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The Doctor Is Out (Silwrstein)
Obituaries

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Out of My Hands (Ball)
Goosip Watch
Going Out Calendar (X)Tuning In (X)Dancing Out (X).Cooununity Directory
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KISSING AND TEllING
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Gay and lesbian expression under siege
Piss]esse, or SiIence=Death by Michael LasseII .
We Are Americans Too by The Publishing Triangle
Is the NEA Good in' Gay Art? by Sarah &hulman
MS EmJIy's GraOOson b't Hush 1& Momh by Em HenyhaI(fyou Must Know by Eileen Myles
Fund ThJs, Muthafucka by Richard E10vich
A Buroiog Issue by Ayofemi Folayan
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1Electing Deborah Glickt's a sad fact of New York poim~ that no open lesbian or gay
man has ever been elected to legislative or exOOJtive office ineither city ~ state govermnent. While gay power is already manifest in places like San Francisco, and while even some small rural
American towns have elected gay mayors or council members, NewYork Oty and New York state lag fur behind Thus, it's encouraging
that an extremely qualified, able and electable member of our community is running in the Democratic primary for state Assembly this year.
Deborah Glick has a long record of service, to New York. A
feminist, an activist and a leader in lesbian and gay pOlitics, Glick, has a pro\>en record as someone

who understands
the agenda
lesbian and gay New Yorkers, and who can effectively work
implement that agenda in Albany.

oftoCurrently a deputy director in the city's Department of Housing,
Glick was once presidentof Gay and Lesbian Independent
Democrats. Her electability is enhanced by the fact that her assembly
district-the
61st-encompasses-much of downtown
Manhattan,
with its large gay, lesbian and progressive population.
She has earned an impressive list of endorsers: NAACP President
Hazel Dukes, Vtrginia Apuzzo, Vito Russo, Gloria Steinem, Michael
Callen, the National Organization for Women and many, many others.
OuIWeek is ~dto add its name to that list. But we strongly
encourage our reade!S to do more than simply wait to vote for Glick in
September. She fuces a grueling fight against a popular Village districtleader. As a result, Glick's aunpaign needs active support, volunteers
and, ~of all, money. If you want to see an open, able, effective lesbian at the table in Albany next year, now is the time to act.

The Stonewall Democratic ClubOne ,of the sad spectacles of gay and lesbian politics here ~ the gay
political club that did ~ endorse Deborah Glick for state Assembly: theStonewall DenXx:ratic Oub. This strange institution, claiming a membership of 350 but in reality conlprising only a tiny fraction of that number,
has never endorsed an openly gay candidate for legislative office. Never.
Stonewall's

president

claims that "just because

a candidateisgay doesn't mean We should endorse that person." In a city thathas never elected an open gay or lesbian to legislative office,that's an absurd claim for a gay political club to make.
The Stonewall
Democrats
have no real gay agenda andminuscUle community support. They oppose gay candidates andendorse straights, because of personality clashes, jealousies andpast petty ~lights; not substantive issues affecting our community's
well-being. Theii entire approach is epitomized by "Stonewalling,"a mean-spiritedcolumn in the New York Native, written under acowardly pseudonym,that primarily attacks and demeans fellow
gays and'lesbians
working in local politics.
,
The dub's' members have every right to their opinions. It's
just a shame that they include "Stonewall" in their title and masquerade as organizers for the lesbian and gay community. Until
they start working for the election of openly lesbian and gay candidates, they are no such thing.

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:.

Equalnme
Your recent
editorial'Queer Money and Public
Television· (no. 54, July 11)
understates Thlrteen/WNET's
longstanding corrmltment topubllc-affalrs programming,
hcluc:lngthat serve thegay crd IesbIal COITlIlUlIIy.
A/Itloug'I we had to md<ethe difficult flnanclal decision
to coocet The Eleventh Hoti',
we c:Id amu-lCe at the sametime that two new publicaffairs programs
will bemws

Iau"Iched tHs tal. 1her formals
will be less costly to produce
than Eleventh Hour and will
therefore enable us to In-

aease 0l.I' weekly loco! PlbIIC
affairs air time from three tofive hours. You can rest
as.ued that these rew
will address the multiculturalneeds of the trktate cornt'rOnlty, Including gays and lesbians, just as aggressively as

mws

dd The Eleventh H<xx.
Additionally, Thirteen has
consistently offered a wide
range of programming withgay and lesbian themes,
both du~ng Pr1de Week eachJune, as well as throughout
the year. Among these programs have been the d0cumentaries The ute and Timesof Harvey Milk, Rights andReactions, Before Stonewall,
Word Is Out, Half-Million
Strong: For Love and For ute,
SIlent Pioneers and Different
from the Others; biographicalportraitsof RobertMap-plethorpe, Keith Ha~ng, Paul
Cadmus and Francis Bacon;and fealu"e fllms such as My
BeautfflJ LaLllCtette and The

Naked CMI Servant.
. Most recently, Longtime, Companion, which Is now In
theatrical rel.ease, received
slgnlflcant flnanclal support
from the American Playhouse series' and will bebroadcast on public TV next
season. Other series,like POV
and Independent
Focus,

have frequently Included
gay and lesbian programs.
And among our plans for the
future, Thirteen hopes tobroadcast a documentaryon the 1990 gay and lesbian
games In Vancouver.
We take very seriously ourmandate to serve the myriad
popUatIons of 0lJ" communlfy, especially those that havebeen traditionally underrepresented. Although you feelthe need to criticize our June
broadcastof a four-hour
town meeting between thegay communities of New Yorkand Son Francisco, It's hardto Imagine another media
outlet besides public television even attempting suchprograrm'llng.
I know from personal,
dally experiencethat mycolleagues
and I work In
tandem on programs andpolicies that treat the gay
and lesbian community, andIts concems, with respect. It
Is therefore disturbing and
Ironic that you would suggest a financial boycott ofThirteen by the same community we are trying toserve. Now more than ever,
we need new and renewing
members to ensure a diversify of programming and continued responsiveness tocommunity need.
We look forward to thecontinued support of thegay and lesbian communlfy.
Conslde~ng the media alternatives, we need eachother. That symbiosis between viewer and broadcaster Is the heart of the
public television mandate.
No matter what, we'll neverabandon our viewers-but
our mission will be far more
successful If our viewers
don't abandon us.

Harry Chancey, Jr.
Vice President/Director
Thlrteen/WNET
Manhattan

reading theoretlcci works justSocial Scienceenoughfor me.
Re: Cover Story, no. 55 (July wasn't
No-beinga "show me18), "Weird ScIence·
don't tell me· kind of girt, I
I am a lesbian, and as far
wantedscience.
So I
as I can tell, always was andseached for a scientist asking
always will be. I couldn't be
the same questions. That's
happier about that. I have
how I met Dr. Heino Meyeralso wondered why I didn't
Bahlburg. I worked as aturn out straight like my parr9search assistant on the proents and my sister. Not
ject discussed In Dr. SIlverstein's
because I don't love being
article for a year and a half.
queer (because I do), but
because It Is Interesting to ' Also, as a concerned memberof the Queer NaHan I wonted
me. Enquiring minds, like myto 'spy on· the mainstream
own, also wonder why someand see If the "politically m0tiqueers are more 'mascuvated endocrinological euline· and some more "femithanasia of homosexuallfy·
nine: I'm thrilled that mywas being plotted, as Dr. Silvercommunity
encourages
stein cautions. Posing as agender bending. I stili wonconscientious, aspiring psyder why I have more butchchologist, I set out to do myclothes than femme clothes,
why I would rather drive theown "research:
What I found was a prinmotorcycle than sit on the
cipal Investigator quite open
back etc. while my equallyto criticism.
I asked Dr.
happy queer friends are theMeyer-Bahlburg
about
complete opposite.
But I wasn't content with objections from goy-rights
groups to his research. The
mere cocktail party speculanext day my mailbox wastion about these things. And

srON£WAU RIOrS

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fliled with copies of lettersexpressing the same criticisms Dr. Silverstein raises that
had appeared In the profes1I0nailiterature several years
ago. Many of theae letterswere from the Journal of
Homol8xua111y that Dr. Silverstein previously edited. Dr.
Meyer-Bahlburg also provided me with reprints of hisvery thorough responses.
After reading every word I
realized that It didn't matter
what Dr. Meyer-Bahlburg
personally would recommend once we know more
about se'XUOlorientation andgender. He's not that powerful. Research studies only
matter when people takenotice. Who takes notice,what they choose to do withthe research and how we asa community respond are aU
va~a~lndependentofthe
researcher. Dr. Silverstein's
response to MeyerBahlburg's research came as asurprise to me.
When I heard that Dr. SIlverstein was spealdng at theCenter about "new medtcal
research," and when I saw, the cover of OufWeek, It
never occurred to me that It
referred to the research project I had worked on a few
years ago. I was under the
Impression that some new,very convincing
r~search
results had been embraced
by powerful people In the

medical establishment who
now stood armed and readyto "treat" us. I was relieved
to 1Ind out Dr. Silverstein was
discussing research I alreadyknew about. Although thedata was not completely
analyzed when I left MeyerBahlburg's
emplOY,It
seemed fairly certain that
hormones were not responsible for sexual orientation orgender behavior, making
Meyer-Bahlburg's researchhardly a danger at this point.
Meyer-Bahlburg ,rrta<{ harbor homophobic sentimentsthat even he does not
acknowledge on any Idnd of
conscious level. As a scientist
of Integrffy, I know he strives
to do "value-free" research.
Although I doubt any scientist achieves
this, theendeavor Is stili noble. I do
know that several people on
Meyer-Bahlburg's researchteam have been openly
gay, Including
myself. I
always felt that he took mysuggestions and criticism
regarding bias seriously. I say
without hesitation that heencourages critical thlnldng.
We should all be asking
questions of researchers,
Including Dr. Meyer-Bahlburg. But a scientist simply
asking questions about sexual o~entatlon and gender Is
not dangerous. We all do It.
And as much as we might
like to control who does

We hate the
National Enquirllr.
We hate their distortions. W. hat.
their bigotry. W.
hate their homophobia.
Laatweek's
cover story isa
vII., mendacious
bit of trip. deSigned to p.rpetuate hysteria andfear. Written by
four (l1raight) men,this "investigation"
purports to reveal
the "seamy underside" of women's(read; "lesbian")tannis. We would
encourage you to r. c~pick it up and see,,,,_,,,,",,c,,,:S1J
for yourself, but that might boost the Enquirer's salessomething we would be loath to assist Why not piss on apile atthe supennarketcheckout?
.

<i:.t~cresearch on these questions,(I know I certainly WOUld).
the most we can do as pe0ple who support freedom ofInqury Is to monitor vigilantly.
Dr. Silverstein, as far as I
know, did not speak to Dr.
Meyer-Bahlburg, although It
would have been easy
enough to do. Nor did he go
far enough In explaining how
research Is done. I would
encourage Dr. Silverstein tofollow up this article bydevoting time In his weekly
column to educating
thecommunity about evaluatIng blopsychologlcal
research In the same way that
ACT UP has educatedusabout drug trials. We alreadyknow that knowledgeIs
power, and If Silverstein's article upsets peopleIntoaction, then great, but weneed to know more to beeffective critics. To Just light aftre and walk away from It Is
Irresponsible. And no, I wasnever a GI~ Scout, but thankyou so much for asking.

Bayla Travis
Brooldyn
Dr. Charles Silverstein's
misleading article "Weird SeIence" (no. 55, July 18), with
Its amateurish illustrations
and ridiculous cover tease.
belles OuMgek's attempt tobecomea responsible,
national weeldy for our community. Hisarticle Is a hysterical reaction, Implying that"all" biomedical researchers
want to find the "cause" of

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August 8, 1990

homosexuality
and thenelrrmate It, Far from realtyl
S1lvemeln only mentions
two curent reeeache!lln his
article (where Is the - Rat
Pack· mentionedon thecover'?), He la correct that
the East German Doerner
de.eIVe. much criticism forhis fc;IncI1uI theoretical leaps
from rat brain and behavior
re.earch to humane, andDoerner " admittedly h0mophobic, However, the second

pub.cly and In the sclentlftc
press, Slverlteln posits several
questions regarding MeyerBcrbrg's beIe1s, but doea'l'ttell us If he asked MeyerBahlburg directly or why hehasn't; after all, Meyer-Bahlbug " ~ here In New York,not h East Gerr'narty',
Research Into areas suchas sexual orientation
will
always pose ethical andmoral dilemmas for society atlarge and for the communl-tlea It most directly affects,
Thla la no reason not to doresearch, The problem lies not
only with overzealous mlslnterpretattona of resUI8 by thereaearchers and others, butalso with the kind of overslmpllftcatlon and sweeping
generalization which Silverstein Indulges In, His article Isa disservice to OutWeek'a
read8lShlp,~chard Pfeak,M,D,

Manhattan

Dr, Silverstein responds: In
fact, I did speak to Dr,
Meyer-Bahlburg and ,Iread
every piece of publishedresearch he a.ked me toread, My article noted that
his work Is far more IOPhIItfcated than that of Doerner
who openly stated that his
0001 Is the eradication ofhomosexuoUty, The problem
with Meyer-BahlbufQIs thathe continues to claim that
he ./S researchlno ther--;::========================~,,

researcher he denounce."
Dr, Heino Meyer-Bahlburg,I
who makes no such leaps Of
faith, I had the occasion towork directly with MeyerBahlburg for several years
while Iwas at Columbia Un!verIIty, AI a gay chllc:f1'SYChlatrIst, I have naturally been
qUte Interested In the origins
of sexual orientation(theentire continuum) and theseparate but related subjectof gender Identity. Working
with such eminent SCientists
as Meyer-Bahlburg and'Dr.
Anke Ehrhardt gave me a
ftrst-hand opportunity to see
how these researchers dealt
wtfh ethical Issues arising fromtheir research and Implications of findings from thisresecrch~ and we had many
discussions about this. MeyerBctllburg has shown that he Is
sensitive to gay and lesbianconcerns and he does not
advocate -endocrinologicaleuIhcn:JsIa of homoseXUClI~
as SIlverstein states,
Silverstein lumps MeyerBahlburg with Doerner as If
their me1hocIs, resUIs a'Id c0nclusions are similar or equal,
athol.gh 1hey ae vasHy dfferent, Furthermore, SIlverstein
confuses reseach on gender
IdentHy wtfh that on sexual 0rientation as,lf they are one
and the sane (perpetuating
the myth that all homosexual
people wer~ gender-contused as children, or that all
gender-confusedchildrengrow l.p to be homosexual),
He shoUd know better. He dso
falls to mention that MeyerBahlburg has been one of
Doerner's most severe crI11cs

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·abnormal· endocrine orfgln
contact Dr. Meyer-Bahlburg
of homosexuality. HIs work
to ask hIm If he would like towould be better apprecIatuse my column to responded If he openly stated that ato the article.
varlatlon of prenatal hor-mones Is not an abnormality,
Day Doll
arid that homosexuality In
I hope you will publish aadulthood
Is not an abletter regarding your June 6
normality, psychologIcallyIssue (no. 49) of OutWeek. I
or otherwise.
Just finished reading 'Out of
There are more Important
Control· by Sl!SIe Day.
Issues than whether or not I
As a bisexual female (Ishave maligned Dr. Meyerthat what I am?) who
Bahlburg. The fact Is thatalways, always craved a BarbIomedIcal
research wl11 bie doll, whose parents
probably
dIscoverthewould never sully their problomftdlcal
foundatIon ofgressive, liberal household
sexual orientatIon, perhaps
with such unadulterated,even that of gender identity.
commerdal, antt-lntellectual
Meyer-Bahlburg's researchtrash, ... 1 loved Ms. Day's
will be an Important part o(·outtng· of Barbie-loved
It
those discoveries. Gay pe0because I'm sure It's true
ple need to be ,Informed
and because It Is so well-wrltabout bIomedIcal researchten. Now I know why I was so
because of Its potential use - attracted to Barbie. Though
agaInst gay people. I cerI always suspected this was
taInly dId not suggest thatthe real reason, anyway, It
research should stop. I'll
Is gratifying to see tradl-

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tlonal femininity so well- . degenerated Into, an Easter
explained In such an Inslght- Parade? It breaks my heartfuI, wtt1y manner.
when I see something as
I think Ms. Day Is one ofImportant as Gay Games so
the best writers I've cometrIvIallzed by our coml'l'lU'Vty.
across (not yet literally) In
Vancouver has set the
your publlcatton. She doesn'ttone with their pc:rade, party,
know me from Eve, but I amtOll, and clitLlal sttck to thewriting ~o tell you-·Glve this exclusion of the athletic
writer as much work as you
venues. There Isn't space tocan.· Her tdlent will be a
enumerate
the countlessboon to your mag.
dropped, changed, and creStephanIe Lee
atively changed venues. For
Manhattan
example, there won't be any
hLldle events for women, but
Game Shame
there wlll be another parade
Here It Is, with Gay Games
onMondayl
III around the corner, andThey constantly refer towhat dominates the news?
their registered body countWarm-upst What color, what
as If It were some validationmaterial, what logo, who
for their world-class athleticmarches with whom, In front
event. Try to get anyone upof whom, etc. I hear LA has there to talk about liability
two entirely separate rival Insurance, FILA sancttonlng,
out1lls, and the Parisianshove
drug testing, steroid affiplumesl Are we that petty,
davits, or training faCilities
Jaded, and stereotyplcal? Is(the wrestlers will have tothis what Gay Games has
cut weight eight days wlth-

out a workout faCility). this Is
hardly on a par with the
GoodWill Games, where allvenues are sanctioned,drug-tested,and Insured,
where venue dates are set
a year In advance,
andwhere procedures like registration
are designed
toaccommodate
the athlete,
not the travel agents.
Certainly budget constraints are a problem, but It
does not excuse the fact

are the ones protesting
I ask not tor your accepagainst"gay-bashlng-).
tance or your love
Gays who fight back against
I ask only for your silencefhelr attackers and. win. The _ to live roy life
majority-If
not all-of gay
the way "I- choose
attacks should be by gays In
Michele Morrts
self-defense.
Manhattan
If Iovn' thlssomeonespeclal
More on Park Slope
Is a crma then for(tle me for
After reading fhe article
lovin' her
In Issue no. 51 (June 20),and her,and her,"Vlolen~e, Silence and Lesbians- by Barbara Seyda, I
do not condemn me forwas very displeased. The
the way I feelfactualInformation
was
Incorrect and the excessive
use of profanity was unnecessary except when needed
to quote the Incident.
The Incident happened
Sunday, April 8, 1990, at
about 4:30 am. Myself andfour other women walked
Into the New PurIty diner on
Sevenfh Avenue In Brooldyn.
We were all verbally attacked by two of toll" youths
at a table next to us. They

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that the athlete and thevenue have taken a back Ii'
seat to a festival mentality. It
doesn't cost money to ask
for help from experienced
people.
It doesn't makesense to tamper wlfh venue
procedures
that
have
worked tried-and-trueforevery world-classevent
since the first Olympics.
Perhaps I expect too
much from Gay Games,
Vancouver, and our leadership In general. But maybe
next time, someone will talkto the athletes and coaches, Instead of the fashion
moguls and the tourist
boards. I Intend to remain
their staunchest supporterand fiercest critic for 1994.

Gene Darmody
Golden Gate Wresftlng
Son Francisco
Bashing BackI feel that the one thing
we all search for Is love. Who
are you to condemn
mylove for anofher?
-homo emotional love
This Is my reaction to anarticle In Issue number 53(July 4) entitled "Bashing In
Our Own Back Yard: I am In
total agreement with you onorganizing
our own elite'
corps of fighting gay men
and lesbians. Our own Pink
Panthers organized to guad
our streets. If we don't protect ourselves and look out
for each other, then who will?
I am also In agreementthat we need to learn todefend ourselves so fhat we
can give. fhe bashers somefhlng to protest (so that they

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made rna'ly vUgar a-d 0"111- woIked to Methodist IHospital article, action has beentaken. The Incident hos not
goy remarks (dykes, pUsSy- so I could receive medical
been "silenced: ThIs 17-yeoreating motherfUckers, etc.)
assistance, which wqs poor
to myself and' the otherald biased. After leaving the old youth has been arrested
women at my table. Whenhospital I went bock to PlrIty a'ld Iom strongly perusing justice In colJt. I hove learned
my lover sold to 1hem, "1here
cinar to file a repOrt wtth thepolice officers, who were, by , that If you are too persistent
Is no need to get nasty, no
one Is getting nasty with,this time, eating Inside. The In this unfair and neglectful
system It will be treated asyou," the vulgar mole sold,next day I coDed to..see If on
a Joke. As your article has_ "Tum 9'0~, you ugly nigger
arrest had been mode andbitch.· At that polrifthe\i/Os'then told that no Infor- 'suggested, we should unite
to stop this cX>sud goy-boshuproar tiad begun. I was
mation was token on thepunched In the face by sur- youths. RnoIIy, by sold thQt ' Ing. To lower ouseIves to thelevel of- the heterosexual.
prise and feU to 1t;le floor. As they
hodInformation
the five of us ron out of the because they Iieeded It for ' who Is Ignorant, Is not the
New Purity diner we were
the diner's broken door. I answer. If they oct like anlChased by the youths Into the requested the youth to be 1'Tlds, we do not need to follow In their f001steps.
street. The mole who hodarrested and he wos. I am
Our freedom should be
now stili going ftyOllgh colJt
pU'lchecftne hod broken the
our blrft1f1ght ood when It Is
diner door on the way out,
proceedngs to try to receive
not, positive action needs towhich mode the diner's procompensation and justice,
be token. We do not need to
In addition to paying uninprietor finely coil the police.
We con1hJed to be physical- sured medical expenses for "get QI.IlS. nor do we need a,"lesbian AI Sharpton" os the
my severe facial Injuries,
ly and verbally abused In,thearticle reads. We need afractured
nose and torn
street. When the police cor
Martin Luther KIng, Jr., unity,
come, the officers just asked catIIoge.
I'm very oogry at this lnci- Intelligence, and above all,the youths to leave us aone.
dent and all others which
They del not toke fheIr names
each Qther's SlPPOff. S8ence
does equal death, but we wtn
occur, but contrary to theor any Information.
We*

BlufordLET

dways remain oBve forever.
Anonymous
Barbara Seyda replIes: Iom so glad you took time towrtte. YOUIS Is the story I tried
desperately to get, but was
unable to. ,Thank you forcoming forth now to c1atfy
the facts.
QueersNeed lhls?

Struggling with InternalIzed hOl'TlOP,hobla?
In regard to a letter pubHshed In Issue no. 56 (July 25)
which was on the newsstands .everywhere on Monday, July 16th, I find myself
distressed, again. The letter
was written
by a man
named ErIc Mortensen.
Why do I get the Impression that like so many other(too many) Irate queers Mr.
Mortensen did not read, or atleast comprehend, the now

famous "QUEERS READ THIS"
anonymous newsprint? I con*/'IE Tell.. '(0....AS ......,.. HOW Tt4~

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or'v hope that the -Defenderof the Feith· 1ype of posturethat Is being evidenced as a-knee-jerk· reaction to thisb!1H1ant
pWllcation wolid bell'la1Ifested just as vehemently In somewhat reverse, all
too commonplace,homophobic situations.
I must ask myself yet
again, why so many of my-homophlllc·
friends, like
Bobra Fyne, have not ass0ci-

ated themselves with patently homosexual endeavors.
Yes, It Is true that there areprobably severa straight indIviduals out there who ae on
our side. Whose world do we
Iva In, however, crICI just how
far are these few willing to
go? Ifeel compelled to mention anofher very good frtendof mine, OlIver Schoen. What
Mr. Mortensen fciled to mention Is that both Bobra andOlver started RealIty 1heaIre
Company. Oliver has sinceleft the Company because
he could not reconcile himself to the homophobia wHhIn
that Company, especially In
light of the subject matter(AIDS education
through
Improvisation). Here again
we have these wonderfulstreight people taking up ourcauses. This brings nagging~
to my mind: What Is
the price that we ae paying
In return? And what Is theretun on 0lJ" prevtous Investments? Also: 'I.Nrr( ae we perpetuating
the notion of
constantlys~eklngthe~vaof the shdght community and checking ourselves on fhanklng that sane
community for stands theyshould aready be taking?

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Manhattan

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Pinking of theGreen: no. 54, July 11). We
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association.

The Dartmouth Gay andLesbian Alumnl/ae Association (OGALA) sponsored
two parties during Gay
Pride Weekend. One was
the highly successful postparade all-cbllege reception at the Lesbian and
Gay Community Services
Center which beneflted the
National Network of Gay
and Lesbian Alumnl/ae(NetGALA). Any OutWeek
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News

Police Clash Violently
With Montreal's Gay
Community

PARTY POOPERS
Montreal cops arrive to shut down a gay and lesbian party.
largely gay and lesbian crowd of severbyJ08 Clark
MONTREAI;-Police clashed violent- al hundred, have reportedly been heldly with gay men and lesbians here last without incident in the past.
But at approximately 4:30 am onweek, during a protest of an earlier incident of alleged police harassment and July 15, officers from the Montreal
Urban Community Police entered theviolence involving the gay community.
loft and told the host, Nicholas Jenkiris,
When a large gay and lesbian
party was forcibly dispersed by this to shut the party down.
Police reportedly
shut off thecity's police in the early hours of Julymusic, turned on the lights and ordered
15, the ensuing chain of protests ended
the revelers off the premises. Accordin violence.
ing to witnesses, police explained that
After the party was raided, 50 peothey had seen "strange comings andple "'W~re reported injured and eightgoings" in the vicinity of the party andwere arrested. At one of the protests
sparked by the incident, another 48 decided to intervene. Later, the police
attributed their actions to noise compeople were arrested and 70 more,plaints from neighbors, even though,were injured, 12 of them seriously
the loft, on La Gauchetiere Street inenough to be hospitalized.
downtown Montreal, is located in a
A more, peaceable demonstration
the previous day drew more than 1,000 commercial neighborhood with few
other residences.
, demonstrators ..
The partiers had vacated the loft
The party that spawned all the turand were milling about outside, whenmoil was one of a series of monthly
one man tried to reenter the loft tofetes held in private homes throughout
the city. The parties, which attract a fetch his jacket, according to various

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Photo: Unda Dawn Hammond

reports. Police barred the man fromentering and charged him with assaulting a police officer. Eyewitnesses said
that the arrested man had blood on
his face as he was led to a police car
and taken to Station 25, the downtown precinct.
Other allegations of brutality cling
to the police raid, at which seven others
were also arrested, with sexual molestation, beatings and damage of personal
property among the accusations. 'At approximately
6:00 am thesame morning, an impromptu demonstration of 30 or so people took placeoutside Station 25. ProtesterS demanded the release of the eight people
arrested in the raid, but police refused,
and the demonstration broke up shortly thereafter.
But that evening at a central intersection in Montreal's gay village, morethan 1,000 people, including membersof ACf UP/Montreal, showed up in the
pouring rain to stage a peaceful sit-in

,".,;

at the corner of Ste.-Catherine andAmherst streets. According to one
organizer, David Shannon, a sit-in was

NIGHT CLUBBING

Cops move in on anti-violence protesters.
chosen because "we didn't want pe0ple marching in, since the police had
proven that they'd pick people offfrom the fringes of the group.»
Shannon told local print reportersthat the demonstration
was held toshow that gays and lesbians "arebreaking out of what is officially recognized as the gay community. We won't
be ghettoized," he reportedly said.
After more than three hours ofslogans and inchworm motion down
Ste.-Catherine Street, police offered tonegotiate an end to the sit-in, some. thing Shannon considered "significant,because for the first time in Montreal,
the police didn't simply ask us to moveon-tbey recognized gays and lesbians
as a community.»
Protesters also presented threedemands to the police: the dropping of
all charges against those arrested, an
official inquiry into police brutality
during the raid and a gay and lesbian.seat on the force's Interethnic/lntercultural Relations Committee. The demonstrators dispersed after several hours.
Approximately
250 protesters
returned for a kiss-in outside Station 25
on Monday 'afternoon, July 16. The
demonstrators-almost
evenly split

man requiring 36 hours' hospitalization
for injuries to his testicles. All of thosearrested were eventually released.
Gay and lesbian rep'resentatives
later metwith the police force's
community-relations
director, John Dalzell, topress the original threedemand~.
Dalzell said
that the department
refused to drop all charges
connected with the party
and demonstrations, stating that they "conformed
to regulations and procedure.» A spokesperson
later clarified the statement, saying that only
the Crown prosecutor
could drop the charges.
A seat on the Interethnic/lntercultural Relations
Committee could be decided only by City Hall,
Dalzell told the negotiaPh . Alfred He rth tors. The police departoto.
PWO
ment did, however, launch
a formal internal inquiry
into police actions during the protests
protestors' demands and insisted thatand at the raid but refused to comthe demonstrators follow proper proment further.
cedure. That's when things turned
Meanwhile, tensions continue tougly, according to Shannon, who said
run high as the gay and lesbian Monthat the police "surrounded the grouptrealers, uniting under the rubric ofand started beating the shit out of us.»"Lesbiennes et gais contre la violence/
Shannon said that he saw people
Lesbians and Gays Against Violence,»
jabbed in the abdomen by police
prepare for a massive demonstration
truncheons and men kicked in theagainst police violence on Sunday,
groin. According to Paula Sypnowich,another protester who attended theJuly 29.
"These two days of violence,» theraided party earlier in the week, said
new group said in a press release,with some exasperation,"The cops"were just an indication of the ...homowere as stupid as they were brutalphobia that is rampant in our society.
dragging women across the ground by
Natives, Blacks, women, the disabled
the hair."and other cultural groups are regularA half-hour after the club-wielding
ly victimized by this type of unreriot police moved in, 48 demonstratorsstrained brutality."
had been arrested on charges of interAnd an editorial in the Montreal
fering with the duty of a peace officer,
Mtrror asserted, "There seems little
refusing to circulate and obStructing aquestion that what aroused the police's
public byway. Some of the arresting
unprovoked aggression was the fact
officers wore surgical gloves. Others
that the party-goers were mostly gays
failed to sport the plastic name tags
and lesbians.»required by local law.
-.
Though no one expects the situaAfter the arrests, an angry grouption to improve dramatically, gay andof demonstrators, alongside both local
lesbian leaders in Montreal are hoping
and national media, gathered outsidethat the next few weeks will not prove
Station 25, where those arrested were
flS violent as the laSt.
being held. Many of those arrested-ftled.from Toronto
allege brutality in custody, with one
between men and women-wereonce
again thwarted when Station 25's director, Yvan Goyette,
refusedtheAugust 8, 1990

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Ne"vsBarney Frank Rebuked by
Full House 408 to 18,

by Cliff O'Neill
WASHINGTON-Brushingaside
two attempts to impose more severe
sanctions, the U.S. House on July 26
voted to reprimand openly gay Democratic Rep. Barney Prank of Massachusetts for actions he once took onbehalf of a male prostitute.
After four hours of rancorous
debate and a pointed apology fromFrank, the House voted 408-18 to reprimand the congressman for having
brought discredit on the House. Frankwas officially charged with fIXing 33
parking tickets for himself and- maleprostitute Stephen L. Gobie, and withwriting a memo to a parole officer on
Gobie's behalf that contained "misleading statements."
Flanked by his Massachusetts
associates and his closest Democratic, supporters, Frank sat in the Housethroughout the day, alternately biting
his nails and speaking to colleagues.
Prior to an unsuccessful vcte on a censure mOOon, Frank took the floor to is&Je"an apology and an explanation" for theactions which led to his reprimand.
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gay man:he said that the "misleadingstatements" he_ made in the memo
were-intended not to benefit Gobie but
rather to conceal his homosexuality.
"Three years ago, I decided that concealment did not work," he said. "Iwish 1had decided sooner."
Opening the debate, Republican
Rep. William Dannemeyer of California
offered a motion to expel Frank, which
was eventually defeated on a 390-38
vote,. Frank was joined by Republican
Rep. Buz Lukens of Ohio and Democratic Rep. Gus Savage of Illinois invoting "present," the equivalent of
abstaining, on the motion. Lukens andSavage have both recently been the subject of ethi~ investigations themselves.
In the history of the House, expulsion has only been employed in casesof treason and in the Abscam corruption case of former Rep. Ozzie Myers.
Arguing his case with allegations
made in news accounts in the Wasbington TImes and extolling the meritsof the Judeo-Christian ethic and "moral
relativism," Dannemeyer insisted thatFrank be expelled for, among otherthings, "running a house of prostitution
out of his residence.""Barney Frank is not on trial
here," he declared. "The House ofRepresentatives is on trial."
In its report, the House Standards
and Official Conduct Committee,
which recommended the reprimand,
had thrown out the most serious
charges against Frank, which involved
allegations that Frank knew that Gobie
was running a prostitution service outof Frank's Capitol Hill apartment, andthat the two ~gaged in sexual activity
in the House gymnasium.
Reacting slllµply to Dannemeyer's
allegations, Democratic, Rep. Julian
Dixon of California, the committee
chair, lashed out at the anti-gay congressman, calling his charges "the mostedited, selective garbage that has everbeen put forth in this House."
Asked afterward if he thought that
Dannemeyer's motion was based on his
record of anti-gay actions, Frank sug-

Photo: Jim Marks/OutWsek

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Rep. BanneyFrankofAfassachuseftS
gested that it was, since he has nevertaken an interest in ethics cases before.
"There is something about homosexuality," quipped Frank, "that sets
Mr. Dannemeyer vibrating."
The suggestion that Dannemeyer's
motion was motivated by an anti-gay
bias was further accentuated when Dannemeyer refused to answer Democratic
Rep. Gary Ackerman of New York, who
had asked him if he thought that homosexuality, per se, should exclude someone from serving in the House.
After the Dannemeyer motion was
disposed of, committee members eachrose to defend the recommendation fora reprimand over the more severe punishment of a censure. The censuremotion; sought by House Minority Whip
Rep. Newt Gingrich of Georgia, was,defeated on a sharply p3rtisan 287-141
vote, with mostly Republicans supporting the motion and virtually all
Democrats opposing it. Frank, Savage
and Lukens voted "present."
A censure, unlike a reprimand,
would strip a congressman of all committee and subcommittee chairmanships and would require that he stand
before the House while his punishment is read.
"A reprimand is no cakewalk,"declared Democratic Rep. Barbara
Boxer of California. "I'm sitting next tothe man who is going to have to faceit. It shouldn't be.""Barney Frank stands accused forbeing stupid," added Democratic Rep.
, Thomas Foglietta of Pennsylvania. "If
that's grounds for expulsion· from office,there would be,very few of us left here."
Republican Rep. Fred Grandy of
Iowa argued that upping the penalty tocensure would be based solely on
Frank's "lifestyle.""We do not enshrine or enrich thetraditional family by' damning thosewith lifestyles which differ from ourown," he said. "We are here to prose~cute, not to persecute.""This man has suffered, and rightly
so," bellowed Dixon, culmiru.
: thedebate. "But we gain nothind bypiling on."Adding a dramatic note to the balloting, Deputy Minority Whip Rep.
Steven Gunderson of wisconsin voted
to censure Frank after watching thetally of his colleagues' votes for ten
minutes. Immediately afterward, however, he walked over to the Democratic side of the chamber where he sat
down next to Frank. For nearly fiveminutes, Frank was seen in what
appeared to be an angry conversation
with the Wisconsin bachelor, waving
his arms, beating his chest and pointing his finger in Gunderson's face.
Immediately after the conversation,
Gunderson changed his vote from"aye" to "nay" on the censure motion.
After the defeat of the censure
motion, the reprimand was approved
on a 408-18 vote, with both the loudest
voices for expulsion and Frank's, closest liberal supporters making up thetiny minority of House members
opposing the punishment. T

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Bush's Supreme Court
What we've lost and what we may get
by Arthur S. Leonard
WASHINGTON-Justice William J.
Brennan, Jr., whose retirement from theSupreme Court on July 20 gave President George Bush his first opportunity to
appoint a Supreme Court Justice, wasprobably one of the best friends the lesbian and gay community has ever had'on the nation's top court. By contrast,
u.s. Circuit Judge David H. Souter,
Bush's nominee for Brennan's seat,participated in one of the most homophobic state court decisions of the
1980s: an advisory opinion by the New
Hampshire Supreme Court to the State
Legislature approving a bill to ban gaysfrom being foster or adoptive parents.
A 50-year-old bachelor, Souter isa former Rhodes Scholar and magna
cum laude Harvard Law School graduate and served as Attorney General of
New Hampshire before his appointment by Republican Gov. John Sununu(now chief of the White! House staff) to
the state Supreme Court. Bush appointed Souter to the First Circuit Court ofAppeals earlier'this year; but he hadbarely settled into his new chambers
when the call came f<;>rthe Supreme
Court appointment.
A computer search of New Hampshire Supreme Court decisions during
Souter's seven-year tenµre showed only
two directly presentlrtg lesbian or gay
issues. In State v. Lewis (1987), Souterwrote an opinion for the cowt upholding
a murder conviction in which the victim
was agar man. The defendant argued
that his conviction should be set aside
because the trial judge refused to orderthe state to hire an expert to create a postmortem "psychiatric profile" of the victim.
The defendant hoped to use such a profile to make a "homasexua1 panic" type of
defense. SoUter gave this objection shortshrift, noting that· the defendanfs own
statements to an informant bore out theconclusion that the victim's homosexual
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and not provocative.
Of more significance is Souter's
1987 advisory opinion signed jointly by
Souter and three other members of thecourt, holding that the state could ban
gays from being foster or adoptive parents. The New Hampshire Legislature
had that year become engulfed in thehysteria about gays as foster parents,tion and personal privacy.
The court stated that laws which

News Analysis
discriminate against gay people do not
merit any heightened scrutiny underequal-protection
theory, so that the

A LOOK BACKWARD. A LDOK FORWARD
Demos like this abortion-rights protest last year are
likely to, continue under a court with Bush appointees.
which resulted from a sensationalistic
article in the Boston Globe concerning
the foster placement of two young boys
with a gay male couple in Boston. Whensome legislators expressed doubts about
the constitutionality of an anti-gay bill, it
was referred to the state Supreme Court
for an advisory opinion, as provided forin the New Hampshire Constitution.
The court heard arguments that an
outright ban on all gays as foster or
adoptive parents, without regard toindividual qualifications, would violate
equal protection and due process of
the law, as well as the rights of associa-

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law need only be tested as to its rationality. The court went on to state ,thatproviding "appropriate role models"for children was a legitimate governmental purpose, and that since there
was a "reasonable possibility of environmental influences, we believe that
the Legislature can rationally act on
the child's developing sexual identity."
In essence, the court held that the
speculative "risk" that some children
raised by gay foster or adoptive parents might tum out to be gay was realenough so that all gays should be categorically banned from serving in such

capacities. However, the court statedthat another portion of the proposedlaw, which sought to ban gays fromworking in or running day-care centers, was not rational, since the court
doubted that the brief exposure insuch settings would fall within the"role model" theory.
The New Hampshire
court's
approach to constitutional analysis in
the case relies heavily on the thenrecently decided Hardwick case, inwhich the Supreme Court held that theconstitutional right of privacy does notextend to consensual sex between
two adults of the same sex in private.
The New Hampshire decision gives a
broad reading to Hardwick, extending
it beyond the privacy sphere to affectits ruling on equal protection, due process and association rights.
In effect, the court holds that gay
people are not entitled to be treated as
individuals by the government but may
be subjected to categorical negative
treatment,
becausetheir right toengage! in gay sex is not constitutionally protected. The court also ruled that
the New Hampshire Constitution provided no greater protection on thesepoints than the U.S. Constitution.
Although Souter was not identified
as the individual author of the opinion,
it was jointly signed by four judges asco-authors. One member of the court
dissented, in a strong opinion challenging the factual basis for the majority's ruling.
Souter's views are not known onother hot constitutional issues of the
moment, including abortion and birthcontrol, free speech and obscenity, andaffumative action. In one 1986 decision,
Smith v. Cote, he wrote a brief concurring opinion touching upon the abortion
issue but expressing no view as to thevalidity of Roe v. Wade or the constitutional right to abortion. His decisions
give a general impression of careful,dispassionate scholarship, with a progovernment tilt in criminal prosecutions.
New
Hampshiregay-rights
activists, however, have reacted rather
positively to the Souter nomination.
. Professor Marcus Hum of Franklin
Pierce Law Center in Concord, a board
member of the New Hampshire Citizens Alliance for Gay and Lesbian
Rights and co-author of the gay community's brief in the foster care andadoption case, commented, "He may be
the best we could get from Bush's list."
Hum emphasized that the court's
opinion not only struck down the
restrictions on gays operating day-care
centers but also drew a parallel to theissue of gays as schoolteachers, indicating that the state's "role model" theory for excluding
gays would beinvalid in either setting. Considering
the hysteria surrounding the issue atthat time, Hum felt that the opinion
was restrained
and narrowly focused, and attributed this largely toSouter's participation.

