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DIRECTORY

Distribution points for the Alabama Forum
AUBURN ORGANIZATIONS
Alpha Lambda Omega - P.O. Box 821, Auburn, AL 36831-0821
GAY MEN OF AUBURN
P.O. Box 691, Auburn, AL 36831
BIRMINGHAM - BARS
BILL'S CLUB - 208 N. 23rd Street, Disco, Quiet Bar---254-8634
CLUB 21 - 117 1/2 21st Street North---322-0469
FANTASIES - 3201 3rd Avenue South ---326-0085
QUEST CLUB - 5th Avenue and 24th Street South, Western, Leather, Cruise---251-4313
THE RAGE - 620 29th Street South, Disco, Quiet Bar---323-RAGE
MABEL's BEAUTY SHOP & CHAIN SAW REPAIR - 381 14th Streetou---254-9426
SERVICES
AIDS Task Force of Alabama - P.O. Box 55703, Birmingham, AL 35255
AIDS Helpline (7:45 AM - 4:30 PM, M-F)---933-5419
Birmingham Women's Arts Collective --- 939-3356
Birmingham AIDS Outreach - P.O. Box 550070, Birmingham, AL 35255---322-0757
Live and Let Live, Gay Alocholics Anonymous - Unity Church, 28th Street &
Highland Avenue ---933-8964
ORGANIZATIONS
Greater Birmingham NOW - P.O. BOx 10412 --- 871-8670
Dignity ---933-9403/674-6773
Lambda, Inc. - P.O. Box 55913, 35255: 516 27th Street South 35233---326-8600
Metropolitan Community Church - 2630 6th Avenue South --- 326-8529
PRO-PAC - P.O. Box 55913, 35255
Gospel of Freedom - 516 27th Street South (Rear) --- 326-8600
Mystic Krewe of Apollo - P.O. Box 12232, 35201---595-0812
LIBRARY
Barnes Memorial Library (largest Gay/Lesbian library in Alabama) - 516 27th Street South ---326-8600
SPORTS
Southern Shootout - P.O. Box 10944, Birmingham AL 35219
Magic City Athletic Assn. (MCAA) - P.O. Box 55373, Birmingham, AL 35255
New South Softball League (NSSL) - P.O. Box 55373, Birmingham, AL 35255
ALTERNATIVE BOOKSTORE
Lodestar Books - 2020 11th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL---939-3356
NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES
News Break - 2915 Highland Avenue ---324-2103
RESTAURANTS
Cafe Le Netta - 2323 1st Avenue North---324-2333
Steak N' Egg - 1717 10th Avenue South---933-9822
FRAME & ART
The Framery of Clairmont - 3809 Clairmont Avenue ---591-4316
PET STORE
Ed's Pet World - 2821 18th Street South (Homewood) ---879-1131
PLANT STORE
The Plant Odyssey - 3000 Clarimont Avenue ---324-0566
GROCERY/DELI
Highland Market - 2921 Highland Avenue --- 324-1321
HORSE RENTALS
Just For Fun Stables - Alabaster, AL
POTTERY
Earthworks - 18 Middle Street, Montevallo, AL 35115
TANNING SALON
Tan & Trim - 2028 Shady Crest Dr. ---979-2430
GADSEN BARS
HEADQUARTERS - 217 4th Street ---547-9828
HUNTSVILLE BARS
Vieux Carre - 1204 Posey Street
HUNTSVILLE SERVICES
Help Line ---539-1000
HUNTSVILLE ORGANIZATIONS
Pink Triangle Alliance - P.O. Box 784, 35805---539-4235
Metropolitan Community Church - P.O. Box 10021, 35801---851-6220
MOBILE BARS
CLUB PARK AVENUE - 7 South Joachim Street---433-9105
GOLDEN ROD - 13 South Joachim Street ---433-9175
CORRAL - 54 South Conception Street, Western Cruise Bar ---433-9258
SOCIETY LOUNGE - 51 South Conception Street, Disco and Show Bar---433-8141
TROOPERS - 215 Court

