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Center voted recently to deny use of the Center's facilities to NAMBLA, the North American Man Boy Love
Association. Use of the Center's space had beenrequested by NAMBLA for a poetry reading featuring Allen
Ginsberg. In justifying the denial, the Center issued a statementthat "it was not in the best interest of the Center" to allow thepoetry reading to take place. In our opinion it was not in thebest interests of the community or the Center to ban the reading.
In matters of freedom and free speech, a basic principle
holds that it's precisely how we respond to the least popular attitudes and beliefs that determines how free we really are. It's nochallenge for a SOCietyto allow free speech to the popular, thebland or the mainstream. The real challenge is how we respondto groups like NAMBLA,whose agenda many find incomprehensible or abhorrent.
For lesbians and gays, the principle of respect for diversity
is especially compelling because much of society considers us to
be incomprehensible and abhorrent. While we hope that witheducation and openness society will eventually come to a different conclusion about homosexuality, many may always condemn
and oppose us. It's therefore incumbent on us to show by example how a free and tolerant people deal fairly with those whose
sexuality offends the majority.
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Some have contended that because the sexual activity advocated by NAMBLAis illegal, we're justified in banning the groupfrom our presence on legal grounds. But the fact is that homosexual behavior itself was once illegal here, and still is elsewhere. For gays, illegality itself is no excuse to condemn others,
often quite the opposite.
None of this is to promote or oppose the goals of NAMBLA.
There are powerful arguments on both sides of that equation.
Opponents level serious charges of child abuse, racial exploitationand inherent morals offenses against NAMBLA's philosophy.,
Defenders point to the almost universal history of intergenerationa! sex in human SOcieties,and argue that if one rejects the ideathat sex is evil or damaging, and accepts the reality of childhood
sexuality, arguments against consensual man-boy love melt away.
Despite the fascinating implications of these arguments, gays
and lesbians who come down firmly against the goals of NAMBLA are vastly in the homosexual majority. They are aware that
one of the chief weapons used against us by homophobes is that
we are all child-molesters, and they are justifiably eager to disavow that image. But banning a group like NAMBLAfrom thecommons is far too harsh a method of disavowal. In this, as inall other cases of sexual difference, how we act is far moretelling than what we say. 'Y

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LETTERS
Religious Right
I would like to respondto your editorial, "Gays andthe Church" ("OutSpoken:
OutWeek, Dec. 3). (I am an
openly gay member of aLutheran congregationin
Manhattan that is lesbianand gay-supportive.)
While I applaud yourencouraging
members of
our community to challenge
religious hierarchies when
their policies are demonstrably harmful to us, I think further discussion of strategy
would be profitable.
Your editorial refers to"picketing
cathedrals:"blocking church entrances"and "disrupting services:
While you specifically

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endorse none of these tactics, it should be pointed out, I
believe, that there is a significant difference between thefirst action and the latter two.
Peacefully
picketinghouses of worship:? Sure.
Where better'to give witness
to matters of conscience?
This tactic seems fully inkeeping with the spirit of thecivil rights struggles of the60s, and not unlike Martin
Luther's nailing of the theses
to the church door.
But blocking entrancesand disrupting
services
deprives others of their Constitutional right to the free
exercise of religion.
In this matter of disruption there are important dis-

December 17. 1989

tinctions. Standing quietly
during a homily to protest
content
that one finds
morally offensive does not
strike me as disruptive.
although some New Yorkchurch authorities have disagreed with this view.
A$ for aggressively trying
to interrupt a religious service.
such action strikes me as
being. simply stated, wrong.
Anyone contemplating
it should first know that it isillegal under New York State
law. Thisstatute. not incidentally. protects worshippers
belonging to gay- and lesbian-positive denominations(such as the Religious Societyof Friends, the Unitarian-Universalist Association. the United Church of Christ and the
predominantly lesbian andgay Metropolitan Community Church) from disruptive
assaults by homophobes.

Please remember that morethan one MCC church has
been firebombed in this. a
country founded in part on
the principle of respecting
differences of conscience.
But more to the point.
the right to worship is as fundamental as the most basicof gay rights-theright toexpress love, physically orotherwise. to the consenting
adult for whom one feelsthat love. regardless of gender. Gay rights and freedomof religion are identical in
one respect:they both
depend on the guarantee of
freedom of cbnscience.
I fail to see how ourcommunity would gain if. in
the continuing
pursuit ofbasic human rights for ourselves. we started denying
them to others.
Ronald Najman
BrooklynHay Wire
Re: Charles Barber's
article "Louise Hay at Town
Hall" (OutWeek, Dec. 3):
Firstof all, you don't sendsomeone who hates the theater to critique a play. Yourobvious bias severely limited
your qualifications to critiqueLouise Hay's lecture. In ignorance, you went looking to ripLouise Hay apart. You havethe right to your point of view,
although your point of view isvery cynical and jaded. Even
JesusChristwould have fallen
short of your expectations asa healer. After all he became
something of a cult-figure
himself.
As far as sweeping
away Louise Hay's books
after the death of yourfriends; a lot of people havebeen comforted and helpedby Louise Hay's books andtapes. Her message hashelped many towardsagenuine path of self-healing.
In many instances their transitions beyond life as weknow it were a celebration
and a triumph.
You are ignorant as towhat is mec;:mtby the word
"healing" by many people,
including Louise Hay. It does
not mean we live to 100,50
or even 26. The principles 'ofLouise Hay helped us at an
early time to get our feet on
the ground and begin ourown process of growth. One
does not have to become
slavish to any New Ageteacher. To paraphrase a 12step slogan "take what you
need and leave the rest."
You were not open to this atall. Empowerment manifests
on many levels, from the personal to the collective.
Admittedly,
excessesoften occur In the midst of
great popularity, some ofwhich your article does pointout. However, this is more asymptom of the fear anddesperation and pain of thetime in which we are living,than it is a reflection of any
New Age teacher. Louise
Hay has been a major cata-Iyst in bringing greater consciousness
and helping
many people open up to
the joy that is possible, evenin trying times and in the
midst of personal crises.
David Spencer
Philip Bell
James Busby
Manhattan
Charles Barber responds:
Firstof all, I don't "hatethe theater," although I'mstartled to find even Hay'sfans acknowledging
thecrass entertainment mechanism that puts Hay in thepantheonof Swaggart,
Bakker and Aimee Semple
MacPherson.
Nothing I can think of,
however, is more "cynicaland jaded" than Hay's offrepeated contentions that
"we need every disease wecreate" and that AIDSis "thepassing popular disease of

the moment. " That only we
The way this question was
phrased immediately puts
ourselves can then "hear themess we've gotten ourselves the. person asked on the
defensive-it's
the kind of
into-absentof community,
questLort the straight press
friends,
lovers, doctors,
asked over and over from
activism, family or society-is
d kind of personal fascism.
Jesus Christ doesn't fallshort of my expectations: .
remember
his calltoactivism:"I am come tosend fire on the earth, • quite
different from Hays' "I wrap
myself in a cocoon of love,and I am safe .•More on Martina
RegardingRachelLurie's article on the "Sellingout at the Virginia Slims
Championships:
Dec. 3
issue, I'm one dyke who
agrees with Martina, thequestion was 'out of line.'
Firstly, her question,..Does lesbian interest in
women'stennisoffendyou?" was simply horrible.

'79-'83. I'm amazed that
Steffi Graf managed such an
articulate answer. How in hell
is someone supposed toanswer?
No, it doesn't
offendme? Yes it does
offend me?
Secondly, there's Martina. It seems to me, judging
by Rachel Lurie's article, inD)' A/vj)IfE~

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the Sept. 24 Issue of OutWeek also, that she not only
knows very little about Martina, but hasn't seen many ofher matches on TV either.
Martina is someone who has
built a very privileged life forherself and seems very out of
touch with the run of the mill
middle-class dyke. I doubt
she understands us or why
her gayness and the factthat she's open about it.
means so much to us. When
Martina calls herself "bisexual" because she doesn't
hate men and has slept witha few (who hasn't),
weunderstand that Martina's
honestly telling what she
thinks is the truth. We knowthat she's as much a total
lesbian as any of us.
I, frankly, think thatgoing after Martina on thisissue is out of line. Think ofwhat she's done alreadyshe's the first openly lesbian
sports star (or any major star)

who Is coupled with another"likes boys very much:woman publicly with whom
Jane Bartlow
she's having a relationship.
Milagros Rodriguez
And yes, Martina does thankYonkers
her lover in public; and yes,
NBC does cut away, show
Rachel Lurie responds:
and name her lover watch- 'Like Ms. Navratilova
ing in the stands; and yes,
herself, you missed my point.
Judy and Martina's home is The issue is not about her,photographed
and written
but the industry. When I
about in maga~ines likephrased my question, I proWorld Tennis, Sports //Iustratvided the context
coned and Architectural Digest.
tained in the article: i.e. theAlthoughshe may not
Virginia Slims promoters
understandus, her mere
specify that they shun any
presence as such has been
acknowledgmentof a lesrevolutionary.
While quesbian audience because it
tions to tournament directors
offends the athletes. The
on the lesbian issue areathletes,then,shouldappropriate, and this issue is respond. And if one of them
one that must be discussed. had the guts to simply say
responsible reporters must
"No, it doesn't offend me," it
not act like idiots.
might have signalled early
We have come a long
murmuring of a movement
way baby when 20,(0) peoagainst this homophobicpie in Madison Square Garbigotry and you would haveden or Flushing Meadow
seen a very different article.
cheer for the lesbian over
Until the industry playthe German teenager who
ers-gay, straight or bi, in thecloset or out-wake up andtake pride in the spectacular contributions by lesbians
to their sport, this "idiot"
reporter will continue to be"out of line.' Every chance I
get.

Patch Workers
In Randy Barkers' letter
denouncing the Quilt ("Jilt
the Quilt: Letters, Nov. 21) I
was taken back by the hysteria that formed a very
one-sided viewpoint. Does
he truly believe all people"chooseto sew andweave:,andno oneinvolvedwith the Quilt
directs their energy, grief,rage against the government or anywhere else?
The Quilt isjust one creative response of many
forms to raise awarenessregarding AIDS both within
the community and outside.
Its political power may be
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tastes. but this does notnegate the power of thevoice of each panel.
Just beneath the angry
tone of the letter. there is asense that Mr. Barker Is on
the edge of tears by theeffect the Quilt has had. but
he will not allow it.
J. Caputo
Queens(Re; ~Jilt the Quilt: Letters. Nov. 21)
Mr. Barker. you are avery sad and negative person! Let us never push OINay
those names from sight!
Human beings are creaturesof sight and memory. easierto forget if not seen. I thankthe people who have andwill continue
to travelaround the country with the
Quilt, showing 01/ people thetrue tragedy of this pandemic. People who are
loved are Ipst.
I don't know about
you, Randy, but if I woke up
with 10,900names in front of
my home occupyingaspace significantly larger
than the house I was in I
would feel a little nervous.
Especially if thousands werepointing fingers and accusing me of having a hand (ntheir deaths. Take a look atthat picture above your letter Randy. How much more
directed do you want theiranger and grief? They arestanding
in his facedemanding action.
Don'ttrivializetheefforts of anyone during thiscrisis. We must all deal andmove and operate on ourown levels in dealing withthe outrage that is assaulting more of us daily. But
remember. there are many
more out there who have
hardly been touchedbyAIDS. and only through education and the sharing ofour grief will they oegin tounderstand what is really
going on around them.
Mothball that attitude ofyours Mr. Barker. It is outdat-

ed and unneeded as westand on the edge of the
new "gay 90s: Let's moveinto it together!
Robert J. Brunet
Harvey. LA
Sheep ShockI am shocked at the
sheep article in your usually
excellent mag. OutWeek
has consistently striven to bea strong outspoken voice forall oppressed minorities andwomen, but then you publish this gay sheep article
showing two white sheep!
Sheep come in all colors, OutWeek, some straight.
some gay and some white,brown and my friends whoare black sheep are very disturbed by this typically whitemale depiction. Are sheep tobe schooled in the same
racist rhetoric as we humans
have so mercilesslybecome?
We humans have to help ourbrother and sister sheeps

empower themselves, as,being animals, they will havemore limitations than we our-selveshave grown up with.
Maybe you should getout of your posh east-side
offices and come to Central
Park and see what reallyrhumbas at the petting zoo.
Ahkram JesusWashington III
Tommy Williams
Fluffy & InkyBlack & White Men &Sheep Together
Liked the really good

sheep article. More photoes.
tho; in color Wuld like to see
sheep in more poses, shorn,
uncut· maybe some action
scenes with 2 or three sheep
maybe wrestling or other hot
scenes. Don't like lambs justthe daddy tops
Marty.
(not my real name)Your homosexual sheep
article was brought to myattention by a staff member
who found a copy of themagazine stuffed into oµ,rcollection box.
Repulsedas I am by th~,1am glad to receive this infqrmation. We have occasion
use live sheep in our Christmps
creche. To date there havebeen no incidents, but fromnow on I will have dl the holiday animals demonstrate theirheterosexual behavior befo'rebeing allowed to perform ir
church. We want our sheep toshow no more than a natur~1!

toThis week's grotesque is John Cardinal O'Connor, the spiritual leader of New
York's Roman Catholics. Aggressively anti-abortion, and fervently anti-gay. John
represents the latest incarnation of the spirit of Torquemada and the Borgia
popes: intolerant. ugly. spiteful and stoopid. At least the Borgias had the joie det)l vivre to hold orgies in the Vatican.
.
(Then again. we don't know what Johnny and the rest of the gang in black
dresses do with their oh-so-speciallyselected altar boys in the back of St.
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9interest in the Christchild.
Name Withheld
A FifthAvenue Cathedra
There are no Lesbian
sheep. The idea is infuriating.
Thisis another unthinking jab
by the mostly-male staff of
OutWeek to reduce theimportance of Womyn in thisSociety. We are not sheep.
We are human beings wholove. You say-Female sheep
don't
get
"mounted'
because they just standthere? Ever been to a leather
bar on a weeknight? Grow
up guys. There are no lesbian
she~p. You owe your Lesbian
Sistersan apology.
./The Circle'',Donna, Martine, Roz:and Kirsch
Brooklyn
Loco tor CocoMy letter is in response
to Sydney Pokorny's article"A Lesbian Lust for Coco': I
am wondering
if I shouldtake her seriously. She presen'ted ·no credentials,
soyour readers were led tobelieve she is an authority on
early 20th century fashion.
Her statement that "Cocowas not a great dressmaker,
just as Madonna
is not agreat singer:
could nothave been more wrong. She
does go on to say that Cocowas her own best model. but
she failed to discover in her
source material that thoseearly jersey dresses Cocosported about town were
painstakingly
draped by
Coco herself. Coco also
popularized the hobble skirt,
suits for women and countI~ss other "revolutionary'styles of her t.ime. r-ler
research seems to be limited
to the 60s when the everslow and styleless American
buyers discovered her signature suit. This suit was from
Coco's second comeback
collection. (She also closed
her shop during the war.)
I know OutWeek is not a
fashion magazine. I realize
you may not be a fashion
scholar. I WOUld, however,advise you to more thanscan "DV', or a college textbook before you attempt tomake a trite comment on alegend.
Marc A. Borders
Manhattan
Springtime tor Coco?
Regarding Sydney Pokorny's lust for Coco, I'm puzzled to read that lesbians so
admire a Nazi collaborator.
When Pariswas liberated Ms.

Chanelwas
promptly
marched in a nightgown
from the Ritz hotel. by the
French Resistance, to thenearest police station andgiven the option to exile herself from French life or go
straight to prison. Chanel wassuch a cheap, greedy, ruthless,opportunist she believed
the war had ruined her business long enough and England and France should
simply surrender so she could
resume business as usual.
Never mind the millions tortured and murdered in thedeath camps. She actuallydevised an elaborate plot fora meeting between Churchilland Hitler to that end. Hardly
a woman to admire.
Phillip Knor
Manhattan
Real Family Values
Syndicatedadvicecolumnist Ann Landers has
asked what her readers think
about "legal sanctions forsame-sex couples.'Here's what we told Ms.
Landers:
We think lesbians andgay men should be able tolegally marry. In our view, it'sa matter of civil rights. Not tomention simple fairness andgood sense.

Too often, gay and lesbian relationships
have
been
attackedasantithetical to "family values.· Nothing could be further from the truth. Gay andlesbian couples-andtheirchildren-are genuine families. They share with all families the traditional values oflove, caring and mutual
support.
The truth is, gay andlesbian couples are alreadymarrying one another inboth religious and secular
ceremonies. According topreliminary
results of ournational survey of gay andlesbian couples, 46 percent
of female couples and ten
percent of male couples
had "ritualized their relationship with a ceremony.'More than one-third had
executed legal agreements
to protect their relationship.
(Results basedon 812
respondents.)
Unfortunately,
these
couples cannot choose tolegally marry and dependon existing laws to support
their family life. The legal
contracts
we make canreplicate only some of theprotections that are automatic with marriage. Just
one example: A widowed
lesbianpartnercannotclaim her departed spouse's
Social Security benefits.
And this inequity is farreaching. At least ten million
Americans are in same-sex
relationships, judging from a
recent San Francisco Examiner poll that found 60 percent of gay men andlesbians in relationships.
Our society should support these gay and lesbiqn
families for the same rea·sons we support traditionalfamilies. Functional families
make better neighbors andmore productive citizens.
StevieBryand and
Demian, Ed.d.
Publishers/Editors

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Gossip lover
Michelangelo Signorile:
Atter reading your column I
just pissed in my pants.
Thanks. I had a roughweek-it was exactly what I
needed! Keep it up!
Alex Bonziglia
Manhattan

Pentagon paper

my ignorance, what is it?
theater" so you ·can finally
But how in another sen- writesome'positive'
tence is Ols-again guessing: reviews" if it weren't for theOpen Investigations?
antics of some big meanie
I know space is some- - straight boogie man and thetimes a factor, but at thechick dumb enough to let
expense of understanding it
him put it in her.
would seem irresponsible.
You do give the play aI appreciate the article,
pOSitive-ish
review,yet
it's tone and coverage. It
makes me think how government and science, rather
than religion, can be used tocontrol people nowadays.
Alvin Falin(Editor's note: IRBstands
for Institutional Review Board
and 01 stands for opportunistic infection.)

PERS-TR-89-0D2, otherwise known as Nonconforming Sexual Coalition and
Military Suitability is now
available
to the general
pUblic-on sale for $7.95 at A
Different Light. It seems the
Honorable Patricia Schroeder was successful in her
efforts to pry the document
Drag Attackout of the Pentagon.
Ms.
You begin your review
Schroeder,
known as aof William Love's Nose Job
champion of the American(She had to Have One)family, is owed a tremen"noticing a very creepy anddous debt of gratitude.
sinister phenomenon:" that
On a different note, I'm
more and more straightsitting h.ere watchingthecouples are popping up at
Gala of World Champions,"gay-boy theater ...especiallyan ice show on WLlW-N. The if drag is involved." What's
opening number is two-time
creepy about straignts seekOlymp,ic gold medalist Kateing to be entertained by anrina Wit doing a routine to . evening of drag, an age-Old
the Herman/Fierstein classic
theatrical device which all"I am What I am" -sung by asexual types have delighted
deep-voiced woman. Hmrn,in since theater began? Let's
Hmm. And if it's so, isn't that"welcome the straights toa neat way to come out?
patronize this unique facet
MarianneG.c.Seggermanof gay theater!
Stamford, CT
You feel that William
Love's piece should haveSpell it Out
been designed to "scare off
The Political Science
big old straight men andcolumn in issueno. 23 is intertheir idiotic giggly girlfriends."
esting.
Are you just a little intimidatI don't mean to be
ed by the physical presence
facetious, but it becomesof heterosexual
males?
even more interesting when
Come on-bfg old straight
Mr. Harrington
uses themen? Are their girlfriends idiacronym IRB in .... repeatedotic because they aren't lesIRB approval and delays inbian and giggly becausedelivering drugs to the trial
they can sit down and takesites..: Two paragraphs laterin a comedy without trying
SDAC is clearly shown to
to map out trends in audistand for Statistical and Data
ence compositon-as if you
Analysis Center.
could determine their sexual
In this situation, I findpreferences on sight anymyself having to guess what
way-toadd fuel to your
IRBis-Institute for Regulation
straight-hating, to which youof Bodies? Holy Hell-I hopeallot as much space as yournot!?! I don't know. Does
actual review? Remember,
everyone else?
Maria, you wouldn't even be
If you'll forgive me, orhere "on the prowl for new

i..iyou're eager to return toyour preconceived
ill-conceived notions about what
gay theater-oh sorry- gay
and lesbian (puh-Iease) theater should be. Why can't
gay theater simply entertain
without being shocking or
enraging or "bitchy"? Bitchiness is by no means "whatdrag is really all about." Youmention Wigstock-was thata group of bitchy entertainers? Were the performers
viewed by the majority ofstraights there as "nothing
but a blazing targ et for
hatred and violence?" Of
course not.
You are definitely "onthe prowl: Maria, but I don't
think that "positive reviews"
are as high on your agenda
as polarizing
gays andstraights, and given yourpoor understanding of whatdrag really is all about. I
would suggest that you try.
reviewing
another
topic-after
a long soothingvacation.
Jon Ingle
Manhattangoer, a lesbian and a writer
reveals not only that particularly,common and sad symptom of gay self-oppression ina homophobic
society
cal/ed denial but also indicates the low level of politicalintelligence
which
informed your reading of myreview. Obviously, I cannot
eradicate
the years of
misogyny and "please loveme" pleas to straights,thathave infused your consciousness, nor can I attempf tocorrect your factual errors
regarding my piece. BUTsuffice it to say that blithelfwelcoming straights to patronize
our community, as you suggest, is the same as welcoming them to continue theiryears of institutionalized
hatred for our existence. To
think that a lesbian theater
reviewer has enough power
to actual/y "polarize" gays
and straights is indeed thevery height of willful ignorance. May I also point out
that the incidents of anti-gay
violence that pock-marked
Wigstock indeed prove mypoint that, when seen in thelight of day, most straights gobeserk about boys in dresses
and girlsin suits. Toignore thisfact is to do a great disservice to those in our community, in particulardragqueens, who are attempting
to make the world safe forgay men and lesbians. As foryour vulgar littte reference tothe two individuals responsible for my existence, 0111 cansay is, PUH-LEASE. I mightneed a vacation but you
need a good course in gay
liberation.

