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Pink Point is the bi-monthly newsletter for citizens & friends of the gay & lesbian community Pink Village in AlphaWorld.
News, Calendar and Ads are updated weekly.

Any comments or contributions to Pink Point, especially gay/lesbian- and Pink Village related stuff, are highly appreciated!

PP's editorial office can be visited at the corner of Maze Str/Trans Rd, 2nd floor. Contact us if you like to join the crew:)

Contributions to this issue by:
Bille, Idealist

Pink Village Ad: Click to go to Pink Village main square Click this image to get teleported to Pink Village's main square (2222s 2222e 222). There you will find a similar board to activate.

* * * No 16 - May 10th 1999 * * *

What's New?

Citizens
May 10th:
53 PV citizens
10 PV friends

New citizens
3 new PV citizens/friends were added to the list of PV citizens & friends since March 5th: King Viper, Lucien Holiday, Rainman - welcome all:)

Idealist CY nominated
(May/20) PV citizen and Councillor Idealist is nominated for a CY Award in the category of Environment Design, for Lesbianville, one of PV's suburbs. Give your votes in AWCC, or at CY Awards web site - closes May 31th at 17:00 VRT - go vote for our Idealist:)
Go here to re-visit Lesbianville's Community Center.

Change of name
Sexy Eyes, PV friend, has changed her name to Sassy SE.

RL concert in PV?
Total Envision Records Group, located in New York, recently offered to make their international pop singer, Jade Esteban Estrada, available to Pink Village's next organized event. Assuming they don't know that PV is a VR community, it's quite amusing to think of the expression on Jade's face if we decided to accept their offer:)


Jade Esteban Estrada, performing live in PV?

Anyway, it obviously wouldn't hurt to think of his face even if he probably never will get here...

AW map updated
Vevo's AW map was updated May 7th. There are now more than 35 million objects in AlphaWorld! Check out the updated Pink Village area, or go to http://awmap.vevo.com/.

Gossip!
You are invited to bring us harmless PV gossip - who will be on display next time?

If you see an avatar who's eyes are replaced with hearts, and with a huge grin on it's face, it must be... who?

Calendar
(Note: All times refer to VRT)

The PV calendar will be updated weekly - check back! If you want to initiate a gathering, please notify PV Council.

May 22nd 22:00
PV gathering at CyberBoy's Home. He might take us to his world if we behave:)

May 24th 22:00
Warming up in Pink Village, before we attend the "The Thirteenth Floor" Premiere in AW. Look for billboard at Queer Square, 2222s 2222e - come mingle with the filmstars ... ehem...

June 5th 20:00
Warming up before we attend CY Awards Gala. Gather at Queer Square - and let's move on.

June 12th 22:00
The CHAOS - joint exhibition at Gallerie 2222.

June 26th 22:00
Masquerade Party, PV's event for the Community Festival! AW 2206s 2190e.

click to check upcoming AW events!

Real World News
Hate-crimes bill fails
The judiciary committee in the South Carolina house of representatives killed a hate-crimes bill on Tuesday by a 14-8 vote. Republican representative John Graham Altman, who proposed tabling the bill, told The [Columbia, S.C.] State, "I didn't want to sit there all afternoon and listen to the liberals whine about how some people need special protection." The vote prevents any debate on the measure. "That was a doggone quick way to do that," Democratic representative Cordell Maddox told the State. "I'm not real happy about it." The measure, which would have stiffened penalties for attacks based on race or sexual orientation, had already passed the state senate.
(Source: The Advocate)

Announcements
Your RL Photo
knifeboy is planning a gallery of RL pix of PV citizens and friends. If you like to help out, mail him your RL photo, or get in touch with him.

click to visit Gallerie 2222!

This issue:
[PV Transit Hall Updated] [Grand Opening Celebration]
[A movie goes to ActiveWorlds] [The Chaos - 3rd round]

PV Transit Hall Updated
By Bille

How do you find your way to the many homes and constructions of Pink Village? The Transit Hall and it's 8 connected squares have been updated - but do you know how to use it?

Each of the 8 squares contains a local index consisting of one sign for each home/construction in that specific area. In the PV Transit Hall a circle of teleports to all the 8 squares is carrying the similar local sub-indexes.

Index of the Southern Square.

