Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 16:09:11 +1000 From: PRIDE Subject: PRIDE E|Newsletter PRIDE E|Newsletter ------------------ 29.10.97 Talkzone @ PRIDE Upcoming events @ PRIDE Funny Farm 2002 Gay Games Gayme Jamaican Ball NSW Debate on the age of consent legislation BiYouth Western Sydney Beauty Pagaent Gay and Lesbian Police Employees Network Victoria Brisbane Rainbow centre opens Sydney lesbian happenings PRIDE WA Photos Looking through photographs Global Transgender ring My Queer Career Protest Hanson Diseased Pariah News women-chronic-illness Negotiated safety + circuit parties + Post-Exposure Prophylaxis = ? Bodyart Revolutionary women conquer airwaves in cyberspace Fourth International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific Critical Mass KylieUltra(TM)! ---> Talkzone @ PRIDE This month's topic: Hope http://cybersyd.rainbow.net.au/pride/ Tell us what topic you'd like to see. Mailto:pride@rainbow.net.au?Subject=Talkzone ---> Upcoming events @ PRIDE You can always find out what's on @ PRIDE through the What's On page http://cybersyd.rainbow.net.au/pride/ Martial arts every Saturday 11-1 and now Thursday 5.45-7. Info 9130 8064. Launch of the 'Us & Them' Report into PLWHA access to Home & Community Care Services. Friday October 31, 11am (This report can be found @ http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Heights/5227/access-equity-report.htm) Copies of PRIDE's Annual Report are now available. mailto:pride@rainbow.net.au or phone 02 9331 1333 and a copy will be mailed to you. Transgender Support. Fridays @ 6:30pm from Nov. 7 Pets Are Wonderful Support Seminar. Nov. 8, 1-5pm. 9361 4449. Lesbian and Gay Anti-Violence Project free self-defence courses (Gay Men) Nov 1 & 2 1-6:30pm (Mixed/Queer) Nov 15 & 16 1-6:30pm 02 9360 6687 or 1800 637 360 ---> Funny Farm Next Funny Farm, it's our bithday! Funny Farm is nearly one year old. We will be celebrating our first birthday November 9 with a special birthday bash 8pm at the Metro Theatre, where we presented our sell out Mardi Gras season in February, featuring the CREAM OF THE CROP (the best of Funny Farm). Don't miss out on the chance to be a part of this historic event. Tickets $14/10 (con) http://cybersyd.rainbow.net.au/pride/funnyfarm.htm The Comedy Tram Stop for Australian Comedy http://www.ozemail.com.au/~mwildm/comedy.htm ---> 1998 + 2002 Gay Games Be the first to hear the winner of the 2002 Gay Games at the champagne announcement breakfast, 7am Friday November 14 at the Banana Bar. Tickets $20 from Banana Bar or Team Sydney (02 9550 1790 mailto:teamsyd@ozemail.com.au). For more information about the bid see http://www.sydney2002.org.au/gaygames.html Amsterdam organizers of the 1998 Gay Games will re-open registration for men on Jan 1, 1998. mailto:info@gaygames.nl http://www.gaygames.nl. ---> Gayme Jamaican Ball Enjoy a Creole buffet, exotic cocktails and entertainment from the Canberra Gay & Lesbian Qwire and a drag queen extravaganza with Bernard King as your host. The Great Hall, Parliament House, Canberra Saturday November 22. Tickets $85 from PRIDE or Tilleys. All proceeds to the Qwire and ACT AIDS Action Council . More info 02 6230 6494 ---> NSW Debate on the age of consent legislation check the LC Hansard at http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au then go to the legislative council then to the hansard and finally to the date you wish .. make sure that you choose the right year :) - Henry Collier ---> BiYouth The biyouth mailing list is a private mailing list for bisexual youth. The list is open to bisexual, bifriendly or questioning individuals of any gender ages 25 and under. To subscribe: send an email message to biyouth-request@lists.best.com with the following text as the first line of the message: for digest version: subscribe for single message version: subsingle Sydney Bi Youth http://www.queer.org.au/~sby/ ---> Western Sydney Beauty Pagaent ACON Western Sydney is coordinating a 'Western Sydney Beauty Pagaent' open to both men or women, or women as men, or men as women etc.. . There will be prizes for each section of the competition and a prize for the overall winner. The pagaent will be held on Friday night the 28th November in Parramatta. This event will also be a fundraiser for the Western Sydney 1998 Community Mardi Gras Float. For details of entry into the competition or to come along to join in the fun just e-mail Joseph mailto:aconwest@acon.org.au or (02) 92042403 or Brooke (02) 92042408 ---> Gay and Lesbian Police Employees Network Victoria GALPEN is delighted in announcing the location of it's newly formed homepage which whilst still under construction and incomplete is non the less a matter of considerable pride. The page may be accessed via: http://aus8.austasia.net/beatteam/galpen/ - David W.Trueman (M.A.I.E.S.), Senior Sergeant 17846 Hi All It has to be demonstrated to the police that despite