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Carrie Wofford and George DeStefano take a queer journey' across the country.

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John D'Emilo on the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Mattachine Society

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Stuart T1l1llOOns talks to Mattachine founder Harry Hay
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Celebrating "Our First"Birthday

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ot has happened since OutWeek's first issue rolled off thepresses one year ago this week. Our original vision, reflected in our fU'St editorial, was to provide useful, objective
news reporting, responsible AIDS and health articles; and inclusive
coverage-of groups often rendered invisible in our community. These
goals have been substantially, albeit incompletely, achieved, and theyremain objectives we strive to fulflli.
But along the way we have developed other goals, which we didn't
antidpate when we began, and they have changed the.nature of this magazine before our eyes. Primary among them has been the ability of thelesbian and gay media not only to reflect, but to effect,social change.
For example: OUr discovery of the unfortunate record of Indiana's
health commissioner Dr. Woodrow Myers, now health commissioner in
New York, shifted the public debate about Myers. But it also altered
the way people" here look at gay and lesbian issues and certainly
changed the image that straight New York journalists had of the gay
and lesbian press.
.
Our call for the resignation of a popular gay leader during theMyers fiasco drew sharp objections from other community leaders andmay have earned us a reputation for arrogance. But it also focused
overdue attention on the previously taboo subject of accountability ingay leadership and sparked a lively debate on how our community
governs itself.
Our investigation and exposure of corruption at Covenant House
helped bring down a hypocrite and force refonn on a flawed thoughvital institution. But it also brought gay and lesbian political clout into
the Roman Catholic church, which proved profoundly uncomfortable
to that homophobic institution. While it's likely that bigots such as" Cardinal O'Connor still detest gays, they certainly don't dismiss us aseasily as they once did.
Our insistence on highlighting the instinctive homophobia of gossip writers and celebrity reporters had snobs deriding us for superfiCiality,and it certainly polarized the pop press. But even those who
disagree with our features editor's sharp commentaries report that they
now look with new eyes on the previously accepted practices of gaybaiting and queer-hating in their daily papers. .
And our decision to forCethe issue of outing into the open illuminati=dlong-hidden philosophical divisions within our community. But
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in a way never before imaginable, and straights are now openly arguing about issues that were" once solely the province of activists andtheorists of gay liberation.
"In Its first year, OutWeek has shown us that an institution has alife of Its own and can effect change in unexpected ways. As long asgays and lesbians have access to a free press, our ability at least toshape the debates that affect our lives seems limitless. It's a task wehope to approach with joy and a sense of humor, naturally, but alsowith a profound sense of responsibility and respect for the uphill andsometimes bitter' battles that lie between our current lives and ourev.entualliberation.

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...

Hili Chili
what happened to us In the
As an avid observer of'coalltlon"
since
then.
Oll political scene, I wanted
Absurdly, Dr. HIli thinks four
layers of bureaucratic fat will
to express some thoughts on
your Interview with Dr. Marbe better for us than thejorie Hili,our new liaison.
direct access Lee Hudson
enjoyed.
Since the year's beginFinally, some practicalining, we have experienced
ties. Dr. Hili will receive 55
about five major mayoralsnubs or Insults. Many claim , thousand of our hard eamed
that Major Dinkinsnow serves tax dollars In her .new job.
thanks to the gay/lesbianThat's the salary Koch's liaivote. Mine was not one ofson obtained
after
hethem, so I don't have the bit- upgraded the office. Dr. Hili,terness Hizzoner's many supsince she serves In a downporters feel. In the mean
graded office, should receive
time, we have had two mona commensuratesalaryumental recognitions fromaround $35 thousand. That's
Washington. The Bushadminwhat Lee Hudson got before
istration Invited lesbians andthe Koch upgrading. Or shegays to witness the signing of could donate the extra 20 to
the Hate Crimes Bill, a giant
the Community Center (It'sstep forward. Also, Barbara
two weeks worth of operatBush recently composed a
Ing expenses). Or she could
heartwarming letter to thegive It to the Anti-Violence
president of P-FLAG, Ms.
Paulette Goodman,condemning discrimination andsrONEWAttIntolerance towards us. Thusfar, comparing expectations
and performances,theWhite House far outshines
City Hall.
David Dinkins promised
to be the best friend we ever
had In City Hall. He also
promised to give us his
earnest attention and consideration. Thiswas Utopia, aCity Hall resident on our side
easl!y hearing our volcesl
These were promises andperceptions many enjoyedbefore January. Dr. Hiliexcuses the snubs I mentioned earlier because the mayor did
not have Input or Informationfrom us. That doesn't soundlike the David Dinkins many
expected nor does It soundlike a friend.
Another ass~rtatlon Dr.
Hili makes Is that the office's
demotion
will
actually
strengthen It. 'Coalltlons" Is
the word, she says. Remember It was 'coalltlons" thatelected. our mayor and look"

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BY ANDREA

June 27, 1990

NATALIE

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Project. Or to the 6th PrecInct(since there are less cops,
we're protectedless-soat the Commission

on theStatus of~vermuch tor the value of the lias
BIll). Or she could give It to
GMHC, etc. In aly event, forthat anount of money,-shek.nch.
Her reason tor taking the

job-andher primary focus
throughout the six years she
servedIn the mayor's
offlce--was to advance theshould develop excuses forInterests of the lesbian andour mayor's Inadequacies'PI cornmu'l/ty. WIthout thatthat don'tlnsulf
our Intelll- ' focus, the job would havegence.
been meaningless tor-her.
MkeRynn
She worked trelessly for
Manhattan
passage of the lesbian andgay rights bill, for the best
Pro Hudson
possIJIe fh:IndaI deal for the
In the Interview with
Gay ald Lesbial CornnulIty
Marjorie HHI(no. 49, June 6), Center. for services for perthe interviewer asIc$ the quessons with AIDS. tor en official
tion: -It has been felt that by parade permit for the PrIde
the end of Lee Hudson'sMach, for nctudIng altlgay
reign as director, the officecrimes on the list of crimes
had become a publlc-relaInvestigated by the PoJlcetIons for then-Mayor Edwad
Department's Antl::alas Unit,
I. Koch. WHI yot.I ac1tvttIes be for Inclusion of gay/lesbian
limited to the lesbian andIssues In the Boad of Educo'PI COIYlI'TUity. 'M'lat exoc1ly tIon's MtJtIcUtu'aI CuTlcuIu'n
wHl YOll job be?Project, and for a host of
The use of the passiveother pressing concems. She
voice leaves us wondering
peISIsted In caIng every perwhat nameless persons subson of Influence at City Hall
scribe to the above view of
ald In aty agencies unt8 she
Ms, Hudson ald her ofIIce.
knew that the lesbian and
Iam proud to have sug- gay community's case had
gested Lee Hudson for the
been heard to the best
position of Mayoral liaison to advantage on every vital
the lesbIal and gay commuIssue, She'was very effecffve
nity In 1983. After she was
In representing our Interests,
hired, we worked In the
One of her most Importantsame bUldlng and often dIt- contributions was to ask forcussed her work~mine,
mer Mayor Koch to establish

the Office for the Lesbianand Gay Community. She
knew that regardless of theelection outcome, the officewould set an ,Important
precedent.
'
The CoaUtIon for lesbianand Gay Rights Is honoring
her for her service to ourcommunity on June 11. In myview, no one coud be moredeserving of this award.

'GlmyVldo
Brooklyn
MufflIng "Modem Art"?
Shame on you, Sarah

SchuIrna'l.
How could you write afull page review of Eileen
Myles Modern M (June 20,
no. 51) wIthOut ever mentionIng the two lead actresses,
Nancy Swartz and Claire
Moed? And how coUd OutWeek's editors let you.
There were ten women
ald three men In the piece.
Several of the women are
weH known lesbian performers. But you wouldn't knowthat from your- review, Vou
had somethln(rto say about
the men. Somefhlng to say
aboutDavid Wright,astraight man who ployed astraight boy very well, But not
one word for YOII sisters?
It's Interesting, Eileen's
work was about womenII

struggling to be seen andheard as atIsts. I'm glad you
acknowledged
Eileen. I'm
sorry you didn't acknowledge the women In the cast
who share 8leen's struggle.
I don't know, Sarah. I
thought It was the establishmenr s job to perpetuate 0lI'
Invisibility. I thought that thedriving force behind publications like OutWeek and talented lesbldn writers like you
was to break through thesilence. It hurts me to watch
you add your voice to It, Instead.
To me, the Journalist Is
also a witness. What she
wrttes Is a sort of testimony,an affirmation of our existence. By your omissions,what you wrote was perjury.

-

Maureen &.mIey
Manhattan"SarahSchulmanrespot,ds: Give ina a break,
Maureen. The·two superior
performances In Eileen's
play were by men.
Club KIds VI. Opera Queens
The only major weak-ness I've found In your mag- azlne to date Is that you
don't have a ~coImusic(read, opera) column, This
seems particularly a waste
when a talented writer/musician/goy octlvllt like BruceMichael Gelbert could very
easily be spirited away froma certain other N,V,C, gay
weekly, Gay Pride Week Is
coming up: wID OuMWk be
sending someone to review
the Gay Men's Chorus, andother musical events of the
week? The simulcast of the
Met's RInQ Is also coming ~Gay Pride Week, and that
other Publleation stili hasn'tpU:)llshed Gelbert's review of
the RIng cycle we attended
early last month, It would
seem appropriate
If the(Imminent?) demise of that
Other, Publication
were
marred by your printing hi.
Ring review, to coincide withthe broadcast, Gay PrideW".k, ald the lrHlouse Gotterc:IartnertnQ 'htt:h appeaa

to be In progress

June 27,,1990

at that·01her p.bIIc:otIon. Ouodiverse comrnl.lllty,
Includes both ·ckb Idds- ald·opera queens-: to dateyou've given short shrift tothe latter. It's time to dosOmething about It-by gettlng Seibert away from the
Other PublIcatIon.
Gregory KIos8k
BrooldynClub FIghIs
WhyrunanuNlgned,r,venomous letter from an i
obviously bitter Ms. lhIng-aling (aka: Citrus Hills) that
attacked Uz, Sydney andChip Duckett? It appears
that the salbbler of the epic~
aspied to have both acolumn and a club and Is
embittered by the fact thataI she/hegot was a cnmny
old typewrtter ald lesa-thanlovely storyteIng skits. 0uchI1

bashing, the 4th point: ·If you
feel threatened ,or unsafe...
was current German, he leave. Removeyourself fromwalked away, but not for the StuatIon. - So Idd.)
At the front door,
long. He approached me ,again, this time teIIng me he Tonmy from the Gay DatIng
hoped that both the lIlform
Game asked If everything
and I went up In flames. wasOK,he wasaware of theeaIIer problem I had with theEn<:lugl was 8I'lOU(jl. I headed for the front door. (I two women. I began telling
remember reading the arti- him of my latest verbal ct>use
cle In 0uMgeIc (May 23, no. I had been receiving, when
the young man In question47), the article on avoiding, The Idiot concerried heardme teUChip Duckett that It

shot over to us and beganabusing me yet again,
Tommywas suitably embarrassed,but the drag queen
runningthe show, gave me adrop dead look, she could
have cared less,then fine,My Comrade can equally
drop dead along with ChenneI 69 and the homophobic
Pyramid.
What does she want,clone fags, Just like all those___

BrodLamm

8tooIdynClub without PIty
Last nICtlt I had the mlsfortune to attend the My
Comrode/SIItert magazi'Ie's
Channel 69 at the Pyramid.
Being the theme of My C0mrade, I wore my German
NATO uniform. I should·
explain, I've dways worn l.1"liform.--mllitary, prleit, evengas station attendants. I
have been abused andbaIhed on numerous occalions, particularly whendressed~ a priest. The lastthing that I expeC':__d at ago( event was to be aseaufteel phyIIeally and verbally.
At the Pyramid, I was
kle.l(,d twice by the same
woman and had my hat
knocked off my head, I
Ihould point out, I think thewoman was straight, yetmale gay frIendi thought Itof very Mny. I reported theIncident to the door person
who ejected the two womeo
and man Involved. Unfortunately this waen't the end of
my haraaament. A young
male, I suppose gay, kept
aicIng me about thethe question was dumb:·What type of urnorm Is Jt?-

urnorm,\.

A Serious Gym f\lr Men.

CHELSEA

GYM

267West17th

Street (cor 8th Ave) New York 212255.1150

June 27, 1990

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homophobes
who don't
want to see gays and lesbians, who want them to stay
In the doset? So now It's the
new gay morality: only East
Village clones and dragqueens are allowed to be
proudly
gay-what
ever
happened to the belief In
the Idea' of each personchoosing their own lifestylechoice,whateverthat
entails?
This whole event showsthat now gays are bashinggays In exactly the same
way and for the same reasons as straights hove done
for years--OecOJSe someone
dares to be different. Is the
only acceptable way to be
gay by wearing 501's tumed
up or cut off with cheapboots or sneakers, a white Tshirt and a baseball cap
turned backwards
on anempty head?
NeHPurceil
Manhattan

Be Nice to Dice
I am Involved with the
comedy Industry and work
closely with many comedians. I hove worked several
times with Andrew DIce Oay,
and while I would neverdefend his act as being anything other than a perverse
joke, he really Isn't the monster that you woud have himbe. He's really the X-rated
Pee Wee Herman, a ridiculous character,and It Is
debatable
how much ofwhat he Is saying he really
believes. Also, he Is respondIng to crttIcIsms and tcidng agreat deal of material out of
his act that Is offensive togays and minorities. Somepeople are Just slow on the
uptake. Sam Klnlson, on theother hand, Is really the one
you should be going atter.
This guy, with whom I haveworked with on numerous
occasions, REALLY MEANS
the horrible things he says,

probably send you a bomb.
and would take you out Into
Raphael Delgado
the street to beat you up If
ManhaffO"lyou didn't agree with him.
Klnlson Is a total monster, avlle,l.nyleldlng pig of a mon,Block Defense
who lines up drugs before
From the viewpoint ofand atter his act, has been
someone who lives directly
known to throw up on his
across the street from theattackers and has said FAR BoyBar and who Is active In
worse fhlngs about gays thanthe St. Marks Place 2-3 Block
Dice Clay or anyone else.
AssocIation and the Coalition
Not only that. Klnlson genfor a Better St. Marks Place, I
ulnely means what he says,
was very upset to read about
and It comes out of genuine
the May 12 slashing on St.
rage ald hailed. He Is the one
Marks. Antlgay violence has
you should go after, more so
now been adde,d to ourthan Clay. Klnlsonrepeatedlylaundry list of problems thatmakes the most vile faggot
plague fhls crazy block.
Jokes In his act, on the radio
While I agree with theand even In passing, hanging
BoyBar door person's stateout at clubs. The guy has
ment that this block has
absolutely no sensitivity to
become more hostile during
anybody. Dice Clay's career
the past six months, I strongly
Is SUTOUnded by gays. Klnlson disagree with his analysis of
won't get near us. So please,
why that's happened. Congo after Klnlson, but be ,slderlng what residents of thiswaned: the guy Is dangerous.
block have seen over the
At least Dice's publicity pea- . decades;-hJpples,punks,
pie wli talk to you. KlnIson's
bikers, etc.-.:.! hardly think thewi.

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Increase In bad vibes Is related to my neighbors discoverIng there's a gay ba on ourblock. That's just rldlculousl
Most people on the biock
have known about the BoyBar for yeas alCf could care

less.
What has changed

Isthat crack arrived here In fiji
force about six months ago.
Crack suppliers are operatIng out of both hotels on St.
Marks Place and It's notuncommon to see 20 SUllen
teenage dealers hanging
out on a weekend night.
Crack has lured yoll'lQ dealers and their cohorts whocome here from an over thed1y. Yourstory even Indicatesthe perpetrator In the slashIng Incident
lives In the
Bronx-noton my block. I
doubt he was shopping forsunglasses at two In themorning.
,
Rather than stupidlybIOrling my neighbors for thishorrible crime, let's work
together to solve the many
problems on St. Marks Place.
I'll be looking for a representative from the BoyBar at our
next neighborhood meeting.
Kate Wafer'
Manhattan

Firm Foundation
Why does OutWeek
continually refer to various
Individuals as "one of the
fOlJ')(jers of ACT UP"? It Is myrecollec11on that ACT UPwas
founded In March 1987 by
one person-Larry
Kramer.
'..

Let's correct the record,huh?
Thomas F. Hickey'Manhattan

the other they tend to stereotype the IndMduals that form
that group. The only possible
solution Is to use these labelswith caution: at the political
Out Underlevel you use them to gain
It was me who televlslbllHy,while at the personalphoned your very pleasantlevel you use them to dissubscrfptlons deportment thismantle the myths aroundmorning (or yasterdar' evenng them. And you seem to be
YOll" time) hoping to take out doing that quite well ....Yes,
you can be Cuban withouta years subscrfptlon to Outdancing ,the conga. Yes,you
Week, only to hear the bad
news-"nooverseas subcan be Caucasian and man
scriptions, yet. ", of color at the same time. By
doing this, you throw 'people
At the moment, the only
way we can get O~k
Is off-track a bit, you surprisethemand make themby being real friendly to Air
New Zealand flight attenrethink the stereotypes. But
dants, who occasionallybring them back from Los
Angeles for us. This can bedemeaning at times, but It's
worth It because OutWeek Issuch a terrific magazine. (Oursubscrfptlons to the New Yolk
NatIve have lapsed-we lostInterest In It once Dee Sushi,
Mingus and Ed Slkov left.) The
miMe you work out the costfor overseas subscriptions,please let us knowl Keep up
YOll" brilliant workl

caslan/rnan of color (dependIng on who describes me),
Venezuelan. I love each oneof these labels. I also have myshare of stereotypes, and thisIs my favorite one: How comeyou are both Jewish andatheist? 'Nell, I am, but that's amatter for another discussion.

Sydney Levy
Manhaffan

Straight Support
I, and the Board of
Directors of the Lesbian and
Gay Community
Services
Center, would appreciate
your correcting one major
piece I()f misinformation In

James Allan
Auckland, New Zealand
Photo: T.L. Litt

Unorthodox Combos
Concerning Lazaro Hernandez' "New York Journal"(JlJ'l9 13, no. 50):
I couldn't agree withyou more. Lct>elsare a double-edged
sword. On the
one halC:t they give polltlcal
power and visibility to thegroup that uses them; but on

rethinking the stereotypes
doesn't mean that labelingper se Is bad. The labels are
OK, the stereotypes behindthem are not.
As for unorthodox combinations, try this one, I am (Ina random order): gCly,atheist,
Sephardlc Jew, Latino, Cau-

the article entitled: "State
Awards for Center FaCe-lift"(June 6, no. 49), an otherwise
much appreCiated story.
The quote attributed tome, made by myself to Ms.
Stephanie Grant, employee
at the Center, for our Center
Voice, was that the Kaplan

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Family Foundation grant wasclarify some Issues which
the first of Its kind from thewere raised In the' commenstraight
community
and,tary written by Barbara
thus, I hoped that. other
Seyda, entitled, "Violence,straight foundations would
Silence" and LesbIcnI.- follow suit.
For years the Center has
been a major benefldary of
the Paul Rapoport Foundation Inc., established by amember and supporter ofthe gay community for many
years before his untimely
passing: We are very gratefulfor that support and value Itvery highly. We do !'lot wish
to offend those running thefoundation or jeopardize any
future support with this pieceof misinformation
I appreciate your timeand attention to this smatter.
.
Paul A. Kaplan,
Board of Directors
Rrst It was 62, not 52, of
Le$IJ/an and Gay
the 79 new crimes reported
Community Sefvlces Center
to the NYC Gay and LesbianManhattan
Anff-Vlolence Project In May
who were gay men. (Ten of
Rehashing Lesbian Bashingthe 79 were lesbians.)
I am wriffng this letter toSecond,duringmyphone Interview, I did saythat I believed lesbians are
more reticent to report or
publicize
crimes againstthem than are gay men. I

bfa-whammy- effect on thedecision to report or not. I
never sold or Irrplled, however, that lesbians are more
"ofrc:jd of the criminal justicesystem- than goy men.

RnoRy, I must re-emphosize the pilmacy of each vlctim/survivor In any discussionof antllesblan violence. Her
recovery and her choices
must always toke precedence over poutlcol expediency. Forcing victims of
antllesblan violence to go
public, or stigmatizing those, who choose not to Is ineffectlve, and potentially harmful
to the lndIvIduci's recovery.
NoomIlJchtenstein
Goy and Lesbian
Anti-VIolence Project, Monhatton~

offered several reasons for
this, including the recognition
that the criminal Justice system Is often unwmpathetlc
or hostile. Being both awoman qnd a lesbian mightprovide the ~alled"dou-

leIt8"'Spot
Writer Jim Provenzano
knows all the correct HneS In
his Interview with Bernard
Zette (no. 49, June 6), a character In Clnecom's Lost ExIt

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Here he alludes to contemporary discussion about thehistorical film representation
ot gay men; how peculiarthat ProvenzanO' doesn't
mention the child molesterHarry Black-ln LastExIt.
Let me elaborateongay male representation In
Last Exit by quoting Provenzano's choicest compllmenPhoto:EricJohnson
tary line In the lr1tervlew:"1here were so many dlfferto Brooklyn. Example: Zette
ent kinds ot gay men In thesays he was told by Last Exlf'.s tllm.· Indeed there were.
production executive that he ' Type one: the pathetic,
would make a "really tontosaddicted
drog
queen
tic' assassin. JP replies:(Georgie) who Is run over by"RIght, and you end up geta car; were you sleeping
tlng shot by SylvesterStallone
when he died, JP? Type 2:
In the lost reel.' Provenzano
the bitchy, narcissistic dragknows what to soy about the . queen (Regina) dowlng her
propensity which gay charway to the top; Regina's
octers hove for dying In Holly- escapades wlth (and dlsposwood 111ms.
Example two: JP: al of) Harry Black-oncea"I would never hove a prob- respected union leaderlem playing gay roles...1f they
propel the latter's downfall.
weren't(represented) as evil
Type three:
the
child
or C9rrupt or child molesters:
molester (Harry Black), driven'I'~L L.Osi' ~yl-oveRSAt-IP COVNiI.US f'!tIENOS
To AIDS,

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to this crime following his
rejection by Regina; we see
Black beaten to a pulp by
local men who corne to therescue of the Innocent boy.
And dare I mention thefemale prostitute who Is
nearly fucked to death bydozens of men from a local
bOr (didn't we hear her soy
that she wanted It?)? Transgressive sexuality scores no
victories In this film.
I'm angry
becauseProvenzano's Interview promotes the movie almost as
much as It promotes Zette; I
decided to see the film after
reading
theInterview,expecting an OutWeek writerto warn me before watchingsuch tired old Images ofmyself; perhaps next time,
Instead of apPropriately hissIng at the Sprite commercial,
Mr. Provenzano will save me$7.50 by writing a rigorous
piece of criticism.

JIm Provenzano

res-ponds: My reference to Zefte

playIng a character who"gets shot In the last reel' was
a comment on the state ofgay and lesbIan representation In film. I despise the misrepresentation of us In an/nd.Jsfry mJed wtIh homophobic
writers, closeted actors andcompllcft antlgay executives.
Gay IV-users stili get
killed, not by cars, but by
AIDS and the neglect advocated by the likes of Woody
Myers. TransvestItes andtranssexuals stili get raped
and killed, often by butch little bOys l.Ilable to deal wffh
theIr own repressed queer
nature. Pedophiles stili get
crucified In the courts and In
prison. Gays stili get bashed.
Demonstrators stili get beaten by cops and run over byhorses. Women are brutally
raped 0'1/ over the world, usuCameron Fitzsimmons ally by men that they know.

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Lesbian and Gay Latinos
Celebrate Puerto Rican
PrideDay')p'"by Mark CheSnut
NEW YORK-Dancing,chanting,
singing and radiating pride under aglorious early-summer sun, over 100
lesbians and gay men marched in the
32nd annual Puerto Rican Day Parade

mostly positive response from theestimated 550,000 onlookers.
The contingent was organized by,the Latino lesbian and Gay Coalition, anumbrella group of organizations that
include:- Hispanos
Unidos Gay y

Bronx. New York City Human Rights
Commissioner Dennis DeLeon and Jan
Carl Park, the associate director of the
Mayor's Office for the Gay and I:esbianCommunity, were among the marchers
in the lesbian and gay contingent.

Photo: Ellen B. NeilX'ison Sunday! June 10, marking the second
year in a row that the parade hasfeatured 'an
officially-recognizedindependent lesbian and gay contingent.
Like last year, the ~roup ,received a,

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Lesbianas (HUGL), Boricua Gay andLesbian Forum, Las Buenas Amigas,
Parents and Friends of Lesbians andGays, ACf UP and a student group from
Hostos Community College in the"The lesbian and gay community isgetting out of their own ghetto," claimed
Pedro Velasquez, an organizer of themarch, ,"we have to form cO'd.litionswith
the straight minority communities."

Velasquez,
who
submitted
thecontingent's application to, the parade
committee, reported that this year's
arrangements went more smoothly thanlast year's. Getting a good position in
the parade lineup was, however, a moredifficult matter. The lesbian and gay
contingent was placed at number 118 in
the parade. Not content with thisdecision, Velasquez announced to themarchers gathered on 44th Street thatthey were going to cut in, without
permission,
behind an upcoming
American Airlines float.
An argument ensued with parade
marshals when the group took to thestreet, but after a few minutes, anoffidal said, "Let them go. We can't haveany problems now." Velasquez credited
Commissioner Deleon's presence in thelesbian and gay contingent with helping
to convince the organizers to let themproceed. The contingent, a full city
block long, then marched up Fifth
Avenue to 86th Street.
Responses from onlookers included
cheers, boos, thumbs up and finger
snaps, but most marchers agreed that
peOple for the most part were positive.
"I think the reception is a lot better thanlast year," said Juanita Ramos, a memberof Las Buenas Amigas. "Last year wewere a novelty, we hadn't marched inso many years." She also_,felt that theappearance of some of the marchers on
a television program the night before
the 1989 march encouraged
more
reactionary people to pay attention to
the group that year.
Ra,mos had participatedin the'lesbian and gay presence in a numberof Puerto Rican Day Parades in the late1970s, when a smaller group, theComite Homosexual Latinoamericano(Q:lOLA), marched with some left-wing
and grassroots political organiZations.
While many celebrate the fact that thelesbian and gay contingent is now
recognized as its own group in theparade, Ramos still thinks they should
be marching with the left, the people's
contingent: "The whole parade to me
is a farce," she explained, 4because
here, we're all marching together likethere is nothing going on in the Latino
community,
like we're all happy,'
we're all well-fed,
we've all got
housing, the police don't harass us.
Those of us who are committed tom!lking a statement that not, everything

is OK should be able to do that."
Making a political statement was afocus of the march for many, and inuchof the talk and many of the signs held
aloft called
attention
to issuessurr~)Unding AIDS, lesbian and gay
rights and the vote that will determine
Puerto Rico's political future. The vote,that will decide whether Puerto Rico
becomes a state, an independent nation,or retain its commonwealth status, is adivisive issue in the Puerto Rican
community as a whole, with the lesbian
and gay Puerto Rican community being
no exception.
Althoughgay
andlesbianindependlstas generally seem to be themost vocal and visible, there are also
lesbian and gay Puerto Ricans who
favor either statehood or the status quo,
and an attempt was made to bring all
sides together to face the common
enemies: AIDS and homophobia. One
sign read, "Commonwealth, Independentor State, AIDS is killing us."
Much attention was drawn to thehigh number of cases of AIDS reported
in Puerto Rico. A group of marchers
carried a makeshift coffin with the
Puerto Rican flag draped over it.
Following the other gay organizations
the ACf UP contingent, whose bannerread "Latino Activists Against AIDS,"
staged a "die-in" in front of St. Patrick's
Cathedral, to protest the Church's
conservative stands on homosexuality,
AIDSand safer sex education.
Some marchers also stressed theneed to raise the consciousness of gays
and lesbians' who live in Puerto Rico,which has a large but "politicallyinvisible" lesbian and gay population,accordingto Ronnie Bilini, who
believes that "there's a lot of gay andlesbian consciousness-raising that has
to take place." Luis Lopez agreed that
there has to be an organized effort tocapture the political power of Puerto
Rico's lesbian and gay community. He
expressedinterest in forming anactivist group at the University of
Puerto Rico, which would deal withissuessurrounding
AIDS andhomophobia.
As part of continued efforts toimprove its visibility in the straight
Latin community, the Latino 1.esbianand Gay Coalition is also planning tomarch in the Dominican Day Paradein August. ...

-:Ciil~~..- -June 27, 1990

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15

News

Guardian Angels to Patrol·
ChriStopher Street?
by John Voelcker
NEW YORK-West Village residents
and merchants may ask the GuardianAngels to patrol Christopher Street todeter a recent surge in drug dealing,assault, vandalism and other street crimein the area. But some obselVers say that
beforetheAngelsenter
theneighborhood, a concerted effort must
be made to sensitize them in order toprevent homophobic comments andharassment of the many residents andpatron!) ,of local, businesses who arelesbian and gay:
Curtis Sliwa, founderof theGuardian Angels, spoke at a meeting
held Tuesday, June 12, .at St. John's
Church, on Christopher Street. The
community forum was called by the
Christopher Street Central Block andMerchants Association in response to
growing concern over the recent
increase in a wide range of street
crime there.
According to Ben Green, the~ociation's founder, over the last five
years, Christopher
Street, west of
Seventh Avenue, has developed "aWild West atmosphere" in which thestreet's tradition as a suppOrtive place
for gay men and lesbians has "fallen
victim to lawlessness. n
The problems,
Green
told
OutWeek. include youths playing loud16

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on and around the piers, anage-old, popular gathering
place for lesbians and gay
men across the West Side
Highway. Police pressure in
Washington
SquareandTompkins Square Parks, manysay, has displaced dealers
from those parks to the piers.
Because the state of New
York owns the piers, the city
has long maintained that thestate
is responsibleforpolicing them. A security
service hired by the state
currentlY'prbvides
a single
officer in a car whq must
patrol several
piers andnearby areas.
'
Formerlythesoleprovince of gay bars andclubs, the demographics of
the western reach of the street
have slowly changed in recent
years. While still ho~e to anumber of gay bars, including
Badlands ,and Two Potato, abar popular with gay men ofcolor, the conversion of' thelong-vacant Archives Building,between
GreenwichandWashington Streets, to luxury rental
apartments has brought new, residents
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Many at the meeting expfessedfears of assault and said that they had
been harassed on ~he street. Some
attributed part of the problem to patrons
drinking oU,tside several bars on thestreet. According to attendees, membersof the Archives Tenants Asssociation
were particularly vociferous about the
public behavior of patrons of the Two
Potato.
Bias crimes against gay men andlesbians, however, went unmentioned
at the meeting, according to Matt
Foreman, executive director of the
New York City Gay and Lesbian AntiViolence Project. The 6th Precinct,
which includes Christopher Street, hasregistered 20 antigay bias-crimes thisyear-more than any other New York
precinct.
Deputy Inspector Charles Campisi
said at the meeting that in his ninemonths at the 6th Precinct, the numberof 'officers assigned to the precinct
declined from 170 to 144. During thesummer months, six more officers areto be assigned-but,
Foreman said,
becausethe Police
Department
staffing-fonnula requires a total of 5.4
officers to staff a single post over a 24'-hour" seven-day period, the in~easeactuallyprovide's
only a single
additional police post.
Foreman also argued that people
standing outside bars, usually' on Sunday
evenings, are not the cause of aimes on
the street. He noted that the community
has a 2O-year history of standing outsidebars. '1n fact," he told OutWeei, -if more
people felt safe enough to go to lower
Ouistopher Street, we'd have less--notmore--crime.
Robberies, drugs andassaults are where police resources
should be focused."Sliwa was invited to the m~tingby Joyce Hunter, the director of socialwork se(Vices at the Hetrick-Martin
Institute for the Protection of Gay andLesbian Youth, which is located onWest Street near Christopher.
Shehappened to meet him the day before,
she told Out Week, described to him
the crime problems on Chris~opher
Street and asked if he wanted to speakat the meeting.
Sliwa told the largely enthusiastic
crowd that the Guardian AngelS;..would
be willing to patrol Christopher. Street
if they were invit~ to do so. For its
part, he said, the community must

provide a storefront, telephones, twoway radios, a place to shower .and
meals. A storefront has already beenoffered,some funds have been
pledged' arid a committee has been set
up to organize the logistics. ,At the meeting, Sliwa admitted
that some of the Angels were -rougharound the edges" and proposed that
community members patrol with themin an effort to sensitize them to gay
issues. For example, he said, an Angelmight say something and "not know"that it was an antigay slur. Their tactics
in confronting
drug dealers,heexplained,
include throwing theirdrugs down gutters and "kicking somebutt:"..
According to the AVP's Foreman,
however, -the Angels have a "tenible
reputation" for antigay behavior. He
said that the Antl.o.¥iolence Project
received numerous COmplaints last year
from people subjected to antigay slurs
and harassed by Angels during their"cleanup" of midtown's Restaurant
Row-4ll operation very similar to that
proposed for Christopher Street. .
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Clean Needle
Give-away Busts
Challenge Drug Laws on the East Coastby Nina Reyes
WII,.MlNGTON, Del.-Four
AIDS
activists were arrested and slappedwith felony charges on June 7 for
distributing clean hypodermic needles
to intravenous-drugusers here. And
the activists hope that the arrests will
spawn a test case, the latest in a seriesof judicial
challenges
to laws
prohibiting possession of intravenous
needles in states across the nation.
But if activists are upping theante, so are the authorities: The arrests
mark the first time that AIDS activists
giving out .clean needles have been hit
with felony charges that, if they areconvicted, carry sentences for morethan 20 years.
'"Not only isC\\"Sthe exchangeofneedles a necessary thing in terms of
putting a needle in an addict's hand,but in terms of getting education topeople," explained Zoe Leonard, one

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of the four activists arrested~ The groupis a coalition of ACT UP's needleexchange committee and activists fromthe AIDS Brigade, and devotes itself to
AIDS issues affecting IV-drug users.
The activists
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Delaware's law prohibiting possessionof a hYJ>O<Jermic
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NEW YORK-As the old saw goes, the truth is in thenumbers, but in the 'case of AIDS statistics on gay intravenous
drug users, the numbers simply have not fully made it into thegrim litany of statisticS that have mobilized the gay and lesbiancommunity to activism on ~issues.
According to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta,
gay men who list IV-drug use as a possible means of HIV
transmission compriSe the third largest category of reported
AIDS cases. Quite apart from the almost 76,000 gay male cases,
nearly 9,000 people with AIDS are men who have had sex withmen arid who have also shot up.
Lesbians in the numbers are entirely invisible. Because theme Iisrs women with AIDS either as female IV-drug users or ashetero5exual females, there is no way to break out the possible
numbers of women who sleep with women who w~ infectedwith HIV through IV-drug use.
Some members of the lesbian and gay community have anaversion
to confronting
AIDS issues
such
as: thedeaiminali2ation of needles, increased treatment slots in rehab
programs, research into an alternative to methadone
anddiscrimination in health careissues that disproportionately
affect IV-drug users.
Because the shocking numbers, that tell of thousands ofgay drug users with AIDS have not been widely quoted, many
lesbians and gay men--even in activist circles----still believe thatneedles are not a gay issue.
One activist member of ACf UP's needle-exchangecommittee claimed that 81 percent of all people infected withHIV through IV-drug use live in the eleven states where
possession of a needle is illegal. The me would not confinn
that figure over the phone, and that kind of breakdown cannot
be drawn from published surveillance statistics. Nonetheless,several of those eleven jurisdictions report the highest numbersof AIDS cases in the coUntry. While local governments andpublic health officials know that dirty wOlks equal AIDS, theyrefuse to prqvide communities that are ravaged by AIDS withevery possible means of preventing transmission.
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squad,had set up a table for
distribution of clean-needle kits. With
reporters
and television
camerasrecording the transactions, two police
officers dressed in plainclothes entered
the line, acceptedkits from theactivists, and promptly arrested themfor possession of the needles andsyringes and conspiracy to commit acrime. The block on which the activists
were arrested had been identified by
the activists'
local contacts
as aa;ossroads for intravenous drug users.
"We didn't realize it at the time,'but we found out later that we had
been under surveillance probably fromthe time we arrived at the community
center there," Leonard commmented,
adding that the group had done
extensive media preparation before
they went to Wilmington. Apparently,
an unmarked police vehicle had tailed
them through Wilmington based on
information that the activists planned
to distribute needles to drug users, acrime of conspiracy
that carries amaximum sentence of 10 years inprison.
, "In states where it is illegal topossess a needle, intravenous drug
users can't carry a needle on theirperson so they're forced to share. i
They're afraid of being busted sothey'll use a shooting gallery," Leonard
explained, 'v()icing
the ,activists'
frustration with laws that prohibit thepossession or sale of needles, currently
on the books in ten states and theDistrict Qf Columbia.
Since IV-drug use accounts for thesecond highest number of AIDS casesin the United States, and sinceresearchers think that most IV-drugusers are infected with AIDS throughshared needles, needle advocatesthat refusing to allow drug users
access to clean needles constitutes
1:';.
complicity in their deaths.
,
Laws prohibiting possession of
intravenous syringes and needles havepreviously been challenged by AIDS
activists in Massachusetts, New Jersey,
New York and Rhode Island. To date,the only case that has come totrial-AIDS activist Jon Parker's arrestin Boston on illegal possession of
hypodermic needles-resulted
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Because the Boston case did noteffect a change in that law, some
activists question whether flirting withfelony charges aJ?d their concomitantly
harsh sentences is worth it, or whether
activists would be better off pursuing
decriminalization
throughthelegislative system.
"We're really'not certain of the farreaching affects of putting a case into
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prohibiting possession of needles, thelegislaturesin the remaining
11
juriSdictions thilt criminalize possession, of hypodermics have expressed strong
opposition to decriminilization.
In addition to getting rid of laws
prohibiting
possessionof works,
activists hope that their legal challenge
will force public health officials torecognize that needle-exchange can beused both as an effective means ofeducating drug users about AIDS andother life-threatening diseases that canbe spread through shared needles, aswell as a bridge into treatment.
The persuasivenessof -thatargument last winter convinced a state
judge to uphold the nation's premiere

needle-exchange program, located in
Tacoma, Washington. The Tacoma
project also recently
received 'a
research grant from the American
Foundation for AIDS Research, which
hopes that its $60,0.00 award to
Tacoma will assist that study'S attempt
to finally deliver proof that needleexchange both prevents the spreaa of
HIV and encourages dr.ug users toenter treatment programs. \The grant}is
AmFAR's second contribution
to'
• 1·
,
research program that studies cJean~ . :needle distribution programs ill theUnited States.
According to spokesman David
Corkery, AmFAR has undertaken thefunding of these needle-exchangea...

projects
becausecritics of the.programs
haveprotestedthat
European studies documentingtheeffectivenessof needle-exchange
programs cannot accurately gauge
American drug users' response to clean
needles.
Opponents,of needleexchange projects argue that giving out
clean needles
is tantamounttopromoting intravenous drug use, in
response to which Corkery pointed out 'that the European data shows thatneedle exchanges have not increased
the number of intravenous drug users.
AmFAR's support for the Tacoma
project is especially hearteQing to AIDS
activists because in New York City,
where AmFAR probably exercises themost local influence, Commissioner of
Health Woodrow Myers recently shut
down the city's pilot needle-exchange
project. The public health establishment
in New York has also come umrer fire
for suspending funding for bleach,
which can be used to clean works if
clean needles are not available.
Ultimately, activists hope thatpublic health agencies will realize thateven decriminalization will probably
not end the difficulties drug users havegetting clean needles-while
striking
needle-possession laws from the books
is probably. the most that even afriendly legislature would be willipg todeliver, the activists also want official
programs put in place that would give
free,
clean
needlesand AIDS
educational materials to drug userS.
Hypodermic needles ,are illegal in
New York, New Jersey, Delaware,
Illinois, California, Massachusetts,
Connecticut,
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Pride Across America
A more-or-Iess random ~amplingof Gay a,!d Lesbian Pride"
Yes, back by populardemand,OutweekS Pride Across America chart ishere, bringing you information on
Lesbian and Gay Pride Day celebrations
around the countty.
In OutWeek's hallmark radicallyrandom style, staff reporter Nina Reyes
has slaved for hours oyer a telephone

Corpus Christi, Texas
Population: 250,000
Celebration Length:
One day .
Name of celebration: Splash Day, a
gay and lesbian-picnic
at a beachoutside of town.
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she has to sharewith Walter
Armstrong, our copy chief, running up
the phone bill 'til our comptroller,
Victoria Starr, made menacing faces, allto bring you, cherished reader, thestatistics and the dish from people in
14 cities-those
who returned herphone calls before deadline.

From Spokane, Washington, toMiami, Florida, it truly is a Queer
Nation. Onward, then, without further
ado. For the uninitiated and the jadedbut<urious alike, here are the goods.
The photographs are from New York
City's Lesbian and Gay Pride Day, 1989.
- Andrew Miller

Parade: NoneFirst Pride celebration: 1982
Number of participants last year:
500-1,000 (depending oil the weather)

Comment: "A parade would take apermit and-balls, and no one's worked
those up yet."
Source: The Hidden Door, a gay bar

Mayoral proclamation: None
Municipal funding: None. Three orfour bars in town sponsor Splash Day.
Antidiscrlinination
ordinance inthe city: None .

Austin, Texas
Population: 506,000
Celebration length: One d3yspokane, wasIUngton.
Population: 350,000
Celebration length: One day
Name: Fruit Float and Picnic
Date: June 23
Parade: None, although there may be
a parade on National Coming Out Day.
First Pride celebration: 1988
Number of participants
last year:
100
Mayoralproclamation:None,
althoughthe mayor is "quietly"suppOrtive of the community

Pride AcrossArnel-ic£:l
Municipal funding: None
AntidJscrimination
ordinance: None
Comment: "Sometimes you have topick up your raft and carry it because
the river is so low, there's not enoughwater to pass by. This
the river ispretty high, so you probably have tobe pretty much of an expert to getthrough it alive."
Source: Vlfginia Amato, publisher ofthe A/Jernatei

Y-ear

MontgomeryPI)oto: T.L UttName of Celebration: Austin Lesbianand Gay Fiesta
Date:June 10
Parade: NoneFirst Pride celebration:."A million
years ago, but this is the first one
we've had s~nce 1984. It's not aplanned thing."
Number of participants
last year:

1,500
Proclamation: None. "We could have
got it, but I didn't ask."

Municipal funding: None
Antidiscrimination
ordinance:
Public accomodations
protections
enacted in 1979; housing, in 1981; noemployment protections in Austin, but
the Travis County government enacted
a nondiscrimination policy this year. .
Comment: "This is the ftrSt event of its.
kind in Austin, Texas, where we haveevery lesbian and gay organization in
town participating together."
Source: Pat Cramer, Fiesta organizer

Population: 178,000. Name' of Celebration:
First AnnualCommunity Dinner, sponsored by theMetropolitan Community Church
Celebration length: One day
Date:June 16
Parade: NoneFirst Pride celebration: 1990
Number of participants:
Organizers
expect approximately 100 people.
Mayoral proclamation: None
Municipal funding: None
Antidiscrimination
ordinance: None
Comment: "Montgomery is the heart'Ofthe confederacy."
Source:Metropolitan
Community
Church.

