No. 17$1.50

October 15, 1989

GETTING
TOUGH
Brooklyn Women's Martial Arts
COMMON 1H1lIADS: HBO'S
DlNMARK'SGAY GROOMSURIAN AIDS ACIIVIS1S

PATCHWORKPOLI1'ICSDOWNTOWN DOWN AND OUT

NEWS • SEXUALPOUTICS' HEALm' 11IE ARTS

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Chip Duckett presents MARS NEEDSMEN/Sunday Nights at Mars/Dancing/ Go-Go Boys / Drag Queens / Live Bands 7 OJ's Michael Connolly,
Larry Tee, Perlidia & John Suliga/West Side Highway and 13th Street

QPM-4AMTheater (Big Hotel)
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Theater (Orpheus Descending)49
Video (Hungry Hearn)
50Video (Lesbian and Gay Video Festival)
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Television (Common Threads)51
Art (The Quilt: ResjXmSe To A National Crisis) 53
Books (Manhattan On TheRocks)
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Photo:
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In Our Own Hands(McCarthy & Kirschenbaum)

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On The Cover: Brooklyn Women's
Martial Arts photographed by T.L.Litt30

GE1TING TOUGH
Kelly Kuwahara: On Brooklyn Women's Martial Arts
Outspoken (Editorial)
Dykes to Watch Out For (Bechdel)
Sdomayor
XeroxedNightmare of the Week
Out Of Control (Day)
Look OutOut Of My Hands (Ball)
Gossip Watch (Signorile)
Social Terrorism (Conrad)
Homoscope (deZodiaca)
Bar Guide
Community DirectoryClassifieds
Personals .
Going Out Calendar (X)Crossword (Greco)

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LOOKING KINDA QUEERRay Navarro Screens The Queer Films and Tapes Of How l}) I Look?

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DANGERS BELOW 14TH STREETJohn Umlaut Braves the Perils of Downtown

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Gays and theMainstream Press
What is it about the "mainstream" press?
It seems that they can spend years studiously ignoring themost earth-shaking developments in the gay arid lesbian world:
ignoring AIDS, ignoring anti-gay violence, ignoring legal discrimination, ignoring struggles for domestic ~rtnership or baSic
civil rights, indeed studiously ignoring any news that vitallyaffects a full ten percent of the entire population, But let themdetect what they perceive as scandal and, boom, suddenly we'refront page news, deserving the covers of national magazines,
besieged by reporters who want to uncover sGmdal of any kindas they "objectively" pursue the news~
The history of the mainstream press and A;rDS is wellknown, Not until Rock Hudson was afflicted and scientists. began to warn about the possibility of a spread into the "general
population" did this dire national emergency become a big
story, Other equally big stories in other arenas, such as thepower of the gay and lesbian vote in the recent New York primary, or calls for domestic partnership legislation, or the alarming ~ in anti-gay violence, go unnoticed,
But from the days of the notorious Newport Scandals in thetwenties, up through the Boise witchhunts in the fifties, throughthe WalteJ' Jenkins scandal in the Johnson Administration, andcontinuing through the latest lies about Tom Foley or tragedies
of people like Barney Frank, the straight press is right there,
ready to whip up front page headlines like omelettes in theirquest for "truth,"
We at autWeek recently experienced the reality of thiswhen an innaccurate, inflammatory story about us appeared in
the New York Past. Sensing blood, the mainstream press deluged
us with calls, Everyone from the Nattonal Enqutrer to Ttme
Magazine was suddenly interested in the new phenomenon of"outing," a word we had never heard of before, which apparently refers to "dragging people out of the closet" according to anearnest reporter from Ttme. It seems the press, never interested
in homeless people with AIDS or the lack of funding for drug
trials or treatment, or the rights of domestic partners, suddenly
couldn't get enough of this imaginary phenomenon,
The point is that despite all of our hard-won advances, formost people in the mainstream press we're still just a dirty little
scandal, not worth a mention unless we're "caught in the act",or thought to be at odds with ourselves, In a remarkably ironic
story about Barney Frank in a recent Newsweek, Robert ~ray of
the Human Rights Campaign Fund is quoted as saying, "If wewin a court victory I can't get anyone interested. But if somebody gets in trouble, it's front page news." In that very issue ofNewsweek, Barney Frank was on the cover. Newsweek printed
Bray's remarks without commenting on the irony. Maybe they
didn't even notice it.
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Lov.That Rag
OufWeek is just wonderful. I truly love and am beginning to await the latest from
Bradley and Michaelangelo,
and, as a Southerner, I verymuch appreciated the tribute to Pat Parker. The way
you are handlingcomplaints-so openly-is great,and your wide, inclusive
political spectrum, bringing
to the fore all of the variety
in the lesbian and gay community, is heroic. Your covers
are beautiful
and brave,and your news photos exciting. Your photographers get
right in there, don't they?
You've come along just intime to make a real difference in New York. I think ofyour staff as a very capablegroup of people, quick witted, politically astute, andnever lacking
in humor,which permeates the magazine in every issue.
Jack Nichols
Cocoa Beach, FL

SugarOaddy
I am appalled by threeglaring, unforgivable omissions in your ·issueof October
1. How could you print an
item titled "If Men Were
Snacks· and not mention
Twinkies,Sugar Daddies or Big
Hunks?Would you do a story
on candy and pastry and not
mention tutti-frutti, cream
puffs, fruitcakes, layercakes,
cupcakes, tarts, ladyfingers,

Dykes to Watch Out For

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date bars, jelly-rOllS,lollipops,
all-day suckers, horehounds
or popcorn balls?
Maybe
you'retooyoung to remember that
Sugar Daddies, Twinkies and
Big Hunkswere once among
the most populartreatsavailable.
Having myself
feasted on all of. them, I cantell you that each in its way
was a special ambrosia. It'strue that Sugar Daddies

Ished, you could always
wrap it up and save it forlater, And what
about
Twinkies? Remember howsmooth and soft they were?
Who can never forget slurping up that delicious fresh
cream filling? And there wasalways enough to share witha friend. My favorite snack of
all was the Big Hunk: ten
inches of rock-hard confec7
tion (with nuts for days) thatwould last as long as you
could want.
All I can say about yourshoddy journalism is, YOU
COULD NEVER MAKE MY
PEANUTBRmLE.
Trulysugar shocked,
Aldyn McKean
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never looked that impressive
once you took the wrapping
off and they sometimes went
all soft as soon as you put
them in your mouth; but thegreat thing about a Sugar
Daddy was that if you got
tired of it before it was fin-

Viva Martina
In response to Rachel
Lurie's article about Martina
Navratilova (Sept. 24):

I've followed Martina's
brilliant career for a decadeand a half now, and I've
sometimes wondered if anyone else has felt the pain
and frustration that I havewatching her recent struggles. I want desperately to t'~
see her win a few more ';>"'<:,
Grand Slam titles and regain". ,:her 11 ranking, so that there
will be no shred of doubt
ting used to, and there will
about who is the greatest
probably be couples splitting
player in the history of up over bad line calls, but,
women's tennis.
hey--':'WIIbe interesting. Until
Of course, every dyke another intelligent. compasknows she's the greatest, but sionate, pioneering, brave,
there is a larger point tohonest dyke with muscles
make. Martina is not only the and a heart-stopping smile
greatest player, but also the rises to the top and revolugreatest champion-sometionizes the game, well, we'll
thing that Steffl Graf will just have to make do,never be even If she wins
Mlrlmblum
every match from now until
W. Versailles,PA
she's 90, unless she has aserious attitude adjustment.
Goodbye to Julius'
She's undoubtedly awesome
Recently, a friend and I
on the court, but outside of went to Julius' for a chinthose white lines I see noth- wag over a drink, After coming to admire. She rarely
menting how glad I was theyutters a civil, let alone gra- no longer stocked Coors
cious, word about her com- (there were no signs up indipetitors, and seems to have cating it wa. for sale), I was
no historical perspective of disheartened to have the
how Martina, Chris Evert.-BiI- bartender -reassure" melie Jean King, et ai, havethat yes, indeed, they had
made it possible for her to Coors Light on tap.
get to where she is, That isUpon my departure, I
what adds insult to the injury said to the bartender that -a.
of Martina's defeat.
long as they carry Coors, I
The question now is, would no longer ·be a patron
when Martina does retirewho of Julius'" It wa. that simple! I
will be her successor as our had always passivelyacceptnew champion? Whq can
ed the boycott of Coors bydykes root for? The present simply not buying the beer.
lack of any other out lesbians That /sn't Enough! In order foron the circuit should make us this boycott to have anlook at other qualities: which impact, those of us whoplayers really give their all to believe in it need to let thethe game, and play withowners and managers of gay
style? Who appreciates the bars know how, we feel. If
fans and acknowledges their enough -regulars" stop comopponents' fine play?
ing to neighborhood bars
Looking ahead to the
because of this, the bar
post-Martina years, whenevowners may just not renew
er they come,I see their contract with Coors. We
something among serious
must.each, do what we can.
dyke tennis fans that's beenThank you OutWeekmissing for years: diversity.
for just being here, Wsso good
Imagine watching tournato (finally) have a local gay
ments with your friends and magazine that Is so good.
actually rooting for different
TerryMcCannplayersl It'll take some getManhattan

Ball Squall
Let's start from the
beginning ...well, let's notrehash that businessabout aparty to which Iwa. not invited nor even informed wastaking place. Let's start
Instead from last week when
my name was misspelled as-Bradly Ball" in the Letters to
the Editor, Fond as I am of
the adverb form, I prefer toremain a proper noun, Formany years I chose simply to
go by the name ·Brad Ball"because I found this very misspelling unendurably insultIng, It's only been In the Ia.t
two years that I haveacquired enough self-confidence and enough faith In
the literacy of others to venture forward under my full,given (and all too Christian)name. Now, In one stroke allof that self-confidence andfaith has been shattered and
I'm afraid this will result in a
major setback in my therapy,
This week an astute
reader called up to point out
that in the Table of Contents,
my column was listed under
the title ·Out Of My Mind." I
could swear we had this discussion back in June before
the magazine ever went toprint. I requested that this....
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column be called· Advice tothe Lorn" and you said you
wanted it to have the.word·Out" In the title, assuringmethat this was going to be theappelative norm in the magazine. I was then arbitrarily
presented with the title·Out
Of My Mind" and proposed
the compromised title ·Out
Of My Hands" which I felt
was somewhat
betteralthough not entirely to mysatisfaction. And now this.
You know, this wholething puts me in mind of thespring of 1978 but that is, I
suppose, another story, All
I'm asking is to be left relatively intact, That's all I've
asked of any man,
Fondly,Bradley A Ball
Manhattan
Coors Advocates
The letter-writers in yourSept. 24 issuewere mistaken
when they wrote that The
Advocate Ignored publicdebate over the Coors
brewery position on gay
rights, We published an Indepth newsfeature about
the IssueIn our February 14,
1989edition,
Jim Schroeder
National News Editor
TheAdvocate
Photo Opportunity?
Thisisin responseto Tom
Rubnitz' letter to ACT UP(Oct, 1stissue):Tom, you said you werethankful that the attackers
were finally arrested and the
ACT UP member released.
Maybe-it was because ACT
UPput pressureon the police
to make these things. happen, Otherwise we're sure it
would have been a very different and lessdesirable outcome, You are portly rightabout ACT UP's attempts to
get people to help, but you
must realize that It was avery serious situation that
could have turned out muchworse, If everyone had
acted like you and done
nothing and thought. ohwell, I'm sure It will straighten
itself out, let's not disturb my
fun anymore, the bashers
would be free and the Innocent jailed,
As for ACT UP being
there for a riot, give us afucking break. You can't
honestly believe members of
ACT UP attended Wlgstock,'predicting there would betrouble, As we see It, when
ACT UPhas Itsmeetings, that

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Is a group, Outside we are
The St, Vincent's E/R
Individuals, who happen to "staff: If they can be called
be ACTUPmembers,Butwe that, were bigoted, using
also happen to share a slml- Insulting "homophobic"
lar train of thought, which Is remarks around me, as
to help the gay and lesbian though they had to "lower"
HomophobiaTonight
ddlgnorance
Mr,Max Frankel
community In any emergen- themselves to tend to a Mr,DavidNuellcy situation,any time, Toput homosexual.I thought I was- ExecutiveProducer
The New York Times
229 W. 43rdSt,
It simply-wecare, Just back In the Dark Ages, It EntertalnmentTonlght
remember Tom, If you or was 1985,. LosAngeles,(j,A
New York,NY 10036
anyone were ever In a similar
If this hospital doesn't
DearMr.Nuell,
DearMax,
In your front page artisituation, ACT UPwould be change Itspolicy of employLastT1'1.JrSday night Enterthere for you, But maybe In Ing unprofessional health. talnment Tonight carried a cle of Frlqay, September
light of your attitude, ACTUP
featurepiece on CJ"Iti-semtism 29th, "F.D.A., In BigShift,Will
would just stand by and do
and racism/In rock lyrics, It Permit Useof Experimental
nothing while you sat In aseemsclea·that the Impetus AIDS Drug," your reporter,
Mr, PhilipJ, Hilts,makes thepolice car, handcuffed withfor thispiece was a the New
following unfortunate misblood dripping down yourYork Times& Leisurefeoface because you wereture on th,e same subject,takes:
being yourself(gay), and the
However, the Times piece1) "Scientistsand public health officials.., exoffenders were let go
devotedfully50 percent of Its--because It's okay to hurt
coverage to homophobia in pressed concern that theand kill lesbians and gays.
rocksongs!,
TheEntertainment distributionof the aug may
But we guessIt wouldn't be
Tonight Report didn't evenmake It difficult to getpatientsto volunteerfor the
all that bad for you, Tom.• '.''';.,,,~;~~'"."'
bmg It up,
Justremember,all you would workers (andsecurity
ThisIs distressing for a clinical triaL..• Clinical trials
have to do Is stick your guards) It should be closed number of reasons, Unlike for ddl are, and hove been
bloody face and cracked
down or be relocated to anti-semitism and racism,for some time, completely
skull out of the patrol car someplace like JesseHelm's homophpbla Is stili socially filled, Indeed overbooked,
window, We're sure It would state. But North Carolina
acceptable, Filmsand televi- Why didn't Mr. Hiltsmake amake for a fabulous "photo may look liberal compared slon sh~ws which would
few phone callsand discovop"1 Just try to remember to the bigots at St, V's.
never allow the useof words er this information, readily
thc.ugh, as long as there Is
The fact that It's a like 'nigger' or 'klke' feelavailable, for himself,before
an ACT UP,jerks like theRoman Catholic facility
comfortpble usingwords like making this statement notbashers and the police will probably has everything to 'fag' ajd 'dyke: Thecurrent once but twice? Why,know not to fuck with our do with It. I'm not a fanatic AIDSe~ldemlc has exac,er- indeed, Is he so determinedpeople anymore, We'd also or a terrorist.but sometimes bated Ithls problem in the - to be so negative about
like to thank David Robinson can't help pleasantly fanto- sensethat screenwriters,Iyri- these ddl trials, which arefor his response,and for try- -sizing churches
being
clstsar:tdTVwritersfeel now undertakenInsuch a spiritof
Ingto enlightenyour heart,bombed or all turned Into more than ever before they hope?
ErikSmith
gay discos-the Limelight, they ~ave permls::lonto be2) "'Suppose someone
Dan Hunter
only one, Isn'tenough.
anti-gay,
who experiences side
Manhattan
2) I support BarneyThis Is exactly why
effects suesand wins?'· Mr,
Frankas your Oct, 8 editorial homophobia Is not yet seen Hiltsquotes from the mouth
does, However,I'm mystified as a seriousproblem In our of Dr,Jere Goyan, a former
YouLimelightUpMy L1f.
FDA commissioner.There Is
Twomattersof concern: by its not seeming at all to society-because the factno legal recourseunder clinthat r it Is bigotry Is not
1) As a personal recipi- know that Barney "cameIcal trials, Patients signent of anti-gay physical vio- out" very publicly about a enforced Inthe media,
releaseforms to that effectlence-surely due at the year ago, That action canPlease consider thesetime to that pricklier Ameri- not be Ignored in light of his argumentsIn the Mure, Prej- and pharmaceutical comcoo conservatismof the late, current "predicament." It will udice kills and we are cur- panies, before they evenlate 70sand 80s-the Insanity probably end up being his rentlyIn the midstof another provide any of the freeof It, man's Inhumanity to winning volley In the course epidemic In America-one
drug, demand the Inclusion
he's on,of anti-gay violence, When of same,SinceDr,Goyan, as
man, not to mention the
AI Fahnteenagersaren't taught thatpathetic, heartless and at
a former FDAcommissioner,
timesheart-wrenchingramifiManhattan
antl-homosexualprejudice Is must certainly know this,wrongthey feel it's o,k,to go one can only assumethat
cations of the AIDSepidemIc, brings me back to the OulWeekwelcomesyourletters, out and beat up queers,
Mr, Hilts has quoted him
way I was treated at St, Vin- PleaseIncludeyournameand Thankyou for your time and entirelyout of context,
cent's emergency room phonenumberfor verification, attention on thisIssue,3) Describing thosewhen requiringtreatment for andmdl to: Lettersto the EdiVito Russo
accepted for the trials, Mr,
serioushead InjuriesIncurred tor.OutWeek Magazine. 77
Manhattan
Hilts says: "They must be
lexington Ave. N,Y..NY10010
In the anti-gay atrocity.
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meet stringent medical criterla," The requirements forthese ddl trials are among
the most generous andrelaxed of any trials In
recent memory, Both the
FDAand Bristol-Myershave
bent over backwards toallow Inclusion of patientsnever before given consideration on trials, FDA andBristol-Myersmet with community-basedphysicians(anhistoric first-another story
other papers ran but theTimes overlooked) andtogether negotiated these
new entrance criteria,
How can a reporter
slant a storyso falsely?How
can a reporter not avail
himselfof all the Information
available to anyone before
reportinga story?
Theseare not smallmistakes. And Mr. Hiltsappears
to be making a large numberofthem,
It has become apparent that the chief source ofMs, Gina Kolata's monstrouslybad "reporting" on
the underground Compound Q study (Tuesday,
September 19th),the roommate of the dead patient,has turned out to be as'
unreliable as any reportershould have had the sense
to know a distraughtsurvivor
would be, It isinconceivable
to me how a newspaper,with section editorsand fact
checkers and desk editors(and an editor In chief)
could allow a story to see
print that Is so filled with
Inaccuracies and so obviously masquerades as"fact" when, also so obviously,it is based on informatlon-once-removed,
I.e.
heresay.ThisIs the way the
National Enquirer operates,
I have been Informed
by NIHthat alpha Interferon,the subject of Ms. Kolata's
page one story, "Long
Ignored AIDS Drug Shows
PromiseInSmallTests:Is classified at the lowest rating,that of "Not Recommended
for Clinical Trials at ThisTime" -and has been soclassified since May 1987,
What this means Is that,
thanks to Ms, Kolata, the
New York Times has recommended a treatment that
the NIHIsnot evenInterested
in, On behalf of the NIH,youhave told everyone to run
out and try a drug that the
NIHhas pretty much given
up on. What this means Is
that, yet once again, Ms,
Kolata has written a story
that Is Inaccurate,
Surely you must concede that the mistakesthat
I and otherspoint out to you
and yourson a regularbasis
amount to a more thanconvincing argum~nt thatyour AIDSreporting Is sloppy
and bad, Other serious
newspapers have not had
this problem. Other serious
newspapersare doing veryfine work Indeed.
It gives me pleasure,believe It or not, to findsomething nice to say toyou, Youredtorlal (I asSume

it Isby NickWade)of Friday,
September 29th: "AIDS,
Drugs,Need rod Greed: Issuperb, Every once In awhile you do throw us abone, And, gratefulbeggars
that we are,we beg you for"more,
LarryKramer
Manhattan
Fie on Fidel
To the Government ofCuba,
I am writing to protest
yourpoiey of Imprisonmentofpeople who test positivefor
HIVroti-bodles.Yourgovemment quarantineshundredsof people at "LosCocos: 40
kilometersfrom Havana,thispoley Is not foRowedin WarSOlI Pactcountries,
ThisIsnot only cruel but
does not stop the spread of
AIDSIn Cuba, The HIVtest
often produces false results
and will not show a positive
resultwithin the first months'of Infection,And Cuba Isn't
testingtourists,

4'"". ::_:,I am a socialistwho hasa long record of speaking
out against my owl')government. When the Soviet
Unioncan no longersupport
the Castroregime,it willfall,
I look forward to the
day-along with so many
Cubans-when you are on
trial for your horrible crimes
against human rights. Peopie with AIDShave the rightto be free and poseno.danger to anyone from casual
contact,
RobertD'Avoozo
staten Island

Helen, Helen, Helen (Gurley Brown, editor of Cosmopolitan), The pelting you received bylesbian AIDS activists, hurling condoms Gurley Brown-ward when your rag declared heterosexual women ·safe· from AIDS was, alas, notas effective as we might have hoped,
Now, in another desperete attempt to titillate your stimulation-soaked readership, Cosmo
lists tips on how to spotfag potential in their yupster hubbies (see Gossip Watch, page 431,
It's true, Helen, You're not paranoid. We ar. everywhere. In your bedrooms. Your museums. Serving caviar at your benefits, On your editorial staff (gaspll. And among your readers,
And we're watching you, Helen. Be afraid, Be very afraid,

October 15, 1989

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News

Denmark .Celebrates
World's First Gay Weddings
Copenhagen Couples Make History
Under New Danish Law
by Rex Wockner
COPENHAGEN-In what is being
hailed as a fundamental turning pointin the fight for gay and lesbian equality, 11 gay male couples were legallymarried Oct. 1 in the Copenhagen,Denmark Town Hall,
Denmark is the first country in
the world to allow gay/lesbian mar-

"This is one of the five mostimportant days ever in the lesbian
and gay struggle,· boasted one jubilant celebrant to Copenhagen's "PinkRadio" station, The Copenhagen daily
newspaper
Berltngslte Ttdende
dubbed the 11 weddings "the event of
the year,·At the center of the festivities wasadded Eigi\. "Of course, we always
hoped we would be fully acceptedand have the same rights as others,"
EigU said he was not troubled atbeing married amidst a "media circus·
because it is "the necessary price you
pay for making world history."
Many other gay and lesbian couples saw it differently, however, andpostponed their weddings until later,
Activists with the National Association
for Gays and Lesbians (LBL) had
thought that 50 to 100 couples mightmarry Oct, I, but as the historical significance of the day became more
apparent, several couples backed out.
Only three of the 11 couples later
attended a press conference, including the pair that had been trailed foreight days by a British Broadcasting
Corporation documentary crew.