Hum also said that Souter is "nota homophobe,"
describing Souter's
relationships with the small number of
openly gay attorneys in the state as"cordial and respectful." He also said
that Souter is known as being very
reserved, very respectful of establishedprecedent and not inclined to makegrand legal prounouncements-rather
the oppositeof the conservative
activists on the Supreme Court such as
Antonin Scalia and Chief Justice
Wuliam Rehnquist.
Justice William S. Brennan was
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Youth and AIDS Key Topic
at·Gay Health Confab
byJlmMllb

partic:ularly vexing problem for gay
to diagnose HIV infection in women untilmuch too late.
WASHINGTON-"Over the last six
people "because we tend to experiAlso participating in the Conferyears, we've seen the 'degaying' ofence our adolescence" not during ourence were approxialately 200 members
AIDS," said Bill Scott, president of theteenage years but later "as adults."of the National Association of Lesbian
Nation~l Lesbian and Gay HealthShe saw, in this attention to youth,
Foundation, which held its 12th Nationa sign that theal Lesbian and Gay Health Conference
community
hadin Washington, D.C., from July 18 tooutgrown its own
22. "We are now on the other tide,
delayedadolesrefOCUSingon taking care of lesbians
cence. "We've mo"* .
and gays."ved from an interThe Conference was a reminder of
esttnainlyinthe key role gay health professionals
ourselves
to an.;have played in' the gay movement, likeinterestin thespearheading the 1973 efforts to getworld outside, to"homosexuality"
removed from themaking things hapAmerican Psychological Association's list
pen and to nurtur- "of mental illnesses. It was also a
ing others," shereminder of the way in which the gay
said, adding that
community's health and political agenAIDS has forced
das have converged as a result of thegays to think ahead
AIDS crisis, with Democratic Rep. Gerryto the future and to
Studds of Massachusetts addressing the , empower the next
opening plenary session, and the heads
generation.
of the National Gay and Lesbian Task
The issue ofForce and the Human Rights CamAIDS among inpaign F\1nd, along with officials fromcarcerated populagay Latino. and Black organizations,tions was, describedjoining with gay AIDS officials toas especially acute,since "all of govem- AN APPLE A DAY...
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discuss the key public-policy issues,facing the community.
ment
wants
to NLGHPS Bill Scott opening the conference plensry session.
The Conference also served as aignore the probreminder of the way AIDS has ironiand Gay Alcoholism Professionals,
lem," Scott explained.
The samecally'strengthened
and brought newwhich held a ·conference
within a
avoidance of difficult realities is behindpublic prominence to the gay moveconference." In addition to proViding
the "massive denial on the part of the lesment; as over 25 exhibitors displayed
information and opportunity for, gay
bian community and the medical profesglossy, annual reports and promoted
health professionals to network, thesion" <;>f
the risk: of AIDSamong women.
local.national safe-sex campaigns.
Conference is the largest single source
Calling the issue a "sleeping giant," Scott
According to Scott and formerof funds for the NLGHF. The Foundanoted that women primary-care physiNLGHF President Caitlin Ryan; thetion;with
an office in Washington,
cians tend to be gynecologists, whose
chief topics' at this year's conference
D.C., and a budget of $300,000, lobfocus on reproductive organs leads themwere youth; women and incarcerated
bies the govemtnent on gay-related
to ignore other evidence of HIV infechealth iSSUes, publishes the 425-page
populations. Ryan commented that thistion, while the federal government's defiSourcebook on Lesbian/Gay Healtb
yeats preseptations on youth "reflectnition of, AIDS, which has, from theCare and has recently begun awarding
ed a level of maturity" that she' had not
beginning of the epidemic, focused on
medical school scholarships to lesbians
seen at previous conferences. Youthopportunistic infections in middle-classand gay men.
related issues, she said, have been agay males, also encourages doctors to,• ~ I"

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There was also much discussionof the u.s. government's immigration
ban on persons with HIV infection.
Health and Human Services Secretary
Louis Sullivan granted the international
participants in the Conference a special
exemption from the ban because it
was co-sponsored by George Washington University. But George Washington
University official Winfield Scott, who
is also a member of the NLGHF board,
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Also striking a grim note was AIDS
Commission member Larry Kessler,
head of the Boston AIDS Action Committee, who reported that the Comffiission's recent hearing had discoveredthat the problems with "our collapsing
health system [are] much worse thanwe imagined."
The board of directors put off forthree weeks a decision on the organization's most controversial
issue.
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wanted to coordinate its response with
the National Organization for Women;
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schedule a day in Baton Rouge, theLouisiana state capital, to protest theabortion vote.
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Braff to Leave Top Post

at-GMHCby Andrew MiII,rstep into this role and do
everything,"
she said.
NEW YORK-Jeffrey
Braff, the"Maybe that was realistic
gregarious executive director of theat one time, when the
Gay Men's Health Crisis who was hired
agency was smaller, butjust eight months ago, will be leaving
not anymore."
the agency AugUst 3.
And the hiring proAnd although
his announced
cess may very well be a
departure' has engendered much speclengthy one. After Richardulation as to the circumstances surDunne, its former execurounding it, GMHC's board of directors
tive director, resigned,
maintains that it "regretfully accepted"
GMHC spent a year andhis resignation.
tens of thousands of dolIn a tersely worded letter to thelars on the search toboard, Braff, who was previously an
replace him. Tomchin said
exOOJtivewith, Bell Canada for 18 years,
that she planned once
wrote that he was "returning to Toronto
again to enliSt the services
for personal and family reasons.""' of a head hunter as wellBraffs lover and children live into conduct a more traCanada, and he commuted
often
ditional search in the gay
between New York, Ottawa and Toronto.
and AIDS communities.
Joy Tomchin, the board's president,
Others considered
told OutWeek that this was "an especialfor the job in the pastly unfortunate time for this to happen,"
were Rodger McFarlane,
noting that the caseload of the world's
executive
directoroflargest AIDS-service organization has
Broadway Cares, a phirecendy taken a dramatic upswing.
lanthropiC AIDS organizaIn a carefully worded statementtion, and a former execuissued Tuesday, July 24, Tomchin said
tive director of GMHC,
that "Jeffs compassion, warmth andPhoto: Ben Thombeny/OutWeek
and Cynthia Dames, theactivism on behalf of people with AIDS, GMHC YOU LATER
Jeff
Brsff
executive
director of thethe gay and lesbian community and
Coalition of Voluntary Mental Health,appointment of Dr. Woodrow Myers as
GMHC has been an inspiration for us all.
Mental Retardation and Alcoholism'
the city's health commissioner last winter.
Jeff served briefly, but with distinction."
Sweeney will once again act as
Agencies, who also lobbies on behalf
Braff's brief tenure is perhaps
executive director until a new one isof various health agencies at the state
most distinguished by the activist flahired, according to a spokesperson.
and city level.
vor he quickly brought to an agency
People who knew Braff throughBraff also has a reputation forthat many perceived as stodgy andtheir involvement in a support group
being accessible and down-to-earth
bureaucratic. He was arrested in front
and often appeared at the office in, for the executive directors of the city'sof the White House with dozens ofgay and AIDS organizations
wereblue jeans and a flannel shirt. Afterother AIDS-service group directors inclearly upset over Braffs imminent
work, Braff could frequently be foundDecember, and vigorously supported
departure. "I am a big fan of his," said'the ACf UP-led protest at St. Patrick's , relaxing with friends and acquainMatt Foreman, the head of the Gaytances at various gay bars in Chelsea
Cathedral last year when many otherand Lesbian Anti-Violence Project. "Heand on Christopher Street.
gay and lesbian leaders shied away
Board members declined to spOOl- brought a breath of fresh air to GMHC,
from the demonstration.
and he is incredibly gay-positive."late on jUst who they would be considHe also gUided the agency through, Ronald Johnson, who holds theering to fill the job. But Tomchin did say
the public-relations crisis that ensued
top post at die Minority Task Force onthat the job itself would be evolving.
when Tim Sweeney, GMHC's deputy
SN BRAFFon peg. 21"Before, we expected someone todirector, supported
the unpopular

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N_tion goes
national
NEW YORK~ince its founding in
New York City more than three years
ago, the idea of ACf UP has spread likewildfire throughout the country, logging
chapters in cities from coast to coast.
, Now, Queer Nation, the lesbian
and gay direct-actiongroup whichfights invisipility and homophobia andJormed in New York City just fourmonths ago, is cropping up in fourother cities across the country.
In the second week of July, on the
sidewalks of San Francisco's Castro,~by-4-inch stickers appeared proclaiming, "Fight Homophobia: Queer Nation
meets every Wednesday, 7:30, at the
Women's Building." On July 18, roughly
300 people showed up for the meeting,at which it agreed to focus on/the boycotts of Miller beer and Marlboro
cigarettes already underway in San
Francisco, and a "Nights Out" queer~visibility-campaign in straight bars.
A women's caucus formed andplanned to meet for dinner before thenext meeting. The group took immediate action that very night by marching
to, and "taking back," nearby Dolores
Park, the site of recent gay-bashings.
Those calling for the formation of
a Queer Nation in Boston represent thebroadest range of the city's gay and lesbian organizers-from the radical ACf

UP and United Fruit Company, a streettheater group, to the more establishment-oriented Greater Boston Lesbianand Gay Political Alliance to Men of All
Colors Together to the gay-funding
source, the Grass Roots Gay Rights
Fund, and a publicity group, the Information Project. The Alliance recently
paid for a series of fliers asking: "AntiGay Violence and Homophobia on therise: Where is the queer nation?" with alarge Q through the announcement,.
The interest in Boston, where"Queer Nation" has been the community buzzword. for weeks, "started at
New York's Pride Parade [where we]saw an .id~ that was working in New
York," said Michael Cronin, one of thegroup's organizers.
In Philadelphia, ACf UP memberilA(~~:r~'nrilil!Jl,~"1"ti-f&fo~~)\!iVj£io.

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Michael Marisco explained that although"there've been; rumors circulating" about
the fonnation of a new group, ACf UP
members "are thinking of starting one as
an affinity group within ACf UP because
so many of us are in ACf UP."
Similarly, in the small city ofProvidence, R.I., a dozen members of
the local ACf UP chapter and Rhode
Island Lesbian and Gay Allianceactivists met on Sunday, July 15.
Organizer Padric Meagher, a memberof both ACT UP and the Alliance,
described the impetus for the groupas stemming from "a new militancy
promoted at Pride" and from "emotions running high." Indeed, evidence
for the impetus behind such a groupis everywhere.
Rhode
Island'sstatewide gay-rights bill was recently
defeated,
and there have been aseries of gay-bashings outside a newgay bar, the Blaze.
At the recent AIDS Walk for Life
post-walk picniC on June 3, anti-gay
radio talk-show host and gubernatorial candidate, Steve White, showed
up with supporters, unplugged thegenerator for the microphone andreportedly
spit on participants
before police escorted him away.
The Rhode Island group, which
remains
nameless
as members
debate the label "queer," held its
first action on Sunday, July 22. A
dozen people picketed,and onewoman was arrested, at a demonstration outside a Newport restaurant, which targeted the restaurant
owner, a state representativewho
voted and spoke out against the gay
civil-rights bill.
A group in London, England, hasalso formed, calling itself Outraged.
Organizer Keith Alcorn attended theoriginal Queer Nation meetings in
New York, in April, and returned
home with many of the group's ideas
and philosophies.
"This new wave, combined with
ACf UP, is really going to give us a lotof power," said Alan Klein of Queer
Nation/New
York. Regarding thediverse shapes of Queer Nation, Klein
offered, "It really is something that willgrow in a grass-roots manner and, like
ACf UP, will have local flavors...but theissues acrOSSthe country are similar."-Carrie
Wofford/Boston and
Rachel Pepper/San Francisco

What will
the neighbors think?

Approximately 150 members of
ACT UP/Long Island and Queer
Nation, a New York-based gay andlesbian activist group, marched on
Marino's Nassau County home Suhday,
July 22. The activists accused Marino
of being responsible for the recent·

MUITONTOWN, N.Y.-Over one
hundred gay and AIDS activists took
the fight against anti-gay violence tothe doorstep of Republican state
SenateMajority
LeaderRalph
Marino, a longtime opponent of thatpiece of legislation.

defeat, in the Republican-controlled
state Senate, of' an anti-bias billsponsored by Governor Mario Cuomo.
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i{fj111 Washed Up, NEW YORK-A shopping bag'~~.:
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17i,
The group of about 25 went to the: ",ednd bund"", July 24 to "" .. therelease of those arrested at the

Waldorf-Astoria during the demonstration against President George Bushearlier in the evening.
"This is just another example ofhow violence against gay people is still
considered acceptable," commented
Matt Foreman, executive director of the
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"No police employee would have
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dared a similar act against a racial or
religious minority."
Foreman noted that 7 percent of hisgroup's caseload this year involves
complaintsof police misconductor abuse..
Following the incident, which isunder investigation, inspector John
Tunoney apologized to the group.
. -Andrew MiIlerI>'" ,"'!;Syosset, Long Island, to Marino's homein nearby Muttontown,
an enclave
described by one demonstratorasoccupied by "rich Republicans." Thenoisy marchers carried signs vilifying
the senator and calling on him to pass
the bias bill. One sign read, "Being aqueer is not a choice, being an assholeis," Another read, "Marino-Bigot."
The march route, approximately one
mile long, went past the homes ofMarino's neighbors and the woodcrest
golf club. The curious who came out of
their homes or off the links were rewarded with a flier explaining the causes andthe demands of the march. Those whochose to stay inside or were not at homereceived a "Silence - Death" sticker on
their mailbox and a flier inside it.
At Marino's home, the actiyists
were prevented from crossing onto the
Senator's
property
by a line ofmounted police. When the groupattempted a die-in on the edge ofMarino's
driveway,they
were
threatened with arrest. A legal picket
followed for roughly a half-hour.
The demonstration ended with avow from Queer Nation member Steve
Quester, who said, "In the name ofJames Zappalorti, Julio Rivera andYusuf Hawkins, we will hound every
state senator who voted against thisbill." All three men were murdered inbias attacks in Staten Island, Queens
and Brooklyn, respectively. The groupmarched back to Syosset.
Cuomo's bias bill makes it a crime
to assault or intimidate an individualon the basis of that person's race,
creed, color, national origin, sex,
disability, age or sexual orientation.
The bill allows sentences for this crimethat run consecutively with any othersentence. The bill was defeated by the
Senate last month after passing thestate House. '-Duncan Osborne

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violence, last week when one of the 'performers allegedly hurled anti-gay
slurs and attacked the owner and an
employee in the bar hosting the benefit.
Boston gay-bar owner Dennis
Moreau and his employee Keven Riley
were allegedly beaten by the lead
vocalist for"snap, a rap group that boasts
the current top-ten hit song, "ThePower."The incide-nt occurred directly
following a benefit for the Fenway
Community Health Center, a gaycommunity health-care center, early inthe morning on Friday, July 19.
In response, two top-hit radio
stations here, WXKS and WILD, havestopped playing the group's hit song aswell as the -rest of their music. And the
75-member New England Disc Jockey
Association has approved a ban on thesong as well.
Meanwhile, openly gay Boston
City Councilor David Scondras has
called on MassachusettsAttorney
General Jim Shannon to investigate thecase.
The alleged assault by lead vocalist"Turbo" Harris occulTed at 2:10 am, after
the band had glveo their ten-minuteperformance and had had a couple ofdrinks, according to the bar's generalmanager John Segien. Harris, who claims
that several bar patrons came on to him,
reportedly demanded to see a manager
and then allegedly began to strangle
Moreau and ·vlolently ahake him,"
accorc:llng to i report flied by bartender
and witness, Bill Darby. Darby reportsthat Harris yelled at Moreau, "Do I look
like a fucking faggot to you, huh?"
When -Riley, a barback at Buddies,approached, Harris aUegeclly dropped
Moreau, yelled "I should kick yourass,'- and according to several reports,
as Riley backed away, Harris "dropkicked" Riley in the upper chest andthroat ,~rea, knocking Riley back ten
feet. Harris-who
denies he kicked
Riley-':then reportedly went toward
Riley, but was intercepted by Buddies
security guard David NelSQn.
, Both Moreau and Riley are
pursuing legal action.
At press time, gay and lesbianactivists were negotiating with Win
Wiiford and Dick Scott of Dick ScottEnterprises, the band's manager, which
is seeking an end to the boycott of Snap.
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Dick Scott issued a public apology
in an interview with the Boston Herald
and is attempting to contact Dennis
Moreau to send him a letter of apology
with an offer from Snap to do a benefit
at Buddies "for the fight against AIDS,"
according to Joi Huckaby, a spokesperson for Dick Scott. "We want everyone to know that we don't condone
what happened," said Huckaby.
-Carrie Wofford

Nixon preelllpts anti-

gay add-ons
to House
AIDS bill
WASHINGTON-The U.S. Houseof Representatives on July 19 approveda 1991 spending bill which Includes
fundlog for the nation's fight against
AIDS, successfully avoiding an anti-gay
amendmentfrom Republican Sen.
William Dannemeyer of California.
The bill, which funds for the comIng year the entire operation of the
Department, of Labor, the Department
of Health and Human Services and theDepartmentof Education,
also
Includes all federal dollars for the
Food and Drug Administration and the
National Institutes of Health.
The measure carries $1.7 billion
In appropriations
to fight AIDS
throush the Public Health Service and'another $2.9 billion In reserve funds
for a list of health Initiatives still awaltInS final authorization.
Prior to the' House's considerationof the Labor-HHS appropriations bill,
Dannemeyer had circulated a congressional letter expressing his Intention tooffer an amendment to the bill seeking
to ban federal public-education funds
from being used for programs that"promote or encourage" homosexuality, or that describe it as "normal," "natural" or "healthy." When the bill came to the floor,
though, Dannemeyer was out of town
on a visit to Yorba Linda, Calif., to celebrate the opening of the Richard M.
Nixon library, and no other House

member rose to offer the proposal on
Dannemeyer's behalf.
Dannemeyer's anti-gay educationrider is modeled after a similar Senate
amendment to the bill, sponsored by
Republican Sen. Gordon Humphrey of
New Hampshire.
Though the Senate has for two
years overwhelmingly approved the
Humphrey amendment,
the Houseversion of the bill has never included
the measure, and the anti-gay education rider has twice been killed in
House/Senate conference.
Gay and lesbian act./vists are now
attempting to avoid a third Senate
defeat on the Humphrey amendment.
--C1i1'f O'Neill

GMHC
makes OIUe
North's skincrawl
NEW YORK-ln a dire<:t-mall fundraising letter for his Freedom Alliance,
the man who diverted federal funds forthe contra rebels In Nicaragua aiticlzed
President George Bush's new plans toraise taxes and recommended a few
budget cur. of his own.
"Some of the Items funded withyour !IX dollars should make your skinaawl," Oliver L. North wrote In a fourpage plea for money for his right-wing"grass-roots anti-tax campaign. ""The government recently gave
$600,000 to the Gay Men's Health
Crisis center (slel to produce a comicbook depicting In explicit detail asexualencounterbetweentwohomosexuals," the letter explained. 'He also trotted out National
Endowment for the Arts funding ofartists Robert MapplethorpeandAndres Serrano.
"With the government funding filthlike this, it's an outrage that new taxes
are even being considered,· he opined.
"Actually, we haven't had any
federal funding for two years," Carisa
Cunningham, a GMHC spokesperson,
responded tersely. "And the money we
did have was for a research project."-Andrew Miller

HIV-negative Olenseek s8.IIle
SAN FRANCISCO--A new survey
by the Center for AIDS Prevention
Studies of the University of California
at San Francisco has found that thevast majority of HN-negative gay men
prefer that their boyfriends or lovers
also be HN-negative.
Gay men testing positive for HIV,on the other hand, are less concerned
about their partners' HIV status.
Researchers
Leon McKusick,Thomas Coates and Robert Hilliard fearthat the findings reveal the potential fora "silent split" in the gay community.
,They also suspect that "some men
will shun HIV-antibody testing for fearof rejection by other gays."
The survey questioned 540 gay andbisexual men. A full 83 percent of those
who had tested HIV-negative said thatthey prefer men with the same HIVantibody status for sex and romance.
Among those never tested, 74 percent prefer men who are HlV-negative.
Among the survey respondents
testing HIV-posltlve, however, only 32
percent Indicated a preference for apartner who Is also HIV-posltive.
Researchers said that men testing
positive for HlV antibodies who prefermen with the same status expressed
concerns about Infecting an HlV-negatlve partner and about such a man's
Inability to "relate or empathize emotionally with an Infected person."On that note, researchers also
found that between 12 percent and15 percent of men testing HIV-negatlve and those who have never tested
prefer that their friends be HIV-negative as well.
UCSF researcher Colleen Hoff, who, presented the survey results during the
Sixth International Conference on AIDS,
said that one Qf the most troubling
aspects of the findings is that "HIVseropositive individuals are much lesslikely t~ be selected by seronegative[individuals] at a time when emotional
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appointed by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1956. A graduate of Harvard
Law School, he worked as a labor
lawyer (representing managemenO in a
New Jersey firm until becoming a state
court judge. He was a member of the
New Jersey Supreme Court at the timeof his appointment
to the U.S.
Supreme Court., Nothing in his priorrecord indicated-what a staunch liberal
he would become on the Court.
'But early in his judicial career,
Brennan endorsed the enlightened
views on homosexuality which becamea hallmark of his approach to lesbian
and gay issues. In Bouttllter v. Immigration Serotce (1967), when the Court
upheld provisions of the Im-mgration'and Naturalization Law excluding lesbian and gay people from the UnitedStates as "sexual psychopaths," Brennan dissented, expressly adopting thelower court dissenting opinion by Second Circuit Judge Leonard P. Mqore,
which disputed the labeling of all
homosexuals
as "psychopaths" andargued that Congress could not reasonably have meant to exclude as many as
37 percent of all male applicants foradmission to the United States (relying
on Kinsey's fmding that 37 percent of
adult males have had at least one
homosexual experience).
In 1976, the Supreme Court was
asked in Doe v. Commonwealth s Attorney of Richmond, Vtrglntq, to review adecision upholding Virginia's sodomy
law against constitutional challenge.
The Court affirmed the lower court
decision, without holding arguments orreceiving briefs. Brennan dissented
from the Court's treatment of the case,along with Justices Thurgood Marshalland John Paul Stevens: Interestingly, thegreat dissenter of the HardWick case,Just,ice Harry Blackmun, did not dissent
in the Virginia case.
In 'subsequent cases concerning
the constitutional right of privacy, Justice Brennan went out of his way tonote that the Court's Virginia ruling'. had not settled
the questionofwhether homosexual sodomy was covered by the right of privacy. JusticeBrennan johled Justice Blackmun's dissent in HardWick and also joined Justice Stevens' much broader dissenting
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as well as privacy doctrines.
Even before HardWick, however,Justice Brennan went on record concerning the hottest gay legal issue
brewing'in the federal courts: whether
sexual orientation
as a, basis forunequal treatment is constitutionally"suspect" under the Fifth and 14th
Amendments. In 1985, dissenting fromthe Court's refusal to review a caseinvolving the dismissal of ,Marjorie
Rowland, a bisexual junior-high-school
guidance counselor, solely on the basisof her sexual Orientation, Brennan suggested that such action should be subject to strict judicial review:[Dliscrimination
againsthomosexuals or bisexuals based
solely on their sexual preference
raises significant constitutionalquestions under both prongs of oursettled equal-protection analysis.
First, homosexuals constitute a significant and insularminority of this country's population. Because of the immediateand severe opprobrium
often
manifested against homosexuals
once so identified publicly, members of this group are particularly
powerless to pursue their rights
openly in the political arena ....
Second, discrimination basedon sexual preference has beenfound by many courts to infringe
various fundamental constitutionalrights, such as the rights to privacy
or freedom of expression ....
Finally, even if adverse state
action based on homosexual conduct were held valid under application of traditional equal-protection principles, such approval
would not answer the question,
posed here, whether the mere
nondisruptive expression of homosexual preference can pass muster
even under a minimal rationality
standard as the basis for discharge
from public employment.
Brennan is a staunch advocate· offreedom of choice on abortion, respect
for constitutional rights of criminal
defendants, strict separation of church 'and state and wide tolerance for
freedom of speech and political dissent. He authored an important plurality opinion in Frontier v. Richardson(1973), holding for four members of
the Court that discrimination on thebasiS of sex was constitutionallysuspect and thus almost never justifiable. This view never gained a majorityof the Court.
In recent years, Brennan showedno signs of an intention to retire, but amild stroke suffered on a vacation tripin early July prompted his unexpectedannouncement. Brennan's was a crucial
vote in the few liberal decisions of late,and he was widely considered the mostinfluential member of the Court's liberalwing. If Souter is confirmed and votes
along the lines of such Reagan
appointees as Anthony Kennedy andAntonin Scalia, the Court is likely tochange course sharply on a wide range
of issues, including abortion, affirmative
action, free speech and worker rights.
-ftledfrom New York
BRAff from PlII8 20
AIDS, said: "I'm saddened, and I regret
his departure very much. I've enjoyedworking with [Braff], and I thought he
was having a positive impact on GMHC."
And while many at GMHC werereportedly surprised by Braffs abrupt
announcement,
others in the AIDS
community were decidedly not.
One former board member who
knows Braff said that the charismatic
Canadian had repeatedly wrangledwith his board over his role at theagency, adding, "GMHC needed someone managing the bUSiness, and Jeff
was not living up to staff and volunteer expectations."
But the same source reported that
Braff was more or less well liked by
the board. "If the board asked for his
resignation, it must have been one
very painful board meeting," he said.
Other sources dose to the board
and to Braff confirmed that the honeymoon between Braff and his bo'ard
had been brief, and that there had
been general dissatisfaction with his
management style.
Braff himself made no reference
eitherthe board or to the senior
management at GMHC in his letter of
reSignation.
"I wish to express my deep andsincere affection and gratitude to thestaff, volunteers and clients of GMHC
for the support they have given me in
my time here. You have all become
part of me, and I am a better persontopeople and is poised to hire 11 more. It
fills six floors of the seven-story building
it occupies on West 20th Street in Olelsea
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and social outlet for thousands of clientswith AIDSand mY infection. T

for having had the opportunity to serve GMHC's board this month, told OutWeek: "Whether he was fired or
people with HN and AIDS here in
New York," he wrote. Braff did not resigned is a minor point. I can't makereturn OutWeek:S phone calls.
that distinction. The fact that he's no
But at least one person has some longer with the organization is a refleccriticism for the board of GMHC itself. tion of some kind of mutual decision.
Playwright
Larry Kramer, one of That speaks for itself. We have to look
GMHC's founders and one of its most to the future.~
Watters said that he was involved
vocal critics since he left the organization several years ago, told OutWeek
with Braff's/hiring but has been less"It's not that Jeff is or is not any good.
active on thf board in recent months.
, The board refuses to decide what kind
Board resident Tomchin declinedof organization GMHC is supposed to to commFnt on Braffs departure
be. No executive director has everbeyond hf formal press statement but
been given any parameters. How can admitted ,that the growing size and visiyou please a board that doesn't knowbility of Iher agency may have turned
what it wants?"
the pos;uon of executive director into
And Kramer, who spoke supportan un~blejob.
"I think the last two EDs had aively of Braff, thinks that the AIDS
organization's board may have difficul- hard ime controlling the place. And
ty replacing him. "Since the day of its we had expectationsof [Braff] thatfounding, GMHC boards have always were hard to fill," Tomchin said.
been out of touch with reality and cer"Tim and Jeff both had charisma,"
she added, referring to the months
tainly out of touch with the community," he added. "No one will touch this between Dunne's departure and Braffs
hiring that ltm Sweeney served as thejob with a barge pole."
When asked about the circum- , AIDS organization's chief. "Maybe weneed someone to stay home and manstances surrounding
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TIDINGST
Dave Pallone;
Martina Navratilova
By Karin SchwartzA

refreshingalternative

tothemselves, thus exhibiting
the normal quotient ofalong, and it has some good
human strengths and weakthings to say about gays. The
nesses. Much to our chanew sports daily, the National, ran a grin, they are too real, too
wonderful article in June about Dave much like the rest of us.
Pallone, a Major League umpire who
When one comes forward towas ftrst forced out of the closet and say so with pain andthen forced out of his career. Pallone
pride, we should listen."has written a new book called Behind
These two articles tothe Mask about his experiences as an gether are a strong stateumpire leading a double life.
ment against closets andPallone is quoted in the article:
the homophobic environ"There's no question my inner strife,
ment that makes closets
my double life, had a lot to do with my possible. More than that,,volatile temper. Somebody can't live these articles represent honthe life that I lived and not have it eat est attempts to bridge the difhim up inside." This quotation is high- ferences between human belighted and provides the article with its ings and to find the common,
most Significant statement: Double lives unifying threads of humanwreak psychologiCal havoc on the peoexperience. Usually, people %ple who are forced to live them.
are so threatened by homoucatchn:...
",·.heXi',
Several days aft~r this article ap- sexua 11·t y that the Y wan t t 0 i,
I...".~"''''.•,..,.,m" ""'''M '"v, '.' -peared, the National published an opin- avoid identifying with homosexuals at cally, she opined that Navratilova is "a
ion by another writer, Michael Goodall costs. How refreshing to fine this great player, but I'd like to see someII'.
courageous, honest perspecone at the top whom the younger playtive in a sports magazine.
ers can look up to." She added, "It is
To express your ,-jew- very sad for children to be exposed topoint, write: Prank Deford,[homosexuality]."
Editor in Chief, The National,
Without naming names, Court also
15 w. 52nd St., New York, NY claimed that some players had been
10019. Or call (212) 767-7000. led into homosexuality by other, senior
Speaking of gay andplayers, and that Navratilova was problesbian sports ftgures, tennis
ably lured into a lesbian lifestyle during
great Martina Navratilova
her influential early years on the pro tour.
was recently slammed by
Court's statements reveal astoundformer tennis great Margaret ing ignorance about sexuality. Research
Court for being a lesbian.
has demonstrated unequivocally thatwin, about- a 1V interview with Pallone.
According to the Associated Press, homosexuality isn't something that you
Goodwin's response was enthusiCourt, a wihner of 25 Grand Slam titles, "catch," like a disease, or are "pressured
astically supportive: "Pallone reminds
including three at Wunbledon, stated in into," like a be~vior. In fact, sexual orius that people who populate our ftelds radio and 1V interviews that Navratilo- entation is set very early in life-way before one is capable of picking up a tennis
of dreams are ordinary mortals. They va's admitted homosexuality is a bad
strive to conform while needing to be example for younger players. Specifi- racquet and going onto a tennis court.