Uttle Rock, Arkansas .
Population: 125,000.
Name 'of celebration:
Achievement
Aw:ardShow
Celebration length: One week
Date: June 17-24

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Name of celebration:
Los Angeles
Gay and Lesbian Pride Celebration
Celebration length: Two days
Date: June 23-24
Parade: June 24
First Pride celebration: 1970
Number of participants
last year:
250,000-300,000
Mayoralproclamation:
Yes,
proclaims June Gay and Lesbian Pride
Month, for the city of L.A., the dty ofWest Hollywood, the County of L.A.,
and the State of California.
.
Municipal
funding: None, but thecity of West Hollywood is picking up
all the law-enforcement costs, to thetune of $70,000.
.Antidiscrimination ordinance; in the

Pride Across
AlTlerica
city: Yes
Ordinance enacted: L.A., 1979; West
Hollywood,1984
Comment: "Ours is one of Southern
California's largest events· period, gay
or straight."
Source: David Smith at Christqper
Street West Los Angeles.\'\

DenverPhoto: Ben Thornberry

Parade: NoneFirst pride celebration: 1980
Number of participants
last year:
500-700 people
Mayoral proclamation:
None: "About
3 or 4 years ago there was municipal
recognition. However, 30 lesbian andgay people 'with paper sacks over theirheads stood on the steps of the state
capitol in protest of something, and we
did not petitioQ after that for them to do
anything."
Munidpal funding: None .
Antidiscrimination ordinance: None.\28

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Comment: "We just have activities withgroups ana organizations, and at thedifferent clubs, like Mr. Arkansas' AllAmerican contest, Salute to' Arkansas
Achievers [the award show], and a citywide gay softball league tournament ....
There's no gay participation because somany people in the state are afraid oflosing their jobs."
Source: Norman Jones

Los Angeles
Population:

L.A. county: 7.5 millipn

Population: 1.5 million (metropolitan
area)
Name of celebration: Pride Fest
Celebration length: One week
Date: June 23-30
Parade: June 24
First pride celebration: 1978 (])
Number of participants:
3,500 lastyear_
. Mayoral proclamation: None
Municipal funding: None
Antidiscrimination,
ordinance: None
Comment: "The Colorado Gay Rodeo
is June 29-30."
Source: Linda Romero, Pride Festcochairwoman

TucsonPopulation: 450,000
Name of celebration:

Tucson Lesbian

Newsand Gay Pride Picnic
Celebration 1eogth: One week
Date: June 24-July 1
Parade: None'First P:fkIe celebration: 1m
Number of participants
last year:,5:500-6,000
Mayoral' procIaaiation: Yes\MlUldpal funding: None
'Antidiscrimination
ordinance: Since,'1976 .
Comment:"The Iast several years it has,been held at a park, all day, political,~.,';,•

figures make speeches, it's sort of a crossbetween a fair and a picnic."
SourCe: Wmgspan and Tucson Women's
G:nmiHll"

New York
Population: 8 million
Name of celebration: New York Gay
and Lesbian Pride ,Celebration length: One week
Date: June 18-24
Parade: June 24, ·,oe;;First Pride celebration: 1969
Number of participants
last year:
200,00:0
Mayoral proclamation: Yes, although
Heritage of Pride refused to accept it
for political reasons. The proclamation
will be presented to the community-atlarge at the Lesbianand Gay
Community Center's annual Garden
Party.

~unicipal
funding: None, although
the mayor's office does produce anevents calendar for the month of June.
Antidiscrimination
ordinance: Since, 1986
Comment:"New York City is thePride Across

AlTlerica

home 'of Stonewall, and this year the
Empire State BuUding will be lit inlavender lights to celebrate Pritle."
Source; Heritage of Pride .

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Population:
3 million (Southern
Florida)Name of celebration:
South Florida
March on Washington (A~nue) and
Rally,
Celebration length: One week
Date: June 17-24
Parade:June 17
First Pride celebration: 1977
Number of partidpants last yeae 1,000- 2,000 in parade, 4,000 at Pri~Fest '90 •Mayoral proclamation: None
Municipal funding: None
Antidiscrimination ordinailce: Yes, inPalm Beach County; no, in Dade County;
and in Broward County, there is a,referendum otl the-September ballot.
Comment:"To my knowledge, unlessthere's one I am not aware of, we were
the flI'St Pride to establish a Pride Week....
I would love to be able to say that wegot more than 1 percent of the gay andlesbian population to attend, but ..."San Francisco
Population: 750,000
Name of celebration:

San Francisco

Lesbian and Gay Freedom Day Parade
and Celebration
Celebration
length:One daycelebration
Date of celebration: June 24
Parade: June 24
First Pride celebratiol'l.: 1970
Number of participants
last year:
250,000
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Comment: Largest annual event of its
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Source: San Francisco Lesbian andGay, Freedom
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Population: 80,000
Name of celebration:
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Celebration length: 10 days
Date:June 14-24
Parade: June 23
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1988;but it does not cover the private
sectorComment: "We're starting [the parade]on a military installation. It took me

about fiv«; months to get the words'army', 'military' and 'gay' on the same
piece of paper, and believe me, I'm)'aIlpapeHng my bathroom with it."
8ourte: Bill Woods, executive directorof the Gay CommunityCenter~~

1.5 million (metropolitan~):.

N*m~ ~f celebration:
Gay and
Lesbian Pride '90
Cdebratlon length: One week
Date:)urie 9-17'
Parade:June 17
Pint Pride celebration: 19n
M~rof participants last year:
10,000,throughout the day
Mayonil proclamation: Yes
Miulidpal funding: None
Ahddiscrimination ordinance: Since
19n. Recently survived Congressional
challenge.
Comment: Because it's in the nation's'~pltol, it has the potential to be very

public .

.loutce: Jill Strachan, Pride Committee~~,~puIadon:

40,000N~ of celebration:B~ir)gham Lesbian and Gay Pride~onlength: 10 days ,Datea,.June15-24~June24
PI$ Pride celebration: 19n
Number of participants last year:, 250 in parade, 400 altogether
Mayor,a1proclamation: None
Municipal funding: None .
Antidiscrimination
ordinal'lce:
None(A)mment: "We always have a day
In the park-a
party in' the park
during the daylight hours, which isvery unusual. We've gone from theSouth Side of Birmingham [the gay
areal to downtown Birmingham
this year.
'.Source: Eddie Merrell; member of
the Pride Committee ..

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News

Mjjdchen in Uniform

Photo: Alain Mclaughlin/Reaction Images

NOW

SAN FRANCISCO-It see~s\ thecity of San Francisco wants the wOrld
to know: If things get out of hancf'at
the Sixth International Conference do
AIDS which begins here June 20, themen and women of the San Prancisco
Police Department will be prepared.
In a rather conspicuously public
display last week, the cops trekked
out to a peaceful lawn in Golden
Gate Park to brush up on their crowd
control and riot intervention tactics. 'Although nearly every gay an~
AIDS community-basedorganizationis planning to boycott the conferencein protest of U.S. border laws barring
people with AIDS, lesbians and gay
1 men from entering the country, Aq
UP chapters from around the. couqtli)r.\
have pledged to be out in force to·remind conference-goers of the Issues
they consider primary.
.
Police and activists alike are also
up in arms over AIDS activist andplaywright Larry Kramer's ·call toriot" in a column (originallX published in this magazine) outlining\
Kramer's reasons for disrupting theconference. .
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1'First Ever Soviet· Gay
Ne\vsConfab Draws 150,.

,

by Qodo .parikas
and' Rex Wockner

wage the battle for independence fromrewarded with commutation of their
the Soviet Union.
own prison sentences for indecent
TALLINN, U.S.S.R.-One hundred
Sovietparticipantsin thebehavior, while those they outed wereand fifty gay and lesbian academics
conference
weremostlyunsometimes incarcerated in psychiatricand activists
from Easternand informed about the history of thehospitals to be "cured."Western .Europe
and the U.S. gay
andlesbianliberation
With one exception, Russian- andparticipatedin the novelty of the movement in the· West.
Estonian-language 1V reported on the
Sov.iet' Union's first gay conference
Joked Kotter, "Sometimes I felt asconference
in a fair and balanced'
held May 27-30 in the city of Tallinn if some of the delegates from the East . manner. Conference participants sent ain the 'Baltic Republic of Estonia ..
should ha~e been exhibited in a glass
letter of protest to the Estonian 1V
The gathering was well received cage for others to see."program Aktuaalne Kaamera after the
by lotal 'authorities
and received
Conference lectures were held inanchorman introduced a taped report
extensiveand mostly
positive
the Historic Institute, a medieval
with the' phrase "~nd now to theattention in the Estonian broadcast
building in central Tallinn, the Estonian
perversities. ".
and print media.
capital.
Veispak and Konerwere so happy,
JOe confet:ence was hosted byAccording to many participants, awith the conference's success that they
Estonian, historians Teet Veispak and talk by Leningrad researcher Sergi
are plotting to make the gathering an"µlian .Kotter and received substantial Stsjerbakov was the highlight of theannual one, in the hope that increased
iupportfrom Reporter, a gay and formal presentations.
contact with the Western gay andJesbian newspaper
publishedinStsjerbakov
detailed
p91icelesbian movement will encourage/Stockholm, Sweden.
surveillance of gays in Leningrad in theSoviet gays and lesbians in the long
Kotter presented a lecture on the '70s and '80s, providing information
battle that lies ahead.
'situation of Estonian lesbians who are about the "Big House," the center of'
A closing party at the Tallinn
o stuck, she said, between
the vanishing. the authorities' antigay operations.
Technical University's Glehn Caste inSoviet demands for children and "heroPolice routinely infiltrated gay andthe nearby countryside was ~lttended
moth'ers," and the new Estonian
lesbian cliques and then hired people
by 150 people, many of whom were
exPectations that women will be the to informon their"friends,"
taking part in a gay social event for thecenter of the home while the men Stsjerbakov reported. Informers were
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Nc\vs'!Studds Attacked

in.Dupont Circle
by Cliff O'Neill
WASHINGTON-Amidst
media
reports about the epideffiic of antigay
and antilesbian violence sweeping thenation, one of the countty's openly gay
U.S. legislators was beaten on a
washington, D.C., street. On June 8, two
Maryland teenagers were charged withphysically assaulting Massachusetts Rep.
Gerry Studds, a Democrat, in Dupontarcle, a neighbomood where many gay
men and lesbians live.
The youths, Thomas Carter, 19, ofGaithersberg, Md., and James Byrne, 19,
d Silver Spring, Md., were chaIged withassault. on a member of Congress, afederal offense. If convicted, the youths
could each face a maximum sentence often years in jail and a $10,000 fine. Both
Studds and the police maintain that there
is no evidence of antigay bias as amotive for the assault.
Walking along 17th Street Northwest,
after midnight on June 8, Studds was
blindsided, knocked to the ground andkicked about the face and head, allege<;llyby Carter and Byrne. The congressman
was returning to his nearby apartment
from dinner at a friend's home.
Studds, whose clothes were
bloodied, was reported to have sufferedmultiple abrasions arid contusions to thehead and neck and a punctured lower
lip. He was treated at the scene.
,
According to police records, a thirdman, who was released due to lack of

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the aime by scaring away the attackers.
According to police records, the two
women stayed behind to attend to
Studds, while the male witnesses, thewomen's boyfriends, chased the fleeing
suspects on foot.
The women flagged down a cruiser
from the Secret ServiceUnifonned Divisionand infooned the two officers inside who
Studds was. While Secret Service Officer
Todd W. Kreisher stayed behind withStudds and the women, Officer Kevin S.
Porter pursued the suspects.
Officer Porter said he saw Carter,
Byrne and a third man ruruling throughthe intersection of 18th and Q streets, twoblocks from the scene of the aime andordered them to stop. The male witnesses,
who were in close pursuit of the trio,
identified the men as the alleged assailants.
Police na:ed that Byrne and Outer had
blood on theiJ; clothing and took them into
custody. After questioning the third man
and corroborating his story with thewiInes>es, they released the unn:ured male.
According to police" records, once
handed over to the custody of the D.C.
Metropolitan Police Department andadvised of his rights, Carter allegedly
stated that the attack "seemed like thething to do at. the time." Byrne allegedly
also told police that he "only hit the dudea couple of times."
According to police when asked byanother prisoner in the cellblock what hewas being charged
with, Carter
responded, "I beat up a congressman. "Police reports, the U.S. Attorney's
Office and Studds' staff unanimously
maintain that there is no clear motive forthe aime, although the attack took place inthe heart of the city's heavily gay Dupont
Circle neighborhood, directly across thestrect.from].R's, a popular gay bar.
Neither Studds' office nor police
records indicate that antigay epithetswere heard during the attack.
"We're all kind of still in shock,"stated Kate Dyer, an aide to Studds. "1hecongressman has a big fat lip, but he's
OK. He's just lucky they didn't have aknife. He's lucky the witnesses were
there to help."
Hours after the attack, Studds
boarded a plane for his home district,
Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where hespent a recuperative weekend. Studds'
office stated that the congressman was toresurpe a full schedule when he returnedto the Capitol on Monday, June 11. ...

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Ne\vsOhio U Shuts Antigay Dormby Rax Wocknar, COLUMBUS, Ohio~Ina movethat has angered students and parents,
officials at Ohio State University
recently closed down an entire dormwing where residents had continuallyharassed two gay roommates.

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Officials said the atmosphere in
the men's wing of the third floor of
Bradley Hall was "unhealthy" and"unmanageable" and, on May 23, gavethe 34 residents 10 hours to vacate.
The two gay men-Mike Scarce,
20, a sophomore
from New Paris,

Ohio, and Tom Fletcher,19, asophomore
fromGreenville,
Ohio-weremoved to off-campus
living quarters at the university's
expense. The other 32 residents weretransferred
to other dorms andfraternity houses. Campus police areproviding Scarce and Fletcher with 24hour security.
The two gay students ha,d received
telephonedeath threats and weretargeted with antigay graffiti in the
dorm's men's room. The last straw,
according to university officials, cameon May 22 when the words "Die Fags"and 15 copies of a warning fetter officials had sent to residents of thewing were found' on Scarce andFletcher's door.
Most of the relocated students andtheir parents are ang'ry about theuniversity's decision to close the wholewing when final exams were only two'
weeks away. Residents of the floor
who had not harassed the gay men
were particularly aggrieved by theadministration's action.
. ,"Seriously, I can honestly say I
have never done a, tbing to them at all,"said IS-year-old
freshman
Chris
Hadden of Tampa, Florida. "Even after
they said they were fags, I'd still say'hello' to them in the hall."On May 24, the relocated students
and their supporters staged ,a rally toprotest the university's actions.. Phone
calls were also pouring in from parents
threatening to sue the university.
OSU Director of Residence andDining Halls William Hall said that
despite the outcry, he believed he"made the right decision, ethically andmorally. It's late -in the academic year,"Hall added, "but this is also part oftheir education.... I really hope theylearn and grow from thiS."
The rally degenerated
into aheated debate between the displaced
students and members of the Gay andLesbian Alliance. Straight students
argued that if homosexuals can 'live
together, then straight couples should

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In a statement to The Lantern,
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should go back in the closet. I don't
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N.Y. gaym.an runs
for Congress
NEW YORK-Sean
Strub, anopenly gay direct~mail entrepreneur,
has announced his candidacy for a
New York -state congressionalseat,basing his campaign on environmental
issues and on his belief that militaryfunding should be redirectedtosupport social issues.

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While the congressional' hopeful 'faces a tpugh race against a nine-tenn
Republican incu.mbent with a liberalvoting record, Strub's candidacy has. electrified the district's Democratic
voters and brought endorsements fromall of the district's
Democratic
conventions within three weeks of hisannouncement.
Strub, 32, a longtime Democratic
Party activist, also intends to seek
support from the lesbian and gay
community
nationwide,
since his
election would bring the total, numberof openly gay representatives to three,providingthe two openly
gayincumbents, Democratic Reps. Barney
Frank and Gerry Stu dds, both from
Massachusetts, are re-elected.
Another gay man, Mike Gelpi, isrunning for Congress in Ohio. He
recently won the Democratic party's
nomination.
However, as a spokesman
forStrub pointed out, issues of concern
to the lesbian and gay community are
unlikely to become prominent in therace, because
Strub's opponent,
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HANOVER,
NH-Thequeer
nation marked its first-evergay
valedictory address this month, when
Michael F. Lowenthal delivered the
traditional
speechat DartmouthCollege June 10. Lowenthal, an English
and religion double-major from, Chevy
Chase, Md., spoke on the theme of"conformity
and community" to a
crowd that included members of theclass of 1940, on 'hand for their 50th
reunion.
Comparing the Dartmouth community with that of the Amish Church
in Peach Bottom, Pa., where he spenttime working while at Dartmouth,
Lowenthal noted, "Like the Amish, we
at Dartmouth
have our common
creeds, our patriarchs and traditionseven, one could argue, our own
dialect." With what one Dartmouth
professor termed "a carefully paced
rate," Lowenthal established a central

theJQe of his, address, asking "whether
our COmnlunity at Dartmouth is truly acon;ununity, wheth<:r we all agree on
the same values to such an extent thatthey do not even have to bearticulated." Lowenthal charged thatthe spirit of Dartmouth's"greathistory," the "un,spoken agreement"
which has historically bound membersof the "Dartmouthfamily," wasreinforced by "the fact that I am ,whiteand male." Moments later, however, he
asked, "what if I were a Black man, oran Hispanic
woman? Would theagreement hold? What if I tell you that
another
assumption-that
I amheterosexual-is
not true?" Lowenthal
then asserted that he "and others
cannot look at these halls !Dartmouth]and feel part of the tradition that built
them--since that tradition was sexist,
racist, homophobic,
and therefore
excluded us?".
Lowenthal asserted that official
gestures were inadequate to achieve
true inclusion for all. Dartmouth, with'
its official policy, won by lesbians andgays in 1986, of nondiscrimination
based on sexual orientation,stillsponsors ROTC and other homophobic
agencies. Calling inadequate
Dartmouth's "opening the doors," the graduating senior urged the college to"open its mind--so that the women
who are' now in our community are
not sexually abused ... so that thelesbians and gays are not insulted by
the college'S sponsorship of ROTC andother agencies which discriminate
against us..."
The audience, which Dartmouth
spokesman Alex Huppe estimated at
5,000, gave Lowenthal a standing
ovation as he concluded. According to'. Huppe, who confirmed that Lowenthal
was "the first openly
declaredhomosexual
valedictorianat Dartmouth, but there may haye beenothers who just didn't acknowledge it,"general reaction to Lowenthal's speech
was extremely
positive.
Huppe
explained that because most valedictorians are of extraordinary intellect,
their ideas usually challenge thoseespousedby the "mainstream"atDartmouth.
Professors described Lqwenthal as"very athletic,"a characteristic
reinforced by his 4-year mdnberhip in
the Dartmouth
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Ensemble.
While ,at Dartmouth, Lowenthalorganized
lesbian and gay public
poetry readings and a Coming Out Day
rally. The early-morning hours during
his senior year were spent in meetings
with the President
in which hecamp indemanded the creation of an ad DO<: farming. and wilderness
committ'ee on recruiting policies to
Vermont, Lowenthal says he will bemoving into "House 0' Gay andaddress senior recruiting by homoLesbian Dartmouth Alumni," alongphobic institutions.
in
Most recently, Lowenthal secured a 'with three fellow graduates,
Northampton, Mass. His future plans?
visit 'by gay Black poet Essex Hemphill"I'll be looking for any kind of job.
to campus, hwere the poset read as part
Waiting tables. Maybe doing someof a student-organized"alternative
substitue
teaching.
But definitely
commencement" which took place after
writing."
the offidal ceremonies.
-Jeffrey Fennelly
After a short stint as counselor at a""'·Did.·'heating,blood cure a,.PWA?
ATLANTA-Doctors
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. ,The man's Kaposi's sarcoma
lesions disappeared, and he now tests
negative for HIV antibodies.
The
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"I'm cured of 4IDS," Carlton
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The addition puts official university
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based on sexual orientation. Ithaca is asmall city nestled among picturesquegorges in the Pinger Lakes region ofcentral New York. .' Cornell's board of trustees voted
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The change applies to all Cornell
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Illinois gubernatorial candidate Jim
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Mark Fleshman, Debbie Gould,
Charyl Holtzman and Kirk Rakos
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The four activists had tickets tothe eventand,by costuming
themselvesin "young Republican"
drag, managed to get within 20 feetof the president .
. Gou"ldcommenced
thedisruptive
action by blowingawhistle,and Holtzman
shouted:"Why don't you talk about AIDS?
One person dies of AIDS every 12
minut-es. Lighting candles in the
White House is not enough. This isa crisis to: me-wh_en will it be acrisis to you?"
Bush "laughed Jihd shook hishead .. .in .disbelief," Fleshman. said,
adding that· "that really pissed us
off."
Fleshman then shouted: "Whyare the U.S. and South Mrica Jhe
only two industrialized countries in
the world without national healthcare?"
While hotel security desce\tded
on the four to remove them fromthe room,audiehcemembers
accosted the demonstrators, pullingat their hair and shoving them.
.
Several members of the wellheeled audience shouted such things
as: "Stop fucking each other up theass!" "You people have no right todo this!" and-to
Holtzman-~Wpy
don't you go on a diet, cunt?"""1 couldn't believe how violent
they were," Fleshman said. "TheSecret Service was 'protectingusfrom tbem.""ThoseRepublicans
werepigs,"
Holtzma-n
added.
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hatreddirected
towardus
wasI
incredible.
A womanhad thewhole back of my hair and was
pulling me. backward. "According to the Cbicago Sun
Times, Bush responded
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AIDS ... than it has ever done in thepast. And it will continue to."ACT UP's clash
withtheaudience was a reprise of two 1988
-confrontations:ACT UP/Chicago
zapped Bush at the Chicago Hyattand ACT UP/New
York staged
several zaps of Bush and former
President
Ronald Reagan at theRepublican National Convention in
New Orleans. On both occasions,demonstrators
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similardisplays of hate-filled violence on
the part of the Republicans.
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groups were not as likely to be
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ground necessary
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close to an outright command to allow
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and pointed out that other controversial political groups, among themgay-rights advocates, are not given
equal protection by the decision.
- Victoria A. Brownworth

Gay

Republicans
on politics
NEW YORK-Republicans
forIndividual Freedom, a gay organization,
recently surveyed 100 of its members
on a variety of political, gay and AIDSrelated -issues. Among their many
findings was that 93 percent of the
respondents believe that George BuSh
is more progay than Ronald Reagan.
Seventy-seven percent of the gay
Republicans said that Bush has d~e a"fair" job on gay issues, while 22 percent
said that he has done a "good" job.
Forty-two percent gave Bush an overall
job rating of "very good," while another39 percent maintained that he is doing a"good" job.
Sixty-eight percent of the gay
Republicans said that they would .ote
for Bush in 1992, but only 31 percent
would vote for Dan ~uayle as vicepresident. A whopping 84 percent
would not cast a vote for Quayle forpresident in 1996.
The gay Republicans supported
last December's invasion of Panama by
a margin of 77 percent to 23 percent.
Condoms for inmates and publicly
subsidized clean needles for IV-drugusers'were endorsed by, respectively,
90 percent and 83 percent of those-surveyed.
'
In opposition
to Bush, gay
Republicans
do not want to see
stronger laws againSt flag desecrationand opposed the idea by 61 percent to39 percent.
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Freedom
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itself as "acommunication link in the Northeast[U.S.1between the gay community andthe Republican party."-Rex Wockner, from Chicago'To purchase tickets for Beyond the Rainbow, please complete and detach this form. Enclose a check or money order in U.S. dollars only,
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Angels and local transvestites engaged
in prostitution or drug sales. Several
Angels were injured by transvestites, heclaimed, but he "sat die guys down andreally grilled them, told thein that[antigaylbehavior and language would
not be tolerated." Since then, according
to Sliwa, there have been no otherproblems with homophobic behavior
by Angels.
Sliwa cited, in defense of theAngel's record, their cooperative
relationship with East Villagers Against
Crack, whose head, John Woods, is.
openly gay. Working with that group,
Sliwa said, a number of openly gay East
Vlilagers have patrolled in combination
with the Angels, apparently without
incident. .OutWeek was unable to reach
Woods for comment.
Hunter,however,
is morecautious. "For the most part, I think theAngels are pretty homophobic," shetold OutWeek. "If we're going to workwith them, a lot of work has to bedone before they come into thiscommunity." She proposed that all.... ,. , .. ,. . .

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first time in their lives.
Several participants echoed theth,eme that they had come to theconference to help make history andto participate'in ...the process of
democratization.
Estonian organizers suspect thatagents of the KGB infiltrated
thegathering, but there were no incidents
to confirm their suspicions.
The Estonian gathering came justmonths after the Soviet Union's firstgay group formed in Moscow. (TheMoscow Union of Lesbians and Gay
Men is most easily reached by fax,
dialing directly to 011-7-095-200-2216

or -200:2217.)For information on next year's
conference (as it develops), write to
Dodo Parikas at: Reporter, Box 170, s10122 Stockholm, Sweden. Phone: 01146-8-44-13-20.
To contact the Estonians directly,
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Ruutli 28/30, SU-200 001 Tallinn,
Estonia, U.S.S.R. Veispak's telephone. is011-7-0142-443-862..Calls from the .U.S.
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The activist challenge to scientists
by Mark HarringtonW

e have lost the war against
AIDS. Millions who neednot die so young will die
so young... Even if a curewere found tomorrow, thesyscem would not test and make it available

fast enough to Save us.·

-Larry KmmerJ'7he problem d AIDS is still with us.

we still have not achieved a cure."-Daniel F. Hotb, DIn!cIor; DfvIsfon of
AInS: NIAID, NIJI2"We are all dying .•-Tbfa, a 26yeaNlid Ugandan man3
In the t~nth year of this epidemic,
which will be -with us all our lives andend some of them, the remaining forces
are gatherIn8 in one of the dties where it
all began. Three vast, ghosdy entities will
bce each other in the conference hall at
the Moscone Center in San Francisco
When the Sixth International Conference
on AIDS opens Wednesday afternoon,
June 20: the absence of George Bush,
who is the single human alive today who
could do the most to change the epidemic; the ranks of scientists who never went
into AIDS because
there was neverenough research money and because thefunds that did exist were controlled by a
. tiny old-boy network; and the 80,000
Americans (and hundreds of thousands ofpeople around the world) murdered by
the ghastly alliance of a tiny piece offucked-up data (HIV) and a huge, indifferent federal bureaucracy·(theU.S. government).
There are those in the scientific world
who have shown the same' indifference
and contempt for the ideas of people with .
AIDS as the leaders of the U.S. govern. ment. They believe that important decisions must be made in secret by small

groups Of middle-aged, white, heterosexual
men-the very group least representativeof the ~ worlds c:i people with AIDS.
AIDS .is forcing

a sea changeinbiomedical fesearch. It is time to make one
thing dear: If these people do not join us
and work with' us in advocating

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changes which must be made, they should
step aside. Join us--or fade away.
For the great majority of people,
awareness c:i the enormity of the ongoing
AIDS pandemic is shrouded by denial. In
mainstream U.S. political discourse, this
now takes the fOllll of the claim that "morepeople die of cancer or heart disease;
aren't we spending too much on AIDS?"
Among the communities affected by thedisease, prolonged exposure to its realities
is provokjng not denial but despair. Afterseveral years d AZf and precious little elsein the developed world and after ten years
d virtually no treatment in the third world,
people affected by AIDS in countries richand poor are waking to the recognition
that the countries with the resources to end

endowed with whatever resources it takes
to get the job done.
The likelihood of this happening isvirtually nil.
This year, the hopes of many in thecommunities
affected by' AIDS haver~ched a low ebb. It is dear to all thatanti-mY agents such as AZI', ddC and ddI
will not, in any conceivable combination,
stop the progression of lDV lnfect:ion--Qt
most, for those who are lucky, they will si8nificandy slow it.
At the same time, there are no pr0mising alternative anti-lDV agents emerging
from phaSe 1 studies and ready for.wide-;·scale tria1s~ .This is largely because there
have been few ~.
\ ¥Udies c:i new antilDV drugs over the paStyeat.

the epidemic, chiefly the U.s., have no Intention of taking the steps which would
bring it to a rapid end.
Next year's U.S. AIDS budget issmaller than that of the space station"Freedom.·5
And yet President
Bushclaims that we are "on a wartime footing
at the National Institutes of Health. Slashing red tape. Accelerating research. Boosting the budget.·6It's time for a Manhattan. Projectagainst AIDS, with a mandate from thehighest levels c:i the U.S. government andNew dru~ by the dozen are emerging from laboratories around the world.
But those in charge of the u.s. AIDS-research effort at NJlI have chosen to· focus
on conducting wide-scale post-marketingstudies of existing treatments (chiefly AZT),
while virtua1ly ignoring most c:i these new
approaches.
This must change. without a conunitment to developing new anti-mY agentsfrom the test tube through phase 1 andphaSe 2 studies, as well as significantly expanding the scope of opportunistic irifec-

tion prophylaxis and treatment, as well ascancer treatment, the u.s. AIDS estab&hment ~ betraying hundreds d thousands dpeople with HIV to a world of impoverished therapeutic alternatives.
AI. the same time, much effort ~ wasted conducting huge phase 2 and phase 3
efficacy trials d dro~ whOS!'!~
spec- .
trum d activity could just as well be judged
in smaUer, less apensive studies. John
James of AIDS nmtment News has dubbed
these current efforts -dinosaur trials," andthey must not continue to soak' up dispropoltionate resources. Activists and statisticians are working on alternative designs fur
cIiniall trials.
. F'ma1ly, even those therapies whichhave become available over the past
year-e.g.,aerosolized pentamidine,
DHPG, fluconazole and (for some) ddI and~m
not accessible to many of those
who need them most. This is because thefederal government and the governments
d each of the 50 states have done virtuallynothing to implement last year's Public
Health Service recommendations about themonitoring of HIV-infectedpeople to pr0vide early antiretroviral intervention andprophylaxis against PCP when indicated.
Hence, pneumoc;)lStls is still the most c0mmon AIDs-defining illness, and II)aIly unnecessary early deaths continue to occur.
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AIDS-treatment aCtivism in the coming year:- Broadened research priorlItes.-Innooat1ve dl,,1caI-trial ~- Vastly ~ndedaccess to beaJtb cam
and AIDS tbempfes
In spite of the overwhelmingly bleak
reality which sunounds us as the AIDS epidemic enters its second decade, these aresome noteworthy new a1liances:
up with NIH researcbets to design the "jJamllel tmck" prcr
gram for systemattzfng ~ndedaccess tocertain new tbempfes; they must now am-Activists

teamedt1nue worldng together to Implement pam/lei track.
-ActWfsIs teamed up wtIb designers if
the SOCA (Study of the Ocular Complications of AIDS) to design the study if DHPG
us.Foscarnet In (MY retinitis.
-ActWfsIs teamed up wtIb communitybased dlnlclans and NIH btostatfstlcfans todesign the Multtple OfJportunlstfc Infectton~(MOPS) study for the Commun~Based Glnlcal TrIals Networlr (CBCIN).
. -ActIvIsts teamed up wtIb Bristol ~Squibb and the FDA to design e:xpanded acem- protoroIs for ddI; such rocpemtkm must
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TIDINGST
Longtime Companion Reviews;
Empire·State Buildingby Karin Schwartz
omemovie critics seem to thinkthat the emotional impact of the
AIDS epidemic on the gay community itself isn't worth making
a movie about.
Longtime Companion, the newmovie about how AIDS has affected agroup of gay New Yorkers during the'80s, has received generally excellent reviews in the nongay press. On the other
hand, some gay people have criticized itfor everything ranging froln its tone-too
documentary-Hke-toa perceived absence of physical intimacy among thecharacters. The important point may be

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that the favorable and unfavorable reviews are not divided along gay ;lnd
straight lines, respectively.
Reviewing reviews is always atouchy issue because aesthetic judgments
are so subjective. Two of the most .bjectionable negative reviews of Longtime
Companion have appeared in the nongay press, but the criticisms seem to turnless on aesthetics than on homophobia.
These are the reviews by Ralph Novak in
People magazine and Vincent Canby in
1be New York Times.
Novak complains that the movie is
too insular. The fact that the audience is
not introduced to the parents of any of
the characters upsets him. He also accuses the moVie of "sexual ethnocentrism."
Canby, too, thinks it's a fault that themovie deals almost exclusively withwhite gay males whom he seems to havetrouble keeping straight, so to speak, one
from the next.
As far as Novak's review is concerned, I find it 'refreshing that Longtime Companion is about the profoundeffect of AIDS on gay people and (moreor less) only gay people. Until now,
AIDS movies like An Early Frost andAndre's Mother, each praiseworthy in its
own way, have addressed almost solely
See GlAAB nDINGS on page 70

New Hope'for the Nineties:
COMMUNITY-BASEDTRIALS OF PROMISING AIDS DRUGSThe American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR) has
played a major role in developing a national network ofcommunity-based centers to accelerate the testing of promismg experimental treatments for AID$/HIV. Right now,
more than 40 centers are participating in this network.
Thirteen of them are here in the Northeast.
.
At community-based trial centers, primary care physicians
and people with AIDS and their advocates wor~ together toestablish priorities for research. They also plan and carry out
their own clinical trials. The goal is to expand access to new
AIDS treatments and cut red tape to develop treatments as
rapidly as possible. And that's good news for the up to 1.5
million Americans already infected withHIV.
For more information, and to find ou.tabout the communitybased clinical trial center nearest you, contact AmFAR.

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by Charles Silverstein
DalrDoc,
I am a 38-year~d professional, reasonably handsome, :warm, witty and intelligent.
For years I've felt sooy fOr myself because
none c:i my relationships lasted, but recently I've taken stock and discovered that thetwo or three long-term relationships I've
had over the years were sabotaged by me,
not by my boyfriends.
With my two,lOVerS-iUld during other more casua1 affiIlr&-..I stopped being sexua11y interested,
often in a few months or weeks ordays. I SI2yed in the relationships withmy lovers for a long time, one forstraight, who maintain loving (and m0nogaI'm intrigued by the fact that your lettermous) relationships with those with whom
doesn't talk about your feelings for yourlovers. Since you concentrate on sex, it's ' they have sex. A second contributing factor
is social conditioning and the effects of
not immediately obvious how you felt
early childhood training. BoyS are brought
about them-or what yOu liked and eVen
up to be independent and to avoid em0loved about them. I.have the SUIface imtional engulfment by, even emotional acpression that many of your feelings of lovecess to, other people. Some family consIdaffection and intimacy have been conCentrated on your genitals, making sex and or- , lations also tend to teach that intimate,vulnerable or ambivalent feelings are dangasms the core of a love relationship. I susgerous. -About her ,lover, Sappho wrote,
pect that you're deeply threatened by"We came together like two drops ~ofcloseness and therefore avoid an intimateyears, even thougll'my sexual interest
In mY partners had expired. I'm goodat staying warm and cuddly, and I'mstill friends with one "ex,· but I
stopped the sex. felt trapped and resentful, and slept around-looking
and finding sex outside the relationship. lack c:i sexual interest wasn't really the problem in these cases: I become more inhibited as I get to know'
someone better. I stay interested in sex but
don't want to "do it.. I'm not sure why. I've
heard of "Incest" fears, or the inability toadmit one's deepest "dirty" desires to someone you have come to love.
Righl now, this old problem is pressing. I
have a wonderful new boyfriend and I'm
tired c:i derailing my relationships; I want
this one to work. I fear that the same pattern• begming. Is expensive long-term therapy
my best option? Should I &tart it naw? Should
Iwait to see if Iruin ~again?

'l'umed0ff
DalrTumcd ()f(
The philosopher, Santayana, said that
Ibose who Ignore history are doomed to repeat it. nu, is as true for individuals as it isfor societies. Your new relationship may
end like the, others, with you feelingnpped. resend'ul and frustrated. Only thistime you may get even more depressed beaU3e you saw it coming all along. It's clearthat you terminate

your love relation-. shlp&-not out of boredom, ,but out of feard Wniliarity aiKi intimacy.

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June 27, 1990

relationship with a man. You allude to thiswhen you write, "I become more inhibitedas I get to know someone better.· I thinkthat incest has little, if anything, to do withyour problem, nor does admitting yourmost fotbidden sexual fantasies. It isn't sex
that bothers you; it's loving the man youhave sex with.
You're by no means alone with thisproblem of separating love and sex. Manymen (fewer women) have the same trouble, and sexual orientation seems to havelittle.bearing on it. The fear of intimacy runs
rampant in male society: Heterosexual men .
are threatened by closeness to women, andgay men are threatened by closeness toeach other.
In general, I believe that there are twocontributory causes to the ~ovesplit inmen. In the first place, contrary to popular
opinion, lust is in our heads, not between
our legs. Men are victims of a brain that demands sexual novelty. VISual images turnus on, and this, in a complicated way, leads
to problems in maintaining monogamous
relationships. But there are men, gay and,This is a sentiment that many
women claim to identify with because of its
sense of intimacy, of dissolving personalboundaries and merging with the loved
one. For the same reason, it strikes terror in
the hearts of many men. I think that it
frightens someone like you. You probably
have some past experiences that make you
fear situations in which you feel emotionally vulnerable.
I have some heretical notions about lave
relationships. It seems that we still romantidze relationships, and particularly the sexua1
aspects of them, deSpite· the fact that passion, in the sexual sense, often wanes as therelationship grows. Lovers may become"soul mates,· develop- a deep level d lntimacy. Yet the fire that fed the original sexual interest may quiet down--burning embers. I
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I.Jogic··Clean Out Your Closet"
by Ayofemt Folayan
tereotypes are the foundation of 0ppression. In the past, when I was
driving in my car and ~other car
suddenly pulled in front of mine, I
would immediately
check to see
whether the drivet belonged to cne of the ~nk groups that is srereotyped as having poor
driving sldlls. If the driver was Asian, I assumed that they would drive slowly and overcautiously. If the driver was Mexican, I assumed that they probably
had no auto
lnsumnce and a histay c:i accidents. If the driver was Black, I as'sumed that they had a bad attlrude. If the driver was while, I as-

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sumed none c:i these things.
Stereotypes are gen~that may
a may riot be true for the spedflc individualwith whom I am dealing. There are sane cullutal factors that make certain behavior patterns, more prediaable for particular indiviclum butthat does not necessarily mean that all membeJs c:i that group will behave that way or that
I have the right to treat someone badly on theassumption that the stereotype is true.
Not all stereotypes seem negative. Thereis a commonly held assumptionthat Asian stu-

dents will exrel at math and physical sciences.
But what happens to the Asian students whowant to become ball~ dancets? Their teachersand peers will often pressure them to conformto other expectations--forInstance, that they
will become engineers. Similarly, many Black, students are forced to confront their teachers'
stereotypical expectations
that they will be
only nwginally competent. Because the teacher assumes a particu1ar Black student belongs to a gang or uses
dro&" that student will not be encouraged to explore options, such as advanced-placement
calculus. Both of these examples
have been true for friends of mine.
It may seem ridiculous 'to talk about stereotypes
thatmany people now recognize as false, but assumptions
thatused to 1?egenerally accepted (and that persist in the form ofsubtler, present-day attitudes) include beliefs such as:1) Only Jews are involved in lending money.
2) Blacks only hold menial'jobs (e.g., household domestics.or factory workers).
3)' Migrant' farm-workers are all undocumented
Mexicanjmmigrants. '•4) Women 40 not have the strength to hold physically demanding jobs such as ftrefighter or construction worker.
S) Only men have the responsibility for supporting families,' so their jobs should have higher salaries.
, ' 6) People can no longer be productive members of theworldorce 'after the. age of 65:

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1) People with disabilities
cannot hold real jobs andshould be forced to exist on "charitable" assistance,
The English language is full of words that are based on
those negatiVe stereotypes.
Fol' example" The word "handicapped" derives from the assumption that a person with a disability was forced to beg, Cap in hand, for his or her survival.
While many of us today find this concept ludiaous, there is still
resistance to the demand by differently-abled people that weremove this kind of oppressive
language from our regularspeech. Some people just don't get the connection between thelanguage and the attitudes suc!t language perpetuates.
This topic may seem very- elementary to many who havebeen politk:al activists and pride th~
on their anti-oppresslon work. Yet I ,constantly encounter
Instances of radsm and !Ihl~. in the gay andlesbian community thatgrOunded in these
unconsciously
maintained stereotypes., likethe out-of-fashlon Clothes that have hung in
the back of the closet for years, these assumptions must be ldentifled and actively removed.
At political meetiilgs, for example, the sort ofelementary assumptions that women make thecoffee and take the minutes have pretty muchbeen erased. Yet the assumptions that women
will provide the nurturing or that B1ackI can
do a larger share of work are still very operational. The idea of women as nurturers comes
directly from the stereotypeof the happy
homemaker who cares for her husband andchildren, while he works to support them. The
idea that blacks can take on a larger share of
the work derives from the assumptions generated during sIaveIy that Blacks were "beasts ofI'burden" and therefore unable to perform anything except menial labor (see #2 above).
<leaning out srereotypes requires the willingness to acknowledge that we all hold such aBsumptions, no matter how well disguised by our sophistication they have become. 1)lere is a readyway to uneaI1h the petmutatlons we have made on the grossly andobviously inaccurate eumples of srereotypes listed above. Make a&t c:i all the groups in which you beloog--white, gay, male, ablebodied, say, or Black, lesbian, female, person With ~dthen &t all the attributes you really admire and all those qualities
which make you feel shame a embarrassment about belonging tothat particular group. Next try to identify a cultural value thatmakes each attribute more likely to occur for a person within thatgroup. Then compile a similar &t for the groups which are different from you (e.g. Blacks or females). You will find many variations on a dlstuibing theme: We try to define and understand pe0ple who are different from us by devaluing how they are different. '\le must honestly examine which stereotypes we hold in order toprepare for the more difficult step of eliminating them. Once weare out c:i the Closet, we can't forget to periodically dean it out. T

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Writing on the Wall of Plato's Cave
Education, homophobia and AIDS
byJeffrey Fennelly
ast full, I joined fellow activist andteacher Eric Epstein on the floor ofL.:what kids do and how to do it safelywould be instituted.
ACT UP in a call for mobilization. YElL's street-education tactics are atagainst a system that was killing its
once a badly needed service and a radical
chilclrefl with ignorance. Alanned
political act, for when we hand condoms toby a New Yom 1Jmes aIticle detailing a ~kids, we encourage them to take their lives
percent rise in HIV infeaion among teens
into their own hands and we aclmowledge
in New York City betWeen 1987 and 1989,
their decision-making autonomy. IIi many
we' demanded that the BoaId of Education
ways a symbolic gesture, condom distnbu-tion is backed up by the demandthat a student-directed program
be instituted by the schools. Kids
know what they are -doing. Letting them address their actions
responsibly will not only savetheir lives, it will empower them.
I have seen this student-generated approach work better thanany patemalistic pedantry in the~h~the~off
those who control the curriculum-those
who, in Eric Epstein's words, "see no evil,
hear no evil, and pretty soon
they'll have no kids."
Perhaps those on the
School Board, who consistently oppose any realistic
Lee Snider/Photo Images
sex-education program fromacknowledge that between 50 percent andtheir cobweb-covered thrones, prefer it
75 percent of NYC teens are sexua11y activethat way. It's the Cardinal O'Connor
and supply them with the means to protect
School of Morality: If they can't say no,themselves in the age of AIDS. Within
let them die .
. hours the ACT UP Youth Brigade, now
In my few years as a gay activist
known as YElL (Youth F4uc:ation lifeline),
and a teacher, I have found myself graviwas formed. Since discovering the. New
tating with increasing urgency toward
York State Board of Regents' AIDS curricuthe concerns of lesbian and gay youth.
lum's disregard for commo.n safer-sex. My eweriencein fighting for safe-sex
guidelines last full, the Youth Brigade has
education for all yout:h---&raight and gay
distributed condoms and safer-sex and(20 percent of adolescent sexua11y-ttansAIDS information' to high-school students asmined mv in NYC is transmitted throughthey enter school in the morning. Appalled
heterosexual intercourse)-has
illuminatedby th¢ criminal negligence of the system,
two closely related brands of noxious
YELL has also tugeted the Board d Educadeceit perpetuated by the school system:tion with typiCal ACT UP~ezaps, pushThe first, concerning my, is the sex:-phobic
ing for a revised health curriculum inlie that kids aren't fucking and the mad bewhich, among. ot~rthings, condoms
lief that the use d condoms is an extremely
WQuld be made readily available to stuhigh-risk behavior. Quips Epstein, "To say
dents, and a' peer-education
structure-this is a lie, is to be kind. ". where kids tlilk to kids regularly, not justThe other lie is that there are no gay
for one token 50-rilinute period, aboutor lesbian kids of high-school age. How is

66 . OUT-.WEEK

June 27,1990

it then that the HaIvey Milk High School
exists? Just as the first lie further burdens
an already crumbling city hea1th<are system and necessitates community crisismanagement and agitation of the YEll
order, so the second lie leaves people like
Joyce Hunter, director of soda! work services at the Hetrick-Martin Institute and an
expert on teen suicide, nursing thewounds inflicted by a hostile, heterocentrist SChool system.
Last year, as Youth Brigadiers tangled .over the' in<;lusion of the words "lesbian"and "gay" in our pamphlet's preamble, we
all supported the ~entreaty that instead of "just saying no," kids say. "know,"and "how" :tnd "why" before making deci-.
sions. However, to the statement ·You
have the right to express your sexuality ...
straight, gay, lesbian or bisexual: .fierce
opposition arose. Still smarting from a scuf-

fie with parents at a recent zap, I joined
those few who opposed the wording; wewere, I reasoned, fighting AIDS, not homophobia. I argued that the issue would detract from our goal of detening the spreadof HIV, for it would deter straight kids, andeven .closeted gay kids, from reading beyond the first page. (Not to mention parents, many of whom, according to a recent$" EDUCAnON on .... &I

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-NIH bIostatisticlans establisbed the homophoblcally biased Wall SlreetJournal
StaIIsIIcaI ~Group ~
wtIbIn the artide, view "teaching accepcance of hoAero toprovide a forum where actftJIsIs, remosexua1lty to impressionable adolescents
II1tIf'Cbm and statisticians can u.ott togetb[as)·tantamount to promoting it.").
er designing new methods of conductl.ng
Once comfortably dlstant from irate.sIudiss..
parents, whose rage, we conduded, had-FDA teamed up with Bristol Myen,
stemmed from our use of Gay Mep's
Squibb to malls ddl available on e:xpandHealth Crisis safe-seI: literature, I ultimately
ed access faster than cettain Aero prln- . saw my opposition as surrender to the very
ctpal investigators might have wished'system I strove to subvert. We kept the(thus rend8rlng it not "Parallel"): perbaps
wording. I realize now that inclusion of thethe first I1me anyone bemoaned FDA ~ eawords ·lesbian" and ·gay"~cknowledggemess to act quickly?
ing difference in sexual orientation--is as-Seveml prominent researchers whobound up in the struggle to fight ignorance
initially opposed the parallel track be- and HIV infection as ~ the detennination
came ardent proponents of the program to acknowledge kids' sexual activity andafter meel1ngs with actiuIsI.s.
give them condoms and the facts.
-'!be Aero ExecutIve Committee enThe pamphlet debacle and its outdmsed the establishment of Commun~ Adcome 6eoccly ill1;UIlinatethe system's dualvIsoty Boards at each AIDS Gtnlcal Trials
complicity in this age of multiple epiUnIt; these should be estabIfsbed for all AIDS
demics.- Statistics cited by Hunter paint a"trial sites (tncludtng communUy-based andharrowing picture of the homophobicallytIOIh4CIU academic sIIIBs).
fueled epidemic of teen suicide, a picture-NLiID established a Patient Conno less'grim than the equally preventable
stUriency WOtitng Group (PCWG) to rep- fact of HIV .infection among NYC youth; toresent people with IHV and affected comspurn such a connection between HIV inmunUUls wUbin the AG7t7 after ACT UP fection and homophobia is as dangerous
j>aved the way by securing an invitation
as the aiminal negligence of a sex-phobic'to the AG7t7 from NL4IJJ Director Fauci
Board of Regents in this age of prevention.
and struggling with AIDS division offtAccording to Hunter, lesbian and gay teens,ctaIs to,attend.
are two to three times more likely to com'The outlines
of a new research
mit suicide than their heterosex:wi1 counterorder are emerging. It is time for activists
parts. A study by the NY State Psychiatricfrom around the country to force sctentists everywhere to open up research at
every level. Some scientists are beComing aware of these changes
and areadapting to this new order. History willrecord the names of those who assist in
creating a' more equitable, humane andeffiCient researchsystem, and it willrecord the names of those who resist. ...

