WAYS IN BEING GAY

WAYS IN BEING GAY 1994: HALLWALLS 4TH BIANNUAL LESBIAN AND GAY FESTIVAL. Biannual festival featuring exhibitions, films, videos, plays, performances, and community activities. Assistance provided by Ron Ehmke; Sue West; Bob Fennel; Paris Poirier; Nancy Bereano (of Firebrand Books); Deborah Ott and Ike Kim (of Just Buffalo Literary Center); Bruce G. Kyle and Lorna C. Hill (of Ujima Theatre Company); Chuck Brunelle and Interweave; Madeline Davis; Paula Paradise; Elizabeth Kennedy; Mike Allcott; Jimmie Gilliam; Alexis De Veaux; Ross Hewitt; Cacy Forgenie; Javier Bustillos and all the members of Buffalo United Artists; Ghen Dennis; Tony Popielinksi; Chris Hill; Rene Broussard; Connie Burns; Michael J. Maffei; Karl Scheither and Tim Santamore (ACT-UP); Eugene Abrahamson; Judy Barton; Sheri Lowther (of Shades); Chevon Davis (of the Imperial Court of Buffalo); George Sax; Bill Goodman and the Stonewall Democratic Club, Rob Hensel; David Vater; Michelle Rudnicki (of AIDS Community Services); Gordon Ballard (of Ad Stuff); Maureen Porter (of Solid Grounds); Jo Romanowski (of Indigo Productions); Mike Mahaney (of the Buffalo and Erie County Central Library); Ellen Muller and Donna Lee Jewel (of Soldierheart Productions); Garnett Press Gallery; Holly Bloch (of Art in General); and Bill Arning (of White Columns). Publicity support provided by Deb Spico (the Erie Community News); Community Network Newsletter; Carol Spenser and Pride Path; Terry Doran; Richard Huntington and Pat Donovan (of the Buffalo News); Jamie Moses; M. Faust; Anthony Chase and Javier Bustillos (of ArtVoice); Michael Calleri (of Metro Weekend); WBFO; New World Record; Talking Leaves and Village Green; Dennis Kulczyk (of Zippers); Jim Hull (of Club Heat); Sherrill Cooper (of Compton's After Dark); Michael; Doug and staff at Buddies; Deb Kohler (of the Lavender Door); Leslie Wolff (of Spencer Graphics); and Tom Warren (of Buffalo Newspress) [4th biannual WAY IN BEING GAY festival, organized by Margaret Smith, including highly-charged gallery exhibition AMENDMENTS, curated by Sara Kellner. Eli Langer, a talented and serious young Canadian artist whose drawings were to have appeared in the AMENDMENTS show, decides on advice of counsel to withdraw the work, fearing it might hurt his case now pending in the Canadian courts. His attempt to sue for return of his paintings confiscated from a Toronto gallery — seized on charges of child pornography — is a nationally celebrated test case of Canada's harsh new censorship laws. — E.C.]

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November, 1994 - 1994