Maria Maggenti responds:
Mr. Ingle: Your insouciant, and dare I say, bitchy,
disregard for the integrity of
my experience as a theater-

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AIDS Service Chiefs
Arrested at White House
Protesters Taul1tGloved ~ops at World AIDS Day Demoby Cliff O'Neill, John Zeh andAndrew Miller
WASHINGTON-With
scornfulchants directed at the president andthe District of Columbia police, 78
demonstrators, including the executive directors of many AIDS service
organizations from around the country, were arreste9 in front of theWhite House Dec. 1, World AIDS
Day, in an act of civil disobedience
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handcuffed and taken into custody.
And one unexpected outcome ofthe day's events was the formation of"a coalition of people who don't often
work together," according to Eve
Faber, who worked with t~e National
Gay and Lesbian Task Force as theaction's national coordinator. "People
who are often at odds were forced to
sit in the same jail cell," referring to
the day's odd collection of well-payed
executives in business garb and seasoned activists accustomed to lying

Photo: Patsy Lynch

AIDS execs get down at the White House
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mounting AIDS caseload nationwide.
Alternately led or-carried away bymetro D.C. police officers--nearly allof whom were wearing clear plastic
gloves--the protesters, wearing everything from tailored suits to jeans, yelledangry slogans decrying what theycalled the government's inadequate
response to the AIDS epidemic. Jeffrey
I3raff, the newly-appointed executive
director of New York's Gay Men's
Health Crisis, the largest AIDSorganization in the country, was among those

December 17, 1989

down in the street.
"We die, they do nothing!" themore than 200 protesters repeatedly
chanted. While some lay down in the
middle of Pennsylvania Avenue, others drew chalk outlines of their bodies on the pavement. For roughly fiveminutes, the activists sat in the street
chanting before they were taken away
by police, many of whom wore plastic gloves. Midway through the action,
one homeless man, who appeared tohave been sleeping in the adjacentpark, pushed his way through thecrowd and sat in the street, enthusiastically joining in the activists' chants.
Activists helped him out of thestreet shortly before the police wereready to take him away, and he was
not arrested.
Seventy-eight protesters from 11
states, 15 cities and over 50 different
organizations
were charged withblocking traffic, a minor Violation,
paid a $50 fine and were released
shortly afterwards, according to Faber.
Accord.ing to event organizer Sue
Hyde, a staff member of the National
Gay and Lesbian Task Force, police
officials had given event organizers
assurances that the officers would notwear the plastic gloves as they haveat AIDS-related protests in past years.
The activists claim that the glovewearing is based on misinformatienon the transmission of AIDS, wbich
cannot be contracted through casual~>/~·'~F/t

IGNORANCE IS BUSH

Photo: Patsy Lynch

MAY I HAVE THIS DANCE

Snake dance at the snake pit, Washington, D,C,
contact. Police officers at the demonstration would not comment on why
they wore the gloves. The protesters,
for their part, reacted with a mixtureof seriousness and JOViality.Membersof Oppression Under Target (OUT!),an ACT Upclike group based in D.C.,
snake-danced through the street asprotesters-turned
poets taunted thelarge police contingent
loadingdetainees in three Metro D.C. buses
conscripted for the arrests. "They'll
see you on the news,'" they shouted,"your gloves don't match your shoes."Those arrested comprised a disparate group, part of a gathering siover 200 activists attending a Worlli,
AIDS Day Rally in Lafayette Park
across the street from the WhiteHouse which sought to raise publicattention to what they called government inaction in the face of the deadIiest 'epidemic in modern history.
Opening the rally which preceded
the civil disobedience action, NGLTF
Executive Director Urvashi Vaid welcomed the crowd to the "world capitalof AIDS neglect," and called attention
to the diverse group of people withAIDS and HIV, AIDS activists, lobbyists, volunteers and executive directorsof AIDS service organizations who
would all be risking arrest. _"These [AIDS service) organizations are the front line in this country's
response to AIDS," bellowed Vaid.
"And believe me, my friends, it is aline that has' been p,aid for, cared for,nurtured, not by government, certainly
not by this [Bush) administration, but
by we, the people of this country!"
The day before the demonstration, the Bush White House issued a'l~~:I statement addressing World AIDS Day.
Calling the activists' demonstration a"commemoration ... to remember all
those with HIV inrection and all who
Photo: Patsy Lynch
have died from it," the White HouseDavid Barr. TimSweeney, Urvashi Vaid and others march on the White House

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....

statement added, ''IT]hough the [AIDS] Angeles, calling for an "allocation of
AIDS. Let's end inequities in the healthproblem is great and taxing our health resources in a manner that stops pitcare system."care system now, far greater difficul- ting communities and health concerns
Faber, the event's organizer, said
ties await. us in terms of humanagainst one another.
later in the week that she was "looksuffering in terms of health care."ing for a way to keep the dialogue"If you are wealthy, you can be
Calling the statement "too despitreated and forgiven f9r your healththat had been created going," noting
cable" to read in its entirety, Vaid read condition in a private c1inie: he said. "If
that beyond the exchange of ideas
portions of it to the crowd, which
betweenservice organizers
andyou are poor, you are labeled criminal
then broke into chants of "Bush, open
activists, representatives from smaller
and treated as if you deserve disease.
your eyes ahd see, AIDS is a state of The homeless and undocumented resiAIDS organizations from around theemergency!'; Vaid was later arrested
U.S. also had a chance to talk withdents have littl~ or no access to healthwith the others.
benefits' or entitlements," Gerald added.
people from AIDS giants like New
Bush, en route to the Dec. 2 "Mr. Bush, if you beBeve you represent
York's Gay Men's Health Crisis andU.S./Soviet summit in Malta, was not a civilized, humane, compassionate
Boston's AIDS Action Council, andat the White' House during thenation, then act accordingly. Respondother large service proViders.
demonstration.
One direct action group not offito the challenge of AIDS in a way that
The White House statement also meets the needs of people affected bycially represented at the action was ACT
noted that resources have been committed to AIDS services at what it
called an "unprecedented
rate," astatement which was greeted with
angry chants by the demonstrators.
Over 100,000 Americans have been
diagnosed with AIDS; more than half
have died.
Some experts expect the total to
top 200,000 in less than a year.
"We do not have the resources inour groups to meet this challenge,"stated Paul Boneberg, executive director of the San Francisco-based Mobilization Against AIDS, who lambasted
the high costs of AIDS drugs, the lackof adequate access to health care in
the U.S., a national AIDS strategy andthe shortage of leadership on AIDS
from the administration.
"If we had any illusions about
George Bush," said Boneberg, "itended on one symbolic day [Oct. 6],
one block from the White House when
the nation's families who were strickenwith this disease were gathered inmourning around the AIDS qUilt. And,
literally, as they were weeping aroundtheir children's panels, the president
got in his helicopter and flew over the
Quilt with utter contempt.
"Mr. President," Boneberg added,"it couldn't have been worse if you
had walked onto the Quilt ,and spit
on it. It was absolute contempt for thepeople who are living aQd fighting
AIDS every day.""Blacks, Latinos, Asians andNative Americans diagnosed withAIDS are approaching 50 percent of
all reported cases," said Gil Gerald, of NO MORE BLOOD MONEY
Photo: Alain McLaughlin/Reaction Images
the Minority AIDS Project in Los A CT UP/SF get busted at AZT central,,

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1

UP/New York, which was consolidating
resources for last Sunday's Stop the
Church demonstration at St. Patrick's
Cathedral. The group did, however, officially endorse the White House protest.
And at least one AGf UP member
was critical of the protest, calling it"lukewarm, and lacking in emotion
and focus.» Michael Petrelis, who is
known in the community as something of a firebrand and often represents
contentious
viewpoints,
described with scorn how NGLTF's
Sue Hyde, acting as an emcee,announced the name and organization of each person as they were
dragged away by police.
"It was like a performance,"
Petrelis said, "staged so these organizations can put photos of their executive directors getting arrested at theWhite House in the next issues of
their newsletter."Twelve women and men fromNew York City were arrested. They
are:

World AIDS Day, part of the Names
Project's AIDS Memorial Quilt was
displayed in nearly a dozen cities
worldwide, including Vienna, Santa
Domingo,Geneva,Rome and
Malmo, Sweden. And in New York,
museums and galleries throughout
the city observed a "Day Without
Art," [see page 541 during which the
Guggenheim Museum was draped ina huge black mourning sash thatreachedfrom its roof to Fifth
Avenue, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art locked Pablo Picasso's
famous portrait of Gertude Steinaway in its storage room.
And in Burlingame, California,
about 80 San Francisco men andwomen converged on the headquarters of drug manufacturer Burroughs
Wellcome, to demand that the cost of
its anti-AIDS drug AZT be cut, andthat the company open its books tojusttfy the drug's price. In the spirit ofWorld AIDS Day,' activists also pressed
for a plan to distribute AZT and other
AIDS treatments internationally. Sixteen people' were arrested there. T-Bill Strubbe contributed to thisarticle.

Rona !Jfoomado, exewtive direaor, Comrrunity
Health projectDavid Barr, staff attorney,

Lambda Legal

Defense and Education Fund
Bernard Bihari, M.D., exec. dir., Community
Research Initiative.
Jeffrey Braff, executive director, Gay Men's
Health Crisis
Richa~d Burns, executive director, Lesbianand Gay Community Services Center
Richard Haymes, Community Health Project
Derek Hodel, executive director, People withAIDS Health Group
Rodger Pettyjohn, Community Health Project
Tim Sweeney, acting executive director, Gay
Men's Health Crisis
Joy Tom::hin,baud chair,Gay Men's Health Crisis
Carl Valentino, Community Research Initiative
Paul Wychules,exewtive director, Body Positive.

Others who participated in thecivil disobedience included the executive directors of AIDS service organizations in Boston, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Dallas, Seattle, Roanoke,
Virginia, Wilmington:
Delaware,Austin, Texas, ten members of AIDS
organizations in San Francisco, fivemembers of Oppression Under Target, a D.C.-based AIDS activist group
ande members of ACT UP chaptersin San Francisco,
Rochester and
ProVidence, Rhode Island.
In other commemorationsof

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NGRA Chief Resigns
Under Fire From Staff,
Board, and Peers

ABDICATED, REINSTATED•
Photo: Alain McLaughlin/Reaction
Reinstated Leonard Graff, right, with NGRA chair Richard Whiteby Michele DeRanleau

Rights Foundation, was appointed
SAN FRANCISCO
Jean
legal director, pending the approval
O'Leary, the embattled executiveof the board.
director of National Gay Rights AdvoO'Leary was not present at thecates, reSigned last week after eight press briefing, and Out Week was
years with the firm. Her resignation
unable to contact her by press time.
came amidst allegations of misman"Everyone at NGRA wants theagement, financial irregularities andsame thing - full civil rights for theunethical
fundtaising
practices,
entire communitYi we just have differcharges that she may have jeoparent ways of going about achieving
dized the organization's tax status by this," O'Leary said in her letter of resparticipating in partisan activities on ignation to White. "l,)nfortunately, difcompany time and money, and com- ferences of opinion and vision,plaints that she made sexually abusive
exacerbated by internal strife haveremarks to a staff member.
made it impossible for me to be effecHer decision was. announced by tive in an organization which I cherNGRA board chair Richard White at a ish. This, compoundedby thepress conference
Dec. S. Leonard
relentless and clearly orchestrated
Graff, who had resigned his post as . attacks in the press, are damaging thethe gay and lesbian rights law firm's NGRA," she continued. Close attenlegal director during the months-longtion has been paid NGRA recently by
O'Leary controversy, was named act- both the gay and mainstream media
ing executive director. David Bryan,
in San Francisco, and by gay papers
an attorney with the Texas Humanin Los Angeles, Boston and elsewhere

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in the country.
She added, "For months I haveattempted to take the high road in
this feeding frenzy iQ'the press. It isalmost impossible for a reasonableanswer to be heard amdist the dramaand hyperbole of many groundlessaccusations and innuendos."
There has been tension between
the legal staff, based in the San Francisco office on Castro Street, andO'Leary, who was based in theadminstrative and fundraising office in
Los Angeles, since that office opened
two years ago. The disagreements
have reportedly been both personal
and professional in nature.
Since last spring, three board
members and nine out of 11 staff
members have resigned or been
forced to leave. For many, the laststraw came last month when O'Learypressured the board to fire staff attorneys Cynthia Goldstein and Ben
Schatz without allowing them tospeak at the meeting or notifying

DESTINATION RESIGNATIONNGRA's former head Jean O'Leary
Photo: Alain McLaughlin/Reaciion

them that their termination was evenunder discussion.
Two days later, the locks on the
San Francisco office were changed
and the lawyers' files had been
locked away. At the legal office laterthat day, O'Leary denied locking up
the files. "Do they look locked up?"she asked, gesturing towards the filedrawers surrounding her desk. Bothdoors to her office had locks onthem, and the file cabinets stood
empty in the lawyers' former offices.
As recently as two weeks ago,some observers thought that O'Leary
had successfully solidified her posiSee RESIGNATION

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AZT Causes Cancer
in Lab RatsandMice
possibility tqat they will transmit thevirus to their unborn babies. (Without
AZl'; an unborn child stands a oneout-of-three chance of being infectedwith the virus from its mother.)
Burroughs Wellcome spokeswoman Kathy Bartlett, in answer to aquestion posed by Out Week, said thatno reports currently exist on the number of pregnant women or women ofchildbearing age receiving AZf, but thatthe pharmaceutical company would
shortly be initiating studies to determine"the potential impact of these findings
on efforts to decrease mother-fetus
transmission [of the virusJ."She said thatthe team that will examine the issue
will be composed of "government andacademic experts" and will include ethicists as well as medical researchers.
The test, conducted over a peri-

by James Waller

NEW YORK-In a letter mailed
last Tuesday, December 5, to thousands of physicians nationwide, theBurroughs
Wellcome
Company
announced that standard bioassay tests
on its drug Retrovir, more commonly
known as Azr, had caused cancer intests on some laboratory animals,
Stressing that such testing is oflimited predictive value for humanbeings, and emphasizing that the cancers discovered by researchers weresite- and gender-specific and occurredat the end of the lifetime of rats andmice that had received very high dosesof the drug, Burroughs Wellcome
pointed out that the study results
should be balanced very carefully"against the known risk of untreatedHIV infection." Azr, which inhibits thereplication of the AIDS virus, is the
only drug currently approved by the
FDA for treating HN infection.
That AZT can be somewhat toxic
has been established for some time,
although most physicians and people
with AIDS, with several notable
exceptions, have until now preferred
the risks of taking Azr to the risks of
not taking the drug.
Articles that appearedin theDecember 6 issues of both The New
By Robert V. Wolf
York Timesand New York Newsday said
PHOENIX-Claimingthat menthat physicians interviewed by thoselooking for sex in a campus bathroom
papers foresaw the announcement's
were not gay but thrill-seekers, a leshaving little effect on a doctor's deci- bian student at Arizona State Universision whether or not to prescribe the . ty near Phoenix helped campus
drug for patients with HIV infection.
police arrest 13 men in a popular
Because the cancers detected in campus Tea-room.
the Burroughs studies afflicted only the
Donna Taylor, a graduate student
reproductive organs of female animals,
in communications
and former cohowever, questions have been raised
chair of the Lesbian and Gay Academic
concerning potential additional risks in Union (LGAU), provided police withthe use of AZT to prevent mother-fetus
what she called "physical and psychotransmission of the HIV virus. Azr has
logical profiles" of likely suspects.
been administered to pregnant women
But Taylor has not been a memwho are HIV infected to reduce theber of the LGAU since 1986, and theod of almost two years on a population of 960 rodents, resulted in vaginal neoplasms (five cancerous andtwo benign tumors) in seven female
animals that had received the highest
dose of the drug. In every case, thenon-metastasizing tumors were discovered during autopsy of animals
that had died of other causes.
It remains unclear whether Burroughs Wellcome's findings will have
any long-term impact on the process
by which experimental
drugs aremade available to people with AIDS
before standard tests o~ lab animals
have been completed.
But in response to a speculative
question posed by Out Week, Derek
Hodel, executive director of the People
With AIDS Health Group, which provides access to experimental and unapproved AIDS drugs for its clients, said
that he doubted the newly announced
results would have any effect on current
procedures. "The news isn't cheery," hesaid, "but no one's really surprised thatAZT causes cancer. Lots of drugs arecarcinogenic." T

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group'scurrent
co-chairs
wereunaware that she had collaborated
with the police until contacted by
OutWeek for comment. And most
campus gays are reportedly too closeted to vocally protest a decision by
Taylor that most are opposed to,according to one professor.
"I told them they weren't going
to be seeing a lot of queenie-typeguys," Taylor said, calling typicalbathroom-sex participants "average,
everyday, all-American businessmen."
Several of those arrested however,were students, according to campus
police chief Doug Bartosh. The names....

of all those arrested were also publishedin the school paper, the State Press.
Taylor said she aided police to dispel the misconception that gays favoranonymous, public sex. ''The gay community has taken the rap for a lot ofthings that are not our fault and thebathrooms happen to be one of them,"
she said. The fact that several of thosearrested were married with children,
she contends, proved her point. "Ifthese are in fact not gay men, somebody needs to be pointing that out."
Before the first arrests in October,
Taylor gave the police "sensitivity training," which included practice dialogue.
"To say 'Aren't you the little queen?'
would rile somebody the wrong way,"
Taylor said she told police.
Anice Hopkins, a women's studies professor and the associate facultysponsor of the LGAU, which received
official status from the university only
last year, said most students wereafraid to speak out on the issue orchallenge Taylor'S actions. She also
accusedth'e police of entrapment. "Iwould think it would have been
appropriate for LGAU to have ash:dfor an accounting from the campus
police," Hopkins said.
Apparently Donna Taylor has
been "the only person on campus
who has been in the local papers
talking about it," according to ~Hop.
kins. "That was really annoying tomost of us because we really didn't
agree with her."
Nonetheless, the student grouptried to distance itself from the arrests,
especially after one of those nabbed
claimed that an LGAU member hadturned him on to the bathroom scene.
"It looked as if we were advocating to go to that [bathroom] to get
laid," Homer Thiel, a co-chair of thegroup, said. To clear its name, theorganization gave a stamp of approvalto the arrests. "We advocated taking
anyone off campus ...who would doanything weird in a bathroom," Janis
Manton, the other co-chair said.
And Taylor added that becauseof AIDS, promiscuous activity amonggays had vanished. She said that only
men who end up in bathrooms looking for sex are either there "for the. thrill of it" or because "something iswrong with their lives." T--

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PWAs Call for .~oycott ofMajor AIDS Conference
by Rex Wockner
Protesting restrictions placed on
HIV-positive visitors by the U.S. Immi-

gratio.n and' Naturalization
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has announced
a boycott of next
June's Sixth International Conference
on AIDS in San Francisco and urged
the rest of the AIDS community tojoin the move.
HIV-positives are forbidden toenter the U.S. except qll special 30day visas granted to those conducting
business, receiving medical treatment
or visiting family. HIV-positive tourists
are not allowed at all.
Although the special visas would
permit HIV-positives to attend the San
Francisco conference, the organizersof the boycott say the process forreceiving the INS waiver threatens theindividuals' right to privacy in theirhome countries.
"We feel we would jeopardize
our right to confidentiality if we apply
for this waiver and that this policy
threatens for no public health reasons
our ability to travel," read a statement
issued in Madrid in late November atan organizing meeting for next May's
Fourth International Conference for
People With AIDS!HIV.
Among those signing the boycott
manifesto were representatives of the
U.S. National Association of People
with AIDS (NAPWA), the Dutch Association of People with AIDS, Denmark's Postivigruppen,
Austria's
Positiv Leben, France's AIDES Solidarite Plus, Canada's National Advisory Committee
on AIDS, theCanadian Hemophilia Society, Spain's
Grupo Autoapoyo and Comite Ciudadano Anti-SIDA and Deutsche[German] AIDS-Hilfe.
Boycott promises have also been
made by the European AIDS Service
Organizations,the League of Red
Cross and Red Crescent Societies, theScandinavian AIDS and HIV Organizations, the British Hemophilia Society,
Britain's Frontliners, the British Red
Cross, the Norwegian Red Cross andnumerous similar groups, according

to NAPWA.
In joining the boycott, NAPWA
demanded that INS officials reclassify HIV-positives as having an "infectious· disease, not a "contagious"
disease,"United States policy specificallystates that, 'Aliens who are afflictedwith any dangerous contagious disease ...shall be ...excluded from admission into the U.S.,'· the group said ina press release. ·We stress that HIV...isinfectious not contagious. HIV/ AIDS
is not transmitted by casual behavior
and therefore poses no risk to' thegeneral public.·
Other activists fighting the U.S.
policy have said it is illogical for thenation with the most AIDS cases torestrict the entry of HIV-positives.
They also argue that an HIV-positive
foreigner could just as easily haveunsafe sex or share a needle during a
30-day business trip as during a 31day pleasure trip.
The Uni~ed States' major gay community-b~sed AIDS organizations all
said they were unaware of the boycottcall. But spokespersons for Gay Men's
Health Crisis, the People With AIDS
Coalition, the National AIDS Network,
Howard Brown Memorial
Clinic(Chicago) and AIDS Project Los Angeles all said they anticipate serious internal discussion about joining the fQove.
Phone calls to the San Francisco
AIDS Foundationand the AIDS
Action Council were not returned
before deadline.
The Youth International Conference for People With AIDS/HIV will
be held May 23-27 in Madrid, hosted
by Comite Ciudadano Anti-SIDA (TheCitizen's Anti-AIDS Committee). Workshops,
plenary
sessions
androundtable discussions will address"Living With HIV/ AIDS," "Health andTreatment," "Our Identities," "The Law
and Discrimination,·"Self-Help
Groups· and other topics.
The first such conference took
place in London in 1987, followed by
Munich in 1988 and Copenhagen lastyear. Two-hundred-thirty-fivedelegates from 14 nations attended theDanish gathering.
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Gay Politicos Claim Victories
inBattle with Chicago Mayor
by Rex Wockner
CHICAGO-The dramatic public
fight by gay and lesbian activists foraccess to the seven-month-old administration of Chicago Mayo!" Richard
Daley de-escalated on several fronts
Dec. 1 after Daley surrendered on several key issues.
Gay anger and media saturation
had reached a zenith in the previous
week following an explosive meeting
between the mayor and 50 gays on
the city's North Side.
Daley stormed out' of that meeting after gay leaders accused theadministration of locking them out ofcity hall and re-issuing their six-yearold keys to loyalist "house queers"
who had promised to focus on the
mayor's 1991 re-election.
But gay leaders kept the pressure
on, relying on behind-the-scenes
maneuvering with city council allies
and on hungry TV news reporters who
had dubbed gays "a powerful voting
bloc that the mayor simply cannot
afford to alienate," during the election.
And their determination paid off
Dec. 1 when Daley finally met for the
first time with his inherited Mayor's
Committee On Gay and Lesbian Issues(COGLi). Before the hour-long meeting was over, Daley threw in the
towel on a number of contested
points, including the scrapping the
Chicago's Widely denounced AIDS
education campaign.
Utilizing the phrase "I Will Not
Get AIDS," the city's ads had been'tagged by activists and the media as auseless "Just-Say-No" approach to the
AIDS problem.
As recently as Nov. 29, in an hourlong meeting with journalists from thegay newspapers
Chicago Outlines,
Windy City Times and Gay Chicago,
Daley and his press secretary, Avis
Lavelle, had defended the campaign.
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acknowledged that AIDS-affected communities-in particular gays, who have
proven they know how to engineer
changes in sexual behavior-shouldhave been intimately involved in the
campaign's creation.

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Meanwhile,simultaneousto
COGLI's pow-wow with the mayor,
members of Action Network for Lesbian and Gay Issues (ANLGI)-theactivists who spearheaded last year's
passage of Chicago's gay rights ordinance-were working the city council
to defeat an ordinance that would.
have placed COGLI and other independent mayoral minority advisorycommittees under the thumb of the
Human Relations Commission (HRC).
Activists believed the change
would deprive the committees of both
independence and direct access to themayor, and would politicize theappointments process.

Following coalition lobbying bygays, Blacks, Latinos and women, thecouncil's joint budgetlhuman relationscommittee postponed its vote on theordinance
Dec. I-a
defeat thatcaught the administration by surprise.
The opposition was led by Black
Alderman Marlene Carth, in her firstjoint politicking with gay/lesbianactivists.
Gay lobbyists were elated at thealliance
becauseCarter vocally
opposed last year's gay rights ordinance, going so far as to once callgays "sissies" on the council floor.
"Now," according to ANLGI's
Arthur Johnston, "she says we are themost powerful minority in the city."
Gay/lesbian and coalition activists
are now drafting new legislation thatwill both protect the independence ofthe minority advisory committees andaccomplish Mayor Daley's stated goalof strengthening HRC.
See CHICAGO on page 26

Vast Diversity in"Global AIDS

Epidemic

December 17, 1989

by Rex Wockner
New figures released this week
by the Switzerland-based
World
Health Organization
reveal moreclearly than ever that the AIDS epidemic is following vastly differing patterns as it circles the globe.
A total of 186,803 AIDS cases
have been reported to WHO's Global
Programme on AIDS as of Nov. 1,
1989, a figure that WHO officials
believe represents about one-third ofactual cases.
The disease has now been seen
in 177 countries or territories, leaving
only 25 nations yet to report their firstcase.
The Americas have 70 percent of
the world's AIDS cases and 85 percentof those have occurred in ttie UnitedStates. The U.S. is followed by Brazil(7,787 cases), Canada (2,867), Mexico(2,351), Haiti (2,041) and the Dominican Republic (858).