1. At the second Michael Hirsch. awards, New York, May 5, 1990.
2. At the Third National Copoperative
Drug Discovery Group for the Treatment of
AIDS (NCDDG-AIDS)

mf!eting,

GeorgeWdshington University, washington, D.C.,
May 15, 1990:.
3. Jane Perlez, '!be New Yo" TImes,
june 10,1990, p. A14.
4. Uganda, where in' some cities one.'person in four is seropositive, spends but$1 W capita on health care each year.
5. U.S. AIDS Budget: $1.7 billion.
NASA space-station budget: $1.8 billion.
.'William J. Btoad, '!be New Yorlr 7Jmes, June
10, 1990, p. A30.
6. President Bush's first speech on~,
141I1Orl1hSinto his term of office.

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June 27, 1990

Institute at Columbia University on violence and suicidal behavior in the runaway
and gay/bisexual populations showed that
almost twice the number of gay and bisexual males attempted suicide (41 percent) as
did runaways (22 percent). Add to this theslow suicide of unsafe sexual practices,and you have the Board of Ed's fail-safe
recipe for murderous indifference. Even
the kids fortunate enough to have discovered the Hettick-Martin Institute are stillplagued by the indelible virus of self-haIred promulgated by schools that suck all
traces of self-worth from our young: ·Our
kids are extremely knowledgeable about'safer sex and the transmission of HIV. infection," explains Hunter. "However,they're not incorporating that knowledge
into behavior because of low self-esteem
and the belief that they're going to hell
anyway because they're gay."
The Fmpire State Building, seen by everyone .from truckers on the turnpike totraders on Wall Street, will soon spread ourdelicious lavender light on the panoramic
Manhattan skyline. And still some teenager
will glanre from the back seat of Daddy's
sedan--a kid who has never heard of Harvey Milk High School-happierto heave

heIseIf df the lavender sped3de's obsetyation deck than grow up to be queer. What If
this child were to stand before the Board ofRegents and share with them a glimpse Intoher shattered future? What if her gay Classmate Danny were to explain to them, as hedid to me a few months ago, that it wasn't
really rape that this older guy committed
when he took ~ into an alley and fucked
him unsafely, it was the way you foundlove or a thrill, if you were queer and sixteen and couldn't find it in the halls of highschools, in books or in history class? Wouldthe regents be convinced then of the tightly
woven web of unsafe sex, homophobia andsuicide and finally tear off their blinders?
Until they do, the enlightened few
will continue to pick up frantically after
them. Grown-up queers must crack thesclerotic vessels of the system; we owe it
to ourselves and our future torch-bearers
to prevent the further spread of these twin
epidemics. We must go beyond merely
nursing our sick and dispossessed,~pectingthem to seek us out in the phonebook under "youth services" between algebra lessons or tti~. Teachers, administrators, counselors
must come out, or
must become gay-sensitized:
As Joyce
Hunter urges, bias bills must pass so themessage that homophobia is a crime may
finally pervade all systems charged with
our kids' welfare.
Loath as I am to call for any further
efforts on the part of our strained community to do tbetr work for them, can't help
but thrill at the thought of proud queer
kids going back to their "mainstream" highschools along with 'their youth-group peers
to offer the' healthy experience of being
proud and out to those who will otherwise
continue hating themselves or bashing oth-,ers. And we must simultaneously demandthat curriculums across the country teachthe true histories of the Eleanor .Roosevelts
and the w'H. Audens and that kids be empowered within schools to identify their,. own needs and to educate one anotheron these needs. The peer-education
model I have iilstituted in countless smalltown high schools is an ideal place tobegin. I've yet to see any situation prove
false the philosophy that kids, given thenoble duty of affecting one another's
growth, will prevent their peers' fallingthrough the cracks. I'd even wager thatwithin such a system, school halls could
be painted lavender, condoms distributed ,in health-education
classes, and proms
attended by girl-couples and boy-couples.
We must demand nothing less fromour schools. Our children's lives, and everyone else's, depend on it. ...

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frightened of men, and this may be interpreted by them as hostility. Sorting all of
this out is difficult to do by oneself.
You may be interested in knowing thatmany women have·a complementary pro!>lem. They seek a rperging of persona1ities
in their lovers that often leads to bitter ~sentnlent. Often it is faniiliarity and intimacy that turns them on sexually. Given thesexualdifferences

betweenmen andwomen, one wonders how it is that heterosexuals have made it this far!
Male or female, gay or straight, problems
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how the disease has affected the biological family of the person with AIDS.
They have completely
removed their
gay protagonists
from their gay milieu~
act of subtle but defmitive violence. AIDS is important only for thegrief it causes mothers and fathers.
These ftlms seem to announce: Gay andlesbian friends be damned.
As to Canby's review: When was thelast time he criticized, say, a Woody
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mllieu-the community of gay people
who loved, fought for and have takencare of each' other during the epidemic.
Longtime Companion is not perfect;
its writers could surely have done betterat including lesbians as well as gay people of color, but to criticize it for being"too gay" is heterosexist and objectionable.
To make that point, write to: Ralph
Novak, People Magazine, 1211 Sixth Ave.,New York, NY 10020. And: Vincent
Canby, The New York Times, 229 West43rd St., New York, NY 10036.
If you missed our column about the
Empire State Building management's decision to illuminate the building with. lavender lights this June in honor of gay
and lesbian pride, you probably heard
about it when N,w Yor. N,wsday featured the story on its front page. So did a
lot of homophobes,
and a8 of Prlday,]u.ne 8, the building'S management hadreceived
several bomb threats. Rep·
resentativesof the building have told
GLAADthatthese threats confirm forthem that the decision to illuminate thebuilding in soiidarity with our community was the right one. On average, theflood of phone calls that the management received was 50 percent in favor of
the illumination and 50 percent against it.
The gay and lesbian community
needs highly visible symbols of society's
acceptance. Given society's pervasive homophobia, it's rare that we receive sucha supportive statement of ~r right tolove one another-indeed,
our right toexist at all. One need only consider thehigh rate of suiCide attempts among gay
and lesbian teenagers to realize what adevastating effect this homophobia
hason young lives. Many of us bear these scars into adulthood.
•
The straight community needs thesesymbols,
too. They are 'friendly
reminders of the numbers and' strength of
the gay and lesbian community. And if a
gay-basher's goal is to intimidate every
gay man and les1:?~ into living a life of
secrecy in a stifling closet, this June's illumination is a loud and proud proclamation that we ~never be silent againl
To help tip the balance
and todemonstratethat the gay and lesbiancommunity supports people and institutions that take progay stances, we urge
you to call or write the building's management if you haven't already. Call(212) 7.36-3100. Or write to Mr. Donald·
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New York, NY 10118. ...

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luis Alfaro
LOS

ANGELES

Born to Mexican-American farm-worker parents and raised in apoor Chicano neighborhood in downtown Los Angeles, Luis
Alfaro makes performance art that addresses sexual politics,
racism and ethnicity, and AIDS.
During the past two years, Alfaro, 28, has presented some
15 performance pieces to diverse audiences in his hometown
and other cities. He created Smiley and OtherVatos Like Me (avato is a Chicano homeboy) for the revue Raging at the Vtslble:
AIDS In the City of Angels. He has performed at fund-raisering
events for ACf UP/LA, the El Salvador Media Project and Viva,
a gay and lesbian Latino artists' collective.
"During the past few months I've performed at lots of Chicano cultural events," he says, "and I'm always the only gay
performer. It's nice to be honored, but it feels weird--=! grew up
in the Chicano community, left it, and then came back to it ina different way.".
Reactions to his recent work told him that he was "hitting a
raw.nerve" with Chicano audiences. La Loca, his portrayal of an
actual Chicana -drag queen who had been fag-bashed, elicited"very strong responses, both negative and positive." While hewas performing a piece that detailed a sexual encounter
between him, a boyfriend and bunches of crushed grapes,"there was a hush in the audience like I'd never experienced.
It told me I'd crossed the line."
Alfaro, who has studied with Scott Kelman of the OpenTheater and performance artists Tim Miller and Michael Keams,
works with an economy of means: "It's just me, a spotlight anda milk crate." In portraying "people who are not understood"-dragqueens, drug addicts, gay Chicanos-"I givethem a sense of dignity and try to answer a few questions."
-G.D.

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Carol Johnsonc H

I c A GoAs an AIDS project coordinator for the Service Employees
International Union (SEIU), Carol Johnson oversees preventiveeducation services for 250,000 union members in 11 Midwestern states. It's an enormous responsibility, but one she relishes.
"The members I work with, mainly health-care workers whoare people. of color, really want information and a chance toexpress their feelings about AIDS," she says. "They takepride in giving quality care, and they want the information
they need to be able to do a good job."
Johnson, who is openly lesbian in the union, is "amazedthat anyone thinks they can hide." "In 1988," she recalls, "I
almost died from appendicitis. Life became very precious, andso did how I spend my time. It seemed to me that I needed tolive as fully as possible, so I resolved to be as out as I can be.
"Everybody needs to do what they can, and as you do, you
ftnd that what you can do expands. You tell people at your job
about your lover, and when you flOd that the' world doesn't
come to an end, it's empowering for you."
Besides being an out Black lesbW;'at a major trade union,
Johnson, 30, also serves on the board of'the National Coalitionof Black Lesbians and Gays. In Chicago, she has helped organize
several successful forums on Black lesbian and gay concerns.
With her partner, Stephanie Stevens, she recently fonned a business, Infonned and Connected; a "multimedia resource network
for Black lesbians and gays that provides information to ourcommunity and from our community to the broader public. "-G.D.

Carol Johnson (left)
and Stephanie Ste1{ensPhoto: Tracy Bairn/Outlines

OUT

IN ILLINOIS

Everybody needs to dowhat they can, and as.
you do, you find that
what
you
can
do
expands. You tell people
at your job about 'yourlover"and when yo.ufindthat the world do.sn't
come to. an. end, it'sempoweringfor you.
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Gene Ulrilh
BUNCETON,

MO.

Gene Ulrich w;as elected In April 10 his sixth term (and 12thyear) as mayor cL Bunceton, a small f.uming town 100 miles
from Kansas City and 150 miles from St. Louis. Gene's sexuality
became publiC following his first elecIion in 19(1), when anewspaper in Columbia, which is 35 miles auy, reported that
Gene has lived with his lover, Lany, since 1972. Copies of thenewspaper were distributed in Buncdoo. The result? "Evidently It doesn~ bocher tbem," Gene says of his fellow Buncetooians, from whom he has never experienced any backlash.
Gene moved to Bunceton in 1951, when he was 6 years
old, and has never since left Coover County. Gene and WTyknow three or four· other gay couples, and Gene's sister is
a lesbian. With fewer than 400 people in the tiny towllof
Bunc;eton, sexuality becomes everybody's business.
.
"I don't brag about [being gay),· Gene remarked.
"Everybody's just aware that we're a couple." The town
Ownber of Commerce invited Gene and WTy to join, .
offering them membership as a couple. Gene claims thatthe gay community in larger cities doesn't particularly likehim because he has spoken out against public affection.
Gene, who was the first openly gay mayor elected in
the United States, says he does not think of himself as arole model; he "just wanted to see things get done" in thetown. Understandably then, Gene's major battles havebeen for senior housing, for a sewer system and for awater well. Gene receives $3 per year for his position as
mayor and meets with the town council. He estimates that I..
he spends a total of four to five hours per week as
Mayor-taking complaints over the phone and writing all
the town's letters. For income, Gene works as a plantsupervisor at a sponge-rubber factory.
"In small towns, if you're not born here, you're considered an outsider," he says. "So, 1 guess I'm coqsidered apermanent fixture.·

-c.w.

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IN MISSOURI'"Doreenalong
PHILADEL'PH'IA
Last Labor Day, Doreena Wong was one of 200 Asian-Pacific lesbians to gather in Santa Cruz for the first national
conference of what has now become the Asian-Pacific Lesbian Network.
A staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union ofPennsylvania, Wong, 28, who lives in one of the oldest lesbiancollective households.
;
Wong is a member of the National Lesbian and Gay Law
Assodation's board of directors, serves on the Philadelphia
Mayor's Commission on Sexual Minorities, and is out as a lesbian in her workplace. However, although' Wong is out to herbrother and sisters, she is not out to her first- and second-generation Chinese-American parents, who, she says, are someWPat
traditional. "I consider my coming out a lifelong process of
being comfortable with myself-including my sexuality-Qlld
getting my personal life in tune with my activism."
Wong came out as a lesbian through feminist consciousnessraising groups in 1974 and 1975, and sirlce then has worked todevelop connections with other Asian f~istsand ,lesbians.
"Asian-Pacific lesbians have been so invisible both in the lesbian
and gay community and in the Asian-Pacific community. It has
been difficult to organize ourselves as a community not only
because of the triple oppression we face but also because of thediverse cultures and languages in our community."-c.w.

Allrose Sils
MIAMI BEACH, FL.
Last fall, the !t{tamt Herald printed a letter that Ambrose
Sims had written in response to an article in the paper
about discrimination against gay and lesbian college -students. In his letter, Sims decried antigay bias and the lackof federal laws protecting gays and lesbians.
'
Sims' letter was more than an expression of opinion,
however; it was his_public coming-out statement as a gay
Black policeman.
The 36-year-old Miami Beach patrolman wasn't
deterred from making his statement by the prospect of losing his job: In 1980, when he was a Police Academy cadet,
he was fired from the force because he'd been outspoken
about racism and homophobia. In response, he filed aracial discrimination suit with the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission and was reinstated, with backpay and a $20,000 cash settlement.
"Afterthat I decided I would not allow the fuct that I was
gay 10 be used ~me. I didn't want to be the classic caseof the victimized, clo5eted homosexual who'd be liable tobladanail and denial of promOOon. So I gradually started talking about my sexuality to other officers I felt comfortable with."
Sims says he hasn't been hassled by any of his fellow
cops since he came out. Of the four other Black officers on
the Miami Beach force, "only one is uncomfortable with me
being out~dhe's gay himself." Sims is disappointed thatthat officer, and other gay members of the department,
haven't followed his lead and come out. "I guess they'relacking in seif<onfidence," he says. "Youhave to know who
you are and have the strength to know you can survive."
As Grand Marshal of this year's Gay and Lesbian Prideparade in Miami, Sims plans to address the necessity ofelecting gays and lesbians to political office. "We have totun for office ourselves," he insistS. "We shouldn't depend
on well-meaning straight people to carry the ball for us.
This is our battle."'-Y.D·I 'Clidn',t want to be
the cla,s$ic caseof ,the victimized,
closeted homosexual
who'd be liable to,blackmail and"de"ial of, promotion.
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'IN FLORIDA

Daisy De Jesus
NEW

YORK

Having been Involved with New York City's lesbian and gay
movement since the early 1970s, Daisy De Jesus decided totake a hiatus In 1986 to enter graduate school. She got her master's and now works as a psychiatric social worker at Gouverneur Hospital In Manhattan.
"But I just couldn't stay away from the movement for too
long," she laughs. Two years ago, she joined Las Buenas Amigas, a new social network and support group In New York forlatina lesbians.
.
As its name ("good friends" or "good girlfriends") suggests,
Las Buenas Amigas is an informal ~iation.
The group began
In 1986 with ten women who met In each other's homes andnow Includes some twenty core members who meet twice
monthly at the Lesbian and Gay Community Center In Greenwich Vtllage, according to De Jesus. The mailing list, she says,
includes approximately 150 women and is steadily growing.
TIle group conducts consciousness-raising sessions andworkshops on both personal and political issu~s. "We hold cultural activities to educate each other about who we are," says
De Jesus, who is Puerto Rican. Las Buenas Amigas also cosponsors activities at the Center with other Latino and peopleof-color organizations, and is a member of the Center's Peopleof Color Steering Committee.
De Jesus, 44, was raised in New York City, where she cameout at the age of 19 in the Manhattan lesbian bar scene-places
like the Sea Colony, Broadway Central, and Bonnie andClyde's. She marched in the earliest Lesbian and Gay Pridemarches-"when the cops confined us to a narrow strip of Sixth
Avenue"---Qnd is elated by the growth of the annual event,which is the most visible symbol of the community's strength.
"There are lots of lesbians like me," she notes proudly,"who have helped to create what's here now."-G.D.

Geo r gel r 01 e I _ erg e r
SAN FRANCISCO"Peopl~ are very say In thlt city; but for eight.hours a day,many aren't."
San FranC;,I.can George
Kronenberger,
37,
helped orsanlze the Pacific Ga. and Electric Le.blan 'and Gay Employee. As.oclatlon to bridge the gap
between openly gay .oclal live. and a clo.eted
work envlrol)ment.
Formed three year. ago a. an
outgrowth of an AIDS Helpline for employees, theassociation Is the fir.t of Its kind at a major public·
utillty company.
,·PG&E had Chinese, Black, HIspanic, FUlpino andwomen'. employee sroups, so the next logical .tep
would be one for lesbians and sayS," says Kronenberger,a senior afBrmative-actlon representative for the utility.
"We expected some resistance from the company, butthere was none."
Kronenberger says announcements of the association's actlvld~ In the company newsletter drew hatemaU from ·some of the real cowboy areas In the state"(PG&E serves all of northern and central California),
but ·there clearly was Interest among the gay and lesbian employees.""We had over a hundred people for our first picnic," hesays, "and It was a nice cross-sectionof JheC9IDPIny-union members, corporate; attorneys, lesbians
and gay men."
The association currently has more than 150 members: "Everybody from meter readers to corporate
counsel," says Kronenberger.
Association members
marched as a contingent In the past two Gay and Lesbian Freedom Day parades; PG&E is providing theaSsociation with a large flatbed truck for this year's
parade. The group also organizes a PG&E contingent
for the local AIDS walk-a-thon and continues to operate the AIDS Helpline.
,Kronenherger
himself has been seropositive
George Kronenberger
and healthy for more than seven years. He andhis longtime
lover, Greg Dawson,
a dancer,recentlyjoined with a lesbian frie!ld to buy ahouse in San Francisco.
Kronenberger
says the employee association'sc,;!rrent pgliticalobjective
is to change PG&E's
policy on bereavement
leave. The company, currently grants a three-day leave to employees only
It a -member of their immediate family dies. "If ag~y employee'S
lover died, the employee would
only get one day off," says Kronenberger.
"So
we're r.eally trying to change the definitionof, 'immediate family.""But oUr longtime goal: he concludes, "is to have thecompanY's entire benefits package cover the domestic, part:ners ofand lesbian ,employee$."
-GD.

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OUT

IN
CALIFORNIA

JOin Glrner
A T L A N T A"I am interested in the quality of my life. By remaining silent,
Iwasn't being responsible about decisions being made about
my life. For my own personal well·being, I had to do some·thing to make a difference for me and for others,· says 39year-old Joan Gamer, who' came out seven years ago, when
she started her activist work with the Human Rlshts cam·paign Fund.
A junior-college instructor in travel and tourism, Gamernow serves as the co-chair of the African·American Lesbianand Gay Alliance of Atlanta. She has also applied to the mayor
to become a volunteer liaison to the say and lesbian commu·
nity. Her work with ALGA focuses on helping.African·Ameri·can lesbians and say men to increase their visibility. Last year,
ALGA participated in the National Black Lesbian arid Gay
Forum in Atlanta. The organization has given three women-ofcolor groups their start. Garner is "very active withthe ...groups--one spiritual and two social, business, educational and support."
She finds Atlanta' growing to be m'Ore accepting of its
large and very vocal lesbian and gay cOmmunity: "The climate's changing, we've done a lot." She now lives with herlover of two years, Diane, in a duplex with other lesbians, in
midtown Atlanta.
Gamer, who was married f~ five years before she cameout, considers her "coming-out process gradual. I see every clay
as being a challenge for me because there's more to coming outthat I can do."-c.w.

lelandWykofr
MOUNTAIN HOME, TENN.
For the past ten years, Leland Wykoff, a fund-raising consultant to nonprofit organizations, has been waging a personal campaign for increased gay visibility in theSouth-by dancing with men at straight bars and discos.
"I do go to gay bars occasionally," he says, "but 1feel that context is oppressive,
because people come to believe that they can express their feelings only in these
isolated places, where others won't be offended. Gay bars ghettoize us."The 30-year-old gay activist, who lives in the country town of Mountain Home("Ain't that quatnf?"), has kicked up his heels at het-dominated clubs since he wasa student at Florida State University. Discomfitted heterosexualistshave made rude
remarks, but until recently Wykoff had never been physically attacked or thrown.
out. This changed last fall, when he and several friends boogied down at a Holiday
Inn in Knoxville.
"1here were four of us," he recalls. "Me, two other gay men and a straightwoman.
"The guy 1 was with and 1 left the dance floor after an hour, and in came two
hotel security men. The third guy was still dancing, and they went and hustled him
off the dance floor and took him outside. Then they came back looking for us. They
had flashlights, honey-they were looking for us in that bar with big 01' flashlights.
"They told us we had to leave the place. 'It doesn't have anything to do wit!)
your lifestyle,' they said. 'But your presence is bothering our other patrons, andwe're afraid that some of them might get violent.' So 1 said, 'Well, shouldn't you
remove those violent people, and not us?'"This common-sense plea had no effect, however, and Wykoff and friends Wef~ejected from the premises. "One or two of the patrons yelled 'faggots' as we werebeing thrown out," he says, "but others said, 'What's the problem, why are theytaking you out?'".
Troubles and all, nothing has deterred Leland Wykoff from bringing queer flair
to still more straight Southern dance floors.

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Cathy Coles,.

ANCHORAGE,ALASKA
Cathy Coles is a lesbian living with AIDS, who travels around rural Alaska
educating native Alaskan and Native American high-school students about
AIDS. A Native American of the TIinght tribe, Coles grew up in Ketchikan inSoutheastern Alaska----«small town of about 5,000 people. She has left Alaska
only once, for Washington, D.C., where she lived for three months, until she
concluded that the city was "too big for me."Coles tested positive for,HN antibodies in July 1987, developed ARC in
1988 and was diagnosed with full-blown AIDSlast December. She is now single and homeless. Recently she has not been getting paid for her education
work, and is finding life "going a little rough" these days. The night before
we spoke, Coles was able to stay with a friend, but before that-with the
shelters full-she had slept outdoors. "I've not been homeless to this degree
before." As a full-blooded Native American, she is reimbursed by the Alaskan
government for her hea1th-care and dental-care costs, including the ddI andpentamidine she now takes. She gets support from the Alaskan AIDS Assistance Association and is "pushing to get Social Security quicker."
Coles has been out as a lesbian "for a long time ....It's not an issue." Shelives in Anchorage, which boasts the largest lesbian and gay community in
Alaska. Coles notes, however, that there is "very little intermingling" between
lesbians and gay men. In addition to her direct education work, Coles has
given interviews for several news articles, and has a book coming out at theend of the year. She also participated in an education video, Circle of Warriors, in which nine Native Americans with IllY talked about their lives.
On August 1, Coles and Don Ruby, another PWA,will embark on a twoto-three-week walk to raise money for AIDS. They will leave from Denaoi
National Park in the interior-of the state and walk to Anchorage-«bouta
250-mile walk. She had originally planned a walk from Alaska to Washington,
D.C., until she was advised that it would take between two and a half to six
years. Proceeds from the walk will"benefit the Four A's: Alaska AIDS Assistance Association. "I hope this walk I'm doing will further educate the lesbiancommunity, because they're not too well informed," Cole says.

-C.w

OUT

IN ALASKA

Coles tested
positive for HIV
antibodies in July
1987, developed
ARC in 1988 andwas diagnosed
with full-blown
A'IDS lastDecember.
She is no. single
and homeless.
Recel;ltly she ha.
not been getting
paid for her
education work
and is finding life
"going a little
rough" these days.
With the shelters
full, she has had tosleep outd~ors.
"I've not been
homeless to' this,degree before.".

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Fernando Chang-Iuy
WASHINGTON,

D.C.

Fernando Chang-Muy has experienced plenty of the u.s. government's
responses to refugees in his 35 years. Chang-Muy was born in Cuba to a Chinese father and a Chinese-Spanish mother. The family fled to the u.s. in.
1960. Working now as the director of the Legal Counseling Project of the
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, he helps toprotect and advocate on behalf of refugees who are not granted legal
refugee status by the United States: people who are fleeing persecution in
Salvador, Iran, China and other countries. "All my life the U.S. governmenthas been touching, arid sometimes infringing, upon my life and my relatives' .
Dives],"says Chang-Muy,
Chang-Muy has been out since he was 21, and is out to everyone except
his father, although he is "thinking about it" currently. He explains that Asianmen consider a son's homosexuality a failure because culturally they "havea lot invested in [their sons] to reproduce and get married heterosexually."
Three months after he joined the U.N. staff, in May of 1988, Chang-Muy cameout to his staff-as a gay man. "It was to my benefit to come out," he says,.
"because [gay and HN-positivekelatedcases that are of interest to me are[now] given to me."
Chang-Muy-whoselover of ten years is a white North Americanman--has experienced isolation from other Asian gay men and is therefore.
proud of his recent endeavor to create ,an anthology (which is still accepting
contributions) by and for Asian gay men living in North America. "I'm hoping
the anthology and the Asian-Pacific Islander groups in formation will help tobreak the isolation that many of us who are Asian-Pacific Islanders feelbecause we are surrounded by a majority non-Asian culture ...[and] becauseof racism," he says.

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I'm hoping theanthology and the
Asian-PacificIslander groups information will help
to break theisolation that many'of us who~areAsbln-PacificIslanders fee
because we· aresurrounded by amajority non-Asian
culture ...[and]because of racism.,lark Chaney
KANSAS CITY, MO.
Mark Chaney was arrested again last week. The first time that
Chaney, the issues chairman for ACf UP/Kansas City, was arrested was in October 1989, for stickering Burroughs-Wellcome
products. He was held in jail for 24 hours, charged with a Class
D Felony of property damage--a charge that was later dropped.
Chaney's arrest marked the first time anyone had been arrested
for AIDS activism in Kansas City. He is still the only activist in the •city to have been arrested.
A couple of weeks ago, Chaney broke vials of his blood on
the floor of the City Council' after its members voted an ordinance that would have defined HN infection as a handicap,
protected from discrimination, sent back into committee "to let
it die quietly.".
.
"So 1 had my blood drawn ...to symbolize the blood on 'theirhands," Chaney explains. Police then guarded the, blood andcalled for hospital officials to come dean it up. Chaney was
charged with a misdemeanor of property damage-which
heintends to fight.
Living in the Bible Belt, where there ~ very few gay groups,
phone threats and being called "faggot" on the street are part ofwhat "you deal with." At 32, Chaney is no stranger to ~t.
He was beaten up and expelled by his fraternity at South West Mlssouri State University for dating the vice president of the frat.
Kansas City and the surrounding,.suburbs are populated by an estimated 1.5 million people, and the city crosses Missouri and Kansas.
The two municipalities and state governments of Kansas City makepolitical work more difficult.
Mark has been out since he was 21. "I had to explain why 1
had cracked ribs and a .broken nose, and 1 chose to be honestwith my parents so 1 could ,share my whole life," he recalls. He
now serves as a social worker for a public mental-health agency
working with dysfunctional families in the Family Preservation
Project. There, too, he is open about his sexuality and his AIDS
activism.

-c.w.

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I had io explain why
I had cracked ribs
and a broken nose,and I, chose to
be honest withmyparents /so I could.
IN MISSOURI share m~ whole 'life •.

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Dale leCorliek
MONMOUTH,

MAINE"There's nothing like running for office to assuage your internalized homophobia," says Dale McCormick.
A startling claim, to be sure, but it's one that her experience has borne
out. Last week, McCormick, 43, won a Democratic primary election for theMaine State Senate with 58 percent of the vote.
"We always think we're going to be shot down if we stand up,' she says,
but as an openly lesbian candidate for state office, she reports that she's
encountered hardly any homophobia.
"I've knocked on some 1,200 doors in the last two months," McCormick
notes, "and there were only two outright homophobic reactions.I could discern." That's especially noteworthy given that the district she seeks to represent in the Senate comprises 12 rural towns in central Maine.
McConnick, 43, is an Iowa native who's lived in Maine for ten years. A
carpenter by trade, she became in 1970 the first woman to complete theapprenticeship program of the International Brotherhood of Carpenters andJoiners and to be admitted to the union. For the past three years she's been
the executive director of Women Unlimited, a job-training program for
women in trade and technical occupations.
A high-visibility dyke who "is out in every way possible," McCormick
served for four years as the president of the Maine Gay and Lesbian Political
Alliance. Several years ago she found herself at the center of controversy
when a public high-school teacher invited her to speak about gay and lesbian
issues at a Tolerance Day program. At the instigation of Christian right~
wingers, the local school board objected to her participation in the event.
Tolerance Day was subsequently cancelled, and the Maine Civil Liberties
Union sued the school board on her behalf. 'Although she lost two court challenges, she doesn't regard the affair as a defeat.
'''The public-education benefits from the case were worth it, even if we lostin the courts," she says. "I felt privileged to stand up for the FU'St Amendment,
and lots of people stopped me to say, 'Good for you, thanks for standing up.'"-G.D.

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Edd~ieSandifer
JACKSON,

MISS.

"The only queer from the South" at the 1958 Mattachine Society meeting in New York City, Eddie Sandifer has "never been in the closet."
Born in Cotton Valley, Louisiana, October 4, 1929, Sandifer served in
the military as an openly gay man and a communist until he was discharged in February 1953. For the next 25 years, until 1977, heworked as a nursing-home administrator ("out all the way") and ran
the first racially integrated nursing home ..
Sandifer now serves as executive director of the Mississippi Gay
and Lesbian Alliance and as director of its AIDS project since it started
in 1985. (It iscurrentiy the only group in the state providing AIDS services). The Sandifer Boarding House-a
haven for people with
AIDS-was named for him by members of the gay community. Sandifer, however, credits the "people behind [him] that do the work,"
mostly poor whites and Black people. He describes himSelf as a leftist
activist who happens to be gay: "1 march against the Klan, 1 sit in at
welfare offices, I do whatever is right for the people."
Looking back on his years spent watching the gay community
grow, Sandifer pinpoints racial integration as the most marked
improvement. Coming out in the '40s, when there were no gay bars,
he attempted to set up a Mattachine group in tile South in the '50s but
couldn't manage it fmancially. However, he has organized otherefforts in Mississippi, including a two-week, 24-hour "pink-triangle
patrol" of police harassment, and the subsequent People's Tribunal
for Better Government, which resulted in an end to harassment and.
created an open-door policy for Mississippi gays.
"To me, it's been the thrill of my life to see people come out. With
the Mattachine, we couldn't get an integrated party. The Black men
would bring white coats in case of raids."
The parent of five childr~n he raised with his lover, Sandifer was
also the first male in Mississippi to be named in a divorce case as the"other woman" in infidelity proceedings against a man. At 61, he now
lives with his sister and 18-year-old son-~:he oldest of the children
he has raised.
(

-c.w.

To me, it's been the thrillof my life to see people
come out.
With the.
Mattachine, we couldn't
get an integrated par~Y•
IN .The Black men would,!bring.MISSISSIPPI white coats in case of raids.
,

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Cathylaurlann
YARMOUTHPORT, MASS.
On Saturday, July 14, Hyannis, Massachusetts-the central city on Cape
Cod--will see its first Lesbian and Gay Pride march down Main Street.
There have been a lot of firsts on the Cape this ye:ll': The first gay and lesbian Qrganization funned, the fust hotline formed, the first gay male andlesbian support groupsJormed, the fll'St gay and lesbian educators spokein public high schools; and the first speaker's. bureau and hotline started
up. "Allat once, the Cape came alive with gay and lesbian stuff,· explains
Cathy Kaufmann. And she and a few others have ofB3nized it all on a $150
budget (with mailing costs covered by the Unitarian church).
The Cape and Islands Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Issues andConcerns is literally a coalition of individuals and groups representing
NOW, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, the First
Parish Brewster, the Cape Cod AIDS Council, ACf UP/provincetown, a .
battered-wOOlen's shelter, an interfaith alliance and about two hundredindividuals--three-quarters lesbian and gay, with many "peace and justice community" supporters. The Coalition's fU'St event, a celebration on
January 1:7 of the new Massachusetts gay and lesbian dvil rights law,drew approxjmately 150 people.
.
"My attitude. about being a lesbian used to be 'Well, why aren't there
any gay and lesbian organizations?'· Kaufmann says. Then, she realized
there was an interest, and someone just needed to get it started. The
group began when Kaufmann surprised herself and others by standing
up in a NOW meeting after many lesbians had worked for last April'S
Pro-Choice march in Washington, "and said, 'I think we should have a
Lesbian and Gay Committee ... We need to come out as an organization.'
I was really fairly angry." Cathy and eight others then organized a NOW
subcommitt~which quickly decided to separate from NOW.
The oldest of five children, she grew up in a working class steelmill town in Ohio, in a family of some of the original organiZers of thefirst United Auto Workers. She came out to herself at 23 but has notbeen public until her work this year with the coalition.
Kaufmanil expresses some gratitude for the support and networking
help she got from an organizer in Boston who also "pushed" her to be
more public, constantly r_ding
her to contact the media about theirevents. "This is the fU'St time I've done something for myself that is me,[without] denying any part of myself." Now 31 years old, she lives with
her lover in Yarmouthport-15 miles from Brewster. "I'm really ready to
be outrageous. I'm tired of being [worried] about when to be out."

-c.w.

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1(. k·· .·;'iI arcPorte

B 1 R M I. N G H A'M ,"To me, the biggest sin anyone can do is to lie to themselves about who they
are," says Marc Porter. "You waste a lot.of energy running around acting like
Sibyl, with all these different personalities. It drove me crazy, and that's why
I started drinking."
Two years ago Porter confronted his substance abuse and his sexual
identity conflicts. "I went through drug and alcohol treatment and started
going to gay AA meetings~ at the Lambda Incorporated Lesbian and Gay
Community Center in Birmingham, he recalls. He volunteered for the Center's switchboard, and before long, he was "literally spending every night
there." His commitment soon earned him a place on the Center's board of
directors.
When not attending to the Center, Porter is fighting the not-so-closeted
racism of the local Birmingham gay bar scene. "One of the bars," he says,"had a record on the jukebox called, 'My Wife Ran Off With a Nigger.'" Porter
got the local gay paper, the Alabama Fornm, to print an item about theoffending ditty, and the bar's owner subsequently removed it from the jukebox. "But then," Porter disgustedly says, "he .went and hung two big Confederate flags in the place."
Though Porter avoids the bars these days, he's hardly a social wallflower.
He's now the president of the Vulcan Leather-Levi Club, the first such ass0ciation in Birmingham. "I'd developed an interest in that subculture of gay
life, but I never really had an opportunity to pursue it. I went to New Yorkand saw a few things there, so when I came back I decided to start a club."-G.D.

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ALABAM'A
Tome,
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about
who they are.
You waste a lot of\energy runningaround 'acting
like Sibyl,with all thesedifferent
personalities.
It drove me crazy,and that's why I
started drinking.

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IN ALABAMA
June 27, 1990

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Carllaltius
SELLS, ARIZONAIn a desert region of Southwestern Arizona, some 65 miles from Tuscon,
Carl Mattius educates his people about AIDS. Mattius, 25, lives and works
on the two-and-a-half-million-acre reservation inhabited by 25,000 members of the Tohono 0' Odham, a Native American people formerly known .
as the Papago tribe.
"1be reservation is the size of Connecticut, with 11 different districts,"
says Mattius. "I really have my work cut out for me, but I don't mind-I'm
here to serve my people."
Mattias and four other workers with COPASA,the Community Outreach
Program on AIDS for Southern Arizona, target AIDS-preventive education
mainly to IV-drug users. Under the auspices of the Tucson AIDS Project, hewill also initiate a new program designed to tr;iin tribal youth to be peer
counselors for others at risk for AIDS.
"The gay male community is very large on the reservation," he says.
"But it's not an organized community. I've tried to do some organizing, but
it's very hard. In my culture you can be gay or lesbian and be accepted byyour immediate family or clan, but there's a real fear of going public."
Underlying the fear, he sayS, is a traditional reticence about openly discussing sexuality.
'Mattius, however, is openly gay on the reservation and in his AIDS education work-"I'm out, and kinda loud about it," he says. He came out to his
parents when he was in high school only to fllld that "they already knew."·
Although the tribal culture might be reticent about sexual matters, it is~not, accordirig to Mattius, overtlyantigay. In fact, Tohono 0' Odham tradition .apparently can accommodate some expression of gay identity. Says Mattius,"Several' of our medicine men and woinen have been out about their gayness, and they're looked up to. People. in the community go to them." .
-G.D.

In my culture you
can be gay or
lesbian and be
accepted by your,immediate family
or clan, butthere is a real
fear ofgoing p~blic.
I'm out .andkinda loudabo ...t it.

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IN ARIZONA-90·

OUT~EK. June 27,1990

Harry lieder
NEW

YORK

"What brought me out of the closet was the AIDS crisis and the feelingthat 1 had to make a commitment,' says Harry Weider, who, at 37, hasdevoted his life to fighting for the rights of disabled people, gays andlesbians, and people with AIDS. "I was born a dwarf," he says. "When
1 was 17,1 had two herniated disks which left me paralyZed from thewaist down."
At 30, Wieder developed spinal stenosis, which causes a pinching .
of the nerves throughout his body, and puts him in constant danger of
total paralysis if he doesn't curb his physical activity.
But Wieder has never let a society which discriminates against people with disabilities keep him from exerting hiniself o.therwise. He
attended New York University and Temple Univ.ersity Law School arid
now lives in Queens, New York, driving back and forth to Manhattan
using a car with hand controls.
Living on Medicaid and Medicare, Wieder actively spends every day
volunteering in several organ~tions, including Disabled in Action of
Metropolitan New York, ACf UP, the 504 Democratic Club (a Democratic club for people with disabilities), the Fanilly Diversity Coalition(working toward domestic partnership legislation), the New York Committee to Free Sharon Kowalski and the Queer Nation.
One of Wieder's biggest challenges, he says, is in meshing the two
communities of which he is a part. "Inpolitical realm, it is wond~rful to be in the gay community," he says. "There's an openness [in thegay community] in dealing with the disabled community, and gays andlesbians understand about building coalitions and reaching out. And
the disabled community, for the most part, is more responsive to thegay community than any other ~ommunity.
"In a social realm it's totally different, however. Because of thewhole nature of sexuality and what our society deems appealing, it
makes me uncomfortable. There's a coldness that I experience, a feeling of not belonging. That's one of the reasons why it took me so longto come out. And its always an uphill battle fighting that."