MOBILE SERVICES
Gay Hotline ---476-9142
MOBILE ORGANIZATIONS
Metropolitian Community Church (Call for new location)---476-9142
Metropolitan Writers Guild---342-2891
Mobile AIDS Buddy Program - P.O. Box 6068, Mobile, AL 36660---476-1942
Sunday Afternoon Sketch Group ---342-7891
Dignity---342-7891
Gay AA
MONTGOMERY BARS
CHEERS- 211 Lee Street---262-9212
RUMOURS - 207 Dexter Avenue --- 264-5722
STUDIO F - 150 Lee Street
MONTGOMERY SERVICES
Gay Help Line ---Call M.C.C. 264-7887
Montgomery AIDS Outreach ---284-CARE
MONTGOMERY ORGANIZATIONS
Black and White Men Together - P.O. Box 603, Montgomery, AL 36101---284-2421
Metropolitan Community Church - 3112 Norman Bridge Road 36105---264-7887
Dignity Montgomery - P.O. Box 20382 36120---Call M.C.C. 264-7887
Choral Manpower ---Call M.C.C. 264-7887
Montgomery ACT UP - 211 Lee Street
TUSCALOOSA ORGANIZATIONS
Gay/Lesbian Support Services - P.O. Box 4595, University, AL 35486---348-8494
TUSKEGEE ORGANIZATIONS
Alpha Lambda Omega, P.O. Box 821, Auburn AL 36831-0821
NATIONAL SERVICES
AIDS Crisisline - M-F: 2-8 PM ----800/221-7044
North American Transvestite - Transsexual Tel. Contact Service - 296/624-8266
801 E. Harrison Street, Seattle Washington 98102

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YOUR TURN

Why They Have Power Over Us
by Rick Adams

Oh no, you think, another radical polemic, another
"call to action" by another failed revolutionary
blaming the world for his problems.
Sorry; that's too easy. I don't blame the world,
which can be pretty terrific place at times. I accept
responsibility for the problems I cause myself.
And if like mc you're gay or if you are a lesbian,
and living in the U.S. in the late 1980's, you
don't have to be radical or revolutionary to notice
that there are some things dreadfully wrong in the
world, particularly the culture and society around
us (a considerable amount of violence, for one
thing). And there is they.

They are the people who have made and upheld
the laws that deny some of us the most basic rights
granted to other American citizens, even though
we pay taxes, serve in the armed forces, and con-
tribute significantly to the "work force" and the
GNP.
They are the people who can't get out of the au-
thority / submission, white / black, good evil,
right wrong, saved / damned, a context which
seems to represent a concept of absolute authority
outside and apart from nature and human experience
and which has been developed historically
for political reasons. They have projected this context
to cover the state / nation world universe.
They are the people who extend this "authority" to
the so-called "founding fathers" and the "constitution"
as if a historically specific group of white
men, some of whom owned other human beings,
had the power to "frame" for all time the context
of what could ever be "permitted" in American society.

They are the people who continuc to accept this
context and who believe that we must try to deter-
mine what our "founding fathers" meant or what
the "constitution" permits before we can dare
change anything. They are the people who believe
that piece of paper written over two hundred
years ago is the source of "rights" for people to-
day.

They are the people who believe in allcgiance to
the principal of capital and productivity, to the
"nation" and the "state" and the family" as political
entities, all idealized concepts molded out of
the old concept of authority / submission, the ruler
and the ruled. They are the people whose fear of
life outside these limits demands their rigid control
of themselves and others.

They are the popele who have passed on this context
historically, so taht most of us are conditioned
to accept it before we can even form sentences
and so that the very shapes of our most basic images
and concepts are molded form this very context
before we are even aware of ourselves.

They are the people who historically have burned,
hung, gassed, tortured and maimed those who
have not accepted their ways, those outside the
context, sespeically those who demonstrate the fact
of nature that humans can love members of their
own sex.

They are the people who today use liberal "sym-
pathy" and high-tech jargon to try to convince us
not to "rock the boat", to accept the rules and
"play the game." They find ever more subtle ways
to argue that we don't need "special rights" for
gays (or other minorities) and that we of course
must examine the concept of civil rights for gays
in the context of the "consitution" and our
"founding fathers'" intentions (is having sex with
someone who wants to have sex with you in the
privacy fo the home you pay taxes to the government
for a civil right? I'd call it a fundamental
HUMAN right.)

They persuade you that youare nothing apart from

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