You Can Change the World-IF EVERYONE CAME OUT, THIS WOULD HAPPEN EVERYWHERE:
N,wlyw,ds Ax,/and figil Axgil in Cop,nhag,nriage and this was the day the newlaw took effect. The grooms included
a high school teacher, a Lutheranminister and a school psychologist.
As hoards of reporters from allover the world stampeded for inter:views, the 11 marriages were compared with such watershed gay eventsas the 1969 Stonewall Revolt in New
York City, the 650,OOO-strong 1987
March on Washington for Lesbian and
Gay Rights and the 1988 mobilizationin Great Britain against homophobic
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Photo: Rex Wockner

74-year-old Axel Axgil and his 67year-old partner of 40 years, Eigil
Axgil, who combined syllables fromtheir given names to form a common
surname, Axel founded the Danish
gay rights movement by coming outof the closet in 1948, He was fired
from his job the very next day,
"I'm quite overwhelmed with allthese people and the press,· Axel sa1d
through a translator, "but it's overallvery beautifully put together,·"We just never could havedreamed we would get this far,"

Asked if he had any words ofencouragement for gay and lesbian
couples in other countries who mightsomeday hope to be married, EigH
Axgil said, "Be open, Come out. Keepfighting, This is the only way to moveanything, If everyone comes out of
the closet then this will happen everywhere."
LBL nationalpresident
ElseSlange agreed.
"You must get
involved with politicians,· she said,"Make them learn about you, makethem know what you are and how
you think. You must also get people
in mainstream politics to be open as
gays and lesbians,"
Despite her obvious joy at LBL's
success, Slange added that she has a"personal ideological opposition to
the ruler/ruled model of heterosexualONLY IN NEW Ir.
YORKThere's A New Choice In
Your Freedom To MoveWith:

A WOMAN'S
MOVING CO.!

"I
CHAPEL OF LOVE
Photo: Rex Wockner
Crowds at the Copenhagen Town Hall after the first gay weddings
marriage" and would never get married herself. "But now gays and lesbians can choose,· she said, "and thatis very, very important."

It All Happened So Fast
The weddings themselves were
surprisingly brief. Copenhagen ViceMayor Tom Ahlberg addressed thegroup for two minutes, reminding thegrooms of their duties of "joint love,
helpfulness and tolerance:
Each couple then individuallyentered a small adjacent room toanswer the single question, "Will you
take..,as a partner?" After both men said
'yes,' they signed the marriage certificate and made way for the next couple,
Photographers nearly got into fist
fights jockeying for position in thecramped space.
After all vows
had been
exchanged, the couples descended
the Town Hall steps into a hundredsstrong throng of well-wishers flinging
rice and confetti. Champagne flowed
freely as the Danes exclaimed "Sk:1l.·
The three activist couples thenmade a dramatic exit in horse-drawn
carriages, winding thropgh the narrow
streets of Copenhagento a grand
reception at the stylish LBLoffices.
Many observers expressed surprise that no lesbians were marriedon this first day. There was no clear
explanation why, but some activists
suggested that it was a matter of"media intimidation" or a "preference
for privacy."

There are two remaining problems with Denmark's new gay marriage law. Homosexuals are not yet
permitted to adopt children. And the
new legislation does not require thestate Lutheran church to offer gay
marriage ceremonies. Activists arefighting both omissions and expect
the issue of church weddings to beresolved first.
At least one partner in a Danish
gay/lesbian marriage must be a Danish citizen currently living in Denmark. According to Tom Stoddard of
New York's Lambda Legal Defense
and Education Fund, the marriages
will not be recognized in the 50 U.S.
states, but he said "it should make for
fascinating test cases in the courts
shoulda coupleemigrateanddemand their rights,"
Copenhagen'S four daily newspapers gave overwhelmingly positive
coverage to the weddings, with large
color photographs of the grooms kissing and carrying each other over thethreshold But both state television
channels buried the story in their
newscasts, with TV! running' only athree-minute report at the very end of
an hour-long broadcast.
Some Danish activists, however,insisted that the sparse TV coverage
was proof that homosexuality is "nobig deal" in Denmark. They said theyfound it incredible that the BBC, The
New York Times and the American gay
press had come all the way to Copenhagen for their "little wedding."
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Feds Nix Grant for Gay
AIDS Drug Trial Group
18 Other Groups Funded; AIDS Advocates
Shocked and Outraged
by Andrew Miller and Mark Chesnut

asking why CRI received a low scoreby NIAID's peer review committee,
which received 689 applications from
community-based research initiatives
throughout the country. '1"here has tobe a political reason," said Bihari. "It'sboth a succesSful attempt to take control of the (community-based)
network and punishment for CRI's rolein creating alternative approaches to
AIDS treatment research,·
Even Anthony Fauci, director of
NWD, expressed surprise that CRI had

used to treat pneumocystis carinii
pneumonia, the leading killer of people with AIDS.
All of the organizations slated toreceive funding will rely completely
on NIAID for their existence, thus giving NIAID political and financial control, according to Bihari.
While the government maintains thatfunding was determined by a review
panel of experts, Bihari claims that somepeople on the panel had 00 experiencedealing will AIDS or with federal grants.
Two other gayidentified community-based
programs, the Community Research
Initiative of New
England and theWhitman-Walker
Clinic in Washington D.C., did not
get past the firststage of approvalby thepanel.
This is part of theargument by many
who say that h0mophobia played amajor role in thedecision making
process, although
Lawrence "Bop~irector of CRI, "~RI NO DICE
Photo: Jim Marks per" Deyton, the~ the parent organl~NIAlD's Anthony Faucci (I) with CRI's Bernard Bihari and Michael Callen after assistant director
tlon of many organt••for community reza t'Ions t hey fu n d e d , Thursdays announcement
search at NIAID
Many of them have been looking up not been selected, and reportedly called
and the administrator of the program
to us as a role model." CRI is the old- a special staff meeting to find out why,in question, is openly gay.
est and largest organization that con- according to the Los Angeles TImes.
According to Deyton, NIAID
ducts trials of AIDS drugs in urban
employees, including himself, were
CRI was formed two years ago
neighborhoods.
and received praise for their trials on
invited to submit recommendations of
NIAID's decision has left many
aerosolized pentamidine, which isoutside experts for a peer review
WASHINGTON - Community
Reseach Initiative (CRI), a leading gay
community-based
research groupwhich conducts
clinical trials ofpotential AIDS treatments with people
with AIDS in New York City, was left
out of a list of 18 community programs that will receive a total of over
$9 million in grants from the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). The announcement
was made at a press conference on
October 5 in Washington D.C" and has
met with outrage
from many membersof the lesbian, gay
and AIDS activist
communities, .
"It's apalling,»
Dr. Mathilde
Krim
told the New YorkTimes, "CRI is at thecore of the epidemic.
They will be left outof the program theycreated. » Krim is aco-founderof theAmerican Foundation
for AIDS Research.
"I'm outraged,"concurred Dr, Bernard
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board that is ultimately selected by aseparate branch of the National Institutes of Health, of which NlAID is
one division, "We administer .the program but we don't decide who getsthe money,· he told Ou/Week.
Deyton said that he submitted alist of 200 frontline doctors, nurses,
AIDS activists, heath care workers andadvocates familiar with the needs andconcerns of people of color and IV
drug users, as well as more traditional
medical researchers.
"The standard groups of people
who we use for that purpose
wouldn't do,· Deyton said.
Ultimately, two committees wereformed, "quite of few" of whose
members, according to Deyton, were
either gay or HIV positive. Deyton
called the charges of homophobia"patently untrue, It's an unfortunate
accusation, This is the least homophobic organization in Washington,"
He added, "70 percent of the populations served by the groups that got
grants are gay or bisexual,· singlingout the organizations in Oregon, San
Francisco and ~hoenix as ones withparticularly large gay involvement.
Addressing the incipient controversy, he added, "I'm very concernedand upset by this. The communitybased clinical trial movement is isvery important. And I don't want tosee something as artifical as this small
program divide an important positive
movement that is rolling ahead. We
all have the same goals,·
Deyton blamed a $24 million
shortfall in expected funding from
Congress for NIAID's Inability to fund
all of the qualified organizations thatapplied for contracts,
But in making the announcementof the contracts, Dr, Louis Sullivan,
Secretary of the Department of Healthand Human Services (HHS), said,"These new programs are especially
important because they will provide
the opportunity to serve many people
who, until now, have not been
included in clinical trials of promisingexperir:nental AIDS therapies." Sullivan added, "The programs will reachout to Blacks, Hispanics, women andintravenous drug users infected by the
AIDS virus,· No mention of gay men
with AIDS was made,~Elaine Baldwin, a spokeswoman
for HHS, which administers NIAID,
said of the charges of homophobia,"That's simply not true, That was nota factor. And it's not necessary to sayanything more,· She added, ·We'renot permitted by law to discuss thereasons why certain organizations did
or did not receive a contract,· of the·18 organizations receiving government funding, most are affiliated withlarge universities or hospitals, CRI has
no such affiliations,Fred Mandel, a spokesperson for
CRI, said that NIAID never made clear
to them the reasons for the rejection.
"If you don't know why someone
rejects you, you can't remediate," hetold OutWeek. They plan to reapply
in the future, as well as file a petition
requesting HHS's reasons for leaving
CRI out. Deyton said he would bemeeting with CRl's board to discuss
his organization's decision.
CRI had planned on about 30 percent of its budget being supplied by
NIAID, according to Bihari, and will
now have to rely more on drug company sponsors, private donations andfoundation grants, But others. in .theAIDS community told Out Week thatthe absence of the federal contract had
serious financial implications for CRt
Seven of the contracts will fundclinical trials by already establishedorganizations: Bronx Lebanon Hospital; Denver Community Program for
Clinical Research on AIDS; Henry
Ford Hospital in Detroit; Oregon
AIDS Task Force in Portland; Richmond AIDS Consortium in Virginia;
San Francisco County Community
Consortium; and Veterans Administration Center in Washington, D,C..
Eleven other contracts will help
relatively new organizations prepare
to conduct clinical trials. They are
Addiction Research and Treatment
Corporation in Brodklyn; Atlanta AIDS
Research Consortium; Chicago Community Program for Clinical Research
on AIDS; Clinical Directors Networkof Region II in a group project
invovling
the Bronx, Brooklyn
and Newark, N.J.; Comprehensive
AIDS
Allianceof
Detroit;
Delaware Community Program for
ClincalResearch
on AIDS in
Dover; Harlem AIDS Treatment
Group; Hill Health Center in New
Haven; Louisiana Community Program for ClinicalResearchon
AIDS in New Orleans and Baton
Rouge; North Jersey AIDS Alliancein Newark; and the Phoenix Shanti Group, The grants ranged from
$307,130 to $682,854,~- filed from New York

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FDA Releases AIDS Drugon Parallel Track
Move Follows Intensive Pressure from Activists
by Cliff O'Neillcommissioner Frank Young on ddI's
ddI if they don't have to.
WASHINGTON-DDI, an experirelease. "Since ddl is still an experi"I believe people who are stablemental anti-HI V drug, was released
mental drug, it must be tested carefulon AZT right now would be wisest
into a broad distribution program
staying on AZT, unless they've been
ly and must demonstrate safety andcalled a "parallel track," by the U,S, efficacy before it can be approved.
on it so very long that they and their
Public Health Service on Sept. 28, We believe, however, that it is imporphysicians are virtually certain it's notafter months of intense pressure from tant to offer the drug to people withhelping," stated Jim Eigo of ACf UP.
AIDS activists.
The Public Health SerThe drug, a lessvice's announcement comes
toxic relative of AZT,
after months of intensewhich is the only federalpressure
from
AIDS
ly approved
anti-HIV
activists, which initiallydrug, will now entercame up with the concept
broad Phase II clinicalof making experimental
trials in which its effecdrugs available to AIDS
tiveness will be tested. In
patients on a parallel track
an unprecedented move,after toxicity levels are
the Food and Drugestablished but before its
Administration will also
effectiveness is proven.
allow the drug'S manuTo implement the newfacturer to distribute the
distribution
system, thedrug to a wide array of
FDA, working with AIDS
people with AIDS andactivists, has broadened its-advanced ARC who candefinitions of two existing
not tolerate AZT or do
programs, called "Treatment
not qual ify for the ddl
IND [Investigational New
clinical trials for a variety
Drug)" and "compassionateof other reasons.
use" protocols, to allow for. DDI has raised hopethe drug'S release as soonof AIDS researchers after
as it enters Phase II effecinitial Phase I toxicity tritiveness studies.
als on 200 people"This plan offers someshowed that it appeared
additional options for peoto be as effective, andple with AIDS and particuless toxic than, AZT.
larly for the thousands ofHowever, clinicians have
. AIDS patients who cannot
found
that
severalAZT OK, TOO
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Jim Eigatary of Health and Humandoses of ddl reported bouts of pain
AIDS for whom the standard treatServices Dr. Louis Sullivan, announcing
and numbness. New clinical trials
ment of zidovudine [AZT) is not an
the drug's release. "This plan forhave found that risk substantially min- option, even though there are some
expanded testing and earlier availabiliimized when the drug is taken at potentially serious side effects."
ty of ddI, developed through the cooplower doses,
AIDS activists were quick to caueration of several Public Health Service'"The epidemic of AIDS is extraortion that patients currently benefiting
agencies and Bristol Myers, reaffirms
dinary and it must be met withfrom AZT not drop the proven,
our commitment to speeding both theextraordinary measures," stated FDA although limited, drug in favor of thedevelopment and the availability of

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key indicator of immune system funcIt n 11
tion, as well as others who don't fit its
specifications, according to Eigo.
TRATTORIA
As part of their discussions with
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165 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10011 'U' 212.989.2330"I must say, at least this far, all
the parties have acted pretty exceptionally, [particularlyl Bristol Myers, indistinct contrast with some of theother pharmaceuticals we've had todeal with," added Eigo, "and I hope it
continues."
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Gay Bash Survivo .. Files

Civil Rights Suit
Neo-Nazi Skinheads Face $20 M in Damages
byJohnZeh
WASHINGTON-A gay survivorof a vicious attack by a gang of "skinheads" wants the District of Columbia
Superior Court to invoke the 100year-old Ku Klux Klan Act in an
unprecedented$20 million lawsuit
against his alleged attackers,
The legal action is believed to .be
the first civil suit against members of
the skinhead movement, who are
identified generally by shaved heads,
heavy boots, suspenders,bomberjackets, and neo-Nazi or other white
supremacist rhetoric.
Rodney johnson, 37, who was
brutally beaten a year ago near "P
Street Beach,· a popular gay hangout
along Rock Creek in the northwest
section of the city, was flanked byseven representatives of groups working to combat violence against lesbians
and gay men when he announced
their joint case here Sept. 28.
"I'm grateful we're all getting
together on this, bringing this out inthe open, and making it known we're
not going to tolerate this [violence]
any longer,· johnson said.
"Across the country," said Paula
Ettelbrick of Lambda Legal Defense
and Education Fund," skinheads are to
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the Ku Klux Klan was to the Black
community. ~ ask the court to review
the [KKK]Act, which prohibits two or
more people from conspiring to violate
the civil rights of another person,"-Die, Faggot. Di.johnson was walking home at 5a.m. from a Georgetown restaurant
where he worked through a well-lit
school parking lot when he encountered a group of skinheads with baseball bats, One did a "martial arts
movement" wielding a bat overhead
and then struck him ·with all his
strength," according to Johnson'S
lawyers, Others allegedly joined in tobeat and rob him, leaving johnson
bleeding profusely with a collapsed
lung, a fractured sku 1\., broken ribs
and fingers, and a splintered shoulder,
During the assault, the skinheads
yelled, "Die, faggot, die,' according to
the suit. Mark Hyder, one of the three
named in the suit and indicted for
assault with intent to kill while armed,
told the Washington Post, "I have a
hatred for gays,' He said that if johnson had died, "I don't think I would
have felt any remorse about it."According to Lambda, Hyder andtwo others named in the civil suit,David McCall and Richard Grimes, all

18, are set to stand criminal trial here
Nov. 6 for assault with intent to kill
and armed robbery.
Grimes, who was accused by a fPvernment prosecutor of being theringleader in the attack on johnson andtwo other gays the same weekend, isbeing sought as a fugitive form justice,
Lambda said. He and McCall were convided Aug, 29 of assault on another skinhead whom they claimed was a white
supremacist, according to Bteibrick,Parena Nam.d In Suit
The civil action is also novel in
two other ways, It marks the first timea victim of anti-gay violence has sued
members of an organized hate groupfor civil damages, said Ettelbrick,
Lambda's legal director in New York
City, And it names three parents of
two. skinhead defendants, charging
they knew about the skinheads' violent activities and "encouraged or
failed to discourage" their children's
association with the group, she said,
Two parentsof defendantRichard [Craig] Grimes helped him
rent an apartment
at 14th and T
Streets N,W, as a "crash pad" for local
skinheads, the suit says, To pay rent,
Grimes suggested he and the otherdefendants go "fuck up some faggots," for cash and credit cards,
according to Lambda, At a pre-trial
hearing in pending criminal actions,an assistant V,S, attorney quoted
Grimes as saying, "So if I'm going to
get a fag, I'm going to kill him,'
Seven of the eight defendants wereminors at the time of the attack, "If it
takes till these youngsters are in theirthirties to recover damages, we will
wait," said Linda Delaney, johnson'schief counsel in Washington, "We're notafraid of their age, or their threats."