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I.h June,hund'.... of thou.-d.

of .. , men, .. eblen.

and our allies mar.ch to commemorate an almost mythic
event-theStonewall riots In New York City. Stonewall ush·ered In the .gay liberation era, and we continue to experience
Its reverberatlons-21
years later. Whether we consider ourselves gay liberatlonlsts or not, all of our lives have been affected by the men and women who resisted the police that hot

and lesbian experience. The publicationof Alfred Kinsey'S studies on humansexual behavior made It known thathomosexuality
was neither rare nor
aberrant, but an orientation or prefer·ence shared by millions.
Greater visibility also brought with It the danger of greater
oppression. In the witch.huntlng years of the Cold War, as polito
lcalleaders searched for enemies, the homosexual came to belabeled a menace. ACCUsedof being vulnerable to blackmail,morally enfeebled and sexually deviant, gay men and lesbians
were viewed as posing as threat to the political and moral security of the nation.

iJ1] ~]une~tml~.
But the movement for our emancipatlon from the laws, publlc pollcies
and cultural prejudices that oppress us
did not begin with Stonewall.
Poralmost a generation
before that, a.
hardy band of pioneer activists strove to win for us dignity,
justice and equallty. A continuous Ilne of gay politicalorganIzing can be traced back to November 1-950, when
Harry Hay, Chuck Rowland and a few other men met In Los
Angeles to form the Mattachine Society. How it was founded and what it attempted to do in its early years make fora fasCinating story'.

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The men who founded the Mattachine were leftists as well
as gay. Harry Hay, the prime mover, joined the Communist party
in the mld-1930s, and for the next 15 years, his life revolved
around his political commltments-evento the point of marrying another party member and largely suppressing his gay iJlclinations. Chuck Rowland, a Midwesterner, was a student activist
in the .volatile and progressive i930s and, after World War II, wasan-~tganizer for the leftwing American Veterans
Committee. His ex-lover,
Bob Hull, was a musician
and CP member who knew
Hay through Communistparty cultural circles in Los Angeles. The other two founders,Dale Jennings and Rudi Gemreich, also had a history of involvement in progressive political causes.
Hay had been mulling over the idea of a gay \'rganization
since 1948. He cautiously broached the subject with a numberof friends and acquaintances, but to no' avail. When they fInally
met in the summer of 1950, he' encountered in Gernreich some-

STONE

By 1950, America was ripe for a gay movement. The 19405
had witnessed both a significant openJng up of possibllltles forgay men and lesbians and an intensification of oppression.
As Allan Berube has demonstrated in his recently publishedbook, Coming Out Under Fire, World War II brought homosexuality to the surface of American society. Not only did the military debate and implement policies for dealing with it, but, more
importantly,
thewar
brought together hundredsof thousands of us. Leaving'families, small towns andethnic neighborhoodsoflarge cities, many gay men
and lesbians found themselves in a variety of sex-segregated,nonfamiHal environments. It became easier to experience samesex love and sexuality and to discover and participate in a collective gay life. World War II was something cif a nationwide
coming-out experience.
After the war, many lesbians and gay men made choices. designed to preserve the social opportunities of the war
years. They resettled in cities, kept up their friendship net.works and helped expand the urban subculture by patronizing .bars. A postwar literary flowering gave expression to gay

Nearly 20 years before Stonewall, a movement's
groundwork was being laid. 1990 marks the 40th
anniversary of the founding of the MaHachine Society.

by John D'Emilio

one who shared his enthusiasm. In November, the two met with
Rowland, Jennings and Hull to launch what would become theMattachine Society. ,...
Several fealures of the early Mattachine reflected the leftist
orientation of its founders. The structure was modeled on theCommunist party, in which centralized leadership, hierarchyand secrecy prevailed. As leftists- and homosexuals in the
McCarthy era, they were aware of the dangers of politicalactivism and therefore strove to protect the organization and its
members from attack. They created a pyramid of five orders ofmembership, withthemselves

John D'Emilio is co-chair of the board of National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and teaches history at the University of North
arolina at GreenSboro. This account is drawn from his book on the pre-Stonewall movement, Sexual PolitiCS, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940·1970.

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at the top. Each order, as It grew, was further subdivided Into
separate cells, and each cell sent a representative to the nextorder of the organization.
..
A& Marxists, they sought to understand the causes of gay
oppression and developed an analysis of homosexuals as an
oppressed cultural minority. In long dlscusslpns among them.
. selves, they shared and scrutinized their own experience for clues
as to why society was so hostile to same-sex love and sexuality.
Individuals, their argument went, drew their identity from partic. lpatlon in heterosexual nuclear families and through these cameto accept as "natural" a system o£ social roles "which equates'male,' 'masculine,' 'man' only with 'husband' and 'father,' and'female,' 'feminine,' 'women' only with 'wife' and 'mother.'"
These roles left no room for homosexuality. Moreover, theyleft gay men and lesbians with no models for how to live. Victimized by a language and culture that excluded them, gay people have "mechanically superimposed the heterosexual ethic"
their own exoerience and led lives based on "self-deceit,
hypocrisy and charlatanism."Theyremained
unawarethat they were "asocial minority imprisoned within a dominant culture."
Hay and his partners also saw socialchange as comingfrom the mobilizationof the masses acting
in their own interests.
To encourage
this,they decided that the
ftrst step for the Mattachine was to bringgays together in disONE magazine,
January 1~!i6
cussion groups. Through this process, a newgay identity could take shape that would leadto large-scale political action.
Throughout 1951 and 1952, discussion
groups sprang up in Los Angeles. Awkward andstilted at first and fearful of police raids, mem:bers slowly opened up as they exchanged theirlife stories. In time, according to the testimonyof participants, the groups provoked startlingchanges in those who attended: GeraldineJackson remembers how "people were able tobloom and be themselves." James Gruber
recalls: "All of us had known a whole lifetimeof not talking. We found a sense of belonging,of camaraderie, of openness-in
an atmosphere of tension and distrust. A family feelingcame out of it."As the number of groups multiplied, thefounders invited articulate. participants tobecome members of the secret Mattachine
Society and to lead groups of their own. To
imbue them with a sense of special purpose,

Hay and Rowland
devised. a ceremony
to Initiate members.
Standing In a circle
and holding hands ina room lit with can- .
dies, members pledged themselves to thework ahead:"Our interlocking,sustaining and protecting hands guarantee a reborn social
force of Immense andsimple purpose. We
are resolved that ourpeopleshall findequality in tomorrow's world. We are

ONE magazine.
September 1953

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sworn that no boy or girl, approachingation, need make that crossing alone, afraid and in the dark
ever again. In these moments we dedicate ourselves once
again to each other, with dignity and respect, proud and free."
The power of these sentiments inSPE a fierce loyalty. "Youfelt like you had a mission in the world, Geraldine Jackson reminisces. "You felt that you were doing something terribly worthwhile for our people."
The first opportunity to move beyond talk and engage inpolitical action came in Febru¥f 1952, when Dale Jenning&, oneof the founders, became the victim of police entrapment. Mattachine members decided to fight the charges, using Jennings'
arrest to expose police harassment. For Jennings, it was a courageous stand to take. Throughout the following spring, theupcoming trial was the prime topic in the discussion groups.
Hesitant about revealing the existence of the Mattachine
to outsiders, the founders created the ad hoc Citizens Committee to Outlaw Entrapment to publicize the case. Members

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distributed several fliers about thecase in areas frequented
by gaymen-at beaches in Santa Monica andbars in Los Angeles, outSide restrooms
known as cruising spots and in cityparks. The fliers sparked widespreadinterest, and after the jury deadlocked
and the district attorney dropped thecharges, the Citizens Committee could
rightly claim "a great victory for thehomosexual minority."
A year of explosive growth follow~d the trial as discussion groups'
were flooded with newcomers. Groups
divided and subdivided again. By early
1953, the network of groups extended. to San Diego and San Bernardino andeven San Francisco. Better still, some of
the grqups initiated action projects:
One
group
decided to-document police

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The new officers,led by Ken Bums, Marilyn Rieger and Hal Call, •among others, revamped the organization completely. Rejectingthe
notion of an oppressed homosexual minority, they took the viewthat gays are "no different from anyone else except in the object of
their sexual expression." They urged homosexuals to adopt "a pattern of behavior that is acceptable to society." Abandoning massaction by homosexuals themselves, they saw the purpose of the
Oneof the many letters received by the early Mattachine
Mattachlne as"alding establishedandrecognizedscientists,clinics, researchorganizations
and institutions studying
sex-variation,
problems."
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Leaflet printed by the early Mattachine Society andconsciousbelieved to be the first leaflet in the U.S. to raise gay
nessandissues publicly
mobilize' a l!!1-~==============::dMost of the groups died; qyearly
Foundation. The foundation helped to provide Evelyn Hooker, a constituenCy-withered.
1954, participation in Mattachine activities in California had
UCLAresearch psychologist, with subjects for her groundbreaking
research on male homosexuality. It also mailed to City Council shrunk from the more than the prior year's two thousand or
and school board candidates questionnaires about their views on so to fewer than 100. The organization survived, but in very
police harassment of homosexuals and on sex education in the attenuated form. The dynamism of the early move~ent wasgone and remained dormant
public schools.
The later Mattachine erased any mention of its leftist
until Stonewall revived militanThese moves into theorigins and even denied it was a gay groupcy on a much larger scale.
open brought problems that
These earliest years of gay politics raised
would change the nature ofmany issues that are still with us today: Are wethe early gay movement. Paul" ••4/.,,,1.;",,
an oppressed minority with a distinct style and·lI1U"U,U'U'
Coates, a Los Angeles newssensibility, or are we just like everyone else'
paper columnist, did some
except in the bedroom? Will change come from
digging and published a colmass action or patient education?
our own
umn on the Mattachine filled
efforts
centraltoourliberation,ordowe'relyonwith red-baiting innuendo.
WHAT IS THE MlTTACHINE SOCIETY,
INC.?
the
good
officesofothers?
Whoaretheexperts
An uproar ensued among
11 i. an incorpor.'"or,.ni •• tJon of ".r.on. "Ito.u inh,..t.din th•. fU'0bJ.". of the .u v.d.nt .... ".ci.J/y theabout our lives?
many discussion~group leadhOlffOeuua/.·.ndit •• 0JutJon.
The radical founders of the Mattachineers who were terrified by the'Society lost their battle to shape the direcCommunist party connection.
'IS IT AN ,000GU IZAT 10M OF HOMOSEXUALS?
tionofthe movement in the 1950s. But
Emph.tic.lly 110. All ,.,.one·_n attd 'I'OINn./llte·"ho .r.
Hay, Rowland and the otherover '1 ye.,.
of ,.,. .nd Int.r .. ted In tlte p,ob/eM .nd it.
they had built well enough so that the Matfounders responded by call.o/utiot'l."'nvit.d to Ii..,. coo".,atlOt1 lind .uppo,t. "",.
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tachine Society and ONE magazine suring an open conference to.Old.ty' but ,a,IN, .n or,.n; .. tJOII .. din,tlw int." ••vived. Joined later by the Daughters oftiOln of rhe
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conference, the first of its
WHERE 010 IT BEGIN?
imaginable
by 1969. We commemorate(',.v.r.J y,,,r,,,,,.11 ,roup of peor/. In Loe An,.I ••kind in this country, red-bait(u,,,.d thfl "lid",,,, of th. ,.,.,..", $oc;.".
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Stonewall with good reason; we should
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A founder of the Mattachine
Society, Harry Hay sparked theraging flames of the movement
for gay and lesbian liberation.
by Stuart TimmonsHis camouflage and sequuied tutu at lastsummer's Lesbian and Gay Pride Day
rally and parade here in New York suited Harry Hay weJl-arresting, contradictory and yet peculiarly balanced. He has
been called an antipatriarchal patriarch,
the elder of the Radical Faeries. But he's
best known as the father of our liberation: He founded the Mattachine
Society, the start of the modem gay andlesbian movement, in 195Q-an amazing 19 years before Stonewall.
Hay is a radical's radical. In the
1930s, his career as a Hollywood film
extra and stage actor led to agitprop
street theater. His partner in love andprotest, Wtll Geer (famous in the 1970s
as lV's Grandpa Walton), introduced
Hay to the American Communist party.
There Hay protested anti-Semitism andracism and organized trade unions. By
the 19405, he had become a pOpular
Marxist teacher. His intensive study ofthe history of working-class struggle forconsciousness and revolution included"a constant search for us." He developed-andstill holds--'<l belief thatgays are instilled with a different andspecial consciousness and that this, far
mOre than their sexual behavior, distinguishes them from straights.
The daunting dream of organizing
homosexuals haunted Hay's youth. By
1948, he had outlined a proposal for agroup called Bachelors Anonymous.
After two years of searching for compatriots, the dream was reali~ed. Hay andhis then lover, Rudi Gemreich, alongwith fIve others, formed a collective andnamed it the Mattachine Society-"Mattachine" after the medieval dancers who
obselVed a suggestive custom of don-ning masks while performing in public. Likewise, the Mattachine wasan underground movement that provided botha model and a breakthrough
for
later
activism-militantaswell as mainstream. But
within three years, theradical founders were
ousted by inrushing"respectable"gays.
Though, for thousands,the Mattachine remained
their initial encounter
with gay culture, Hay
Harry Hay in Odets'
carefully distinguishes
the first Mattachine from Till the Day I Die in 1935.
Photo courtesy of Alyson Publications
what followed.
In the intelVening decades, Hay has
number as high as. maybe 25,000. But
remained in the forefront of gay libera- using the Kinsey fIgures-that we musttion. An incisive, iconoclastic commenbe 250,()()(}-was just mind-boggling ..
tator on gay life and politics, he offered
We realized, however, that it was
only people with a certain vision, a cerOutWeek reflections and warnings.
tain daring, who would ever be partand parcel of the movement that we
Stuart Timmons: It startles many people to hear that the gay movement has a were talking about. To think of vast
numbers of people with that sort of
44-year-old htstory. How does it makedrive and daring-it never occurred toyoufeel?
us that could materialize.
Harry Hay: Aabbergasted. We had no
inkling in 1950 of the outpouring thatwould come in the 1970s. It was simply What was the biggest issue at the time?
unpredictable. In 1948, Alfred Kinsey Security. So many of the people wetalked to along the line said that theysaid that the hard-core homosexuals
would number about 6 percent [of the would have been willing to move [toU:S. population] and there was a possi- L.A. and come out] two or three years
bility tlut, including tlle people who had earlier than that-if they had been able
to do it in perfect security~some amount of homosexual experience, the number might be as high as 10
percent. We'd thought the people we Between 1948,' when you wrote yourknew in various cliques in L.A. might first gay-rights prospectus, and tbe suc- .
cess in 1950,. bow many people turned
you
down?
.
Stuart Timmons lives in Los Angeles. His biography of Harry Hay, The
I must have talked to over- a thousand
Trouble With Harry Hay, Founder of the Modern Gay Movement, will
be released by Alyson Publications this November.
people, hundreds of them in great
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being who you were
and that you had lots'
more in common withyour kind than you ever
had with anybody else.
At the end of the ineeting, you didn't want togo home. This feeling ofbrotherhood, which you
had been starved for all
your life, was home.
In a recent interview,
Paul Monette mentions
that during the past ten,
fifteen years, "at least
some of us got to begay." This is what wewere doing in the first
Mattachine. We got to
be gay.
You are sttll sometimes
identified
withthe"homophile" movement.
, In 1950, we didn't have
Harry Hay today
in any way what wePlloto: Robert Giard (courtesy of Alyson Publications)would call today a "gay"depth. There was this whole feeling of identity: According to everybody, we
terror. There was nothing to fall backwere heteros who performed nasty,
on and everything to lose-jobs, living , illegal, degenerateacts.' We felt weplaces, reputations, insurance--whatdidn't want to be identified by such
ever they had, they could lose. The
words that didn't bespeak who weonly security they had
was "keeping
their,hair up "---that's what
we said then insteadof "staying in the closet" or "keepingthemask on."
WbatWas unique about
the early Mattachine?
The marvelously warm
feeling. So much ofthat time, people were. leading a very tailored, existence.
But aftersome initial timidity,
we began to feel we
had come home. Here
we were, able to sit ina room, able to realizethat everyone else in
the room was gay andrealize' what goodpeople they.were. The, point was not to dosomething, like score,
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Harry Hay in the film Suicide by Leroy Robbins, 1936
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were.
We developed
the word"homophile" to show ouq;elves on our"terms. We did not know that the Dutch
movement had already been using thesame word. It was very useful in that it
gave people a new way to look at us asp~rsons. But I felt that by the late 19605,
the homophile movement had done its
work and that we needed to move forward to "gay."
The sense offamily you had in the earlygay movement seems to have resurged
in the Radical Faeries.
In my estimation, the Radical Faeries
are what the first Mattachine was on its
way to trying to become. One of mypersonal
interests then, which got
swept aside in the rush of activism, wasto examine basic questions about gay
people. Who were we? Where had webeen, down through history? And whatmight we be for?
_
Twenty years later, these questionSbecame the basis of the early Radical
Faerie groups. We2 began to realize
how many of us had a deep sense thatwhat we had always been was a
Faerie. We may have tried to drown
him or wipe him away, or our parents
had, with shrinks and so on. !Jut hewas still open and shining, with. hisarms out, saying "I want to come andsit with you."

How do you feel about the movement
today?
Politically there has been a deja vu,
because the gay liberation movement
was taken over by assimilationists inexactly the same way the first Mattachine movement was. Before 1975,
there was a lot of working in cons.ensus, keeping a spirit, an affmity. But
then they dropped back into voting
and hetero-imitation.
The oppositions of such campaigning destroyed
the affinity. Many gays.now emulate
the tie-and-tails conservative style ofthe heteros.
They are losing thegrassroots of the gay community.
They are not speaking to them, they
are dictating.
_
What they have forgotten all about
is that gay people-at
least as far as
men gC>--Qreall, as my loving companion, John, says, "fussy queens." Queens
don't follow anything! Queens are followed. We keep forgetting that we havevery different characteristics from thestraight community. Even if we pretendthat we don't, we still have them. Even
if we deny we are different, they know
damn well we are!
But there are always the young radicals who keep things interesting. It'samong them that the changeS are goingto take place, that the progressive andsocial legislation is going to moye forward. That's where the thrust is going
to come.

What do you make of the AIDS crisis?
I share with many people the secret,sneaking sensation that, on one level oranother, it may have been introduced
by reckless Republican reactionaries ofthe stripe of Ronald Reagan. Not Reagan himself-he's
too stupid to havedone that. But there might have been
people in the group who thought itwould be a way of getting rid of a situation they didn't like.
The same mentality that createdthe Tuskegee experiments--thattypeof mentality still is part of the mentalityof the Centers for Disease Control in
Atlanta. It certainly is part and parcelof the mentality of people in theCongress like Sen. Jesse Helms .. I can't
believe that something of that nature
wasn't behind all of this. Even if theorigin of this was pure accident, I

think it was shunted in
the directionof ourcommunity.
And thecavalier way it wasallowedto fester,alm~st without funds,
made the people who
had to take care of thesituation the gay community itself, which it
has done magnificently,
on practically nothing
but love.
At this late date, thegovernmentis being
shamed into doing some-thing, but we have lostten years and countless
people who the wholeworld could not afford tolose, let alone the gay
community. The world
has suffered an incalculable loss because the hetero administration has.allowed us to languishand die. My grief and rage~
deep as anyI;>ody's.

Do you agree with thetactics of ACT UP?

Harry Hay and his lover of 26 years, John Burnside, engage in a public display of affection inCentral Park last summer

The wonderfully nervy
things that Acr UP does Photo: KeVin Smith
are great. Since we are nearly always many gay people now seem to feel that
outnumbered, however, the direct con- they have laws and protections. But
frontation, the gadfly approach, I think is they should realize that laws can bevery useful. Imagination, being one step changed, and this is what is going tohappen. We obviously have no friend
ahead of them, is key, and here I think
we can't do enough of that.
in the Supreme Court. In 1950, when I
wrote the first call-we
thought we
What about outing?
were moving toward a police state
One of the great disasters of the day.
then. But as things stand now, what we
All of us should know our own history had in 1950 was paradise. We've moved
well enough to know that one of th~ so far to the right, it makes my headspin. In 1952, Dwight Eisenhower wasways we got through periods of persecution was by keeping ourselves hid- able to say he was a card-carrying
member of the ACLU.In 1988, Bush pilden and unobserved by the hetero
loried Dukakis because of the same
majority. We were a silent brotherhoodwith a mutual protection. I learned this thing. We are not safe, and we must
unwritten code from older lovers in keep our integrity tight.
People have a tendenc;:y to deny
1926 and 1929, when I was first
their troubles just before they getbrought out. We never blew anybody
serious. I think that most of the gay
else's cover. We have gotten throughpeople in this country thfnk thatall kinds of inquisitions and witchthey are safe, when in fact they arehunts because of this, and as an
not-onlocal and state and national
unfriendly witness before Senator
McCarthy'S House Se~ectCommittee on lev~ls. The majority is still ignorant
Un-American Activities, I still say that about what we have to contribute'and why they should give us space.
Hnking is Hnking.
Besides, it's a Pandora's box; once It's one of the many things that stil}you open it, you can~t close it. A great hasn't been talked about. ....

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'OUT

MY

.BY

OF
HANDS

BRAI)LEY

BAl.LWhen my turn comes, I 3m always
asked to recommend a good French
restaurant for lunch and must always
suggest La Mort d'Arthur on the Upper
East Sige (in which, I believe, somebody's old college-roommateis aninvestor.) After satisfactorily fulft1lingthese obligations and after thanking
the visitor for invariably calling 'me"recondite," I, like all the others, amrelieved of my wristwatch by the ubiquitous Edelweiss and led back to my
cubicle on the mezzanine level. The day, is, of course, half over by now, but thatfact does not discourage the incessantlyH

aving been called on the-StainMaster carpet in Mr.
,
Signorile's
office for mycasual approach toward deadlines, (asif it were a pathological characterflaw), I arrived at work bright anp
early yesterday morning, determined
to get this column finished well aheadof time. No sooner had I emptied themQusetraps and inserted a blank sheetof paper in my Royal manual typewriter(obtained from Purchasing in exchange
for two cartons of cigarettes) thanEdelweiss, the personnel liaison, came
down from the executive suite toannounce the imminent arrival of adelegation of foreign journalists. If she
didn't derive such peculiar pleasurefrom this task, I might be inclined tofeel some sympathy toward Edelweiss,because these announcementsarealways met with universal resentment.
An official visit of this nature
requires that all the writers be routed up
out of our cubbyholes and marchedshrill demand for copy by three
up to the 48th floor, where we'reo'clock. Since, needless to say, the,strapped into expensive wristwatches
commissaryis always closed toand ushered into well-appointed win- employees on "visiting days," I trY. to
dowed offices with state-of-the-art per- keep a supply of peanut-butter crackers
sonal computers and electric pencil~ in my desk, but yesterday afternoon I
sharpeners (all of which are bolted to opened my left-hand drawer and disthe mahogany desks and none of covered that the mice had apparently
which may be touched-high-voltage
interpreted the note I left reading
currents curb any su~h temptation). A' . "There is enough for all" to mean that
"secretary" wearing an argyle sweater- there is enough for all of them without
vest whi~h ill conceals the ominous
taking my needs into account.
bulge of a shoulder holster' is posted
Under these circumstances, several
outside each of our, doors to' ensureof us dedded to meet for dinner afterthat none of us deviates from the care- work in order to brainstorm possible
fully, preparedand thoroughly
actions for correcting these conditions.
, rehearsed dialogue we are expected to (I should mention here that there had
have with our visitors. (A novice film- been hushed talk at one time of bringing
critic Once a~empted to slip a note to the matter to the attention of Amnestya Swiss art director and was subseInternational, but that organization's
quently transferred to the mail room,
established disregard for lesbians andwhere the rate of paper,cut accidents
gay men effectively nullified the prois alarming.) ,posal, and when somebody snitched

I put thetab onmy Queer

NationVisa card.

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about our plans for a general strikelast autumn, there were massiv~ retaliatory demotions to the mail room.)
We gathered on a street comer several
blocks from the OUtWeek building andspent nearly half an hour debating
whether we would select the restaurant
through majority vote, straw poll orconsensus. As always, the vote faction
pr~vailed, despite some rather compelling arguments presented by thosefavoring consensus, and 45 minutes
later the motion passed to go to that newplace, SplrlJ and~,
which caters (a bit
opportunistically, '1.might add) to bothvege~
and more traditional tastes.
Sad to report, very little was concretely settled over dinner, which isoften the case. We did agree to form aworking group to come up with a
name, and we voted to postpone thediscussion about blocking traffic in
Sheridan Square until our n~ regularlyscheduled meeting on Wednesday at
8 pm in the wreck room of the Lesbianand Gay Community Center on West
13th Street. (All are welcome to attend.)
I ended up putting the tab on myQueer Nation VISacard when it turned,'out that everyone else had left withoufcontributing enough money and went
to the revolving cocktail-lounge at the
Marriott Marquis Hotel for a' nightcap, with Ernst from the copy room. While
the pianist played "Time Heals Everything," Ernst explained his new plan toassassinate famous closet cases andthen expose their homosexuality, sincealmost everyone agrees that outing thedead poses less of an ethical dilemma
than outing the living. I'll have to thinklong and hard about that one. I alwaYs
have to think long and hard about
Ernst's plans, which sound so logicalbut vaguely sinister.
I'll certainly keep all of you posted
about any new developments. ,Meanwhile, watch this space next week for
Dining OUt the Gay-Pride Way!'''-by Michelangelo Signorilef:es,the rumors are true. Cher,mother of a lesbian, did give
$SO,OOO--earmar.ked for a literacy
group--tothe Coors Foundation, and,making a public spectacle of it all on
CNN, said she will give more.
When told by mol all about Coors'
antigay stances, Cher's publicist, Lois
Smith, said that Chef's manager had Coors"checked out" aiid found that they had"changed" quite a bit. Besides, she points
out, the money is specifica1ly for a literacy
foundation via Coors. "If it is true, Cher
would be concerned,
I'm sure," Smithsaid. "Could you send me any informationand clippings you might have regarding
this?" 1certainly will. Stay tuned.
On to the nauseating Daily News
puff piece that Glenn Plaskin (whom Liz
Smith relentlessly plugs on Sundays) didon Calvin and Kelly Klein. Plaskin's weekly column, titled "Turning Point," is allabout tmnsformattons, which is what hedescribes as having· happened to Klein
since marrying Kelly. And yet, Plaskin
never exactly tells us what Klein was supposedly transfonned from. ~e
47-yearold designerused to like modern
furniture,bachelornood,vodka, latenights and sexually provocative jeans, and'. perfume ads. No longer," writes Plaskin,
going on to give us this very coded line:·Commitment, Klein has learned, is thecure-all for a fonnerly party-ptone bachelor." Theil there are the quotes from Klein
himself: "This relationshiphas totallychanged my life ... 1 love spending time inthe country, riding with Kelly, time alone
with her, and 1 now believe in commitment and marriage:"
What is it thatP!askin and Klein are going out of their
way to convince us of? Could they be trying to tell us that Calvin-who,in thewhole outing controversy, has been oneof the prime people the media have again
and again used as an example in theirstories-used to be a queer boy but he's
now changed?
Funny that such an

adamant show of heterosemality should
surfuce right now, in the current climate,regarding Calvin. And what, pray tell,would interest Glenn Plaskin enough tomake him dabble in such dubious puffery?
"Nothing in that column is a lie,"
Plaskin told me in a much-too-calm,.much-too-pleasant voice. "They do loveeach other. Why they love each 'other,
how they love each other, I don't know."
I asked Plaskin: "Are you, yourself,.gay?" .
.
MOho..1 don't think it's relevant," heanswered.
"You know I have spoken
frankly about homosexuality. You know,
I wrote the biographyof Vladmir
Horowitz.""Well, yes," I said, "but that. wasabout his homosexuality. I'm asking you".

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about yourself.··Oh, I'm such a non-person, so whocares. Now, if you want to some time sit
down and do a whole interview, thenwe can talk."Well, .I don't think we'll need to,
girlfriend. But I would like to address
one other thing you said that really got
my blood boiling: "I don't think [a person's sex life] is anyone's' business. I
don't think we should be discussingsex." We shouldn't be discussing sex? But
you just wrote an entire column all about
Calvin Klein's relationship with thiswoman and haw wonderful it is. Why,
Glenn, does a discussion of someone's
heterosexual
involvement-and
marriage-notconstitute "talking about sex"
but discussion of a homosexual relationship does? Can you answer that ...
... ASSHOLE?
.
Meanwhile, on to other silly situations.
In Boston, on a gossipy television
talk show segment focused on the issueof bringing out closeted public figures,
writer and activist Warren Blumenfeld
mentioned-in
passing, on live television-that
Massachusetts
Democratic

gubernatorial hopeful Evelyn Murphy'"
is a lesl>lan-6omethingthat every queer
in the state has known about the Current
lieutenant governor for years.
Nonetheless, Blumenfeld has been
vidously attacked by a lot of scared rat
gay "leaders" in Boston and Washington.
For ~t?
They claim that Murphy hasn't
had a bad record with the gay and lesbian community
and therefore didn't"deselVe" to be outed. Well, I've heard
differently about Murphy's record. But
even that is beside the point. .
Talking about someone's homosexuality should not be some sort of a "punishment" that we lay upon those closeted
queers who are bad to us and withholdfrom those who are good on our issues.
Yes, I believe hypocrisy should definitely be exposed,
and therefore,in-those cases, it might seem like retribution.
But gay men and lesbians should be able
to discuss who is' queer regardless ofwhether or not the person has done anything bad or good to this community.
TIIERE IS SOMETHING INHERENTLY
SELF-HATING ABOUI' A COMMUNITY
WHICH MUST POLICE ITS DISCUSSIONS ABOUI' ITS 0WN MEMBERS.
To you bastards--andall of you, inWashington and in Boston, know who
you ar~opounced on Blumenfeld,
who made him feel like shit, who forced
him to apologize: WHO TIm FUCK DO
YOU 11IINK YOU ARE? We did not votefor you to speak for this community or.to comdemn Blumenfeld as a "bad boy."
You people were "appointed"
as our
"If!aders" by self-perpetuating boards of
directors filled with self-hating queers
and heteroseXuals.
And why haven't any of you <besides
Uncle what's-his-namein New York)
pounced on me? Could it perhap$ bebecause I have a column that rages?
Because I have the ear of much of thecommunity?
Well then, take this as
notice: I now stand up for Blumenfeld
and any other gay man or lesbian who
wants to proudly and openly talk about
any other queer--closeted
or not-during any kind of public discussion in the
media. And if you people have a ~.,lem, cAlL ME. We've all been very delicate with each other for the past coupleof months. Nobody has ruffled anybody's feathers. There's been a mutual
respect for difference (which is the way
it should be). But if you people aregoing to use the feeble clout and illusionof. power you have to discredit respectedlesbian and gay activists, than I'll have to
break the rules too. We'll hash it all out .,in this column. .
And I can assure you that it won't
be pretty. ...
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Oul on Ihe Town

Wilh Liz and Sydney

IJz: Recently, Bronx Lesbians United for all of you women to start the weekend women and tourists.
light of foot.
in Sisterhood joined with the Flaming
At Palladium, Marc Berkley hosts theFemmes (a femme support group) for the·offidal" liberation Ball with deejay John
Saturday, June 23-Past-Rally Parties"LesbiansTIirough the Ages" party, a ben~
La Palace de Beaute is the setting for Hall and live shows. From 10 pm 'til? HOP
fit at the CQmmunity Center for thethe ·offidal" post-rally tea dance presented benefit. Mixed gay crowd, well-built shirtLesbian Herstory Archives. The event's
main attraction was the equivalent of a les- by Marc Berldey-a benefit for HOP.
less guys and tourists.
bian house-ball, where attendees vied for. At the Building, Jeffrey Sanker and"most p.c.," "most femme," ·most androgyAt Palladium, Chip Duckett also preDallas present the Men's Room withnous,· etc. Even the deejay and emcee
sents a post-rally tea dance with perfo~.
reportedly beautiful people, gorgeous gocompetesf for "most butch."
Sydney: Surprisingly, more women
go-boys and very high ceilin~. 10 pm 'til?
competed in the fenune category than in any
other, and the judging area was filled withAt La Palace de Beaute, tire Hurik
crinoline prom dresses, strapless gowns,
Club is now spunk. Deejay larry Tee andfull-h:ng~ se_quined dresses, matching
Matthew Kastc#'.s Boy Bar Beauties
p\lmps, tasteful evening bags and, ofpromise lots of fun and games. From midcourse, white gloves. I couldn't tell if I feltnight 'til?- Young, trendy and fashionable
like I was at a lesbian prom or a lesbian
crowd, boys and girls' in jeans and big
wedding reception, and I half expected
shoes, club kids and drag queens.
strolling accordian players to appear.
IJz: The Archives will be grand marAt Roxy, gay and lesbian Sundays areshals for this year's Lesbian and Gay Pridenow called "A Groovy Kind of Love," andMarch. Last year they carried posters ofwith a float in the parade, perfonners likefamous (and not so famous) lesbians in
Gaylord and Denn Vetta, as'well as thehistory. As decorations for the party, theusual drag queens and go-go boys andposters only proved that roles have been A Winn.r
girls, it sounds real groovy. OutWeek-sponaround for as long as we have.
sored party with J>artia! proceeds to benefit
Uz and Sydney: The only things
Sunday,june
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the Community Center. From 4 pm 'til? Sametruly certain about Lesbian and Gay Pride
March! Then liberate yourself for the as above, but with more shirtless gym-boys. 'NIght are that it's happening, that there are next 20 hours at one or all of the following
too many parties to go to and that the per- locations (we predict that half of the queer
At Quick!, Her Planet arrives for thefonners are going to be a surprise (i.e., not work-force will call in sick on Monday):holiday, and it's well worth th~ trip for thebooked at press time). We have prepared .
sexiest go-go girls ever in town. Partial
a mini-Pride Guide to the special happenDance 4 on the Pier features deejays proceeds benefit an unspecified AIDScharin~ at New York clubs. It is not intended
Susan Morabito, Robbie Leslie, Jerry ." ity. Call (212) 925-2442 for details. Young,to be exhaustive; check the Pride Guide .Szoka and lighting by Royce-Martin and trendy girls in jeans or cocktail dresses.
and other listings for conununity-sponRichard Sabala, plus live entertainment
sored events. .
and fireworks. From 4 'til 10 pm. You can
At Mars, Chip Duckett presents fiveactually just keep marching down Christo-' floors and a roof with 11 deejays playing
Friday, June 22
pher Street and end up dancing on the house, disco aild new wave. Entertainment
Cplumbla Pep Boys, ·Same but Differ~ Hudson without missing a step. HOP bene- will include drag queens, go-go boys andent Dance~ with deejay Karin ward. Partial fit. ~ed
gay and lesbian, Saint and out- girls, live bands; comics and novelty acts.
proceeds go to Heritage of Pride (HOP). of-town crowd.
Watch the fireWorks from the roof-Bar-B-Q
At Columbia University.
goes all night and a breakfast buffet begins at
At Palladium, Shescape hpsts the
4 am. Partial proceeds benefit the AIDSThe ASTREAFoundation ·comes out" ·offidal" women's party from 4 'til 10 pm Treatment Registry. Open 3pm 'til dawn.
for Pride as the National lesbian Action with live entertainment by Raina Paige at Mixed gay crowd, shirtless, well-built guys,
Foundation with a party at Camp Friend- 9 pm (women can stay for the Liberation lots of denim, some leather, not enoughshiP. in Park Slope. There's ~ough I'OQm Ball). HOP Benefit. Many professional-type silk and feathers-but all sweating....

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WHAT THEY'RE DOING FORGAYPRIDE
By Jay Blotcher andMichelangelo Signorile

Advocate
Malcolm
Forbes besidereporter Chris Bull with
Imarchvana Trump will tm
Cruisewill Memorialfloat.
the Gay and Lesbianin solidarity with reprise his "Risky
her hairdresser Tommi Business" underwear
in the Teasing Frenzy dance in a once-only
contingent.
stint down the parade
route, Joined by Paul
Newman-and Joanne
Woodward, too, 0/

course.

Alliance
AgainstDefamation(GLAAD).
Calvin Klein, Richard
Simmons,
RichardChamberlain and John'
Travolta will marchwith Heterosexuals in .
Solidarity with tho Gay
Community.

SandraBernhard
will spend the day in
the Cubby Hole, tom
between marching with
the Femme LesbianSupport Group or
Dykeson Bikes.
'6ymnllSlics for Pride
Debra Winger will
join Annie Leibovitz
and the rest of the gangon the Vanity Fair Ethics
in Journalismfloat.

