Seattle Gay News from Seattle, Washington • 17

Continued from previous page Richard Chamberlain: have worked with Richard for six years and he is heterosexual People come up with the most horrifying stories GETTING ABSOLUTELY weary of this whole debate about whether or not it will hurt career to come out of the closet As Rita ae Brown once said heard all the excuses honey And all shit More Russo WOULD BE AR better for our politicians to encourage homosexuals to be neutered and for society to regard them with a sense of Rev Gor don Henderson of Hobart Tasmania Australia's Church of Christ sug gesting an alternative to decriminaliz ing Gay male sex as reported in Adelaide's GALAH WHO DO NOT seem to be able to overcome their homosexual urges or who maintain that it is possi ble to adopt a third way living in an am biguous state between celibacy and marriage must be dismissed from the religious life A new Vatican report on priestly celibacy GLAAD announces winners of first annual media awards CBS's As The World Turns andDoo tor Doctor recently won (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) Broadcast awards Mario Thomas presented honors and hus band Phil Donahue hosted first Media Awards in New York on April 29 Mayer David Dinkins in at tendance The famed TV talk show host also received Person of the award for ex cellence in coverage and support of Gay and Lesbian Executive producer Laurence Casto accepted the award for As The World Turns and writer David Blum for Doc tor Doctor at the benefit held at the Tower Suite atop the Time and Life Building The awards called GLAADs were instituted spotlight and honor positive achievements by print and broadcast media on ay and Lesbian concerns or Broadcast News or both The AIDS Quarterly (PBS) for coverage of the medical and personal sides of the AIDS crisis and Common Threads: Stories rom The Quilt (HBO) a documentary about the creation of the Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt received awards Newsweek was honored in the standing Print category for its special edition on the st Century which included Gays and Les bians John television critic for the New York Times also received the award for Print for reporting by an individual writer Kudos went to Time magazine for Improved National Reporting on Gay and Lesbian and to the New York Daily News for Im proved New York Area Coverage of Gay and Lesbian The Village Voice was singled out to receive an award for new York Area Coverage of Gay and Lesbian In a ceremony to be held later the Los Angeles chapter of GLAAD will pre sent its most improved local coverage award to The Dos Angeles Times are very pleased to honor the winners of irst Media said Craig Davidson Ex ecutive Director of GLAAD media play an important part in for mulating perception of the Gay and Lesbian community and these awards have been created to recognize accurate and positive portrayals by the media with the hope that others will do the Two co founders of GLAAD noted writer Vito Russo and Marcia Pally contributing writer Penthouse also were on hand to single out certain in dividuals and organizations that have perpetrated prejudice and defamation against Gays and Lesbians During the evening special recogni tion was given to certain individuals and organizations including Harvey ierstein for the film Torch Song Trilogy BobHopefor his publicservice announcements condemning homophobia and anti Gay violence and the United States Postal Service for issuing a postmark com memorating the 20 th anniversary of Stonewall the beginning of the Gay and Lesbian rights movement Dionne Warwick and Mayor Bradley announce plans for Third Annual AIDS Benefit Gala to be held in Los Angeles LOS ANGELES CA Am bassador of Health Dionne Warwick and Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley held a press conference at the reversal Amphitheater on May 17 to announce the exciting events planned for the Warwick Third Annual AIDS Education and Benefit Gala to be held June 25 through July 1 Also participating were former Seat tleite Paul Kawata executive director of the National inority A IDS Council (coordinators of up to 15 city cites) representatives from Telesis Produc tions NHK Enterprises USA Ina (producers of the telecast) and the representatives from Los Angeles area radio station sponsors The benefit will be kicked off by a five part five day AIDS educational series beginning on Monday June 25 and culmmating on Saturday une 30 Each segment will focus on diverse AIDS related issues ranging from health care professionals to Gay and Bisexual concerns All educational events will be open and free of charge to the public Quantum stereotypes rom the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation newsletter Recently the NBC adventure series Quantum Leap had an episode in which a Lesbian tried to kill her lover who wanted to leave her for a man Earlier this year a story line involved two adult men who kidnapped and tried to rape a 16 year old boy What is most upsetting is that Quan tum Leap has gained praise for cham pioning traditional underdogs such as women confronting sexual harass ment Blacks facing racial bigotry and a mentally retarded boy who faced the ignorance and fear of his family and co workers Yet the show has never had an episode abou the scorn and discrimina tion Gay people face! Instead given the worst negative stereotypes of murderous Lesbians and child molesting Quantum Leap owes us an accurate and accepting picture of ays and Les bians to balance the stereotypes it has reinforced Write to Donald Belisarius Executive Producer Quan tum Leap Belisarius Productions 100 Universal City Plaza Universal City CA 91608 But in contrast in April Designing Women aired an episode in which Suzanne contacts an old friend Eugenia who turns out to be a Lesbian The episode was overall honest and praiseworthy As Suzanne accepts Eugenia for who she is she discovers they are a lot alike Ask thatEugenia(whoontheshowis a weatherwoman at a local TV station) become a recurring character Write Linda Bloodworth Thomason Ex ecutive Producer Designing Women Mozark Productions Columbia Pic tures Television Production Building8 Burbank CA 91505 ALCOHOL IS NOT A SAE LUBRICANT DRUGS AECT YOUR ALCOHOL AND HIGH YOUR RISK AIDS QUESTIONS? MM 24 I HIGH I June 1990 Seattle Gay News 17 HIGH RISK.