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Founding
Music Mother
Kay Gardner,
61 .

Kay Gardner, one of the found-
ing foremothers of the
women’s music movement, died
August 28 of a heart attack at her
home in Bangor, Maine. She was
61.

Kay Gardner recorded
the second overtly lesbian album,
Lavender Jane Loves Women, play-
ing flute with pianist Patches
Attom and singer Alix Dobkin in
1972. Three years later, she
released her first album of healing
music Mooncircles. She was a reg-
ularly featured performer at the
Michigan Women’s Music Festival,
often participating in the opening
and closing ceremonies as well as
playing acoustic concerts and con-
ducting workshops on music, heal-
ing, and spirituality.

Gardner had her first
impact on Bangor in the 1970s
when she unsuccessfully sued the
Bangor symphony orchestra for sex
discrimination in hiring when she
was turned down for a job as con-
ductor. The orchestra had circulated
a questionnaire soliciting the mem-
bers’ feelings about working with a
female conductor. In the 19805,
Kay Gardner lived and composed
at Sea Gnomes Home on Deer Isle
on the coast of Maine. She moved
to Bangor in the 1990s.

She was the first woman
ordained as a Dianic high priestess
by Z Budapest in 1975 and in 1998
was inducted into the Fellowship of
Isis by its founder, Lady Olivia
Robertson. Kay Gardner also
founded the Temple of the
Feminine Divine in Bangor.

She insisted that every- '
one could sing and write songs, and
many of her workshops included
song sharing by women who had
never written songs before.

She composed over 50
musical works — ranging from
chamber works (l7, anywhere from
two-and—a-half to 40 minutes long)
to an oratorio, an opera, choral
works and compositions for solo
instruments and solo voice —
recorded more than a dozen

 

albums, and wrote numerous arti-
cles and a book.

According to one of her
daughters, Kay had seen a doctor
for a feeling of overwhelming
fatigue. Returning from the
appointment, she lay down on the

' couch for a rest, took a few breaths

and then stopped breathing. There
were no indications that she was in
pain, the daughter wrote. Attempts
to revive her made by family mem-
bers and paramedics were unsuc-
cessful.

She is survived by her
two daughters, Julie and Jennifer,
and her partner Colleen.

Gardner had participated
in the opening and closing cere-
monies of this year’s Michigan
Women’s music festival, playing
her flute and leading a procession.
During the closing ceremony, a
bright and long-lasting meteor
streaked across the sky.

Links to articles, photos
and bulletin board remembrances
of Kay Gardner by friends, family,
and colleagues can be found online
at www.KayGardner.com

Mattachine
Society and
Radical Faeries
Founder.
Harry Hay, 90.

ell-known gay rights activist
Harry Hay passed away on
October 24th at the age of 90.
He is survived by his
longtime partner, John Burnside.

    

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Harry was diagnosed
with inoperable cancerous tumors
on September 10. He had been in
precarious health for a number of
years. Thanks to a dedicated collec-
tive of gay men, Harry and John
have received much dedicated sup-
port during their many challenges.

In 1950, Harry Hay and
four others formed one of the
nation’s first gay rights organiza-
tions. the Mattachine Society. The
idea that homosexuals should
organize for civil rights was formed
at an election-year party in Los
Angeles that was attended exclu-
sively by gay men.

The organization was
named for the Matachinos, court
jesters of the Italian Renaissance
who, behind their masks. were free
to speak the truth. The Mattachine
Society was the first to propose the
idea of gay and lesbian people as
an oppressed cultural minority.

In the 19605 Hay helped
organize the first "gay pride“
parade in Los Angeles, was chair of
the L.A. Committee to Fight the
Exclusion of Homosexuals from
the Armed Forces and chair of the
Southern California Gay Liberation
Front. In the late ’70s and early
’80s Hay became increasingly con-
cerned with spiritual issues and
formed the Radical Faeries, a
movement devoted to ecology, spir-
itual truth and “gay-centeredness.”

Memorial arrangements
were incomplete at press time. V

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Heather Masterton,
daughter of the late John
and Elsie Masterton of
Blueberry Hill in Goshen,
and Mickey Carter,
daughter of Donna and
Winston Carter of
Mapleton, Maine, were

August 24, 2002 at their
home in Rochester.
Officiating at the ceremo-
ny were Heather’s sister
Diane Mott, who is a
Justice of the Peace, the
Rev. Dr. William Daniels,
and Justice of the Peace
Java Hubbard, who certi-
fied the union.

Surrounded by
a crowd of over 160
friends and family in a
sea of umbrellas, the cou-
ple was blessed by love,

raindrops, and a ritual of
handfasting. Wonderful
toasts were made by a
number of dear friends,
including Miss Lillian
Marsh. Music was pro-
vided by a gathering of
Vermont musicians,
including Mickey’s band
mates in the Middlebury
Community Wind
Ensemble and the dance
band “Roustabout.”

. Mickey, a pro-
fessional theatre techni-

cian and percussionist,
and Heather, a vocalist,
computer consultant and
trainer, are the operators
of Clovis Point Internet
Office Space. Both are
actively engaged in sup-
porting the arts and the-
atre in Rochester, and
say, “We invite all our
friends back again for our
first anniversary — that
will be the REALLY big
party!” V