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Serving the Cincinnati LGBT Community since 1996

MAGAZINE

By Ashley Miller

Miss Black Ohio USA 2010

HIV and AIDS are diseases thatare currently plaguing more thanforty million people worldwide.In the United States alone, thereare more than forty thousandnew HIV cases reported eachyear, and an estimated 1.1 millionpersons living with HIV.Although the exact number of persons living with HIV isvirtually unknown, there aremore than seven thousandpersons living in Ohio withAIDS. While these numbers arevery striking, the most alarmingthing about the HIV/AIDSepidemic, is that thousands morepeople are infected with the virusand do not know their status.When it is a fact that youngAmericans ages 13-25 arecontracting HIV at the rate of two per hour and more than half of all new HIV infections are inpersons under the age 25; it istime that someone stands up andspeaks out about this issue!As Miss Black Ohio USA 2010, and as the spokespersonfor STOP AIDS of Cincinnati, Iam committed to serving thecommunity as an educator toraise awareness and hopefully asa voice to teach about theimportance of knowing yourstatus. I am also committed toserving the population of peoplealready diagnosed with HIV/AIDS whom have tremendoushealthcare needs.

STOP AIDS!!!

Miller

Something tothink about:Globally, a personcontracts HIVevery 6 1/2seconds and every10 seconds, a person dies fromAIDS. For a disease that ispreventable, it has taken entirelytoo many lives.Protect yourself and KNOWYOUR STATUS!!!!Enjoy a HOT evening of COOLmusic! Enjoy swing, big bandand pop music by the Queen CityRainbow Bands Jazz Ensembleon Saturday, February 20th from8 to 11 p.m.A $5 cover will be requestedat the door of Below Zero for theevening of music, free beads anda door prize ticket.Beyond fun, folks and carnivalatmosphere, the band againfeatures Lois and Tesss famousraffle items. A hit every year atthe bands Mardi Gras celebra-tion, Lois and Tess presentgorgeous gift baskets, groovy giftcertificates, and other surprises  some of which might vibrate  but fabulous things that youcant wait to take home.The band is aware that this yearMardi Gras is technically over byFebruary 20th. Unfortunately, the

Swing Onfor Mardi GrasTwo popular radio programschange stations

Alternating Currents (AC)

, a program directed to the GreaterCincinnati GLBT Community and

Every Woman

, a programdedicated to local women, willsoon be heard on the new WVQCFM. The shows are currentlystreaming on the stationsWebsite.Cheryl Eagleson, producer forAC, explains that it is a publicaffairs program. We act as a source for resources and weprovide information about news,Calendar of Events items,interviews and play music and allthose elements are focussed onthe interests of the GLBTCommunity and our straightallies.The program is on 3 to 5 p.m.every Saturday and has been onthe air for 34 years. It wasbroadcast on WAIF untilDecember. AC followed in thefootsteps of a program called

Gay Dreams

created by the late John Zeh.

Amy Ketchum is producer of

Every Woman (EW)

. It has beenon the air for 32 years andfocuses on women and music artists that gain little exposure onother stations and also has a Calendar of Events. They try toget in as many interviews as theycan. Music is a mixture of allkinds of tunes featuring local andnational artists.AC schedules quarterlyinterviews with representativesfrom a wide variety of localGLBT, community service andsocial organizations.EW has interviewed local artistsin the past but will now includenational acts as well. However,they have interviewed nationalacts such as Le Tigre and BikiniKill. Local artists have includedTracy Walker who has been onseveral times. She playsAlternative Folk Rock.Both moved their shows to

Amy Ketchum, left and Cheryl Eagleson at Media Bridges

WVQC-FM because Media Bridges, which houses both localPublic Access TV (

cable

) andnow the FM station, is pluggedinto the community.Eagleson, who works in Overthe Rhine where CommunityBridges is located (

northeast corner of Central Parkway and

See

Radio

, Page 5, Col. 2See

Band

, Page 4, Col. 4

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February, 2010

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PaulDelph

Vol. 14, No. 2, February,2010

Contents © GLBT News, 2010

Publisher/EditorWorley Rodehaver; AssociateMichael X. Chanak,TransportationJoe Wilks; WebJamie Wilkinson

Greater Cincinnati GLBT News Magazine

GLBT News Opinion Page

MatthewShepard

t is our goal to record the positive contributions

GLBT

peoplemake to their community and the local community at large. WhileAIDS and Hate CRIMES are certainly not positive things, we seekto draw the positive from the negative. We hold up Paul Delph andMatthew Shepard and their families as models of how humanbeings should or could react to each other and how families shouldsupport loved ones whose lives are not in the box right wingreligious zealots want them in. Delph, a multi-talented Cincinnatian,died of AIDS in 1996. His mother shut down her business to carefor him. Shepard died in 1998, victim of a hate Crime and his motherworked for years to get passed a national Hate Crimes Bill, whichis now law.

