From: blaine@well.com (Blaine Waterman) Subject: Newsletter For Gay/Bisexual Men With Disabilities Date: 10 Jul 1996 00:15:21 GMT ABLE-TOGETHER P O B 460053 SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94146 Voice Mail - US: 415-522-9091/Voice Mail - UK: 01453 832782 INTERNET: http://www.well.com/~blaine/abletog.html E-Mail:blaine@well.com ABLE-TOGETHER is a quarterly international newsletter serving gay and bisexual disabled and disability-aware nondisabled men; A-T's Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall issues are published out of San Francisco, California at the end of the months of January, April, July and October. A-T has postal subscribers across the US and in Canada, the UK and elsewhere across the globe. You can buy A-T at certain gay/progressive bookstores across the US, and also in the UK. ABLE-TOGETHER's forty-eight page Spring, 1996 issue has one hundred and twenty five subscribers' personal contact ads listed with an expanded editorial section seeking to discuss current and disability issues from a perspective which emphasizes the generation of positive feeling in interpersonal relationships. Subscribers are encouraged to contribute letters, opinions and articles to A-T. ABLE-TOGETHER applies all subscription, sales and donation revenues to production, advertising and outreach costs. A-T's international outreach program includes sending informational materials and flyers to independent living centers and to the disabled students' programs and the gay and lesbian students' associations of colleges in the US and Canada; A-T advertises in US regional gay newspapers, and nationally in publications such as New Mobility, Advocate Classifieds and The Disability Rag, and in Disability Now and Gay Times in the UK. ABLE-TOGETHER full-year subscribers only may submit a personal contact ad for publication for as long as the subscription is active; the ad may be box#-coded for privacy; A-T does not profit from forwarding replies to coded ads, but we do ask that responders reimburse us for our forwarding postage costs (mostly this will be a 32 ct stamp); A-T reserves the right to edit ads for length and content. ABLE-TOGETHER costs $30 (£24, $A45) for a full year's first-class postal subscription of four issues, inclusive of a personal contact ad listing at no additional charge; this is reduced to $15 (£12, $A30) for persons with low incomes; or you may purchase a single issue for $5 (£4, $A7.50) and then "upgrade" to a full year's subscription. ABLE-TOGETHER has received mention in New Mobility, in the newsletters of the American Association of Physicians for Human Rights and of the Boston Information Center for Individuals with Disabilities, as well as in local gay newspapers such as the San Francisco Bay Area Reporter and All Points North in the UK. Organizational subscribers include the World Institute on Disability in Oakland, California, the Homodok Archives in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and the Gay and Lesbian Historical Society in San Francisco, California. ABLE-TOGETHER's voice-mail telephone numbers and e-mail are your lines to us; we invite you to call or e-mail any questions and comments, or just to say Hi! *************************************************************** Excerpts from ads published in the Spring, 1996 issue of ABLE-TOGETHER [edited for promotional use]. I'm a 32 year old para hoping to find friends, fun and just maybe a long term relationship in these pages! I'm, 5'6", 130lbs, reddish blond and blue eyes. I enjoy country/western music, Roseanne, my art work, sunshine, rainy days in bed, evenings at home, laughter and smoking (oops!)Š GWM, 40, sincereŠhandsome, dark hair, beard/'stache, blue eyesŠpower wheelchair userŠseek friendships, mutual support, hugs, kissing, safe times. I enjoy computer BBS-ing, videos, music, houseplants, volunteering, hanging outŠ GWM 39, 6', 190lbs, br/br, mustache, nondisabled, in search of GWM 20-48 disabled who walks with crutches. I enjoy dinners, movies, videos, the beach, amusement parks, quiet times and cuddling with that special personŠ Attractive GBM, 30's, 6'3", 200lbs, b/k amp with a thirst for life and fun seeks a guy or guys, anywhere, 25-55, any race, who like(s) to party, relax and romance a littleŠ Articulate, creative, gay Hispanic male, para, 36, 5'8", 160, honest, goodlooking, workout boy, passionate, only semi-cynical, seeks friendship and possible relationship with together GWM/GLatinM 25+, masculine, in-shape, drug- and disease-free, easy to look at soulmate who enjoys a great cup of Java and a classic foreign film. Caring, sensitive, BiWM, 60, in search of Mr. Right for a monogamous long term relationship, I am disabled from an auto accident, received broken knees, now arthritis. I am a Red Cross volunteer, and work with PWA/HIV as a Buddy. I love camping, fishing, quiet times at home, a mountain stream or seashore. I am looking for a compatible country type, disabled/nondisabled. Non-mainstream GWM, 50, 5'8", 145#, bl/bl, simple, quiet, honest professional, traveled performer and arts educator with very high public profile. I am discreet, masculine, caring, sensitive and daring, a risk-taker. Physical disability due to polio, use wheelchairŠ If you are a 40+ vital, masculine, articulate, loving man with a sense of himselfŠthen write. 