,Dressed in pink leotardsand and doing
HaiHllising experience
their 1?estgymnastics
routine, Jodie Foster,Marching in solidllrity
Kelly McGillis andDonald Trump,'trying
Whitney Houston will,
to scrape up someform a human triangle
funds, will be hawking
Barbara Bush plans every three blocks.
souvlaId out in front ofto accompany Parents
the Tower to hungry
and Friends of Lesbians: -marchers, while Marlaand Gays (P-FlAG) wear- Elizabeth Taylor will
gives $5 smooches to
ing a bulletproofScassi. sit on the Beards for a
Better America float,
dykes at a kissing booth ,with her new "loveon ChristopherStreet.
A nne B. Davis, Pat interest,"
CharlesCarroll and Kaye Nelson Reilly..
Liz Smith, "doing
Ballard grace the Gym,OK" after recent press Parade-boundTeachers Are People E.
Toofloat.
ddie Murphy will
attacks, will flee New
vogue with Miss Guy,York with new LOVE
Shannon and Codie
Roger Ailes until all Sen. Mark Hatfield,
Gay Pride celebrations joined by a fleet of AndY- Rooney, W:der Ravioli aboardthe Boyare over.
cater-waiters on motor- official CBS com- Bar Beautiesfloat. •cycles, will lead the mands, will march
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Film

Joy de Vivre-IS 11I1SA LESBIAN GAZE?Director Joy Chamberlain

by Monica Dorenkamp

B.

itish
filmmaker Joy Cha~berlain's
Nocturne
opened this yeats International Festival of Lesbiand Gay Film. It is her second film. Making her
first-Domestic
BUss, a sort of lesbian soap
opera-was, according to the director, "like film school," achance to "learn the mechanics." Most of Chamberlain's
training is of the hands-on kind. Born in America, she
moved to London 15 years ago, lured by the higher-quality
independent film work being done there. Through the longyears of assisting editors and then editing herself (both freelance and for the BBC), the wish to direct was constant. She
got her c~ce
as a member of the Newsreel Collective and,made Domestic Bliss in 1985. By comparison, this year's

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Nocturne marks the development of a more sophisticated,individual style, making her someone to watch.
Chamberlain
was in New York recently for theFestival's world-premiere screening of Nocturne, and I hada chance to meet her.
Monica Dorenkamp: Were you happy with Domestic
Bliss?
loy Chamberlain: No. I felt that-considering I'd hadvery little experience--:-I'd done all right. But it was a bit
patchy; there were a few scenes I felt didn't work.
MD: Nocturne is your flfSt film since then. Did you
want to make a specifically lesbian film?
}C: Not necessarily. I just wanted to make a fUm. I did
ftnd that a lot of the ideas I had tended to be about lesbians. I've always wanted to see lesbians as well is oilier
minorities in all sorts of different television programs. It'sgoing to be a sign that things have ii€hially changed, when
you don't have special minority programming ,but when
you've got gay people or Brack people or other minorities
in many different roles ....I'm not really interested in comingout stOries anymore. I'm more interested in stories that havesome relationship to my life, in the same way that someone
who's heterosexual can tum on the television and have awhole range of things to watch which aren't about beingstraight or just about sexual relationships but which havecharacters with whom they can identify.
'
MD: So you do have some sort of political agenda
informing your work, but it's not- , .
}c: It's not up-front anymore, but I think that's a product of age as well. I started being active in the women's
movement about 20 years ago. I think that when you f~ '._get politically involved, you're still very much forming yourpolitics, so you're very much aware of them all the time.
But I think that once you've found your politics, they're
there, and hopefully they come out in whatever yoµ do.
MD: How did Nocturne come about?
}C: Tash [Fairbanks], the writer, took the idea toChannel 4, and they gave her my name, which was fabulous. What ieaIly interested me aboufNocturne wasn't necessarily that it had a lesbian element; it was the story itself,
which has changed quite a lot since then. Some of the sameelements were there: the exploration of childhood experience and the memory of childhOQd experience, and howthat infonns present-day life. Also, how key experiences inyour present-day life can trigger memories, and the whole
therapeutic process of working through things-how much
we can be ourselves and how much we are our parents.
MD: One of the things that struck me about the film isthe play with memory. So much of what Marguerite
remembers she couldn't really remember because she
wasn't there. Like the scene in which her mother looks dis-I~turbed as she reads that letter, which then just gets lost.

problematic ....I think the film is disturbing and controversial In
Marguerite comes in, and you realize that she hasn't beensome ways. But Idon't think that's necessarily a bad thing. If It
there, even though the scene is happening in her mind.
makes people angry, it makes people think, It makes people}e: Yes. I think that's the way memory works. You talk ....5ome people find It very erotic. I have had some c0mments from Americans which are very telling, actually; They
don't really remember what happened; memory's always
determined by different interSections of things.
think it's too subtle, they want to !mow why there isn't any
MD: And so when the most revealing scene comes,
sex. Quite frankly, I find
you can't be sure that Marguerite's even witnessed it; her implication and subtlety
mother's sexual repression literally becomes her own.
more sexy.
]e: It's what she has iptemalized. Obviously her mothMD: To have showner was very repressed. Wl1at she's remembering is the feel- the sex in this film would
ing of how her mother treated her, that coldness, or have been reallywhatever. The memory sequences are memory, they're not]e: Anticlimactic. Beflashbacks.
cause it's also so much
MD: I'm interested in the casting. Was the Ria characabout what is going on in
the mind.
'ter originally Black?
]e: No. She wasn't a Black character in the script. I have
MD: Though it does
a commitment to multiracial casting as much as possible. This get quite sensual and physone was problematic because the film's very much an allego- ical.
]e: Yes, well, we didry for the class system in Britain in the '50s and how it'stransposed to present day. Some of the characters needed to want to get it on television
be white because it was about the white middle-class, so it as well.
MD: That's right. It's
was a case of casting one of the two girls as Black. You get
into all sorts of problematic areas, but I have talked to Black good to keep that in mind.
actors and flimmakers in Britain ....It Came up when I did How is it that these kindsof films are being made for
Domestic Bliss because they had some criticisms of the Black
television in Britain?
character in that, and I asked if they thought it would've'been better to have cast a white person; they all said the]e: Channel
4 has
made a big difference.
most important thing is to get more Black faces on television.
In Nocturne, if I'd cast both of the girls as Black, it would
MD: And it hasn't been
affectedbyhave been this Black invasion into the house; if one of them negatively
is a woman of color, then it's more to do with the interrela- Thatcher, or by dause 28?
]e: No, not really.
tionships of the characters. I wanted it to be inddental.
There's been a certain
MD: The problem, of course, is that it never is, whenamount of self-censorship
you cast a single character as Black-not that there are
that's gone on, but that's
many roles in this. But especially since this is a film about
been more in some of therole-playing,and you've got her playing the young
Marguerite-it gets incredibly loaded.
local councils; they've been
]e: The whole fUm is loaded. But I thought it'd beholding back on some ofworse if I cast her as Sal because then she'd be playing the their funding of lesbian andnanny. I did try to look at as many of the implications as gay groups, not because
possible ....Marguerite is in many ways an upper-class stereo- they support dause 28, but
type; the Sal character will be seen in England as a Northern!because! their budgets have
yvorking-class stereotype---and that in England is going to be been so stripped down thatas problematic as casting Ria as a Black character.
they couldn't afford to go toAlso, I think that Ria rebels against the position she's
court to defend themselves.
been put in. And Sal, although she appears to be the pivotOlannel 4's not in that posial person and appears to be playing with both Ria andtion where they have to be
Marguerite, never actually does anything without Ria's permore commercially competimission. In the end, all Rias has to do is say no, and the tive; it would work to thewhole game is finished ....A lot of people in this country
detriment of a lot of thehave said to me that Ria's infantilized.
minority progranuning.
MD: What will be your next project?
I think that's more of an American stereotype than an]C: I've got this feature fUmI want to do about the life ofEnglish stereotype. I think there's a history here of white
people'S treating Black people like children; there isn't that Romaine ~rooks, which I'ln trying to mise the money for. And
I've got four or five other smaller projects, some drama, which
history in England.
I prefer to do, but it may be easier.to get money to do docuMD: So what might be' seen as racist here, might notmentary. I would also like to do what's called jobbingbe seen as such there.
See CHAMBERlAIN on Page 122 ']C: Yes, though there ,are other things that might seem

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Video

HOUSE OF COLOR
Photo~T.l. Litt
Left to right Pamela Sneed, Robert Garcia, Julie Tolentino, Jocelyn Taylor, Wellington Love, Robert Mignott and Jeff Nunokawa

Collect Yourself. pendent video in American politics andany specific mention of video collectives. Beyond the overtly political focusof their work on AIDS and lesbian andgay ~isibility, such New York video collectives as Testing the Limits, DNA 1V
and the newly formed House of Colorby Peter Bowen
have politicized the very process ofmaking cultural work itself. Disrupting
such cherished media myths as thetsummer, after the tumultuous
objective reporter, the mainstream audievents in Eastern Europe andTiananman Square, Ted Koppel .. ence and the individual author, thesecollectives have sought to produce
reported on Nlghtline another~. work that fills in the gaps left by theeven more amazing revolution-thevideo ope-that "revolution in a box." dominant media.
These collectives have not, of
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Queer Blue Light brought together acollective of film and video makers
atound lesbian and gay issues. Morerecently, the Heramedia's tape, Just
Because of Who We Are (1988), examined the growing cultural and physicalviolence against lesbians. Responding
to the media's indifference to, and fearmongering over, the AIDS crisis in the'80s, scores of video makers foughtback by creating a counter-medla culture. Of late, art collectives have turned
to video; Gran Fury has produced several slick, polished 30-second KissingnOesn't Kill music videos, and GANG
has created a series of 5-second AIDSrelated video interventions designed to~disrupt the passivity induced by commercial-1V programming. This wave of
AIDS-related video collectives had its
origin in 1987. Shortly before-the emer-

gence of Act UP, a group of gay men,lesbians and straight videq artists(Sandra E1gear, Robyn Hut!, Hilery Joy
Kipnis, David Meieran and Gregg
Bordowitz) joined forces as the Testing
the Limits Collective. Making what
Actas Tupamaras has termed "armed
propaganda," Testing the Limits first
produced a 6-minute pilot in 1987 andthen a longer 28-minute work called
simply Testing the Llmtts: New York. In
addition, they produced the Testing the
Llmtts' Guide to Safer Sex, and are currently finishing a 9Q-minute tape, Votces
From the Front. (On June 21, Testing
the Limtts will host a 3O-minute roughcut benefit-screening of this new tape.)
Housed in the same building on
West 26th Street as CRI, the PWA
Coalition and the PWA Health Group,
Testing the Limitssees its collective identity as extending beyond the various
members who shoot, edit, archive andfund-raise, to include the hundreds of
PWAs who contribute their knowledge
and experience. As such, Testing theLimits has not just produced independent video work; they have sought, in
t!1e words of Gregg Bordowitz, to "pictUi'e"a coalition," that is, both to document the ongoing history of AIDS
activism and to construct, through anarchival library and independent' distribution networks, a coalition of video
makers. Working more directly with ACf
UP, DNA 1V (as in "Damned Interfering
Video Activists")acts an ;Uftnitygroupwithin ACf UP. Having already produce(l Target City Hall, Pride, and anassortment of shorter works, DNA 1V iscurrently fInishing Like a Prayer, a tapewhich explores the complex ACf UP
demo and civil disobedienceat St.
Patrick's Cathedral in December 1989
from a variety of angles. DNA 1V is anasopen collective and invites any interestat. I Object, a video work from theed members, regardless of video expernewly fonned House of Color, provides
tise or experience, to partidpate. Rather a stunning tour de force that examines
than having a fixed membership, a bankthe complex issues around the objectifiaccount,a cation of people of color. Composed ofsolid idenindividuals from different racial andtity, DIVA artistic backgrounds (Robert Garcia,
floats freely, Jocelyn Taylor, Pamela Sneed, Robertmaking tapes Mignott,
Wellington
Love, Jeffwith the mo- Nunokawa, Julie Tolentino), House ofney, technicalColor embodies many of the complexires 0 u r c e s ties which its work examines. Cotiling
and
labor
together specifically as people of color,that is avail- Tolentino observes that at first "we wereable at anyone meeting. As an active ,more bonded by our gayness than bymember of DNA, I learned firsthand the' our color." '"Yet stronger than being
political effects of such a democraticeither lesbian and gay or people ofproduction-schedule. Borrowing a' camcolor," exp~
Love, "was a new form
era for one ACf UP demo, I learned to of activism, a need to express ourselv~
shoot video. Abandoned in the editing to ourselves." Indeed', in making I
room one aftemoon, I learned to edit it.
Object, Sneed relates that "while we
But more than simply providing a wanted to give the world the inessage
street-wise education for wannabe video that we do exist, that we ~ not goingmakers like myself, DNA's loose struc- to be spoken for by the white gay comture provides a sophisticated critique of munity, that we are go41g to take ourthe power dynamic that supports domi- own images into our own hands ...[innant media. Contesting the difference
making IObjec4 we also ~ted
to paybetween professional and amateur
attention to the fact that we are all indimedia, DNA regularly distributes hand- viduals. We are alacks, latinos, Asians,
made press passes that permit anyone to who need to ;start a dialogue among
become-presto!-amember of theourselves." The power of I Object lies
working press. Written on the pass are precisely in the dynamic between its
the DNA's goals: "We are committed to recognition and its analysis of the ways
making media which directly countersin which mass culture has attempted ,toand interferes with dominant media
objectify people of color and the group's
assumptions about the AIDS crisis."own visual dialogue. MOst importantly,
Indeed, DNA members go beyond sim- constructing a collective work engages
ply recording the events of demos and an understanding of the audience-QO
are now regularly assigned to particular audience which, as it turns out, involves
affinity groups participating in
not just other lesbians
civil disobedience in order toand gays 9f color but,
attempt to insure the protecabove all, the grouption of activists against police
itself. In articulating theviolence--or the collection ofgroup's focus, Mignottevidence when such violenceborrows Toni Monison's
does occur. Providing "counresponse to the question
ter-surveillance" of the inforof why she writes themation-gathering technologies
books
she
writes:of the police and FBI, DNA"Because they are thevideos the police in order tobooks I would like toinsist that the ACf UP chant,
read." But Nunokawa"The whole world is watchpoinIs out that in "inventing," remains more than a holing, rather than' cIiscoYerlow threat.
ing, an identity," theChallenging what the
HoiJSe of Color has ere"whole world" watches, howated not just the images
ever, can mean rethinking
they would like to see,simultaneously what the world
but the images we all
looks like and what it looks
need to see. T .
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Performance

Adolfo,Jackie O.
andMe
by Joe E. Jeffreys
arbara Bush may not want
what she doesn't have or, forthat matter, even what she has,but Nancy Reagan still wants
more and· then some. Our
weathered, lame(e) duck first lady of theperpetually immaculate white gloves (thedifference between Nancy and Barbara -isthat measurable distance from the fingertips of Nancy's white gloves to the bOttom string of Barbara's tri-leve1 white
pearls) and red Adolfo suits is not about
to let us forget her vapid eight-year reignof (()errOf.Nancy makes perl"ectlyclear at
every opportunity that she's not dead yet,as if we hadn't caught on by now. Oscar
Wilde may very well have prophesied
Mrs. Reagan when he wrote that "she is amonster, without being a myth, which israther unfair."Ever quick on the draw, Nancy
realizes that her status in the public consciousness (hard to imagine that she
ever had public appeal) is faltering. She'is the monster sans myth. (It is rather
unfair. But then again, she wouldn't
mind seeing all the faggots dead, either.
I don't wish her death, just destitution.)
How to sOlve that problem? Frame andwrite' your own myth, on your own
tenns, of-course, euphemistically dub·bing it a memoir. It's Still My Tum isNancy's attempt to allot herself more
space in the ~ory books than Jackie

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O. It's Still My Tum is Terry
Sweeney's queer revisionof Nancy's few Paragraphs.
(Jackie will, of course, win
out jn the end regardless ofwhat Nancy does, doesn't or'
can't do.)"I had people come up
to me all the time going"When are you going to dosomething about that book?'"
Why would people ask thisof Terry Sweeney ? Before
the cult of Dana Carvey's
Church Lady, Saturday Night'
Live featured a drag Nancy
Reagan character. Terry
Sweeney is that she.
Sweeney worked in
New York during the early'80s with the performancegroup the Bess Truman
Players. 1be New yorll1imes
reviewed their perfonnance LET THEM EAT CAKE-Terry "Nancy Reagan" Sweeney
Banned in France and singled out Sweeney for his drag public- felt I had to take a stand at that moment.
access talk show host character Connie
It was more important than ever to be
Chutzpah. Saturday Night LtVfIs produc- open about being gay. I didn't· want toLome Michaels, saw the review and work for anyone who couldn't accept
attended the show, and suddenlythat I was gay. I was not about to give
Sweeney was on Saturday Night Live: thOse fake interviews.""At th~ time that I was hired in 1986,"heFake interviews ~m Sweeney? Get
reCalls now, "it was the height of the real! 1V Guide (the nation's top-circulatAIDS crisis in terms of the media. The ing magazine, with Reader's Digest a
Post was screaming all kinds of headclose second) noted his gayness, as didlines about AIDS. It was a period of hys- Perple quoting Sweeney's goa1s in life as
teria .... So before I was hired, I was"a husband, a home, a dog." Sweeney
sitting in the office with Lome Michaels thus became the first openly gay perand Brian DeCorticoff, president of NBC, former on lV. "I couldn't be happy
and I said: 'I'm gay, and I'm going to say being an actor on a series, lying about
I'm gay when I'm interviewed. I'm not my homosexuality, when I know there
going to hide it. You should know that, are people out there dying, knowing thatand if that's a problem with my being there's teenage suicide, knowing that
hired, then don't hire me,'" He pauses. "I there's all kinds of people out there suf-er,rfering, like I suffered when I was a kid,"
he explains. "If I had one name, if I'dknown one person in public life, I could
have said, 'Ob, that person's gay. Yeah,
there are people that are out there ....I
made a vow when I was a kid that· if I
could do one thing that would help, sothat some other gay child didn't have togo through that ....to always be honest
about being gay, Il would!. That's what,
I've done." Sweeney continues: "I thinkthat if you're not making a choice forthat, if you're not telling the truth, andyou're a public person, then that's part of
the risk that you take. You shouldn't
expect other people to lie for you, and I
don't think that other people should"
The pseudoliberalness
of SaturdayNight Live resulted in Sweeney's departure after only one season. His condemnation has not diminished:"They justweren't
open to different
types ofhumor. I was bringing in a more campsensibility and had to fight for every slngle thing. Even though the Nancy character was popular, I would have to fightevery week to bring it back.""The fact that they would have
Andrew Dice Oay to host the show," hesays wanning to his theme, "to me says a
lot about the show. You're interested in
the ratings. The'fuct that you have someone whose obviously misogynistic andhomophobic
and a bigot, that you'dhave him host the show, you're not coming from a liberal stance ....There's not a
deep concern over there for social-justiceissues ....There's not a lot of vision."
The vision behind D's Still My TUm
is overflOwing with concern for social
justice. "Group therapy for the nation" is
Sweeney's phrase for the cathartic expe-

rience he hopes to achieve. "It's a chance
to work out a lot of the anger and frustration that people
felt [during theReagan years] who did not have a voice,'
he explains. "It was almost as though theStepford wives had taken over the coun-.,r-try. Gay people, Blacks and poor pe9ple---Wl kinds of people-wereraising
their voices saying 'Do you see what
they're dOing?' and everyone else wassaying ~o, they're the best peOple we've
ever had. They're just the best president
and first lady. I think their popularity ishigher than ever.' That kind of thing was
hard for people to hear, especially gay
people, because [the Reagarts] nevermentioned AIDS. It was like 'AIDS? Sony,
what's that? That's interesting. When didthat start?' ...What I'm doing for people
who come to see me is to help themrealize that they aren't crazy, they weren't
crazy. The Reagans were crazy. '7be~-rem was crazy:."

The performance
begins with theplaying of the national anthem andSweeney taking the stage in codified
Nancy garb ("A doll fo' you" suited up).
Nancy reminisces and then begins toread her poems. In "1'0 My Successor,'
Sweeney/Nancy
remarks, "It's hard tofollbw a glass of champagne with a big
sloppy mug of warm beer." "Leona'scans simply: "They sent you to prison/I
was sad to see.!I wonder
if they'dgive/your old job to me.' A few songs
are added to the ambrosia. The complete selectionof Sweeney/Nancy
poems will be published by And Books
this July and will be accompanied by abook tour. The book is dedicatedto"Ronnie, who owes me everything. And
Kay Graham, who owes me $127.52'Nancy wants it all, now!
But isn't dragon lady Nancy too
easy a target? Is Sweeney doing drag (inthis case, Nancy fancying), political satire,or what? Could this be a case of Reagan
bashing? "I don't believe it's Reagan
bashing,' he counters. "1think it's just telling thetruth about them It's likesaying 'Oh, Nazi bashing.
Oh, don't be so hard on
Hitler-Hitler
bashing: It's
nutty ....I'm just telling thetruth about them, andthey had a lot, of dirty
laundry, and they had a
lot of insincere, artificial,insensitiveon things that affected
millions of people." No more fake interviews. Tell us how you really feel.
Whatever it 'is that Sweeney is up
to, this aitic gives it two finger snaps up
in a hyper-real circle. T

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Theaterwithholding judgment, makes room forall of them.
Including the life of Andrew's
mother (Barbara Harner). She appears
in Andrew's dreams as a stand-up
well be his watchword (or so he'd have comedienne, complete with microus believe). This philosophy is notphone and glitzy outfit. "Don't you hateshared by Ellison (Joe Pichette), who is it when the kids come home withnothing if not nice. Carl and Ellison AIDS?"she asks a taped audience, who
don't care much for each other (one is howl appreciatively. "AIDS,shrnaids!n In
by Michael Pa1Jer
salt, the other is the woun4); it is during a swift, bold stroke, Cachlanes shows us
drew won't die without letting a confrontation between them that we the rage of parents---without a 1-ealistic
everyone know how angry it discover what the play is about.
and lengthy visit to the deathbed.
makes him. "I'm not getting
Tired of Carl's angry militancy,
The production, directed by Johnany older, n he explains.
Ellison asserts that fists held in the air Albano, is equal to the script. John FlOch
When not explaining, An- during a march down Fifth Avenue are has an essentially soft, vulnerable quality
drew dishes, bitches and complains. He useless, that no one likes' a snippy
to his acting, and so his hard-edged dragIs always talking, even in his sleep,
quec;n. Carl snips back that he dOesn't queen casts the slightest aura of doubt
which is racked by dreams of his wak- mind sacrificing his personal popularityb.ehind the bravado. Finch has devoted
Ing life----also a nightmare. Rage has for the rights of those yet to come.
a good part of his acting career tobecome his second language.
Rage, he believes, is the only way to delineating the various experi91C~:9f
It is a moving, poetic tongue, as honor Andrew. Through Andrew, Carl AIDS, and there is a nobility in his
recorded by Ed Cachlanes in Everybody
is celebrating and mourning his past, work here that ~ds the role and theKnows YOur Name, which recently ran at
his values, his way of life-not
play an unanticipated dignity.
the Producers Club and with any luck Ellison's, not Ray's.'~ere is equally good. work fromwill be remounted soon. Cachianes is aWith this moment, we understandthe rest of the cast. Zukerman's razoryoung playwright, but he already knows that while AIDS is the. immediate occaedged Carl is a good foil not only for histhat to get to the bottom of a character's sion of the play, Everybody Knows Your soul mate, Andrew, but for the. softer
life one must do away with much of its Name is about differentof living, Ellison and the wholesome Ray, who
realistic surface. The encephal~ killing.,rmourning, loving and turns out to possess more steel and stayAndrew is, in the real world, not a neat'-~ dying. And Caching power than we might have suspectand pleasant death; its victims are gener-\
ianes) ~;''''--''
ed. All the performances. including
ally not as articulate as Cachlanes allows'>"., Barbara Gruen as the nurse who gives
Andrew (John FlOch) to be. This is not,, as good as spe gets, are sharp andhowever, a play about the details of
specific. Albano has succeeded in
encephalitis. The background of thismaking the playwright's world threesharply etched world is very suredimensional; each performance
Iy AIDS, but Cachianes' true substands out in bold relief while.
jed is something different.
undeniably part of the whole.. ~Andrew, a tart-tongued dragThe play isn't perfect.
queen, rages at almost everyone:
There are some' monologues"All I have left is moments, and I ¥that provide information weIntend to play every one of
don't need to know-Andrew's
them. n His poor buddy Ray (Markfina1 speech about the trick who
IrIsh), who also ha& AIDS, is no
might have been his lover conmatch. A self-confessed "Newveys an emotion which isn't
Ager, n. he pleads with an ungiven enough preparation--Q11d
amused Andrew to think positiveCachianes bestows on Andrew a
Iy, to meditate, to eat nuts and,'.'"gift of thought and words muchberries. Andrew is in no mood to :, ',if!;"in excess of what "real-lifen enit";
tolerate this-as he calls himcephalitis allows, which may. "Bambi AIDSbunny.n:,.' ,$ .'bother s~me literalists. Th!s,, Carl (Robert Zukerman), a " ,c";,~-'however, IS a trade-off, provldfriend and fellow drag queen,". t'"
ing us an authentic theatricalencourages
Andrew's rage.,'vision in exchange for a handful"DOn't you just hate nice peo- BROAD BRUSH STROKES
Photo:KenHoward of extraneous detail. All in all, it's
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by Jonn WasserWhile you fiJi your days with parades, rallies andother self-affirming actions, do not neglect
Gotham's glittering cabaret jewels:

Forever Plaid.
Steve McGraw's. 158 West 72nd St.
(212) 595-7400.
Mon.-Wed. and Fri. at 8 pm.
Sat. at 7 and 10 pm. Sun. at 3 and 7 pm.
Pressed for spare change and can only catch one show?
By all means make it Forever Plaid, Stuart RoSs' uproarious
revue which has just settled into a healthy run at Steve
McGraw's. The premise is simple. A singing group called theFour Plaids, killed in 1964 by a bus-load of virgins, returns
from heaven to make its debut. And what a perfomiance it is!
Frankie, Jinx, Sparky and Smudge serve up wonderful ditties' reminiscent of those innocent days when wethought that everything would turn out fine. The show's
highlight is 1be Ed Sullivan Show performed in threeminutes and complete with jugglers, sword swallowing
and that affectionate mouse, Toppo Giggio. The fourpart harmony is so thrilling, one wonders when thischarming quartet (Stan Chandler, David Engel, Jason
Graae and Guy Stroman) will release a cast album.

anyone who dares to let loose on the open microphone.
Blake's home is the Five Oaks, an intimate grotto astone's throw from Christopher Street. Convivial and often
aowded, the Five Oaks also serves some of this town's bestmoderately priced food. Phone early for reservations.

Forbidden Broadway.
Theatre East. 211 East 60th St.
(212) 838-9090.
Tue.-Fri. at 8:30 pm.
Sat. at 7:30 and 10:30 pm. Sun. at 3:30 and 7:30 pm
The Tony Awards have come and gone with little fanfare, but such is not the case with Forbidden Broadway
1990. It continues to skewer Broadway shows and performers alike. All your favorites are here-from Tommy Tune's"Grim Hotel" to Annie II ("The Sun Won't Come Qut
Tomorrow"). Buck-toothed
Sarah Brightman and her
diminutive husband, Andrew lloyd Webber ("The Phantom. ·S.. CABARBAY on ,. •• 122,.-...
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Funny Gay Males.
Duplex. 61 Christopher St.
(212) 255-5438.
June 22, 23, 29, 30 at 8 and 10 pm.
Since advertising states that you need not beJewish to eat
Levy's rye bread, then anyone---gay or Slraight--Mould enjoy
Funny Gay Males. These three guys Qaffe Cohen, Bob Smith
and Danny McWilliams) are so far-out, they're in. Their hilarious routines range from anecdotes about what it is really likegrowing up gay to a children's fairy tale from a homosexual
point of view-no pun intended. Their act is still fresh evenafter selling out the Duplex for nearly one year. See themnow. They head to Provincetown in July.Marie ·Blake.
The Five Oaks. 49 Grove St.
(212) 243-8885.
Wed.-Sun. from 10 pm to 4 am.
If an award was to be given to the singer/pianist who.moot exemplifies the glory that is cabaret, Marie Blake would
certainly win hands down. She began tickling the ivories during the swing era, but don't be fooled: Her vast repertoire covers .Broadway, pop, ragtime and the blues ("Aint Nobody's
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ear pleasure, political
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Seven Souls.
Material (Nation).
Post-hip, free-form neo-noise meshes Middle Easternpolydrones with the verbal witchery of godhead William
Burroughs. SAGE icon trades spoken riffs with dub kingSly Dunbar and aural alchemist Bill Laswell. Laurie
Anderson and Keith Richards beware: This is as dangerous
as sex sounds get.

Beauty. Ryuichi Sakamoto (Virgin).
Art fags will salivate at this ultra-cool Red Sun Bowie

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ness. Presuming thatyou have already packed your
Lillian Allen, Jimmy
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Tracy
Chapman, Erasure,
Diamanda, Nona, Madonna, Queen Latifa,
etc., be sure to pit-stopat the loCal beat malland scalf the following:

Anna Palm (One Little Indian).
Sapphic dream come true.
Ms.
Violin looses self in dance groove andtransmigrates the meaning of strings withthe passion of House. Fusing the beat,Palm mixes Indonesian choru¥!s withassertive wallops of aural ecstasy. Outenergy metamorphoses
any hint of aveiled closet. Indigos beware! Have themulticultural dental dams in supply.

Bound by tbe
Beauty.
Jane Siberry(Reprise).
Ten complex
ditties that deconstruct the female takeon jealousy, dogs,
hockey, trains andthe nature of Beauty.
Perfect for those lan- 'guid ocean-beach,sunsleeps swathed intanning lotion 15.
Music flows like kites
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mirror reflection. Kyoto riffs wicked
syncopated-funk-based"you do me"
chants- against twisted psycho-Stones"we love you." Weird, wild Chet
Bakerish tone-poems slink sultry moans smack-dab' next to the neo-geo North
African wails of. )'hussou
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Prlmnl Dream.
Richard Barone (MeA).
Not since "While My Guitar Gently
Weeps" has so much sensitivity 'surfaced
on a boy-guitar
record. Ex-Bongo
Barone steals the instrument back fromthe land of the crass metal-brutes andopens his heart,' '"shaf"eshis little secretand gender frees the rock love-song.
Special: CD-oniy track pays homage at
the altar of Nico -and early Lou Reed. "I'll
be Your Mirror" proves just how simple
a complicated emotion can be. Mark thisfor pre- rather than postcoital moods.

Strange Angel.
Laurie Anderson (Warner Brothers).
, Goddesshead herself has learned
to sing. Her real voice is a revelation.
More of the person-lessof the tech-

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Kundalini serpent. Catch her live and experience how
art and politics mesh with grace and wit. Her rap on
Helms and Mapplethorpe should shock a frocked nun
into action.

Therapy Sister (Therapy).
Sapphic trio manages to combine Andrew Sisters harmonies and' Cordettes virtuosity with Two Nice Girls wit and
Loretta Lynn pathos. This is the home-grown Austin, TeXas,
aunchy-granola-with-sunf}ower-seeds, funky feminist world
view. Trust me,though,the consistently rise-above-themaudlin, sister/sister, together-through-the-storm-type songwith caustic humor and real playing. They wail and rail withgusto about credit-<:ardblues, gender-specific clothes, astrology-based pioblem-solving, auto repair and a free-will endowed
answering machine. Modem womenall, these three have collected a virtual Who's Who of local boy-musicians
to service their sound. Two Nice
Girls' wicked Kathy KomUoff guests
prominently. (To contact the group,
write to: Therapy, 3109 Lafayette,
Austin, Texas 78722.)

Songsfrom tbe Trilogy. Philip Glass (CBS).'Ear caviar for the post-modern opera-queen of any gender. Wild looping of the absolute best musical-sections of
Etnsteln on tbe Beacb/Satyagarba/
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kind. -Play to shine the auras of aroomful of sober, shy people.
Beauty In tbe.Beast. Wendy Carlos(Audion).
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Self-confessional dream music
reveals the inner fantasy of a certifiable genius. Transsexual composer
creates music beyond a, common
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live and breathe outside the"commonly held assumptions"and stradclle more than one universe at a time, the intensity withwhich we approach ·art is often
mitigated, and therefore deflated,through the dismal process oftrying to make ourselves, as lesbians and gay men, the center ofputatively "universal" experiences. Our work thus attemPts
to create universality via ourpositionsof difference-an
ambitious and dangerous task
for gay and lesbian artists who
exercise their full powers. Either
we threaten the mainstream andare therefore ignored or derided
by it or we conform to standards
that are counterfeit to our experience and are still reviled as a"special-interest group" or "onlyfor" others like ourselves. The
il attempt to reaCh ".as many pee>~ pie as possible" as artists and not~ compromise the authenticity of
CD our experience is still a shaky~ enterprise for most gay and les~ bian artists. The world "at latge,"
the omnipresent "general pulrlic," plods on, ever forward, with
its eyes focused somewhere
beyond our horizons.
Thus the importanceof
Plume's recent publication, Women On
Women, an anthology of American lesbian
short-fiction edited by Joan Nestle andNaomi Holoch. As with editor George
Stambollan's two previous Men on Men
anthologies, this collection attempts t9.
gather fiction that has largely been
ignored by the mainstream publishingindustry and put it in a context (B. Dalton?)where it is accessible not just to more lesbians and gay men but to all those "others" out there who walk right past most of
our work.
It is a sad fact of life, however, thatthe problem with the mainstream has lessto do with our efforts than with the fucked
up homo-hating world we live in. I cannot
imagine that this book will be picked up
and perused by a self-proclaimed progressive-liberal-literature-hound the way she or. he snatches up Eastern European literature, which is currently cherished as a!

by Marla ~aggentiIhern classic Feeltng and Form,philosopher Suzanne Langer describesthe "aesthetic experience" as one that.
elevates ordinary emotions. The senses are intensified and transformed
through feelings of elation, fear, wonder. and vitality. The ordinary becomes extraordinary, and the ineffable is given shape,
form, shadow, line and meaning. This,
Lal:lger contends, is one of the ways inwhich an. individual and a culture develop
commonIy held assumptions about .what is.and what is not art. For those of us who

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voice of supreme literary and political "difference" and import. It is hard enough for
us to get gay men, let alone straight literarytypes, to read lesbian literature-which
isn't to say that Holoch and Nestle havewasted their time or that Plume isn't righton in publishing this anthology. But at thisparticular moment in history it is still
almost Impossible for lesbian 'work to betaken seriously unless it crescendos pageafter page in fantastical, Eurocenttic philosophy (as with Jeanette Wmterson) sans
explicit lesbian content, or it exists aboveand beyond the oh-so-banallives that mostof us out dykes live, take for example
work of Susan Sontag or Carole Maso.
lbere is, as yet, no lesbian
to Daviq Leavitt or Edmund White. Thereis not one out lesbian writing today who
can command di.e:Uind of aitical attention
or advances that those mel). do. Sarah
Schulman, only 31, already has publishedfour novels and yet she has not broken
through to the wide, wide world of thegeneral public. At some point, any intelligent and avid reader with a wide range oftastes and exposure to literature begins torealize that it isn't just a coincidence thatout lesbians aren't part of the~erary landscape. Lesbians don't, after all have amonopoly on "~ad" writing. Rather one
could contend that the majority of straightpeople are "bad" readers, who claim they
don't even know how to find us, though
we swirl and swim all around them. For
these reasons and others, Women en
Women is to be celebrated. It is generally
an intelligent, though not particularly daring, collection of fiction (much of it previously published),
because it will be
distributed widely, it may start to part theseas that keep the rest of the world awayfrom and ignorant of us.
But it still isn't enough.
As editor Naomi Holoch states in her
introduction'; "The issues raised in thesestories are of course basic to the humancondition ...yet in all these stories, theexperience and its expression is shapedby the lesbian identity of the author [and]to live, obsetve and write as a lesbian is
to live, observe and write from a positiO!1of difference." Unfortunately, that uniqueposition of difference does not. guarantee
originality, skillfulness or intellectual andemotional depth. And because so muche,guivlll~

of it has been publishedelsewhere,
diehard lezzie-lit fans will, doubdess, nothave their appetite for new material
slaked. In toto, this collection will probably only be satisfying though not as atrembling visceral and emotional experience. A couple of pieces in this anthology
are very strong but the bulk of the work
does not challenge literary convention.nor does it necessarily
elate ordinary
experience. Some of it is, in fact, so ordinary that it borders on the soporific.
The best stories in this collection set
up some scenario in which the expected
does not in the end happen at all. They
are good because they are spare, clean,original and unorthodox, not just as stories
about the complications and subtleties ofhuman relations but also as lesbian stories;
powerful are the challenges we pose toeach other through our work, not just thechallenges we pose to the outside world.
Whether it is through the matter-of-factnamtor in Sarah Schulman's "The Penis
Story," who wakes up one day as a lesbianwith a penis while in the midst of negotiating a complicatedrelationship with astraight girl, or Camille Roy's slow waltz
through sexual ownership, desire andautonomy in "The Rosie Medallions," thebest stories in this collection stand out
because they create a feeling of insouciant
disregard for social convention both inSide
the lesbian universe and outside it. In
Sapphire's "Eat" there is unabashed pathos
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from paga 1115
film is therefore not surprising. Even themost articulate movie critic typicallydirecting, which is really just freespends most of a review trying to recaplance directing, to get more experiture, analyze and justify his or her mostence. I'm also loo~ing for scripts.
inunediate responses to a film (whence
MD: We'll put out a request to
the term re-viewing). Political, semiotic
our readers .... Are you interested in. and other evaluations often become
making only narrative 'films?
intertwined with that basic assessment,}C: I think so, yes. Which doesn'tmean that I only like narrative films or
but they are different, more detachedthat that's the right way to go. I thinkprocesses and often involve the imposiin some ways it's a bit old-fashioned
tion of values and theories from fur outthese days, but it's what I like and it's side the movie itself. To my ffiind, if ahow· I work best. And I love a goodviewer/revieWer's primary r~sponse tostory, interesting characters and sentinarrative cinema is one of emotional
mentality and passion. I love things
detachment, the power of the medium
like CasablanCa. I'd love to make a
has either. been squandered by the filmlesbian Casablanca.
maker or rejected by the viewer. What
MD: Do you feel, when you
fun is a seduction when one person is
direct, that you're doing somethingbusy- taking notes? With movies,' thedifferent than what you've seen?
way to an audience's mind is through its}C: I don't have that distance whengut. Intelligence is crucial, but purely
I'm working. I don't think about what
intellectual narrative is stultifying.
I'm doing, I just do it. I think about theThat's why, when semiotician
implications of scripts, how will this be
Umberto Eco wants to reach a wider
read, and there are a lot of things I audience, he turns to narrative. Eco
don't catch. But when you're actually. has written two best-selling novels,
working, you don't have the distance.
The Name of the Rose and Foucault's
You don't sit back and say, "Is this a
Pendulum, while his purportedly brillesbian gaze?" Instead you're thinking,liant academic writings $0 unread"'Thatlight should go over there." T
except by other academics
andliterati. More to the point, that's why
MOVIES from paga 107
so many TV commercials attempt toare attended largely by gay men, and create 30-second playlets. The powerof narrative is rarely matched by
the lesbian films largely by lesbians.
"Story"-films play to similarities: If we scholarly discourse
or by direct
can't place ourselves within a movie, we appeal ("Buy this!"), and the accessican't fully respond. If we find the charbility of visual narrative-TV,
film,
acters repellent, at least the filmmaker's theater-has made it by far the domipoint of view must encompass and reasnant medium of our society.
But can the immediacy of thesure us. 00 a Stanley Kubrick ftlm, forexample, it's almost always the craft of film experience be used to get past
the director that's most compelling, not the homophobia of the general poputhe characters.) If we don't connect withlation? I believe that it can, but not by
the movie on some level, we'll see it consciously trying to educate people.
more as a cultural artifact than as a I'm tired of "progay" TV shows instory..
which someone is always apologizing.Because narrative' cinema can so for the gay character's presence, as if
effectively seduce the viewer, it has TV producers' think that gay peoplea primal power to which audiences
would never enter straight society
have been drawn for nearly a centuwithout a press agent. In contrast, thery. As with any seduction, however,gay movies that have reached a fairnumberof straightviewerscompromise is inevitable. When thefirst priority is emotional manipulaLongtime
Companion,
Partingtion, the last is often political corGlances and My Beautiful Laundrette,·rectness. Lovemaking comes first;
for example-neverpause to explain'social consciousness
materializes
or defend their character's sexuality.
I have to believe that eventually
over breakfast.
The frequent conflict between my someone making a Mel Gibson or aemotional. and political responses to a Julia Roberts movie will.figure out that
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June 27, 1990~
gayness needs no more justification
than straightness.
Then, perhaps,
appealing characters in major releases
will simply tum out to be gay-without shock value, without cross-dressing and without trying to seduce thestraight characters. (A few such gays
have appeared in American films, but
not lately.) If Mr. and Mrs. Average
Viewer were sufficiently engrossed in
the movie to begin with, sexual orientation would be considerably I~ss of
an issue. '.
Don't get me wrong: I realizethat "the movies" will never halt
America) current tidal wave of homo- .
phobia. Gay films· get .limited release,and straight audiences attend in limited numbers. You can't. reach people
who aren't even in the theater. Rather,
vihat I'm' looking for in mainstream .
cinema is some small sign that people'are learning In spite of the m6vles, inspite of Bird on a Wire and Q &- A.
films, short films, documentaries:-theseshow that we arecoming to tenns with o~es.
~ arethe audience as well
the authorS. But
only when we finally begin to appear in
Hollywood narratives as complete andcompassionate characters will we !mowthat the straight world is coming totenns with us. dearly the number offilms with at least goo~ intentions
toward gays implies the pa;slblJlIy of abreach in the beterosexist hegemony.
That's what I keep hoping for. In themeantime, I'll go on viewing the straightworld's blockbu&ers and sleepers, feeding my head with movies that only
rarely dare to speak my name. T ..
.

Nonnarramr:eas

CABARGAY from paga 114of the Musical") take some goodnatured ribbing, as do Kathleen
Turner, ..Tyne Daly and Dustin
Hoffman.
talented quartet of acast exude so much energy, theirnext stop should be Broadway itself.

The

Vicki Sue Robinson
Eighty Eight's. 228 West 10th St.
(212) 924-0088.
Mon.-Wed. and Fri. at 8 pm.
Sat. at 7 and 10 pm Sun. at 3 and 7 pm.
One glance at Vicki Sue Robinson's worn and weathered face, andyoµ realize that life has not been too
kind to her. So lovingly shaped during

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Valerie Miner, for example, feels' a tad· her days as a discQ diva, the mouth
floors above Rockefeller Center With acalculated as she describes two lovers
now ,creases downward, and her dark wonderful act demonstrating how versahuddled for the weekend in their couneyes have taken on a distant look.
tile this lady truly is. Accompanied bytry house plagued by anxiety about the
You forget all of this once Robinson planist/oomposer Keith Hennann, Bucklocal
male hunters. Its subtext is so
begins to sing. In a 70-minute set which ley copstantiy surprises--she can reallyclearly
about Male Violence that it ruinS
c'ouldbe subtitled "Turn My Career
sing. Andrew lloyd Webber is reprethe artistic possibilities of th<: story. "My
Around," Vicki Sue Robinson tranSforms sente<f by a haunting rendition of "Tell
Lesbian Imagination" is a good story
the cozy Eighty Eight's into a foot-stomp- Me on a Sunday" and the hit "Memory."
about getting close and breaking up but
ing church revival. Most of the songs are Buckley refresheS Hoagy Cannichael's
it feels so local and culturally specificself-penned and reveal the lady's cool "Stardust"and even pays homage to herthat it alsO just misses the possibility of
inner strength. She sings about forgiving home state of Texas with a rousing
true power and vision. It reflects what isand forgetting, and we know she will. medley of popular longhorn ditties.
ordinary but in a patently ordinary -way.
Joe Jackson's -"Fools in Love" becomes This is the happiest surprise in town.
Though thiS work does span two
an opportunity to "out-]oplin" Joplin.
full decades (with the exception of
Robinson falls to h~ knees, sings in a o Sappho, 0 Wikle.
Will~ Cather's "Tommy, the Unsentitinny voice and sweats up a stann. -Even Duplex. 61 Christopher St.
mental," written in 1899) from the early(212) 255-5438.
Gershwin's"Summertime"
is not
70s through the present, the most origimmune to these histrionics. F'ma11y we June 21 and 28 at 8 pm.
inal work seems clustered in the postStonewaIVLesbian-Feminist' period andTopical gay humor takes center
hear the drumroll, and before you canin the work from the end of thissay "hit record," the entire audience is stage in this short revue written by gay
decade 1987 through 1989. Juneand lesbian playwrights. The emphasis
singing ":rum the Beat Around" as they
Arnold's "The Cook and the Carpenter"leans more toward Sappho than Wdde,
dance their way onto West Tenth Street.
(1973) perverts gender assumptions
although the common bonds and winthrough a neutral pronoun she calls
Paul Balfour.
ning perfonnances are what make this"na" and in "The Swashbuckler"(1985),The Plaza Hotel at 59th Street.
show worthwhile.
'\
...
Lee
Lynch
describes
Fr~chy,aswag(212) 759-3000.
The evening contains six sketches,geringbutch
inamythicallate-'50s
Tue.-Sun. at 9:30 and 11:30 pm.
some embryonic, others more polished,
Greenwich Village who is charming
Through June 30. .
each pinpointing various facets of gay
even as she is severely hemmed in by
When Donald Trump bought the life. The best is Bill CosgrilPs "SidelineS,"
the social conventions of her day. The
Plaza Hotel, he set out to transfonn the in which a mother and daughter see astories from dV! inte;rvening years feelonce-preStigious grande dame into a certain blood relative marching in thethe way the middle of the 19805felt for
Gotham treasure. Part of his master
Gay Pride March. Interspersed among
a lot of us-tremulous, isolating, a bitplan included bringing first-class enter- the sketches are two songs, "Glitter
unsu.re about a future in Reagan's· tainment to the Oak Room, a cathedral- Dyke" sung with gusto by Raven Hall America.
like restaurant where George M. Cohan and "My Love," a rewritten version of anThis is a vast and diverse collection
purportedly composed several of his obscure song from A Tree Grows inthat requires repeated r.eadings for thepatriotic tunes.
Brooklyn called "My Pa." Substituting
critic and a nice, long summer for the
The room's current resident, New the word "love" for "Pan transfOllIlS thislayperson. Like most anthologies, it isYork-born Paul Balfour, found fame in song from good to better. Hearing thebest to take these stories one by one,
Sweden. A stylish singer and harpist
tune With someone you love propels it slowly savoring the good ones andmeandering patiently, or Simply passing
who deserves special attention, his into the stratosphere. And that is what
over, the not-so1good ones. Foi those· show is an ode to spring and probably this week is all about. ...
urifamiliarWith
lesbian literature or thOse
includes ~very s~ng con~erni~g the WOMEN from peg8121
who want a neat and tidy compilation of~~equinox wntten dunng thiS cenddd all th.
""--. H'.
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hdan ten erness ma ee more Ultense well-loved and well-known lesbian writtury.
IS vOIce IS a oneye . saxobe cause 0f I'ts I'ean seantyl
d I'ts b revI.
'tyers, Women on Women honorably gathphone, a ~between N~t King Cole Dorothy Allison's "Lesbian Appetite," on
ers together those authors who have .
d a. young Johnny Ma~s. Att~Ptthe other hand, almost spills off the page
helped shape our lesbian literary geograI~g ~pl~ threat status (srnger/harpiSti
With poignancy, humour and exuberant
phy and vocabulary. In her introduction,
pIaniSt) IS no small feat, but Balfour desire. Her sense of pacing, description,Holoch writes that "irreverence and exumay just pull it off.
and poetry allow you to almost feel her' berance are perhaps at last becoming
tongue on your face as she devilishlyfari- integrated into the lesbian experience" in
Betty Buckley.
tasizes about the extravagant Southern. a way that will expand our. notions. of
Rainbow and Stars.30 RockefellerPlaza.
food of her childhood. In the best stories, lesbian literature and life. Perhaps this(212) 632-5000.
Woolf's "angel in the house" does indeed"irreverance and exuberance" will begin
Tue.-Sat. at 9:15 and 11:15 pm.
feel dead as a doornail.
to forqt. the critical·and aesthetic stanthe more mediOcre stories there
Through June 30.
dards for this decade's lesbian work andWhen Betty Buckley ascended to seems to be a thinly veiled, self-connot merely exist as exciting, but unusual
cat heaven toward the end of Cats, scious adherence to "politically correct"
and infrequent, responses to the world
nobody tho~ght she would rise 65 themes and language. "Trespassing" by
we live in, ...