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Equally troubling is how Court's
homophobia prevents her from recognizing Martina's heroism. If winning
nine Wimbledons doesn't qualify one
as a role model for aspiring tennis
players, then what does? The fact that
Martina is an openly lesbian public figure in a society hostile to lesbians only
augments her heroic stature.
In addition to ignorance and bigotry,
Court may be suffering from an acutecase of sour grapes---she only won three
Wimbledons, after all, in an era when
women tennis players could win only afraction of the money they win now.
We don't have Margaret Court's
address, but we do have Navratilova's.
We suggest that you write to her andgive her some encouragement. Ask her
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In ()u r ()\\' n Hands

A Monthly Column About Women's Health

Toward a Lesbian ~ealth Agenda
By Risa Denenberg
was not alone in my disappointment in the 12th National Lesbianand Gay Health Conference andEighth National AIDS Forum, which
took place in Washington, D.C.,
from July 18 through 22. I participatedin and .overheard many discussions
among the lesbians present regarding
the deficits of the program and oOrghettoization within the conference.
Latina, Black and Asian lesbians voiced
anger at underrepresentation. The concerns of lesbians over the age of 50
were barely addressed. Workshops
were designed,. it appeared, for an uneducated audience, which many foundinsulting and wasteful. As many as 75
percent of the lesbian attendees were
working within AIDS-related organizations, yet our knowledge, expertise,commitment and drive seemed wholly,unacknowledged. Not surprisingly, theconcept that lesbians are at risk for
HIV was not program theme.' Instead,lesbians care for PWAs, care about
PWAs, experience AIDS burnout andargue privately' about woman-towoman transmission.
A plenary sessioq on women and
AIDS was well attended and had two
excellent speakers: Dazon Dixon, director of Sisterlove Women's AIDS Project in Atlanta and the National Black
Women's Health Project; and Joan
Gibbs, staff attorney for the Center for, Constitutional Rights in New York City.
But the plenary neglected to provide
direct'medical information, information
regarding lesbians and AIDS, or a lesbian perspective
on AIDS work or
AIDS activism.
Meanwhile, women's issues wereleft out altogether in the AIDS medicalupdate plenary session the following
day, which led several attendees to takethe stage and prOvide the missiQg information ourselves. Further, the scheduled speakers included the former
health commissioner of Washington,
D.C., Dr. Reed Tuckson, and Richard
Shulopp from George Washington Uni-

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bians about AIDS," lesbians from California, Texas and New York all gave
anecdotal iIiformation about lesbians
with AIDS, including cases of womanto-woman transmission. But this sort ofcritical information exchange was not,the standard fare of the workshop nor,certainly, of the conference.
'
Beyond the issue of HIV, lesbian
health concerns were not, in general,
well defmed or well addressed. While
topics of interest were scheduled for
the Pre-Conference Lesbian Institute(chronic fatigue, sexuality, cancer, antilesbian violence), this program wasseparate from the conferen<;e itself andrequired an additional fee above theregular confereQce fee.
When the International AIDS Conference refuses us lifesaving information, undermines our activism and devalues Qur lesbian identities, at least weare not surprised. But when an annual
conference on lesbian and gay healthdoes these things, it feels like a betrayal. Still, it is fair to ask: Is the problem
in a conference, or is it a reflection of
our community?
Why do local programs and national conferences on lesbian health issues fall so short of the mark?
Lesbians are women: young, old,
Illustration by Kris Kovick
Latina, Black, Haitian, Puerto Rican,
ftnes lesbian health? Our lesbian com- Jewish, Asian, white, Italian. We aremunity is diverse, but where are themothers, health workers, sex workers,
collective and varied experiences of IVDUs, poor, unemployed, professionBlack, Latina, Asian and other lesbians
al, homeless, knowledgeable, multiply
being discussed? Why aren't we talking oppressed. Lesbians take care of parabout effective AIDS education for cul- ents, raise children, shoot drugs, shareturally diverse lesbian communities? . needles, sleep with men, have families,
Where, in this conference, were theget breast
cancer,go throughlesbian sex workers, the lesbian IVDUs, menopause, get raped, write novels
the' lesbians with HIV? I feel certainand die from AIDS six times faster thanthat an HIV-po~itive lesbian would
men. Lesbians get sick, go without
have felt unsafe coming out at this con- health insurance, visit the emergency
ference.
room for health care, refuse--out ofIf women are, as we know, invisi- fear-basic services like Pap smears.
ble, undiagnosed and uncared for in thisWhy do we feel that there are no
epidemiC, consider how much more in- lesbian health issues? Is it our internalvisible and uncared for are lesbians with ized homophobia? Are we too busy
AIDS. In one workshop, "Educating Les- taking care of everyone else to consider
versity's AIDS Clinical Trial Unit(ACIU), Many considered the selectionof government representatives, rather
than experts from the lesbian and gay
community, homophobic and insulting.
The conference program raised
many questions for lesbians. What are
lesbian health issues? In fact, what de-our own needs? Are we living In too
much fear of physical and psycholQgi~
cal violence? Are we too afraid to challenge the status quo? Are we just Ignorant? Why are we divided Instead of
united as a community of lesbians
around our cQmmon concerns?
In fact, many of us are ignorant:
Since almost no research exists, wehave no Idea how many lesbians havebreast cancer, AIDS, endometriosis,
ovarian cancer or chronic fatigue syndrome. We suspect that lesbians undergo more gynecological surgery thanheterosexual
women, but we can't
prove It. We don't know much about
sexually transmitted infections in lesbians. We barely know, and rarely talkabout, what lesbians do sexually. We
have no idea how many lesbians are
homeless, shoot heroin or smoke crack.
When we tell the Centers for Disease
Control to collect Information about
woman-to-woman
sex In their AIDS
data, their reply Is that no research exists. Of course no research exists if theyrefuse to collect the data.
Where do lesbians go for healthcare? Can we come out in our healthcare settings? How can lesbians' needs
ever be identified, quantified or addressed if we cannot safely come out toa health provider? Or afford the care in
the ftrst place.
The problem is compounqed bysexism, homophobia,
c1assism andracism. Lesbians, as women, make lessmoney than men and rarely have accessto any man's money or privilege. Our
invisibility Is insidious. Yet, the minute
we begin to talk about our health-careneeds, our risks, our vulnerabilities,
we're no longer "good girls" putting everyone else first. At this point the response Is often rejection, denial, accusation, refusal. Clearly, we must create
our own health agenda and start taking
care of ourselves.
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problems as lesbians. Our health and oururvlval are therefore dependent upon
our recognition of the burdens we face
and upon the commitment to battle tosecure for ouraelves and OUf sisters not
merely a place on the agenda but achance for health and wholeness In ourlives. We deserve nothing less ....

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»olitical Science

Let My People In.

The results of direct action have been fruitful, further validating
the activist approach to medical bureaucracy.
'
By Mark Harrington
We cannot sweep under the rug thecrlt1ctsmsreceived in the last year. We
are scientists, and science is based on
skepticism.
-:-Iany Corey, ACfG Ex:ectiveCommittee
chair, to the Ninth AIDS Oinica1 Trials
Group, (ACIG) rreeting,June 11, 1m:Science thrives on doubt, and you arebringing doubt Into the system.
-Dan Hoth, NIAll) Division of AIDS,
to ACf UP members, June 12, 1990
I want we, and not others, to be ourseverest critics.

-Anthony

Fauci to the Ninth ACfG,,
Jun~ 11, 1990

have long wondered why AIDS activists seem to make more headway
within the realm of science than in,say, local and state politics: Is it adifference in facts or in the susceptibility of targets? Unlike most politicians, bureaucrats
and journalists,many scientists are actually capable ofrational discourse, and sometimes theyeven change their minds. There is another difference too: While most politicians, bureaucrats
and journalists
would rather not deal yvith AIDS (theywish that it, would go away, so they
help make. us go away), the scientists
in question have actually chosen towork on AIDS (and they are the exception, not the rule). BaSic scientists havenever had a rebellion on the part oftheir laboratory mice; clinical scientists
have often labored under the illusionthat controlled trials in humans are
merely 'lab-rat studies on a larger scale.
This is ,no longer so. For all the threats,that if acti~
did not shut up, scientists would leave the field; it is hard to
Imagine eminent virologists who haveinvested ten years in their AIDS work
suddenly reverting to the days before
the war, treating little old ladles withshingles. Their only other option was
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No more secret meetings. The
Ninth AIDS Clinical Trials Group(ACfG) meeting was the first:in whichpeople with AIDS and activists were allowed to attend most sessions as official registrants, without bureaucratic resistance or impediment. Even the press
was allowed in for the first time. The
meeting was characterized by an unprecedented degree of openness, andmany scientists, both from NIH andfrom academic centers, seemed to haveundergone a good deal of soul-searching over the past few months.
It was a far cry from the hostility
with which ACf UP members were received in November 1989, when theyfirst barged into the closed counsels of
AIDS science, and equally unlike thepatronizing and patriarchal greeting extended to a few carefully selected community representatives when they firstmet the entire ACfG Executive Committee in March of this year.
AIDS activist groups and others

will be permitted to send observers to
all future ACfG meetings, which will
be held at a larger hotel in downtown
Washington. The National Institute ofAllergy and Infectious
Diseases(NIAID), which oversees the ACTG
and conducts much other AIDS research, will open its related conferences, such as the National Cooperative Drug Discovery Groups (NCDDGs)
to community representatives.
This does not mean that activists
have won an unqualified victory, orthat the tasks before us are not as
daunting as they ever were. But at least
we' will not have to skirmish over access to those who set research priorities, select drugs and design and carryout clinical trials.
Parttdpatton I" decision mailIng. By November, members c:i the ACfG
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By Charles Stlverstein

the temples. I've just never felt like mysame old self again. Am I just making
myself crazy? I worry about thingsterrifying things-like AIDS, cancer,
YO, death. I can't trust doctors anymorel I don't know where to turn, andI hope and pray that you can help me.
I've only had one sexual experlence---a brief attempt at oral sex on anolder hetero man almost 12 years ago.
The only person I know who diedfrom AIDS was a platonic friend. I lived
with him for three months or so about

Dear Doc,, I am a GWM but inexperienced. I
am 5'11" and weigh about 240 lbs. At
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had to vomit (but I didn't). I did havediarrhea and felt weak, as though I wasgoing to pass out. So I went to the,--'emergency room.
There, I was told by the on-duty
doctor that I had an "infection" andshould see my personal physician
Monday morning. This very vague diagnosis was no comfort. When I went ten years ago. He died almost two andto see my own doctor a week or so a half years ago. I think that I've told
later, I was suffering from a severe loss you everything.
of appetite as well as a nervous sort ofPlease Help
involuntary body jumps, fever, sharphead pains and a sort of "squishy"
Dear please Help,
sound in my right ear-as though there
I want you to do a number ofwas water in it. I also had pains in my things. First, throw aw.ay that flashlightabdomen, especially gas pains Just be- you've been using as a dildo. Get rid of it
fore going to the bathroom.
today. I don't even want you to have it
My- doctor frea~ed when I told around the house. If you need a flashhim,that I was gay, and so I don't be- light, buy a new one--but you are not tolieve I got the bestef care. He said that use it as a dUdo. That is very dangerous
my infec~ion $eerlJed to be clearing up and could lead to serious bodily hann.
and,'~ m~h .of it waS anxiety. I was
Get Ii copy of the New York-New,"'ever a byp.oqhondrjac, but I must Jersey Gayel/ow Pages. Send $4.50 toadmit- '~t I did set, ~lf
worked up GayeUow Pages, P.O. Box 292, Village
about all 'of this.
-,St3tiQn',''New York, NY 10014. It con·
P.S.I should poin~ '(Jut that there was tait')3~inl?rmation about gay and lesbian
bloOd on the toilet paper a day or two .or$~nl~110os and actlvltlell. This willafter thlt dildo Inclqent, but ,there tx; ,a Wiry Important resource for you tn-didn't seem to be any In the stool. The 'Nel\'.}ersey. Of you want the National
third doctor I visited was far more car· G#J.jJfllo'wPases, send $10 to the sameins but ,only found gallstones and a address. They -both come In a plain,sinus Infection. _brown wrapper, first-class mail.) When
It's a year later n<;lw.I finally save your copy arrives, find the say organiup on all the doctors last July. But I zations that are near your house andstlll get brief, sharp pains In my make a promise to yourself that you '11
head-mostly
above the ears and In attend a meeting. Sometimes there's thephone number of someone in thegroup with whom you can talk. If so,call that person-he'll make your introduction to the group easier. Though
you didn't include an address, I can tellby the postmark that you live In New
Jersey. Perhaps that's why you're having trouble finding a physician, who can
accept your gayness. You need a complete physical examination by a competent gay physician. Please write to me at
OutWeek with your name and address,
and I'll send you short list of a some

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competent gay physicians in New York.
Let them guide you about your health.
Then plan a day's outing to New
York City. Start at the Pleasure Chest,
156 Seventh Ave. South. You can bur adildo there, but be sure that you get one
with balls or some object at the end of it
that will prevent you from inserting thedildo too far into your rectum. Afteryou've bought the dildo, take a walk overto A Different Light, a gay bookstore at
548 Hudson St. Browse through theirbooks, and pick up one or two to read athome. If you like gay porn, Gay Treasures
is right next-door at 546 Hudson St. Your
final' stop on your day'li outing Is the Gay
and Lesbian Community Center at 208 w.
13th St. Pick up their calendar of events.
The object of aU of these sugges.
tlons is to help you in two ways: to takecare of yourself physically and to findfriends and companionship In the gay
world. If you also need psycholoslcal
help, but you can't afford a private
therapist, call the Institute for Human
Identity at (212)799-8574. It's New York
CIty's only nonprofit counseling centerfor say people. They have a staff ofcaring professionals who understandthe emotional needs of gay people.
Give them a call.T
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Obituaries
Penn's first openly gay dorm resident
adviser. While at Harvard, he was activein organizing the gay business students.
After establishing himself in New York,he supported many lesbian and gay
organizations. He served on the boardof the Fund for Human Dignity and wasa very active volunteer and supporter of
FAIRPAC,the gay and lesbian politicalaction committee.
-Raul also served on the Board of
the Sex Information and Education
Council of the United States, an established national organization which promotes sexual health and sexuality education. In 1982, it was suggested that theirboard could use an openly gay Hispanic
male under 30 and with a background in
business. Raul fit the bill and was theirtreasurer from 1983 to 1987.
While in high school and college,
Raul performed in musical theater productions at his schools and even danced
in a student variety show at the Harvard
Business School. He was an avid theatergoer and, upon seeing Les MtserabJes,
was struck by the analogy to the AIDS
crisis. He saw the revolutionaries as ACT
UP members. Able to maneuver thewalks of Fire Island Pines in his Valentino heeis, he was a perfect blend of masculine good looks and camp sensibility.
He was always up for dancing, whether
at the Saint or at a tea dance in thePines. He was not shy and was qUickly
involved with many aspects of the gay
and lesbian community since moving to off-with-the-shirt to cool his Chelsea
Gym-toned torso.
New York in 1980.
Raul's mother, Olga, and his aunt,
Raul' s involvement with sports conHilda Rodrequez, both of Tampa, weretinued throughout his life. As a boy, hecompeted in swimming throughout grade with him daily in the last two months ofschool and high school. He competed in his life at St. Vincent's Hospital. His
the Gay Games I and II and was $Ched- mother marched in the Gay Pride Parade
the Sunday before his death. And at auled to compete in Doth swimming andtennis in Gay Games III, to be held in family memorial service on July 1, she
Vancouver, British Columbia, this August. told those family and friends present that
He had been a promoter and fund-raiser she would continue both his and ourfor the Gay Games and Team New York. struggle. Raul is also survived by his
brother George, of Tampa.
He swam with the· New York Aquatic
A Memorial Service will be held
Homosexuals and played tennis with theon Tuesday, July 31, at 6 pm at the JudMetropolitan Tennis Group.
Raul was a trusted fmancial adviser son Memorial Church, West 4th andThompson streets.
and broker for hundreds of clientsRaul requested that contributions
through Christopher Street Financial. He
had pursued his interest in business since in his memory be made to AmFAR,thecollege, graduating from the University of American Foundation for AIDS RePennsylvania's Wharton School in 1978 search, 1515 Broadway, or the Lambda
Legal Defense and Education Fund,and receiving a Masters in Business-Bill Stackhouse
Administration from Harvard in 1980. '666 Broadway.
After moving to New York, he worked inadvertising and retail salesmanagement
David Liebhart
before joining Christopher Street Financial.
Raul began his voluntary involveDavid Liebhart died on July 5, 1990,
ment in gay and lesbian causes as a from complications related to AIDS,
sophomore in college. In that year, hewhich he had battled for one andwas a gay peer counselor at Penn anda half years. He was 39 years old. At his
was active in the student organization
death, his doctor remarked that David
Gays at Penn. As a junior, he becamecame to his office prepared to dictate his

Raul A. Companioni

Raul A. Companioni, an active supporter of many gay and lesbian organizations, died on Friday, June 29, 1990. He
was 34 years old and lived in Chelsea.
Raul was born in Havana, Cuba, andgrew up in Tampa, Fla., where his family
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own treatments and argue at any dissent.
He fought, armed with knowledge, andwas as fierce an opponent as contemporary research would allow.
David was· an early and passionate

advocate of gay rights, which he foughtfor on the board of GLAADand as cochair of its media committee. His outrage at the government's response to the
AIDS .epidemic led him to become amember of ACT UP, in which he participated vociferously and with which hedemonstrated religiously. His own boutwith the disease led him to the PWA
Coalition, where he shared his vast
knowledge, fortitude and compassion
with those not as well armed for the battle as he was. He pursued these causes
until he was too weak to continue, but
he remained argumentatively aware of
their activities until the end.
David had been a theatrical agent
with Don Buchwald and Associates until
his diagnosis, at which time he left his
position as head of the theatrical department to devote his energies exclUSively
to AIDSactivism and gay rights.
David's family loved and supported him throughout his life and in
his battles. His brother, Vince, took
him in and devotedly cared for him'from the day of his diagnosis until his 'death. His family, his many friends, hislovers, his co-workers and his fellow
advocates celebrated a memorial in his
honor on July 6, at the Frank E. Campbell
funeral home.
David Liebhart was a healthy,
happy gay man. His family and the vastarray of his devoted friends testify to thewarmth, intelligence and honest faith hebrought into their lives. They did notneed his death to realize how much theycherished him.

Robert A. RothRobert A. Roth, a prominent member of the gay legal community and a
longtime political activist, died on Monday, July 9, from the combined effectsof AIDS and Hodgkins disease. Bob was
40 and had been ill for several years.
Bob began his gay activism while
an undergraduate
at Cornell University
in the 196Os. Reacting to news reports
about the formation of a gay student
organization at Columbia University, Bob
co-founded
the Student Homophile
League at Cornell,
which was thenation's second lesbian and gay 'student
organization. He became a familiar agitator on the Ithaca campus, leading picketing at bars, handing out fliers, organizing
gay dances and leading "zaps· at donnitories and in classes. He continued his
gay community activism while a law student at Fordham,from which
hereceived his degree in 1975.
Bob established a gay-community
law practicein Manhattan
at a time
when there were few openly gay attorneys and was a frequent participant incommunity events. He had an active law
practice covering a wide range of issues,
including anti-gay harassment
by law
enforcement officials and censorship ofgay publications. In one of his important
cases, he represented
Bruce Voeller,
then of the National Gay Task Force, ina challenge to postal officials' confiscation of gay-movement magazines mailed
to the Task Force from Europe.
In
another, he litigated an important caseestablishing the principle that a gay couple should be considered a family for
purposes of the Single-family occupancy
clause in a residential
lease. His language facility and overseas contacts also
generated interesting international legal
work, unusual for a solo practitioner.
Bob also had a passion for collecting things. While at Cornell, he took out
subscriptions to all the gay publications
that then existed, building a small librarycollection for the gay student organization. The collection was unfortunately
lost during subsequent relocations of theorganization'S offices. His natural fluency
with languages
led him to collectobscure European gay journals and toestablish 'COntacts with gay-rights movements in Europe and an active in-volvement with the International Lesbian and
Gay Association. His apartment was avirtual gay-movement
archive, and hecompulSively classified and indexed all
his acquisitions.
In New York, in addition to starting
his own collections of gay-rights materials, Bob volunteered to help catalog thelarge collections which had been built
up by the Mattachine
Society's New
York branch. During the last year of his

life, he visited the new Human Sexuality
Archives
at Cornell University
andbegan donating the materials he hadcollected, which included rare editionsof foreign materials.
I first met Bob in 1978, when I
started the New York Law Group (which
later became the Bar Association for
Human Rights.) Bob was a frequent participant in Law Group activities andhelped to build the membershipbyencouraging his wide circle of movement
friends to join. He provided crucial encouragement
and advice in the earlyyears of building the Law Group. In 1979,
Bob helped to launch the Cornell Gay
and Lesbian Alumni Association by digging into his voluminous files to compile
an enormous list of openly lesbian andgay people who had attended Cornell
during his Ithaca years. He also provided
legal assistance in the organization of
New York Physicians for Human Rights.
Bob continued to practice law parttime out of his apartment
while hevaliandy battled his illnesses during the
1980s: first Hodgkins disease and then
AIDS. He took an active role in dealing
with his diseases, devising his own dietary
approach to AIDS during those periods
when chemotherapy
for Hodgkins disease precluded taking AIDS drugs.
Bob Roth was more than just a list ofaccomplishments
and interests. He wasa vibrant, witty man who delighted inintellectual challenges. He loved to devise intricate, neat legal arguments to get
out of difficult situations, and he loved totell stories about the early years of gay
organizing at Cornell and in New York.
He will be missed by his wide circle offriends and acquaintances in Ithaca, NewYork City and around the world.
-Arthur S. Leonard

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In a world obsessively
prejudiced
againstlat,
the Girth " Mirth Club gives
chubby men and their "chasers",,/· a .........
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By John W. Peebles
Jobn

w: Peebles is a current member oJ-Glrtb & Mlrtb and was formerly on tbe group:s board of directors. He also sewed for
two years as tbe, edttor of tbe group's newsletter, The Fat Apple Review .

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All tIIustrators for tbis feature,

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Give me a man wbo fills out bts jeans,
Btg-butted, barreJ-bellted, wbo defnU'1y leans
Toward zofttg. He's befty, tnfacf, be's cbubby.
Tbts ts the man who'll be my bubby!
, -from Tbe Fat Apple Review

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n April 21, 1990, 192 men showed up for"leather night" at the Lesbian and Gay
Community Services Center in
New York. Although this may seem like asmall crowd for Saturday night at the
Spike, this group was an example of a
growing phenomenon nationwi,de.
This particular leather night was
one of the monthly parties (withvarious themes) thrown by theGirth & Mirth Club of New
YorkInc. -,You might surmise--hy its
name-who the group is for,and what it's all about: chubby
gay men. The girth part is selfexplanatory. Clubs have taken
the appreciation of love handles _Into a whole new dimension.The"mirth" comes from the factthat they
too thought that the quip about the
number of cattle that gave their lives toclothe this bunch was funny.
Girth & Mirth is not new; in fact, the New
York club celebrated its tenth anniversary in 1988,
sponsoring a nationalconventionfor the many chub clubs thathave proliferatedover the last decade. Al 12, New
York'sis not the first. The San Franciscoclub
pioneered the movement in 1976whenthe "slim is in" fad was ~t its peak,making it difficult for the heavy
gay man to find acceptance inthe bars and baths of that era.
In the intervening years"
clubs have;sprung up in literally every comer of theUnited States: from
Seattle to Miami to San,Diego to Boston.Almost
every large city has hada fling at a big man'sclub,' with varying
degrees of success. In
1986, an umbrella'orga,nization was formed
called the, AffiliatedBigmen's Clubs (ABC) togive support and adVice to
new clubs and to create a central informationresource and set
up a fund to purchase national
advertisingto channel interest to local
clubs. ABCnow has a combined membership of more than 1,200.
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Unfortunately, there is still a great deal of prejudice
within the gay community against the heavyweight, an anitude that reflects the acceptance by gays of one more dilr
gusting prejudice of straight society as a whole-one of thelast "acceptable"prej~dices left in modem society. License isgiven by the medii and by society to sneer at, to publicly
ridiculeand to humiliate anybody who is overweight (which
is approximately60 percent of the U.s. population, according
to MetropolitanLife)..
Admitting ,one's own attraction to an overweight
person practicallylabels one as some sort ofloony. A couple of seasons ago, an
episode of Destgntng Women addressed this fact. Clarlene, the Jean
Smartcharacter,fallsin love with areal dreamboat of a man. He is
handsome, neat, smart, witty,
perfectly dressed, gentlemanly
and, to top it all off, rich!The' sole reason for Charlene's
reluctance to let herself develop a relationship with thisman is that he is fat-not that
she is turned off or repulsed byit herself,but that she is worried
about what her friends would
think. It is impossiblefor a man tobe as perfect as Mason, the Walter
Olkewicz character, but Charlene lets
this one "flaw" almost ruin the relationship. The fact that Charleneis taller than average and a bit overweight herself, has bleachedblonde hair and prattles nonsensicallyabout absolutely nothing in an initatingwhine seems not to matter at all.
Why this almost perfect man would want
this very imperfect woman is only aconvenience of the plot. Since
Destgntng Women pretends toattack all things bigoted and:misguided, everything works
out just fine.Allin all, it is anice try, and the fat jokes
are kept to a minimum
and are immediately
apologized for, but
Destgntng Women still
illustrates the deepseated prejudice embraced by society andspoon-fedby themedia. It is very noticeable that in subsequentepisodes Mason disappears (moved to Tokyo!),thereby freeing Charlene fora more acceptablerelationshipwith,and finally marriage, to a
stalwart,han9s0me Air Forcepilot.
Until the Rubenesque becomesfashionable again, there's really notmuch G&M can do about it. What the clubs

can and are doing is providing a place andsignificantly higher for nonmembers) andan atmosphere where chubby men can
incl udes an open bar with unlimited
feel free of a judgmental society,beer, wine and soda. Tables (mostincluding gay society. It is also,of which, by the way, weredamn it, a place where they
donated to the Center by
can g<!tlaid! To repeat: PartG&M)are scattered thro\Jghof the ~sidious prejudiceout the hall and clutteredagainst heavy people is~ith the plates of abundirected at the men anddant provisions.
women who are atThe national conventracted to that verytions are the biggest,thing. For a gay man,rowdiest parties of thethis is a double
year and also serve awhammy of a closet
unifyingfunction for all
to overcome. G&M
of the clubs. "Convergmakes it considerably
ence, 89" went Hollyeasier for the admirerwood, was thrown for aof the large man to
Loop in Chicago at "Conunite with the object ofvergence,90" and the big
his desire. And don't
boys from Beantown wUl
think that all of thesehost "Convergence, 91" inadmirers of the larger-thanBoston.
life are themselves svelte, railAlthough G&M wUl probthin young men. "Chubbyably never be more than achasers" come in all sizes, andfringe group of the gay communimore than a few members arety, they have made definite inroads"chubby chubby-chasers." G&M has coninto the territory of the "politically cortributed mightily to this phenomenon. As an indirect." In New York they are vastly visible
vidual gains pride and confidence in his own size, thereby around the Center, after all, and they contribute generouslearning to like himself, logically he starts to see
ly to various gay causes and charities. They
the attractive aspects of others like himself.
advertise in the gay press, actively seeking
The goals of G&Mare as diverse as
new members. Their newsletter, Tbe
the weights of the participants. Ernie
Fat Apple Review, features a pen-pal(membership chair and a driving
section that rivals anything you
force in the organization): "1,000
may find in the New Yo" Native
members." Ronnie (current presior the Advocate (or OutWeeR,
dent of both G&M/NY andfor that matter). The ads are
ABC):"To get the fat fucks out
placed by men of all sizes,of their closets and down toshapes, shades' and preferthe Center! We've got plenty
ences seeking companions inof room, and we can do them
all manner of sexual anda world of good." Carl (fornonsexual activity. However;theyl have one thing in commer-vice president and party
planner): "Our discussion
mon: They are either chubby
groups are building, and ourmen or seeking chubby
bar night is taking off-what
men-nothing in between.
Contrary to what many
more could we want?"
believe, G&M is not a "Weight
At. the leather night, members talked
about how uplifting G&M has been for
Watchers" or an "Overeaters Anonthem. "Two years ago I thought I was
ymous" or anything of the sort. It wasnothing-a fat, ugly slob. Now, I know theformed to be, and continues to be, atruth. I'm a big beautiful man!" testified Dennis,
group that gives support and succor to gay
who describes himself accurately. Benny, another member, ,men who are overweight (preferred word: "chubbies")
opined of G&M:"It means everythingto me. I met my lover and "men whose sexual preference leans toward thosethrough G&M. A lot of my friends come from the group, and same chubbies (preferred word: "admirers," although"chasers" has become the prevalent appellation). G&M
I love them dearly. We'vebeen through a lot together."
G&M/NY has an international
membership of provides a venue where the chubby gay man and his
appro~imately 445, making it the flagship club of the chasers can go without fear of ridicule or prejudice,nine or ten U.S. clubs that comprise ABC. The New where they can dance their tits off if they feel like it,
York parties are normally held the third Saturday of and where they can cruise and be cruised in a loud andeach month. The cost of the parties is minimal (albeit proud atmosphere. T.

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with "Boycott Millcr" and "Boycott Marlboro" postcrs last wcck as quccrs in New ~.:::,....::.5: York joined those across thc country in boycotting a major contributor to Jessc ':~.:~.
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:;.~15tcll your local gay or lesbian hangout to stop seiling Miller now. You can also ':~:~.
.:::.;:.call Millcr's PR managcr, Susan Hcndcrson, at (414) 931-3065 and dircctor of .:"::.:)::.: marketing rclations, Noel Hankin, at (414) 931-3065 and tcll than that no time is :";.:;.
::.:.".::"Millcr timc"-until they get Phillip Morris to stop backing thc Monstcr Hclms.
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othen wake, of my triumphant luncheon last week in the executive
dining room of the OutWeek building, I vowed to express my gratitude by turning in this week's"Dining Out!" review of that new
Episcopalian restaurant on the Upper
East Side-the Vespiary-well aheadof deadlipe. In fact, I vowed to encourage all of the other contributing
writers to do the same as an act ofgood faith in this apparent new era ofcooperation
between management
and talent. Invigorated by this resolve,
I got up with the birds yesterdaymorning (despite the lingering half-lifeof my Restoril capsules), showered
and shaved in record time, while "TheFlight of the Bumblebee" played on
the clock radio, and hurried off to theoffice (affectionately dubbed "the salt
mines" by one of my fellow columnists with a wicked gift for the tum ofphrase). I bounded into my cubicle,
only to fmd that the space had been
stripped bare. I was so stunned that I
dropped the box of French crullers I'dbrought to share with everyon~. The
Royal manual typewriter (for which I'dbargained long and hard), the framed
5-by-7 print of Picasso's Guernfca, thesouvenir scorpion-in-lucite
paperweight from Prairie Dog Town in
Newton, Kansas--all was gone. As I
stood amidst the desolation, a container· shot out from the pneumatic tube
beside my denuded desk. Inside thecontainer was a memo from Edelweiss,
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to report to the 51st floor. Puzzled, I
turned to collect my crullers just in timeto see the entire box disappear into
the mouse hole.
Edelweiss grimly greeted me at
the 51st-floor elevator bank andbriskly led me to a spacious windowedoffice on the south side of thebuilding. I was amazed (and delighted) to see all of my possessions neatly
displayed around the room, though
they looked a little shabby beside the
new accessories: a pen-and-pencil set,leather-bound "in/out" boxes and atelephone, with a flash, mute and redial features. Edelweiss said nothing to
explain this relocation. She merelypressed a key to the washroom in myhand and briskly marched off. (Shealways seems so unhappy, no doubt
as a result of something tragic in her
past. I just wish that I could get her toopen up.) The change was so disorienting that I abandoned any idea ofworking on my review and spentmuch of the morning staring out thewindow. Eventually, I decided to callthe fashion writer, Violet, who sat in
the cubicle next to mine, to see if she'dheard any news at her end, but then I
remembered that there are no telephones on the mezzanine level. Instead I called my friend Alvin. While'
we discussed my getting together withhim and Earl sometime next week for
my monthly screening of Wetherby, I
thought that I noticed that the eyes
blinked on the large portrait of
Kendall Morrison hanging on the west

wall but decided that I was mis~en.
Around lunchtime I took my key
and went off in search of the washroom. In my wandering I discoveredthat I was apparently the only occupant on the floor. Certain that I saw afigure at the fur end of one of the endless corridors, I called out, but there
was no reply, and my voice echoed off
the walls. When I got closer I realizedthat I'd, been shouting to a bronze
sculpture of the editorial board. I never
was able to locate the washroom, discreetly hidden, I presume, behind theoak paneling, so I took the elevator
down to the commissary. Strangely
enough, none of the other writers
wished to speak to me. I sat down at atable where the book reviewers weredisparaging DaVid Leavitt, as usual,
but they all got up and moved elsewhere. I saw Violet and waved herover, but she carried her tray right past
me. This happened not a few times,
and I ftnally left, feeling every eye boring through me.
Back on the 51st floor, I hammered out my piece on the Vespiary,
which took a little longer than usual to ,.
finish because I kept looking over myshoulder at that portrait, trying tocatch it blinking again. I dropped thereview in my "out" box and made one
more futile hunt for the washroom
before going on home. I feel as
though something odd has takenplace, but I can't quite put my fmger
on it. Naturally, I intend to bring thematter up at tomorrownight'smeeting of the Contributing Writers'
Grievance Committee in the Stars andGarters Room of the Community Center(All are welcome to attend') if that proposal by the Names Committee
doesn't eat up the entire agenda as it
did last time last time.
Meanwhile, it's almost time, once
again, for my annual Summer Fudge
Competition,
so you should start
looking through your recipe books.
Details to follow ....

Sometimes.
know? TIIESE PEOPLE ARE VILE, DISThen th~e are the rest of the times,
GUSTING MONSTERS. Ertegun, you thinkof course. Take Us magazine ...PLEASE!
that you can grab your fancy wife, Mica,
This honible rag, which can't seem to findand run off to all your parties and throw
any market (people simply refuse to readyour name and your money around as anit), just got around to doing a story
AIDS benefactor and therefore feel vindion-you
guessed it--outing (snore ...).
cated? You think that you can mask yourAnd because it is such a pillar of ethicalself with all of that, don't you?
journalism, U5 decided to get an objective,
Well ... fine. But you see, Mr.
outside expert to Comment on outing: Liz
Ertegun, you really can't get away. As
Smith. Yes, as hard as it may be to believe,
the old adage goes, "You can run, butthese idiots actually quote Liz throughout
you can't hide." Yes, at some media
by Michelangelo Signorile
the piece as she rips me and my ideology
event, some music industry soiree, someto shreds,Bur
1HEY NEVER ONCE TELL
fancy charity do, I will fmd you. And
when I do I will graphically show you , YOU 1HAT SHE fI4S BEEN MY BIGGESTTARGET. I'm not kiddingl Us blatantly
just how sick you make me. As you
ave you seen this suddenly garattempts to let the reader think that Liz, swig on your cocktail, I will calmly stick
gantuan list of things you're
my fingers down my throat, and then I Smith is some impartial, heterosexual
supposed to boycott these days?
observer. They don't tell you that I havewill vomit all over that tired tuxedo and
OK, I can live without the Cheez Wa, theattacked this woman for building up
all over Mica's gown and all over your
Shake 'n' Bake and the Open Pit
homophobes, for helping doseted celebriugly face, YOU PffiCE OF SHIT.
Barbeque Sauce. But please, not that gorties perpetuate their lies, for writing virtu(BurpO
geous, hip, sexy underw~.
Just because
ally nothing hard-hitting about the AIDS
they're made by a greedy, good-for-nothcrisis. They don't tell you that I have writing doset case?
ten whole columns about this woman andWelcome to the '9Os: a decade whim
her evil anti~, and that I have called herstarted off with gay-bashing at an all-time
everything from a monster to a' murderer.
high while, simultaneously, twisted new
TIIEY DON'T TELL YOU THAT TIME
pop groups emerged, telling kids to beat
AFfER TIME I HAVE OUTED IlZ SMI1H
up fags and dykes.
AS 1HE LESBIAN1HAT SHE IS!
But one such group, Audio Two,
And this was a piece about outing
may be on its way out. Their sick rap
and the ethics of it ETHICS!
record is already sliding down the chat1s
Well, I'll tell you about ethics. I have
while the demented duo grasps at straws
it from my sources that Liz Smith wasn't
in vain attempts at getting some press.
even in this artide originally. (Indeed, Liz
Meanwhile, Atlantic Records, which disGlad I got that up.
has refused to speak to most publications
tributed them, has changed its tune.
And speaking of bile, Andrew Diceabout the issue, perhaps because if she
Weeks ago, as I lividly screamed on the
Clay seems to be stewing in his own thesedoes, she must ul~telyanswer to her
telephone, company officials defended
days. Funny how things can change. Dice own homosexuality-something,I
Audio Two by belching up the old "freeClay's Ford Fairlane film is probably theassume, she does not want to do.) But,
dom of speech" bullshit (as if the compayear's biggest box-office and critical disasI'm told, Liz spoke to Us because its pub- .
ny is obligated to give eooryone, no matterter. His second film-in what was originallisher, Jann Wenner (also publisher ofwhat their point of view, access--let's see
Rolling Stone), who is a dear friend of
if they'll sign the leader of the Ku Klux ly a three-picture deal with 20th Centwy
Fox-has been killed. And the third film is hers, asked her to speak up on the issue.
Klan to their label). But now Atlanticon the rocks. The public backlash against
Perhaps she was assured that her own
board chair Ahmet Ertegun (who was
personal life would not be ~rightfully embarrassed by the whole affair, him has been phenomenal. And it is all sooverwhelming that the poor, little, mamo
unethical as that may sound.
since he is a major AIDS contributor) andbigot aied two weeks ago on The Arsenio
Why, you may ask, would Wenner
Atlantic president Doug MolTis are saying
Hall Show. As tbe New York Times' John J. dabble in such dubious journalism?
that they are defmitely appalled by the
O'Connor put it: "Popular entertainment
Well, that answer lies in the fact that Mr.
group, that they hadn't read the lyri~ ondoes, after all, have a revulsion threshold.
Weruier is very much a part of the Liz
the record previously, and that if they had,
Andrew Dice Clay should know. He
Smith/Barry Diller/David Geffen crowd,,they wouldn't have allowed such a viostepped over it and ~ now desperately tryand, like them, he too has a public andlence-inciting record on their label. Bur
ing to salvage his career as a stand-up
a private life.
WHY WEREN'T THESE TWO FREAKS
Yes, you could say that "W" in my filSAYING 1HAT WHEN 1HE RECORD WAS comic .... And his possible professional
demise is being effected not through cen- ing cabinet is a very hot read But as I've
CLIMBING UP THE CHARTS LAST
sorship but widespread exposure. Even his
out of space, I guess for now a cat'sMONni? Because there was money to be
most
rabid
fans
are
beginningtocringe."got
mytongue.
made'on the group back then. And what's
You see, sometimes justice does
Meow, meow, meow ...
a few bludgeoned queers compared to aprevail.
...HISS!
couple of million dollars' profit, youH•

Why would
Jann Wenner
dabble indubiousjo~rnalism?