51 year old nondisabled male, 5'8", retired RCMP, solid, balding, 'stache, healthy guy looking for same, similar or sympathetic; responsive to men with disabilities; interests - body building (sometimes), videos, photos, letters, cards, &c. All letters answered. [advertiser from CANADA] ŠGWM 47, 5'11", 165-170 lbs, HIV-, with very slight cerebral palsy. I'm looking for a guy with or without a disability in age range 37-47ŠI'm intoŠconcerts, ballets, opera, lecturesŠmy handicap [doesn't] keep me from doing the things I likeŠI want to meet the right guy to fillŠmy life. 40 year old Jewish-Italian male, post-polio, bilateral leg braces, 5'3", 115 lbs, swimmer's trim upper body, dark brown hair, hazel eyes, clean shaven. IŠtravel often to US, Europe and elsewhere. I am looking for companionship, hot sex, long-term relationship or traveling buddyŠ Nondisabled gay male, 33, wishes to meet disabled or nondisabled gay male(s)Šthis 5'10", beefy, hirsute, mustached and short-bearded bear wants to meet a man with the ability to challenge me intellectually AND sexually; a man with a strong sense of his own identityŠ Šhandsome, 34 year-old Bi tetraplegic male, psychology graduate, into escaping the 'rat-race', travel, healthy food, truth seekingŠbeing naked among nature, especially during thunder storms, and anything alternative. I'm happily marriedŠbut need to exploreŠ[advertiser from UK] *************************************************************** SUBSCRIPTION AND PERSONAL CONTACT AD REQUEST INFORMATION When you decide to become a full-year subscriber to A-T you have a choice of starting your subscription with either the currently available issue or the next issue. Because your ad (if you submit one) will only be published whilst your subscription is active, this choice affects the number of times your ad can appear! This means that if you want your ad to be published four times during your first year with A-T you should specify that you want your subscription to start with the next issue and we need your subscription payment and ad before the deadline for that issue. DEADLINES: ABLE-TOGETHER needs your ad copy by 1st July for Summer issue, 1st October for Fall issue, 1st January for Winter issue and 1st April for Spring issue. New, renewed or changed ads reaching us after these dates are not guaranteed to appear in the issue published at the end of that month. We will try, butŠ UPGRADES: If you decide to purchase a single copy of the current issue of A-T for $5 (£4, $A7.50) you may within three months upgrade to a full-year subscription by payment of the balance of $25 (£20, $A37.50), or $10 (£8, $A22.50) for persons with low incomes; an upgrade form will be sent to you with your first newsletter. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------to: ABLE-TOGETHER POB 460053 SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94146 Personal Contact Ad Request Form Please publish the following ad while my subscription remains active: Signed Date_________ I would like my ad to be: box#-coded uncoded (please check one) (A-T recommends your ad be box#-coded unless you have a P O Box address) Text of my ad: (include name/address/phone # as you want it to appear in the ad) : (attach separate sheet if necessary) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ to: ABLE-TOGETHER POB 460053 SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94146 SUBSCRIPTION /ORDER FORM Name:__________________________________________________Date__________ Address:_____________________________________________________________ Phone #:_______________ _____I would like a Full-year Subscription (inclusive of personal ad)- starting with ____the current ____ the next issue- I enclose _____ $30.00 (£24, $A45), or _____$15.00 (£12, $A30) low income. _____Please send me a SINGLE ISSUE of the newsletter- I enclose _____$5.00(£4, $A7.50) (Jun. 96: ) (please check as applicable) -- Blaine Waterman San Francisco, CA blaine@well.com blaine@slip.net "It's too bad all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair."---George Burns