: television
caption decoders and amplification devices;
flashing light, vibrating, and amplified sound
signaling systems for doorbells, smoke alarms,
crying babies, and alarm clocks; TDDs? Do you
reajize that a reconditioned TDD costs $125
and thar new machines are more costly?
Maybe you don't even know what a TDD is; it
connects with a telephone line and translates
the electronic signals into English so that a
deaf person can communicate at a distance.
Are you cognizant of the facts that signed English is different from American Sign, that many
deaf people struggle with English as a second
language, that lip reading garners only 30% of
conversations held at an unselfconscious rate?
You may have heard about Helen Keller and
Anne Sullivan, you may recall the Gallaudet
uprising in whi ch th e deaf students there
demanded a deaf university president, but you
probably don't know that th e first international
congress of deaf women occurr ed at Gallaudet
University in 1 76
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Deaf community and culture

were thought to have little contact with each
other. In 1817, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet,
who had travelled to Europe to study methods
for educating deaf people, established the first
American school for deaf people , which
brought large numbers of deaf people together
for the first time and fostered the development
of a deaf community. Since 90% of deaf people
have two hearing parents, the acquisition of
ASL and the sharing of deaf culture become of
great importance, and the deaf community
often becomes the primary cultural milieu; it is
reported that 80% of deaf people spend their
entire lives surrounded predominantly by
other deaf people. Now, this is all about the
heterosexual deaf community; but doesn't the
process sound a lot like coming out as a
lesbian?

Deaf lesbians
As a lesbian community, we have struggled
with the often mutually exclusive realities of
democratic politics and budget constraints
around ASL interpretation at women's events.
How this becomes actualized is in terms of
excluding deaf lesbians when ASL interpretation does not occur; currently, only a• small
minority of women's cultural events are ASL
interpreted. Catherine DuBois, a lesbian separatist who is blind as well as deaf, and who is
active in the San Francisco Bay Area deaf lesbian community, comments that there is
frequently conflict between the ethics of deaf
lesbians and beliefs of the male-dominated,
homophobic deaf culture (why should deaf
men be any different from hearing men?)
Catherine further points out that "my life is as
important as the life of a hearing lesbian, and I
shouldn't be stuck in the mainstream simply
because of money. Money is not an obstacle; it
represents linea r thinking, a patriarchal mind
set. Deaf lesbians bring many thin gs to hearing
lesbian culture, including money."
Mos t hearing lesbians are not only defi cient
in even th e simples t skills needed to chat wit h

a deaf dyke, but are naive about deaf lesbian
culture, in general, and about ASL specifically.
For example, Marilyn Van Veersen, a lesbian
separatist, who makes her living as an ASL
interpreter for lesbian events, studied ASL for 4
years in a traditional program, then learned
about deaf lesbian culture for 2 more years
before embarking on her career. Even as a
highly trained, highly experienced professioral
interpreter, Marilyn still encounters misunderstandings on the part of well - meaning but illinformed hearing lesbian producers who
imagine her to be some sort of "helper" or
"missionary" (who is merely thanked for volunteering) instead of a trained professional who
should be paid for services.

Lesbian ASL Intensive at the 1992
East Coast Lesbian Festival
Perceiving ASL as "a visual and visionary
part of our new world of lesbian culture,"
Marilyn was motivated to go beyond her interpretation work in building bridges between
deaf and hearing lesbians. Inspired by the
many hearing lesbians who, over the years,
have bemoaned the unavailability of lesbianrelevant ASL, Marilyn developed an ASLIn tensive which will be (i)ffered as a pre-fest prior to
the (4th annual) East Coast Lesbian Festival
-that lesbian-positive space which is known
for its active anti-racistlanti - ableist/antianti-Semitic yet fun atmosphere. (The l99 2
ECLF will feature Alix Dobkin - who is on
sabbatical from touring in 1992 - radical music
healer Kay Gardner, as well as Maxine .Feldman as MC, one of Margie Adams' earliest
comeback festival performances, hot newcomers Pam Hall and susan Herrick, Shelly Mars
(the controversial star of the Monica Von Trent

