June 1988

Names Project Volunteer Calls For Contributions

Dear Friend,

Last fall on a grey Sunday afternoon a
man stood alone looking at a simple 3' by 6'
quilt. This small hand-sewn cloth, with
thousands of other such panels, made up the
huge AIDS Memorial Quilt which lay that
day at the foot of the Nation’s Capitol in
Washington, D.C. The panel which this
man was reading so intently displayed a
sheet of music, a drawing of a violin, and a
small photograph of a young man with the
confident smile of one who was full of
talent, and full of life.

As the man knelt down to gently touch
the picture, he began to cry. The sounds of
his grief were the only sounds to be heard.
As I watched this man, so alone in his pain,
a young woman, a stranger, came and
placed her hand on his shoulder in comfort.
An older woman who was standing near,

I walked over and enveloped the man and the

younger woman in a hug that made me feel
warm.

The Names Project/New England is a
volunteer group of local men and women
who are committed to raising the funds nec-

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essary for publicizing and displaying the
AIDS memorial quilt. To help, one of our
sponsors, the Boston Foundation, will
match dollar for dollar all contributions.

I am writing to ask you to help bring the
AIDS Memorial Quilt to Boston by send-
ing your contribution of $25, $50, or $100
today. We welcome your gift in any

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MAGAZINE REVIEW:
OUT/LO0K:National Lesbian & Gay
Quarterly

by Heather Wishik

OUT/LOOK’S first issue, 8 1/2 by 11
and glossy, with intriguing black and white
graphics on almost every page, suggests
this quarterly is going to be worth the $16
per year fee. The magazine has a policy of
gender balance in every issue, and is also
clearly committed to multiracial content.
In the direct mail campaign conducted to
promote the magazine: two 50,000 piece
mailings have occurred in which half went
to women and half to men. The publish-
ers consciously purchased address lists
from both male and female magazines,
catalogues, and networks.

The premier issue contains two pieces
about the March on Washington,acoming
out story by Jewelle Gomez and another
about coming out in the age of AIDS by
Robert Marks; an article about the gay
male scene in Tokyo, an anthropological
essay about the multicultural existence of
same-sex relations, a review of four new

To help remember, to help mount, and to
help celebrate the lives of those who have
gone before us, please mail your generous
gift today.

John Krajovic

Volunteer, the Names Project/New Eng-
land P.O. Box 1798

Jamaica Plain, MA 02130

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OUT/LOOK’S first issue also includes
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an article by a man about his solo uses of
magazine pornography in the age of AIDS
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