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"Together and Apart" produced by
Laurie Lynd "... is an award-winning
avant-garde gay musical about two former
college roommates and lovers who meet
again some years later. Tom, a poet, comes
to a Toronto university for a reading of his
work, and afterwards accepts an invitation
for dinner at the home of his ex-lover
Michael, who is now married. Their
awkward reunion is musically dramatized as
the two men sing their secret thoughts to
one another across the dinner table while
the other guests continue to eat and engage
in dinner table conversation. The result is a
formally innovative, uncommonly affecting
film that will surprise and delight all viewers,
whatever one’s sexual preference."

"A Comedy in Six Unnatural Acts" by
Jan Oxenberg "...is a loving satire of some
of the stereotyped images of lesbians,
including the wallflower, stompin’ dyke, child
molester, role player, seductress, and the
nonmonagamous ’right on’ sister. Each
scene is filmed in a style which is also a
spoof on a different genre from the history
of Hollywood films from silent movies style
to a chorus line production number - the
films _,which have formed so many of our
stereotypes." "A Comedy" was recently
selected for inclusion in the American Film
Institute’s International Women’s Year Film
Festival at the JFK Center for the
Performing Arts in Washington D.C.

The three films will run a total of
approximately 90 minutes. Suggested

donation is $3.00. Money generated from
these films will be used as a fundraising
event for the fifth, Vermont Lesbian/Gay
Pride to be held in Burlington, June 19th
and 20th.

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Commentary

David Chan arrived on the University of
Vermont campus on April 30 to take
pictures of women who wanted to be
included in Playboy’s spread, "The Girls of
the Party Schools." UVM was ranked the
number four party school in the nation by
Playboy’s staff. Protest abounded on campus
and at the Sheraton Inn where Chan was,
conducting his photo sessions. Upon being
asked his views of the women protesting his
arrival, the 21 year veteran of Playboy’s
photography staff, declared, "They're a bunch
of ugly dykes that can’t get laid."

Two very well attended speak-outs were
held at which many men and women,
students and faculty alike, expressed their
indignation over Playboy’s insulting spread.
Themes of the impromptu speeches given by
the attendees included recitations of the
statistics and studies connecting pornography
to rape, declarations that seemingly private
acts have very public ramifications, and angry
condemnations of Playboy for their harmful
and disrespectful treatment of women.

In addition to making public speeches,
many women chose to schedule private
appointments with Chan at his hotel room.
Unaware of the wrath he had stirred in the
University community, Chan eagerly set up

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"interviews" with the students who called.
However, his irritation was clearly displayed
when angry woman after angry woman
arrived at his door with fiery indictments of
his misogynist business. After chewing out
Chan, women were welcomed outside by a
troop of chanting, sign-bearing protesters
who were eager to hear the battle stories.
Also on hand were many news stations
who were equally eager to hear the tales.
Channels 5, 22, and 3 all gave coverage to
the anti-Playboy events which were
coordinated by the Women’s Organization
and Resource Center, a student run group.
On Tuesday, May 5, channel 5 from New
York City traveled to Burlington to
interview the protestors. The media
excitement over what, to some, was just one
more group of students rabble-rousing
resulted from the fact that UVM has been
the only school to protest Playboy’s presence

on their campus.

Students were not the only group that
organized around the event. The Women’s
Advisory Council (WAC), consisting of
UVM faculty and staff, planned an amazing
array of events that filled the month
preceding Playboy’s arrival. Their aim was
to demonstrate that the women that Playboy
photographs are not representative of UVM
women in general. Among their many
events, WAC arranged a photo display in
Baily Howe Library entitled "Women of

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