Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 18:34:47 +1000 From: PRIDE Subject: PRIDE E|Newsletter PRIDE E|Newsletter ------------------ 12.11.97 ------------------------------------ PRIDE's Queer New Year's Eve @ PRIDE FitXgym Funny Farm Republick World AIDS Day 1997 Queensland Gay & Lesbian Summer Festival International Lesbian and Gay Association Melbourne Gay & Lesbian Chorus Sydney.Sidewalk Pauline Pantsdown: I'm a Back Door Man Download Clinton The lesbian cyberspace biography Disability rights advocacy Leather buisiness Vile + wigs #cyberbeat Online Queer Digital Film Festival + The URL-minder ------------------------------------ ---> PRIDE's Queer New Year's Eve Tickets NOW on sale ONLY from PRIDE 10-6 M-F. 9331 1333. $65/35. http://cybersyd.rainbow.net.au/pride/queer-nye.htm ---> @ PRIDE Talkzone: This month's topic: Hope http://cybersyd.rainbow.net.au/pride/ and follow the links. Tell us what topic you'd like to see. Mailto:pride@rainbow.net.au?Subject=Talkzone NEW! HIV/AIDS links page http://cybersyd.rainbow.net.au/pride/links-HIV-AIDS.htm PRIDE Board. There is a male vacancy available. If you would be interested in becoming a PRIDE Director please forward a 200 word expression of interest to - The Secretary, PO Box 7, Darlinghurst 2010. Call Bronte on 9331 1333 for more information. NSW Interest group for psychologists interested in lesbian & gay issues. Nov 19 @6.30pm. Kevin 9231 4180. BlackOUT BBQ + meeting. Nov 22 @ 1.30pm. BYO. Keith 9206 2095 mailto:blackout@rocketmail.com http://cybersyd.rainbow.net.au/pride/corroboree.htm 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 Lesbian and Gay Anti-Violence Project free self-defence courses (Mixed/Queer) Nov 15 & 16 1-6:30pm 02 9360 6687 or 1800 637 360 ---> FitXgym FitX Gym is the queerest gym in Sydney. It is the only community run gay and lesbian gym in Sydney. FitX Gym at the PRIDE Centre is the happy home for many gay, lesbian, transgender and bi people who prefer the alternative atmosphere we provide. The Gym runs the Positive Access Program (PAP) for people who are HIV positive. Our specially trained staff work with each client to create individual programs to suit their special needs. With just the finishing touches to go on our renovations we 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 ---> Funny Farm Returns Sunday December 7 8pm @ Kinselas. Tickets $10/8 only from Aussie Boys and PRIDE. http://cybersyd.rainbow.net.au/pride/funnyfarm.htm ---> Republick The Australian Constitution: http://senate.aph.gov.au/blackrod/Aust_Const/const.html Australians for Constitutional Choice: http://www.ultra.net.au/~wisby/acc/ The Australian Republican Debate Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/4547/ The Australian Republic Issue: A Guide: http://www.edfac.usyd.edu.au/staff/souters/republic.html Women's Constitutional Convention. YWCA and WEL NSW are organising an information booth to be held at: Sydney Square, Town Hall, Thursday 13 November 1997 from 12 noon. mailto:amatista@ozemail.com.au http://www.womensconv.dynamite.com.au/ Australians for a Constitutional Monarchy: http://www.mq.edu.au/~philosop/acm.html Australian Green republic campaign: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~greenvic/republic.htm The Monarcist Legue http://www.monarchist.org.au/ Australian Republican Movement: http://www.republic.org.au Buck House: http://www.royal.gov.uk/ Australian Electoral Commission: Constitutional Convention election: http://www.aec.gov.au/cce/contents.htm ---> World AIDS Day NSW WAD Home features images from posters created by children for WAD last year: http://home.rainbow.net.au/wad/ A Day Without Graphics is the day the Internet turns off graphics on World AIDS Day. The event is designed for all people with Web Pages to participate by posting the Day Without Graphics logo and then turning off their graphics and changing page color to black and text to white on December 1, 1997: http://www.cyberzine.org/html/WAD/ Day Without Art: http://www.creativetime.org/dwa/ The theme for the 10th annual World AIDS Day is "Children Living In A World With AIDS": http://www.avert.org/worldaid.htm UNAIDS: http://www.us.unaids.org/highband/events/wad/index.html "The Little Brothers of Positive Joy first manifested at World AIDS Day 1991 on Pitt St Mall, Sydney, where we proclaimed our empowered, HIV+ status by proudly wearing our the mark of Positive Joy and holding out begging bowls to passers-by. We marched in several parades and demos, and performed the occasional exorcism as well as the consecration of sacred sites. And there were some secret ceremonies, but they're a secret ..." http://www.healey.com.au/~kobios/!lbpj_01.htm ---> 1997 Queensland Gay & Lesbian Summer Festival This site has been designed to allow you to easily access information pertaining to the festival. Includes: Festival Calendar; The on-line voting form for the Wonderland Awards. http://www.rainbow.net.au/~sumrfest/ ---> International Lesbian and Gay Association The Australasian section will be having an inaugural meeting to discuss ILGA, our region, what we can do and where we want to go on Sudnay, 16 November 1997 from 10am to 4pm at the Green Iguana Cafe, 6 King St, Newtown, just up from the University. Fired up from Re:Activate, why not come and check us out. For more information, please contact Jennifer Wilson mailto:jennifer@ilga.org http://www.macman.org/ilga/ ---> Melbourne Gay & Lesbian Chorus ... has recently been approved to be listed on the "Register of Cultural Organisations". Being listed on the Register now allows all donations to the Chorus of $2.00 or more to be claimed as a Tax Deductibility. With the Chorus embarking on their first overseas tour to Europe for the Gay Games next year, they are currently seeking donations and/or sponsors to help raise funds for this inaugural event. If you would like to make a Tax Deductible donation, you can contact the Chorus at PO Box 142, Coburg,VIC, 3058 or mailto:mglc@ozemail.com.au or Philip Platon on 03 9563 1027 http://www.ozemail.com.au/~mglc/ ---> Sydney.Sidewalk Check out the gay and lesbian category of http://sidewalk.com.au/ which launched on October 30. Microsoft has launched a number of Sidewalks across the US but the Sydney site is the only one to feature a gay and lesbian section. Sydney Sidewalk is published by Microsoft and PBL. Feedback welcome! - Bernie Sheehan mailto:v-bernis@microsoft.com ---> Pauline Pantsdown: I'm a Back Door Man "please explain, please explain, thank you" ... to download a copy (real audio format) of this controversial piece of political satire ... http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/5192/index.html ---> Download Clinton "We're talking about how people in the public arena, as citizens, should be treated in terms of their right to education, to jobs, to housing, and to be treated free of discrimination. And that is the agenda that I want to further for all Americans. And that is what I think we ought to be focusing on"http://library.whitehouse.gov/ThisWeek.cgi?type=p&date=2&briefing=0 Text of the President's speech to the Human Rights Campaign Fund: http://library.whitehouse.gov/ThisWeek.cgi?type=p&date=3&briefing=1 ---> The lesbian cyberspace biography Chance for all lesbians throughout the world who can find access to the Internet to write their own stories, contribute snapshots, pictures, poems,artwork, music scores, video Quicktime movies and become part of a global network. Make lesbian biography in cyberspace! http://www.echonyc.com/~lesbians/bio.html ---> Disability rights advocacy OZADVOCACY is an information dissemination and discussion list for people interested in disability rights in Australia. The focus of the list is Australia-specific - Australian events, issues and legislation. To subscribe to OZADVOCACY, send a message saying: subscribe OZADVOCACY your name in the body to mailto:listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu A similar list focusing specifically on *psychiatric* disability (and mental health consumer/survivor movement) issues also exists. To subscribe, send a message saying: subscribe OZMAD [your name] to mailto:listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu - Ria Strong mailto:strong@infoxchange.net.au Gadabout (Gay and disabled) is a social group for gay men and lesbians with physical and/or sensory disabilities. We offer peer support, promote social interaction and aim to educate the gay and general community towards a better understanding of gay people with disabilities. http://avoca.vicnet.net.au/~gadabout/ Deaf Queer Resource Centre. "Proudly promoting Deaf Queer visibility on the Web!": http://www.deafqueer.org/ Disability Information Network Australia: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~dina/ Australian travel guide for people with disabilities: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~bruceeaa/ Oulook Magazine: http://www.iinet.net.au/~outlook/ Disability on the net: http://theguru.com/pkts/pkts7.htm NSW Attorney General's standard of accessible web design for government websites, in order to increase the accessibility of websites to: People with disabilities; People lacking multi-media computer functions; People using non-current web browsers; People from non-English speaking backgrounds (where relevant). http://www.agd.nsw.gov.au/standards.html ---> Leather buisiness Whips by Metz is a small business that specialises