SHAKE IT UP! goes totally electronic: computer-only communications FROM JULY ONWARD:
This is the last PAPER edition of the SHAKE IT UP ! calendar / newsletter. The paper thing is far too expensive. From now on those who wish to receive this service have a choice of giving me their e-mail address and I will send it as a BLIND copy multiple listing or you can seek it out on the ww web net. Your choice; however, remember, if you want it sent e-mail, tell me your SERVER as well as your e-mail address. ================================ Out door activities like canoeing, whitewater rafting, sailing, inner tubing and other water sports will be on an ad hoc basis of weekend spontaneity. If interested FMI: 241-2500 ================================ June - 1998..............Gay Pride Month............so let's think gay politics 3 - 5 : Wednesday, Thursday, & Friday for 14 weekdays plus weekends BOYS IN THE BAND, that marvelous self-loathing frolic of movie fame, is a play being performed in Milwaukee @ the Broadway Theatre Center, 158 North Broadway; $ 12. For tickets call 1- 414-291-96421. When do we want to go? Call 241-2500 ASAP to make plans for day and hour we leave from 4701 Judy Lane & where to have din-din? "The King & I" ? 5 -Friday - 3:30 to 5 pm High Tea & Talk is an organization-free (no longer associated with SAGE-Dane) opportunity for senior men and their friends who enjoy the company of other men to gather on Friday afternoons for laughing and scratching, talking, arguing, beastly sociable and pondering (conferring with our fellow Wizards) all the problems related to our mutual orientation with the Universe. We have been known to visit house or hospital bound cronies, go off to shows or bars and plan raids on Sunday brunch buffets. Serious discussion sometimes breaks out but moves frequently to contagious bouts of hilarity. There have been times when some of us march in the July GALVANize Parade (July 19). SHAKE IT UP! asks us to judge the annual POLITICAL EFFECTIVENESS Awards for the previous year. We sponsor a few pot lucks with open invitations to others to join us, e.g. Rhythm & Booms progressive pot luck begins @ 4 pm, a Thanksgiving Day Teddy Bear & tree decorating pot luck dinner, and maybe something around St. Valentines Day, all at 4701 Judy Lane. An equal opportunity social group, we support equality: activism & inaction, energy & sloth, fellowship & friendship. We regularly meet @ Monty's Blue Plate Diner, 2089 Atwood Ave, Madison, WI., and is wheel chair accessible. FMI: 257-9751 6 - Saturday - 5 pm Gemini Gender Group (transsexuals & friends) usually meets the first Saturday of the month @ the Unitarian Universalist church in Brookfield, Milwaukee: 13001 West North Ave. Support group begins at 5 pm with the general meeting starting at 6:30 pm. FMI (414)297-9328 or (608) 837-5477, ask for Mary Ann. 6 - Saturday - 9 pm to 12 Tammy Baldwin's kick-off campaign weekend begins with a DANCE at Fyfe's Corner Bistro, 1334 East Washington Ave; suggested donation $ 5. The official announcement is Sunday, FMI 258-9800 7 - Sunday - 3 pm "Sexual Ethics in the Bible: What is Natural and Unnatural." A lecture by the Rev. Dr. Wm. R. Herzoh II, First Baptist Church, 518 North Franklin Ave. (Off University Ave.) PFLAG is but only one of the sponsors. 7 - Sunday - 3 pm Tammy Baldwin's Official Announcement of Candidacy for the US House of Representatives @ UW Hospital & Clinics to emphasize the need for a new, better & sensible national health care system 7 - Sunday - 8 pm Cable TV, SHOW TIME, ............."MORE ....Tales of the City" 7 - Sunday - 7 pm to 9 pm Perfect Harmony Chorus - Rehearsal: meet and sing, Grace Episcopal Church on Capital Square, (608) 232-0528. Enter from the West Washington side of the court yard. 8 - Monday - 7:30 pm Frontiers Film Circle: "The Hollow Reed" @ Jim Dollak's, 825-7116 8 - Monday - 10:30 pm Dyke TV: WYOU, Cable 4: a 30 minute show produced in NYC. 10 - Wednesday - 5 pm MAGIC / GALVANize monthly meeting @ Fyfe's Corner Bistro on 1344 East Washington 10 - Wednesday - 9 pm to 11 NOTHING TO HIDE, Public Access TV, Cable 4, presents part 2 of 4: Madison Institute's TAX REFORM Symposium (48), PLUS "There Is No Name For This" : Chinese Gay and Lesbian Americans going through the double burden of a racist as well as a homophobic society in the USA; coming out stories. For those who remember Chwee Lye Chung from the old Gay Center days, see the big stud in black leather with shades and brains (49), plus "The Canadian National Health Care System" told to you by an American doctor (27) 12 - Friday - 3:30 pm High Tea & Talk meets @ Monty's Blue Plate Diner, 2089 Atwood Ave, Madison, WI., see above 12 & 13 - Friday & Saturday Democratic State Convention at Monona Terrace Convention Center. Speakers include Russ Feingold, Herb Kohl, Ed Garvey, Barbara Lawton, etc. Free food & drink @ Hospitality Suites. Those wishing to attend, call 258-9800, Tammy's campaign office. Get T-shirts ($10) and bumper stickers there. FMI www.tammybaldwin.com 13 - Saturday - 5:30 pm Socialist Potluck: 5:30 pm meal; 6:30 pm program @ Wil-Mar Neighborhood Center on Jenifer Street. 