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Anti-Gay Violence
Hyder disclaimed any association
with supremacist groups, saying, ''The
whole Nazi deal is giving us a bad
name," Responded Kevin Berrill, who
directs the National Gay and Lesbian
Task Force's anti-violence project,"Although local skinheads c1;limto be
non-racist, we believe that people
who hate do not discriminate,»
According to Berrill, "more than
7,000 anti-gay episodes ranging fromharassment to homicides were reported from across the U.S, to NGLTF,"Skinhead attacks were by. far themost numerous and brutal of all [antigay] hate group incidents documented," he added, "Organizedhategroups pose an unprecedented andgrowing threat to our community."
A 1988 survey by the D.C. Lesbian and Gay Anti-Violence Task
Force documented
more than 600
incidents of homophobic violence in
the Washington area. More than 70
percent of respondents
had been
attacked or knew someone who had,
The consortium supporting Johnson-Lambda,
NGLTF, The Gay andLesbian Activists Alliance, the Center
for Democratic
Renewal and the
B'nai
Brith's
Anti-Defamation
League--- lobby for local, state, andfederal laws to require law enforcement authorities to collect data on
hate-motivatedoffenses. The Hate
Crimes Statistics Act, passed overwhelmingly by the U.S. House ofRepresentatives last session, has 54
sponsors in the Senate, where 'action
is expected this fall.
"It is hard for someone not present
at the attack to comprehend the incredible hatred these gang members
felt-and still feel-towardme,· said
Johnson. "I am completely disgusted bythis kind of group violence, As a society, we cannot allow hate-motivatedviolence by these gangs to continue.·"This complaint alleges that theskinheads paid their rent and purchased their possessions by ripping
off 'faggots,'" said NGLTF's Berrill.
"How fitting it is that Rod-andbyextension the gay and lesbian community-seeks
to reclaim not only
what has been stolen, but also
demands reparations for the suffering
they have inflicted,·~

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The Bench or the Fence:

Where the Supreme
Court Sits ,.
Conservative Majority Expected to Dominate
Agenda as Sessions Begin
by Victoria A. Brownworth
WASHINGTON - The 1989-90
term of the United States Supreme
Court opened October 2, beginning in
earnest what promises to be the newwave of conservatism in the judiciary,
the continuing, and perhaps furthestreaching legacy of the presidency ofRonald Reagan,
His appointmentof JusticeAnthony Kennedy in his final year in
office unsettled the fragile balance
between liberal and conservative
opinions on the Court, giving a solid
5-4 edge to the Right on most key
civil liberties issues, With Kennedy's
conservativism a confirmed entity, thecurrent term may be the watershedfor decisions on affirmative action,

discrimination, free speech, access tohousing, and abortion.
Issues of impact before the Court
this term once again include abortion,

structed over the years through Court
decisions, Several years ago, that rightfor lesbians and gay men took a serious blow, when the Court upheld aas well as the right to die and various
discrimination cases. Although noneof these cases relate directly to lesbians and gay men, their outcome
could impact directly on our community, as their precedential effects filter
into the national judicial system.
The critical focus this term will
once again be the right to privacyone which is not explicitly guaranteedby the Constitution, but has been con-Georgia statute prohibiting private,consensual sex between two adults ofthe same gender, in the notorious
Bowers us. Hardwick decision.
This year's calendar includes
three abortion cases-two
involving
the rights of minors to obtain abortions without parental consent, andone challenging an Illinois law requiring all abortions, including those in
the first trimester, to be performed in
hospital or surgical settings with a fullmedical staff in attendance,
It is thoughtby most Court
watchers that these cases will not
result in the actual overturning of Roe
us. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision
legalizing abortion nationwide. But
more foundation-smashing arguments,
like those presented in last year's
Webster vs. Reproductive Health Services decision which allowed states tolimit access to abortion under certain
circumstances, are sure to be issued.
The Webster case resulted in thestate of Missouri prohibiting publiclyfunded institutions from performing
abortions, effectively cutting off accessto abortions to low-income women inthat state. This term, it is the rights ofyoung women, the group which mostutilizes abortion services, which are
under attack, And the Illinois case,

WAITING FOR THE OTHER SHOE TO DROP
Abortion-rights .ctivists .t the Supreme Court

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COURTING DISASTER
Prot.sting .t the f.d.r.1 court in Brooklyn
should it be decided in favor of thestate, would effectively bar women
who could not afford hospital abortions from obtaining them at all,
Other cases on the calendar
include a housing desegregation casein the city of Yonkers, and a Missouri
right-ta-die decision. The Court will
also hear a arguments on capital punishment, and a case involving a prisoner who has been ,forced to takeanti-psychotic drugs in a penal institution, which could have implications
for the use of prison populations in
the testing of experimental drugs for
AIDS.
The specifics
in these cases
threaten to have an overriding impact
on minority rights in general: therights of women, the poor, people ofcolor and prisoners. The effects may
be lasting and perhaps irrevocable.
And the way the Court is likely tovote on each issue is, to a justice,nearly a forgone conclusion, What isless certain is the actual breadth ofthe opinions themselves.
The agenda of Chief Justice
William Rehnquist, whose privilege it
is to assign the writing of the actual
decisions, seems to be a subtle one.
Rather than actually overturning Roeor invalidating civil rights statutes likethose establishing affirmative action
policies, the Court seems to prefer toundermine those decisions' foundations, The laws remain intact, while
their scope and power are further andPhoto: Ellen 8. Neipris

further circumscribed,
That process is likely to be most.
obvious in the abortion cases, The
scope of the Court's decision in theright to die case involving Nancy
Cruzan will also be of importance,
The Court will decide whether toallow the parents of Cruzan to denyfood and water to their daughter,
who was brain injured in a car accident six years ago. Although Cruzan
can see, hear, and breathe on herown, she is unable to swallow wateror food, recognize people or objects,
think, or speak. Missouri courts haveruled, in narrow decisions, that thestate has an overwhelming interest in
the right to life, despite her own

recorded wishes that she not be kept
alive under such circumstances. Doctors have said that she might continue to live for 30 years in this"persistent vegetative state.·
Because the right to die has
become a major issue for people with
AIDS, their lovers and their families,
the case will have a tremendous bearing on the AIDS community, And thecontinuing battle over abortion rights
is seen by abortion rights advocatesas a struggle for each individual tomaintain automony over her or his
own body,
The influence of the Court'sconservative
majorityon thispanoply of privacy issues could
potentially be devastating, Justice
Sandra Day O'Connor remains theHigh Court's pivotal decision maker,
because of her recorded tendency to"swing" in several areas of liberalinterest. Despite her swing vote,however, the Court's rec'ord last year
indicates that the conservative bloc
has arrived.
And if individuals have no rightto choose to die, if women and prisoners have no rights over their own'bodies, if minorities lose the gains
made through affirmative action andother civil rights legislation, thenwhat are the prospects for lesbians
and gay men as cases involving themcome before the Supreme Court,
whose justices are appointed for life,
in coming years?
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October 15. 1989

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Congress Approves Some
Restrictions"Obscene" ArtonHelms Extends Debate for Three Days
Alphonse D'Amato (R-NY) expressed
extreme disapproval with two NEAfunded displays by artist Andres Serrano and late gay photographer
Robert Mapplethorpe.
. On a technical maneuver earlier,the V,S. House turned back an
attempt to instruct their members to
the conference committee to retain
the Helms language,
But during debate on the 1990
appropriations bill for the
Departmentof Defense,
Helms introduced a new·senseof the Senate"
amendment insisting that
the Senate's conferees press
for his entire amendmentwith no changes.
Repeatedly
calling
Mapplethorpe a "homosexual who died of AIDS,"
Helms waved about selected photographsfrom theexhibit, which contained
several depictions of naked
children and sadomasochistic and homoerotic works.
"I'm going to ask that
all the pages" all the ladies
and maybe the staff leave
the chamber so that senaPhoto: Tom McKitterick
tors can see exactly what
SPRINGTIME FOR JESSE?
they're voting on," stated an
Prote.ting Helms' amendment at the Met la.t .ummer
angry Helms, who accused
the
media
of distorting the issue.
work
and
to
material
which"deniNational Endowment for the Arts to
Despite his statement, Helms nevergrates the objects of belief of a particban fqn<Ung to "promote, disseminate
asked that the chamber be cleared,or produce obscene materials, includ- ular religion or non-religion; or which
During the late-night debate, libering, but not limited to depictions of denigrates, debases, or reviles a peral
Sen.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY)
son
on
a
basis
of
race
,
creed,
sex,
sadomasochism, homo-eroticism, theread several salacious excerpts from thesexual exploitation of children, or indi- handicap, age, or national origin,·
Bible suggesting that it, and 700 years
The approvalof the Helms
viduals engaged in sex acts," In a keyof Christian art, could fall under theamendment brought to a head a sumcompromise move, the amendment
amendment's broad provisions .
.borrows from a 1973 Supreme Court mer-long controversy into the federal
After debate on the amendment,
decision in deftning "obscene" as that funding of controversial art which
which kept senators in until 1:30 a,m,began when Sens, Helms andwhich is without "significant literary,by Cliff O'Neill

WASHINGTON-After three daysof heated debate, technical motions andnon-stop lobbying, a pivotal congressional committee Sept. 29 agreed to adiluted version of a Senate measurebanning the funding of "obscene" art,
After a protracted struggle, theHouse/Senate conference committee
finally approyed the measure which
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artistic, political or scientiftc merit."
The approved rider is a watereddown version of an amendment
attached last July by Sen, Jesse Helms(R-NC) to the 1990 Interior Department appropriations
bill, which
includes the NEA budget. The amendment, which was approved by voice
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the following' morning, the body
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But 11 hours later, as the c09ference committee readied to meet yet
again, Helms tried yet a third time toimpose his amendment. ~n his final
effort, Helms attached a similar "senseof the Senate" amendment to the J990
appropriations
bill for the Defartments of State, Justice and Commerce,This time, however, the amendhent
was scaled down to only thel firstparagraph of the controversial riqer,
Seeking to blunt the amendment's far reaching efforts further,Sen, Wyche Fowler (D-GA) introduced a "second degree" amen~mentto the Helms measure, deleting theword "indecent" from the funding
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enrollment since 1987,
But the policy's annual deductibleof $1,000, and the monthly premiumsof $112, have drawn criticism fromorganizations such as the Gay Men's

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Health Crisis, GMHC Acting Director
Timothy Sweeney expressed concern
about the policy's requirement that thepatient must pay 20 percent of medical care with no limit on what he or
she will have to pay,
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(-uof dollars for hospital stays, prescription drugs and doctor visits thatwould be necessary for a chronic illness like HIV infection, according to
Sweeney. Though GMHC would liketo see a limit on the individual's contribution and a "more reasonabledeductible,· the agency conceded thatthe plan "was better than no coverageat all- and urged all uninsured people
with HIV to consider it.
Also problematic for GMHC is
the scope of Blue Cross' advertising,which the organization criticized for
not adequately outreaching to communities which could benefit from the
new insurance
policies.
GMHC
spokeswoman
Carisa Cunningham
said the ads "were low-key and hard
to find for people who need thisinformation.· "But word is getting out,
despite the best efforts of Blue ,Cross/Blue Shield,· Cunningham told I
OutWeek.
That is due in part to GMHC
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advertising in the lesbian and gay
press, GMHC spokesman Geoffrey
Knox commented that "We have tospend our money to do what theyshould be doing.· GMHC will purchase ads itself in that medium,. inorder to get word out to the lesbian
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In response to the criticism, John
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implementation of the insurance carrier's open enrollment.
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CuODlO'S

gay "family"
NEW YORK - Taking "a significant step that recognizes that gay andlesbian members of the family of New
York have special concerns that must
be addressed,"
Governor
Mario
Cuomo announced the creation of the
Office of Lesbian and Gay Concerns
on September 25. It is the first state
government office of its kind in the
United States,
Lance Ringel, who has overseen
enforcement of Cuomo's Executive
Order 28.1, which prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation bystate agencies in employment andprovision of services, was named thenew office's director.
Ringel's old office, and his position as the governor's liaison to thelesbian and gay community, will now
be merged with the responsibilities of
the new office,According to State Human Rights
Commissioner Douglas White, the
new gay office will "keep current
with major issues, activities and trends
in New York State's lesbian and gay
community, and report them periodically to the governor."In addition to serving as an informational resource and acting as
ombudsman for individuals and orga~
nizations in the lesbian and gay community in its interactions with stateagencies, the office will monitor incidents of anti-gay violence throughout
New York State.
Ringel has previously been exec'utive director of the Fund for Human
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computer systems, Someone familiar
with the widely-used system has created a code which attaches itself toother programs - setting-off a chainof nuisance for "Mac· users, The"Symantec AntiVirus for Macintosh"(SAM) system - which protects "Mac"programs from known and unknown
viruses by detecting and eliminatingthem in fdes, disks and servers - hasreported in a user handbook that"efforts are underway to fully identify
the [computer] AIDS virus,·
An employee of the the Cupertino, California-based firm producing
the SAM system, who asked not to be
identified, told OutWeek that "somewarped individual [who created the
LANCE RINGEL Photo: Peter LeVasseur
virus) decided to call it AIDS,·"AIDS," a special version of the
tor of political education and voter"nVir B strain" virus, causes the folregistration for the National Gay Task
lowing common "Mac AIDS" sympForce, president of Lambda Indepentoms according to the handbook:dent Democrats of Brooklyn andbec:;pingwhen
applicationispresident of the Hetrick-Martin Instilaunched, mysterious file disappeartute, an advocacy and social service
ance and frequent system crashes,
agency for gay and lesbian youth.
Because of the tremendous dis"There is now a state government
ruption caused by the virus, the SAM
that recognizes our special concerns,~
Ringel told OutWeek. "Given our his- . employee reported thatL if caught,
legal action would be taken against
tory as a community at all levels of
this user zero. When activated, thegovernment, this happening at thevirus can cause the "shut-down" ofstate level is quite significant."
hundreds of terminals, Bringing such
Cuomo's move was met with crita system up again would require an
icism from some conservative state
extensive "checking" and "reformatlawmakers, including Dale Volker (Rting" process.
Buffalo) and Serphin Maltese (RIronically, another Macintosh
Queen's), who dubbed the move asystem, Microsoft Word recently
waste of taxpayers' money.
came under attack by the Gay &Limited by the lack of statewide
Lesbian Alliance Against Defamaprotections against discrimination,tion. GLAAD, which uses this popuRingel said his office will be logging
lar word-processing
program,discrimination complaints, as ammureported the protest of derogatory
nition for a future offensive to passsynonyms for the word gay - suchanti-discrimination
laws protecting
lesbians and gay men at the state . as effeminate, effete, sissy, swishy,
unmanly
and wimpy - by thelevel. - Andrew Mlller
Microsoft Thesaurus in the advocacy
group's recent newsletter, Claimingthat it is supplied to Microsoft byanothercompany,a Microsoft
employee apologized to GLAAD's
Assistant Director Karin Schwartz
and assured her in a letter that Thesaurus will be amended in future
CUPERTINO, California -Repliversions of the software.
cating and spreading, an "AIDS" virus
has done costly damage to Macintosh-Jon Nalley

MacAIDS,
MacQueerMedicalapartheid
WASHINGTON-The
WhitmanWalker Clinic and Lambda Legal
Defenseand
Education
Fundannounced the settlement of a lawsuit
against Washington D.C.'s Howard
University tfospitai for discrimination
against AIDS patients, As a result of
the settlement, Howard has agreed toadopt a hospital-wide policy permitting persons with AIDS or HIV infection to be treated on all wards and in
all rooms of the hospital. Previously,
patients with AIDS and HIV disease
were refused admission to certain
wards of the hospital, including thepsychiatric ward, and were treated
only in isolation, in private rooms, orin rooms with Other patients with HIV
disease.
The lawsuit was brought in federal district court in Washington, D,~.
on behalf of a 31-year-old
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the woman, identified only as JaneDoe to protect her confidentiality,
was denied appropriate treatment by
Howard University because of- thehospital's policy of isolating patientswith HIV disease and denying themadmission to the psychiatric ward. -."The case was filed against
Howard in N9vember 1988 under thefederal Rehabilitation Act of 1973 andthe D.C, Human Rights Act, both ofwhich prohibit discrimination against
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occur sometime between now and
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Speaking by telephone
from
Bologna, ArciGay president Franco
Grillini said, "We have the promisesof the Greens and the Communists to
put forth gay candidates. These are. very important parties in Italy-theCommunists got 27 percent of thevote in the last election-andtheyfeel that electing gay people is an
important part of their civil rights
stances."
The last time Italians went to thepolls, in 1987, ten openly gay candidates were on the ballot. Althoughnone of them won, at least 20,000
Italian voters took the extra andunnecessary step of voting for the gay
candidates individually-rather
thansimply casting a vote for a party ingeneral.
Openly gay candidates are most
likely to win election in Northern
Italy, Grillini said, in Bologna, Milan,
Venice or florence. Gays are believed
to be politically strongest in Bologna,
because it is the ArciGay national
seat. The largest number of openly
gay and lesbian people live in Milan.
The gay rights struggle is complicated in Italy, Grillini said, by thepresence of the Vatican and by thefact that the ruling Christian Democrat
party "is strongly opposed to homosexuals and their rights .. , But,' headded, "it is astonishing how far wehave come in such a short time."
ArciGay is nine years old andhas more than 10,000 members in 20
Italiancities, including Genova,
Turin, Milan Varese, Bolzano, Verona,
Padova, Venice, Vincenza, Rimini,
Ravenna, Bologna, Parma, Florence,
Empoli, Rome, Naples, Foggia, Palermo and Messina.
There are at least five openly gay
members of parliament or Congress inthe world: Barney Frank and Gerry
Studds in the United States, Svend
Robinson in Canada, Chris Smith inEngland and David Norris in Ireland.
-Rex Wockner
Translation:David Eligator,
Copyright 1989, Chicago Outlines.

Police, toJ"~$~,::".1v:"

ACTr'UP: noprobleDl
NEW YORK-Almost 16 months
after it was asked to investigate welldocumented charges of police bigotry
and violence during an ACT UP
demonstration,
the New York City
Police Department's Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) foundthat there was "insufficient evidence"
to document any of the complaints.

