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Late June, 1986Stories and headlines for this issue of Metroline included Gay Games coverage, the pros and cons of psychotheraphy, reationships between lesbians and mothers and the relationships between gay men and fathers were explored.The 2nd Annual Gay Games were planned for San Francisco from August 9-17. National headlines covered the National Gay Youth Conference, to be held in Dallas, Texas, on an August weekend. AIDS was reported as the #1 killer in New York City of men between the ages of 30 to 44 and women between the ages of 25 to 29. A proposed Colorado Quarantine bill died in the state General Assembly on May 16, because neither side would compromise on ways to implement it. The Meriden Gay Theater Playwrights and Directors Group announced its 1986 Jane Members Memorial International Gay Playwrighting Contest. AMFAR Awards $1.1 million in scientific research grants and fellowships to AIDS researchers throughout the nation. The majority of awards went to investigators at universities and university medical schools. In Tallahassee, Florida, a bill which would require AIDS testing for people convicted of prostitution was held up when a legislator questioned its purpose. The bll would have made it a second degree misdemeanor for a convicted prostitute to refuse to be tested. Eileen Starzecpyzel reported on the mother bond damage and healing in lesbian relationships. In her essay, she states that "I believe that this first love of a little girl for her mother is essentially lesbian in character in that it is compromised of a full emotional connection to another woman combined with an emerging desire for her." |
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