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not "fit to print?" Apparently, when ~ crimes are
PerPetrated against gays and lesbians. Or at leastthat seems to be the message conveyed by tbe New york nmes,
the Dally News and New York's other major news organizations.
last week, the dty's attention was riveted on trials stemmingfrom the bias-related murder of Yusef Hawkins in Bensonhurst- and tensions between Blacks and Koreans in Flatbush.
During this tense week, several inddents of antigay violence occurred. In one case, college boys yellitlg antigay ,epithets allegedly invaded a male bookstore in the East Village.
Two days later, _a gay man was badly injured when he wasslashed, by a gang of teenagers outside a popular gay bar on St.
Marks flace. His assailants were reported to have screamed'"fucking faggots" as they beat and slashed 'their victim, who
required 43 stitches for a five-inch fada! gash. And a few days
later, a plate glass window was smashed 'at another popular gay
bar, this time in the heart of the west vtµage. '~,In addition to their obvious antigay motivations, thesecrimes had something else in common. None of them werereported in the dty's daily papers. Yet during the same time
period, the subject of bias crimes against Blacks, Koreans andother groups dominated the front pages. It's unlikely that members of any other minority could be set upon and stabbed bypeople screaming ethnic slurs, without such inddents becomingnews events. Yet antigay inddents are often ignored and suppressed by New York's news establishmentI
As ethnic tensions reached the boiling point last week, Mayor
Qinkins delivered, an eloquent speech urging tolerance and understanding. He incIude& in his remarks, which Were televised live
On the major networks, several references to gays and lesbians. Yet
in aexample of insensitivity, The New York nmes omitted
all men~of gayS and lesbians in their article on the mayor's
speech. And to add-insult,to serious injury, the nmes printed
what they called "the text of Mayor David N. Dinkins's address", the rtext day and omItted blS ref(!r'fmCeS to lesbians and gays.
, .It seems clear that the journalistic powers in New York andelsewhere are content to ignore Crimes against gays and lesbians
as long as we allow them to. The valiant efforts of GLAAD todraw, attentiOh to homophobia in the press, and of the Anti, Violence project to call attention to inddents' of bias crime, need
to be encouraged and su'pported. And if the, malnstfeam press
cOntinues to belittle antigay ~es
and .-ender them invisible,~ld
consider upping the ante. ...
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Been1h8f8
The one voice missing
from your panel discussion on
outing was from somebody
that It has happened to. I'moot a public figure, I'm not apolltlclcrl and I'm certainly nocelebrity. I was yanked out of
the closet by the Maryland, State ponce catching me at
the wrong place at the wrong
tfme and In the wrong posIflon. 1he Bdtinore SI.n prtnted
names, addresses, occupations and marital status of
about a dozen men caught
In the role!, myself Included.
The Immediate results
were that I eventually lost myjob, my already rocky marriage dissolved and there
were several very long ~:lnd
teaful'evenlngs with my par~'ents. ', Overthe next year, I got
Into therapy, JOined a comIng-out group and began topiece rrr{ Ute back together. 'At the beginning It 'was very
frightening, but In the process I found a strength I 'didn't know 1 had and oldand new friends who really
loved and supported
It's
now four years later, and I'm
c1arm glad I'm out.'
I now know that IMnglie all those years cost me
more than coming out ever
could have. I also know that
It would have been many,
many more years before I
could
have foundthecOOroge to come out on myown. So I guess lowe that 'cop that arrested me a debt
of gratitude for starting a pr0cess that I was too -scared toinitiate on
own.
Would I now support
and participate
In outingsomeone 'else?Well, I ran Into
myoid boss, the one that
fired me, at a gay disco.
WhUe I haven't brought him
out, I did cold-coek the bastard right there on the dance

Boy, did fflatfeel good.
JIm Goecke
Bdtfmore, Md.
Against All Outs
I have been thinking
over this whole aena of out-,
Ing to see wtiere I stand on
all of this. I am out to family,
friends and co-workers. NJy
choice. It was great to see
this topic covered by Out-OT ..

be made that decrees
outing as the dlrectfve
for the community. It Is
an opinion of those In aplace of power' (media,
as one example), topursue an agenda that
seems to make sense.
But at the cost of who
and what? INhere doesone
the line?,
If a person In apolitical place of powersays, -I really. believe,.

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socIe1yand'gays will b9'i fj 11''',,'9-,,'''+1 111,.,,'\8 'W'fif'tatlonof all sides andbetter served by a
who belleves,ln Its benefit.
opinions (no. 46, May 16).
gathering of names of those
Naming names Is nanAnd opinion Is a key word, I that test HIV-posltlve andIng names,and serves no one
think, for that Is all that thepossibly Isolate them,· It Is nobut the person who enjoys
symbol of outing'ls. An opln~ different. It Is an opinion thatthe fantasy of mass control
Ion that some would IIke'to
Is put Into dctlbn by someand feels others ought tosee take place more otten
one In a place of Influence
embrace the same OpInIon.
and hope It will benefit the'or power. The community'
This Is no( to say never.
commlJ'l1ty (1here Is no guarwould be outraged
andantee Iwhere It would lead),scream at the Imposltfon ofThose that 1I\1~ with the,knowledge of their sexuality
and then others that are of ' what Is an oppressive meaand tuck us over with theiran opinion that It Is harmful,sure carried out by someone"Week with a good represen-,srONEWAl.1. !llors ,"BY ANDREANATALIE

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position-yes, they need tobe slapped wHh the reaIHy of
their nature, since they are
actively pursuing a parallel
track of Inner- and outerhatred. But not for fhose who
are' simply unwillingor
unready to live with the full.reODtY of~their sexualldenffly,
whatever that means for,them.
Evolutioncannotbeforced, or It becomes a eontradlctlon. Blocks advanced'becauseof those that
believed In their history andvalue os a people both se,:r
orate and port of all men(sic). They could not offord towaste time convincing theones that opted for the write
man's way to trying to fit In.and forget their own struggle.
The movement to edu'cate os a united group (I.e.
ACT UP) does work, to bringreoU1y a Iltfle, closer to 1hose
who know they live a lie.
, Who knows what I~esson Is
idue anyone? But no one'needs to ploy God and.teach sOmeone their particular destiny. We hove enoughrof the Helmses, O;Connors
and Rooneys, who ore USIng
their asses os a mold for the

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most desirable ass. Let's not, mimic them but keep withthe tradition of our personalhlstoiy and break.the molds'thOt hover above our heads.
Joseph caputo, Queens

die. Plit yourselv~sln
thePerhaps you'll thinkplace of (someone) being
about what you've been
dragged out of the closet.
writing, unless yoU stili nonowWe,stlll can't be casual In
Iy perceive all guys, straight
relating to a lover out Inor otherwise, as being tushIIc (holding hands, kissing,mongering monsters wHh tesetc.). You must understandticles for brains. On respect,that for all of us to be fully
the SmIths put It best; you just
In Between on OutIng
out, we have to look out forhaven't eaned It yet. boby.
I feel somewhat
Ineach ofher.
bct>y.
between about outing, this
WIth raga-cis to Kathryn
PIerre Brown
latest rage of Ideal that Out- otter (-N.Y.
no. 45,
Monhatton~andlony Gutenberg's
May 9), and I quote: -The
group at WBAI ore juggling.'
notion of being treated os on
1,500 Years and Counting
Of course I ctorl't exocHy findobject placed on ttis ,plal9t
I wonted to respond to
It Ideal that goy ond bisexual solely for their pleasure galls
the essays on outing whichpeople should keep silent
me to no end" I likeappearedIn your May 16
about their sel;(uallty. But , women ... • Nonetheless, It(no..46)Issue.
whenever someone Hke Bob 'sounds more like a tone of
It seems to me that on aPals comes out on his own orrebellion verging on malefundamental
level,theIs outed, consequences are phobia than a naturaloJOpressionof gay men andlikely. Paris, os on example,
lesblanlstiC desire. Not sincelesbians Is based on on orb!conceded his bodybuilding-Stonewall Rlots·'s post job-. ,. trary morql assumption thatcareer was crippled, and It blngs at men, not to mention
1hE!y(we) shoUd be oshcrned
will toke more than several
Marlo Moggentl's -Secrets Qf of-ourselves, ashamed for ...
1housond letters to make, the ' a lesbian's love ute· (no. 8, their· (our) moral failings.
people curb their,. bioses
Aug. 29, 1989.). was there
Shame Is a PQVferful emoagainst gayS.
,:such contelTl'f against guys. tlon, on Inescapably social
Outing ranges from
Needless to SCIy, the -potrlemotion and on emotl(mharassment to gay-bosh.lng
archy· or society Itself won't
exploited for social control.
to loss of a career. You'dchange for any of us, nor wiD
People were taught
even be making on adverguys oct anY dJfferently
shame for homosexual feelsory, a homophobe, out of
toward you glr:ls, no matter
Ings ond behavior over 1.500.
that person, and I know you
how much hlt-qnckun writing
years ago, when Christians
folks at O~
don't wont
and bodily chor:lges you gowere trying to displace thealy more1h<:rl you can halthrough.
blame for the fall of the
Roman Empire from thel(lselves. The lesson has beenrehearsed In ~very generation since and driven homeby the most brutal actS of torture imaginable. (Remerrber
Jacques DeMolay?) It has
also been taught In more
subtle wa.jS, os In the habit ofnewspapers which use phrases like -avowed homosexual· because they fear a libel
suit, should they choose toreport someone's gayness
without an Ironclad selfadmission.
-Outing someone
to-punish· them misses the, point. We Should be changIng the culture so 1hot everyone can be truthful about
her /hIS/HS sexuality. We should
refuse to play any role In apublic drama In which the'lesson about (homo)sexuallty
Is that It Is shameful. And;please stop saying that outing

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or any fruthtelnng Is going to ,ciscoFoundation
ruin anyone's life. If the bigots go after some celebrity
and the San If,
Franciscoor some average
JaneInterreligious
because the fruth has been
Coalitionon
told, tell the fruth about the
AIDS (to menbigotry. The gay community
Is not sacrificing anyone. If tion Just a few
of the orgc;r.lzthe breeders beat up oners) can take
Richard Chamberlain, Jamesto the streets
Holobaugh or anyone else,
In a non-v.lolet us be very clear about
lent, but powwho Is precipitating the vioerfully united,
lence. Let's fight back.

,ma1Ifestation of oU' COhCem
about the way our govern-"ment has handled this epidemic. W~ are expecting
50,(0) people to join us. This
Is hardly keeping qJletl. " Bob Nelson, ChaIr

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San Frandsco .,Better Jhem Than Us

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inning the Outer
Re: Michele
DeRan!eau's firing from the S.F.Senffnel ("Gay Paper FIres Edtor
for Outtng,' no. 48, May 30)might I suggest that Chalker's
attempt to label DeRaniedu
as '"very straight' on accountof her bisexuality constltues
an entirely new practice In
opposition to outtng,
forth to be known as -Imng?'

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A Horny Night i"I Georgia
I must complain I Your
magazine made me homy. It
also made me thiN<. llis Is afrustrating state' for me to be
In. So Is Georglal

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AtlCl'lta
Not Quiet on the Western Front
What power In a tlttel
I was crnazed that yourjournal chose to tItte a recent
letter from me, urging nonvlolenye during the upcomIng.Slxth International AIDS
Conference, with the words"Stay QuIet. Don't Riot.'
Perhaps I did not makemyself clear.
There are many' of us In
San Francisco who are verymuch against violence butvery much In favor of speakIng out. In fact, we are orgo- .
nlzlng a maJQr AIDS Unity
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allergic to cats, but I amshocked that OutWeek cor~es advertisements for PETA,
an organzatlon openly dedIcated to ending the use of, animals In medical research.
Animal rights activists havetrashed AIDS research labs
and attacked
the NIH for
doing ,too' much, no less.
Sh()uld OutWeek be paid topromote those who would
have us die so that' mlc,emight live?
Your readers should
wresI1e wfth tIis. Isay, -Better
Cheetah, $pdt or ??? than afriend of yours or nine.·
Otherwise, please keep
up the great work. ', BracJ Macdonald'
Manhattqn

ReYSOnRevelation
First of all, congratula-tions on YOll almost one-yea"
anniversary. Th~ meeting of
writers ald other contributors
on May 7, which drew iTiora',8

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But there Is something
place. If he .should choose •that bothers
not to be out himself In his:
• Your outing or attempt
newspaper collmn, Isn't that
thereof, of NeWsday columhis choice as a writer? And 'nlst James R~vson (-Gossip
not granting an Interview
Watch: no. 42, AprIl 18) was about his being gay to the
0IsfI,rbIng. Forthe most part, I Advocate, that bastion ofagree with your, qeslre to
Jou-nallsm, seems more pruexpose :the,hypocrISy of thedent thal (J'lylhlng else.
closet, espe,clally when It "Why must you Insist on
perpetuates
contempt-how· a person comes out,
againSt Oll community. The
and YJhaf forum he/she 'does ,, David Geffen -GMHC are
It In? Isn't there any room
assholes· line, among other ' here for personal choice?
sins he has comrrdtted either Aren't there degrees of com- 'by omission or commission
Ing out? Isn't It a Bfelong pro(allowing Guns 'n' Roses tocess? Does It have to fit so'
exist) places him squarely In neafIy Into your deflnHlon?
the role of self-hatlng hypIs Revson hiding from
ocrlte. The Malcolm Forbes' anyone? His family? Don't
article was also wonderful,
you think they know? Wereand bringing the Issue out
you trying to Imply that his
Into th~ public for debate
family (The Revlon estate)C(J'l only help.
woudn't dlslmertt him If they
But with Revson, I felt
knew he was gay? It seems
that there was somethingthat since Revson has hit
else going on there.Jor theown IQeas'- about outing
most part, I though Jim Rev- which he wqs obviously not
son waS fairly out In the first afraid to prlrif iA'hls column,me.

than 50 people, Is a proud
testament to how far we've
come since the days when
the Native was the only(bad) game In town. Now,
we're the good game, 1TyIng
hard to be Inclusive andcomprehensive.
, AI~o, con,gratulatlons
ae due to MIcheI<J'lQ9k;> Slgnorlle on being featured In
New York Magazine. I also,
would do anything to see, avideo version of M.S. hitting'that glJ{ on the GeIdcb,~.

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coiling It "frightening andoffensIve:
and that since
you toke offense at that, he,becomes a torget.
Nyj YkTy such a perD'ld
and .vltuperatlve
fone? Itseems Ike CJ"I atten-pt to vtfy
~meone rather than cIortfy
the ,Issue of sexual orientation.
I'm aoytoo. Most otthe
time C>VI1N'-fhe..top,
Intact,aId
I know how the closet ~ idling', us. But Is JIm Revson the neeessay torget for you onQer?
You talk about the need

your clarlty of thoUQhf- anddepth of vision on' theseIssues. However, I takeexception to one point. It
waS Irrportant fpr me to discuss Revson's homOSexuality
so that reod6Is wotJd knowthat the nasty--ond what I
ewn ca" personal--attack h6 orlglndly mode on
me was comklg from alOther gay fYIal. (110, he was not"fairly out In the first p/oce. '7he ~NewsdO'(reoder has newr known Revson's
sexud odentatton. It needed
to be pointed out ftIot thisman who used terms as
reoctIonay as "wttch rn",t~and" McCarthyllm'
wal

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people who have AIDS andto educate those people
attendingthis church.
Employees of. the church
promptly removed the material before
the people

otter ~

services c:oUd see It.

My question ,Iswhy? Is
the duch leadership ofroId
to tell the church membership the truth about HIV
Infection and AIDS?

number and the next day
phoned In my subscription.
Many weeks later my first

Issue arrived.
I may be prernotu'e but
I Ike What I see. And I Ake It
Very inJch. You hove a hookon goy Issues that I aNy wish
the Advocate hod. The
Advocate Is ou preeminently

accepted goy ~defacto, but we need morethon one point of view on all" Gay Konecky
ACTUP/L.I. Issues. You press,out a 1Ine,
professional
West Hempstead, N. Y. well-pkri'le<;1, joord of topical gO'-! opHons.
to be honest aId.fel the fnnh..
A decode ago, when
Isn't pert of that stOlV about
Ya' Could Be a Contenderl
we were aD satisfied with 0I.f
Reyson that he has helped.' I am on the board ofslow, but up-and-coming,raise h\h:Ireds of thousands
directors of GLAAD/L.A.,, of dollars to help·orgonlzaresponsI:>Ie for monlto~ng the. status as near-human, theAdvocate served us well.
tlons like the PWA Coalition
c:klgtlgtothe~thlmself.
straight media, both print
One sensible and sanitized
and Body PosItIve? Nyj this Is,
orld electronic. A few meetview gave us the desired
not Pat Buckley. And eve.n
Fnd Up IIIandlnos back, one of oU' working
though I don't agree, withAIDS Is caused by a virus
members brought a copy of "good goy or lesbian' persona. 1hot was then, and thisReyson's attempt to defend
known as Human Immuno- . OuMgekto quote on atIcIe...
the Buckley's, we could all
deficiency Virus (HIV). This on outing. We are planning a -Is·now.
'. We need yOl.f expertise
clscveewtlhabltmOl8cM11y.
virus attacks all people':"fon.m of lawyers and media
Also, what about the tact that those who are goy, those
professionals to discuss theand we ~;OufWeelcos a
Ravson was-virtually the 1Irst who are straight, those subject at our next general notional mouth-piece, on
reporter to do IMIepfh stories whose skills of a color, those meeting.
.
Advocate rival. as It were.
abouttheelCp8rlenceofllvilg
whose (sldn) Is not. The virus ,Since my specialty Is You hove the potential, rightwith AIDS. not just dying from attocks both odUts and ~straght medo, my expoue
now. I would like to see you
It. The fruth about Jim Revson dren. Church teachings do to the goy;press Is limited to go for It. Prepare a regiOnal
post-out. Put the sex ods Into
Is someWhat larger thon the . not provide protection from browsing tile throwaways
pIctu'e you pointed.
' the virus.
here In LA., ,ond the obllgoa teor-out. You,hove 95 perAlso, I question why we
Qver 76,(0) Ame~canstory subsalptlon to the Advocent of the glHzand glamour~ght now to be a contender,
do so little celebrating th!it
have
died
from
AIDS,
cate. We' monitor
theto become somebodyl ,p80pIe n ou corrmr.Ity who
according to the U.S.Centers Advocate carefully because
8obLaFont
work the front'Hnesof the AIDS for Disease Control. 76,000
they ~
to thlnl(that they
Lt>ng Beach, CoIf.
crisis, In orgallzotlons .e the ' people who hod lives to live ore a port of the moInstrean.W/A CooItIon (ofwHch I an have died. They were all straight press. We hove not
Down on Duckell
the ecItor of the NewsIne) or
Imocent vIctk"ns of the virus, publicly criticized the Advothe Comm.Jn/ty Reseach In!as the virus does not cIscrImIcafe because:This letter Is meant totlatlve or 'the PWA Health'nate, and nobody
1) We feel that, theirconfront liz, Sydney, Rick X 'and other press whores,
Group or the CO\Xltless dOc- to de from a disease os ten\practices
are welHntentors, lawyers, social wor1<ers, bIe as HIV infection or AIDS.
tIoned.
some not offtHated with Outcosemonogement
and crIOn May 13,members Of
2) All lI'IderwrItI9n policy
Week magazine, about yoursls-Interventlon workers who . the long Island AIDS Coallof GLAAD Is to ~,not froccontinuing ass-kiss of Chipore proucly goy alCIlesbion. , tlon to Unleash Power (ACT ture, the vaIous goy groups, Duckett, New York's weolfhlest, sleaziest, most discriminaIn these troubled tmes, why
UP/LI.) visited the O\.r SovIoU'
no matter how diverse.
not more roundly celebrate
lutheran Church In Cen,3) We appreciatethetory, most grotesque, most
exploitative. and dangerous
those whocontrtMe,
rather, tereach. We went to thevost majority of the AdvonIgltcIlb. promoter.
,
fhcrIvlfythos$who~dOn't
ctuch, os theofcafe's~.
RrstI'(, In Issue nO. 44 webelieve live up to Qn orbIITay 'this church wrote NewseJay
I assumed, on seeing
are told that all "goy men
stonckrd. Yolr "c:lreombo<lt'
aid cIomed that 191~ wi your periodical, that yourand women are welcome'coIlm"Ils a great start.
protect you from AIDSfocus was expressly ou~ng,
CI'Id that 'others, are octnltPhI ZWfcId6r
whlc/:l we know to be false.
the poItIcs and ramifications
ted at the discretion of ,theManhattan
At' the churCh we placed'of such. That day I hod only
doorperson(s): This Is stated'educational AI~ventiona brief time to glcinceMichelangelo,S/gnorlle'material (Inciudlng
conthrough your magazine, SO I to ~to admission policies
on both Thursc:io'j'Sat QUltid
respOnds: As ciwoys, PhB, you doms) on cor windshields.
was unable to glean the
OU' 'pupose ~ to make a tone Or tempo of your work. I and Sundays at Mars. How
makevoid and ~do.~ these doorperson(s), slve points. And I respect
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a bit about how ChIp Duck- for press, power, manlpulado these doorperson(s)ett buys the press Cnd there- ~ or~,determine a p$rson's sexual
unlike Duckett. gay nlght-llfe on Thursdays,
FrIdays and SUndays 01 every
by comes to overshadow
orlentatloo?
I personally
And to the best of OU' kn0Wlother -gay·, nightclub pro- edge, Rudolf Is not gay but week. Those ,01 you whoknow too many gay people
who have been turned aw'ay moters. In -OUt on the Town one 01 01.1' best frlendsl /IJso, attend nightclubs regularly
with liz em &./dney: (no. 44, In this same Issue and coh.mn know that club Invites areat both venues on their
the nanes of greafnlght-llfe regularly drculated at Qulckl 'May 2) there was a pIcflre ofrespective nights. Secondly,
for the Red Zone and vice
In ,the same column we are a tel~vIsIon set as represent- promoters, such as David
versa, at Mars and at the
Ing the -best bet· for
Leigh and Lee Chappell,told about -hot, sweaty
Mlchael,Allg, Scott Currie , Roxy for the other dlbs, andboys. at Qulckl on Thursdays. Wednesdayor Mondaynights, If we don't attend the and'others too numerous to so on for both -gay· andAny steam room Is hot andmention get no mention. I '-m,lxed~ nights. Generally,
sweaty, and when the tem- ACT UP meeting., How comeclub managers ,seem not toperature Is over 80 'degrees there was no mention of guess they don't wine andMarc Berkley's Kool Kom-ads dine you eltherl G'oqd for object 'to this practiceon the dance floor, and y~
throw cigarette smoke Into at Private Eyes'for Mondays theml Personally, I have no because It Is a promotion for
all the clubs" and the proor Rudolf's greQt parties at respect for the homophob8
the picture, It's not only too
hot ald'sweaty, but ",'s dlffi- Qulckl on Wednesdays? DId Geraldo RIvera, but he did a moters are usually treatedwith respect and sometmes
better Job of exposing theneither. of these guys wine
cult to breathe-extremely
and dine you? It Is an Inter- best of New York nightlife on VIP treatment. Patrick Butts,
unhealthy. Isn't this whatsome of you would consider esting bU$lnessmatch, Inci- his show,fhree weeks ag~ , who promotes -Wonderthan did your own magazine. 1Qnd/ a fabUous'rrbced nIglt
dentally, Rudolf and Chip
retro? I thought politicallyfeaturing drag queens and
Now 'that I've statedprogressive people were ~!¥kett, becouse they
posed to care, about our to,be qlite opposites. Rudolf how ChIP 'Duckett buys those various performerS, offered
who(m) he likes, I'd like to to throw a -birthday ~h·'hecHh, especIaUyACT UPers, has accommodated beneshare with your readers my for me on the third floor ofwith whom I've demonstrat- 'fits for oU' community ,In theed many times.
clubs he has ~since experience qbout how he Mars on ThUrsdaYMay 10. I
was given hU'lc:lr8dsof Invites
On, Monday May 8, long before Duckett was on , blatantly discriminates andthe scene, wHhout using his humiliates anyone he feels and encouraged by Patrick
those of us who watched
might represent the slightest to promote my own bIrthda'(
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overwhelmingly straight (atl
May 19, I encountered no "Wonderland" at Mars Is a write for It. It seems much
t6sb1an/gay people ae we/problems drculatlng tlYough- mixed and drag event; while more likely that you are lookCOf!/6, they're Just not there).
out the club scene but In 'Chip's Is a seriouslygay night Ing for some fast Ink. As for
As for being wined andfact met lots of great peo- ,wHh an emphasison ACTUP the TV best-bets: We spend
dned, you rright be SI.IprIsed
our Monday nights writing
pie, who I hoped would shdw politics,art and (the) homoto hear how much this colup for the party~tli my last erotic. Ineeded to promoteat our column or atte,ndlng \alim actually cos1s (.610 write.
club of the weekend, Sun- ""Mas Needs Men" because I meeting: we have heard
day night, May 6 at Mars. I have frlends who go_there that Kool Komrads Is very (urihappened to be hanging
whO needed Invites;Most of and, when asked where to P.S. You may want to ponder
go Mondays, will tell men
how COi!lardly (and patenttyout on the third floor when Chip'slhllSday crowd woud
my friend Rick X came up to not Interest me nor I them, that. We were frequent visitors ridiculous) It Is to attack
someone,using, for a
get an Invl,te, and Chip anyhow. Upon being con- 10 Rudolf's Wed18sdaynlghts:
We made a conscious dec/pseudonym,
a brand of, Duckett,Ina rowdy.and con- fronted In such a manner byorange ft.Ilce, ofthings.
frontatlonal manner, sala, Chip, my response could' fI/On to'/eave that out of the,"Peter,you eHherstop( hond-' only be that I would have to column simply because It Is ~Ing these Invitesout, or I will hand out the Invites, so hehave to !l:lOkeyou leave'theshould make me leave the'YOUR
club Immediately." Mean- dub-which he did, pushing.".
..,.
while, I had already received me down the stalrways~ I
Invitesat Mars that night for alerted all the security that I
two other dubs and, by the ' was thrown out 'of MarS,and
way, numerous Chip Duckett they told me that I'm nOt
Inviteswe~ flamboyantly dranythlng.to him. Draw
culate9 that' evening at the yourown conclusion.
ROXY. My "birthdOy_bash· on,
CItrus Hills
lhursQay,May 10would nothave In any way conflicted
LIz and Sydney respond: We
wHh ChIp Duckett'slhllSday
are not preSs whores (as In
at Qulckl In that Patrick's"one seeking press"), weanlhJ ADDRESS

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, Song From The Heartyou feel so vulnerable, so
constantly threatenedbytalille, ridicule and exposlJ'e,
you mask your true selveswith elaborate poses andpretense. You atfempt tocompensate for this lie with
acts of PlbIlc bravado, suchas your shameless (and ob~ous) display of canned em0tions durtng the Ryan WhIte
media blitz, or' Mr. G. 's ,attempt to buy back his souby staging srowy AIDSbenefits or adding his name to

You won't rememberme, but several years ago
we spent a few days arid
nights together, partying,
shopping and playing hide
the salami. I was'selllng myass at the time; you were In
town promoting an album
that went nowhere. You
were much sweeter than
one might 1hIrk and not half
as vile as some say, evencharming
In some; ways:
singing to me In the shower;
trying (bUt falUng) to get It up
after twelve hours of cocaine
abuse; letting me braid thehairs on your bOck Into little
COrrHOWS. I was just a simple
party boy at the time, but'smart enough to know that
this thing would never last.
Sure enough, one day I
called and was told by your'manager that my services
were no longer needed.
Several years later I was
In the hospital with AIDS
pneumonia
when I happaned to notice In the pagesof a tabloid that you'd gore
off and gotten married. I
wondered If this woman was
In your employ and how
much she was hauling In. I
also tried to guess at how
long such an arrangement
might last, given the dlfflcul~
ties Involved In $ustalnlng
such a sham lJ'lder the constant scrutiny of press andchats; M1V magic managed
to hide your age and girth;
you trQded In the silly hats
andglassesof
youryesteryeais for a more "honArman! kind of atffIude.
,(The
aforementioned
DavId G. was, coincidentally,another buddy of mine.
We'd known each other foryeas: He'd boUght me a few prestigious commttees.
cheap dinners, seduced me
These acts are conIn his FIfth Avenue suite andtrived, selfish and sfI.pId, glvhis HoRywood mansion, Intraduced me to !:lis fellow
But that's alOther story.)
Now, yearS and thousands of AZT capsules,
dqzens of pentamadlne
inhalations and several hospltallzatlons later, I'm begln- _nlng to come to terms withthe self-loathing that, as ayouth, Inspired me to seek
validation from persons suchas yourself, Mr. G., and thescores of miserable, mlsshapen daddies that I gave'
myself to when I was YOl.ng,
pretfy and stupid. It pppears
that you may be going
through your own crisis ofself-evaluatlon,
or at least
your press agent would like
us to tnlnlno. We've been •told that you were l evenmore devoted to hemophlll- 'ac (read:lnnocent)'AlDS boy
Ryan White than his goodfriends Donald Trump andMichael Jackson. We've
been allowed, discreetly, tosee your human side: theheartfeltemoflons
thatripped th'rough your songs
you performed
In Ryan's
honor du1ng YOll worldwide

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Top Of The Chats
londOn, England

Dear Mr. BrItIsh Pop Star,

est:

Ing 'the lie to ooy small seedof good IntentionS that may
have Inspired them. Where
were, you, Mr. BrItIsh Pop Sta,
Mr. Hollywood Music Mggu,
while YOll lovers were dying.
your brothers beaten backby the armies of blindness.
History will rer:nember YOII lie,
and men like me will live totell this story of shame: That
little m~n cowered In fear
because they were afraid of
the truth.

Sncerely,
DavId&.ms
Manhattan

trolls.

Dreamboat of the Week

As It turned out. ev~n
_ It seems you havethough your media marIage
learned an lmportant lesson
was quickly burled and forfrom your colleague and forgotten, your aOlcn:e wtth Mr. mer elTl'lOyer Mr. G. You are
DavId G. and his eponymous
both men of great sensltMly, record corrpany br9athed aand hidden wells of warmth
hearty second wind Into theald weakness. However, yousalls of your tepid, career.
are too famous to beOnceagain,
your star
forthright and too spI~1ess toburned at the top of the ' be straightforward. Because

What's right with this picture? (see page 18.)

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Nc\vsDemonstratorS'Rain :FireandBrimston~on NIH

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Action 'Provokes More Than 80 Arrests.
by Cliff O'N"IIIBETHESDA, Md.-over
1,000
angry AIDS activists from around thenation gathered here to lay siege to thecampus of the National Institutes of
Health for four hours on May 21,
demandins research into new treat·ments ,for the disease and wider access, to druS trials.
EiShty-two demonstrators
were
atteSted for assorted actS of civil disobedience throughout the day. All but one,
who Was initially charged with ~istinB
arrest, were charged with trespassing.
All were released the same day'. , ,.
, twenty-one of those ~Weretakenfnto cUstody'lt'the ,headquarters 'of 'the National InStitutes for Allergies"
and Infectious"biseases (NIAID) sti\refal
miles away, after they staged a sit-in at
the office of Dan Hoth, the director' of
the AIDS Oinical'Trials Group.··~, ,"Ten years. ~ bUlion doll~. 'bne
, dNg. Big deal,w' thundered the~,,diumming home their reCrimInations ofmuch, of the federal AIDS-researchwood-and-wirepicket fences. Someeffort with a steady poundingon ,. demonstrators rtpo~ed that the police
hundreds of signs.
' ,used Mace against them, and others
Holdins aloft st:reaining, multicolored claimed thet they had been struck bysmoke bombs' set ~top long poles, the the police with nightsticks.
hoard of activists charged the main "', Yet. another flank of similarly
administrative, buUding 'of the NIH, ,attired Park Service police on horseback, fanning their choki,ng purple' smoke ,~erved as the agency's front line ofwi~ dozens 6f bright~ted signs reading , defense against the constantly moving, "We're fired up;",'demonstrators.,"
Shouting their indigtiantcritidsms•A million dollars and only O,neat the curious NIH employees inside the drug," the protesters shouted. "AIDS is
buUdings,protesters. faced off against
three lines of U.S. Park'Service officers
Five ~es everj hour, the roar 6f
who were·dressed in riot gear, raincoats air horns marlced the one American ,and sky-blue dishwashing gloves and AIDS death that' occurs every'12
massed behind two rows of makeshift minutes.

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With a series of' street-theateractions and "negotiated" civil disobedienCe, activists sought to draw attention
to each of their protesters' many specificdemands.,'

Those deman~, included calls for
the NIH to focus their research on drugs
other than AZr, to date the sole drug
approved to tre3t HlV infection, and to
expanddrug trials to allow forincreased participation
by women,people of color, intravenous-drug users
and children.
'',"The focus of ,the NIH has been onon~ drug, AZrj" stated Keith Cyiar, an
ACT UP member. "Because of that,
medications for the treatment of oppor-

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tunistic infectibns are treatable andpreventable, and there -are things that.
we, as people, need," Cylar also argued
that some· NIH officials with ties to'
drug-manufacturing companies ma{bave a conflict of interest preventing
them from approvingtrials'i:oinvestigate
ineJtpensive drugs or therapies fromcompanies competing with their own.-'.Several days before the demonstration, a coalition of 25 AiDs service
organizations from around the nation
issued a consensus statement supporting most of the ACf UP- deQlan~
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participation. in the research approval
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The action comes after a year inwhich federal health-officials
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w~th several ACf UP members.
Some of those activists, ,however,.recently";;tated. in public hearings that
3J.though they now have a "place at thetable,~· ~heir suggestipns are still not
being heeded and are even being
blocked by what Cylar called the Nm's
"old-boy petwork."
Asked whether
the, massive
demonstration'~ould t1;ueaten the
newfound relationship with tpe NJH
and Fauci, Cylar .responded, "I think

Fauci understands,
and at times
appreciates,' what we do.
"Fauci himself understands that hedoes not have the power himself to dowhat needs to be done. Fa,uo's'supportof parallel track was a'fudicationof where his heart was at. But a lot oftimes, these are bureaucratic systems
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the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against
Defamation, that orgatlization and theowners of the Empire State Building
announced that the majestic landmark
skyscraper will be illuminated in lavender
and white for Gay and Lesbian Prideweekend This marks the first lime that
Pholll: Courtesy
DAYS OF FUTURE PAST
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NEW YORK-The
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GLAAD was preparing a concerted driveand Preservation
has awarded
to pressure the building's management ,to"$100,000 to ~he Lesbhin and Gay
provide special lighting for the annual gay
Community, Services Center to' restore'celebration. GLAAD officials had not
thCf facade of its main building. The ,expected tpeir efforts to yield results until" money, in the form of a matching'
1991at the earliest.
grant,.
was
given'underthe
But the building's owners abruptly, Environmental Quality Bond Act of ' and unexpectedly reversed their longterm
1986, whieh permits grants only forrefusal to acknowledge Gay Day. The
buildings in historic districts. The
building's PR f1fOl said, in a prepared
Center, at 208 West 13th Street instatement that the Fmpire State's owners
Manhatt~n;
is located within thewere in "total agreement with the, Greenwich Village landmark district.
Mayor ...
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end ...bigotry and discrimination" against
gays and lesbians.
'"We would hope our partppation
will help end the type of ignorance thatbreeds this mindlS!ss prejudice," thestatement continued. It also stated thatthe owners and managers of the famousmonument "will be sending a message
of solidarity to all those afflicted with
AIDS."GLAAD leaders and gay andlesbian activists were ecstatic at theannouncement.
Craig Davidson,
9LAAD's executive director, said, "'Thereis possibly no more moving andpowerl'ul an image ,of how deeply thegay and lesbian community, is woven
into the fabric of New York than theupcoming illumination of the Empire
State Building."
The move comes after many yearsof fruitless attempts by various gay andlesbian organizations to convince thebuilding's owners to provide special
illumination for Gay Pride weekend.
The Empire State Building isnormally lit by white floodlights. The

addition of colored floodlights began in
1976, when the building was ,tinted'
white and blue during the Fourth of July
Bicentennial weeIc:end
The illumination proved popular andwas expanded to include other holidays.
The structure is now routinely turned
green on St. Patrick's Day, orange on
Halloween, and various colors for otheroccasions. But for years the building's
owners rejected requests for special
illumination to honor Gay Day, statingthat such illuminations were reserved for"national holidays, religious holidays and,events of singular importance." In
addition, one ~the owners refused on
the basis of expense, notirig that it costs
approximately $10,000 to change themassive floodlights. When leaders of
Heritage of Pride, which organizes thePride Week activities, offered to raisemoney to pay the expenses, the owners
still declined.
This year GLAAD took the lead,~ding the building's general manager aletter pointing out other parades thatdmw far fewer participants than the Gay
Pride march but that receive special
illumination by the Empire State Building.
The letter, from GIAAD's deputy difectOr
Karin Schwartz, contained a chart
showing how the annual gay and lesbian
parade was second in size only to St.
Patrick's Day Parade.
"This chut dearly shows the bias ofyour illumination schedule," Schwartz
wrote, "and that you do not think the gay
and lesbian community is worthy ,of anillumination.","GIAAD would like to remind you,"
she wrote, "that Gay and Lesbian PrideDay is of singular impottance to the gay
and lesbian community [and is] the 'second
largest annual parade in New york aty."
Illuminations of the Empire State
B1:!U~g, whiCh can be seen for hundredsof square ffiiles, have become a Way ofalerting residents of New York and New
Jersey to special occasions. Observers
expect widespread- comment from bothfriends and foes of the lesbian and gay ,community when lavender flood lights
rise above New York during Gay PQde
weekend. While GLAAD requested theillumination only for Sunday, June 24th,
the day of ,the' march, th~ owners
announced that the monument willremain lit the entire weekend.
The Empire State Building is owned
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Ne\vsHouse Passes iDisabllities'- Act
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protections extracted from the bill and,our fellow Americans," stated Rep.
barring that, attempted
to have
Steny Hoyer CD-Md.), the bill's lead"homosexuals" specifically excluded
WASHINGTON D.C.-The
U.S.
sponsor. "To the millions who' havefrom any protections for the disabled.
House of Representatives
by anbeen literally locked out of the
All his efforts were defeated by
overwhelming 403-20 margin on May
mainstream of society, we cari open
lopsided votes. Dannemeyer's attempt
22 passed a comprehensive civil rights
the door, clear the passageway andto have his AIDS amendments voted
bill extertding' federal antidiscrimination
bring them in."on by the full House was barred by theprotections
to all 'persons
withAs the bill will require extensive
House, Rules Committee.
disabilities-including
AIDS and HIV- architecturalchanges to theaters,
The panel, which decided to
infection.
Beforefinal passage,
restaurants ,and the like, the bill's
however,' the House also granted
employment sections will not go irlto' approve only a handful of amendments
for floor consideration, also rejected
approval to a controversial amendment
effect until three years after the day it
AIDS=related amendmentsfrom aalloWing businesses to move employees
is signed into law. Businesses with
with AIDS away from food-handlingnumber of other House conservativ~.
untler 25 employees will be given
They did, however, approve one
jobs.
another two years to comply with thecontroversial AIDS,':related rider for
The measure, the Americans withbill, and those with u'nder 15
floor debate, to:th~ :chagrin of bill
Disabilities Act, is a broad piece of
employees are permanently exempt.
legislation which, for the first time,
supporters. The contested amendment,
The measure contains a federal
extends to all people with disabilities
ban on discrimination on the basis ofsponsored by Rep. Jim Chapman CDTx.), would allow employers to move,the protections of the Civil Rights Act
AIDS or HIV-infection, whicµ wasof 1964 in the areas of employment, ' backed by members of both· parties as
employeeswith "an infectious orcommunicable disease of public healthpublic accommodation, transportation
well as by the White House. .'Throughout theHouse's deliber:itiom,'significance" in food-handling jobs toand telecommunication systems.
A similar version of the bill was'however, the bill's :AIDS protections, other positions receiving the samesalary.
,passed by the Senate· in September.
were repeatedly attacked by Rep.
President Bush has strongly supported
William Dannemeyer (R-QUif.), who on
Chapman argued that, as there are
the measure' and is expected to sign it
several occasions used those provisions
cases of AIDS where. the mode of HIV
shortly 'after Congress reconciles House'
to characterize
the measure as atransmission is listed as "unknown,"
and Senate versions of the bill.
"homosexual bill of rights." In several
the rider was needed to prot~ct"Today, each of us with our voterestaurants from the loss of businessHouse committees,the' California,can make life better for millions of ,Republicansought to have theresultingfrom customers
fearingby Cliff O'Neill

