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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 Continued on page 10 45 •
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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 • |