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- May 13, 1983 * Vol. 14, No. 19
•••••-
500 Outside of D.C./Baltimore Areas
-
ob Nugent
Author sees better times
ahead for Gay Catholics
- Bob Nugent is anything but a tyPical Catholic priest. Ordained in
. 1965 for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, he left the city in 1975 tojoin
a small religious community known as the Society of theDirine Savior,
or the Salvatorians. The move was triggered, he says, by his growing
dislike of the "clericalism" of priestly life in Philadelphia. Since
joining the Salvatorians, he has spent almost all of his time working in
• the field of Gay ministry and is probably the priest most identifiedwith
that work in. the United States.
For the past year1. he has been on sabbatical at Yale, partly to
further his studies, but also, he admits, in an effort to reduce the tension
between his Gay ministry group,. NewWays Ministry, and Archbishop
James Hickey, zoho has been a strong critic of the work of Nugent and
- New Ways co-director Sr. Jeannine Gramick. Although that action
lowered his profile, at least remporarz7y, the publication of his new
book A Challenge to Love: Gay and Lesbian Catholics in the
Church, is likely to raise it again. Blade editor Steve Martz talked
with Nugent this week as he was winding up his studies at Yale.
Review, of Books
Our monthly look at books begins on p. 19
Blade: In this book you have assembled a fairly impressive list of
contributors, including the Bishop of Richmond, several well-known
writers in the field of spirituality,, and some respected
theologians. Several of them are writing about homosexuality for
the first time, and many of them, such as Paul Thomas writing
about the annulment process and Basil Pennington writing about
religious communities accepting and nurturing homosexual
candidates, are writing on fairly selective topics. For whom is the
book intended? Will it have a broad appeal, or is it going to be
limited largely to specialists?
Nugent:- Like any author, I hope it would have a broad appeal. In
the beginning I wanted a book that would speak out of the Gay
Catholic experience-rather than to it, and I decided that I was not
able to find people of the caliber I wanted to speak as Gay
Catholics. I_ wanted the book to be not just a book of experiences,
but a book of theological reflection and pastoral experience.
There's still a need for a book that speaks out of the Gay Catholic
experience on many levels, but I think that might come later. This
book is intended primarily for church leadership but I hope it
would speak to parents of Gay and Lesbian Catholics, people in
counseling, spiritual direction, religious formation, and also the
Continued on page 20
THE GAY WEEKLY OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL
Gay Pride Day is CO
and its planners are
by Jirn Marks
As June 19, the date of this year's Gay Pride
Day, draws near, activity in the Gay Pride office
on downtown F Street has intensified. Boxes oft-shirts
are being delivered, people constantly
wander in and out, the phone rings incessantly.
And the daily blocks in the three large handmade
calendars of April, May, and June are rapidly
filling with writing.
For all the talk of the Gay ghetto, in
Washington the Gay community is most of the
time dispersed, working and living in varying
degrees of openness throughout the metropolitan
area. There are groups which meet weekly,
biweekly, monthly, and when they feel like it, but
Gay Pride Day is the only time when a large
segment of the community is in one place. It is the
time the Gay community, like a giant that sleeps
all year, becomes fully conscious of itself.-
Begun in 1975 as a block party, the yearly
observance of Gay pride haS evolved into
something like a mid-summer's county fair. It
has always had a celebratory character, in large
part, maintains long-time Gay activist Frank
Kameny, because Washingtonians have played
their politics astutely the rest of the year, and so
rnn afford to devote the event to fun.
Gay Pride commemorates the Stonewall riots
- of 1969, when patrons of a Greenwich Village
Gay bar, the Stonewall Inn, reacted to a routine
police raid not with routine submission, but by
in
usy
fighting back. Ever since, New Yorkers have
remembered the event with a massive march
from Greenwich Village to Central Park. where
there is a round of "movement" speeches, during
which the crowd melts away. Although
Washingtonians in 1981 followed New Yorkers
and staged a parade, the only time the
Washington Gay Pride celebration has imitated
the New York celebration's penchant for political
infighting was last year, when the Washington's
political office holders, many of them in hotly
contested election campaigns, were banned from
the Gay Pride stage. That widely criticized
decision was not repeated this year; the first item
scribbled onto the June 19 schedule reads: "3
p.m.: politicians: mayor, council chairman,
congressman."
As Washington's celebration has continued, it
has steadily grown larger, expanding from a day
to a week. In 1980, it moved from the Dupont
Circle block where it was started by Lambda
Rising owner Deacon Maccubbin, to P Street
Beach where it sprouted booths, two stages, an
outdoor art show, and softball, volleyball, and
tennis games.
This year's Gay Pride Week continues many of
the activities initiated in the past two years, and
comes up with a few new wrinkles of its own. This
year, the event will have a real beginning, with a
free concert by the Gay Men's Chorus of
Continued on pc/go 9
Increase AIDS fundin 3 three
Gay leaders tell Congress
by Lou Chibbaro Jr.