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contracting AIDS from a 'restaurant
employee with AIDS.
Most of those speaking on theHouse floor strongly opposed the
FIRE ISlAND PINES
amendment, pointing out that, under
Rentals/Soles
the bill, employees who pose a "direct
Financingthreat" to the health and safety of212' 925 . 3030 / 516 . 597 . 9400
others are not covered by the bill.
"This amendment
is' badmedicine, bad science, bad public
policy," said Rep. Jim McDermott (0Wash.), one of two physicians inCongress. "Send it back to the
kitchen.". After much debate, some of it
centering on repeated assurances from, the Centers for Disease Control andthe American Medical Association that
AIDScannot be spread through food,the amendment was approved on a
narrow 199-187 margin; 46 members
did not vote on the measure.
Although there were several
notable party defections on both sidesof the aisle, most Republican members
4uppotted the rider, ,With the majorityof Democrats opposing it.
"Today the House voted for
Airaids, not for AIDS," commented
Greg King, communications director
for the Human Rights Campaign
Pund. "It looks like we could use$100 million just to educate those
199 members of the House on how
AIDS is, and is not, spread."
The amendment w~s strongJy
backed by both the restaurant andthe small-business lobbies, whichwere largely credited with its
victory.
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""They also note, though,' thatshould Chapman choose to make anissue of the rider, he could force
another floor vote on the proposal
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During final debate on May
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ACT up, WOW Cafe Win

Obie ,Grants
performance-like
quality of its
demonstrations, with an Obie award
and$1,000 grant for sustained
achievement.
The Women's One World Theatre,
known as the WOW Cafe, wasawarded a theater grant of $3,500.
The WOW Cafe grant was
accepted by six of the collective's
members-Betsy
Crenshaw, Alice
Forrester, Heidi Griffiths" Lynn Hayes,
Claire }.toed, and Susan Young.
Another WOW Cafe member, Lisa
Kron, who. was also present at theceremony, told OUtWeek that "it was
especially gratifying to·~ sitting thereamong the Living Tneatre, Mabou
Mines and SQ on, and to see themapplaud for us."The Voice's Obies are traditionallygiven to Off and Off-Off Broadway
theaters to honor those who havemade vital contributions to the successof the current season.
-Nina Reyes/James WtlleraREAD THEIR UPS
WOW Cafe members react to Obie grant

Photot: Tom McGovern

NEW YORK-Two organizations
with roots, in the lesbia,n and gay
commuriity received awards last week
for their achievements and contributions

to the city's theatrical community.
The Village Votce awarded ACT
UP, the AIDS activist organization thathas received national attention for the

Health Group Offers oral

Alpha Inteiferoniby Jam.as Wallar
NEW YORK-The Manhattanbased PWA Health Group. made it
known last week that it has begun
helping its clients to obtain a formof oral alpha interferon similar tothat used, in a widely publicizedstudy petformed by' researchers in
Kenya.
The Kenyan study reportedly
found that extremely small doses ofa specific DUman alpha interferon,'when administered orally and held
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moments
beforeswallowing,
dramaticallyalleviatedAIDS
symptoms in' 99 out of 101 people
treated.
, These results, which have beeng'reeted with mixed hope andskepticism, are made even moreastonishingby the claim thatupwards of 40 patients in the study
experienced sera-reversion, that is,
became HIV-negative after receiving /the therapy.
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Kenyan researchers employed aform of interferon called Kemron,which
is manufactured
by aJapanese pharmaceuticals company,
Hayashibara,
bot which is notcommercially available anywhereoutsideJapan.
The low-doseinterferon
wafers being madeava~lable by the PWA Health Group
containWellferon,which
ismanufactured,by Well come PLe.
(the Burroughs-Wellcome'parentHrm) and is sold in England.
Even if the results of the
Kenyan study are true, it remains
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·&verMletit Ag¢p.Cy S~ys.
Bush Can·Lift Travel: Ban:by James Waller,In" suggesting
that'
the
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A legal administration h~s the authority toopinion offered last week by' the changetheImmigrationandfederalgovernment's
GeneralNatufaJ.izationService (INS) regulations,
Accounting Office (GAO) may clear' the GAO was responding to a request
the way for the Bush administration to for a review of the INS rules made bylift regulations t4at since 1987 have two congressional sponsors of a bill also
severely restricted the freedom of HIV- designed to overturn the restrictiops.
infected foreign nationals to visit the Representatives Dr. Roy Rowland (DUnited States. It rem~ins doubtful,' . Ga.) and HenrY Waxman (D- Calif.)
however, whether President George recently introduced legislation thatBush or' Health and Human' Services would make the d~signation of any
Secret;iry Louis Sullivan will act on the . illness as a "dangerous contagious
GAO's fmding.
dise~e" warranting INS restrictions,the prerogative of the secretarY of
HHS, who 'is the nation's top-railking
public health official.
According· to a press release
issued by Coµgressman Waxman's
office, the GAp finding obviates,th~ necessity' for such legislation.
The current restrictions on travel
by HIV-infected
personswere
writteh into law three years ,ago as
an amendment,
sponsoredbyconservative,
North,
Carolina
Senator
Jesse
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Unity RaUy Speakers .,Condemn Gay-Bashing
NEW YORK-Lesbian activist
Ginnie Apuzzo vias among themany public figureSwhO'spoke atMayor David Dinkins' "unity
rally" held at the Cathedral of. St.
John the Divine on May 22.
Billed as the mayor's "first
town meeting," the rally was'organized
shortly after thesecondverdict-acquitting
Keith Mondello of the murderof Yusef Hawkins-had'beendelivered,in the controversial
GINNY APUZZO AT THE RALLY PODIUM
Bensonhurst
trial. The rally·....
~r.epresented
the mayor's, second
addressed the increasing incidence ofmajor public effort in recent weeks
antigay violence in New York. The
to calm the racial (and other)inclusiveness of 'the mayor's effort totensions that have lately tiven the 'combat violence and reduce tensions
city.
,
was evident in his welcoming remarks
Besides the Bensonhurst case,to the 5,000 people who assembled at
public attention
has focused on the cathedral'.
increasing antagonism, in t~e f:latbush"Look around,~this is a beautiful
section of Brooklyn between Korean place," Dinkins 'said. "There is a
grocers and a 'group of Africanfeeling, a spirit and power that cannot
American' boycotters who claim that a be denied ...We'aIl came here tonight
Haitian woman was beaten by one of becauSe we care--people of. all races
the shop owners during a dispute last and religions, national origins andJanuary.
sexual orientations."
Participantsin the rally also
Echoing Dinkins' sentiments onestablisbing
unity, Apuzzo
warned: "We cannot be. silent or
passive, in the face of bigotry ...
It would cost us our lives.» ,"Dinkins, in his impassioned
address, caIled on his listeners
to contact their state senators to
demand passage of the biasrelated violence bill.
"And remind them that
those
,who
killedJames,
Zappalorti because he was gay
are just as culpable and just as
despicable as those who killeq
Michael Griffith because he was anA(rican-American,»Dirikins said,referring to two vi,ctims of biasrelated violence"
Coverag.e of.,the event in, thestraight media concentrated almost
entirely on the interracial; interethnic
aspects of the 'event. Of New York
City dailies, only the, Daily News
mentioned the. presence of lesbians
and gays on the poc\ium and in theaudience, or the fact that lesbian- andgay-bashing was ,one of the concerns·
the rally was meant to address.

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June 6.1990

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Ne\vs¥myReleases,CadetFrOID
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we have made wa's last wee~," 'he expressed concern'tbat·,as more a[ld'ST. LOUIS, Mo.:-'The U.S. Army insisted'. "It's the position of this, more colleges and universities adopt
ha$ d~ided not to seek repayment of headquarters that the case is now' policies barring disCrimination'on theaQ educational_ scholarship to an closed.".
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basis' of sexual ,orientatiOn, theopenly gay cadet, although' an Army
HQwever, c.riti~s of the armed
presence' 'of" ROTC programs on
spokesman maintained that theservices' atitigay policy' have pointed , 'campus will continue. to posedecision was tailored to the individual out that the decision came on the dilemmas for students, faculty, staff,.' case and does not represent' a policy, 'heelsof a, letter from four
and- administrators who
unwilling
shift in the Army's irearment of cadets ,organi~ations,which collectively , to tolerate'discriminationin any form.
'who are" gay. The long-awaited,tepresent almost all of the collegesand'{he Army also
receiveddecision, released on May 18, also universities in the nation, that urged correspondence from U.S. Rep. Gerry
stated that the cadet will not be Department of Defense Secretary Dick Studds CD-Mass:), an openly gax
commissionedinto the Army.
Cheneytoreconsider
therepr~tative, ,and 23..other members"While I am pleased I will not discriminatory policy. The letters.. ROTC 011 pep.
have to repay the_money, I am terribly',. ';;"
disappointed that ,the Army has Jlot '.
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The former Army Reserve Officers' .'
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T~ining Corps poster boy, who was,
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, that he owed the Army $25,000 for his~bTC scholarship after he cameoutto, ',.,,".,
his superior officers, will continue toseek ,his commission, everi thoughII.
neither he nor his attorney has yet.
made a final, decision on pursuingdisability: -age or sexual orientation.
legal action against the Army's'antigay by Duncan OSborne .
policy. "This is not a law, so it doesn't
fJ.BANY-The New York State The bill also makes it ·possible for ahave ,to change in the court system," Assembly on May 21 overwhelmingly' judge to impose sentences for bias
Holobaugh pointed out,. "Congress pasSed Governor Mario Cuomo's bias crime that run conse,cutivelyWith any
could change It, the president could bill for ,a second ~ime,but continuing other sentence.
oppositionin the' RepublicanThe Senate's companion bill,~geit, the courts could change it."A spokes~anfor the Cadet
controlled,Senate is stalling enactment , S4600-A,has been $lIledin the codes. committee for over 'tWoyears. Cuomo,
ComfIland, the Army branch thatof the bill.
oversees the ROTCprogram, said that
According to Karen llolk,
Senate Minority Leader Manfred
the decision not to seek, repayment
spokeswoman for Governor Mario Ohrenstein and numerous gay andfrom Holobaugh was based sole'y on Cuomo, the Assemblyby a vote of 128 lesbian organizations have said thethe i,ndivldl;lalmerits and circumstances -16 passed Cuomo's Bias-Related
Repuplican oppositi()n is due to theo't ,the case and did 'not represent a Violence & Intimidation Act. The same inclusion of sexual orientl!otiQn in
broader
shift ,in 'policy.
The bill 'establishes a bias crime as a Cuomo's bill. Republicansdeny this.
, Vktoria Vattimo, spokeswoman
spokesman, Paul Kotakis, also denied separate category of <=rimeand makesthat the decision, released May 18, it a criminal offense to threaten 01 for Senator Serphin Maltese CRQue'ens), who .opposes S4600:'A,
commit violence against anotherreversed an eatlier recommendation!hat Holobaughbe forced.to repay his person o~the basis of that perSon's stated: '"Basically,the senator feels no,Scholarship. "The fust pronouncement race, cr~,.(:olqr,. natiorial origin,'sex; grO\~pshould be singl~ out. What we 'A ., " " ,'";..,-:,

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,need to do is enforce current law."
Referring to a quote from Maltese that
ran,in .the May 22 issue of the New
York Daily News in whicli Maltese
stated that "if bias is a piece of a
crowd-crime bill that does not include
gays, I'd consider it," Vattimo said onlythat the quote was' taken out ofcontext.
Robert Penna, spokesman for
SenatorGuy
Vdella(RBronx/Westchester), objected to thecharacterizationof Velella as an
opponent of S46oo-A, saying Velella"had reservations.·"Under political pressures S4600-A
would be used under circumstances inwhich it does not belong,· Penna said.
During the week of May 14
Senator Roy Goodman (R-Manhattan)
sponsored and introduced a piece oflegislation, 8766, that is viewed bysome Republican legislators as acompromise to S4600-A. According toJeff Binder, press secretaryforGoodman, 8766 is a comprehensive
anti-crime measure that sets increased
penalties for all assaults but does notcreate bias crime as a separate class ofcriine. It does require a judge to fmd if
bias was involved in a crime andallows that judge to impose harsher
penalties upon determining a crime
was bias-related. Binder said that theimmediate and strenuous objections to'8766
by the gay and lesbiancommunity and other organizations,specificallythe Anti-Defamation
League of B'nai 'B'rith, 'caused
Goodmanto "star"
8766-theequivalent of puttlflg the bill on hold. 'The successful assembly vote andthe activity ,surrounding 8766 have
moved gay and lesbian organizations
to redouble their efforts to enact
S.4600-A.
Marty Rouse, the liaison to thelesbian, and gay communityfor
Manhattan Borough President Ruth
Messinger and a, member of the BiasBill Task Force~ a coalition of rougWy
75 organizations dedicated to seeing
S4600-A enacted, commented: "What's
it 'going to take? We need to raise holyhell.""
Rouse indicated that task-force
members had'met
for a strategy
session on May 20,'adding, "It looks
like S460o.-A is not going to getanywhere unless' we put more pressure

on. It's just gQing to tak,e masses 'of
people in the streets."
The Gay Men's Health Crisis(GMHC) and the New York'CitY Gay
and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project(AVP) have hired Howard Katz, amelJlber of the Human' Rights
Campaign Fund nationalboard,
specifically to organize the effort topass s4600-A.
Katz dismissed 8766, saying:"Because of media pressure theRepublicans had to look like they were
doing something. If the bill does notcreated mandatory sentences for' bias
crime, it is unacceptable."

Katz said he had ,already met with 'other groll;ps, including ,the Queerl'fation, a lesbian and gay visibility
group, and the New York State Lesbianand Gay Lobby. An immediate result of
these meetings was a postcard-and
letter-writing
campaign targeting
senatorial opponents of S4600-ARalph
Marino (R-Nassau), the Senate Majority
Leader; Chris Mega (R~Brooklyn);Johp.
Marchi (R-Staten Island); Nicholas
Spano (R-Westchester; Guy Velella (RBronx/Westchester);and Serphin
Maltese (R-Queens)
as well as
Governor Mario Cuomo.
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defeated", according to Sacks. Sacks also
LAKE KIAMESHA, N.Y.-The
commented that the session was one of
Rabbinical
Assembly of America,
the most heavily attended he could recall,Conse~ative - Judaism's
rabbinicalprofessional association, voted at its
annual convention here on May 15 toadopt a gay-rights resolution after the firstpublic discussion ever held on gay andlesbian issues in this forum.
The resolution places the rabbis on
record as supporting "full civi1 equality forgays and lesbians iIi, our national life,"
deploring "the violence against gays andlesbians in our society," reiterating that "asare all Jews, gay men and lesbians arewelcomeas members
in ourbyR.Sugdlin
congregations" and calling upon "ourBOSTON-While leaving a fundsynagogues
and the arms of ourraising,dance here, in the early morning
movement to increase our awareness,hows of May 6, two group5 of men were
understanding and concern for our fe1low gay-bashed in separate incidents by theJews who are gay and lesbian."same gang of youths in what appears to
A preamble to the resolution noteS be' a revenge attack. Ten men were
the history of discrimination and violen~,injured and two were hospitalized.
against gays, commenting that "the AIDSThe attacks, which took place aboutcrisis has deeply exacerbated the anxiety
40 minutes apart, involved a group ofand suffering of this community," andnearly a dozen youths who called thedraws parallels with the discrimination
men "faggots" and told them to leave thesuffered by Jews in the JYdSt.
neighborllood Detective Sgt. Brian Ftynn
The Conservative movement, withof the Boston Police Community
almost two million members,isDisorders Unit, which investigates bias
"considered the largest movement incases, told the Boston Herald, "There
American Jewish religious life," according
was obvious language---«ntigay language
to Rabbi ].B. Sacks of Congregation B'nai
in the first assault and also the second
Jacob, New Jersey, one of the cosponsors
incident."of the resolution. The other cosponsor
Larry Basile, an organizer of thewas Rabbi Bradley Artsen of.Temple Eilat daI!ce for the Grassroots Gay Rights
in MissionViejo, Qilifomia.
Fund, told OutWeek that earlier in the
The resolution was ,amended 'during \ day, three teenagers who were disrupting
floor debate to' include an affirmation ofparty preparations were asked to leave"our traditions'prescription
forthe rented hall of the cultural center inheterosexuality." The inclusion of thisthe Villa Victoria housing project. The
amendment was deemed necessary to
youths left yelling antigay insults andachieve a nearly unanimous vote for the
making threats against: the dance, Basile
resolution. Two proposed amendments
said.
"that would $Uggest that the Torah or
The first incident took place at' 2:20
Judaism condemned or pro;cribed eitheram, when a group of young males
homosexuality or homOsexual behavior
started kicking and punching several,were soundly and overwhelmingly
men who had ,left the dance. Stevewith about 300 rabbis participating.
Sacks stated that he was one of only
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Macuch, 39, was hospitalized'withabroken jaw. The other victim, Doug
Milinazzo,
31, sufferedmultiplelacerations to the face that were treatedat a hospital.
Approximately 40 minutes later, thepolice said that What seemed to be thesame group of young males ~deda parked car as three people were
getting inside. The attackers yelled,"Faggots get out of the car and fight us,·as they broke the rear window withrock and ripped off the car's antenna.
No one was hurt in this incident.
On May ?th, two gay men were
injured in an attaack in the Feus, apopular Boston cruising-area for gay
men. According to the Boston based Gay
Community News, the incident brings to
11 the number of attacks on gay men in
the area.
Robert Weinerman, victim advocate
for The victim Recovery Program of the
Fenway Community Health Center, said
that antigay attacks always rise in thespring and summer. His office receives
several reports of antigay violence
weekly. As of April 30, 1990, there havebeen 32 attacks reported to the Boston
program. Weinerman told OutWeek thathe expects attacks to reach an all-timehigh of 100 before the year is out.

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L8D1bdapeople of color community in thiscountry, as well as to become a greater
part' of the growing lesbian and gay
international network," said RomoCarmona. "For these reasons, 1 am
thrilled to be in a position to makeeducational r~sources available about
our legal and civil rights."
NEW YORK-On the heels of its
Romo-Carmona
was II senior
announced
plans to open a Westcompliance specialist for the New X"ork. Coast office, Lambda Legal Defense
City Office of Labor Services before
and Education Fund made public its
coming to Lambda.
hiring of Mariana Romo-Carmona to"We are extremely fortunate to·fill the newly created post of publichave someone of Mariana's skills anditalents join us on Lambda's staff," said
Paula Ettelbrick,
Lambda's
legal
director. "Her perspective as a Latina
lesbian and a feminist are crucial toour. goalof providing
more
information, through publications andeducational conferences, tC' 'esbians
and gay men throughout the country.·
The mother of a teenage son,Romo-Carmona 'is also eager to help
Lambda educate the public on lesbian
and gay families. "I have firsthandexperience with the homophobic legal
system. My son and 1 withstood a nineyear legal battle'to maintain our rigl,lts
to visitation. As a result, I welcome theopportunity to work with Lambda's
legal staff to fight discrimination."
Romo-Carmona graduated fromthe University of Connecticut. She
resides in Manhattan with her partner,
PHOTO: IL UTT ..June Chan. Salary for the position of
public education coordinator was said
education coordinator.
to be in the low-thirties. -Janis Astor
A Chilean lesbian writer andactivist, Romo-Carmona has authoreda,rticles for ,such publications as The
New Our Bodies, Ourselves, Fight Back! ;Feminist Resistance to Male oppression,
Gay Community News; and Wbmannews.
In the late '70s, she was producer andcommentator of a 'bilingual lesbian andgay radio program which also dealt
with issues pertinent
to the Latin.
rcommunity in Willimantic,. Connecticut.
Additionally, Romo-Carmona served ascommunity-education .specialist in 1980
for the Massachusetts
Coalition ofBattered Women's Groups.
NEW YORK-Roberto
Caballero,"I want to Qelp expand Lambda's
an openly gay man and a longtime
horizons
to include the specifichousing activist on Manhattan's East
Side, will challenge 14-year incumbent 'concernsof the lesbian
and gay

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Democrat,
Sheldon Silver for his
District 62 seat in the New York State
Assembly.
Democrat Caballero, 31, is thethird openly gay candidate to enter
assembly rates in New York City thisyear. The others, Deborah Glick andRobert Rygor, are competing for theDistrict 61 (West Village) seat.
Caballero has been described by
gay and lesbian community leaders as
not only a housing activist, butsomeone who is very involved in the"nuts and bolts" organizing of the local
community.
Caballero, born and raised in the
62nd District, holds the position of
executive director of Pueblo Nuevo, aprivate, non-profit housing organizationthat operates 400 low- and moderateincome housing units. Pueblo Nuevo isthe largest organization of its .kind on
the Lower East Side.
Caballerois also serving his
second term as the chair of Ar~ Policy
Board 3. He was first elected to theboard by the community at large in1987 and unanimously
voted'in aschair by the board itself. The Area
Policy Board is responsiblefor
distributing, $750,000 in city funds toorganizations
that serve the local
community.
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the funding of a program serving
senior citizens operated by the DeWitt
Reformed Chu,rch. He spent six years
negotiating a cross-subsidy housing
program with the city, in ,which funds
from, the sale ,of city-owned property.
are given .to developers to renovate
city buildings for low- and moderateincome housing.
Caballero has been a member ofCommunity Board 3 for approximately
five years. The community board acts
as an advisory body to the city,communicating
the community's
concerns and input to .city government.
Caballero has received numerous
endorsements from community leaders
including City Council member Miriam,Friedlander; Sister, Elizabeth Kelleher,
chairpersonof Community School
Board 1; Anne Johnson, chairperson ofCommunity Planning BO'ard 1; andLower East Sid.e lJnited Neighbors(formerly
Lower East Siders for
Dinkins). Caballero is also seeking an
endorsementfrom the Gay andLesbian 'Indepenqent
Democrats(GLID). Caballero
will f(!sign his
position at Pueblo Nuevo on June 30
to campaign full time and, to date, has .
$10,000 in his campaign war chest.
/--Duncan Osborne'

Gay· Artist
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fall sparked controversy surrounding the
National Endowment for the Arts·ftled
suit last wrek against a conservative
political action organization for violating
federal and state copyright laws. The
artist, David Wojruvowicz, also claims in
his suit that the unauthorized
publication of portions of his work, aswell as print.ed criticism of the content, of pis work, has served to defarae his
character and potentially )imit the value. of his art.

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June 6. ,1990

Body,"I was outraged," Wojnarowicz
conunented, pointing out that since. theNEA controversy began last fall, he has
been subjected to numerous printed
attacks. This latest assault, however, hesaid, goes beyond libel to threaten his
livelihood by taking portions of hiswork, out of context, "[stripping] it of allpolitical content and all artistic content."
NEW YORK-The
second annual
Wojnarowicz first became aware
Michael Hirsch, Awards were presented
that his work had been pirated when heon May 17 by Body ,Positive. The
received a call from Illinois which
awards, named to honor the latealerted him to the use of his work.in a
pamphlet calling for an end to NEA founder of the organization (who also
was a founder of the PWA Coalition
funding of artists like himself. His suitand ACf UP), are given in recognition
charges that a pamphlet put out by, theof positive work done in behalf of the
defendant distorts and mutilates his
AIDS and mv community.
work in violation of federal and state
The recipients
included Larry
copyright laws.
Kramer, noted author, activist and one
The pamphlet was put out by aof the founders of 9MHC and KCT
group called the American Family
UP; Rodger Pettyjohn, Political activist
Association(AFA) , which urges
and nurse at the Community Health"decent, moral taxpayers" to write toCongress to "either clean up the ,NEA Project; Marie St. Cyr, for ,her w<?rk as
executive
director of Women andor abolish the agency altogether." The
AIDS Resource Network; Joseph Papp,
executive director of AFA,the Reverend
for his continued supporto{ theater
Donald E. Wildmon,
refus~d toabout the AIDS and mv commug.itY;,
comment on the case, and Peggy
Paul Kawata, for his work as founding
Coleman, a spokeswomanfor·.thedirector of the National AIDS Networkgroup, did not return repeated phoneand' as executive
director of the)calls.
national Minority AIDS Counci~ andThe suit, comprising five separate
the late Keith Haring, for his, artistic
claims, seeks an injunction against
contributions towar<h> education andfurther distribution of the pamphlet thatenlightenment.
Artist Kenny Scharf
includes derivatives of the artist's wor~,
accepted Haring's award.'.'
publication of a corrective letter that
ColleenDewhurst,
Ronawould be mailed to all recipients of theoriginal pamphlet, and $1 million in
Affoumado and Judith Peabody weredamages. The preliminary hearing isamong the award presenters" as wasscheduled
for
June
8,
and, ' Miss Yvonnefrom Pee Wee's
Playhouse, who brought the right mix
Wojnarowicz's
lawyer stated thatof respect and outrageousness to the
because Wojnarowicz has AIDS, shewill seek a speedy resolution of the 'evenh~g. Bobby Short and Barbara
Cookprovi~ed
top-notch
enti,.recase.
W6jnarowicz pointed out that a . entertainment for "the- event, held at.primary motivation 'for his decision to
the Limelight disco.
'Larry. Kramer, the first honoree,
ftle suit was that he relies on income
from sales of his work to pay for his
accepted his award with what seemed
health care,' and the AFA's nation~la note of bitterness and defeat, saying
campaign has made galleries leery of"the AIDS activist's battle has been,him. "This action by Wlldmon can andlost. ~ But this theme., was Icountered
will severely damage my reputationby theotherhonorees,
who,and will make people nervous about
reaffirmed
their commitment
andhandling my work, n he explained ..
dedication to a battle just begun.
--Marc Reiss-Nina Reyes

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While Deleon, who is the highestranking openry gay member of the
Dinkins administration, admitted he\-"did not have the answers, he stressed 'NEW YORK-Human
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members of his own staff, perceive
organizations such as GMHC and ACf
UP as racist. And, in 'turn, he said
some gay white men feel that themainstream
communities
of color
ignored the AIDS crisis until it beganaffecting them.
According to deleon, hostilities
came to a head when Mayor David
Dinkins announced in JanuaTr that he
was appointing Dr. wOodiow Myers' as 'New York City's ,health commissioner.
"I really view- the ,Myers incident as
bringing to the surface an issue that's
been there and ts ther~," he said.
Deleon ,did not, however, saywhat he anticipates from Myers. When
asked about
potentiallydeeperdivisions among the AIDS communities
if Myers does not "work out," Deleon
responded" "If Dr. Myers c;ioesn't work,
Dr. Myers doesn't work. He's an
individual, and 1 don't see any morethan that in him.
.
; Speaking of how racism andhomophobia impinge on the broad
mission of the HRC to ensure non.,discrimination
for communities
affected by AIDS, Deleon said, "To dothat, we have had in the commission
to cont'ront some of our own internal
problems with racism and sexism. And
we're doing that right now. We'regoing to clean up our own house first,
and then we intend to try and move "out more broadly into the AIDS
community and bring, groups together."Franklin"
Furnace
Under' Fi~eFranklin Furnace, a dowr)town. gallery and performance space, wasforced to close its basement theater lastweekend after an anonymous call was
made to the fire department.
The
space was closed for alleged ftre-code
violations, but Franklin Furnace staff
members had reason to believe thatthe closing was related more to thecOntent of its current exhibits than toactual code violations.

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June 6, 1990

Barbara Pollock, publicist for"homoerotic."
Franklin F.urnace, said that during a
Hundreds of illegal bars and clubs
performance of Diane Torr's Ci'Osstng
have been closed in a citywide sweep,
OVer the I!tver SIy.X (a work about how
following the flr~ at the Happy Landthe artistic comqmnity is dealing withsocial club in the Bronx, which killed
AIDS), an audience member made'. 87 people. Among the establishments
loud complaints about the content ofclosed were several' after-hours gay
the w.ork. Staff members were unableclubs,
to name the person.
.
"It might
have
been
an
Fir~ department officials stated'anonymous tip from a; patron. That'sthat later that night they receiv~~ a call
all we need," said Captain Sapienza offrom sOmeone claiming that the space
Engine 7 Fire House in downtown
was an illegal social club. Ms. Pollock
Manhattan. Even if the call is solely
stated that she did not know whether
awed to harass a space, "we have tothe complaint was related to Diane /' follow through 'and investigate.".
,Torr's performance or th~ first-floor
Ftanklin Furnace, originally theexhibitbased' on the work ofhome of Director Martha Wuson, has aconttover~ial performance artist Karen ' s~all basement 'performance space
Finley: "We're all working in thisand first-floor gallery. The space also
atmosphere where, if people don't likehouses the largest archive of 600k art,
something, they feel like they nave to
\yith
over
1.3,000 perfor,ma-nce"'-·call some authority."materials' and works- on paper. Notable
Finley's exhibit runs through June
artists to receive th~ir first shows at.30. Franklin Furnace's performanceFranklin
FurnaceincludeEricschedule concludes at the end of
Bogosian, Laurie Anderson an'd Vito
but the gallery will remain open. "OverAcconci.
the summer w~'re hoping to dear up ",Plans are underway for a benefit
the violations," said Pollock.
-~to pay for the improvements t~ thePollock stressed that although the , Furnace space. Joseph Papp has
ftre department was very cooperative, ' offered use of the Public Theater, July
the space has existed for 15 years
11 at 8 pm, with Eric Bogosian, Laurie
without such an incident. "We wer~
Ariderson, Karen Finley, Reno,'David
warned by groups like People for the, Cale aQd other artists scheduled toAmerican Way that this was the kind of 'perform.
-Jim Provenzano
thing that would happen."The
corµplaint follows what Pollock termed
an "incredibly sexist" article in the New,
Yom Post about Karen Finley, in which
the arti~t was criticized for being
worthy pf federal funding. "Women
dealing with sexual issues really drive
them crazy," Pollock said. "That article
came out the day before the National
Advisory Council to the NEA met in
Winston-Salem {North Carolina}. This
year, in response to the advance notice'of this oolumn, they pulled 18
performance artist grants, including
Karen Finley'S. They said, 'Eventhough they went through the panel
pro.cess, we're going to keep them forfurther review.'"
These policy shifts follow in thewake of the Helms Amendment, whichbans federal
fundingof 'works
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C<nte, is an_Ivepl",eIn ', Burbank, ,just minutes east of
Disney Studios, and north of the newGene Autry MuSeum. Emp.ty except forthe stray horseback-riding lesson, theEquestrian
C~nter looked, like theabandoned set of ,a prime-time soap
when myJrie~d ~elis~a and'I arrived a
few Fridays agp----a full' ~y too early,
as it turned out, for the Golden StateGay Rodeo Association(GSGRA)"'Ready to Ride' Rodeo 1990."
In ',contrast to the 'Equestrian
Center;, the tents. an~ booths in backlooked smaller-than-life, like the efforts~f an elementary-school .fair. The men
pitching the tents refused to tell us,f'!1oto: Melissa Casey
ahything
about the Gay Rodeo.
NUMBER ONE WOlI'ME"
Suspicious' glances became angry,
Fashioniibls cowboys in an array of polka dots and stripss
glares when I tried my best "I'm not, "You mean he's actually a model
know, however, that the next day's
cruising, but yes, I'm gay" smile.
for Marlboro?"'(Melissa later explained that, my Pee- events would be the 'sixth ,annual Gay
Del nodded, enjoying my reaction.
Wee Herman demeanor, and not the Rodeo ih Los Angeles, that he had'
I studied the man who stood aattended the Gay Rodeo f~~three years
pbssibility that ,we were a heterosexual
short but seemingly unbreachable
couple, had riled the rodeo people; I running and that this was the f~t year
distance away. He was in conversation
choose to think:. they suspected us of he was to ahas publicist. He rewarded
with someone else now, his beautiful
our early arrival with comp tickets, andbeing animal-rights activists.)
jaw barely moving.
offered that he always had a gqod time
Even the man who introduced"Gosh, so you think I could speakat the rodeo and hoped we would too.
himself as the rodeo publicist wouldt<?him?...Or is thaChot a good idea? I
Gordonwas saved from mynot tell 'us very much. A 'painfully shy,mean, is he closeted?"sandy-haired los Angeleno who, like interlocutory grip when the president
Del shrugged, as if to say, "Better
almost all the rodeo men, sported a of ,the Greater Los Al?-gelesChapter of
not."
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mustache as well as a COWboy hat, GSGRA arrived in a golf cart, waviflg"Rodeo as a competitive
sport
Gordo~ clearly preferred his other roie his i hat. 'Round, red-faced and wholly
from the hard-working
Del provedthat rare 'evolved
as 'a rodeo contestant to the role of a pleasant,lifestyle of the American cowhand,"public-reIati,ons
official. He let us exception among gay cowboys: a man'explained the brochure in the rodeo,who
likes'
to chat.
Grinningpress kit. "The hard life in the Old
mischievously, he turned and pointedWest produced a character and anin the direction he had just come from.
"See 'that man over there. He's a attitude that remain a living legend: theA.merican
cowboyand cowgirl;Marboro Man."I

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Over the course of years, practicaltasks became rodeo events. Calf
roping, f()r example, "arose from thenecessity of the cowhand to be able to
do 'doctorin'g' on, the range and tohandle roping duties at branding.»
But, the brochure confessed, severalof the rodeo events could not boast
such long, hard histories. pnique tothe Gay Rodeo, Wild Drag Racing (inwhich cowboys and cowgirls work
together to thrust drag queens on topof resistant bulls) and Goat Dressing(in which cowboys compete to see
who can dress a goat in a pair of
men's briefs the fastest) emerged as
imaginative afterthoughts to an alreadygrand tradition.
Looking up from the brochUre as
I entered the Equestrian
Center asecond time; I rubbed my: eyes andstared. So many men-almost
all ofthe: kind described, inadequately, as"real"-had turned up for the rodeo's
official first day that, at first" I could
not focus on a siOgle one.
I wondered if th<; crowd might
divide in a way similar to the rodeo
events, some of the men descending
from long lineS of rodeo riders, others
just coming to the rodeo for a campy
afternoon . .The two men in'}iont ofme, I fel~ sure, grew up in the very
bosom of the rodeo community. The, newn'ess of their jeans and thesynthetic fabric in their Western shirts
betrayed them as members of the old,authentic rodeo set. But 'the bUQ\:
hugging leather and nipple-piercing
brass that brushed past me on my left 'offered a whiff less of the family farm
than of the local leather bar. Asidefrom an assortment of multi-coloredcrystals-:-:-.<lctual1Y New Age bolo
lies-and'the predictably generous
selection of belt buckles, none of theWestern paraphernalia
sold at therodeo struck me as especially gay. The
whole rodeo appeared to keep a safe
distance from ~he piles of issueoriented, mostly AIDS-related literaturethat covered a row of tables deeper
into the Equestria~ Ce~ter. When ,analarmingly tall cowboy, who, I felt
certain, was the real thing, ambled
toward me only to deliver a flyer
advertising the Human Rights Action
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Gay Rodeo wore skirts and bright
The day before,
Del hadverY dange(Ous. The- broncs, as soon
lipstick and smiled devilishly when
,explained that the larger of the tents
as they were released from the corral,
uninjured male, contestants rode on
were to house the dancing that would
raced into the stadium, kicking their
their backs. ,,', 1I1st th,~ entire ,~eekend.
•As youhind legs in the air whenever theyAs I made my way out of the'know," he said, "in the gay community
could. The riders held on desperately
you hav~ your rodeo people and youras they were thrown backWard so that . arena toward the, baked beans andbarbecued ribs, I
a woman whom
dancers.~ I remained in the dark about
their shoulders'touched
the haunches.,-"'"",i Irememt>ered from the clog
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forces untU I .interviewed a
Party" held at the Hyperion,
T-shirt vendor. "Steve,· as his
a bar in Silverlake. At the,belt b~ckle read, voluntarUy
rodeo, she wore a number'desaibed h~lf
as a "goOdon her back, which meant
dancer," prQinpti~g me toquestion'
him about theshe was a rider as well as asociolo8y'of the r9deo.
.
dancer. As it turned out,
Linda, a slim but clearly
He lnformed, JIle thattough contestantin the"there's an 'entire group thatRoµgh Stock events (WildstayS' ~n the dance floor andSteer Riding, Barebacka group" that, stays in the
Bronc Riding, etc.), rides.
ring: And never do theyin all tl}e gay rodeos'from"meet. .. although they may be'Texasto
California.
perfect for".each other." The
Althougn; flanked by two _dancers' are,' in tUrn,. divided
supporters, both ~ressed
be~ween ·sqµares· (square
daDceis)and "cloggers" (clog·like her In red Western
dancers).
,Clog danCing,
shirts,Linda
seemednervous about speaking 'towhich looks a lot like the
Hustle but has 'its roots in
me. Linda admitted~ttheHolland, ,consls!s of a group
California rodeo communityof 'uniformeddanc~rs
did not alWays welcome gay'kickingand stomping
aspeople-.:-unlike the riders in., :"her home s~te, C&lorado,"~hey grin manically.
The
clogging groups, at th~ rodeo
who were great4ut
she
acted as teams, rpany of
was happier to tell me thatthe men on 'the gay rodeo
them sponsored by gay: bars,
and all ,'beacring names lik'e
circuit treated women riders"The Longhorns" and "The '_with consideration.
"The
Photo: M'elissa Casey guys really take care ofCountry Knight Cloggers"·
Competitive clogging drew Hunky cowbOY' It thBg.y (OdBO 'you.",,the rodeo's largest crowds.''~o~around Los Angeles as the., I arrived at the arena events--the',of their horse, artd their pelvises' rO$e "Gay Rodeo" but on T-shirts simply as
rodeo part of the rodeo-intlate to . uncontrollably into ,the air. The rider"Rodeo"'" the annual event
thecatch Gorc;lon chatting with a friend.
with the longest time made, this'Equestrian Center-rep\lted!y the biggest
Explo!ting his unusually voluble moOd,
helplessness
into a kind of happy
and, best rodeo o~ the gay rodeo
I' asked Oordqn to ddlne .ifbuck-off,I> alooseness.
circuit-was proud;-bu~ a bit bashful,phrase thrown- around 'in the. rodeo,,: A rider's fall was a clown's cue.
about its sexual- identity; The rodeo
announcer told a grim but revealingbrochure. Not· belieVing I could be so
Clowns, I am told, perform at all
dumb, he told me that the phrase
rodeos, gay or straight, and serve tojoke: "What is the mating cry of a gay
cowboy? ..·I'm so-o-o drunk.'" He also
simply meant "to fall off,","in this case,
distract
the audiencefrom theto,fall off a "bucking bronc." Gordon
potentiallydisturbing
sight of areported that several contes~nts had
requested that no photographs~en,then broke into~a grin and said, "Like contestant writhing in pain, or, evenyqu're going to see me do in a minute."
more
disturbing,
lying
inert.
"for obvious reasons." I surmised thatthese contestants must ride in non-gay
In fact, ,all bronc ric;lers fall, off
Accomplishedhorse people,
theas well as gay rodeos.
their horses. It is only a matter of time.
clowns
must
also
cha$e
the,
, The o~tside world,impingedon
The best rider, the longest time. To myunburdened, but still jumpy,' broncs
the Gay Rodeo most obviously in thelayman:s '~ye, bronc riding looked,
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few minutes dedicated to those' in therodeo community who had been lostto AIDS. In the "Ceremony of the
Riderless Horse," a woman walked
around the rodeo ring with her lover's
unencumbered horse in tow. The
rodeo administrators chose a woman
to perform the ceremony as a gestureof thanks for the lesbian community's
contribution to the fight against AIDS.
According to the announce'r, the 'ceremony "symbolizes the end of therelationship between man and horse."
During the Wild Drag Race, twolittle boys, each wearing a pink T-shirt
and a canvas "butt-pack," scrambled
around the arena, only occasionallyattentive to the event in progress. Theirfathers stood next to each other, smiling
down at them, as I shyly approachedthis happy family:The fathers told methat no, they were just friends, single
parents, but they visited the Gay Rodeo
together every year with their sons. Just
as other parents take their children to
the ciicus, or the movies. One of theboys especially liked the drag part of
the rodeo. He was always buying the"nelliestnecklaces."'
I thought wistfullyabout a picturethat lies on my shelf in my father'shouse. Drawn with colored markers
by my (riend Blake's mother, thepicture shows r.ne playing with Blake
sometime in our pre-latency years. I
wear my favorite outfit, a pink-andpurple cowboy suit replete with hilt,
vest, chaps and tassles. A peeledbanana waves in my hand'. Blake iscaptured in a sailor suit, holding a 'glass of what he called "pink drink." •So there I am at the Gay Rodeo.
No chaps. No Blake. No banana. I
do have my boots, however, even if
ther,~e from a thrift shop in tl;1e
East Village. And there he is, thisguy that I've been following aroundall day. He's got this really cutedimple in his chin, and this really
noticeable, well, chin. He catches myeye, and I think of this really great
pickup line: "See, I gotta get som~
pictures for this article I'm doing. 'It's
about, uh, you ..." Well,.what would
you do if you were a cold and lonely
cowboy staring across a smoldering
fire into the eyes cif the only man
you trusted with your horse? ~',",', rm.
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f~ast Berlin Journal·East:<~Gay;LaWs·
Years'Ahead',ofWest~' -'by.Richard Plant