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But
a civilian member of the board
I
told ACT UP that he felt the police
investigation into the complaints wasinadequate,
The board's response came tolight Monday night, October 2, whenDavid Wertheimer of the New York
City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence
Project read a letter from the CCRB to
tbe weekly meeting of ACT up, With
him was Dan Johnston,the only
openly gay member of the CCRB, andone of six civilian members of the 12member board.
"It is clearly the case here that[the CCRB) did not work worth a

Photo:Ellen B. Neipris

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damn," Johnston told the crowd of
300 AIDS activists. Stressing that hespoke only for himself, Johnston apologized to ACT UP and the protesters,saying that once again it was obvious"you can't rely on the police department. to investigate itself.·
The protest occurred March 24,
1988, when several hundred AIDS
activist held a sit-in on Wall Street toprotest profiteering on AIDS drugs anda lack of governmentfaction to end theepidemic, During the action, known as"Wall Street lI" to commemorate theftrSt anniversary of ACT UP's very first
demonstration(also held on WallStreet), III protesters were arrested.
The CCRB's letter, written by Sandra Marsh, who is both CCRB deputy
commissioner and a uniformed police
officer, said:"After careful review of the evidence presented, the Board foundthat there was insufficient evidence toclearly prove or disprove the allegations that an officer punched several
vicUms, grabbed one victim by theback of the neck, twisted his arm
behind his back, shoved him, grabbed
another victim by his ears, lifted himup, threw him into a seat, pulledanother victim by the hair, was discourteous to the victims, another officer threatened one victim, an officer
was discourteous,andan officer
threatened another victim.
"With regards to the allegations
that three unidentified officers threw
some of the victims onto the bus, theBoard found that the officers in question were unidentified."
But Wertheimer noted that his
May 31 letter included statementsfrom 13 demonstrators and four witnesses who saw or experienced
exactly these abusive behaviors.
Included in several complaints were
the names and badge numbers ofspecific police officers.
Board member Johnston told theactivists that be would be willing to help
interested parties reconstruct the investigation, to determine whether CCRB
investigators had not pursued available
evidence during their investigation. And
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quate." All but a handful of CCRBinvestigators are police officers.
The Police Department has neverset a standard as to what constitutes
sufficient evidence to require an officer to stand trial on such charges.
-John Umlaut

Pride in-'"Prejudiceand Pride"

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STONY BROOK, NY-The Gay
and Lesbian Alliance of SUNY at
Stony Brook will show the photo
exhibition·Prejudiceand Pride:
The New York City Lesbian and
Gay Community, World War II-Present" during its October
10-24,
1989, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual
Awareness Week.
·Prejudice and Pride" was firstshown as part of New York City's
Lesbian and Gay Pride and History
Month in June 1988, Lee Hudson,
Director of the Mayor's Office forthe Lesbian and Gay Community,and guest speaker at the October
10th opening reception, said of theexhibition,·'Prejudiceand Pride'
profiles social and political· developments in the gay and lesbian community in New York City over thelast 40 years. Through its .many photographs and documents it provides
a glimpse of the diversity within thecommunity
and the spirit thatempowers it.""Prejudice and Pride" is produced and directed by the Officeof the Mayor and is cosponsoredby the Lesbian Herstory Archives,
the International
Gay History
Archives, Senior Action in a Gay
Environment
History Project andthe Lesbian and Gay Community
Services Center,
The exhibition will be shown in
the Union Art Gallery at SUNY Stony
Brook Student Union, with an opening reception to be held at the NonSmokers Lounge (2nd floor) at 2 p.m.,
October 10th, 1989,
For further information about
the showing of" Prejudice andPride' at SUNY Stony Brook contact
the Gay and Lesbian Alliance, Student Union, Room 045B, SUNY at
Stony Brook, NY, 11 794 or call(516) 632-6462{§.1..60,__

NEW YORK-A new programdesigned to raise funds for people
who can't afford medical" treatment
relatedto HIV / AIDS-is
being
launched by the Community Health
Project,
Called "Health Buddies,· the program is the CHP's first major private
fund-raising drive. The short-term.
goal is to raise $100,000 by the end of
the year from concerned individuals,
businesses and physicians who agree'
to sponsor patients at the CHP's HIV
clinic, according to organizers.
"HIV disease is becoming an
increasingly treatable condition, but
only if patients receive proper medical attention," said CHP Executive
Director Rona Affoumado.
"Mostpeople assume that people with HIVrelated' medical problems can afford
private health care, but the reality isthat many New Yorkers at risk for
AIDS lack insurance and desperately
need help."
The CHP is currently treating
1,500 people in its HIV/ AIDS programs, with well over 100 New
Yorkers on the waiting list at any
given time. The "Health Buddies" program was started to make sure thateveryone with HIV disease receives
early diagnosis and treatment in asensitive, caring and non-judgmental
environment.
For information on the "Health
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~-OBSCENE- ART from page 21"Well, my name isn't Dorothy and I'm
not in Oz,· she said, adding that it
was the best they could expect under
the circumstances,
Likewise, McClure gave lukewarm support to the resolution of thecontention, adding that he expects
Helms could introduce his amendment yet again when the committee

report is brought before the Senate incoming weeks,
Other compromises on the $171
million NEA budget bill included theallocation of $250,000 to create the
12-member commission to examine
NEA funding procedures, a $45,000
cut in NEA funding (the exact amountspent on the Serrano and Mapplethorpe displays) and a reqUirement that

the NEA inform Congress as towhether the two agencies which
funded the two controversial displays
will receive any NEA funds this year.
Gone is a five year ban on funding to
the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), which funded theSerrano display, and Philadelphia's
Institute of Contemporary Art, which
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In Our Own Hands

Lesbian AIDS Activists:
What Are We Doing?
by Risa Denenberg

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ach of us has asked ourselves the question, Many ofus have been asked by others. Some of us have been accused ofbetraying our own interests, our sisters' interests, Why do lesbians work
. so hard within the gay AIDS activist
movement?
It's an important question, .
An obvious question, A difficult question. We must eachanswer it. The facts are not the
problem here, Women have
AIDS and, as in all movements, unless women work on
the woman-specific aspects ofthe crisis, men won't. Womenare affected in many ways.
We are the fastest growing
group of PWAs. Women. withAIDS take care of men andchildren who are living with
AIDS, We comprise the vast
majority of nurses,
socialworkers and educators who
providedirect services
toPWAs and people at risk. In
New York City, 13 percent of
PWAs are women, 85 percentof these are women of color.
Lesbians are part of each of'these groups. Women withAIDS are affected by racism
and sexism in many ways; excluded from drug trials, denied abortions, forced to abort, forced to besterilized in order to receive treatment. A woman lives an 'average ofsix months following diagnosis of
AIDS, compared to a white male
P.WA who lives an average of 39
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deep enough to create our own
movement.
It is clear that there are risks indoing this work. As Jackie Minow
points out in her article "Is AIDS
draining the Women's Community?" inthe summer 1989 issue of Outk>ok, wemust be concerned that our issues will
be pushed aside again, that our efforts
to work together and to support eachother will be stretched thin. These arereal and present concerns that wemust begin to address with one anoth-er. The question of why this work,
why now, is so important to us that I
feel we must actively consider it, andraise some controversy if necessary, inorder to bring it out. There is a low incidence of AIDS reported in lesbians,
and only a few documented cases of
wcrman to woman transmission of
HIV. ThiS"is the most concrete elementof the reaction we seem to get fromother lesbians. Why do we feel like
we're in a struggle over this?
There have always been difficult
choices to make, impossible volumes
of work to be done, We've always
done a disproportionate amount of
the work, often In total invisibility,
Some believe there are no exclusively lesbian issues. I worked for reproductive rights for 15 years. I always
knew that my interests as a wO{Ilancould not be reduced by my lesbian'identity, Yet I was often criticized by other lesbians for giving "all of my energy" tostraight sisters who were, after
all, sleeping with men, It's not
until I began to do AIDS activist work that I learned how
many lesbians also sleep withmen and still identify personally and politically as lesbians,
It's only the lack of informationthat suggests we are all at low
risk. We have been accused ofhysteria in promoting safer sex
for lesbians. Of jealousy. Of
feeling left out, or guilty. What
do these accusations mean?
The bottom line is that we arebeing held accountable for all
the work .that desperately cries
out to be done, and our choice
to work as AIDS activists is tangible evidence of all that hasgone undone.
More women are dying ofbreast cancer each year thanfrom AIDS, but we do nothave a movement about breast cancer. Rape statistics are staggering.
But it is not called a crisis. Women
comprise the majority of mental
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Ms. Understanding
Sensitive Advice for the Sexually Marginal Womon"No Question is Too Stupid"
Dear Ms. Understanding,
1 am a creative writing instructor
at a small, midwestern women's college. Last year, 1 fell desperately inlove with the woman
here who coaches
basketball. Unfortunately, she did not return my ardor-until
last month, when 1 invited
her to myhouse, to practice layup shots in my driveway.
Suddenly,as 1
was bringing her theGatorade that she hadrequested, Bobbie Jo
threw herself on topof me like a sweaty
gust 'of wind careening tumescently down
a lonely canyon. Her
tongue was in my ear;her pelvis groundachingly into my kidneys. "I really likeyou," she moaned,"Let's go steady." 1
screamed in joy andpain. It was all 1 could
do to heave
her
throbbing body onto
the sunporch, where 1
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outstretched lips, Our breasts intertwined, like four lost kittens mewing
in the rain. 1 screamed again; this timein fear .and ecstasy. Later, we madelove.
Yet after a rousing night of passion, 1 awoke to find my adored Bobbie Jo pulling on her cleats, dusting
off her ball and dribbling indifferently
out my door. Now she barely speaks
to me, preferring, 1 think, to be seenin the company of the m~le profes-

sors. Should 1 continue my abject at'tempts to 'rekindle our sapphic idyll?
My oriveway is So deSperately empty.
What, 0 what, shall 1 do?
Dear" Bereft,'

Cheer up. You may have a futurein writing lesbian porn, And threelashes with a wet whip for your ersatz
date. How rude. Just remember thatsociety encourages many such lesbians and gay men to harbor the internalized homophobia that cuts themoff from the love they seek. You willfind someone else, Meanwhile, try tocultivate empathy for those whom s0ciety has wronged.
As an example of societal empathy, why not imagine yourself in Bobbie Jo's place? Feel her longing for heterosexual validation; her need for a"real stud" to accompany her to thebeach and awards ceremonies. Then,
using your writing expertise, dash off
two or three sentences summarizing,this"lon~itlg; sign Bobbie Jo's name,and place this little
cbmpbsition--in ~thePerson'als section ..ef~
sports Illustrated Societal change will follow.
Dear Ms, Understanding,Like, 1 am a highschool senior who
has just come out as alesbian, OK? 1 want to
explore all my sexual
options, but' 1 don't
know how to start.
For instance, phonesex. Like, how do you
have it?
Those ads in theback of the gay magazines are like reallyconfusing? Like, someof them just show
hunky guys with telephones. Grody. Butother ads are like really weird? Like, inthis one ad, there's
these
two
blond
Tarzan-looking dudesin leopard
under-

pants, OK? They're'talking
on thephone--but they're only about a footaway from each other. Like, whar
could they be saying-VIs that an answering machine in your loindoth{()f'are you just happy to see me?" Grody.
And in this other ad, this one guy injeans is grabbing the crotch of thisother guy in jeans who, for some reason, is holding a telephone receiver.
Grody,
So my question is: what do theseguys do with the phones? Like, would
it work with my Princess model? And
what if you have call-waiting? I don't
want the kids at school to make funof me, so like maybe I should wait
until my touch-tone is in before I go
all the way? Like what do you think?
Is this like too grody for words?
-BabyBeU
Dear Baby,

Mind your own business, dear.
Phone sex can be a beautiful, healthy
way of expressing 'your love-starved
libido through the telephorfi(;equip""ment"of' your choice. The trouole--is,-I
since there isn't a great deal of phone
sex aimed at the lesbian market, I
don't know how it's done, either.
Some day, the telephone willavail itself equally to both homosexes.
Until that day, I suggest you findyourself a nice girlfriend with whom
you can share your feelings, andpractice with two tin cans and astring. You'll find that it will really cut
down on your phone bill.
Stay in school, and remember tosupport the strike, dear.
Dear Ms. Understanding,Kiii-ayaaaayyyy!!! C-r-a-a-a-ckk!
WHUMP! That was the sound of me
expressing my anger at the womyn'scommunity by breaking a 6 x lO-inchpine board with my bare foot. Where
the hell is the righteous concern that
we showed ten years ago for social issues? What have lesbians done lately
about" toxic waste? Where is our outrage about that despicable new BrianDe Palma movie? Why haven't we
spoken out against George Bush andhis racist drug war? All lesbians careabout these days is having chic sex

est strategy:
We start off slowly, with political tracts: "I Was a Call-Girl for the
League of Women Voters" (incendiary expose of reformists); "Sex Toys,
Multiple Girlfriends, and the Bomb"(vital linkage of global issues)j "Angela Davis on Susan Sontag" (oooh,babYj picturethat). We thenprogress to buttons and bumper
stickers: "Nuclear War? There GoesMy G-Spot!"j "Boycott South Africa,
Not My Dental Dam"j "Political Prisoners Make the Best Lovers," etc.
Public awareness grows. Next, direct
political
action:Thousandsoflumpen lesbians performing lascivious acts up, in, around and throughthe Capitol Building. The country ignites. Finally comes the radical underground insurgence, but that, ofcourse, is too hot to print.
Get back to me on this, won't you?
Our womyn'scommunity is too spunky
and too diverse not to be capable ofeverything. An army of Betty Boops
might find it impossible to fail,...

and looking like Betty Boops in heat
Don't we realize that this kind of selfinterested apathy can only hasten
global destructioQ? Have we lost-sightof our own oppression--our own suffering? Let's wake up, before it's too
latel-ILa Lucba Continua!
DearLucha,Your points are well-taken, particularly those concerning Jorge Bush.
But please try not to get your overalls
in a knot about this thing, OK? It's notthat lesbians are apatheticj rest assured we all suffer on a daily basis.
It's just that some of us have learned
to suffer more or less painlessly,
through developing our ids and improving our appearance. Still, some ofthose icky socio-economic problems
you mentioned do appear ominous.
Why don't we work together to solvethem? If we could unite the lesbian
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Levels, Brook~nWomen'sMort~1Arts Empowers aCornmun~to Fight Backby Kelly Kuwabara
few weeks ago I found myself on a PATII
train from Hoboken at one in the morning
on a week night. To keep myself entertained
I calculated whether I could afford to sleep
through the next day's work. One of thewomen with me was functioning on an hour's sleep,
the other had a 12 hour work day starting at 7:00 thenext morning.
What brought us to Hoboken at that hour, and twhat drives many of the women weJmow to do similarly bizarre things, is a committment to (or, you mightsay, obsession with) the martial arts. We were on ourway home from teaching a self defense workshop for
the Gay Activist's Alliance of Morris County New Jersey. We train together in Goju karate at Brooklyn
Women's Martial Arts (BWMA),
BWMA is a non-profit organization founded 15
years ago by Annie Ellman and Nadia Telsey, The
school offers ongoing classes in karate and selfdefense for women and children, and workshops outBWMA self-empowerment demonstration at Central Parkside of the school.
Pride Rally last Jun.
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Part of BWMA's perspective is in making training in
karate and self-defense an empowering tooland survival skill,available to people
most at riskin our society.
The appeals of karate-the"morethan just a sport" sport-are diverse. We
don't train just to watch our biceps
grow, or to watch our girlfriends' biceps.
(No, really we don't). Whatever a person
is looking for-from self-defense to spiritual discipline-one
key to getting what
you want is finding a school that shares
your priorities, I've heard horror stories
of dykes in Birkenstocks strolling into adojo (training space) looking for eastern
philosophy and exercise, to find insteadrows of blond men wheeling flying front
kicks in their direction and shouting military commands. Many dojos are by
nature difficult places for women, bothstraight and lesbian. One of my friends
who trains at a fairly traditional schooltells of advanced male students who go
directly for women's breasts during sparring, the moment the head instructor
isn't around. (We decided that a brassbreastplate under the G.I. jacket would
do the trick for that),
At Brooklyn Women's Martial Arts,
political activists become a major addition to the list of people who are attracted to training. The school's politicalperspective on anti-violence work draws
many politically active women and political organizations
to train with theschool.
Part of that perspective is in making
training in karate and- self-defense, anempowering
tool and survival skill,available to people most at risk in oursociety. The school also places self
defense training in a context of politicalorganizing, and in the past couple ofyears has placed an increasing priority
on anti-racism work and coalition work.
When I began to train a couple ofyears ago, I was interested in karate as aformal martial art. Self-defense was aside effect-practical,
fine as a fringe
benefit, but not a primary goal. The formal aspects of karate, which encouragea high level of concentration and bodyawareness, are often far removed fromfighting applications. The disturbing,sometimes gruesome techniques practiced in self-defense were not pleasantto think about. It reminded me ofschoolyard fights where the fair fighters
didn't bite or pull hair. Now it seems tome that one of the most valuable lessons
BWMA teaches is that those survival
issues that are "unpleasant" to think
about are precisely the ones that need tobe addressed. What unpleasant things
might we be willing to do to someone
whose unpleasant intent towards ourselves or our loved ones is to rape,maim, or kill?
A committment to issues of selfdefense within karate training increases
the ways in which training is meaningful. Self-defense presents its own challenges as an ongOing disciplinecreating strategies for various situations,evaluating techniques in light of yourown strengths and vulnerabilities andstaying aware of the wide range ofopportunities
open to you are all as
much a creative exercise and physicalchallenge as formal karate is.
Basic self-defense skills, though, areaccessible to people who aren't interested in being ongOing martial artists.
BWMA's self-defense workshop curriculum focuses on using the hard, strongparts of your own body against the vulnerable points of an attacker. As our
teachers often point out, no attacker, nomatter how big or strong, has muscles in
his nose or knees.
In any self-defense class or workshop,
one of the ftrSt techniques BWMAteaches
is the kiai, or "yell of the spirit" It sounds
different depending on who's doing it In
many cases it sounds like a roar.
The yell can startle and qisorient an
attacker, and can be done along withanother technique (like a kick or punch)or alone. Before actually hearing theseyells, I've seen people giggle at the ideathat they alone are a physical technique.
But for anyone who doubts the effectiveness of the sound: I know someone who
stopped a New York City subway carwith a kiai. (I can tell you from experience that "stop, stop" just doesn't produce the same result), My friend saw afellow passenger with his arm caught in.

the door as the train was about to enter
the tunnel. Her kiai alarmed the conductor into stopping and as a consequence
the guy still has two (uninjured) arms,
A kiai also guarantees that you will
start bre~thing in case panic has maqe
you temporarily stop, Breathing is oneof those things that make it a hell of alot easier to think, and to move. As
Brenda Jones, a teacher who led the
New Jersey workshop points out, a kiai
can change the dynamic of a situationfrom "oh, my god, what is lie going to
do to me?" to, "OK, I'm going to do this(palm heel strike), and this (strike to thethroat) and this (kick to the knee)."At workshops and demonstrations
people always have stories of their own
about defending themselves, avoiding
attacks, or keeping potentially explosive
situations under control. When a teacher
is describing some of the options you
have, there is often· someone in thegroup who has an illustration from theirown experience. A young man in the
Gay Activists group described seeing a
mugger, knife in hand, coming toward
him at his door. He yelled in the man's
face as loud as he could (the "pre-kiaiinstinct), before the man had even raised
his weapon, which surprised the wouldbe mugger so much that he ran away.
Hearing so many stories, and training at BWMA, has made me think about
the range of responses we h~ve inpotentially dangerous situations, No one
can guarantee safety, but the range ofchoices we have about how to maximize
our chances seems infinitely expandable, It's amazing how many people(especially women's) parents, teachers,or preachers told them to "just ignoreanyone who's hassling you. This was thecivilized and allegedly safe option, I
think it was supposed to show how"superior- you were, While "ignoringharassment and potential danger is one
option, it certainly isn't the only one.
And even if you pretend to look away,
it's important to stay away from what theperson is doing, and where he or she is,Sometimes, depending on experi-

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ence and temperament (and, perhaps,
length of stay in New York) we haveanother favorite automatic mode of
behavior-screaming"fuck you!»,
snarling, maybe grabbing the attacker byof the reasons an attacker is so startledand disoriented by a kiai-apart from its
sheer physical suddeness-is that is disrupts his or ber assumption
about
what's going to happen and about who

well, The more false assumptions an
attacker is working with, the less prepared he'll be for reality, Before I evenstarted training in karate, I sometimes
saw a certain look pass people's faces

hotos: Scott Morgan

the collar. One can certainly argue that
this response breaks out of a "passive»role, but any automatic response isn't
wise. If you can stay aware of your actual situation, you can evaluate what's
effective and make an informed decision
about what to do,
The more you get out of "automatic· mode in tense situations, the more
you also become aware of the assumptions that make it harder for us to fightback effectively, Some of these may be
our own assumptions (about what it's"OK» for us to do, and about who might
endanger us), others are the assumptions of an attacker. For example, one

