March 20, 1972 Mr. Jerry Dreva 1317 Michigan Avenue South Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53200 Dear Jerry: Thank you for your correspondence. At your convenience I will be happy to discuss a better means of achieving justice for all have nots. Very truly yours, LAB: pas Lloyd A. Barbee State Representative --- Dear Mr. B., 1317 Michigan Avenue South Milwaukee, Wi. 1 March 1972 So many times I've meant to write during the past few years; so many times that I've wanted to pay you a visit and have a long talk; but somehow I've never quite gotten around to doing it until now. Mostly I just want to say thank you for your consistent and determined efforts in behalf of the Gay community and not only the Gay community but all oppressed people who you represent so well in the state legislature. You are doing an invaluable service to the people; and I and many more Gay people, not only in Wisconsin but across the country, are grateful to you and are proud to count you as an ally in the struggle for full human dignity for all persons. During the past two years I have worked closely with the Gay Liberation movement throughout the country. I edited the special Gay issue of Kaleidoscope which got the movement in Milwaukee off the ground and then helped organize GLO and later GLF in the city. I had the privilege of attending Convention in Phila- the Revolutionary Peoples' Constitutional delphia and later in Washington, D.C. as a member of the Gay Male contingent. The Philadelphia experience was simply fan- tastic! The Gay males met with Afeni Shakur for an entire after- a beautiful woman. Last noon, a very moving encounter with spring I was able to spend two months on Manhatten's Lower East Side working with GLF there. During this time I was happy to see frequent coverage of your various legislative battles in both the Black Panther paper and in the Advocate. The radical Gay community in New York was very aware of your work in the Wisconsin legislature and I was always proud to say that I was an old acquaintance of yours from School boycott days. Since July 1971 I have been back in South Milwaukee leading a rather reclusive existence. I have been doing a lot of reading and some writing - and lots of thinking. I am currently a part of a small group of Gay artists in the Milwaukee area who are attempting to synthesize the best of revolutionary cultural and political thought into a workable model for a post-industrial revolutionary society. I am rather half-heartedly looking for a job, possibly in teaching. It's really quite difficult thinking in terms of conventional "employment" since I haven't done that sort of thing since I left graduate school and my teaching assistantship at UWM almost three years ago. I am still a few credits short of an M.A. and haven't quite been able to convince myself of the usefulness of completing it. The whole academic trip seems so antiquated, but at the same time I find myself drawn to it after so many years being a part of it. --- I suppose I should bring this letter to a close, although I could go on for pages and pages. It's been so very long since we've talked, and I feel that there is so much I would like to discuss with you. Perhaps we could get together some time in the future at your convenience. I am very nearly always free. Let me thank you once again for the marvelous job you are doing in the legislature. If only there were more like you! If there is anything I can ever do to be of assistance to you, please do not hesitate to call on me and I mean that, be the task research, writing, canvassing or whatever. and do let me hear from you. Love and Power! Keep up the great work JERRY Drer Jey Dreva 762-3634 ---