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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, March 2, 1993                   TAG: 9303020263
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: From wire reports
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

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PEOPLE

Blacks who demand tolerance for themselves should extend such compassion to homosexuals, poet Nikki Giovanni says.

"The black community is homophobic," Giovanni told more than 1,000 people Sunday at the St. Louis Public Library. "We must not have another group of people who aren't cared about. We, of all people, should know that."

"This century is almost over and we cannot continue to stumble through it," she said.

Giovanni, an English professor at Virginia Tech, is the author of 16 books of poetry. Her most recent works are "Those Who Ride the Night Winds" and "Sacred Cows and Other Edibles."

Actor Tony Curtis has married for the fourth time, in a small, private ceremony in his garden.

Curtis, 67, wed attorney Lisa Deutsch, 30, in a brief, double-ring ceremony outside his Los Angeles home Sunday. The couple met in September.

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