Example; You like to visit Monny's home but can't find it in the PV Yellow Pages. You teleport to the Transit Hall at AW 2236s 2263e and point the cursor arrow at the teleport signs to find out which local square to choose. Aha! That's it - the Southern Square. You now teleport to the Southern Square, and there you will find this quarter's sub-index. The signs are black and easy to see if you are standing at the square's centre. One of the signs will take you to Monny's home...

Ya... this might sound complicated, but believe me - when you know the system, you will need 10 seconds to go through this 2-steps movement. And you might find PV locations that you never saw before...

Is your home included to this system? Or do you want it named differently? Please check it out and report any wishes. There are currently no such local index for Queer Square/the Pink Island. It will be worked on very soon, though.

[You can read more about the Transit Hall in Pink Point #04]

Grand Opening Celebration
By Idealist

Grand opening celebration of Lesbianville's Community Center took place on April 16, 1999. Six individuals came at various times, and although the party never

Picture by Idealist
got big, it was merry! Attendees relaxed in the outside swimming pool (see picture: at this point, noone dared to go skinny dipping yet! ;-)), as well as in the bar upstairs by the observation deck.

The Center also features a kitchen and a dining room, a pool (billiards) table, a living room, a dance floor, outside bar-b-q area by the swimming pool, and an upstairs study and open roof deck.

The Center is located by a small lake and a picnic island, and has a Guest Cottage behind it by another lake and waterfalls. Nearby, one can also find the Lesbianville Teleport Garden, the Rainbow Center dedicated to women's web resources, and a theatre currently playing "The Incredible True Adventures of Two Girls in Love".

Visit the Community Center at AW 2278s 2252e!

Movie Gala Premiere in AW
By Bille/source:
ActiveWorlds.com's Press releases

Let's participate at the gala premiere along with the moviestars, when Centropolis Interactive and Columbia TriStar Interactive in conjunction with Activeworlds.com, Inc., unveil the world's first virtual gala premiere of a major motion picture. And after the gala, we can invite the stars over to Pink Village for a night cap...

On May 24th at 23:00 VRT (*), Columbia Pictures' sci-fi thriller THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR will premiere in AW with all of the excitement, grandeur and celebrity guests of a live Hollywood premiere. Anyone can attend the virtual premiere to watch celebrity arrivals up close, participate in interactive discussions with the film's stars and filmmakers and get a look at the film's theatrical trailer. Fans will be escorted to the bleachers and journalists will station themselves behind the ropes, preparing for a live Q&A or chat with the stars as they arrive.

This sci-fi thriller explores the ominous possibility of computer simulated universes, stars Craig Bierko, Vincent D'Onofrio, Gretchen Mol, Dennis Haysbert and Armin Mueller-Stahl and is directed by Josef Rusnak. The film opens in theaters (USA) on May 28th.

To participate, on May 24th you can log onto the premiere by accessing the Activeworlds.com browser and selecting THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR Premiere World option from the menu. Before the gala premiere, we'll arrange a local 'warming-up' in Pink Village.

(*) Time to be confirmed by mail to all PV citizens and friends later on.

The Chaos - 3rd Round
By Bille

Every year since 1997, the June/July exhibition at
Gallerie 2222 presents art created by ordinary AW people - you and me. The 3rd exhibition is titled 'The Chaos' and you are invited to contribute!

After "Pink & Plain" (1997) and "JOY" (1998), it's now time to create some "Chaos"! All sorts of images that can be displayed on a pict1, -2 or -3 object can be

Gallerie 2222 is currenly presenting 'Inside Out' by Valerie Milovic, who personally introduced and explained all her present works at the opening.
Her art will be up til June 10th.
submitted and get up on the walls. No artificial skills are requested, the first 12 contributions will be accepted, as long as they are within the 'AW Content Guidelines'. One picture per person only, but you can submit several works if you can't make up your mind:) Let the 'chaos' inspire you; animate a photo, make a collage, a PC painting, a scanned drawing - it's all up to you!

Deadline for contributions is June 6th at midnight VRT (mail them to bille@online.no. The exhibition opens June 12th at 22:00 VRT, and many guests are expected to be part of the chaos, and to join the following chaotic party:)


Any comments or contributions to Pink Point,
especially gay/lesbian- and Pink Village related stuff,
are highly appreciated!

© Bille 1999, Netscape 4.04