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VERMONT'S NEWSPAPER FOR LESBIANS, GAY MEN, AND BISEXUALS

Volume IX, Number 8

November 1994

Survey Says:
Many Americans
Have Homosexual Stirrings

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- A new survey indicating that nearly one
in five Americans has been attracted to someone of the same
sex at some time since age 15, has been garnering attention in
the media. The research, conducted at the Harvard School of
Public Health and the Center for Health Policy Studies in
Washington, has been criticized by some statisticians but touted
by gay rights activists.

The study found that between 6.2 percent and 20.8 percent of
American men and 3.3 percent and 17.8 percent of American
women could be considered “incidentally homosexual”. The
lower estimates are based on reported same-sex sexual behavior
during the previous five years. The higher numbers are based on
reported homosexual behavior or attraction since age 15.

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Lesbian/Gay Religious
Leaders To Meet at National
Council of Churches Meeting

NEW YORK -- In conjunction with the fall meeting of the Gen-
eral Board of the National Council of Churches (NCC), repre-
sentatives of the lesbian/gay Christian caucuses, the welcoming
congregations programs, and the Universal Fellowship of Met-
ropolitan Community Churches (UFMCC) will meet in New Or-
leans, November 9-12.

The Rev. Dr. Mel White, the country’s leading expert on the
“Radical Religious Right” and author of Tested by Fire and
Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in America, will
speak to both the assembled lesbian and gay leaders as well as to

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Theater Company Stages a
Benefit for Vermont CARES

Photo by Staci Visco.
Pictured l—r: Steven West, Craig Cabot, and Dean Pratt in
BCPI’s Jeffrey.

Kip M. Roberson

BURLINGTON -- Broadway seemed just a bit closer to
Vermont for three evenings in September as Paul Rudnick’s
Jeffrey made its New England premiere in Burlington’s Contois
Auditorium. Presented by Vermont’s own Big City Players, Inc.,
Jeffrey was a fundraising event that benefitted Vermont CARES,
whose offices were destroyed by arson in June.

Big City Players, Inc. (BCPI) contributed 90 percent of their
proceeds from this production to Vermont CARES. In dollar
figures, that amounts to over $3500 having been raised to benefit
the AIDS service organization. “To date, this has been our most
successful production,” said Dean Pratt, executive president of
BCPI. “In fact, this show raised as much as all of our past
productions combined,” he continued. BCPI has been benefitting
local charities for nearly four years.

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