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you are. An attacker is looking to stay in during physical confrontations that I've
since identified as the ·she's Orienone dynamic-he's acting on you and,tal-must
know karate" look, Once afor whatever warped reasons of his
man who had been ·casually· harassing
own, is probably hoping you're an
me looked suddenly wary and asked,"easy» target. The more ingrained theattacker's assumptions are about what it ·what, do you know kung fu or somemeans for someone to be female, or thing cause you're Chinese?" In his congay, or small, or whatever-the
more it fusion he let his gender stereotypes takea temporary back seat to his racial
can be to turn those assumptions
stereotypes,
which turned out to beagainst him with active, or aggressive,
for me (he left),behavior. I remember a "Barney Miller" pretty convenient
episode about a "little old lady» who
These days I am still neither a kung fu
was a black belt, She kept decoying
practitioner nor Chinese, but I'd still let
muggers and then beating them up, If .his ignorance work against him,
she hadn't beeri so little, or old, or a
In BWMA workshops,
our ownlady, it wouldn't have worked nearly as assumptions get shaken up too. Duringdemonstrations, it's more unnerving toplay the attacker than the "victim". As
attacker you always know that you'regoing to get your attack 'back withinterest. A flurry of techniques is direct-

bians and gay men learn to protect ourselves physically. In the current climateof bias-related violence lesbians and gay
men .of color are doubly targeted. The
National Gay and Lesbian Task Forcepeople'S hands raised in palm heel
strikes (named after the surface you
use-thehard heel of your palm-to
strike an attacker's vulnerable point,
such as the nose) was one of the mosted as potentially lethal points on yourbody, and then, for the benefit of thepeople watching, you are fool enoughto try to attack again. Being placed inthis role makes one acutely aware of
how many vulnerable spots an attacker
has, and of the fact that every move theattacker makes to cause injury leaves
some part of his own body exposed forcounter-attacks.
On the most direct level, fighting
back physically for women and gay people is an act of empowerment against
individual attacks. On the heels of thedefeat of the Bias-Related Violence bill,
it is more important than ever that les-reported that hate crimes against gay
people rose 53 percent last year.
BWMA is currently teaching a series
of workshops for lesbian and gay organizations. The curriculum addresses selfdefense issues of particular concern tolesbians and gay men, such as verbal
harassment and walking with a lover.
Learning to protect ourselves physically
can be an important aspect of fighting
back and protecting our rights.
BWMA makes the principles of selfdefense available to a wide range of
people-not
just those with an athletic
self image, During our gay pride demonstration this year, seeing hundreds of gay

convincing arguments I've seen for ourpotential power.
And these rugged activities aren't
only for girls. I've seen people of varying s,izes, ages, physical abilities andgenders looking pretty effective behinda kick to the knee. BWMA's work
extends beyond our walls, If you've
seen rows of women in black at street
fairs, meetings and parades, demonstrating karate, talking politics and teachingon the spot self-defense techniques, thatwas us. And if you haven't seen us, beprepared-we
may very well be at oneof your meetings next, asking you toraise your fist and yell.
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Taking alook at

How Do I
Look?
by Ray Navarro
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Haven't you ever wished that you could just,come home, sit down, turn on the
TV and watch a little something about lesbian inter-racial coupling? Or the history ofhigh energy music? If you've instead settled for re-runs of The Courtship of Eddids
Father, hoping to catch a glimpse of Jodie Foster, then Out On Tuesday was made foryou, This British TV show is produced by Channel Four in London and comes complete with graphics a la The Face magazine along with consistently challenging subject matterj topics such as Discds Revenge, a history of gay disco, from its roots in the
Tamara/Motown sound to the darkly homophobic days of "disco sucks' rallies during
the Age of High Polyester.
If this stuff seems like decent fare for your TV tray, then you'll appreciate themany complex issues which How Do I Look? attempts to address, Presented by theCollective for Living Cinema and curated by Martha Gever (critic and editor of The
Independent Film and Video Monthly) and Bill Horrigan (co-curator of Video Data
Bank's Video Against AIDS compilation), this series of queer films and tapes isaccompanied by a weekend of theoretical discussion organized by Bad Object Choices, an informal study group of lesbians and gay men, (The discussions will avoid the
belabored panel format and instead individual presenters will lecture on topics ranging from Kobena Mercer's Skin Head Sex Thing. Racial Difference in the Homoerotic
Imaginary to Teresa de Lauretis' exploration of lesbianism and cinema, Film and theInvisible),
While Out On Tuesday assumes the mass media style, Sheila Mclaughlin's feature-length Sbe Must Be Seeing Things blatantly declares the economic constraints
involved in making an independent film, while the white filmmaker deals with her
Brazilian lover's preoccupation (obsession) with promiscuity and fidelity. Mclaughlin's characters are very non-PC, are consumed by desire and wear business suits andnegligees. They sell their grandmother's heirlooms to buy booze and make art, allwhile managing to remain "good feminists."
Conceptual intersections run throughout the series' programming, such that cinematic practice can never be presumed to have to stray too far from actual lesbian/gay
experience (unless it's into the realm of fantasy). Toronto-based videomaker Richard
Fung's Cbinese Characters intercuts autobiographical information with some pretty hotquiet consolation,
porn in order to explore the effects of gay white male porn
My own favorite tape in the show is Indian filmmaker
upon Asian male sexuality, GWM cameraman John Greyson's
Pratibha Parmar's Memory Pictures, a brave evocation of
signature style persists throughout this hilarious, insightful
videotape, pushing Fung's experience of assimilation over the recent memories and colonial history. Sensitively shot, this
top and into the realm where testimony meets testosterone, If tape encapsulates many of the concerns that How Do I Look?
Fung seems preoccupied with porn that speaks with an Anglo may never be able to hash out, given the lecture format. The
accent in this tape, he will be on hand to go deeper into the perception of racial difference under post-colonial society, theimportance of collaboration In lesbian and gay productions
representation of Asian male sexuality when he presents Looking for my Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Vtdeo Porn dur- (demonstrated here by Parmar's installation, Wall of Images,
ing the first day of 'lectures, This will hopefully be an
examination of the image of Asian men in porn, not only of thedominating effects of white culture upon Asians,
The common ground shared by most of the works seems
to be their preoccupation with mass media representations of'lesbians and gays, Further, they do hot merely replicate theconcerns of other ·IjG media events, Martha Gever explains"Some of the work is experimental (small e}-none of it Is
conventional, but some of It is mass media." Gever continues,"The series Is not premised on the notion of avant-garde production in the tradition of Modern Art, the avant-garde astransgressive, the cult of the new, etc, Most of the work contains a mixture of high culture and low culture which theavant-garde Is not necessarily committed to,"Case In point is Cecilia Dougherty'S videotape, Grapefruit.
This aggressive, quirky piece couldn't be less like TV, but hits
home with its parody of real-life rituals that imitate the stars,
Grap.fruit by Cecilia Dougherty
Dealing with a lesbian sub-cultural response to John Lennon
createqwith photographer Shaheen Huq),' Miera Syal is conand Yoko Ono, the Beatles' break-up etc" a young (presumably) lesbian dressed in Paul McCartney drag nervously per- vincing as the Storyteller, but these are stories of the pain of
immigration, the uprooting of families, traditional obligations
forms Hey Jude while John Lennon (a,k.a, Susie Bright, editor
in the face of sexual preferences, When the Storyteller gazes atof On Our Backs) stands around naked with a very blond
Yoko Ono. Protesting what, right? Maybe nostalgia for an ide- . a bank of images, we realize that audiovisual culture can serve
alized left-liberal heterosexual pop society, A thousand guitar people of color quite well as a means of interrogating our own
pasts, for resisting the colonial melting pot as well as theteachers swoon when this Yoko roars, unleashing absolutely
nuclear melt-down family,
feminine rage. This tape asks the question, would you sleep
If all of this isn't enough, then Stuart Marshall's presentawith the man who wrote Imagine?
tion The Contemporary Uses of Gay History. Nazi Germany
Canadian Marilyn Burgess' A Woman in my Platoon
seizes upon archival footage from the wartime National Film should provide engaging counterpoint to Jean Carlomusto's
Board production Women Are Warriors and transfigures it into and Gregg Bordowitz's brilliant Seize Control of the FDA, Seize
a commentary upon anti-lesbian discrimination within the Can- Control documents a national coalition of AIDS activists
dian navy, Aline Blais' personal recollections of her own and descending upon the Food and Drug Administration, replete
other women's experiences of prejudice present painful exam- with visually powerful depictions of collective direct action inples of isolation and anger, while the sound of waves offers . the face of inhumane experimental drug trial policies, Activists
are interviewed about the planning of the demonstration andtheir feelings about government inaction, CD as a strategy, etc,
Marshall's thesis, however, will point out that appropriating
the pink triangle as a symbol of lesbian/gay power is to fall
into a trap of misidentifying the historical problem of stigmatizing label,s. To quote Marshall's abstract here is impossible,
but any ACf UP member who has chanted ·We'll never besilent again!" at a mass civil disobedience action may be dismayed to know that they might be involved in an act of selfvictimization that could be more "affirmative," Hmmm, Are
they expecting a large turnout?
How Do I Look? will be presented by the Collectivefor Living Cinema at Anthology Film Archives, 32-34 2nd AwnU8
from October 14-25 (except for programs on Oct 16 and 18
which will be shoum at Segue Performance Space at 303 East
8th St), and Looking for Langston, which will be shoum on
Oct. 20 at Bleecker Street Cinema, 144 Bleecker SL For more
She Must B. Seeing Things by Sheila Mclaughlin
info calk 925-2111,
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Of course our eyes popped out when we read the headline ROSEANNEDEUGHTEDAS HER LESBIANSISTER 'MAR·
RIES' ANOTHERWOMAN. The story explains how Roseanne Barr's dyke sister got hitched, how Roseanne threw the reception and how she's now ·urging 'em to llave a baby: But the Enquirer story we found more shocking, astonishing andoutrageous, more incredible, unbelieveable and maniacal. more scandalous, horrifying, appalling, twisted and just down,right sick, was the one with the headline in the lower right MADONNA'SHOT NEW ROMANCEWITH ROCKERGEORGEMICHAEL-M.S.

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About a year and half ago, ACTUP decided to go down to Washington and teach the Civil Rights Commission,
which was holding some hearings, a thing or two about AIDS. The,activists wore clown masks ("This is a mockeryn, held up watches ("Time is running out''') and drove commission chief Clarence Penddlton crazy (he died of aheart attack only a couple of weeks later).
A year and half later, the group lands themselves smack on the cover of American Theatre in a photo from theaforementioned demo. And, even 'more interestingly, they're inside the pages of the glossy mag, saying things like:"I felt guilty that I wasn't doing theatre anymore, but I felt satisfied that I was reaching a large, diverse audience
with an intrinsic message of universalism-and my guilt resolved itself. I realized theater was what I was doing."
And of course there are directors, producers, rehearsals and-tJoddess knows!-more than enough stars in
the organization. But what's next? Activante understudies? Demo moms? Auditions?
-M.S,
October 15. 1989

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while he was still looking for someMyoid college friend, Mark, hadone. I told him that since he'd lost all
to come to town on business for athat weight and really worked on his
couple of days and since I hadn't seen
body he probably wouldn't be lookhim in three years I suggested that heing too much longer. Then we ran
stay with Roger and me. Roger works
out of things to say and I went toout of the apartment and doesn't like
bed, Tired as I was, though, I justto have houseguests
around but I couldn't get to sleep for some reason.
assured him that Mark would be in I don't think I had ever been aware
meetings most of the time and I'dof Roger's snoring before.
keep him busy at night showing him
As fate would have it, a crisis
the city and all so he reluctantly
came up at work the next day and I
agreed as long as we didn't include
had to stay late to fix it. I phoned
him in any of our plans.
home to tell Mark that I was snick at
The first night Mark was in town
the office and couldn't go out with
I took him to dinner which was a him but he said he was exhausted
double treat for me not only becausefrom the night before anyway andit was good to see Mark again but
w.ould hang out at the apartment. I
also because Roger and I seldom go
hoPed Roger wouldn't get ugly at havout to eat. I was having such a gOod
ing Ma~k around all evening but I figtime, in fact, that when Mark said
ured Mark was more capable ofhe'd like to go dancing somewhere I handling himself. When I finally did
get home, Mark informed me that hesaid it sounded like a great. idea evenand Roger had actually spent a pleasthough I haven't. been dancing inyears. We didn't get home until ~ ant ev.ening together once Markalmost two o'clock but even then we
expressed' an interest, undoubtedly
feigned, in Roger's poetry, It didn't surstayed up and killed off a bottle ofprise me to near that Roger had therebrandy and talked until dawn about
fore made the effort to be almost
the old days an'd the people we'dsociable since anyone who'll sit still for
known back in Chicago and how difone of his tedious villanelles is a friend
ferently life had turned out from what
we expected, We were both struck by . for life. I couldn't help but a<;lmireMark's uncanny instinct for managing
the irony that I had been the wild
people and it suddenly hit me how
one back in college and now I was inmuch I missed being around him, In
a comfortable long-term relationship·
Dear Brad:42

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October 15, 1989

bed that night, with Roger snoring
loudly away, I felt unbearably trappedin a life I hadn't really planned for oreven wanted and I wondered if there
wasn't some way out.
The crisis at work continued wellinto the next day and I couldn't getaway to take Mark to the airport
which was frustrating because I felt
there was something I needed to tellhim before he left, Roger, undyingly
grateful for a new fan, volunteered totake Mark which, of course, only
made me feel guilty but I reasoned
that guilt wasn't sufficient grounds tohold somebody to an unhappy relationship. I decided that the only thing
to do was to follow Mark back to
Chicago' and see if something wasthere for me. I walked, no, ran awayfrom my job and hurried to the nearest cash machine only to discover that
our joint accounts had been almost
completely liquidated. A free versenote Roger had stuck to the refrigerator at home explained that he andMark had fallen swiftly and desperately in love and had gone away together, So now I'm unemployed and thelandlord won't let me take over thelease because it is in Roger's name.
Tell me, what do I do now?
-Perplexed
Dear Perplexed:
And people accuse me of making
up these letters! It's too late for you
but I'm printing your letter in thehope that my younger readers canlearn an important lesson from it.
Kids, this is invariably what happens
to people who make friends in college. If you don't want to end up likethis poor son-of-a-bitch, you just go toyour classes, stay out of the student
union and avoid talking to your fellow
students, Real life's going to be miserable enough without these bad pennies turning up later on to complicate
things. Good luck on mid-terms!
..

TI

By Michelangelo

I

Slgnorlle

don't really know why millions
of people read such trash as
Cosmopolitan.
But they do.
Casmo is translated into over a dozen
languages and is distributed aroundthe world. Which is why dangerous
and demented Cosmo editor Helen
Guriey Brown sits in a seat of power,a prophet and sex guru for women of
the world, telling them what's rightand what's not when it comes to theirbodies. Two years ago this maniac
told women that they were not at riskof contracting AIDS and should therefore not practice safer sex. She wassoon severely pelted with condoms by
hundreds of angry AIDS activists out-'side her office on 57th Street.
Now she's on a new kick full ofhate and homophQbia., In the current
issue of Cosmo, Brown has publisheda piece dubiousl,y titled The Risky
Business of Bisexual Love, In this unresearched and ridiculous piece of shit
written by Susan Gerrard and James
Halpin, the reader is asked, "Whywould an' apparently normal man, one
you love and trust, with whom you.
have'good sex, do such a thingr Such'a thing as being gay, perhaps? As
opposed to being normal?
But this is nothing. We learn laterthat "it is astonishingthat so few
bisexual men are found out, because,in general, they are highly sexed andoften promiscuous. Research showsthat they have more sex with theirwives than the average heterosexual-and more sex with men than the
average homosexual[!l"of course, we are never told
where this research comes from, or
who conducted it. The article goes on
to quote obscure sociologists andinvidivuals whose last names are withheld, The piece paints a picture of the"bisexual" as a dangerous, frightening
human being; someone to,.stay awayfrom and someone --wlia""rtrries disease: "Wives who know otheir husbands are bisexual can at least takesteps to protect themselves from veneral {sic} diseases; wives who don't
know are in mortal danger, Morewomen have contracted the AIDS
virus from bisexuals than in any otherway, except sharing needles or having
sex with IV drug users,"
It becomes clear that· the authors'
motive is to portray homosexuality as
deadly, While lesbians or "bisexual"
women are deemed totally invisible inthis piece, gay men are made into
monsters who should be avoided at
all costs, Telling us about "a San Jose
attorney" who "recalls a bisexual
client who brought
trouble to an entire
community," the article
goes on to give sometips on how to spot
bisexuals: "If a man'seyes follow other men,be very cautious ... Be
suspicious if he seems
intensely interested in
how other men dress,(Occassionally, heterosexual men are reallyinterested in this, but it I!I
is not common.) ...Jf he ,li
looks into another man's eyes for·even a microsecond longer than it
takes to make socially acceptable eye
contact, beware. Heterosexual men do
not do it... Be on the lookout for any
signs that your man is flirting withanother man. The boy-boy signals are
the same as boy-girl signals: lingering
glances, the second look, moving
closer to one another, increased animation in each other's presence,"
Straight women are then cautioned about men in careers where"bisexuals are prevalent." The industries include: theater, fashion, art,
design, fitness, medicine, social work,
counseling,
travel, import/export,
hotels and restaurants. It doesn't seemconceivable that someone even wrote
this shit. BUT THEY DID! And theperson responsible for printing it is
the creepy, social-climbing
Helen

Gurley Brown, a woman who spends
her days lunching with the power elite
while spewing dangerous misinformation to millions of unsuspecting
women.
.
It is articles like this which only
bolster the sort of editorial decisions
that go on at places like. Vanity Fair.
The magazine which has done zip
about AIDS (except for one extenSive,thorough piece about the epidemic-on a different continent!), andwhich very "rarely gives us glimpses ofgay life, this month has a story titled,
The Murder Hustle.
It's
allabout-whatelse!--crazed and confused gay and bisexual men whose
mayhem and destruction ultimately
lead to murder, drug abuse and insurance fraud (and the writer, who I presume to be a heterosexual woman,uses expressions like "the queen tank"when discussing the section of the Los Angeles
county jail reserved forgay men). I don't question that the story took
place, but what I ask
Vanity Fair is: Why is itthat you don't cover anything else pertinent to thegay and lesbian community? Why is it that mostof the stories you cover~;
regarding gays are those~~.........with seedy, slimy cir~m... ~stancessurroundIng
them? Why don't we ever see openly
gay heroes applauded in your magazine? Why the fuck don't we see more
about AIDS in a magazine where somany fags work-fags
who claim
they're so openly gay? Why instead do
we just see the murderers praised time
and time again-like when Nancy andRon ,graced the cover in another nightmarish ass-kiss story in the middle ofan epidemic in which the president
did NOTHING? Why instead do you
just' assign stories that portray homosexuality as bad and paint AIDS as anultimate punishment for gays, such as
the highly moralistic piece about
Robert Mapplethorpe (which even got
you complaints from AmFar's MathildeKrim)? Why don't you have your writers question or comment on dangerous remarks made by interview
See GOSSIP WATCH on plge 74

October 15, 1989

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,Social Terrorism

Photos by Erich Conrad

TI

WHAT I DID ON MY SPANISH VACATIONTWO FACES OF EVEFestive fashion at theRamblas, Barcelona

THE LADY IS A CHAMP

Spanish lesbian activist Maria Valdez
at Club Nairobi, Madrid
QUEEN OF SPAIN

Monica 7he Opera Whoreat the Barcelona Opera HouseSAINT DICKClub Nairobi, Madrid

WHITE KNIGHT

Leigh Bowe,.,.
at Hotel Gravina, Barcelona
WANNA UCK MY SUCKA?

Actor Nicolas Su~ancic at
Distrito Distinto, Barcelona

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GRAB BAG
Spain's national pasttime at the Ramblas, Barcelona

.MEANWHILE,

BACK IN NEW YORK; ROCK & ROLL FAG BAR RESUMED ...

THE POPE OF GREENWICH VILLAGE?

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UP-O-SUCK-TION

Micha,' T af R&R Fag Bsr

PSSSSST?

Tom and P,f"af R&R Fag Bar

IF YOU KNEW WHAT I KNOW

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af Lov, Machin,

SEE NO EVILOJ Michael Connolly af R&R Fag Bsr
October18, 1989
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS?

Th, fabulous Jo,y Arias and straight man af R&R Fag Bar

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DOWNTOWN

You know you're spending
much time downtown when:toocloset is black, white or has a slogan on it8) You know two of the boys in My

Comrade.
1) You only know half·the people ata party, but you recognize 90 percent of
the haircuts,2) Your SILENCE-DEATH t-shirt
seems like the perfect thing to wear to afuneral-your grandmother's,3) People at work are SHOCKED
when you tell them that a famous billionaire is a fag-and that you see him
all the time with his boyfriend,
4) You kiss your date goodbye infront of the Hell's Angels headquarters
without even thinking about it.
5) You can't get arrested this time
because your A.C,D, still has six weeks
to go.
6) You know three different delis on
Avenue A on the way to the subway
where you can get coffee after spending
the night.
7) Every piece of clothing in your9) You tum clown free Broadway tickets to go to an ATRbenefit at Dixon Place.
.10) You met this gorgeous, smart,friendly, new, hot number, but you've
been putting off having a date because
he or she wears a suit to work so you
don't trust 'em,
11) You want BIGGER earrings, andMORE of them,12) You get annoyed with your bestfriend when she doesn't know that OF
COURSE Essex Street is just the continuation of Avenue A below Houston.
13) During dinner at Benny's, you
say "hi" to three separate tricks you slept
with-and a fourth one you just fooledaround with last week whose name you
can't remember,
14) It starts to become an appealingidea to perhaps rent a seventh-floor
walk-up six blocks east of Tompkins

Square that your grandparents probably
turned down right after they got off theboat, which costs twice as much as yourcurrent apartment for maybe a third thespace, on a corner where the crack dealers use cellular phones,
15) You can't wait until it's coldenough for everyone to wear leather
again,
16) You suddenly realize that thestraight "fomen at work don't necessarily
want to hear all about lesbian safer sex
practices,17) You haven't been to any entertainment that costs more than $8 at thedoor since your parents took you to see
Plenty the last time they were in New
York, Except for comps, of course,18) Quentin Crisp Waves back.
19) It's actually a good thing yourfavorite pair of jeans ripped at the crotch,
20) You rarely have to buy a copyof Out Week because you're in the officeat least once a week,...