Two Gay physicians and the head of the New
York-based National Gay Task Force (NGTF)
told a House subcommittee yesterday that
government efforts to find a cause for the AIDS
epidemic have been inadequate and that federal
funding for AIDS research should be increased
dramatically.
Dr. Roger Enlow, director of New York City's
Office of Gay and Lesbian Health Concerns; Dr.
David Ostrow, director of research for the Gay-oriented
Howard Brown Memorial Clinic in
Chicago; and Virginia Apuzzo, executive director
of NGTF each made pleas for stepped-up AIDS
funding while testifying before the House
Appropriations subcommittee on Labor, Health
and Human Services, and related agencies.
In a related development, the House
subcommittee on health and the environment on
May 10 approved a bill introduced by its
chairman, Rep. Henry Waxman(D-Ca.), that
creates a special "medical emergency" fund of
530-million which would be made available to
help combat medical emergencies such as AIDS.
The subcommittee approved -the measure by a
vote of 17 to I.
Waxman said he expects the bill to be approved
by the House Committee on Energy and
Commerce within two weeks and predicts the
measure has a "very good" chance of passing the
full House this year.
In another development, U.S. Assistant
Secretary for Health, Dr. Edward Brandt, told
Waxman's subcommittee on May 9 that the
Reagan administration may change its previous
view that .52 million is all the CDC needs for
AIDS research for both fiscal year 1983 and 1984.
Brandt, while testifying on Waxman's health
emergency bill, was asked by Waxman how the
administration could claim the CDC only needed
52 million when the CDC has already spent more
than $4.5 million on AIDS activities this year.
CDC officials have said they diverted
additional funds for AIDS field work from other
CDC programs.
Brandt told Waxman he now realizes "new
developments" have occurred since the
administration first proposed its budget earlier
this year. He said he will discuss the CDC budget
with top CDC officials this week to determine if
"changes" are needed.
During yesterday's appropriations hearing, the
Gay representatives steered clear of specifically
calling for increased AIDS funds for the
remaining months of fiscal year 1983—a proposal
put forward earlier this year by Gay health
groups—and instead stressed the general need for
more government sponsored extramural research
projects on AIDS and better coordination of in-house
AIDS projects among federal agencies.
Although the hearing was called by appropria-tions
subcommittee chairman William Natcher
(-D-Ky.) to discuss the fiscal year 1984 health
budget, there was speculation that Gay rights
leaders were considering using it as a platform to
push for a reversal of the action taken by the
subcommittee two weeks ago, when, according to
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| Transcript | - May 13, 1983 * Vol. 14, No. 19 •••••- 500 Outside of D.C./Baltimore Areas - ob Nugent Author sees better times ahead for Gay Catholics - Bob Nugent is anything but a tyPical Catholic priest. Ordained in . 1965 for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, he left the city in 1975 tojoin a small religious community known as the Society of theDirine Savior, or the Salvatorians. The move was triggered, he says, by his growing dislike of the "clericalism" of priestly life in Philadelphia. Since joining the Salvatorians, he has spent almost all of his time working in • the field of Gay ministry and is probably the priest most identifiedwith that work in. the United States. For the past year1. he has been on sabbatical at Yale, partly to further his studies, but also, he admits, in an effort to reduce the tension between his Gay ministry group,. NewWays Ministry, and Archbishop James Hickey, zoho has been a strong critic of the work of Nugent and - New Ways co-director Sr. Jeannine Gramick. Although that action lowered his profile, at least remporarz7y, the publication of his new book A Challenge to Love: Gay and Lesbian Catholics in the Church, is likely to raise it again. Blade editor Steve Martz talked with Nugent this week as he was winding up his studies at Yale. Review, of Books Our monthly look at books begins on p. 19 Blade: In this book you have assembled a fairly impressive list of contributors, including the Bishop of Richmond, several well-known writers in the field of spirituality,, and some respected theologians. Several of them are writing about homosexuality for the first time, and many of them, such as Paul Thomas writing about the annulment process and Basil Pennington writing about religious communities accepting and nurturing homosexual candidates, are writing on fairly selective topics. For whom is the book intended? Will it have a broad appeal, or is it going to be limited largely to specialists? Nugent:- Like any author, I hope it would have a broad appeal. In the beginning I wanted a book that would speak out of the Gay Catholic experience-rather than to it, and I decided that I was not able to find people of the caliber I wanted to speak as Gay Catholics. I_ wanted the book to be not just a book of experiences, but a book of theological reflection and pastoral experience. There's still a need for a book that speaks out of the Gay Catholic experience on many levels, but I think that might come later. This book is intended primarily for church leadership but I hope it would speak to parents of Gay and Lesbian Catholics, people in counseling, spiritual direction, religious formation, and also the Continued on page 20 THE GAY WEEKLY OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL Gay Pride Day is CO and its planners are by Jirn Marks As June 19, the date of this year's Gay Pride Day, draws near, activity in the Gay Pride office on downtown F Street has intensified. Boxes oft-shirts are being delivered, people constantly wander in and out, the phone rings incessantly. And the daily blocks in the three large handmade calendars of April, May, and June are rapidly filling with writing. For all the talk of the Gay ghetto, in Washington the Gay community is most of the time dispersed, working and living in varying degrees of openness throughout the metropolitan area. There are groups which meet weekly, biweekly, monthly, and when they feel like it, but Gay Pride Day is the only time when a large segment of the community is in one place. It is the time the Gay community, like a giant that sleeps all year, becomes fully conscious of itself.