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able to catch a glirilpse of the litOnce we were inside the theater,tie brunette fastened securely to my blood pressure found its way backher side. When it finally occurred
to normal, allowing for some circulato me who the hell "the little
tion in my legs. Le freak out was underbrunette" was, I froze. "Oh my control,' and to insure this further, I
god, that's Angel! ,There's my smoked a good old-fashioned doobie
Angelf I gasped.
in the powder rooF.. I think that I
I was still sitting, thank god, i{' pissed off the atten<fnt~helooked as
because if I had been standing, I , if she was about to perform Bruheria
would cerainly have fallen to my on me. I quickly wiped up a few~
knees. This horrific sight lashedstrands of my hair that had fallen intoout and reopened a wound that ~ the sink and bought a stick of gum forhad just barely begun to heall- a dollar. Checked myself in the mirBefore my mind could evenror-"How ya doin', gorgeous?"-recitto rationalize this nightmare, mr ed a few other affirmations and headed,
heart seemed (0 back upstairs.
swell painfolly
Still a little queasy, I braced the_. ••inside me. )Vith railing and proceeded to climb the veleach beat,I vet stairs. Even though my spirits were'E\
could fei!l my low, my heart was ailing, and I was
IgIOU~:
entirebody
possibly the loneliest woman alive. The
pound. I bemoment was intense and poignant, and
\,I
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came perfectly
like an actress I wanted to revel in theimmobilized by vulnerability of it all. I wanted to be• • •_this heavy, opmore in touch with my senses, unleash
pressive feelingmy emotions and to some degree enjoy
in my legs andthis bluesy sensation.
a burning sensation in my chest. I beIt wasn't until intermission that my
BV llli ltdam:ilieved that I was dying.
mother mentioned "the look in yourI had spent two years of my life eyes when you saw Angel, masbugana,with this woman--«ll the time profess- you'd think she was a boyfriend or
something, for cryin' out loud." Shequite'msure that I'll never forget ing our eternal love--and there she
in Times Square
was getting warm--the old broad wasthat night, as long as I live. It was was, promenadingwith some blaZing-hot Latin snatch.
getting very warm. Once again J
an occasion-I
don't remember
Well, of course we had broken up, but thought, "Geez, I don't know how
which exactly-but
the P's weretreating. Theater and dinner. It was for Christ's sake, it had only been four much longer I can live this lie..."months before.
Later that night back at my place,always theater and dinner. They were
So, there she was, goddamn happiafter dinner, my mother and I got intovery comfortablewith routine. We
er than a pig in shit. And here I was, an unusually heated discussion about
didn't complain.
headed for hell in a handbag. Well, sexuality. She started prodding, but thisI sat in the cab, amused, staringout the Window, while Dad took care without hesitation or the slightest con- time, instead of avoiding the conversasideration for what the others mighttion, I gave in defensively. Trust fundof the- driver.
IllustriousTimesthink, I frantically rolled down the win- or no trust fund, the threat of monetary
Squareoooafaceless swarm of humanity.
dow and screamed"Angel!" Thecutback became a nonissue. No turning
Gotta love it. Beneath the brilliant
back now. It was time to tell the truth,neon, the streets were alive and pulsat- problem was that the window onlyrolled down halfway, so the sound of the whole truth and nothing but theing With the energy and sounds of peomy cry was acoustically trapped in the truth, so, please, help me, god ... 'ple and music, pumping the hordes
COnfIDesof the taxi, and there was my
She asked a lot of questions, and I
through the square like blood racing
mother, larger than life, just staring at answered everyoneof them. She
through our veins.
seemed receptive, so I spoke candidly.
In the middle of this madness, I me, in this knowing-but-not-wanting-to-'She did stop me, however, when I bewas -drawn in and captivated by a cer- comprehend state of confusion.
In a panic, I turned back towardcame a bit too graphic. I mean, shetain WOm:ln. As if she had stepped out
the street, but they were gone. Mom wasn't exactly interested
in how'of a Renaissance painting into Hell's
Kitchen, this Botticelli goddess ap- found it peculiar that I would be so pas-- women do the horizontal Lambada
sionate about getting Angel's attention.
with strap-on dildos. That's when I
peared. ,Golden blonde hair, exquisite"What's wrong with you? We're runningknew that it was best that she didn't_yellow eyes and succulent lips. Thisknow from the beaver vibrator or myfull-figured 'divine creation exUded sen- late for the show. You'll see her anothertime." Sure, another time. My heart was leather-and-chain
body harness. Not
suality; she nearly turned the whole
now anyway. So we spoke mostly ofsquare into a massive gridlock. Well, I dragging on the sidewalk, and myoid
my relationship with Angel, since she
couldn't take my eyes off her. As she lady was getting all bent about curtain
was my only serious (eternal) love,came closer and passed by me, I was call. Can you imagine that?

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though I spared her of no one-she
got all the laundry, darks and whites.
Ooooh man, it felt good to get itout. Ain't nothin' like a good healthy
dump. Frankly, I was damn sick of hercontinuous inquisitions and machinations. All the time, planningmylife ...men, marriage, babies. How fantastically b-o-r-i-n-g! Why should I
pretend for them? Let my parents
navigate my life with their road map?
No chance!
So now, Mom knows everything
and, ironically, begged me not to tellmy father. Get that!
..
Her begging mel "No ,_I

out of the will, and that they hated me.
It was a lot to swallow.
The whole ordeal was pretty offensive. A lot of insensitive things were
said, all sorts of blaming and tons ofdenial. All of a sudden, I wasn't thesame person anymore. My parents
were treating me like some kind- of degenerate criminal. They were angry
that I had told them: They didn't needto know, they could easily have diedwithout knowing. Yeah, sure! Twoyears down the road, I bring my date,
Betty Butch, to a family wedding, we

future-grandchildren.
In their rage,
they accused me of having no self-esteem, having a fear of professionalmen, having a mother fixation, having
penis envy, an Oedipus complex, an
overactive libido, a high testosterone
level, no willpower, no strength, noconsideration for their feelings: deviant,degenerate, deceptive and perverse.
I knew then that it was time tosever the umbilical cord. My own parents no longer had a purpose in my life!
For months, every time we spoke, theirwords were filled with venomous
anger. I was so lost in
my world that this only
served as an additional burden that I could•
do without. Communication
becamesostrained that it was toall our benefits to discontinue any attempts
at a relationship. I had
never thought that it
would come to this.
How could they be socold as to desert me in
my time of need? How
could they?
It was obviousthat there was nothing
more I could do. My
only hope was time ...
Last night, after
many months of minImal communication
with my parents, mymothercalledme.
Much to my surprise,
her spirits were somewhat
upbeat.
Shewanted to tell me about this game she·and my father were playing: "Can you
think of ten things worse than having a
gay daughter?" She was happy to report that they'd each thought of ten
and had a good laugh. At me? Wltb
me? Who gives a shit? As long as
they're laughing, I count my blessings.
Whatever that means. ~iOhl my carpet-munching daughterl

problem:
Ma, damn;
good
Idea!"
She~,_"
thoughtthat
he'dblame her (baSicallybecause she raised us),and it would damage
her marriage. She wasseriously crushed but
confessed that it wasn't
my fault. She felt sorry
for me but felt worse
for herself.
That night she
curled up into a tightlittle fetal ball, quivering and nauseated at
the thoughtof ourbodies touching in thecourse, of the night.
Neither of us slept very
well. The next day?
Forgetabout
it-awoman possessed. She
couldn't even look into
my eyes. I remember
her uttering "what awaste." I don't think that she was admiring my figure. It seemed to me that
she was entering her nasty phase.
It took about two weeks before
Pop became privy to the news. Obviously Mom could mourn alone nolonger. Suddenly Dad became religious:"God, help me! My baby's a dyke!"That was it. What a disaster-likeathunderbolt crashing down upon my
beautiful world. I was cut out of everything. Money, love, compassion, support, understanding ... money. Perhaps I
should have kept my mouth shut?
My sister was ever so kind to keep
me informed as to the P's stages of
coping. 'In retrospect, I wish that she
had screened some of the information.
I didn't have to know that I was cut

pull up on a Harley, and nobody notices. Beautiful.
Do you want to know what myparents were most concerned about?
"What people are going to think."
What the extended family and their circle of shit-eating, elitist friends would
think if they found _out that theirdaughter was a carpet-muncher. They
couldn't give a rat's ass about how I
was coming to terms with homosexuality! (I'm angry now!) Their only concern
was how my "deviance" would mar
their reputation at the country club!
How is it that what I do in the sackhas any impact on the lives of otherpeople? I would really like to know!
My parents were very angry that I
shatteredtheir dreams
for theLiz lit Sydney

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Art

Gay and lesbian art,
censorship and the

NEA
AbolM. 11tIan, Venue 01 Urblno (1538). AfterIing11tIan'. Ven ... ln ....
UffIzI, Mark Twain cleecrlbecI the painting afouled. the vlled. theobeceneet picture .... wortd pon ...... " All evidence of
painting'. uIIer~,
1WaIn offeNd the following. ". _w a young girt
Ing furtive
glancee at"" • eaw young ...... gazing long and ab80rWcIy at ..., •~Inflnn .... n hang upon ..... channe with a Dathellc In...... t."_w

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It Is se/f-evtdent to most people that the government Is under no obUgatton to finance art-regardless ofmerl~s1mply because that art represents a particular poUttcal, soctal or sexual vtewpotnt. Tbls stmple fact bas
apparently eluded vocal 'arts' supporters and pundtts across the nation, who have dtvtned an act of censorshtp In
the rejection of the four grants. Tbus the NEA's decision has raised the usual cries of alarm, and the usual suggestions that tbe dark nlgbt offascism Is about to descend on the Untted States-tbat Is,if tt bad not already done so.
-The

Wall Street Journal

hat is patently self-evident, at this late stage of the game, is that media coverage and analysis of
the National Endowment for the Arts reauthorization debacle has, with a few notable exceptions,
been nothing short of reactive and reactionary. Putting aside the plain fact that Holly Hughes, Tim
Miller, Karen Finley and John Fleck were not "rejected"-thepeer-review panel, which presumably,
deserves a measure of respect, had endorsed all four, only to have their judgments overturned byforces at the National Council on the Arts-few commentators have brought to light the by-now traceable pathway
of infringements on free expression in this country, particularly in gay and lesbian art and culture.
It was not so long ago that the Reagan administration's
Meese Commission used slippery definitions of·obscenity" to launch attacks on gay magazines and erotic material. The Meese era metamorphosed into Helms'
moral hegemony, the battle continuing into galleries-New
York's Artists Space during the Witnesses show andWashington D.C.'s Corcoran Gallery and Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center during Robert Mapplethorpe'sshow-andprivate homes-photographer
Jock Sturges' studio in San Francisco--in an obvious effort to root out
and expose undesirable images and representations.
Clearly this is not the end of the line-suchassaults are bound to continue. As Congress sets about deciding
the NEA's fate, we must seize every opportunity to clarify for ourselves the most expedient agenda for combating this insidious campaign. In the gay and lesbian community, strong disagreement continues as to whether the
NEA is worth saving-you
will see that and a great deal more in the writings that follow-but
less disparity
exists about what is presently, and gravely, at stake.
-Sarah Pettit

W

Piss Jesse, orSilence= Deathby Michael Lassell
For Andres Serrano andRobert Mapplethorpe
I am accustomed to speak my opinion
unreservedly; this bas occasioned mesome misfortune, but I do not therefore
cease to speak as I think. Language is
given us to express ideas-be who fetter
it is a bigot and a tymnt.
-Percy Bysshe Shelleyh-Oh,,
pee-pees are ano-no!
The Senior Senator from
North Carolina told me so.
Jesse Helms is going down on historyIn h~tory, I mean, of course-as aUdingaling dickhead from the tired Old Southand Congress has no balls,
so Art's not allowed to have anyeither. Ain't that right,
Corcoran Gallery?

Your ass is in a sling, boy, 'and it's going to the highest bidder,so bend over and say
Ahhhhhh'm a Yankee Doodle
and that feels just dandy!

Uh-oh say can you see
why the legislature loves war so much?
'Cause it blows the family jewels off
so many brave men and true,leaving Midwestern vaginas empty
for the poking, probing fingersof the Bible Belt's elected elite.
Jesse loves the smell of cunt juice
on his conscience.

Dear Santa:
What I want for Christmas isa stake through the heart of
the Senior Senator from North carolina,
preferably a stakesmeared with the scared shitof the House of Reprehensibles.

"

Don't touch that dial!
We'll be right back with more
doo-doos and don'ts from
capitalist Hill.

Uh-oh beautiful facetious skies...
America is a dung hill; ourpoliticians are maggots.
So squashing Jesse Helms like a boll weevil
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,t

L.L.Bean-don't let the
big one get away unscathed.

what tobacco does.
Uh-oh,
the FBI says
threats are ano-nol-«nd they should know,
they've made enou~ of 'emso nolxxty should off
Jesse Helms.
It would be wrong.
It would be fun to watch, though.
We could all march out
to the National Cemeteryand write obscene graffiti on his
tombstone with the blood ofCentral Americans Jesse has decided
must go, must go, and spend the\lftemoon
fuckity-fuck-fuck-fucking on hislchilly, chilly grave,using the -flag to wipe cum
off our Old Glory holes(since that's all the Stars 'n' Bars isgood for anymore--don'f ask me to SIand up
for the Sca,..Mangled Banne~
flag
you can't bum to make a point isn't
worth burning).
Jealous Jesse has a wicked case ofpussy passion, and a peeker the sizeof a hummingbird's bill, andwhat pisses him off sincerely is that
his wife won't fist him up to her elbow,'cause she's got Christ with a boner
tattoed on her forearm; and she don't
want Him covered with rectal muck
Oesse douches, to be sure, and empties his
enema bag directly into the platformof the Reptilian Party). _Columbia the scum of the ocean ...
Uh-oh,
I haven't
offended anyone,
have I?
I haven't made anyone
uncomfortable?
That would be a caterwauling shame.
An offensive poem could
bring down the u.S. Constitution
faster than a racist Republicannot naming any names, mind you, sotake your pick (it's easy),
Pollution s~in the Senate,proliferates in the inaction of the,House, prospers- in,tax incentives for the richproposed by the White House on
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Uh-oh,
I'm stepping on toes,
but that's ano-nol--my tango teacher
told me so.
Art's s'posed'ta bepolite. That's only
right. Veryfar
right. Do not go gentle
into that. Fight!

Michael Lasseilis the author of Poems for
Lost and Un-Lost Boys. A second volumeof bls poetry, Decade Dance (from which"PissJesse" Is extracted), will be publishedby Ah'son Publlcattons In September.

We Are Americana Too
by The Publishing Triangle
Steering Committeeb

Sbianand gay writing is undersiege. You are under siege too.
From performance art to prose topoetry, the very words we use to communicate among ourselves, and create
our cultures, are threatened. The attack
by Jesse Helms on gay and lesbian artists
affects us all. We face the imminent evisceration of our right to read, our right towrite, our right to earn a living and ourright to free expression as Americans.
After he finished savaging Robert
Mapplethorpe, Jesse Helms wrote, on
March 6, 1990, to the comptroller general of the United States and asked for "anobjective investigation" into "questionable NEA activities." ('I'ypically and infuriatingly, Helms began his letter bysaying, "I urge that great care be taken
to assure that your women associates
not be exposed to the [enclosed] material.") Helms pounced on the usual sus-'
pects--artist and AIDS activist David
Wojnarowicz, the San Francisco Lesbian'and Gay Film Festival, the Witnesses:
Against Our Vantshlng art shOw-but
he also demanded an investigation intowriting fellowships given to lesbian
writers Audre Lorde, Chrystos andMinnie Bruce Pratt.
Now that he's attacking writers,
Helms is doing battle with every man-lner in which gay and lesbian people
communicate. Oppressed and ignoredby the mass culture, we have few
movies, little music and only 'smallkale theater and magazines to call ourown. In any numbers, all we havethat's ours are the things that comecheap--performanceart, plays, somevisual art, books. JeSse Helms wouldrob us of even these.
But the words we speak, the art
we make-for ourselves, for the overall
American culture-is absolutely central
to the modem psyche, whether Helms
and his lunatic rightists want to admit itor not. We represent the best of thearts today. Period. As Fran Lebowitz
has suggested, if all lesbian and gay
artists went· on strike for a day,
American culture would be left withnothing but Wheel of Fortune.
Audre Lorde is Black, a lesbian,the winner of the Publishing Triangle's
1990 Bill Whitehead Award for contributions to gay and lesbian culture andone of the most important writers ofany kind at work today. Native
American poet Chrystos declares that
she is "not the 'Voice' of Native
women"; her self-dedared purpose is"to make it as clear and as inescapable as possible, what the actual,material conditions of our lives are."
Minnie Bruce Pratt has won theLamont Award, the most prestigious
prize in America for a second book of
poems; her explorations of lesbiansexuality, motherhood, custody, lifeand love, make her integral to howboth men and women should think
about themselves.
These writers and those like themcreate not just our views of homoeroticism but what homosexuality is andshould be.
Writers give us voice. We all havevoices; we are all, in this sense, writers.
Will we then be silenced? Now
that these grants have been challenged,
will any openly lesbian or gay writer
ever receive an NEA grant again?
The battle over the NEA is not justabout whether faggots and dykes can getgovernment money. The agenda r:i Sen.
Helms and his pals is bigger than that
The NEA war is just the first step; Helms'
goal is to freeze us out of America.
Helms forgets that gay and lesbian
people are Americans too. Aren't our
numbers greater than those of Helms
and his velvet painting-appreciating

two senators and your representatives,and not to be punphilistines? We are at least 25 million in bomosexuaUty
demanding that Congress reauthorize
tsbed for betng queer. And talking
number, and we pay taxes.
a free and fair NEA.
It's time to remind Congress that about homosexuality means talking
Most of all, we ask that you join
about homoeroticism; we are not gay
we are Americans too.
us in yelling, screaming, protestingBecause we are Americans too, and lesbian if we can't write about
and writing.
gay and lesbian love.
denytng grants to gay and lesbtan
But what if we lose this battle?
Because we are Americans too, tbe
writers and arttsts ts taxatton wUbWhat if the NEA is reauthorized only
moment you censor us, you censor
out representatton. If gay taxpayerswith language that would censor lesevery American.
pay for North Carolina tobacco subsiThe Publishing
Triangle is a bian and gay aitists?
dies, then North Carolina can help
The steering committee of thegroup of people, mostly gay and lespay for our art. We pay for the
bian, who are actively engaged in , Publishing Triangle believes this: If thepolice, we pay for bombs, we supNEA will censor our art, then the NEA
port landscapeartists
in North , some kind of lesbian and gay publishmust be abolished.
An endowmentthat excludes the workof openly lesbian andgay people will become an active instrument to debase, abuse,disenfranchise
andmarginalize our words
and our lives. Better no
NEA at all than an NEA
that relegates us to cultural servitude, allowing us only to perform
for those in power,
making polite culture.
Better no NEA than an
art police that legitimizes our oppression.
Better no NEA at all...... ~ ,thanone that stifles our:. __ '_
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many voices.
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The Publisbtng
Triangle
Steering
ComLb:~,
mittee' ts: Mlcbael
Eciouard Manet, Olympia (1883). Wh.n Manet .xhlbited Olympia at the 1885
Denneny, co-cbatr, St.
Salon In Pari., audience. w .... 80 horrified at the audacity of caeting theMartin ~ Press; Micbele
figure a. a proetItute that one member of the pre ••• uggeetecl that .uch a
Karlsberg, co-cbatr,
picture might lIetlr up a ... volt. II Another critic wrote. "7he crowd gath.,..
Amethyst Press; Malaga·round Mon.leur Man.t'. highly .plced Olympia a. it would round a body at Baldi, ltterary agent;a morg .... Art that has .unk .0 low I. not worthy of our ce ... u.... ·Speak not Christopber Bram, auof them, only gaze and pa•• on,' say. Virgil to Dante a. they make their way thor, In Memory of Angel dare; Susan Chasacross on. of the circl •• of h.lI. "'tn, Visibilities magazine;
CaroleDeSanti,free-lance edttor;
ing.
We've
sent
a
lettertoournationCarolina; as artists and as people, we
Trent Duffy, free-lance editor; Rase Fenwide membership, asking them to do
demand our fair share.
nell, Lambda Book Reportj David Groff,
Because we are Americans too, we what we ask of you now: to write
Crown publtshersj
Robin Hardy,
your senators and your congressional
bave a rtgbt to free expresston.
Cloverdale
Press;
Stan
Leventha~
autbor,representatives,d,emanding that theGovernment has no business freezing
Mountain
Climbing
inSheridan
Square;NEA
remain
free,
and"
that
arts
and
us out-which is exactly what the NEA
content restrictions would do. If writ- writing grants be made by experts in Ben McCormick, Walker Publishers; Felice Ptcano, autbor and publisber, Gay
ers don't have the time to write that the field, without content restrictions
Pressesof New Y~ Jane Toxe/~ Lambda
grants, can provide, then they will be that ultimately endanger everybody's
Book
Report.
For furtber information
free
expression.
We
alsosuggestthatable to write less. And we will be lessabout tbe Publishing Triangle, write: 248
you call 1-900-226-ARTS; for $4.50
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· I. the NEA Good for'Gay Art?
by Sarah Schulman(Thanks to the artists, critics, funders:mq members of the, community who
took time out to discuss these issues
with me in preparation for this article.)Ie government is using homophobia again as an instrument of,social control. We need to focus
on homophobia and not on "saving the
NEA. it Of course, museums and boardsof directors find it easier to articulate"Save the NEA" than to engage in fighting the oppression of gay people. Thiseuphemism might even make the fight
more palatable, but when the crisis
over the NEA is resolved one way or
another, no political impact will havebeen made On our behalf.
At. the same time, the organized arts
community has a lot of soul-searching to
do about its own history of exclusion.
Before Helms, many other biases existed
in the funding and presentation of artwork. Historically, the reward system in
the arts has been reServed primarily forwhite people from the middle and upperclasses whose work fits the aesthetic
agenda of aiti~ and arts administrators.
Yet the majority of artists previously
admitted to the reward system neverspoke up about the institutionalized discrimination
until it affectedus.
obviousiy, it is not acceptable for artists
who ate gay (or whose work has explicit
sexual content) to be excluded from fed~ral funding. Nor is it acceptable forrewards to be demanded by one groupat the expense of another.
For any minority artist, part ofbeing admitted to the reward systemis that while the benefits are great for
the individual, the price for the com, munity is tokenism. I know this firsthand, having personally benefited,from the "exception"
distortion
because I fit the criteria for tokenism.
It is important to remember that people get rewards, like grants, gigs andreviews, not necessarily beCause they
are the "most deserving" but also
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hugely diverse community that it canart-game.
Of course, recognition
At the same time,
doesn't always equal betrayal, but I not represent.
racism, class bias and the emphasis on,think that it is important not to blindly
trendy, marketable genres Oike detecaccept someone as our representative
tive novels and stand-up monologues)
simply because she or he has been
selected by a government
agency,publishing company
or corporate-fundedart venue.
Up until about
five years ago, lesbian artists were
almost completely
excluded from thereward system. In
fact, some of the gay
mericurrently
involved in the NEA
scandal participatedin that exclusion.
Lesbians were notreviewed in mainstream publications,were not presented
in prominent
art
venues and almost
never received funding for explicitly lesbian projects. As aresult,the work
remained invisible,
and many women
wereunabletodevelop their talents,
while others could,
and
their
work
thrived. This is still
the case, with thesmall exception of
the 30 or so out lesbian artists, across all
genres, who haveaccess to the newtokenism. However, After Fra Bartolomeo, Saint s.bastlan IV"" anAngel. (copy of 1514 original). When this plcbefore
funding,
ture was displayed at San Marco, ."the iriaN
work was supportedby the audience andfound out by confessional that women had
determinedby thesinned in looking at it, beca .... of the comely
lives, needs andand lascivious realism with which Fra
experiences of the Bartolomeo had endowed it.n The painting wascommunity.
consequently moved to Ih.- Churdl's chapter
Now, throughhouse (where it would only be ..... by men)
the new tokenism, aand ultimately sold to the king of France.
few political andapolitical sensibilities are permitted to be contained with- keep other voices from the ,publicin the dominant culture. Individuals are arena. When the frustrated community
even easier than political movementspressuresthe token to be more
to contain. As a result, a single style is accountable to its needs for expresdeclared to be representativeof a sion, she often declares
herself

"independent," puts down the community as "p.c.," or "narrow," and disengages herself for her own artistic andcareer development. In the end, thepermitted aesthetics encourage newartists to work in precisely the samestyles so that they, too, can be rewarded.
In this manner, much of the development of lesbian arts are taken out of thehands of the audience and given instead
to a sma1l group of aiti~ and administrators. This year, the NEA panel that recommended the artists whose grants werelater rescinded was composed of six arts
administrators and one artist.
Media reportingon the NEA
scandal further distorts the picture. A
Vii/age Voice cover story by critic
Cindy Carr entitled "The War on Art"
fQcused only on the exclusion ofartists whose work she had previously
supported. Although I deeply respect
and admire the work of Karen Finley,
there are entire communities of artists
who have been systematically silenced.
They too deserve C. Carr's attention,even if they don't meet her aesthetic
agenda. Attaching the "censored"label to artists whose NEA experienceis bringing in publicity and audiences
far beyond what they might have naturally achieved takes the underdog
position away from everyone who
really is. It accepts the distortion thatthe art world is the world. When
,Karen Finley stands up at a nationalpress conference and says, A year
ago I was in a country of freedom of
expression; now I'm not," there is a
refusal or ignorance about the historyof this country in which most people
have been systematicallydeniedexpression. I fmd a disturbing subtext
to some of these arguments that whiteartists "deserve" to retain our race andclass privileges even though we'regay. Artists could, instead, use thisattention on funding as an opportuni-'ty to discuss a real democratization of
the reward system, as well as the passive complicity with the state that has
dominated North American arts.
The Vt/JageVoiceran photos of thefour artists whose grants were rescindedover the caption "Defunded," eventhough they receive more funding, exp0sure and institutional support than 99
percent of the artists in this country.
Wheri Cindy Carr said, in a second artide, that she "may now be forced to conceive of a new demimonde---e. bohemia
Uof the unfundable," I got really angry.
Miss Emily's Grandson
Doesn't she know that 99 percent of the
Won't Hush His Mouth
artists in this country already live in theby Essex Hemphillworld of the unfundable? And that thisinvisibility is due, in part, to the role
played by aiti~ like her? I certainly thinke last time I saw my grandmotherthat these artists should receive the grant
was in the summer of 1986, inmoney that they were rewarded, but I do
Columbia, S.C. I spent two cherobject to a kind of fetishizcd egomania
that depoliticizes the events. We are living ished weeks with her. Columbia is thein a city of 90,000 homeless people. No American ancestfal home of my mothone is getting the services and funding er's family. To make this journey priceless, I brought along my niece, Shakira,that they need. I wish that these artists
could see themselves in relation to their who was seven at the time, and myown, society and place the NEA event in nephew, Aaron, who was then two. It
a broader political context.
' was their first time flying in a jet, but thelast time they would see their great
While we must support lesbian
and gay arts, we must also refuse the grandmother alive. A year later, at the
distortion of calling "censorship" of the aage of 86, she died.
To all of her friends, neighbors andrewarded while ignoring the thousands
who are systematically excluded from church sisters, she was "Miss Fmily," butsupport because they don't fit the pro- to our family she was always "Mother,"me for privilege. Every out gay artist "Grandmother" or "Nana," names that arefor us synonymous with faith, love andloses grants, gigs and opportunities
and faces bias and limitations throughselflessness.
out her or his career for being gay.
During the summer of 1986, I wasThis needs to be addressed politically working on bringing forth my second
chapbook of poetry, Conditions. I waswith a recognition of how homophobia
works on all levels, not only in thegetting editorial assistance from Joseph
case of the most visible.
Beam, and I would pay for the printing
with money I received from the NEA.
Obviously artists want recognition. I apply for grants, and I like get- After my two previous applications to theting approval. But the NEA scandal is NEA literature Program had been rejected, my third application was approved
giving us all an opportunity to rethinkthe values we've created as well as the and funded for fiscal year 1986.
I first applied to the NEA Literatureones we've been handed. At the sametime that we won't lie down for a Program in 1983. The poems submittedwith my application were largely Blackhomophobic,
anti-sex NEA, neither
oriented and did not deal with my sexucan we roll over for elitist exclusionality. My application was' rejected. (But it
ism in our community. The fact is thatshould have been.) My second applicathere is a huge backlash going on
against the gay visibility generated by tion was submitted in 1984 with nonpo~itical poetry that bordered on being
AIDS. This includes increased street
violence, restrictive immigration andHallmark greeting-card sentiments. The
continued negligence in the face of theapplication was rejected. For my third
AIDS crisis.
response, a variety of application, submitted in 1985, I thought:
grass-roots, community-based move"Fuck it. I'll send what I want to send,
ments like ACf UP and Queer Nation not what I think they want to read" lhat
are ariSing. Despite the historicallyapplication contained poems from theapolitical stasis in wbich many artists
Conditions manuscript, poems that spoke
have festered, we can still rise to the directly about my homosexual andoccasion and participate as activists in African American experiences. The applithese movements, working in commucation was approved for funding.
nity to end the oppression of gay andMy first self-published chapbook,lesbian people, instead of working to Earth Life, released in 1985, was funded
maintain an exclusive, tokenizing NEA. entirely with my own savings. My
8Iandmother had never read Earth Life,
Sarah Schulman has authored jourand to my knowledge, she had nevernovels, the most recently publisbed
been told by my family that I am gay. I
being People in Trouble (E.P.Dutton).
never told her because the family felt it
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times I felt compelled to tell her, especially .during the two weeks we werelast together. Before departing from
Washington, D.C., I promised to holdmy silence regarding my sexuality. My
mother later told me, "Your grandmother always kept you in prayer," and I
always felt like telling Mother, "I think
it's because she knew I am gay."
During that two week visit, thebond between Grandmotherand I
strengthened itself on pure love. It was
the same love that helped to heal me
when I was born prematurely with aheart murmur. It was the same love thatdisciplined me when I spent my summers with her as a youngster. And it was
the same love that summoned me to
Columb~ with two great-grands in tow.
Grandmother told me that my cooking reminded her of Essex, my lategrandfather. For a number of years he
had owned a small restaurant
inColumbia which was off-limits to mymother and her siblings because therestaurant attracted a crowd that was a bit
risque for Grandmother's tastes. My
motho:- and her siblings were supposed
to go to the restaurant only for the purpose of delivering the peach cobblers
and apple pies Grandmother baked athome. But my mother tells me that she
and her siblings would often sneak by
the restaurant after school to visit withGrandaddy. He would serve them lemonade or soda pop and send them on their
way so that they would not incur
Grandmother's wrath for being too tardy
getting home from school.
Although I promised my family I
would not reveal· my sexuality toGrandmother, I took a copy of Earth Lifeto give to her. On an early aftemoon, aweek after arriving- in Columbia, while
Grandmother sat rocking on the front
porch, and while my niece and nephew
settled into their aftemoon nap, I pulled
out the copy of Earth Life knowing the
moment to give it to her had come. I
considered it to be an innocent gift,
though subconsciously I realized that she
would learn more from it than I would
ever be able to tell her in.this life.
,
On that particular afternoon, I wasgoing to the barber to get my hair cut. I
gave Grandmother Earth Life before I left.
1 didn't think that she would read it
immediately,.but she did, during' the hour
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to sit with her. Earth Life and her reading
glasses were resting in her lap. She wasrocking, gently, her eyes focused straightahead above the tops of the blossomingrose bushes growing around the porch. I
thought that she was focusing on the redrose petals or the sweet fruit on the fig
tree just across the yard. I carefully ventured to break the momentary silenceenveloping us. "Grandmother," I hesitantly began, "it looks as though you read
Earth Life while I was at the barber?""Yes, I did," she replied, and she
continued to rock. After a pause, shesaid, "1hese are very good poetm, &sex,
but they're a bit disturbing." Anothermoment of silence enveloped us. "Youknow I'm so proud of all my grands," shecontinued, "all of you are doing so well."
She then looked me directly in the eyeand smiled just a little slyly before asking,"Essex, do the authorities know what
you're writing about?'
Perched on the edge of tension as I
had been, I was completely unprewu-ed
for her question. I threw my head backand laughed deeply, and Grandmotherjoined me. When we regained our sobriety, I realized that her question was very
serious, and that our laughter had
helped us both to mask the implications.
"I guess they know what I'm writing
about, Grandmother, but I can't really beconcemed with the authorities.""Some of this is very disturbing," shesaid, "and I just want you to be careful. I
don't want you getting hurt out here.""But Grandmother, isn't it importantto tell the truth?"'"Yes, it is a/ways important to tell thetruth, but truth means different things todifferent people. Some people can't handle the truth, &sex. I just want you to becareful. I will always love you, and I will
always be so proud of you and all of mygrands. Each one of you is special to me.
It would break my heart to see any harm
happen to anyone of you.""I'll always love you, too," I said,
then I leaned over and kissed her on thecheek and hugged her.
Of the many things that I remember about Grandmother, her question,"Do the authorities know what you're
writing about?" and her cautioning me
to be careful are the words that comeback to me ringing with all the intensity and conviction of her love andconcern. She could formulate such aquestion only because she had witnessed how dangerous it is for Black

people to be outspoken in America.
Perhaps Grandmother knew that
down the line, I would be defen9ing myright to speak artisticallyto the social, cultural and political issues of my time.
Maybe she knew that in the full of 1987
the D.C. Commission for the Arts would
attempt to censor a performance that I
and my artistic collaborator, musician
Wayson Jones, would present as part ofthe city's annual arts awards program. We
were invited by the arts commission to
perform on the program, but we were
not expecting them to attempt to censor
our work, an attempt that was launchedaround the word "corruption" because
the arts commission feared, ironically,that the word would tnsult Mayor Marion
Barry. The pOem, "FamilyJewels," whichcontains the word "corruption," is about
the difficulty Black residents of the city
face getting a cab to stop and take us toour destinations. "Corruption" is used in
the poem only as a passing reference todefine the political context in which thetaxicab humiliations occur.
The director of the arts commission, aBlack woman named Barbara Nicholson,
called me the aftemoon of the program tosuggest that I siJbstitute another word for"corruption" or substitute another poem
for "Family Jewels"~r
don't show up,
excuses would be made for us, and wewould still be paid our performance fee. I
falsely agreed to substitute the poem
knowing that once Wayson and I were on
stage, we would do exactly as we had
intended and read "Family Jewels." Theaudience gave us thunderous applause,and I gave the audience the "tea" concerning the censorship attempt by a commission supposedly designed to support andencourage artistic development.
Perhaps Grandmother knew that
WPfW-FM, a nonprofit progressive radio
station based in Washington, D.C., and amember of the Pacifica broadcast network, would edit poetry that Wayson andI had presented on their "1he Poet and
the Poem" program in 1988. It was one
thing to edit out the language in my workthat the::FCC deems offensive, but it was 'another thing to finally hear the broadcast
and to realize that not just the "seven dirty
words" but "ideas" and "concepts" werealso edited without our permission.
Maybe Grandmother knew that theeditor of a Black literary journal based in
the United StateSwould call me last April
and tell me that I should stop making
public criticisms about the work ofRobert Mapplethorpe
regarding imagesof Black males. Even though the editor
said that he agreed

with my pointofwithinAmericansocietywouldbeattacked by men, like Jesse Helms, who
consider progressive artistic expression to

would demand that artists not trouble thewaters or worry the "party" line. The useof intimidation and the threat of abolishing the NEA will fail to silence the artistic
expression
these social-chaosdemonsfind obscene. As Alfred Hitchcock once
said at the end of one of his 1V pro;grams, "It's amazing what you see when
you don't have a gun." But what we see
is only amazing if we fotget that a stone
dropped Goliath to' his knees.

be "harmful" and "obscene." But thesesame men (and women) find no obscenifor my statements
andty in the cutting and dismantling of social
warned that Sen. Jesse Helms and comservices and programs.
They see nopany could use my commentary to continue attacking the NEA. The editor in , obscenity in the excessive amounts ofmoney spent on the military. They see noquestion is a closeted homosexual who
harm or obscenity in the government's
went on to say that because his journaldeliberately slow response to the AIDS
receives funding from the NEA, he might
see nonot be able to print my work in future is- crisis. And they apparently
Essex HempbaJ is tbe editor of tbe fortbobscenity in th~ fact that each Americansues. I told him that he should Check thesource of his funding addictions and c0n- family will have to pay an average of coming antbology, Brother to Brother:
New Writings by Black Gay Men.
$5,000 in additional taxes to counteract
sider striving for self-sufficiency. If he's
the nation's savings and loan scandal.
running scared because of Jesse Helms,
my comments about Mapplethorpe's images of Black males andthe homoeroticism
in my work,
then the NEA could make him
jump through other hoops in order to keep his funding.
Hemade me realize that there isnothing more detestable than, acowardly,closetedfaggot. I
hold no regrets
about
the
break -in our friendship.
In this same climate of censorship, it should also be noted 'that the gay author,
EdmundWhite, feels that it was "so insulting" of me to comment aitica1ly
about the objectification of Black
males in the work c:i Robert Mapplethorpe.
White's comments
were made in a San Francisco~'11~'
gay' newspaper.
The questionsf..,......,...,...."'vv'-~.;~'-'~'-:;;;-''''.#:--t~;~raised by his, condemnationofAfter Zoen And .... Couple Embracing ..
raving. flNt half of
my remarks include,
Who bas1_ century). Rig"" Zoen Andrea. Couple EmlHwc/ng. ceneorecI

view, he didn't feel that the climate wasappropriate"'-'

the rigbt to crlltque popular culture? ObViously, White doesn't

...

