Lesbians on the loose

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Nq 306.7663099441 LES
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Newtown [N.S.W.] : Lesbians on the loose, 1990-
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Vol. 4 No. 12 (December 1993)
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LESBIANS ON THE LOOSE  

DECEMBER 1993  

SITE 48  

VOL ” Nil 12  

ft  

Shower scene sends  

printer psycho  

by Frances Rand  

lesbian calendar has been called ‘offensive’ by Sydney  

company which has refused to print photograph of two  

women embracing under shower.  

Publisher, Trish Brownett, is furious over Boswell Printing’s  

limp excuse that producing the Pastels Women 1994 calendar  

would "ruin family business.”  

Brownett first approached the Marrickville printer in October.  

She told them the calendar contained twelve photographs of  

women. They agreed to do the job and proofs were sent late in  

October.  

On November about week short of the launch deadline  

Boswell’s sales manager, Larry Armitage, rang Brownett and said the  

Too hot to print... the photo the printer banned from  

Pastels Women 1994.  

Photo: Trish Brownett  

company’s owner, Allan Best, had “objected” to the contents of the  

calendar as being offensive and was refusing to print it.  

Determined to have “his guts for garters” Bownett has complained  

to the NSW Anti-Discrimination Board.  

“If printers had code of ethics there would be no pornography,”  

Brownett said.  

Pastels Women 1994 features photographs which celebrate  

lesbian sexuality, including images of dyke couple kissing in  

telephone box, naked woman embracing (naked) statue and  

shot of an SM couple.  

Best objected to the shower shot saying his was “family  

business.”  

"Printing that calendar would have ruined our business image.  

Had it been man and woman in the shower would have refused  

to print it either,” Best told LOTL.  

At the eleventh hour, Brownett managed to find another printer  

and the lesbian calendar launch went ahead at the Leichhardt Hotel  

on November 10.  

About $2,000 out of pocket this time, Brownett has had  

problems with printers in the past.  

Last year, while working for ‘Gay Shots’, she had knockbacks  

from 24 printers who objected to images of either two men or two  

women embracing.  

But the Anti-Discrimination Board’s Anthea Lowe is 'not hopeful’  

of positive outcome. Lowe says the law only covers complaints  

of discrimination based on an individual’s homosexuality. Boswell’s  

owner is not objecting to Brownett, but to her work.  

This is not the first time Sydney printer has found lesbians too  

hot to handle. In 1974 special lesbian edition of the feminist  

magazine, refractory girl, was rejected as ‘obscene’ by Maxwell  

General Printing Company.  

Touchdown looms for  

Lesbian Space Project  

With the December 10 deadline only few days away, the  

Lesbian Space Project is still hopeful of reaching its $l/4  

million target.  

total of 128 cheques of $5OO ($64,000) has been raised,  

leaving LSP still $186,000 down on its goal.  

One of the largest donations to date $3,000 has come from  

the Lesbian Space Collective of 1987. Former member, Maureen  

Nash, said that the collective folded because women left.  

continued p.  

INSIDE...  

EXCLUSIVE... Melissa Etheridge  

Registered by Australia Post Publication No. NBQ 4194  

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