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U. Madison
to ROTC:
Shape up or
ship out
MADISON, Wisconsin-The
University of Wisconsin Faculty Senate
voted Dec. 4 in favor of a motion that
calls for the termination of ROTC rrograms on the school's Madison campus
on May 1993, unless the Reserve Officers' Training Corps changes its policy
prohibiting lesbian and gay enlistment.
Madison, which is a land grant, public
university, is the first institution in the
country to take such a stand.
"J hope that the action willencourage discussion among membersof Congress about discrimination in
the military, and fuel debate about
ROTC on other campuses," said Donna
Shalala, chancellor of the university.
Shalala will decide whether or not topass the faculty senate's motion on to
the Board of Regents with a recommendation. The decision to wait until
1993 was made to allow students currently in ROTC to finish their studies.
Gay and lesbian rights activists
and their supporters were elated by
the 386 to 248 vote. The ROTC issue
galvanized the campus, where there
had not been a full faculty senate
meeting since the organization wasformed in 1970. Michael Olneck, professor of Educational Policy Studies,said the high turnout rivalled faculty
meetings held during the height of
the Vietnam War.
"I know this issue isn't goingaway for the military, and I hope thisaction is duplicated on other campuses," Olneck said. "There's no indication that discrimination
againstlesbians and gay men is going away.
Yet, we learned that people don't
consider lesbians and gay discrimination as repugnant as discrimination on
the basis of race, gender or religion."
Olneck said he suspected thatpeople who are uncomfortable with

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homosexuality do not view the military's policy as "horrendous." Joseph
Elder, the faculty member who introduced the motion, said <hehad encountered resistance from students andfaculty who felt that lesbians and gay
men are not enlisted anyway, andwould not want to participate in ROTC.
But Jordan Marsh, a Madison student, said there are closeted lesbian
and gay students in ROTC and there
are lesbian and gay students whowant to join ROTC. Marsh added, "It'smore than that. Discrimination is discrimination regardless of whether or
not lesbians and gays want to join.""We argue that if ROTC barred
Blacks or Jews, we wouldn't wait to1993 or even allow ROTC on campus,"
said Elder, a professor since 1961 ofsociology and Southeast Asian studies.
''The situation is analogous to the 1940s
when the Department of Defense discriminated against Blacks. Instead of
exclUSion, however, Blacks were denigrated and separated from whites andgiven low ranking positions."
As in the past, the University of
Wisconsin-Madison is at the forefrontof social change. Campuses throughout the United States, from Northwestern to Harvard, are now debating
ROTC's discriminatory policy. At the
University of Minnesota, lesbian andgay progressive students recently
questioned student body president
Brian Bergson's commitment to an
inclusive ROTC enlistment.
Harvard University in Boston andColumbia University in New York City
do not have their own ROTC programs, but students may participate at
nearby schools.
"I hope a network emerges
between campuses that will light a little fire," said Sue Hyde, director of
the National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force's Military Freedom Project. "I'mthrilled and send congratulations
tothe people who worked on this. The
resounding vote is but the first waveof public universities insisting that thePentagon change its policy and insisting that gay and lesbian discrimination will not be tolerated."-David Anger

Rack it up
NEW YORK-An art auction tobenefit ACT UP raised $335,000 for
the AIDS activist organization, thegroup announced last week. Called"Auction for Action," the event washeld on December 3 at the studios of
the American Ballet Theater. David
Hockney and Annie Liebovitz served
as co-chairs.
Among auction highlights was
the unexpectedly
high price of$70,000 paid for a painted wood
totem by ACT UP member Keith Haring. The piece had been appraised at
between $25,000 and $35,000. Another major piece, David Hockney's
Hotel Acatlan Second Day, a lithograph on two sheets of paper,
brought $60,000.
Art works, antiques, furniture,designer clothes and other valuables
were donated to the auction byartists, estates and art galleries.
Among the major pieces w.ere works
by Annie LeibOVitz, Christo, Eric Fischl and Andy Warhol. Organizers
pointed out that many of the items
which surpassed their estimated value
were political or homoeroticinnature.
Among the quirky aspects of theunusual auction was the selling of an
autographed book by Senator Jesse
Helms. Auctioneers pointed out theprice discrepancy between the $20
paid for the Helms book and the$10,000 paid for a photograph byRobert Mapplethorpe.
The Helms
book, purchased by nightclub promoter Chip Duckett, was reportedly
found later that night in a urinal at theMars discotheque.
The ~uction was by far thelargest fund-raiser
ever held by
ACT UP, an all-volunteer organization with no paid staff whose previous
fundraising
recordwas$12,000. The $335,000 raised at theauction is equivalent to approximately one year's budget for thegroup, according
to fundraisingcommittee members.
-Gabriel RoteUo

AIDS onless than$5,000?
HOUSTON-Lambda
Legal
Defense and Education Fund hasannounced that it has joined a lawsuit
broUght by a man with AIDS in Houston, Texas against his insurer andemployer, after the lifetime cap for
AIDS-related claims on his group healthinsurance plan was lowered to $5,000.
The plaintiff, John McGann, has
worked for H & H Music Company
here since 1982, first as a guitar teach- I.
er and now on a part-time basis in the
sheet music department,
and hasbeen covered by the company's
group health plan since that time.
And when McGann was diagnosed
with AIDS in December 1987, hebegan submitting medical claims toGeneral American Life Insurance, theco-defendant in the case.
But in July of 1988, H & H
announced, that it was cancelling its
group medical plan and was instituting
a self-insured' plan administered byGeneral American, and revealed thatthe new plan would impose a limit_of$5,000 on all AIDS-related claims, :eventhough the ceiling for all other illnesses would remain at $1,000,000.
McGann received a "right-to-sue"notice from the Texas Commission on
Human Rights after filing a complaint,
and then instituted a civil action infederal district court against his
employer and insurer. His complaint,
thought to be the first in the country
to challenge a limit placed on AIDSrelated medical costs in a grouphealth plan, alleges violation of thefederal Employee Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), theTexas handicap discrimination statute,
the Texas Insurance Code and theTexas Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer Protection Act.
"Their [H & H'sI consensus is thatthey have done nothing illegal," said
McGann in a telephoneinterview
with Out Week, "but I disagree. They
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dialoguing with a broader spectrum of
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Reiff, a lesbian and a close friendof the mayor, was hired to work on
health and substance abuse issues but,in recent months, evolved into thecity's de Jacto gay liaison, usurping
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is she's moved into it but she was not
to replace Jon, no way."
While Daley suggested Reiff has
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"I could have pointed and said,'Nancy, you're the whole problem' ...but
I'm not like that," Daley said. "All the
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And in another victory, Daley told
COGLI Dec. 1 that he will await the
new drafts before pushing further inthe council for his version of the HRC
reorganization ordinance.
A Tale of Two Liaisons
In other developments, during theNov. 29 meeting with the gay press,
Daley and Lavelle cleared up several
points about which the gay and lesbiancommunity has expressed confusion.
First, Lavelle confirmed that theadministration has no plans to fire Jon
Simmons, the city's Coordinator of
Gay and Lesbian Issues.
Fear for Simmons' position had
become widespreadfollowing his
reports of being "cut off" from city hall.
Second, Daley and Lavelle report-

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Much of the rest of the meeting
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focused on whether the gay press is"fair" and "objective" in its coverage ofbattles between the community andthe administration.
Daley said he had "no problem withthe reporting, with the editorials, pro orcon, or with the criticism,"but Lavelle,aformer journalist suggested that Chicago's
gay press tends too much in the directionof "advocacy journalism."Windy City Times pUblisher Jeffrey
McCourt strongly defended his newspapers against the charges, while Gay
Chicago publisher Ralph Paul Gernhardt
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Spok~spersons for Outlines maintained that their news section is written
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Act were passed," Donald Skipwith,
McGann's attorney in Houston, told
aut Week, referring to the landmark legislation passed by the Senate this year,
and currently stalled in the House.
"[The Act] would basically bring individuals with handicaps and disabilities
on par with other protected classes."
According to Lambda's executive
director, Thomas B. Stoddard, thiscase is critical since the practice ofinstituting ceilings orJ AIDS-related
insurance
is becoming
morewidespread. For example, Allied Benefits Systems in Chicago is offering aplan which places a $5,000 cap on
AIDS costs "unless the insured canprove he or she acquired the virus
involuntarily," according to Stoddard.
Similar cases have been reported in
Florida and Indiana and other insurance plans have sought to exclude
AIDS-related coverage altogether,
Stoddard said.
"The bottom line is the almighty
dollar," continued Skipwith. ''They see
an opportunity to cut their costs andthey go for it. They say 'to hell withthese people.' [T]he insurance industry [has] been given carte blanche toterminate
any insured individual
whose health condition they havedetermined
is too costly to allow
them to continue
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individuals and contact tracing, would
be counter-productivein the fightagainst AIDS,
It would discourage HIV testing:If people know illat their names andtest results are being reported, andthat they will be required to report
the names of people they've had sex
or shared needles with, many people
who consider themselves at risk, whowant to learn their status, will be discouraged from doing so. It will keepthem in the dark, and away fromhealth care and treatment.
It would drain re5ources: Imagine

was shocked by the 'Iack ofprotest at outgoing City HealthCommissioner Stephen Joseph's
latest call for mandatory reporting of
the names of people testing HIV antibody positive and contact tracing.
Perhapsthe announcement
passed with so little response because
joseph is a lame duck who is leaving
his post at the end of December anyway. But to look at Joseph's effort as
the misguided mission of a single departing official is a real mistake, Afterall, this latest call for
mandatory reportingand contact tracing
received the enthusiastic support of the
all-powerful
NewYork Times. In an editorial the next day,the Times Virtuallycanonized
joseph:"When historians ask
what specific actions
by New York City or State helped
if everyone who tested positive were
curb the spread of AIDS, they may
to cooperate and made a list of every
find little to report, except thatsexual and needle sharing contact for
Stephen Joseph raised, and fought for, . a decade. Many of those lists would
the right causes."
be long, even voluminous. This is a
The issue is being framed in
big city, where people move a lot.
terms of "innocent" victims who must This project could keep an awfully big
be alerted through contact tracing that
staff busy for an awfully long time.
they may have been infected. In its Meanwhile, there's a critical shortage
patronizing tone, the Times writes,of primary medical care in the city to
prOVide treatment to the already"Gay men are well informed about
these drugs, but contact tracing would
known HIV-infected population.
help inform inner-city women who
The priorities are clear. Provide"have no knowledge of their risks andtreatment and support to help people
remedies." Are we to understand thatsurvive. Provide explicit risk reduccoercion is the only way to reachtion education and the tools for prethese "unknowing victims?"
vention: condoms, dental dams andWith effective AIDS education
clean needles, People will get theand available medical care, knowlmesSage. With information and reaedge about risks and remedies andsons to be"hopeful, more and morechoices would be Widespread. The
people will voluntarily get themselves
joseph/Time5 proposal, mandatory re- HIV tested.
porting of the names of HIV-infected
To reverse the priorities, to place

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testing and mandatory reporting andcontact tracing ahead of treatment
and education, is to give in to the coercive, social control approach to
AIDS,
Now think about the federal government's AIDS agenda, The federal
AIDS medical research program has
yielded little and will, be stalled forthe coming nine months; progresshas come out of places like New
York's Community Research Initiative,
where the tests for aerosolized pentamidine were conducted, and which
the feds refuse to fund. In case after
case, the Food andDrug Administration has refused torelease promising
drugs until AIDS
activists'
literally
forcedthem to.
While boasting of
AIDS treatment advances, the Secretary of Health andHuman Services,Dr. Louis Sullivan, says localities will
be given federal funds for HIV testing, but not for treatment. If you
think the United States government
wantS to help people with AIDS survive, dream on.
The real federal agenda for AIDS
has been consistent from day one:
Identify and label.
It is a program of social control,
punctuated by the Buckleys, Helmses
and DannemeyelS who dare suggest tattooing, quarantine and camps. For themand millions of Americans, AIDS is agodsend, killing off undesirable fags
and junkies, and providing a convenientpunishment to discourage deviant be~havior. If they thought they could getaway with it and save a few bucks, universal testing and quarantine in concentration camps would be instituted.
Think how much easier the job
See SANDOR KATZ on page 71

An Open Letter to the Progressive Community
The U.S. government wants us to "forgive and forget" those responsible for the lran/Contra crimes.
Yet some activists who opposed these crimes ~ow face life in prison •••One of Ed Meese's last actions before leaving the Justice Departinent was to order the indictment of six long-time political activists on charges
of protesting U.S. domestic and intemational policies through "violent and illegal means."
Like other recent political trials. U.S. v. Whitehorn. et_ al., (The Resistance Conspiracy Case)targets domestic opponents of illegal practices
such as the contra war against Nicaragua and the invasion of Grenada. The investigation of these defendants is linked to the recent illegal FBI
investigations of CIS PES and the Central America solidarity movement. Like them, it's characterized by massive FBI misconduct and illegality.
The six - Alan Berkman, Tim Blunk. Marilyn Buck, Linda Evans. Susan Rosenberg. and Laura Whitehom - are charged with being partof a network of groups that claimed responsibility for bombings of govemment and military buildings in 1983-85. including the 1983 bombing
ofthe U.S. Capitol afterthe invasion of Grenada. No one was injured in any ofthese actions. The govemment makes no claim to know who actually
carried out the bombings. Rather, it wants to convict the defendants by proving that they shared a "common purpose" of resisting illegal U.S. war
crimes: "guilt by political association."
The govemment has already put these defendants through fourteen separate political prosecutions. Five of the defendants are already serving
sentences of up to 70 years. The sixth has been held in preventive detention for 2 1/2 years. This April. the trial judge dismissed all charges against
three of the defendants on the grounds of double jeopardy, but the Justice Department has vowed to fight the decision.
The government wants to stage a show trial to have a chilling effect on activists. It uses the guise of security to create an atmosphere of fear
and intimidation to make a fair trial impossible. A bulletproof plexiglass wall in the courtroom separates the defendants from their families andsupporters. Surveillance cameras in the courtroom are trained on defendants and spectators.
This is political persecution, not a criminal prosecution. The targets are people who have shown a deep commitment to human rights and social
justice over many years. There may be political disagreements among us. but we are all part of the community of people in the U.S. who have opposed and tried to stop the murderous, inhumane and illegal practices of the Reagan administration. The defendants in this case, like the other political prisoners in this country, need to be retumed to our communities and not disappear into the prison system. We must lend our voices and support
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Goodbye, Luman~a,by Mark Harrington

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elies of lost civilizations are
crumbling around us.
Brian Damage-genius,
aesthete and AIDS activist, archaeologist of vanished fantastic places, longterm survivor with AIDS, actor andartist-was born in Virginia in 1954.
Crackedamphorae, aqueducts,
bell towers, ionic temples,
pediments
crushed in an ancient deluge, broken
urns: this is the detritus of Atlantis, piled
up in an undersea :canyon, seen from asubmarine, depictedon the walls of Room
4D in the Carlton
Arms Hotel at 25thStreet and 3rd Avenue, paintedby. Brian Damage.
He went to highschool in Alexandria,
Virginia, from 1969 to
1972. For a year or
two he was a DJ in
Savannah, Georgia. Then he moved
to New York. The post-punk demimonde was exploding in nocturnal, .
landscapes of sound and spectacle.
,Brian was a sartorial superstar then,devising sets and costumes for bands
like Shox Lumania, conjuring up a
shifting array of interiors in Danceteria where he lived for a time.
Long ago, underground, beneaththe mighty Pyrenees, a strange andlovely culture flourished.
Obsessedwith peace and terri/red by violence,the Lumanian people communicated32. OUT~WEEK

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in the four-dimepional
language ofmusic. Clad in gossamer robes withbroad, stiff collars, their faces glittered ana their ornate curving helmets swept forWard like frozen, golden waves. Coexistent with the morebrutal Cro-t-tagnons
and Neanderthal peoplJJs,the Lumanians disappeared wit~out a trace for 12,000
years, but urere briefly sighted in NeWYork, when: they recorded Shox Lumania Live at the Peppermint Lounge.
,f,(ROIR cassettes, 1981). Their garb
was devised by Brian Damage.
He developed
fevers and aswelling in his lymph nodes. His doctors declared it to be lymphoma. Thiswas in 1981, before the words "PGL"(Progressive
Generalized
Lymphadenopathy-which
is what it really was), "GRID," "AIDS" or "HI¥" entered our language.
He refusedradiation and chemotherapy, and devised his own regimen of macrobiotic
diet and tai chi. For eight years heheld the syndromeat bay, andworked prodigiously.
Inside the Egyptian temple, sinister figures move before a hieroglyphic
frieze. Over the altar, a virus invades,
uncoats, replicates and buds; codes ofa malign religion. Mummy vampires
float over the pyramid, fly throughtime, reappear in Betbesda andRockville in tbe 1980s, unswatbed
vampires of AIDS science. Gallo, Fauci, .
Cooper, Young. This is • The Curse of
Umbra,· drawn by Bran Damage inthe winter of 1989, and publisbed in
World War Three II 12: Biohazard:
Ecology/Health CrisiS, available at
Ray s newsstand on Avenue A for $4.00.
He redoubled
hiswork in the mid 1980s,
painting the room at theCarlton Arms, opening ashow in Venice Otaly), developing PCP in summer
1988, switching to pentamidine, red meat and
AZf. There was tbis painting I had tofinish. Teaching himself again to walk
dqwn the hospital corridor in Washington, sneaking out at night awayfrom the nurses, walking
when he was supposed tobe wheelchairbound,
walking to the bank machine, train station, backto New York City and his
life, his apartment, his 12foot tall 40 foot long blue
painting with the spectral lines depicting Coney Island in 1909, replicating
the Piazza'San
Marco in Venice,preparing' the underpaintingfor"Coney Island on Fire."
Before dawn, by the 7-11 in Arlington, Virginia, a ta/~ elegant figure, c/a4 in a white lab coat emblazoned with the red biohazard logo hedesigned does his tai chi exercises. It
is October 11, 1988, Brian is with
Wave 3, and with them invades the
FDA's Ethics Building (0, oxymoronic
edifice!) to issue utopian edicts to end(,the epidemic.
In January, Brian was an AIDS
commando in Bob Huffs video/performance piece at LaMama, Roclevilk
is Burning. Along with Jim Elgo and
Ann Otto, he seized control of a typl, c:al 1V AIDS newscast to put an end
to the lies:
Jim: A pattern began to emerge.
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Brian: It wasn't a question of sav- I;,
Ing lives or even of saving money-It
was about power.
Ann: But when the first PWA
chose to sit down in the middle ofWall Street and be dragged off, westarted to take back some of thatI
power.
In February, Brian was hospitalized with MAl, a bacterial.infection 0;
the bloodstream. He lost weight an41
his doctors at Beth Israel stopped all
his treatments, We confronted theJnwith what we knew Brian wanted:/ achance to beat MAl with drug:fj'ln
common use. They wavered, but enext day, Brian was back pn t.qe
drugs. He wolfed down spaghej1t1,
steak and milkshakes with awesdme
avidity. In May we went to visit him_~~-~/)in the hospital room-it was e~ty.
8Brian was sitting regally In hisO'\)~ S
PI.! ~wheelchair in Stuyvesant Park, olding court by the fountain. Across,rom~~~ ()~~~. , _'.
Sl..I/)~ ~Jf
us pigeons wheeled and high sfhool~ySstudents gossiped In clusters.
Brian was an aristocrat/. Bob~~G~'t' .;.• ' .'PliO'll
Huff told me Brian used to say he...9~~
Os
was going to get a powdered u1g andwalle around the Lower East S&e like
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Again he made his rebelli~us legs
the way back to the Vims, Trims, Demigods, TomorruziJ's Mans
walk, and he moved back h<jme for
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We buy collections.
another six months. In the fal~ he got
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peripheral neuropathy and slqwly lost
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the use of the legs he had w~rked soheroically to command. T,hiS time
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that period there were huge drag balls up inHarlem. Places like Rockland Palace were thebig places where you could really come out
and be gay.
OIFI Also they were theatrical eventsin another way. Well known writers and personalities used to take the loges there.
Theodore Dreiser and these eminent literarypeople who were not connected in any way
with homosexuality. They were just there as
sympathetic spectators, and amused by thewhole thing. So there were no prejudices in,that sense either.
.
GR: It seems like you're describing aperiod in which, if you were a member ofthe bohemian circles, there were really not
many prejudices.
OIF: No, no none. And you were separated from the square world. They didn't
have as many members in the talented
coterie.
GR: When you finished writing The
Young and Evil, however, you were not able
to get it published right away, presumably
because of the homosexual content. How didthat strike you? Having written a book thatwas considered to be obscene?
CHF: Well you see, the Obelisk Press
was noted for its pornography,
straight
pornography.
So when they originallywouldn't publish it, I thought it was more forthe diffiOlIt avant garde style rather than forthe sexual content. That's what I thought.
Then when Gertrude Stein came along withher recommendation, and Djuna Barnes rec. ommended it, that's what persuaded them topUblish it.
GR: Yes, but then after it was published,some copies were seized and burned.
OIF: Yes, it was banned in America andburned in England. And it was taken out of
the window of Brentano's in Paris. Before I
became friends with Edith Sitwell she wasvery shocked by it, as was Edward James.
There was a story about Edward burning it in
the fireplace and Edith fanning the flames
with her skirts. But that all changed later.
Edith wrote a preface for my book of poems.
We became friends and I brought her overhere for a great lecture tour, Tchelitchew andI, with Osbert [Sitwell, Edith's brother]. They
were put up by Vincent Astor's wife. They
had a great success. I got them an agent, they
did a tour of America. You know the pictureof the Gotham Book Mart reception.
I
arranged that. I told Steloff, "The Sitwells arecoming over, you must give them a party."
She said, "Oh they wouldn't want a party
here. They're much too grand." But they
were delighted. All the poets came, and some
who weren't poets.
GR: When you published The Young
And Evil and it was pulled from Brentano's
and 'bumed and so forth, what was the general reaction? How, for example, did yourfamily react?
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me a letter saying she adored it. She said, "Ilaughed and I cried." Well, she didn't know
too much about homosexuality. She wondered at one time if Tchelitchew wouldn't bea good suitor for my sister Ruth [Ford, theactress]. He laughs. I think I had to be explicit sometime or other. J told her he wasalready taken.
GR: The world that you're describing is
not the world that's prevalent now. Theredoesn't seem to have been this iron-clad division between straight and gay. When did thatdivisiol1 happen? Did you notice that happen.
ing at some point, that there began to be a
lot more exclusively g';'y people?
CHF: Not till much, much later. Aroundthe time of Stonewall, or a few years before.
I don't know when it was. Perhaps the late
50s or early 60s when they began having
these places like Stonewall, these danceplaces. In the early 30s those places didn't
exist. They started much later. Do they still
have such places now?
GR: In the Village? Oh yes, Charles,
they're everywhere, and not only in the Village.
CHF: Because I haven't been down
there in years.
GR: Well, you should go take a look.
CHF: And the leather's still around'
They still have the leather bars and all?
GR: Absolutely.
CHF: I suppose people are less promiscuous now, aren't they?
GR:
Well, people try to be safer.
They've certainly closed the baths in New
York. Did you ever go out to Fire Island?
CHF: Oh yes, sure. I was in on the
ground floor of Fire Island, too. Is that thesame?
GR: Sure, that's very much the same.
CHF: But I think being gay, it's justbeing gradually accepted again, like it used
to be.
GR: Perhaps. But there does seem tobe this grand division, where if you're gay
you're totally gay, or if you're straight you're
completely straight. I think some people arehoping that as society loosens up those division will melt away, and we'll be freer toexplore our natures, gays being a little
straight or straights becoming a bit gay.
CHF: We used to have an expression forthat, straights that might want to play around.
We'd say, "That one's a veiled bitch." It's agraphiC expression.
GR: Is that like a closet case'
OIF: Yeah, but I think it's more poetic.
GR: I was very surprised in The Youngand Evil that communists are mentioned
quite a bit.
CHF: I remember marching in a communist parade. And I had a poem in the New
Masses. They were part of the revolt againstbourgeoiS-ism. That was the common meeting ground, that we were all anti-bourgeoisie.
The thing that was outstanding about the Vil-Q.

