Friday 7
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It’s impossible to tell how many gays died during the Third Reich, but one Gestapo figure indicates that between 1936 and 1941 approximately 41,000 men were convicted for homosexual felonies. Many more gay men perished unregistered and unrecorded in early concentration camps such as Mauthausen and Fuhlsbuttel. Martin Sherman’s play Bent tells the story of Max and Horst–two men who meet, make love, and die in Dachau. Roosevelt University’s O’Malley Theatre, 430 S. Michigan, presents the play tonight and tomorrow at 7:30; half of the proceeds will go to Open Hand-Chicago, which provides meals for people with AIDS. Tickets are $8. For more call 341-3719.
Saturday 8
The recent Supreme Court decision allowing drug testing for public employees has a very narrow scope. But Joseph Tilson, a lawyer who recently published Drug Testing in the Workplace, says, “Lower courts will undoubtedly seize upon the language and logic of the court’s opinion in deciding private cases as well.” Testing, whether for the AIDS virus or drugs, provokes questions about privacy. AIDS and Drug Testing in the Workplace, sponsored by the Young Lawyers Section of the Chicago Bar Association, is today’s three o’clock seminar at association headquarters, on the 12th floor of 29 S. LaSalle. Harvey Grossman, state legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union, will debate Peter B. Bensinger, former head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Admission is $30, $25 for members. Call 782-7348.
The Chicago Housing Authority has been in turmoil for years. Even Harold Washington didn’t have much success making things better at CHA, and he barely avoided a federal takeover of the agency. By the time acting mayor Eugene Sawyer put in Vincent Lane, pundits were predicting the mess would overwhelm him in little more than three months. Instead Lane, a private developer, kept the CHA from the feds. But some of his tactics–such as police raids on high rises–have raised a few eyebrows. He’ll make a case for his kind of reform at the Metropolitan Planning Council’s annual luncheon, beginning at 11:30 in the Red Lacquer Room of the Palmer House, 17 E. Monroe. Tickets are $32. For more call 922-5616.
