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Unknown to Mr. Gay, another USAir flight
experienced mechanical problems at the
airport. The passengers of this other flight
were being rerouted to various airplanes. A
few were put on Mr. Gay’s flight, and
anyone holding a “free” ticket was bumped.

Airline officials, armed with a list of these
freebee ticket holders, boarded the plane to
remove the free ticket holders. Of course,
our Mr. Gay was not sitting in his assigned
seat, as you may remember. When the
ticket agent approached the seat where Mr.
Gay was supposed to be sitting, she asked a
startled customer, “Are you gay?” The man
shyly nodded that he was, at which point
she demanded, “Then you have to get off
the plane.”

Our Mr. Gay, overhearing what the ticket
agent had said, tried to clear up the
situation. “You’ve got the wrong man,” he
said. “I’m Gay!” This caused an angry
third passenger to yell, “Hell, I’m gay too!
They can kick us all off!”

Confusion reigned as more and more
passengers began yelling that USAir had
no right to remove gays from their flights.

As far as we know, they are still on the
tarmac fighting it out. (Gayzette)

Court rejects dildo case

WASHINGTON, DC -- When the U.S.
Supreme Court refused to look at one
Texas case in November, the result left
intact a law prohibiting the sale or use of
dildos for vaginal insertion. The need for
such a prohibition baffles many.

“Encouraging single women to believe that
they need a fake penis should be more
comforting to men than knowing single
women don’t need one at all,” said Beatrice
Dohm, legal director for the Lambda Legal
Defense and Education Fund.

But the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
upheld the law, saying, “There is no
fundamental right to use obscene devices”
or to sell or “promote” them.

The Texas dildo case was just one of
almost 600 cases which the U.S. Supreme
Court has refused to hear thus far in the

. first month of the current session, and one

of three rejected which have some interest
for gays. Many more are pending.
(Washington Blade)

Health Resource Organizations

AIDS HOTLINES:

Vermont 1-800-882-2437
New Hampshire 1-800-752-2437
New York State 1-800-541-2437
Massachusetts 1-617-522-4090
Maine 1-800-851-2437
National 1-800-342-2437
Canadian 1-613-563-2437

AIDS ‘Community Awareness Project
(ACAP)

PO Box 608

St. Johnsbury, VT 05819

(802) 748-1149

AIDS Community Resource
Network (ACoRN)

PO Box 2057

Lebanon, NH 03766

(603) 448-2220

Bennington Area AIDS Project
PO Box 1066

Bennington, VT 05201

(802) 442-4481 or 1-800-845-2437

Brattleboro AIDS Project
PO Box 1486

Brattleboro, VT 05302
(802) 254-4444 (Helpline)
(802) 254-8263 (Office)

F ranklin-Grand Isle AIDS Task Force
P. O. Box 241, St. Albans, VT 05478
(800) 524-7742 - (802) 638-7834

Friends Vermont

Emotional, Spiritual, & Psychological Support
PO Box 402

Bristol, VT 05443

1 800 639-3316

Gay/Lesbian Alcoholics Anonymous
GLAA, P.O. Box 5653
Burlington, VT 05402

Lesbian Cancer Support Group
(802) 660-8386

North Star (Holistic Health Care)
RR2 Box 3255
Morrisville, VT 05661 0 (802) 888-2858

January 1995
Helms would surely
disapprove -- we hope

CHAPEL HILL, NC -- The Chapel Hill -
Carborro, North Carolina, School Board
voted in early August to include sexual
orientation in the district’s plans for
diversity education. This is remarkable and
wonderfully ironic considering this district
is in the home state of Jesse Helms. The
40-page plan will teach staff, students, and
faculty that every individual and family
(even gay families) should be respected
and accepted [Adam and Eve, the
mail-order sex shop, is located in Carborro.
Have fun, Jessel]

(The Prism Newsletter) V

OUTSPOKEN:

OITM’s Quote of the Month

“I’ve heard the rumors about Tom
(Cruise) ever since we broke up, and
I have to say that after four and a
half years of marriage, I didn’t see
one sign that he was gay  I did
hear Nicole Kidman was a
transsexual. Now, that I believe!”

Mimi Kogere
Actress and Tom Cruise’s first wife

Vermont AIDS Council
PO Box 275
Montpelier VT 05601 ° (802) 229-2557

Vermont C.A.R.E.S.

(Committee for AIDS Resources,

Education, and Services)

PO Box 5248

12 North Street

Burlington, VT 05401

(802) 863-2437 (Burlington)
1-800-649-2437 (Outside Burlington Area)

Vermont Department of Health
1-800-882-2437 (AIDS Hotline) or
(802) 863-7245 (AIDS Program office)

VT PWA Coalition
PO Box 1055 - Brattleboro, VT 05302
1-800-698-8792 or (802) 222-5123

Vermont Women’s Health Center
336 North Avenue
Burlington, VT 05401 - (802)863-1386