lage at that time was that one felt that there
were no prejudices. If, for instance, I wanted
to go to bed with somebody, it just manifested and it usually happened. And maybe they
never went to bed with somebody before. It
was a different time. When I think about
myself then I'm just talking about anotherperson. If I were a young person today I
would not have any reason to act as I did
then. It's a different time. And if I werereborn I would not act as I did then, because
you're also affected by the milieu. I've always
had the impulse to do what I wanted, when I
wanted. Maybe that could recur at any time.
I'm sure there're young and evils today
equivilent to what I was then.
GR: Tell me about Djuna Barnes.
CHF: Before I sailed for Paris I met
Djuna Barnes in her Wasltington Square studio. We had reviewed het book in Blues andI was very much taken with her, the way she
looked. Incredible. So then I left for Paris andshe said I'll be over soon, and so she came.
That's when we started living together. She'd
had apendicitis and had to go to the American Hospital and then I came to the apartment to take care of her as she convalesced
and it all developed into something. We got
together again in Tangier. That's where I
typed Nightwood for her, in Tangier. It was avery complicated chapter.
GR: You two were going to get marriedat some point, weren't you?
.
CHF: Oh, she didn't want to, she didn't
want to. She didn't want to have children .
The irony was that while in Tangier she
found out she was pregnant, and it was notby me, it was by a French artist that was
crazy about her. Before she came to Tangier
she was impregnated by him. So she had toleave and ... well it was all very complicated.
CHF: Is it true that she called you
Charles Impossible Ford'
CHF: I guess so. Where'd you read that'Anyway, she was a very complicated person.
She didn't have an easy time getting Nightwood published. Finally she was elated when
T.S. Eliot liked it and offered to write a preface. And that's the way that came out.
GR: Aside from Djuna, you were a protegeof Gertrude Stein's as well. In a sense, Charles,
you were really hanging around with snme ofthe premier lesbians of the 20th century.
OIF: Yes. I knew the ones I've mentioned, Natalie Barnard, Romaine Brooks,
Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein. I never
knew Margaret Anderson.
GR: Did you ever meet Radclyff Hall?
OIF: No. I do remember that her book
was published by Obelisk as well.
GR: The Well of Loneliness?
CHF: Yes. You know, they're always
referring (0 Djuna now as a lesbian, but she
didn't consider herself a lesbian. She hadmany lovers, male and female. She was justa very free person, you see. I remember her,
she was satirizing "The upward look of ask-

ing eyes, the clinging clasp ofroseleaf hands." The female.
And she once said some of
the women who consideredthemselves lesbians, she said
some of them walked aroundlike they had a feedbag
between their legs. She could
be very wicked in her satirizations.
GR: If they didn't consider themselves to be thatmuch lesbians, what you'resaying is that nobody considered themselves to be thatmuch either gay or lesbian,people simply did what theywanted to do.
CHF: In our circles,
that's right.
GR: Did you keep up a
relationship with Parker Tyler
over the years?
CHF: Yes, yes. He diedin the 70s. All his books areout of print. Now a woman isdoing a biography on Parker
and hopes to revive some of
his out of print books. One
book I hope can be revived
is the book he wrote on
Tchelitchew.
GR: Did he ever writeanother I)ovel?
CHF: Well, he wrote akind of a novel, it was neverpublished,on Nijinsky.
Apparently the publication
was blocked because he andperspective
publishers
thought the widow of Nijinsky might bring suit.
GR: The two other main
characters in The Young andEvil, Gabriel and Louis, havethey ever been identified,
who they were based on?
OIF: The Louis characteris a well known writer. But his
name cannot be mentioned.
Charles Henri Ford (on the floor, center) at a party he arranged for Osbert and Dame Edith Sitwell
Somehow, it's thought not be(seated. center) at the Gotham Book Mart in 1948. In the left foreground, William Rose Benet; behindbe discreet to mention it.
him. Stephen Spender; behind him, Horace Gregory and his wife, Marya Zaturenska, At the back (leff
GR: I would be glad toto right), Tennessee Williams. Richard Eberhart, Gore Vidal. Jose Garcia Villa. and W. H. Auden (onmention it if you wanted toladder). At right, Elizabeth Bishop (standing), Marianne Moore, Randall Jarrell and Delmore
tell me who it is.
CHF: I don't think he
Schwartz (foreground). Photo courtesy GQtham Book Mart.
wants it mentioned. I'm still
just 'stay that way. I saw one on this TV theas today. Drag terms, and so forth. Was there
sort of friends with him and I think he wants
other night. You know, you can see anything
to ...he just doesn't want that notoriety. I thinka lot of drag back then?
on this TV. Did you s~e that? A total ·woman.
CHF: I remember we used to get init would be indiscreet of me to mention it.
And then she pulled up her skirt and she haddrag, in and out .. But there must have beenThis is the Louis character. The Gabriel charthis long prick. On cable TV! So unaesthetic.
some who passed, or we wO\lldn't haveacter was Joseph Rocco. He was a Village
And unattractiv~. Some of the things you see
talked about it. There were great .female
character, he was in Blues with a poem. He
on TV. At least there's that funny magazine
impersonators. Jullie Eltinge, she was at thewas very much in The Young and EviL
out now. What's it called, something like My
Orpheum circuit. Back in the 20s. She was
GR: There was an awful lot of really
Comrade? That I like, but where on earth
universally admired, even by the bourgeoisie.
inventive language in the book. Camp. I was
can you pick it up?
But of course today they can dress up andsurprised that some of the terms are the same

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Celebrating Ten Years ofMusic-Making with
Casselberry-DuPree
An Interview by Hattie Gossett

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After years of performing as a duo in small places on theplay-the-music-now-and-we'll-think-about-paying-you-Iater
circuit, Casselberry-DuPree is gaining national and international
visibility, Is the music industry ready for these wild women? Is
the American public ready? These are question~ for the 1990s.
Known for their ear-tingling two-part vocal harmonies, fortheir soprano-to-baritone vocal range, with Judith Casselberry
playing rhythm, guitar and singing the alto-to-baritone lines,
and Jaque DuPree playing small rhythm instruments andsinging the soprano-to-tenor lines, these women worked as a
duo for nearly nine years, Then came their award-winningdebut album City Down, produced for Icebergg Records byLinda Tillery, herself a veteran Black woman songwriter,arranger, Singer. Then came the band, featuring Toshi Reagofl
as bassist and supporting vocalist and Annette Argentina
Aguilar as multipercussionist. Now Casselberry-DuPree, with
their wildly funky, superbly polished concert and club presentation, is knocking on the music industry's inside door. This
stripped-down jumpband, probably the biggest-sounding little
band around, with the most unheard of instrumentation-no
piano, no trap drums-is
now working its way into larger
clubs and concert halls, appearing with name acts and reaching larger and broader audiences all the time.
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DuPree. If you like good music with a strong reggae feel, atouch of soul, an African-Latin-funky bottom and an uncompromisingly clear message whkh pulls the covers off of homophobia, racism, sexism, warmongering, economic exploitation,a message which joyfully-that'S
right, joyfully!-sings thepraises of strong women, of strong people, you are gonna
love Casselberry-DuPree. And if you don't believe it's possible
to play music that rocks the house and tells the truth, you're
gonna love these women even more because that's exactly
what they do-for political audiences and for Saturday night
goodtime audiences-and there's no let-up in sight.
Casselberry-DuPree will perform in concert on December
16 in New York at a benefit for Brooklyn Women's Martial
Arts. In November they did a two-d~y stint at SOB's, (Soundsof Brazil) a major New York club for national and international
touring bands, opening for renowned message music makerGil Scott Herron. The crowds, which had mostly turned out tohear Herron, were jubilantly surprised by the CasselberryDuPree's ability to consistently pump out a big sound andkeep the house hot. I talked with these wild wimmin divas.
Hattie Gossett: Tell us about your experiences at the
October 7 Walk For The Homeless in Washington, D.C. What
was it like being part of an event with so many well known
people-like Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, Valerie Harper,

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P,d,MarIa Gibbs, Gregory Hines, Danny Glover, Olatunji, Rev. did four or five concerts in small towns where we played out'Stallings of Imaoi Temple, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Jon Voight, doors on the main plaza and the whole town came, from
Sugar Ray Leonard, Louis Gossett, Jr., James Olomos, Tracy grandparents to babies. We went to Israel for an international
women's festival, where we met Palestinians and Black. - 'Chapman?
Hebrews and progressive Israelis. And we've played the WinJaque DuPree: Bill Graham called and asked if we could
participate; we were glad to do it, yet we were a little leery of . nipeg Folk Festival in Canada where we shared the stage with
top name folk groups from Africa, Asia, Latin America. Whilethat because we don't have a big name, we might get pushed
to the side, wpich sometimes happens at these kinds of we were there, we spent some time with our friend Lillian
klls:n, the powerful Jamaican dub poet who lives in Toronto.
events-they might '~dis" us, you know? Actually, everything
HG: Tell us about the awards your debut album City
turned out okay.
.
Down has won.
HG: Is it true that you sang with Stevie Wonder that day?
JC: It was voted number one album of the year by the
Judith Casselberry:Yes. We were backstage figuring
out where to stand to get a good view o( the brother while he music industry magaZine put out by Tower Records called
Pulse; the Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times voted it one
was doing his thing when all of sudden the stage managerr,ushed up to us, pulled us onstage, set up the. vocal mikes, of the year's top ten; the National Association of Independent~nd the next thing we knew we were singing backup for Ste- Record Distributors (NAIRD) voted it number one in reggae; invie Wonder along with Tremaine Hawkins and Grace Slick and this NAIRD competition we won against established reggae
Marty Balin of Jefferson Airplane. It was a new song he had groups like Yellowman, Black Uhuru, Sly & Robbie, The Itals.
HG: Do you consider yourselves part of the women's
written especially for the rally. He taught it to us and to theaudience as he sang it.
music scene?
,
JD: There is an ancient Ashanti proverb which says:
HG: Were you excited?
"Only when you have crossed the river can you say that the
JD: After I found my way with the lyrics I was excited;crocodile has a lump on her snout."
yes. At first the suddenness of it had me a little concerned.
HG: Sounds like you getting deep, sister. Break it
JC: I was excited even before we knew we were goingto sing-just to see Stevie Wonder close up when he was per- down now.
JD: We came on the scene trying not to compromise too
forming was exciting. So you know when we were out theremuch of ourselves as strong women-identified
women.
with him, I was thrilled.' And all this happened after we had
Because of our culture, which is African and traditional in its
done our own set, so we were actually on stage twice.
,
HG:' Any other memorable moments from that day?
root and American' because of geography, we have many voicJC: We got to spend a lot of time with Dionne Warwick. es. Judith and I were born out of civil rights, Black power andWe were impressed by her total down-to-earth ness. She was peace. As teenagers we were part of "student unrest" andsO'regufar-not at all distant or stuckup. Throughout the day Black radical revolution; we were part of the bur!)ing of draft
cards, and 'igive peace a chance" during the Vietnam War. As
she went outside and stood by the backstage fence and signed
young adults we grew into evolutionary change; we learned
autographs and talked to people from the audience, without
be'ing asked. I could see she realized the importance of com- that yes, South Africa will be free and, hell, Mississippi andmunicating directly with the people who had come out to hear Alabama and California and Florida, too. Some women don't
understand that we come before our audiences with voices
her. In talking to us, she was supportive, realistic and honest
about the music industry, about the special challenges facing and concerns other than just our womanhood or sexuality. In
order to hear Our songs regarding one issue, i.e. women'sBlack women in the industry, and the importance of being
rights, you have to hear and address our other voices and conupfront even when people don't want to hear what you haveto say. She says what's on her mind, no matter what.
cerns, too.
HG: When you perform for a Black audience do they
Another thrilling moment was when Gregory Hines got
have to hear the women's songs at the same time that theyup and danced during our set. It was cqmpletely spontahear the reggae?
neous, and at first we didn't even know what was happening.
JD: That's what I'm talking about. And we have a broadThen we looked around and there he was-dancing for days
er understanding of women's music than some women are
to our music. The audience loved it and so did we. Then,after we sang, Danny Glover, told us we brought tears to his ready for. Because for us Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith and Big
eyes with our version: of Bob Marley's "Exodus." So not only Mama Thornton sure have been singing about something for a
did we not get "dis-ed," we ended up getting recognition from long time; so have Mahaila Jackson, Shirley Caesar, Miriam- great artists whose work we admire and respect.
Makeba, Aretha Franklin, Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McCrae, 'Ella~. ,~. HG: What other good things have been happening?
Fitzgerald, Nancy Wilson, Betty Carter and Sweet Honey In
JD: In September, Judith and I opened for reggae star The Rock. We see these women as trailblazers. We're justJimmy Cliff, one of our original inspirations, at The Citi in adding our voices, and the response that we continually get
is an audience
Boston, a club which presents national and international tour- proves what we have always known-there
ing bands. In New York, the doors were opened for us at who wants to hear what we've got to say and that audience
SOBs with Gil Scott Herron.
doesn't include only women, but people from all walks of life.
HG: Are you trying to avoid stereotyping?
JC: Another important breakthrough was when our band
toured in the U.S. with Ladysmith mack Mombasa, the SouthJD: -From the example of the artists I've just named andtheir struggles we have learned that it's not about being conAfrican singers who made Paul Simon's Graceland recording
such a hit. And we are start:ng to hit the international-scene,
fined to any "alternative music market," but that artists whobuild their music around the many places they have cometoo. In Spain, we headlined at a big Barcelona disco; then wea40

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from 'in their lives can penetrate beyond narrow confines andcliches. The texture and strength of our lyrics, our technicaland musical style of expression take us beyond..all restriction.
We a~e everywhere.
.
JC: The women's music industry, which has growntremendously, has definitely expanded our horizons and [has]been a significant base of support for us since about
1979-though we had a career before then, we've always had
other significant basel of ~upporf--The women's music audience is loyal and diverse. The same women who support us
also support Patti LaBelle and Teresa Trull-how'sthat forcontrast?-andthey support many male artists, too. What's
happening now is that more women artists are seeing theimportance of advancing the position to the widest possible
number of people. Today, women artists are recording forindependent and major labels without compromising theirmusic or appearance or personal lifestyle which is great. Now
it will be harder for the powers that be to hold us back. I'm
speaking here of artists like k. d. lang, Phranc, Melissa
Etheridge, Suzanne Vega, Sinead O'Connor. Now major recordlabels have to pay attention to strong, woman-identified music,
because it is purchased by all kinds of people.
HG: Have you started thinking about your next album?
The first album had wonderful renditions of classic material
originated by reggae and rock artists and, it had one wonderful Toshi Reagon original, but you gave us only one of thosebadbad songs you yourselves write. Will the next album havemore of your own original material?
JD: There will be lots more; we are writing more andmore from our own experiences; we feel safer about doing
this now.
JC: The new songs also reflect experiences of others

which move us. Jaque is the one who usually brihgs
in lyrics...
and a musical sketch. She writes stories/serm..'Pns/speecheswith natural rhythmiC flow which comes from her church
background.
. JD: Judith comes up with chord progressions that arechallenging and creative for the band so they have more to
playoff of. Then we take the song where we want it to go.
We got some hot stuff that we can't wait for folks to hear.
HG: You have been playing music all those years by
your own two selves, then you got a band. What do you like
about working with this expanded unit?
JC: It's easier for us to texture and layer our overallsound. Now that Toshi and Annette are in the band and it's
four of us, we enjoy seeing the effect on people of hearing
such a big sound coming out of four women, the same way
we enjoyed seeing how they reacted to the big sound we gotwith just the two of us.
JD: It's a real challenge to deal >yith personalities and toleave room for people to fit in creatively with the sound wehave created.
JC: We have grown to be better musicians with Toshi
and Annette, so we wouldn't trade working with them for anything. They are so together and have so mych to offer, theygive us what we hear in our heads, and then they give us thatlittle special something we hadn't thought of which comes outof their brilliance and creativity. And they are committed. We
don't want to work with people who just read charts, collect acheck and go home. We want to feel like musicians workwith us because they love the music, not because it's justanother gig.
HG: I want to get into 'your personal business for a. See CASSELBERRY·DUPRE~ on pege 50

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Don
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Now
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Gay
ApparelThe New York Gay Men's
Chorus Celebrates
Its Tenth Anniversary

By Mark Chesnut
P.hoto: Ken Spencer/Newsday"Look at that," a middle-aged commuter said to her friend as
they made their way through Grand Central Station during thehectic Friday rush hour. She was pointing toward a group of men
standing on the Northwest balcony above them. The powerful, joyous voices ringing out carried over (the noise of the trains, publicannouncements and thousands of other commuters. Her friend
glanced up. "Look what it says!" she pointed excitedly at the banner draped in front of the men, which read "New York City Gay
Men's Chorus." "Oh, my!" responded the other woman.
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Even as the chorus celebrates its
tenth annt~'ersary,
it appears there
are still people who are surprised tofind that New York is home to one of
the most celebrated gay choruses in
the world.
And perhaps it's fitting that on theiranniversary, the chorus is reaching out
to new audiences, like the unexpecting
but appreciative one at Grand Central.
Part of the citywide "Day Without Art"\on December 1, this appearance also
served to warm the men up for theirannual holiday concert, "Masters in thisHal\" on December
20 and 21 atCarnegie Hall.
The musical prowess and dedication of the chorus are evident just bylooking at the list of where they've
played: Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center,plus tours throughout the United Statesand Europe and regular appearances atgay pride events. The NYCGMC is oneof the largest members of the Gay andLesbian Association of Choruses (GALA).
They have released two albums, one ofwhich, A Festival of Song, was nominated by Ovation magazine as the bestchoral record of 1983. These are 150
men with a purpose.
The chorus has performed withsuch luminaries as Colleen Dewhurst,
Maureen McGovern and Eartha Kitt.
Members have also seen the annual
budget of the non-profit organization
grow to nearly a half million dollars.
Through all this growth, however, two
factors seem to remain the central
focus: the music itself, and the sense·of family.
. The New York City Gay Men's Chorus began about ten years ago, when
Edward Dryer Weaver moved to New
Yo~k from San Francisco and distributed
flyers announcing the formation of a
new gay men's chorus. The group
couldn't have imagined all they would
accomplish then; at that point, the chorus was more socially-orjented. "But with
the increasing role that AIDS was to playin the lives of all gay men, coupled withan increasing commitment to the music
itself and the guidance of music director
Gary Miller, the group became more
involved and dedicated.
They also
became more like a family.
"When we started, it was more ofa chorus that got together for a social
aspect,"says Gary Miller. Miller,
whose broad musical backgroundincludeswork in education,thechurch and the theater, receives muchcredit for fine tuning the polishedsound of the NYCGMC. "The chorus
now has a real political necessity,
given the AIDS crisis," he continues,"That doesn't mean we go out andsing political slogans or anything. But
our visibility is important to the music
community at large, to keep them inmind of the AIDS crisis."
AIDS has taken a heavy toll on

the Gay ¥en's Chorus: They have lost
23 members. "It begins to affect theway you feel as an individual and also
as a group," says Marty Christian, who
handles the financial aspect of theorganization.
"You wonder who's
going to be next."
The straight media, in fact, often
have had the tendency to focus on the
AIDS issue '?Vhen doing stories on thechorus. Th<'j chorus has even been
mistakenlY,cflled
the New York City
Gay Men's Health Crisis Chorus. "We
can have al1'\the interviews we want,
and talk about how this is not the
New York City AIDS Chorus," Miller
comments. ",People write what theywant to write.\ But it's real importantfor us to keep our identity as a community of gay men singing together,no matter what, the circumstances. We
I'began before fh'e AIDS crisis, and, god
help us, we'll bci singing long after the
AIDS crisis.
'".\
Homophobia: is another obstacle thechorus continually battles. "The very firsttime we were in Carnegie Hall, we
unfortunately ended up having a union
stage hand fired, because he called us
faggots," says Miller. "That kind of thing
doesn't happen apymore. The halls arevery gracious to u~'{They're very serious
about what we do.'"When the New York City Gay Men's
Chorus made historY in February 1984 as
the first gay choral group to be in-vited
to sing before a reg'jonal convention of
the American Choral Directors Association, the leadershjp
of the AGDA
attempted to stop tPl<';,performance. The
ACDA leaders obj~~ted to the word"gay" being used in "the name of thechorus. Luckily, the r~gional officers prevailed, and the chorus appeared, nameintact, before what was described as an"enthusiastic" audience of professional
choral directors.
Although they are most definitely
gay, Miller emphasizes that there issomething in the music for most any
audience. Their music includes a broad
range of traditional pieces. "We sing'about love and peace rather than specifically gay love. A gay man can come to aconcert, and a straight woman can cometo a concert and hear the same piece.
We do get a little more specific for ourgay audiences."
While some may lean away frommusical icons of traditional culture,
Miller sees a political and social message

behind a gay chorus performing suchpieces: "The fact that there are 150 gay
men standing on stage singing thesevery familiar tunes that we all grew up
with, but couldn't relate to because wewere alienated from our families or fromour community, it adds a whole different
dimension. "Some of the more traditional
Christmas pieces will be featured at theupcoming holiday concert, where thechorus will be joined by soprano Faith
Esham in specially-commissioned
arrangements
for soprano and men's
chorus. Miller pointed out that thisconcert will address the gay experienceand AIDS. They are inviting the audience to bring unwrapped toys for children with AIDS.
The concert will also showcase theworld premiere of "A Moment in Time,"
a commissioned
work by New York
composer John David Earnest. "There's
this whole section about time," Miller
says, "time has not only brought usgood things, but bad things, and somehow we have to persevere and get on
with it. All of that is obviously an AIDS
metaphor, without ever saying it."After this holiday s-oncert, the New
York City Gay Men's Cl:Jorus is looking
forward to a third album in e~rly +990.
Entitled Hit Me with a Hot N4(e,,.i~,\vill
feature music from the 405 a9~ 50s as
performed at a dance concert.
Beyond that, some members hopefor a day when they can be regarded as
more than just a gay men's chorus. "I'dlike us to enter the mainstream of music
and not just be a gay event, but a musical event that everyone wants to cometo," Goldhaber opines.
As large numbers of people stopped
and applauded them at Grand Central
Station, it appears they made one moreinroad toward reaching that goal. 'Y
The New York City Gay Men's Chorus will join with internationallyacclaimed soprano Faith Esham in two.performances at Carnegie Hal~ Wednesday, December 20, and Thursday,
December 21, both at 8 pm Tickets forthe performances, called "Masters in thisHall," are priced from $10 through $50,
and are available at the Carnegie Hallbox office or from CarnegieCharge,(212) 247- 7800. Audience members areinvited to br(ng unwrapped toys jor
children with AIDS, aged two-nine, to be
distributed to area hospitals.

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behind the mlscera, 56-year-old Frank MasFarl of Brooklyn, was snared In a pollee dragnet over the
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It's holiday time again-thatseason when we sec so many cheery twosomes buzzing about. Here, Newsd.y has snapped two festive couples who've been spotted around town. Penthous.e -Pet of the Year Stephanie
Page and former USS Iowa sailor Kendall Truitt (whose gun turret and best navy buddy blew to bits last year,
resulting In a rain of speculation about his sexuality on the pages of tabloids everywhere), seem to be forcing
smiles at a yet another one of those glittering NeW York shindigs.
Then there's that other wacky duo, Mayor Koch and Keltb Hernandez (In the Dally News photothey're holding hands) whom Ncwsd.y says "Had A Ball," as they sat In Ed's office; just couple of boys .
having lome fun.
We Just love thll Joyous and gay season.

-M.S.
December 17, 1989

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Dear Brad:
Jack turned up at my place last
II night with this bunch of roses, :t box ofchocolates and one of those stupid
beefcake greeting cards. I thoughtmaybe there was some occasion I'dforgotten, like my birthday or something, but he smiled and said he simply felt like giving me presents. I
remarked I had presence enough,though it might nicely be augmented
by a Cartier watch, and left the roses in
the kitchen sink while we went to see
Valmont. At the end of the picture,
Jack turned to me and said, "Youknow, love doesn't have to be likethat." I replied the book was better but
that's 'lsually the way it is with adaptations. \lie walked across town in relative silence until we reached Fifth. Avenue and he suddenly suggested
taking a carriage ride through the park.
I explained that it was an unbearably
cold evening and that for those prices
we should get something we bothmight enjoy, like couple of drinks at
the Cafe de la Paix. He agreed with me
but remained awfully sullen and I figured something was bothering him.
Against my better judgement, I asked
him just exactly what was going on.
He said he'd always dreamed of taking
a romantic carriage ride throughCentral Park with somebody he loved.
Since that was all he was upset about,I easily assured him he was still rea-

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sonably young and perhaps someday
his dream would be fulfilled since it
seemed simple enough. Then he said
he meant he wanted to take theromantic carriage ride with me and I
knocked the bowl of mixed nuts off
the bar. Jack proceeded to tell me that
he'd given the matter a lot of thought
and realized that he was in love withme. I hoped that we were possibly justa little confused about our terms andasked him if his idea of love involved
anything more than occasional dates
and required any degree of reciprocity
on my part. He said that as a matter offact it did and started to expand on it
but I grabbed my coat and high-tailed
it out of there.
He left a couple of messages on
my answeringmachine which I
ignored. This morning he called myoffice but I paid the receptionist ten
dollars to say I was out of the country
on business for an indefinite length oftime and couldn't be reached. When I
got back from lunch he was Sitting in
my office, demanding-demanding!.L-to. know what he'd done todeserve this kind of treatment. I said
if he didn't know then I certainly
wasn't going to be the one to tell him,that job usually being reserved to abest friend or paid professional. He
said that was hardly a satisfactory
answer and I said it would have to dosince, as far as I was concerned, noth-

ing more remained to be discussed
and would he please just leave.
I really thought that would be theend of it but he's called my machine
three more times tonight and also
asked a mutual friend to intercede.
Frankly, I don't have the patience forthese shenanigans.
Is there somequick, efficient way I can get Jack to
go away without hurti~ him?
-Pestered
Dear Pestered:
Unfortunately not. Sad to say, it'squite impossible for human beings totouch each other without leaving a
bruise. Although you are to be commended for the admirable restraint
you have thus far displayed, anybody
insensitive enough to pursue a discussion of deep and personal emotions
in public settings-which are definedas those places in which at least morethan one person is present-is unlikely to be deterred by delicate handling.
Distasteful though it may be, youmust resign yourself to the fact that,unless you want to start receiving
long, single-spaced letters on several
sheets of lined notepaper, you aregoing to have to hurt a feeling or two.
That being the case, you might as
weB make it a kind of a game andhurt all of them. If Jack were to becompletely demoralized and embittered not only would he leave you
alone but he would no longer present
a threat to anyone else. You'd reallybe doing everybody a big favor, if
you think about it in the right way,
and big favors are good things. If
you're in difficulty thinking of a way
to go about performing this service,
allow me to point out that Christmas
Eve is fast approaching and. there's
truly no better time in the year todemoralize and embitter a person,
except perhaps October or February
or certain days in June. Carpe diem,as our Latin friends would say! ...