...

think that Black gay men have......
such a right, particularly when
the critique concerns the "sacredcows" of gay culture.
Maybe Grandmotherknew that I
would write" American Wedding" under
the auspices of the NEA grant I received in1986. Yes, it is totally appropriate to cele-brate gay desire and to affirm gay love withfederalliloney.
"American Wedding,"
which closes the CondtNons collection,
begins: "In America/ I place iny ringlon you
cock/where it belongs." It seemed totally
appropriate then (and more so now) that I
would not only buy myself the time to writethat poem, but that I would also subvert the
sanctity of the h~alwedding cererrony fur the affirmation of gay love.
Grandmother must have known thatlittle by little the freedom of expression•', .. <;__

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A. ..... uIt of varloue papal dec..... and moral cOcIM. hunof 18th-cenlury ..... vI.. platH were ceneorecI. mutilated or
IMMIII
hand of. man WM made to appear .elf It .........
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ravI ...

Yes, Grandmother, by now, I believe,
the authorities know that I'm a Black faggot who won't hush his mouth. I use literature,
performanceart and otherdisciplines to affirm not only my African
American heritage but my gay identity as
well. I use all that you and the familytaught me about truth, integrity andcourage. I am only one voice among
many seeking a just American society,seeking racial, economic
and genderequality and an end to govemment-sanctioned domestic terrorism.
What is at risk is the freedom to put
forth ideas that can uplift American society and bring it from under the boot ofmen (and women)
like Helms, who

If You Must Knowby Eileen MylesI

t's
difficult to be honest about this. I
am a lesbian artist, that's not the difficult part--being
a lesbian isn't reallya choice and maybe being an artist isn't,
either. It's so grand, this concept we haveabout
artists-it's
like
going
to
heav~deveryone wants to be one
because then, what, your life will havemeaning, or you'll be visible, possibly
rich and famous--real sainthood. I was achild artist before I was a full-grown lesbian artist and censorship
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religious painting,. you could win a prize
In the art f.llr. By hlgh school I did cartoons and was blackmailed (censored) ,out Of publishing one that mocked myEnglish teacher who I had given "the finger" to one day in class behind his backwhen he made some joke that suggested
I was butch. People went ooh, and hefound out what I had done and said, okay
Myles I wOn't send you to the principal's
office if' you don't publish that cartoon. So
I didn't. I was ~disqualified from theschool talent show for writing a song thatlaughed at our school uniform. There's
a1ways someone who doesn't want you tosay something. And you have to decide
how much it's worth it to you to say it.
And will they pay you for saying it?
, Over the years, I've often picked up"seriously"
or considers
them a realreflection of who's making important art
today-'cause
who knows that?
It's been fushionable to write about
sex for a while now. There's a real pressure to make sexual work if you want tobe "avant-garde." Now I read in papers
that thanks to Jesse Helms et al., there isan avant-garde again, there Is a bohemia.
Now that pisses me off. It's elevating thestatus of a government grant-giving agency to something it's never been, and it'salso saying that if Jesse says black, we
say white, and white is great art. It's
handing way too much power over toour oppressors. I don't want to spend mylife as a working artist giving the finger to
my English teacher behind his back or to
his face.' I don't want to write songs

almost censored.
Rememberradicalchic?), and the whole thing will be rendered innocuous somehow, as soon as
the government can figure it out. Who
to pay and how to pay them. It's so middle-class. Meanwhile women are losing
the right to control their bodies state bystate. If every one of us who ever got
pregnant-let
us not forget the procreative contributionsof lesbians and gay
men-wentand had those babies, there
would be a lot less art and/or a lot different art. How much did abortion uponrequest fuel the gay-rights movement?
The whole NEA furor is a red flag
waved in our faces so everyone
canstomp and shout and get distracted Oikethe flag-burning issue) from the government's dirtier deeds. Like abortion, like

DIego Rivera, detail of Detroit. Man and Machi". (1932) prepar8d for Detroit Institute of Arts.
Outraged citizen. charged the museum director with seiling out lie wall. to "an outside, half.
breed Mexican BOlehevlet." Then, In 1934, when the owners of Rockefeller Center discovered a
portrait head of lenin In Rlvera'e Man at the Crossroads
Life, the arll.t was ordered to halt
woirk on the comml •• loned mural. Deeplte promise. by the Rockefellers that the work... 11 not be deetroyedi nor In any way mutilated," and offers to move the mural safely,
the wall and Ita oHendlng Image. were pulverized Into duet.

0'the.list of who won NEA grants or New
York FQundation for the Arts grants andthoughtthat some of these people
should be paid to not make art. The
quality Control has always seemed pretty
wildcat. Often the mediocre are reward'. ed; and you send in your box top eachdeadline hoping this year your friend
will be a judge and you'll get a grant.
Yoµ know, so you'll be able to get out of
the thousands of dollars of debts 'yOu've
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laughing at the school unifonn. I'm out ofschool. I can take my big lesbian sensibility and drag it all over the universe writing about anything and everything. I'm
the new universal. We can't let censorship or fashion or government funding or
career fear or journalists define our roleas artists and direct our content
Frankly, the furor about the NEA
bores me. The art world Is not a pretty
place. The censored artists will makestatements and get big publicity (People
are lining up to say that they too were

the savings and loan thing. Didn't Oliver
North just get off?
There's got to be some new way oflooking at art-making
in our society.
There can't be a new bohemia because
the ideals dated. There's no place slow
and separate to go now. There's no placecheap and quiet. (Maybe not in New
York. Lucky me, who came here whenoblivion was possible, so I had time tolearn how to write.) Forget the avantgarde. The media· Is too quick. It takes
the new idea and makes it the old idea inmillions of homes in several seconds.
Once you can fax the future it's the past.
"The world" won't be ready for gay art
for some time. They'll be wanting us tobe "bad" or recognizable; they'll be wan~ing us to do a gay version of what theySome of us will be lucky enoughto get funded off and on along the way. I
hope the government throws me a bone.
But it won't make me love America.
Didn't I grow up here? Isn't it clearer
every day what the lies of our culture are
all about? I think that the "patriarchy" isexploding from the inside.
I've heard people say that if we
don't get funded by the NEA, it sends asignal to the corporations not to fundus. What then? Wlll we stop making art
when the corporations stop funding us?
Did we become artists to become orstay middle-class? To be government
employees? Personally, I wanted to get
off the wheel. I didn't want to be likemy parents (frustrated working-class) or
my friends' parents (smug middlecla5$). I thought "art" was someplaceelse to go. It's not. It's something to dowhile the world ends. If this is lesbian
heaven (no air conditioning
and acheap word-processor), so be it.

of the work, aJlhough he's the one makIng all the speeches-tellIng us what to
do wtth our bodies, teJJtng us that we
can't represent our lIves.
-Greggmow.

Eileen Myles ts a poet who perfonns andwrites plays and articles about the arts.

Fund This,
Muthafucka
by Richard Elovich
The Integrity of our society ts at stake.
The InstttUlions comprlstng our government have rellnqutshed all social
responstbtlity. It's true. Poor people
have been forced to take responstbtlity
for poverty. People of color have been
forced to take all responstbtllty for lIberation around race reJattons. Women,
lesbians and gay men have been forced
to take responstbtllty for sexual liberation. Lesbians and gay men are theonly people In the country addresstng
Issues of sexual tdenNty and sexual orientation. In short, all the oppressedgroups In the Untied States have been
forced to take responstbtlity for all theIntellectual and sptritual work thts
countty needs to do to grow and survtve as a naUon. I don 't see the straIght
whtte,man wtth money doIng hts share

Bordowitz

of the four solo performance grants must
be seen in the context of the government's continued indifference and inaction in the AIDS crisis. The government
should be paying for safer-sex education.
The government should be paying for
AIDS prevention programs (condoms,
clean bleach and needle exchange). The'
government should be paying for gay art
along the lines of affirmative action.
Many straight-identified people in the arts
community have taken a "wait and see"attitude toward censorship. They may
consider writing a letter in support offreedom of expression, but they don't
want to be too confrontational. They
don't see that they have a personal stakein the censorship of Hughes and Fmley,
Mapplethorpe and Wojnarowicz. Theirmethods of denial-"My work isn't like
that," "They were asking for it," "1bey'rejust looking for attention," "This will help
their careers"--is reminiscent of the dominant attitudes that continue to surroundthe AIDS crisis. As long as it is affecting
only homosexuals, drug addicts, Haitians,
poor women and people of color-"thatgroupo_AIDS isn't news fit to ,print for
the white heterosexual community. The
right people aren't dying yet.
Straight and gay artists and arts
organizations must openly challenge therestrictive language attached to funding
contracts. Though it sounds legal (andintimidating), this obscene abridgmentof the First Amendment wouldn't holdup in a court of law and is not consistent with the charter upon which the
NEA was founded. The far Right contends that if you get money from theAmerican government, you have toaccept restrictions on your freedom of
expression. If you receive funding from .
a government founded on the principleof free speech, you cannot be required
through a contract to forfeit that privilege. That is what an "inalienable right"

hat is the issue here? John
Frohnmayer, chair of the
NEA, denied funding to foursolo theater artists whose
work was unanimously recommended
for funding by a peer review. The NEA
is mandated to distribute funds based on
artistic merit as determined through apeer-review panel, just as a committeeof scientists determines funding for
research science. The "political realities"
and "political climate" cited by the NEA
chair in denying the four grants have noplace in this process. In attempting toappease the homophobic and misogynist agenda of Jesse Helms andCompany, Frohnmayer has failed in his
responsibility to protect the integrity ofthe peer-review process from considerations other than artistic merit.
An earlier attempt at national arts
funding, the WPA, was destroyed in thelate '40s by Sen. Joseph McCarthy, whoclaimed that it was riddled with communists and other subversives. Savaged
by a wolf pack of fundamentalist leaders, conservative members of Congressand sensationalisticcolumnists, theNEA is likely to face a similar fate. Withit will go national tours of art exhibitions, performance artists and dancetroupes whose production costs cannot
be covered by the state and municipal
funds available to the small organizations in which the work is presented.
By defunding
Hughes, Finley,
Fleck and Miller, the NEA itself has
already begun the process of restricting
audiences and deciding who may see
what, and where. Today's scapegoatsmeans.
are gays, lesbians and women who
Some in the gay community anddeal explicitly with their own sexuality
the arts community have questioned
and speak out against _a society thatthe integrity or "quality" of the four tartolerates
violence
against them.
Defunding effectively restricts all but geted artists' work. That's just as pernicious as Frohnmayer using politiCS or
the most commercial artists to theirsexual orientation
as criteria. One
own cities (read: their own ghettos).
artist's potshots at Holly Hughes in last
The issue here?" Homophobiathough hardly anybody's Willing to say week's Newsday appeared to be theso. In the list of restrictions now attached product of a mind consumed withcareer ambitions, functioning from ato NEA funding contracts, the word
"homoerotic" leaps out. No other group privileged position of not having toworry about public funding. I could go
has been so blatantly targeted. The anti,gay and anti-sex bias in the overturning on and on about Hilton Kramer andW

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~
Helen Frankenthaler, but I am moretroubled by o,ur own infighting, wh~rewe self-righteousfy call into question
each other's motives' or dedication,building up our individual stature orpolitical correctness at the expense ofothers, rather than working together
to confront the real enemies. Why are
we debating in arts pages whether
these four artists possess enough artistic quality? Why are we debating in
gay newspapers whether they are gay
enough to deserve our support? The
struggle against those who wish to see
us back in the closet, or at least contained in a ghetto, demands a deeper,
more loving commitment to an inclu, sive community than the immediately
gratifying sensation of putting eachother aown. We need to direct ouroutrage at Jesse Helms and anyone
else who is complicitouswith his
agenda-membersof Congress, thepreSident, Christian fundamentalists,
the NEA chair, as well as anyone in
the freedom-of-expression,~nti-censorship movement who is reluctant tospeak up for us, reluctant to name thespecificity of out oppression, afraid ofturning
off middle
America byembracing our overt queerness.
The defunding of these artists cannot be isolated from our ongoing struggle against homophobia.
This is a
struggle for our visibility. We have aright as individuals,
in our own
idiosyncratic manner, to represent ourselves. The gay and l~bian community
knows from our experience in the
AIDS crisis that lobbying politicians is
not enough. We cannot afford to wait.
Jesse Helms and Company must be
confronted-loudly,
rudely, queerly.
Ricbard Elovtcb is an individual tbeater artist wbo bas been recommended
for funding by tbe NEA. He is a gay
man and an AIDS activist and bas
called for all artists and arts organtzatiOns awarded NEA funding to openly
use a portion of tbetr NEA monies tosupport artists and arts organizations
targeted.by tbe NEA.

, A Burning Issue.

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The title of the book refers to the temperature at which the spontaneous
combustion of paper occurs. In thisscience-fiction
scenario, books-all
books--«re destroyed by the government-ahorrifying concept. In the
16th and 17th centuries, many women
were burned alive as punishment forbeing witches, a definition applied atthat time to almost any outspoken,
heretical woman.
While Jesse Helms and the rightwing conservatives that he represents
have not succeeded in completely
eliminating ideas that they find threatening, it is clear that there is a siege on
against expression of ideas supportiveof lesbian, gay and feminist cultures.
Ironically, in a recent panel on this
topic, performance artlstHolly Hughes
was discussing the question of censorship-calling herself a "communist dujour" (in reference to the McCarthyera). Someone from the audience
asked, "But is it really censorship--likethey have in Iran or China? After all,you're not dead for expu::ssing theseideas!" We do not have to wait until all
the books are burned, literally or figuratively, to see this as a major crisis
demanding a powerful response fromthe gay and lesbian community.
Attacks by right-wing fanatics havebeen a part of my personal consciousness for nearly ten years. In Southern
California, where I live, evangelicals
back in 1980 effectively removed acourse from the Women's Studies Department curriculum and closed the
University Women's Center at California State University at Long Beach forfrankly discussing lesbianism andwomen's health issues, including contraception and abortion. IMRU, a gay
and lesbian radio program on the local
Pacifica KPFK-FM station, aired Robert
Chesley's play jerker in 1986 and has
been involved ever since in costly legal
and licensing struggles with the Federal
Communications Commission.
There are many people who canwrite about the constitutional issues
involved in the current brouhaha over
the NEA. The perspective I bring tothis, in addition to the longeVity of myinvolvement with these issues, is thatof a Black lesbian with disabilities. As alesbian, I am well aware of the homophobia that is the explicit geneSis ofthese attacks on the artists involved,
most of whom are gay men or lesbiansor have "homoerotic" themes in theirwork. I am concerned about the narrow focus of the response from the gay
and lesbian community to this issue.
As a Black lesbian and as a lesbian with disabilities, I am very awareof the issues of oppression that function within our community to divide
us. Racism is a reality. Ableism is areality. Sexism is a reality. However, I
have observed within the community aphenomenon that frightens me. Two
specific examples:
At the Outwrite '90 National lesbian and Gay Writers Conference in
San Francisco, Essex Hemphill delivered a moving keynote speech about
the isolation he feels as a Black gay
man. During his remarks, he mentioned the racism he observes in thework of Robert Mapplethorpe, one of
the artists targeted in the current attacks on the NEA. There were several
responses to Hemphill's speech, criticizing him for expressing anything other than total support for Mapplethorpe.
In the "PoliCing Our Desire: Censorshipand Lesbian and Gay Writing" panel at
the same conference, I expressed myconcern that. the call to end all censorship would be interpreted in such a
way as to silence my criticism as an
oppressed person of the oppressive
behavior, particularly racism, which I
experience within the lesbian and gay
community. When I expressed my concern that racist violence can lead todeath, a woman in the audience responded, ·You're not dead yet."
These examples illustrate what I
think is an important distinction thatneeds to be made between strategy
and principles. I believe with all myheart that censorshipis immoral.
However, I have a specific definitionof the word "censorship." I use thatword to define legal and externalsanctions imposed by the government(or its representatives, such as the FCC
and the NEA) in an effort to limit orobliterate the expression of certain
ideas--« definition that takes as given
the power to punish or control the
behavior of another.
When I speak out vehemently toprotect my right to criticize the oppreSsive elements in the work of a particular artist, I do not have the power towithhold money from or arrest that
artist. I am empowered by speaking
out against the oppression and hope toimpact on the artist's consciousness sothat future work will not reflect thesame oppressive ideas. To think otherwise uses logic analogous to arguments
regarding "reverse discrimination" inthe workplace: While I, as a Black person, may have opportunities as a resultof affirmative action that individuallyaffect another white person, the social
construct in our culture places powerin the hands of white people, notBlack people.
In attempting to silence valid criticism in the name of unity around thiscensorship issue, I think that gay andlesbian artists have missed an opportunity to develop
real unity byaddressing the dimensions of diversity. There is not one gay and lesbian
culture, although by default white gay
men are assumed to represent the gay
and lesbian community. The reality isthat the lesbian community is invisible
because of sexism, people of color
within the gay and lesbian community
are invisible because of racism, andpeople with disabilities are invisible
because of ableism. An ostrich-withits-head-in-the-sand approach will noteffectively change that reality. Rather,it seems important to recognize that abalance can be struck between adenial of these divisive issues and afalling prey to the kind of infightingthat saps energy needed to confront
the external threat. I believe that balance comes from an analysis of thelarger problem of oppression in the
United States.
Not so long ago, it was acceptableto call someone a "nigger," to specify"white only" in job advertising and toeducate Black people in separate andinferior schools. With the legal protections of the '60s (including the Civil
Rights Act and the Voting Rights
Act-bothin jeopardy today) white
people know that there are penalties
for overt discrimination. There are nosuch legal protections nationally for gay
men and lesbians, although there has
been some local and state legislation to
gUarantee our civil, rights. This makes
the gay and lesbian community vulnerable to attacks from all homophobic
sectors of the society, whether or notthey are Christian fundamentalists.
Rather than silencing the voicesof those within the gay and lesbiancommunity who are speaking out
against their oppression, a wiser strat-

Recently,
four grants
Were
rescindedby Frohnmayer,
grantsawarded by a peer-review panel totwo gay men and two women, one alesbian. The straight woman, in performances and writings, puts reality dn
the table in terms of the treatment of
women in America. The excuse foryankingthe, grants
was,in
Frohnmayer's own words, "politicalrealities," which, in this case, refers to
the fact that all four artists deal withsexuality in their work. Certain cult
Ayofemi Folayan Is a writer, performer , religions and extreme right-wing politiand activist who lives in Los Angeles. cians and groups have made sure that
Her «Llberatton Logic" column can be the human body is still a taboo subject
in 1990. (Never mind the fact that weread regularly in OutWeek.
were all forced to endure the media