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prepared by Rick X
with additional information fromThe Gay & La_bian Switchboard
of
NewYor'k•~

AN EVENTS.Send calendar ~to:lUck X, Going Out
Box 790
New York, NY 10108

Items must be reCeiftdbyFor more information or referral_; torap, or to volunteer, call the GLSB
daily, noon to midnight, 212-n7-1800

CALENDAR
Black men in America· and the challenges faced by "a middle class Black
family when one of the members'
secret lifestyle 1s revealed"; 253 W 125
St; $15; FRI, SAT &. SUN at 7 pm; 8640372,749-5838, licketmaster307-7171(thru JULY 11

stripper-hustler,
many others; with'David Baird, Steven liebhauser,
Cy
Orfield, T.L. Reilly, Leslie Roberts,
Richard Skipper, Bill Wingard; at the
Courtyard Playhouse,39 Grove St; $15;
WED-FRI at 8 pm, SAT at 6 &. 9 pm, SUNat 7 pm; B69-353O (thru SEPT 21

HERITAGE OF PRIDE, MARANATHA,GLADIS, RIVERSIDE SOCIAL JUSTICEMINISTRY Plloto Exhibit Eaellce athmily, Pictllrn at Ptide, a look at last
year's Pride even1S by G.iI S. Goodm.n;Riverside Church, Riverside Drive at 120
St (#1/#9 to 116/Bway);
call for
dayS/times; HOP 691- 1n4 (thru JULY 4)

CENTER NATIONAL MUSEUM OF LESBIAN &. GAY HISTORY Prejudice ."dMonday to be inclUded in the foJ.
lowing week's issue.

ADVANCEGAY GAMES III In V.ncouv.r, August 411,1990 offers a Fntit Infcr{Accommoda11_ Brochure: 1OWIZ8-1109
CENTER STAGE seeks tentative reservations for a 1991 production of Mia
SIll",", 62O-7~10

8GH1Y EIGHrS presen1S.lm P.IIoRe, 22B
W 10St (btwn HudsorVBleecker), Wednes. days at 10:31pm, 924-«8J Ithru JUNE 20)

BAD NEIGHBORS presents TIre Worldat Tomonvw, two programs of five performance pieces each: Pro'gram A(June 21, 22, 23, 24, July 5, 71 features
M.deleine Olnell. Cdeine
PattelllOn,
Todd. S. Phillips, Craig Sloane, H.......
Woodhul'(. Program B (June 28, 29, 30,
July 1, 6, 8) features S.r.h B.ldwln,
Bill M.rsilii,
John Mor.ce, Royston
Scott, Philip S.rael; at Cooper Square
Theatre, 50 E 7 St; 8 pm; $10; 989-0788(thru JULY 8)

VIlLAGE PLAYWRIGH1;S PRODUCTIONS
presen1S 0 Sappho, 0 Wilile, "a hilarious tour· of lesbian a(ld gay rife: directed by Bill Cosgriff, musical direction by
Joe Maisano; featuring skefches by
Marc Castle, AI Luongo, Claire Olivia
Moed, Karen Mullen, Carol Polcovar;
performed by· Usa Goodman, Raven Hall,John Kudan, JoAnna Rush, Joe Spencer
White; at the Duplex, 61 Christopher (NEcorner 7th Ave/Christ!lpherl;
every
Thursday in June at 8 pm; $B .. 2-drink
min.; rsvp 255-5438 (thru JUNE 28)

RIVERWEST THEATER revives Karan L
Smith's productionof Eric Stephe.
Bocith's Met.morphos/s:
A Slice of
Bleck GIIy life, dea fing with aspects ofhomosexuality, drug addiction, hustling,
and poverty in people-of-color communities; starring Andrew Cooksey, Dexter
Brown, G. D.nonn
Spence, Carmelo(Rick) Ortiz; Kimbley Gilchrist, Stage
Manager, Hili Bank St (btwn West/WashjngtOn S1s); $12 advance/$15 door, TliU &.
FRI atU pm, SATat7 &. 10 pm, SUN at2&.
7 pm; 243-0259 (thru JULY 8)

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of.one or two days.)for,.". The NYC s.y"'""", c.-.Ity, Mbrfd W•• - ",..
fllSt prasent8d
at City Hairs Tweed Gallery in 19118,a showof 80 photps portraying NYC's gayjlesbian
history, pre- and post-Stonewall; at theCenter, 201 W 13 St, 3rd Aoor; daily, 4-6
pm, ~7310 Ithru JULY 31)
PROVINCETOWN'S GIFFORD HOUSE
HOTEL presents K.rry Asllton's Tile
Wilde Spirit, a one-man play-withmusic based on the life and. ~rks· ofOscar Wilde; 9-11 Carver Street,
Provincetown, MA; $10; WED-SAT at 7
pm (also on JULY 2 &,·3, and SEPT 2; 7pm); 5081487-6400(thru SEPT 15)
THE NEW DUPlEX presents fIIn.y G.yM.les,
Jaffe
Cohen,
DlinnyMcWilliams, Bob Smith; 61 Christopher
St; FRI 8nd SAT at 10 pm; $10 + 2-d rinkmin.; reservations ~5438(open run)
PRODUCERS' CLUB presen1S Ed Cecll!.. es's EWlryilody K"ows Your N.me,
starring Joe Pichette; a play about AIDS,
a gay man whose problems are measured
in avoir du pais, and his support group;
35B W 44 St; $10; TliU-SUN at 8 pm, also
SAT at 2 pm; extra show Wednesday,June 13,8 pm; 279-4200(open run)
RAPP ARTS THEATER presents previewing TIIomas M. Disch's .I.ck ~edy one-let, T6e Cllrdi •• , Dewltes,
starring George McGrath; "a chilling
look inside the hierarchy of the modern
Catholic Church exploring such issues
as AIDS, abortion, ti9s to organizedcrime, and homosexuality"; also Discll's·bir-r.ising·curt.ill-r.iser,
The
Auditio"., offi"cial opening is MAY 31;
THU &. FRI at 8 pm, SAT at 8 &. 10 pm;
SUN at 5 pm; $10; 529-5921 (open run)zations presenting
information
lit
tables; over 1500 in attendance; cashbar, Center program; silent auction from
6:30-9:30 pm; dinner from 7-8:30 pm;
entertainment from 8:36-10 pm, includtng selected songs by the lavender
UglIt Gospel Cllolr; 208 W 13 St, outdoors; 6:30-11 pm; $35'advance!$45
door (sponsor to founder:$loo to $12001;
620-7310

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WOMEN ABOUT Melli ... P.rty for tile
5.....,
Cal .... r, at the Center, 201 W
13 S1;"O:30PM; 874-2104
JUDITH'S ROOM BOOKSTORE presents
Rolli. Morgan, UpsUlrs I•... SIIlWa:
Selected"
New Poems, fill-fill;
D_o,;
LOWlr; 681 Washington
St (atCharles St); 7 pm; free, but limiteil-seating; n7-7330 (wheelchair accessible)
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS HIV Hoe ..
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Nutritio •• llss .... tonight and every
3rd Tuesday; 129 W 20 St; Beneflts,3rd
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807-6655, TOO 645-7470
HERITAGE OF PRIDE GOHnII __sllip .. eeting, at the Center, .208 W 13
St, 8 pm, 691-1774 (Editor's no~:'Ihis
meeting is moved to Tuesday i(1 def.erence to the Center Garden Plirty.)

THE CENTER NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NEIKRUG PHOTOGRAPHICA (GAllERY)
LESBIAN &. GAY HISTORY Cartoon
presents RlltIHIl( 224 E 6B St; F &. SA, 1MillENNIUM
pre~ents its "very first"
Show, showcasing the work of 40 car6 pm (other times by appointment); 28BWllit. P.rty; 1770 NY Ave (Rte 110),
toonists who deal with ·the lesbian and . n41,2 (thru JULY 28)
Huntington, U; 5161351-1402
gay experience; with work by Jennifer
Camper, Howard Cruse,. Mark Johnson,
CENTER NATIONAL MUSEUM OF LESBurton Clarke, Jerry Mills, QutWeeKs
BIAN &. GAY HISTORY Prejudice lind
Bechdel; 208 W 13 St; daily, 4-6 pm; 620- Ptide: TheNYCGIIY" labilln CommllBODY POSmVE Ri.... C.. ise, for HIV..'s
7310 (thru JUNE 30)
nity, World Wllr II - Present, first preand friends; Pier 83, 12th Ave &. 42' SI;
sented at City Hall's Tweed Gallery inboarding at 6:30 pm, leaves 7 pm sharp;
PENINE HART GALLERY Survey of les1988, a show of 80 photos portraying_$20; info 721-1346
bian .nd G.y Artists, in recognition of NYC's gay/lesbian
history, pre- andLongtime Companion, 8 feature film folLesbian .and Gay History Month; with
post-Stonewall; at the Center, 208 W 13 lowing the lives of eight gay men in GAY &. LESBIAN ALLIANCE AGAINST
work by Nancy Brody, Steve DeFrank,
St, 3rd Floor; daily, 4-6 pm, 620-7310
New York during the AIDS crisis;
DEFAMATION Volnnteer Op.n HOIISI,. L.ousie Fishman, lola' Flash, Ester Hernan- (thru JULY 31)
Carnegie Hall Cinema, 7th Ave at 57 St, to recruit and encourage new volun·dez, Keith Haring, Peter Hristoff, Peter
265-2529; Angelika Film Center, Houston
teers in helping with GLAAD's work U
Hujar, Zoe Leonard, Robert Mapplethorpe,&. Mercer S1$,995-20lI0
THE GLINES presents John Glines'
overcome stereotypes and misinforma'
Donald ·Moffett, Ann Wilson; 56B BroadMen of.Mllnhatten, directed by Charles
tion about lesbians and gay men;way, 1st Floor, 334-3522 (thru JUNE 30)
Catanese, "a celebration of the delightrefreshments served; 80 Varick St (7111
ful diversity of gay life in NYC here andAve}. Suite'#3E; 6:30 pm; 966-1700'
I
APOllO THEATRE presents Dwightnow" with seven actors playing 25
Cook's production of Chuc!! Butler's
characters.in
a series of vignettes
THE CENTER 7th Annu.1 G.rden P.rty, , NY ADVERTISING &. COMMUNICAThe Third Rhytlim, examining -th!l emo- involving an actor-waiter,
phone-sex
with honorary co-chairs Kate Clinton.
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2~

~.. DIUMI", a 2D-minute ver,ion of the Oscar-winning(nmes ofH,rvey Milici director's new documentary on p.ychologist
Evelyn Hooker.
who led the research that .howedhomosexuality was nota mental illness;
producer/psychologist Dr. ......
HalO' will be present to get audience
feedback; at the Center. 208 W 13 St;
6:30-9'.30 pm; $7 (first drink free); 517--

DIAN HAMILTON Is o,t........
'1IfI
Dfjer DnII.. "a one-woman
show with mu.ic; in the Center's Pantry.
208 W 13 St; 7 pm for a general audience19 pm forwome~~IY;$5; 807-8017,,",/e.

Talldew.142 11th Ave (at 21 St); 11 pm;
691-8451
MISS KIKI'S FUN CLUB presents "atty
W'1fII a Heatt D•• ce p.rty to .enefit
HEAL (Health Education AIDS Liaison;
OJ John Hall; at Woody's. 82 E 4 St (at2nd Ave); 10 pm; $10 •MY COMRADE/SISTER MAGAZINE presents CII.""elliS.t tINt Pyramid. withlive shows. This Is Your G6Y Life (inwhich friends pay tribute to a gay
celebritylat 12:30 am. and Time Tunnei(a trip back to the Stonewall Bar. June.
1969) at 1:30 am; 101 Avenue A (btwn
6/J Sts); $5; 420-1590

THURSDAY, JUNE 21
Mlrel.

SERVICE FUND OF NOW-NYC For •• :urelltler Wa",: IIIte"",lzeti
HOIfIo",."."" .. , with s~eakers
KeI.... (NOW-NYC Psychology Cmte).
I••••a.lr (psychoanaly.t).
Betty.. d.I .....
(Exec. Dir. of Identity
House). H .. D.BoI. (NOW-NYC LesbI.n Righ1s Cmtet, 15 W 18 Sf, 9th Roor;
7 pm; 807-0721
DIFPRENT SPOKES PI... I.. Meed...
10 plan summer bike rides. in Brooklyn

Heigh1s.7:30 pm; Pete. 71111625-6313
HERITAGE OF PRIDE and NYU GAY &LESBIAN lAW STUDENTS' ASSOCIAnON w.ddl •• Rec.ptlo.
for Ov.
ClrI..... d Iv •• Lar .... one of the
IirIt legally married gay couples in Denmark and the world. who will serve.Iongside Lesbian Herstory Archives
founding members as Grand Marshals
at the 21st Annual Gay & Lesbian Pride
March on June 24; at The Terrace.
D'Agostino Hall, NYU School of Law.
110W 3 St. 14th Roor; 7:30-9 pm; $15 by'
invItItion only; rsvp required. 691-1774
INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN IDENTITY pre.. nts Dr. CUries SlIvem.I. speaking
on tile I......
Jo.edIc.1 meIIrcllllltO•• ·.tJoIOl('
crt "-o .. x•• llty .. d_.......
to ·c.re·
It; at the Center, 208 W 13 St; 7:30 pm; $6; 799-9432(Editor's eXIra: Kurt Wolfe of Out in the
1IJs tails me that the Rev. Lou Sheldonof Orange County will cure you byshowing you stud magazines and tying
electrodes to your testicles. ShockingJ)
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS WorIcsIlop:
Etrlf/cizill' lafer Sex. "learn how toplay safely while meeting other men";no pre-registration
required; at theCentar. 208 W 13 St; 8-10:30 pm; 80711655. TOO 645-7470

SlOPE ACTMnES FOR LESBIANS BowI.........
gutter-bailers welcome; Kenmore ~anes. 2228 Church Ave (nearFIaIbush Ave). Brooktfn; 8 pm; 71&'965-7578
HERITAGE.OF PRIDE.and WETLANDSPRESERVE B•• eflt D•• ce P.rty for.HOP at "New York's environmentalnightclub·; OJ John Suliga. cash bar.
161Hudson at Laight St (3 blocks below
Canal); 9 pm - 77; $10; info 966-4225.
HOp 691-1774
EAGLE BAR MoYie Hilllt:

I.ooi WlJosS...

rB .. ln.

GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS Workshop
o. COII ••• lty He.ltll Models for G.y
Mel! of Color: community development
models for educating and empowering
black and Latino gay men throughestablishedsocial networks;
with
Pernissa Seele (AIDS Initiative Dept..
Harlem Hospital). Gary Paul Wright andGuillermo Vasquez (People of Color Prevention Programs. GMHC); at GMHC.
129 W 211 St. 3rd floor classroom; 4-6 pm;
807-6664 (A different workshop
isoffered BVery Thursday in June.)
NATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN TASKFORCE Gal. Gay PrIde CelellretJOIV'P'rty
with Mayor DavId N. Dillkillland Urvashi
V.ld. Exec. Dir •• NGLTF; benefiting
NGLTF's Policy Institute (contributions
tax-deductible); at Arsenal Gallery & Roof
Garden. 5th Ave at 64 St; 6-9 pm; ~IOO
(space limited); rsvp/info 529-3619
CENTER Orientation. an introduction to
NYC's lesbian and gay community, with
40 groups represented and literaturefrom 400 more; presentations. socializing
and entertainment; 208 W 13 St; 7 pm; $3;
620-7310 (Spanish interpreter available.)
GREATER GOTHAM BUSINESS COUNCIL A •••• I Aw.rds B.nquet at Harvey's Chelsea Restaurant; with keynote
speaker J.ck Sansolo. US President ofHill, Hollid.y. Connors. Cosmopulos,
the agency that created the Infiniti ad
campaign; awards to Crain's. lawyer
Elizabeth J. Salen. NYC Gay Men's Chorus. Multitasking Systems of NY; 108 W
18 St; cocktails at 7 pm. dinner at 8 pm;
membership info. 337-8700
ASIANS AND FRIENDS/NY Discussion
GrOllp, focusing on topics relevant to
the lifestyles, cultures and relationshipsof l1Iembers; limited space; at a home in
Grammercy Park; 7:30-9 pm; rsvp with
Dan. 460-8125
AFRICAN AMERICAN WIMMIN UNITED FOR SOCIETAL CHANGE Op" Mike
C.hllral Ewe... with poetry, music andreadings; all women welcome; at theCenter, 208 W 13 St; 6-10-.30pm; $8; forinfo or to sign up as a performer, call
7.18,1359-5459

SLOPEACTIVITIES FORLESBIANS PI.nnl"l P.rty/G.y Pride Kickoff. in Park
Slope. Brooklyn; 8'pm; 7181965-7578
TESTING THE LIMITS Benefit Preview
Screening of Voice, from the Front.
hostedby Tony-winnerH.rveyFler.teln;also showing DH"G Mon
Amour; Voices from the Front documents community
response to thehealth crisis and features ACT UP, CRI.
ADAPT. PWA Health Group. PWA Coalition. with musical contributions
byJimmy Somerville and Michael Callen;
at Anthology Film Archives. 32 2nd Ave(at 2nd St); 9 pm; $20-$100; 545-7120(followed by a party at Quickl. below)
CHIP DUCKETT presents A P.rty for
Telting the UmilS .t Quickl with open
bar from 10'.36-11:30pm; 6 Hubert St (atHudson. 5 blocks below Canal); 925-2442

FRIDAY, JUNE 22

THALIASOHO presents
ROler
Stllli.no's
Fun Down There (3:40.7.
10:25 pm) and Wieland Speck's WBIt'er(2. 5:20. 8:40, midnight); 15 Vandam
St (west of 6th Ave); 675-0498 (Editor's
note: Stigliano shows how easy it is tocome from upstate NY to be gay in NYC;
Speck shows how grueling it is/was tohave a West-East Berlin affair.)
CHRISTOPHER STREET FESTIVAL and
AIDS RESOURCES CEjIITER Ed Mu"hyM."orfel AIDS Candlelight Vigil. starting in Sheridan Square. 7th Ave at
Christopher St (#1/#9 to Christopher;
A.B.C.D.E.F.Q to West 4); marchingsilently down Christopher to Washington
St; 7 pm; info from ARC, 481-1270 (Bringextra candles. matches. paper cups.)
RADICAL FAERIE Open Circle. a celebration of "the summer solstice in asacred queer enclave: the Ramble ofCentral Park"; in the flat meadow area •bring musical instruments; 7-97 pm;
David, 718/318-0789 (Editor's note: theRadical Faeries are a "community
devoted to respect for nature, magic,
rituaVcamp drag and healing work." Allare welcome.)
THE ANSWER IS LOVING Women Talkinl Women's T.lk: Laulhter; "How tohave a good time in spite of yourself.
Our closing evening of the season will
focus in on fun. creativity and lightening
up. TALENT SHOW and you are invited
to stay for dessert." led by Ruth Berman
and Connie Kurtz; Sheepshead Bay.
Brooklyn; 7:45-10 pm; $8; 718/998-2305"man: gay mythology about butchness: construction boots. deep voice.
boxer shorts. never snapping or speaking gay slang. and never being anally
receptive; at the Center. 208 W 13 Sf,
Charles AngeVPeople of Color Room; 8
pm; 62IH31 0
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER/NY
Soci.1 Open House for Out:of- Tow.
Guestscomingfrom
other
MACT/BWMT chapters to participata in
Pride Week events; snacks. games.
informal socializing. a chance to buy a
MACT T-shirt; at the Center. 208 W 13
S1; 8 pm; 222-9794 (People are needed
to help with accommodations.)
ASTHAEA NATIONAL LESBIAN ACTION
FOUNDATION Comlnl-Out Cel."ration.nd D.nce at Camp Friendship; DJs
Victoria Starr & Carolyn Ford; refreshments. door prizes. raffle. cash bar; 339
8th St. near 6th Ave. Brooklyn (F to 7th
Ave station. R to 9th St station); 9 pm - 1
am; $10 advance/S12 door·(available at
Judith's Room; Oscar Wilde. Different
Light); 212/529-8021
COLUMBIAPEP BOYS PRODUCTION'

Same But Different "ride Doce. a special event in addition to every-third-Saturday dances, for gay men and lesbians
and their friends; OJ Karin Ward; Earl
Hall. 116 St & B'way (#1/#9 train); 10 pm- 3 am; $5; 629-1989 (Editor's note: There
will be no Same But Diffeent dances in
July 'or August. They will resume
September 22. the 4th Saturday. andwil~-return to 3rd Saturdays on OCT20.)

SATURDAY, JUNE 23

THALIA SOHO presents Roger Sdg"'IIO',
Fun Down There and Wieland Speck's""stlet; see Friday. JUNE 22
DIFF'RENT SPOKES Bikini
IsI.nd. Scott 718/859-3331

in St.ten

FRONT RUNNERS NY 9th Annual G.y
Pride Run in Central Park, 800 runners
expected to participate, many trophies
plus raffle; start and finishJlt 90 St & 5th
Ave; 9'.30 am start; entry fee $7 thru June
11. $8 thru June 22, $10 on nice day;numbers picked up from Int'I Running
Center,9 E 89 St, Friday. June 22. noon 7:30 pm. and on race day. Saturday.
June 23, 7:30-9 am; info 724-9700. or from
FrontRunners. Box 363-0, NYC 10014

AIDS CENTER OF QUEENS eOUNlY andGAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS Workshop:
Eroticizing Slifer Su, "learn how toplay safely while meeting other men";
CONGREGATIONBETH SIMCHAT
lunch is included;at ACQC. 97-45
TORAH Annual Gay/lesbian Pride Ser- Queens Blvd, 12th Floor, Rego ~ark (G/R
vice with special
guest speakerto 63rd Drive); 10 am - 12:30 pm; free;Thomas B. Stoddard, Executive Direc- . registration required. ACQe 718/896tor of Lambda Legal Defense & Educa- 2500, TOO 718/896-2985. or GMHC
tion Fund; 57 Bethune St (near West St. 212/807-6655, TOO 64s:.747o
up center courtyard ramp inside theWestbeth Complex); service at 8 pm/Mr.
GLEN RUSSELL gives a Cills
in
Stoddard at approx. 9:45 pm; 929-9498
Immune Ther.pies
for HIV/AIDS;"herbalist and microscope technician
GAY MEN OF AFRICAN DESCENT Disuses live blood-cell studies to teach thecussion: Do Relli. "Men" Get F"*ked?, . effects of environmental and dietarydealing with the definition of a realstress on white blood cells and how

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their behavior may be altered by using
herbs and other non-toxic. immunesupportive strategies·; at the Center.
2~ W 13 S1; 10 am - 5 pm; info/registration. 982-8883 (also Saturday. JUNE 30)
SLOPE ACTIVITIESFOR LESBIANS
1337thAve (btwn Carroll SVGarfield Place). in
Park Slope. Brooklyn; 11:30 am; rsvp
71111965-7578

Br.c. II ... 01ll.1Iesta_1It

YALE GAY lit LESBIAN ALUMNI c.tr.1
P.rk Ple.le for V.le AI •••••d S.. -·
dlllltl. on the Great Lawn (near 79 St.
look for Yale GALA banner); noon;
Harold 688-6671
GIRTH ANO MIRTH DIICIIISIOil Gra,:
wIIo -lor addi.. welgllt..1Id _wIIo .. i.....;at the Center. D W
13St; 12:30pm; $2; Centerli2(F1310
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS
W.IId •• TOIIr of Historic P.rk 510,..
with the Rangers; meets at Prospect
Park entrance across from Grand Army
Plaza Arch; Brooklyn;
1 pm; rsvp
71111965-7578
ACf UP DEMONSTRAnON:·QUEEIt-IN·9O" Meet at Central Park,T,ke B,ck The P,rle; Great Lawn- Enterpark at 81st and CPW- Then march to
rallv In Union Square- llam- 989-1114June23rd.
HERITAGE OF PRIDE RIlly: O. MHen.
in Union Square Park (N.R.4.5.Ii.L
trains); with MCs K.t. CII •• o ••• dEv.rea O.I.'on with special appearances by RIzor SUrp; special greetingfrom Owe
1Id Iv. UIIH. on.
of the first gay married couples in Denmark; keynote speakers Urvaul V.ld
(National Gay and Lesbian Task Forcel
and Jose,. C. S.......
gay ex-Naval
Academy Midshipman; other speakers
will be P_I. EtIII.rlck (Lambda Lagal
Defense lit Education Fund); Cr.l.
Leca. author. and r...••IletI6. dirac.tor. of Longtime Comp,niorr, Joe. Nestle (Lesbian
Herstory
Archives);
husband-and-wife
performers R•• ,D.e •• d Osal. Devls. D.r.k Hod.l.
eII.rIea Base.; the five lottery-selectedc-••ltyVoices; David 81,..., JI.
D.vI •• Jill D•• ,.. •• , K.. TolII. EIIlly
Woo V_ ... Id; entertainment by Betty.
B.t.e.d.
B.II ••• F••• y G.y M.I.s.
vocalist C... y Curtis. comedy stylist
S.r. Cytro •• uve.d.rU•• t &b.,.1
CIIolr. musician TOil .. RNtIOII. Lea.I ••.
• G.y BI. A"I .• Cor,s. HOT !7 FM
D.ec. Act. eest of Closer .", •• Erer. 26 pm; 691-1774 (Editor's note: WBAI-FM.
99.5. will play Saturday's Rally highlights on' Sunday. JUNE 24. 9 am - noon)c........

skates; in Park Slope, Brooklyn; 4 pm;
71111965-7578

lie,,,,.

CASTILLO CULTURAL CENTER 0,. ....
for ABOUT A.R.I (AlOS»N,.res) M.III-MeIIl,
G.II.ry Ex.I.I.,
a religious shrine. a found-object
sculpture. graphic poetry. computergenerated art, live performances; 500
Greenwich St, SOHO; 5-7 pm; 941-5800

with

SUNDAY, JUNE 24

SHESCAPE presents 0Ik:eI H......
'"
Prld. P.rty for _.. at Palladium;
portion of door proceeds go to HOP;
dancing. videos. lilian p... singing
Op,n Up Your He,rt, RflScu, M" others; 126 E 14 S1;4-10 pm; info 645-6479

WBAI-FM All D,y R,portingD,y Mard (see TUNING IN)

on Prid,

METROPOUTAN COMMUNITY CHURCH
1Id Gay Prid8 Day ServIces; at
DARTMOUTH GAY lit LESBIAN ALUMS the Center, D W 13 Sf; 10 am; at thePride P.rty for Dartmouth students lit SW comer of Central Park (59 St/CPW).
alums; 27 Peck Slip. n.ar the South
11:30 am (alsothe March at theStreet Seaport; 5-7 pm; S5; 711117118-45!i8 church. 135W4St, 7 pm); 242-1212,ft"

LA PALACE DE BEAurE presents a Post
ReIly T.. D.ece. CelHretlo •• a benefit for H.ritage of Pride. where you may
stay all night for Larry Tee's regular Saturday party; 34 E 18 S1; opens Ii pm; $6
before 8 pm/S15 thereafter; HOP 6911n4. club 228-800!1
SHAFTWAY PRODUCTIONS Mi.t.r
Nort ••••• Dr'.I!I.r
1990 Co ••• s•• tRox,. featuring
men competinginleather and uniforms. answering personalinterview questions. p.rforming a
3-minute fantasy scene of their own
creation; a .......
for PWA CoeIltlo.;
Roxy. 510 W 18 S1;7 pm cocktails, 8 pm
contest; $15-$20 (at the door); club 6455156 (Contest appncants contact Shaftway Prods .• 183 Christopher St, NYC
1(014)DIGNITY/BIG APPLE Leul ... 1Id Gay
Pride UtervJ .1Id SocI.I; at the Center.
208 W 13 S1;8 pm; info 818-1309
DIXON PLACE presents Lis. Kro.,·from'Lansing
to Leabos and backagain·; E...u Foster, ·out of the closet and into the macrobiotic Mexican
restaurent; and T_ .......
·in a tribute to a very special lady"; 37 E 1st St(btwn lst/2nd Aves); 8 pm; $6 or TDF; norsvp. doors open 7:30 pm; info 6m752
KNIGHTS WRESTLING CLUB FI .. I
hldrelsl .. Towe.eIt........
Gay
G.....
with 20 wrestl.rs in light, middle. and heavy weight categories. in an
elimination
tournament
following
freestyle wrestling rules; at PS 3. Hudson/Christopher Sts; 8 pm; $15; 627-1921(Editor: The Gay lit Lesbian Big Apple
Corps. and members of other Gay
Games teams. will also be present)
DlGNITY/BIG APPLE Leul ••• IIdG.,
Pride u..", •• Soci.l. at the Center.
208 W 13 St, 8 pm. 818-1309
GIRTHAND MIRTH Gay PrIde Social ...
at theCenter,W 13$10;621).7310.........
~ St,8:30....*pm.' 0eIirw.
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CONGREGATIONBETH SIMCHATTORAH and DIGNITY/NY G.,/I.eI.I ••Pride D.ec. "90; DJ Karin Ward. cash
bar. free munchies. free drink before 10
pm; 57 Bethune St (near West St. up
center courtyard ramp in WestbethComplex); 9 pm - 1 am; $8; 929-9498

SLOPE ACTIVITIES .FOR LESBIANS.·RolI.r 511111•• II Pros,ect P.rk. byo

FTM PRODUCTIONS presents a
Got tile Pow.r. Be.efi. for ... NVC

OUTTWEEK

fireworks at 10::30pm; $10 advanc. (etHOP table. Christopher/Hudson)/S12 on
the pier; 691-1n4.........

TESTING THE LIMITS Vld.o: Vo/c ••"., file ~preview of the video thatcharts AIOS activism since the 1987
March on Washington. fea1uring ACT UP.
"CRI. PWA Coalition. and individuals
involved in grass roots efforts; at the Center, D W 13'S1;2:30 pm; info 545-7120

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A.tl-Vlole.ee
Project at 20120. DJ
Michael Wilson. lights by Tim Alger; 20
W20S1; 10 pm tit $10

June 27. 1990""e

SAGE G., Prl~. Brllc.
in Central
Park, near the West 83rd St entrance,with coffee. tea. bagels. juice. fruit,other goodies; 11 am; 741-2247
SLOPE ACllVJllES FOR LESBIANS staff
a table at"""
HNIIM 7111 A.....
~
F.lr I. P.rk
from Ratbush
Ave to 12 St,-Brooklyn; 11 am - 7 pm;
7111{965-7578

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WOMEN ABOUT Pre-M.re.
Br •• e.,874-2104 (for the March. meet at 62 St&; Central Pallt West!
SAGE Gay Pride Drop-l •• in the SAGE
Room. et the Center. 208 W 13 St, noon 5 pm. 741-2247

DARTMOUTH GAY/LESBIAN",..,

YNr 11:1I00I ....

ALUMS

Gay,ll..e8l-

AI ••• • Post-P.r.~.
P.rty,
foralumnVae of any college in the world; inthe Center's (air-condtloned) Network
Room. 208 W 13 S1; 4-7:30 pm; $7 (covers the Center fee, snacks, and one
drink); info 586-5117 (Editor's not.:Extant NYC-based GALAs are invited tobring mamng lists fo( sign-on table.)a

FTM PRODUCTIONS presents HI-NIl
aay Pri .. T.. for Me. MIl ....
at
2W2D; OJ John Carollo. rlllhts by Tm Alger;
free Bloody Marys and Mimosas from 5-7
pm. buff.t at 6 pm; opens 5 pm; free
before 10 pnV$6after 10 pm;

727.,

MAMA DOESN'T KNOWI PRODUCnONS and THE MINORITY TASK FORCEON AIDS 1M ",.
Un O. "', a·multiculturaVmultimedia
extravaganza· feeti.tirig B... ..,. _
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(a th.atrical re-enactment!.
HERITAGE OF PRIDE PrIde Mercll: Fe. . OI ....
IIy. ", ....
Lowq; with Grand MarEx,resa; speakers Includ.
CIIrIs B.... (BWMT/DC). JoItI NellIeshals Deborah Edel. Joan Nestle.
(Lesbian Hemory Archives). llerl••
Pamela ODne and Julia Stanley (four
Rollo(Las Bu,!nas Amigas),founders 9-f the Lesbian Herstory
Archives); and special guests Ove Cellos Setere (Minority Task Force on
AIDS); at PS 41, W 11 It .... 1tIr/M
Carlsen anei Ivan Larsen. of Copenhagen. one of the first legally married
Aws;I.-;$I~"JfrM"; lato 24Sgay couples in the world; starts at ... fI... el.lly c •• I1
Cednec. dx·s R.- •.
Columbus Circle. steps off at 12:30 pm ..
Osc.- WIlde
tClllkstln)
sharp. east across Central Pallt South,
down Fifth Avenue to Washington
Square. west on Waverly Place. across
METlIOPOUTAN COMMUMTY CHURCH
8th Ave and down Christopher. dispers- Lesbian and Gay Pride Day Services;...., ... Marcil ....
c... , 135 W 4
ing at Hudson S1;691-ln4
It.7 .-;242-1212
HERITAGE OF PRIDE Mo ••••
of
SiIeec.,RI .....
", .....
ttHCe. will MARC BERKLEV'S SOCIAL CON- ~SCIENCEThe OffICial Libera- 'take place throughout the Pride Marchtion Day Ball et the Palladium, .....
at 2:30 pm; ribbons worn on the wristsof marchers will bear the name of a for H.rI .... of Prlor ••• le ., .....
loved one lost to AIDS and all arms will
H.II. ,.rfone •• ees •• ro •• b•••••
be raised when the march pauses;",111; 1211E 14 It 18 ..
$11: msimultaneously. a white 1~
foot ban- 7171
ner saying We Remember will be
unfurled in front of the Memorial Archof Washington Square; ribbons will becollected at the end of the march and KOOL KOMRAD~
Hung Orer
will be presented. en mlSse. to NYC ,nd Brokel Party at Private Eyes, wItII
Health Commissioner Woodrow Myenexel.si .. video too.... of ... Rei."
Meh:1I ... D.ec.
Pier; stri"...
II -'dll", IIoIted ., Razor SIIerp; 12HERITAGE OF PRIDE D•• e. 4: PrideD.ec. _ ... Pier at the end of Christo~21 It,.pII; $7; .. mapher Street; sponsored by DutWeek
and 550-TOOL; DJs Robbie Leslie.
Susan Morabito. Jerry Szoka; special
entertainment produced by Mark JohnGAV MEWS HEALTH CRISiS HIV Healthson. lights and sound by Royce-Martin.
Seminar: Medical Tr.atments C.....
1y
special lighting by Richard Sabala; fire8ftIJ" TII8Iday II 7 ,.) will "., N
works by Garden State/Santore Bros .• ".,,, "'y.I07-11515, roD 1&7411
choreographed to music created byAmerican Liberty Music; food will b.
MEN OF All COLORS TOGETHER 4th
available; at West Side Highway &; Annual Circle Line Cruise, witIt 1IIISic:,
Christopher St; dancing from 4-10 pm. d•• ci ••• eea ••• r o.
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PM WNET-1V Die WlIbenl Jall1l8l.evine conductinll at
the Met, with Gary lAkes as SIegmund and Jessye Norman
II S"l8grlllde;simulcast on WOXR-FM (96.3t CH 13 (4:15)
PM A&E Oscllr Wlldll (1960, BWI: Robert Morley playshim (2:001 (repeats at 1 AM)••
10:00 PM WBAl-fMA 5.tcIId CR. peqonalrefIectiona on apriluaily in the Ms of IesbiIIns and gay men; produc~by Eva Vaa Asantawaa and N'lChoias CImoreII
11:10 PM GBS Out in thllSO'&: community news, discussion.
interviews; tonight aull", NlItion. a rlV8 call-In withmembers of the gay{lesbian direct action group; mAG's
Amy Ashworth, Interviewing parenti with gay/llSblan
children; Manhatta!VParagon Cable. CH C'lB (1:011)

WEDNESDAY, .JUNE 20

1:30 AM WBAI-FM GhOlts In thll Mllchin« women in poP.
with Victoria Starr; 99.5 FM (2:301
1:30AM WPlX-1V ButT.~onLoc.ttKm:vogueing;CH
11 (:301
HIPM WBAI-FM Wllllt You CIIn't SIIY About AIDS: Thll
HIV Confidllntilllity LIIw. discussing the statute which_ or.
.... -. m W 13 If; 7:30-1 •• ; $5;
IZI-ISII (Editor' •• ote: H.... Yo ••.....
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regulates HIV antibody tasting, counseling. andconfidentiality of results; produced by Laurie Milder.
Director of Community Outreach lAw Program, AssocIation of the Bar of the City of NY; 99.5FM (:30)
MIdII""RB PROD ThII Robin Byrd Show. male and female
strippers; Manhattan and Paragon Cable. CH J/'l3 (1:0111

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THURSDAY, .JUNE 21..........

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(Jf Mllnhllrtlln:... John Glines' MBfI
SCllnlls from Nllw YorkPM WBAI-FM 11Iis WilY Out; the im'1 gayllesbian magazine; 99.5 FM (:301
1:30 PM WBAI-FM An AfWmoon Outing. local news and.... ~,_lMLYARTS)
infonnation about Gay/lesbian Pride Month; 99.5 FM (:30)
2:30 PM WBAI-FM AIDS: PIIths to SIIN-Empowermllnt"
THE RJRTAnONS 3rd Annual Gay Pride
Living. live from San Francisco (site of the 8th 1m'1AIDS
Concen; ... 1Ioya c~Conferencel; 99.5 FM (1:0111.
....... rflrat.llI.-; at tileW
7:30 PM WBAI-FM Building BridgllS: lesbian and gay union
activists from NY and Boston; 99.5 FM
13 St. 3rd Floor; ••• ; $12 door!$1'"'v•• ce (fro. Dlff.r •• t LI.llt' .. d .. PM WNET-1V Goettardllmmllrung: James levine conducting at the Met. the last of four segmentl of the Ring
Otcer Wilde 1Iookafonti); lido TD-7J1J
cycle; simulcast on WQXR-FM (96.3t CH 13 (5:0111
nls repeats to.orrow,
1:30 PM GMHC Living With AIo~ health and politicS; Man-.
It's aIg.11It8rprII8d for tile
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Nelson Mandela"; including a discussion of racial
issues in South Africa and the U.S.; CH 7 (1:30)
MORE LISTINGS NEXT WEEK
11!:3OPM GCN Pridll" ProgrllSS. news, health. sports; Man••TTTTTT .....................
hattan Cable, CH JI23 (:301(For Paragon. see'8ATURDAy)Ciy G.ty ~ ..... eo.tpnI PIayIIoae.
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Manhattan Cable, CH J(J3 (:301(For Paragon, S88 SAT.I,,:31 PM RS PROD M"" For MIIfI: Robin Byrd presentl gay
male porno stars; Manhattan Cable. CH J/'l3 (:301
l1:31PM 6MHC Living With A1o~ health .nd porlties;
Paragon Cable. CH J/'l3 (:30)

FRID".JUNE 22
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PM WBAI'..1M Romp.mlo til SHBflckr. tocIos losviernes. 6onzalo Aburto con tamas y noticias para Ia
comunidad latina gay y lesblana; 99.5 FM (:151.
7:31 PM .".G.tyiWIgG.tmtl~MamallanCable,OI.VJ3131
1:31PM WABC-1V Dr. Ruth's HoUl/l'. an unsold pilat about
Psych prof Ruth Enllelhof (Dr. Ruth) who .Iso plays
housemothertofMl
university students; CH 7(:30)..
PM WNET-1V World uf Idell' with BiD MDyIIfS:
WilHam Shirer, ThlnfRelch expert, discusses the futureof the two Germanys; CH 13 (:30)".
PM G.ty7Y. male porno ~Manhallan Cabla, 01 J23(::Q".
PM WNET-1V RobeItM.tppMtflorpe:
his lie and careerwith fooIage including inIaNiews with friends and colieagues,seasIonswith models, his phalDgraphs;CH 13(1:001..........
WNET-1V Keith Hllring: DflIWing the Un/l'. a profile of Haring·s. work and wor1d views which manages toleave out any reference to ACT UP or AIDS; CH 13 (:30)(repeau flYe hours later. 5:30 am. Saturday morning)
12::31AM WNET-1V Diffvrent From the Othllrs: the landmark German film (with English subtitles). nearly 70
years old and long-thought lost. about a famous violinist
who Is blackmailed for his homosexilarlty; hosted by
VIto RullO; CH 13 (:30) (repeau four hours later, 5~ am,Saturday morning)
UIO AM RB PROD Robin Byrd Show. male and female strippers; Manhattan and Paragon Cable. CH J173(1:011)

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1:30 PM 6CN Pridll "Progress: 1IW4. health. sports; Paragon
Cable. at J173 (:30) (For Manhatlan Cable, see THU.)~ PM 6CN 1lIe Right StzH. madill, entaItainment, acMe&;Manhatlan Cable. CH -VZ3 ~ (For Manhattan Cable, see THUJ.. PM WNET-1V Bewnth HOlM: .Out! A New\'or1(-8an Franciscan Town MeI!Iing of 6ay and Lesbian Pride": a four-hour
specia~ featuring debate and cOlMllS8tion with aclvocatas
and members of the gayilesbian communities on bodI coasIS;
includesthl88films: WeAre FllmiIy(1:OO).aboutthree gay
famiies, fost8I; bioIogica~ adoplive; Marlon Iiggs' TOIIgUfIS
lhltlisd(:!i6I. aboutthe black, gay, male experience; Out in

SuIutIit~,aboutlllesblanswholiveincOlMllllionalsub-

Ulban neighborhoods; Robert I.4JsvI8 hos1s; 0113(4:00)".
PM RB PROD 11Ie Ellrly Byrd. Robin Byrd presentl
maill/femalestrippers;
Manhattan Cable, CH J/13 (1:0111.......
WNET-1V Thll Nllklld Civil SlIrvllnt Quantin
Crisp's life. played by John Hurd; CH 13 (1:201
1:20 AM WNET-1V My Bllllutiful LIIundrette: the hit movie
directed by Stephen Fresrs, starring Daniel Day Lewis(Oscar winner for My LfIft Food as Johnny, who joins
boyfriend Dmar In restoring a run-down laundretta.ln
riot-torn Thatcherite apocalyptic london; CH 13

SUNDAY, .JUNE 24
WBAI-FM All OilY Rllporting on Pridll OilY Mllrch.. AM 11111 Eye Opf1fH1r SlIgmllnt live reports and interviewS from the field where the marchers are Onl,nll up;
also highfights of yesterday's Pride Rally; plus gay{lesbian music. humor, commentery with co-anchors lArry
Gutanburg and Susan Heske; 99.5 FM (3:0111.
NooII
M.trchCoMng«iill8intarviewsandrapoi1salongthe
march routs; f8atIns and QII'IIesblan IIlJSic from the SIUdio coanchonld by NancylCurtlln and Brandon.Mlelt 9!lSFM C30I_PM Continuklg.CtM1rllgll ofthtJ M.trclr. MIl a special
emphasis on the Spanish-speaking lesbia,ygay community,
co-anchored byl8e Ryan andSantlago Nieves; 9!lSFM (300)
1:30 PM Thll GIIY Show. Bob ~rme anchors from the studio with a review of the Pride Weekend eventl andlArry Gutenburll anchors from various spots in the West
Village, including Dance IV on the pier; 99.5 FM (2:001,,:30 PM GCN Mlln" RIms: male erotica; Manhattan

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Garden Party at the Center. Gay Men'sChorus 10th Anniversary Party. Wise Guysat 88s and Gay Youth puts on a show.