'YI

By Michelangelo Signorlle'

An open letter to all of you(and you know who you are):At least three of you have told me thestory about the famous not-so-out-of-tbecloset lesbian photographer.
As it goes,when she was working at a rag that is lessglamorous but as equally well-known as
the current one she shoots for, she flew on
the wings of love with a famous movie
actress. They met and had a torrid affair
when Ms. Photographer was snapping pies
of Ms. Movie Actress for a story the magazine was doing. Ms. Movie Actress became
quite curious as to what direction the story
was taking. So, Ms. Photographer, caught
up in the passions of romance, snuck in
and got the galleys and gave them to Ms.
Movie;:Actress to peruse-a
naughty thing to do. After.
reading it', Ms. Movie Actressand her agent were furious
with the not-yet-publishedstory, which portrayed Ms.,
Movie Actress in a bad light.
They made a major stink tothe magazine's editors. And,oh, boy, was Ms. Photographer in BIG trouble. 'Why did three of you
tell me this story? For thesame reason that lots others of you aresuddenly telling me even more scandalous
stories about your co-workers, your bosses, your friends, your lovers and your exlovers who are climbing alongSide you in
the hierarchy of the social elite and are,like you, getting a few crumbs in return forstaying quiet about homophobia. All of
you are self-serving megalomaniacs; thefilth and garbage that stains this city but
ultimately rises to the top via shamelessness. In your slime-pit world in which you
all GNAW AND CHEW YOUR WAY UP,
you've been worried about saving yourown asses ever since we began revealing
things about people at Vanity Fair. See, inyour world, everyone can be bought. So
you figure that if you give me a piece ofgossip about someone else, we'll leave
you alone. h also helps you deal with yourown guilt by "telling on" others and it's
always good to put .the person down thehall a few spaces back. It's the. nature of
the game. Meanwhile, all of you just keep
empowering us with MORE AND MORE
AND MORE information. It's all ammunition for us to fire back at you. And thatshot does get heard around the world.
You tell me you got a laugh out of
the Vanity Fair column, when, in somecases, you were laughing at yourselves,
your friends or even people in your own
office; even your own boss. Some of you
gave me information about a co-worker ora friend, not even knowing that that same
person had given me information aboutyou. CANNIBALS!And then there are theothers of you, some at publications I don't
even read (but I guess I should), feedingme gossip in a -desperateattempt toappease your own guilt. It's amazing thatyou would all care so much about all of
this, but I guess no one wants to be called
an. UNCLE TOM FAG or UNCLE TOM
DYKE-especially when it's true.
Now there's even a guy who spies on

people and calls me up every couple ofdays from a pay phone on the street while
he's doing his dirty work. He tells me how
many drinks Pat Buckley has at Mortimer's
during lunch-and tells me lots else about
where other people go. Then there's thefamous magazine editor's ex-chauffeur,
who has plenty to say about her and her
carryings on. Of course, for them, and forquite a few others who are giving me dirt,
the rationalization for gossiping is that it's
for a higher cause since they're giving it to
the person one of them calls "the activist
gossipist." That's fine. But what you all

should realize is that when people are gossiping with a higher cause in mind, they
feel NO REMORSE. They don't care about
getting down and diny since the ends justify the means, And, quite frankly, I feel thesame way.
So now,. we have enough trash towrite a book about Liz Smith (Daily News)(sharks always gather when they sm~ll
blood), and to write quite a few chapter~ :about lots of other people who've been
mentioned (or alluded to) in this column.
Oh, and lots of stuff on those who've notyet been in this column but who most certainly will be in the future.
Why am I doing this?
Well, I'll not deny that in the process
I get some son of kick out of it. Yeah, it'ssatisfying; even fun. But there is another,bigger reason. See, FOR ABOUT TENYEARS WE HAVE TRIED TO MOTIVATEYOU FUCKING IDIOTS. We have tried to
EDUCATEyou. We have tried to make you
see that we are all-including
yourselves--being wiped out. We have tried tomake you realize that we're being murdered by a negligent government. And
your response has been to buy a new outfit and go to another benefit while you
wait for your next job promotion. ~hose of
you who have spaces to voice yoar opinions have decided that your contribution
to ending the AIDS crisis isin merely writing about
Elizabeth TayJor and theglitzy benefits.
And so now, realizingthat "conscience" is not theway to get to you people,
we've decided to peddle
your own shit, and throwback at you all the garbage
you spew out.
Of course, you can all'.dis empower us instantly ifyou'll just break the chain of homophobia
and give us nothing 'to write about. I
promise, I'll go get a job at the pennysaveror something. I'll stay out of trouble for awhile, honest.
For starters, if you're gay or lesbian
you can come out of the closet, publicly.
You can make sure that we're visible andincluded. You can voice your opinions
loudly and clearly. You can attack thehomophobes, instead of glorifying them.
YOU CAN TEll THE AMERICANPEOPLEABOUT THE INJUSTICE THAT HAS
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What You
Need tK,AI

en't wimpy. If y
'II get back in yo
to stop). When they
hard you'll have bruisome reason, lemme g
developed sense of sarca
a defense against a) strai) obnoxiously self-assured tok they know EVERYTHING.
emme dykes need love, too. Fopart, femmes don't do the picking
get picked uP. Once we understanderhaps we'll stop waiting for thatt1ful waffle-haired woman to come overd debate the New Jodie Watley vs. the Old
Jodie Watley. This of course raises problems for Femmes Who Want Femmes(another support group?). I think they canwork it out among themselves.
5) Things we shouldn't make fun of:
Lipstick
PerfumePoofy Skirts
Garter Belts snapping in public
Throwing like a girl
Looking like a girl
Aerobics classes
Lust from afar
Being ticklish
Theneed to be dressed up on a twiceweekly basIs
Maternal InstIncts
LIkIng bad Femme Girl Bands(Seduction, Expose,
Belinda Carlisle...)I would like to thank a few women forenlightening me on this sublect. And, I'm
sorry about before...

