Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 18:12:57 +1000 From: PRIDE Subject: PRIDE E|Newsletter PRIDE E|Newsletter ------------------ 23.11.97 ------------------------------------ PRIDE's Queer New Year's Eve @ PRIDE Same-sex relationships picket 7am this Tuesday Funny Farm World AIDS Day 2002 Republick Fund delavirdine now! The New Pollution The South Coast Women's Music and Arts Festival Australia 1998 Defend native title Gay & Lesbian Chorus' New Graffiti Walls on Pinkboard Lesbian Research Participants Wanted Getting to grips with HIV viral load + Greek paper available for download The Gay & Lesbian Star Trek Home Page E|Newsletter request ------------------------------------ ---> PRIDE's Queer New Year's Eve To preserve the culture and integrity of events and celebrations organised by and for the lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual and queer communities, PRIDE will only be selling tickets for the ENCHANTED QUEER NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTY to partygoers who identify themselves as bona fide members of those communities. Tickets NOW on sale ONLY from the PRIDE Centre, 26 Hutchinson St, Surry Hills 10-6 M-F. 9331 1333. $60/35. http://cybersyd.rainbow.net.au/pride/queer-nye.htm ---> @ PRIDE Martial arts every Saturday 11-1 and Thursday 5.45-7. Info 9130 8064. Transgender Support. Fridays @ 6:30pm mailto:neuter@cat.org.au http://www.cat.org.au/ultra/ts.html With just the finishing touches to go on our renovations FitXGym are seeking new members. We would like to offer PRIDE members a special discount! Just show us your PRIDE membership tag and get 10% off out already low yearly membership. Offer valid until 31 December 1997. Phone: (02) 9361-3311 http://cybersyd.rainbow.net.au/pride/fitx.htm mailto:FitXGym@yahoo.com NEW! HIV/AIDS links page http://cybersyd.rainbow.net.au/pride/links-HIV-AIDS.htm ---> Same-sex relationships picket A picket at the rear of Parliament House (NSW) has been arranged for this coming Tuesday, November 25, at 7 am. The picket is in response to the 1995 election promise from the NSW government to change the laws covering de-facto relationships so that the legal status of same sex couples becomes the same as heterosexual couples. mailto:glrl@rainbow.net.au ---> Funny Farm The date for the next Funny Farm is *now Sunday December 14 @ Kinselas, Taylor Square from 8 pm. Tickets are $10/8 and available at the door and through the PRIDE centre. This is our Christmas special and we will show you what we have in our Xmas stockings! http://cybersyd.rainbow.net.au/pride/funnyfarm.htm ---> World AIDS Day AIDS Trust & City of Sydney Food & Wine Fair. Saturday November 29 at Hyde Park, free entertainment including Jenny Morris, Anique Lamerduc, Phil Scott and Jon Biggins, Gary Scale, Genevieve Lemon, Colin Salter, etc. Fifty of Sydneys top restaurants will be selling their food to be washed down with a glass or two of delicious wine or champagne. http://www.sydneycity.nsw.gov.au/visiting/calendar.htm#november On World AIDS Day (12/1/97) AIDS Action Council will launch its first-ever electronic march on Washington. The "Until its Over e-March" will take place on AIDS Action's website at http://www.aidsaction.org Please post this to others who might be interested. Thanks. - Amy Hendren New York-based Immunet, a non-profit HIV & AIDS education Web channel, in association with Amazon.com and the University of Illinois' "AIDS Book Review Journal," is proud to commemorate World AIDS Day this December 1st with the launch of the Immunet AIDS Bookstore at the Immunet web site (http://www.immunet.org). This marks the opening of the first online AIDS bookstore. By buying from Immunet's AIDS Bookstore, buyers of HIV/AIDS titles can help non-profit Immunet. "The answer to finding a cure for AIDS lies in a thousand tiny pieces," says Mark F. Johnson, chairman and founder of Immunet. And it is Immunet's mission and responsibility to help put together as many of these pieces as possible, through the wide and free dissemination of information on HIV/AIDS and available treatment options. A tribute to the late Sydney activist Tony Carden, who died two years ago after helping raise a million dollars for the AIDS ward at St Vincent's Hospital, can be found at http://now-voyager.com/chapters/friends/friends.htm NSW WAD: http://home.rainbow.net.au/wad/ ---> 2002 We Won! Welcome Home Party for Sydney 2002 Gay Games bid team @ the Banana Bar - Taylor Square - Sunday, Nov 29 @ 5 pm. Entry by gold coin donation. http://www.sydney2002.org.au/gaygames.html ---> Republick Swinburne University has established a web site for a Virtual Constitutional Convention. The site contains links to all the relevant resources we can find, together with a space for discussion of the issues surrounding the Republic