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and eluding prosecution.
The West' brokers of West Germany. The East
Germans, those poor cousins without
Germap government,on the otherVolkswagens, California oranges or Big
hand, continued
to employ some1982none of my East German ) notorious Nazis in high positions long Mac, palaces, had followed liberal,
friends mailed a guarded note to after the beloved Fuehrer's suicide.
nations like France and Switzerland in
me: Friends of 1$ in Leipzig had,decriminalizing
homosexuality
andChancellor Konrad Adenauer, though
under the umbrella of the Lutheran liimself never suspected
could again denounce Bonn as stillof Nazichurch, founded a gay discussionleanin8S, could not be budged when it bound in Nazi chains. In 1969 the Bonn 'group,and the ever-alert
policegovernment began timidly to draw up ,came to his assistant, Hans qlobke.
, vigilantes had simply ignored it. Lesbians .Globke was insttume~tal 'in' drafting
new regulations; the legislators, however,apd gay men in other East German
Nazi laws, enacted during the 1930s, were so scared of right-wing fanatics
that another yejlr p~ssed before tfieir '.. '"cities soon followed suit, and in 1985 a which
deprivedJewsof theirgroup 'of over. 70,., p'sych610gists, ,'citizenship: Despite protests, A~uer
rulings reseuibled those drafted in theEast. And in a finaEgesture of oneof thesociologists and !heologians organized a kept Gtc;>bke as secretaryconv~ntion on gay problems at an East chancellery
upmanship,in 1988 East ?erlin
and as chief of theGerman university.
personn~~ division. In 1950, an East announced that discrimination because
Under the leadership of a wellGerman c:ourt indicted Globke in of sexual orientation was illegal.
known social scientist, Guenter Grau,
Beforewestart
emptying
absentia, but Adenauer never w.3vered'
they drew up some guidelines to ease in his support.
champagne glasses to celebrate. gay
the pressures on lesbians and gays. In
Neither did Adenauer rescind theliberation East Gennan-style, I must add
1988, to the bafflement of Western.
tou,8n antigay Nazi decrees of 1935, the following:, Talking to East Gennans
observers,
the governmentof East~hich, for example, declared that a and reading recent documents, I have
Germany,
though still under the' man' observed "glancing lewdly at found that prejudice against le~bians
dominanceof the Soviet Union,
another man" could be taken intoand gays has not by any means
abolished all laws ,penalizing sexual,stopped. From the statt, reformers werepolice custody. The East German
activities betWeen men. This happenedupagainstdeeplyengrainedauthorities kept branding the Bonnlong before the wall 'dividing East and regime as neofascist. Perhaps to prove
hom9phobia,
promoted by certain
they' were truly anti-Nazi, the' East ,lobbyists. Best-known among them was .
West began to be dismantled.
The ,German Democratic Republic Germans eliminated many laws, among
Dr. Guenter Doerner, a dermatologist(East Germany) was establishedin them the 1935 antigay statutes. 1bis who ~imed thai: injecting gay. people
with certain hormones could convert
1949. From the start, it considered itself change' took place in 1950. Eastof them intJ happy heterosexuals.
morally superior to the Federal Republic Germany's . legal renunciationHe
to the west. East German leaders tried homoph<;>bia is the more remarkablewent even further and proposed, to indict and convict as many highprenatal injections tllat would' regulate
because the nation was so dependent, ranking former Nazi as possible. Of ,on ,Moscow: In the 1920s Stalin had
fetal developnien,t, so no "effeminate
course, quite' a few sHpped by,introduced harsh antigay legislation;
male babies" wouid De born. Doernerbecomi!lg Communist Party flunkies "returning
insists his treatments
have been
to the ancient
Czaristprohibitions.
"\
successful, but other physician.s have
violently disputed his claims. At thisFinally, in 1968, perhaps ~purred
.
I
could
be. ,reversed 'Rich.ard Plant, a' 'native of on by, sexologists; scientists and gay moment-it
dennatologist seems toFrankfurt, Germany, got his Ph.D. in activists, East Germany Tevoked all 'tomotrow-the
have lost his crusade, but I venture to
Basel, Switzerland, and has written pepalties, concerning sexU"al relations
extensively about German politics and between consenting male adults. This guess that he will keep on pitching.', 'At several, Nazi concentration\ literaturefor The New York Ttmes, the caused consternation for the leaders ofcamps, physicians ,tried similar inane
Europeannations.
. New Yorker lind other magazines. In other Eastern
experimentson helpless lnmates. 1986 he.published his classicstudy The Officials in Prague; Budapest andwithout success. In Buchenwald, now
Pink Trian'gle: The Nazi War on Bucharest were bewildered. But more
in East Germany, such trials were
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carried out during 1943-44, but in the found a life-partner.
(By the way,
end almost all inmates marked by pink I.erIUce'sbook was adapted fOr'the stage
triangles were castrated. These facts
and nas just been produced in Eastcame to light only recently, when
Berlin--il defin,ite triumph.),
socidlogist Grau and his associates,
Finally, I want to say a word about
gained access to the flies of the Federal ' a pamphlet publishedby an East
Security Office for Combatting Abortion German university 'as a~'guide forand Homosexuality,
establishedby troubled teenagers. It is stunning. It
Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler.
featur.es two young men kissing, two
Of course, Doerner, the honnonic
young women embracing. It assuresredeemer,
was not the only force
them that they are not sick, that gay isagitating against gay reforms. Many good, that they are not alone. That thisolder peopie, who grew up under the ,brochure could have been distributed inideologies of Hitlerism and Stalinism,
East Germany before the uprising is'have been taught that' gays, like 'jews,
heartening. It demonstrates that lesmaos, are subhuman, dangerous because their and gay men can sometimeS win against
activities run counter to the interests of tough odds. It seems that Stonewall
the state: Gays don't produce children
caine to East Germany even before the'(soldiers), they incite others to same-Sex people threw out the inquisitors andmasturbation and tend to be secretive.
tyrants. I couldn',t heip wondering
The allthorities may have abolishe~,whether a pamphlet like this could be" most Nazi legal strictures, but this hardly published in the United States....
eradicated widespread homophobia.
f,iow East, German gay men cOpedwith the o~en-daunting realities of theircountry before 1984 can be gli}npsed ina book called Quite Nonnall3ut D{fferenI,edited by ]uergen Lemke, published iri '. 1989. Thirteen gay men talk'fieelyab(jut their experiences. A few w~re
imprisoned by,the Nazis, and their lives
were blighted forever. Others eluded
de~ention but still had to live ~ies. Even
when the laws changed, the minds ofmany East Gennans <U.dnot. And what
about younger gay men~ who' only
knew state socialism? A 'few got rid of
the old ghosts, overcame guilt and fear
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BARBIE HATES APPLE PIE AND SNOWANGELS! IT IS A KNOWN FACf mAT
BARBIE WAS IN A SUPPOR1' GROUP~, WITH MAl-COLM FORBES! I analyzed,'further.
Couldn't this whole outing camI
paign be another form of class warfare?
health p~an. Thanks a lot, Barbie. I Sure, we resent powerful and wealthy
gays who won't come out of the closet
grippeci my pencil in chic, journalistic
commentary by Susie Day
to help us fight thisresolve: I'm afraid I'm
Ilife-threatening society.
"Get Out! Get-out of here and never going to have' to, "out"But there are many
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more thousandsofbie, as she hurled a tiny' bedroom slipDatelineUSA:powerful and wealthy
per in my direction. The daintY missile According to recent
careened off an itty-bitty bust of Ken,heterosexuals
who
reports, Barbie, interthen shattered the frame that held the
don't have closets andnationally krioum doll,
lipstick-smeared photo of Midge. "I havestill won't help us fight
who for years has
a right to privacy, dammit!~ Barbie's
this life-threatening
exemplified
Nordicentire beach bus shook and threatenedsociety.
femininity and ,heteroto cave in on itself, as the diminutive
sexual elegance,isWell, FlICK mAT
TOOt!!' For the time
miss slammed my nose in the door. This
alleged to have been abe.ing,' at least, wedoll was ~d, but I couldn't help it; I practicing homosexual, since the early 1960s.
was just doing my job.
should assume that
Me? I'm a crackerjack ~eporter for Sourqes have linked
anybody who makes
the trendy new lesbian n' gay magazine,
more than $100,000 a
the long-legged lassie
year and/or
wJeldswith a numberofwhich had just given me one morechance to turn in an article on time
personal
influencesame-sex playthings,
over at least a fivebefore they fired me. My job was to 'notably Tiny Tears'andMiss <Piggy.
eome up with a chicIy controversial
state radius is ~. Dr.
story within the next 45 minutes, no (Des~ribed by Skipper,
Ruth. Mikhail Gormatter how many hearts if broke. I was Barbie's tattletale kidbach.ev . MacNeil +in a tither.
Lehrer = LUV. In fact,
sister, as a "kinky little
Then I thought of Barbie and the
I've suspected
for asnob," Barbie was, forfree-floating rumors that she was a le~- a time, "into" Cabbage
long tim~ now that our, entire infrastructure isbian. I went to Barbie's beach bus and Patch dolls but considqueer.: Merrill Lynch isasked for a statement, but Barbie insisted
ered them "too lowera lesbian, Betty Crockshe didn't even know what "that w;ord" middle class" to be'
er does it with Sara
seen with in public.
meant. I argued, I badgered, I threatLee. Trump Tower isened, I wheedled, I cajoled, but the pert Skipper attributes her
hot for the Chrysler
little playgirl remained' inflexible. It was sister's persistent urinary tract 'inflammaBuilding. Our entirethen that I knew I had my story.
postal system is a' -Nellie Queen. The
Tough luck, Barbie, I thought. Plas- tion to the torrid weekend that Barbie
spent with the notorious Betsy Wetsy. Pentagon is a...
tic is as plastic does. With your money"Midge has been a real healing presI envisioned Barbie and me hashingand power, not to ~entionyour
ruling':ence, " stated Skipper. "Barbie was so these issues out on-Nightline. The lights,
class good looks and conical, diamondhappy to finally date somebody from her the millions of breathless viewers, myhard breasts, you could have provided
career. But then I had an un-chic
three decades of queer little girls with a own background. What a jerk. "Of course, Liz Smith wouldn't return
thought: Whatever happened to "gaypositive role model. Playing house could
have meant so much more, Barbie. You my phone calls. The Mattell Toy Compa- and proud?" And where is the joy of sex
ny called me a dirtbag and hung up on in all this, anyhow? But by then I had
might have made a difference if you'd
testified before Congress for more AIDS- me. And Ken just winked, snapped his only three minutes until my deadline,
and no time to care. So I kicked Barbie's
beach towel at me and rubbed more
research funding; if, just once, you'dshown up at a, Gay Pride· rally. Now suntan lotion on GI Joe. I felt a lot of beach bus back into my closet, slammed
the door and ended this piece. T
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Hate' Ctimes',NUinber;,Gebrge,Carlin
fact that he had been told to tone down
his act, an outburst by several activists
in the audience served to expose himas the sexist, racist homophobe that heis. In an attempt to pander to homophobic members of the studio audience, he jeered at the protesters, "Justby Karin ;Schwartz'cause I don~t wanna go out with you,pal, doesn't mean I don't dig you." InI
the course of the show"other SaturdayNight Live cast members also attempted
The federal goveriiment wants toto belittle the complaints against Clay,help you if you become a victim
and th~ stances taken by cast member,of a hate crime. Unless you are
Nora Dunn and singer Sinead, O'Congay or lesbian.
nor, both of whom refused to do~the
Gay and lesbian activists are still
sho;W'in light of Clay'S bigotry.
ecstatic over the, passage of the first
The surpris~. ~( the evening
piece of federal legislation in history ,came from Radio City Music Hall"
to make reference to sexual orientaright down. the streef from' NBC,tion: the Hate Crimes StatistiCs Act.
(rom where HBO's' Comic Relief was
Recognizing the historic importance of
teltrvised. Hosted by the politically'
this legislation, President Bush invited
correct comic trio, Whoopi Goldlesbian and gay activists, including
berg, Robin Williams and Billy 'Crysrepresentatives from the National Gay
tal, the event raises money each year
and Lesbian Task Force, to the White
to help the homeless.
House to witness the bill-signing-alsoThis year, thanks to "c0tDfdian"a fust.
George Carlin, it did so at the expense
At the bill-signing, Bush surpriSedof gays and lesbian,s. Carlin's shtick
many people by announcingthat aincluded a hostile routine about golfing,toll-free number would be established; GEORGE CARUN
in which he stated that golfers wear
through the Department of JUstice, toYou can do something about it. "fagony little hats" and drive around inhelp people who are victims of biasThe little bit of pressure exerted so far "fag0nY little golf carts."
motivated violence. Recently it was
We flIld little humor in the words
revealed that this toll-free number is has already yielded results. We ask"fag" and "dyke";' they are hate words,
you to write to the attorney general,
only empowered to respond to attacks
based on national
origin, race or Dick Thornburgh, and demand that he nothing less. Comedians who use themas part of their shtick are usuallybroaden the mandate of the Communicolor. That's right: Gays, and lesbians
ty Relations Service, which is the divi- demonstrating that th,eir creative powhave been left out of the toll-free
ers have dried up, and are resorting to
Department
number's mandate. In fact, when I sion of the Justicecalled a couple of weeks ago to ask responsible for the toll-free number, to, bigotry in a last ditch_effort to evoke alaugh from a homophobic audience.
how they would handle a lesbiao,- or include us. Write to: The Hon. Dkk
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hat strikes you first is her making th<: trip myself. (Until thatbeauty. Her "femininity.·
moment, my duties to the march went as
Those long, blood-red fm- far as publicizing it in my monthly femigernails. She speaks, and ,nist-newspaper column and at my thenyou maivel at her grasp' on place Qf 'employment, the Fund For
issues, her charm, her intel- Human 'Dignity).
lect. and her grace. She,
, Since then, I have "forked with Mar':works a room like a pro,jarie Hill on various projects. I've gotten
making sure she shakes everyone's hands.
to know her a bit. And now it's time thatA psycholo~tsince 1981 (both in everyone else does.
hospitals and in her own' private practicein Brooklyn), Dr. Marjorie Hill knows fullacquie Bishop. Let's talk a little
well the art of communication. In 1987,
about your poHtidI;activ~
pri9l' towhen I ruSt saw her take the mike at ayour involvement in the lesbi,an andpeople of color fund-raiser for the March,,gay community.
on Washington, she overflowed with pas- 'Marjorie Bill: I really feel that I became 'sion and concern that "we" lesbiaOs and politically aware within the context of thegay men of color were not going to be lesbian and gay co~urity.
During thepresent at what was expc;cted to be the time that I was in high school and college,. largest, most important march of ourI had some consciousness that there weremodern-day movement. Throughout the things going on in tenns of Black identitY
program, as we were entertained, lec- and racial issues, but I·was focused'on gettured and amused, Hill appealed to our ting an education. It was not until I joined
Sensibilities. "When I realized this march what was then saisa' Soul Sisters [nowwas going to nappen, I asked the com- ,known as African-~ricanWunmin~nitmittee members, 'Well, what about us?'" ed For Soci~ Olangel10 br 11 yearsa~ ,she~told the crowd. "After li$ening to rea- \~I re.cognized the iIpPOrtanar of,l'sons, explanations and silences about
coming together, working togethet"
how outreach was not going to be done~t;ruggling together around issues o~ race,
to the people of color community, I had ~and homophobia.
to come and ask y'all, 'Well, what about... JB: What was your work with Salsa
us?' We cannot depend on others to take So'lll Sisters?
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care of us - not the government, not the
I'MB: I was on their bOard for two
media, n.ot even other gay men and Ies- te~ and I was the,program chair for two
bians. We must organize ourselves to' and half years.
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insure that WE WILL BE THERE. We will
}Ii: Salsa has been in the forefront oftake Care of ourselves, in the context of making lesbians of C9lor visible for overthe larger issues at hand."15 years. They have been' an inspiration
She called for a commitment from to many other lesbian organizations
those -of us able to make the trip to Wash- throughout this country. What work did
ington, D.C., to let 'the gOverrurient, the ' you do with them specifically that helped
media, the people of our country and our to prepare you for the work you would
community know that for love and for life come to do?
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we as lesbians and gay men of color are
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comfortable with my having company many people will call upon the organization for technical assistance.
Salsa
are very accepting of my lifestyle. My which lasted about a year. My father, !-,nmembers identified me as a gOod facilita- mother's concerns are about my safety the other hand, is not very expressive" sotor. I was' identified as a 'person who
and my happineSs. With the increase of it is hard to read hiS feelings. Within -theviolence against gays and lesbians her last two years, I have become close to
could facilitate, handle difficult situations
in a tactful but direct manner and orga- concerns are real. However, 'when I told them. They are more accepting of me. My
her I was thinking about taking this job, parents have instilled in me a sense of
nize. I helped to unify a diverse community around central 'themes. Through the she.was appropriately supportive. When I pride, honesty and integrity.
'JB: What about your experiences as ayears, having worked on this in many dif- told her about the appointment, she was
ferent situations, I have developed some excited. She's been down to Salsa. My Black,lesbian psychologist?
MH: I decided in 10th grade that I
proficiency. That will come in handy in immediate family on both sides has been.
this administration. The other thing is that On Mother's Day I gave them copies of 'would be a psychologist. I feel that I
Salsa has a high visibility in the people of publications [which had written] about the came of age as a psychologist. The threecolor community and the lesbian an<;lgay appointment. They were all v.ery enthusi- "'things that psychologists must have somecommunity at large. My connection with astic. They want to come to City Hall. expertise in are interpersonal relations,"Salsa has helped to increase visibility for They want to be introduced to the mayor individual dynamics and group process.
both of our communities. Although the and want to know when I will run for What better attributes does one need fornotoriety around this appoi,ntment is office. TheY'h~veall been very eXcited..
city gov!!~~nt? I think it is impOrtant toeXciting, it is not brand-new. I have been
, JB: What age did yo,~ come out? '.
be able to f~'cilitate inner actions, have a.MIl: I was 19 years old. I came out to sense of what's going on with individuals
in straight circles and working-class circles, upper-class' circles and Black and my mother. I was very clear about it. I you come iJ:1tocontact with, and a sense
white circles,' thanks to Salsa's v.,isibility.It consciou~ly thought about a relationshipof "what is the pr~ess here?" I,,am theprovided me with opportunity.
Also with a woman for six months, aJ,ld real- treasu,rer and fonner president or:~eized, "This is comfortable, this is how I Associationof Black Psychologists
being. raised in the Black Baptist Church,
I was given opportunities to do a lot of want to live my life." l realized, if I was [ABpsy].,ABPsyhas been reatly significant
going to Ilve my life this way and, considin terms of [the fact that] the people·-{public speaking.,The
church value,dcome into conta~ with
comfortable
youth and young people. Salsa and the , ering that I was living at home, I thought'church helped to develop my self-esteem
it appropriate to t~llmy mother. Her ini- with my lifestyle an~ we are 'able to work
tial response ~as,"I love you; and I will together. Sexual orientation, and theand public-speaking abilities.
, -JB: Let's talk a little about your family. always love you." She wasn't initially
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should do this. " It was a great opPortunity
to work with so many people.
JB: What exactly did you do?
MH: I assisted in mobilizing peopleof color and organizations to partidpate
in the march. I attended a lot of meetings.
JB: After the march, you worked on
the JesSe Jackson Campaign in 1988.
MB: [Longtime gay-activistl Alan
Roskoff contacted me and asked if I
would work on the Lesbian and Gay
Committee. I was asked if I would be cochair. There were so many new things
happening in my life at that time - themarch, a new job; I had joiDed the boardof the North Star FUnd. [Butl I believed in
the campaign and the Rainbow Coalition,
so I agreed to do it. Outside of thisappointment, that waS probably one of ""the most eXdting times of my life. Ithink
Jesse Jackson is an incredible, inspiringp(!fSOo. Working on his campaign gaveme the opportunity to meet so magy dif~.
ferent political activists in our community.
We planned a succ<iSSfulfund-raiser atTracks [the then-gay"disco in Manhattanl,a rally at the Lesbian and Gay Community
Center. BeyOnd the campaign it helped toconfirm and affirm our existence.
JB: You've mentioned twice theopportunities afforded you by working
on the niarch and Jackson's campaign.
One of the things that was echoed once
your appointinent was made public was:- "Who is she? I n~ver heard ot her!" It
seems that those asking were Pf:edomi,nately white, gay
It was expressedthat because your involvement in Wlitics
has been in the people of color community, "how ~uipped is she to deal with atruly diverse comrllUnity?"- MB: I have worked
with AI~nRoskoff, Dongtime lesbian activist! Leslie
Cagan, [longtime gay activistl Andy
MIl: The summer of 1986 I attended
are extremely important to me. As an
Humm and others. [Openly gay, Black
African-American, there are issues thar an organizing meeting that was disdistrict leader] Philip Reed was called and, manifest within the community too, but cussing the need for a march. I became
asked, "Who is she?" Phil suggested that
there, are other communitieS' where the involved in the steering committee early the reporter call and-ask around. Everywork is being done elsewhere. ABPsy has , on. That year there was a conference. , one that the reporter called knew, me,provided the vehicle for 'me to raise the Working on the march was probably the knew what I had, done and hopefully said
consciousness. I ,have been able to do largest national endeavor that I had been laudable things. I have been out there,
work aro~nd sexuality. Through ABPsy's involved with. It raised for me the issues and I think my record speaks for itself. I
AIDS Task Force, I talked with adolesof racism; ableism, sexism, classism. , am a person of color and I am a woman,
cents about AIDS education and sexuali- Because the march was at such a large so I do Concern myself with issues of conty: The fact that ABPsy chose me as a rep- scale, I liad a feeling of awe and lilware- cern to ,lesbians and people of color.
ness - but we still have work to do. I However, I am not a smgle-issue person.
r~ntative -7- "young, and a lesbian"-,, has felt good to me.
remember stopping and watching that I I have never been. Within working on
JB: Your involvement with the 1987 was moved to tears at our commitment to issues of race, I work on issues of class
March on Washington.
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OppressionS 'that are singled out are a tac- cate for the lesbian and gay community?" Lee Hudson's reign as director, the officetic to divide and conquer. I have no AlthO\~gh there is a certain amount of had become a public-relations office for
doubts about my ability to represent
public relations involved - which is why then-Mayor Edward Koch. Will your activwhite, gay men. There are things that I they interviewed a lot' of activists ~ they ities be limited to the lesbian and gay c0mwould like to do to make sure that the wanted to know if I would be willing to munity. What exactly will yo\µ' job be?
office is accessible to people it has tradi- advocate directly to the mayor on issues.
MIl: My job description is to serve as
tionally been accessible to, as well as to I told them I would love to sit down and an advocate for the lesbian and gay comthose unaware of us.
munity, to communicate the concerns
talk to the mayor. I am an administrator.
Recently I was interviewed by Ebony,
If you have these loose offices without a and the desires of the community to theand the reporter asked me, "What could a pattern of responsibility, direct accessmayor and to represent the mayor within
lesbian of color bring to the Black commu-, does not always translate into direct
the community. I am not into public relanity?" I think a person who is dealing with power or influence, so I feel that thetions per se. I think I do it well. I like
multiple oppressions cap bring a strength
offices are more powerful now. I think being invited to events and speaking on
and fortitude that the position that I have about opportunities to do coalition work.
behalf of the mayor. However, I am iDteraccepted calls for. In some ways, I believe So, having one person trutt each of ,the ested in, doing hands-on work. Right
that I am the best person for the job. I directors reports to uniformly affords us now, what I am'moSt excited'about is athink that my experience as an Africanresource directory that I want ,the office,tothe opportunities to get to know each
American, my experience as a wa;nan andother, helps us set priorities and strength- , put out. 4 "know your rights and seras a lesbian has provided me with a per- en our positions by having each other'svices" directory with Qther city agencies.
spective that will look out for white gay help and support.
There is legislation coll1ing up aroundmales, will look out for white lesbians, forI would like to see the Lesbian and health care·and domestic partnership that
Asian gays and lesbians, for Uitinos, for Gay Office lead the effort to deal with the I feel we need to tak~ it strong position, 'the differently abled. I have never been Hate Crime Bills. It is a concern to all of on. I am prepared to do that.
mainstream. Who I am is not accepted
us. SQ, collectively we should figure out
JB: Are you prepared to take the heat?
It is wonderful that I am getting conMIl: It's a middle-management posiwhat we want and think that the bill
gratulations. It is wonderful that r got the should include. I think that this is an tion. Middle management always takes\.,-"
appointment. I am very proud, pleased
example of how the "mosaic" can work. , the heat.
and excited. The world;does not embrace
Many from the community may call our
JB: With respect to~yor Dinkins, he
my identities, so having the experience
office. The other thing that makes me con- is already getting a lot of heat. There are
and the identities is valuable.
fident is my working relationship with Mr. people who feel that from his acceptanceJB: You have a large challenge ahead Victor Quintana [recently named head of speech to today, Mayors Dinkins' hasof you. It is felt by some that with the the Office of Constituency Affairs] throughslighted the community. The appointrestructuringof the special-interest
ment of Myers as· commissioner of health 'our work on the North Star Fund's board.
offices [at City Hall) comes a weakening
I have worked with him; he has a long is only one exampl~'. Since Dinkins' eleCof the power of the offices, the lesbian
history of being an activist, and I respecttion, there has been no one in your offi~
and gay office included. We are in a crisis his politics. I believe that he brings his to catch the heat, so it has been someone
with AIDS, health care, ho~eiessness;principles and politics to his current posi- else's problem. But now that you're movgay-bashing is on the rise;'teens are living tion. I do not believe that he thinks ofLes- ing in', I am wondering what is going toon the streets. Coattails are being pu'lled. bian and Gay Affairs as a perfunctory
happen when ACf UP decides to take
People want answers.
,group. It is not rhetoric. I really see his .over downtown Manhattan, wd someone
Let's talk about what's waiting for role and the restructuring as strengthening
runs into your office and screams, "Willyou. The multicultural education project
the offices and providing a structure so you go tal~ to them?",that the former Director Lee Hudson had that we may do the best possible job.
MIl: Part of the problem, as I see it, isstarted has been bumped over to the
JB: SO you feel, through coalition
that because the position of director has been
Board of Education and the Office of work and working directly with Victor vacant for so long, Mayor Dinkins did not
Edu£lltional Concerns. It is feared that the Quintana, that the Constituency Affairs have the infonnation he needed to address
lesbi:in-and gay component may be delet- ' directors will have their issues strengththe recent concerns of the' community.
ed or diluted without a hands-on influ- ened before talking with the mayor?
In tenns of the ACf UP example, hisence. And AIDS, the same. The office no, MIl: Some issues can be presented
tory has taught us that change comes
longer has the direct ear of the mayor.
that way. And some issues, I need to talk about in collaborative
efforts. That
MIl: I want to address the issue of-theabout directly with the mayor. Although ,includes radicalism, liberalism and workstructure of the office and my view on it. to date, I have had no reason to do that ing from the inside. It should not be myYes, people have been concerned about[talk, directly with the mayor], I have no role to "quiet people down." I am interthe "limitations" of the office. Hav.ing a reason to believe that I won't be able to ested in th~ city operating smooth,ly, but
director of constituency affairs to assist [talk to him when I need to]. To quote the I am not interested in people being quiet.
mayor, "the constituency offices are my If the government wanted to appease
me in the endeavors that I think areimportant and appropriate strengthenseyes and ears" - well, your eyes and ears ACf lJ.P, they would have chosen some:.
my position.
must be fairly close to your body. Again, one from the organization.
One of the questions I was asked
I have no reason to believe that I will not
It is my role ~omaKe sure the infonnarepeatedly during the interviewing pro- have direct access to Mayor Dinkins.
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by Ernest Hmdy' director by pointing out that from a pure- : article, very violent. This is a fight, so you
idway through this inter-: ly commercial perspective, the press and , have to fight. So, 1be tvew Ym 1imes tried,view, ,Pedro Almodovar's,
controversy could serve the film very , to talk to Mr. Valenti, aQd Mr. Valenti 'wasassistant/translator walks in,' well, as shown by the recent grosses of : thinking about his reaction. So, this is perand the two men speak aI.1i-: the similarly plagued film, The Cook, The , haps his reaction, like Glenn Oose in Danmatedly for a long time, with the director' 1bieJ,His WtJe and Her LoVer.
: gerous· Ltasons: 'War!' Of course, he has
becoming increasingly agitated. Almod6- :"You know,· says a slightly calmed, more power than 1do-here---but we'll see. var, like a frustrated Ricky' Ricardo, is' Almodovar some moments later, "I was ' what happens. You know, 1 don't give a, mq~entarily too flustered to even speak : ve~ aggressive, in all the interviews, , shit. 1 nope people are clever and smart
in his fractured English, communicating, against the MPAA And 1attacked them very , enough to figure for themselves.·
But the MPAA uproar is not the only
only in Spanish. After what seems an eter-' much. So, this' is a kind of revenge. And 1 :nlty, the director~tells his translator to tell: even almoSt inSulted [MPAA presidentl Jack , source of rumblings. Tie Me UP! has drawn
me what the two of them have been dis- -, Valenti, because I felt insulted, too. You : the ire of feminists for its scenes of a woman
cussing. As a very heated, Almodovar: have to defend it; it doesn't matter if they , tied to a bed and being slapped by a man.
lights a cigarette, the assistant informs me' are powerful or not, or if they are more' Some contend that the film, with its literal,that the'y've lost the appeal to have die' , powerfuf than trou.
You know, Mr., Valenti : too heavy-handed bondage metaphor, is
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MPAA reverse the decision to award his, is trying to get revenge. All this happened " not deliberately anti-women, but rather is afilm, Tie Me UP/Tie Me Down! an X-rating.' because I wrote ~ big article in FJ Pais [a : failed attempt at pOrtrayingthe power strug'"Both, the assistant and 1·try to placate the: Sp~nish newspaperJ-avery aggressive , gles inherent in relationships.

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Alm0d6var's films have long drawn a , was furious. I felt completely mlsunderPAl You ate more isolated, moreloyal following for their provoCative and : stood. It is really outrageous for me to look ,alone, because evc;ryone has their own
darkly humorous nature. His films exist in " at movies like Conan tbe Barbarian or image of you. It seems that 1, as a person,a sexually charged world of disciplined' Rambo or Fatal AttnIct1on. ..that they get disappear. They are looking at me ~excess and over-the-top emotions and : an it It's really autrageous, compared to "Almod6v3r" and I never know who heactions that are all held in check by his , th05e violent and dan8erous movies, for is, who they expect, who. they are talking
skilledhandAchildofPranco'sSpain:,h~:7JeMelf>l7JeMelA>wn!togetahX-rating.
about. This is a fight I have every day,films wage battle against the forces, (self- , I think the MPAAis very hypocritical and and it is more difficult than before. It is
and society-imposed)of oppression, , very cynical. So I became really furio\,lS, more' ~cultto look around lmyselt1;
repression and suppression. And that is: with them. But, you know, I don't have to , people are less spontaneous, so it is more
what makes ironic his recent battle with the ' live here, I don't have to work here.
difficult to discover and feel what is hapMPAAwho wanted him to slice bits from : times I have to [speak outl on the prob-, pening around you. But I do try. I mean, .,Ti8 Me UpJ According to the director, it , lems tPat belorig to this countrY, but I' you can gefit.
wasn't the film's violence ~t disturbed
don't bother very much. J mean, I hav:e :ED: Are -yo.ubothered by the critidsm
them, but the sex. The story of a young other alternatives-to keep on I~g and' as yqu become more commercial, thatmental patienr(Antonio Banderaa) who is writing in freedom-becauseitto some of the subversiveness' you arereleased from an institution and then pro- me that with an organization like thelaiown for Is not as muCh in evidence?
ceeds to kidnap
a' former
porn
MPAA,they don't respect wOrk...£reedom
PAs Well, 104 know, it seems to me
actress/junkie (Victoria Ab.rll) trying to go of expression. And this is very dangerous
that it's a kind of reproach. But I'm always
legit, it basically boils down tc:>a heavy for,an author. I don't want to be involved involved·1n things like that. Now, withhanded, darkly comedic, ultimately failed in something like that.
this X-rating, I'm being reproached forattempt to examine power struggles inber- ,Ell: Have you experienced similar not keeping on the, right way o,f Women ,ent in romantic relationships. The X-rating' reactions elsewhere?',~tbe V~f. ~en I,made Women on tbe,given the film by the MPAAis little more :PAl It depends on the places. rnVerge,in the beginning some of mythan a knee-jerk reaction, exposing their , Argentina two or three years ago, SOll)e- admirers were afraid that t lost some kiqd
own inability to deal with an adult-vs.-ado- : timeS in :England, and of course, ClUe. , of corrosiveness. This is very far fromlescent depiction ofsex;md sexuality.
, That kind of place where they are living' that. When I decide to make a movie, ,it'S
A further irony, though, is that this is' under a dictatorship. You know, in Eng-,' because I feel the necessity to tell theone of the director's weakest efforts. It is : land, you say this is not a dictatorship, bt,lt story. Sometimes the film ~ very bard,
nowhere near as outrageous as his other.' this influence of Margaret 'I'luitcher has sometimes it's very Itght, but it depends
films: which ,is fine, but it's also nowhere : been awful for the cultural life and for the on the story I want to. tell. I neVer think,, near as inspired. The mental' patient is it, social rights in tha~ country. £My] filins, "I'll get a larger audience with this." Ivariation of characters we've seen before, : Lawof~reand~atador,
had problems
dOQ.'t think about that. In fa~, I don't
played qy the same actor. The whole, in those places, but nowhere else in think abou~,any ,audience. I just decid~ ,thing is predjctable from the start, and ' Europe that I know about. Of coqrse not what movie J want to do, and then my life
only fl~ting moments of ingenuity, com-: in Spain bec?use we have no more cen- depends completely on, the movie. I'mbined with a wonderful look, identify this , sorship. But sometimes it has been sug- cOµlpletely involved in that work; I'm not
as an Almod6var film. For the most
Bested' that I cut parts-for example, in: thinking of having a big audience or not. 'though, it feels like a talented fraud man- , Law of Desire it was suggested that I cut' Of course, it is fantaStic if the audience isaged to usurp the surface style but not the : the first,five minutes or so. But I always: bigger; it ~ much better because, naturalinner kick of an Almod6var film. It's diffi- , refused, and all my films have been I ly, you want your ~tlms,to be: seen. But I
cult to recommend, especililly to longtjrne ' ,released 'Yfthout cutting them.
: don't c31culate,' and .I' don't decide to befans, but still manages to be superiOr to :ED: It's been suggested that'you've,
softer· or harder.
,
much of what is out there. Notably miss- , gone as far as you can as a filminaker in 'Ell: You'Ve said that yOur filmsaing from the cast is (by his own admis- : Spain. Do you feel that to be the ~?
: rebellion against the ~you grew up in.
sioe) Almod6var's 10nBtime' muse, Car- ,PA: Well, YQu know, I need to leave' 00 you think you've exorosed, all that now?
men Maurs!. star of his commercial:[Spain] more in geneml, in every sense.:'PA: You !mow, I don't feel that ~~breal¢u'ough, Women On tbe V818eof a , Sometimes I need to leave Spain just to, sure so much anymore. The country .
Nervous Breakdown, as well as belflg fea- " have the feeling that I have to come back.' [Spain] has changed so .much. But, of,tured or starring in efforts like Wbat Have: [He laughs.] But it's more' a necessity of: course, yOu always fin~mostevery-,I Done to Deserve Tbts, Law of Desire' widenirlg my perspective. Whether I am' day-things you don't like. But'now I am
(where,she played a vibrant transsexual in :in Spain or even here, unfortunately I am: getting older and more mature. You start
what is th~ director's most brilliarit filrri , always writing or shooting or doing iQter-' looking for more simple things, th1ng8yet), Matador, and Dark Hab#s. What fO!- , views. What I need is ,a more regular life: that are closer to yo~. There is not thelows is an Interview in which the director: to'pay attention to everything around me.' pretension of a.ftgbt. NOW,it's just trying
discusses the breakdown and rebuilding , Anyway, I [still) think I'm going ba.Ck to" to talk about life from your poin.t of viewof his relationship with Maure, religion, : Spain to write my next movie, and I think: and trying to explaln problems very clO5e
politics, the ~AA and homosexuality. \ ' I'm going to shoot ~ere too.
' , : to yOu. I'm more Interested now In the
Emest Hardy: What was your reactioD 'EH: Does your increased celebrity,
rela~ionship between the couple, about
to 7JeMe Upl7Je Me Down!' s initial X-rating? : Interfere wit~ your, ablllty to just sit back' ho~ difficult, painful, fuMY, Int~stlng, ,Pedro Almod6var: Well, you know, I : and observe people?
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that is something very general. At the; divide it here; but we don't talk about it. , when I find someone I think is a very
moment I'm intereste<l in smaI1 themes. , Here, you talk very much about it.
: good actor, I use them all the time. Like
Ell: There's a lot of religious imagery:
Ell: How do you think your sexuality , Antonio Banderas [the lead in 1ie Me UP!
and symbolism in you film. Are you a, affects your work or informs your work in ' Tie Me Down! and featured in most ofverY religious perso~, a way that separates it, perhaps, from that : Almod6var's previous feature efforts]. He
P~ No, not at all. I'd really like to be,: of a straight director?
' 'is great; he behaves exactly like the goodbU,tI'm not re~igious at all.
'PA:
Really, a movie, a novel, a paint- : actresses I know. If I had someone like
ED: Why would you like to be?:ing--everything is a reflection of yourself. , that, I wrote good roles for them.
PA: Because you need some help. You, But if you don't have any complex' or 'EH: Will you work with Carmen
need some extraordinary help to live. And: prejudice, and you behave in a free way, , Maura again?
I think religion is a fantastk invention to, everything depends on the talent and 'PA: Yeah. I'm sure. We've had a lot oflean on. But, in a way, you can't do that.' inspirati~n and your capacity to work. I : problems this past year, we didn't see
Because I can't if r don't believe-;-tben, it's: mean; all the cases .where the director has , each other., But we fixed it up just before
silly. Everything has to be u~
I' a p,robleQ1 with his sexuality, then that : I came to America. So, I'm sure we'll workmean, I understand the necessity of reli-: has a' big influence on, the film. All your , together again. I really would like to.
gion, but I don't have what the Catholics, problems,
when you are working, 'EH: A recent article said that you
call blind fatlb. you have to have blind' become a kind of source to draw : manipulated 'the fears and ~rities
offaith, and'that I do not have. So. I am not: from--and not just inspiration'. In gener- , your actors to get the reaction you wantreligious. But the Spanish have made an' ai, if you don't have a complex about: ed. Do you think that was 'a haish descripadaptation 01 the religion to fit their own: your 'sexuality, I don't think it has a big , tion of the way you work with them?
problems. There are incredible cere-' influence. Sexuality and sensuality are :PA: Well, you know, I think it's very
monies and incredible pageants, but they: not just great energies that propel you , difficult to say what my way of working is
are human expressions. But God disap-, toward life, but are essential parts of 'our ' because it's different and changes frompears; it's people relating to people. Real-' natures, and it doesn't matter if you: actor to actor. I behave in different ways.
Iy, the Spanish people use religion just to: accept it or reject it, it's there and it has an ' They are different, all of them, and I use
help themselves, not for worshiping~enormous influence in your life. Even in : ,different techniques with all of them. So,
which is really something very human.
the case of people who reject all types of , one way ~u!d be that way, but it's n~ a .'"EH: Do you consider yourself apolitical? sensuality. Their lives are marked by the : complete defiQition of my way of working.
PA: Dh yes. Definitely. I don't...in my absence. In a soCiety that is very hypocrit- ,Ell: What will youI:!lext film be about?
films I dori~ ttllC'«:xplicit1yaboutipOlitical ical about sensuality, then for me it 'PA: Well, I'm wilting this script thatthinp or political' ideology. But in my becomes a kind of militance.
': will again have strong female charactersheart Ifeel completely on the left. More on
Ell: The women in your films are gen- , and again have passion. But there will be
the left than the socialist party is. But, you erally more interesting, more cleve.r and : something new for me, that I'm trying toknow, in the last decade ideology lost all resourceful than the men. Theyre~more , build. I'm trying to write a portrait of ameaning. Noy.r, I don't believe in ideology; layered. Is that how you see'the sexes?
: very bad women, which is, something,
I believe in personal behavior. I used to
PA: Well, its something I'm not con- , new in my fUms. Really an evil woman.
see how communist people behaved l~e , .scious of. You know, dramatically,' It's a story about revenge. The protagfaScists and also thai people op the right' women are more attractive to play, any : onist will be a bad girl, a really bad girlcould be very generous. I just can't make :' role. In general, men are more boring. It , like Bette Davis did so well. It's Jifficult
a label for people just because they belong' depends of the kind of problem. I think : to write but spectacular to perfonn.
to a certain party. In Spain, at least, the left: any problem affects men and women in ,~H: Are there any :American actors
is behaving like the right, and the'right is, the same way; we're human, we're all ' you'd like to work with?
trying to behave like the left. Everything is' similar. But, at least to me, women char- :PA: Oh yes. There are quite a few.
mixed. It's better to believe in sqmething: acters ,are more attracthre. Tbere is a ' The couple in Miami Blues, (Jennifer
bigger and more simple.
' grea~er 'possibility of surprise. And you : Jason Leigh and Alec Baldwin] are gorEll: As you were saying before, Sp~:
can ·even talk about a male problem , geous. I also like Melanie Griffith' veryis ~ very religious country and one we I thrc>ughwomen; it's freer. It's a matter of : much. Glenn Clo.seis one of my favorites.
perceive as being a very macho culture.' narrative and so on.
, John Malkqvich, I think, is great. Robert
Has ~t ever caused you any sort of con- :Ell:The director in 1ieMe CP!has a rep- , De Niro ... There are a lot.
fllet, being an openly gay director?
' utation for working well with actresses. You, :'EH: Would you ever want to direct
PA:,~o, not at all.
.
: havethat same reputation. Have you always.: English version of one _~fyour own films?
Ell: So you never had to wony about' had sucq a strong bond with your actresses? ,PA: No, not for the moment. I don't
hiding your sexuality in order to further:' , P~ It happened from the beginning. I feel passionate en<;>ugh.Every fUmfor me
you careed', It's something unconscious. I really don't : must be a big adyenture, and if you've
PA: No. C\,Iriously, in Spain, they are' know .why, and I don't mind it. I find I , already made it, that attitude is not sovery ,liberal ,in that area.'Here', it is not.: have more ability in that area. But, you' strong. At the moment, I am not interestBut in Spain, curiously, we just don't talk' know, Spain is a country of good actress- : ed in remaking myself.
about it: I mean, Law of Desire was very: es. You really have problems finding good ,EH: Are there any of your fIlms that
popular fn Spain. We-andthis is' actors. Also, Latin males are less spectacu- : haven't yet been optioned that you'd likegood-we don't make ghettos; we don't' Jar than women; they're more repressed. , to see another version or interpretation of?
"divide society between this and that. You, Male actors in Spain are not so ... rich. But 'PA: All of them. [He laughs,] ~

