Y - Sunday, January 24, E988 - North Shore News Dr. Mark Cousins Naturopathic Physician #405-1124 Lonsdale Ave. Specializing 19 Backs 984-0040 » 984-8863 FINANCIAL PROBLEMS??? Acquaint yourself with all the alternatives, in contidence. Call for our tree information booklet today ‘Follow-up interview without obligation” EVANCIC PERRAULT ROBERTSON LTD. Ministry of Education does not TRUSTEE IN BANKRUPTCY cause of which they disapprove. It was a rotten concert, suggest that buggery is bad. It ($04) 291-9151 too, I hear. presents homosexuality as accep- (Just cetoss the and Narrows’ bndga actos wom Brentwor! Stall The Queers’ Choir goes under — Plus photos. table behavior. on Milingdon Ave 8 Lougheed Hwy) the title of the Vancouver Men’s The comments from the nar- Why don’t they promote pro- Chorus, and is brazenly ‘‘gay" if —rator, stated Mr. Webb, were stitution? What's the difference? I may use a good word that has not uplifting, the musical items A few years ago — long after met a bad fate. were “‘poor'' and he left the Pierre Trudeau gave us the PARK & FLY theatre at the first opportunity, Canadian version of ‘‘let a thou- $ as re) SHORTLY BEFORE Christmas the Queers’ Choir put “spousal rights’ to two Lesbian on a concert at the Centennial Theatre in North Van. employees. But most people did not know that the singers were of In its Aids education program the limp-wristed variety. So they paid $15 to support a for grades 7 to 12 the B.C. The printed program was feeling cheated. sand flowers bloom'’ — it would clear, The VMC is ‘‘composed Other advertisements included have been unthinkable for a of gay men and their friends” one for Gay Tours. Yes, it is and its purpose is to ‘‘promote a now possible to go on a Gay positive image of the gay Windjammer to the West Indies. AIRPORT. PARKING per day 8311 Sea Island Way, Richmond BC. (next to Segal Furniture) Express Shuttle — 24 hrs., 7 days 500 CAI Bonus Points for 3 days parking 278-8311 federal] minister to have her face displayed in a pansy publication. Equally unthinkable would have been a mayor of Van- couvers’s enthusiasm for the D “Gay Olympics" to be held in o you think that none of this matters? The AIDS his city. plague should have taught you otherwise, but shows of this Tom Wolfe the American sort mean we have gone from simple toleration of writer has had some thoughts on homosexualit i it.’ our descent into idiocy and filth y fo promoting | and the growing public revolt against them. te community.” VMC president David J. Reid's written message was that this would be a ‘‘magic show” and that for a short while ‘‘we're on the other side of the rainbow: — where troubles melt like lemon drops.”’ They did not melt like lemon drops for Mr. Pat Webb of © North Van, who has written to the Centennial Theatre's recrea- tion commission to protest about public facilities being used to support homosexuality (copies to Mayors Marilyn Baker, Jack Loucks, and my humble seif). A member of the innocent ma- jority, Mr. Webb was un- prepared for what he saw and heard. Right on the inside of the front cover of the program, for instance, was a half-page adver- tisement that read GAY AND Try it, you'll like it. Someone is even selling a moustache groom- ing cream to ‘‘enhance softness, shine and manageability."” The cream was described as a great stocking stuffer. Pat Carney the free trade lady had her smiling face portrayed in a large Happy Holiday advertise- ment. Also on parade were Mike Harcourt and Emery Barnes, but ] was surprised to see nothing from Svend Robinson, the Gays’ MP. Mr. Robinson is very keen on such events. Do you think that none of this matters? The AIDS plague should have taught you other- wise, but shows of this sort mean we have gone from simple toleration of homosexuality to promoting it. Even the education system promotes it. Not too long ago the Van- He peinted out that the former hippies of Haight Ashbury had to relearn the laws of hygiene, which they forsook at their peril. “They sought nothing less than to sweep aside all codes and restraints of the past and start out from zero."* The result, he said, was that they picked up “the mange, the grunge, the itch, the twitch, the thrush, the scroff, the rot.”’ Plus AIDS, of course. God's Botch, as | call it. That simple rnessage doesn't seem to have reached a lot of people. So it's all right fora Queers’ Choir to perform at the Centennial Theatre. 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