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LESBIANS ON THE LOOSE
Fix this textDECEMBER 1993
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Fix this textShower scene sends
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Fix this textby Frances Rand
Fix this textA lesbian calendar has been called ‘offensive’ by a Sydney
Fix this textcompany which has refused to print a photograph of two
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Fix this textPublisher, Trish Brownett, is furious over Boswell Printing’s
Fix this textlimp excuse that producing the Pastels Women 1994 calendar
Fix this textwould "ruin a family business.”
Fix this textBrownett first approached the Marrickville printer in October.
Fix this textShe told them the calendar contained twelve photographs of
Fix this textwomen. They agreed to do the job and proofs were sent late in
Fix this textOctober.
Fix this textOn November 2 - about a week short of the launch deadline -
Fix this textBoswell’s sales manager, Larry Armitage, rang Brownett and said the
Fix this textToo hot to print... the photo the printer banned from
Fix this textPastels Women 1994.
Fix this textPhoto: Trish Brownett
Fix this textcompany’s owner, Allan Best, had “objected” to the contents of the
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Fix this textDetermined to have “his guts for garters” Bownett has complained
Fix this textto the NSW Anti-Discrimination Board.
Fix this text“If printers had a code of ethics there would be no pornography,”
Fix this textBrownett said.
Fix this textPastels Women 1994 features photographs which celebrate
Fix this textlesbian sexuality, including images of a dyke couple kissing in a
Fix this texttelephone box, a naked woman embracing a (naked) statue and a
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Fix this textBest objected to the shower shot saying his was a “family
Fix this textbusiness.”
Fix this text"Printing that calendar would have ruined our business image.
Fix this textHad it been a man and a woman in the shower I would have refused
Fix this textto print it either,” Best told LOTL.
Fix this textAt the eleventh hour, Brownett managed to find another printer
Fix this textand the lesbian calendar launch went ahead at the Leichhardt Hotel
Fix this texton November 10.
Fix this textAbout $2,000 out of pocket this time, Brownett has had
Fix this textproblems with printers in the past.
Fix this textLast year, while working for ‘Gay Shots’, she had knockbacks
Fix this textfrom 24 printers who objected to images of either two men or two
Fix this textwomen embracing.
Fix this textBut the Anti-Discrimination Board’s Anthea Lowe is 'not hopeful’
Fix this textof a positive outcome. Lowe says the law only covers complaints
Fix this textof discrimination based on an individual’s homosexuality. Boswell’s
Fix this textowner is not objecting to Brownett, but to her work.
Fix this textThis is not the first time a Sydney printer has found lesbians too
Fix this texthot to handle. In 1974 a special lesbian edition of the feminist
Fix this textmagazine, refractory girl, was rejected as ‘obscene’ by Maxwell
Fix this textGeneral Printing Company.
Fix this textTouchdown looms for
Fix this textLesbian Space Project
Fix this textWith the December 10 deadline only a few days away, the
Fix this textLesbian Space Project is still hopeful of reaching its $l/4
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Fix this textA total of 128 cheques of $5OO ($64,000) has been raised,
Fix this textleaving LSP still $186,000 down on its goal.
Fix this textOne of the largest donations to date - $3,000 - has come from
Fix this textthe Lesbian Space Collective of 1987. Former member, Maureen
Fix this textNash, said that the collective folded because women left.
Fix this textcontinued p. 3
Fix this textINSIDE...
Fix this textEXCLUSIVE... Melissa Etheridge
Fix this textRegistered by Australia Post - Publication No. NBQ 4194
Fix this textIt's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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