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rock star and club host. "At Area I sat aroundin the club for five hours a night, dressed up~
in some'stupid outfit, talking to people who' were drunkand obnoxious or sometimes funny and pleasant. I was a
host! host~, depending on what I was wearing."
Recendy Zette has won critical praise as'Regina in U1i
Edel's film adaptation of Hubert Selby's novel Last ExtIIO
Brooklyn. His performance style is in high contrast to hismanner in person; quiet, eloquent in speaking, with boyish looks and tigerlike amber eyes.
He doesn't live the high life Imagined of someone
with su~ a wild stage personality. "I'm working at the
moment for a menswear designer, who is soon to be an
ex-friend if he doesn't corrie up with some money:
Zette's is a career tha.t spans decades, yet he doesn't.show any wear and t~ and in fact, seems headed for a
career renaissance.
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ette: You saw the movie last night?
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Yes. It was great. There
were a lot of good reactions.
Z: They didn't hiss or anything?
JP: We hissed at the Sprite commercial. So, where did
you film the scenes you were in? Munich and Brooklyn?
Z: Most of the stuff that ..filmed in Brooklyn was edited out. The only thing that remains is the one scene at
the end when we're at the gay restaurant/bar. That wasdone here. But interiors were done' in Munich. Exteriors
were done in Brooklyn, and 'they rc!allyneeded very little
set dressing at all.
/',
JP: The fUm has a' very contemporary corltent: thepolice violence, the strikers and all the gay scenes. When
you were developing the character of Regina, did you
think about that era?
Z: Not particularly. The book, I think, was written overa five year period. The hairstyles are from the late '50s, andfor some reason the movie became set in 1952. One ofthose years they changed the ArmY'uniforms, so they had 'to change the year base9 on which uniform they were able
to qbtain for the scenes of all the sailors on the ship.
)pi Did,the casting people: know you from your last
perfonruince in Brigbt Ligbts, Big CUy?
Z: No. Actually, Guy told me about it-M£SS Guy toyou. [We laugh.) Well, it would be. Do you know himfrom Bqybar?
JP: Maybe.
Z: Anyway, he told me there was a casting directQf
looking for people to play these wild traiisvestites that goaround and teITorize people, which sounded ~otallyhilarious. So I called up the woman that got me the part in
Brigbt Ligbts, Big City. I made an appointment with thepeople the next day.,".
JP: 'How did that go~
Z: They were sh.ocked to fmd out how old I was, andthat I wasn't from England.,
JP: But you look young, if not ageless, in the movie. 'Z: Really?
'.
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"This is getting sordid." The people in
Z: Oh well, this partjcular record
the theater loved that.
producer turned out to be one of the
Z: It depends on the audience
not-so~rare breeµ of homophobicthat you see it with. Sometimes they homosexual: He liked me, but I think
will laugh hysterically and other times he was fust kind of nervous to repre,there's not a peep.
sent me.
]PI There was a lot more humor
JP: A mutua" friend of ours,
in it than ,I exPect~. 1here were so Howard Pope, was in ,your band,~ydifferent kinds of gay men in '[called Zettel for a few years. Tell me
the film.
about the band.
", ',.'Z: Well; I wouldp.'t even say gay,
Z: Zette's been around since 1972. So it was ten years before
lust ... men, period.'
I met Howard: We've kno,wn each o~er since '82 and didn't]p: What was your audition for beSin working together musically until 1986, and then untU last
Last BxU like?,Old You go' in draS?
year.
'
ZI Well, that initial time when I]p: Old you tour?
met them, no. And 1 should get back
Z: Well, we did that cover version of "I.e Freak" and thento the ~uditlon. I felt guUty about real- worked where It waS necessary to promote It. We would have
11,I going after ,the part until someone' gone to the West Coast, but 'the clubs on the Coast don't pay"
told me there were about seven roles, money, L.A.especially. I mean, you can't set a dime out of thoseso I felt better, like It was fair game.; places. I had an eight-p~ece band. To fly eight people, and theWhen I read, this other ,castinS dlrec- hotel rooms, I mean, yc>uhave to get a decent amount of money.
, tor called me to read for the part, so I
]PI Just ~Ing in a band is tough.
guesS I was meant to be in this movie.
ZI Yes. When I finished my recent show at the World, I,
JP: Did you know any of the, thought, this is pointless. I've taken ,this as far as it's gonna go; .
other cast members? Did you know So then we concentrated on doing, work iii the studio and getthe, dras queen, Robl Martin [who tins the publishing deal with Warner/Chapet .It Just takes forev. plays Goldie!?
,er.
It's a very, slow-moving business. You said you were In
Z: Robi I didn't mow, except to --'music?
.
order a drink at the World [wnere she]p: Just a college band. It was fun, but w,hen they start
was a bartender!. Steven Lang [who yelling "Play 'Free Bird!'" it gets to be too much.
plays Harry Black] used to work at 'theZi Dh gee, I probably would have played itl
pizza parlor in my neighborhood.
]P: It's sO much more fun now to fust go in and record 'music.
]p: It was, Qi~e to, see so many
Z: Well,that's fun, but performing on stage is why I do all this.
local actors.
,)p: So, do you want to do more music or more film?
Z: I think everyone in the world,"
Z: Well, I don't think there, is any secret to the fact~t as awas tested for this movie at some musician it's much easier to aoss Qver in,to movies than it is as
potrit or, another.
an actor to be taken seriously as a singer or musicl2n. If things
JP: Yes, it was like "Spot thehappen simultaneously, that is the best. I'm not interested In
Cater~Waiter"in all the crowd scenes. playing every part that comes' along, nor do I think I'm capable
Did you 'get to know the lead actors? of playing every part. The, production executive from Last BxUActually, we all'met in Munich. told me I would make a really fantastic assassin.'
I was there for the whole three]p: Right, and you end up getting shot by Sylvester Stallone
w~ks, though I didn't work for the in the last reel.
first week and a half; They had to fly
Z: Oh, not necessarily, I would probably get away!
over a certain amount of people to}PI In Last ExU Regina, although av.el to Harry, Black, Is a,set the better ~te. So I wa$ havins a somewhat together girl. How would you feel about playing a truly ,wonderful·paidlVacatl9n.
'evU
role? Something like a stereotypical psychotic, queer killer?
JPI Ha~ you been to Europe
Z: I have to be v~ weful playlng'queers. (That was yourbefore? ' (," ,word, so I can say it.).I have to reall~, really be careful. 1here
Z: No. It was great;
was another movie that I was up for. The character was fust a}PI Did yo~ travel to ~countrl~sleazeball, totally corrupt, and the fact that,he was a fag was the
Z: No, because I
waiting for a. least interesting aspect of his character.
'" deal from another stupid record co~-:, ,]PI I would never have a Pt?blem playing gay roles the rest
pany, and they 'were sonna tour me of my life If they weren't stereotyplcally slanted as evUor corrupt
around EUroPe, so I thought I'd ~ait .or child molesters. Old you see longtime Companton?
until it was paid for. But .I'm glad that
Z: There are all gay people in the µlovie, aren't there?
, deal didn't go through. '!
]p: Pretty ~uch, but they couldn't find enough gay actors. }PI Are you finding it true that it's with the guts to play these characters.
a homophobic industry? ,Oh; I'm sure,· I'm sµre. I'm not interested in being
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pigeonholed at this point in any parZ: Right. But now he does thi~ticular form. I don't want to have the"Greatest Hits Tour" after Tin Machine.
Anthony .Perkins syndrome, either.
So, he goes from being a fag to beinE
a pop icon, rejecting that. Now he'~But the movie stuff 1 only use to promote my music stuff and it does not trashing the pop icon stuff, he's justbehoove me to only take roles that gonna do these fag songs ope last time,are seen from some sOrt of gay per- for the old fans, and then reject' all
spective. That alters what the music that. And then Angela Bowie com~out and says that David and Mick Jagis about, and the music isn't totally
gay either.
ger slept together.
JP: 1 don't want to defend a perJP: Howard got me a copy of your album "Le Freak."former's rejecting their earlier gay
Z: Album? Oh please, you pay me far too much of a compliment. It was just a measly twelve-inch.
' images, but don't you sometimes get
tired of doing older material?
JP: But it sold well.
Z: Well, yes, that's why 1 still perZ: Yes, I must admit that when it sold 8,000 copies I.thought,"I don't even know 8,000 people."form. Assuming those records are stillavailable, someone who buys them
JP: Somebody likes it.
Z: I guess. You know; what'l would like to see musically is now, those songs will mean' something different to them than they did
something that 1 don't see other people doing. When I was
growing up in New Orleans in the early 70s I was considered to for you when you wrote them. You,be, a troubled teen. I was horribly misunderstood.
pick and choose the songs th;it grow
JP: Like Georgette [in Last ExtiJ?
with the times. ,JP: So, going from tights to busi·
Z: There's not a persOn in that boOk or movie that I don't
know, either as being within myself or someone that 1had very ness drag isn'tZ: Oh, 1 don't mind that. It gets tc
close contact with. New Orleans is a really sleazy town, and .any-,
body who says that all those different people in Last Exit woulda point where if you were all dressed
never be friends, they're out of their minds. I would run aroundup it would look sillywith murderers and prostitutes and go-go dancers. 1 knew girls
JP: Like Alice Cooper.
Z: Yeah. 1 mean, Bowie hasn't
like Tralala who, for all I know, came to the same end. 1 knew
enormously muscular, huge, bruiser guys, who later ended up in worn leotards in years.
j~il, that went out ,with transsexuals. ,That's something. a lot of
JP: And thank goodness for that.
people have difficulty believing. But even; with all these wild
Z: 1 mean, 1 myself pnly have a
deviate types, whatever, you' could feel oppressed' simply
few more good years of that. 1 don't
because you felt misunderstood, that you were a misfit: It could
even like to wear gobs of goo on mybe a teeny.,tiny rural town or a bustling urban area.
face. It was, time to 'sort of get on with
JP: You went to Jesuit high school, I hear.
it. But to me, nobody writes stuff now
Z: For a few years. I didn't finish. At that time I was more
for the misfit kids, like: "Hey, it'~interested in terrorizing everyone. ''"'okay to be ,yourself. You don't have
JP: Theq perhaps you should have stayed a Jesuit and , to conform, you don't have to debecome a priest.
"'. ,this." And that's what his music did
Z: My uncle's a priest. He's a very~erend
right monsignor;
for me, also Roxy Music, T Rex. It'~something under, being an archb~hop.
.,' 'I.,'not what they said, but how they preJP: Really?
,
sented themselves.
Z: Yes. And he's no 'Mo that 1 know of. Somehow I don't
JP: Y~, the otherness. Are there
think he is.
other, bands that you think might'':~JP:This conversation's taken a real twist.
speak to people this way?
Z: But back to those positive role models. What 1would like
. Z: Actually, some of the stuff thatto do is ftll in what isn't there for the troubled teen. When 1 lis- Motrisey [of die Smiths] does is okay,
tened to Bowie, it wasn't like, "I wanna be like this guy." It was,but he doel' tend to whine a lot.
hey, here's somebody who thinks, the way 'I think. There's no There are some groups that do it role model there anymore. It's certainly not David Bowie any- Monkey's Gone to Heaven by the Pix·
more, who-ies sends chills up my spine. Anyway,
JP: Hings out with GUJ,lS :n' Jloses.
my goal in life is to make the people
who normally feel uncomfortable
Z: Exactly. I mean, what is he doing, that one?
comfortable and to make the people
JP: He's a chameleon.
who are normally comfortable feel
Z: Oh, but he's turning into a total asshole. He talks about
uncomfor.table. Even if its just fOl
how he hates all the old songs, y'know, now he's in a suit, andthree to five minutes--however lonE
all this other stuff is a lie: "I wasn't a fag, I wasn't a b~al..."JP: "I wasn't Ziggy Stardust ..." !
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tions lately-that no matter how many
may have the respect of the teachers,
books 1 read (most recently Jacques
moment is always unexpectthe people who hang out in the park.•
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Brault's Agonfe) or discussions 1 attend
ing lot generally have better parties.
(most recently "Outing: Right or
1 might, for example, be served(One might be tempted to liken workan inexpertly crafted Tom Collins. Or WronW~art XXVIII" in Alvin and Earl's
ing at OutWeek to working on thesomebody Passing me in the neighix>r- living room, as usual), all 1need to know
school paper, but the absence of a fachood might be smoking a jc,>int.Or" 'I learned in Grade 11. 1 leamed, forulty advisor weakens that analogy.)
example, that if you don't want to be
most particularly, 1'might sUddenly hapAll of which brings me, in casetraced later, you shouldn't provide yourpen to hear the Fourth Movement,
you were wondering, to my mostcorrect telephone number ,ht the first(Adagfitto) of Mahler's Fifth Symphonyrecent Ding Out! experience. Earlier inin C-sharp Minor and 1 am seized, as 1 instance. -I learned that pJagiarml yields
the week, 1 had accepted an invitation~gher profits than fOfBerybut requires a
suppose most are" by an acute rememto have '$l!Pper with a young man yvho
brance of my years at Western Canada greater investment of time. And 1learnedwas (at least during my, shall we say,High School. The memory takes my only to shoplift' from establishments atsenior year) -one of _the most P9Pular
breath away and ,during that disorient- which you are well-known as a regular,
personalities onthci gay and lesbian
ing momen't, urufy believe it is not only paying custom (the correlative to this,campus. I, .frankly, considered it somePossible but downright imperative to specific to 7-Elevens, used to be'that if
thing of a coup artd even,suggested weyou order the largeSt-siZed Siurpee, thecross the street, any Street, arid enter the
go to that new Galilean restaurant incashier will be kept occupied just longcool, reassuring darkness of Peppe's
the East Village, Slouching Toward
enough for you to pocket a' pack of the
Ristorante and Paesano Lounge once
display cigarettes but 1 notice --that7- 'Bethlehem, where we would be- seen
, more. Of cOUrse 1 am ,always disapby tout Ie demimonde. Propitiously, 1
Elevens these days ha:ve self-s'ervice
pointed and must always cross thementioned these plaps to an acquainSlillpee coolers and 24-hour suiveillance'street again, preferring, as 1 do, thetance of mine who reads the t!uctuacameras. au sont Ies nfeges?)" sunny side. Oronica1ly,if lactually weretions of the Gemeinschaft better than a,
It, comes, then, as no surpriSe toto be standing in front of the cenotaph
seismograph and v.;ho begged me notdiscover that making one's way tlu:oughat dear, old Western-having' pn!sumto use his real name (I shall call him
the lesbian and gay Gemeinschaft freably been abducted at gunpoint-I"Agamemnon. ")'would only find, upon traversing 17th' quentiy calls upon many, if not all, of
Anyway, "Agamemnon" emphati~
the saf!1e social, skills acquired' during
Avenue, just another T.G.I.Friday's.
those tender years. For example, it's still . cally told me that my prospective
Hardly reassuring, that.)'dinner partner was not only not aMore profoundly affeCtingthan this important in one way or anothec topopular personality any longer but
kno"( who can be relied on to buy atendency to be mercilessly scraped aauss
was actually a reviled figure-I havemy memory lik'7 a dusty phonograph , nickel bag 'of oregano when you're
since been informed that there isshort of cash, and to understand thatneedle is the strange realization-and~udible hissing when his name iswhile those who serve on the students'
both the sessions and the medication are
inVOKed,which is why 1 shall refrainfrom using it here.,With this new andterrifying knowledge, 1 immediately
cancelled the supper without one
word of explanation
and went
instead to the revolving cocktail
lounge of the Marriott Marquis Hotelto contemplate my narrow brush withsocial opprobrium. While the pianist
played "Bosom Buddies," 1 recalled
once again the most vital lesson I'dlearned not so many years ago in
Grade 11: Never, but never, trust anybody in a water fight. T

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What kind of journalism is this?'It's the : Vanity Pair kind, ofcourse. It's the Tina connect-the-dotsand-you'll-see-that-I'm-actually-headed-for-Hollywood
Brown School of
Rl~-Job Journalism. It's the kind of
Journalisll'l in which the basic rµle is:Don't offend anyone who's making
bucks for (VP Hall of Fame alumnus)David Geffen, (VP Hall of Fame alumnus) Barry Diller, 'Sandy Gallln, Lee
Solters (all of whom are getting apiece of Dice Clay) and the rest of thesang on the Coast, because they're. theones who are going to open theirarms to you after you're sick of beinga magazine
editor and want to·become a film producer/dlrectorl
whatever In Tinseltown - or even if
you Just want to get invlte9 to somefabulous parties.
While only one person inartl·
cle (in addition to the Wlag6 Voice) Is
quoted speaking negatively of Dice."", ....."'---........- ..--......." ..,_., ....
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three-picture deal. However, David
Geffen, whose record company· is diStributing Dice Clay, is obviously runnlJ1g scared since his Guns 'n' Roses
PR fiasco now has him labeled"Holly~ood's·
Hitler" da'cal L.A.
activists' monicker, not mine). He's
mentioned in the article as the distrib- utor but refused comment on' Dice
Clay's act.
,What's queer about all of this?
Actually the people behind Dice
Clay. EVERYONEBUIlDING UP THIs
MONSTER IS GAY. And then there's
Bob Colacello, a Journalist who is gay,doing a VanUyPair puff piece on thehomophobe. Jesus, come to think of it,
Annie Liebovitz even took the photos!
I decided to make some calls..
And everyone Squirmed.
I phoned Liebovltz a few times
but she wouldn't return my calls.
"It's, a personal matter," I told her
assistant, Kasla\ on my fourth try.

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she's,v~ry busy," she said.
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"OK.' I'd like to know how Annie
felt, as a lesbian and as a, woman, about
spootiOg a' ,man who makes his fortune. by being homophobic and Sexist; byinciting viol~ce against her own kind"
See GOSSIP WATCH on ~June 6. 1990

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Wilh "Liz and' Sydney,

Oul on Ihe Town

5 am. Somewhere ar.ound 4:00, Quick! so we shouldn't fight between ourselves
Sydney: Retro madness? Perhaps, but
in here."'the hippest lesbian thing this side of Bar- began to look like the Choice, with
Liz: Sunday at Mars saw some shockhalf the crowd slumped on stools,
bara'Stanwyck is Jenny's newly revived
ers-Lolitta
Holloway atrociously lipGirl Bar. Lots of enetgetic dykes in "Les- dance floors, or, any relatively clean,
syncinghersong(J) "Ride OQ. Tune,· then
dry
spot,
while
the
other
half
flailedbian Seagull Dis_covered· T-shirts andtelling tile audience, "Honey, if you
wildly. As for me, well, somewhere
lealher emcee jackets, OutWeek staff memthought, that was bad, that's what ithoughtbers and one woman named Susan who around 4:25, I· had a transcendent
jumps on stage and perfpnns her rendition moment on the dance floor. As for Liz, the first time I saw that girl sing my song."
Up5taiis on the third floor, many a thirstyof voguing to Madonna's Vogue at mid- she was sound asleep on a bar stool.
soul was sent packing when they learnednight-1ust a few of the highlights at this Old habits die hard.
Robi, drag queen, (celebu) bartender,
The House of Ecstacy's" Mfluence
incarnation of Girl Bar at the Pyramid
Uz: A new night for women began , Ball· at Red Zone was an exercise in actress· and foundation-garment worshipper, was no longer employed by Mars.
artifice, pomp and many circumstances
last week at the, new Lismar Lounge
The reason? The ownership says she gave.
(new - meaning 'you can see the floor, (as with every ball, controversy reigned
out too many drinks. Judging for ourand it actually looks very nice). Tues- supreme). The Choice and DJ Richard
the quantity ofdays are Love S~ck night. The OJ plays Vasquez co-hosted the ball with an invi- selves, it may have.~
alcohol
per
drink
thaf
causedthe infamous'tationthat
read:"While*eareinX-ile,
alternative music a II a early, '8Os"NewRed Devil hangov<:rs. She says
Wave Music. The pool table isthat other job offers are being
always busy, .the women are all RobI (formerly of Mars) says that other job
entertainedwe're honestly
pool sharks and drinks are otrers'
cheap. "Everybody's
movin',',
111'8 being entertained -- we're honest- pleased to hear this, as we Imow
Everybody'S' groovin', baby ... • Iy pleased to hear this, as we ~openings openings for transvestite bar- 'tenders don't jU$t come screamlast Monday saw ~e Roxy host for ~estite
bartenders don't just comeing around the comer every day.
a benefit for DIFFA (Design screaming 8I'OWId thecia:
It's more than unfortunjte that a
Industry Foundation for AIDS).
"
cornerevery
YoRockshots ,(a poster/gr~tingcard com- why not X-periment with the House of higher profit margin has proven morepany whose models hold either univer- X-tacy?· Princess Diandra, the houseimportant than a great bartender with persal appeal or universal repulsion:' Large, mother, opened the ball by lip-synCing sonality (and a folloWing).
'
beefy men with bi-Ievel haircuts and"My House· from the latest and leastSydney: Robi said that she waslarge-breasted women in string' bikinis) greatest Diana Ross product, Working
never warned by the management that apresented their models for ogling, and a Overtime. Liz, a member of the house,problem existed-until
she was fired.
stripper show that held an audience caP-. walked as an X-ample of a "gay momma.·
Robi announced on stage at Mars that thetive with favorites like "Greased Light- '~mners were given a bottle of Moet, a real reason for her firing was that she ,ning" and "I Need a Hero.· Despite all silver goblet and a silver dollar sign and, worked for Larry Tee at La Palace on a
Friday night. And formerly unreliableappearances.to ,the' contrary,theperhaps fittingly, the House ofX-trava, announcer for the revue insisted this w3s ganza collected the most $$$. Publicity performer GraceJones has had a perfect, for "the ladies in the house· (!) evenstuotress YoYo Disco brought new life attendance record for her last three N.Y.
when the only, people yelling any
to over-ness· as she impersonated La~y engagements.
The-most recent at La
encouragement were Richard Move (a \ Godiva-wearing
nothing but a billow- Palace De Beaute was probably due tok a Mr. YoYo) 'and his friend (Where's; ing white wig. She sat topless atop a the positive force of host Lany Tee who
the skin?). The announcer was reduced
large, white (real) horse and blew away crossed his fingers all night long.
'to yelling, "What do you want him to the other contestants in the femme fatale
Uz: I would like to apologize to thedo?" Put his clothes back on, most likely. category. One shocking'moment came
women of Doll Bar, which I inadvertentAfter the strippers, Miss G1ammamore
whenCodie
Field (a k a Ravio)
ly placed weekly at Limelight. In' fact, it
gave a performance as a female Elvis appeared topless as runaway legend
is Thursdays at the Michael Todd Room.
that in three minutes made up for the
Edie Sedgwick. After' which, illustrator
Sydney usually checks our facts-but• ardu'ous beef jerkY before it.
Alvaro X-travaganza and father of the she was in Atlanta: She's promised not to, Sydney: The Choice may be padHouse of Field, Patricia, fought toothgo away, anymore.
Sydney: A1so'moving to the Michaellocked by the City Disco Task Forceand-nail about a run in a runway',but its ~egendary'bJ's are not .forsaken: , "model's· stocking. This led former Fag Todd Room on flfSt-of-the-month Satur, LattY ~showed up unannounced
Bar go-go boy Derrick
Ecstacy to day nights is Her Planet, which left Mars
over a dispute about door policies ....
one Fri<Iay at Quick! .and played until
remark, "It's outside we are persecuted,'"U, ,58,O~EK,

June 6, 1990'

me to decide what offends me and1 think my identity is based on"Ummm .. .1 don't think ...she'll wantmore than sexuality. If you want toto answer that .. .1 mean, she's verylabel people witll one'narrow, little
busy."
thing, then that's your life; go"Well, I'll call back again to see if-.mead and do it. But 1 don't thinkmost people are that way. And 1
you have an answer.""Oh ...umm ...OK"
think you have a very narrowminded, fascistic, McCarthyite point
ob Colacello and 1 had' anof view."hour-long, sometimes heated,• On AIDS: "People die of --.'_
yet perhaps productive and'lung . cancer
too,youeven enjoyable, exchange. He's reallyknow ....There are other disnot a bad guy. But he is definitely
eases. What about <;ancer? 'immensely caught up in alP .of his
Not enough is being done .
social bullshit,
forth complex,
about a lot of diseases. ...
frightening ideologies as he desperateYou're confusing the issue of"ly tries to rationalize his inccessanthomosexual rights with theOh, why don't 1 just let him speak
fact that people have a dis-for himself:ease ....1 don't see where you• On his story and using "fans" as
say that nothing was done
sources: "I don't think it's a soft
[about AIDS]. It's been mypiece. 1 think it's balanced. The
perception that since 1982issue came down to whether or not
once they knew what it wasthe,faps were being'incited by him,.-:. that there"s been more
and that's ,why 1 called fans - toand more fI\loney spent on it. Moreask them.~
and more ...Jesse Helms is an, extreme minority in Congress."". ". On Dke Clay and his brand of,______________,_IIII!'.' _• On the rich: "Not all 'rich'1' ,people are bad. There are.1,"some pretty horrible 'poor
people, too, you' know.
GOSSIP WATCH from page 57 'B

as dose as she could to denouncing him without renouncing what
she f~ls is her wifely duty ....SOme
people believe in certait;l religions.
1 don't believe in the eailiolic faithas'much as the Buddeys do. But
some people take marriage very,
very seriously. 1 don't'thinkwehave a right to criticize people. 1
don't criticize a person who has six-------------"No

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~d there are ~ome goodnch people ....Rich people
give us jobs."
On the Buckleys: "Bill
Buckley's first antigay col"'Iumn, as far as 1 mow, hasUS,been retracted ... 1 don't
agree with Bill Buckley on
ev.ery single issue, no. But
1 don't ¢.ink Bill Buckley is- Bob Colacello. a person who is' all. that
terrible, either. 1 told hµn
myself that 1 didn't agree with that
comedy: "It's still a question markin my mind. 1 think, on one hand,column ... .1 think he's absolutely
it's good to relieve the tensions thatwrong on that one issue of putting
are there and that will 'always betattooson all people
withthere, it's got to c~me out ....See, 1
AIDS.... The reaction against theco~pletely sympathize that there
column showed how isoliltec;ithat
might be a reverse kind of represposition is....1 think in many areas 1ston [my italics] that's going on. We
happen to agree with him; in terms
live in a'time 1ll0W when it's per.of anti-communism and the freeet)terprise system ...1 know a lot offectly OK to make jokes about conservative institutions but not about
people who see the Buckleys
liberal ones. It's OK to make jo1,<essocially but would never dream ofabout' macho guys but not about
reading the, National ReVieUi or ofgay guyS. That's not fair."agreeing with Bill politically. His• On his oWn accountability to thewife told him herself that the "tattOO"column was terrible. She camegay community: "I think it's up tojobs",

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divorces;nor 'do 1 criticize a\woman who stands by her husband. Those are two different
choices that two different womenchose. 1 think both are equallyvalid, allqwable in a free' country
where ~you have a bill of.'rights.'
Each person should choose forthemSelves. Pat Buckley has comedose to publicly repudiating her,husband without doing something
against' her own faith."• 'On the media: "I don't think themeciia is tilted by any means
toward the' right·wing ....You think
the media is homophobic? 1 don't
agree. No, the media is not homophobic. But you say the media ishomophobic - then 1 guess 1 justknow a lot of p~onies."'
called Annie Leibovitz again.
"Who's calling ... Oh, uh,_'sony, she's in a meeting," said amario "I'll take a message.""It's OK. I'll call back," I answered.

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Bridenthal, David, Geffen's
PR person, was truly'nasty to_me a few weeks ago when I'd
ca-lled her asking to speak to thesupreme self-loather himself regarding ,Guns 'n' Roses. But that was before 1

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activist Vito Russo, specially commissioned for the festlval(lt's dedicated to
the late Bill SherwOod, whose feature

Horowitz and Programmer John LewIs
made the first attempt at Ii citywide
lesbian and gay ,film festival sincePeter Lowy's long-running event ran
out of steam In 1987. By all accounts,
Wt year's event was excltlng and successful. Still, there were problems, notthe 1eut d,which was a 8eOse of umtted
progrlinmlng vision. Arthur Luiz, whohelped wi~,'last year's festival 9,Dd ' -olng to the movies Is as
New York as a trip up the
Empire State Building. Un!ort\Ulately for the lesbian andgay male ,dnephlle, the experience is'ofter1 meanInsless and superftclal at bestand offensive to the core at worst. (lhave one queer friend wJlo won't go seeanything anymore because he's sick of
everY film's hero being given a coupleof rancl9m antigay ,okes" to help bUild
his character.) PortUnately, relief Is on theway: lbe New PestIval begins this, Now.ln Its second year as an orga..
nlzatlon, the New York International
PestIval of Lesbian and
Pilm-theNew Pestlval-ls
fa.st bec~mlng an,
indispensable part of the queer culturallandscape In this city. Running for 18
days and nlghta-lourthan last~
featJvaI,has all the indications
at growtns 'Into a truly r~tative
fUmevent for ,the ,gay and lesbian pop,
ulation of this city. ·P,asslon, Politics DEIIERT HEARTS,
and poPcorn," the' festival's logo this Nocturne by Joy Ch,mb,rl,'n, , M,y, Vlllonworld~p"ml'"year, c:onjl,l~ up m~ than Just SC?in8 film of the same name remains for' returns this year ~ ~,dIre<:tor,
to the moviesi ,It alludes (0 the impOr- many the best on contemporary gay sees the situation ,18 a matter of being
tant role cinema has come to play ill, male life). Pilms by lesbians are espe- new at the game. "Because It was the
our lives. Organizers are promising
cIally pt'9m1nent In this ,year's' festival. first year-as In, any organlzationsomething for everyone. Among the The organlzeis are committed to cor-' there's gOing to be 'thlqgs thai get left
special programs this year are -Gay rectlng the under-representationof out. ThIs year the outreach was much,
Asia: featuring rarely ~films fiorD work b.y women usually found at better .... We have ~ program commitThailand, the Philippines, Japan and ,events like this one, and have brought tee and a number of advisors." Jeffrey
Hong, Kongi -Strength of Survival,· a, together a diverse collection of feature Lunger is the Program Committeeseri~ of ;works about AIDS including rom, documentary and video 'work In chairi' he feels very strongly about its,independ~rit features, actiVist videos the "Women Direct Series.·coll~ve effOrt at diversifying the fesand safer-sex efforts from around the
The festival was "new" last year, tival's offerings:' "To my mind, there's
worldi arid -Parting Glances,· a look when Executive, Director Susan
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~the festival as a way tonourish the community byproviding it with a highprofile, "uPt9wn" festivalthat gets national atten~on
from distributors
andhopefully
some noticefrom the mainstream press(it may even get a New Yom
Times
review
thisyear-which
would be a
ftrst).
Jeffrey Lunger, whoorganized last year's Derek
Jannan 'retrospective, points
out that the New Festival isa forum for ftlm and video
makers whose work doesn't
get played that often. He's
especially excited by the
programs of short ftlms inthe schedule ("It's a lot of
local talent"), as well assome of the neglectedfilms from the 19805 being
given a second look. ~ese
iAclude Ron Peck's Empire
State, with Martin Landau
a~ an American business-

man into S&M and music by Jimmy
Sommerville, and the Terence Davies
trilogy, three shorter works from thedirector of last year's highly acclaimed
Distant Votc~ Still Lives. Both Lunger
and White can't speak highly enough ofOranges Are Not Tbe Only Fruit, a British
production
based on the Jeanette
WlIlterson novel (making its East Coast
premiere here) that was a surprising
hit in England. White describes it as "alesbian coming-of~ge story," where "thecharm of the heroine and her rebelliousness are based on her sexual orientation." White also cites German director
Ultike Ottinger's Dorian Gray In tbe
MITTOT' of the Popular Press as one of her
favorites. "I'm an Ottinger fanatic," sheadmits. "Through the festival circuit she's$arting to be claimed as a lesbian auieur;
as I think she shouJd be. She certainly ,has an unconventional enough vision."
One film you won't flIld in thisfestival is Longtime Companion. The first
film with completely gay subject matter
distdbuted by a Hollywood studiosince Making Love iill982, it was a pessible inclusion in the festival until its
distributors opted for a pre-Memorial

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,-Peter~navailable f~r the meeting; john leWis
IS not longer IIlvolved). Though clearly,
united in their efforts, each programmer
pr~~ts.adifferent vision of the f~tival s significance. "When I was growmg",up, there was never a gay mm festival
in xPy hometowI), or in Bostol!,' the'big city' nearby," recalls Luiz. "Nowpeople can see not only what's goingon in the United States but, in over 15
countries represented, in the festival.
.. .It's a great image build~r' for gays
and lesbians througqout ~e country." 'White is particularly ,concernedwith addressing the needs and issues
of women filmmakers. "It's alreadyhard enough if you're a woman, at)d
almost impossible if you're a woman ofcolor or a lesbian, to get the bankroll
to make your 35 rom film." She sees

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/BEHIND THE SCENES
Jeffrey Lunger, Patricia White, Arthur Luiz, Susan Horowitz, Marc Berkley, Nan Buzard
Day o~ing.
The ftlm's critical successand promislng box office raise animportant issue: Will the need for exclusively gay and lesbian film festivals
diminish as mainstream America gets
used to seeing our lives on the screen?
Arthur Luiz strongly believes that will,
not be the case. "Tha\ would be likesaying, 'Will there ever be an end toBlack History Month?' When you see afilm like Longttme Companion, youknow that 'compromises were made inttie production and the editing process
So 'that straight audiences wouldn't beoffended. When you have a ftlm festival
run by lesbians and gay men you cango beyond that point wh!!"e 'Hollywood'
will go ..' There will always be thatnecessity until society changes. "Not that gay f!ltm released to mainstream audiences ,don't have their benefit. White sees, these fUms as vehicles
for community discussions. "One of themost important things that happens
when a film like .Longtime Companion
comes along-and
everytime somebody throws something up there that's
about u~is that a dialogue happensin the comri'luriity: It's just the fact thatthe fUm is there and everybody is seeing it." At the same time,' it allows the62

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gay and lesbian presence. Other highorganize~s of a gay and lesbian-run
event like the New Festival to l;>e some- lights of the festival's first few days arewhafselective about what they in<1~de. Beyond Gravity and Night Out, nroWhite notes, ":As more ·things get ffiilde drarnas from Down Under; the worldin the' industry, like feature f!ltm withpremieres of Crocodiles in .Amsterdam, agay people in them, we don't just have women's' "buckly" film; Dutch filmmakerto say, 'Everyone's hungry for images,' Eric de Kuyper's experimental coIlitge
and just present whatever's out there, Pink Ulysses; and the highly recomwhatever they're telling us we're like." mended Novembermoon, a lesbian love
Though the festival is not promoting a story set in occupied Ftance. Audiences
particular agenda, it's impossible to will also have a chance to pay respects
Barbaraavoid the political reality of such an to the dearly departed
event. White continues: "Just about
Stanwyck and Capucine, teamed up in
everything that happens in the gay the classic Walk on the Wild Side.
community is political---«ll of our culHorowitz, Luiz, White and Lunger
tur.al events, the way we write our 'are anxiously' awaiting opening night,
own history-like it Of not. ...I tend to hoping that it is both an important comsee changing the way people see, and munity event and a gala cultural affair.
It's also the unofficial kickoff for Lesbian
wbatPeople see, as political."'The festival sets its tone from its , and Gay Pride Month;' a fact that pleases
opening night, when it offers two U.S. Arthur Luiz. "We can't forget that we aredifferent," he sums up. "It would be nicepremieresof British films, Stuart
Marshall's Comrades in Anns, a vibrant for everyone in the world to say, 'I love
documentary about gays and lesbians in gay people, I love lesbians,' and we'llEngland's World War II anned forces, all live happily ever after. But there is adifference. I don't think these ftlmmakand Nocturne, Joy Chamberlain's delirious ftlm about lesbian desire unleashed. ers are looking for acceptance from
Both films were produced by Maya the audience. They're just presenting
Vision, an independent production
our lives." Which, in the final analysis,
makes' for a movie-going experience
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Short video and filin work at the New Festival. ~....
by p'eter BowenA.'1