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··~-----·2J"crlsls::ri1
Jour .1~eD:,ii'~litam.
~~~:~~~:tgetlnvolvld:~b~b~~~~~~bhave !"ntlmacy problems, and Jou're t.od
busy, what with trying to deal with a RACIST;SEXIST,HOMOPHOBICgovernment and IIgti~:
Ing out what to. wear to Sound Factorv~allalthe same time?
. ,4) You spend an Inordinate amount of -time In'the video store ••~"!;.." ".''-• >.~~.:>:::';.... 5) Your ex-lover, who's now Jour best.

'''"frlend; Is sleeping with ilerlhls previous exlove'r's ex-Iovef;who used to date your one".~~ best friend, who, at the lime, was..:~~~~~.~l~G
so~eo,lJ_ewho, was always quesllon, :··~~:~~IJ;PJ~~ft'e~.,~hu~HlY,but who now Is a
. :.~pj~l~urs,!~Dm yolisleep with, and,ihOQg\~YDAl'JI!,";Jbver slill wants to sleep
wli~~&v.·'a'nd~>ih·DUgh the culle pie In thevldeoslDle~:h8re-:J,dU
spend all of yourtlme-vili~t~:~o: ~"~~!De your new lover,
you'rereslgired'~l1rthe fact that occasslonalIy bofflng a good friend Is Just fine, thank
JOU.
6) You tell everyone you hate Thirtysomething, but JOUwatch It every week.

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7) You've fucked everyone you
know-even that meat puppet In the video
store whom you can't get awaJ from. Whowill you do for the nineties!?!?
8) You go Into convulsions which leave
you unconscious. When you awake, you seethat you've unknowingly taped thll "gay"episode of Thirtysomething so that you cansave It for future reference.
9) You've pierced your ears, Jour nose,
your nipples. And now you're afraid that
there's only one part left to pierce.
'10) You decide Jou're never going to
the video store again. But you have one ofthose convulsions and when you wake up
you're there-feverishly searchlnlt throughthe foreign film section while occasionallyglancing up at the counter. There's a new
hot thing behind the cash register.

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GOSSIP WATCH from PI. 47
OCCURRED DURING THE PAST TENYEARS INSTEAD OF TELLING THEM
ABOUT HOW WONDERFUL THE 80s
WERE BECAUSE"OPRAH WINFREY EPITOMIZED THE EXCITEMENT OF THE
MEDIA DECADE." Maybe, you canev~n-heaven forbidl-get off your asses,
go~Into the streets and scream and yell
your heads off WITH THE REST OF US?!?!
It's really up to all of you. Perhaps
you should look to your colleague Billy
Norwich (Daily News), who is slowly
beginning to change, saying more about
AIDS and even glowingly writing up ACT
UP just a couple of weeks afterthe activist
group protested
his dear friend Pat
Buckley (a dear message to Pat). He even
seems to be straining, trying to write lessand less about Pat and her vain, cosmetic
attempts at clearing the Buckley name.
And in an upcoming
issue of The
Advocate, in a story written by Chris Bull
all about the OutWeekiBuckley controversy, "a columnist" responds to my implications that he is gay by practically coming
out: "I understand what (Signorile] is trying
to do. Sexuality is very complicated. I
know silence equals death. I'm not as
stupid as you might think." (As Liz Smith
has said to you, "Way to go young Billy!")
Honestly, all of you don't have thetime to deal with our jabbing you. You'remuch too busy moving UP, UP, UP (whichis fme, since we need you there). So why
not do it the right way? You'd not only
save yourselves a lot of headaches (Le.
having us expose you), but you'd actually
be doing some good.
Love & Kisses,
M.

CASSELBERRY-DUPREE fnom page 41
minute here. For starters, what do you
say when people ask you if you are Rastas?
JD: No.
JC: No.
HG: Just like that?
JD: Well, we aren't· Rastas.
Ourspirituality
has other sources. Besides,
people all over the world have" worn
dreadlocks
for hundredsof years, not.
just Rastas. We hope people will do alittle historicalh<;>mework, and growbeyond stereotypical assumptions.
HG: Okay, moving right along withyour personal bUSiness, what do you dowhen you're off the road?
JC: This is my last year as a fulltime scholarship student at Berklee College of Musicj
in May I'll get my
Bachelor's of Music in Music Production& Engineeringj recently Yamaha presented me an award for technical and academic excellencein music productionand engineering.
With Nurudafina
PiliAbena, an African American
woman
multicultural
percussionist
in Boston
who has some truly heavy hands, I've
been studying conga and jun-jun drums,
gogo and cow bells.
For physicalenrichment and fun, I play second baseon the Amazons of Dahomey
Softball
Team, though I'm now willing to consider pitching.
Most of my free time isspent at home with my sweetheartj
welike music videos and pictionary and ourdog.
JD: I'm getting ready to go to art
school.
Since childhood creating visual
art has been fulfillingj wherever I live,
my drawing table is permanently set up,
and I spend hours and hours there.
I
was' raised in the church, so spirituality
is crucial and attending church is part of
my life, even on the road. I want to continue to lend support to those in children's shelters,
halfway
housesandprisons.
Karate is useful for keeping
toned Upj I played third base for Amazons of Dahomey.
In my home, I like
listening to many types of music andcooking and hostessing for my lover and
Ispecial friends.
.
I
HG: As a performing entity Casselberry-DuPree
recentlycelebrated
its
tenth anniversary, though the two of you
actually
workedtogetherten years
before that, in New York and California,
in other bands.
Now, after nearly 20
years in the music business with nary aface-lift in Sight, (laughter)
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store for future?
JD: Remember
earlier we talked
aboOt the original material we're developing?
Well, one of our plans is forother artists to perform and record someof that material.
We've been gettingsome concepts
ready for a video production.
Besides going to art school forgraphics and illustration,
my personalgoals include
going deeper
into two
kinds
of
music
I
particularly
love-gospel
and country-by
doing
solo albumsj then when C-D isn't busy,.I
can do my solo cabaret act.
JC: For the band, the future will
mean increased international travel. For
me as an individual,
the future will
mean continuing
to work on recording
production
projects, producing
demos
and mastertapesfor othelJ artists.
I'lltake private guitar lessons 'and continue
with my private vocal lessons. I want tolearn languages-Spanishfor openers
and maybe even Japanese.
Being a literacy program volunteer
would be verysatisfying, and so would working in drug
decriminalizati0n
and rehabilitation.
Eventually I'll get a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology, with specific studies in somecombinationof music, history and culture.
HG: One last thing. You .are seasoned veteransof the women's
music
festival
scene,
which,
thoughit hasgrown tremendously
in terms of the.
racial mix of talent, still presents mostly
white talentj will there ever be an international women of color music and arts
festival?
JD: A few years ago we had aseries of meetings to explore this idea.
The foundations
were laid, and we are
pursuing it.
JC:' We can't continue
to expectothers to proVide for us. We have toinvest in ourselves.
It's a must.

Casselbeny-DuPree will be performing at the Borough of Manhallan Community College (199 Chambers St.
between West St. and Greenwich St.) in aconcert to benefit the Brooklyn Women's
Martial Art5. Ticket5 are $15 in advance,$20 at the door and $2for children. Call
Ticketmasterat (212) 307-7171 or
BWMA at (718) 788-1775. The concert
will be wheelchair accessible and sign
language interpreted. Childcare will be
provided free of charge.
Hattie Gossett is the author of Presenting ... Sister No Blues, FirebrandBooks, 1988.

Film

Three Men in a NocheI CAN'T BEUEVE I ATE THE WHOLE THING
lim Streeter as "Walt"by Karl SoehnleinThere's a tendency lately to describe gay characters in
fUm, theater and literature like this: "So-and-so, who
happens to be gay ..." This is usually considered acompliment; the character's sexuality is a given, a sort of background against which the narrative -gets played out. However;this attitude can, in the process of telling a story, strip a characterof his or her pol itical identity and all that makes it unique, in thehopes of making sexuality less of an "issue." MaJa.Noche isn't. socoy: it's a film not just about desire, but about gay desire.
Homosexuality is not an isSue per se, but nor is is secondary;
indeed, it's the axis on which the rest of the film rotates.
Mala Noche, made in 1985, is being brought back due tothe success of director Gus Van Sant's latest film, DrugstoreC~
The spedfic and sympathetic voice given to junkies inthat fUm here belongs to a gay man. Funkier in style Oow-budget, black-and-white), Mala Noche once again reveals Van Sant's
ability to get in the head of one of society's "misfits" and portrayhim both fairly and critically.
Walt (rim Streeter) runs a dingy "ronvenience" store, seUing
Pall MaUs and Night Train to the local street fX)pulation. He is acharacter of contradictions--ranting aoout the needless slaughter cicame for McDonald's burgers, then calling a woman a "fat row slut"a few moments later. His life is brightened with the arrival of a newboy in town, a Mexican illegal alien with the romantically heroic
name ci Johnny A1onw.
The first time Johnny (Doug Cooeyate) graces thestore, Walt flirts openly and with glee, proclaiming
his.

love for the boy with only the slightest hints ofbemusementfrom the rest of his low-life clientele.
("He likes men," one oldtimer tells another.) Johnnyis homeless and broke, spending what little cash hehas on cigarettes- and video games. Walt takes
advantageof the situation,offering food, shelterand driving lessons to Johnny and his constant companion Roberto (Ray Monge) ..
The film speedS along with jagged grace, pausing for joyous moments which justify Walt's onesided pursuitof Johnny(a car, ride, a playful
afternoonwith a home movie camera,a giddy
dance in the kitchen). Like the road sequencesin
Drugstore Cowboy, where abstract beauty signified
altered consciousness,
events in Mala Noche are
distilled to their emotional core; parts of the frame
are often masked or disappear into shadow.to high"light the essence of a scene.
After an unsuccessful attempt to bed Johnny, Walt takes
Roberto home. The sequence encapsulizes the film's ongoingintersection of poetry and realism. Tl;leir sex is filmed withboth lyrical eroticism (planes of skin colliding in the light of·asingle bulb) and mundane reality (Walt running to the bathroom for the lube because Roberto is fucking with suchclumsy fury.)
The day after, Walt struts down the boulevard looking
James Dean-cocksure,
his proud posture belied by his selfdeprecating narrative: "My ass is sore. He tried to use his cocklike a weapon, the machO-fucking prick." Walt "speaks" in one
way or another throughout the entire film. Indeed, since neither Johnny nor any of his friends speak any English (and with
one exception there are no subtitles), the viewer is forced torely on Walt's translations. Despite the dangerous potential fora white man's slant on Latino immigrants, Walt's candid narrations are wonderfully self-aware, offering 'an occasionally profound, if often racially stereotypical, view of his desires andthe "boys" who shape them.
Walt rationalizes it all for love,and
willingly puts himself in the humi'liating situations to consummate
his obsession. Thoughdefinitely
not PC, Mala Noche is oddly
sexually liberating.
Such a fucked-up
gay characterhasrarely been portrayed with such clarity and senSitivity, andwithout shame. Walt may be pathetic, but he's not pathological.
.
Van Sant seems to take all of this in stride. Life is an
uncontrollable
series of events which are best managedwith persistence and humor. Mala Noche stumbles matter offactly through "big issues"-power,
desire, obsession-but
declines any resolutions. As for Walt, despite tragedy, life'
goes on with a shrug of the shoulders
and a rev of theengine. Walt-doesn't fight the power, he just tries to grab his
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DahceFarrell Farewell

NO PRIMA MORE SERENA
Flowers for Farrell

by Otis Stuart

N

ew York City Ballet, currently in residence at the
New York State Theater,
traditionally opens its winter season
with a preview of coming attractions.
Before Nutcracker claims December,
NYCB audiences sometimes get two,
this year one, weeks of the repertory
performancesthat will resume inJanuary. The bounty of this year's display approached the drunken-sailor
stage of lavishness, including threelandmark works by the company's
founding choreographer,
Georgenalanchine-Tchaikovsky
Suite No.3
(precedent-setting
ballerina role),
Square Dance (ditto) and Vienna
Waltzes (five scenes, company of 50).
The premiere week's concluding
performance, however, was a reminderof how ephemeral a fact ballet is, evenat its best. The program was a capsuletestament to a NYCB contribution todance, the 20th-century ballerina:
Square Dance and Vienna Waltzes
plus Peter Martins' Sophisticated Lady
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emergent generation of NYCB maledancers such as Peter Boal, Damian
Woetzel and Jeffrey Edwards, may bein the process of redefining the possibilities of men in classic dance, but ballerina has always been the company
trump. At this performa~ce, the stage
was virtually littered with them, froman antic, electric Merrill Ashley inSquare Dance to Judith Fugate sailingthrough the ''Voices of Spring" sectionof Vienna Waltzes. But Vienna WaltzeS"Rosenkavalier" finale also concluded
the career of perhaps the most influential ballerina of our ti~e. As the work's
shimmering centerpiece-milesofwhite satin' train, tiara, the works---thec;ompany's muse in reSidence, Suzanne
Farrell, retired from performing.
It was an appropri'ate choice forthe send-off, not only because Vumna
Waltzes was a ballet Balanchine madefor Farrell; there were 23 of· thosebetween the time Farrell joined New
York City Ballet in 1961 andBalanchine's last ballet, Variations for
Orchestra in 1982, a solo for Farrell.
For one thing, -Vienna Waltzes, like
Farrell, is the anomalY as success story.
Full throttle theater, Vienna Waltzes isa ballet using pointe shoes in only one..
of its five sections. Balanchine, thechoreographer who taught audiences
not to need narratives, made Vienna
Waltzes character specific, including
one scene, the "Gold and Silver Waltz,"
drawn from tehar's Merry Widow. The
finale floods the stage with balletdancers in formal dress, waltzing-no
more, never less.
As she proved once again at her
farewell performance,
for all theattempts at simulation, Farrell is also the
exception that is ·its oWfl rule. Probably
no other woman in billet has been as
aggressively studied by her peers.
During the 1960s, students aiming for
NYCB went as far as painting dimples
on their chins to look like her. The
Farrell physique-longlimbs, smallhead, radiant wealth-became the contemporary prototype, worldwide.
Vienna Waltzes calls for one ofthe prodigious, space devouring technique for which Farrell was first
famous. Its movement vocabulary has
one foot in our world. Young lovers
meet in a garden. Experienced lovers
toast and tangle. Finally, in a mirrored
ballroom, a woman in white waltzes,
first alone, then partnered, then amid
a thousand other couples. The woman
apart is Farrell, and her role, among
other things, is all of romantic ballet
compressed into a waltz. She dreams.
She tries. She dies and is reborn on astage filled with her likenesses.
It takes a big technique, the kind
beyond any specific discipline. The
ba1iis if not only what is being done
but how-fully,
freely, fearlesslyand, most of all, why, the two areasof performancein which Farrell
remains unparalleled. Her physicaltechnique may be matched but not
the qualities that amplified it-the
depth, the wit and chic, the belief.
Alone on her stage, Farrell waltzed
with her phantom, then abandoned
herself to her partner, and finally,
alone again, circled out of sight, followed by the only possible compensation for the exit of that solitary
figure: a stage filled with dancers ....

MusicGoodnight, Andy
by William F. ChafinWith his "hair silver like a Tiffany
Watch," he is available in his home orat The Factory to anyone who comesaround: "It's a Czechoslovakian custom
my mother passed on to me/the way
or four nights, only, theBrooklyn Acaderfly of Music's to make friends, Andy, is to invite
them up for tea."
Opera House was the scene
Lou Reed sings as shffting imagesof the first collaborative reunion of John
Cale and Lou Reed since disbanding the or Warhol's "superstar" are projected
Velvet Underground in 1968. Consisting . behind him. The third song, '!Style itof 15 songs, Songs for 'Drella-a Fiction Takes," sung by John Cale, describes
is a musical post-mortem portrait of the the symbiotic method of Warhol's
life of Andy Warhol: his small-town
childhood, move to New York, artistic~_~II;
concepts, rise to fame, lifestyle and
UI'If{~MlX
TEAR
HERE
untimely death. Each song adds detail
Tomatoto the great portrayal filtered throughReed and Cale's memories of Warhol,
the tone shifting from anger to love to
wry irony,to biller resentment to nostalgic regret, reflecting the ambiguity ofemotions each of the musicians feel
when they think about Andy today.
Songs for' Drella takes its title
from the insider nickname for Warhol
from the 60s. 'Drella, a combinationof Dracula and Cinderella, reflects thedichotomy of the Warhol mystique. A
name the artist did not exactly like,"1 ...
the use of 'Drella in the title is anaggressive act in itself and exposes
the double-edged sword to be used to ascendancy in his new environment:
cut out and paste together this inti- "You've got connections/! like yourlooks ...I've got the style it takes/you've
mate portrait of Warhol' the musicians
got the people it takes." But lest you
are about to present.
While Lou Reed claims this work think Andy merely leeched his way tofame and fortune, the next song, a realis entirely fictitious, these songs areshocker, explains that Warhol's main
definitely based in fact. The first one,tenet was "Work." Reed tells a story"Smalltown" is about the artist's youth
about the pop icon asking him how
in Pittsburgh. It is immediately apparmany songs he'd written that day. As
ent that the depiction of Warhol wehe had written none, he lied and said,
are about to get will be brutally hon"Ten." Warhol replied that was not
est, sparing no details or feelings.
Calling Warhol a gay "pink-eyed paint- . enough. "If you want to get ahead you
ing albino" who can never fit in in should have written 15," he tells Reed.
In "Faces and Names," shades ofPittsburgh, it tells of Andy's early ambition to leave town and become an vulnerabili~y begin to emerge in thisartist. Lamenting that "no one famous musical portrait. With Cale as Andy,
deep insecurities are expressed: "Faces
ever came from here ... There's noMichelangelo coming from Pittsburgh," .and names only cause trouble for
Warhol moves to New York and fol- me ...I always fall in love with someone
who looks like I wish I could ...I wish I
lows the customs of "Open House."

F

~IIAM

......

'Orellawas a robot or machine ...People whowant. to meet the name I have arealways disappointe.d in me." "Images"
finally speaks of Andy's art. While hisElectric Chair is being projected, shifting colors constantly, Cale plays thehell out of his viola and Reed accompanies on guitar while we find "itdoesn't matter what I'm thinking/it's
the images worth repeating.""A Dream" is one of the mostmoving pieces of the entire songcycle. A John Cale/Eno-esque song offloating, beautifully-layered textures,
Cale recites excerpts from the now
infamous Warhol diary. Sometimes
funny ("Ondine
is so normal off
drugs: I don't get it"), but ultimately
poignant, Warhol complains that hehates Lou Reed because he thinks
Reed hates him. Always the OutSider,always ultimately alone, the):liary
entry/song ends sadly with "nobody
called and nobody came." In the final
song, "Hello, It's Me," Reed singsabout regret and Iingering resentments: "I wish I talked to -you morewhen you were alive ...1 really missyou/when I saw you last I turned
away ... 1 thought you were selfassured
but you werereallyshy ...You're diaries are not a worthy
epitaph ...Goodnight Andy."
Ultimately, Songs for' Drella-a
Fictionis a remarkable
work.
Members of the audience were heard
afterward commenting how on target
they had captured ~arhol-withnobullshit added. Indeed, the historicaltension between the triangle John
Cale, Lou Reed and Andy Warhol
helped to weave together a gripping
concert-theater piece that I. enjoyedimmensely. Enhanced by the scenic
design and projections of Jerome
Sirkin (Philip Glass' 1,000 Airplaneson the Roo/J, the classically trainedCale, in perfect counterpoint to therock-oriented Reed, created an indelibly candid portrait of Warhol as an
artist and as a .man. Goodnight Andy!
Sweet Dreams ....

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Art

A DAY WITHOUT ART,
Friday December 1, 1989

Dbring about the ena<of discriminationof PWAs.
'.

ays of mourningandremembrance:
the commemoration of ?lars, massacres and unforgettable horrors thatbleed out of our pasts. We separate
them from the routine and banality ofol}r existence and rarify them into
moments of found consciousness. Or
do we? On Friday December I, over
600 art institutions across the country
participated in MADay Without Art."
Intended to set into relief the art community's stupefying loss of life to
AIDS, the day aspired at once to give
pause and to provoke indignity, toencompass mourning and action.
Galleries were closed, lights dimmed,
works covered or removed. Some of
the gestures
made constituted
extremely specific and personal statements, others ranged into broader andmore universal expressions. "A Day
Without Art" strove for a certain
coherence in the face of the mad discontinuity
that is this epidemic.
Whether it "succeeded" is a subject
open to debate, as is the question ofwhether "success" is measurable onsuch occasions. Of greater merit, it
seems to me, is the dialogue andreflection inspired by " A Day Without
Art," Below are some voices heard
from the community that day, those.
of artists, critics, curators and gallery
owners.
-Sarah Pettit

Thomas Sokolowski, Director GreyArt Gallery and Study Center andmember of the Visual AIDS Steering
Committee:
What Visual AIDS and a Day
Without Art are attempting to do, andnot for the last time either, is to speak
to audiences far and wide in ways
which they have not been spoken to
before. It is our plan to augment theefforts in place to raise money, tolobby and to work in activist ways to.54

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Laura Cottingham, Critic:
Perhaps A Day Without Art has asymbolic value, although what worth
it has, specifically, evades me. Oneof the more puzzling and, I think,homophobic "commemorations" wasorchestrated
at the Met, where
Picasso's Portrait of Gertrude Steinwas removed. How did they choose
Picasso, the most actively (anddestructively) heterosexual male artist
documented in 20th century art history? Is it because the Met wanted toremind the viewing public that most
famous artists are macho men? Or is
it because too many homosexual
artists are (or were) closeted, so the
only available symbol of homosexuaiity in the arts is Stein who, thoughpublicly homosexual, symbolizes thelowest risk group in the U.S. (lesbians), not [one of) the highest (gaymen).

Martha Wilson, Founder andDirector of the Franklin Furnace inan open letter to NEA Chairman
John Frohnmayer:
Ours is a multicultural SOCietyin
which the images of Andres Serranoand Robert Mapplethorpe do haveartistic merit.

much farther than the art world. Mostof the media is still helping to keep
the notion of an isolated epidemic
alive. What about a national day
without people?

Massimo Audiello, Gallery Owner:
AIDS has its seeds in what seems
to be a very important thing: our natural need and desire for love. This
makes the whole thing a terrible andabsurd nightmare.
!
Through AIDS we are learning a
lot about our social and human existence. We are learning to give anappropriate
value to love, whichmeans relationships which are notbased on a materialistic exploitationof our bodies and our desires. We
are learning a lot about the infamouslevel of existence of the minority
groups, which seem to be among themost wounded, with all the related
problems of housing, hygiene, education and medical assistance. We arelearning that AIDS does not differentiate between classes, and that functioning society should work to alllevels, not just high and medium.
It is terrible that to learn about
ourselves we have had to be infectedby this illness and that millions ofpeople are paying with their lives in aworld madness.
Now it is time to do something
about it.

David Wojnarowicl, Artist:
Museums are institutions
inwhich people feel OK viewing sexual
images. There is a built-in trust thatpeople have for museums, that they
are the arbiters of good taste, that toview the work on exhibit there is
acceptable.
A Day Without Art isvaluable in that these institutions haveacknowledged the epidemic and thatpeople are then seeing the epidemic.
But why not consider a day without
breathing, without people? It would
give a better view of the epidemic,
not such an isolated one. It could go

Kinshasha Holman Conwill,
Executive Director, The Studio
Museum In Harlem:
When The Studio Museum inHarlem was .approached to participate
in A Day Without Art, we were especially eager to be part of this day ofmourning and remembrance. As the
major African American arts museum
in the world, the museum is doubly
affected by the tragedy that is the
AIDS crisis. With our December 1
event we are responding to the ongoing toll this disease has taken on theart world, and its escalating destruction in the African American community.
We are presenting readings by"Other Countries" because of thegroup's positive message and eloquent voices of empowerment.
Withthis presentation, we hope to serve as
exemplar in the community
andencourage all responsible institutionsin Harlem and across the nation toplace' the AIDS epidemic high on theiragendas.

Gregg Bordowitz andJean Carlomusto,
Videomakers:
We align ourselves with everyone who withdrew
their participationfrom the art world
on A Day Without
Art. But, we call fora day that AIDS
activists
question
the definition of art.
We think that thecategoryof artshould be expanded
to if)c1ude explicit
safer sex informa-'tion and information
about drugs andalternative
treatments. The definition of art should
include all culturethat is produced bypeople in the communities hit hardest 'by AIDS out of theirefforts to combat
government
inaction; out of theirefforts to represent

Reagan.
The book banners were
defeated after years of hard work anda U.S. Supreme Court decision whichstated: "Our Constitution does not
permit the official suppressionofideas." [Board of. Education, Island
Trees v. Pico (1982)1
In the 1990s, the issue wiII be
censorship in the visual arts: whether
to purge museums and galleries of
unpleasant realities such as AIDS, tosilence the expression of unpopularor controversial ideas, and to limit
discussion on facts of life with which

ALL

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It is not the role of government toprevent ideas from reaching the' peopIe..
,:_,'
Artists are at the forefront ofthought, expression and change'in'every society; they present the truth
as they see it, and certain truths, suchas AIDS, cannot be portrayed tastefully, they can only be portrayed realistically.
A Day Without Art is a ~ymbblic
beginning. to a bitter struggle about
the future of freedom of thought andexpression in American culture.

David Rimanelli,
Critic:For the most
part,
A
Day
Without Art" consisted of symbolic
erasures.
Museums and galleries
dimmed their lights
or closed shop forthe day. At theMetropolitan
Museum Qf Art,
Picasso's P~rtraitof Gertrude Stein
was temporarily
removed, replaced
by a st~tement on
the exhasuting andseemingly
inexorable loss of life
from AIDS.
Louise Lawler's
installation at Metro
Pictures,
Helms
Amendment (#963),
adumbrates a different kind of loss andmourning
metaphorically enacted
by darkness anddisappearance,.
Referring to politically-sanctioned
dimness, Lawler has simply installed 94
identical black and white photos of a·
spotlit paper cup, labelling each with
the name of a senator who voted infavor of the Helms Amendment (fourabstained, and only two-Moynihan
and Weicker-dissented),
Spare,
reserved and deadpan, Lawler's installation was creepily resonant. In the face

PEOPLE WIIH AIDSARE

INNOCENT

the~selve~ . and THE OFFENDING ITEM
their conditions of,..
existence.
All cul- Gran Furys flap-raising flagtural work that is produced out of Americans refuse to come to terms
movements
for socialchangesuch as nudity, eroticism, human sexdeserves to be included within the uality in general and homosexuality in
category of art.
particular.
The First Amendment protects
not only freedom to speak, but to
Steven Pico, Artist and First
think and to create. I believe it also
Amendment Advocate:
Anti-intellectualism in the 1970s protects corollary freedoms: the right
resulted in book-banning across the of the public to read, to see, to know
U.S. and the election of Ronald
and to receive information and ideas.

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Art

ANewVenue

Alan Hampshire's two works inthe exhibit were a delight to view,
particularly the intensely introspective
washboard-stomached blond, clothes- Reminiscent of a Geome Grosz work, pins attached to his cock and balls, inBrozgold's "Boys! Livef" of<a man in a "Boy with Clothespins,· Strong strains
by Jon Nalley
skin-flick theater row servic~g a hotly of eroticism are also found in Greg
torsoed body as an older man looks Dawn's three b&d'd figures, replete
on dispassionately, contrasted quite with rope and metal bindings, erectinter.estingly with his other piece in cocks and gagged mouths (one with an art exhibit ici a bar?
dildo). This, while erotic male images
th<;. exhibition~)he
paper-machedThat's exactly what hap"Leona Helmsley Double Dildo Mask." from the TV screen are brought to thepenedonSunday,November 19, when The Tunnel Bar Its Satanic form, in exciting color with fore by Bruce Eve's 1989 untitled phoa nice "toy" strapped to the front, is a tographs and Neil Polen explores the .
at First Avenue and Seventh Street
most appropriate way to represent the dark side of gay male sexuality inhosted Gay All the Way: An Art"Human Trap." The latter, a 1986
Exhibition in Its Own Environment.
photo, depicts a completely latexed,Featuring work of the most homobound male figure under a sinkerotic quality, patrons of this East
(down by the box of Brillo pads
Village watering-hole viewed works
and oven spray cleaner) with theby a number of noted gay male artists
kitchen sink's drain pipe going into
heretofore seen only in galleries.
his mouth. As usual, Polen craftfully
What a pleasure to see Adrian
uses starkness and lighting in his
Kellard's 1986 work "Lust" upon entercomposition.
ing Tunnel Bar. This hanging carved
While saturated as a communityand painted wooden objet d'art can
by Quilt images, Joe Caputo's two
only be described as an altar to homoblack and whites well capture differsex. Topped with superimposed frontal
ent levels of emotion aroµnd thatand rear 70s IN TOUCH-type cheezeHerculean grassroots effort. Benjamincake and a Honcho cover hunk pushke
LeiPelt's 1988 painting on three canin the middle, Kellard recognizes thevasses "Queen 'IUt" is representative
IInal step with a paper towel dispenserof the sturm und drang within gay
on the bottom. The artist should reallylife generally and its sexuality in pardo an exhibition of his masturbation
tiCular.Shadow and texture were eviworks, including the 1982 "Nightstand."dent in Bill Costa's wonderful photo
Working as he does on heavy wooden
1987 work "Men with the tenderest
sculptures, it's no wonder that Kellard