- Begun in 1975 as a block party, the yearly observance of Gay pride haS evolved into something like a mid-summer's county fair. It has always had a celebratory character, in large part, maintains long-time Gay activist Frank Kameny, because Washingtonians have played their politics astutely the rest of the year, and so rnn afford to devote the event to fun. Gay Pride commemorates the Stonewall riots - of 1969, when patrons of a Greenwich Village Gay bar, the Stonewall Inn, reacted to a routine police raid not with routine submission, but by in usy fighting back. Ever since, New Yorkers have remembered the event with a massive march from Greenwich Village to Central Park. where there is a round of "movement" speeches, during which the crowd melts away. Although Washingtonians in 1981 followed New Yorkers and staged a parade, the only time the Washington Gay Pride celebration has imitated the New York celebration's penchant for political infighting was last year, when the Washington's political office holders, many of them in hotly contested election campaigns, were banned from the Gay Pride stage. That widely criticized decision was not repeated this year; the first item scribbled onto the June 19 schedule reads: "3 p.m.: politicians: mayor, council chairman, congressman." As Washington's celebration has continued, it has steadily grown larger, expanding from a day to a week. In 1980, it moved from the Dupont Circle block where it was started by Lambda Rising owner Deacon Maccubbin, to P Street Beach where it sprouted booths, two stages, an outdoor art show, and softball, volleyball, and tennis games. This year's Gay Pride Week continues many of the activities initiated in the past two years, and comes up with a few new wrinkles of its own. This year, the event will have a real beginning, with a free concert by the Gay Men's Chorus of Continued on pc/go 9 Increase AIDS fundin 3 three Gay leaders tell Congress by Lou Chibbaro Jr. Two Gay physicians and the head of the New York-based National Gay Task Force (NGTF) told a House subcommittee yesterday that government efforts to find a cause for the AIDS epidemic have been inadequate and that federal funding for AIDS research should be increased dramatically. Dr. Roger Enlow, director of New York City's Office of Gay and Lesbian Health Concerns; Dr. David Ostrow, director of research for the Gay-oriented Howard Brown Memorial Clinic in Chicago; and Virginia Apuzzo, executive director of NGTF each made pleas for stepped-up AIDS funding while testifying before the House Appropriations subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and related agencies. In a related development, the House subcommittee on health and the environment on May 10 approved a bill introduced by its chairman, Rep. Henry Waxman(D-Ca.), that creates a special "medical emergency" fund of 530-million which would be made available to help combat medical emergencies such as AIDS. The subcommittee approved -the measure by a vote of 17 to I. Waxman said he expects the bill to be approved by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce within two weeks and predicts the measure has a "very good" chance of passing the full House this year. In another development, U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health, Dr. Edward Brandt, told Waxman's subcommittee on May 9 that the Reagan administration may change its previous view that .52 million is all the CDC needs for AIDS research for both fiscal year 1983 and 1984. Brandt, while testifying on Waxman's health emergency bill, was asked by Waxman how the administration could claim the CDC only needed 52 million when the CDC has already spent more than $4.5 million on AIDS activities this year. CDC officials have said they diverted additional funds for AIDS field work from other CDC programs. Brandt told Waxman he now realizes "new developments" have occurred since the administration first proposed its budget earlier this year. He said he will discuss the CDC budget with top CDC officials this week to determine if "changes" are needed. During yesterday's appropriations hearing, the Gay representatives steered clear of specifically calling for increased AIDS funds for the remaining months of fiscal year 1983—a proposal put forward earlier this year by Gay health groups—and instead stressed the general need for more government sponsored extramural research projects on AIDS and better coordination of in-house AIDS projects among federal agencies. Although the hearing was called by appropria-tions subcommittee chairman William Natcher (-D-Ky.) to discuss the fiscal year 1984 health budget, there was speculation that Gay rights leaders were considering using it as a platform to push for a reversal of the action taken by the subcommittee two weeks ago, when, according to Continued on page 10 45 • |