egy may be to actively work to build
coalitions with them. This means anactive commitment
to anti-racism
work and anti-ableism work so thatthe coalition process does not perpetuate patterns of oppression. Strong
coalitions working together can move
more effectively against the power
brokers who would love to see us
fighting among ourselves for the
crumbs instead of creating enoughbread for all to eat.

~~~~------------~------------~"~
Robert Mapplethorpe at an exhibition of hi. work in 1978.
Among the photograph. mounted in the background i. hi.
highly Inflammatory Se"-Portra/t.

With Our Eyes andHands and Mouths
by D~vid Wojnarowicz

J

ohn Frohnmayer, head of the
NEA, is doing it to us again.
That should hardly be surprising to anyone who has follo"{edFrohnmayer's various pronouncements
and interviews: The guy talks out of 20
sides of his mouth at once.

spectacle surrounding the polyps in
Ronald Reagan's colon.) When it
comes to our own bodies and our own
needs, the social mirror contained in
the mass media has no reflection.
Public works have never been so
important and necessary as they aretoday. For each grant rescinded in thename of politics and homophobia,
p~blic works can be made in response
and in anticipation. If they want tomake our bodies and minds invisible,
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streets of Washington and the rest of battlefield. Just as activism ranges from, the continent. If the Gran Fury pOster street protests to service provision,is stricken from the, transit system in' what we might call "oppositional"
media also, means distinct things across
Chicago, let's put up 20 different
posters on those same buses and , divergent communities and eras.
trains. Those among us who can put
together radio and TV transmission
devices should do, so and break into
the airwaves with safer-sex information, telephone numbers and addresses
where people can find access toorganizations. We have all the tools of
the corporate world at our disposai-Fax
and Xerox machines, automatic 35mm and video cameras. We
can construct a wall of reality in theform of words, sounds and images
that can transcend the state- and institution-sponsoredignorance in whichmost people live. We have mirrors,
we have cameras, we have typewriters and we have ourselves and ourlovers and friends--we can document
our bodies and minds and their functions and diversities. With our eyes
and hands and mouths we can fightand transform.

homeless people with HIV and AIDS.
Again, the circumstances of each ofthese events-ranging from the rage ofa repressed gay Italian Catholic to thepeculiarities of my phobic hometown

Davtd WOjnarowtcz is an artist livtng
in New York City.

Parting a Sea of Ink
by TomKalin-A

ea of ink has been spilled on
both sides of the proverbial
fence regarding the impact ofcensorship at tQis specific historicalmoment. I find it a particularly daunting ~k to spill more in an attempt toclearly state the issues, much less generalize about strategies of resistance.
To speak of censorship in the arts-without first situating it within an elaborate series of permissions and withholdings which threatens to control~very movement of our collective andindividual bodies-would
be a dangerous omission. Censorship proceedsfrom inside our lives and is imposedfrom the outside as well: a process
which mirrors both the complex formation of our identities and single decisive 'acts, (such as the NEA's recent
denial of grants to Holly Hughes,
Karen Finley, Tim Miller and John
Fleck). Censorship has meant, and willcontinue to mean, different things at
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.lessica Tanzer, Bear & Aphra (1989). Tanzer's photographs
have appeared in On Our Backs, the perenniallycontroversial lesbian sex magazine.
Most of.my firsthand experience of
censorship has been through Gran
Fury,inc1uding the current situation in
Chicago involving Kissing Doesn't Kill,
the Venice Biennale or, more recently, a
project at Petrosino Park critical of the
Dinkins administration's handling ofof Chicago--are specific, not reducible
to a formula of repression. Retaliation
against censorship must similarly makeitself flexible, strategic and contingent
to the situation. The political andbureaucratic deployment of arts censorship will remain an effective smokescreen for fuckpigs from hell like
Helms if we fail to reflect the complicated interweaving of class, race, gender and sexuality in our direct-action
politics. Censorship is about, among
other things, access. This battle is being
fought on a wider variety of fronts thanmany of us imagine.
Reclaiming sex in my work helps
resist mythologies such as "family" orthat great, big white "general population." It also gives me back my bodya way of refusing to be separated frommy skin even while I live inside it.
Like most people I know, my relationship to my own body-as both physical self and political battlefield-has
been profoundly and perhaps irreversibly impacted on by the epidemicof HIV infection-not
only by thephysical aspects but also by the tissueof texts and images which have constituted the epidemic. Each battle overcensorshipis a testament
to how
deeply branded we are by the worldof images and the signs of social coercion. Sen. Helms' amendments make it
clearer than ever that the mere representation of our sexualities is a form of
opposition.
I offer the following quotations in
an attempt to recognize our bodies as
the ultimate site of control, a locationin which the construction of identity
meets the surveillance of the physical.
(Or maybe just to spill more ink andcomplicate the debate.)
It should be noted that {in the early
19th century] ((the crime against
nature" was not confined to buggery
between men but covered a range ofsexual acts which included most forms
of nonreproductive sexual behavior.
The list was broad enough to include
heterosexual buggery, oral sex, bestiality and, in some circumstances, the useof contraception.
-Stuart Marshall, "Picturing
Deviancy" (from Ecstatic Antibodies)
We need a politics of representation that can expose the real consequences of familial ideology and its
impoverished vision of what it means to
be a woman or a man, a parent or achild ...
-Simon Watney, Taking Liberties
For homosexuality, as Judith
Williamson has obseroed, can threaten

not only "thefamily" but also its narrative: ((Grow up, get married,bave cbildren, repeat."-Mandy Merck, "A Case of AIDS"(from Ecstatic Antibodies)_ It is politically vital for gay people
to organize and defend our rigbt to ouroum sexualities, but we should be clearthat a radical perspective does notmean defending a gay ethnicity (theequivalent of a national or racial identity). Freedom for gay people will notcome simply wben we bave better factlities, freedom to marry or inherit propertYi it will develop as rigid cultural
categories are broken down. It is aparadox tbat the only way for this tobappen is througb using tbese categories, organizing within tbem andbursting tbeir bonds.
-Gay Left Collective, London,
1978 (from Pink Triangles)
This is tbe crime of wbich I accuse
my country and my countrymen, andfor wbich neither I nor time nor bistory
will ever forgive them, that they bave
destroyed and are destroying bundredsof thousands of lives and do not know
it and do not want to know it.
--:James Baldwin, The Fire Next TimeTom Kalin is a video maker based in
New York City. He also works witb tbe
AIDS-activist art collective Gran FUry.

"...And where will/you
be/When they come?"·by Beatrix GatesW

e all' know that Jesse
Helms is trying to destroy
the NEA, but do we know
who created it, what it does or why it
is so important? Adam Clayton Powell,Jr., drafted the original legislation creating the NEA almost 25 years ago.
Alcoholism and a suspiciously longlingering case implicating him in abribery scam eventually
brought
Powell down, but not without theprotest and support of his Harlem
constituents and the complicity of the
Senate's well-orchestrated
racism.
Powell knew the power of art andculture as survival tools and gifts to bepassed on. He established access for
all people as the keystone of his progressive legislative legacy by making it
impossible for allocated federal funds
to be used to maintain the color bar.
One of the lessons from this-besides,
The price of admission to the club is ,slaughter-is the classic, "One of you
is OK, but just don't open the wholeplace up to 'them.'" Lesbians and gays
are too visible in 1990, and creating
access for "them" and to "them" iswhat Helms is fighting so hard.
This is all the same battle, onlywith supposedly different targets moving in and out of focus. One day a
printer destroys the plates of a bookon male masturbation published by
Down There Press; the next day threelesbian NEA recipients are identified
in Helms' hate-mail campaign, followedby the arrest of LutherCampbell of 2 Live Crew for performing sexually explicit lyrics in Miami.
Jesse Helms wants to make it impossible for allocated federal funds to be
used to support, recognize,
offer
exposure to or sustain gay and lesbianart. He also aims to give censorshiplegitimacy by making us the pariah.
Times sure have twisted.
The trendsetting censorship model, the Helms Amendment, now hangs
like a guillotine's shadow across boththe integrity of the current NEA funding procedure and the free speech ofgays, lesbians and all people whose
voice challenges the bigotry of thehate-mongering
Right. The Helms
Amendment requires this year's individual grant recipients to sign a loyalty oath promising that "none of thefunds authorized to be appropriatedfor the National Endowment for theArts ...[will] be used to promote, disseminate or produce materials which,in the judgment of the NEA...may beconsidered obscene, including, but
not limited to, depictions of sadomasochism, homoeroticism, the sexual exploitation of children or individuals engaged in sex acts and which,taken as a whole, do not have literary, artistiC, political or scientifiC value." Take it seriously.
Gay and lesbian art expresses
who we are and how we live and provides visions of identity and cotnlllunity that not only surpass the white patriarchy but also represent a strong,multiracial, mutlilingual pride. I wantAugust 8, 1990

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to focus on the incalculable contribution& of the small presses as well as
the threat posed to their publishing of
lesbian and gay writing, made by thecurrent c~llenge to the NEA. First off,
I want to thank the early small presses
for their contribution to the witnessingof our lives through titles such as Thts
Bridge called My Back, edited by Glorioi Anzaldua and Cherrie Moraga(Persephone), The Faggots and Their
Friends Between Revolutions by Larry
Mitchell (Calamus Books), Witchcraft
and The Gay Counterculture
byArthur Evans (Fag Rag Books) and)publishingfounder June Arnold's
book, Stster Gin (Daughters).
'
NEA funding for small-press publishing has not always been a given,and I don't mean to imply that all
books have been funded, but that the
NEA has become a real force in supporting small-press publishing. For
small presses to meet operating
expenses and pay production, distribution and promotional costs for thebooks-nevermind salaries-while
publishing challenging material of
quality, remains extremely difficult
without funding. I urge you to support

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the gay and lesbian small-press publishers who are still out there breaking
their butts.
As a lesbian poet and small-press
publisher at Granite Press (1973-1989),
I am keenly aware of the role of NEA
funding in assisting the cost of production, distribution and promotion of p0etry books. I also know that poetry survives in book form by the slimmest
means and even with funding is published by the small presses at considerable risk. To talk about publishing poetry is to talk about censorship in themost tragic sense. The truth is that thiscountry has no commitment to the truth
demanded by poetry, yet gay and lesbian poets have been some of the mostformative voices of our movementAdrienne Rich and Audre Lorde come
immediately to mind, but many othervoices offer a rich fabric of awareness:
Dorothy Allison, Mark Ameen, James
Baldwin, Cheryl Oarke-the list covers
three generations of inspiration. How
have these poets been essential to you?
Many have reached out of their poems
as teachers and mentors supporting thenext poem. These poets have published with small presses, some of theirown creation, and include presses suchas Fairybooks, Diana Press, Calmus
Books, Crossing, Firebrand, Kitchen
Table: Women of Color Press, Granite
Press, Sinister WISdom Books, Be Bop
Books, Long Haul Press, Grace Publications, Thunder's Mouth, Curbstone,
Spinster's Ink and Out and Out Books.
Some of these presses have gone outof business;others are emerging
strongly and couldn't be doing morenecessary work.
As a poet, I have also had a poetry manuscript accepted pending NEA
funding which, when not forthcoming, killed the project. At that point in
time, I had already submitted themanuscript 40 times. On the otherside, as a publisher, I've received
books I would have loved to publish
but didn't have the money or thetime. No one working as a small-press
publisher has the time to write thearticle I'm writing today. They are toobusy doing the 90 necessary jobs thatlarger publishers have whole departments to take care of-I do not exaggerate-andthese' people may haveother jobs as .well. I know that I
did-waitress,
hardware store clerk,
librarian, teacher, graphic designer,

Men & Films

11:30 pm

August.5
Tony Davis and his
beautiful bed. Clips from
"Carnival Tails,""Brotherly Love,""Pumping Up."W';

Be My Guest

AUGUSTe

10:00 pm

Sybil Bruncheon hosts a panel gam~show with s~rprise gu~s~s.

MORE FUN AT THE
GRACE JONES CONCERTC.,.br,111II'fh ,.ar. 'Comln," 'lDokllllXllu"ns InAu,ustl'.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.'

job printer. Every book sale counts. ,, I do believe, stubbornly, that once
heard, poetry can do pretty well. I
know that I sold 5,000 of Grace Paley's
Leaning Forwarci and more than 1,500
of Joan Larkin's A Long Sound and wastold by a larger publisher, who does"some" poetry, that they never expected to sell over a thousand copies of
poetry, tops. Then again~ the shorter
the shelf life of a book and the fasterthe profit, the better for the big boys.
Small presses have an interest in bothkeeping a book in print and encouraging readers to shop from their backlistof books in print. Selling books inlibraries and schools is paramount ineducating people about lesbian andgay life. A book like Home Girls or
Thts Bridge Called My Back, two bestsellers kept in print by Kitchen Table:
Women of Color Press, have madeimmeasurable
contributions
to theincreased visibility of lesbians andwomen of color in many communities.
Without the NEA, you will not bereading your favorites, never mind
anyone new, and you can forget poetry altogether. Funding is also given to
support reading series, which, in turn,are able to pay writers a fee. Without
funding, there won't be any reading

A -Provocative New Look at
Sexuarlfy and the Church
LIVING IN SIN?
A Bishop Rethinks
Human Sexuality

John Shelby Spong• Should the church receive
homosexuals into its fellowship and support responsible,
committed gay and lesbian
couples?
• Should the widowed beallowed to form intimate
relationships without
remarryi ng?
• Should congregations, publicly and liturgically witness and affirm divorces?
In his most controversial book ever, 8 ishop Spong calls for a new
moral vision to empower the church with a more inclusive
teaching about equal, loving, nonexploitative human relationships ..Addressing the conc:erns of real people in real situations,
he writes with candor, courage, and compassion.

series, never mind the space in what
may be the latest defunct theater. In
fact, imagine a situation in which theprinter objects to the material (as happened most recently with AIDS DemoGrapbies), delaying the release date,
and the book is produced, but withno publicity, due to lack of funds,
and with no public readings, sincenone could be booked. No reviews
are published
for this Imagined,
quickly-becoming-Imaginary
book,because none of the surviving publications now include gay and lesbianart due to the fact that their funding
would be jeopardized. How would
you know about such a book? And if
there was no .budget for a promotional flier or catalog, how would thebook .be ordered? If there were no
grants to progressive distributors, who
would distribute the gay and lesbian
titles nationally to get the attention
they deserve? How would the gay,lesbian and women's bookstores survive this? With no books?
This is the live dang~r I am talking about, and access is the key. The
slow dismembermentof the smallpress book trade, as well as the eligibility of gay and lesbian writers toreceive funding for their work, are thethreats that I want you all to know
about. Even if we are still writing, whowill publish us if the small presses are
no longer functioning? What we need
now is to continue NEA funding withno restrictions--in order just to keep
the small presses alive and keep our
books out there.
Get ahold of Pat Parker's poem
"Where Will You Be." Read it. Then dowhatever you do best in your name.
Out loud.
·Pat Parker, "Where Will You Be,"
Movement in Black, Diana Press, 1978
(reprinted by Firebrand, 1989); also in
Lesbian Poetry, eds. Elly Bulkln and
Joan Larkin, Persephone, 1981, andGay and Lesbian Poetry in Our TIme,
eds. Carl Mores and Joan Larkin, St.
Martin's Press, 1989....

Paperback, $9.95
Available at your local bookstore.
Also available·from HarperCoilins Canada Ltd.

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A Division of HarperCollinsP.blishers

August 8, 1990

Beatrlx Gates ts a poet (Naming the
Waves, Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our
Time) who pu.bltshed poetry books by
women from 1973-1989 as Granite
Press. She lives in Brooklyn.

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AN EVENTS
SaId c:Ueoar IteIu toa
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Items IIlUIIt be receiftcl by
Mooday CO be lDcluded In the Col-knriDa week'.I8Iae.

fiI'It presented
at City H.lrs Tweed Gallery in 11118,a show
of IKI photos portraying NYC'. g.y/lelblan
history, pr.- and post-Stonew.lI; at the
C.nter, 201 W 13 St, 3rdFloor; d.lly, 4-6
pm, 620-7310 (thru JULY31)
r Wood"thoseg.th.r.d will welther avoyag. throughthe collectively uncon.clousmind. ofAm.ric .... ls th.r •• water con.plracy?
Is the Gr.at Flood upon us, or Is that justthe ceiling leaking again? I. there •fem.l.
or.cle hidden In a .uburbant •• n'. clos.t? Or are we all terribly
deluded?"; 156 Rivlngton St, w.st of
Clinton (F train to Essex St); WED-FRI at
8:30 pm; $5; 254-3697 (thru AUGUST 2)
ABC NO RIO pr.s.nts

ADVANCEhry'.

TENTH PRECINCT offe ... AIxIII-.y Pollee..... Iallll CI......
AUG 7 - OCT ", with'classlI meeting at 230 W 20 St; Tuesdays, 7-9 pm; topics cov.red will be firstaid, •• If d.fens., social .clence, I.gal
conc.m. regarding arreSlland inteMlntiona; register Tue.day thru Saturday, 311 pm, with Officer Buonocore, 741-821~
furthar info from Kevin Creedon, 5IIi-8538
SLOPE ACTIVITIESFOR LESBIANS
Allllust 23-28 Provincie*,_
Fllld Trip,
four days of biking, hiking, hOI18&ack ridIng, whal. watching, fishing, sunning,night lif., dining, shopping, swimming,
windsurfing, musaum, lighthous., dancIng, boating and "hanging out with lOISof
gay folks"; 71111965-7578 (rsvp for SAL's
hot. Is were due JULY 6; rsvp for SAl's
activities are being accapted NOW)DOWNTOWN COMMUNITYTELEVISION Call for Tepe. for LookOllt La",." .IHIS., W". FallNI W, for six
nights In October; "by qu.ar. or forqu •• rs or_ about, queer. or all of tha
abov."; all vld.o-masteredmodes OK,no film to video; no .ntryfe., .mall honoraria; Lookout, c/o DClV, 87 ,",fayette
St, NYC 10013; 941-1298 (entries
acc.pted thru AUG 10)
NA110NAL GAY &: I£SBIAN TASK FORCE(3rd Annu.1) Nov ..... rCUll,. Conf8reac., for gay- &: I.sbianorganizing and skill building; at Hofiday Inn
Metrodome, Minn.apolis-St.
Paul, MN,
"where the men are good looking, thewom'.n are strong, and gay and lesbiancivil right& are above average"; 42 workshops Include discussions of gay/l8lblan
marriag.10r
notl, In the syatem/ln the
Slre8lS, ero.rglng sexual strategies amonggay m.n, I.sbian .exuality, outing, hat.
crimes, bisexuality and gay/lesbian, politics; more; vidllOS, brochur. swapping,welcome reception Kate ClI_.
in conc.n, dancing; $1201 •• b.for. SEPT
141$150after; info from NGLTF, 1517 U Sf.
.NW; Wash DC 20000 (reg~r by OCT31)

H.....

0.,." ••• ", S,..".. "HOME FOR CONTEMPORARY THEATRE
AND
ART
(with
PEGGY
HILL
ROSENKRANZ) op.ns Joe Plntalro'.
Ralt of th• ."" .... dlr.cted by Sal Trapani; "the pl.y focuses on a grouptherapy session of people with AIDS after am.mber of the group cfNl$. 12 young people
facing death unita, and In an explosion ofanger, humor and compassion, act out
againsttheir desIruction"; 44 Walkar $1;$12;
TUES-SUN, 8 pm; 431-7434(lhru AUG 4)
PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS presents
Willie.
Fla.'s F./tIftO/."", the lastpart of • trilogy(startingwith In
Trousers) in which M.rvin confronts
AIDS; with HNtIIer MacRae, CIIlp ZIeII,
St.ph.a10Ilard •• , Mlc ••• 1 Rlp,rt,Da •• y G.r.rd,
Faith PrlDc., JII.t
Mertz; 416 W 42 Sf; $22-$24; TUE-FRI at
8 pm, SAT at3 &. 8 pm, SUN at3 &. 7 pm;
279-4200 (thru AUG 12)""2 e,.."., RIVERWEST THEATER pr.sents RoHlt

LIVELY ARTS

(Also see the daily listings,how(ing)s of one or two days.)

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for

cell

Th. G.y It L.ablanof N.w York

Swltohbo.rd

d.lly, noon to midnight,
212-777-1800

CALENDARCENTER NA110NAL MUSEUM OF LESBIAN &. GAY HISTORY

New York, NY 10108

for eddltlon.llnformatlon,

IIIIII's ......
QdIra about a basebal playarwho is 0UIIld by a ntWSpllper; 1!1i Bank $I;$12; for delalls csl2G6l!i9(thru AUG 121

RIVERSIDE CHURCH SOCIAL JUS11CE
MINISTRY
AID. Awe,.. ... 0/1Gall S. Goodman'.
photo.,
cloll-up,of pan.l. from tha Name.
Project quilt; Riv .... lde Church, Rlver.id. Dr. at 120 St (#1/19 to 11I1(8way);d.ily, 9 am - 9 pm; free (Editor'. Idea:
Follow thl. with the b.autiful
vl.w
from the B.II Tower.),1."

PROVINCETOWN'S
GIFFORD HOUSE
HOTEL pr ••• nts K.rry A•• IO.'.
WI/". 1,1,1t, a one-man play withmusic bas.d on the life .nd works ofOscar Wild.;
9-11 Carv.r
Str .. t,
Provincetown, MA; $10; WED-SAT at 7
pm (also on JULY 2 &. 3, and SEPT 2; 7pm); 50lIl487-6400 (thru SEPT 15)

n.

S.""•• R.,.,••,UViNG THEATRE prunents ErIc I....
I.y'.
direct.dbyJudith Malina; 272 E 3 Sf; $10 gen.ral/$7 students .nd •• nlofl/pay-what-youcan on W.d and Thurs; WED-SUN, 8
pm; 979-0604,0601 (op.n run)

Ed Cac.1KlltIWI Yo., N... ,PRODUCERS' CLUB pr.s.nts
IIU"

En".tHI,

SIIrrlng Joe Plchatla; a play .bout AIDS,• gay m.n whose problems are measured
In IVo;r du pols, and his .upport group;
3!i8 W 44 St; $10; TIIU-SUN at 8 pm, also
SAT .t 2 pm; extr. show W.dn .. day,June 13,8 pm; 279-42IXI (open run)'.I1...... lc I.....

CONGREGATIONBETH SIMCHATTORAH 1IsINI l'Ay E......
precedingSol.mn Fast D.y; 57 Blthune St (nearWest St. insld. the Westbeth Complex);
8 pm; 929-9488

TUESDAY' JULY 31

BRONX AIDS SErr;:CES, INC. VoIIIII8r
1i'e1l1.. far Te. AIDS Ed........ '"C.Ion five of five .... Ion.; 1 Fordham
Plaza, Suite 800; 10 am - noon; 295-51105
JUDSON MEMORIAL CHURCH ........
II"SerYIce for Rail A.
34y •• r-old stockbrok.r.nd m.naglng
dir.ctor of Christoph.r Str.et Financlat
one of the organlz .... of the International G.y Gamea, .nd • man.g.r of T•• m
New York; served on ·the board. of Fund
For Human Dignity, FAIRPAC, SIECUS;
55 Washington Squ.re South, 8 pm

ea.,- ,COMMUNITY RESEARCH INITIATIVE
S-I .. 011 DDI, the .xperimental AIDS
drug; pr •• entatlons by Investigator.,
doctor.,Bri.tol-My.r.
Squibbresearche ...; update on trial resulll andexpand.daccelS programa; .t theCenter, 208 W 13 Sf; 7:30 pm; fre.; byrsvp only to Ken Fomataro, 481-1miO
LAMBDA INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATS
OF BROOKLYN faldnlHr
for nriOi'call1lldates, with dlll.rts;
285 C. rIton
Ave, Fort Gr •• ne, Brooklyn; 7:30 pm;$15; 71111499-6891, 71111!16S-8482
AD HOC ARTIS"[S'GROUPDille •••MEN IN LOVE,•• " NIIt N .. ", MardiOl: A 1 .. 1It for

Set in Maul, a young man. coming tot.rms aftar losing his lover to AIDS;
BI •• k.r Str.et Cin.m.,
144 BI •• k.r
Str.et, 674-2560; Carn.gle Scr •• nlngRoom, 887 S.venth Avenue, 757-2131

the newly form.d direct-.ctlon
groupthat will r.spond to the battl. for the
National Endowm.nt for the Arts; f.atured are R•• o, SLAN (Jo •• Zor.,
ElliottSIll" .Id Ted ~al,For •••• , Ew.rtt Oll.to ••• d til.
Rldlc.loll
Thlllrlcel
c.p.ay;m.nyothers; at M. K., 204 Fifth Av. (25/26
SUI; .howtim. 8 pm; $10 at the door;
Info 9119-0788

Longtime Compnion, a feature film following the live. of .Ight gay m.n In
New York during the AIDS crl.i.;
Chel .. a Cin.mas, 23 St btwn 7th/Bth
Av •• , 691-4744; Cam.gle H.II Cln.ma,
7th Av. at 57 St. 285-2520 (Editor'. nOlI:
You can call NtIW York Magazin.'s mFILM, with area cod. 212 or 201, for
specific tim.lnfonnation.)

THE GLINES presents Joltn Gil ... '",." ofdirected by Charl.s
Catan.s., "a c.lebration of the d.lightful div.rsity of gay lif. in NYC h.re andnow" with s.ven actors playing 25
charact.rs
in a seri.s of vign.ttes

SLOPE ACTIVI11~S FOR LESBIANS DIll•• r at Coate Oil Sol, "splurg •• 11ttI. on
some super Spanish
cul.lneandromantic atmosph.r.";306 7th Av.-

August 8, 1990

Brooklyn;

WOMEN ABOUT
P.rIr; rsvp 874-2104

n.

LESBIAN AND GAY ISSUES COMMITTEE, DISTRICT 37 MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES LI•• la •• Gey Prld. Ex.I.ldo.,
showing the history of union interaction
with advocacy of lesbian/gay rlgllls, theimpact of AIDS, domestic partn.r benefits, anti-bias crim. I.gislation, homophobia;
in theLobby,
DC 37
Headquarters, 125 Barclay Sf; DAILY, 8
am - 6 pm Ithru AUG 30)

Ma,,"''',(btwn 7/8 Sta), Park Slop.,
7:30 pm; rsvp 71....
7578

Involvlnll .n actor-w.lt.r,
phone-lIxu•• rs, gupple lawy.r.,lIym hunks, astripper-hustler,
many oth.r.;with
D.Yld 1.lrd, St.".
U••••••• r, Cy
Orfl.ld,
T,L R.llly, Leall. Ro •• rta,
RlcunlSklpp.r, 1111WI .. anl; at the
Courtyard PI.yhou •• ,39 Grove St; SIS;
WED-FRI at 8 pm, SAT at 6 &. 9 pm, SUNat 7 pm; 869-3530 (thru SEPT 2)MONDAY JULY 30

Ric."'"

IMNI'''.,

LONG ISlAND GAY MEN'S GROUP ..
WeeIdy DIIC ...... :(Getting dciWn and dirty.); meets In Garde" City, U; 8 pm; Info 51111694-2407 'THE MONSTER prll.nts
Ms. S.erry'.
D... T,."., with Myra (th. minx fromthe Sphinx), Cryst.1 Allen la charm.ch0ltr. delightl, SyIvi. (sv.lte, stylish
and scandalous), and. m.1e stripp.r;
80 Grov. St at Sheridan Squ.re; .howat 9:31 pm; no cover charg.; 924-3556

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 1

WOMEN ABOUT C•• pl.g .t W.tcll
Hili Campground. Are Island, thru Saturday, AUG 4; rsvp 201/433-1974
SHESCAPE AIrIIr-* "e", for .....
.. PriwIe Eyea, 12 W 21 St (btwn 5tIv'6IhAves); 5-10 pm (you may stay on for
YMVA Night at 10); $5 before 7/f1 afterwards; info ~79,
club 2lXr7T12 (Editor's note: Door proceeds tonight from 5-7
pm will go to the eoa.unity
HIIIIth Project A different gay/leSbian group ben,&fits each W8ek throughout the summer.)
SLOPE ACllVITIES FOR LESBIANS Poolfig'" .. BlVWIIstDtla BIIII.rds with freepool and ping pong, and non-players
can come to socialize; at 7th Ave/FIatbush Ave, Parle Slope, Bklyn; 7 pm; rsvp
7111(965-7578
QUEER NATION Meeting at the Center,
208 W 13 St; 7:30 pm; 463-7208(alternate
yYed., also AUG 15 &29)
SLOPE ACTIVITIESFOR LESBIANS
DrI.ks .. Ad .... 'a classly joint. but nodress code'; nouvelle
cuiSine. notcheap; meet upstairs, 501 11th St (off7th Ave), Park Slope, Bklyn; 8:30 pm;
rsvp 7111(965-7578
EAGLE BAR Movie Night Jolla Waters'
Hair Spray; 142 11th Ave (at 21 St); 11
pm; 691-6451
THE PYRAMID presents Lind. SlmpSOlI'S CII.nnel &9: Gay Jeoperdy (backby popular demand), America's'lgay
quiz show; 101 Ave A (6/7 Sts); 1 am
show; $5; 426-1590

THURSDAY, AUG. 2

AlliANCE OF QUEER ARCHITECTS laid.1 Soclll IIMeatIq for gay, lesbian,bisexual architects; at Cave Canem. 24
1st Ave (at lstSt); 8 pm; info 393-9318.
222-8784

FRIDAY AUG. 3

OPEN CIRC~ fIIll-Mooa CeI.bretlOll of
tile God/dess in the Center Garden, 208
W 13 St; 7-7:30 pm sharp (arrive early,
bring percussion instr:uments); 620-7310(for info, SASE to OC, Box 4538. Sunnyside, NY 11104-4538)
SLOPE ACTIVITIESFOR LESBIANS
Video Night Hitchcock
Fest 'at the
Clubhouse'; bring 1V snacks & drinks; 7
pm; rsvp 711!{965-7578
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER/NY,and GAY FATHERS FORUM Joint Party
It tile Center, "dancing. munching andfun"; 208 W 13 St; 7 pm; MACT 222-9794
GAY MEN

OF AFRICANDESCENTS.nIDillflnl'Y. with members of sfNerallocal bisexual sociaVsupport groups; atthe Center,
208 W 13 St; 8 pm; 620-7310

Fon.: B,....,ityad

BODY POSITIVE Friday Night Soci.l.

212 W 83 St; $4; rsvp 201/481-0440
MICHAEL FESCO presents BackfD "'eFu"'re at 20/20, Sunday Tea Dances,with tonight's OJ Mlc .... 1 Jorlt.; free
Bloody Marys & Mimosas from 6-8 pm;
buffet at 7:30 pm; 20 W 20 St; doors
open 6 pm; 727-8841

Metro Are. I.fon .. tlol Mlltl'g,
tonight and every second Thursday, tobuild the April 24-28, 1991 Conferencein Atlanta; all lesbians invited; in theCenter's SAGE Room, 208 W 13 St; 8-8
pm (info: 212/491-5965; SASE to NLC,
Box 1999. Decatur. GA 30031)

MONDAY, AUG. 6

SAL ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS Movia' Night at PI.z. TIIa.ter II Full Moon
Eweai.. SInJII, at Ratbush & 7th Aves, Parle
Slope. BkIyn; 7:3Hsh; rsvp 71&'96&-7578

SLOPE ACTIVITIESFOR LESBIANS'
Bleck IIWIIlte PollICk .Id DlsclllliolNight; wear black and/or white andbring black and/or white food; discussion topic will be 'Arst Moves'; in Parle
Slope; 7:30 pm; rsvp 711!{965-7578

SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS Fire
Iliad Buch Dey (postponed from lastweek); from 7 am; rsvp rsvp 718/965-7578

OUT IN THE '90S CABLE SHOW, news,
information. opinion and interviews forthe lesbian/gay community; premi.res
on SO C.bla's Cheln.1 56.9-10 pm(tonight and fNery Monday)

WOMEN ABOUT C•• pl.g .t W.tcll
Hill Campground. Are Island; thru Sunday. AUG 12; rsvp 201/481-0440

WOMEN ABOUT Be.ch
IsI.ld; rsvp 201/481-0440

TUESDAY AUG. 7

for HIV Positives and friends; at Rutgers
Church, 236 W 73 St (off B'way); 9 pm midnig~ free; info 721-1346 (Editor's note:
Body Positive holds socials every first andthird Friday. including AUG 3, AUG 17)
COLUMBIA LESBIAN. BISEXUAl., GAY
COAUTION First Frld.y Danc •• in Earl
Hall. Columbia U.• 116 St & Bway ('1/#9
train); 10 pm - 2 am; photo ID to drink;
854-3574,854-1488

SATURDAY, AUG. 4

GAY GAMES III in Vancouver.
Columbia (through AUG 11)

BritishTrip to Fire

SAGE goes to Fire Island, with bus fromthe Center to the ferry, lunch at the
Monster, a day on/by the beach; leaves
from 208 W 13 St at 9:30 am. returns
about 7 pm; $40; rsvp 741-2247 (checks
to SAGE Fire Island Trip, 208 W 13 St.
NYC 1(011)
ARTS PROJECT OF CHERRY GROVE Art
Show .nd S.I. at the Community
House. Cherry Grove. Fire Island; members receive champagne preview fromnoon to 2 pm (no guests); show open to
the public from 2-5 pm and from 7-10pm; info 21V~7563(also tomorrow)

WOMEN ENTRJPRENEURS IN BUSINESS Discussion Circle: Women~ Fearof Money; with n'etworking and -theBusiness Clinic-; at the Center, 208 W
13 St; 6:30-8 pm; $5; info 718/499-6984(Editor's note: WEB meets tonight andevery first Tuesday. except in October.)
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS HIV He.lth
Selliaars:
Benefits Infonnation .ndLe,allss .. s, tonight and every 1st
Tuesday; 129 W 20 St. BenefItS on the
3rd Floor, Lega/on Lower Level C; 7 pm;
free; 807-6655. roo 645-7470
COALITION FOR LESBIAN AND GAYRIGHTS Monthly Meeting at the Center,
208 W 13 St; 8 pm; 627-1398

FIRE ISLAND BUDDIES Support .ad
Soci.1 Group for HIV+ Men, WomeR II
Friends, tonight and every Saturday inAugust; Fire Island Pines Community
House; 7:30 pm
SH ESCAPE Altl8rwotlc "arty for.t Private Eyes. 12 W 21 St (btwn
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS Car- 5thIBth Aves); 5-10 pm (you may stay onroll G....
s D.y: walking tour or bike for Dallas's Club Bad at 10); $5 before
ride at 1 pm; lunch at Helen's Italian
7/f1aftelWards;
info 645-6479. club 2067772 (Editor's note: Door proceeds
restaurant at 3 pm. 396 Court St. Bldyn;
tonight from5-7 pm will go to the Letrsvp 7181965-7578
bi.1I Herstory Arcblves.
A different
SPECTRUM presents Coriaa. singing
gay/1esbian' group benefits each week
Loving You Like Crazy and Give Me
throughout the summer.)
Back My Heart 802 64th Street. BrookIyn (N Train to 8th Ave stop, Bay Ridge);
SAGE Womell's Summer S.nset Cruise.nd O.nce on the Circle Line; OJ Gini
718/238-8213
DeSantis. food and drink sold or BYO,
THE CHERRY GROVE ICE PALACE Bena- 'wheelchair accessible; board 6:30-7 pm
fit for ACT UP with Jimm,
Sumat Circle Line Pier 83 at 42 St/Hudson
River. return by 10 pm; $12; 741-2247
merville: Midsummer Ni,hts Dream;(SAGE Cruise reservations due JULY 31)
2121989-1114

WEDNESDAY, AUG."""'8IHI

SUNDAY AUG. 5

ARTS PROJEct OF CHERRY GROVE Art
Show II1II Sale, l1:30am - 4 pm, see AlXl4
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS
Sund.y Br.ach .t T.rti.e.
a Frenchbistro; 426-A 7th Ave (14/15 Sts), Parle
Slope. Bklyn; 11:30 am;
SoftIJall aad Picnic la Prospect Park;
meet at Garfield & PP West; 2 pm;
SAL info and rsvp, 718/965~578
WOMEN ABOUT visits the Children'S
Museum, with many hands-on exhibits;

GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS Men Meetin, Men Workshop, at the Center, 208
W 13 St; 7-!1".30 pm; free. no pre-registra-,tion required; 807-6655, TOO 645-7470
SLOPE ACTIVITIESFOR LESBIANS
BoWling Nig/Jt at Kenmore Lanes. 2228
Church Ave (near Flatbush Ave); 7:30
pm; rsvp 711!{965-7578
EAGLE BAR Movie N9Jt: r."" and c.Jr.
142111hAve (at21 Stl; 11 pm; 691-8451

THURSDAY, AUG. 9
NATIONALLESBIANCONFERENCEFRIDAY, AUG. 10

COMMUNITY RESEARCH INITIATIVE
HIV+ Group to discuss recent treatment
info, research and treatment options,current and planned clinical trials; HIV+
only please; 7 pm; for location call Ken
Fornataro,481-1050
SLOPE ACTIVITIESFOR LESBIANS
goes to MIlts VI. Chicago; 7:30 pm; rsvp
718/965-7578
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS 01.ing at Cafe .1 Dente, upscale Italian,
4429th St (at 7th Ave). Park Slope,
Bklyn; 7:30 pm; rsvp 718/965-7578

SATURDAY, AUG. 11

WOMEN ABOUT
Overnite Canoe Trip. from Dingman's
Ferry, PA to Sheffield Beach, 20-28
miles; experienced canoeing/camping
preferred; about $45 PIUSmeals
Deep Sa. Ashlng at Belmar, NJ
Women About info/rsvp 201/481-0440
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS
Tennis at the Parade Grounds. 8 a,
rsvp 7181965-7578',_