of flesh are made of marble," uponhas such nice arms.
Boy With Clothespins, oil on canvas,
The flat black walls of this bar by Alan Hampshire
Photo: Michael Huhn which a photo of a classic male nude
sculpture was juxtaposed with aprovided a most apropos backdrop
immense greed and power of the rich. most alluring man--<:omplete with afor these works, among them Plauto's
yummy tummy, hot veiny foreskinned
Whether the chained, bearded
five cibachromes, in wonderful angled
man depicted against heavy metal sid- pric~
perspective, of hanging, prostrate and, and nice bush-very much of theing in Martin Wong's powerful paint- present
lying hunks in shadowed,
empty. Across from the pool table andareas. This milieu was also perfect for ing "Null and Void," Jonathan Dobin's
cock and buttocks
al fresco in within earshot of the pinball machi~eErnest Thorington'S titillating multimediaed paintings, "Fits of Love 1 & 2." "Moonscape," or Steven Lott's two and video game, were "Modern
collage/paintings,
all reflected to Embryo" and "Moonbathing.· The irony
Superimposed on this oil were suchsome degree the variety of conflicts of this venue was inherent in David
xeroxed photo.s 'as a hot harnessed
inherent to the spectrum of gay male Fisch's oil sketch "Next Morning." Theman with looming and booming cockman painted was someone he'd pickedsexuality. In Richard Merle's rogues
and text relating to "cum drippingup at The Tunnel. Curated by Rickfrom Jeffs chest," "pumping gallons of gallery of ten prelates, the audience
was prOVided with a printed ballot in Barnett, the nine-hour Gay All the Way
cum," and "each lash hurting less."
exhibit ended with performance/
Exuding talent with a variety of order' to select the two who seem
"Gay All the Way" (alluding to the demonstrations by chained, manacled
media and representation, two very
Time magaZine report that 20 percent and masked members of the New Yorkdifferent works by Lee Brozgold were
Bondage Club...
of the Catholic clergy is gay).
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Performance

Mason/Stockman LineI'm not quite sure what connotes
a singing star. Sure there's the vocal
instrument, the intonation and that
undefinable quality called charisma. If
Karen Mason has not yet achieved
stardom in the Broadway!Hollywood/. Withhis curly blond'
Recording firma~ent, it's not due tohair, cherubic face andlack of talent which is on ample disfriendly manner, Toddplay during this wonderful show.
Stockman could easily have become
Dressed in a strapless black
another chorus boy, forever dancing on
gown, she stands on the tiny stage
the cusp of greatness. Luckily for us, atilluminated by an amber spotlight. The
age seven, his mother handed him asong is "Silent Night," the traditional
puppet and a ventriloquist was born,standard we've known since ourHis show at Eighty-Eights is the perfectbygone youth, Midway through theantidote to the holiday blues, a sumptUsong, while her voice is soaring to aous laugh riot guaranteed to leave
crescendo, I sneak a peek around theeveryone in stitches, The last time I
room. All eyes are upon her. Noooqy
howled this much was at Joan Rivers'
sips a cocktail, sneezes or shifts in1983 Carnegie Hall concert. And thosetheir seat. Even Maggie, the waitress,
were the days when most of the audiwatches in amazement, attempting toence was stiU trying to decide whether
balance a trayful of drinks and I).ei
out was in ·or Vice versa.
own curiosity. Such devotion is rare':'of course,
the agileMr.
Let it be known: Superb vocal.Stockman doesn't go it alone. He
technique does not guarantee a flawlessreceives tremendous help from someshow. However, given the paucity ofclose friends, or "The Kids" as theysong stylists today, it certainly proVides
are known. These handsomely
a certain cushion. In Mason's case, her
designed
puppetsserve
asflawless "vocalese" supercedes several
Stockman's alter ego, enabling both HE OBVIOUSLY NEVER SAW -MAGle
minor glitches. The patter in between
him and us to instantly eVoke ,child- Todd Stockman and one of the -Kids·
like merrimentof sophisticatedPhoto:.RoyBlakey songs sometimes seems trite and oncein a while there is no fluidity in her
charm. And this show has enoughSo far, the public has yet to dismovements. I know this is a Christmas
charm and wit to outlast Noelcove'r Todd Stockman. Once thisShow, but except for a smattering of
Coward. Unlike the late Wayland
review is on the newsstands, I have a
UDreydel Dreydel," where is a good
Flowers whose bitchy puppet Madam sneaking suspicion the secret will be
old-fashioned
Chanukah song? Theremasqueradedas an adult humor
out.
might be 12 days of Christmas, but themachine, Stockman's Kids are homeThere is no secret about Karen
Jews are only four days behind.
grown muppets who have expropriatMason. She has been singing for her
But I choose to ignore these flaws
ed life's idiosyncracies for their own
supper since the late 1970s, first at thewhich
in time, will work themselves
lopsided use. One even harbors a Duplex, then systematically progressout. Instead, I lean back, relax and lissexual secret which comes in handy
ing to the city's larger boites. She has
ten to Mason's lush voice caressing
at the most appropriate moment.
finally landed a Broadway role,"The Christmas Song," "Sleigh Ride"
Buster, a furry creature with a replacing yenta songstress Debbie
andother December favorites. If I.have
Wide-eyed innocence, introduces us Shapiro
in"Jerome
Robbins
one regret it's that I wasn't sharing thisvia song, to a world of pure imagina- Broadway" and has returned to the
cozy moment with someone I love....
tion. Buster, like the puppets who fol- cabaret stage for her Eighth Annl,lal
low and reappear throughouttheChristmas Show, If Todd Stockman
Todd Stockman and the Kids
evening may be "dummies,· but you provokes tears of laughter, Karen
plays Saturdays December 16, 23, 30
could never tell by their offbeat chatter Mason's singing glides down as
at 8:30 pm. Karen Mason plays
or amusing anecdotes. Obie, the bald smoothly as mercury over ice. Her
Saturdays 16, 23 at i 1.:30. Both at
puppet with a healthy ego, offers
mouth opens and what emerges -areEighty-Jiights, 228 W. 10th St. Tel,
excellent Imitations of Ray Charles and some of the sweetest sounds you'll(212) 924-0088.'
Stevie Wonder, going as far as to hear this holiday season.

by]ann Wasser

explain the reasons for their various
rhythmical movements.
These puppets ("the ventriloquated," according to Buster) sing songs in
Spanish and Pig-Latin, make passes at
audience members, tell dirty jokes andimitate the famous; everyone from apalsy-ridden Katherine Hepburn to amaniacal Tina Turner. If these men
and women of the hand have anythingin common, it's their overt sexual playfulness. But the jokes are wrapped in asoft cashmere blanket, excusing themfrom any hostile reactions. Who would
want to tackle with a dummy?

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AIDS and Poetry:
Changing the Channels
bursts of Black English, limp down to the earth, to Harlem itself,
Wrists and clenched fists.
where these young poets will not
Other Countries have
only set the issue aflame, but will kickcontinuously asserted their
it in the butt and send it running.
accomplishments as living
And run it did. Words and images
Black gay male poets. I first propelled this audience into the life
encountered
their work
experiences of 4ese men and theirthrough the remarkablefriends, people I feel I have known.
Pyramid Periodical (a must Such as Ramon, ("he walked forfor poetry lovers) which I hours in the park for years ...and knew
found calling to me from a the floor plans of the X-rated theaters
shelf in Philadephia's twoby heart ...") of Clift, (.....who woke up~tory lesbian and gay book- one day angry, a member of thestore, appropriately named
majority ...ACTING UP"). The stuff of
Giovanni's Room, Turning
each text was daily life, testimony to
one powerful page after
the extent of the effects of AIDS andanother, the works of Roy . HIV infection upon the lives of theGonsalves, David FrechetteBlack communities generally and of
and Colin Robinson literally these poets in particular.
ffWJifI;sang to me on the train
A live video interl ink offered
WHAT A GRANO GROUP
Photo:RodneyK_ Hurley home, leaving me hungry
viewers several points of view of the
Other Countries pose it up
for more. Happily I encounperformance,
as well as providing
tered
them
again
at Yale'shumorous cutaways to objects referredby Ray Navarro
Outside/Inside
Lesbian and Gay to in the barrage of metaphors. But
Conference where members of the col- more importantly, each line, stanza
lective presented a rich reading thatand verse quietly wove a presence intouched my heart deeply during a the room, each effort revealed to us at
the Harlem
Studioweekend of otherwise tepid academic
person living, fighting and loving.
Museum, Faith Reinggold's
drivel. I was excited to learn that they Memories of lovers and friends
beautiful
quiltworks
would soon unveil a new body of blowing purple smoke-rings in a blueoffered a powerful visual analog forwork dealing specifically with AIDS. So lit room, a vaseline monster, a bible
Acquired Visions: Seeing Ourselves
it was with quiet anticipation that I thumper, a practitioner of the B'hai
Through AIDS, presented there bywarmed my hands on a halogen bulb faith, a person with AIDS.
Other Countries, a collective of Blackin this brightly lit 'performance gallery,This seemed to be the point ofgay male poets who live and work inand listened carefully.
Acquired Visions: that yes, Black men
New York. Reinggold's colorfully
Acquired Visions began with stat- are rap, mUSiC, poetry, kites in thestitched panels reminded museumic-thedumb technical voice of a wind, risks. But the Black brothers wegoers of the.greats of Black History. On
television set, which suddenly begins
have lo~t to AIDS were people, arethis World AIDS Day, these magical,
spitting out Donahue and Koppel,
people still, with feelings, stories worth
gifted word-loving men offered the fol- two of those white men who tell us telling pleasures and pure history.
lowing reminder: many threads within
what to think every day. Changing the
The formal challenge here was
the Names Project Quilt are Black, butchannels, we are stopped suddenly as taken on· with full force. How to avoid
they are also gay, tearful and angry.
a Black face appears, a young gay a mish-mash of faceless names? So
Tito Malcom
Davis, David
man reflecting upon the social crisis much AIDS "theater" has resulted in
Frechette,
Roy Gonsalves,
Colinof AIDS, and the Black artist's dilem- cliched whining about government
Robinson, Christopher Dana Rose,
ma in confronting it. Several suchinaction, or obscure personal referTerence Taylor and Donald Woods
interviews follow, dragging AIDS from ences where "blackness" or minimal set
showered the neighborhood with fiery
the white controlled airwaves down,
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Theater

Bloo Ribbon

and high priestess (Julia Dares), a tall, cherubic faced
Amazon who gets to play drag ~ toe most exuberant andhilarious way AND be a lesbian in the very first boy/girldrag show I have ever seen. She is also the first female
member of BLOOLIPS. Antinous (Paul Shaw aka Precious
Pearl) is notable not only for his petite frame and angelic
face but also his glowing bottom woich lights up every
time someone lOVinglygazes at it. Rounding out the players there is a lively though non-speaking piano player(Mark Steinberg) who pounds out. tunes to match the various crazed queen dramas that take up the space. The
stage is simple and well Iighted-twirls of tulle and ioniccolumns almost make the theater look like a bedroom
from JerryStyle on East 4th Street.
When Hadrian calls on Daphne to help him determine how it was that Antinous died, she delivers a special
memory potion that will allow the two of them to reexperience the fateful night of Antinous' disappearance.
They meet a range of characters (all played by Bourne,
Dares and Shaw) who represent some of the ugliest andmost ludicrous aspects of contemporary
Western life
including Rim and Fammy Tae Bakker who worship acreature named Sandy and whose religiOUS devotion ispartly predicated on eliminating homosexuals from theface of the earth, and a philosophy professor wh9 hasgone mad and whose song "Dig a Little Deeper" ~s anexcellent example of how humor can be used to convey
the most complex and difficult of specifically gay and lesby Maria Maggenti
bian experience. When the mad, flatulent, stinking professor sings that Antinous was killed as a result of
self-hatred, there was a palpable sense of recognition andhe best humor, the kind that intensifies and height- devastation in the audience.
Daphne gets more than a few good moments in thisens our understand-ing of human experience,always contains an 'element of pathos. It's a feeling piece-both as a "lesbian dick" (detective) where she getsthat you could be crying just as easily as you are laughing to sing a ribald song about her "first time with a girl" andbut you keep on laughing because it really-is ridiculous and as Diana the Huntress with the golden arrow who is as
surprising and comical and silly the way those two men are good as she is wise. When Hadrian finally deddes totalking to each other w~i1e wearing those drooping t-shirts reunite with Antinous despite the fact that Antinous must
and men's underwear on their heads which are supposed to live in the netherworld, I felt overwhelmed by the many
represent Egyptian "hair" and they seem to be laughing loving gay feelings in this funny production. It seemed asthemselves and winking slightly at the audience which though the play were a long, daffy, drag queen metaphor
makes you feel complicitous and privileged and curious for our lives in the AIDS crisis where we c.onstantly wish
about what will happen next in this fragile but resilient to move backwards in time and re-do what is now gone
and where we struggle daily not to die of our own selfarrangement called the theater.
hatred. This core of deep feeling around which all theThis is the great gift of BLOOLIPS theater company,
currently on view in a more intimate production than usual humor of the play is tethered was so well done that I
Get Hur (A Roman Epic), a story of the vicissitudes of an found the chaotic staging,. forgotten lines and constantancient Imperial love life pushed to its most illogical and flirting with the audience only more charming and evenqueerest of extremes with funny and poignant results. The needed as we realized we were watching ourselves asstory is Emperor Hadrian's misfortuned love for a young well as the play. At the end, when Hadrian joins Antinous
man named Antinous whose untimely and mysterious death and sings a Iitt-le ditty beckoning Antinous to be his.
creates the catalyst for action in the play. Was Antinous a "sleepytime pal and stay home one night" the two of them
together, I couid hear a man in the audience weeping.
victim of one of those "scratch-your-eyes-out-drag-balls?"
asks one character, or was he kidnapped and made a slave? Meanwhile~ the rest of the audience was laughing. The
Hadrian (exquisitely and excellently played by compa- best humor, the most meaningful and long lasting kind,ny co-founder and core-member Bette Bourne) is assisted in always tells us more about ourselves than we think wethis backward search through history by Daphne, the oracle need to hear. BLOOLIPSis absolutely a must-see. T

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BooksGold in Coal Minesby john Wing

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comes
t
as no surprise to find inPeter Parker's biography that JR.
Ackerley led a messy and entangled life. Ackerley had told as much inhis memoirs, My Father and Myself, inwhich he announced his illegitimate
birth in the opening line: "I was bornin 1896 and my parents were marriedin 1919." Ackerley'S frank discussion of
the failings of his upbringing and his
descriptions of his numerous sexual
encounters (what he mock-innocently
called his search for the "Ideal Friend"),shocked and outraged his friends andfamily with his uncharacteristic grimness. Ackerley's oldest friend, E:M.
Forster, with his mania for discretion,
was appalled. "It seems so iii-tempered, and such a reproach to all his
friends...1 wish I could give him a goodsmack!" The book, in fact, was nevermeant to be a full self-portrait, just aqUick sketch. One reads Ackerley's
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years he was the 11teraJYeditor of aleading English journal, or that he wasone of the most esteemed writers of his
generation, in the same class as Evelyn
Waugh and Christopher Isherwood.
What Parker has done has been tocompose AckeH'ey'slife into a coherent
whole, making it possible for the firsttime to view the struggles and contradictions that made him such a misunderstood figure.
J.R. Ackerley was born to an
upper-middle-class Victorian family of
precarious respectability. His motherwas your garden variety neurasthenic,
vague and hypochondriacal,
once
claiming to have swallowed her uvula.
His father kept another family-a mis,tress and their three children-hiddenin a nearby villagej the two families
met-to their mutual astonishment-at
the father'S funeral. A sister, Nancy, wasspoiled and argumentative, became
progressively insane and a lifelong burden to Ackerley. The one hope of thefamily's declining fortunes rested on abrother, Peter, who was killed in the
Great War.
"I had been brought up to suppose that people controlled theiremotions and did not spill them about
like piss or shit," Ackerley wrote. If he
was puritanical in sexual matters in
his youth and early adulthood, hequickly made up for lost time. Parker
writes at length about Ackerley's
dizzyingroundsof seduction.
Ackerley had a weakness for sailors
and policemen. He was also fond of
the rough and ready members of theroyal brigade of guards, famous for
supplementing their meager salaries
from His Majesty by serVicing customers behind the barracks ("...thesebrave soldiers are of incalculable use
to a great many lonely bachelors in
London.") From the mercenary-types
ACkerley preferred, it was not likelythat he was going to meet the "Ideal
Friend" of his fantasies. Indeed,
Forster warned him to "give up looking for gold in coal mines." As he got

older, Ackerley began to buoy up his
hopes with alcohol, rarely going anywhere without his bottle of gin.
The "Ideal Friend" did materialize-sort of-in a shape no one could
have expected: A German shepherd
named Queenie. Ackerley claimed his
obsession with sex diminished as his
love for Queenie grew. Queenie plays asupporting role in Ackerley'S novel We
Think the World oj You, and takes center
stage in My Dog Tulip, a hymn to canine
love. This last book was consideredhighly indecent, especially the chapters
on Tulip's bowels ("Liquids and Solids")
and on Ackerley's atfempts to have her
mated ("The Turn of the Screw"). The
book only passed the censors becauseof a legal question as to whether
obscenity laws applied to dogs (as honored in England as the Royal Family) as
they did to humans. Hindoo Holiday,
Ackerley's 1932 account of his time inIndia as the secretary to an eccentric
Maharajah, suffered severe cuts becauseof its amusing portrayal of theMaharajah's interest in boys and the generally lustful atmosphere of the court.
Ackerley was an artist and a rebel.
he had the romantic's desire for ideals'
and distastes for limits. His writing has
a clarity that is almost shocking. To an
editor friend about the duties of a writer to be provocative, Ackerley said:
To speak the truth, I think that people ought to be upset...! think that life isso important and, in its workings, so
upsetting, that nobody should be spared,
but that it should (be) rammed down
their throatsfrom morning to night. .
Ackerley is a difficult subject for abiography since, having written sobrilliantly about himself in journals,
letters and books, it would seem thatno one could possibly contribute aciything else to our understanding him.
But because Parker has carefully-andwith the narrative skills of a novelist-stitched
together the colorfulstrands of Ackerley'S character, we areable to see patterns and motifs hitherto unsuspected.
Parker's biography
has the truth and resonance of a workof art. And Ackerley, who strove tocreate art out of the muddle of his life,
would be pleased. T

BooksTrouble Maker
by Jamie Sbapiro

Think of some of the mosthilarious scenes from John
Waters' fUms:the "rosary job"
Canexotic form of lesbian toyplay) Mink ,Stole gives Divine while
incanting "Remember the stations of thecross" in Multiple Maniacsj the incestuous licking fit which overtakes Divine
and her son ("Mother I'm about to give
you the gift which only a son can give")in Pink Ffam'ingoes, the bull dyke Mole's
fast food style sex change operation C"I
wants me a sex change and I wants itnow") and the selkastration to which it
ultimately tead in Desperate Living. The
rules and conventions of everythingfrom Catholicism and the nuclear family
to pornography expand the sexual imagination, open up new fields of sexual
perversity and pleasure, In the parallel
universes of Divine and Judith Butler,
laws exist to be broken and to make it
you've got to make some trouble.
"To make trouble was, ,within thereigning discourse of my childhood,something one should never do precisely because it would get one introuble." So begins Butler's compelling,provocative Gender Trouble. Observing
that "... rebellion and its reprimand
seemed to be caught up in the sameterms ...", she concludes that "trouble isinevitable and the task, how best to
make it, what best way to be in it."This personal revelation guides Butler's
analysis of the predicament so familiar
to feminiSts, lesbians and gays, of contradicting the heterosexual categories
of masculine and feminine while at thesame time feeling "caught up" in them.
For decades, feminists rejecting
male-centered discussions of gender andnatural." This means that whenever wetalk aboµt "feminine desire" or "thefemale body" we tal~ about culture
and gender: "Bodies cannot be said tohave a signifiable existence prior to themark of their gender."Gender Trouble abandons the"search for ... a genuine or authentic
sexual identity that repression has
kept from view," Butler contends thatfeminist attempts to reclaim the sexual identity category "woman" by stabilizing it, by pinning it to particularbodies and experiences may in factserve the interests of the powers thatbe, because such attempts cover up
the intricate and deceptive way sexuality and identity are socially regulated. In contrast, her own text asks us
to consider "what politiCal possibilities
are the consequence of a radical cri-tique of the categories of identity?" ;.
How, then, would Butler have us
make gender trouble? Perhaps weshould take our cue from drag, which
offers us "sex and gender denaturalized by means of a performance
which avows their distinctness anddramatizes the cultural mechanism of
their fabricated unity." Or from lesbian butch/femme roleplay which can"thematize 'the natural' in parodic
this femininityso repressed and devalued
contexts that bring into relief the perby patriarchal culture exi'its outside thatformative construction of an original
culture's domain. Gender Trouble casts aand true sex." While Butler neverskeptical eye on theoretical projects
exactly prescribes these forms of genwhich would have us believe that wederbending, she 'does suggest that we
can transcend culture as we know it by
can work our culture's vast warereclaiming some natural and non-heterohouse of sexual prohibitions
andsexist sexuality or identity.
imperatives, gestures and costumes,
Butler outlines a newly emerging
to the bone and in the process devise
feminist politiCSgrounded in the notion
new sexual identities, new configurathat culture doesn't simply control andtions of sexes, genders and de~ires.
shape but actually constructs bodies
By subverting gender norms we may
and their sexuality. Sexual desires andpleasures, even the "penis" and "vagi- ultimately deprive "compulsory heterosexuality of ...Iitsl central protagona" as discrete body parts, are the creations of intersecting and overlapping . nists: 'man' and 'woman.'''At times brilliant, always groundcultural phenomena such as' the incest
breaking, Gender Trouble is bound totaboo, the religious ritual of confession
make some trouble of its own. It is,and the sciences of anatomy and psyquite simply, the theoretical primer
chiatry. Culture then covers up its
for 90s genderfucking ....
tracks by introducing the myth of "thesexuality have constructed their own definitions of the terms "woman" and "femininity" believing that therein lay women's"liberation." One important strategy of
theirs runs something like this: first, presume the anatomical differences between
men and women to be unquestionably
natural; treat "the body" and its drives as
biological realities upon which social
interpretations are projected; find in"female desire" or "the female body" anessential femininity;and finally,claim that

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A DAY WITHOUT ARTfrom

page 55of power's dull and obdurate impassivity, we don't even have the luxury of
wondering if the cup is half empty orhalf fuU. (At Metro Pictures, downstairs
gallery, 150 Greene St., thru Dec. 23).

Zoe Leonard, Artist and Activist:
Catherine Saalfield and I went toYale to show our video, Keep Your
Laws Off My Body. The tape jUxtaposes images of a lesbian relationshipwith the massive police presence atan ACT UP demonstrationand thetext from nine laws that govern ourcontrol over our bodies and restrict
our sexuality(including
Helms
Amendments,
reproductive
rightslaws, sodomy and obscenity laws).
The day itself is necessary andmost of the gestures well intentioned
with the possible exception of theremoval of Gertrude Stein, but I haveso much trouble taking the day out ofcontext, I feel overwhelmed by theenormity of our task at hand and ourloss and the immense change thatneeds to occur.
I keep remembering my last trip
to Washington to speak on a panel
about women and AIDS. My cab driver asked me where I was going andwhen I told him, he said, "I've got
AIDS" and we sat and talked and hetook his AZT. And all that day I
thought about him, and I knew it was .
so good that I was at the panel, andyet it seemed .hat we are so very far
from where we need to be.

David Hirsch, Critic:
The national scope of A Day
Without Art was especially valuable instressing the need for more awarenessabout the plague. Hopefully it willencourage more art spaces to mountexhibits on different facets of the subject. Hopefully several more thousands felt how close we all live to its
insidious pain.
Personally, I believe in the needfor life-affirmation more than for tributes to the dead. In that vein, twopointed conceptual exhibits opened
just before December 1: the David
Deitcher, Robbin Marsh, Hunter
Reynolds, Catherine Saalfield collaborative installation at Simon Watson
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The Tom Barr, Felix Gonzalez Toress,
Michael Jenkins, John Lindell groupshow at Paula Allen shows a more
distinctively gay theme.
Both areopen unUl December 22.
Tributes to those dead inevitably
center, for me, on my lover for six
years, Abbot Burns: a brilliant artist
who died at age 30. I saw no tributelocally on December 1 which recognized the scope of talent lost.
I kept thinking of artists livingwith AIDS. ~t the Metropolitan
Museum, I suddenly noticed the bees
walking across a beautiful male nudein Lucas Cranach the Elder's "Venus
and Cupid the Honey Thief."I
thought of David Wojnarowicz's Ant
Series, where, in one piece, ants crawl
across another male nude. In the
Cranach painting, a Latin inscription
reads, in part, "Thus, we seek transi~
tory and dangerous pleasures that are
mixed with sadness and bring us
pain."
Wojnarowicz,
an inspired
explorer of the frustrations of livingwith AIDS, on the other hand, deals
with the pain of watching people
making themselves stupid with closed
vision.
Abbot was last seen in a dreamof Natasha Shulman making out withyoung boys.

Humberto Chavez, Curator of Images
and Words: Artists Respond to AIDSat Henry Street Settlement House:
Censorship these days comes inboth scandalous and subtle ways.
While curating Images and Words at
Henry Street Settlement (an organization that serves the Lower East Side
through social and artistic programs,
AIDS programs and a future housing
facility for AIDS patients) Barbara
Tate, H.S.S. Arts for Living Center
Director, rejected Gran Fury's workof art, a banner which would hangoutside the gallery and which reads"ALL PEOPLE WITH AIDS ARE
INNOCENT." The gallery windows
were also denied for installation of
the banner, because the message
could be read from the street. Ms.
Tate told me the banner was "toopolitical,"and told Gran Fury's
Robert Vazquez that she was concerned about a strong reaction fromconservative members of the H.S.S.

community,
statements
she later
deniedto thepress.
DanielKronenfeld,
H.S.S.
Executive
Director, stated to the press that, "We
have a policy of no banners on theoutside of the building"-apolicynever made known to me during two
years of work for H.S.S" and which
they would not wish discussed now.
I then cancelled
the exhibition,rather than compromise our curatorial and artistic integrity. In order tofind a solution and reinstate theshow, I requested a city permit to
install the banner across Grand Street
in front of the gallery, a proposal
which H.S.S. accepted only after
openly divorcing its,lf from any connection with the artwork, its installation and insurance.
Barbara Tateand H.S.S. have remained silent to
my request for· a public statement on
the truth of their decision, and perhaps we will never know why theyrefused to identify themselves withthe banner's statement.
I must assume that a more subtle and generalized form of censorship is invading our art institutions
and centers. By allowing us to present half-truths,
they violate our
freedom of expression as artists, and .
the public's right to interpretation.
The "new morality" of a "kinder andgentler"nation is only anotherexcuse for discrimination, condemnation and stigmatization of anyone
who does not fit their bill, and away of raising themselves
above
those they wish destroyed.
AIDSphobia and homophobia represent
the crux of the matter, the culmination of our society'S bigotry.
As.artists we must show the world thatto be alive is to portray and celebrate life in all of its drama, in all of
its magnificent truth. Art is visionary
and must be free in order to fulfill its
value in society and inspire others'into self-knowledge
and action to
speak against those who oppress
and discriminate, and who stand in
the way of our addressing society's
ills. Our messages cannot be boundby codes or mores, or by alliances togovernmental, ideological or privateinterests. Art is our only language,
We speak the truth and the world
awaits our message. T

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mE GLINES presents An MGM
Christmas andOh Mary, Don't
Ask, see DEC 13
GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER Benefit Auction at the Ninth Circle,
with host, Tree; 50-60 items,
including
GloriaSwanson's
plates; 139 W 10 St (btwn Greenwich Ave and Waverly PI); 8:30
pm; bar 243-9204, God's Love874-1193

FI/'AI'THE GLINES presents An MGM
Christmas and Oh Mary, Don't
Ask, see DEC 13THE
ANSWERIS LOVING
Women Talking Women's Talk:"Alone/Lonely/AU
One: Apartfrom, feeling of isolation, longing
for, uniquely self. By choice?" ledby Ruth Berman
and Connie
Kurtz; Sheepshead
Bay, Brooklyn; 7:45-10 pm; $8; 718/998-2305
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETIIER/NY Educational
Forum:
Looking
Beyond .Our 'Borders- flow and Why We Support Change Abroad; with apanel of human rights activists
discussing Africa, Central America
and Ireland; at The Center, 208 W