debate and constitutional reform in general. We are very keen to ensure that participation in our discussions is as inclusive as possible. The URL is: http://link.net.au/21aust/html/virtual_convention.html - Dr Michael Tomlinson The webpage for the Australian Reconciliation Ticket standing for the Constitutional Convention election in NSW can be found at http://mercy.org.au/RECONCILIATION In addition to policy statements etc. this provides curriculum vitae for the candidates, the text of their recent speeches and contact details. - Lynn Pollack ---> Fund delavirdine now! Representatives of a number of organisations, including PLWH/A (NSW) and the Australasian Society for HIV Medicine have been lobbying Michael Wooldridge, the Minister for Health & Family Services, regarding the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee's (PBAC) recent recommendation that delavirdine not be listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS). The PLWH/A Committee urges our friends to support this campaign by sending the following letter to Michael Wooldridge (download the full text from http://cybersyd.rainbow.net.au/pride/events/support/plwha-delavirdine.htm) mailto:plwha@rainbow.net.au ---> The New Pollution ... is an online and inprint zine anthology and zinemaking guide myself and other pod crew are making for the loud! media festival happening in Jan 98....see more at http://evolver.loud.org.au/nupoo If you know any of any sexuality related ziens, we'd love to get them sent to our address : the pod, 3/231 king st, newcastle nsw 2300 asap or they can just email theyre url if theyre online.... cheerz... - Sean Healy mailto:%20evolver@loud.org.au And Remember kids, Boycott Shell http://evolver.loud.org.au/action/ogoni/ ---> The South Coast Women's Music and Arts Festival Australia 1998 ...will take place 3 hours down the South Coast from Sydney at a stunning site with cabins,a lake,deserted beach, camping,workshops, craft and girlzzz. Dates are 6 to 8 February 1998. Some of the performers include Judy Small, Erika's Jive,Bdingi Birds, Anique Lamerduc,Muse(lebian music collective),Witch Witch band. There will be bellydancing, aboriginal storytelling,lesbian intimacy and heaps more. The festival is seeking expressions of interest in terms of advertising or sponsorship to make it a sucess. - mignon lee-warden ---> Defend native title I please urge everyone to consider creating a link and using an image (from indiginet) from your site to the url listed below and sending an email to the office of the Primeminister John Howard and telling him of the shame associated with the Australian Governments 10 point plan. http://www.indiginet.com.au/defend.html Defend Native Title ....let Wik stand!!! - cam goold IndigiNet mm Hello Everyone, My anti racism (anti Wik legislation) web site is now operational. http://www.nativetitle.org This is an interactive website. You fill in your name and address, and a fax is sent to the Prime Minister telling him what a bad boy he has been. You get to place ticks next to the paragraphs you want in the fax. This only takes 1 minute of your time too. So tell everyone who has never been an activist before. It's easier than ever to lobby the PM now that we have the Internet. I have put a lot of work into this system to minimize the amount of effort required on your part. Please visit the website now! There is serious talk of a double dissolution and an election on race issues. You need to act now! - Daniel The Senate has agreed to accept petition signatures obtained over the Internet. Information and links to details of the Senate's procedures concerning email petitions are also provided @ http://www.austlii.edu.au/unsw/centres/ilc/ where you will find a petition on the Wik decison. New site: Land rights Queensland http://www.faira.org.au/lrq/ If you would like more information about the Australians for Native Title campaign you can find details at http://www.nativetitle.aust.com You can also find details about Liberal politicians and others who do not support the legislation at http://www.peg.apc.org/~greenleft/welcome.html ---> Gay & Lesbian Chorus' Melbourne Gay & Lesbian Chorus presents "Festive Fun", a Christmas fund raising concert at Gasworks Theatre, 21 Graham Street, Albert Park. Saturday 13 December at 7.30 pm and Sunday 14 December at 1.00 pm. Tickets available at Hare & Hyena Bookshops, Gasworks or MGLC (Heather ph/fax 03 9499 7062 mailto:heather.birch@ onaustralia.com.au). http://www.ozemail.com.au/~mglc/ 11th hour cancellation of fundraiser for Canberra Gay & Lesbian Qwire + others in Parliament House: Protest! http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/1494/Protest.htm ---> New Graffiti Walls on Pinkboard Coming Out III is helping people to come to terms with their sexuality. There are