in whips for the Leather/SM community:http://www.atrax.net.au/userdir/grrlie/catalog.htm Sax Leather. This site contains a comprehensive and inspiring array of exciting new products, together with plenty of proven favourites: http://www.saxleather.com.au/ The Toolshed: http://www.outinsydney.com.au/toolshed/ Eagle Leather: http://www.also.org.au/contents/1232d.html Novaskin Leather. Chaps, jackets, shorts, pants - custom made: http://www.rainbow.net.au/~novaskin Australian Leather Clubs and similar interest clubs: http://www.ion.com.au/pig-n-pup/pig/lclubs.htm ---> Vile + wigs "A true story about nasty people with expensive jewelery - no names have been changed and no sordid details have been omitted. These events took place exactly as they are described ..." http://www.rainbow.net.au/~zedski/about.htm "High above the city of Sydney a team of hairdressers has siezed a building, taken hostages and declared PARTY!!! One man has managed to escaped... An off-duty fag hiding somewhere inside. He's alone, tired ... and the only chance homosexuality has got." http://www.ozemail.com.au/~kabi/ww3.htm Visit the WIGworld and WIGworldII homo pages to view photos of previous year's events, and check the WIGworldIII homo page to hear testimonials from last year's hostess with the mostest, the lovely Ms Beverly Hills and 1996 winner of the inaugural "Sequin on a Rat's Arse Award", the previously unknown Ken Dobson, have to say about this extraordinary social occassion. STONEWALL Saturday November 22nd Dress code : WIGS MANDATORY and NO WIG PULLING!! Entry is by pre-sale ticket only, available from November 5th for $15.00 by contacting : mailto:kabi@ozemail.com.au ---> #cyberbeat ... was a project being undertaken by {asterix} as part of his Masters of Public Health at UNSW. The primary aim of this project was to investigate the impact that Internet Relay Chat (IRC) has on the development/determination of sexuality among young gay males, the reasons why gay men use IRC and what sense of community they derive from it ..." http://www.entopia.com.au/cyberbeat/ The Internet and Usenet Global Computer Networks. An investigation of their culture and its effects on new users. A Masters thesis by Tim North: http://www.vianet.net.au/~timn/thesis/ Official #gayteen www page: http://.youth.org/gayteen/ #GAYYOUTH http://www.rixy.fl.net.au/gayyouth/ #boys http://www.shadow.net.au/boys/ #ozgay http://www.queer.org.au/~ozgay/ "I started noticing other male bodies a few months before my eleventh birthday. I have often wondered if initially it was an attraction, or just a curiosity that I had about what my body might one day be like ..." http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Heights/4587/ ---> Online Queer Digital Film Festival + Throughout the month of November the PopcornQ Online Cinema is proud to host the FIRST ONLINE QUEER DIGITAL FILM FESTIVAL -- co-presented with the MIX: NEW YORK EXPERIMENTAL LESBIAN & GAY FILM/VIDEO FESTIVAL (November 6-16, 1997). Stop by and take a look at all the talents and treats we have in store for you at: http://www.planetout.com/pno/popcornq/fests/digital_film_fest.html Featuring HAIRLESS by Janelle Higgins and THE NUN STORY by Charles LoVerme! With more movies coming soon! http://www.echonyc.com/~mix/ Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/ The Bad Seed: http://www.the-magic-city.com/badseed/default.htm Killers, Rogues, Vampires and Fish: Lesbianism In Film: "The stereotypes about Lesbians are intricately woven into society, and its control process and class structure. Stereotypes are not an objective body of characteristics, but are rooted in the fundamental mechanics of how to control behaviour and maintain the status quo. There would be no need to give Lesbians the right, for example, to raise their own children, if we are all seen as murderers..." http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/6271/ "In a hundred years of movies, homosexuality has only rarely been depicted on the screen. When it did appear, it was there as something to laugh at -- or something to pity -- or even something to fear. These were fleeting images, but they were unforgettable, and they left a lasting legacy ..." http://www.movienet.com/movienet/sonycl/celluloid/misc/history.html "From experience it is pretty damn difficult to find reviews on those gay movies (non-porn!) you want to see or rent. My aim is to please you, by delivering the information you want. Whether it be about an actor or film ..." http://www.rainbow.net.au/~dvs/ --->The URL-minder ... will monitor the Web page at this address for you and send you e-mail whenever it detects changes in the page content. 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