13 - Saturday - Frontiers' doing American Players Theatre: "Wild Oats". Pot luck picnic out there @ 5:30 pm; the play @ 8 pm. Call to order seats ASAP: Jim @ 588-3073. Car pooling: Bob @ 244- 5531 14 - Sunday - DOG FEST, Werner Park 14 - Sunday - 7 pm to 9 pm Perfect Harmony Chorus - Rehearsal: meet and sing, Grace Episcopal Church on Capital Square, (608) 232-0528. Enter from the West Washington side of the court yard. 15 - Monday - 7:30 pm Frontier's RAP GROUP discussion @ The United on the Square, 14 West Mifflin St. 15 - Monday - 10:30 pm Dyke TV: WYOU, Cable 4. A 30 minute show produced in NYC. 16 - Tuesday - 7 pm GLBTQ Book DISCUSSION GROUP for women and men will meet on the third Tuesday of the month over @ Borders Book Store EAST where two books will be processed: a fiction novel and a non-fiction book that ties in with the fiction novel. FMI 240-0080 17 - Wednesday 10 Am SAGE (Senior Action in a Gay Environment) -- "Women's Chat" A Room of One's Own Coffee Shop, 307 W. Johnson St., 10 am, (608) 835-8971. Meets the 2 nd & 4 th Wednesday of the month. 17 -Wednesday - 9 pm to 11 pm NOTHING TO HIDE (Public Access Cable 4, WYOU-TV) presents Part 3 of 4 of the Madison Institute's TAX REFORM (34), PLUS In The Trenches with Rita: AARP panel (1:23) 19 - Friday - 3:30 pm High Tea & Talk; see above 19 - Friday - 7:30 pm Frontier's Dining Out @ Saz on Lower State Street 20 - Saturday PFLAG (Parents & Friends of Lesbians & Gays) does not meet for the summer; however, drop by their display @ Farmer's Market on the Square, weather permitting. 20 - Saturday - 2 pm Frontiers: "take a hike": Governor Nelson State Park. Call Jim @ 588-3073 20 - Saturday - 6 pm Asian & Asian-American pot luck picnic in the park. But first, meet @ Terry's, FMI 241- 5685 21 - Sunday - 7 pm to 9 pm Perfect Harmony Chorus - Rehearsal: meet and sing, Grace Episcopal Church on Capital Square, (608) 232-0528. Enter from the West Washington side of the court yard. 22 - Monday - 10:30 pm Dyke TV: WYOU, Cable 4. A 30 minute show produced in NYC. 24 - Wednesday 10 Am SAGE (Senior Action in a Gay Environment) -- "Women's Chat" A Room of One's Own Coffee Shop, 307 W. Johnson St., 10 am, (608) 835-8971. Meets the 2 nd & 4 th Wednesday of the month. 24 - Wednesday - 7 pm CONCERT On The Square (for 6 consecutive Wednesday evenings) & picnic dinner (can be purchased there; however, consider phoning-in a dinner reservation to your favorite restaurant the day before & pay with your plastic charge card.) A space will be reserved @ Capitol Park on the Martin Luther King, Jr., Blvd., side @ 5 pm a little to the right (north east) near the side walk. Tonight's theme: ON WISCONSIN !, celebrating Wisconsin's Sesquicentennial. Call Randy FMI 278-9708 24 - Wednesday - 9 pm to 11 pm NOTHING TO HIDE (Public Access Cable 4, WYOU-TV) presents The Madison Institute: part 4 of 4 from the Madison Institute's Symposium on TAX REFORM (1:23), and "About the American poet, Walt Whitman" (29) plus "Setting The Record Straight" ( 9 ) 26 - Friday - 3:30 pm High Tea & Talk, see above 28 - Sunday - 1:30 pm Frontiers : "Take a Hike": Black Hawk Lake; host is Jim, call 588-3073 28 - Sunday - 7 pm to 9 pm Perfect Harmony Chorus - Rehearsal: meet and sing, Grace Episcopal Church on Capital Square, (608) 232-0528. Enter from the West Washington side of the court yard. 29 - Monday - 7:30 pm] Frontiers Film Circle: "Prick Up Your Ears" @ Colin Robertson's, 257-2338, 921 Lake Court, 2 blocks west of John Nolen ********************* To get the full picture of GLBTQ happenings today and tomorrow each day, sign-on the pink page's daily digest by sending your message to SUBSCRIBE TPS-list Your_First_Name Your_Last_Name & your e-mail address to list-request@TPS.StdOrg.wisc.edu ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Re-inventing slavery: volunteers IKE, Mike, Forest, Peter J., Eric and Ming, also Cyber Wiz Jason, were a BIG HELP in ditzing, collating, stuffing, and stamping for the bulk mailing of this last paper publication of around 340 circulation ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Last Updated: 6/3/98