many stories of people who are coming out or have come out, and even a few of people who havce decided to stay in the closet. If you are thinking of coming out this should help you see that you are not alone. If you have experiences that you would like to share, please scrawl them here. http://www.pinkboard.com.au/cgi/Graffiti/ComingOut3 The Love Graffiti Walls have been dedications of love till now. With Love 4 I hope to find out the secrets of the perfect relationship. You are still welcome to leave your tidings of love, but also tell us why you love them and how you keep are going to keep them. http://www.pinkboard.com.au/cgi/Graffiti/Love4 The Bitchin' Graffiti Wall is now in its 5th installment and ready for your hot new bitches. Don't just write that letter to the editor. Leave a note on Pinkboard too. http://www.pinkboard.com.au/cgi/Graffiti/Bitchin5 - love Panther ---> Lesbian Research Participants Wanted I have been on this list for a while and am looking for volunteers to participate in a research project. I am posting this message in several places and apologize if you have received it already. I am a graduate student in Counselling Psychology at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. I am a lesbian who is interested in the dynamics of therapy between lesbian clients and therapists. I'm doing a research project on how lesbian clients experience therapy with lesbian feminist therapists. Lesbians who are or have been in individual therapy with a lesbian feminist therapist are needed to volunteer to complete a survey. Respondents must have been in this therapy for at least six months. The survey is a 60-item questionnaire that takes about 15 minutes to complete. If you are willing to participate, please access the questionnaire at my web site at and follow the directions there. Alternatively, if you don't have convenient Internet access, please send me an e-mail message at with your name and address. I will mail you a copy of the questionnaire with a stamped envelope. I greatly appreciate your participation or other assistance with this project. - Terry Spier ---> Getting to grips with HIV viral load + Part One of this feature examined the log scale, which is often used to describe viral load results, and Part Two explored the differences between the different commercial viral load tests. This third part focuses on the use of viral load test results in untreated people to predict the risk of disease progression. http://aids.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa102997.htm HIV Infection: Consensus on How to Treat is Gradually emerging With the Publication of More Guidelines: http://www.medscape.com/adis/DTP/1997/v09.n11/dtp0911.05/dtp0911.05.html The Terrence Higgins Trust/National AIDS Manual booklet: "Treatment Issues - a guide to medical treatment options for people with HIV & AIDS can be viewed online at: http://www.tht.org.uk/treatment/treat.htm Alternatively, for a free hard copy please email mailto:info@tht.org.uk or call +44 171 831 0330 between 2-5pm (GMT) Monday - Friday. - Debbie Lampon mailto:debbiel@tht.org.uk http://www.tht.org.uk The AIDS Info BBS database webpage has been upgraded. Not to graphics, which seem inappropriate, but with 1) a local search feature (written by Joseph S. Bui) 2) a great list of LINKS (compiled by Bob Munk) to all sorts of other AIDS databases: http://aidsinfobbs.org and direct to the LINKS: http://aidsinfobbs.org/resourcelinks.html ---> Greek paper available for download O Pothos, the monthly newspaper of Greece's Homosexual Initiative of Thessaloniki, is available for download on the World Wide Web through the Adobe Acrobat Reader 3 plug-in, which will reproduce an exact copy of the publication: http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Heights/2958/ Amfi Magazine http://users.hol.gr/~ulman/amfienglish.htm Cruising in Athens: http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/3278/cruise.htm ---> The Gay & Lesbian Star Trek Home Page "The show's politics reflect its historical roots. It was born as "Star Trek" in 1966, in the bright afterglow of President John F. Kennedy's 'Camelot' ..." http://www.gaytrek.com/welcome2.html The Klingon Language Institute http://www.kli.org/KLIhome.html "Beverly was the first to break the embrace, a huge smile on her flushed face, 'I've been wanting to do that for so long.' she said. 'I know.' replied an equally flushed Deanna ..." http://www.techplus.com/krprior/dearest.txt ---> E|Newsletter request I am looking to upgrade the E|Newsletter archives to make them searchable. Some assistance with the technicalities would be useful. Please contact me at mailto:pride@rainbow.net.au if you can/want to help. Also submissions to the E|Newsletter are always welcome. 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