Hawaii

By Dave Donnelly

Tuesday, July 2, 1996


Small turnout for isle gay parade

THE Hawaii Gay Rights Parade went off Saturday with barely any notice, from what I can ascertain. There was but a small photo in Sunday's paper and while I didn't see it, I was informed the parade was very brief with few people either marching or viewing it. This must come as a shock to gays on the mainland who think of Hawaii as being in the forefront of things, what with the same-sex marriage issue taking center stage here. The New York Times reports that while attendance was down from previous Gay Rights Parades in the Big Apple, it was largely due to gray skies and some 175,000 turned out anyway. In San Francisco, to the surprise of nobody who's spent any time there, the Gay Parade (led by a motorcycle group calling themselves Dykes on Spikes) lasted five full hours and there were 251 contingents entered, several throwing condoms along the way. The crowd was estimated by police at 300,000 and by parade organizers at half a million. In any case, Hawaii's parade, such as it was, paled by comparison ...

Bob Dye
WRITER Bob Dye has on more than a few occasions hoisted a Guinness at fellow Irishman's Don Murphy's pub downtown, and so it was only right that he finally got a chance to turn the hospitality tables. Murphy, traveling through Ireland with some pals, stopped by Kinsale, the little southern coast town where Dye and his wife, Tessa Magoon Dye, own a home, and dipped into Dye's private stock before they all had a sumptuous dinner Friday night. The Dyes spend several months a year at their Kinsale home and the rest of the time in Lanikai ...

NOW here's a guy who really believes in full service real estate. Not only did Jon Sutherland, who's with Mary Worrall Associates, respond to a floor call, but he sold the client a home and when the man informed him he was getting married, gave away the bride as well ... Speaking of weddings, Ron Dougherty, former owner of O'Toole's Irish Pub and now a resident of Lahaina, is planning a September wedding with longtime girlfriend Judy Capers ...

A pair of queens

Harmony Elizabeth Mooney
TAKING off Sunday for this week's Miss Teenage Scholastic Program in San Diego was Harmony Elizabeth Mooney, a '96 graduate of Kahuku High School with scholastic credentials to burn. She's had a 4.0 grade point average for the past three years and has received several honors for her artwork, photography and fashion designs. In fact, the 17-year-old designed the evening gown she'll wear in the national competition ... Then there's Stacie Katherine Hess who, though only 12, was one of 10 finalists in the YM (Young and Modern) magazine national cover girl model search. Not only will she appear in the November issue of YM, the 8th-grader at Ilima Intermediate this fall has signed with the prestigious Wilhelmina Modeling Agency. Stacie's cousin, singer and actor Scott Allen, showed her around New York when she was there for the search ...

WAITERS at Sarento's kept spinning around when they heard what sounded like Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan and the late Richard Nixon the other night. You guessed it - impressionist Rich Little was cracking up a party of eight. And when the waiter brought the check, you'd have sworn it was Ronald Coleman asking if it were in pounds sterling? ... People aware of my illness a couple of years ago continue to inquire about my health, and it's nice they're concerned. I never felt better, especially since the doctor's office called yesterday to cancel a routine appointment because the doctor was ill ...

Gambling on Vegas

PUBLISHER Rick Davis, whose best known publication is Aloha, is rolling the dice that his newest, Hawaii's Guide to Nevada, will be a winner. The publisher's letter on the premiere issue is headlined "Viva, Las Vegas," and contains a cartoon of the bearded Davis as an Elvis impersonator. The magazine proposes to pave the way for the estimated 400,000 isle folks heading to the desert yearly.

with lots of info on hotels, shows, diversions, etc. According to Davis, Hawaii sends over 400,000 residents to Vegas each year, a figure that sounds preposterously high, but if it's anywhere near that, the publication may pan out ...



Dave Donnelly has been writing on happenings in Hawaii for the Star-Bulletin since 1968. His columns run Monday through Friday. Contact Dave by e-mail at donnelly@kestrok.com.





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