Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, January 7, 1994 Page: 1 of 36
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FRIDAY. JANUARY 7. 1994 VOLUME X, NUMBER 36
Government unveils new condom PSA's
Gay's murder
prompts rally
Tyler event to spotlight
hate crime, praise police
By Tammye Nash
STAFF REPORTER OF DALLAS VOICE
Gay and lesbian activists from
around the state will gather in Tyler on
Saturday afternoon for a “Stop the Hate"
rally. The rally will be at 1 p.m. in
STATE
Bergfield Park, the site from which 23-
year-old gay man Nicolas Ray West was
abducted and murdered on Nov. 30 in
what police officials there have termed
an anti-gay hate crime.
Dallas-area residents who want to
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'Immunocise1 —
Pictured: One of several participants at a recent "Immunocise" exercise class. The
program, available at no charge to HIV-positive individuals, meets from 11 a.m. to
noon each weekday at the Reverchon Recreation Center. Story on Page 14.
Television, radio spots to
target young adults on
abstinence, condom use
By Dennis Vercher
The Clinton Administration this
week introduced several bold new
television and radio public service
announcements designed to improve
awareness of condoms and safer sex.
Some of the PSAs also advocate
NATIONAL
sexual abstinence as a way to avoid
sexually-transmitted diseases.
The spots, unveiled on Monday by
Health and Human Services Secretary
Donna Shalala, target young adults ages
18 to 25, the group identified by federal
public health officials as the most likely
to contract a sexually transmitted
disease, including AIDS.
According to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, by age 20. 76
percent of women and 86 percent of
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Inside
METRO: Primary races set as
filing deadline passes; Police
plan meeting with gay and
lesbian merchants; More.............
OPINION: Marvin Liebman
spells out lessons of 1993 in
suggesting a gay and lesbian
agenda for 1994; Letters.............
TRAVEL: Of all the reasons to
visit the continent of Australia,
the fascinating wildlife stands
at the top of the list......................
CALENDAR: Events scheduled
over the next ten days; Notices;
Entertainment and Broadcast
schedules; More .........................
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PBS presents Maupin's Tales
3-part miniseries begins briskly, then loses steam
Reviewed by Steve Warren
CONTRIBUTING WRITER OF DALLAS VOICE
No miniserics in television history
has been as eagerly awaited by the
lesbian and gay community as Tales of
the City, based on the first of Armistead
Maupin’s six novels chronicling life in
San Francisco in the 1970s and ‘80s. The
characters are gay, lesbian, straight,
bisexual and transgendcr, and they
interact freely in a time and place that
seem in some ways as remote as
Atlantis.
There was life before AIDS, as there
will be life after AIDS, and the TV Tales
offers nostalgia in plat ;- of the topicality
and immediacy that made San
TELEVISION
Franciscans read it in their morning
papers — a serial with Their cereal —
before the columns were collected in
book form. The period isn’t exploited
for laughs, as in Brady Bunch reruns,
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Armistead Maupin became the toast of
San Francisco with his Tales of the City.
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Vercher, Dennis. Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, January 7, 1994, newspaper, January 7, 1994; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth616368/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.