WARNINGS

Photo: IL Utt

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October 9-15
by Esoterica Porcelana de Zodiaca

ARIES 3/20-4/19 With your popularity booming
it's very easy to get distracted at work. A new loveaffair will present questions of strong pertinence....
.;on the 13th-14th. You may be frightened of inti.'. macy when presented with an emotionally avail.. ".'able person. This week is dedicated to kicking ass.
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on personal limitations, and to realize you canliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii .. have it all!

P.!!!~~~~!'!'!!'I~'~H\"':,:'".

"TAURUS 4/20-5/19. Whenever a Taurus feels
insecure ~nd untr~sting s(~~ comper:sates by,:;,'.'accumulatmg matenal credibility. Face It honey,':
the only thing you truly own is your soul. This,.:.
week you should use the wonderful transits to go_',,;out and have a blast. You should also do somellii;;;;;;;;;;;' "1:'*;'':;;''[1'11 thing nice for someone else. The 11th-12th brings•
pleasant surprises, while the 15th brings a newsense of purpose to your work.

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r::;;==~==;:'1GEMINI 5/20-6/20 Rumors are flying all aroundthat office and you may be·the catalyst. Dishingand trashing somebody else is really low, especially if it's a sister. We in the gay community must:i;
. stick by each other. Try to get your mind in prop. .:.
.:~. er synch with that tongue of yours. Say something'.:~~ nice or nothing at all on the 11th-12th. A fun party".'11 on the 13th-14th is guaranteed to spark some flirtation with an affairette.
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your health on the 11-12th. The 13th can be a significant day in your career. A romantic evening for
one, such as dinner, wine, candlelight and masturbation, can ease sexual frustrations on the 10th.
The date night, on the 14th, is a perfect occasion
to bring out the ready whip, the edible underl:iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii==U wear, the vibrators, zucchini and the videos for areal romantic tryst with someone special.
LEO 7/H-8/22 The 9th and 10th are importantdays in your career, It is possible that there aresome homophobia vibes around you. Just holdyour head up, look that fool straight (pardon me)
in the eye and say the following words, "GIVE MENO SHIT, AND THERE WILL BE NO SHIT'"llIlli";';;' '='==}~=Wi=t=_=.I1 Remember, as Mae West (a Leo who loves my col•- umn, I had her channeled) said, "any kind of a
reputation is a good one!"=~.!!I!~VIRGO 8/23-9/22:aG!!.

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Having the full moon on the 14th will makethe week slowly build up emotion. With theplanets Uranus, Neptune, Saturn and Jupiterhitting your sun sign it's clearly time youcome to terms with how you have a mind ofyour own.

SCORPIO 10/23-11/22 This is a very harmonious week for you socially. The shit reallyhits the fan on the full moon (14th), Your:, ~friends are bouncing off the walls. There will.' l . be many incidents of violence this week
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because the planets are making the public.. :t'!:::;.<
attitude self-righteous and extremely subjec~
liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiil
tive. Everyone seems to be single-sighted.
Your intellect and intuition will help you read into any situationthat you need to.
I'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'ISAGmARIUS 11/23-12/20
Venus hits your sign on the 9th. This makes.
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you popularand irresistible,
You will, ,. ",
receive some bizarre obscene telephone':
calls, especially with the full moon coming" . . . Saturday. Remember one thing, being a.'~',:"<~"/
masturbatory
fantasy is the most sincere
1ii;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;!1 form of flattery. Sex is beautiful for all thosebrave enough to safely experience its wonders, The 13th will
prove my statement to be true.
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CAPRICORN 12/21-1/19 This week you areedge. Domestic situations will be in an
uproar on the 12th. Lovers' quarrels will erupt'''':'~'..
because you feel your word is God. Capricorn drag queens will face money disputes"," .
with sleazy employers trying to exploit their.
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7':o1~d! talents cheaply. CapriCorn lesbians will facedomestic drama; boys will have boyfriend
communication troubles.
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AQUARIUS 1/20-2/19 Your career issues takecenter stage on the 9th-10th. People around
you are on edge due to the lunar cycle. Get
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'11",
what you have to get done early in the week'.: ~.', before the bizarre onslaught of events later on,;".111!711l" . '!!':"'~ Use common sense when a fleeting romantic~:':~:.::~;'.;',::--"::;~_daliance comes your way on the 13th. This
will be a time of heightened sensuality wherefetishism is defmitely a girl's best friend.
.,;,-;,,;:;~:":"_'\,;"'.:;;.r.;,-i. ,:II aspects of Venus and the Moon make the 11th-

12th a bit irritable. Girls will have annoying altercations with derelicts and horny sexist motherjumpers on the streets. Boys are going to get
cruised by the over-testoteroned equivalent, barroom derelicts. The full moon on the 14th willbring out many bizarre people.

For personal astrology and tarot card readings
mail your 'name and telephone number to
Esoterica Porcelana de Zodiaca, c/o OutWeek
Magazine, 77 Lexington Ave., Suite 200, New
York, New York 10010.

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hits the bigtime on the 11th-13th. You may
fmd yourself delightfully skipping jumprope inhigh-heeled boots for a new sin-sational lover.
Fetishism is definitely a big part of yournature; you really love to please your lover by
totally surrendering. That is why you are oneof the most sexy signs. I recommend highheels, garter belts and lots of red lipstick even if you're a boy, or
an ultra butch number. It will help everyone realize how life reallyis one giant drag show of often mistaken identities.

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TheaterGrand, Big Hotelby Joe E. Jeffreys
maginethe line at TKTS on
Broadway and 49th Street. The
available show board lists Big
Hotel and another show called
Grand HoteL"Which one's the one with all thesinging and dancing?" asks the unsuspecting tourist.
"Both," replies the ever so patient
TKTS agent.
"Well, which one is big?""Both are big, Big Hotel is big not
only in title.,,""I didn't know Tom Hanks was in
the show. Hey honey, the man said
Tom Hanks is in the show."I"No, no. Tom Hanks has nothing
to do with this. Big Hotel is big bothin title and cast. Grand Hotel is big incast but certainly not in title. Grand
Hotel is the Broadway show. Big
Hotel is the off-Broadway show by
the Ridiculous Theatrical Company,"
Having heard the magic work
Broadway and assuming that meant big(which we all know is not necessarily
better), little will the befuddled tourist
suspect that he actually purchased tickets for the ridiculous production andpassed by a once in a lifetime sublime
treat at Sheridan Square.
The
Ridiculous
Theatrical
Company has had its ups and downs
since the death of Charles Ludlam.
Big Hote4 following fast on the high·heels of Salome and A Tale of Two
Cities, leaves no doubt that they areback in step. The production is a
revival of Ludlam's first play written in
1967. Yet unlike their earlier revival of
Turd s in Hell, the material here does
not seem dated in the least.

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The play began as a random
piece comprised of cut-outs from literature filling a school composition
book, and was never meant to be
performed. (John Vaccaro persuaded
Ludlam to stage it.) The result is an
episodic hodge-podge structure, The
allusions come quick and fast, as if
seen by lightning, Ludlam himself
acknowledged
no fewer than 40
sources having inspired the work.
Everything from the film Grand Hotelas a major source of inspiration to themore obscure:a cartoon
from
Playboy with the caption "You dance
divinely, Miss Montez," a Wonder
Woman comic book, an introduction
to a yoga book and a Phillip Morris
cigarette ad,
Yet what is it all about you ask?
Hard to say. A bell boy rushes thestage during act two screaming thateven he has lost the narrative line. It
has something to do with the passions, machinations and madness ofnumerous eccentric guests at a reallybig hotel and to further complicate
matters, the presence of a Cobra
Cunt cult which damns its initiates toa fate far worse than ritual sacrifice- becoming dishwashers for the
hotel's restaurant.
The current production
is a true delight. The cast
has no weak points. A true
·ensemble
has
beenachieved. Each actor hastaken his or her role andmade it into something quite
remarkable. Noteworthy are:Eureka as a drunken Mr. X
and villainous Martok, H.M.
Koutoukas as a wild-eyed
Svengali
and a gypsy;
Christine Weiss as Trilby,
ever-so-artfully warbling offkey and a Blondine Blondellthat does Marilyn Monroe in
Niagara proud; and Sophie
Maletsky as a graceful fallen
and falling Birdshitskaya.
Everett Quinton wraps it allup neatly with a mad Norma
Desmond and a wicked
Mafonga.
Mark
Beard'sset
Sae BIG HOTEL on page 55

Theater

Clarity of Fireby Michael PaUer

H

as there ever been anotherplaywright like Tennessee
Williams, a writer forwhom writing was so natural thatwords seemed to rush from him in atorrent, even when the conditions of
his life were nearly intolerable? Has
there ever been an American playwright so abused by the straight press?
In the 50's, the late Louis Kronenberger of Time magazine regularlyreferred to his plays as "fetid swamps.·
The tradition was carried on into the
80's and didn't cease until he wasdead, and New York's leading cultural
homophobe John Simon decided tosay he was sony after years of treating
Williams and his plays like some disgusting thing the cat dragged in, In
time, the bigotted words will be forgotten; the plays live on.
Overall,the productionofOrpbeus Descending which stars
Vanessa Redgrave and is directed byPeter Hall is the kind of production
Williams deserved while he was alive
but rarely got. While many words ofpraise-perhaps
too many-havebeen aimed at Redgrave's bravura performance, much of the credit belongs
to Hall and the design team who' carried out his ideas,
Hall isn't afraid to believe Williams,
who repeatedly said that he was not arealisticplaywright: So this is not a realistic production. There is an electronic
score by Stephen Edwards rumblingominously beneath the dialogue; dramatic light changes underscore transitions from intensely personal moments
to public scenes; hungry dogs bay andhowl, and out on the road, cars andtrucks pass Uidy's mercantile shop with
the noise of big guns, throwing searchlight beams through the windows. In
our relentlessly realistic theater, expressionism takes getting used to; it's thekind of approach one must give oneself
to, although
not everyone will.
Nevertheless, it creates just the kind of

Redgrave's starch: Were there not afire already blazing beneath this lady,
his boyish Val would be hard-pressedto start one,As Vee Talbot, the sheriff's
church-going wife, Tammy Grimes isless affected, and more affecting,than she often is. Ann Twomey
plays the wild girl, Carol Cutrere,
with a desperation that speaks of agreat need for love and a fear it will
never be found. Among the rest of
the cast there is not a weak link,and Hall consistently deploys his

U'il.•........

world Williams
r.. '.'.
'"
had in mind,. ,. W.
where the fugi-..
,~~,tive kind suffocate in the conventional atmosphere they must
breathe,As Lady, theI tal ian- born
shopkeeper
married to theman who led
the gang whichburnedherfather alive in
his wine arborfor selling alcohol to Blacks, t,
Vanessa
Redgrave dominates
the action - toomuch so, Lady isa worn-out woman transfigured
when love suddenly
comes
into her life in
the form of thewandering musi- I'm.
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cian :Val Xavier BURNING THROUGH IMPERFECTIONS.
(Kevlfl Ander.
Vanessa Redgrave and Kevm Anderson ,son, ) B u t R e-dgrave's Lady has been transformed
forces 'in ways that make clear the
before the play begins; she is too
play'S conflict, There are ghosts instrong to need anyone, When in no
the cemetery, Carol tells Val, anduncertain terms she says that she will
they chatter like birds: "Live, live,
not be defeated by the forces her huslive, live, live, It's all they'veband represents, one doesn't dare dislearned, it's the only advice they canagree: the woman is a consort battlegive,-Just live." That's the message
ship-which
is not exactly whatof the play, and it burns through theWilliams had in mind. Anderson, on
imperfectionsof this production
the other hand, could use some ofwith the hot clarity of fire.
..

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VideoGirls at Pla,yHungry Hearts. Produced by Debi
Sundahl and Nan Kinney. 30 min.

by Wickie Stamps

L

esbian lust on celluloid, by
and for lesbians, is a breakthrough in woman-to-woman
sexuality. Before its emergence, we
lived in a visual desert. But, whenerotic videos flickered onto our VCR's,
we drank in not mere milk toast lesbian affection but dyke passion.
Only baby steps away fromhome movies, dyke video makers
have the gargantuan task of guiding
this tottering genre. There is the"never enough monies;" our images
are often blurred and muffled fromSPICEY DEUCACIES

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our lack of technical expertise (anarena only recently accessed by
women-muchless out lesbians);
once produced, distribution drains
the dregs of our labor power andour purses. Sexual oppression touches our lesbian starlets in a deeper
place, as in the privacy of their own
spirit, they do battle with a crushingmoralism that screams aspersions
while they unveil their lesbianism,
their bodies, and their lust to dyke
cameras and communities. As virginviewers, we are right there with thecrew, producers, and script makers,
We are often embarrassed by theiramateurish products and fight shameas they fumble and we experience
our own lust. With rare exception,
we are all learning by the seat of ourgarter belts.
.
The erotic price tag has beenhigh. There is a dearth of lesbian
porn, and what's out there often
sucks or barely scratches our diverse
sexual itches. But we are unflappable(and ravenous for our cinematic
selves). We keep skulking into video
stores (or bullying our lovers into thedirty deed!) and slipping out withsome visual morsel.
Hungry Hearts is our newest dishof lesbian erotica. Produced by San
Francisco-based Fatale Video, one ofa smattering of lesbian video makers,
it is a veritable sexual pu pu platter.
Wasting little on formalities, two executive-type ferns dash away to an opulent hideaway. Barely in the door,
they hop right into exhibitionism,sucking, spanking and pinching; they
dabble in light bondage and butch upsome of the action; there's even asmidgen of dominance/submission.
This sexual medley is ladled from avariety of settings. They strip in foyers, romp on beds, play in tubs andfuck near crackling fires.
There are spicy delicacies
in
HungryHearts.
The
opening
strip(both
actresses are real life lesbian strippers) is damn
good. Easily undulatingto "1 Want to be Your Sex
Machine," the blond (witha body that won't quit)
piays beautifully to thecamera. Her pouty lips,
bedroom eyes and serpentine grind are fucking
dynamite. She's hot. The
couple'S subsequent frolicin bed, with its sweet
pleas of "ooh, spank me,"the obliging swats (andother knotted naughties)
adds a nice non-vanilla
twist. Then, on to somebathtub play, where wine
is poured onto hardening
nipples, tongues flick at
strawberries and sponges
scrub sweet bottoms. The"1 want to serve you ..suckme" repartee is tasty as is
the eager-as-a~puppy cunt
See GIRLS AT PLAY on page 55

Television

Patchwork P(o.lities

by Peter Bowen

Common Threads pays tribute to thelives of five different individuals who
have died of AIDS (three gay men, ahemophiliac and an IV drug user) andthe lives of the people who caredabout and for them. Sara Lewinstien,a lesbian, recounts how she met andhad a child with Dr. Tom Waddell, agay man who was not only an
Olympic decathlon athlete, but wasalso one of the founders of the Gay
Olympics. The care a~d love eachshowed for the other when Tom
developed
AIDS illustrates
thepoignancy and power not only of thegay family, but of a specific family
which happened
to be gay, Twoother families recount their lives.
Sallie Perryman, a Black woman,details the struggle of her husband,
Robert, to get off drugs and then themutual struggle they faced as hedeveloped AIDS. The Mandells mournthe life of their hemophiliac son,David Jr" as he lived a childhood
with AIDS. And finally two gay men,
Vito Russo and Tracey Torrey, trace
Sal COMMON lltREADS on pagl 55

C

ommon
Threads: Stories
From the Quilt seems at
first to tell a fairly familiar
story, A series of black and whitephoto montages chronicle the lives ofdifferent individuals
from happy
childhood snapshots to vibrant adulthood to those all-too-familiar picturesof the bedridden and diminished bodies of people with AIDS. A voice-overtells us that these individuals have fol- I,
lowed "different roads to the same
fate." Disease, death and finality seemall too quickly to loom above thispatchwork tapestry of the AIDS crisis. I f
But soon it becomes obvious that this"fate" involves something grander andmore monumental than the cemeterywhich too many documentaries haveturned the quilt into. Through theinterlocking stories of various individuals who have died from AIDS andthe contemporaneous
testaments of
those who stood by them, Common
Threads pieces together a history of
the people affected and united by the
AIDS crisis. More than simply an AIDS
elegy, this video documents the construction of a community, a community composed not only of those whohave died, but also of those who continue to live and fight against government indifference and public fear.
Directed by Rob Epstein (TheTimes of Harvey Milk) and Jeffrey
OOCUMENnNG GOVERNMENT INACTION
Photo: Janet Vanham/HBO
Friedman (Faces of the Enemy),
Common Threads producer Bill Couturie and co-directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman.