what they believe, there is a need "for specialised attention from the Victoria Police" for our community and that the wider queer community is asking for that attention. The Police - Lesbian/Gay Liaison Committee (PLGLC) http://netlink.com.au/~dolf/plglc/plglc.html mailto:dolf@netlink.com.au - Paul Rees Age feature on Victoria's secret police http://www.theage.com.au/special/police/index.html ---> Brisbane Rainbow centre opens The Rainbow Community Centre was officially opened today. A group of nearly 100 members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities gathered to celebrate the opening of the Centre and to have a party! http://glwa.queer.org.au/html/rainbow_centre.htm The Scene in Brisbane has been set up to provide a reference guide to the major happenings on the Gay scene in the Brisbane area. We hope that the information will be useful as a reference, not only to the "Party Animals" but the person looking for info regarding any of the Gay Community Support Groups in the Brisbane Area. http://www.ozemail.com.au/~cwbbs/index.htm ---> Sydney lesbian happenings No matter who you are there is information here that may well be of some use to you. I have focused mainly on totally lesbian related events and venues ~ in part because i am a lesbian and it is of interest to me ~ and in part because this page is basically for the lesbian and bi female communities. http://www.geocities.com/~our_house/dyke_page.html mailto:our_house@geocities.com ---> PRIDE WA Photos ... now online at http://www.pridewa.asn.au/pdegall.html ---> Looking through photographs Indigenous Histories, Presences, and Representations. Queensland Museum, Brisbane. November 8-9, 1997. http://www.anu.edu.au/culture/conferences/conferences.html#Two Indigenous, Media, Public Ideas http://dinosaurs.murdoch.edu.au/impi/home_i.html I*EARN Indigenous Global Art Project http://www.peg.apc.org/~bairnssec/art/arthome.htm ---> Transgendered ring + list HEY..HEY...HEY!!! The Global TransGendeRing is now more than a year old!!! 300 sites isn't bad for one year. http://www.echonyc.com/~degrey/LCove/tgring.html Transyouth is a private mailing list for transgendered youth. The list is open to transvestite, transgendered, transsexual, trans-friendly or questioning individuals of any gender ages 25 and under. To subscribe: send an email message to mailto:transyouth-request@lists.best.com with the following text as the first line of the message: for digest version: subscribe for single message version: subsingle ---> My Queer Career As part of the Mardi Gras Film Festival each year, Queer Screen also holds the My Queer Career Competition for Australian & New Zealand Queer Shorts. Entries for the 1998 My Queer Career Competition for Australian & New Zealand queer shorts are now open. Visit http://www.queerscreen.com.au/98qcareer.html for more information or to download an entry form. The closing date is 31 December 1997. ---> Protest Hanson I would like to bring to your attention an online petition asking people to speak their mind against Pauline Hanson's 'simple' and 'xenophobic' views. The URL is http://www.protest.org I hope that you will sign the petition and ask your friends to do the same. - Les Burger ---> Diseased Pariah News "What's so damn funny about a pandemic devastating the world? Well, we have it and sometimes we find it amusing. Besides, who wants to be serious all the time, even about fatal illness?" http://www.poz.com/poz-cgi-bin/page?p=POLICY&f=content&a=28/lastlaughs&x=1 "The latest issue ... advocates putting nausea from medications to good use by puking on reactionary politicians ..." http://www.stim.com/Stim-x/6.1/readthis/readthis-06.1.html AIDS Barbie from DPN http://home.fuse.net/mllwyd/barbie_aids.html ---> women-chronic-illness List aiming to provide a safe space for women to discuss all aspects of dealing with chronic illness, including sharing information, discussing the pros and cons of various treatments and generally offering each other support dealing with conditions that our lovers, families and friends often don't understand. To subscribe do this: Address an email to: mailto:women-chronic-illness-request@lists.best.com In the body type ONLY: subsingle (or, for the digest version: subscribe) ---> Negotiated safety + circuit parties + Post-Exposure Prophylaxis = ? Thinking It Through: This site is a guide to the issues about using and not using condoms for sex in gay relationships. It’s intended for all gay men. http://www.thinking-it-through.co.uk/ Ecology or Psychology? Evaluating Efforts to Stem the AIDS Epidemic a radio panel discussion [RealAudio] http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/ram/forum.ram "Many of my friends, particularly the straight ones, often ask me what a circuit party is. The circuit is a series of gay dance parties attended by thousands of shirtless, good-looking, muscular guys ..." http://www.flash.net/~hilton01/circuit.htm