S the incredible popularity of America's Funniest
Home Videos demonstrates,
Americans are
directing their expensive video equipment at
each other more and more frequently. Not to be outdone(or overrun) by our media double, the "general population," lesbians and gays have in recent years turned thistechnological revolution to aid -and abet our revolution. Toooften shut off from traditional funding, lesbian and gay
artists, art collectiVes and energetic private citizens havepicked up video cameras to document a reality we know all
too weij but can never seem to find in our 7V Guide. Much
to its credit, the New Festival has recognized this creatiye
explosion of short films and video by creating specific pr0grams designed to showcase this impressive work.
While much of the video, work is documentary in format, it chronicles the historY of lesbian and gay people
from the inside out by doing away with the cultural myth ofan unbiased reporter. Not content to ~ passive observersof the media distortion of the :AIDScrisis, ~deo collectives
like DNA lV (Damned Interfering Video Activist Television)in Pride (1989) and Testing the Limi~ in Voicesfrom the
Front (1990) have used video to reimagine the ongoingstruggle, of people living with AIDS. In John Goss' Stiff
Sheets (1989), which records an L.A. ACI' UP fashion
show/AIDS demo, and John Greyson's tbe World is Sick
(Sic.), (1989), an activist's account of the Montreal,Jpternational AIDS conference, humor provides a powerfulweapon against government indifference and medical profiteering.
While much of the AIDS·work borrows from a documentarY tradition, others appropriate, equally powerfulvideo fonnats (M1V, commercials, porn, etc.). On Saturday,
June 9, Gregg Bordowitz and Jean Carlomusto of G.M.H.C.
will present Safer Sex ShoTts, a program displaying the latest
in sexy safe porn, as well as AIDS-related public-selViceannouncements, educational films and music videos fromDNA lV, Gran Fury, Aidsfilms, Isaac Julien and Carol Leigh,to name just a few. Next to these "public" pieces is workwhose personal and poetic approaches attempt to makesense of the AIDS crisis by fOCUSingon the local ciises of
specific individuals. Tom Kalin's by-now-classic they are lostto visiOn altogether (1989) offers a lyrical history of the AIDS
crisis through a fragmented memory of Hollywood movies,
television reports ·and personal vision. Robert Beck's 7be
Feeling of Power (1990) turns his award-winning proposal
for a video camera into a jagged autobiography of his emergence as a gay man and video activist. Carl Michael
George's short film, D.HP.G. MonAmour(989),
reveals theimmense heroism in the daily life of a couple livip.g with
AIDS. And finally, Phil Zwickler's and David Wojnarowicz's
FearofDtsclosure(1989) brings to light the sexual apartheid
suffered by mY-positive individuals. Also of note are Bob
Huffs We're Desperate, Get Used to It (1988) and Ellen" Spiro's ViAna's Hair Ego: AIDS Info up Front (1990).
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While video technology has been used most immediately to address th~ AIDS crisis, it also brings to light therich and varied communities of lesbians and gay men. In
addition to Marlon Rigg's incrfdibly moving Tongues
Untted, the New Festival has included Pratibha Pa~mar's
Memory Pictures (1989), a poetic account of Indian photographer Sunil Gupta, Mona Smith's Honored by the Moon
(1989), a documentary on the proud traditions of Native
Ameri~n lesbians and gllYS;and Richard Fung's Chinese
Characters (1986), ,an Asian critique of traditionally "white"
gay porn. Other video work, like Pam Walton's Out inSuburbia (1988) and Marilyn Burgess' A Woman of My
Platoon (1989), documents vastly underrepresented lives of
lesbians. In addition, the New Festival is hosting a freepanel o~ June 9, "Under Repair: The Construction of
Ethnicity and Gender in Film and Video," to address the difficult repr~tationof race and sexuality.
Although it is impossible to review .the complete
wealth of shorter work offered by the festival thiS year, I
would encourage everyone to catch what they can. These
pieces, in all their variety and imagination, pay tribute to
the complicated, sometimes contradictory, world we too
simply call the. "gay community." ~~ NEXT WEEK: "A CRITICAL GUIDETO THE NEW FESTIVAL
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bent, she, has placed the Varvand Schtoft'ensteins--generally
slovy to anger, quick to trust----on the house-left side of thestage; the angry, reactionary Rosseters inhabit the right.
Although the, cast works hard, it is generally not up to thedemands of the script. With the excePtion of Bob Paton, theblind, gentle grandfather of Agnes, and Robert Projansky as
Sylvester, the leader of the Varvanders, the cast lacks thephysical and v~
authority the roles require. The acting is
general and often tense, and the actors adopt attitudes tocompensate for the specificity and the aristocratic presence
their acting lacks.
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They also have a problem speaking the play's lan-by Michael Palkr

ric Bentley i!> inte~ed
in power-not for himself,,mind you. Thirty years ago he quit as the influential'theater critic for 1be New Republic and became,a playWright-rtot a move guaranteed to bring one
fame, money or, power. His plays, however; often revolve,
about the phenomenonof'power: and ,the lengths to whichpeople go to avoid sharing itwith others who are unlike themO~ 1be Recantation of Galileo
Galt/et, the powerful are threatened by a man with new ideas;
in 'Lord Alfred'S Lover, Oscar
Wilde's different sexuality mustbe suppressed; Are You Now or
Have ,'You Ever Been? examines
the ,menace ,ostensibly posed by;µien political beliefs).' 'German Requiem,
in itswor1d~premiere ron at' the Living
Theatre: fs also, 'about power,
a~d 'the distrust that seems tooc¢Ur naturally with it. It is. concerned, tQO, with the constantwar between the official truths 'of" our rµlers and competing truths
about ways of thin~ing, being
and lqving..
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Based _on,' a novella by
HeiniiPt von Kleist, it is the story.
of the enmity between two ,Photo: Ira Cohenbranches of a' medieval Swabian SEEING DAGGERS BETWEEN THEM
family: the Schroffensteinsof Pst Russell sndPhi/ip Behse"
Rosset and those of Varv:and. The patriarchs come to blows guage, although this is not entirely their/fault. Bentley's diaover the inheritance. of some land. The Rosseters accuse the logtie is a combination of fonnal "high court" words 'and
Varvanders of the murder of one of their young princes,rhythms and everyday colloquialisms, rubbing against eachand from that'moment, the families, whose castles are 'only other in an often-uneasy way. Even a cast with greater acting
a short: distance apart, become separated by a series of technique, would have difficulty speaking many of theserumors. Only young Prince Ottoo( Rosset (Gary Brackett) words believably.
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and Princess' Agnes of Varvand (Pat Russel) try to frnd the',What strikes one about German Requtem is that all its
truth bcllind the rumorS.
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characters, even when being impulsive, are so reason-able.
Judith' Malina, on~ ,of the co-founders of the Living They must state their reasons for everYthing; even the cliTheatre, has directed the play in the theater's new headmactic love 'sCene between Otto and Agnes is analyzed andquarters on East Third Street, O1i,a stage the shape arid size described before it happens. The play often seems like an'. ,of a shoe box. Perhaps reflecting the LiVingTheatre's 'political
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purity. At Ita last New York concert, ~tlcleer,

the 12-member male a cappella vocal ensemble
received-rave reviews. Composer Ned Rorem was overheard
offering congratulations.
With dozens of International
awards from music festivab worldwide, this group, the only
federally funded full-time e'nsemble of 113 kIild, Ii a must for CHANTING AND RAVING 'vocal-music fans. Those who have yet to experience the joy of Mulle.' Dlflefor JOllph J,nnlng. (e,nttr, with.nd til, m,mb,,, ofChanUcleer
live choral music will find Olanticleer the definitive initiation.
Although its repertory Indudes popular and gospel works,
Olanticleer's forte Is early music. The chon,Ja of 12 hancIaome,recordings ofliv~ concerts, early music and Christmas
tuxedoed men delicately sings dOtsten,d hymns culled from a albums and tassettes, Chanticleer's music tranSforms atime when the word of God was a graceful whisper.
home Into a medJ~tive chamber. "It's nice to be able to preJoseph Jennings, .whose career as musical director
Serve what -we do, but we concentrate on live perfor~(' 'began shortly after joining the group, also arranges vocal mances:"work and has published numerous conlposltions. We talked
The ensemble ~ been contrasted to the well-known
in his uptown hotel room between breakfast and a plane to , King Singers for Its "American style." But can ,one put an
yet another performance. Chanticleer tours extensl~ely,
American style on a 300-year-old Gregorian chant? uOur
most notably to some of the oldest cathedrals In ~pe.
group doesn't come from a school of singing, so that makes
Raised In a BaptiSt famlIy, Jennings grew up sit1glng It different. European language is very codIflect~ We havegospel. Asked about the religious nature of much of the more flexible singers, doing a variety of styles."group's repertory, he replies, "People often get the chUJCh, ,One of Olantlcleer's mOre amazing feats Is performing
mixed up with God;" After hearing early music, a clearer soulful renditions of, gospel songs without women, who areconnection can be made"especlally by' gay and lesbian
usually the soloist! of any gdspel choit. The ensemble comaudiences, who In light of catholic and Fundamentalist
pensates for th~se limitations with the talents of counoppression may feel excluded from the world, of faith. tertenors--harkenlng
back to the roots of choral music.
"We're true to the originS, but there's no real evangelical"WOmen were not allowed to partldpate In church aervtces,·
aspect for some memberS. When we do early musi(l In a Jerm.lngs explains. UInJewish services they could only go ~.: church setting, espeCially In .europe, there's a much-more
far Into the temple. In the early Christian church It was that
religious experience. But [Europeans) can relate to It and way, too. So the music developed around the church. They
still go have a beer. American auclJences at home separate
didn't train girls to read ·mUslc." 'these things. With the gospel music, though," Jennings
Despite such traditional foundadons, the Chanticleer's
smiles, "they tend to get a little rowdy."
current repertory spans centuries, from c1,assIca1 to 1990. At
Born 12 years ago from a 8roup of friends ';who, Instead
their return engagement, the program wUl Include' earlyof getting together to sing show tunes, sang Palestrjµa,"
music from the 1600s, hymns, spirituals, a work by Charles
Chanticleer's home Is San Prtndsco, where It gel3 a ,lot of Ives and the world premiere of an unusual 'contemporary
support from lesbiati and gay music fans. HoWever, due to work by Christopher Fulkerson entitled 'c..elesttal StxHes,
the diversity of its repertory, Its audiences ~re varied.
which rombinestexts of Dylan's All Along tbe Watcbtower
Jennings clarlfles the group's Identity: "Although members
and other songs from the Haight-Ashbury era with mantra-likeof our group are gay, we are not a gay chorale." It seems a lines from a Tibetan Terma (talk about '60s reSurgence!).
fittingly comfortable mix. "Sometimes when we play in the
Por. first-rate musicianship, Chanticleer Is a group to
Midwest, they confuse us with the Gay Men's Olonls."
I enjoy and cherish, both live at:ld In recordings. Although Its
Yet Chanticleer recalls the fraternal aspect of monasteryrepertory encompasses a variety of themes, the focus is thelife in its cohesiveness as a performing group. With six music, and great music it is. ..
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Betty Days"Artl Here Again
BETIYI' So, are you ready?"
The audience chime.d in, and Bd:ty was off, teasing us ,with their a'cappella rendition of "I'm a Girl-Watcher." Thethree-part harmony was a fine introduction to what these
women do-best, their do-wap-style finger snaps keeping theby Victoria Starrbeat to this little tongue-in-cheek gender-bender. It was a
provocative sort of camp, eliciting both laughter and lust':'y firs.t taste ()f Betty was the kind that lingered. and all within tile first four rmnutes. In the ensuing two
and adOring, scolded, puti,It was a lazy July day,. the kind that makeS hours, the audience was ~your mind wander in slOw motion under the upon and asked to participate in a Betty trivia contest (to thewinner-whatelse?-a "BettY Rules"
heat-induc~dhaze. :'
T-shirt). In short, they were made to,Sisterfire" the ,women's music festival
feel fight at home (even Witnessing aheld just Qutside of Washington, D.C.,
bit of sibling rivalry between real-life
was well into its afternoon program,sisters Amy and Bi~i).
~and l was recording the festival for
Looking back to 1987, it all
New York radio. The crowd, mostly
seemed a bit trendy at the time.
women, was_a friendly sea of skiri
While Betty was all the rage wi~ theand sweat. It was 1987.
'young-and-hip
crowd, they themNothing could have prepared,\selves joked about a catchy but limitme for what happe,ned next. As I
ed repertoire. But then came theirleaned against the soundboard, swat13-week HBO series (;l children's,ting flies and SmOkin~cigarettes, ;lseries entitled "Encyclopedia"), theircrowd began ~o gather
front of therelocation to New York City andstage. Boys, girls, marid women,'
determination
to expand beyondin ~osomes
and threesomes both-their cultlike status. But New ~rk is
straight and gay-th,s
was not th~
not an easy scene to scale, andcrowd my mother ~ed
me about.
Betty'S ability ,io move from
In fact, the very sight of this enthusl~"Encyclopedia" to underground hot
astically mixed crowd posed such a
spots like the Pyramid 'is a doubiethreat'to V1e Separatist concept that I
edged sword; while they appeal topaused to wonder who had let thesepeople in. It was then that I noticed BETTY miKES AGAIN Photo: Michael O'Brian nearly everyone, they defy any neat
attempts at marketability, leaving
the red-on-black T-shirts emblazoned With a lot of Enthusiasm and a lot of Love...
many in the music industry scratchwith the slogan "Betty Rt\les."~hf9rward to 1990, Mother's Day at the Ballroom. ing their heads. Some have' even wondered if this is, in fact,
Mothe~, grandfat:ll{erSand the neighborhood rabbi were sit- music, or if Betty is more of ~ "performance art" thing.
Whether consciously or not, Betty has answered theting shoulder-to-shoulder
with tattooed lesbians, yuppie
industry'S queries this last time out ...While Amy's witty
couples and ,not-~fashl?qable
queens. We were waitingmonologues are' more developed than ever, their s<:mgfor the lights ~Q dim.
writing ability has also reached new heights. The light, "Hello, everybody!" Three' gorgedus women emerged
from th~ shadows, theil' elegant bi~ck dress giving a hearted lyrics that y.rere always Bettt~ trademark hit closer~omentary impression that this was to be a foqnal affair. to home, as in the song "First Date," where Amy sings, "I
But as Amy (the Diva),' Alyson (the Glamazon) and Bitzi guess I shaved my legs for nothing, ( should ha've never(the Angty Young Woman) stepped up to the mikes, even gone out at all... » Taking turns delivering lines is anotherBetty trademark, and one that has become so complex thatthe uninitiated knew that life was not as it seemed. Perhaps
it was Alyson's high-top trainers that gave it away. "For ,the three voices o(ten merge into one neurotic frenzy.
But by far the most impressive Betty development isthose of you who have never seen us before, th~re's a little'something that you need to learn." Some of us already; had the musicality of their show. The voices of all three women
this part memorized~\ "When we say, 'Hello everybody!' that have matured considerably, enlµuicifig the harmonies andmeans it's your tum to shout back (Amy)~with a lot of inspiring more solos .. And they've taken up their instruSe. BETTY 011 pig. 69,enthusiasm (AiY$On)~da lot of love (Bitzi)-'HEllO,

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BooksThe lover in Me
by Marla Maggenti"H',oW ~any exquisite li~e morsel.s of expensiv~,
food from Balducci's can we pack into our perfectly weaved picnic basket before we start todrool with ~Jirious metaphors about art, music,
cosmology and the nature of the soul? Oh, pass some morechevre and asparaguS tips, beautiful Maman, before you
spin off into that velvety abyss of,female madness
crowdedwith
Catholic iconography. And, Father,you perfect specimen of sophisticated, urban snob, why did you up anddie while I was twiddling about, by-,irig to write a novel at aI,1artists'colony in Massachusetts, and my bestfriend was dying of AIDS in St.
VUlcent'S?Father! 'You died befOre the
New York Film Festival opened! Oh,
Jesus and Mary, Mother of God, why
do these shining streets of the west
Village, reeking with human waste,'scorch my sensitive s,oul with theirdesperate cries for help? More St.
Andre? More Cristal champagne? Helpme part this sea of exotic wildflowers,
dear Jesus, so I may find my ~y outof this forest of precious language
and metaphysics. Wh~re am :I? Whoam HAnd most importantly" wha~ 'the,sweet godclamn am I' trying ,to say in ,this, ,253-page event putatively known'
as a novel called tbe Art ~Carole Maso, a truly gifted and original novelist whose
debut work Ghost Dance spimmered with rapidly alternating poi~ts of view to describe a' young w~man's painful'.coming-Of-age in the shadow, of her famous mother's madness, brilliance and suicide, seems in this new novel tohave spun completely out of orbit.
Separated into chunks of Pfmlgraph representing thevarious voices of Maso's confused characters and interspers¢ with floating visual iIMges that range from Vermeer
reproductions to sections of art criticism tom out of 7be
New York Times to Barbara Kruger and Guerilla Girls
posters, tbe Art Lover readS as a ~ic
and grief-stricken
attempt to make some narrative sense (albeit unorthodox)of the very non-narrative eJ!:perience of death and 10$5.
However, where Maso's bold challenge to traditional narra-

tive form flew off the pag~ breathlessly in Ghost Dance, itlurches' and grinds through tbe Art Lover, clogged with
unnecesSary pretense and moist emotion.
'Short blocks of words, introduced with titles like
"Maggie Asks Alison," "Jesus and the Beautiful Woman" and"The Teacher in Space," add up to W~f is supposed to be astory-within-a-story~within-a-story. 'earoline is a writer tr}ring
to write in the messy aftermath of her father'S fatal· heart
attack and the anticipation of her best friend's ioiminent
death from AlpS'. In an attempt to sort out her feelings, shelurches back and forth from the voices of her characterS (aperfectly un~ple,overeducated, overprivUeged nuclear, ,family ·~evasta,ted by Daddy's' infid~litr~, her, dead mother before she'committed suicide (crimson desCrlp- ,,tions ,of Christ a,nd the Virgin Maryspot the page), herself as she talks to, her dead father (ostentatipusly called.r' 'by his first name) and herself agaiO
as s\le talks to and tries to cope withher best friend Stephen, who ,is dying
from AIDS., ,;,','Some of Maso's writing about
Stephen, as he wllvers in and ou~'ofgood hea).th, is nothing short of sh~
beauty and iridescence. ~ ,one point
her voi~e(as a fictional writer ceases,
and she instead speaks as herself to
her real dying friend, artist: Gary Falk,
whose work is also reproduced in
the hook. This comes alx?~t abruptly
and ,sends a chill of alarm through thelast quarter of the book. Death, Maso's
work seems to say, and especiallydeath from ~S,causes afre~~kind of story. Glass hits a [hard sur- ,,face, and Maso, at her best( captures
the sound of the experience right at the moment of impact.
But then there are moments like this one from Max,the fatl)er, to Caroline, the' daughter, on
topic of urbanites creating needs out of luxuries: "What is wrong with us?,
Would you like another, mango, my dear, or how aboµt a
braised rhubarb stem?" Unless you are a gluttpn for
pompous ~ferences to the food" art and music ofth~ elite,
this book will give you indigestion. It is as thoughMaso's
very real grief and power have been poured onto thesepages like so many varieties of exotic honey, until the only
thing left is a sl,lgar-induced, coma.
7be Art Lover is a,terrible disappointment to those readers who found in Masp's ,debut work a kind of wild ~ergy
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Cruse'non l~~tlon WKKK. Animus whips up his bigoted fansand incites a fag bashing. Cruse offers a chilling parallel
between Animus and block-headed Duncan.
Cruse confronts gay political issues but retains hishumor. By juxtaposing the heavy stuff with cuddly, cartoonish characters, Cruse makes sure that the political lesson is
by Jay Blotcber
never oppressive. Wendelis band may pontificate, but their
manifesto hasfor revisionS. They remain lovable andI...
~oonist Howard Cruse must love common gay wholly noble.
<.~
people: He draws so many of them. Sketching the
These strips are' about gray areas. Characters are por, "'lesbiap and gay experience for more than, a trayed with honest, human contradictions, never as carica,' decade, Crose ,offers an alternative to the oppressiVe ' tures. In an eadier volume, the strip "Billy G~s Out"dissected the mixed blessings of the
Perfection of' Tom of Finland's sex
gods. These queer folk have averagebar! sCene. This heart wrencher prelooks, underdeveloped bodies, thinsented an urban gayboy still reelingning hair and vulnerable smiles.
from his lover's death, petrified by the
Wendel Trupstock, his boyish protagthought of another relationship. Billyonist, anived in 1983 on the pages ofmeanders through cruise bars andbackrooms, :which <;:ruse depicts ii a "the NJvocate and has kept ~ with thechanging homo ZeUgetst. Skirting thenether world of collusive dishonesty.
backroom era, Wendel found hln.lSelf~J;:r,"8 ~I
By evening's end; 'Billy has a pair ofa beau and became a fledgling activist.
~ltricks, snubS a bearded cutie named; "The Romance of Sterno andMark who 'just wanted to ch~t andDuncan," tpe full-length e'pic of.
heads hOrne. As the boy Sleeps, Cruse
Wendel Com", #1, is a comical fairy
tears us to pieces with a final, wordtale gone a;Wry, but afso a sp~ingless image: Billy dreams of embracingboard for issues of homophobia. In
Mark.
this story, Wendel\s waggish p~t"The Romance of Sterno andSterno has fallen hard for Duncan, aDuncan~ offers similarly stinging obserbland Adonis with a party line reelv l'·vations. Readers may shuddet' withing of Madsen and Kirk's After tbe
recognition
when Sterno brags,
Ball. Cruile' deflates the boy's bom"Duncan's the first guy I've ever gone
bastqui~k1y. At the breakfast table,,with who's cared enough to try andDuncan .Jets loose y.oithanother fascist homily. But lusty break me of all my bad 'habits." Cruse recounts the obseSsSterno is oblivious, preferring'tO bury his' face in his lover's ing, the fears of abandonment and the withdrawal pains
crotch. Duncan ' sneers at ,Sterno's activist pals: "So-called that attend this ill-fated
The situation is delivered
opi>ression is a cultural myth that gives weak-willed losers tongue-irl-cheek, but Cruse is a wise observer of humanan
to faill~ For Duncan, gay power is a daily work- nature; the pathos remains.',
out at the gym. Blinded by 'his mate's physique, Sterno
Sometimes, "The Romance of Sterno and Duncan"
renounces his <;omrades, quits his job at the gay neWSpaper relies more on s~pstick than the drarila seen in "Billy Goes
and is hired at· the sporting-goods store where Duncan
Out" or the earlier "Jimmy Mack," a compelling portrait of aworks. His friends Watch the devolution in despair.
closet-case preacher in the Bible Belt. There is an occasional
Cruse is a Sentimental grass-roots gay libber. He was timidity here as well. Wendel and his 'pats-are, after all, so
there at the creation, acid-tri.,ping on Chris(oph~ Street that damned ordinary. This element was thankfully absent inJune night in 1~. Accordingly, Wendel and Ollie belong
Cruse's aggressive mini-epic "Safe Sex," an often-surreal history of AIDS-from a few years back that was more urgent
to a gay-rights group called GROWL-Gays
Reacting
than anything Sontag ever metaphorized. Perhaps the
Obstreperously to 'Wrongs and Lapses. This is an energetic,
If naive, band of freedom flght~. Their pals Deb and Tina author can give the same bite to Wendel's cast, upping thear~ a swell pair 9f dykes, a 'Mother Ea~th fig'ure in ante and making them AlPS activists.
Other times, Cruse scores points for restraint. Catharsis
BifkenstoCks and II: hot punk in leather. The main conflict of
this corrllc novella--end that which returnS Sterno to the is never gratuitous, nor easily earned. At the end of theIt. CRUSE 011 ,. •••folc:l-is the 'hate campaign of wild-eyed DJ Crank Animus£'" ,' ..

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O~EEK; J~ne 6, 1990 ,POWER from,.,.114argument, a lesson with points to be ·.landscapeof lesbian
literature.
made several times over. Spontaneity is ',Granted, Maso's lesbian-"ness"ismissing; the play's inevitability feels like oblique and skittish in Gbost Dance,that of a work too carefully thought out
co~summating itself in a tormented
Ironical1~, while Bentley has ,haze on the floor of a seedy hotel, butargued that theater ought to be a pri-, its erotic charge between mother andmarily intellectual endeavor, some of daughter, and ~ughter and death, washis best criticism focuses on the turbu- -often brilliant. The Art Lover, on thelent emotional life beneath a writer'sother hand, relegates sex and sexuality
intellectualism-his
great book on to a dim nether world of faceless
Shaw, his writing on Pirande110come to women sitting cross-legged in a toasty
mind. Indeed, what has always marked room in the Massachusetts artists'
hi$ criticism is the ferocity of his intel- colony, sharing cigarettes or gropes,
lect, the passion of his beliefs. His best memories of gayboy fucking in, thecriticism jolts us out of ~onventional
early '70s or sniffles through heterqthinking by its very audacity. German
sexual male infidelity, to create a porRequiem could use some of that.
trait of such mixed-up messages thatHis humor-also so present in his the reader ultimately feels alienatedcriticism-is
here and used to wry and somewhat embai:rassed for not, effect. Upon the burial of young Prince knowing exactly how to listen toPeter in a solemn funeral mass, the Maso's eerie and unfocused voice. 'Rossetets sing a rousing Brechtian song
The total experience of The Art
called "Hymn to Revenge." Agnes's
Lover is, unsettling
and angering.,
mother Gertrude (Laura Kolb) attempts ,Carole Maso is too original and too
to comfort her daughter, saying,"Wepowerful to have been set loose alone
are only trying to preserve you, my with this tale. Death is big, but the fact
-darling. Without you, our whole fami- of it in 'our lives at this moment in hisIy's extinct." (Bentley's backhanded
tory requires more than trips totribute, perhaps, to family values).
Balducci's or MoMA or the Met toGerman Requiem is not a perfectsoothe our pain and widen our capaciplay, nor is its production without seri- ty for action. The Art Lover is like hear~, ous ,flaws. Yet its fmal scene lingers in iog someone 'cry when you can't tell
the mind, and that can't happen if at where, the sound is coming from, andleas.t .some of what's come before
even if you do discover the source;hasn't been done right. The mere fact you aren't reaIiy sure if you should dothat it is actually about something
anything about it. Sometimes it is best
makes it worthwhile. So does the fact to ay in private. T
that it is the product of one of ourmost valuable-and
therefore often I
I
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I story, Aninius gets wooed by the networks for his fag-baiting, and injustice
BmYfrom ..... &&,_ prevails. Cruse gives Animus a lesbian/daughter named Shirley, who tries toments with new zeal: Alyson's bass, come out to stop his crusade. But, Bitzi's keyboards and even Amy's cello, Animus is too busy to, listen. Frustrated,
playing have become more integrated, 'Shirley exits his studio and runs into awith intensity and nuance that give ,gay pride parade. Het indecision fairly
Betty true staying po.wer. The energy shrieks as ,Shirley considers joining thelevel has been upped a notch, fmally anny cif lqvers. The uplifting message:
reachin8. a point that could translate to The battle may be lost, but the war justdisk (attention A&R 'types). As for the' gained another foot soldier. Wendel
drum machine, I wouldn't be surprised
Comtx #1, as with Cruse~s otherif they picked up a real live drummer endearing, humanistic works, is a
in .the not-too-distant future. T
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activism, whether it's from a radical standpoint or a conservative one, they maketion gets to the µlay'or. I think the media better decisions when they have as much
has a lot to do with misconceptions. I am information as possible. I want the officethe conduit. I give the information and my , to be accessible; I want to be accessible.
opinions to the 'mayor. I ;Usohave to comJB: What are your goals as director?
municate to the community what limita, 'MIl: My immediate short-term goals
tions there may be. An example: If we are for the lesbian and gay community to
Wllnt housing,' and tqe city budget truly have ~ safe Gat Pride Month. Gay-bashdoes not allow for new housing, what we ing is rising at an alarming rate. It is myneed to do is look at the present services goal to figure out how to offset thisand figure out how withiil the, structure
trend, especially du~ing the month of
th~y can be more effective. This is not to June.. I want to establish contact withsay that people shouldn't ask' for housing,institutions and organizations within the, but 'if I, as an inside person, know that community, assess their needs and funchousing at this time is not possible, then I tions and figure out how we can work
, need to figure out a way to still help move together to continue the growth of thethe struggle along.
organizations and the visibility of the
JB: So, you would take the informa- community at large.
tion of, let's say, J:..Cf UP and present it in
My midrange goals include the rea more palatable way?
establishment of the PoliCeCouncil. Again,
MIl: I think ACf UP knows how towith the rise of violence against lesbians
say what they need to say. I respect what and gay~, we must have, people whothey have to say. I don't always agree with directly deal with this issue. I see this hap-'wnat they do. But then I don't always
pening within the next three to six months.
agree with Mrican-American Wimmin
My long-term goals include the creeither. It is not my role to tell anyone how ation and distribution of the service directo conduct their, political life. It is my role , tory. To continue and expand IllY testing
to give them irlf'ormation' to help them and support. To create a diverse, advisory
make decisions. I don't want to run
council that will help me to develop opin~
around the city putting out fires. As a ther- ions on issues of concern to the COrDmU,apist, ~t's not how I work. People come , nity. In the next two yeaTS I· want theto me in crisis..I qeal with the crisis and I office to facilitate and/or co;:.sponsor
help to'look at the possibilities, but I do forums, trairiings and conferences thatnot make decisions for people. I believe will address and sensitize city employeesthat however people approach th~ir
to lesbian and gay issues, AIDS and the

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problems of our youth, to name a few
examples. I want to work with Mental
Health Commissioner Dr. Billy Jones todeal with the psychological issues related
to IllY infection. And I want to work with
Health Commissioner Dr. Meyers, who in
my brief encounters with him has beenvery receptive, in developing multicultural, multilingual AIDS and healthmaintenance materials.
This is just a start. Once I take office[onJune 14] I will better assess what I cando within the budgetary restraints, andmove forward.
JB: Marjorie, any last words?
MIl: I woula like to say a few things:
First of all, I think Lee Hudson should be
congratulated and applauded for, the job
she did. She came into thiS as a liaison,' andwas later made a director. She-<did an
exemplary job of making this office a
viable resource for the mayor and the community. I thank her for being willing to be
the-first and setting such high standards.
I would also Jike to thank the community, for their support. I have receivCdphone calls from people saying, "If I
knewyou were ap1l'lyingfor the position,
I would have written a letter or made aphone call in support." EverYone's support has been overwhelming.
I am very optimistic! I like a challenge
and I honestly believe that I au,:t make an
impact on city policies regarding-gays andlesbians. I also believe that I can make apositive impact on the community.T~pre~ing ourselves about the record:call, don't, think I'm avoiding ~ou or
It's the first time we've taken our logos lµlything like that. I'm going away, to'Lake
Arrowhead. So 'don't think I don't'Yfbte that over-the-top column railing off a record.", "Bryn, I'd like to speak to Mr. want to talk to you, or something.
ai Geffen - the column which,Geffen himself. I'd like to discuss
Now, Mike, is there anything else I canaccording to' Kevin),Sessums at Vanity
things that are of a more personal
do for you? ...Well, then, I'll speak to, Fair, had people calling Geffen's officenature a~d the contradiction inherent'you soon. Good talking to you.""with threats of bombings and evendeath." Now, suddenly, things havein all of this. ",nceagain, I put a call in to,changed over at the Geffen PR office.
"Well, Mike, he's not talking to any
Annie Leibovitz.
press right now - and it's not just you.
"Hi, Mike, How are you?" Bryn
"Annie Leibovitz," ~d a voire.
cheerily greeted me Oh the telephone. ' r really want you to know that, really. _,"()}I,~s
1lIIS fDEFU""What can I'do for you?" (To IX: hon- It's all of the press. He just really"No this is the service. Would you, est, I liked her ,better when she was doesn't want to speak at this timen;isty.).
about anything."'
like to leave a message?""Uh...No, I'll call bacK.""But, Bryn, there's one question I'd"Well, Bryn, I'd like to know why \like you to ask Mr. Geffen for me."Mr. Geffen is di;;tributing such a homoarry Diller's PR flack turned
phobe like Andrew Dice ciay?""Sure."
out to be a really nice sweet"I'd like how, as a gay man, he"Well, you see, Mike, "'Ie are con_
guy named Dennis Petros key. I
tractually bound to distribute all Def qmld justify all of this. ""Oh ...well ...as I said, he's not talk- told him that I wanted to speak to Mr.
American records. That contract was
signed with 'that label a long time ago. ing to the press. I mean, I'll speak to Diller regarding Andrew Dice Clay andhis homophobic,' sexist, racist act. I
We simply have to do it. But the , him and see, and I'll ask, but really
Geffen name' does not appear on the he's not talking right now. And riow if 'infonn~ him that I wanted to flOd out
you don't hear from me, don't worry. from Mr. Diller - who'd given Dice
Andrew Dice Clay recording. I guessdeal - what,that'~ our', protest. It's oUl: way' of And if,I'm not ,here on Thursday, if you , Clay a three-picture
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he thought of Dice Clay.
t a~ut this point I began wonDennis called me back ,a few times todering about Tina Brown, thelet me know that he was trying to track ...;...
heterosexual woman in power
down Diller in meetings. He se,emed to who sits calmly in the eye of the ,storm,
genuinely think Diller would wantlooking into her crystal ball and mapspeak to me. Thenword came down-from above,and,Dennis passed it on:"Mr. Diller was not,quoted correctly in
Vanity Fair as relates
to ,Andrew Dice Clay
and, as a consequence, has no comment' to make [regarding Dice Clay]."(Colacello could not
be reached again atpress time 'to comSoltiSrs
ment on this.)\This was com-'3
pletely out of left field. I wasn't evenping out her trip to Hollywood. (Isn't
talking about Vanity FaIr. And all that this a really twisted stbry?) What could
Colacello wrote in the article regarding
she have to say? I wanted so much to
Diller was that Diller "said he doesn;ttalk to her and get her take on all this.
fmd [Dice Clay'S] comedy offensive." , But, of course, I phoned there several
So now what was self-loathing Diller times, and, as always in the past, shesaying? That the quote was wrong?
refused to take my calls.
1b.at he does find the comedian offen'
siv~
ice Clay's manager, Sandy
My, how the mighty cower.
Gailin, deflected my phone
Suddenly Geffen - who, in the past,_calls to SoIters,
Roskinsteadfastly stood by his homophobic
Friedman, Dice Clay's publicity agency.
product - now has his people using
I wound up on the phone with Lee- words like "protest" and going. qut of Solters, one of Hollywood's 'most influtheir way to say they don't aPRrove of ential "50-years-in-the-business" publiDice Clay: 'And Diller is backing off cists. And it soon became evident thatcompletely. WHAT PIGS! Theseare Gallin was going to take a completely
really the sludge on the bottoD;l,of the different tack than Geffen and Diller.
ocean. Now they're admltNng that th~"First of.all," said Solters, guessing
guy is offensive, that he's' homophobic,
my next question, "Sandy is not a closthat he's racist, that he's ~tthat he's et gay persqn. He's a very active gay
dango:ous. But still they're not about to person. He's been very, very promidrop him - AND All mAT DOUGH. nently involved in gay rights; he gives, No, they',ll just quietly wait ou( thedonations,
sponsors concerts and~':storm like a couple of sewer rats.
events ....Mr. GalIin has asked Dice day
Meanwhile who knows how many
- which he has ,done - to delete all
teenage gay kids will get beaten to a offensive remarks - right now - topulp; all so that one of their own soul the gay community. And he did domates, Barry Diller, can make a .fortune. that. I know for a fact that Sandy asked
WHAT A PIECE OF SInT.
him to delete any remarks which were
, Before I hang' up with Dennis, I offensive to the gays. Sandy is ansay, "Ask Mr. Diller ho,,!, as ~ gay man, 'active gay person, very, very promihe can justify promoting such a homo-' nently involved in gay activities andphobe who' will incite violence? Ask raising funds. Nobody can challenge
him how his conscience feels."that statement.. ..Andrew Dice Clay's
Dennis informs me that Diller has character ons~ge is - it's a protrayal
said the last word on Dice Clay that he of many ~ifferent characters. I don'tplans to, and that I probably won't
know if you've ever met Dice Clay inhear back from him.
person. He's charming and quiet.. ..1"'Sandy' GaUin
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not a closeted gay
pers6~~ He' is a ,.
very, ~activegay
person. "- Lee

don't know if people go there [t~ aDice Clay show] and then go and beatsomeone up. How many people go
there and don't do that? A lot. I know.
I went to a number of his concerts andI don't see people running aro.und
beating people up."I_

called Annie' Liebovitz yet again.
"Yes, can I help you? This is
Kasia.""Oh, right, remember I called to
ask Annie a question about Andrew
Dice Clay and how she felt taking his
picture knowing that he was' inciting
violence against...""Yes. Annie has no interest in
answering that question."""Oh,'so it's 'no comment.'""No. It's not 'no coxµment.' Just
don't write anything.""Well: no. You see, that's not how ,it ,works. If you idon!t have an answer itmeans 'no comment.''',"Oh ...well ...then ..·.hold on."Seven minutes of de cislon-making ,went by until she came back.
'"OK. 'No comment.'" T

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two

.~ ortglnal play Dy
Eric Stephen Booth
Directed by ,Karen L. Smith
The Staged Reading will
be held at tht} yenter.
208 W. 13th St .• New
York. NY (bet. 7th. andGreenwich Ave.>, 3rdA.
auditorium.
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prepared by Rick X
with additional information fromThe Gay &. µ,abian Switchboard of
New YorkAN

CAL,ENDAREVENTS

Seod caJeadar items .. ,For more information or referrals, torap, or to volunteer, Pflil th~ GLSB
daily, noon to midnight, 212-777-1800

or Ticketron Charge (947-5850); also
from Different light 'or Oscar Wildebookstores; info 721-2924 (checks to
Stonewall Chorale"Box920, NYC 10011)

Gly Big Apple Corps marching band; 26 pm; 691-tn4 (Edito(s note: WBAI-FM,
99.5, will play Saturday's Rally highlights on Sunday, JUNE 24, 9 am - noon)
HERITAGE OF PRIDE S•• d1y, J •• e 24
Marcil dowa RfIII Ave ... , stiltS 1~,.; line-up at Columbus Circle 8t lower
60s off Central Park Wes1; 691- tn4

upcoming training star1ll soon; m-I800,
dally. noon - midnight, for apprlClJ1ion

THE CENTER J ••• 1. 7dt An ••• 1G.rd •• P.rty" with honorary co-chairs
Kate CIi .... 8t ReiIo; with over 100 lesbian/gay organizations
presenting
information
at tables; ,over 1500 in
attendance; cash bar, Center program;silent auction from 6:36-9'.30 pm; dinnerfrom 7-8:30 pm; enterta inment from
8:36-10 pm, including selected songs by
the l.anIIder Llgilt Gospel CIIoir; 208 W
13 St, outdoors;
6:30-11 pm; $35
advance~$45
door(sp,onsor
tofounder.$looto $1200); 620-7310

GAY AND LESBIAN AWANCE AGAINSTDEFAMATION B.lhli "e Plio •• Tree,the networking
arm of GLAAD that
relpond. ir1)mediately to homophobic,
Incidents and acts of defamation, withletter-writing campaigns, 'face-to-facenego~latlons, demonstrations,otherruponses;JI66-1700 , ,-HERITAGE OF PRIDE lleglstrllloe Fones
It ill avail.lIl.
for Pride March'groupsicontigents, vehicles, floats, balloons (to be held, not released), andCommunity Lottery for Five Speakers'(who get 3 minutes to addre$s any
gay/lesbian topic they wish); 691-ln4(all forms due by JUNE 1) ,IUc:k X. GoIDg Out
8ox790
New York, NY 10108 'Items malt be rec:dftd by
Mooday .. be induded , In the £01IowIna week'a issue.
,

ADVANCEGAY A~D LESBIAN SWltCHBOARD/NY....
NIw ..
__
VaI-"erI;GAY GAMES 1111. V.acOlMll', AllgIISt 411,1. offers a Free IIIfvIAc~
tIou Broc .... : 1IIIIr'II2I-1109

LIVELY ARTS
(Also SBB the dlily
listings
show{ing}s of one or two days.)for

MUSEUM OFMODERN ART"""I.
RetrospectMt. his entire body of work, newly
restored an~ ivtitIed: Att1Icone, Mamma
Roml, U Rii:Ott1I, GO$pel According to,MatthflW, Oedipus Rex, TeofBma,Pi, Pen,
Oeclmeron, Anlbiln Nights, SIlo, CI'lterbury TIles; 7~94!Kl (recording), 70899XI (offICe)(thru MAY 29)

HERITAGEOF P8IDE s.- 8t.......
.
URBAN SCRAWl Call for AIDS-related...... 8It to display "in urban locations
T..... is atthe comer of Hudson 8t Ch~
LE PASSE AU PRESENT Lyn. BI.aclll
pher Streets, every SAT;and SUN, noon - 9~' •• d RolI.rt BI.nclll,.. I.ck 8t wilit.
throughout San Francisco" during the
8th Intarnational AIDS Conference in pm(W8atherpermitting)(thruJUNE2~)',lIoto,ra'''',~f88turing
studies o~June; non-returnable
art solicited'
nudes; 69 Spring'S1; TUES-SAT. 1-6 pm;
FRONT RUNNERS NY J ••• 23 9tli! 247-0304~ru JUNE.9) ,includes posters, stickerS, faxes, ,stencila, handbilla, booklets, other "non-traAI_I
Gil Pride R•• in Central Par;k.
800 runners expected to participafe,
THE BAllROOM presents Belly, 253 W
ditional forms of vl.ual expression"
which will catch the eye of the 5,000 many trophies plus reffle; start and fin- 28 St, $15, Sundays at 7 pm, 244·3005
news media representatives and 12,000 ish at 90 St 8t 5th Ave; 9:30 am start;(thru JUNE 10)
ent/y fee $7 thru June 11, $8 thru June
participants;oanonymous and/or collective work encouraged, especially by 22. $10 on face day; numbers picked up HOME FOR CONTEMPORARY THEATRE
from lot'I Running Center, 9 E 89 St. Fri- AND ART presents Z Sa",.el U. Etc.,
thon who ·do not regard themselvesa. 1rtis1s"; to Urban Scrawl, Box n271, day, June 22, noon - 7:30 pm, and on written and directed by David GnMIIIIPIIII,
SF, CA94101; or FAX 415143,1~0B92(due race day, Saturday, June 23, 7:36-9 am; involving such topics as gender confuby MAY 30) (Edito(s warning: FAXing'or
info 724-9700, or from Front Runners,
sion, homosexuarrty, masturbatory fantaBox 363-0, NYC 10014
sy, censorship,
self-observation,mliling obscene materials to another
ItItI is a federal offense.)
pornography, the creative process, and a
HERITAGE OF PRIDE Setarday ......
23 shower; 44 Walker St (two blocks below" ,Voices. in Union Square Park Canal); $12.50-$15;WED-SUN at 7:30 pm;
NEW YORK CITY GAY MEN'S CHORUS Rilly:
J... 15 Coecert .ed D.lICe; Toad., (N;R,4,5,6,L trains); with MCs Katie CIi.. 431-7434(thru JUNE 10)
or So. of ·Te.
a till .ad Everett 0.1liliiii; special greetDallee'"; wlth,4O's big band music by ing from Owe Cartse. aRd IWln larsetl, PS 122 presents Eileen Myles' fIIIod.m
Hot uvend"
and Manhattan'Rhythm
one of thl! first gay married couples in AI( about women and men, cllnsorship,lein", I Glenn Miller style band; featur- Denmark; speeches by Urv .... 1 V.id and the impact of feminism on the coning the Chorus in a "USO" show, gue~
(National Gay and Le~bian Task Force); temporary art world; Vl(lth choreogrs"
phy by Ellea Filller, sets by Tom Berry;
including Jelle Kereltz; "taxi dancers";
JOle,1I C. 'St.ff.n,
gay ex-Navalfeaturing Tom C.rey. Joli. MeDa.ll,in the Sheraton Centre Hotel's Imperial
Academy Midshipman;, P.... Etleillrick
Clair. Moed, N•• ey Sw.rtz, Carol(lambda Legal Defense 8t Education
Ballroom, 53 St 8t 7th kle; 7 pm dancing
McDow.lI.
Aile d'Adesky, T".res.
author, and ~..
8tclShbar, 8 pm shoW; $15-$45 ($75 for FundI; Crel,lIIcII,H •• Iy. laura F1•• d1rs, J... ifer Mo.ri'ng.ide tables); info 691-7590; Ticket
Ren6, director, of Longtime Companio",
Central 279-4200'
son, Je •• ifet lac.y, D.vid L Wri,ht"
Jo..
Neltl.
(Lesbian
Herstory
percussion by Barlllr.
B.r, and S.
Archives); husband-and-wife performe,rs Rilly Dee aRd Ollie Dal!il, five lot- Fayileli. Mall-Hee; 1!,i1l1st Ave (at 9 St);
STONEWAll CHORALE J •• e 16 G.la
THU-SUN'at 9:30 pm; $10 or TDF+ $5;
membersof theA.ilwernry
Pride Co.cert, Bill ,tery-selected
4n-5288 (thru JUNE 10)community; entertainment
by Betty,
Pflugradt, Music Director; featuring
BahCld.
B.II.s, ,Fu•• y G.y M.les,Carl Orff's C"mina .Burana; at Town
Hall, 123 W 43 St; 8 pm; $12-$18; after
vocalist Catlly C.rtis, comedian S.,re THEATER FACTORY presents A,ain,'the Hi,i., Be';, the story of two older
Jun • ." tix from Town Hall, '840-2824;
Cytron, Lavender U,"t GOlpel Clloir,
afW June 9, from Ticketron (399-'4444) TOllli Reago. 8t her band, Lasbi .. 8t women, two younger women, and the0.,,.. T•• ,.

