Fifth Freedom, 1982-08-01

              THE FIFTH FREEDOM A PUBLICATION FOR THE BUFFALO GAY COMMUNITY AUGUST 1982 FREE "The Freedom to love whomever and however we want" Rochester's Gay Scene Rochester has always been the envy of Buffalo's Gay Community. "They're so together!" "They have so much more to do." "I go there a lot. It's only a short drive." The Gays in Rochester have a greater outreach to their people and to non-gays than Buffalo does. Police department liasons, church outreach and a Friends and Families of Gays group are just a few examples. In this issue THE FIFTH FREEDOM takes a look at the social end of the spectrum. Bars for men and women and the baths. There are other activities that are available and will be looked at at a later date. Information enclosed herein was collected during recent visits to the city. As we were doing research there were changes being made. These listings reflect those changes up to presstime. Women's Bars ALLEN ST. CLUB, 278 Allen, Rochester. Women Only. Guarded parking and strict enforcement are provided. Open Monday-Saturday 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Closed Sunday. Disco Wed., Friday and Saturday. Juke box, many video games, pool table. No food. Wednesday specials with varied drink discounts. Many Brockport College students come here to relax. The owner formerly owned the Blue Chip and had the largest drag shows in New York State. After 25 years in the business, he had to move due to freeway construction. TWO-TWELVE CLUB, 212 Colvin, Rochester. Mostly women, but mixed gay and straight. Gay more at night. Open 7 days 11 a.m.-2 a.m. Free pizza Mondays and hot dogs Saturdays, in the winter. Juke box, pool table, video games. Chairs and tables to relax. No specific dance floor. Nice comfortable bar with paneling decor. Lighted parking for convenience. There 23 years and gay for about 12 years. RIVERVIEW RESTAURANT, 242 South Aye. Open 7 days from 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Video games, Juke box, pool table. Mostly women, but gay men welcome. Pizza and sandwiches. Low key casual bar, weekends are busiest. More a community bar. There »ears, gay about 20. Restaurant SNAKE SISTERS CAFE, 666 South Aye. Closed Monday. Open for lunch 11:30-3 p.m. Tuesday-Friday. Dinner 5:30-10 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. Sunday Brunch 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Wine and beer only, but full liquor license soon. New bar area just opened in a separate room. Bar open same hours as restaurant. Vegetarian, Greek and Mexican dishes with a variety of seafood and chicken dishes. Sandwiches, pasta specials and omelettes are also featured. The name derives from Greek mythology. This place is very comfortable and very similar to Buffalo's own Allen Restaurant. They have been open 24 years. Open to men and women. Gays and straights mix. Rirs UE PUB, 522 Monroe Aye. Open 7 days 11 a.m.-2 a.m. Monday-Friday 4-7 p.m. 3 for 2 specials. Thursday 2 for 1,10 p.m.-2 a.m. Sunday 5-9 for 1. Mixed men and women. Avenue has been there 7 years and expanded a year ago to have more space. Decorated with many mirrors and old papers. Ceiling fans and Tiffany lamps. Juke box and vidio games. No dance floor. Lighted, convenient parking. BACHELOR FORUM, 1065 E. Main St., Open 7 days 1 p.m.-2 a.m. Mostly men, but women welcome. 2 for 1 Sat. 3-6 p.m. Juke box, pool table, video and bowling. Disco upstairs Friday and Saturday. Home of the Rochester Rams, a leather/levi club, where the third Sunday is their club night. No dress code and everyone welcome. The Forum has been open for 9 years in June. FRIAR'S INN, 248 Monroe Aye. Open 7 days 2 p.m.-2 a.m. Happy hour 2-7 p.m. 7 days. 2 for 1 Tuesday 10 p.m.-2 a.m. for 1 Friday and Saturday 9-11 p.m. Men and women. Juke box, video games and a separate room for dancing. Friar's will be celebrating their sth anniversary Aug. 22. OK CORRAL, 1416 Charlotte St., Open 7 days, Monday-Friday 6 p.m.-2 a.m., Sat. at 12 Noon, Sun at 1 p.m. Video games, juke box and dance floor. Various specials throughout the week. Live drag show at least once a month with a door cover charge. The bar has a light western theme with tables and chairs scattered around for viewing the shows. The Corral draws mixed crowds of men and women. JIM'S DISCO, 123 North St., Rochester. Open 7 days 8:30-2:30 a.m. Men and women. Wednesday 2 for 1, 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Friday 2 for 1,8:30-10:30 p.m. Monday Jenny beer and Schnapps 75c. Tuesday New Wave Night Jenny and Schnapps 75c. Thursday 25<t off all drinks. Juice bars Friday 2:30-4 a.m. and Saturday 2:30 a.m.