Undercover at the Party That Dares Speak Its Name http://www.io.com/~larrybob/vagron.html Circuit Noize is the World's largest source of Circuit Party Information. http://www.circuitnoize.com/ "My question is: What is the appropriate pastoral response to individuals involved with the circuit?" http://www.thebody.com/pieters/oct97.html The Signorile Report on Gay Men, Sex, Drugs, Muscles, and the Passages of Life: reviews http://gaytoday.badpuppy.com/garchive/reviews/080497re.htm http://www.circuitnoize.com/current/focus.html http://www.chisel.com/visitors/arts/august_97/Review.html "Nearly two hundred men and women have come to sit in the sweaty ground-floor assembly hall of New York City's Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center... welcome ... to a teach-in sponsored by the new organization Sex Panic..." http://www.linguafranca.com/9710/crain.html Postexposure Prevention (PEP) is a program that attempts to prevent HIV infection after a possible significant exposure. The CDC recommends PEP for occupational exposures. Now PEP for sexual and drug exposure is under consideration. http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/ ---> Bodyart New list for women who are into bodyart. The list is designed to work as an information sharing network, but also to provide a place for women to discuss what it means for us, as women, to modify our bodies via bodyart. To subscribe to the regular version, send the message: subsingle To subscribe to the digest version, send the message: subscribe Send to mailto:WOMEN-BODYART-REQUEST@LISTS.BEST.COM Bodyart, Piercing + Tattoo FAQ http://www.eskimo.com/~rab/faqpage.html Piercee's Bill of Rights http://www.notoriousedstattoo.com/right.htm "I remember sitting in the back of a Los Angeles restaurant 16 years ago with a handful of people. We all had piercings--most of us had pierced nipples. At that point, we could only count up seven people in the world who had pierced nipples. Since then I personally have probably pierced thousands ... " http://gloria-brame.com/fakir.htm "We decided to make our relationship more meaningful and got matching rose gold nose rings ..." http://www.starvision.net/adoreu/nosering.htm http://www.iinet.net.au/~sax/contents2.htm Body Modification e-zine http://www.BME.FreeQ.com/ Urban Primitive http://www.urbanprimitive.com/ ---> Revolutionary women conquer airwaves in cyberspace Los Angeles - 9 Oct 97 - While Disney abandoned women's talk radio when it pulled the plug on "The Zone" on KTZN-AM, Los Angeles-based Amazon City Radio - found at http://radio.amazoncity.com on the World Wide Web - is expanding its commercial programming as the only radio station on the World Wide Web offering women-oriented music, talk, news, spoken word and public affairs programming. ---> Fourth International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific The complexities of factors that lead to HIV disease need to be looked at in the setting of problems specific to the Asia Pacific region. The 4th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific has taken a novel approach in this meeting by posing daily questions of regional relevance and having discussions center around each daily question. http://www.hain.org/aidsphil.html SEA-AIDS http://www.inet.co.th/org/unaids/ ---> Critical Mass We're not blocking traffic, We ARE the traffic!! Friends, fellow cyclists, Green Warriors, the time has come to take up arms against the dark forces of fossil fuel driven industrial capitalism! For too long life loving human powered commuters have suffered under the yoke of the car. Yet, we will prevail! http://physics.usyd.edu.au/~eddie/cmass.html ---> KylieUltra(TM)! "monday 13-10-97 hello hello. i had a great weekend which included an unexpected performance with (the divine) Nick Cave at the Jazz Cafe in London. we sang a song that he had written just a few days prior ... With love, kylie xx " http://www.kylie.com/ "Then the inevitable - the end - in a flurry of explosions - the show (and the 40 or 50 dancers) had come to an end! KYLIE was clearly emotional. The screaming and the stomping on the floor of about 15,000 or so adoring fans was BRILLIANT (The doors to the Hall of Industries had to be closed as a first ever security measure to keep the other 5-7,000 other people out of an already dangerously over crowded space) ..." http://www.kylieusa.com/intrvu/I0012.html ------------------> E|NEWSLETTER ARCHIVES http://www.altnews.com.au/gay http://ausqrd.queer.org.au/qrd/news/media_releases/pride/ ------------------> E|NEWSLETTER FAQ http://cybersyd.rainbow.net.au/pride/e-newsletter-faq.htm ------------------> THE PRIDE CHARTER http://cybersyd.rainbow.net.au/pride/pridecharter.htm PRIDE Sydney Gay & Lesbian Community Centre Limited ------- e-mail: pride@rainbow.net.au - - fax: (+61 2) 9331 1199 - - ph: (+61 2) 9331 1333 - post: PO Box 7, Darlinghurst NSW 2010