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period of transition both couples face ina New England cottage by the sea; 328
Flatbush Ave, Suite 282, Brooklyn; $8 or$3 + TDF; THU-SAT at 8 pm, SUN at 3 8t
7 pm; 7181857-0398(~ru JUNE 10)
THEATER OFF PARK presents Rolli.
Sw.dos· A a.ie' E"d, starring,Lonny
Price, with Jordon Matt, Philip C~cioietti, Paul Milikin, Rob Gomes; directedby Tony Giordano, about four Manhattan men with AIDS who have lost theirjobs and families; 224 Waverly Place(btwn Perry/11 St. west of 7th Ave); $20$23.50; MON-FRI at ~'pm;SAT at i 8t 10
pm, dark SUN; 279-4200 (thru JU~E 17)
THE NEW FESTIVAL 1990 (NY INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF LESBIAN .ANDGAY FILM) Opening Pirty May 31 .ad
Cloli.,
Plrty Jaae 17, with a Ju •• 7
Center Benefit featuring Vito Russo',_''''''''""", tile Eigltt/-. Biogrljlh Cin-:.
ema, 225 W'57 Sf; box office opens noon
for each day's screenings; $7 g'enerel/$6
students and'Dlliors 6O;t; fIVe weekday
passes (for films M-F; noon - 5pm) for$25; five general passes (any tirlle, except Benefrts) for $30; recorded program info (starting MAY 26) 966-7722;
general festivil hlfo 966-5656 (Edito(snote: for specific showings.of film!!, andfor speci~1 events, see the daily listings)
VILlAGE PLAYWRIGHTS PRODUCTIONS
presents
0 Sappho, 0' Wilde, "ahilarious to~r of lesbian 'an4\ gay life;
directed by Bill Cosgriff, ml,lsical direction by Jot! Maisano; featuring sketches
by Marc Castle, AI luongo, Claire OrlVia
Moed, Karen Mullen, Carol Polcovar;
performed by Lisa Goodman, Raven Hall,John Kudan, JoAnna Rush, Joe SpenC41r'
White; at the I'luplex, 61 Christopher (NE_corner 7th Ave/Christopher);
every
Thursday in June at 8 pm; $8 + 2-d rinkmin.; rsvp 255-5438 (thru JUNE 28)r

THE NEW DUPLEX presents fIInny Gay
M.les,
Jaffe
Cohen,Danny
McWilliams, Bob Smith; 61 Christopher
Sf; FRI,and SAT at 10 pm; $10 + 2-drink
min.; reservations 255-5438 (open run)",

RAPP ARTS THEATER starts previewing
TIIom.s M. Disc"'1 bl.ck comedy 08..
act, The Ca,dinll'
starring
George McGrath;'"a chilling look inside
the hierarchy of the modern Catholic
Church exploring such issues as AIDS,
abortion, ties to organized crime, andhomosexuality7;
also Disch'l "hairr.ili.,"curtain-raiser,
Th. Audilioll;
official opening is MAY 31; THU & FRI at
8 pm, SAT at 8 & 10 pm; SUN at 5 pm;$10; 529-5921' (open run)o.,ox.',Longtime Companion, a feature film fol-

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lowing the IIv.. of .Ight giy m•.n In
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N.w York during the AIDS crl.ls:b.low Cen.I); from 10 pm; $11!1$7with with ch.mpegntld .... rt rec'ptlon (ICem.gle Hall Cinema, 1IhAve at 57 St.
10 pm); Info from How.rd Gold.rg, .
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from D.vld, 932-3138, or Tony, 882-3131
graph Cln.ma. 225 W 57 St; 7 pm; $25; turns • moth.r .nd son', r.latlonshlp
Insld. out"; plus D.... .....,..."".,,.
with a party following, at Quickl (fre.
1111.....
t:oq CorrIer, mu.lc by B. Ro T.W.E.E.D. NEW'WORKS FESTIVAL, 8
bustransPortetion
provld.d); 966-5858(Editor'. notl: th. fealtyal boasta 17 pre- .nd D.rllng, -c.bl. TV aa it ought to· pm (II. MAY3U,b ..... r.cov.rlng Dex.trim .ddlct .nd
ml.res out of more than 80 .ch.duled
ho.u.wife bro.dc.eta
her .how IIv. BODY POSITIVE FrllI.y NI, ... ",1.1
THE NEW SC.HOOL.erlOJ ......
1 films from over 15 countrl'"
Lack DI...... A·K brlng •• lad or·from Ch.grln V.lley USA-; It th. Ohio
11INtretaught by publlsh.r.
.
Andr.w V.I.z; tonight: ••• '1.,I.y,
THE JUSTICE PROJECT HOUSE 'O~ Th.atre, 88 Wooar St; 10 pm; $10; 924- .ppetlz.r, L-S bring miln .dllhes (veggif,.pprecl.t.d);T·Z
bring d •••• rt; for(.Iso JUNE I & 2, 11m. tim.)....,......
BaI.""II;88 W 12 SWEET CHARIlY SII.NtIluli AIIodoI
HIV+'•• nd frilndl; It
Church,St; 8.7:~0 pm; $15; N.w Scho.ol 741- ud ilece,d.of Fabulous Fashion and
238 W 73 St (off a'way); 9 pm - mid·_~r. V.lez (deya) 92H18$ .
Fantasy Maska. chaired by Ullan~ Monnight; fre., with your lu.cloua dllh; Info
t.v.cchl; cr',It.d by r.known.d p.r721 -1348 (Editor: Body Po.ltIv. h....
QUEER~n,ON .......,........
etth.
ionalltles from the flelda of f.shlon •• rt.
THE NEW FESTIVALpresenta. WII._.0cl.1 event It th. church every. lit &Center; 208 W 13 St; 7::11 pm; Info from .• nt.rt.lnm.nt,
th •• t.r; .t Dy.nsen
ttl WillI/II •• t I pm; loy'. L1v" • 3rd FridlY of the month.),
Alan, 9115-2440jl1 .m - 7 pm weekdaYs). 'G.llery of SliHo. 122 Spring St (com.r
til
,,'
.
'of
GI'.. n.); ~Iddlng etarts 8 pm, con- (lrorrJUlw. DHN_ -..,..,
T.W.E.E.D. NEW WORKS FESTIVAL, 10
CONGREGATION BETH SIMCHAT' cilldes9 pin; by Invitation .nd rsvp only, ·DIKI ....... ,1ItfIfI .... Wn 1." ...,
NnfIojp.l'IctIMINtJ at 4 pm; . pm (... MAY31)
TORAH ......
EwaI ... dinner at 8:30 RAL Prods. 228a5 (Editor's notl: K.n
M.rlo. Ill ... • T•• , ... U.".I.nd.
. .'.
pm, servlc. ~t 8.pm; 57 BethuneSt
Cook tells me thlt Th. JustI~e Project.
R.u.".,.,1t ~.COLUMBIA LESBIA~, BISEXUAL, GAV'(n.ar w.1t St, In.ld. the Weltb.th·242-3900, I•• new group dedicated topm; world pr.ml.ri of 1:Nf:000II .. I•. COAUnON Firat FrIday D... , In E.rI·,
Complex); 929-9498''hou.lng
PWAs, I.unchid with mon.y.....
It ~pm;US premieres W.' H.I~·Columbie U., 118 St & Bwey (11/19.
r.ls.d by DIFFAlastyeir.)•• ,..1 .rarlty .nd NI,,,, Ollf,-plu. treln~ 10 pm - 2 .m; photo 10" drlnlr;8114A DIFFERENT UGHT'IleiNIl., ~ .. :3574, 854-1488 (Editor'. nota: Columbia'.
LAMBDA INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATS ,EI.rIIfI ... , .t ,10:30 pm; for Info Sll
ICatit Mill ... 7hh.r
UVay ARTS l
Rrst FrId.y d.nces wli condnue thraugllE..........
_ .... by Brooklyn'. leslong-.w.ltedm.",olr; 548' Hud.on.
.
outthe .ummer: JULY8, AUG 3. SEPPI(btwn Ch.rIerIP..rryI;'8 pm; free but 11m- bl.n/g.y politic. I club,. for c.ndld.tes
Itad seltl~g; 989,4850...,
for US COng...... Gov.mor, State Atty
G.n'l, State Comptroller, State LeglSlatur •• Dlltrlct ·Lfld.rs; •• klng c.ndl·
croft, NJ; thru JUNE 3
dates questions .bout fost.r p.rentlng.
MANHATTANCHIlD AND ADOLESCENT THE NEW FESTIVAL pr.senta AIDS'
domeltlc
p.rtn.r.,
AIDS' t••tlng,
Sertes' A"...,. .. ,..",.nd ~PRINCETON GALA eoc.... 1I816t for wom.n's right to choose, he.1th c.r •• SERVICES COMMITTEE Coaf"."C.:I.,",.~I 'pm; Wom.n Direct S.rI.' ,All 8ay .... lid .....1•• ·1:.1.....
bi•• -related viol.nc., AIDS funding. til. .,..... .." III MnIIIi: t:IIIItIreII,,...
It 3 pm; the only
civil rights bill; fr ..
", .. , '". C.....
,", with CI.ud •••"., I•.... , to b.n.flt Fund for compr.li.nslv.
,." II .. ··Brown. M,nchHd "rtJ/t PromIHd Lln¢ s'cr .. nlng of ""'.,.ndplzz. and .od.;.t P.rk 'Slop.
R.unlonJPrlnceton
GALA,-Prlnceton·.
WI It 5 pm; NY premiere of ,.,,_
Methodllt Church, 8th St & 8th Ave, WIII.rd G.ylln, MD. co-found.r .nd
g.y,I •• bl.n .lum"I/ ......
ocl.tlon;tINt It 7 pm; world premiere ofpresl"nt ~ Th. Halting. Canter, .uthor
P.rk Slop.; 8:30 pm; 71111384-1285
cat.r.d 1.I.nd-styl. buffet .nd op'in.., .,. ... ,rIIId ......
It 9 pm; US .
of AMm ,nd Eve ,nd Plnocch~ topic.
b.r; .t 482 Broom. St (.t Woolt.r);premiere of !lie de."....1'IiIc
8:30-9:31 pm; $35 .dv.ncel$4O door ($20 RAPP ARTS CENTER opens no... M. Includ. f.mlly vlol'nc •• phy.lc •.! .nd
It 11 pm; for Info III UYaY ARTS
tax
d.ductlble).
Itud.nts$20 DIJcIl'. TIl. C.rIl •• , Detox.. , 8 pm; sexu.1 .buse •• chool vlol.nc., g.ng.;
substance .buse. cultur.lll1ulI,vlo·.
.dv.nct1$25 door, sponsors $100; 427- ... UVELYARTS·DI,FF'I'ENT SPOKES Laav.' tor v•• •lenc.
.nd· the m.dl.,
progr.m.3575 (chIcks to Princeton GAlA, Box," p.d.llng off
Stud.nt C.nter, NYU". oo.rv.r, a.y a ....
8177, NYC 10128)
WBN PRODUCTIONS presents Lp. resources;.Lo.b
Sq. South; tod.y In ord.r to m.k. the G.m ... Ita• .
,LmIer .nd .... 1IO¥Iky • PIIOIl,.; It 588 LaGu.rdi. P!ec.ItWa.h;
by Augult 1; 923·1433 (Editor: ",any·nomln.1 fHi 58WOII2; 2!54-0333, GAYMEN'S HEALTHCRISIS w.bIIo,: the Unlv.r.allst Churc.h, 180 C.ntr.1
Dlffrent Spokes m.mb.,. m.k1ngthle
TIIIIIIt At.", It DecI~I .. to'T.k ..... ' p.rk Welt .t.78 St; 8 pm; $15; ncket
HIV AatlIIody Teat. -lnter.ctIv. work- C.ntr.1 (chug.) 279-4200 (.1.0 from GAY & LESBIAN PARENTS COAUnON . joumeywlll b.competlngltth.,gemes)
coaferelOlI •• hop to help work through wheth.r to Judith's Room. 881 Waahlngton St; DIf· INTERNATIONAL AI'''I'In Waahlngton. DC; I.. v. m.... g. with CUL1\JREWORKSINTERNAnON~ .....
tak.th.1IIt";
It'th'.'Center. 208 W 13 f.r.nt Light, 548 Hud.on St; O.car.....
, • multicullurel·.ntI-bI ••• 111 fa.
820-7310 for more Info.
St._ 3rd Roor; 7-10:30 pm; fr... r.glltra·
Wlld"Memorlel, 15 Chriltoph.r St)
tlvll, with 8eIly.1IaIIo, • ....,.
w.-'I
tloii:r.qulr.d;
807.5.
TOO 845-7470,.
tile D....
(open to .11, m.lt/femlle, g.y/non-g.y),
T.W.E.E.D. NEW WORKS FESTIVALpre- AIDS CENTER,QUEENS COUNTY DI.. ......1 Alta, MoTIle
8odI, many OIher
AID. with AagllIId tile D,
sents T_ J.d ... ·, Til•• ,•• ', ••• ,' c ... lo. of a.y I......
p.rformers; Pro.p.ct P.rk b.nd.h.n &INTEGRAL YOGA INSTITUTE-The Hotel Caes.r Augustus on the Isle La.c. 11••• 1, Dlr.ctor of Lesbl.n
G.y ·Conc.rn •• NYS Dlvillon of Hum.n Vicinity;noon - 10 pm; 71111_7IBI
TowanI .... U........
r: of C.pri.1II the .c.ne for. composer'.
Rights; .nd Mlcll .. 1 D.M.yo, A.It.
to~or thosecoll.pse,compl.t.
with .ccordl.n
SAGE Lait Ir •• cll of tilt ,Coord .• AIDS Pr.v.ntlon
Progr.hI
whose lives h.v. been .ffected byHIV .ci:omp.nlll\'nt";
plu. KnI...... .,..
S.w.d .. Thll R.staur.nt, 888 8th Ave
D.v.lopm.nt,
GMliC; r.fr •• hm.nt.,
or 11f.-thre.tenlng IIIn... In themi.1vee
multlm.dl. muslc.l·'"lVld; .t.Qu .. n. Borough H.II. Rm. (.t W 52 St); noon or 2 pm .. ltIl1g; • .311
or • loved one; 2Z1 If! 13 St; 7~9 pm; joumeythlt d.1vee Into th.itI.my .Id.:
for drink, .oup, .. I.d, .ntI' .. and .cot,
SIi; 929-11188 (Editor'. note: HItIi. Yog. live girls onltlglll (Boys TOOI)-;.t the 213, 120-55 au•• n. Blvct.• Kew G.rdens;fll; r.vp 741-2247 (Edl~or'. not.:cl......
re off.red Saturd.ys.)·
Dhlo Th.m, 118 Woolt8r St; 8 pm; $10; 8:36-11 .m; reglsterZ'Ml98-2!500
Brunches res,~m.•·ln October.)
924-0077 (11.0 JUNE 1&2, sim.lIme)
AIDS CENTER QUEENS COUNTY Zeil
ScRABBLE PLA~CLUB ....
_ •.
r ,.t L•• k
newcom.,. .hould bring. bo.rd; It th.
CHIP DUCKETThosta TIle New FeIdVaI _ •• IAw.rda IIIO.,tlO., with 'Hon- WOMEN ABOUT •••••'PI••• I..
.Hkyardl .......
oriry C.h.lr Joyc. DI.Id'1; 'honoring0, •• 111 NI,1it
It a.lckl, with
Canter, 208 W 13 St; 8-11 pm;
liar, '1:41-n:41,., with the Assemblywomln .... .,. CI.~ Hon· field Day, n.. r M.rln. P.rk, Brooklyn;-Nt, pllY, hIVe fun & h.lp u. pl.n .um· 'director •• nd .tlr. of Comfldll In or.bl. 1IeraI1II. femInI, NY NewsdlY
EAGLEBAR ...... NIgIIt """" ...
Presld.nt & Publl.her IIoIIeIt JoII .... ;, m.r .v.nts-; Dolore. 71111339-2721
Arm•• nd N.cturn., .nd the ·r.gullr'
142 11th Ave (~21 St); 11 Pili; 891-8451

THURSDAY, MAY 31

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O~EEK

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NY COMMIITEE
TO ,FREE SHARONKOVVALSKI VVOdu*o.:Arld/c./P~." of Atto,..,; to choose who you
wantto care for you in case of accidentof IIInea.; a lawyer will help you will out
the important forms; at the Center, 208
W 13 St;1-4 pm; $10 singieS/$15 couples; 71&1939-7130
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER/NY
10lIl AIi.IYeflllry..........
of "members and friend" loved
and lost, with!lut whom there could be
no anniversarY; atthe Center; in the garden. 2QI W 13 $I; 2-4 pm; donation; info
from David. 932-3138. or Tony. 562-3131

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WOMEN ABOUT Se.dy Hook Blnll.,
Tri •• New Jersey; Ana 718(729-0747
GIRTH AND MIRTH Tri. til A118IIIc CIty,
via Amtrack (GaM. Box 10. Pelham, NY
l1M103-OO10)
ALLIANCE
OF WOMENAGAINSTRACISM.A.d-R.cl.. Wor .... o •• forwomen of all races; at1he Center. 11:::11am- 5 pili; $6 more if/Iess if; LuVenia 427-4175
ASIANS AND FR!ENDS/NY hld .. 1I11III
Flea Markee; at the Center. 208 W 13 St;
noon - 4 pm; for info or to make donations. call John at 71&.1596-9696"

MEN OF ALL COLORS T-GGETHER 10lIl
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER/NY .AMlIWIUry Be,.." Be". at a m~l!1ber's
10lIl AllllWIUry CeIeIII1IIioII:_, clllfln/, Upper West Side hOllle; 2-6 pm; $25; info.,11) ..".~from David. !B2-3138. or Tol)Y. 562-3131.... 1It, with the""""Ugilt GoIpeI
SAGE s.dIy DnIp-liI in the SAGE Room.
CIIoIr. IP11tANG. other musical. poetic
attheCent8r;2IIIWI3S1;2-5pm;741-224J
and literary performers. visual artists"
activists; at the' Center. 2QI W 13 St; .7-9
BROOKLYN AIDS TASK FORCE. GMHC.
p'm; $15 (includes dessert buff\lt ,nd
NYC TECHNICAL COLLEGE LfIt~ C./edance afterwards at a member's Wer;t• ceI•• ratioI III
Village loft); info from David. 932-3138. or ."", 0., O~
diversity. with entertainment by TheT«;Iny.562-3131'/or service. 245-6366
atre Rehabilitation.for
Youth, gospel
DlGNITY/BIG APPLE AIiIlw.sery
UIIIr- singer S.elly J.ckSo •• C.ribbean
If. at the Center. 21M!IN, 13 St; 8 pm; all singer MyrI .. Dori .... Marlon Riggs'
invited; 818-1309
film To., •• , U.tl.d. food. prizes.
refreshments; at NYC Technical Col-'LESBIAN HERSTORY ARCHIVES. r:tAMlege. 300 Jay St. Voorhees Hall; 3-7 pm;. t.
.
ING FEMMES. BRONX LESBIANS UNIT- 7181596-4781.217J80H655
ED IN SISTERHOO.D JOIDt B•• ~lt
D.. e. P~rty: L• ."I,,,-, TII,.o," ,th. COAlITION OF WOMEN OF THE AMERICAS presents Wollen froII BodI AIIer~
with door prizes for "Most Butch.
ICII. sharing insights' and cultural
Most Feil1l1!ei,Most Androgynous; Most
pc. Heaviest Leather':; at th.e Center. 208 backgrounds through original poetry.
W 13 St;,8 pm - 1 am; $12 (more iflless if) music. drama; bilingual presentation;
featuring
Maria Negroni.
Aguedaincludes drink;:info 548-0135. Center
620-7310 (Editor's nate: politically eorPizarro. Jeri·Hilderley.
Dian Ha!'lilton;with refreshments;
in the Center's
filet; in 'Case you didn't figure it o~t).
Women's Coffeehouse. 208 W 13 St; 3-5·
T.W.E.E.D. NEW WORKS FESTIVAL, 8 pm; $6; 74U449. 749-0n.6
pm (see MAY 31)".'
DIGNITY/KUDSON COUNTY Mo.t.ly. EAGLE BAR Pride NlgIat. $1 at the door
Ute,..y. at St. Matthews Ev. Lutheran.
gets you your Pride Button; 142 11th Church.
83 WayneSt(btwn
Ave (at21 St); 691-8451
Barrow/Jersey). Jersey City. NJ; 5 pm;
all invited; Victor 201/43li-3269
T.W.E.E.D. NEW WORKS FESTIVAL. 10
pm (see MAY 31),'TWENTY/TWENTY presents FTM', HI.
.
NRG Te•• with DJ Susan Morabito; 20
lWENTY{1WEN1Y presents FTM', &.iDg . W 20 SI; 6 pm - 2 am; $6; 727-8841" Dace. with OJ Michael Fierman; 20 W
KAREN L. SMITH presents.
sta,.d20 SI; 10pm - 6 ami$1O; 727'-'
readi .. '" Eric BoodI's FotIIilldfln mit.
"a 17-year-old
German-black
runs
away from his Colorado home'to New
York to seek the black father he never
THE NEW FESTIVAL presents JIIStI .. ~· knew"; at the Center. 21M!W 13 St; 7 pm;
RhIi and C•• , Yoo
Joke plus$5; 893-9652
HfIIiII to Kill H." 0,. •• , of p... /on;
.Id AltlitlOII at noon; US premiere of LAVENDER LIGHT GOSPEL CHOIR P.rMMc IhIrrI,' Not:fJI",. at 2 pm; WQmen for •• ·.ce of S.I.cted
So."(It
Direct Series' No"""".",,oon at 4:15 Brooklya AIDS T.. 1i Force; 22 Chapelpm; world premieres of
St (A.C.F to Jay St/Boro Hall. walk on.... lid ~ofp... ion at 6:30 pm; Jay St. across Tillery. one block tofor I.IIrIpton and US premiere
Chapel St); 7 pm; 212/222-9794.
.
of hie- at 8:10 pm; W.lt
tlHI. W1/d 7191624-1196
Side at 10 pm;.for info see UVELY ART~PYRAMID presents Jo ••. CID.III·,WOMEN AflOUT Long Isla lid Quickie
Movie Festival at 9 pm. and Mo ••Fool',
Cd.,et at midnight; 101
Blk. Tri •• EisenhiJwet Park, Westbury
Avenue A (~twn 6{7 Sts); $5; 420-1590
Gardens. Long ISland; Liz 71enee:.2554,oIltle.'. __ 1.,(...

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June. 6. 1990

MONDAY, JUNE 4

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6

THE NEW FESTIVAL presents the world
10lIl AliDlvenary 01... of All CoIOIS
premiere of Joy C••••• rI.I.·'
Noe- T....... JNY
tine at 1 pm; the US premiere of PItIt
tn,..... at 3 pm; the world premiere of THE NEW FESTIVAL presents Gay Asia
CrocoIIIIes I. ~at 6 pm; Gay Series' TIl. Lest
af 1 pm; Boy's
Asia Series' WfftB....,.SGmIw,at6
Uvn (BoplLl' •• OHPG Aro. Aflro."pm; Ro. Peck', &t,I,. Stele at 10:15 ,..,of Ol$closwe, PfIfIItIotIs, VIrII &1.
pm; for info see UVELY ARTS
' ......,
Hm .. , Plcld......
at.3 pm; Women Direct Series' 011.,. at 6pm; Marlo. RI... • T""" .. UIIfIId and
AUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
at 8
O.e-Week Co_:d tit, P.. d.... P.,..(, R"." •pm; TlIICb I. ",. SIItIW (PfIIWIIII) at 10
CttIftA, with !!everty Harrison and Jamespm; for info see UVELY ARTS
Nelson; 3041 B'way at 120 SI; 662-4315

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P.,.,'tIX".,1ty ••n...."s..

SAGE CIIgoIag
GI'OIIp: MIlt
vhors III ....
1AII_, led by Barbara
Clark and Joyce Meyers. limited registration; atthe Center. 2111 W 13 SI; 741-2247.
HERITAGE OF PRIDE S• ..,.I .........
nl •• eetI... at the Center. 208 W 13
St. 8 pm. 691-1774 (also JUNE ~1,19)
LAVENDER.UGHT GOSPEL CHOIR 30MI .... P.rto,. ••SaCs fit De'" U
SHItDod R .. &1 ." 332 8dI Ave at 26 SI;
9:30 &. 111'.3)pm; $10, dinner raservations
924-3499; info 217/222-9794.711l1624-11~

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THE NEW FESTIVAL presents the world
premiere of C-.... I.....
and theUS premiere of R_ of PauhM at 1
pm; AIDS Series' ADNtIt I•... '-Ilyand CIItdII., R,. at 3 pm; the NY P!8~
miere of the 1969 Academy Award wlnning C-lInNIaat6:15pm;Women
Direct Series' ~/'-:fu~8pm;Parting Glances Series~ LllwofDfisi,.at 1();(!jpm; for info see uvELY ARTS,

2:30 PM WBAI-FM Lssbian ,nd Gay
HII,1th IssUfls for thll ~a preview of
the July 12 Nat'l/3rd Int'I Lesbian/Gay
Health .conference and 8th Nat'l AIDS
Forum in Washington. DC;Jlroduced/hosted by Deborah Feller; 99.5FM (tOO)
ARTISTS FORAMNESTY B..... Receptio ••• d Di •• er for AaI •• !IlY latemllti_l.
the organization that has yet tostand up. against sanctioned oppression'of lesbians and gays throughout theworld;
reception/art
previewatBlumtlelman (80 Greene St) and Germans van Eck (420 WflSt Broadway)
Galleries. 5-7 pm; dinner at The Columns
Restaurant (584 \Jroadway). 7:30-9:30
pm; dancing with champagne
anddessen; at The Columns from,9:30 pm;
reception &. dinner $3OO-S100111dancing
only $75; 807-8400, 580-3743
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS HIV He.IIII,
S.. iD.r: Be.efits IIf_doa; 129W
20. St. 3rd Floor; 7 pm; free; 80? -6655.
TOD 645-7470 (this and ,every 1st ruES)
CENTER STAGE sees Augest WllsOll',
1h I'M .. ,....
with Charles S. Dutton; 8 pm; $46; info/~$Vp 620-7310

COu.EEN GRECO GALLERY/.,oftMt I.......
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sales proceeds"go to TOUCH,
Rockland County AIDS organization;, inNyack. N¥, 3-6 pm; by appt only. 91~
4336 (showing continues thru JI)NE 18)

a....:ARTISTS FOR AMNESTY opens afit ~ Ex.I.ltlo••• d 5.1. to raise
funds for Amnesty International. the nberal organization that hi, yet ~ complain about sanctioned m~eatmentofgays and lesbians thr,oughout
theworld; artists repreSllntfld, include Keith'
Haring. at the BluniHalman Gallery. 80
Greene St. and the Germans van Eck ''Gallery. 420 Wast Broadway; info 807- . 8400.580-3743 (thru JUNE 16)
INTERNAnoNAtcENTER
OF PHOTOGRAPHY N.w Plcta ... ik.,.
lAc"r.
SerIes: Grill hry, Aefiw., iJ' slide presentation with moderator Marvin Helfer~man; 1130 5th Ave at 94 St; 6:30 pm; $7;
86Q-1776 ,"GIFFORD HOUSE HOTEL open-s K.rry
AsIItoa's
Wilde.,Irit. i one-man
play with music based on the life end
works of Oscar Wilde; 9-11 Carv~r·Street. Provincetown. MA; &10; WE.DSAT at 7 pm (also on JULY 2 &. 3, and
SEPT 2; 7 pm); 5OBI487-6400 (thru SEPT
15)
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INTEGRAL YOGA INSTITUTE Po,ltve
Ap,ro.c.es
Tow.rd H.. II1111S-I .. r:
T,... e•• dl., F.". for those whose
lives have' been affected by HIVor lifethreatening illness in themselves o,r.i'loved one; 22J W 13 St; 7:30-9 pm; $5;
929-05~6 (Editor's note: Hatha .Yoga
cl~sses are offered Saturdays.)
A QIFFERENT LIGHT Re.di.,
S.ri.,:
ErIc Sw .. _: 1h G,..,,1roose Effect.
her long-jlwaited memoir; 548 Hudson(btwn Char1esIPerry);,8 pm; free but limited seating; 969-48!iI,
MY COMRADE/SISTER MAGAZINE presents CII•••
69 at tile Pyr_d. withlive game shows, Gay Jllopardy (a test ,of gay trivia) at 12:30 am, and Strip-o&mll (where contestants tlke it off) at
1:30 am; 101 Avenue A (btwn 6{7 SIs); $5;
420-15110
EAGLE<BAR Movi. Ni,.t
Coolri" 14211th Ave (at 21 St); 11 pm; 691-8451/

THURSDAY, JUNE
, 7
THE NEW FESTIVAL presen1S the AIDS
Series' US premiere of Am1tIItIr life at 1
pm; Gay Asia Series' Nick Decicampo'l!
Olhter and Clllldren 01 tile R.,/me at,3pm; Malldy Merck"1 British Gay/IMIIIIIITV show, Out On Jlraday If, moderated
by Jim Fouratt, at 6 pm; a
B......
~Inv
CJI Wo RIIIIO'I 1m",.. ".,II» EIfbtla, dedlCICed til Bill SIIeIwood.it 8 pm ($15 advance sale); Parting"lances SeriflS' TIUd Zum KIo {TlIJd fD fl.
"'l//edat 10 pm; for info see UVELY ARTSc....

BRENT NICHOLSON EARLE sets out on
his RalllHw Ran for tile Elld of AIDS, al000-mile run from San Francisco to
Va'ncouver, arriving August 4 for the
opening of Gay Games III; pledges
per/mile to 217/533-4913, 415/861-1453'
THE NAMES PROJECT Qlih on Display
at Atlalltlc
City Convantlon Han, NJ;.nru JUNE9
1::110PM WSAI-FM This W"y Out thenternational
gay and lesbian news
magazine; 99.5 FM (:30)
1:30 PM WBAI-FM
An Afternoon'Juting: (the new name for Bffl6king the
Silence), Lany Gutenburg with an audio.:alendar of Gay/Lesbian Pride Monthactivities; 99.5 FM (:30)
GAY MEN'S, HEALtH CRISIS Workshop
un C-I ..
1ty Health Modell for Gay
Mea CJI Color: cross cultural techniquesin outreach, education, and counselingfor,Latino gay and other men who have
~ex with men; with Sylvia Muniz (AIDS
Initiative Dept., Harlem Hospital) andJames Paul Lopez (People of Color Prevention Programs, GMHC); at GMHC,
129 W 20 St, 3rd floor classroom; 4.:&?m; 807-6664 (A different workshop is,)ffered every Thursday in June.)~ENTER NATIONAL MUSEUM OF LESBIAN &. GAY HISTORY Opening IIecepIIon
for
udl'dde: ."", NYC Gey &lab;'" Commlmity, Kbrfd
I're..
a show of SO phalDgraphs portraying
NYC's gay/lesbian history, pre- and post,,'tonewalt at the Center, 2re W 13 St; 6-8
pm; 1i2G-731o(The show will run MON-FRI,
9 am - 5 pm, unless pre-empted by othera~Call first.),(thru JULY 31) ,,.,...cew.r " -.. :'~;".

JUDITH'S ROOM BOOKSTORE presents
Jeri Hlldarty, """,: A labien Romence
AcIVU ConIIIII1II#, 681 Washington St (atCharies St); 7 pm; free, but limited seating; TJ1-T.rJfJ (wheelchair accessible),
INTEGRITY/NY Eucharist of Pentecost
with Celebrant. Rev. Karen C. Murphey;
Preacher, Brother Robert Sevensky, OHC;
Program: H.. 1th and/or AIDS lSi"";at
Episcopal Church of St luke in the Fields,
487 Hudson St (at Christopher); 7:30 pm(info from Box 5202. NYC 10185-0043)

MORE LISTINGS
NEXT WEEK

Tuning In: A TV/Radio Guide' for DutWeek Readers
Information must be received by Monday to be included in the following
week's issue_ Send items to Rick X. Tuning In, Box 790, NY, NY 10108.
ME ~&.EmerIa~!iffiFifthM,
8h R.NYC lOO17;.(IB1-4!iQ(Rick X. Box 790, NYC 10108)" I"
GBS (Gay Broadcasting System, Butch Peaston, 1787th
Ave, Ste. A-3, NYC 10011; 243-1570)
GCN (Gay Cable Networ1<, Lou Maletta, 32 Union Square, East. Suite 1217; 4n-4220)
GMitC (Gay Men's Health Crisis, Jean ~riomUltO,
129 W 20
St. NYC 10011; S07-751~),
RB PROD (RObin Byrd Productions, Box~ NYC 10021;_29731
WAle-tv (7 Lincoln Square, NYC 10023; 456-7777)
WBAI-FM (5I!i 8th Ave, 19th FI, NYC 10018; 279-(707)weal-TV (524 W 57 St. NYC 10019; 975-43211
WNBC-TV (30 Rockefeller Plaza, NYC 10112; 664-4444)
WNET-TV (356 W 58 St. NYC l00I9;~)cm

MONDAY, MAY 28
Stalin: a 3-part documentary; tonight follows
his rise under Lenin. his Bolshevik activity, his fall into disfavor, and his slow climb back into prominence; CH 13\1:00)
10::t10PM GCN Be My Guest Sybil Bruncheon with a panel
game show, and Fr"nlrie LovlJS Johnny. an original soap
opera; Manhattan Cable, CH J(13 (:30)
11::30 PM Tomorrow's TV Tonight entertainment; Manh,attan
and Paragon Cable, CH D/17 (1:00),
Mldnlgllt CClV The Closet C"se Show. Clips from some
New Festival entries and still more strippers at Mars;
Manhattan Cable, CH ('J16 (:30)
1::110AM G6y7Y. gay male
Paragon Cable, CH JI23~~ AM SHOWTIME A Room with " View. starring Julian
Sands and Rupert GravIJS in filmdom's most erotic skin, ny-dipping scene, plus Puccini (2:00),

9::tIO PM WNEtlV

porno.