13 St; 7:45 pm; 222-9794, 2456366
GAY
MEN
OF
AFRICANDESCENT Discussion:
Ukwangela: The Divided Self, on theconflicts
of prioritizingtheBlack/Latino vs_ the Gay identity;
in the Charles Angel/PeopleofColor Room at The Center, 208 W
13 St; 8 pm; 620-7310

DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS 1HEATERSTUDIO
presents
RobertPatrick's
The Haunted Hosti
432 W 42 Sti 8 pmi $10-$12i 5648038 (also SAT and SUN)GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS
Workshop:
Keep It Upl, to"reaffirm the importance of safer
sex, and feel confident
aboutsaying yes,,,whether
you're into
casual sex or serious dating, andno matter what your HIV statusis"; at The Center, 208 W 13 Stinoon . 6 pm; register 806-6655,
TDD 645-7470
SAGE Ring In the Holidays. Social,
with music, dancing,
food, drink; at PS 3, Hudson St at
Grove St (1 blk south of Christo- .
pher); 1-5 pm; $10 non-members/S8 members (or pay $2 less,in advance); rsvp 741-2247
CONGREGATION B'NAI JESHU·RUN Shabbat Spiritual GatherIng for people with AIDS andtheir loved ones; luncheon,music, conversation, study, wor. ship service; 257 W 88 St; 2 pm;
free; 787·7600
PEOPLE WIlli AIDS COAllTION
Singles' Tea, for PWAs, PWAics,
HlV+s; 222 W 11 ST, 3-5:30 pm;
532,0568
JOSEPH PAPP'S FILM AT THE
PUBLIC presents Vito Russo's
The CeUulold Closet, the film
and lecture series on the historyof homosexuality in the -movies;
425 Lafayette St; 3 pm; 598-7171(also tomorrow, same time)
CENTER KIDS HolIday Party for
gay/lesbian parents and their children, in Chelsea; leave message at
The Center, 62()"7310, for info
NONSMOKING LESBIAN NETWORK Dinner
and
Show,
718/998-2536 till 10 pm
MARANAlliA:RIVERSIDERS FORLESBIAN/GAY
CONCERNS
Christmas
Dinnerat Riverside
Church, 6-10 pm; 222-5900
AIDS CENTER OF QUEENSCOUNTY sees 3 Dollar
Bill
Company's
Adam and theExperts, "a dark comedy about
friendship and survival in the eraof AIDS"; at the Apple Corps
Theater, 336 W 20 St; 7 pm; $18;
rsvp with Gary or Howardat7181896·2500, TDD 718/896-2985

lliE GLINES presents An MGM
Christmas
and Oh Mary,
Don't Aslr, see DEC 13
NY AREA BISEXUAL NE1WORK
Annual HoUday Party, 7 pm ata member's home, 7181353·8245
DOUGLAS PAIRBANKS 1HEATERSTUDIO
presentsRobert
Patrick's
The Haunted Host,
see DEC 15
BROOKLYN WOMEN'S MARTIAL
ARTS Benefit Concert: Casselberry-DuPree
with
Toshl
Reagon & Annette A_ Aguilar;
at Borough of Manhattan Com·munity College, 199 Chambers St(btwn West & Greenwich Sts); 8
pm; $15 advance/$20
door; tix
212/618-1980, info 7181788-1775

1WENTY/lWENTY
Closed forPrivateParty, Shes cape party
for women returns next week, 510 pm

EAGLE BAR Movie Night: The
Dream Team; 142 11th Ave (at21 St); '11 pm; 691-8451

ASIANS AND FRIENDS/NY 3rd
Saturday Social and Christmas
Party, with "food and fun'; at The
Center, 208 W 13 St, 3rd Floor; 8pm; member info 673-2596
GIRTH AND MIRTH Holiday
Party at The Center, 208 W 13
St, 8:30 pm
FRONT
RUNNERS
Holiday
Party at Nimbus 22, 22 7th Ave
South; $15; 874-7066
SPECfRUM DISCO presents Com,pany,D, singing ''Fascinated"; 802
64th St, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn (Ntrain to 8th Ave stop); opens at 9
pm;-7181238-8213

BISEXUAL PRIDE Focus

Group:

Relationships:
Beginnings
and Endings; at The Center, 208
W 13 St, 3 pm, $5, 718/353-8245
JOSEPH PAPP'S FILM AT THE
PUBLIC presents Vito Russo's
The CeUuloidQoset, see DEC 16
3-DOLLAR BILL THEATER presents Adam and the Experts,
in its closing
performance;
Apple Corps Theatre, 336 W 20
St; 3 pm; 989-3750 (TUES·FRI at
8 pm, SAT at 7 & 10 pm, SUN at
3 pm)
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS THEATERSTUDIO
presents
RobertPatrick's
The Haunted Host,
last performance; see DEC 15

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oUTWEEK BAR GUIDEWEST SIDEThe Works, 428 Columbus Ave(at 81st), 799-7365, Cruisy westside crowd.

Bike Stop West 230 W. 75th St.,874-9014, Neighborhood bar, occasional entertainment.

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Candle Bar, 309 Amsterdam Ave.,
874-9155, Friendly leather/westefn
bar.

Brandy's Piano Bar, 235 E. 84th St.,
650-1944, Si~lalong piano bar.

Cafs, 730 8th Ave., 221-7559, Oldermen, younger guys

G.H. Club, 353 E. 53rd St., 223-9752,
Piano bar, mature crowd.

Don't Tell Mama, 343 W. 46th St.,
757-0788, Sing-along piano bar andcabaret.

Johnny's Pub, 123 E. 47th St., 3558714, Neighborhood restaurant andbar.

Jason's, 23 W. 73rd St.

Regent East, 204 E. 58th St., 3559465

Sally's Hideaway, 264 W. 43rd St.,
221-9152
Town & Country, 9th Ave at 46th St.,
307-1503
Trix~246 W. 48 St. (bet. Bdwy & 8thAve), 664-8331, Cash and carry.

EAST VILLAGE
The Bar, 68 2nd Ave. (at 4th St.),674-9714, East Villagers and ACT
UPers.
,Boy Bar, 15 St. Mark's Pl., 674-7959,
Dancing / Drag shows.
The Py'ramid, 101 Avenue A, 4201590, Dancing / Drag shows.
Tunnel Barl,1161st Ave (7th St.),
777-9232 vv. ViII,e crowd in the E.
Village.
.

WEST VILLAGE

Rounds, 303 E. 53rd St. 593-0807,
Friendly guys, checkbook romance.

The Annex ito Cellblock 28), 673
Hudson St. -bet. 13th & 14th), 6271140, J/O Cub.

South Dakota, 405 3rd Ave., 6848376

Badlands, Christopher & West St. ,741-9236, Cruisy waterfront bar.

Star Sapphire, 400 E. 59th St., 6884710

Boots & Saddle, 76 Christopher St.,929-9684, Funky dive and Jukejoi~t.
Cellblock 28, 28 9th Ave, 733-3144,
J/O club.
The Cubbyhole, 438 Hudson (Morton
St), 243-9079, Neighborhood bar forgay women & men.
D.T.'s Fat Cat, 281 W. 12th St., 2439041, Piano bar. Mixed M/F.
Duchess III.~OGrove St (7th Ave.),242-1408, vvomen.
J'Sb675 Hudson St., 242-9292, J/O
clu ,
, .
Julius; 159 W. 10th St., 929-9672,
Serving Coors, Coors Lite, & Coors
Draft.
Keller's, 384 West St. (at Christopher), 243-1907, Friendly neighborhood crowd.

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Kelly's Village West, 46 Bedford St.,929-9322, Piano bar.
The Locker Room, 400 W. 14th St.
(9th Ave), 459-4299, J/O club.

The. Cubbyhole

Marie's Crisis, 59 Grove St. (7thAve), 243-9323, Sing-along pianobar.

438 Hudson Street
at Morton(212) 243-9079

The Monster, 80 Grove St. (7thAve.), 924-3558, Piano bar &disco/dancing.

A neighborhood bar forboth gay men & women

Nimbus 22, 22 7th Ave. South, 6914826, Dancing, pinball, pool,lounge.
Ninth Circle, 139 W. 10th St., 2439204, Younger crowd.
Ramrod, 185 Christopher St.

Television That Matters to the
Lesbian and Gay Community.

Sneakers, ,392 West St., 242-9830.
Two Potato, 145 Christopher St.,242-9340.
'!Y's, 114 C.hristopher St., 741-9641,
Cruisy neighborMood bar.

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Uncle Charlie's, 56 Greenwich Ave.,
255-878~, Huge video b.ar.

CHELSEA
Barbary Coast, 64 7th Ave. (14th St.),
675-0385, Friendly, neighborhoodbar.

Tussday Nights 11pm-12midnits
Manhanan & Paragon Cabls
Channel Clf6

The Break, 232 8th Ave. (22nd St.),
627-0072.
.
Chelsea Transfer, 131 8th Ave. (bet.
16th & 17th), 929-7183, NeighbOrhood English pub.

•GAY BROADCASTING SYSTEM

Eagle's Nest, 14211th Ave (21st St.),69f -8451, Leather / Levi's.
Private Eyes, 12 W. 21st St. (bet. 5th& 6th), 206-7770, Dancing, Video
Club.'
Rawhide, 212 8th Ave., (21st St.),
Leather / Levi's.
~ike, 120 11th Ave., 243-9688,
Leather & Uniforms.
Tracks, 19th St. & 11th Ave.,
Dancing.

Apartment Cleaning
67-69 Morton Street #4E, New York, NY 10014

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APARTMENT CLEANINGBUDDY DlKMAN, CPA
BARBARA LI, CPA

ABLE BODIED CLEANERS
Serving New York & New Jersey
quality cleaning by gay men.
MLet us clean up youractforthe holidays'". Call (201) 355-3747,
positions available.

YEAR-ROUND TAX PLANNING AND
PREPARATIONPERSONAL RNANCIAL PLANNING
586-3000CASTLE CARE, INC.

PAPERWORK GOT YOU BOGGLED?
Alas ...a GREATBookkeeping Service forsmall business! Neat-Fast-Accurate!
Call Robert Seabury 718-499-7955·Mornings.

AIDS MINISTRY

Apartment & Office Cleaning.
Gay Owned, Reliable.
We are available 7 days.
CALL (212) 475-2955.

DUSTBUSTERS UNLIMITEDWe are women who take housework
seriously-Manhattan,Jersey City,
Hoboken, Union City, Fees negotiable

ASTROLOGY
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Readings
Are you confused, unhappy, depressed,
understand yourself and those around you?

I CAN AND Will HELPYOU,
Reunite the Separated-Restore Lost·
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(212) 686-1992
Se Habla Espanol

ATTORNEYSMICHAEL ALAN DYM, ESQ.
Attorney At Law

IN THE SPlRIT OFIFRANCIS OF ASSISLserving

Ironing and laundry extra

our brothers and sisters affected byAIDS
St Francis AIDS Ministry
135 W. 31st SUeet Manhattan 10001. 695-1500

Call (201) 659·5795 ,Now.

APARTMENT RENTAL
LOVELYQUEENSAPARTIVJENTS-FOR RENT
Close to Manhattan
Farfrom Manhattan Prices.
Call Steven at(718) 204-5862..
Leave message.

Artists' Rights Issues.
Landlord/Tenant Disputes.
Real Estate Closings.
Business Partnerships &Incorporations .
Wills & Estates.
718.631.3008

212.932.2034

CLUBS
FORESKIN LOVERSAPARTMENT SHARE
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C 1961.1Holy Name Province

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Body Positive Boat Ride on the Circle
line. Sunday December 10. Board at
6:3, depart 7:00 pm. At Pier 83 (42ndStreet and 12 Ave) $15.00 min donation.
. Space limited.
For info caIl-212-721-1446.

ANSWERING SERVICES
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APARTMENT WANTED
OutWeek sta'ff person seeks sublet or
share. Prefer downtown. Need
immediate. Call Raul days (212) 685-8671
Eves (212) 932-1496.
Male looking to share apartment. East
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Call Michael, 10-6 (212) 246·0597
GWM, PWA 32, looking for someone
who has apt. to share. I am considerate,
turstworthy, reliable, non-smoker, canafford current market rates. If you canhelp pis call Jim at (212) 627-1457

The New York City chapter of theUncircumcised Society of America(NYC-USA) seeks new male members(with pr without foreskin) to join its
swelling ranks. Call for more clubinformation or to make reservations forthe new members party. (212) 777-4208.

CHIROPRACTOR
DR. CHARLES FRANCHINO
30 Fifth Avenue,
New York, NY 10011,
call for info (212) 673·4331.

COMPUTER DATING
ART BUY/SELL"ART SOURCE UNLIMITED"We buy, sell, trade and locate artworks.

COMPUTERIZED BY MAil DATINGSERVICE
Call for free information package.
U.B.I. Corp. (212) 685-7637.
After 5 p.m, call answering machineand1eave your name and address.

ARTISTS AVAILABLE: Keith Haring,
Robert Longo, Ross Bleckner; James
Rizzi, Andy Warhol, Martine, and many
more ... For information,
call Dan at 255·6680.

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gift-free video of Peru, Aquas,
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William De Bonis DDS.
Suite 704,
200West 57 Street,
New York, NY 10019,
Office hours by appointment only call
212-333-2650.

ELECTROLYSIS

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GROUP MASSAGE
MEN'S MASSAGE GROUP
Gettogetherwith a group of men to
give and receive massages. Taught by
Terry Weisser, Liscensed Masseur andteacher atthe Swedish Institute.
Sundays, 7-10pm, $15.00,
call (212)463-9152.

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New York, NY 10014
Lower-Level, By Appointment Only.

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Certified Electrologist
Member I.G.P.E.

GROUPSMEETING, DATING, AND INTIMACY
A six week workshop lead by licensed
therapist call (212) 988-5034.

HELP WANTEDYOUTH/COMMUNITY_ -,EDUCATION COORDINATOR

NYWAR, a non-profit anti-violence
organization, seeks a Youth/Community
Education Coordinator. Resp. include:
A. LAMBDA ELECTROLYSISA
co-facilitating
weekly teen theater
Pennanent Hair Removalgroup, co-facilitating weekly support
Men/Womeno1V/TS's 0 All Methods
group,
individual
counseling,
Computer Aided Sterile Conditions
educational presentations, in-service-By Physicians' Aid
14 Years Experience Sliding Scale Fee trainings, networking, and community
organizing. SKIP A LINE Qual. include: 1
Licensed and Board Certified(718)937-3389
yr counseling youth, 1 yr commnunity. organizing,exp in trainging facilitation
and bilingual (Span/Eng) a plus. To
apply send a resume to NYWAR, 666
Broadway, New York, NY 10003.Womenof Color and Lesbians encouraged toapply.
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MODEL SEARCH
Do you think you have what it
takes to be a nude model?
ADVOCATE MEN is looking formodels over the age of 21. You
must have at least 2 of thefollowing features: looks, great
body or large endowment. We arealso looking for photographers toshoot future sessions. We will be
in New York at the Colonial
Houise Inn on January 20 and 21.
Call Glenn toll-free1-800-6696565, ext 235 for an appt.

RECEPTIONIST
OutWeek magazine seeks energetic,bright, fast paced illdividual for our highphone volume, deadline oriented office.
MeeVgreet visitors, keep track of staff,
and assist production department withkeyboarding of articles. Must havesome
IBM/P.C.
or
Macintoshexperience.
Accurateand fast
keyboarding' skills required. Salary plus
benefits. No-smoking office. Call Joe(212)685-6398

ADVERTISING SALES
OutWeek, New York's #1 Lesbian and
Gay weekly, seeks an energetic,
motivated, articulate individual to join
our displav advertising sales team.
Previous ad sales experience helpful.
Salary & commission & benefits. Please.
send resume & cover letter to:
OutWeek, Attn: Mr. Kit Winter, 77
Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10010.
OutWeek is an equal Opportunity
employer, People of Color and womenare encouraged to apply. I

OUTREACHfTRAINERCOORDINATOR
New York Women Against Rape, a nonprofit Anti-violence
organization islooking for a pit Outreach/Trainer
Coordinator. Resp. include: recruhing
volunteers to do speaking on the Lower
East Side on sexual assault, cofacilitating
counselortrainings,
organizing bi-monthly orientations for
new volunteers, crisis counseling, andaiding the development of outreach,publicity, and literature to disseminate
throµghout the community. SKIP A LINE
Qual. should include: 1 yr counselingexp., 1 yr community organizing exp.,
working knowledge of the Lower East
Side and Chinatown helpful, Bilingual(Span/Eng) preferred. If interested send
resume and cover letter to SearchCommittee, NYWAR, 666 Broadway,
New York, NY 10003. Woman of Colorand Lesbians encouraged to apply.

FIRt3TIN THE FIGHTGAINST AID

GIJ Men', H,aIth CrIaIs
the tlra' AIDS
HrYIc, organization
In the wortcl utka:

Assistant, Coordinator

Primary and Secondary Prevention
AIDS Prevention Services
This position involves designing, develop·
ing, implementing and supervising thedelivery of primary and secondary AIDS
prevention programs. Act as liaison with var·ious communityand businesses
andorganizations, recruit and supervise vol·unteers, schedule and orchestrate primaryand secondary prevention presentations,maintaining statistical and other records forthese programs. Requires Bachelor's
deflree, a minimum of 2 years experience
dehvering prevention services, ability to for'mulate and implement operating proce·dures to ethnicallyand economicallydiverse populations, and excAlient com·munications and organizationarskills.
Excellent salary andcomprehensive benefits.
Please send resume with cover letter to:
PenlOnnel Office

Gay Men's Health Crisis, Inc.
129 West 20th Street
New 'tbrk, NY 10011-0022_ G.ay Men's Health Crisis, Inc. is
an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/HN

CLASSIFIED SALES REP.
N OutWeek, New York's #1 Lesbian and
Gay weekly, seeks a Classified Sales
Rep to join our growing' dept. Must be
responsible, articulate, and motivated.
Previous sales experience helpfurbut
not required. $18K. Send resume andcover letter to: OutWeek, Attn: Mr.
Winter, 77 Lexington Avenue, New York,NY 10010. OutWeek is an equal
opportunity employer. People of Colorand women are encouraged to apply.

FT FILE CLERK/RECEPTIONIST
Sma", fast-paced entertainment/labor
law firm located in Midtown. Typing aplus. Interesting, friendly atmosphere.
Healthbenefits
plan.
Salarycommensurate
withexperience.
Contact: Use Horton at (2121944-1501 to
arrange· an interview
or fax yourresumne to (2121768-0785.

RETAIL-FULL OR PART TIME
Salesperson
Labels for less is one of NYC's leading
chain of ladies moderate-to-better
apparel, with a great opportunity forsomeone who appreciates fashion andenjoys selling as a profession.
We offer an excellent
salary andoutstanding
benefits.
Only top
producers need apply, Call us at: (2121
957-9150. Labels For Less
Equal Opportunity Employer.

FEATURES EDITORDO YOU WANT:

Available in January 1990: solicit andedit articles covering cultural andpolitical issues for the features section,
including monthly book supplements.
Provide overall ditcetion for features
page. Please send resume and cove'r
letter to: GCN Job Search.Committee,
62 Berkley Street, Boston, MA 02116.

11 A house in the Pines or the country2) An Armani wardrobe3) Financial security.
41 An elevated standard of living
51 Immediate gratification
If you have answered "yes" to morethan 3 of these questions, you are
elgible to become part of anInternational organization that will
enable you to achieve any or all ofthese goals. Call B. Josephson at (8001
PRO-ATLAS.
.

FI T IN THE FIGHTGAINST AID

HOLIDAY HELP
Gay Men'. Health CrI.l.
the first AIDS
.ervlce organization
In the world .eek.:

Coordinator,
Group Services
The Coordinator of Group Services is
responsible lor the supervision anddeIIeIopment 01 a large Group Therapy
Program. This is a managerial position
that involveS Program Planning, Staff

Supervision and Organizalionafe:evetopment. The successful
candidatemust possess a M.S.W. or Ph.D andextensive Group Therapy experience.

Coordinator of Training
Reporting to the assistant director of
Client Services, the coordinator oftraining is risponsible lor coordinating
GMHC's lour day volunteer training
program in addition to the design and
Implementation of allin-eervice training
programs for the client services depart.
ment. The successful candidate mustpossess a minimum of three to five
years experience in social work, public tlealth education or training anddevelopment. This position requires
excellent organiza!ional and interper·
sonal skills, and the ability to interact
with staff and volunteers at all levels. A
Master's degree in social work, publichealth, or education is required.

Excellent .. ,.,.,.. .nd
compreheMlIffI benem..
Please send resumewith cowr letter to:
Personnel OffIce

Gay Men's Health Crises, Inc.
129 West 20th Street
New 'tbti(, NY 10011-0022
Gay Men's Health Crisis. Inc. is
an Equal Opportunity Employer MlFIHNBOOMING PHYSICIAN'S
PRACTICE
Private physician serving St. Louis gay
community is seeking qualified partnerwith HIV experience and interest. Veryhigh salary and fab benefits in very low"
cost city. Call Bill Hart (3141776-4444.

STORE HELP
$225 wk. start, $275 wk. after 2 mos, 32
1/2 hrs, Blue Cross, lwk. Pd Vac, lByrs
age min, references required, Gay
Treasures, 546 Hudson Street, (2121 255·
5756, ask for Don.

MAN FRIDAY
experienced, attractive Bartending
and Catering for holiday parties.
Cocktails and intimate dinners a
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Book now!
call David (2121353-1136.

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Village (26+35) seek
3rd or other couples
lor lun in bed and out.
We enjoy videos,
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Come on, we know
you'd like to try athreesome or loursome. We sure wouldI
OUtweek Box 1790

make the most 01 Ilie •Its better doing it to·gether. Outweek Box
1796
TOO SHY IN BARS
To meet poeple, but
too long since my lastdate. GWM, 5'7",
Br/Br, dn·shaven, avg
Iks, a tad overwt but
fighting it, 45, youthlul
attitude, Ivy educ, lin
secure, prol'l, str·appearing but delinitely

Interested In romantic
dates,
lriendship,poss. reI. Smoking &moderate drinking ok.
(I do both) but nodrugs. Write Outweek
Box 1799
PASSION PLAY
Creative, idealistic,
spiritual, and (reputedIY)o very cute GM,
teachertwrlter,
31,
5'11", 1601bs, Br/Br,
seeks Iriend 01 thesex only lags: lash Ion
victims; meeting tops;
clones 01 all types; reotail queens; eurotrash;overly politicized ACIUP queers; East Vii·lage Black Cult; Actor/ ... ; being too cool
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namedroppers; only House,
Disco, New Wave;
morning after "Lovers";
going out to be seen;and 'most 01 all Char·BROOKLYN MEN
GWM, 28, 6'1", said to
be attractivJl, seek'S
Iriends in Bklyn. Do U
like B52's, Eurythmics,
and Patsy Cline? R U
sick 01 phony people
in bars, don't think it'sa sin to stay home on
Sat nite or think some·times cuddling can beas good as sex? Dropa note w/phone andwe'll take in a lilm or(warning:Gay clicheahead) have brunch.
Ability to laugh/cry at
the world is important;race is not. Outweek
Box 1795
PWA
ACTIVE AND VITAL
GWM,
37, 5'11",
1631bs, widow 01 six
months after Byr. Relationship. Looking to
get
back
into
lilellove/lust.
Full •
work Airline Mgr, likes
to travel w/someone
special though I'll set
011 the metal detector
due to Portacath lor
CMV treatment. Favorite dates: theater,
dinner, bed, dinner inbed, dinner in bed
watching Mon. CBS
TV; MCAA V'Ball &Bowling. We've got to"our & not reluctant toenjoy a man's company in public. On goodterms w/ ex-wile &awesome 12-yr-old
daughter. Diverseinterests, open to new experiences & ideas.
Work midtown, live
Lower 5th Avenue.
Seeking un-attachedGWM 30-50, lin stable, prol'l w/strong
mind, maturity to avoid
sell-centered attitude.

heart lor intimate
touching both sensualand emotional. If you
have a quick wit, ahardy laugh an open
heart, and a passion
lor play, please reply
Outweek Box lBOO
SOMEWHAT NEW
TO NYCGWM, 26, Boyishly
handsome
gym
queen, w ho is TIRED
01: closeted gay lor

lies. Send note andphoto to TIRED, PO
Box
102p,
NYC
10011.
GAY ASIAN
SEEKS GM
Me: Chinese, sincere,
attractive, masculaine,
prof, young, 35, 5'9",1401bs, into cultures,
good life, love, relationshiop. You: Unbiased, secure, healthy,
slender, sexually ver-

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New York NY 10010

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satile; student or emp
loyed; age 21 to 35,
any race. Into same.
No drugs or heavy
drinkers please. Letter,phone, photo, appreci,
ated. Outweek Box
1798
KOSHERGWM
INTOSIM
Attr, intel GJM seeks
similar sgls or cpls lor
talk, Shabbat, movies
and maybe more. Me:
5'11", 190, br/hz, 36, I,
Interests Include exis·
tentialism, masochism,social service, cock,sucking, theatre. You:
strong but not selfish.
Ltr and phone (foto a+) to PO Box 2520
Times Square Station,
NYC,1010B.
IT TAKES TWO:
GWF, 21, 5'6" femme,
black spikey hair,(Joan Jett lover), into
wearing black, rockand metal music, concerts,
gay clubs.
Learning guitar. Seek,
ing a hot-blooded caring GWF, 19-25+, very
pretty butch/lemme in,to same, with dark hairpre!.
(blackandspikey). Looking forspecial friendship andhopefully an intimate,monogamous relationship. Sm'oker pre·terred.
No drugs.
Please send a detailed
letter, phone and photo if possible to P.O.
Box 645 Peck Slip
Station, New York, NY
10272.
BIWM, 21, 6', TAN
and blond seeking other BiWM who knows
the meaning 01 relationships and is not into bars. I'm Romantic,
arts student, involved
in NYC art world, into
outdoors, monogamy.
Drop me a line soon if
you're under 30, with aphoto. Box 402 SUNY,
Purchase, NY 105771400.
WAY FUN!!!
GWM, 27, writer, very
funny, very bright, very
hairy. Loves: The B52's, Douglas Sirk
movies, British maga·zines, polka dots, hot
hors d'oeuvres, "Munsters" reruns, ice
cream in pints, tallmen who look good inbaggy grey sweat·
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dinner partners who
stack plates, low-vamp
shoes, small dreams,
Greek food, a lack of
disco appreciation, impersonal apartments,
and anyone
whowatches "thirtysomething" because it reminds him so much of
his own life. Would liketo meet a bright, funnysensitive man, 24-35,
with a love/hate list of
his own. Send it and apicture (it doesn't haveto be of you) to Outweek Box 1787
ELVIS LIVES!
Wild and crazy, yet serious and sensitive hip
professional
GWM(29, br, bl, 150, 5'11")
Lower East Sider who
enjoys films, books,
live music and theatreseeks smart and cutepotential partner 25-35 .
tocreatethequintessential NYC life
together. (Exene fans
. a plus) Write and send
photo todayl P.O. Box
5 NY, NY 10185.
4 STAR OR PIZZA,
Irving or Guisewite,
Pachelbel or House,diverse 28 year oldhandsome
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seeks mate. Me: 5'8",
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body built for hugs.
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1789

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NEED A SPANKING?
Anr guy 43, 6', 1601bs,
will put you across hisknee an'd pull down
your underpants&
spank you till you.prcfrrifSe to behav·e.
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STN, NYC, 10150.
Sincere replies only.
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area, GWM, 41, 5'9",
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stockybuild,
drk
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sense of values. Anyrace ok, but preferdark, hairy, stocky/

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Box 52, Glenham, NY
12527.
STUD SEEKS SEX
BUDDY
Nice-guy stud withlover seeks safe sex
buddy on the side. I
am GWM, 35, 6'1",
190, Brd shldrs, masc,
muscular, athleti uc,
smooth BB, GO typew/out attitude. Am notseeking lover, justlean, masc, muse, sex
buddy. Friendly hardbodied non-kinky guy
for uncomplicated sex. need,d, 22-42 yrs.
Race unimportant.
Photo pis, will rtn. Outweek Box 1767
HANDSOME NYU
STUDENT
Jock, 25, Italian, slim,
athletic,
clean-cut,
gentle yet strong, fun,seeks attractive, submissive, femme-TV-TS
to service me off.
Campus after workouts/classes PO Box
20015, NYC, 10028.
GUARD ON DUTY
GWM, 21, 5'9",140
Ibs., very cute college
lifeguard,
new toscene and shy when
meeting men seeks
other attractive GWM
to 28. Photo/phone amust to Brian, P.O.
Box 219, SUNY, Binghamton, NY, 13901.
COMPLEX AND
CUTE
I'm a dark-haired, leanand handsome GWM,
40, 5'9", 150 Ibs., into
movies, politics, theatre and friends. I'dlike to meet a smart,cute and sensitive guy(probably younger) to
enjoy life with. Photo(if possible)
POB
1123, NYC 100H.
ACTIVIST
Politically progressive
GM in 40's, attractive,
seeking male 40 to 50.
Any race to date. Involved in HIV-related
work professionally.
Also volunteer. Love
music Classical, R&B,
Jazz, film. Am a publi
hed writer and poet.
No drugs/alcohol.
Write Outweek Box
1777

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buddy who is healthy.
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tion at NGRA, after a board meetingthat gave O'Leary a "vote of confidence." But according to one sourceon the board who spoke on conditionof anonymity, the unanimous vote ofconfidence was taken only after avote to oust O'Leary narrowly failed.
According to the same source,even if O'Leary had not resigned,
the_re were enough votes. on theboard "to get rid of her," after O'Learysupporter Elizabeth Luster resigned
and was replaced by Leonard Graff.
The conflicts
at NGRA are
undoubtedly due, in part, to enormous personal conflicts among staff
and board members. And while noone disputes the legality of NGRA
bookkeeping under O'Leary, several
serious allegations have been raisedby opponents of O'Leary about the
managementof the firm's staff,
finances, and fundraising.
Under O'Leary, who is known asa dynamo fundraiser, NGRA's annual
budgetha.s skyrocketed
from$312,474 in 1985 to an estimated $1.6
million this year. But a draft audit of
NGRA by the independent accounting
firm of Peat, Marwick and Main dated
October 20, when compared to the
Firm's 1987 tax forms, have raisedquestions about how much of the
firm's budget went to litigation andeducation expenses, and how muchwent for fundraising, administration,
O'Leary's salary and travel expenses.
One undated internal memo indicatedthat 25 percent of all fundraising. anddirect mail expenses for last year
were logged as litigation expenses.
Former staff members and· board
members have also complained thatthe importance of specific cases being
handled by NGRA were used as a
guise to raise funds, but that themoney collected was used for purposes other than that specific case.
O'Leary has defended the practice asa standard fundraising tactic, and it isreportedly a widespreadpracticeamong not for profit organizations.
Long-standing
board member
and former board chair Fred Ponder,
who reSigned in October, has accused
O'Leary of using the firm's funds andresources to conduct partisan business for the Democratic National

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December 17, 1989

adequate record-keeping overall, andCommittee, to which O'Leary was
specifically of petty cash expendirecently appointed. Similar charges
tures, travel and expense reimbursewere also made by Goldstein, and byments
made without
adequate
former NGRA development director
supporting documentation, and theWilliam Eisentraut, who also alleged
absence of "a formal cash receipt
that NGRA staff time was used to typejournal" in the Los Angeles office.
documents related· tEl the Dukakis
White said at last week's press
campaign and other Demo~ratic Comconference that O'Leary was responsimittee concerns.
ble for keeping such records.
Such activities could endanger
As early as last May, Graff wrote
the law firm's 501 (c) (3) tax exempt
to board chair White, "Overall, it
status, and 'according to The News, awould seem helpful in assessing theLos Angeles-based gay bi-monthly
effectiveness of NGRA's management
newspaper, O'Leary has admitted to
if we had a bookkeeping system thatorganizing a meeting between thengave a clearer picture of exactly
presidential
candidate
Michaelwhere dollars are spent." Graff said
Dukakis and a gay political club inthat a software system'has been purLos Angeles with NGRA resources.
chased to keep better internal control
And according to The Washingtonof cash flow in the future.
Blade, a D.C.-based gay weekly,
O'Leary's resignation came just.
O'Leary also acknowledged that sheover two weeks after the heads ofmade "one trip" on DNC business thatfour lesbian and gay rights organizamight be construed as partisan intions sent a letter to NGRA denouncnature.
ing the firings of staff attorneys Schatz
NGRA's practice of awarding
and Goldstein. The five were Urvashi
O'Leary bonuses
based on net
Vaid of the National Lesbian and Gay
fundraising receipts was also criticized'
Task Force, Tom Stoddard and Paulaby Eise'ntraut and others. Ponder,
Ettelbrick of Lambda Legal Defense
however, defended the practice, as
and Education Fund, Roberta Achtenlong as the percentages were based
berg of San Francisco's National Cen-'on net, rather than gross, receipts.
ter for Lesbian Rights and Kevin
In a letter to NGRA board member Bill Weinberger from Charles Lar- Cathcart of the Gay and Lesbian
Advocates and Defenders in Boston.
son, a lawyer with the Los Angeles
The board is reportedly
dislaw firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
cussing whether to now rehire Golddated July 17, 1989, Larson wrote,
stein and Schatz. T"There are rumors floating around the-SandyDwyer also contributed
community as to your executive
to this arti.cle.
director's employment contract thatmight be troublesome
to theorganization from a fundraising pointof view. To the extent it ever became
generally known that the executive
director was entitled to 13 percent of ,.
contributions that were made, there
could very well be a backlash."
And a November 1, 1989 confi~
dential memo from Peat, Marwick'-to'the board cites concerns about "internal controls" on cash flow, andaccounting procedures: "We notedcertain matters involving the internal
control str.ucture and its operation that
we consider to be (eportable conditions under standards established by
the American Institute of Certified
Public Accountants," the memo states.
.Among the accounting problems
cited in the memo were the lack of1

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