Men & Film.

11:30 pm

J..UNE24
Lee Baldwin strips. Clips
from "Pumping Up" and"French Kiss."

Se My Cue.t

10:00 pm

Sybil Bruncheon hosts a panel···········iitli~~$·········· gameshow with surprise guests.

JUNE 25
StriP"O-Grama at The
Pyramid.

Secret Passions An original gay '.
soap opera.
.
Artwork at Quick!

Gay Cable Netvvork
32 Union Square East,-Suite 1217
New York, NY 10003(212) 477-42~0.Celebranng our Blh ,ear.
Coming to Brooklyn & Oueens In Augustl

DANCING OUT
Monday,prIvIt8 Eye. (ltliarc Be.rklev's Kool Komradsw/ Razor Sharp & strippers;
preppies and guppies) t2 W 21 St, club 206-m2

TUesday,'I.DY8 MachinelLarry Tee & Lahoma Van Zanett young & exotic crowd)
860 Bway, at 17 st; 254-4005 .
.

Wednesdayr D.ys (primarilY gay men of color) 316 W 49 St (lV9 Aves); 245-8925
PrIVate Eyes (Jeffrer Sanker & Dallas's Club Bad; many preppies andguppies) 12 W 2 St, btwn 5tN6th Aves; 206-m2
tpyrImid (My Sister/Comrade party, live stage shows; young East Village crowd) 101 Avenue A, btwn 617 Streets; 420-1590
IQulcld (yuppie/guppie: mellow straights.t.!0me low-key gays, theirwomen friends; gayer later) 6 Hubert;)1; 925-2442.
'IIoXY (Rol/eroXY, roller skating returns; can't not attract gays; starts 8
pm' ollened ,June 13) 515 W 18 St; 645-5156
Silver lining (2-4-1 drinks, also:open Tues-Sun, women SAT) 175 CherryLa., Aoral Pk, LI; 516/354-9641..
(2-4-1 drinks, also open daily) 202 WestcheSter Ave, White Plains;
914/761-3100......

Thursday.

-SOyb.r (Bo)'~ar't5eauties new wave drag show) 151/2 St Marks Place,
litwn 2nd/3rd Aves; 674-7959
I(;op.c.ban. (last Thu. of the month Susanne Bartsch party, next isJune 28' iffy door) 10 E 60 St at Fifth Ave; 755-6010
ExcIlib..- ($1 drinks, also open lues-Sun, women WED) corner 10th/Jefferson behind football stadium, Hoboken, NJ' 201-795-1161
annd Centrel (2-4-1 drinks, also open Wed-Sunl210 Merrick Road,
Rockville Centre LI; 5161536-4800.
IIItfield's (2-4-1 drinkS, female impersonators; also open nightly, women
on TUE & FRI) 12&-10Queens Blvd, Kew Gardens, Queens; 1181261-8484... rs (mixed TVS/gay/straight; OJ Patrick's Wonderland, on small3rd
Roorl Westside Highway and 13th St; 691-6262!Quickl Chip Duckett Thursdays) 6 Hubert St (on Hudson, 5 blocks
below Canal); 925-2442

Friday'BoyS.r (stUdents & local East Village crowd) 15 1/2 St Marks Pl., btwn
2nd/3rd Aves; 674-7959
COh.... bi. D.nces (1st Friday of every month, including summer, next isJuly 6) 116th St & Bway; 854-3574 daysm
n9 419 N. Highway, Southampton, LI; 516,1283-5001,. P.IlCe de Be..... (Larry Tee & Lahoma; straight, gay, TVs, collegians, club kids), 34 E 18 St, off 5th Ave; 228-8009
biigon (primariiv gay men of color) 555 W 33 St; 947-0400
MY ... EYes (YMVA Night, many preppies and guppies) 12 W 21 St, btwn
5.th/6th Aves; 206-7n2.
'Qulckl (Scott Currie/ Panty GirdleS', TVs, gays, straights) 6 Hubert St (onHudson, 5 blocks below Canal); 925-2442
lids (·drink free 10 pm - 1 am·; also open THU; women SAT) 6096 Jericho Tpke, Commack, LI; 5161543-4740

Saturdayllrefoot Boogielsmoke & alcohol free) 434 6th Ave (btwn 9110 Sts); 832-6759

lOyB.r 151/2 St Marks Place, btwn 2nd/3rd Aves; 674-7959:O'..... bi. D.ances (3rd Saturdays, Same But Different Dance, next isJune 16)1'16 & B'way, 10 pm - 3 am; info 629-1989~9419 N. Highway, Southampton, LI; 516/283-5001
lirIb .nd Mirth Club .t the Center (3rd Sats, heavy men & their admirers; next is June 23 4th Sat.) 208 W 13 St; 620-7310
la P.IlCe de Be..... lLarryTee & Lahoma, mixed straight/gay, club
kids, collegians) 34 E 18 St; 228-8009
M.rs (Keoki's Drop Lounge, floor varies; small eclectic crowd: TVs,
I Asians, hi-tech music fans) 13 St & West Side Hwy; 691-6262
Ictegon (monthly Jason & Joel party, Hi-NRG hunks; call for next date).555 W 33 St; 947-0400~1!f8 Eye. (Jeffrey Sanker & Dallas's Club Bad; many preppies & guppies) 12 W 21 St, btwn 5th/6th Aves' 200-7772
IIOxy (mixed gay/straight/TVS/club kids; door often mobbed after 12) 515
W 18 St (btwn 10111 Aves); 645-5156
IIId Factory (mixed gay/straight, serious Acid House dancing, no alcohOl, opens 11 pm) 530 W 27 St (lOtlv'llth Aves); 643-0728
to (FTM's Evening of Dance, catering to the Saint crowd, 10 pm, $10)
20 W 20 St; 727-8841.
.

IIndayller D.ys Tprimarily gay men of color) 316 W 49 St (8/9 Aves); 2458925_.
Building (Club Bad's The Men's Room, 10 pm; $12; preppies/gup-pieS/models; opened May 20) 51 W 26~; 576-189!l
La P.I.ce (M. Fesco's Power Tea, 4 pm - mldnt, $6; hl-NRG gym hunks;
free Mimosas & BMs, 4-6; buffet at 7) 34 E 18 St; 228-8009-La P.lace de Be ..... (Hunk Club: drag queens, hunks, go-go guys, gly
kids; midnight - 4 am) 34 E 18 St; 228-8009.
*Mars (Chip Duckett's Mars Needs Men; 5 floors, go-go boys, performers, and a roof) Westside Hwy and 13th St; 691-6262-Pyramid (Junior's Tea Dance 6-10 pm, Mona Foot's Gay Cabaretat midnight) 101 Avenue A, btwn 617 Streets; 420-1590-Roxy (Sundays at Roxy; gay/lesbian, students, club kids, hunks, men)
515 W 18 St (btwn 10m Aves); 645-5156
2OIZO (FTM's Hi-NRG Tea, caters to Saint crowd, 5 pm - 2 am, $6; freeMimosas & BMs, 4-6; buffet at 7) 20 W 20 St; 727-8841

Every Night lor almost)Magic Touch (ethniC mix: Anglo/latin/Asian) 73-13 37th Rd, Jackson
Heights, Queens; 718/429':8605
Monster (West Village) 80 Grove St at Sheridan Sg.; 924-3557
Spectrum (closed M"on-Tue, WED free, THU free & 2-4-1 drink!c FRI mtf
strip, SAT record stars.t.SUN variety shew & free 9- JO_P~; ';001'8
served) 802 64th St@ 11thAve, Bay Ridge, Bklyn; 71111238-8213-Zest (The Twins, open Wed-Satll08 W 43 St; 354-7348

Dancing Out for Women
TUesday.

Wednesday\

Bond Street Clre (women's dance, 8 pm) 6 Bond St (off B'way); 979-6565
Hllfield's126-10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens; 718/261-8484
Gr.nd Central (women's night, also open Wed-Sun) 210 Merrick Road,
Rockville Centre LI; 5161536-4800
Love Shick (Stella & Ray's Alternativa Musik, with OJ dancing, $5) at
New Lismar, 41 1st Avenue at 2nd St; 777-9477
Bedrock 121 Woodfieli! Rd, W. Hempstead, LI' 5161486-9516
Exc.libur (Ladies Night, $1 drinks) corner lOtWJefferson behind footballstadium, Hoboken, NJ; 201-795-1161

Thursday.

Bedrock 121 Woo(lfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516
Ityr.mid (Jenny's Girl Bar, 8 pm - 2 am) 101Avenwl A (btwn fI1 Stst, $5; 475-3i38
Red Zone (Angelica Terry's And Then There Was Woman, in VIP Room)
440 W 54 St; info 473-1935, club 582-2222 .

FridayBedrock ltl Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 5161486-9516
49W
Ch.,.I.t
Umelight (Shescape party, opens 10 pm;
20 St at 6th Ave; 645-6479.
Hltfield'.'26-'0
Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens; 718/261-8484
Millenni ..... (Ladies' Night) 1770 NY Ave (Rte 110), Huntington, LI;
516/351-1402. Visions 56-01 Queens Blvd, Woodside; info 71111846-7131,club 71&'1199-9Q31

SaturdayBedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 5161486-9516
Ch.p.I.t
Umelight (Shescape party, opens 9 pm; Coors served) 49 W
20 St at 6th Ave; 645-6479
Mike Todd Room (Her prane~ alternate Saturdays, next is June 30) 123 E
13 St; club (Palladium) 473-7171
Reds (women's party, buffet, burlesque show) 6096 Jericho Tpke, Commack, LI; 516/543-4740.
Silver Uning 175 Cherry Lane, Floral Park, LI; 516/354-9641
Stan 836 Grand Boulevard, Deer Park, LI; 516/242-3857

SundayBedrock 121 QVoodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 5161486-9516
eave eanem (Sandwich Sister Sundays) 241st Ave at 1st St; 529-9665

Every Niaht (or almos.tl.

Cubby Hore (tiny Dance floor) 438 Hudson St.@ ~orton St; 243-9079
Duchess" (small dance floor; Coors served) Sheridan Sq. & 7th Ave
South; 242-1408
Spectrum (closed Man & Tues; good gay/lesbian mix, see Every Night,
above, for details) 802 64th St, Bklyn.; 718/238-8213
Editor'stipa for tourists:
A (*) denotes a club that attracts lVs.
.
The NYCclub scene is volatile. Callfirst to confinn parties. Recent openings have dates noted, andcan ~e blasts or busts. Clubs gene~allv open at fO pm. close at 4 am. unless ~erwiS8 notld.
AdmISSIOnsrange from $5 to $15. IrMles offer discounts. and are some1Jmes reqUIred. Some clubs,
such as Co~ac8bana. Roxy.Quickl, Mars, love Machine, Palace. and others have mobs .t!he door
(on good nights). and people are let in somewhat selectively. Short people bewlre. Milled
gay/stnight parties. especially when crowded, tend to.have the roughest doors. Coming Vety .. rIy
can be helplUl.Mixed parties often get gayer later. Special one-time parties are listed in the drf
by-day calendar.·Clubs that serve Coors winbe noted but not excluded from these 6stings.
Send qpenings. closings. corrections and dish to RickX.Box 790,NYC10108.

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COMMUNITY DIRECTORY
A.C.a.c.

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AIDS CENTER OF QUEENS COUNTYSOCIAl SEiMCES • EDUCATION. BUDDIESCOUNSELING. SUPPORT GROUPS
Volunteer Opportunitiei(718) 89&-25OO(voicel (718) 89&-2985(TODI
ACT UP (AIDS eoalition III Unl_h
Pa_rI
496A Hudson Street, Suite G4 NYC 10014 (212) 988 -1114
A dive ... e. non-partiaan group of individuals united inanger and committed to dinict action to end the AIDS'
CrisiL Gen. meetings Mon. nights 7::11.
at the Community Center 2tl8 W.I3th.
AIDS RESOURCE CENTER (ARC)
Supportive housing for homeless f1WAs (Bailey Houseand apertmentsl. Non-judgemental pastoral clre for
PWAa and loved ones. Volunteer opportunities.
(2121481-1270.24 West 30th Street, NYC 10001

AlOEClAPLN-NY/Aliln lesbians of the East Coast!
Aaian Pacifi~ Lesbian Networlt-New Yorltl
We are a political. social and supportive networtt ofAsian Pacific lesbians. Planning meetings on the 1st
Sunday and aocialeventa
on the last Friday of eachmonth. Call (2121517-5588 for more infonnation.
ARCS (AIDS-R.lat.d
Conwnllllity S.me .. )for Dutchess. Orange. Putnam, Rockland. Sullivan,
Ulster and Westchester counties. AIDS education.
client services, crisis intervention. support groups.
case management, buddy and hospitel visitor program.
214 Central Ale, 'Mi1B PIai1s, NYllD/914/ ~838 Broadway ,Newburgh. NY 122!i1(9141!i82-!i1Ui
AlDSlin. (114111l-O&CJ7
ASIANS a FRIENDS- NEW YORK
A not-for-profit organization which promotes friendshipa
with Asian/Pacific Islander.Asiart-American.
and nonAsian gay men through social, cultural, educational. andservice activities and programs. can our HOIline: 212874-5064. or write to: P.O. Box 8628, NY,NY 10183-f023.
ATR (AIDS TREATMENT REGISTRY.1NC.)
Publishes a bi:monthly Directory of clinical trials of
experimental AIDSIHIV treatmenta in NY/NJ. and hes
educational materiallt/semina ... for trial participants.
ATR also advocates for improvementa in the trial system. P.O. Box 30234. NY. NY 1011-0102. (2121288-4198.
Publications free/donation requested.
BAR ASSOClAnON FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
Lawyera Referral Service for the Lesbian and Gay Community Full Range of.LaQ.al Services (2121459-4873
BAR ASSOClAnON FOR HUMAN RIGHTSFree Welk-in Legal Clinic. Tue.day 8-8 pm
Lesbian a Gay Community Centro Ground Roor
BIDS (BISEXUAL DOMINANCE a
SUBMISSION GROUp)
Shere SIM experiences and fantasies with others ina positive, non-judgemental
atmosphere. First Surtday of the month. 4:45pm at the Community Center
208 W. 13 Street, NYC. This group is part of the New
Yortt Area Bisexual Network.
BISEXUAL PRIDE DISCUSSION GROUP
Topical discussions on issues of intarestto the commllnity in a congenial atmosphere. followed by an infonnal
dinner ata friendly local restaurant Every Sunday, 3:004:30pm at the Community Center 208 W. 13 Street, NYC.
Part of the New yortt Area Bisexual Networlt
BIWAYS NEW YORKMonthly social eventa for the Bisexual community
lind friends. Call NYABN for details 01 upcoming
eventa. (7181353-8245
BIPAC (BISEXUAl POUTICAlACTlON
COMMmEEI
parrocal.action on issues of importance to the Biaexua~
liarVGay conmunity. Monthly meetil1!¥po1fuck hald 8:00pm
on fourth Thursday of the month st membens homes. Cel'
NYABNfor this month's location. (7181353-8245

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BISEXUAL YOUlll
Infonnalsocial
a aupport group for Bisexual
kids/youth. Monthly meeting/potluck lunch held
1:00pm on fourth Sunday of the month at membe ...
homes. Call NY ABN for this month·slocation.
Thisgroup is Plrt of the New York Area BiseXual Networlt
BLUS-BRONX WBIANS
UNITED IN SISTERHOOD
Social. political and .upport networking group for
women and their friends. Regular socialeventa andmeetings on the first and third Frida.,. of every month.
At The Community Center, 208 W. 13 Street, from 8:308pm. For more info call Un at (212) 82&-9817.
BOOY POSITIVE
If you oryour lover hal tasted HIV+. we offer support
groups, lemina .... public forums. referencalibrary,referrals. socialactivitiel
and up-to-date national
monthly. "THE BODY POSmVF ($2!f1yaar).
(212)n1-1348.
208 W. 13th Sl. NYC. NY 10011
BROOKLYN'S WBIAN AND GAY POunCAL CLUBlAMBDA INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATS
Ll.D. endonles and worka for candidata. in local.
state and nationalelection•• lobbi81 for legislation.
and conducta community outreach through atnIet
fairs and meetings on special tl!pics. Join us.
338 Ninth St. Suite 135
Brooklyn. NY 11215(7181985-8482
CIRCl£ OF MORE UGtrr
Spiritual support and sharing in a gay !lesbian affirmative group. West-Park Presbyterian Church
185 Wast 88th Street
Wed: wo ... hip service 8:30 pm. program 7:30.
Maraha (212) 304-4373 Cha Ilie (2121891-7118.
COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT
208 West 13th Street, NYC. New York 10011
For Appointmenta and Information(212187>3559 mvNoicel
PROVIDING CARING. SENSITIVE AND LOW COSTHEALTH CARE SERVICES TO THE LESBIAN AND GAYCOMMUNITYCOMMUNITY RESEARCH INrrlATlVE
f1WAa. PWARC. a their physicians taking the initiative to seek promising intervention against AIDS in a
resp. manner. For more info or to volunteer pleasecall (2121481-1050.
CONGREGATION BETH SIMCHAT TORAH
NY's Gay and Lesbian Synagogue Services
Fridayat 8:30pm liT Bethune Street
For info. call: (212182&-9498.
CONGREGAnON B'NAI JESHURUN
Monthly Spritual Gatherings and free catered festive
luncheons for ,11 People With AIDS. their lovers andfamilies. Program includes music and discussion led
by our Rabbis. Call (2121787-7800
DIGNITYIBIG APPLE
A community 01 Lesbian and Gay Catholics. Activities
include Uturgiel and locial. every Sal. 8:00 pm. at
the Center. 208 W. 13 Street, NYC.
.
Call (2121818-1309.
DIGNITY NEW YORK
lesbian and gay Catholics and friends
AIDS Ministry. Spiritual Development
The Cathedral Project
Worship Services a Social-Sun. Eves. 7:3Opm-St. John's
Episcopal OIurch 218 Wast 11th Street
OWaverly-675-2179
EDGE
Education in. Di .... 1ad Gay EnviIIM.118I1t
Forthe physicaBy din bled Lesbian and Gay Community.
(212) 989-1921
P.O. Box 3IIiVilage Station, NewYor1t, NY 10014

fBlME SUPPORT GIIOUP
For lesbial1a who .. 1f identify II Femme. For info andmaating times caliLiu It(212182&-9817. No man plea ...
FRONT RUNNEllS
A running club for lesbian and gay athletesof all abiliti8l. Fun Runs of 1-8 milel hald wery Sal It
101m and Weds. at 7pm in Central Partt
and every Tues. at 7pm in Prospect Pa rk.
For infonnltion: call (212) 724-~.
ntE RIND FOR HUMAN DIGNITY
National Gay and Lalbian Criaia Une'AIDS 800'-1-8O().SOS-GAYS
Educational Resource Canter; Poaitivelmag81
Medii Center; NY State Art. Program
888 B'wey Suila 410 NYC.NY 10012 (212) 529-1S1O

TIlE GAY AFRICAN AMEilICANSOFWESTCHESTER(The
G.A.Jl)ia s community baaed .upport·group fonnad in
Westchester County. Varioua activitia. Ira pllnned
for the coming monthL
Please call 814-378-0727 for more info.
GAY rATHER'S FORUM
A support org.niution for gay latha",. their lova ....
and others in child-nurturing sitUltionl. Monthly meat_ ings include a potluck supper. support groups on VIIried specialized topics. speske .... and socilfizing.
Meetings: 1st Friday each month. 7pm. at The Genial;
208 W. 13th St, West of 7th Ave. ContribUli!XC $8. Bringa main couraa for 4 people (or pay a $5 food chirsj .. 1
For infonnation call: 212-979-7541 or 212-288-3238'~'GlAAD

Gar a Lalbian Alliance Agailllt o.t.Mtio.
80 Varick Street, NYC 10013 (212) 988-1700
GIAAD combats homophobia in the media and ...
where by promoting visibility of thel8lbian and gay
community and organizing gra.roota reaponaa to
an1i-gay bigotry.
Do you have 30minUbla a month tofi~homophobil7Join
the GlAAD PhoneTraalCal (21~I700forinfonnrion.
GUB
Gay and Lesbian Independent Broadclste ... invi1aa
you to tune into OUTLOOKS on YlIJAI-NY, 88.5 FM
every other Sunday. 7:30-8:3Opm and Join ua every
other Tuesday at 7:30pm to become a member ofGLIB. No experienci naaded.
505 Eighth Avenue, 18th floor. (21217~.
GAY a WBIAN HEALTH CONCERNS
An office of the NYC Dept of He.lth. providll fink.ages batwn NYC Health a'Human Svca. and the .lea"bian a Gay community. focusing in All haa!!hconcems; r8l0urce infonnation for health .. meaa
conaume ... and provide .... 125 Worth Street, Box 87.
New Yor1t, NY 10013. For info call (212) ~GAY MALE 11M ACTIVISTS
Dedicated to lafe Ind relponaible 81M since 1881.
Open meetingl w/programs on 81M techniqU81.
lifestyle i.uel. political and locial coneemL AIso'pIcia I events. speakers bureau. workahops. demos. Iifinity groupa. newsletter, mora. GMSMA -Dept O.488A
Hudson Street, Suite D23 .NYC 10014.(2121727-8878.
GMAD(GAY MEN OF AFRICAN DESCENT)
group of Gay
Men of African Descent dedicated to conlciouan_raising and the development of the Lalbian and G.yCommunity. GMAD is inclusive of African. AfricanAmerican. Caribbean and Hispanic/l.atino man ofcolor. Meetings ara hald. weekly. on FridlYS. For
more infonnation. call 718-802-01112.
80 Varick Street, NYC 10013 a supportGAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS HOTUNEFOR INFORMATION ON SAFER SEX AND HIV-RElATED HEALTH SERVICES. AND F081NFORMATION ON
ONE-TIME. WALK-IN AIDS COUNSEUNG SERVICES
212-107 __212-845-1470

TDD (For the H.ari .. lmpairad)Mon.-Fri. 10'.30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sat 12:00 to 3:00

'"l1l11I.

~CW8 OF NEW YOIIKSoci.1 club for heavy, chubby gay men a.llleir .dmir.... MonIhly lociall at III. 'Center", weekly bar
nighta Thuradayaat lIIe "Chal ... Transfer", monthly
Fat Apple Review, bi-monlllly FAR. penpall. For more
information can Ernie at 814-88&-7735 or writs:
Ga.WNY. Dept 0, P.O. Box 10, Pelham, NY 10803.
.

IIUI. C.... 1th EII.-tion AIDS Liai_)
Weekly info. and IUPPOrt group for treatments for
AIDS which c!9 not compromia.lII.
immune ayatem
further, including alternative and holistic approachel.
Wed 8pm. 208 W. 13th St. (2121874-HOPE.
IERlTAGE OF PRIJE-INC.
0lll.nizera of New York'ILaabi.n and Gay Pride'ft8I11a: the March,lIIe Rally .nd lIIe Dance on lIIe
Pier. eal (2121 881-ln4 for meeting achedule or more
inform.tion. 208_~Nt 13th Street, NY, NY 10011.
HEI1IICI(-MAIITIN INS'RIVIt
for IeIbiIn IIXIgayyoulh. CcxIlseIflg. drop-in C8I1IIIr (MF. MpmL rap groupl,lfalW'( Milt H91 School, AIDS and....,. .. information, rafarraII, Piof-ional education.
(212)833-88'l«voice) (212)833-81128TTY for deaf
HISPANIC WfITED GAYS • WBIANS
Educ.tion.I .. l1Iic.. , political action, coul1l8ling andlOCiai .ctiviti81 in Splnilh .nd Englilh by .nd for lIIe
Latino LNbi.n .nd e.y Community.
G_ral
meetinga 8:00 pm 4th Thuraday of every
montlllt 208 WNt 13th Street Call (212)891-4181
or writs H.U.e.L, P.O. Box 228 Canal Street Station,
New York, NY 10019.
IDENTITY HOUSE
N_ in our 20th year, we provide
peer counllling,lIIerapy
referrall and groupa
for lIIelelbi.n, gay and bi.. xual community.
Call ullt(212) 243-8181. Viait uut 5448th Ave.,. between 14th-15th Stree1a, Manhattan.
INSTJTU1t FOR HUMAN IDENTITY
Slidingicale fa .. -Insurance accepted. Gay a.
Laabian P..,cholllerapy (212)79&-8432
lAIBJA LEGAl. BERNSE AND EDUCATION RIND
Precedent-letting
litigation nationwide forI.. biana, gay men and people with AIDS. Memberlhip ($35 and up) inc. newsletter and invitationlto
apeci.levants.
Volunteer night on Thuradaya.lntake
call.: 2-4pm Mon lllru Fri (212) ~lAVA (lUBIANS ABOUT VISUAL ART)
C.II for alicia. for Lesbian Artists' Exhibition, Gay a.
Lelbian Community Centar, NYC. For more information,lInd SASE to : Miriam Fougere, 118 Fort Greene
Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217.
THE WBIAN AND GAY BIG APPLE CORPS
Get your instrument out of lIIe clDllt and come playwilli UI. Symphonic, M.rching, Jazz, Dixiel.nd, Rock,Rute Ensembles .nd Woodwinda.
>123 WNt 44111 St. Suita 12l. New York, NY 10038(212)889-2922.
LESBIAN. GAY
COMMUNRY SEIYICES CENTER
208 West 13th Street New York, NY 10011(212) 820-7310 9IIm-llpm everyday.
A pI.ce for community organizing and networking,.ucial sel1lic .. , cultural programa, and social eventa.ponaored byllle Center and more lIIan 150 community organizationa.
LESBIAN AND GAY lABOR NETWORK
Iv! 0IgII1iza1i0n of Lesbians arid Gays who al8 actiw inflair labor Irionswolking on dornes1ic par1nBllIhip benefits
and AIDS isat-.For more information cal (212)!1Z:H1m
WBIAN AND GAY RIGHrS PROJECT
of lIIe American CiwiIU ... rtiel Union
IINOWYOUIIIIIGHIS /WE'RE EJIPAM)N; 1lBII(212) 944-9800, ext. 545

LESBIANS AND GAYS OF RATIUSH
Brooldyh' • .ucial organization for bolll gay men .nd
lesbians. P.O. Box 1118, Midwood Station
Brooldyn~ NY 11230 - 1718)858-8437
LESBIAN HEISTORY ARCHIVES
P.O. Box 1258 ,~.. '10._' .;'New York, New YOr\(1011~ ,217/874-7232
Since 1974, the Archives hal inspired, .haped and. reflected Lesbian lives everywhere. Call to arrange aviait or to volunteer for Thuradayworknighta.
LONG ISlAND ACT-uP
P.O. Box 291, New Hyde Park, NY 11040
Support us for change on Long Ialand.
(518)338-4882 (518)897-5238 N88.au(518)92~5530 SuffolkliEN OF AlL COLORS TOGETHER NY
A multi-racial group of gay men against raciam. Meetings every Friday night at 7:45 at lIIe Lesbian and Gay
Community Services Center, 208 W. 13th Street For
mOI8 info. call: (212) 245-8388 or (212)222-9784 .
1lETR000UTAN TENNIS GROUP(MTG)
Our 200 member lesbian and gaytannia club includea
pI.ywa from beginning to toumament level. Monlllly
tennis partiea. Winter indoor league. Come play willi uII
For information: MTG, Suita K83,49&-A Hudson St, New
York, NY llX125. (718)852-8582.
IIDCA IIhn of Celor AIDS PrevemiCln ProtIML)
Provides .. far lex and AIDS education information
to gay and bisexual Men of Color; coordinates a network of peer-support groupa for gay and bisexual. Men of Color in all 5 boroughs of New York City.
303 Ninth Ave, New York, Ny 10001
or call (212) 239-1798.
NATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN TASK FORCE
ia the national grassroota political organization for
lesbians and gay men. Membership is $3CVyear.
Issue-oriented projects address violence, sodomy
laws, AIDS, gay righta ordinances, fammes, media,
etc. lllrough lobbying, education, organizing anddirect action.
NGLTF 1517 U Street NW, Washington, DC 20009.
(202)332-8483.
NEW YORK ADVERTISINGAND COMMUNICAnONS NETWORKNYACN is lIIe community's largest gay and lesbian
prof88lional group, welcoming all in communications--and lIIeir friends. Monlllly meetings, 3rd Wed
8:30pm at lIIe Community Center. Members' newslettar, iob hotline, annual directory. Phone (212) 5170380 for more info. Mention OutW8ek for one free
newsletter.
N.Y. WOMEN'S SOFTBAlL GUILDFor experienced, serious Softball Players, Coachea'and Managera. We play mod!fast pitch weekends in
Manhattan and Oueens. Try-outs begin Feb. lll11ru
April- or until filled. (212) 2~1379 Janet
NINTH STREET CENTER
Since 1973, a community dedicated to demonstratinglIIat a homosexuallifesty!e
is a rational, desirable
choice for individuals dissatisfied with lIIe rewards ofconventional living. Psychologically - focussed rap
groups, Tues., Sal, 8 to 10 pm. peer counselling available. 319 E. 9 Street. New York, NY 10003, for info call(212) 22~5153.
.
NORTH AMERICAN IlAN/BOY
LOVEASSOCIATION INAMBlA)
Dedicated to sexual freedom and especiallyintereted in gay intergeneratior.al
relationships.
Monthly Bulletin and regular chapter meetings
on the first Saturday of each month. Yearlymembership is $20; write NAMBLA. PO Box 174, Midtown Station, New York, NY 10018 or call (212)807-11578 for information.

NORTIERN UGHTS ALTERNA11YES
Improving Qu.lity of life for People willi AlDSIHIV.
THE AIDS MASTERY WORKSHOP: Exploring III. po ..
sibmti.s of a powerful and creativelifa in the flce of
AIDS. Call1212)2~8554'
NYC GAY • LESBIAN
ANI1-YlOLENCE PROJECf
Counseling, advocacy,lnd
informltion for ,uMvQraof anti-gay Ind .nti-Iesbian violence, .. xual .... uIt,
domestic violence, and other type. of victimization .
A1laervic .. free and confidenti.l.
24 hour hollin.
(212)807-0197
PEOPLE WITH AIDS COAUTION(212) 532~I-800-828-328WHotIine(212)532-ta8
Monday thru Friday 10am-epm.
Me.1 program., aupport groupa, education.1 andrafal11ll .. l1Iic.. for PWA'. and PWArc' ••PEOPLE WITH AIDS HEALTH GROUP
Undergroood buyar'. club importing not-yet-.pproved
medicati9f18lnd nutrition.1 aupplementa.
31 West 28th St 4th Roor (212)532-0280
SAGE: (Slnier Action in 8 Gay &vi1'Dllll*ll)
Social Service Agency. providing care, .CIivitiea, a. educl1ior1alsarvicea for gay a.lelbian I8nior citizenL Nto
lIIYea O\IW 1111homebound sariora a. older JIWA'a.
208 Wast 13th St NYC 10011, (212) 741-2241
SETHIAN GAYS, LESBIANS AND BISEXUALSFor a8 of us inbareRld in reaching out III.. ch oIher in IIXUberanceto IporUllIIOUIIy mcpIore and IIICpIndupon !heSelIVJaI18 Roberta"Phioaophy" as it rea"'" IIIourlivu,
peraonaly, -Iy and poitica~ Cal AI (212)II7IHil04
SUNDANCE OUTDOOR ADVENTURE SOCIETY
A non-profit club offering Outdoor activitiel for every
se880n including hiking, biking, .kiing, wltar activities and oilier outdoor activities for the Gay!lesbiancommunity. For information or complimentary
Newsle,tter. call, (212) 598-4728.
THE OUTREACH
USING CO_HALHEAUNG ITOUCH)
CorrmII1ityvdun18ei8 pnMding a weekIy~8Upp8rfor
tile Brooklyn AIDS conmlllity. TOUCH ITlIKIIB Monday IMII.
5pm to 83Ipm- at cbivrmwn Brooklyn Friends Meeting
House (tID Schalll18lhom St.ll88r Boenrn Place~ UriIIId
tralllJlOrtalion may be arranged.1rIo: (718)822-Z7!i8. TOUCH
wacOlll8S conlrillllions of Mds, food and vdLl1lHra.
ULSTER COUNTY GAY AND LESBIAN AWANCE
MealS fist and tIird Monday of each II1OIlf1
at r.JJ p.rn. 8ttha Unibrian Clvch 00 Sa\Wi Road in Kingnn
Forilbmatioo,c"(814)~
UPPER MANHATTAN TASK FORCE ON AIDS
Education, Hodine, Supportive ClSe Management,
and Vol:mteer Recruitment and Referral.
212-870-3352
WHAMI (WOIl18n'l .... Ith Action Mobilization)
A non-partisan coalition ,'ommitted to demanding,securing and defending absolute reproductivil freedom and quality heallll care for all women. We.'
meet every Wed. at 8:30 pm at theVillage Independent Democrats,
224 West Fourth Street (off Sheridan Sq.). We are
not affiliated willi VID.
(212) 713-5888.
Mailing address: WHAMI, P.O. Box.133, NYC 1.0009. WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVECOIIMUNRY CENTER (WACC),
A nOllrprofit, Lesbian community center serving
Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties. Thurs night
weekly discussion grps. 8:30pm, for other activities
plea8,e contact us at(516) 483-2050.

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OUTWEEK BAR GUIDECHELSEAo

Barbary Coast, 64 7th Ave. 4th St.), 675-0385
The Break; 232 8th Ave: i22nd St.), 627-0072.

Duchess II, 70 GroveSt (7thAve.),242-1Q

Cat's, 730 8th Ave., 221-7559

Dugout, 185 Christopher St., 242-9113 (fonnerly
the Ramrod)

Don't Tell Mama, 343 W. 46th St., 757-0788

Eighty Eights, 228 W lOSt., 924-0088

Chelsea Transfer, 131 8th Ave ..(bet. 16th & 17th),
929-7183
Eagle's Nest, 142 11th Ave (21st St.), 691-8451
Private Eyes, 12 W. 21st St. (bet. 5th & 6th),
206-mO.
Rawhide, 212 8th Ave.: (21st St.), unlisted.

'J's, 675 Hudson St., 242-9292
Julius, 159 W. 10th St, 929-9672
Keller's, 384 West St (at Christopher); 243-1907
Kelly's Village West, 46 BedfordSt., S2.9-!m2
The Locker Room, 400 W. 14th St. (9th Ave),459-42~
Temporarily Closed

Spike, 120 11th Ave., 243-9688

WEST VILLAGE'
The Annex (to Cellblock 28), 673 Hudson St (bet
13th & 14th). 627-1140- Temporarily Closed
Badlands, Christopher & West St., 741-9236
Boot$ & Saddle, 76 Christopher St., 929-9684

Gents, 360 W 42 St. (9th Ave), 967-0659

La Escuelita, 607 8th Ave (bet 38&39), 502.....
Sally's Hideaway, 264 W. 43 St., 221-9152
Town & Country, 9th Ave at 46th St., 307-1503
Trix, 246 W. 48 St. (bet. Bdwy & 8th Ave), 664-8331
The Works, 428 Columbus Ave (at 818t),
799-7365

Marie's Crisis, 59 Grove St. (7th Ave), 243-9323

EASTSIDE

The Monster, 80 Grove St. (7th Ave.), 924-3558

Bogart's, 320 E. 59th St., ~Ninth Ci[cle, 139 W. 10th St, 243-9204

Brandy's Piano Bar, 235 E. 84th St, 6~1944

Sneakers, 392 West St., 242-9830.

G.H. Club, 353 E. 53rd St., 223-9752

Two Potato, 145 Christopher St, 242-9340.

Johnny's Pub, 123 E. 47th St., 355-871~

Ty's, 114 Christopher,741-9641.

Cellblock 28, 2Il 9th Ave, 733-3144-Still temporarily closed

NY Confidential. 306 E49 St., 308-8390

Uncle Charlie's, 56 Greenwich Ave., 25~8787

Regent East, 204 E: 58th St., 355-9465

The Cubbyhole,
243-9079

WESTSIDE

Rounds, 303 E. 53rd St., 593-0807 .

438 Hudson (Morton

D.t's Fat Cat, 281 W. 12th St., 243-9041

St),

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Candle Bar, 309 Amsterdam Ave',1!74-9155

South Dakota, 405 3rd Ave., 684-8376
Star Sapphire, 400 E. 59th St., 688-4710,-

The Townhouse, 236 E. 58th St., 7544649

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EAST VILlAGE
The Bar, 68 2nd Ave. (at 4th St.), 674-9714

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Boy Bar, 15 St. Mark's PI., 674-7959
The Pyramid, 101 Avenue A, 420-1590
Tunnel Bar, 1161stAve (7th St.), m-9232

BROOKLYN (1!!)_

After FIVePlus, 5 Front St., 852-0139
Spectrum, 802 64th St. (at 8th Ave), 74~9611
Sweet Sensations, 6322 20th St., 43~2580

QUEENS (1!!)

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Breadstix. 113-24 Queens Blvd., Forest Hills,
236-0300a:

Hatfield's, 126-10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens.
261-8484

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Twenty-Nine Palms, 129 Lexington Ave., 6868299,:" ....
It 95 per minute, $2.00 for the first

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June 'lJ, 1990.&1%:&#<

Hideaway,87-36 ParsonsBlvd., Jamaica, ~-4585
Love Boat, 77-02 Broadway, Elmhurst, 429-8670

Magic Touch, 73-13 37th Rd, Jackson Hgts,. 42~8605

lunch Mon.-Fri.
dinner Mon.-Sat.

STATEN ISLAND
Sandcastle,86 Mills Ave., (7181447-9365

WESTCHESTER (914)Playroom, 590 Nepperhan Ave., Yonkers,
965-6900
Stutz, 202 Westchester Ave, White Plains,761-3100LONG ISLAND-NASSAU(!!!L-

Bedrock, 121 Woodfield Rd., West Hempstead,
486-9516

FLIRTATIONS

Blanche, 47-2 Boundary Ave., Farmingdale,694-6906

I/lt world's
5-fJDla.

Grand Central, 210 Merrick Rd, Rockville Centre,
536-4800

o.ly 0pt1Ily gil)!, polfllazlly IICII.,.
azpf'I'lI. 1IIt.'s si.gl.g

group

3rd annual

Millennium, 1770 NY Ave, Huntington, 351-1402

GAY PRIDE CONCERTPal Joey's, 2457 Jerusalem Ave., North Bellmore,
785-9301
Silver Lining, 175 Cherry Lane, New Hyde Park,354-9641

LONG ISLAND-SUFFOLK~

419,419 North Highway (At. 271.Southampton,
283-5001
Bunkhouse, 192 N. Main St. Sayville, 567-2865

CELEBRATING THE RELEASEOF TIiEIR FIRSt ALBUM!
A little reminder from t he Environmental Defense Fundthat ~ you're not ~ling,
you're throIving 3\1'3}' 3 lot morethan just your m.
You and your oommunity can ~Ie. Write the Environmental Defense Fund at: EDF-Rocycling. 257 Pari< Avenue
South, New York, NY 10010, for 3 free brochure that will tell
you vir1llally everything you
nee! to know about ~ing.
~~

l::aI::'r.wI

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Cheny's, Bayview Walk, Cheny Grove, A, 597-6820
Club Swamp Disco/Annex Restaurant, Montauk
Hwy, Wainscott, 537-3332

Wednesday & Thursday
June27&288pm
at The Ce~Jer .
208 West 13th Street
Tickets: $12 at the door
$iO in advance at A Different Lightand Os:ar Wilde bookstores
To order the album:
Send $15 for CD's or $10 for cassettes
plus $2.50 for postage and handling to

Ice Palace, Cheny Grove Beach Club, FI, 597-6600
Kiss, 161 Fa"!!8rQie Dr.,Lake Ronkonkoma,467-9273
Club 608, 608 Sunrise Hwy., W. Babylon., 661-9580
Starz, 836 Grand Boulevard, Deer Park, 242-3857

lhinIers, 894 W JericOO Tpke., Smithtl7Ml,864-1410
NEW JERSEY (M}The Flirtations
P.O. Box 421
New York, NY 10012-0008_
mE FLIRTATIONS are auditioning substitute singers.
CAll (212) 7V-73JB for information.

_Charlie's West, 536 Ma'in St., E. Orange, 678-5002
Feather's, 77 Kinderkamack Rd., River Edge,
342-6410
Friendly's Bar, 6310 Park Ave., West New York,854-9895
Excalibur, 10th & Jefferson, Hoboken, NJ, 795-1161
Nite lite, 509 22nd St., Union City, 863-9515
Yacht Club, 366 Berkshire Valley Rd., Jefferson,697-9780

The Cubbyhole
438 Hudson Street .
at Morton(212) 243-9079
A neigh,?orhood

bar forboth gay men & women

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Complete RenomIon Servlc:eFully Licensed IIICIlnsurecl~

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Injury & Accidents• Home or 'Hospital
Consultations• No Recovery No Fee

Criminal

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Cases t-t-i,

APA• False Arrest""• Public Lewdness

CUNTON HIll. BRDOKLYN,_
Sunny, fully reno. top flr., private house,
3 nns. + kitchen & bath, lots of built-ins.
Wide board pine flrs. Ideal for related
duo or couple with one child.
718-636-8608.

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Avail.lmmed. Own BR in LG3BR ArThru. Share w/2 queer men & 2 queer
cats. Near 2,3,D,Q.Ftrains. Amenities.
$48O/mo + util. and sec. Chuck or Tony
718-965~

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Society Of Spankers S&M Play Parties
For Men Only. Mondays: 6/4, 6/25, 7/16,
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Being HIV+ affects our lives in many
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Professionally affiliated in the gay
community. Experienced in individual,group, and couple therapy. Will help
you integrate emotional, interpersonaland spiritual aspects of being gay.
.Village and Park Slope area.
Daniel McCarthy, M. Div.

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Has love becomestressful and confusing?
Warm, supportive psychologists/lOvers
with Band 12years' therapeutic
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includes role playing, visualizations anddream analysis. West Village location.
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MEMORABLE VACATIONS
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GWF,20,,5'5-,120#, looking foran obnoxious
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wholeness .•.Photo,phone please.
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HEY, GIRLlE,1
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have a camera?
I'm very photogenic, and would
love to develop adiamond-like affair.
Outweek Box 2706
BISEXUALWOMAN AND
HUSBAND,4O,
seek single BI
woman, Strongly
attracted to very

heavy build. Race
unirfl>Oltant,adolescents fretover agel YOU areimportant! Write orcall (716)9282692- The movie
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Outweek Box 2686
FEARLESSADVENTURER
seeks female
buddy for horseback riding,
backPacking,rockclirming,
spelunking, etc.
I'm 27, Lesbian,intellIgent, anddrug free. Let's get
active I Box 1276,
NY NY 10009.

Sexy fem 22yr
old with dark hairand light eyesseeks soft butchfor' first time
experience.
Sensitive andcaring wanting adefinite friendship and possible
relationship.
Short hair a .;.
..must.Age range
from 25.to 35.