TUESDAY, MAY 29
4::110PM WCBS-lV Schoolbffl"k Speci"t "What If I'm
Gayr asks Todd, whose buddies discover his male
• porn mag if) his'room; CH 2 (1:00)
11::110PM GBS Out in theSO's: community news, discussion,interviews; tonight work of the Community Research'Initiative; Manhattan!Paragon
Cable, CH ('JIB (1:00)
11::110PM WPIX-lV C.heers: ·Sam's regulars are reluctant
to hang out at a barthal's promising to become a gay
hangout'"; CH 11 (:30)
1:15 AM TNT Be"u J"mes: Bob Hope plays Jimmy Walker
during a1jme in,this city's history when crooked mayors. were colorful (2:15)

WEDNESDAY, MAY 30,_,t

Noell: S-h cow,... 011VIrion lIetworb _ay
Progl1llllillll tllroaghollt tile wMk.
9::110AM WCBS-lV Jo"n Rivers: vogueing; CH 2 (1:00)
9:311AM WBAI-FM Ghosts in the M"chine: women in pop,
, with Victoria Starr; 99.5 FM (2:30)
I '3::110PM UFETlME Attitudes:
Calvin Klein (1:00)
4::110PM A&.E M"nh"tt"n (19791: the shots Cifthe city ani thestar of this Woody Allen introspective on neurotic het• erosexual relationships (2:00)
1::110PM ~YN(FOX) Rolling StonIJS Steel Wheels Tour. 18
songs from the final concert taped Qec. 19 in Atlantic
City, with Eric Clapton, John Lae Hooker, and (ugh) Ax!
Rose; songs include Jumpin' J"ck R"sh, You Cen't
AIw"ys Get Wh"t You W"nt Honky Tonk Women, Sympllthy for th, Devil, Gimme Shelter. S"tisf"ction, P"int It, BI"c/c, 2000 Light Ye"rs From Home, I(s Only Rock 'n'Rolf, the last three numbers are in 3-D, special glasses
at 7-Eleven stores; CH 5 (2:00)
9::110PM Stephen Holt Show!Onst"ge Americ,,1: tonight.
concludes Holt's ·Hunk Month" with Boys of Heirs
Kitchen, model Jeffrey Jelly and artist Kirk Kerber;
Manhattan Cable, CH D/17 (:30) (for Paragon, see SAT)
Midnight RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and female, strippers; Manhattan and Paragon Cable, CH J(13 (1:00)

THURSDAY, M.AY 31
1::11OPM WBAI-FM This Way Out international magazine forand about the lesbian and gay community; 99.5 FM (:30) ,1::30PM WBAI-FM'Rompiendo
el SiJenclo: local gay andlesbian neWi and information, with Gonzelo AburtD; 99.5
FM(:30)"'
I::tIO PM WCBS-TV 48 Hours: Crime in,the USSR, with Din
Rather examining Soviet drug abuse, organized crimi,
jwenile crime, the SOI!iet coPS; CH 2 (1:00)
9::tIO PM AIlE SW"n Leks: Makarova doing that Tchalkovsky,thing with the London ,Futival Ballet (2:30)
9::30 PM WNBC-lV Sei""ld. Jeny Seinfeld debutlln this.itcom/stand~up combo formula, also with Julia l.ouiaDreyfus and Tony winner Jason Alexander (Hal Prlncl"
Bro"dw"yfl;
CH 4 (::30).
I
9:30 PM GMHC Uving With AI09. health and politics; Manhattan Cable, CH J(13 (:301
10:30 PM GCN Pride & Prog(/J$$. news, health, spons; Manhattan Cable, CH J(13 (:30) (For Paragon, see SATURDAY)
11. PM 'GCN The Rig/rt.Stuff: media, entertalnment.advicI;
Manhattan Cable, CH J(13 (:30) (For Paragon, see SAT.)
11:311'PM RB PROD Men For Men: ,Robin Byrd presen1S gay
male porno stars; Manhattan Cable, CH J(13 (:30)
11:311PM GMtlC Living With AI09.'health and politicS;
Paragon Cable, CH.J(13 (:30),

FRIDAY, JUNE 1
10::t10AM WNBC-lV Golden Girls: DorOthy's lesbian friend
Jean (Lois Nettleton) falls for Rose (Betty Whita); CH 4 (:311)
2:30 PM WBAI-FM Rompiendo iiI Silencitr. todos:loi' :vlarnes, Gonzalo Aburto con temas y noticlas parala
comunidad latina gay y lesbiana; 99.5 FM (:151I
7:30 ~ 71Ie G6y1Jllng Genie-ShuN. MenhaIIan Cable.Of JZJ(::Q
I::tIO PM WNBC-lV B"yw"tcJt. Peter Phelps,becomes a,county-certified
lifeguard in this .,usplclous opener ofsummer rep.its; CH 4 (1:00)
I::tIO PM' WNYN-lV (FOX) Chin" From Meo to Now. Chlnesl
children profiled In 1971, during the Cultural Revolution,
are sought out by Yugoslavian journalist Dejan
Kosanovic 18 yeara later, right after the Dec. 1989
Tiananmen Square qillgreement;CH
5 (1:00),
9::tIO PM A&.E The Offence (19n): Sidney lumlt's British
film about sadomasochism, with detective Sean Connery and child-abuser Ian Baimen, also with Trevor
Howard "rid Vivien Merchant (2:30) (rlpeats at 1 am)
9::tIO PM WNET-lV Alive From Off Center. ·Cinderella:danced by France's Lyon Opera Balletto Prokofiev'sscore; CH .13 (1:30),
11::110PM G6y 7Y. male porno ~Manhatllln Cable,'Of .r.l31:31
1::110AM RB PROD Robin Byrd Show. male and femaleltrlppers; Manhattan and Paragon Cable, CH J(13 (1:00)
2:40 AM TBS SleepjJr(1973): Woody AII.n visits Diane
Keaton in the future (2:00) ,3:110 AM WNYN-1V (FOX) Can't Stop the MU$lc (1980~ You 'could do 'anything you wanted at the YMCA whln thl'
Village People made this movie with Olympian Bruce
Jenner, but I doubt FOX can show the famou.locklr, room scene in its entirety; CH 5 (2:30)

SATURDAY, JUNE 2 ,.
11:311AM Stephen Holt Show/Onstage Ame,;c,,1: aee WED;
Parago,yManhattan
Cable, CH C/16 (:30)
6::30 PM GCN Pride & Prog(/J$$. news, health, SP.Qr1S; Paragon
Cable, CH J(13 (:311) (For Manhattan cable, see THURS.I
7::tIO PM GCN The Right Stuff. med'18, entertainment, advice; ManhatIIIn Cable, CH JI23 (::II) (For Manhatlan Cable, aee lliURSJ.11::110PM RB PROD The E"rty Byrd. Robin Byrd pres'en1S
lfIale/female strillpers; Manhattan Cable, CH J(13 (1:00)

SUNDAY,lJUNE 3
6:30 PM WBAI-FM Outlooks: the first hour, hosted by Eva
Yaa Asl\ntewaa and Nicholas Cimorelli, features a live
interview with Dr. Marjorie Hill, Mayor Dinkins' new liaison to the lesbian/gay community, with listener phone
calls; 99.5.fM (2:00),''
9:00 PM WCBS-lV Tony Awards; CH 2 (3:00)
11:30 PM GCN Men & Films: male erotica; Manhattan
Cable, CH J/23 (:30) .

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EVERY.

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CHANNELJ (23)THUII8DAV.
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. In._ RI.ht .,idf ', ~,Naming '~ames.,' '. All About Women-Media Watch• Staying Out,• Around the Country• Razor Sharp

C?ntroversy at the Fund f~r t1uman
Dignity (the volunteers stnke back)Hosted by Andy Humm
" Rebecca Lewin interviews Patty White of
Gay/Les~lan Film Festival '.
, FQot8ge from "Stayi~g Healthy," ,',~- ..
a forum featuring Dr: Anthony"Fa\lci, , .'~',.; ,director ~f NIAID":'" , "... ,"PRIDE & PROGRESS AIRS ON
PARAGON CABLE CHANNEL J (23) ON
SATURDAYS FROM 6:30 TO 7:30 PM, .UNDAV.

11:30 pm

Reviews of male erotica along with
Intervle,ws behind the scenes with film

Interview with Lee Baldwin. Lee Baldwin in "The Jehova ' ~"', 'stars

Witness'!
, '\Reviews of ,~ForSileby Owners", and "First MateH~.

Sybil Brunch.on hosts a panel
game show with surprise guests.
Secret P.ulons An original gay
soap opera.

Opening night at New Jimmy's of
Stonewall Place and at Quickl

MONDAY.
\

10:00 pm

Gay Cable Network
32.Unlon Square East, Suite 1217
, New York, NY 10003 ,I'(g12) 477-4220
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Monday
Private Eyes (lI1Iarc' Berkley's Kool Komradsw/ Razor Sharp & $trippers;
preppies 'and guppiesl '2 W 21 Sf, club 200-7n2'

Tuesday,- "*Love Mechill81LanyTee & Lahoma Van Zandt, young & exotic crowdl
860 Bway, at 17 st; 254-4005

Wednesday,*B .... r Deys (primarily gay men of colorl316 W 49 St (8t9 Avesl; 245-8925
Private Eyes (Jeffrer Sanker & Dallas's Club Bad; many preppies and) gup~iesl12 W 2 Sf, btwn 5thI6th Aves; 2OO-m2-Pyramid (Les Simpson's My Sister/Comrade party, starts June 61101
Avenue A, btwn 6{7 Streets; 420-1590
Silver Uning (2-4-1 drinks, also open Tues-Sun, women SATI175 CherryLa., Floral Pk, LI; 5161;i5f9641
S1uIz (241 mncs, also open daittl2DZWesIchestar Ave, White Plai1s;914'161-3100

Thursday",Friday*BoyBer (sTudents & local East Village crowd I 151/2 St Marks PI., btwn
2nd/3rd Aves; 674-7959,,
Columbia Dences (1st Friday o,f every month, including summer, next isJune 11116th St & Bway; 854-3574 days
419419 N. Highway, Southampton, LI; 516/283-5001-La Pelece de Beeule (Larry Tee & Lahoma; straight, gay, TVs, tourists,club kids). 34 E 18 Sf, off 5th Ave; 228-8009
Octagon (primarily gay men of colorl555 W 33 St; 947-040(r.
Private EYes (manypr8JJliesandg~)12W21
St.btwn5llVlti1Aves;D-7772*Oaickl (Scott Currie! Panty Girdfes;TVs, straights, gaysl6 Hubert St (onHudson, 5 blocks below Canall; 925-2442,
Reds rdrink free 10 pm - 1 am-; also open THU; women SATI6096 Jericho Tpke, Commack, LI; 516,1543-4740

,"

','

Barefoot Boogie Ismoke & alcohol freel434 6th Ave (btwn 9{10 SlsI; 832-6759*BoyBer 151/2 St Marks Place, btwn 2nd/3rd Aves; 674-7959"
The Celller Dences (2nd and 4th Saturdaysl are on hiatus unbl nextfaO;620-7310 "Columbia Dences (3rd Saturdays, Same But Different Dance, ,June 161
116 & B'way, 10 pm - 3 am; Info 629-1989'
419419 N. Highway, Southampton, LI; 516/283-5001
Girth end Mirth Club at the Center (3rd Saturdays, heavy men & theiradmirersl208 W 13 St; 620-7310.... 'P"'~de Beeule (Larry Tee & Lahoma, mixed straight/gay, started
5112134 E 18 St; 228-8009*Mers (Keoki's Drop Lounge, floor varies; small eclectic crowd: TVs,
Asians, hi-tech music fans) 13 St& West Side Hwy; 691-6262
Private Eyes (Jeffrey Sanker & Dallas's Club Bad; many preppies & guppiesl12 W 21 Sf, btwn 5th/6th Aves; 206-7n2'*Roxy (mixed gay/straight/TVs/clubkids; door can be mobbeil:after 12)
515W18St(btwn
10/11 Avesl;645-5156.
Sound Feclory (mixed gay/straight, Acid House, no alcoholl530 W 27 St(btwn 10th111thAvesl;643-0728', ,Twenty/l'lN8IIty (FTM's Evening 01Dance, catering to the Saint crowd, 10
pm, $10; started May 26120W 20 St; 727-8841'

sundal,"'Every Niaht I,or _Imostl

MOnster ('1v'est VilTigelSObrove St at Sheridan~q.; 924-3557
Spectrum (closed Mon & Tue, WED free, THU free & 2-4-1 drinks, FRI
mlf strif,pers, SAT guest stars, SUN live show & free 9-10 pm" Coorsserved S0264th St@8thAve, Bay Ridge, Bklyn; 7181238-821"-Zest (was Club 43.( to be gay on special mghts; June 6 opening; call for, intollOS W 43 O}t;354-7348

DANCING OUT for WOMEN' Tuesday'.,
St Marks Place,*Boyber(BoyBarlleauties
new wave drag showl,151/2
btwn 2ndl3rd Aves; 674-7959-Copecaliene (last Thu. of the month Susanne Bartsch party, next is May
31; iffy doorl1 0 E 60 St, at Fifth Ave; 755-6010
Excelibur ($1 drinks, also open Tues-Sun, women WED) corner 10th/Jefferson behind football stadium, Hoboken, NJ' 201-795-1161
Grand Centre I (2-4-1 drinks, also open Wed-Sunf 210 Merrick Road,
Rockville Centre, LI; 5161536-4800'
Hatfield's (2-4-1 drinks, female impersonators; also open nightly, women
on TUE & FRII 126-10 Queens Blvd, Kew Gardens, Queens; 11111261-8484*Mers (mixed TVS/gay/straight;,DJPatrick's Wonderland, on small3rd
F100rl Westside Highway and 13th St; 691-6262*Oaickl (~Duclcsa:1lUsdayS16Hlberts:(on1bmn,5b1<sbeklwCanaO;925-2442

Saturday-Mers (Chip Duckett's Mars Needs Men; 5 floo~o-goboys, perfonners, and a roof) Westside Highway and 13th ,)I; 691-6262'-Pyramid (Junior's Tea Dance 6-10 pm, Mona Foofs Gay Cabaret at midnightll0l Avenue A, btwn 6{1 Streets; 420-1590-Roxy (Molly House Sundays at Roxy; mixed gay crowd; club kids, ,guys,
hunks, menl515 W 18 St (btwn 10/11 Aves); 645-5156
Twenty/l'wenty (FTM's Hi-NRG Tea; catering to Saint crowd, 5 pm - 2
am, $6; started May 27120 W 20 St; 727-8841*B .... r Deys primarily ~ay men of 'colorl316 W 49 St (819 Avesl; 245-8925
The Building Club Bad s The Men's Room, 10 pm; $12; probably prep- 'pieS/guppies; 0fened May 20151 W 26 St; 576-1890
La Pelace (Michae Fesco's Power Tea, 4 pm - midnight; $6; hi-NRG- gym
hunks; started May 20134 E 18 St; 228-8009.... Pelace de Bee .... (Larry Tee & Lahoma, midnight - 4 am; club kids,
TVs, gay/straight; started 5120134 E 18 St; 228-8009

Hldflliers 126-1'0 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens; 7181261-8484
Grend Centrel (women's nijJht, also open Wed-Sunl210 Merrick Road,
Rockville Centre, LI; 5161536-4800
Usmer LolBlge (Sleta's Love Sh~ aIIIlmative 1TlJSic1411stAw at 2nd ~ '[T1-'KTl'

VWednesdav'

Bedrock 121 WoodfielO Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516'
Excelibur (Ladies Night, $1 drinksl corner 10th/Jefferson behind footballstadium, Hoboken, NJ; 201-795-1161

Thursday",Bedrock 121 Wooilfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516
Pyremid (Jemy's Girl Bar, 8 pm - 2 amI 101Avenue A (btwn 6{1Stst $5;475-S

FridayBedrock 1:t1 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516
Chapelet Umelight (Shescape party, opens, 10 pm; Coors served) 49 W
20 St at 6th Ave; 645-6479'
Hetfield"s126-10 Queens Blvd., Kew G~rdens; 7181261-8484
Millennium (Ladies' Nig/ltll770 NY Ave (Rte 1101, Huntington, LI;
5161351-1402,
Visions 56-01 Que~ns Blvd, Wdodside; info 711W46-7131 ,club 71BAJ99.!ml

Saturday,BedroCk 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516
Chepel at Umelight (Shescap~ party, opens 9 pm; Coors'served) 49 W
2Q St at 6th Ave; 645-6479'
Mike Todd Room (Her Planet, alternate Saturdays here start June 21123
E 13 St; club (Palladium I 473-7171'
Reds (women's party, buffet, burlesque showl6096 Jericho Tpke, Commack, LI; 516/543-4740',
Silver Uning 175 Cherry Lane, Floral Park, LI; 5161354-9641
Sterz 836 Grand Boulevard, Deer Park, LI; 516/242-3857

SundayBedrock0121 QVoodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516
Cev~ Cell8m (Sandwich Sister Sundaysl241st Ave at 1st St; 529-9665
Roxy (JiandJal's 7hlNuniy.aklBM!nuK:1515W18s:(tWJ1011
fwst6651!1i

Every Niaht (or almostl'

Cubby Hore (tiny diince floorl438 Hudson St @ ~orton St; 243-9079
Duchess II (sma. dance floor, Qx)/SS8IV8dI Sheridan Sq. & 7IhAw ~2A2-1G1
Spectrum (closed Mon & Tues; good gay/lesbian mix. see Every Night,
above, for detailslS02 64th St, Bklyn.; 7181238-8213

Editor's tips for to..-rists:

A (*) denotes a cluli that attracts 1Vs.
.
The NYC club scene is volatile. Canfirstto confirm pa'rties. Recent openings havedates noted, and can be blasts or busts.
'
Clubs generally 0Jlen at 10 pm, close at 4 am, unless otherwise noted. Admissions range from $!ito $15:Invites offer discounts, and are sometimes required.
Some clubs, such as Copacabana Roxy, Quickl, Mars,love Machine, Palace,and others have mobs at the door on good nightsl, and p80pl,e are let in somewhat selectively. Mixed gay/straight parties, especially when crowded, tend
to have the rooghest doors. Coming very early or very late can be helpful.
Such parties often get gayer later.
Special one-time parties are listed in the day-by-day calendar.
Clubs that serve Coors will be rioted, but not excluded from these listings .
Send openings, closings, corrections and dish to Rick)(, Box~, NYC 10f08.,l

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educational materi.lr/llmin.... for tri.1 participanta.
ATR also .dvocate. for improvemanta in lite tri.1 system; P.O. Box 30234. NY. NY 1011-0102. (212) ~198.
Publications freel~on.tion
requestad.
BAR ASSOCIAnON FOR lillIAN RIGHTS
Lawye ... Referr.1
S.rvic. forth. Lesbian and Gay Community
Fun Range of Lagal S.rvicea(212) 45&-4873
BAR ASSOClAnON FOR lillIAN RIGHTSFree W.lk-in Legal Clinic. Tuesday 8-8 pm
Lesbian &: Gay Community Centro Ground Roor
BIDS (BISEXUAl. DO.NANCE.
SUBMISSION GROUp)
Share SIM experiences and fantesies with othe ... ina positive. non-judgementel.tmoaphere. Rrst Sunday of lite monllt. 4:45pm at lite Community Cantar
208 W. 13 Str.et, NYC. Thi. group ia part of lite New
York Area Billxual Network.
BISEXUAl. PRIDE DISCUSSION GROUP
Topic.1 discussions on illues of interest III lite community in. cong.nial,atmoaphere.
followed by aninfonnal dinner at a friendly local reatolltlnt Ev.ry
Sunday. 3:00- 4:30pm at tho Community Canter ~ W.
13 Street, NYC. Part of lite New York Are. Bi .. xual
Network.
BIWAYS NEW YORK ,Monlltly socialevanta
for lite Bi .. xu.1 community,.nd friends. can NYABN for deteila of upcoming
evente. (718) 353-8245
BIMe (BISEXUAl. POUTICALACTION CO_ITTEE)
Political.ction
oriissUlI$ of importanc. to the Bisex'ual/l.esbia,yGay
community. Monlltly me.tinWpotluck
held 8:00pm on fourth Thu ... d.y of lite month at membe ... homes. c.n, NYABN for litis monllt'sloc.tion.
, (718)353-8245''}8

OUT.-WEEK ,Juoe 6.1990

BISEXUAl. YOUTH
Infonnalaocial &: IUpport group for Binxual
kidalyouth. Monthly meatinWpoIIuek lunch held
1:DOpm on fourth Sund.y of 1ho month .t membe ...
ho_ CaD NY ABN for litis month· a location. Thilgroup ia pa It'01 the New York Area BillXUlI Network.
BWS-ItRONX LUBWa

UNITED II SISTEIHOOD
Social. political and IUpport networicing group for, woman .nd lIt.irfrianda. Regular social IVIIntI andmeeting. on lite first.nd lItird Frida.,. of ovary monllt.
At Th. Community Canter. 208 W. 13 Stro.t, from 0:'»8pm., For more info can U.. at (212) 82&-.17.
BODYPDSmVE
If you or your I_r haa teatad HIV+. we off.r aupport
groupl •• amin ..... public foruma. reference fibrlry.
refemla. socialac:tivities and up-to-data natiori.1
monthly. "THE BODY POSmvF ($2!i(y8ar).
(212) 721-1348.
208 W. 131h St. NYC, NY 10011
BROCIICIYWS WBIAN AND GAY POUT1CAL CUlllAIIBDA IIDEPENDENT DEMOCIIATS
Ll.D. endorn.
and works for candidatea in loc.i.'
ateta and nationaleloctiona.lobbies
for logialation.
and conducta c!!mmunity outreach IItrough ItrIIt
fai ... and m.oting. on apociallllpica. Join us.
338 Ninllt St. Su1t8 135
Brooklyn. NY 11215(718) -.s482
CIRCLE OF MORE UGHT
Spiritualaupport
lind lI1aring in • gaylleabian .ffirmative group. West-Park Presbyterian Church
185 West 8IIIh Stroet
W.d: worship .. rvic. 8:30 pm. prog ... m 7:30.
M.rsha (212)304-4373
Charlie (212)891-7118.
'COMMUNITY HEALTH PlOJECT '208 West 131ft Street, NYC. New York l0011~;'"For Appointmonte and Infonnation(212)075-3559 IT1YNoic.)
PROVIDING CARING. SENSITIVE AND LOW COST
• HEALTH CARE SERVICES TO THE LESBIAN AND GAYCOMMUNITYCOMMUNI1Y RESEAIICH INITWIVE
PWA., !'WARC. &: th.ir physici.n. teking lite initi.tive to lIok promising interv.ntion .g.inst AIDS in areap. manner. For more info or III volunteer pl....
can (212)481-1050.
CONGREGATION, BETH SlMCHAT TORAH
NY's Gay and Lesbian SynagogUi SarviCII$
Friday.t 8:30pm iii Bethune Street
For info. c.II: (212)829-9488.
CONGREGATION rNA! "ESIIIRON
Monthly Spritual Gallterings and free catered Native
lunch.on. for .IIP.opl. With AlDS.llteir 1_ ... andfamili.a. Program includes music and discusaion led
by our Rabbis. CaU (212) 787-7800
DIGNI1YJBIG APIU
A community of Lesbi.n .nd Gay Calltolica. ACtivities
include Uturgies and socials every S.t. 8:00 pm. at, the C.nter. 208 W. 13 Street. NYC. 'can (212) 818-1309.
DIGMTY NEW YORK
IoIbiIl1 and P( CaIhoica and friandI
AIDS Ministry. Spiritualllawlopmert.
The CatheIhI Project.
Wnhip SeMcea &: Soc:iaI-Sin Ewa. 7:3Opm-St John's
Episcopalall ..ch218Waat11I1tSlroatO~2178

EDGE

Educ.lion in a Di.. bled Gay Em!i_nt 'For lite physically di.. bI.d Lesbian .nd Gay
Community.
(212) 989-1921, P.O. BO/I305 VilI.ge Staticin. New York, NY 10014,

fBIIIE SUPPORT Il10111
For 1oIbi_ who aeIf identify es Femme. For info andn.oting timea ~ Un st(212) 82H117. No men plea ...
RIONT RUNNEllS
A running club for lesbian and gayalltlateaof .. a bllitiea. Fun Runa of HImiles held .,.ry Sat. at
lo.m and Wed .. at 7pm in Cantrel Park.nd .,.ry Tues •• t 7pm in Proapect Park.
'For information: call (212)724-Il700.
1H£ RIND FOR 1lIIIAN DIGNI1Y
National Gay and Lesbian Criaia Line
'AlDS 800" -1-800-SOS-GAYS
Educational Raaource Canter; Positive Imagoa
Modia Canter; NY State Alta Prog ... m
8118&'way SiN 410 NYC,NY111112 (212)629-1Il00

TIE GAY ARIIIWt AIIEIIICANSOFWESTCHESTBI(Tha UA)
is a convnunity baasd IUpport group formed in
Westcheater County. Various ac:tiviti .. a re planned
for lit. coming montha.
PI•• II c.n 914-3~
for more info.
GUAD

Gay. LadliuAlIi_ Against w-tion
80 Variek Street, NYC 10013 (212) 8118-1700
GlAAB combata homophobii in lite m.o .. and .....
wh.re by promoting viaibllity oIl1t.leabian and lIlY
community .nd org.nizing grl .. roota reapon8Il11, ~nti-iay bigotry.
Do you haw 30 minutes a month
to fight homoph~?
Join the GlAAB PhoriBTroal
c.n (212)-8118-1700 for infonnation.
GUB
Gay and Lesbian Indep.nd.nt
BroadeaN'"
invitasyou III tun. into OunOOKS on WBAI-NY, 88.5 FM.very oth.r Sunday, 7:3CH:3Op1J1and join us .very
other Tuosd.y et 7:30pm III become a member of"GUB. No exporianc. n .. ded.
505 Eighth AIIanu •• 19th floor. (212) 748-04Ui.
GAY. WBIAN HEALTH CONCERNS
An office of lite NYC D.pt 01 H.alth. provides 6"'"ages betwn NYC Health a Human SVca, and the ....
bi.n a Gay community. focUling in All h .. 11It
conceme; reaource infonnation for health .. rvicea
consum .... and provid.rs. 125 Worth Street, Box ff1.
New York, NY 10013. For info can (212)588-49115.
GAY. WBIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY
Sliding scal. fe.a -I/laurlnce .cc.ptad.
Institute for Human Identity. (212) 799-9432
GAY MALESIll ACTMSTS
Dedicatad III life and responsible SIM sinc. 1.1.
Open meating. w{progrlma on S/M techniques.
lifestyle iaallea. political.nd social conc.me. AIao
apocialevente.
apoake ... burelu, workshops. demoa.
affinity 'group •• n_lettar,
more. GMSMA -Dept o.
48IA Hudson Stroet, Suite D23 ,NYC 10014.
(212) 727-8878._,_GMAD(GAY lIEN OF ARlICAN DESCENT)
80 Va rick Stroet, NYC 10013 a aupport group of eay
Man of African Desc.nt dsdicatod to con.ciouan ... r.ising .nd lit. development of lit. Lesbian and Gay
Community. GMAD is inclusiv. of Afric.n. AfricanAmerican. Caribbean and HispanicJ\..tino men 01
color. Meetings.re
held. weekly. on Fridays. For
more infonnation. can 718-802-0182.
GAY IlEN"S HEAlTH CRISIS H01UNE
FOR INFORMATION ON SAltA SEX AND HIV-RELATED HEALTH SERVICES, AND FOR INFORMAnON ON
ONE- nME, WALK-IN AIDS COUNSEUNG SERVICES
212....
212..... 7471 TDD (For'" Haari .........
)
Mon.-Fri. 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sat 12:00 to 3.110

1IIII11I.11!1T11 CWB OF NEW YOII
Soci.1 club for heavy, chubby gay man &.1IIair .dmir..... Monthly .oci.l. at 1IIe "Canter", weeldy bar, nighta Thu~day. .t1lle "chel~a Tranlf.r", monthly
Fat Apple Review, bi-mon1ll1y FAR. perip.IL For more
information can Erni. at 914-88&-7735 or writII:
G&.M/NY, Dept. 0, P.O. Box 10, Pelham, NY 10803.
HEAL (HM1th EtI_lion
AmS LiIIi_)
W.. kly info •• nd IUpport group fgr tra.tmentll for
AIDS which do not compromie.1IIe immune ..,.tem
furth.r, including allam.tive and holistic approachal.
Wed 'pm. 208 W. 13th St. (212)874-HOPE.
IlEJlll'AG£ OF PIIIDE-INC,, Org.niz.~ of Naw York'i Laabian .nd Gay Prideavanta: the M.rch, 1IIe R.lly and 111.Danc. on 1IIe'
Pi.r. Cal (212) 1181-1774for me.ting sch.dule or moreinfonnation. 208 Weat 13111Street, NY, NY 10011.
HEnlCK-IIAIIT1N
INSTITUTE
for le.bian and g.y youth. Coun .. ling, drop-in centerlM-F, 3-8pm), r.p groupe, Harvey M~k HighSchool, AIDS and safer .. x infonnation,
IIIferrall, p(ofeaaional education.
(212) 833-892O(voice),(212) 833-8928 TTY for deaf
HISPANIC WilRm GAYS • lESBIANS
Educ.tional .. Nicea, poIiticalac1ion, counlliing andaocialac1iviti .. in Spanish and English by and for 1IIe
Latino Laabian and Gay Community.
Gene~1 meeting. &:00 pm 4th Thu~d.y of every
month at 208 Weat 13th Straet Call (212) 891-4181
orwritll H.U.G.L, P.O. Box 228 Canal Street Station,
NawYork, NY 10019.
IDENTITY HOUSE
Now in our 20th year, we provide
peer coun .. ling, 1IIerapy referrels and groupe
for1llel .. bi.n, gay and bisexual community.
C.II us .t(212) 243-8181. Visit Ulat 544 8th Ave,batween 14th-15th Straets, Manhattlln.
I

lAIB»A LEGAl. DEFENSE
AND mlaJlON RJND
Plllcedei\t- .. tting litigation nationwide forI.. bi.ns, gay men and people with AIDS. Membership ($36 and up) inc. n_letterand invitation. 10
apecial8Ventll. VoIuntear night on Thu~day..lntske
calls: 2-4pm Mon 1IIru Fri (212) 995-8585
lAVA (lESBIANS ABOUT YlSUALART)Can for slid .. for L.. bisn Artists' Exhibition, Gay&.
L.sbian Community Center, NYC. For more infonn.tion, .... d SASE 10 : Miriam Fougere, 118 Fort Gre.ne
Place, Brooldyn, NY 11217.
THE lESBIAN AND GAY BIG APPlE CORPS
Get your instrument out of 1IIe closet and come playwith us. Symphonic, Marching, Jazz, Dixieland, Rock,
Ruts En.. mbl .. and Woodwinds.
123 Weat 44th St. Suita 12l New York, NY 10038(212) 88&-2922.
,,~~-,WBIAN.GAYCOMIAINRY SERVICES CENTER
208 Weat 13th Street New York, NY 10011(212) 820-7310 9am-ll pm everyday. .
A place for community organizing and networking,aocial .. rvic .. , cultural programs, and social eventll
sponaored by1lle Canter and mOlll1llari 150 community organizations.
WBIAN AND GAY lABOR NETWORKAn organization of Lesbians and Gays who .lIIactivein 1IIeir labor unions working on domestic partnershipbenefits and AIDS issu ... For more infonnation call(212)923-8890.
lESBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS PROJECT
of 1IIe American Civil Liberties Union
IINOWYOUIIIIIGHIS/WFfIf.
EXPANDING 1HBI
(212) 944-9800, ext. 545

LESBIANS AND GAYS OF RATBOSH
Brooldyn'llOciil
organization for both gay men andleabians. P.O. Box 108, Midwood Ststion
Brooklyn, NY 11230· (718) 85&-9437
WBIAN

IIEIISTDIIY AlCIIIVES, P.O. Box 1258
New York, New York 101111'
217/874-7232
Since 1974,1IIe Archiv .. hel inspired, shaped andreflected Lesbi.n livea everywhere. Call 10 arrange avisit or 10 volunteer for Thu~dayworknighta.
LONIISLAND ACT-UP
P.O. Box 291, Naw Hyde Park, NY 11040
Support UI for ch.nge on Long Islind.
(518~(518) 997-5238 N.... u(518) 928-5!i30 SUffolk
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGE11tER NY
A multi-racial group of gay men against raciam. Meetings every Friday night at 7:45 at 1IIeLaabi.n and G.yCommunity Services Center, 208 W. 13th Street For
more info. call: (212) 245-8388 or (212) 222-9794.
, 1lETR000UTAN TENNIS GROUP(IITG)
Our2fXI member lesbian and gay1llnnie club includ ..
players from beginning 10 tournament lewl. Monthly
tennia partiaL Winter indoor league. Come play wi1h usl
For information: MfG, Suite KI\3, .... A Hudson St, Naw
York, NY 10025. (718) 852-8582.
MDCA (..... of CGlor AmS Prwantion Program.)
Provide3 safar .ex and AIDS education infonnation
to gay and bi.. xual Men of Color; coordinates a network of peer-support groups for gay and bieexual
Men of Color in all 5 borougha of New York City.
303 Ninth Ave, New York, Ny 10001
or call (212) 239-1796.
NAnONAL GAY AND lESBIAN TASK FORCE
is 1IIe national grassroots political organiz.tion for
lesbians and gay men. Membership is $3IVyear.
Issue-oriented projects addre .. violence, aodomy
laws, AIDS, gay righta ordinances, fammes, media,
etc. 1IIrough lobbying, education, organizing anddirect action.
NGLTF 1517 U Street NW, W.shington, DC 20009.
(202)332-8483.
NEW YORK ADVEII11SING
AND COIMJNICAnONS NETWORKNYACN is 1IIe community'slargest
gay and lesbian
profeasional group, welcoming all in cOmrOunication..-and 1IIeir friend •. Mon1ll1y meetings, 3rd Wed
8:30pm at1lle Community Center. Membe~' nawslet, ter,job hotline, annual directory. Phone (212) 5170380 for more info. Mention OutWeek for one free
newsletter.
N.Y. WOMEN'S SOnBALL IUID
For experienced, .. rious Softball Players, Coaches
and Managelll. We play modlfast pitch weekends in,
Manhatten and Queens. Try-outs begin Feb. ll111ru
April- or until filled. (212) 2~ 1379 Janet.

NINTH STREET CENTER
Since 1973, a community dedicated to demonstrating
1IIat a homo .. xuallifesty!e is a rational, desirable
choice for individuals dissatisfied with 1IIe rewards ofcOllVentionalliving, Psychologically - focussed rap
groups, Tues., Sat, 8 to 10 pm. peer coun .. lling available. 319 E. 9 Street, New York, NY 10003, for info call(212) 228-5153.
NORTH AMERICAN 1lAN/B0Y
LOVE ASSOCIAnON,(NAIIBlA), Dedicated to sexual freedom and especiallyintereted in,gay intergenerational
relation.hips.
Monthly Bulletin and regular chapter meetings
on the first Saturday of each month. Yearly membership is $20; write NAMBLA. PO Box 174,-Midtown Station, New York, NY 10018 or call (212)807-8578 for information.

NOROEllN UGHTS ALTERNATIVES
Improving Quality of Life for People wi1ll AlDSIHIV.
THE AIDS MASTERY WORKSHOP: Exploring 1IIe poa.ibmties of • powerful and creativelifa in 1IIe face of
AIDS. Call (212) 2~&554
NYC GAY. WBIAN
ANTI-VlOLENCE PIIOJECf
Counseling, advocacy, and infonn.tion for .urvivo~of anti-gay and anti-I .. bian violence, ,exual .... ult,
domestic violence, and od)er types of victimization.
AlI .. rvic .. free and confidential.
24 hour hotline(212) 807-0197
PEOPLE WITH AIDS COAUTION(212) 532-0291VHI00-928-3281VHotIine (212) 532~
Monday 1IIru Friday 10am-6pm
Meal programs, support groupe, educational andreferral.ervices
for PWA's and PWArc·s.
PEOPLE WITH AIDS HEAlJH GROUP
Underground buyer's club importing not-y.t-approved
medications and nutritional auppiementB.
3) Weat 28th St 41h Roar
(212) 532-0280
SAGE: (Senior Action in a lay EnvinllllMllt)
Social Service Agency. providing calli, activities, &.
educational aervicN for gay &.Ieabian senior citizens.
AlIO .. MII Dll8r 160 homebound sanions &.older PWA's .
208 Weet 13th St NYC 100",(212) 741-2247
SETHIAN GAYS,I£S81ANS AND BISEXUALSFor all of ua interested in lIIaching out 10 each otherwith exuber~nce 10 spontllneously explore andexpand upon 1IIe Setlv'Jane Roberta 'philosophy'" IS
it relates 10 our liv.. ,personally, sexually and politic.lly.
Call AI (212) 978-5104.
THE OUTREACH
USING CO~NAL
HWlNG (TOUCH) , ,Conmunityvolunte8rs providing a -.kIybuffetauppar
for 1ha Brooklyn AIDS community. TOUCH I11I8tB Monday
8V8L 5pm to ~et downtown Brooklyn Friends
Meeting Houae (110 Schennerf10m St nesr 80erum
Ptaca~ lini1lldtranspol1Btion may be alfllnged.lnfo: (718)822-2756. TOUCH welcomes contributions of funds, foodand voIunt88ra.
ULSTER COUNTY GAY AND lESBIAN AUJANCE
Meets first and 1IIird Monday of each mOnthat 7:30 p.m. at 1IIe Unitarian Church on Sawkill Road,
in Kingston.
For infonnation, calf (914) ~3203.
'
UPPER MANHATTAN TASK FORCE ON AIDS
Education, Hotline, Supportive Case Management,
and Volunteer'Recruitment
ind Referral.
212-870-3352
WHAMI (Women', Health Action Mobilization)
A non-partisan coalition committed to demanding,securing and defending absolute reproductive freedom and quality health care for all women.,We
meet every Wed. at 6:30 pm at theVillage Independent Democrats,
224 West Fourth Street (off Sheridan Sq.). We are
not affiliated wi1ll VID.
(212) 713-5866.
Mailing addren: WHAMI, P.O. Box 733, NYC 10009
WOMEN'S ALTERNAT1VE
COIIIIUNITY CENTER (WACC),
A non-profit, Lesbian community center serving
Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties. Thurs night
weekly-discussion
grps: 8:30pm, for other activities
pleas8 conta ct us at(516)~2050.

June 6, 1990

OUrYWEEK

79

June

NY International

, Fri

1

1:00

Walk On theWild Side(1962)

Sat

2

1:00

AIDS Series
A Death in the Family

andCatching Fire

3:00

Sun

3

12:00
Justine's Film and.
Can't You Toke A Joke
plus, How to Kill Her,
Dreams of Passion, andAttrition

Women

Direct Series

Christopher Strong(1933) Katherine Hepburn

2:00
Mark Harris

USA Premiere

Nocturne

5:00

Westler
East of the Wall

Starting May 31st, Call 2129667722
For Recording of Daily Showings,,; 15'

Women Direcl Series
Novembermoon

6:30
World Premiere
Comrades In Arms andFlames of Passion

Only screening

MAY 31 OPENING NIGHT BENEFIT
7 PM TICKETS $25

7:00

DOUBLE FEATURE OF

STUART MARSHALL'S, COMRADES IN ARMSAND
JOY CHAMBERLAIN'SNOCTURNE,

F::;~

Sat

"

I

Tickets for all the days
screenings are available at the box officefrom 12 PM each day at
the Biograph Cinema.
General Admission $7
Student/Senior

$6

10:30

NY & USA Premieres

8: 10 looking for langston
and

ana

'

SF Award

admissionated by10

in Suburbia,

A Woman of My Platoon andLifetime Commitment

Jewelle Gomez

1'00

AIDS Series

Safer Sex 'Shorts" AIDS Series &•Winner

3:00

USA Premiere

1962

Tues 12

11

Man

Tracks in the Snow (Pervola)

2:15 You'd Never Guess
Out

10:00
Walk on theWild Side
Barbaro Stanwick

1:00

12:00

Free

USA Premiere

Eric de Kuyper's

Pink UlyssesSun
The Heart Exposed

2:00

9:00
World Premiere
Jay Chamberlain's Nocturne
11 :00

Night Out, plus Elevations

12:00

Panel: Under Repair: Moder,

USA Premiere

Beyond Gravity

Under Repair:
Cultural laentities Program

DISCOUNT PASSES

Gay

Risk Group and
The Homosexuals

Asia Series,

3:00 . Out On Tuesday #3

Women like Us andSplit Britches

Great.aritain's

Gay ILesbion TV show

6:00

6:00

Out On Tuesday #2

Di Ano's Hair Ego: AIDS Info

Great Britain's

Upfront, Her Giveawqy

GoyILesbion TV show

Women & AIDS
andFamilyValues

USA Pre'fliere

General Discount Posses
5 screenings for $30

7:00

redeemable at any screening
except of)!lning nil)ht May 31
and benefit screenmg, 8pm
Junl' 7,

Weekday
Afternoon Pass
5 screenings for $25

9

5:00

Monday, Friday
Until5PM

York Premiere

Goy Asia Series

Trojans

Filmmakers will be on hpnd to present their films and bus
transportation 'will be provided to a free party at QUICK!
alter the screenings
Complimentary popcorn and soda served,

TICKETINFORMATION

New

Full Moon In
New York,

Pink Ulysses

4:10

The War Widow

9:00
Pori; Is Burning

6:30

AIDS Series

8:00

New

York Premiere

Dry Kisses Only
plus No No Nooky, TV

Another life
• New

8:30

,

Women

Direct Series

Anguished love

She Must Be
Seeing Things

Good Monday through Friday
Noon ,till 5pm

Catalogs and tickets areavaila&le from)10:45 'NY & USA Premieres

Different light Bookstore,
Oscar Wilde Bookshop, Video
Blitz (Chelsea). The,
Community Center,
Meadowsweet Apothecary,and the Sensuous Beap(Upper
West Sidel'

Beyond Gravity andNight Outplus

Elevations

GEN~RAL,INFORMATIONAll screenings
at the Biograph
Cinema225 West 57th

21,2~966-5656, (Near Broadway) ,

10:30

10:00

AIDS Series

AIDS Activist Shorts
The World Is Sick (Sic),
SliH Sheels, Pride and·Voices from the Front

York Premiere

Gay Asia Series
USA Premiere

&. 'Gqy,;Filij1,

Festival dflesbian
Man

4

1:00
World Premiere
Joy Chamoerlain's Nocturne
3:00

USA Premiere

Pink Ulysses

Tues

Worl~ Premierein Amsterdam

Crocodiles

1:00

1:00

World Premiere
In Arms and
USA Premiere
Flcimes of Passion

Goy Asia

1:00 '

Series8

I' 1'2:00

AIDS Serie;

I Am A Man'

GoyA'ia ,~rie.
USA P,emiere'

2:10
The War Widow

AIDS Serie,

'
f

4:00'
, >Tid'A Death in

the Family
and

3:00

Goy Asia Serie,, " End;ngs

Nick Deocampo's
Oliver andChildren 6f the Regime

Catching
Fire

8:00

Fri

7

Another life
• USA Premiere

Only Screening,,

6 Th u r

The last Song

Comrades

3:00

6:00

Wed

5

With Beauty& SOrrow[andr Andre's

!