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VideoProblematic Parameters
by Catherine Saalfreld,IT

he very simple title, "Lesbianand Gay Video Festival,· begs
the question more immediately than do other, more subtle, categorizations for queer media.
What
constitutes lesbian and/or gay media?
For the most part, these festivals
concern themselves with the questionof identity and subjectivity, challenging outright the parameters of sexual
orientation and self-determination.
Some programmers base their criterion for showing 'a given work on thefact that :l producer sleeps with peo-

pie of the same gender, Others lookto tapes or films for:~x, the kind only
dykes and fags can do, and then th~work qualifies. Still others seek t()
represent the most f,ar-out, the mostlesbo, the campie&, the weirdest, th~superlative queer thing around,III
the case of the Lesbian and Gay
VideoFestival
at Downtowt:iCommunity Television (DCfV) thi~fall, the parametc::rs have been
stretched in a unique, but, I believe,
problematic, way.
Survival of the Delirious, by Andy
Fabo and Michael Balser, is a layerin&of paint box sketches over hand-helq
camera moving through an AIDS din.
ic intercut with bits of the Cree leg.
end of the "Windigo,' caJled Wberq
the Chill Came From. In a staid party
scene, the narrator speaks of a frienq
who died of AIDS; -He was the firstin our lives... the one who made th(idelirium a reality: One high point~

III'\\~~~9_t
Belladonna Poisoning, Masculinization of the Clitoris & Other Complaints
by Chris Hill and Barbara Lattanzi

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occurs when two actors (a male doctor and a recently diagnosed man)stop their scripted Ii~es to debate thepolitiCS of suggesting AZf as the ftrst
and foremost option. .As they rework
their Jines together, on camera, thenecessity for accuraCY and care, in thepresentation of HIV treatments andcoping strategies, emerges.
That strategy, of engaging the
medium in a self-conscious way andmaking it work for oneself, is a common approach to the "handy cam
era,'
Tommiesaeli
and JoeWestmoreland do j~ that when theytake tbe hetero h~ven of the 70's
goofy. "Dating Game,' and make itover in their own image, literally.
The Gay Dating Game-cult material
from the get go_airs
on public
accesS TV, (Chanoel J, Fridays at7:30), and Beatty included one of her
favorites in the seriet>, lbe tape is justwhat it says it is, Of course they try
to get a date for one
dyke aod one fag everytime, fJut they can't
alwaysfind enoughunsuspecting women to
fill the bachelorette sideof the 6creen, so sometimes both contestants
are men. I'm thinking
the sc·arcity problem
would J?e reversed if theboys nad chosen the
Newlywed Game to parody instead.
The: festival continutes in October with twonightsprogramedbyCarol Meyers. Here you
can see some of yoursoon-to ...be old favorites,
like Tortl Kalin's They arelost to ¢sion altogether,and Stashu
Kybartas'
Danny.
Both of thesetapes tu(Il the expectationof moufning and disempowerrOent ·on its head.
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Sevcik who died in 1986 at 31.
Artistic, sensitive and the companionof Celluloid Closet author R,usso,
Jeffrey worked at San FrancIsco's.
famed Castro Theater.
With this "terrible thing" expected
perspectives of the loved ones whoto reach at least 365,000 diagnosed
came to terms with their loss throughcases and 263,000 deaths by the end ofparticipation in The Quilt, featured in
1992-over four times the U.S. death
Epstein's
CommonThreads.
toll in the Vietnam War-one can only
(Ironically, I entered the exhibit but
hope that Names Project executive
an hour after having made arrangedirector Cleve Jones was able toments to meet in Washington, D.C. at"impress the dreadful toll of the epiJon NallelJ
The Quilt with the parents of my coldemic and the urgency of finding solulege fraternity brother Scott who diedtions" on the American consciousness.
of AIDS in 1987.)
As breaking speakers' voices
There'sa panelfor Robh~ Quilt. This vast, I'
superimposed over the collected voices
ncoPerryman, an African-American buildof the next continually read names in
mJs patchwork ofngruing maintenance worker whose AIDS
ha/Qcdmade panelS ~ e~ 0,000
thebackground-with
Harveytons, Seeir;t~ this monumen~ elgbs 13 death at 34 was related to IV drug
Fierstein's .instantly recognizable--one
stuffed an~n)als, vinyl, leath~trt~tle of use. He'd kicked the habit throughcan read the moving love of
Narcotics Anonymous upon the birthCommander Tracey E. Torrey for his
corduroy, I!>hirts, jeans ~nl\l', hurlap,of his daughter. A hemophiliac who
curtains h~1i been wrenching 6 ower
lover David Campbell. Most instructive
fCjf fndied of AIDS at 11, David Lee
thousands of Americans, »;~t . anyof all is the panel, and memories of,Mandell, Jr.'s panel bears the love,
more will ~xperience thiS t>. ; many
Gay Games founder Dr, Tom Waddell,\!tx)ot'
I sorrow and, yes, happiness of his
endeavor--,-,"lnthe finest Am~i"1. lona
who died in 1987. That this man, whoplaced sixth in the 1968 Olympic
tr,a~ition-'\VithHome BO~ ~~. fol,k family. Making the panel finallyalftng of ~ob EpIce Ii enabled this mourning family to laughdeCl/.thlon should be so utterly abanstein's,commondoned by his counThreads:
Storiestry in illness andfrom the ?Jui/t later
death speaks to thethis mon'th(see'terrible vulnerabiliTelevision, l)age 51),ty behind each and
In N&\v Yorkevery quilt. For
we canl)review
Waddell, that this
this docurr[)~ntary atabandonment
the Parsonr'~ School
included th.e highof Desig& where
est court in the
HBO has fttlnded anland-which ruled
exhibitio&
calledagainst him in rulThe Quilt: .l?esponse
ing on behalf oftoal'I~tional
the U.S, Olympic
Crisis. Sur'Prisingly
Committee regardpolitical a~l\d mili- 4
ing the naming oftant in tofl\e, this";""::.".,' the Gay Olympics
presentatio,Q expos,-adds bitter irony.
es one to 1"he Quilt.~'" '>'
Leaving the"experienctte, Whilechamber and connot replaGlngthe'.
tinuing to hear the
overwhelmfing
impactofVi",barrageof names,.
~wm
large expa,l\se of names, ~e. g a again ...to smile.
one finds oneself in a corridor with a
The meaning of The Quilt ismakes m&8t evident ttle hPonse
flashing slides-montage of volunteers,
tragedy of ~lie AIDS epidemit lJ!Oan aptly expressed by Vito Russo: "Whatemotions, panels, affirmation, sites,
we want to see, eventually, is an end.
After ff'emoving your ~h~mourning, tears and compassion. At
A day when we can stop adding panenters the o;:liamber contaitlin~ ~, one
the end of the corridor, the viewer isand photo~raphs of the fjv~ J1ane ls els to this Quilt and put it away as aconfronted with the aforementioned.Ah
I peQp el
dea d from.+' ,IDS w 0 are, a 1':....
h symbol of a terrible thing that hapCenters for Disease Control projections.
"1]8 'iVit
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BooksHow to Succeed in Nightlife
Without Even Trying
observer of one of the city's premierabsurdities:
downtownnightlife.
Wherever idiocy reigns supreme,
there Musto will be, in a corner,
smirking, planning the revenge of theliterary nerd. And what a breathtaking
revenge it is,
by Gabriel RoteUo
Musto, after all, like Bell before
him, is gay; rather militantly, certainly
openly. This places him on a peculiar
ver since he took over the
moral high ground from which tolate Arthur Bell's 'gay lib'judge the hypocricy inherent in a highgossipcolumnin thelife that teeters schizophrenically from
Vii/age Voice, Michael
Ecstacy to AIDS. It's a high ground
Musto has dazzled downtown New
that reveals some breathtaking satiriYork with the wicked wierdness ofcal Vistas, even when the viewer is
his wit. A piercing sense of the absurd
lying in the gutter. And judging fromhis first novel, Manhattan On The
has led him to become the premierRocks, satirical vistas are Musto's
thing. Rambling
likea genius
drunk, he isn't big
on plot: he takes
us nowhere, signifies nothing, but
you could
dielaughing just finding that out.
Manhattan
On The Rocks is
the story of Vinnie
DiBiasio,a kidfrom Queens whocarves a tenuous
niche for himself
in the slimy wallof "downtown" by
publishingatrendy magazine.
His
ups
and
downs are chronicled by Musto in
the same cryptic,
droll manner heuses in his column. One-liners
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and spill from his pen like the bloodof black-lipped vampire fashion victims slashed by their own accessories,
It's not just that Musto is hard on
everyone, he's evil. But in a nice way,of course. Trendies will crane theirlimited imaginations trying to findthemselves in these pages and thenplan elaborate revenge when they do,
It's probably Musto's highest form ofcomplimentto smear downtown
types: he knows they'd rather havethe mention than be ignored, and amention in a novel is a kind ofimmortality, even if it's the immortali. ty of the damned,
No one is spared when theMusto axe begins to swing.
On uninvited guests: "The party
was so undreadful that people were
getting on the public phone and urging
their friends to 'crash like a Delta pilot:"
On a pesky AIDS benefit promoter: "Without AIDS, after all, she'd be a
nobody, If they ever found the cureDiane Plewge was supposedly looking for, it would also be the cure for
Diane Plewge."
And so on. There are those who
might argue that a talent such as
Musto's might be better served
lampooning activities a little more
earth-shaking than compulsive partygoing, social climbing and hanging
out, and that he's a lazy, cheap,
worthless social parasite feeding off
the meager crumbs of pathetic,
dressed-up losers and fakers. But thatwould be quibbling, The reality is thatboth in his column and in this book,
Musto has raised an inherently pointless milieu into a high art, one worth
reading about simply because he's
writing about it.
For those seeking entree into theworld
of New York nightlife,
Manhattan offers countless pointerson how to succeed, if not a reason

why anyone would want to, What it
doesn't offer is advice on how to survive success, as many of its characters
careen off dance floors or slide from
VIP-room couches into that mostfeared, detested fate-worse-thandeath, "overness.If the social death of being"over," with all its little vanities, is the
text of this tome, AIDS is the subtext,
Despite the narrator's best efforts toignore it, it keeps cropping up, threatening to piss on everybody's goodtime. But like a true satirist, Musto
can't resist any ripe target, even a
deadly one, Thus the excesses of
AIDS activists and their ACf UP-likeorganization, SCREAM, are as muchgrist for his mill as the vapid pleasureseeking of lesser lights, the "mangia"
mania of Italian mothers in Queens,and the-Jack-and-the-beanstalk social
climbing of "newies" on the scene.
Manhattan
On The Rocks is a rarity among books about New Yorknightlife, a genuine satire. Whether
any satire can succeed when so few
people are acquainted with the reality
it lampoons is usually an open question, but in this case Musto needn't
worry. His book is so screamingly,
side-splittingly, brilliantly funny thateven if you've never been downtown,
you'll feel like you've been dragged
through it by your platinum extensions
after reading this romp. And don't
bother bringing your own Ecstasy. It
comes on almost every page.
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out their different experiences both inbeing gay and experiencing
AIDS,
Tracey Torrey-now
also dead from
AIDS-reaffirms
his love for anotherman, David Campbell, even though his
career as Naval Officer refused to permit him either the recognition of thislove or the right to mourn his lover's
death. Perhaps the most poignant andpowerful figure in the video, Vito
Russo not only celebrates his love forand life with Jeffrey Sevcik, but reaffirms his right as a person with AIDS
for more accessible drugs and more
efficient government action to end the
AIDS crisis,
As Vito's presence makes clear,
CommonThreads
does not simply
bury the AIDS crisis by burying thepeople who have died. In addition tochronicling the individual histories ofpeople who have died of AIDS, thisvideo documents the larger history of
government inaction, of the dominant
media's indifference and of the public
fear of AIDS and subsequent violenceagainst gay people. To be sure, certain
criticisms could be leveled against thisvideo. Why is the one person of color
an IV drug user? Why are all the people represented in seemingly monogamous and long-term relationships?
While such criticisms are relevant, it isalso empowering finally to see a workthat recognizes without apology the
lives of gay people affected by AIDS
connected to others who have experiI
I enced firsthand the AIDS crisis.
At a recen.t ACT UP meeting,
BIG HOTEL from pagl 48
that activism
deserves a review all its own. It is intri- someone recognizedcate in detail, highly functional, beauti- alone will not keep activists fromdeveloping AIDS. As much as it is necfully painted
and imaginatively
conceived. Quinton's direction high- essary to fight for a better health syslights the set's many mutabilities and tem and for a government which is
keeps the action moving fast and furi- more responsive to those communities
ous peppering generously with clever affected by the AIDS crisis, it is also
important-as this documentary clearlf
visual gags.
argues--to recognize and mourn the
Big Hotel permits a rare and fresh
look at the earliest Ludlam play. The lives of those individuals who havebrought us all
production does not fall into the trap most immediatelyof an archival reconstruction productogether. Only through acknowledging
the relationship between sadness andtion, The' play itself does not disappoint and clearly reveals the genius for anger can we achieve that dream
which Vito Russo so passionately envidetail and collage that Ludlam became
time when we
noted for. The show is a delight and sioned in this vide~a'should never have to bear the fate of can finally roll up the quilt and put it
the TKTS board. Big Hote~why
no away as testimony to a terrible tragedy
we have all lived through.
Tconfusion about it, it's grand!
T

GIRLS AT PlAY from palllSO

lapping. The final fireside fuck, where
the butch brunette rolls over and theblond switches up (adroitly wielding
a dildo) is pretty steamy,
The close up camera work, particulady during the strip andtl)b
segments, shores up Hungry Hearts
erotic impact. Credited to Ricki
Crawford, her later slow motion anddouble exposure technique intensifies the sexual aggression of the fireside fuck.
But, someflaws decrease
Hungry Hearts eroticism, The very
monied and Anglo-looking actresses
may fetter many viewers' identification. Instead of fOCUSSingon the sex
you may find yourself nursing a
resentment against their fancy smancy
car and ritzy love nest. Their Playboy
bunny look lends the piece to coviewer bickers as to "are the actresses'really' lesbians?" The actresses' performances, especially the brunettes,
are choppy. Although over time she
warms to the camera during the strip,
the brunette seems ill at ease as a
voyeur and, later segments, mechanical with her partner. In bed, theblond's timing is off-she moans outof sync and apparently gets hot withzip tittilation.
Hungry Hearts has also sacrificed
in-depth sexual exploration for multiplicity of sexual acts. They jam a lotof sexual diversity (bondage, blindfolding, fucking) into a 30-minuteclip. This cramming sacrifices the fundamental erotic processgradualarousal, increasing enticement andactual physical exchange- that usually envelops such power erotic rituals.
Giving the clamor for lesbian erotic,
Hungry HeartS grab bag approach isunderstandable. But collapsing pornographic form for pornographic content is self defeating. Specifically, in
Hungry Hearts, we are left with somestubbed-toed sex, Either the actressesor the directors couldn't seem to figure where to draw the line or what toflow into where,
Yet, in spite of some rough spots,
Hungry Hearts is a hot dish of lesbiansexuality. You may find snatches of it
livening up your threadbare fantasies.
Which, in my opinion, means Patale's
most recent production is a take! T

October 15, 1989

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55

OUTWEEK BAR GUIDEWEST SIDE

Bike Stop West230 W. 75th St.
874-9014
Candle Bar
309 Amsterdam Avenue,
874-9155
Cat's
730 8th Ave,
221-7559
Don't Tell Mama
343 West 46th St.
757-0788
Piano Bar
Jason's
23 W, 73rd St.
874-8091
Sally's Hideaway
264 W, 43rd St.
221-9152

Johnny'S Pub
123 E, 47th St.
355-8714

Badlands
Christopher & West St.
741-9236

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

Boots & Saddle
76 Christopher Street
929-9684

Rounds303 E, 53rd St.
593-0807

Cellblock 28
28 9th Ave
733-3144j/oSouth Dakota
405 3rd Ave,
684-8376
Star Sapphire
400 E, 59th st.
688-4710
EAST VILLAGE

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

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

Boy Bar15 St. Mark's Place
674-7959
Dancing / Drag

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

The Pyramid
101 Avenue A
420-1590
Dancing / Drag

The Works
428 Columbus Ave (at 81st)7~-7365
EAST SIDE

Brandy's Piano Bar
235 E. 84th St.
650-1944
G.H. Club
353 E, 53rd St.
223-9752

Tunnel Bar
116 1st Ave (7th St.)
777-9232
WEST VILLAGE

The Annex (to Cellblock 28)
673 Hudson St.
(bet. 13th & 14th)
627-1140
j/o

The Cubbyhole
438 Hudson (Morton St)
243-9079
A Neighborhood bar for gay
women & men,
D,T.'s Fat Cat
281 W, 12th St.
243-9041
Piano Bar, Mixed M/F
Duchess II
70 Grove St (7th Ave.)242-1408Women]'s
675 Hudson St.
242-9292
j/oJulius159 W. 10th St.
929-9672
Serving Coors, Coors Lite, &Coors Draft.
Keller's
384 West St. (at Christopher)243-1907
Kelly's Village West46 Bedford St.
929-9322
Piano Bar

The Locker Room
400 W, 14th St. (9th Ave)459-42~j/oMarie's Crisis
59 Grove St. (7th Ave)
243-9323
Piano Bar
The Monster
80 Grove St. (7th Ave.)924-3558
Piano Bar / Dancing
Nimbus 22
22 7th Ave, South
691-4826
Danching, pinball, pool,loungeNinth Circle
139 W, 10th St.
243-9204
Ramrod185 Christopher St.
Sneakers
392 West St.
242-9830
Two Potato
145 Christopher St.
242-9340
Ty's
114 Christopher St.
. 741-%41
Uncle Charlie's
56 Greenwich Ave,
255-8787
Video Bar

CHELSEA

Barbary Coast
64 7th Ave. (14th St.)
675-0385
The Break
232 8th Ave, (22nd St.)
627-0072
Chelsea Transfer
131 8th Ave. (bet. 16th &17th)929-7183
Eagle's Nest
142 11th Ave (21st St.)691-8451
Leather / Levi's
Private Eyes.
12 W, 21st St. (bet. 5th & 6th)
206-7770
Dancing, Video Club
Rawhide212 8th Ave(21st St.)
Leather / Levi's
Spike
120 11th Ave.
243-9688
Leather & Uniforms
Tracks19th St. & 11th Ave,
Dancing
COMING SOON:ENTIRELY BIASEDREPORTS FROM A
BUNCH OF OUTWEEKSTAFFERSAS THEYCRAWL THROUGH
THE DENS OF THE
NIGHT.

The Cubbyhole
438 Hudson Street
at Morton(212) 243-9079
A neighborhood bar forboth gay men & women

DO THE WRITE THING
Your checkbook can change the world. So
however much-or little-you can afford,
please support your community
organizations. Or they might not be aroundto support you.

COlll111unity Directory
To list your non-profit
organization in our community directory, call Tom
Eubanks at 212/685-5277.

EDGE
For the physically disabled Lesbian and Gay
Community.
(212) 989-1921
P.O.Box 305 Village Station, New York, NY
10014

A.C.Q.C.
AIDS CENTER OF QUEENS'COUNTYSOCIAL SERVICES· EDUCATION· BUDDIESCOUNSELING· SUPPORT GROUPS
Volunteer Opportunities(718) 896-25OO(voice) (718) 896-2985(TDD)

FRONT RUNNERS
A running club for lesbian and gay athletesof all abilities. Fun Runs of 1-6 miles held every
Sat at lOam and Weds. at 7pm in Central Parkand every Tues. at7pm in Prospect Park.
For information: call (212) 724-9700.

ACT UP (AIDS ClNllltion to Unllash Power)
496A Hudson Street, Suite G4 NYC 10014(212) 989 -1114
A diverse, non-partisan group of individuals
united in anger and committed to direct action
to end the AIDS crisis. Gen. meetings Mon.
. nights 7:30, the Community Center 208 W.13th.

THE FUND FORHUMAN DIGNITY
National Gay and Lesbian Crisis Une'AIDS 800' ---1-800-S0S-GAYS
Educational Resource Center; Positive Images
Media Center; NY State Arts Program
BmB'way Suite410NYt,NY10012 (212)529-1600

LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSEAND EDUCAnON FUND
Precedent-setting litigation nationwide forlesbians, gay men and people with AIDS.
Membership ($35 and up) includes newsletterand invitations to special events. Volunteer
night on Thursdays. Intake calls: 2-4pm "Monthru Fri(212) 995-8585

THE GAY ARlICAN AMERICANS .
OFWESTCHESTER(Tb1 GA.A.)
is a com~unity based support group formed in
Westchester County. Various activities areplanned for the coming months.
Please call 914-376-0727 for more info.

THE LESBIAN AND GAY BIG APPLE CORPS
Get your instrument out of the closet and comeplay with us. Symphonic, Marching, Jazz, Dixieland, Rock, Rute Ensembles and Woodwinds.
123West 44th St Suite 12L New York, NY
10036 (212) 869-2922.

GlAAD
Gay & Le.llian Allianci Against Defamation
aoVarick Street, NYC 10013 (212)966-1700
GLAAD combats homophobia in the media andelsewhere by promoting visibility of the lesbian
and gay community and organizing grassroots
response to anti-gay bigotry.

LESBIAN & GAY
COMMUNtTY SERVICES CENTER
208 West 13th Street New York, NY 101111(212) 620-7310
9am-11pm every~ay.
A place for community organizing and networking, social services, cultural programs,
and social events sponsored by the Center andmore than 150 community organizations.

ARCS (AIDS-Related Community Services)for Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster and Westchester cOl,mties. AIDS
education, client services, crisis intervention,
support groups, case management, buddy andhospital visitor program.
214CennlIw. W1iIe PIai1s, NYlaDi(914) mam
IDS Broadway ,Newiugh. NY 122!il(914) $2-5005
AID SU.. (914) 993-G607
BAR ASSOCIAnON FORHUMAN RIGHTS
Lawyers Referral
Service for the Lesbian and Gay Com,munity
Full Range of Legal Services (212) 459-4873
BAR ASSOCIAnON FORHUMAN RIGHTSFree Walk-in Legal Clinic. Tuesday ~8 pm
Lesbian & Gay Community Centro Ground Roor
BODYPOSmVEIf you or your lover- has tested HIV+, we offer
support groups, seminars, public forums, reference library, referrals, social activities andup-to- date national monthly, 'THE BODY POSITIVE" ($l5/year).
(212) 633-1782.
2095 Broadway, Suite 306, NYC, NY 10023
CIRCLE OF MORE LIGHT
Spiritual support and sharing in a,gay/lesbian
affirmative grou p.
..
West-Park Presbytarian Church
165West 86th Street
Wed: worship service 6:30 p.m., program 7:30.
Marsha (212) 304-4373 Charlie (212)691·7118.
COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT
208 West·13th Street, NYC, New York 10011
For Appointments and Information (212) 6753559 PROVIDING CARING, SENSITIVE AND
LOW COST HEALTH CARE SERVICESTO THE
LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITYCONGREGAnON BETH SIMCHATTORAH
NY's Gay and Lesbian Synagogue Services
Friday at 8:30pm
57 Bethune Street
For info. call: (212) 929-9498.