Very clean andno drugs.
Definitely 5'5and taller. Send
photoand#.
OutweekBox
2678

FOR BUTCHES . "ONLYMENS PERSONALSLOOKING FOR A
BUDDY
who is fun briJlht
and fit loves m,music andadventure is proudsane and true
never smokes oruses drugs but
knows how to play
It safe I'm a GWM'
28 5'6- 145lbsbrown hair, sfacheand eyes- ok looks
Send photo, phone
and facts to POB
2522, West NY,
NJ0709300.148·0~EEK

LOTS OFLAUGHS,
BRIGHTvery goodlooking
29yo WM 6' 170
stable creative
masculine, full of~aSslon and humor
ikesMOMA
design music film
theatre romancegym goals wild
dreams shop at
pearl sks similar

June 27, 1990

27-32 for fun
relationship no~uee~s snobs or
ruggles.
Outweek Box 2722
SPORADICALLYHANDSOMEGWM 38 5'8- 190,
often amusing andcurious, seeks
dinner date, maybe
dessert with a. smart man who
enjoys companionable talk. Quickwitted and down toearth preferred;
wildly attractive orstrong sense ofhumor a +. PO Box
270, BowlingGreen Station, NY
NY 10274-0270.
NO GAMES-JUST FUNII
Attractive,
intelligent charmer
looking for excite- .
ment and romance.
I'm a goodhumored GBM- 32,

6', 170.1 likeforeign travel, film
noir, jazz, ~books, an sexylegs. If you're thesolid and manly
type, over 21 but
not over the hillthen send yourphoto with yourp'h# so we can get
it started. Go
ahead, do it nowl
Outweek Box 2717

175, 30, BR/BR,
handsome, musc,
wla lover, looking
for guys w/verymusc swimmer or
gymnast build wI
chest hair for reg..
hot weekday fun.
Send photo to Box
306, Brooklyn, NY
11217.

someone walks
on beach,dancingmovies
dinner l..fant tosmell your scenton the pillow
after you've gone
and know you're
coming backsend Itr PHIPH to
OutweekBox
2712

A PAIR OF
CEN.JERSEYLOOKERS
GWM42
Handsome GWM
looking fOr .
SEEKS ASIAN
couple, 34, looking
FRIEND
relationship age"for sexy and safe
stable and affecnot important.
3 or 4 way. You
tionate GWM, 38,
are 20-40, hot and. _ Let's go out for a .
red hair, 5'9-,160
drink and talk &hunky, and need
Ibs., seeks a
LAUGH.Thafs
lots of personal
romantic Asian guy . . attention. Tell us
important. I'm
5'10,stocky.Lt.hr.
24-34 for fun,
what you like. PHIfriendship, andbl.eyes.Am theaPH PO Box 637
perhaps more. I
ter prof. perf. &NY NY102740637.
work in NYC.
want to give you
You:love to laugh~Ieasure. Pis send
SENSUALand make-out,
etter with phone
CONTACT
number to:
want relationship,
GWM365'10Outweek BOx2716
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can be 20's to
40's, open topossibilities (evenwith the usual
hesitations)SO'metimes on abike ride I'll want tostop' and kiss you.
Wnte with photo,phone#.
Outweek Box 2689

EUROPEAN
IMPORT
39yoNYC
professional,
Mediterranean
looks, 6'1",179,
enthusiastic andopen-minded, Jazz.
fan, seeks similarly
well-grounded, yetromantic man for
one-on-one love.
Send letter w/
photo to P.O. Box
K82, 496A Hudson
St, NY 10014.
TALL-BROAD- MEN
who require reallyexciting servicetop or btm--by a .
hotWM, 34, 6'1",
185, vy hndsm,
masc, wks out,
and sinc. Pleasecall to meet in
NYC (no phone jo)
for regular
explosive action
and more: Roy(212)675-7352.

MILLIONAIREEXECUTIVE, 40
YEARS
Healthy, cultured,
successful seeks
GWM between theages of 19-25
good looking
intelligent,swimmer's build,
HIV-, no drugs,
alcohol or smoke. I
am seeking loyal
companion andassistant who canhelp with driving
and office duties.
Trust is important.
This is not foreveryone. But if it
grabs your interest
you might bepleasantly
su~rised.
Un imited possibilities. Send photo &phone a must. No
fems.
Outweek Box 2684

CHELSEA GYM
BODY
Mind and soulwanted by GWM
38, 5'11" 21 0# nonmuscular. Looking
to enjoy each otherin and out of bed;
I'm HIV- and you
should be too.
Respond with
explicit photo to:
BC 20053 LTS,
NYC 10011-9993.
FILM/TV SCI-FI
PALS
W/M, 32, 5'10",
160, seeks film &T.V. (Star Trek,
Dr.Who, Blakes 7,etc.) fans forfriendship, video
gatherings &movie outings.
Also into memorabilia. This will not
be a book &animation club as
those are seconda..y interests tome. DCH, P.O.
Box 1401, Cooper
Station, NY NY
10276 •.,.
CLEAR EYED &ROMANTIC
adve~turous, .
cr~atlve, senSu-

148 OUT..wEEK

SOUTHERN GWM
IN NYC306'2"170handsome slim
healthy successful'
fun-loving looking
for a similar GWM
25-40 interested in
the arts, music,
and film for fun
anClcompanionship. Send photoand phone to:
Outweek Box 2683

I

10 INCHES OR
MORE
GWM, 38, 210#,
5'11", br hair andeyes,nonmuscular wants a
goodlooking man
with a big one foroccaisional SAFE
fun and enjoyment.
.
June 27, 1990

I'm HIV- bottom,
you should be a
top and HIV-.
Respond withphoto for reply toBD20276LTS
New York, NY
10011-9993.
POSITIVEACTION
Don't let HIV slow
you down. Hot
GWM, 5'7",155,
BR/GR, muscularand butch, wants
other hot, cleancut
positive dudes formutual cocksucking, titwork,
affection. Optional
bonus points forlittle guys,
redheads, smoothbodies, muscle.
Photo and phoneto:Outweek Box 2679
SEEKING LOVER
Middle aged
handsome malewith high position
seeks goodlooking male lover
which is willing andable to travel at myexpense. Mustlove partying andnight life. Send
letter and photograph to: Richard
McClain 2707
North Loop West
#900, Houston TX
77008.
BUDDY AND
LOVER WANTEDGWM, 28, 5'10"
185# brlbr cute cln
shvn verso easy
going, sense ofhumor. Enjoy
beach, movies,
camping, longwalks and. weekends away.
l'm'looking forfriend and lover. I
feel ifs time tomarry, do you?
Smoking, LT drugs
OK. PH/PH andletter. Mike P.O.
Box 585, NYC
10268.
BLACKS/LATINS/
WHITES
GWM, 39, 5'7",
165, a bit overwt,
has a lot to offer:intelligence,character,spirituality, goodass & head. You:
clean, friendly,
20's to 4O~s;a nicedick is alw:l:s aplus. 718- 20755.
HOT BOTTOM
Wm, 53, tall, slim,
good-shape HIV+
healthy seeks SS
topmen n'eeding
service. Any agelrace okay if into
buttplay, tits, or~unishment, foto.
pperWest
Side--P .0. Box
272NY,NY10024-0272.
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MUTUALLY
BINDING
Me: 31, 5'7", 170#brlbr avg Ikng into
ropelgagsl(breath
ctrl?) w/min expo
You 25-35
adventurous
imaginative intotying &lor beingtied. No drugsl
alcohol. Safe phi~hOtO?-)/Itrto
utweek'Box 2666
AGGRESSIVETOP SEEKS
counterpart GWM,
50, 5'7", SP hair,husky seeks man
30/55: to share mywarmth, my-joy,
my sorrow. Pick up
your pen be mytomorrow. No
drugslgame
players. Be
sincere. Note andphoto please.
Outweek Box 2665

MY NAME ISSTEVE.
I am in prison f()rselling drugs.
I made a mistakethat will take 7
years to correct. I
would like to write
to gay men andwomen. I am 28,
br. hairlblue eyes,
6'1" 195 Ibs.I ama sincere andsensitive person
who needs friends
now. If you would
like to, please write
meat:
Outweek Box 2656
MONOGAMOUS
LOVING BLACKMAN SOUGHT BY
WM,4O,6'2",
168#, black hairand blue eyes forlife companion.
You are. not justcoming out of a relationship or aresort of seeing-2
someone. You aretotally fr~e to begin
a life companion
relationship. You
are 20's to 40, 5'7"
t65'11" andslender but not
thin. Your bodyand face arevirtually hairless
and almost silky
smooth. You
LOVE to suck, youare extremely
affectionate, youlove to get fucked,
and you love tokiss. Please call(212) 549-8437
between 9 p.m.
and midnight.

HANDSOME HIV+
GWM42
I AM YOUR BOY! "prof. enjoys
SLAVE
workouts, quiet
Boyish 29 yr old
music, tennis,-WM will serve as
travel & good .
your slave
friends. Member
prisoner. I am
TWA Weekenders
made to pose, lick
Clubllf you're
your feet, be
under 40 & sh8(ebeaten and fucked
these interests,(safe) by older
lets meet. Pleasemen (only) 43+. I
send photo P.O.
look good. YourBox 325 New
looks unimportant.
York, NY 10113.
R~IY w/phoneno.
P.. Box 6259,
HOT SPANKINGGrand Central
GIVEN
Station, NYC
on bare bottom
10163.

over the knee ofhandsome GWM
6'3" 1951bs. withstrong arms &muscular legs 35
will use hand
hairbrush wooden!
leather paddleswhatever you needto get your ass red
hot and squirming.
Also top for yourb6tt0m onto yourass. Answer thisad and only yourbutt will be sonyl
P.O. Box 1467 Old
Chelsea Station,
NYC.10011.

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QUALITY-NOTQUANTITY
GWMExec41
5'11" 190 BlondBlue husky & cute,
young 1ookIng/
acting, sincere,
down to earth ve..ry
romantic tap likes
travel dining
movies quiet evesat home & esp.
cuddling & being
together. Very.
relationshiporiented & not into
bars or onenighters."'~IV-. You
are younger (20'sto 32), mature,slim, attractive
bottom~lIIngto,
work ae right
relationship (so am
I). I'm real If you
are too. Pleasetake a chancesend letter, and/or
PH (photo opt) to '2170 Broadway, 'Suite 2224, NY, NY 10024. Lets
talk." .
EXECUTIVEGLADIATORS
Chubby GWM, 39,
5'5", 200, hry _chest, cln.shv., ufeseeks well-built,
masculine guys
under 45, whowant to act out
wrestling/combat
fantasies with aguy my size, 55,
no "real" fighting,but willing to try
any fight scenario
you/I/we candevise pro-style,office-type ~awls,

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\.SATURDAY
JUNE 23, 1990
9:30A.M.
CENTRAL .PARKFIVE MILESAll Runners Welcome.~:- Cerlified, TAC-sanctionedcourse. Withthec~of the New Yorlc City

srAJO' & FINISH: 90th Street& Filth Avenue
DlfRYlNRMMAfJON: EntryFee:$7fhtoughJune 11,$8 through June 22, $1 Oon race day.
CHECK·IN: Numbersmaybepkkeduppriortorace
tit the International Running Center~ 9 East 89tft

Street, NYC,on Friday,June 22, 12 noon-7:30p.m.,andon Saturday, June 23, 7:30a.m.-9:00a.m. No
numbers will be issued after 9:00 a.m on race day.
Race day entries will be limited so please enter
early.
.
r·SHIR'fS: Maybepkkeduponlyduringtheabove
registrafion hours. Size subject to availability.
Notguaranteed to late entrants.
FaEE BAG WArCH: Located atthe race start. Items
to be checked mustbe in a bag.
AWMJP$CfRfMONY: Tofollow the race atthe finish
line.
palZE DRAWING: Allentrants will be eligible fordrawingolmerchandise prizes •£?eporlmentof Pariesand Recreation and
the New Yorlc Roacl Runners Club.

~~.

David N. Dinkins, Mayor

Betsy Gotbaum
Commissioner of Paries'and Recreation

Race Directors: Claudia Borclen

Bob Nelson

Forinfonnation about the race or Front Runners
NY call 212-724-9700 or write :FrontRunners NY
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NewYorl<,NY 100 14.
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cowboy, gladlators, etc.
Midtown, daylnight. PH/PH toJJ,
Box 112, EXECUTlVE SUITE, 330
West 42nd St.,NYC 10036-6902.
Manto man.

enjoy biking,reading, quiet
times/loud times,
Twin Peaks,
politics, Virginia
Woolf & The
Sugarcubes.lf you
are diverse &stable and dreamof.someda~
moving to ark
WEEKDAYBBSlope with that
BUDDY
speclalcertalnMusq, vry handsome, vry PhJcSM, somersrson,
BrlBr, BB, 5' 0·, . send escriptive
letter, photo,
175, HIV-, hairy
phone. I'm that guy
chest, seeks
serious BB; HlV-,~our female friends
ave always
to 6'2·, for hot time
wanted to set youof ~µr life. Def
upwith.lha ry chest a +. Yr
Outweek Box 2581
baddy
gets
mine.
x 306,
GWM 38 5FT 61N
Bklyn 11217.
BRHAIRBr eyes 130 Ibs/..ESBIAN
looking for GWM
TRAPPED IN A
18 thru 30. Fun
GWM'SBODYI
loving warm
Young, literary,fun, honest, social, theater music
GMHC volunteer
25, 6ft., bld/gm," ex-Mldwestemer
Act Uf. member
Jack 18-729seeks similar or
5088.
OPPOSITE. I

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NYU JOCKS
or gymboys from
Megafitness orApple Gym can get
great service froma butch little blondonly 2 blocks
away. Massage,
mutual J/O orsome of the besthead in NYC. Phi
Ph to Box 478, 496
laGuardia Pl., NY
NY 10012.
BOY WANTS SEX
GWM 21 (looks
younger) 5'8· 125
tight te en bodymascwants .
creative safe FUN
sex wlyoung cutelean stralghtIookinlJ boys esp
wJbeefy feet. Lefs
trade photo's &fantasies: J.C. Box
8007543 W. 43rd
St , NYC 10036.

GWM, 59, seeks
in-shape,
dominant man (2560) for SIS. No
drug s, pot,
boozers; hustlers.
Easyaplcar
parking here. Write
to Box LSA, 147
W. 42 S t., #603,
NYC 10036. I lovemen wearing
uniforms, businesssuits, and jeans.
GLORY HOLESERVICEHot, horsehung, nononsense
cocksucker. Goes
down for otherhorse dick dudes.
ExperienCed,

muscular rootmllking deepthroat
assured. Age,race, unimportant.
Cock size is.
Serious. DUKE.
(212) 691-3601 .

DOM. MAN (2560) SOUGHT
Submissive, manly

LOOKING FOR A
BUDDY
who Is fun brightand fit loves film,
music andadventure Is proudsane and true
never smokes oruses drugs but
knows how ~ play
it safe I'm a GWM
28 5'6· 145lbsbrown hair, stacheand eyes- ok looks
Send photo, phone
and facts to POB
2522, West NY,
NJ07093
LOTS OFLAUGHS,
BRIGHTvery goodlooklng
29yo WM 6' 170
stable creative
masculine, full ofand humor
IkesMOMA
design music film
theatre romancegym goals wild· 2 ;dreams shop at
peari sIss similar
27-32 for fun

I:SSionrelationship no •~ueens snobs or
ruggles.
Outweek Box 2722
SPORADICALLYHANDSOMEGWM 38 5'8w 190,
often amusing andcurious, seeks
dinner date,maybe dessert
with a smart man
who enjoys
companionable
talk. Quick-witted
and down to earth
preferred; wildly
attractive or strong
senSe of humor a+. PO Box 270,
Bowling Green
Station, NY NY
10274-0270.
NOGAME5JUSTFUNII
Attractive,
inteillgent'chart11er
looking for
excitement andromance. I'm a
good-humored
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like foreign travel,
Send photo to Box
film nolr, jazz,.306, Brooklyn, NY
good books, andsexy legs. If you're 11217.
the solid andA PAIR OF
manly type, over
LOOKERS
21 but not over thehili then send your Handsome GWM
couple, 34, looking
photo with yourphI so we can get .for sexy and safe
3 or 4 way. You
It started. Go
are 20-40, hot andahead, do It nowl
Outweek Box 2717, hunky, and needlots of personal
attentlon.-Tell us
SEEKS ASIAN
what you like. PHIFRIENDPH PO Box 637
stable andaffectionate GWM, NY NY 102740637.
38, red hair, 5'9",160 Ibs., seeks a .
SENSUAL
romantic Asian gu
CONTACT
24-34 for fun,
GWM 36 5'10~ ,friendship, and1551bsBN/BN lean
perhaps more. I
hard body w/tan
want to give you
pleasure. Pis send lines wants to hold-"kiss& laugh wI
letter with phonesomeone walks onnumber to:
Outweek Box 2716 beach dancing
movies dinner I
COMPACT GUYS want to smell yourscent on the pillow
I'm a'WM, 5'10",
after you've gone
175, 30, BR/BR,
handsome, musc, and know you're
coming back send
wla lover, looking
ItrPHIPHto
for guys w/verymusc swimmer or Outweek Box 2712
gymnast build wI
chest hair for reg.

PRIDE BAIT

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152 OU~EEK.

June 27,'1990

CEN.JERSEY
GWM42
looking for
relationship age
not important. Lefs
go out for a drink
and talk & LAUGH.
Thafs Important.
I'm 5'1 O"-stocky.
Lt. hr. bl. eyes. Am
theater prof. perf.
& work in NYC.
You: love to laughand make-out,want relationshfc'
are not looking ora clone,Outweek Box 2711

etc.) fans forfriendship, video
gatherings &movie outings.
Also into memorabilia. This will not
be a book &animation club as
those are secondary Interests tome. DCH, P.O.
Box 1401, Co~er
Station, NY N
10276.

CLEAR EYED &ROMANTIC
adventurous,
creative, sensuEUROPEAN
ous, political,
IMPORTvulnerable, fun,39yoNYC
com~lex, GWM,
professional,
49, 75#,5'9",
Mediterranean
Brwn hair, hazel
looks, 6'1",179,
eyes, HIV-. You
enthusiastic andcan be 20's to.open-minded, Jazz 40's, open tofan,seeks similarly
possibilities (evenwell-grounded, yetwith the usualromantic man for . hesitations)
one-on-one love.
Sometimes on a
Send letter wI
bike ride I'll want tophoto to P.O. Box
stop and kiss you.
K82, 496A Hudson
Write with photo,
St, NY 10014.
phone#.
TALL-BROAD
Outweek Box 2689
MEN
who require really
MILLIONAIRE
exciting serviceEXECUTIVE, 40
YEARS
top or btm-by a
hotWM, 34, 6'1",
Healthy, cultured,
successful seeks
185, vy hndsm,
GWM between themasc, wks out,ages of 19-25
and sine. Please
good looking
call to meet in
intelligent,
NYC (no phone jI
swimmer's build,0) for regularHIV-, no drugs,
explosive action
alcohol or smoke. I
and more: Royam seeking loyal(212)675-7352.
companion andassistant who can
CHELSEA GYM
help with driving
BODY
and office duties.
Mlnd.and soul
Trust is important.
wanted by GWM
38, 5'11" 210# non This is not foreveryone. But if it
muscular. Looking
to enjoy each other grabs your Interest
you might bei!land out of bed,
I'm HtV- and you
plea~a~surpns .
should be too.
Unlimited possibiliRespOndwith
ties. Send photo &explicit photo to:
BC 20053 LTS,
~hone a must. No
ems.
NYC 10011-9993.
Outweek Box 2684
FILMITV SCI-FI
SOUTHERN GWM
PALS
INNVC
W/M, 32, 5'10",
306'2"170160, seeks film &handsome slim
T.V. (Star Trek,
healthy successful
Dr.Who, Blakes 7,

fun-loving looking
for a similar GWM
25-40 interested in
the arts, music,
and film for fun
and companlonship. Sendd photoand phone to:
Outweek Box 2683
10 INCHES OR
MORE
GWM, 38, 210#,
5'11", br hair andeyes,nonmuscular wants a
goodlooking man
with a big one foroccaisional SAFE
fun and enjoyment.
I'm HIV- bottom,
you should be a
top and HIV-.
Respond withphoto for reply toBD20276LTS
New York, NY
1001..1-9993.
POSITIVEACTION
Don't let HIV slow
you down. Hot
GWM, 5'7", 155,
BRlGR, muscularand butch, wants
other hot, cleancut
positive dudes formutual cocksuckin~, tltwork,a ection. Optional
bonus points forlittle guys,
redheads, smoothbodies, muscle.
Photo and phoneto:Outweek Box 2679
SEEKING LOVER
Middle aged
handsome malewith high position
seeks goodlooking male lover
which is willing andable to travel at myexpense. Mustlove partying an~night life. Send ,.
letter and photo~aPh to: Richard
cClain2707
North Loop West
#900, Houston TX
77008.
BUDDY AND
LOVER WANTEDGWM, 28, 5'10"
185# brlbr cute cln
shvn versoeasy

going, sense ofhumor. Enjoy
beach, movies,
camping, longwalks andweekends away.
I'm looking forfriend and lover. I
feel ifstime tomarl' do OU?
Smo ing, T drugs
OK. PHIPH andletter. Mike P.O.
Box 585, NYC
10268.

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BLACKS!LATINS!
WHITES
GWM, 39, 5'7",
165, Ii bit overwt,
has a Iq.tto offer:intelligence,character,spirituality, goodass & head. You:
clean, friendly,
20's to 40's; a nicedick is alw;l:s aplus. 718- 20755..
". ...._HOT BOTTOM
Wm, 53, tall, slim,
good-shape HIV+
healthy seeks SS
topmen needing
service. Any agelrace okay If Intobuttplay, tits, or~unishment; foto.
pperWset
Side-P.O. Box
272NY,NY10024-0212.
MUTUALLY
BINDING
Me: 31, 5'7", 170#brlbr avg Ikng Intorope/gags/(breath
ctrl?) wlmin expo
You 25-35
adventurous
imaginative Intotying &lor beingtied. No drugs/
alcohol. Safe phI~hotO?~tr to
utwee Box 2666
AGGRESSIVETOP SEEKS
counterpart GWM,
50, 5'7", SP hair,husky seeks man
30/55: to share mywarmth, my joy, .
my sorrow. Pick up
your pen be mytomorrow. No
drugs/gameplayers. Besincere. Note and(212) 549-8437~hoto please.
between ~ p.m. an
Outweek Box 2665 midnight.
I AM YOUR BOYISLAVEBoyish 29 yr old
WM will serve as
your slave
prlsonef. I am
made to pose, lick~urfeet, beaten and fucked(safe) by oldermen (only) 43+. I
look good. Your
looks unimportant.
R~IY wlphone no.
P.. Box 6259,
Grand Central
Station, NYC
10163.

HANDSOME HIV+
GWM42
prof. enjoys
workouts, quiet .
music, tennis,
travel & good
mends. Member
TWA Weekenders
Clubllf you're
under 40 & sharethese Interests,
lefs meet. Please
send photo P.O.
Box 325 New
York, NY 10113.

HOT SPANKING
GIVEN
on bare bottom
MY NAME IS
over the knee of
STEVE.
handsome GWM
I am in prison for
6'3" 1951bs.with
selling drugs.
strong arms &I made a mistakemuscular legs 35
that will take 7
will use hand
years to correct. I
hairbrush wooden!
would like to write
leather paddlesto gay men andwhatever you need
women. I am 28,
to get your ass red
br. halrlblue eyes, hot and squirming.
6'1" 195 Ibs.I am
Also top for youra sincere andbottom onto yourass. Answer thissensltlve!serson
who nee s friends ad and only yournow. If you would
butt will be sorryl
like to, please writ P.O. Box 1467 Old
meat:
Chelsea Station,
Outweek Box 2656 NYC 10011.
MONOGAMOUS
LOVING BLACKMANSOUGHTB
WM, 40, 8'2",
1881, black hairand blu•• y •• forIIf. companion.
You .r. not Jult
coming out of •I'Ilatlonlhlr, or .r.
IOrtof ... ng
IOm.on •• You .re
totally fre. to b.gln• 11ftcomp.nlon
r.l.tlonlhlp. You.re 20's to 40, e'7"
to5'11"and.
slender but not
thin. Your bodyand faQe arevirtually hairless
and almost silky
smooth. You
LOVE to suck, youare extreMely.affectionate; youlove to get tucked,
and you love tokiss. Please callQUALITY-NOTQUANTITYGWM EX8C41
5'11"1g0 BlondBlu. hUSk~, cut.,young 100 Ing/
actlng,llncel'l,down to •• rth v.ry
rom.ntlc top Ilk..
tr.v.1 dining
movl•• quilt .VII.t hom. '''p.
cuddling' b.lng
toe.ther. V.ry
re atlonlhlp
oriented' not Intobare or one
nlghtere. HIV-. You
are younger (20'S
to 32), mature,slim, attractive
bottom. Wlllln~ towork at the rig t
relatlonshl~ (so am
I). I'm real f you
are too. Please~ke a chanc&send letter, and/or
PH (photo' opt) toI
154 OI)~EEK

June 27, 1990

2170 Broadway,
Suite 2224, NY,
NY 10024. Lefs
talk.
EXECUTIVEGLADIATORS
ChUbb&GWM, 39,
5'5",2,hry
chest, cln.shv., ufc
seeks well-built,
mascuUne guys
unde(45, whowant to act out
wrestling/combat
fantasies with aguy my size, SS,
no "real" fighting,but willing to try
any fight scenario
youfl/we candevise pro-style,office-type brawls,
cowboy, gladiators, etc_
Midtown, daylnight. PHIPH toJJ,
Box 112, EXECUTIVE SUITE, 330.
West 42nd St.,NYC 10036-6902.
Manto man.
WEEKDAYBB
BUDDY
Musc, vry handsome, ~ Ph~SM,
Br/Br, B ,5' 0",175, HIV-, hairychest, seeks
serious BB, HIV-,to 6'2", for hot timeof r,0ur life. Def
ha ry chest a +. Yr
boddy ~h getsmine. ox 306,
Bklyn 11217.
LESBIAN
TRAPPED IN A
OWM'SBODYI
Young,llt.r.ry,
fun, hen.lt, IOCI.I,25, 8ft., bld/gm,.x·Mldw.st.mer.. ekl.lmllaror
OPPOSITE.'
en~"bIklng,
r8a ng, quiet
timellloud times,
Twin Peak.,~lItlcs, Virginia
oolf& The
Sugarcubes. If you
are diverse &stable and dream
Ofsomeda~
moving to ark
Slope with that
speclalcertalnsome-J:rson,
send escrlptlve

letter, photo,phone. I'm that guy'
~our female friends
ave always
wanted to set you
LOOKING FOR A
BUDDY
who Is fun bright .
and fit loves film,
music andadventure Is proudsane and true
never smokes oruses drugs but
knows how to ~it safe I'm a G
28 5'6" 145lbsbrown hair, stacheand eyes- ok looks
Send photo, phone
and facts to POB
2522, West NY,
NJ07093
LOTS OFLAUGHS,
BRIGHTvery goodlooklng
29yo WM 6' 170
stable creative
masculine ,.full of
passion and humor
likes MOMA
design music film
theatre romancegym goals wild
dreams shop at
pearl sks similar
27-32 for fun
relationship no_~ueens snobs or
ruggles.
Outweek Box 2722
SPORADICALLYHANDSOMEGWM 38 5'8" 1gO,
oft.n amullng andcurloul,l .. kI
dlnn.r d.te,
m~b'd .... rt
wi .Im.rtm.n
who,nJoy,.
companlOnabl.
t.lk. Qulck·wlttedand down to e.rth
pref.rred; wildly'
attractlv. or strong
senll of humor a+. PO Box 270,
Bowling Green
Station, NY NY
10274-0270.
NOGAME9JUSTFUNII_
Attractive,
Intelligent charmer
looking for
excitement andromance. I'm a
Gd-humoredBM- 32,6',170.1
like fore~n travel,film nolr,· azz,
good books, andsexy legs. If you're
the solid andmanly type, over21 but not over thehili then send yourphoto with yourph# so we can get
It started. Go
ahead, do It nowl
Outweek Box 2717
SEEKS ASIANFRIEND
stable andaffectionate GWM,
38, red hair, 5'9",160 Ibs., seeks aromantic Asian guy
24-34 for fun,friend.ship, andperhaps more. I
want to give you
pleasure: Pis send
letter with phone
number to:
Outweek Box 2716
COMPACl' GUYS
I'm a WM, 5'10",
175,30, BRlBR,
handsome, musc,
wla lover, looking
for guys w/verymusc swimmer or~mnaat build wI
c eat hair for reg.
hot weekday fun.
sendl,hoto to Box
306, rooklyn, NY
11217.
A PAIR OFLOOKERS
HandlOm. GWM
couple, 34, looking
for .. X)' .nd I.ft
30r4w~.
You
are 20-4 ,hot .nd
hunk~, .nd n.ed
IOtaOf-ptl'lO".1.tt.ntlon. Tell UI
wh.t you Ilk•• PHI
PH PO Box 837
NY NY 10274·
0837.
SENSUALCONTACTGWM365'10"1551bsBN/BN lean
hard body wltan
lines wants to holdkiss & laugh wI
someo~e walks onbeach anclng
movies dinner I

want to smell your •Scent on the pillow
after you've gone
and know you'recoml~ back send
Itr PHI Hto
Outweek Box 2712
CEN.JERSEY
GWM42
looking for
relationship ~ge
not Important. Lefs
go out for a drink
and talk & LAUGH.
Thafs Important.
I'm 5'1 O"--stocky.
Lt. hr. bl. eyes. Am
theater prof. perf.
& work in NYC.
You: love to laughand make-out,want relationship,
are not looking for
aclone.
Outweek Box 2711
EUROPEAN ~...... ,IMPORT
39yoNYC.professional,
Mediterranean
looks, 6'1",179,
enthusiastic andopen-minded, Jazz
fan, seeks similarly
well-grounded, yetromantic man for
one-on-one love.
Send letter wI~hoto to P.O. Box82, 4961\Hudlon
St, NY 10014.
TALL-BROAD•
MEN
who require really
eXCltln~...top ora
hotWM,34,81",
185, vy hndlm, .
m.1O wkI out,
ind lino. Pl....
.
c.II to ni.1t In
NYC (no phon. y0) for.xplollv •• otlon
and mol'l: ROl(212)875·738 •r.

""'U,.,CHELSEAOYM
BODY
Mind and lOul
wanted~GWM
38, 5'11" 2101 nonmuscular. Looking
to enjoy each otherIn and out of bed,
I'm HIV- and you .
should be too.
Re~ndwlthe':fl cit Ghoto to:
B 200 3 LTS,

:111

NYC 10011-9993.
FILM/TV SCI·R
PALS
W/M, 32, 5'10",
160, seeks film &T.V. (Star Trek,
Dr.Who, Blakes 7,etc.) fans forfriendship, video
gatherings &movie outings.
Also Into memorabilia. This will not
be a book &animation club as
those are secondary Interests tome. eCH, P.O.
Box 1401, Cooper
Station, NY NY
10276.

A BUSY SIGNAL MEANS

THERE'S ~CTlON

ON THE NETWORKSO CAll -1·900·999~8500

I '.', :156 'OUTfflEEKSPORADICALLYHANDSOMEGWM 38 5'B: 190,
often amusing andcurious, seeks
dinner~ate,maybe dessert
with a smart man
who enjoys
companionable
CLEAR EYED &talk. Quick-witted
ROMANTIC
and down to earth
adventurous,
preferred; wildly
creative, sensuattractive or strong
ous, political,
sense of h~r.IL
vulneral:!!e, fun,+. PO Box 270,
complex, GWM,
Bowlirg Green49,175#,5'9",
Brwn hair, hazel ~ Station, N
Y NY 10274-0270.
eyes, HIV-. You
can be 20's to
NO GAMES40's, open to. JUST FUN!!
possibilities (evenAttractive,
with the usual
intelligentpharmer
hesitations)lookingfo(
Sometimes on abike ride I'll want to excitement andromance. I'm astop. and kiss you.
good-humored
Wnte with photo,
GBM- 3~ 6', 170. I
phone#.
like foreign travel,
Outweek Box 2689
film nolr, jazz,
good books, and
LOOKING FOR A
sexy legs. If you're
BUDDY
the solid and .
who Is fun bright
manly type, overand fit loves film,
21 but not over the'music andhill then send youradventure is proudphoto with yoursane and true
p'h# so we can get
never smok&s or
It started. Go
uses drugs but
ahead, do It nowl
knows how to play
Outweek Box 2717
"it safe I'm a GWM
28 5'6" 145lbsSEEKS ASIAN
brown hair, stache'FRIEND
and eyes- ok looks
stable and
Send photo, phone affectionate GWM,
and facts to POB
38, red hair, 5'9",2522, West NY',
160 Ibs., seeks a
NJ07093
romantic Asian guy
24-34 for fun,
LOTS OFfriendship, andLAUGHS,
perhaps more. I
BRIGHT
want to give you
very gooddlooklng
pleasure. Pis send
229yo WM 6' 170
letter with phonestable creative
number to:_'June 27, 1990'

masculine, full of
passion andhhumorllkes
MOMAdeslgn
music film theatreromance gym
goals wild dreams
shop at pearl sks
similar 27·32 forfun relationship noqueens,snobs or
druggles,Outweek Box 2722,

O-JOJ

Outweek Box 2716
, COMPACT GUYS
I'm a WM, 5'10",
175, 30, BRlBR,
handsome, musc,
wla lover, looking
for guys w/verymusc swimmer or
gymnast build wI
chest hair for reg.
hot weekday fun.
Send photo to Box
306, Brooklyn, NY
11217.
A PAIR OFLOOKERS
Handsome GWM
couple, 34, looking
for sexy and safe
3 or 4 way. You
are 20-40, hot andhunky, and needlots of personal
attention. Tell us
what you like. PHIPH PO !39x 637
NY NY 10274-

0637.
SENSUAL
CONT.ACTGWM365'10"1551bs BN/BN lean
hard body wltan
lines wants to holdkiss & laugh wI
someone walks onbeach dancing
movies dinner I
want to smell yourscent on the pillow
after you've gone •and kno~ you're
coming back send
ItrPHIPHto
Outweek Box 2712

39yoNYC
professional,
Mediterranean
looks, 6'1", 179,
enthusiastic andopen-minded, Jazz
fan, seeks similarly
well-grounded, yetromantic man for
one-on-one love.
Send letter wI
photo to P.O. Box
K82, 496A Hudson
St, NY 10014.
TALL-BROAD
MEN
who require reallyexciting servicetop or btm-by a
hotWM, 34, 6'1",
185, vy hndsm,
masc, wks out,
and sine. Pleasecall to meet in
NYC (no phone V0) for regular
explosive action
and more: Roy(212)675-7362.
c__y

CHELSEA GYM
BODY
Mind and soulwanted bY GWM
38, 5'11" 210# nonmuscular. Looking
to enjoy each otherin and out of bed,
I'm HIV- and you
should be too.
Respond with
explicit ptloto to:
BC 2005~ LTS,
NYC 10011-9993.

ALMfTV SCI·FI
PALS
W/M, 32, 5'10",
160, seeks film &T.V. (Star Trek,
CEN.JERSEYDr.Who, Blakes 7, •GWM42etc.) fans forlooking forfriendship, video
relationship age
gatherings &not important. Lefs
~vie outings.
,go out for a drink
Also into memoraand falk & LAUGH.
bilia. This will not
That's important.
be a book &l'm5'10"-stocky.. - animation club as
Lt. hr. bl. eyes. Am
those are secon. theater prof. perf.
dary interests to& work in NYC.me. DCH, P.O.
You: love to laughBox 1401, Cooper
and make-out,.
Station, NY NY
want relationship,
10276.
are riot looking fora clone.
CLEAR EYED &Outweek Box 2711
ROMANTIC

ADULTSONLY
158 OUT..wEEKEUROPEAN
IMPORT

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49, 75#,5'9",
Brwn hair, hazeleyes, HIV-. You
can be 20's to
40's, open topossibilities (even,with the usual
hesitations)
Sometimes on abike ride I'll want tostop and kiss you.
Write with photo,phone I.
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. USE A CONDOM WHEN RJCIONG.
Avoid Oil-basedlubricantssuchas
babyoil, Vaseline,Criscoetc., asthey
can causecondomsto break.Instead
usewater-based lubes like KY.The,older a condom,the less reliable, sofind condomswhose manufacturers'
dates are lessthan three monthsold. ,USE A CONDOM DURING-ORAL
SEX. If you don't, avoid placingthe
head of your partner'scock·inyour
mouth. HIV-infectedcum or precum
can enter your bloodstreamthroughcuts, tears or ulcers in your mouth.
US£ DENTAL DAMS DURING
ORAL-VAGINAL SEX.HIVis present
in someamountsin vaginal secretions,urine, menstrualblood,and infectionrelated vaginal discharge.
NEVERSHARE WORKS. This
includesneedles,syringes,droppers,
spoons,cottons or cookers.If you mustreuseworks, cleanthem'aftej each
use with bleach,or in an emergency
with rubbingalcohol or vodka,bydrawing the solution into the needle
three times andthen drawing cleanwater into the needlethreetimes.
AVOID RSlING, RIMMING, OR
SHARING UNCLEANEDSEXTOYS.
AVOID POPPERS.
AVOID EXCESSIVEALCHOHOLOR
DRUG USE. Many peopleare unable
to maintain safer sex practicesaftergetting high.
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Playwith, but don't share,clean sex
toys, vibrators anddildoes. Enjoymassage, hugging,masturbation(alone.
with a partner or in a group),and roleplaying.
Remember, sex is good, al'!d gay
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safer sex and you can protect
others, remain safe and have fun.

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MILLIONAIREEXECUTIVE,4O
YEARS
Healthy, cultured,
successful seeks
GWM between theages of 19-25
good looking
intelligent,swimmer's build,
HIV-, nC)_drugs,
alcohol or smoke. I
am seeking loyal
companion and ' .'.'
assistant who can help with ~riving
and office duties.
Trust is important.
This is not foreveryone. But if it
grabs your interest
you m;ght bepleasantly
surprised.
Unlimited possibilities. Send photo &phone a must. No •fems.
Outweek Box 2684

SOUTHERN GWM
IN NYC306'2"170handsome slim
healthy successful
fun-loving looking
for a similar GWM' 25-40 interested in
the arts, music,
and film for fun.
and companion:
ship. Sendd photoand phone to:
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10.lNCHESOR
MORE
GWM, 38, 210#,
5'11", br hair andeyes,nonmuscular wants a
goodlooking man
with a big one foroccaisional SAFE
fun and enjoyment.

I'm HIV- bottom,
you should be a
top and HIV-.
Respond withphoto for rep~ toBD20276LT
New York, NY
10011-9993.
POSITIVEACTION
Don't let HIV slow
you down. Hot
GWM, 5'7",155,
BR/GR, muscularand butch, wants
other hot, cleancut
positive dudes formutual cocksucking, titwork,
affection. Optional
bonus points forlittle guys,
redheads, smoothbodies, muscle.
Photo and phoneto:Outweek Box 2619
SEEKING LOVER
Middle aged
handsome malewith high position
seeks goodlooking male lover
which is willing andable to travel at myexpense. Mustlove partying andnight life. Send
letter a~ ~hotograph to: ichard
McClain 2707
North Loop West
#900, Houston TX
77008.
BUDDY AND ,LOVER WANTEDGWM, 28, 5'10"'
185# brlbr cute cln
shvn verso easy
going, sense ofhumor. Enjoy
beach, movies,
camping, longwalks andweekends away.
I'm looking forfriend and lover. I
feel irs time tomarry, do you?
Smoking, LT drugs
OK. PH/PH andletter. Mike P.O.
Box 585, NYC
10268.
BLACKS!LA TINS!
WHITES
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MY NAME ISSTEVE.
I am in prison for
sellingdrugs.
I made a mistakethat will take 7
years to correct: I
would like to write
to gay men andwomen. I am28,
br. hairlblueeyes,_6'1- 19SIbs. I ama sincereandsensitiveperson
who needsfriends
now. If you would
like to, pleasewrite
me at:
OutweekBox 2656

MUTUALLY
MONOGAMOUS
BINDINGLOVINGBLACK-,
Me: 31, 5'7", 170#· MAN SOUGHTBY
brlbr avg Ikng Into. WM, 40, 6'2-,
rope/gagsl(breath· "168#, black hair
ctrI?)wlmln expo
and blue eyes for
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lifecompanion.
adventurous
You are not justImaginativeinto
comingout of atying &lor being
relationshipor aretied. No drugs/
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someone.You are(photo?)/Itrto
totally free to begin
Outweek Box 2666 a life companion
relationship.You
AGGRESSIVE
are 20's t> 40, 5'7TOP SEEKS
to 5'11- andcounterpartGWM,. slenderb
50, 5'7", SP hair,
ut not thin. Yourhusky seeks man
body and face are
30/55: to share my virtuallyhairless
warmth, my joy,and almost silky
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midnight.
SLAVE. Boyish 29 yr old
HANDSOMEHIV+
GWM42
WM will serve 18
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your slave
worf(outs,quiet
prisoner. I am.
madeto pose, lickmusic,tennis,
travel & goodyour feet, bebeaten and fucked friends.Member(safe) by older
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will use hand
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Also top for yourbottom onto yourass. Answer thisad and only yourbutt will be sorryl
P.O. Box 1467 Old
Chelsea Station,
NYC 10011.
QUALITY-NOTQUANTITY . GWM Exec 41 .5'11" 190 BlondBlue husky & cute,
young looking/acting, sincere,
down to earth very
romantis top likes
travel dining
movies quiet evesat home & esp.
cuddling & being
together. Veryrelationshiporiented & not into
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are younger (20'sto 32), mature,slim, attractive
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I). I'm real if you
are too. Pleasetake a chance.' send letter, and/or
PH (photo opt) to'2170 Broadway; .Suite 2224, NY,
NY 10024. Lefs
talk.
. EXECUTIVEGLADIATORS
Chubby GWM, 39,
5'5", 200, hry
chest, cln.shv., utc
seeks well-built,
masculine guys
under45,who
want to act out
wrestling/combat
fantasies with a"164 OUT"YWEEKJune 27, 1990.

guy my size, SS,
no "real" fighting,but willing to try
any fight scenario
youJllwe candevise pro-style,office-type brawls,
cowboy, gladiators, etc.
Midtown, dayl
only 2 blocks
away. Massage,
mutual J/O orsome of the besthead in NYC. Phi
Ph to Box 478, 496
LaGuardia Pl., NY
NYfoQ12.
BOY WANTS SEX
GWM 21 (looks
younger) 5'8" 125tight te en bodymascwants
creative safe FUN
sex w/young cutelean stralglrt- .,..looking boys esp
wlbeefy feet. Lefs
trade photo's &fantasies: J.C. Box
8007543 W. 43rd
St , NYC 10036.
DOM. MAN (2560) SOUGHT
Submissive, manly
GWM, 59, seeks
in-shape,
domin.t man (2560) for SIS. No

drug s, pot,
boozers, hustlers.
Easy apt. car
parking here. Write
to Box LSA,147
W. 42 S t., #603, ' "~YC 10036. IIQve
men wearing
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Experienced,
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assured. Age,
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Cock size IS.
Serious. DUKE.
(212) 691-3601.

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