6:00

'

Mother' AtoS Serie,, Out On Tuesday # 1_; Only Screening
Great Britain's Goy/LesbionTV ~how;,!
tonight with Producer Mondy Merck
Moderated by Jim Foura"

6:30 Porting Glance, Serio,

8:00'Center
Benefit Screening
Ticket, $ 15 (advance ,oleavailable)
a new program
Vito Russo Presents:
Images Fromthe' E'gh!ieS,'

Parting Glances

8:30 Justines Film andCan~t You Take A Joke

Dedicated ta thela'e Bill Sh~rwood

10:00
Taxi Zum Klo
Tracks In the Snow (Pervola)

Wed 13 Thur
1 :00

Out On Tuesday #4

Great Britain's
Goy /le,bian TV ,how

3:00

New York Premiere

Night Visions and
No Need to Repent

1:00,
New Yprk 'Pre.r!'iere'
Whe~e The Sun Ileats LJown

8:00

New York Premiere
Meteor &- Shadow

12:00 ,New York Premiere
M",teor & Shqdaw

3;00

2: 10

Beyond Gr~ity
Night OutUSA Pre,;,i;;;-

Women like Us and Split
Britches "15

Ron Peck's
Empire State'

6,:00
5:45

Fri

14

Award

and

4:20 looking For

A Florida
Enchantment
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Sally's Hideaway, 264 W. 43 St., 221·9152

J's, 675 HudsOn St., 242-9292

Town &, Country, 9th Ave at 46th St., 307-1503

Julius, 159W. 10th St, 92~9672

Trix, 246 W. 48 St. (bet. Bdwy & 8th Ave),664-8331

Chelsea Transfer, 131 8th' Ave.;(bet. 16th & 17th),
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The Locker ~oom, 400 W. 14th St. (9th Ave),
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Kelly's Vfllage West, 46 BedfordSt., 929-9322

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29 Palms Pub, 129 lex. Ave (28f29th), 686-8299

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

Rawhide, 212 8th Ave., (2~st St.), unlisted.

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

Spike, 120 11th Ave., 243-9688

Ninth Circle, 139~. 10th St., 243-9204

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Ramrod, 185 Christoph~r St~,unlisted.

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Bogart's, 320 E. 59th St., 688-8534 ,. Bar, 235 E. 84th St., 650-1944
Brandy's .Plano
G.H. Club, 353 E. 53rd St., 223-9752
Johnny's Pub, 123 E. 47fh St., 355-8714

Sneakers, 392 West St., 242-9830.

Regent East, 204 E. 58th St., 35~9465

The Annex (to Cellbloclc 28), 673 Hudson St. (bet
13th & 14th), 627-1140- Temporarily Closed

Two Potato, 145 Christopher St, 242-9340.

Badlands, Christopher & West St., 741-9236

Ty's, 114Chri~opher.741-964t

Boots & Saddle,76 Christopher St., 92~9684

Uncle Charlie's, 56 Greenwich Ave., 25~787

Cellblock 2B, 2B 9th Ave, 733-3144-Temporarily
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Candle Bar, 309 Amsterdam Ave., 874-9155

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South Dakota, 4,053rd Ave., 684-8376
Star Sapphire, 400 E. 59th St:. 688-4710

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CENmI from 'pell. 18$100,000 over a three-year peria<!-forthe restoration. Paul Kaplan, son of
Stanley and Rita Kaplan and' a~emberof the Center's board of
dire'ctors, noted that this was theCenter's, first major gfant. frorp aprivate .foundation since, it opened in
1983, and that he hopedm,ore would'
follow.
.,', The' facade of the 1842, building,last .used as the, Food and Maritime
Trades High School, has severelyd'eteriorated
overtheyears.
S'andstone trim Qas crumbled, andrusting iron lintels have dislocatedadjacent brick and mortar. If left todecay further, the ,soundness of theentire building might be threatened,
as might the safety of the thousands
who us~ the' Center's facilities eachweek': ·",i' .
Restoratio~ will include removal
df the Center's peeling red paint,
repairs to the sandstone base, andrepair and repointi.J).g of the bricks inthe secood- and-third-story
walls.
, Existing windows will be repaired,and new doors will be installed.
Cornices and other ~i-chitecturaldetails that have been removed over
the years are also to be replaced,with the ·goal ,\of retu,rning, thebuilding to its original appearance.
The Center is requesting a further$117,QOOfrom the state for renovatio~of entrances and two restrooms to
make the ground floor of the building
accessibl~ to those in wheelchairs orwith limited mobility. Access to'thefull building will come only with acomplete renovation, which is several
years away, "said Robert Woodworth,deputy director of the Center.
Currently
the Centt;r has a
proposal before the New York State
Legislature to include the funds for,the ground-floor renovatioqs' in thisyear's supplemental state budget. The
proposalalso contains
money tocontinue last year's asbestos removal
efforts. Richard ,Burns, the Center's
executive director, stressed that nodecisions have' been made on how to
improve access to the building. The
final design must be approved by theLandmarks~ommission
if anye)rterior alterations-a
ramp, for, instance----'.lre proposed.
Mem~ers and supporters of the'OUTTWEEK

June 6, 1990

GAOfrom pell. 23
Center have written letters to state
appropriations
bill. The rules havesenators
andassemblyreceivedharsh criticism from a
rep'resentatives;
urging them topanoplyof international
healthinc,ludethe$117,000in theorganizations and are responsible for a
supplemental
budget.
Similarmassive boycott by both international• lobbying last year produced' funds foranddomestic
AIDS
servicethe ,firs~ round of asbestos removal,organizations of the Sixth· Internationaland demonstrated the strong support
Conference on AIDS to be held in San
for the Center among the lesbian andFrancisco in late June.
gay community throughout New York,HIV infection remains the only
City and surrounding ,areas.
medical condition ever to be placed on
Deputy' director
Woodworththe INS list by
act of Congress. The
noted that the Center still has longBush admi~istration has consistently'
range plans for renovating the entire
maintained I t.~at its hands are tied andbuilding and adding a wing. The costthat it cannot change the rules in theis likely to exceed $10 million,
absence of a Congressional mandate,however, and he said the Center isbut, according to Dana van Gorder,
still in the process of planning aof the San Francisco
capital campaign for that purpose. If director
conference,
the fact thatthe
all goes as planned, work on theadministration has al~~ady a~ted tofacade renovation is to begin at theease the restrictions in a number ofend of July. Center users can expect
ways shows that authority to lift themthe scaffolding to remain until about
entirely rests with tbe executive
December,accordingto Burns.
branch.
Anyone interested in. contributing to
Last year, the' ad:ministration
the facade, renovation can contact thedirected the INS to provide 30-qay
Center's director of development, Ronwaivers for HIV-infected
peopleCohn, at 212-620-7310. T
wishing to visit the U.S.; and' on April
ALPHAfrom peg. 22
13 of this year, the INS announced thatspecial 1<klay visas would by issued t9
unclear",hetherthey could be
lflV-infected peCSOI)Swishing to attend
duplicatedwi~hWellferon,the Sixth Internationat Conference 'On
whose chemical,structuremay
AIDS. '
differ subtly (and in unknown"We've spent the last year telltng'ways) "from ,Kemron.
It is also
the administration that they have the
not known
whetherthe flour
statutory authority if they have thewafersin which
Wellfero,nispolitical will," said Gorder, who
embedded
might
alter
its
reasoned that Bush will never act to lift 'effective.ness;
the Kemron used
the restrictions completely, since to dointheAfricanstudy
was
so would also lift the ban on HIVembedded
in maltose(malt
infected people immigrating to thissugar) pellets.
country.
The
PWA HealthGroup. ,The administration's efforts to easemakes no "clai~s concerningtheenforcement of the travel restrictions
efficacyof any, of the drugs it
have had no appr:eciable effect on thehelps PWAs to procure.
Healthboycott. The NatioQal Association of
GrolJp dir'ector Derek Hodel told
People with AIDS said laSt week that at
OutWeek that he wanted
to beleast 52 internationalgroups and"very
blunt"
in cautioning
numerous community-based
AIDS
potential
Weliferon-users
againstservice organizations have expressed
raising their hopes too high.
theirintention
to boycottthe"I think
that
once
again
conference because of the INS rules.
we're faced with a 'cure of the
The resttictions also threaten to force a'month'
phenomenon,"Hodelchange of venue for the Eighthsaid.
"It's' a bala'nce
for ·theI~tematioikI Conference iQ 1992, now
Health Group since we believeschedule<,l to be held in Boston.
that people should be able to, try
The d~ma?d that HHS secretaryanythingthat won't hurt them,
Sullivan usc the opportunity created by
but we, really don't have a clue
the GAO fInding; to lift the travel ban
whether .this wiII work." TanIwas one of ~ dematlds Praented to IOTC .........
walk downstairs
with police, thelieutenant called for the'bolt cutters.
the secretary by a group of 15 ACfof Congress, that objected to .the·OK, are we all straight here?"
UPIDC ~tors.who.disrupted.a
ArmY's. treatment of·Holobaugh. The
queried the lieutenant,asking if
breakfast address giVen by Sullivan last Provost of Washington University,
week. '!be ACf UP protesters -zapped~.' where Holobaugh was enrolled on his . everyone was on their feet and moving
in the same direction.
.
a speech by Sullivan to the American
R9TC sCholarship, also wrote to the"Well, er,no, ~ quipped Staley.
Aasoclation for Cincer Research on . Army on behalf of the gay cadet.
-Sorry,. the officer offered, "wrong
Wednesday 1DOI'lllng, May 23.
And in what an Army spokesman
Chanting -Louis Sulllvan, can't' characterized. as an unrelated event, the . questiOn .....
-cIJff O'Neillyou aee?,.Your poIides are kflilns mel~ Navy's ROTC, program reversed an
and other,' slogans, derItonstrator's
earlier ¥isIon to seek repayment from
nolslly entered the m~room'at
thetwo gay midshipmen'
who. were.
CONIBIVA11VE .... ~ ••Washington Convention Center anddlsenrolled from ROTC and directed to'd,Jstrlbu~ fti~ explaining their action
repay their scholarships after they came \ two who ended up voting against the·to conference' participants. They left out to their superi.ors. In those cases, resolution as amended. Both negative
peacefully after about ftve minutes, and according to a Navy spokesman, the VCA:es were cast to protest the addition ci
no am:sts Were made.
reversaIs came after a standard review the amendment on hetero5exuality. Sacks
In recent weeks Sullivan hasof the initial decisiC?tlSand ~based , 'previously sponsored a resolution on .
drawn
f~re froin' AlDS activists
solely on the merits and circumstances
AIDS, which was adopted by thenationwide for his 'ambiguous stancesof the individual cases.
Rabbinical Assembly at its 1987 annual
regarding
how to deal with the,IJke the Holobaugh case, the Navy':. convention in Atlanta ThaI: resolution ~mounting AIDS crisiS. While claiming,' ROTC.caseS received extensiVe media 'urged Jews to provide compassion andin a.May 22 intervieW with ,l& 7bday, attention,' prompting some critics tq supporf'
and urged
an 'end toto have matched the -rhetoric~ of AIDS
allegethatthe'unspecified
discriminatioo against people with AIDS.
activists "with actlon,~ Sullivan has also
circumstances cited in the reversals
The Conservative'movemint
said that he wiµ advise pfes1deni Bush . were probabiy directly tied to press
occupies a middle 8fOl,!lldin Ameri~
to veto the Comprehensive,
AIDS coverage....
Judaism between the'-drthodox, who
Resources Emersencr (CARE) Act now.
-ftledfromNew Yom insist upon strict observance of the entire
pending in the Senate.
,.
corpus of JeWish law, and .the Reform
Sulliva'n has also delayed the
movement, which eschews the binding
appointmeot' of a new· cUrectot at the .
-I. ,effect of the Jewish legal system. !he reINational Institutes of Health and has......
'"
atively small Reconstructionist movement
reportedly engaged in meetings withto the door, and noticing that there Was is a recent breakaway from the liberal~tativesof the Traditional Values . no, one coming out to speak. tp them, wing of the Conservative movement.
Coalition, a conservaUve
lobby'ing'
Staley took out a cellular phone he had
To date, only the Reconstru~onist
group, raising charges 'that he is brought with him and called theseminary has admitted and graduatedpandering to right-wing homophobes.
secretary, who pad fled to the rear of openly gay candidates for the rabbinate,.ACf UPII?,(:. also demanded that the office when the demonstrators'although the Reform. movement has a'
Sullivan retract' a recent statement in , arrived.
:
special task force studying the issue. Of thewhi¢h he c:liscOunted the results. of an
The secretary informed him that nations's two dozen lesbian and gay, HHS-<:ommJssloned study, whi,ch found ,the cocnpany's general manager was in sYnagogues, one is affiliated with thethat upwards of 30 percent of teenage 'New York on business and that the . Reconstructionist movement and seveniuicldes' are related to problems of office's other persOnnel were attending with the Reform movement. Congregation
sexual orientation. ...
a~in Washington, D.C.
Beth Simchat Torah is unaffillated.
-ftlmJfrpmNew Ycri-Have you called the police?~
The Conservative
movement-,
Staley asked.
':'.
,neither admits openly gay ,people to its 'Shesald'she had.
sCaiinary nor, has any lesbian and gay
IIAI..........
,A full half-hour later, the building. synagogues
affillat~q with it. The
Katz also said that he would seekarrived on the scene. !hen a, Committee
on Jewish
Law andadditional su~rt
from, Mayor DaVid lone Montgomery
County Pollce, Standards of the COnservative movement
DInkins, NewyOdc aty Comptroller liz lieutenant appeared.
has been studying' the issue ofHoltzman, Manhattan ,Borough President·OK, all you desperados," he said homosexua~ity with a view toward
Ruth MessUiger, City Council President
lightheartedly, "what have we got here?~ adopting an official position for the
Andrew Stein and other key political
Af:kr being told the reason for the movement. !he resolution approved atligureS who have backed S46oo-A.
'
protest, the officer requested that the the Rabbinical ~blymeeting may
havingbe'a harbJng'er of the Committee's
AnyOneto write their state activists leave voluntarily,
seriator, aixl any or all of those senat9rS already received their med4l coverage. ' actions, since Rabbi Artsen, a co.targeted by, the ,iGMHC' AVP ett:ort, may!hey declined. ,sponsor of the resolu~on, is the author, do so at: Legislative Office Building,
Assured that the protesters wo,dd
of a draft report now being consi~erednotlimp~ upon arrest and wouldby the committee ....
Albany, NY 12247 ....

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212-333-2650.

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including but not confined to how welive with being HIV+.1t will support you
and challenge you to be your best. 11fl.
hours on Tues. nights, $40 per session.
One required consult is $50. Therapist
familiar with emotional and spiritu~
issues. Call Trinity Counseling Center at
212-285-0029, leave message for David
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Caring gay male support group seeks
additional members who havecompleted the Body Positive seminars.
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ourfeelings. We meet on Thursdays in
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express
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assured.
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recorded by OU1WEEK reporter John
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Sundays, 7-1Opm, $20, call (212)463-9152..

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Busy gay surgical firm. Paul 212-517-(212) 580-9724,IIIIIGI.lIGIIIII

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good at dealing with public. Salarynegotiable. Call 807-8022.

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Beginners welcome. Conve nient WestEnd Avenue location.
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Please send photos + info to D.I.S.,866
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Absolutely no walk-ins accepted.

WOMAN AND VAN
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always in need of good users to trainothers in the business world. Good pay.
Flex. hrs. Esp. need WORD 5.0trainers.
Call 718-854-2746.

Serving the Gay Community

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Professional and Reliable.
Serving the Gay Community 15 year
Sensitive, fun people who gat the jol
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Pianos-Art-Antiques
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Call 289-1511.
Mention OUTWEEK for Special

HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FUND isbuilding grassroots pressure on
Congress vie SPEAK OUT to save lives.
Needs confident. assertive people to 'join new canvass staff. Make $15-25 anhour while improving our chances forvictory. Call 914-693-7018 or contact.
HRCF Canvass Unit, P.O Box 1723,
Washington, DC 20013 or call 202-628- ,4160.

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Growning 10 year old gay owned andoperated broker/dealer, Wall St
location seeks. financiatprofessionalwith sales ability to service existing '.
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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.
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Village and Park Slope area.
Daniel McCarthy, M. Div.
718-638-5839

FIRE ISlAND PINES
Room or bed in contemporary cedar andglass F.I. Pines house with fabulous hottub. Available day, week, or holiday.
Short-term share okay. 516-597-6162.

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2 BR house, secluded, 4 bed$, deck, 3mim. from ferry, is available for one ormore weeks June thru Labor Day. Sharealso possible. (212)255-~636.

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3 full shares available in east-end bayside beach house. 3 Bdrms 2'Baths 3
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We are diverse & eclectic seeking
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race persuasion to share unpretentious
island summer (212)873-2386 or(516)597-9253

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Lesbian Feminist PsychOtherapist Forthe
lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Community
Supportive/Ethical/ProfessionaIAppro~chLicensed (212)353-2407

Gay Affirmative Therapy'.
Individuals I Couples
Alcoholism and Substance Abuse•

THERAPY FOR GAY COUPLES
Has love become stressful and confusing?
Warm, supportive psychologists/lovers"
with 8 and 12 years' therapeUtic experi
ence will help you disco:-,er your de,!lpest
feelings apd ~utually creative energies~•• ACOA and CODA Issues
Career and Professional Blocks•

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Fees based on the ability to pay
Liscensed/ Insurance Reimbursable-(212) S~2-1881

Our innovative approach includes role playing, visualizations a,nd dream analysis.
, W.-st Village location.
John-Thoma. Alexander, Ph. D.
Michal!1 Rosenberg, M.A., M.Ed.,'/212)255-2813'"HI RAP'
Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy Th,e InstituteFor Human Identity, slidin 9 scale, insurance
accepted, call (212) 799-9432.
SUPPORTIVE GAYTHERAPIST
Michael A. Pantaleo
CSW-CAC
Indlvldual,Couple/Group

Therapy.Alcohollsm and Substance Abuse·ACOA and Co-dependency Issue~·Posltlve Gay Male'ldentity.Relatlonshlps·AIDS.Anxlety.Depresslon
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COMPASSIONATEcARING THERAPIst

Supportive individual & couple therapy byinstitute-trained licensed psychotherapist
Help with relationships, gey identity, dealing
with your family, and life i'lthe age of AIDS:
Sliding fees. NY and NJ Offices: (212)724,
7205 (201)567-2445.
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'RAlll,DOWNTOWN BED & BREAKFAST 1\'"OUTRAGEOUS BULLETIN BOARD·• lem

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CONFERENCE· With up to 8 hat guys
MANSCA~ • Exclusive ane an ane rematch Inlure
THE B~CK ROOM· Privately coded connectionst~g.

PEA MINUTE',

Enjoy NYC in luxery skyscraper. Clean, Mod,
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Welcomes Groups. AFFORDABLE Daly
Weekly Monthly Rates, Call (212)483-0124.
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and Continental breakfast For reservationsor brochure CALL (508)487.-0138 0 r WRITE 12
Johnson St, Provincetown MA02657

ESCAPE FOR A DAY
Get away for a day and meet other gay me n
and women into adventure. Join us for whitewater rafting down the Lehigh Rive r. We
ha'l!l other trips also ...Call Great Escapes
718-622-4471. 'BRIGHTON, ENGlAND
Luxery flat for rent in Gr.Britains liVeiest gay
com'munity. 4 seas-on resort, 1hr. to London!
1/2 hr. to Gatwick. 2,blocks from the sea andexciting nightlife. Elegant Regency
residence dating to 1820 w/private terraced
garden-accommodates
up to five.
Fully equipped for single person or group.
$1OO-$l50/day or $575-$675/Wk. For info &brochure contact Marc Paige at 212-2288152. 'OPEN 24 HOURSEVERYDAY LOWVIDEO SAlE &RENTAL PRICES

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217 West 80th Sl[eet(blwn. S'way & Amsterdam)
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LARGE SELECTION 'OF ALL-MALE
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a workshop for gay'men to explore,
their relationships wI their fathers
whether liVing or dead. Sat. May,(12 or Sat. June 9., 10am-3pm<reduced fee aVaila~le).31 5 CPW.
$40. For brochure, more info, andl"M8fVIltions call Ari Fridkis, CSW(212) 724-7205

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S7511N $100/0UT
Call between 12 and'1
Charles 581-3179

gives safe, slow, sensuous bodyrub.
Strong hands-built to satisfy. $75/in$100/out, noon to 9pm Serious onlyl
No phone sexl Convenient West
Village location I Call Michele 212242-4979.

DISCRETION ASSURED,.

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Or leave message at 969-8730

TERRY-OUTONLY
BOY MASSEUR
Very good-looking, professionallytrained. Young masseur who gives slow,
relaxing, sensual massage.
Mike
459-4361

ORIENTAL EXPERIENCE
EXcellent massage & Shiatsu
By Oriental Bodybuilder
28yo 5'S" 185lbs
West Village location
IN/OUT
Call Ken (212) 924-2559

HOT BLOND JOCK
Bodyrub by young stud 24 hrs. CallScott at 969-0232.

MIDWESTERN BOY
5'10·,150# 19y-o college student withbeautiful body and cute face,
available f or bodywork. Veryfriendly.
Call for in/ out appts. 10a,m-4am anyday. Also availa ble with Chris.
Damon (212)496-6710

REALMASSAGEIReal Masseurl Real Goodll DAN- VILLAGE (212) 627~2486

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ATHLETIC MASSEUR
Handsome, Clean Cut Into Wr!lstling
and Sensuous Situations JOHN,
(212)741-3282

VlL1AGEBODYWORK
Sensitve touch Taking you away
StrokeBy
Stroke(212)989-5923

BODY RUB BY GUY
Have your body rub the FrenchCanadian way. Also body clipping.
Call Guy 924-2528. :..
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6'2", 185LBS., 28YO FRIENDLY, HANDSOME.AU:-AMERICAN GIVES GREATRUBDOWN PHIWP (212)206~7138

9 years experience with Swedish &Shiats u. Fortune-ups ring Joseph.
(212)633-2698
8 amto 10pm

rTAUANBOYBOY NEXT DOOR SENSUOUS BODYRUB
Forthe discriminating gentleman John
19yo BlJBL"Steve 24yo well equipt Cute,
Cleancut and Friendly Serving Long
Island, Oueens, NYC (516)798-1753
New Models Interviewed. 'Gives best rub Complete satisfactiOnVinnie(212) 255-2303.

clients for nude nonsexual vigorous
Swed ish/Esalen massage. $45 an hour. ,CA cert ified. Gary212-228-2243. Serious
on.lylHOTTORSO
Athletic bodywork from boyish 145#
5'9" 27 yo with very muscular build
and a nic e tan line. Clean cut andfriendly. Noon to 4 am.
CHRIS (212) 254-4570

BOY WONDER
in Gotham City. Sensuous bodyrub by ltal .an boy, 5'10·, 140#, slim & sexy, browneyes + wavy ~rown hair. DAVID 212-254-

6201.
MASSAGE BY DANCER
West 14th Street location Call Robert
929-4019'98

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Let's have a great time at your hotel or
my apartment
Major New York stud.
Great face ,and bod. Dark and hairy. JED
212-254-2734.

DROP-DEAD GOOD LOOKSAND SEX APPEAL WILD ATHLETICMUSCLE MASS (LEATHER, TOOl) JAKE
212-254-2734.

RlM/MAGAZlNEMODEL
Are you looking for a hot time with ahandsome, athletic guy? Then look nofurther. Call Danny at 212-633-8355. In
NY one month only so act now. Clean
safe and discreet.

, -. PLAYGUYSCOME & PLAY WITH US ALL TYPES
Young, Sexy, Discrellt,...i{ealthy From$175.00 Ask About Special Rates (212)689-1683

NORDIC GOOD LOOKS
20 years, 5'10", 140, blonde, green. Ask
about selected trades of services and d,
iscounts.
Midtown East Location
City and suburban visits
Kevin 683-8733, 'COLT MODEL
Champion body, extr!linely defined,
handso me, friendly, a great massage.
Safe, dis creet, in/out For a great timecall Cou rtney212-877-3482.

RUBDOWN WITH MUSCLE
1 1/2 hour deep rub by sexy guy. In/
Out

MARC (212)864-0091.
TREATYOURSELfI
Older sweet man with great hands seeks

29y/o Egyptian-Very-Muscular-BodyHot-And-Horny-For-Your-TotalSatisfaction-Model-For-Mandate-June89-Manny-212-779-{)138.

BODYRUB RELEASE
Serious pro-nude w/oil Swede,
Accupressu re, Reflexology, Trager,
very sensual, fluid, deep tissue
massage by handsome yo ung expert.
Lower East Side. $55 in, out negotiable. Call John (212)475-6550.

BOY NEXT DOOR
Companionship and more from tall, insha pe attractive masculine bottom.
Open and affectionate:21. FA/GR.
Djscreet and safe.
MIKE (212)239-7345.

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my Father's
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visual loving andstrong (I don't
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allm, CREATIVE,
ambitious,
LOVING, u~at
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No bl's, booze,
drug.: Let'. talk,laugh, dance,
touch ...~outbere?1 I
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emotionallyI. (non'smoking), Top who
knows how tohandl. a 4Sylo=ewlSh ,who lovesto cook, play &meet you at thedoor In a corset &high heels.
Outwetk Box 2546
HOT SM -FEMME
28,.xperlenced
submlaslve seeks
romantic, slnglt
dominant.
exploring SM
flritasl....."..ln.
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r.Urt-c8n'~O'=ISw hlb .Is fine.
Butch.s especiallywllcome to reply.
Long-term"rllatlons~for. POB
Brkln 11240-0454.

ful, goodlooklng.
Leave hesitation
behind and. go for
Itl aeveallng.
photo and fantasy
win extra bonus
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retumed. rite:·
Outweek Box 2532
I NEED TO GETOUT MORE
sat. fun, moVl.. ,lCuba-d1vl~
LET'SPLA I
light-hearted,warm IntellectSMks frI.nds and!
or oil.,. fora=,aytlm••P. . nI/Ietter.
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DO THESEPERSONALS
WORK'
SobtrGWF

24,5'3-, 1251;

hlgh-energy,lov.
to really let go on
GWF,4O, PROF,
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WOMAN,49,
FEMME
have lOme of my
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WOMEN
enjOyth .. ter,.. seeking another35-60 for meetingof minds androl'llantlc dinners,
woman who loves
bodies, If tliernovlts + whatev.r
being In her body.
chemistry works.
II .. turns us on.
I'm teUl~ It Ilk. It
My Interests are 'You SIB Femme,
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Intellectual,bet. 25-50, prof,
Outweek Box 2522
aesthetic,
mature, nonpractical, sexual,
smok.r, hon.st &VERY CUTE GWF
and spiritual. So If
sincere, not Into
WANTS MORE,
you're looking tobareceneor
DATES
expand your circle,
games. Photo If
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JERSEY
dynamic, funny
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fun, friendship,It) ~rltUal GWF,
maybernor ••s..
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fem for Immoral
chancel Write,
but deeply
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satisfying acta ofsex, friendship andGWF·e;loration. I'm
5' w1171bs., .
Lookl~fora
dynam c, bright,
athletic, success.. .

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uninhibited. anycolor, any size, .
w.'11 have a greattlmee:rI~eachr; end a~hoto and letterat show your tru
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character.
Outweek Box 2520
ONCE UPON A
TIME
an.atttactIve 27yr
old black woman
awoke to dllCOVerh.rallf a lesbian.
Imrnedla~whll.
laying In
she
thrtW aforh.,...lf •. enev.1t
or not, thecelebration
contlnuts. Want tocome? RSVP with
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COMING THISSUMMER
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sunbathing rotating
rooftop potluck .
barbeque partl ..
with a slew of hot
bab.s. Don't missclaw s. Tell me
where you want tobe scratche d,show me where~uwanttobe
Itten .. .I'll make .
your back arch andyour hair stand on
No scrttch~stspl.a ...
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brown .yes and a
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Wiiling to work at
the right relationship'am I). I'mreal you are too.
Please take achance-sendletter, and/or PH(photo opt) to 2170
Broadw~, Suite
2224,N ,NY
10024.Lefs

JSO

COULD IT BE
YOU?
Seeking a great
guy; funny yet
sincere, romantic
and adventurous,
attractive but not
too handsome.
Knows Mr. Rightis out there, just
can't find him.
Could it be me?
GWM 33 bl/bl
6'2" 200lb
nsmking profl.
likes candlelight,
firelight, light of-, your smile. Takea chance. PHIPH.
OutweekBox
2649,YOUTHFUL &OPENMINDED??
GPRM23,honest, intelligent, very goodlooking w/athleticbuild seeks
secure, openminded & somewhat Romantic
lover willing toshare his home~erhaps in time.
eplyto P.O.
Box 1637, NY
NY 10185.

smooth. You
LOVE to sUCK,youare extremely .
affection!lte, youlove to get fuc~ed,
and you love to·,kiss. Please call(212) 549~8437
betwe~m 9 p,m. an
midnight. ••HANDSOME HIV+
GWM42
prof. enjoys
workouts, quiet
music, tennis,
travel & goodfriends. Member
TWA Weekenders
Clubl If you're
under 40 &,sharethese interests,
lefs meet. Please
send photo P.O.
-Box 325 New
York, NY 10113.
GWM, 40, 5'6",
135LB.
quiet, lonely "topman". I work in theantiques busines&-dealing,
restoring, collecting-but I'm tiredof doing it allalone. I seek aslim "bottom man"(age and race.
unimportant) who
al$O enjoys a lot of
cuddling andaffection; in short,someone to
be a friend, helper,
partner, lover, andpossibly roommate. Box 1526,
Newburgh, NY
12550.

MONOGAMOUS
LOVING BLACKMAN SOUGHT,BY
WM, 40, 6'2",
168#, black hairand blue eyes forlife companion.
You are.notj~stcoming out of a
relationship or
are sort of seeing
someone. You'are totally free tobegin a life
companion'
relationship. You,are 20's'to 40;
5'7" to 5'11 ~andslender but not.
thin. Your body'and face arevirtually hairlesl?
and almost silky,HOT SPANKING
GIVEN
on bare bottom
over the knee of'handsome GWM
6'3" 1951bs. withstrong arms &muscular legs 35
will use hand
hairbrush wooden!
leather paddleswhatever you needto get your ass red
hot anq squirming.

1040UrYWEEKJune 6, 1990

Also top for yourbOttom onto yourass. Answer thisad and only yourbutt will be sorryl
P.O. Box 1467 Old
Chelsea Station,
NYC10011.
COCK CONTEST
ENTER
Do you have a big
cock-prove it.
,Gay pair will judge
all on a personalbasis. Winners will
receive a,fun filledevening. Taste.&touch a factorsend photo to Box
697 BC Midwood,
NY 11230.
BLACKIWHITEGAY COUPLE
late 20's would liketo meet a GBM 2035 for:friendship,and possible
sexual relationship-send letterand photo toSpecial K, P.O ..
Box 697 Miclwood,
NY 112301111
A
sense of humor a
mustl
GWM,HANDSOME, HEALTHY
masculine, HIV+,
young 47,5'11",
170, stache, hairy,
natural body. I'm
intelligent, finan.
secure prof. amdvery affectionate.
Seek attractive,
politicallyaware, mellow' man 30+,formature, supportive
relationship ..
Photo, letter,phone#to:
Outweek Box 2626
GWM26 HIV+HEALTHYSTATS
6' 190# 'stache BK
hair feeling humanbeing. Loves
theatreJaughing
irony food sillinessseeks relationshipbound man to 40
who can deal withthe reality of lifeand still have fun.
Write w/photo (ifposs.) Outweek
Box 2621' HOT BOTTOM,
seeks aggressive
top. 27 y/o student
and.,activist, v handsome, 5'10",150#
brlbr likes goodmusic, good food, 'good sex. Very
good looks a must.
POB 1010
Manhattanville,
Sta.NYC 10027.
QUAUTY-NOTQUANTITY
GWMExec41
5'11" 190 BlondBlue husky & cute,
young looking!
acting, since.re, .
down to earth very
romantic top likeS, 'travel dining
movies ~uiet evesat home & esp.
cuddling & being
together. Veryrelationshiporiented & not into
bars or one, nighters. H
IV-. You areyounger (20'S to32),'mature, slim,

talk.
FATHER SEEKSSON
I've gone throughevery altar bol in
the parish an now
I want J:oUI You 'think
e Pope's
hat is phallic? Wait
till you see whafs
under my dress,
babyl Ukewafers?
I'll give you.
somethIng to chew
onl For a ritualistlcally good time,-:write me with c;o ,nfessions. I'll
absolve you while
you worship me.
Hail this, Maryl
Outweek Box 2616
SPIT
crawled along thetile floor worshipping each of thesweaty jock straps
until the entire
squad was good togo. Uhrah.
Outweek Box 2614
EXECUTIVEGLADIATORS
Chubby GWM, ~9,
5'5",200, hry

chest, cln.shv., u/cseeks well-built,
masculine guys
, under 45, whowant to act out
wrestling/combat
fantasies with aguy my size, SS,
no "real" fighting,but willing to try
any fight scenario
yoU/Vwecan
devise pro-stble, office-type
rawls, cowboy,~adiators, etc.
idtown, daylnight. PHIPH toJJ,
Box 112, EXECUTlVE SUITE, 330
West 42nd St.,NYC 10036-6902.
Manto man.
WEEKDAYBB
BUDDY
Musc, vry handsome, ~ Ph~SM,
Brier, B ,5' 0", ..-.
175, HIV-, hairychest",seeks
seriOLisBB, HIV-,to 6'2", for hot timeof your life. Def
harry cheSt a +. Yr
buddy ph getsmine. Box 306,
,Bklyn 11217.
"'GWM,21,
BLOND,ACTUPY
guy, art student!
arts involved sks
E. Village counterpart forsummer oflove + soul-mating
Nirv!lna- seeking I
Box402-.8UNY,
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NAVY BLUES
If the look and feelof the above tum
you on, maybe weshould get
together. Actually,
I can get off on
almost anythingwool-from socks
to sweaters. I also
like new sweats.
I'm early 40's, over
6' and medium
build. Available
days and someevenings.Outweek
Box 2601
GWM,40,185#,
BRlBR
and as sane asanyone else in
NYC In the 90's.
Told I'm good Iooking but sometimes
have a hard time
believing it.
Politically conscious social
wCirker,bookish,funny and just alittle bit naughty.
Have had longterm relat~n.ships
in the past andaftersev
eral years witho~
lookiilg for thatkind of connection
again. You should
be around 30-45,
aware,smart,reasonably
attractive in faceand body with asense of humor,
please. Letter andphoto gets mine.
Outweek Box 2597-... :. .:-~.
QUICKI WHERE
ARE YOU?
Hot bare-chested, blonde enjoying
all-over massage
by "Dr.Jack's Sex
Ther~y: Let me
finish what theother boys started I
P.O. Box 149,'
Cathedral Station,
NYC 10025 .. 'STARTLE ME. 26
Y.O.
6'2", 180Ibs., brlbr,
good-looking,upfront,ex-Peace
Corps volunteer.
Miss the rain forest
but love urban grit,
diners, dancing.
I'm on the look out
for a bright, hotdude who together
with me can laughand fight throughthese twisted
times. Be lean,mean, hip to 'political and social
realities, and an
old-fashioned
romantic. 24 to 34.
You send mea
note, photo,phone, address, I'll
send you mine.
Outweek Box 2595
C'MONANDRESCUE ME THISSUMMER.
Looking for theadventurous type,whetherifs
watching Sat.
morning cartoons,shoplifting boxesof Cap'n Crunchor playing,hide &seek in greater
Manhattan. If
you're 20-30 and
tired of being
good, come see
about me. I'm 20,
5'10",160, brlbr+ade vii's smile. Letter/
ph/ph#to:
Outweek Box 2594

DO THE WRITE, THING,Your checkbook can change the world. So
however much-or little-you cari afford,
please support your commuIiity
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budding bOttom
seeks studs to 24
yrs old in need of
total service. I'm
35,5'7",130Ibs,
Italian, sl1lO9ttl
cute. Shaved butt
and balls, for yourpleasure. Qµeens
Nassau area. Call
718-343-6423.
Cum stretch mylimits. PR's a plus.
Joe'
DON'T GIVE up·
Together we'll
break these
Chains of Love. 26
yr old GWM, 5'6",
135, brlbl, gym
body. Very cutelawyer seeking

OU~EEK107

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A~oid'oii~based lubricahts such'as 'baby oil. Vaseline. Crisco etc.; as theYcan cause condoms to break. Insteadus~ water-based lubes like KY.The
older a condom. the less reliable. sofind condoms whOSemanufacturers'
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young (18-25),
thif!, perky GWM
who's uninhibitedyet stable enoughto maintain acaring friendship (Iwon't use the "R~word). Let's leave
our p(oblems athome this summer.
Letter:" photo to
PO Box 959
NYC 10185
OPPOSITESATTRAcTGWM
33, bearded,balding, sexy, big
hairy belly seeksmasculine sensual,man, thin to wellbuilt'under 40. Call(212)929-8605 PS:'Especially enjoy
men with an edgel

NEW TO ,ALBANY" AREA:'BIIWIM, body- 'builder, 5'8", 195,
masculine,
muscular, straightactingll6oking.

Would like to ,meetother masculine,, athletic men in the
Albany an~ato
show me around.'Am one-of-a-kind.
Photo/phone amust to POB 2532
Albany, NY 122200532.
READY ANDWILLINGWM, 46, 6ft, 190,
HIV+, healthy,
homy, visit NYC
often. Sks wellhung SS Topmen
to pal around withand service as you
like. Age/race/ate ,unimportant if
hunglhomy/
dominant. Can
travei or-entertain.
PO Box 847
Provincetown, MA
02657.

USE DENTAl. DAMS DURING
ORAL~VAGIWAL SEX. HIV is present
LESBIANin some amounts in vaginal secretions ••,TRAPPEDINA
urine. menstrual blood. and infectionGWM'S BODYI ~related vaginal discharge.
, Young, literarY,
fun, honest, social,
4. NEVER SHARE WORKS. This25, 6ft, bldlgm,
ex-Mldwestemer
includes needles. syringes. droppers.
seeks similar or
sPoons; cottons or cookers. If you must
OPPOSITE. I
reuSe works. clean them after eachenjoy biking,us~ with bleach. or in an emergenCy
ETHNIC
reading"quiet
CHASERS/I
timeslloud times,
with rubbing alcohol or vodka. by
ChubbyGWM,
Twin Peaks;
drawing the solution ,into the needle
politics; Virginia,
babyfaced 39,• three times and then' d~awingclean
5'5",200. Cln. shv.
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professional, funloving, great senseof humor, &spontaneo~s.
Seeks stralghtacting together
masculine guys
25-40 for safe f
un times. Like
dancing, sightseeking andspending time withgenuine loving
men. Write soonwith pic. MichaelP.O. Box 329
Culver City, CA
90232-0329.
ASSPLAYHOTTOPGWM 45 170L9S
HIV Neg in great
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June 6, 1990

225, receding hair,
bit of a gut, masc,
preppy but funky,
silly, passion fortheatre, film,
looking for GWM,
secure, 26-36,
healthy, masc,quirky sense ofhumor. No
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Momma's BOys.
Send ph/ph to
Outweek Box 2561
YOUNG DADWANTS SON
Handsome healthy
Daddy 30's BIM
wants willing son
SS onlyl No phonesex. You must be
over 21 single andstable. Write nowl
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ans. P. O. Box314, New York, NY
10009.
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rent, Chelsea apt.
to share living
space or outside ,relationship with,slim compatible
guy. Box 377
OMS, 132 W. 24th
St., NY 10011 ~GWM23
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140lbs. into music;
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into East Village
scene, individualistic, empathic,romantic. Desires
20-30GM .
"Intelligent, into
undergroundscene long ha
ir a + but not vital.
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send photo andphone to :Outweek Box 2553
25 YO ENGLISH
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looking for young
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HOT, HANDSOMEGWM,
34, 5'8~, 150#, >seeks hot, loving,safe buddy, am
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07.
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Outweek Box 2528
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looking for men of
all colors who likehot sweaty gay
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NOT necessary.
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unimportant.
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5'11", 190, brlhz,
hot. PON 2520
Times Sq. Sta.
NYC 10108.

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and you love tokiss. Please call(212)549-8437
between 9 p.m. an
midnight.

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smart, (un;HANDSOME HIV+,independent, safe.
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York/NY 10113.
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