SLOPE ACTIVITIESFOR LESBIANS
Aeld Trip to SoHo, M.nhllttll:
Brunch .. Jerry's, 101 Prince St (btwn
Mercer & Greene), 11 am
W.lklng Tour, meet in front of Jerry's at
12:30 pm
G.llery Hopping, meet in front of the
New Museum, 583 B'way at 2 pm; OR
Clothes Shopping. meet in front of the
New Museum, 583 B'way at 2 pm
Dining .t Eleph ... IICude, 183 Prince
St (btwn Sullivan/Thompson SIs), 4 pm
Movie .. the Angellk.,
18 W Houston'at 6:30 pm (6 films to choose from)Drinks IISnlCks .. Fe_lIi's, 94 Prince
St. at 8:30 pm
O.nclng at Lim.lIght Ch.pel, 49 W 20
St; 10 pm (Shescap8 party, not in SoHo)
SAL info & rsvp. 7181965-7578
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER/NY
Beech Outing to His Parle; meet at upstairs
pla1form at IRT train at 14 ~Ave at ,10 am; or meet at Green Bus. upstairs from
Aatbush AvelBldyn Colege (last! stop on 2
train. at 11 am; going to Bay 1, far left, infront of senior citizens' home; 222-9794

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".rtySAGE B•• d
Soclll with live
music, dancing, food, refreshments,'good frieRds and great company'; atthe G'ay Synagogue, 57 Bethune St (atWest St. in the Westbeth Complel!l; 1-5pm; advance: $6 members/$8
nonnmembers, at the door: $8 membersl$10
non-members; 741-2247
CENTER SPORTS sees Macs VI. CuM; $14
CenlarmembeNS19non-members;fm.7J10

s..port'"RRE ISlAND BUDDIES
SocIalGrou, for HIV+ Men, Women • Friends,
tonight and every Saturday in August; Fire
Island Pines Community House; 7:30pm

SUNDAY AUG. 12

SLOPE ACTIVI~ES FOR LESBIANS
Hor .... ck Riding at Jamaica Bay,
beginners or intermediates, wear jeans
and sneakera; 10 am.IoIIes BNCII trip; 10 am
Brunch It Ralntre.'.,142 Prospect
Park West (af9th St), Bklyn; 12:30 pm, ArtIst'. Day I. Prospect Plrk; 2 pm
SAL info & rsvp, 71111965-7578

PvClAB.fm:o~Bil:frtlflr1iAleldllll
Sunday Tea Dances. with tDnigh(s OJ BoIJbj

iii at 1iC•• ~&Mrosasfnrn68~
1lfIta:7".II~cbrs~6~7Dat

MONDAY, AUG. 13

SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS Ice
Creal!
Socialat The Clubhouse,
Prospect Park; bring ice cream & toppings to share; 8 pm; rsvp 71&1965-7578
WOMEN ABOUT Phllhlrmonlc
Park; info/rsvp 874-2104

In theTUESDAY AUG. 14

GAY MEN'S H~TH
CRISIS HIV H.alths-tlnar:In .. ranee Information, tonightand fNery 2nd Tuesay; 129 W 2O.St. 3rd
Floor; 7 pm; free; 807-6655, TOD 645-7470

LESBIANS& GAY MEN OF NEWBRUNSWICK S.'er Sex Short., themore explicit,videos
from GMHC; at
Friends Meeting House, 109 Nichols
Ave, New -Brunswick,
NJ; 8 pm;
201/247-0515

Tuning In: A TV/Radio Guide for OutWeek Readers
Information must be received by Monday to be included in the following
weel(s issue. Send items to Rick X. Tuning In, Box 790, NY, NY 10108.
AlE (AI1s&E'mBr1a~!HiFifthIw,

IOhF\NYC 111117;lIil-tiQ
CCTV (Rick X. Box 790, NYC 10108)
GBS (Gay Broadcasting System, Butch Peaston; 1787th
Ave, Ste. A-3, NYC 111011;243-1570)

hotel; oscars went to David Niven, Wendy Hiller; with
Rita Hayworth, Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr; CH 5 (2:00)
3:15 AM WABC- TV Piths of Glory(l957): a Young Stanley
Kubric~'s powerful indictment of war; CH 7 (2:10)

2

GCN (Gay C~ble Network, Lou Maletta, 32 Union Square
TH
URSD
AV
AUGUST
East. Suite 1217; 477-4220)
M .,GMitC (Gay Men's Health Crisis, Jean Carlomusto, 129 W 20 7:00 AM WCBS-TV This Moming. the Emmy nominations
St. NYC 10011; 807-7517)
and William Shatner; CH 2 (2:00)
RB PROD (Robin Byrd Productions, Box:Di, NYC 10021;_29731
7:00 AM WNBC- TV Tod,y. the Emmy nominations and bullWASC-TV (7 Uncoln Square, NYC 10023; 4fJfrTTm
fighting; also health care for the uninsured; CH 4 (2:00)
WBAI-FM (505 8th Ave, 19th FI, NYC 10018; 279-0707)
10:00 AM WABC-TV Sally Jessy: prostitution; CH 7 (1:00)
weaS-TV (524 W ~ St. NYC 10019; 91So4321)
1:00 PM WBAI-FM This Way Our; the int'I gay/lubian magWNBC-TV (30 Rockefeller Plaza, NYC 10112; 664-4444)
azine; 99.5 FM (:30)
WNET-TV (356 W 58 Sf, NYC 10019; 560-3000)
1:30 PM WBAI-FM AnAftemoon Outing. local news and
AV
lUI
v 30
infonnation about the gay/lesbian community;99.5FM (:30)
MOND
M .,'".. •2:311 PM WBAI-FM AIDS: Paths to Self-Empowerment &2:30 PM WBAI-FM NEA and the Arts: a two-hour panel disLiving. Bob Lederer and Jim Fouratt discuss alternative
cussion focusing on current censorship and restrictions
treatments, self-empowennent, politics; with Interviewson the funding of the arts; 99.5 FM (2:00)
of health practitioners, PWAs, activists; 99.5 FM (1:00),9:00 PM WNET-TV Edward R. Murrow: This Reporte" the7:00 PM GBS Way Outl: Mark Chesnut and Michelle Vanfirst of two parts, exploring his life and legacy in AmerVoorhlu host a lesbian and gay entertainment shoW;
ican journalism; recollections by Sevareid, Brinkley,
tonight Michael T. sings 'Sweet Transvestite' from
Friendly, Hewitt, Cronkite; comments by Rather, JenRocky Horror. comedy from Sara Cytron, Jocelyn Taylor
nings, Walters, Brokaw, Sawyer; radio and TV clips;
presents the video I Objectfrom the House of Color
CH 13 (1:00) (repeats at 4:00 AM)
video collective; Rich Volo, producer, 254-7685; Manhat10:00 PM GCN 8e My Guest Grace Jones at ACT UP's Paltan Cable, CH J/'l3 (:30)
ladium benefit, She-H,wfrom Channel 69 at Pyramid;
9:30 PM GMHC Living With AIDS. health and politics; ManManhattan Cable, CH J/'l3 (:30)/.
hattan Cable, CH J/'l3 (:30).10:00 PM WNET-TV Ta/flS From the Hollywood Hills: Golden
10:30 PM GCN Gay U.5A: news and entertainment from
und, adapted by William Hanley from Faulkner, aboutaround the countJy; Manhattan Cable, CH J/'l3 (1:00)
the ruin of a businflSsman rocked by tabloid scandal,(For Paragon Cable, see SATURDAy)
involving sexual misconduct of his daughter; CH 13
11:30 PM RB PROD Men For Men: Robin "Byrd presents gay(1:00) (repeats at 5:00 AM)
male porno stars; Manhattan Cable, CH J/'l3 (:30)
11:30 PM Tomorrow/Tonight Livet. entertainment; Manhat11::311PM GMHC Living With AIDS. health and politics;
tan and Paragon Cable, CH 0/17 (1:00)
Paragon Cable, CH J/'l3 (:30)
midnight CClV The Closet C,se Show. Kloset Klips; also,
Grace Jones slaps go-go boy butt at ACT UP's PalladiFRIDAY,
AUGUSTum benefit; Manhattan Cable, CH C/16 (:30)
2:311 PM WBAI-FM Rompiendo el Silencio: todos los
1:00 AM G,y Tv. gay male porn; Paragon Cable, CH J/23 (:30)
viernes, Gonzalo Aburto con temas y noticias para laAV
IUIV
comunidadlatinagayylesbiana;99.5FM(:15)
M ., ... ' ...
7:30 PM The Gay Dating Game Show. Manhattan Cable, CH
TUESD
10:00 PM WNBC-TV Sex, Buys & Advertising, an NBC news
J/'l3 (:30)
special with Deborah Norville, examining the forces of
10:30 PM WNET-TV Radio Bikini (1987): an Oscar nominee,
Madison Avenue; interviews with Pepsi hawker Michael
this documentary exposes the politics and hubris
J. Fox. ad exec Phil Dusenberry, 80 (Nike's 'Bo Knows')
behind the Navy's 1946 A-bomb tests, for which theJackson; a look at ads aimed at kids; CH 4 (1:00)
Bikini Atoll ruidents were relocated while their island
10:00 PM WNET-TV Police Chiefs, a look at LA's Daryl
was being pennanently poisoned; CH 13 (1:00)
Gatas, Minneapolis's Anthony Bouza, and NYC's Lee
11:00 PM Gay7Y.malepomocIps;ManhallanCable.CHJI'l3~
Brown (when he was in Houston); with scenes of busts,
1:00 AM RB PROD Robin 8yrd Show: male and female stripraids, citizens' meetings; CH 13 (1:00) (repeats at 5 AM)
pers; Manhattan and Paragon Cable, CH J/'l3 (1:00)
11:00 PM GBS Out in theMs: community news, discussion,interviews;tDni9htAnti-~oIencespeCia/focusingonmed"I8SATURDAY,
AUGUST
coverage, victims' reactions, government and criminal jus10:00 AM WNET-TV Finng Une: The Opposition to Cuomo,
ticesystam response; ManhallarVParagon Cable,CH C/16(1:111)
with Republican candidate Pierre Rinfret and Conservative candidate Herbert London; CH 13 (:30)
WEDNESDAY,
AUGUST
6:30PM GCN GayU.SA:newsandentertainmentfrom
9:30 AM WBAI-FM Ghosts in the Machinff. women in pop,
around the countJy; Paragon Cable, CH J/'l3 (1:00) (Forwith Victoria Starr; 99.5 FM (2:30)
Manhattan Cable, see THURSDAy)
4:00 PM WABC-TV Oprah Winfrey. guilt over unsettled dif11:00 PM RB PROD The &rly Byrd: Robin Byrd presents
ferences with a deceased loved-one; CH 7 (1:00)
male/female strippers; Manhattan Cable, CH J/'l3 (1:00)
4:00 PM WBAI-FM Loony Tunes: A Youth Radio Production;
SUNDAY,
AUGUST'sex. drama, comedy ...and sex. ..including masturbation
5:00 PM WNET-TV Kodo: HealtbNt Drummef$ uf J,p,n, a
etiquetta, when notto - and more, or less; listeners
unique group of young musicians and dancers; CH 13 (1:00)
phone in the fate of youth worldwide by providing end7:30 PM WBAI-FM The Gay Show. news and infonnation ,ingsto unfinished stories'; 99.5 FM (:30)
about the lesbian/gay community; fNery other Sunday,'9:00 PM WNET-TV The M,n Who Beat the Blacklist: Billalternating with OutLooks; 99.5 FM (1:00)
Moyers iRtarviews John Henry Faulk, who died in April, a
11:51 PM WNET-TV Independent Focus: a collection of shortradio commentator who sued AWARE (a red-baiting
films beginning at 11:00 pm; of special interestto Outmedia 'watchdog' group) for libel and won (with financial
Wflflk readers may be Harriet Hirshorn and Mary Patierhelp from Edward R Murrow, sile MONDAY); CH 13 (1:00)
no's Sodom by the Se" which 'uses Coney Island as a
10:00 PM WNET-TV Vincent V,n Gogh: An Explosion ofpoint of departure for an exploration of the immigration
Colour; his paintings and his words, on the l00th annverexperience, focusing on the hopu and failed dreams ofsary of his death; CH 13 (1:00) (repeats at 5:00 AM)
those who left their native lands til start a new life in
mldnillht RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and female
America'; CH 13 (:17)
strippers; Manhattan and Paragon Cable, CH J/'l3 (1:00)
11:30 PM GCN Men & Films: male erotica, interviews with
3:00 AM WNYW-TV (Fox) Separ,te T,bles (1958): Terence
adult filmstars; Manhattan Cable, CH J/'l3 (:30)
Rattigan play about lonely, unhappy guests in an English

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Monday

Private Eyes (FJiarc Berkley's Kool Komradsw/ Razor Sharp & strippers;
students, professionals; $5) 12 W 21 St. club 200-m2

Tuesday*Love M.chinelLarry
Tee & Lahoma Van Zandt. young & exotic crowd)
860 Bway, at 17 St; 254-4005"Roxy (Men on Wheels, gay roller skating; starts 8 pm) 515 W 18 St; 645-5156

JiiLt2tJ

Wednesday*Better Days (primarilY gay men of color) 316 W 49 St (11{9 Aves); 245-8925
Private Eyes (YMVA Night, students, professionals, lesbians and non·gay women; $7) 12 W 21 St. btwn 5th/6th Aves; 200-m2*Pyramid (Linda's Channel 69 party, OJ & live lesbian/gay shows; East
Village crowd; $5) 101 Avenue A, btwn 6/7 Streets; 420-1590
Ouiekl (mellow non-gay guys, low· key gays, their women friends; getsgayer later) 6 Hubert St; 925-2442_
Silver Uning (2-4-1 drinks, also open Tues-Sun, women SAT) 175 CherryLa., Aoral Pk, LI; 5161354-9641
Stutz (2-4-1 drinks, also open daily) 202 Westchester Ave, White Plains;
914/761-3100. Thursday

Grand Cantril (closed Mon & Tues, 2-4-1 drinks Thursday) 210 Merrick
Road, Rockville Centre, LI; 516/538-4800 'M'gic Touch (ethnic mix: Anglo/Latin/Asian) 73-13 37th Rd, Jackson
Heights, Queens; 718/429-8605
Mo,n~r (W,~ Village) 80 Grove St at Sheridan Sq.; 924-3557,
SpeCtrum (closed Mon-Tue, WED free, THU free & 2-4-1 drinks, FRI mit
strip, SAT record stars, SUN variety show & free 9-10 pm; Coorsserved) 802 64th St@ 8th Ave, Bay Ridg e, Bklyn; 7181238-8213,*Cop.cab.n.
(last Thu. of the month Susanne Bartsch party, next is
August 30; iffy door) 10 E 60 St. at Fifth Ave; 755-6010
Excalibur ($1 drinks, also open Tues·Sun, women WED) comer 10th/Jefferson behind football stadium, Hoboken, NJ; 201-795-1161
Hatfield's (2-4-1 drinks, female impersonators; also open nightly, women
on TUE & FRI) 126-10 Queens Blvd, Kew Gardens, Queens; 7181261-8484
Ouiekl (Chip Duckett's Thursdays) 6 Hubert St (on Hudson, 5 blocks
below Canal); 925-2442

FridayCohmbialfanc81(1st Friday of every month, including summer, next is
August 3) 116th St & Bway; 854-3574 days
Octagon (Patrick's Friday Night Jam Se$sion, primarily gay men of color;
free muchies; opens 11 pm) 555 W 33 St; 947-0400
Private Eyes (YMVA Night, students, professionals, men) 12 W 21 St,
btwn 5th/6th Aves; 200-m2"Quickl (Panty Gircf/es; TVs, gays, straights) 6 Hubert St (on Hudson, 5
blocks below Canal); 925-2442

Saturday

Barefoot Boogie1smoke & alcohol free) 434 6th Ave (btwn &'10 SIs); 832-6759
419419 N. Highway, Southampton, LI; 516/283-5001-M.rs (Keoki's Drop Lounge, floor varies; small eclectic crowd: TVs,
Asians, hi·tech music fans) 13 St & West Side Hwy; 691-6262
Private Eyes (YMVA Night, students, professionals, men) 12 W 21 St,
btwn 5th/6th Aves; 206-7772"Roxy (gayS/TVs/club kids/some non-gay; mix depends on party) 515 W
18 St (btwn 10111 Aves); 645-5156
Sound Factory (mostly gay; serious House/Club dancing, no alcohol,
opens 11 pm) 530 W 27 St (10th/11th Aves); 643-0728
2OIZO (Hybrid Crswparty for men & women, 10 pm, $10) 20 W 20 St; 727-8841

Sunday*Better Days Tprimarily gay men of color) 316 W 49 St (8/9 Aves); 245-8925
The Building (Club Bad's Ths Msn's Room, students, professionals, men;go-go boys & 6O-ft. ceiling) 51 W 26 St; 576-1890-Mars (Chip Duckett's Mars Needs Men)Westside Hwy and 13th St; 6916262*Pyramid (Junior's Tea Dance 6-9 pm, Gay Cabarstat midnight; $5)101
Avenue A, btwn 6/7 Streets; 420-1590"Roxy (Rollerskate Tea Dance 7-11 pm; A Groovy Kind of Love party at
11; students, club kids, hunks, men) 515 W 18 St; 645-5156
2OIZO (Michael Fesco's Tea Dance, opens 6 pm; $6; free Mimosas & BMs
from 6-8"buffet at 7:30)20W 20 St; 727-8841

Every Night (or almost)419 (nightlY Gay Houss Party, opens 6 pm) 419 ~. Highway (Rte 27),
Southampton, LI; 516/283-5001

tiZ5S 2biH U

esaay

Hatfield's 126-1'1iQueens Blvd., Kew Gardens; 718/261-8484
Grand Cantral (women's night, also open Wed·Sun) 210 Merrick Road,
Rockville Centre, LI; 516/538-4800 'Wednesday

Bedrock 121 Woodfielil Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516
Exc.libur (Ladies Night, $1 drinks) comer 10th/Jefferson behind footballstadium, Hoboken, NJ; 201-795-1161
Priv.te Eyes (Shescape AftefWork Party, 5-10 pm; $5 before 7 pm, $7
after) 12 W 21 St; info 645-6479, club 206-m2

ThursdayBedrock 121 Woollfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516
Pyramid (Jenny's Girl Bar, 8 pm - 2 am) 101Avenue A (btwn 6{1 SIs);$5; 475-3i38

FridayBedrock 111 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516
Clit Club (Jocelyn & Julie's alternate Fridays, neXt is August 10; go-go
girls, lesbo erotic videos; 8 pm; $5)432 W 14 St; G-1114,
Hatfield's 126-10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens; 718/261-8484
Millennium (Ladies' Nig/r41770 NY Ave (Rte 110),Huntington, U; 51f1t'351-1402
Visions 56-01 Queens Blvd, Woodside; info 71&'846-7131, club 71&'899-0031

SaturdayBedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516
Chapel at Umelight (Shescape party, Chapel garden entrance; opens 9pm; $8)49 W 20 St at 6th Ave; 645-6479
Silver Uning 175 Cherry Lane, Aoral Park, LI; 5161354-9641
Stan 836 Grand Boulevard, Deer Park, U; 516/242-3857

SundayBedrock 121 Ih'oodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516
Bourbon Street (Leslie & Michelle's Tsa Oancs, 5-10 pm, $5) TuckahoeLane, by the HsssStation, Southampton, LI; 516/283-8801
Cave eanem (Sandwich Sister Sundays) 241stAve at 1st St; 529-9665
Love Shack (Jill Reiter'S Booby Trap, alternative music, $3) at New Usmar, 411st Avenue at 2nd St; 777-9477'

Every Night (or almost)Ouchell II' (small dance floor; Coors served) Sheridan Sq. & 7th Ave
South; 242-1408
Spectrum (closed Mon & Tues; good gay/lesbian mix, see Every Night,
above, for details) 802 64th St. Bklyn.; 718/238-8213

Editor's tiDs for tourists:
A (*) denotes a clu6 that attracts TVs.
The NYC club scene is volatile, especially in summer. Call first.
Clubs generally open at 10pm, close at 4 am, unless otherwise noted. Admissions range from $5 to $15. Invites offer discounts, and are sometines
required.
,Some clubs, especially Copacabana, but also Roxy, Quickl, Mars, Love
, Machine, and the Building have been known to let people in random·
Iy or selectively, rather than have a simple line at the door. Discrimi·
nation on the basis of race, gender and orientation is illegal.
Selectivity based on attire, attractiveness and attitude is not Looking
perky, exotic or rich helps. Coming very early can be helpful, too.
Mixed parties usually get gayer as the night wears on.
Special one·time parties are listed in the day·by·day calendar. . .
Clubs that serve Coors will be noted but not excluded from these listings.
Send openings, closings, corrections and dish to Rick X, Box 790, NYC 10108.

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Sunday of the month. 4;45pm at theUD. andor8as and works fur canciCOl1l1111lityCentsr 2111W. 13 Street;da1Bs illocal. SIBIB and nafonaI aacNYC . This groUp is pert d the NGw
tions. lobbies for legislation. and
YorkAraa 8isaxual Ne1work.
conciJcts camuiyOllraBch1lntu!tt&traatfaisandflllllli1gs onspac:ial~
BlSEXUALINFOIIMATION a
ics. Jcin us. 338 Ninth St, Slita 1:ti
COIW4SB.I\IG SERVICE. INC.
I!nJddoANYII215 (718) 985-8482
A profossionaly steffed. non-profit
organization for bisexuals. their
CIRCLE OF MORE UGIfT
fammes and per1ners. facing pro!>Spiritual support and s/)aring in alems of a psyehological or medical
gay/lesbian
affirmative group.
kind. We also Wof1( with those inWest-Paf1( Presby!srian Illurch ll!i
doubt about their S8lCIJality.ContiWest861hStreatWad:worshipserdentiality is proIBc18d by law; For\lice 8:30 pm, program 73l. Malllha
infonnation phone: (212) 459-4784(212)304-4373Dlarfe (212)831-711&

ALOEClAPIJ\I-NY(A,ien L.,bien,of the E.. t~AlianPacific t..bian Ntt-tI-Naw Yark) We ara a poI"rtical. social and supportive natwof1(
of Asian Pacific lesbians. Planningmeatings on the 1st Sunday andsocial evenIB on the last Friday ofeach month. Call (212) 517-!i!i98 formora information.

BISEXUAL PRIDEDISCUSSION GROUP
Topical discussions on issues of
intBrest to the commurity in a congenial atmosp/1era. followed by an, informal dinner at a friendly local
restaurant
Every Sunday. 3:QO.
<t'lOpm at the Community Center
2111W. 13 Street, NYC. Part of the
Now York Area Bisexual Ne1work.

ACT UP (AIDS eoalition toUnl ... h Power)aA Hudson SIreet, SIi1B G4 NYC
10014(212)999 -1114
A diVersa. non-partisan group of
ildMdual$ Lritad il anger and cornmitted to diract lU:tion to end the.AIDS crisis. Gen. meetings Mon.
'rights ~ il The GnIat HaJJ. Cqoper
Union. on Cooper Squara be1lMlen
Ivitor and St Marks Placea

ARCS (AlDS-Ralatad
Community Services)for Dutchess. Orange. Putnam.
Rockland. Sullivan. Ulster andWestchester
counties.
AIDS
education. client services. crisis intervention. support groups.
clSe managem~nt.
buddy andhospital visitor program.
214 Central /Jw. Wlita Plains. NY
llm1(914) lBH8JI
838 Broadway. Newburgh. NY'
12250 (914) 562-lmi
AlDSlill8 (914) 993-0607
ASIANS & FRENDS- NEW YORK
A not-for-,profit
organization
which promotes friendships with
Asian/Pacific,
Islander. AsianAmerican. and non-Asian gay
men through social. cultural. educational. and service activities
and p'rograms. Call our Hotline:, . 212-374-5084. or write tei: P.O. Box6628. NY. NY 10163-6023.
ATR (AIDS TREATMENTREGISTRY, INC.). Pubishes a bHnonthly Directoty dclinical trials of experimental
AlDSlHlVtraatmenIB in NYtNJ. andhas educational materials/seminsrs for trial participants. ATR also
advocates for improwmenIB in thetrial aystam. p.o. Box:lli2:l4. NY. NY
101HIl02. (212) 288-4198. Publicalions fraeldonation raquestad.
v...,

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,L..C"BIWAYS NEW YORKMonthly social events for the
Bisaxual community and friends.
Call NYABN for datans of ur>coming events. (212)459-4784
BIPAC (BISEXUAL POU11CAl
ACTION COMMmEE)
Political action on issues d importance to the BisexuaVLesbiarv'Gay
cormuity. MonIfojy I1l881il9'poduck
held 8:00pm on fourth Thursday of
the rnar1h at members hOO18S.Call
NYABNfurthisrnar1h'ls Iocaticn((212) 469-4794
BISEXUAL YOUTH
Informal social & support groupfor Bisexual kidslyouth. Monthly
meeting/potluck
lunch held
1:00pm on fourth Sunday of themonth at members homes. Call
NY ABN for this month·s location.
This group is part of the New
Yof1(Area Bisexual Notwork.
BWS-BRONX lESBIANS
UNITED IN SISTERHOOD
Social. political and support natworking group for women and thoirfriends. Regular sociallMlnIB andmeetings on the first and third mdays of ewry month. At The Community Center, 2m W 13 S1reet. fromfl:3).8pn. For more info call Lisa at(212)829$17.

•.... ~"I ......

COMMUNITY HEAlTH
PROJECT
D WISt 13Ih Shot. M'C. NaN 'bit
10011Rr Appci1rnenIs and klbm&.... (212)675-35!i9(T1YMiceJ'RMDING CARING.lBISITM AND IIJNCOST IEAlTH CARE SBMCES TO
TlEI£SBIANANDGAYlXlM'.UlnY
COMMUNITYRESEARCH
INITIATIVECRI tests experim8l1lll1 dlUgs andtraatnents fur AIDS and HIVrula1Dd
illnesses. Monthly tl'llatment andrasearch group fur HIV+incividuals.
Traatment and research newslatIBr,
folUms and public saminans. Call
Alice Speans or Ken Fomataro at(212)481-1I&lfur i1fo and maiilg iat.
CONGREGAnON BETHSIMCHATTORAH
NYs Gay and Lesbian Synagogue
Services
Friday at 8:30pm 57
B81hune Street For info. can: (2121
929-9498.

CONGREGATIONB'NAI
JESHURUN
Monthly Spritual Gatherings andfree caterad festive lunchaons foral/ People With AIDS. their lovers
and families. Program includes
music and discussion led by our
Rabbis. Can (212) "Ml-71Dl
DIGNITY
BIG APPLE
A communityof Lesbian and
Gay Catholics. Activities include
Uturgies and socials every Sat.
8:00 pm. at the Center. 208 W. 13
Straat, NYC.Call(212) 818-1309.

DIGNITY NEW YORl(
lesbian and gay Catholics andfriends AIDS Ministry. Spiritual
Development. The Ca1heclral Project. Wonship Services & SocialSun. Eves. 7:3Opm-St John's
Episcopal Church 218 West 11th
Street OWav~2179
EDGE Educlition in a Dinbled
Gay Envil'llm*lt
For the phyaically cisabled Lesbianand GayConwnll1~ (212) !eH9Z1
P.O. Box 3I!i Village Station. New
YDI1c,NY10014
RMME SUPPORT GROUP
For lesbians who self identify as
Femme. For info and meetingtimes call Usa at (212) 829-9817.
No men pleasa.
FRONT RUNNERS
A running club for lesbian andgay athletes of all abUities. Fun
Runs of 1-3 mrles held every Sat
at lOam and Weds. at 7pm inCentl'lll Paf1( and every Tues. at
7pm in Prospect Park. For information: call (212) 724-!J700.
THE FUND FOR HUMANDIGNITY
National Gay and lasbian Crisis
line -AIDS 800'---I-80~SOS'GAYS Educational Resource Canter; Poeitive Images Madia Center;
NY State Ar1li Program res B'way
Stite 410 NYC. NY 10012 (212) 5Z918D
11IE GAY AFRICAN AMERICANSOFWESTCHESTER(TI.
G.AA.)
is a community based support
group formed in Westchester
County. Va rious a ctivities areplanned for the coming months.
Please call 914-376-0727
formora info~
GAY FA11IER'S FORUM
A support organization for gay
father's. their l0V8rs. and othensin child-nurturingsituations.
Monthly meetings
include a
potluck supper. support groups
on varied specialized
topics.
speakers. and socializing.Maetings: lat Friday each month.7pm.
at The Center. 208 W. 13th St..
Wast of 7th Ave. Contribution: $8.
Bring a main courae for 4 people(or pay a $5 food charge.) For
information call: 212-97&-7541 or
212-288-3238
GlAAD Gay" IMbien Alli..Ageilllto.flmlMn
IIIlmrick~M'C 10013 (212)_
1700 GAAD canbats hornoJixlbia il
tho meda and aIswhJre by pra11Oting llisibiity of the lesbian and gay
carmrityand.:t~~response to a·
bigOOy. Do 'PI
haw:JIrrna a monIh tt i!It Iunopma1.blfla
ItJWl Phone TIU8ICa1(212)8.1JOOIofilftxmation.

GUB
Gay and lesbian Independent
Broadcasters invites you to tune
into OUTlOOKS on WBAI-NY.
995 fM every o1her S .... day. 7:308:30pm and join us lIVery other
TU8Sday at 7:30pm to become amember of GUB. No experienceneeded. 505 Eighth Avenue.
19th floor. (212) 749-0405.
GAY a WBIAN HEALTH
CONCERNS
An office of the NYC Dept of• Health.
providesIinkag81
betwn NYC Health & Human
Svcs. and the lesbian & Gay
community.
focusing
in Allhealthconcerns;
reaource
information for health services
consumers
and providers. 125
Worth Street.
Box 87. New
York. NY 10013. For info call(212) 586-4995.
GAY MAl£ SIM ACTMSTS
Dedicated to safe and rasponsible S1M since 1981. Open meetings w/programson S/M\echniques.
lifestyle issues.
political and social concerns.
Also special events. speakers
bureau. workshops.
demos.
affinity groups.
newsletter.
more. GMSMA -Dept. O. 498A
Hudson Street, Suite D23 ,NYC
10014.(212) 727-91118.
GMAD (GAY MEN OF AFRICANDESCENT)
80 Varick Street, NYC 10013 a
support group of Gay Men of
African Descent dedicatedtoconaciousness-raisingand thedevelopmentof the lesbianand Gay Community. GMAD is
inclusive of African. AfricanAmerican. Caribbean and Hispanic/latino
men of color.
Meetings ara held. weekly. on
Fridays. For more information.
call 718-802-0162.
GAY MEN'S HEAL11I CRISISHOTUNEFOR INFORMATION ON SAFERSEX AND HIV-RELATED HEAl.11I
SERVICES. AND FOR INFORMATION ON ONE-TIME. WAlK-IN
AIDS COUNSElING SEJMCES2IZ.
1U7~741DTDD(Far"
Haering Impairad)Mon.-Fri. 1031
am to 9 p.m Sat 121D to am
GIRTH a MIR11ICWB OF NEW YORK
Social club for heavy. chubby
gay men & their admirer •.
Monthly socials at the 'Center'. weekly bar nights Thursdays at the ·Chelsea Transfer'.
monthly Fat Apple Review. bimonthly FA.R. penpals.
For more information
cali
Ernie at 914-899-n35 or write:
G&M/NY. Dept O. P.O. Box 10.
Pelham. NY 10803.

HW (IIMIII! flllIOMiC!n AlOJ
Uti"")
W.ekly Info, ,nd ,~pport groupfor trqtrnenta for AlDS wI1li:h do
not compromiae ~. immune ..,...
tam furth.r, including altemative
Ind holil1ic Ipproachl!l.
Wed 8pm.
208 W. 13th St.
(212)874-HOPI;.
HERrrAGE OF PRIDE, INC.
Orglnizert
of New York'i LIIbiln and GlY Pride evente: theMlrch, the Rally and the Danceon the Pier. Call (212) 691-1774
for m .. ting .cheduleor moreInformltion.
208 Weat 13th
Strtet, NY, NY 10011.
HETRICK-MARTIN INSTfTUTE
for IlIbI.n and gay youth. COUllflUng, drop-in center (M·F, 38pm), rap group., Harvey Milk
High School, AlDS and ... fer lax
infonnltion, refe""II, profeaaional
eduo.tion. (212)833-8820 (voica)(212)833-8828 TTY for deaf

LUBIAN.
GAYCOMMUNITY IEIIVlm
CENTEII
20!1 Wast 13t!1 Street Kew York,NY 10011 (m)8;l0-7310
e.m·
I1pm everydlY. A pl.o. for oommunity org.ni~ng Ind nllWOrlcing,aocial"rVicl!I, ciultul1ll PlQVrtl!1a,and 'oci,1 evenla aponaored by
the Center and mQre than 150
community organizalion ..
U:SBIAN AND GAY WOR
N£TWORK/In organizalion of Leabl.nl .nd
GaY' wIlo are Ictiva in their libor
lIlicn wortcing on cIomeItic pi""'"ehip benelita and AlDS iatu ... For
mora i1forma1ion c.II21$lH11111.
WBIAN

AND GAY RIGIfTS
PROJECTof the Amerioen Civil Uberti"
Union KNOW YOUR IIIOHTI/WE'RE EXPMDIIIO 'RIM(212)844-9800, ext 545
U:SBIANS AND GAYS OFHISPANIC UNITED OAYS.
LESBIANS
Educational"rvioes,
politioal
Iction, counnlingand loclal
Ictivfti .. ln Splniah and Engliah
by and for the Latino L"bi.nand Gay Community. General
meetingl 8:00 pm 4th Thurldayof. every month at 208 West
13th Street Call (212) 691·4181
or write H.U.G.L., P.O. Box 226
Canal Street
Station,
New
York, NY 10019.
DENTITY HOUSE
Now in our 20th yaar, we provide
peer couneeling, therapy refarrala and groups for the laabian,gay and biaexual community.
Can ua at (212)243-8181. Visit ua
at 544 6th Ave.,' between
14th15111Streets, Manhattan.
INSnTUTE FOR HUMAN
IDENTITY
Sliding scale feas • Insurance
accapted.
Gay & Lesbian Psych01l1er.py (212)799-9432
LAMBDA U:GAl DEFENSEAND EDUCAnON RJND
Preoedant-aetting
litigation
nationwide
for leabians,gay
men and people with AIDS.
Membership($35 and up) inc.
newsletter
snd invitations
toapeclal evantl. Volunteer nightem ThurldlV', Intake calls; 24pm Mon Ihru Fri (212)995-8565
LAVA (LESBIANS AIIOUT
VISUAl. AliT)
Call for alldea for la,bian Arlilta'
Exhibillon, (hy t\ LQlbi.n Community Clnter, NYC, For more
Informl1lon, Hnd SA3E 10 : Miri·.m Foug.r.,
118 Fort Gretn.
'1m; Brooklyn, NY 11217,
THE LUBIAN AND GAY BIG
APPLE COR"
Olt your Inltrumant
Oul of th,
010.. 1 Ind aom. pllY with u.,
S>/mphonio, Merqhlng, JIZZ, DlxI.h~~/ Rook, Flute Enllmblll• nd woodwind.,
123 W .. t 44th
St, Suite 12L Nlw York, NY
10038 (2121 e&902822.

RATIUSH
Brooldyn·. IOcial organization forboth gay men and leabiana. P.o.
Box 106, Midwood Stalion Brook·
Iyn, NY 11230'(718)86&-9437
U:SBIAN HERSTORY
ARCHIVES
P.O. BoX 1258New York, NewYork 10118212/874·7232Since, 1974, the Archivaa h .. inspired,
Ihaped and reflected Leabianlive~ everywhere.
Call toarrange a visit or to volunteer
for Thursday worknighte.
LONG ISLAND ACT·UP
P.O. Box 291, New Hyde Park, NY
11040Support us for change on
Long Island. (518)33&-4811Z(516)1J11·
5238 NI88Iu (518)9'l.lHilOO Sufloikl.SM
is a .upportand informationgroup for lasbians and blaexual
women intere.ted
in fantllY,
role-playing,bindlge,di.cipline, SIM, fetishes, alternate
gender indentities,
c08tume.
and 80 forth. Member.hipiaavailable
only to women 18
years and older. Actual experianca ia not required but gen·uine intarest and an open mind
are. For information
plea ..
write: P.O. Box 993, Murray Hill
Stalion, New York, NY 10156
MEN OF ALL COLORSTOGETHER NY
lit, multl·raoi,1 group of gay men
Igsinst raciam. Meatlng, every
Friday night 01 7:45 al the LIf·biln and Gay Community Sirvloll Cvntlr,~OfI W. 1~1h Strut.
For mort Inlo, 0111: (2121245·
03&0 or (2121 222·em,

METROPOLITAN TENNIIGROUPIMl'GI

Our aoo m.mbtr I"bl.n and glY
tlnnl. olub InoludH pl.Y''' fromboulnnlng to tournlment
IIVII,
Monthly t.nnl. plrtlll, WinterIndoor l.. guI, Come pl.y wllh
uII For Inform.tfon: MfG, Suit •K03, 488-A HudlOn St., N.w York,NY 10025. (718) 852-8502,

MOCA(Mtn " C!!lor AlDI p"'"miO"
P/'8I"'III.)

Provid ....
fer IIX and AIDS
eduo,tion
information
to glYand bi .. xu.1 M,n of Color;
coordln.t"
a network of pe.,..
.upportgroupa for g.y .nd
biaaxu.1 Men of Color In ,1111
borough. of N.w York City.
303 Ninth AVI!, New York, NY
10001 or c,1I (212)239017".

NYC GAY 11D11AN
ANTI·VlOLENCE PROJECTCounMling, ,dveOicy, and Infor·
m,tio" for .ulVivort" of Inti-gay
and .nti·l .. bi.n violenc', "xu,1.... ault. domaatic violenoe, andother IYP" of viclimizltion. All.. Me .. f". and confidtnli.I.24
hour hedin. (21~)80NI187
PEQPI.E wmt AIDSCCIAUTION(212)~~

NAnONAI. GAY AND LESBIANTASKFORCE
i. the nalional gra .. root. politi·
c.1 orglnlzalion for l8IbI.", Ind
gay mIn.
Membl"hipi.
S3CWear. laau .. oriented projeeta
addr ... violence, .odomy l.wI,
AIDS, gay righta ordinlno .. ,flmni8l, media, etc, through lobbying, .duollion, organizing anddiract action. NGLTF 1517 U
Strut
NW, Wllhington,
DC
20000. (202)332-8483.
NEW YORK ADVERnSING
AND COMMUNI CAnONSNETWORKNYACN II tha oorrmunity'alarg811
gay and leabian prof ... ion.1
group, welcoming ,II in corrmunic.tion_and
their frlenda.
Monthly meetings,
3rd Wed8:30pm .t the Community Cenlllr.
Mambers' newsletter, job hotline,
annual directory. Phone (212)5170380 for more info. Menlion OUlWeek for one free nawalettar.
N.V. WOMEN'SSOFTBALL GUILDFor experienced,
serioua Soft·ball Playar.,
Coach81andManagers.
We play mod/faat
pitch weekend.
in Manhattan
and Queanl.
Try-out.
begin
Feb. 11 thru April- or until fillad.
(212)255-1379 Janet
NINTH STREET CENTER
Since 1973, a community dedi·
cated to demonstratingthat ahomoaexual Iife8tyle i. a rational, desirable
choice for individuals dissatisfied
with thereward. of conventional
living.
Psychologically- focu18ed rap
group., Tuee., Sat, 8 to 10 pm.
pear counaelling available. 319
E. 9 Street, New York, NY 10003,
for info call (212)228-5153.
NORTH AMERICAN ItW4/IJOY
LOVE ASSIlClAnON (NAMlll.A)
Dadic.ted
to "xu,1 fr,edom
and upeclallyinteroted
In
gay intMrgpnerlllon.1
r,I,Iion.hlpa.
Monthly
B~Ir.lln
and resul,r ohoptQr mutlns.
on the fir,t S.lurdayof uchmonth, Yllrly mlmbmhlp
I,'20; write NAMDLA. PO Box
174, Midtown
Sutlon,New
York, NY 100lO Qr 0,11 (212)807·8571 for Inlorm.!lon,

NORTHEIIN LlGHTI
ALTERNATIVES
Improving
Qu.llt~ 01 Lilt lor
Peopl, with AIDSIHIV,THE AIDS MASTERY WORK·
SHOP: Exploring thl po"lblll·tI.. of • powerful tnd artttfvI
lif. In tho f.oo of AIDS, C.II
(212) 255-8554(212)Ii32-D568MondlY thru Friday
ll11nH1prn Meal progl1l111, III!pport
groupl, aduca1!onaland rafe""I .... vI_forPWA' .. nd f'WI\ro' ..
PEOPL.E WITH A1DI
HEAl.TH OROUP
Undergl"Ollld buyaI'. olub inporli1g
nat..."....ppl'CMld medicl1iona .nd
nutritional aupplemenlll. 31 Walt
2I!Ih St. 4f1 Roor (212)~
PRORSSIONALSIN
RLMIVIDEO
338 Clnll Street, 8th Roor, NYC
10013212-845-3361
SAGE:(Senior Action In • 0.,
Environment)
Social Service Agency. providing
care, aClivi1i8l, & educalional..,.·
vicaa for gay & leabian l8I'Iior citizenl.
Allo lerves over 160
homabou1d aaniora & older fIWA'.
.208 West 13th St NYC 10011,(212) 741-2247

UPPal

MANHATTAN

TAlK FORCE ON
AIDS
Education, Hotline, Supportive
Ca .. M.nlglmfnt
and Volunteer Recruitinent and Referral.
212-870-3352
WHAMI (Wo""n't ",elth
AI!IiC!n Moblll-.tion)
A dlreot·.ctiongroup committed to dem.nding,aeourlng
and defending abaolute reproductiv'e fr .. dom a"d quality
he.l~ o,re for .11 women. We
meet every Wed. at 8:30 pm at
105, E 22nd St., 4th Floor.
(212)713-5988.
Mailing Iddr .. l: WHAMI, P.O.
Box 733, NYC 10009
WOMEN'S AI.TERNATIVECOMMUNnv CJ:NrER (WACC),
A non· profit, L"blan community center .. rving Queena,
N.... u .nd Suffolk counti ...
Thura night weekly diaou .. ion
grpa. 8:30pm, for other activitiea pl ... , contlot u. at (516)483-2060.

SETHIAN GAYS,WBIANS AND BISEXUAl.S
For all of UI intllreatad in reaching
oUlto each other in exuberance tolpontaneoUlly explore and expand
upon 1118Satt-/Jane Roberts 'Philoiophy" 88 it realtes to our liv8l,
pBl1OIlally, l18Xually and politically.
Cell f,J (212) 1179-5104
IUNDANCE
OUTDOOR ADVENTURE
SOCIEtYA non-profit club offering Outdoor
aClivi1iI!l for every season including hiking, biking, akiing, wateraClivi1i8l.nd other outdoor ac;tMIi" for1he GayAMbian Oommlllity.
For infonnation or complimentlry
N8WI!etter caU1212) !i8H726.
THI; Ill/THEA!;HUSING
COMMUrw. HEAUNG(TOUCH)
Comm~nity wlUn1!ll1l prwiding I
wllkly buffet tupper lor the
Brooklyn AIDS ggmmunily, TOUCH
milta' Monday IYII, 5pm to
0:30pm- It downtown Brooklyn
Frl.nd,MutinQ
Hou"
1110
Sohlrm,rhorn
St. nPar DOlrumPlm~ Umlttd trlllIport!llion JIlIIY
be arrlnUld, Info: 17181 _mo,
TOUCH WtiOQlTlH oonllibuUon. offundi, fvgd gnQ wlunllM!rw.

ULlTEII COUNTYGAYAND LIllIAN
AWANCEMin ftm Ind tint Mondtyof ughmonth It 7:30 p,m. II u" Unillriln
Churoh on Sawijl Raid In KlngltOn,
For klfonnaUon, cal (9141828-:1203.

August 8, 1990

OU~WEEK73

CHELSEA

D.T.'sFat Cat, 281 W. 12th St., 243-9041

Barbary Coast, 64 7th Ave.114th St.), 675-0385,Duchess II, 70 GroveSt 17thAve.),242-1408lWomen)

The Break. 232 8th Ave.122nd St.), 627-0072.

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

Chelsea Transfer, 131 8th Ave. Ibet. 16th & 17th).
92~7183

Eighty Eights, 228 W lOSt., 924-0088

Eagle's Nest, 142 11th Ave 121st St.), 691-8451

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

Private Eyes, 12. W. 21 st St. Ibet. 5th & 6th),
206-7770

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