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FromThe Center

By Rusty LockettPresident

February is here,

a month

whereMother Nature is confused. Imstill waiting for that last ice stormthe cynical. Though in reality itsthe feast day of St. Valentine (

all 5 plus of them

) and they allshared the feast day at least until1969. Hopefully you havesomeone to share the day with; if not, share it with yourself.time to the nati. He has a specialaffection for us folks from theQueen City, so hes givingsomething back!On April 13th, he will be joinedby Jeremiah Clark as they give a benefit concert for The Center atBelow Zero. The fun doesntstart or stop there! We have a special bartender 6 p.m. 8 p.m.with all tips going to The Center.After all that musical fun, stayfor the premiere of

Glee

. Therewill be a $5 cover charge. Youllreceive 6 tickets for entry in a drawing for $100. You canpurchase additional tickets at therate of $1 for one ticket or $5 forsix tickets. We thank Tom andJeremiah not only for sharingtheir musical talent with us, butfor putting on this wonderfulevent. Also, there have beensome desserts that have alreadybeen donated for the event.Hope to see you there!As we approach Spring I wantto encourage each of you tosupport The Center or yourfavorite GLBTQ2S organization.

Mother Natureis confused?!

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I write this Commentarybefore entering the hospital for a long-awaited operation. I reportthis fact because many of my readers knew an oper-ation was forthcoming.It will hopefully be an inad out procedure and Ishould be back to normal(

whatever that is

) in a fewdays.I thank two long-timefriends, Don Deters and JoeWilks for shuffling me back andforth. I have to remain flat onmy back for at least one day.Anyway, this commentary isabout the magazine, not me, atleast from this point forward.As I have commented before, a print medium such as

GLBTNews Magazine

is costly but Ifeel it is a necessary part of whatMAPublications does.We print 5,000 copies andhave about 175 distribu-tion points in Southwest-ern Ohio and NorthernKentucky.In addition, MAPubli-cations send it via e.mail tomore than 1,000 individu-als ourselves and it goesbeyond that sent byothers. And, there is a weeklye.mailer UPDATE, usuallye.mailed on Tuesdays.Because of the cost of print-ing,we are going to limit the printeditiion to the number of pagesthat allow us to pay our bills andany additional pages will go onlyto the e.mailer list. (

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Georgia onMy Mind

By Georgia WDahlberg

What makes somethingdisreputable, what makes itperfect? I guess its the context.Last year, I hung around a localpark in Las Vegas, devoted to theflying of radio controlled modelairplanes, trying to learn to fly.Most of the planes weremagnificent. It was obvious at a Many have never heard of a Dihedral angle. Simply put, if you look at virtually any aircraft,model or full size, there is a slight V shape to the wings andtail looked at from the front orback. This angle is called theDihedral angle and helps inmaintaining the aircrafts stabilityin the air. This crudely builtairplane had NO dihedral angle,was that they both were having a ball flying. They both were doingquite intricate maneuvers withconsiderable skill at high speedsconsidering the differencebetween a small battery poweredmotor and a high-octane largeinternal combustion modelengine. There was a difference inthe two planes but not in theenjoyment derived by the two.Red did a hammerhead stall andcame in for a landing with a malfunction in his rudder.Careful flying got Reds $600plane on the ground in one pieceto the applause of all. The littlered disreputable plane came infor a controlled crash landing,not having wheels to roll to a stop and to the applause of onlyyours truly. .Please understand, I appreci-ate and admire greatly, theiconoclast who disregards all thelaws of flight and by sheer gutsand determination makes theimpossible possible, the improb-able probable, the disreputablereputable and the unable able tofly like a bird through the airwith the greatest of fun. I am nolonger concerned with making a perfect model. As long as it getsinto being and gives me enjoy-ment, I will be content. Perhapsthere is a moral here for us all inour many diverse endeavors. Doyour best but not to the exclusionof having some fun. It isntnecessary to spend the most oraccomplish the most exquisite tohave fun. If its worth doing, itsworth doing and one doesnthave to do it to the exclusion of enjoyment whatever your pursuit.

On being alone

glance that manyhours had beenpoured into eachand every airplanethere. Colors wereauthentic, brilliant,and artistic, surfacesslick and the planes could beseen for several thousand feetstraight up against the deep blue Nevada sky. The engines startedwith a roar and beat with powerthat made your heart palpitate.Walking down the path to theshaded picnic tables, I wouldtypically see, from the underside,a Japanese Zero screamingtowards me at more than 100miles per hour, trailed by a P-51Mustang hot on its tail, straightout of a movie or history books.I was introduced to this oldergentleman with long hair in a pony tail, a straw hat and shorts.I noticed his airplane on one of the work spools, painted red withwhite trim and very roughlooking. On further examination,this plane was the antithesis of allother planes on the field. I askedhim about the construction. AllArt Foam and Scotch tape withthe most expensive part of thebody, a carbon fiber rod from onewing tip to the other. The planeshowed much evidence of mishaps, crashes and damage. Heshowed me where the wing hadbeen ripped in half from a mid aircollision and many encounterswith the ground. The planeconsisted of a foam board profileof an airplane with rudder, cabinand an amusing piston to repre-sent an engine. Another profile inplan included the wings, a bodyand the elevator on the back. Alledges were rather rough-cut outof inexpensive foam board.the wings and tailwere both flat as a tabletop. A tinyrechargeablebattery poweredthe electric motorwith a few controlservos stuck in crude holescarved in the foam. The fewcontrol rods were simple wiresstrung thru paperclip wire guidesto elevator and ailerons held onby scotch tape hinges. Theimpression was that this planewould make a very rapid tripstraight into the asphalt runway.My friend Red had taken hisbeautiful model of a highlyacrobatic airplane off with a rushand a roar, up into the sky with a snap loop 10 feet off the runwayand his usual intricate maneuversto complete a standard acrobaticcourse. My new acquaintancetook his rather disreputablelooking plane into the air a fewminutes later. What impressed me