-5 a.m. Pool table, Foosball, pinball, no juke box. Drag show 1 to 2 per month. Home of the Miss Rochester pageant. Projection TV and cassettes. There for 10 years Jim's is close to the baths and the bus station. L.A. SALOON, 48 Lake Aye. Open 7 days Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-2 a.m. August 11 a.m. Saturdays. Sunday from 12 noon. Monday-Friday 30c off drinks Noon-6 p.m. Pool table, Juke box, bowling, pinball. Men and women. Home of the Tridents, Rochester chapter, and a women's softball team. Food till midnight everyday. Variety of food offered. Friday dinner special $2.95 Buffet 6-9 p.m. Sunday brunch 12-4 p.m. There for two years L.A. is sponsoring Mud Wrestling at Jim's Aug. 12 from 9 p.m.-2 a.m., Aug. 29 at the bar a Pig Roast and open bar $10 with limited tickets. Two rooms have a license plate decor and a comfortable feeling. MARILYN MARILY MARILYN MARILYN MARILYN and  ME By BILL HARDY I finished a book not too long ago; a "biography" of Marilyn Monroe. It was written by, of all people, her seamstress. It wasn't very good. Just another in the ever increasing amount of material, good and bad, that will keep Marilyn's legend alive for a long, long time. So here I am adding one more little thread to that fabric of legend. Not a biographical sketch or a study of the circumstances surrounding her death, but a celebration of the woman herself. I was 12 when Marilyn Monroe died. The movie buff bug had bitten mc years earlier, so it wasn't unusual that I saved all the articles from three newspaper? detailing her departure from this world on August 6, 1962. Very little else appeared on the front pages of these papers. No Vietnam. No assassinations. No race riots. No oozing chemical dumps. The picture pages are filled with Marilyn at various stages of her life, from unknown starlet in 1948, through her various husbands, and up to the most recent photograph of her. Small articles appear throughout the aging pages, many of them "continued from page one." In short, this one event eclipsed everything else that was happening in the more innocent and naive world. It was also, in my opinion, the last episode that could be considered a part of the "old Hollywood." This one event, the apparent suicic : of the reigning blond sex goddess was the final blow for an already ailing lifestyle. Some say old Hollywood was already dead, killed off in the fifties when those rude little picture boxes invaded everyones home, capturing a goodly amount of the movie going audience. I disagree. The glitter and glamour of which Marilyn was such an integral part bubbled through the fifties and right into the sixties. It died when she died. So how did all this affect mc, the 12 year old Bill Hardy of Tonawanda, New York? I was saddened by it all. I was sad that this pretty lady, whom I had actually never seen in a movie theatre, but, as a child of the first television generation, had seen only on iNbC s' baturaay iNignt at the Movies," was no longer going to be around to make any more movies. Now, twenty years later, my thoughts often meander in a speculative fashion, wondering what Marilyn would be doing now, in 1982, had she not died twenty years ago. Would she have survived the more-than-ever emphasis on youth in the mid to late sixties, as she approached and passed her fortieth year? Possibly doing a show stopping revue in Las Vegas in the seventies? And surly, with the nostaglia boom and the return of th big names from yesteryear to movies and television, she more than likely would have turned up doing a guest shot on "Dynasty?" It makes mc feel very good to see her legend provoke such excitement from so many people. She would have enjoyed that. Nostalgia collectors will pay up to $200 for an original poster from one of her films. Of course there are those who say she was only a large set of mammaries and a wiggling derriere. But those people haven't taken time to study her. To read about her. To watch her, film by film and see her shed the sex kitten image, and evolve into a fine, sensitive actress. I don't think she even realized that this was happening. People just haven't taken the time to really get to know her. Well, I think I'm getting a bit too biographical. And enough for speculation too. Whenever I visit the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, I can't help but think how exciting it must have been for film buffs durig those six weeks in June, 1952, when "Niagara" was being shot there. Even though Marilyn was only there for about eight days of shooting, the atmosphere must have been radiantly electric. It was her first real starring role for 20th Century Fox and she gave the Falls some stiff competition. Although the stone observation terrace, on the edge of the gorge just across the street from the statue of George VI was, much to my dismay, torn down in 1980, this site, where 20th Century built the "Rainbow Cabins" set, is still on my list of must see places for friends. Continued on page 4 - Continued on page 4