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teachers will offer an overview of deaf culture
non- verbal communication techniques, and
cultural and practical Dos and Don'ts while
teaching and modeling ASL useful to lesbians.
,Class time will encompass 4 to 6 hours daily;
!there will, of course, be time allotted to explore
•the private lake, tennis courts, and other amenities of the beautiful camp nestled between the
Poconos and Catskills.
During the Intensive (and can be continued
through the festival). students will live in a
silent environment, grouped with lesbians of
equivalent ASL skill and experience. Sleeping
accommodations will consist of special silent
cabins so that, in the evening, students can
practice the lessons learned in common settings and situations. A separate dining area, set
up for Intensive participants, will be reserved
throughout the pre-fest (and can also be continued through the festival) Silent but animated story telling and other social events will
reinforce students' contact with the American
Sign Language and with the world of deaf dykes.
After the pre-fest is over, ASL workshops
will continue, and there will be ample opportunity to practice newly-acquired ASL skills
with deaflesbians and other signers. The 1992
ECLF will happen between Thursday, June 18
and Sunday, June 21; the ASL Intensive pre-fest
will run from Monday, June 15 through Wednesday, June 17. The cost of the ASL Intensive
is only $150; if also registering for the ECLF,
then the Intensive fee is $125. For additional
information about the ASL Intensive or about
the East Coast Lesbian Festival, write to: Particular Productions, 279 Lester Ave. #3, Oakland, CA 94606 or call (51 0) 763-9228. Laura P ison thestaj{o(several nationalfeministpublicaost
tionsand has lvrillen previous[vabout IVomen ·s nwsic. athletics. politics. mental and pl~vsical health. and sewalitv. in
addition to her monthly syndicated column. "Muse Nell's ..
Many thanks to Catherine DuBois. Elizabeth Fides. Lin
Daniels. Man[vn Van veerscn. and R
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and ideas shared andfeedback gracious[v g1 in tlie prepaven
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/rom Baker and Padden. American Sign Language. TJ PubIJshers. Silver Spring. MD 1978 and (rom Holcomb and \Vood
and Dea(\Vomen. DawnSign Press.' Berkeley CA. 1989. Much

film , "The Virgin Machine"), the Canadian band
The Heretics, and other surprises. The 199 2
ECLF will also house a planning meeting for
th e International Lesbian Healers Conference
to be held at the 1993 ECLF).
Th e lesbian ASL Intensive will take place
during th e three days pri or to ECLF. In a nonthrea tening atmosphere, women will ease into
th e fundamentals of ASL through gesture, ~~;::t~~~ti~~t~oc~~~~;i~ ~~nu~~~;sen for in terpreting theconmim e, and laughter. Experience d deaf lesbian , _ _ _ __:_::...:..:....~.:.::..:..:::.__ _ _ _ __

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.- ..-PRIDE
Friday
June 26, 1992

Saturday
June 27, 1992

Rutgers Church (73rd st. and Broadway)
7:30 - 11:00 p.m . .
Welcome Party! Out-of-town Front Runners meet hosts
at dessert party. You may also pick up number, race
packet, and t-shirt for the run tomorrow.
Central Park (90th Street &amp; Fifth Ave)
Lesbian and Gay Pride Run &amp; Community Chal l enge
8:00 a.m.
Volunteer Call
9:00 a.m.
Community Challenge Start
9:30 a.m.
Pride Run Start
ll'ish
Raffle &amp; Awards Ceremony
Union Square Park (14th - 17th st Between University
Pl. and Broadway)
The Rally
2 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Featuring speakers, comedy/perfor mances,
and music. Check Pride Guide, p. 13 for details.
Sound Factory Bar
Lesbian and Gay Pride Run Celebration Dance
9 - 11 p.m.
Come join volunteers and runners dancing, partying,
and watching video highlights of the day's runs.
Free admission with complimentary pass in Welcome
and Race Packets.

Sunday
June 28, 1992

Fifth Avenue (starting at E 59th Street)
The Lesbian ·and Gay Pride March
12:30 p.m. - ?
March with Front Runners NY, line-up at 61st Street
between Madison and Park Ave, time is scheduled for
12:45. Consult Pride Guide, p. 16, for more
information.
West lOth Street Pier, NYC
The Dance
Fireworks at sunset and 10 PM.
An event not to be believed!
Consult Pride Guide,
p. 19, for more information.
4:00 to 10:30 p.m. $15.00 on June 28
Farewell to out-of-town Front Runners!

Keep the Pride Guide handy and enjoy your weekend in the City.

FRONT RUNNER S NY
BOX 363, VILLAGE STATION, NEW YORK, NY 10014

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