Rawhide, 212 8th Ave., 121st St.), unlisted.

KelJy'sVillage West, 46 BedfordSt., m9322

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

Spike, 120 11th Ave., 243-9688

The Locker Room, 400 W. 14th St. 19th Ave),

The Works, 428 Columbus Ave (at 81 st),799-7365,

I

Keller's, 384 West St.lat Christopher), 243-1907

4594299-

WEST VILLAGE

Temporarily Closed

Marie's Crisis, 59 Grove St.l7th Ave), 243-9323

The Annex Ito Cellblock 28),673 Hudson Stlbet
13th & r4thl. 627-114[}- Temporarily Closed
Badlands, Christopher & West St., 741-9236

The Monster, 80 Grove St.l7th Ave.). 924-3558
New Jimmy's, 53 Christopher, 463-0950
Ninth Circle, 139 W. 10th St., 243-9204

Boots & Saddle, 76 Christopher St., 929-9684

Sneakers, 392 West St., 242-9830.

Cellblock 28, 28 9th Ave, 733-3144-Hopes
reopen by August 1

to

The Cubbyhole; 438 Hudson IMorton
243-9079 INow for Men)St),

Crazy Nanny 5, 21 7th Ave;,ue'South, 366-6312
IWomen).::,Two Potato, 145 Christopher St., 242-9340.
Ty's, 114 Christopher,741-9641.
Uncle Charlie's, 56 Greenwich Ave.,
255-8787

WESTSIDE
Candle Bar, 309 Amsterdam Ave., 874-9155
Cat's, 730 8th Ave., 221-7559
Don't Tell Mama, 343 W. 46th St., 757-0788
Gents, 360 W 42 St.I9th Ave), 967-0659
Sally's Hideaway, 264 W. 43 St., 221-9152
Town & Country, 9th Ave at 46th St., 307-1503

EASTSIDE
Bogart's, 320 E. 59th St., 688-8534
Brandy's Piano Bar, 235 E. 84th St., 650-1944
G.H. Club, 353 E. 53rd St., 223-9752
Johnny's Pub, 123 E. 47th St., 355-8714
NY Confidential, 306 E49 St, 308-8390
Regent East, 204 E. 58th St., ~55-9465
Rounds, 303 E. 53rd St., 593-0807
South Dakota, 405 3rd Ave., 684-8376
Star Sapphire, 400 E. 59th St., 688-4710

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EAST VILLAGE
The Bar, 68 2nd Ave.lat 4th St.), 674-9714
Boy Bar, 15 St. Mark's PI., 674-7959
The Pyramid, 101 Avenue A, 420-1590
Tunnel Bar, 116 1st Ave Oth St.), m-9232

BROOKLYN (718)After Five Plus, 5 Front St., 852-0139

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a:Breadstix, 113-24 Queens Blvd., Forest Hills,
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261-8484

Spectrum, 802 64th St.lat 8th Ave), 745-9611

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The Townhouse, 236 E. 58th St., 754-4649

OUTTWEEK

Hideaway, 87-36"ParsonsBlvd., Jamaica, 657-4585¢ 95 per minute, $2.00 for the firstAugust 8,1990

love Boat, 77-02 Broadway, Elmhurst, 42~8670

Magic Touch, 73-13 37th Rd, Jackson Hgts,429-8605

STATEN ISLAND
Sandcastle,86 Mills Ave., 17181447-9365

WESTCHESTER (!!!)"-- __Playroom, 590 Nepperhan Ave., Yonkers, ~6900

Stutz. 202 Westchester Ave, White Plains, 761-3100

LONG ISLAND-NASSAU(516)

Bedrock, 121 Woodfield Rd., West Hempstead,
486-9516
Blanche, 47-2 Boundary Ave., Farmingdale,694-6906Grand Central, 210 Merrick Rd, Rockville Centre,
536-4800
Pal.m{s, 24Sl JeMalemf:we., Na1h BelInue, ~gJ)1
SitverUnirg. 175Cl"eny tare, New Iiy'de ParX,l54-0041
Station House Pub, 3547 Merrick Rd, Seaford,
785-9808

LONG ISLAND~UFFOLK (516)419,419 North Highway jRt. 271, Southampton,
283-5001
Bunkhouse, 192 N. Main St. Sayville, 567-2865
Cherry's, Bayview Walk, Cherry Grove, R, 597-6820
Club Swamp Disco/Annex Restaurant, Montauk
Hwy, Wainscott, 537-3332

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Ice Palace, Cherry Grove Beach Club, FI, 597-6600
Kiss, 161 Fannardie Dr., lake Ronkonkoma, 467-9273
Club 608,608 Sunrise Hwy., W. Babylon., 661-9580
Millennium, 1770 NY Ave, Huntington, 351-1402
Starz, 836 Grand Boulevard, Deer Park, 242-3857

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Thunders, 894 W. Jericho Tpke., Smitht(Mlll,864-141 0

NEW JERSEY (201)Charlie's West, 536 Main St., E. Orange, 678-5002
Feather's, 77 Kinderkamack Rd., River Edge,
342-6410~

Friendly's Bar, 6310 Park Ave., West New York,854-9895
Excalibur, 10th & Jefferson, Hoboken, NJ, 795-1161
Nite Lite, 509 22nd St., Union City, 863-9515
Vibrations, 165 Cedar Lane, Teaneck,836-5518
Yacht Club, 366 Berkshire Valley Rd., Jefferson,697-9780

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Ask for my special rate.
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Office open Monday through Friday
Cleaners available 7 days.
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SOLID CAREEROPPORTUNITY,,

Share a lBR in Hell'S Kitchen. $285/
Mo - you gat your own rm. Elevator,
close to subways, split utilities,
pleesant non-smoker roomete, nopets please, gay mall preferred.

CENTRAL PARK SOUTH
Lux apt overlooking Central Park.
own bedroom, free utilities, adjacentto Plaza hotel, subway downstairs O.K. for couple. Available 8/1190.Rent$850. "Call Chris- 212-644-0018

ARTBUY/Ifll
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Specialist
LARGEST SELECTION Buy-SellTrade-'Locate Wllrhol, Wesselman,
Uchtenstein, Crash, Hockney,
Kostabi and others Daniel Acosta
ARTSOURCE,Inc. 212.255.6680
FAX
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APARTMEIT SHARE"·ROOM FOR RENT*"
Your own unfurnished bedroom inquiet large west village duplex with
two non-smoking sober gay men.
Available Aug. 6$500/month (212)645-8573

SPECTACULAR W. VILLAGE APT.I

GO·OD SALARY PLUS
LIBERAL COMMISIONSTRUCTURE
OUTWEEK MAGAZINE SEEKS
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in Greenwich Village Brnstn. 2 !laymen seeks easy going roomate(sj tooccupy top floor duplex. Apt is laidout like 2 sep. apts. Top floor
includes: Bedroom, LR, closets, own
bathroom & small room for office.
Share kitchen with DN/, microwave,
WID, etc. Access to: IBM PL w/ laser
printer & Macintosh, Xarox. & fax
basement storage. Asking $1000 amonth plul 1/3 of utilities. Mu$t lea
to believe I Call Patrick (212) 366-9079

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COOP/CONDOCLOSINGS BANKRUPTCY; INCORPORATIONS;WILLS
37 E.28THSTREETSUITE 700 NYC(212)-447-0636

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New York, NY 10014 Lower Level, By
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(212) 727-1850
Certified Electrologist
Member I.G.P.E.

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Keith 518-272-6741

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to reach 1000's of men every week on
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We know there are more of us. Let'sgather for socializing & support.
Send a note with ideas, needs,
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1-900-234-0IAL (3425)
SHAVING EXPERT, wants to fulfill yourfantasy, ff you are 25-45, attractive, goodbuikj with a beautifuf butt, call this 6',195
Ib, moustache, attractive 40's guy for asmooth experience with all the extras.
EXT 1066
HOT HANDSOME HUNK, 6' 170 Ib, dirty
BL LTlBR TRIM, smooth, muscular, 33,
seeks boyish GWM 20-28, lun safe hottimes plus, EXT 1056
NEEDED GWM 18-25 for hOi and wildtimes, I'm GBM, 18, ready to be loved, I
enjoy the movies,dinner at home.
EXT 1048
SEEKSFRIEND/LOVERWM,25yrs, 6'2·
183 Ibs, gdlkg, very romanli<:, honest. I
want relationship & gd times, friendship.
Call EXT 1049
CHROME SCULPTURE
desperately
seeking Mark E, from W, Village days,
Come get it soon! Pal & Ralph
EXT 1047
MARRIAGEABLE CHUBBY GWM prof.,hllhy, hdsm, 39, 5'6'/2301, var, intr.,
bulked up at gym + dinner lable sks
GWM chsr &I or chub 1045, EXT 1037
MARRIED
MEN WANTED for safe
encounters by well-built bi male 6'3',
1951bs, clean -cut & discreet. EXT 1038
LETS STRIP STUD. HOI Italian 2, sksolher muscular & wikl boysockstraps, ass
worShip, EXT 1031
MARRIED BIWM 31.155 sks wkdy AM
tryst w/endowed tops al your place, Un·
cut &lor hairy a realturn-on,
EXT 1012
HISPANIC
LOVER
SOUGHTbyaliraClive
GWM, 5'9·, 140 Ibs, 30,
athletic, You: in-shape to 32yrs. want fun
klng- term relationship, EXT 1013

POSITlVE ACTION, Hot GWM, 29, 5'7·,
1551b, muscular and beefy HIV+ wants
cleancut pos. dudes for mutual cksking &Itwrk, and affection EXT 1057
ARE YOU READY for a special relalion?
GBM, 36, 5'11", 180 Ibs, seeks honest
sincere GM to en;oy life together.
EXT 1058
INTELLIGENT ARTISTIC BB 43, 5'9',
160 muscular & defined into musidarts
needs guy 35-50 for physical&mentalpleasure, EXT 1018

WEEKNIGHT SAFE PLAYMATE, uncul
and hairy a plus, is soughl by GWM,
hung, 40+ living in W 80's, EXT 1059

GWM, 35, 5'8·, 1381bs, HIV + poet seeks
HIV ... GWM in his 30's and the creativearts to wake up 10, Call EXT 1001

HANDSOMEWITH HAIRY CHEST
GWM 30. 5'11', 175 Ibs, musular build,sandy BL hazel seeks wlbn BrM for safe
steady sex, EXT 1061

ORIENTALS/ASIANS
take a chance forfriendship and more. What you want:
GWM, 40's, 5'10·, 200, HIV·, attractive,
warm. sensitive. sincere, fun-lOVing.
What I want: relationship gd times withyou, Call EXT 1004

GWM WANT CHUBBY· Early 50's, slim,
wants to meet super chub over 400 Ibs
for quiet enjoyable
cuddlingandwhalever else deveklps, EXT 1005

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LET'S PLAY DOCTOR, call for appt.
Open your legs while the MD examines
your private parts, EXT 1051

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HOT BEAUTIFUL BODY, hot beautiful
spiri!. hot beautiful mind, GBM, 25,6',
with all of Ihe above looking
foraggressive,ffectionate
and anractive top
wo can handle Ihis package,EXT 1055

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SEEKS ACTOR/SINGER
GWM, Prof"
40's Seeks young, aggressive attrac-tive
actor/singer 21 to 30, for dinners, theatre,
fun, safe sex, etc, Call EXT 1022

FF TOP 48 wants a man willing 10 spreadcan be fisted and raped with dildoes,
EXT 1032

FOR HELP COMPOSINGGERMAN AMERICAN redlbl HIV·, WM,
protestant, 32, Manhatman 5'8" w/car
seeks soulmates with day job for fun +summer travel. This is not a sex ad.
EXT 1039

1-800-747-7440
IF YOU ARE GWM 21-30 and want tomeel a safe and very generous GWM 35,
5'8·, 150 Ibs, call EXT 1002

CHUBBY, 5'10·, 2751bs.. handsome andhairy assed chasers who like a big belly
and lits, EXT 1042

ASIAN STUDENT 24 yo, Filipino blklbr
good-looking, romantic, theatre. artist sks
frdnltover, Serious rltshp, EXT 1034

TWO HORSE·HUNG MEN: one very attr,
and endowed WM, 26, 175, 6', muscular,
sks other honestly huge endowment, any
age orrace, EXT 1044

GWM AVERAGE LOOKS 53, 5'10·, 130
Ibs, varied interests- seeks similiar who ;snol ·inIO· anything, Just a joy of life,
EXT 1006

ORIENTAL
GM, 19, 5'10·, 130 Ibs,
seeking young GM"s for serious times
18-24 slra~ht acting young A+,
EXT 1062

SENSUAL ROMANTIC GWM 6',130 Ibs,
34, brlbl seeks young clean passionale
bottom prefer slightly over-weighl guy but
not necessary, EXT 1035

GWM I"M TALL, thin slightly musc, I'mlooking for a man, leens-23, goodloo~ng,
inexperienced,
Replys from South NJ
please, EXT 1033

GM, 45, REFUSES 10 give up believingthat there is another like-minded gay man
who is willing 10stand by me, EXT 1043

VAN GOGH LOOKALIKE.
GWM 34,hung, lop, bald, shaved balls, seekssmooth/shaved
bottom any race forgreek lusVklve safe times, EXT 1003

AD CAll
CUSTOMER SERVICEGWM 23. 5'10", BLlBL, 155 Ibs, seekscleancut
GWM 21-27 relationshiporiented, Enjoy biking and racquetball.
EXT 1064• ALL INFORMATION WILL BE KEPT CONFIDENTIAL.
AVAILABLE THROUGH TOUCHTONE PHONE ONLY • TELEPHONE RATE IS 99~ PER MINUTE ($1.99 THE FIRST)• YOU WILL BE NOTIFIED BY MAIL, WHEN YOUR AD WILL APPEAR
AND HOW TO RETRIEVE YOUR RESPONSESSTUDENT DELIGHT ·gdlk WM 21·28
students clnshvn, gdbody (hungl & mind.
entertained by allr WM 46, 6'1", 180,
generous, Euro·pean businessman.
EXT 1014

GREAT LOOKING GWM. 23, 6', 160,
stache, Versatile, fun sks GM 21-32 intomusic, wild/quiet times .. Good kisser a
H,
EXT 1036
BUTCH BGM, 23, 160, 6'1· botlom
needs big and tall tops for hot action andgood times, Age, race unimportant.
EXT 1045
CUTE AND SHY GWM, 26, 1651bs, 6'
brlbr dance( from midwest sks cute inshape man 25-40 for romantic friendshipand iIlottimes!! EXT 1046
GBM, HUNG & HANDSOME, 37, 5'7·,
155 Ibs, stache, hairy, heallhy, centered,cultured, committed, versatile top. Sks
bulch bottoms 30-45 for tough andtender times, EXT 1009
ATTRACTIVE PROFESSIONAL, GBM,
36,6', 190 Ibs, masculine, seeks ~miliar
mature stable man tor long talks, quiet
evenings and laughle" EXT 1010
THREE WAY??? Two cleancut guys 20's
and 30's seek cute bonom for sate lun.
Westchester-NYC'& Conn we~ome,
EXT 1011
HOT WILD & HORNY-5'l1', 1551bs very
anractive Italian banom-I'm easy to like,passionate with a flair, and I have a goodsafe sex attitude.
It you're an
experienced top & know the difference
between fun and serious, call me, cause I
just wanna have fun, EXT 1023

BACK TO BASICS GWM 39, 6', 210 Ibs,
Irish hndsm sks WM 25-50 to be mylover, friend & pal. I enjoy movies,
theater, music, & safe·sex, EXT 1025
HOWIE 40, 135 Ibs, deep dark red head
looks like 30 cute, into safe-sex. seeks
boyfriend or lover, EXT 1026

GREEK ME! GWM, 39, 5'r, 135, uncut
sks hot lop, Want 10 learn FF-I french you 'greek- no ege race hangups, EXT 1016

JO SESSIONS with slim GBM, 30, seeks
hung guy, Race unimportant. EXT 1063

HANDSOMELATIN· LWM, 34, 5'7",
1651bs, likes movies dancing, seeks 2638 'orsincere relationship. EXT 1054

HANDSOME, SMOOTH, GWM, 6'4·,
2151bs. ·hot" mouth, lits for chewing
bubble butt want to service in shape guy
27-45 on regular bases, EXT 1026

HOT FOR REDHEADS·
me: 33, bindhunk, hung + muscled sks attf. guys forsafe sex, message, porno ... wrestling ...
showing it off! EXT 1015

BIG TOUGH GUY, 39 yrs, 6'1-, 2901,
beard with 'slaelle, biker/trucker type. sks
masuline fk-buddy who likes it kind 01
rough, EXT 1017

GWM
MENTALHEALTHPROFESSIONAL willing to let you lalk
about any gay-related issues. I am 35
and promise to help you, Not a sex ad,
Call EXT 1019

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NINIlf STREET CENIl!R. INC.
319 I!ut Ninth SIre«
NYC 10003

2U/228-5153

ONGOING HIV+ GROUP
Caring gay male support group seeks
add~ional members who havecompleted the Body Positive
semina~~ehave a positive attitude
and share O!Ir feelings. We meet on
Thursdays in'Manhattan at 7:30 PM(no fee or charge). Please send a
brief note expressing your interest
along with a phone number and thebest time to contact ypu. Discretionand confidentialitY assured.
Contact Richard, Box 23H
496A Hudson Street NY, NY 10014

GROIP IASSIGf
MEN'S MASSAGE GROUP
Get together with a group of men to
give and receive massages. Taught
by Terry·W eisser, Ucansed Masseur
and teacher at the Swedish Institute.
Sundays,7-10pm,$20.00, call (212)463-9152.

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TOTAL HEALTH AND BEAUTY
By Joe 212-979-9746 Hair & Makeup& Facial & Bodyrub & Cuts & Color &Nails. All welcome. lV's & CD's. Callanytime for an appointment Also
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I ------ 1.- INSURANC£••ASSISTANT EDITORInterest in hard news important; someexperience nepessary; knowledge ofPhila. gay/lesblan com"munity a must
We are offering $19,500 plus BC/BS.
pos. available earlier. Please send
resume and writing samples to Scott
Mallinger c/o Au Courant. P.O.
Bo~ 42741, Phila., PA 19101.

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PARALEGALGMHC
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISISTHE FIRST AND LARGESTAIDS SERVICE ORGANIZATION
IN THE WORLD SEEKS:LEGAL ADVOCATEREPORTING TO THE DIRECTOR OF
LEGAL SERVICES WILL ASSIST IN
THE INTAKE AND SCREENING OF
NEW LEGAL CLIENTS; PROVIDES RESEARCH, INFORMATION COLLEC- 'TION, AND ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF
SUPPORT; COORDINATES ESTATEPLANNING FOR NON-AMBULATORYCLIENTS; AND MAINTAINS THE
DEPARTMENTAL LAW LIBRARY. THE
SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE MUST BE
A GRADUATE OF CERTIFIED PARALEGAL PROGRAM OR POSSESSeQUIVALENT EXPERIENCE.
EXCELLENT SALARY AND COMPREHENSIVE BENEFITS. PLEASE SENDRESUME WITH COVER LETTER TO:
DONNA DASHGAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS, INC.
129 WEST 20TH STREETNEW YORK, NY 1001HI022
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS, INC.
IS AN EQUAL OPPlY EMPLOYER
M/F/HNEDUCATION DIRECTOR. AIDSTREA~ENTREGISTRY
A grassroots, cpmmunity based AIDS
service organization has immediate
opening. Candidates should havebackground in AIDS research andadvocacy issues. MS/MA in education, public health, social work, or
equivalent experience desired.
Ruency in Spanish
a major plus. Resume/letter to Dr.
James E. D'Eramo, Exec. Dir/ATR/259
West 30th Street. 9th Roor, New York,NY 10001-EOE
AIDS PROGRAM DIRECTORNational minority org seeks dep. dir.
for programs. Oversite on publications, technical assistance, and public
policy, Must have 4 years sup.,ervisory,experience. Biligual skills a plus.
Salary $38,000-42,000 plus benefits.
Send resumes by 7/31/00 to NMAC,
300 I Street, NE, 4th R., Washington,
DC 20002.

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kin 'dBERNARD GRANVillE(212) 580-9724

IITERIORDESISIINTERIOR DESIGNER
decorating and consulting services.
No time? Too busy? Get professional
advice. It doesn't have to be a big
job. I'll design a lampshade.
Talentedl Reasonable rates.
212-883-1254.

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Storage Available
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Reasonable storage rates.
Pianos-Art-Antiques
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Call 289-1511.
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Local & Long Distance
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professional. Beginners welcome.
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WOMEN'S PERSONALSI am at home in
TALL-DARK &corporate and
HANDSOME
artistic milieus. I
SUTCH: 34
5'8" Hispanic Jew ' enjoy horroT, SclFi, arid for~gn, heavyset & In
films. I also like toshape. Have
make homegreat hands-give
movies. I enjoy
the body rub of
foreign travel andlife. Sleazy but
love Mexjcah
clean cut-you canfood. I-also likebring me home to
Depeche Modemother. I loveand Erasure, etc.
contact dancing,
Tell me what you
FI sun-drenched
like. Send note/beaches & finephone/photo/
women. Seek pevideo totite, intelligent,
Outweek Box
independent, ad2919
venturous femme
for fun in the sun,I ENJOY BEING
friendship,
A GIRLromance, sex on
Androgynous
the beach. Be 28
GWF 24 shy ator older open
first, sensitive
minded sincere
aiways, 5'6", slim,
w/sense ofcute, athletic.
humor. Letter/
Loves cycling,
photo POB 75
hiking, mounCherry Grove, FI
tainbiking,NY 11782.
running, music,
laughter and Mets
GWF 30+games. IntimiSEEKS GWF
dated by the bar
30+

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88 OU~EEK

August 8,1990,scene (but loves
to dahcel) Seeks
GF friends fOr ,funtimes and/or ,awam1, affectionate, athletic GF
for something
special. Enjoy
being outdoorsy
aswellasa'
homebody? Lefs
do it togetherl
Send letter/phototoOutweek Box

2909
CALLING ALL:
GIRLS
After ending two
y'ear relationshipit sunk in: all thedykes I know
have moved out
of NY. Seek
simil~ GPs tohang ~ound w/,
swap ·~he done
me wrong"
stories,! etc.
Really looking forfriends but who
knows whenlightening will

strike? I'm GWF,

~O's,
work in advertising. Can bemoody & sarcastic, but also funny,
intelligent & fairly
charming. LIKES:
my guitar, cats,,.Just Say Julie"
on MTV, Converse high tops,
kissproof lipstick,writing, being too
clever for one's
own good.
DISLIKES: the .
butch/femme
mentality, mimes,
the bar scene,
drugs, the word
·chic."
Outweek Box

2904
SIt

DOWN ANDRELAX
and pay close
attention here. I
am 25,years old,·
5'5", brown hair,hazel eyes, white,
but seasonallytanned skin, andlooking for a·-woman who ispassionate
about herself &about who she
Is WIth. I amvery athletic,
sincere andexcited aboutlife & about
meeting a sexy
woman to sharemeaningfulexperienceswith .. PH/PH.
Outweek Box

2901
GWF 29 5'4"
SHORT
BROWN HAIR
Deep voicelive In Brklyn,
just out of l\ 4 yr.
relationship. I
enjoy dining out,
talking overcocktails,
watching theMets andspending timewith my dog.
Hope you are an
animal lover. Ilike to k~p mylifestyle private.
Want the samear. between
2 •35. Friendships
welcom.relatlonsh~possible.
end
photo and letter,& phone #.
Butches need
not apply
Outweek Box
2897
I'VE WAITEDLONGENOUGH TO
WRITE THISAD
Every lesbian In
this city Is -,,alre~
involv ,80 I
figure why nottake this o~rtunity to fu fill afantasy of mine.
Why not
advertise for a
COUPLE?I Ifs
klnda ra~ I
know, a I Ie
nutsy, but I'm

90 OUT-.wEEK

Into It. So, thestats: I'm 23,
GWF, ~body(hell, I enjoy Itl),drk brown hair &eyes, genuln,
smile; I love tolaugh & bring out
the nut in shy
women and get
into a frenzy withlike-witted folks. I
say what I mean
& appreciate thesame In others;
there is too muchto writ.-23
year's worth of life
is not easilyslashed down to a
2-3 inch persona1s ad ...anyway, if
this has' caught
your eye & you
feel as adventurous as I do, send
a fun photo &telling letter
about yourselves.
,Perhaps mutual
earthly delights
can be met. I've
taken the firststep, now ifs yourtum. Clean fun-August 8,1990

no drugs. Pref.
nonsmokers.
Don~t hesitate ...
Outweek Box
2894
WOMAN
of moderatefrequency seeks
woman ofmoderate-to-highvibrationalfrequency tocollaberate andlearn and play
together. Photo!
letter.Outweek
Box 2893
5'11" GWF,
BLONDE WIGREEN EYES
Ivy-ed. writerwants to dosummer concerts,
clubs, beach, etc.'
wla babe. You:
ButchiFemi
whatever-wi
style & humor, ok
w/me in Doc
Martens or Peau
De Soie Pumps. I
used to be amodel, now I'man' aspiring bodybuilder, and I stili
have wardrobe
from both
periods. I write
sci-fi, horror,
pseudo-phlloso~hY while
istening to
Etheridge,
Shreikback,Allman Bros. Be
tolerant andteach me'something. Fun
friend O.K. Loveof-my-life better.
Outweek Box
2888
TAKE A JOURNEY WITH ME
past yoursuckable toes toyour lovely ankles
up your smoothcalves over yourstrong thighs till
we get to the
CLiT CLUB. It
opens for real on
Friday the 27th.
I'm coming. Are
you? If not send
photo.

Outweek Box
2882
QUIETLYQUESTING
GWF, early 20's,
olive complexion,
shaved hair, ingood shape,
looking to meetsimilar-mindedsouls to shareenergy transfersthat lift both our
karmas toeffervescent
Oohmms. You'll
feel as though
your soul has
drunk a Fresca,
then you'll beltchwith absolutedelight. ey theway, my pussy
smells so sweetl
Truly a spiritualexperj.8nce of Joy.
Yo~nowthosec~ little Hari--Krishna hair cuts?
The ones where
the onl~ patch ofhair Is raided in
the back of their .

skulls. Thafs
how my pussy
hairs are. Just anice little holy
patch of hair bywhich the gods lift
you to heavenly
bliss. Lafs jet
together an tune
our yoni's. If
you're not into myreligious virtues(largely a blend of
Hindu Kama
Sutra and Hari
Krishna quiteadvanced, don't
you think?) thenperhaps you'll be
into my little
cottage In Cherry
Grove. I share itwith 215 otherlike-minded girls.
Hourly sharesavailable.
There's somewicked dr.ke
action go ng onout on Fire Island.
We're out to takeover The Pines.
Get those bignell~ bottoms outof t erelill Wild-

and note, before
Ifs too late I
Outweek Box
2848 .

~U88Y action,

ierce, wild
I?usay.
Outweek Box
2863•

white butch who,will be patient wI
my inexperienced
ways. Why nottake a chance?
Charm me with aletter ...P.O. Box334, New
Vork, NY 101500334. Photo opt.

SLEAZV GWF,
5'4",32, GOOD
WHERE ARE
BOD,
VOU?
cute, tits, semiI've looked
close; I've
fem. LOOkl"& forlooked far,boung fem F or
FORGET HOUSE
IF bottom forhaven't foundMUSICI
you In the club - safe sex. No
Wake up to thebutches please.
or bar. I love arhythms of the
My fantasy Is
woman who isworld. fearlessdouble penetrasexy and curvy,
renegade/gypsy" tlon. Also like tothe kind thatsought byhave safe sex
makes youadventurous
parties for fems.
sweaty andlesbian Amazon.
Send photo + #unnervy. You
All and any
OutWeek Box
are 24+,
response Is great.
2844
ambitious and
My fortune cookie
fun~, like-tosays ''You will
GOOD THINGS, cud Ie and kisstravel to many
COME TOand be called
THOSE WHO
eiaCeS." Send
honey. I'm adeas/photos/
WAIT ...
GWF, bruriephone #'s.
GW femme, 19,tte, 28 with
Outweek Box
5'5", large & very
green eyes, I go
2835
lovely burgundy
to the gym tobrown brn curls, .
work on my
LET'S TAKE
bright brn eyesthighs. If you're.
OUR TIME
sensitive & sweet,
interested in a
GF, 37, Hispanic,
seeking achat or a date,with love on her
romantic latina!
send a #, photo

mind, fire in hersoul, seeks wiseand beautiful GF,
30-40, forfriendship,possibly more. No
drugs, roles orbi's. Notethoto.
Outweekx
2828
WHAT THE ~HELL IS A"BOTTOM"LESBIAN?
If you do It rightyou roll around
too much toknowl And why
do we have toconform to fit
those dumb
definitions

anyway.... u"",)femme, lipstick,
top, granoladyke ...phooeyl
There - now ~01J
know my per$onallty - I'm also
cute, fit all ornone of the aforementioned labels,
5'5", 125 Ibs., intellectual yet

carefree, shortbrown hair, browneyes, 23 yo, andve~ happy. I am
100 ing for asimilar or
oppositebean ...fun, happy,
whatever ...tohang out with andJust be ourselves.
I'm new to thearea and need tobroaden the
branches of myfriendship tree
and also might beinterested in,romance. ,Please
send me a photothat describes
your personality.
along with a shortessay (500 words
or less) ..
Outweek Box
2827
MAKE ME MELTI
Seeking strong,tender woman,
25-35, withcreative, piercing
intellect. Be
adventurous,

playful andpassionate about
your life, job and!
or hQbby. Reply
to
Outweek Box
2816
SINGLE GWF, 25
VRS., 6FT,
androgynous,
vez. attractive,
re , ambitious,
honest, gainfully
employed,
Interested In a
nonaddictive
friendshlp/
relationship withan older, preferebly Jewish, sexy,voluptuous
woman who
enjoys wearing
high heels, andpassionate
weekends in the
Hamp
tons. Please no
SUbstance
abusers, bis, orsmokers. Clear
minded emotlonally stable women
who enjoy and

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about life need
reply. All replies
responded to.
Photo & note
please. I'd loveto sweep you
off your feet.
I'm a trueromantic.
Outweek Box
2812
SENSUOUSTOMBOV 30
VRS,"
seeks lesbian
25-35 to date.
Seven-Sisters'
educated. 1 nolonger drink!
smoke.
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Outweek Box
2805
WHAT TURNSVOU ON?
A summer night
on my;
Mon...we startout in boxer
shorts ...wrestle
over the last.
bite of ice
cream .. .1
win ...feed it to

you ...some
remains on yourmouth ...Jt's
mine ...lllck it
up can't help
it nibble on yourlip What tums
you on, sexy
woman ..
.finish the tale.
Photo/letter/
intrigue/risk gets·mine.
Outweek Box'2792 WHAT'S

LOVE?

1 know the
wonder of it's
beauty and am
looking to share
this secret withscimeone special.
I know that love iscloseness andcaring andwillingness, tooverlook things inothers which do
not fit ourdescription of theperfect lover.
Love is also
sharing differences and,celebrating themas much as wecelebrate commonalities, for it isthese differences
which'make eachof us truly uniqueand special. I am
an open lesbian,
23 years old, 5'6",
slim, athletic,
sensual, funny(sometimes
verging on silly),intelligent, awriter, 'SOmewhat
androgynous but
wear loose cotton
dresses, shorthaired, bespectacled, hate theterm politicallycorrect though it
is sometimes
used to describeme, and very
loveable. Vou
shOUld be willingto accept thesecharacteristics aswell as some ,Ihaven't described(because
nobody's perfect),20-35 years old,

any race as longas you're awoman, securewith yourself andcomfortable inyour body,interested inmeeting someone
to share goodtimes without 'fearing where
they might lead.
Please send yourphoto and phone
number with aninteresting letterto:Outweek Box
2747
VOUNG, ANE
DVKE,
unabashedly
sexy, seekssugar-Mama.
25y.o. GWF tiredof games andpumping up egos.
Looking for a fun
pal to take me out& show me agreat time without
the need forchemicals. You:
woman in 30's,
very much intouch with yoursensuality, ingood shape &like to work out,
very comfortablewith yourself, notlooking for
SOmeone/something to fill avoid--just want toenhance eachother. I'm waiting
to hear from you.
PH/PH to:Outweek Box
2746
VERV CUTE
GWF WANTS
MORE DATESthat was DATES not relationshipS.
I am 5'6" 125#hair in the growthstage and CUTE
CUTE CUTE I
Enough about
me ...YOU YOU
YOU... uninhibited, any color,
any ,size, we'll
have a great time
exploring eachother. Send a
photo and letter .

that show your tru
Iy interesting
character.
Outweek Box
2520
ONCE UPON A
TIMEan attractive 27yr
old black woman. awoke to discoverherself a lesbian.
Immediately,while laying in
bed she threw aparty for herself.
Believe,it or not,the celebration
continues. Wantto come? RSVP
with photo. ,OUTWEEK box
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GWM, sexy blueeyed blondbombeneadyforsome hot stud'/aCtion. "Long is
not wrong I- I
always say. Lets
get together forno nonsense safe
sex. No games
please. I am
looking for theman who knows
what he like when
he sees me.
Photo/phone/favorite positions to:
Outweek Box
2917

BUTT HIVlooking for wellhung aggressive
very tall man who
can take care of
my sexual needs.
Someone 30-50
masculine andcaring. Husband
material. No fatsdrugs or fem.
Permanent
relationship, no
one nighters. SS
only. Me 5'11165 BrIBr good
shape and readyto please.
Sensitive nipples.
Please reply to
POBox 535 White
Plains, NY 106020535

MAID NEEDED
to clean andshine my Manhattan apartment ona regular basis.
You must be
loyal, attractive,
hardworking andssubmlssive.
Nude work issometimes
expected. Please
send phone &photo to P.O. Box
36, NY, NY
10113.

BETTER DAYSARE HEREIGWM In Queens.
4OIsh, 5'11-, 165.
Attract. In shape.
Non-bar-type.
Sensitive,
passionate. Lets
start a fresh,
uncomplicatedreI. devoid of
mental ordeals.
Be a caring,togeJher GM 2240. Photol
Outweek Box
2911

ALONE? NEEDA FRIEND?
This GW Spanish/'Irishman needs
one too. Has
good sense ofhumor, loves totalk/loves tolisten. Will makeyou laugh andfeel loved andneeded. If you
like to kiss,cuddle
and hug, you'll
feel wanted
secure and warm
allover. 18-35.
I'm 50's, 5'7", 175, br/gr Ph/Ph POB .
2214 NY NY
10036
GSM 46 HOT

96 OU~EEK

August8,1990

WALL STREET
Very goodlooking
writer into movies,
theatre, NY wants
to meet handsome, passionate
Wall Street man
to deal with morethan just deals.
Photo to:Outweek Box
2905
WE'RE HOT,HUNG, HAIRY,
AND HORNY,
and looking forplaymates.
Singles, couples
or more wanted
for safe encounters. Tell us yourfantasy and we'll

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Photo & phone.
Outweek Box: 2900COLT TYPEPHOTOS!!!
GWM amateur
fotog needs
I ilxpce with newIi equipmt. Needs[ ~rhot, hardIy to pose.
1 You get all color: prints and ,; negatives. YourI

'J, place.
Photalphone #.
Best
• time. POB 266 E.
Elmhurst; NY
11369.

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FRIENDS SAY IUVEA
CHARMED LIFE
Willing to drop myslipper for the~tfrince.
G,35, 6ft.,
170 Ibs, brown
hair, blue eyes,.goodlooking
seeks similar to
40. Dreams docome true. Send
description andphoto.
Outweek Box
2898! UNCUT GWM,

37,150 LBS,
A little shy, would
like to meet otheruncut trim slightly
insecure GWM foradventure andsharing. Send
photo and notewith reeip'rocate
to LT Suite 453,
486A Hudson St.,
NY NY 10014

SCRATCH MYnCH
GWM, 6'2", 170,
AsheOlBr., 24rsO,
replete wlboy sh~dlkS. & chann In
rei yr. of commltted relationship wI
older man seeks
men to fulfill his
fantasies. Are youa handsome
masculifle top
looking for a
responsive
bottom and/or hot
mouth? (Tall &BB a +~send PHI H, etc. to.August 8,1990..

98 OUTYWEEK-,

145 Caldwell, NJ

Box 8138, NYC
10116-4650.
Ps--My lover
approves.

x 5173, Hoboken
NJ 07030. Workin NYC Uve In
NJ.

INVEST IN THE
BESTI
GWM, 35, 6', 170
Ibs., brown hair,
blue eyes, goodlooking. Investor
must be QQ!)dlooking, successful, mol)ogamous, fun,romantic to 40.
Dreams do cometrue. Send
description withphoto.
Outweek Box
2889
LlL BROISONWANTED
GWM,315'8185 brown hairhazel eyes Irish
Top teenager atheart seeks
GWM, GAM or
Arilerican Indianunder 26 who stillvalues the kid
inside him. Phone& pix ~ John 328
Ratbus Ave.,
Suite 108,
Brooklyn, NY
11238 or call 718857-8802

INVASION OF
THE PINES
I saw you, In all
your lovelinessand joy, descendIng from the ferry
you and a million
other faux dragqueens rode to
The Pines fromCherry Grove.
That red tafetta
flowing In thesummer breeze,
OPPOSITES
glowing from the
ATTRACT GWM
radiant sunshine.
33, bearded,
I simply couldn't
balding, sexy big
believe my eyes
hairy gut seeks .
were beholding
masculine
such Iovliness.
sensual man, thin
Remember me? I
to wen build underchased you in
40. Call (212)929your high-heels
8605 P.S Meen
through the meat,who are creative,
rack. You broke
sexy and mysterla heel in theous a plus I
sandy floor of thewoods, twisted an
WHITE JEWISH . ankle, fell and
MALE 36
your head landed
5'6- 140 wannon a bag full of
viable intelli~ent
condoms andnicely muse ed
lube GMHC so thfrom weights
oughtfully
healthy discreet
provides for theseeks one special
fresh. You
decent male 30+
refused my help.
for mo~You spat inrelationship. Box'face. You to me
1730 NYC NY
what a pig I am. I
10011 Please be
loved every
over 30.
second of it. It
Just made me
HAVING A
hotter and hotter.
PARTY?
I had to have you.
Sexy GWM wants
Just as I wasto be invited toabout to take
Vour orgy.
advantage of yourersatlle,
dire situatio
handsome, 5'11-,n, however, I
190, brlhz, hung,heard the angeliC
36. No rauch.
choir of the
Safe-sex conlesbian women's
sclous. SIM, okay.
chorus in heaven.
The more the
You were an
merrier. P.O. Box
Angellll Then
2520, Times
you ascended
Square Station,
Into a brilliant
NYC 10108.
white light thatwent who knows
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until you, thewelcome. PO Box
queen of theTOP
Lean WASP, 6'1-,
33, with GREAT
pees (hairy),seeks slim,
smooth younger
guy with a little
butt toIoay with.
Safe. ot. WILL,
P.O. Box 2311,
New York, NY
10108-2050
GWM 305'9"
160 BRIBR
Attractive, straightacting. Born bred
In Midwest.
Romantic, senseof humor.
Interested In arts,
travel, sports,
outdoors.
,Intelligent andvery sensuous.
Seeks bright,
good looking guy
23-35 for friend·ship and possibly
more. Letter, ph,photo. P.O. Bo

07006 Bottoms
uplJ

SE~ROGS
have
me a
real
reo Is truQ
love the only thingleft?' GWM, 6'3-,
185#,29. Blueeyes, kind of
blond, and pr:ts
damn cute. See
boy next door.
Outweek Box
2873

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invasion,answers me.
Please answer,me. In themeantime, I'm
waiting by thedock in The
Pines.
Outweek Box
2864
HOT, GROOVY
DOWNTOWNDUDESWATCH-OUT!
Clear blue eyes,
short brown flattop cut hair,drop-dead gorgeousness andsex-appeal jsloose on thelower-east side,
just waiting tohear from someequally groovyguys. Respond,already. What
are you waitingfor? Inset Photo.
Outweek Box'
2862

looking for apt.
DARK~HAIRED ~ share in Buenos& LEAN
Aires. Open to
youngish -4()
ideas from other
GWM with
world travelers.
glasses, looks.&
P.O. Box 9183,
body seeks
Suite #221,
slender, bookish
Cambridge, MA& cute younger
02139.
counterpart.
WM TRANSSEXPhoto/letter
UAL,
P.O. Box 1123,
35 looks 20, long
NYC 10011.
br. hair, hazeleyes, 5'10·. I'll be
WJM 38 5'10"
170
out of rrison in
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