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October 15, 1989

GAY MALE SIM ACTIVISTS
Dedicated to safe and responsible S/M since1981. Open meetings w/programs on S/M techniques, lifestyle issues, political and social
concerns. Also special events, speakers
bureau, workshops, demos, affinity groups,
newsletter, more. GMSMA -Dept 0, 496A Hudson Street, Suite 023 ,NYC 10014.
(212) 727-9878.
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS HOTUNEFORINFORMATION ON SAFERSEX AND HIVRELATEDHEALTH SERVICES,AND FOR INFORMATION ON ONE-TIME. WALK-IN AIDSCOUNSELING SERVICES
212-IIIHi655
212-i45-7470 TDD (For the Hearing Impaired~Mon.-Fri. 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sat ;2:00 to 3:00
HEA~ (Health Education AIDS UallOn)
Weekly info. and support group for treatments
for AIDS which do not compromise theimmune system further, including alternativeand holistic approaches.
Wed &pm. 208W. 13th St (212)674-HOPE.
HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE
for lesbian and gay youth. Counseling, drop-in
center (M-F, 3-6pm), rap groups, Harvey Milk
High School, AIDS and safer sex information,referrals, professional education.
(212) 633-89201voice)(212) 633-8926 TTYfor deaf

HISPANIC UNITED GAYS & LESBIANS
Educational services, political action, counselingand social activities in Spanish and English by
and for the Latino Lesbian and Gay Community.
General meetings 8:00 p.m. 4th Thursday of
every month at 208 West 13th Street
Call (212) 691-4181
or write H.U.G.L, P.O.Box 226 Canal Street
Station, New York, NY 10019.

LESBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS PROJECT
of the American Civil Ullertie. Union
KNOW YOURRIGHTS/WE'RE EXPANDINGTHEM(212) 944-9800, ext 545
LESBIANS AND GAYS OF FlATBUSH
Brooklyn's social organization for both gay
men and lesbians.'
P.O.Box 100, Midwood Station
Brooklyn, NY 11230(718) 859-9437
LONG ISLAND ACT-UP
P.O.Box 291, New Hyde Park, NY 11040
Support us for change on Long Island.
(516)338-4662 (516) 997-5238 Nassau(516) 928-5530 Suffolk
NATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN TASK FORCE
is the national grassroots political organization for lesbians and gay men, Membership is$3OIyear. Issue-oriented projects address violence, sodomy laws, AIDS, gay rights ordinances, families, media, etc. through lobbying,education, organizing and direct action.
NGLTF 1517 U Street NW, Washington, DC
20009. (202)332-6483.

NORTHERN UGHTS AlTERNATIVES
Improving Quality of life for People with
AIDS/HIV.
THEAIDS MASTERYWORKSHOP: Exploring
the possibilities of a powerful and creative lifein the face of AIDS. Call Jack Godby(212)337-8747
NYC GAY a LESBIAN
AN11-V10LENCE PROJECT
Counseling, advocacy, .and information for survivors of anti-gay and anti-lesbian violence,
sexual assault, domestic violence, and othertypes of victimization. All services free andconfidential.
24 hour hotline (212)807-0197
PEOPlf WITH AIDS COAUT10N(212)532-0290 / Hotline (212)532-0568
Monday thru Friday 10am-6pm
Meal programs, support groups, educationaland referral services for PWA's and PWArc's.
PEOPlf WITH AIDS HEALTlt GROUP
Underground buyer's club importing not-yetapproved medications and nutritional supplements. 31West 261hSt 4th Roor (212)532-0280
SAGE: (Senior Action in I Gey Environment)
Social Service Agency providing care, activities, and educational services for gay & lesbian senior citizens. Also serving over 160
homebound seniors and older PWA's . 208
West 13th St NYC 10011 (212)741-2247
ULSTER COUNTY GAY AND,LESBIANAWANCE
Meets first and third Monday of each monthat 7:30 p.m. atthe Unitarian Church on Sawkill
Road in Kingston.
For information, call (914)626·3203.

OUTW~~KClASSlfl~DS...

•. 'CA S Tl ECA R E INC.
Apartment Cleaning
67-69 Morton Street #4E, New York, NY 10014

OutWeek

Advertising/Classifieds 212/685-6398

This year, AIDS
will shatter thousandsof lives.
You could help put
one back together.
Volunteer buddies are needed forpeople with AIDS in Manhattan.
It's not an easy job. But it can be very rewarding.
Gay Men's Health Crisis, the world's first AIDS
organization, will provide the training, supervision and suppor~ you need to make a difference.
If you want to help put a life back together, pleasecall the GMHC Volunteer Office at 212-337-3593,(212) 685·6398 GAY

MEN'S

HEALTH
October15, 1989

CRISIS
OUTTWEEK59

COlll111unityDirectory
To list your non-profit
organization in our community directory, call Tom
Eubanks at 212/685-5277.

EDGE
For the physically disabled Lesbian and Gay
Community.
(212) 989-1921
P. O. Box 305 Village Station, New York. NY
10014

A.C.Q.C.
AIDS CENTEROF QUEENS COUNTYSOCIAL SERVICES· EDUCATION· BUDDIESCOUNSELING· SUPPORT GROUPS
Volunteer Opportunities(718) 896-25OO(voice) (718) 896-2985(TDD)

FRONT RUNNERS
A running club for lesbian and gay athletesof all abilities. Fun Runs of 1-6 miles held every
Sat at lOam and Weds. at 7pm in Central Parkand every Tues. at 7pm in Prospect Park.
For information: call (212) 724-9700.

ACT UP (AIDS Coalitlo. to Unlelsh Power)
496A Hudson Street. Suite G4 NYC 10014(212)989-1114'
A diverse, non-partisan group of indiyiduals
united in anger and committed to direct action
to end the AIDS crisis. Gen. meetings Mlln.
, nights 7:30, the Community Center 208 W.13th.

THE FUND FORHUMAN DIGNITY
National Gay and Lesbian Crisis Line"AIDS 800"ml-800-S0S-GAYS
Educational Resource Center; Positive Images
Media Center; NY State Arts Program
681B'way Suite410mc.NYlOO12 (212)529-1600

LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSEAND EDUCATlON FUND
Precedent-setting litigation nationwide forlesbians, gay men and people with AIDS.
Membership ($35 and up) includes newsletterand invitations to special events. Volunteer
night on Thursdays. Intake calls: 2-4pm 'Mon
thru Fri(212) 995-8585

THE GAY AFRICAN AMERICANS .
OFWESTCHESTER(The GA.A.)
is a community based support group formed in
Westchester County. Various activities areplanned for the coming months.
Please call 914-376-0727 for more info.

THE LESBIAN AND GAY BIG APPLE CORPS
Get your instrument out of the closet and comeplay with us. Symphonic, Marching, Jazz, Dixieland, Rock, Rute Ensembles and Woodwinds.
123West 44th St Suite 12L New York, NY
10036 (212) 869-2922.

GLAAD
GIY & Lesbiln Allilncl Aglilllt Dllamltiol
80 Varick Street NYC 10013 (212) 966-1700
GLAAD combats homophobia in the media andelsewhere by promoting visibility of the lesbian
and gay community and organizing grassroots
response to anti-gay bigotry.

lESBIAN & GAY
COMMUNtTYSERVlCES CENTER
208 West 13th Street New York, NY 10011(212) 620-7310
9am-llpm everyday.
A place for community organizing and networking, social services, cultural programs,
and social events sponsored by the Center andmore than 150community organizations.

ARCS (AIDS-Rellted Community Servicis)
for Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster and Westchester cOl,lnties. AIDS
education, client services, crisis intervention,
support groups, case management, buddy andhospital visitor program.
214CennlIwe.1MliIe PIai1s, m 1!lUi(914)!II3.(BJ)
838Broadway ,Newlugh, m 122!il (914)$2-5al5
AIDSIi_ (914)993-0607
BAR ASSOCIATlON FORHUMAN RIGHTS
Lawyers Referral
Service for the Lesbian and Gay Com,munity
Full Range of Legal Services (212) 459-4873
BAR ASSOCIATlON FOR'HUMAN RIGHTSFree Walk-in Legal Clinic. Tuesday ~8 pm
Lesbian & Gay Community Centr.' Ground Roor
BODY POSITIVE
If you or your love~ has tested HIV+, we offer
support groups, seminars, public forums, reference library, referrals, social activities andup-to- date national monthly, "THE BODY POSITIVE" (S1!ilyear).
(212) 633-1782.
2095 Broadway, Suite 306, NYC, NY 10023
CIRCLE OF MORE LIGHT
Spiritual support and sharing in a,gay/lesbian
affirm,ative grou p.
.'<West-Park Presbytarian Church
165West 86th Street
Wed: worship service 6:30 p.m., program 7:30.
Marsha (212)304-4373 Charlie (212)691-7118.
COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT
208 West·l3th Street, NYC, New York 10011
For Appointments and Information (212) 6753559 PROVIDING CARING, SENSITIVE AND
LOW COST HEALTH CARE SERVICESTO THE
LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITYCONGREGATlON BETH SIMCHATTORAH
NY's Gay and Lesbian Synagogue Services
Friday at 8:30pm
57 Bethune Street
For info. call: (212) 929-9498.

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OUTTWEEK

October 15, 1989

GAY MALE SIM ACTIVISTS
Dedicated to safe and responsible S/M since1981. Open meetings w/programs on S/M techniques, lifestyle issues, political and social
concerns. Also special events, speakers
bureau, workshops, demos, affinity groups,
newsletter, more. GMSMA -Dept 0, 496A Hudson Street Suite 023 ,NYC 10014.
(212) 727-9878.
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS HOTUNEFORINFORMATION ON SAFERSEX AND HIVRELATEDHEALTH SERVICES,AND FOR INFORMATION ON ONE-TIME. WALK-IN AIDSCOUNSELING SERVICES
21Z-80Ni655
212-645-7470 TDD (For the Helring Impaired~Mon.-Fri. 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sat; 2:00to 3:00
HEA~ (Health Educltion AIDS Ulis'on)
Weekly info. and support group for treatments
for AIDS which do not compromise theimmune system further, including alternativeand holistic approaches.
Wed &pm. 208W. 13th St (212)674-HOPE.
HmICK-MARTIN INSTITUTf
for lesbian and gay youth. Counseling, drop-in
center (M-F. 3-6pm), rap groups, Harvey Milk
High School, AIDS and safer sex information,referrals, professional education.
(212) 633-892O(voice)(212) 633-8926
for deaf

rrv

HISPANIC UNITED GAYS & LESBIANS
Educational services, political action, counselingand social activities in Spanish and English by
and for the Latino Lesbian and Gay Community.
General meetings 8:00 p.m. 4th Thursday of
every month at 208 West 13th Street
Call (212) 691-4181
or write H.U.G.L, P.O.Box 226 Canal Street
Station, New York, NY 10019.

LESBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS PROJECT
of the Americln Civil Uberties Union
KNOW YOURRIGHTS/VIIE'RE EXPANDINGTHEM(212) 944-9800, ext 545
LESBIANS AND GAYS OF FlATBUSH
Brooklyn's social organization for both gay
men and lesbians:
P.O.Box 100, Midwood Station
Brooklyn, NY 11230(718) 859-9437
LONG ISLAND ACT-UP
P.O.Box 291, New Hyde Park, NY 11040
Support us for change on Long Island.
(516)338-4662 (516) 997-5238 Nassau(516) 928-5530 Suffolk
NAnONAL GAY AND LESBIAN TASK FORCE
is the national grassroots political organization for lesbians and gay men. Membership is
t!JJIyear. Issue-oriented projects address violence, sodomy laws, AIDS, gay rights ordinances, families, media, etc. through lobbying,education, organizing and direct action.
NGLTF 1517 U Street NW, Washington, DC
20009. (202)332-6483.

NORTHERN UGHTS AlTERNATIVES
Improving Quality of ute for People with
AIDS/HIV.
.
THEAIDS MASTERYWORKSHOP: Exploring
the possibilities of a powerful and creative lifein the face of AIDS. Call Jack Godby(212)337-8747
NYC GAY & LESBIANANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT
Counseling, advocacy, and information for survivors of anti-gay and anti-lesbian violence,
sexual assault, domestic violence, and othertypes of victimization. All services free andconfidential.
24 hour hotline (212)807-0197
PEOPlf WITH AIDS COAUTlON(212)532-0290 / Hotline (212)532-0568
Monday thru Friday 10am-6pm
Meal programs, support groups, educationaland referral services for PWA's and PWArc's.
PEOPlf WITH AIDS HEALT1tGROUP
Underground buyer's club importing not-yetapproved medications and nutritional supplements. 31West 26th St 4th Roor (212)532-0280
SAGE: (Senior Action in I Gay Environment)
Social Service Agency providing care, activities, and educati<lnal services for gay & lesbian senior citizens. Also serving over 160
homebound seniors and older PWA's . 208
West 13th St NYC 10011 (212)741-2247
ULSTER COUNTY GAY,AND, LESBIANAWANCE
Meets first and third Monday of each monthat 7:30 p.m. atthe Unitarian Church on Sawkill
Road in Kingston.
For information, call (914)626-3203.

OUTW~~KClASSlfl~DS

1M•. 'CA S·Tl E CA R E INC.
Apartment Cleaning
67-69 Morton Street #4E, New York, NY 10014

OutWeek

Advertising/Classifieds 212/685-6398

This year, A~DS' ,will shatter thousandsof lives.
You could help put
one back together.
Volunteer buddies are needed forpeople with AIDS in Manhattan.
It's not an easy job_But it can be very rewarding_
Gay Men's Health Crisis, the world's first AIDS
organization, will provide the training, supervision and suppor~'you need to make a difference_
If you want to help put a life back together, pleasecall the GMHC Volunteer Office at 212-337-3593_(212) 685·6398 GAY

MEN'S

HEALTH
October15. 1989

CRISISOU~WEEK

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ANSWERINGSERVICES

NYC'S FINEST
CALL FORWARDANSWERING SERVICEIS
GAY-OWNEDPROTOCOL(212)645-3535

RENT RITE REALTY CORP.
Reasonable Fees, YEAH!
Serving all of Downtown(Uptown on.Occassion,)529-1005

West 10's Three's Company
Very Large 5 Room W/garden
11/2 Bathroom $2100
Call Rob now 268-4505

APARTMENT CLEANING

APARTMENT SHARECASTLE CARE, INC,NORTHPORT VILLAGE
Share apartment wI one other gay
male, (living room, kitchen, bath), own
bedroom, one block to beach, situatedin village with everything. 2 miles to
LlRR. Available immediately. $450/mo.
plus 1/2 electric, Call Joe: 516/754-4996

Apartment & Office Cleaning.
Gay Owned. Reliable.
We are available 7 days andevenings.
CALL (212) 807-8739.
HARDWORKING!
Reliable young man will clean yourapartment, care for pets, plants,
apartment sit, etc. Reasonable Rates.
Legit calls only please,
Excellent references upon request.
. Call Tim (718)726-8668
TRIBECAI SOHOIVILLAGE AREA
Apartment Cleaning
Seasoned Sober Individual
EUZABETH(718) 398-2860

APARTMENTS

FOR RENT

BEST OF THE WEST
West so's off Columbus
RENOVATED STUDIO
Only $800
Call Rob now 268-4504

CHEAP RENTALS
Several East Village 1 Bedrooms from
$323.06 to $901.00 per month. Won't lastCall Tony Czebatul.
WALSCOTT COMPANY. 460-9999(rlS.) 420-8001
FURNISHED APARTMENT-BROOKLYN
Large, furnished one bedroom
apartment in Aatbush section, Neartrans. Includes gas. Has garden andyard. $500 per month plus security.
Call (212) 794-87SO,

GORGEOUS GROVE STREET
Large Studio $958
Why haven't you called yet?
•Call Rob now 268-4504

JERSEY CITY-JOURNAL SO.PATH
4 rm. apt, heat and hot water; clean,freshly painted and carpeted, goodneighborhood, easy street parking.
$525/month plus 11/2 month securityNO FEE. Call Between 6-11 p.m,(201)432-3893.

ASTROLOGY
OUTWEEK'S ASTROLOGER,
ESOTERICA
Private Consultation for Horoscope andTarot Card Readings
Leave message for Esoterica Porcelanade Zodiaca. (212) 724-2S00.

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chest, 32· waist, SIP
beard
and
hair,
healthy, imaginative &sane, prefers long,steamy, intense oral
service from equallybu(ch guys. Hairy,
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turn-on, but If you're a
hot bottom & would
love to give great headto this beefy, masculine guy, write me.
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returned: C.J .. P.O.
Box 20616, Col. Cir.
Sta. NYC 10023.
INTELLIGENCE

Very Intelligent, very
handsome W/M, 35,
135, 5'8·, Br/BI, masculine with no affectations. Lookingforanother bright, natural
guy. Mark, Box 703,
FOR Station, NYC NY
10150.
MUSCULARSLAVE

GWM, 37, 1901 wants
you for his slave.
Friendly Master wants
to dominate you for his

pleasure and possibly
yours. You should bevery muscular. Largeendowment a plus but
notnecessary.
Responses
withexplicit photo and letter, phone , answered
first. London Terrace
Station '20276, NYC,
10011.
SUBMISSIVE

WM,

40, 5'9", 145, dancer's
body,
will
wear
panties, nylons, highheels, etc., for donia!)!
hung men. Discreet,
kinky dates at yourplace, NYC only. Lee,POB 146, Prince St.
Station, NYC 10012.
GWM,27,

BANKER,

5'10·,
155
lbs.,
brnlgrn, friendly, handsome,intelligent,
healthy, interested infriends and/or relationship with someone
5'11· or over with similar qualities.For fun
with friends I likerestaurants, movies,
theatre, clubs, beach,travelling overseas,etc. I am fairly careeroriented and serious
but into having fun

whenever possible,
and most of the time
my job doesn't get in
the way of my personallife. I would desaibe
myself as caring, supportiveandfun.
Please write and tellme about yourself. PK,
Box
1622,
NYC
10025.
INTIMACY

Always need to beworking on it. At 32,
5'5·, 115 lbs., br. h &e, I am firmly established in my appearance, yet not set in
mjy ways. Intermittent
ACT-UPer, wholikes tosing and when on my
own watches latenight & Sunday morning t.v., seeks guy who
also enjoys the artsand politics. Want tomeet, go out, and-only
if we're both into it·
have sex. Greatercommitment desirable,
but not with anyone
and only with sometime. Reply to P.O.
Box 20079, NYC.
10009.
PEACH OF A GUY

Looking for someone

intelligent, affectionate, loyal, employed,adorable, fuckable?
This GWM, 32, 5'11",
155',
brown/bluew/stache, HIV- (safesex only), likes keeping his man happy,
horny, satisfied, andcoming back for more.
If you're a tall GWM,
33-44, serious, who
can envision shacking
up with another guy
for a coupleof
decades, send me aletter. OutWeek Box
1333
BI WHITE MALE

Good-looking,verywell-built, muscular,
straight-acting/appearing guy, 36, 6', 170
Ibs.
Professional,
healthy and discreet
seeks similar professional well-built masculine guy for friendship and safe goodtimes. Can be free
weekdays. Box 2479,
NY, NY 10185.
COCKSUCKER

Hot, horny handsome
GWM, 37,5'7·,
165
Ibs., brnlbrn brd wants
to suck men, 18·40.

Let me wet your dick.
496-A Hudson St. F48, NY, NY 10014.
SEEKS

FRIENDSWhite male couple,
early 40's, healthy
non-smokers looking
to expand social circles, seeks other couples. Enjoy theatre,
restaurants, day trips,
home entertaining.
Please write to: P.O.
Box 1636, New York,NY 10185-0014.
KRAZY

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answer all so please
include photo if you
have one. I will recip·
rocate.

Beautifulboyish
GWM-30/100ks
20.
5'7"/1201brnlhzl·sleek,
sensual,sensuous
cat, seeks extra handsome champion pedigree. dog-GWM, 2535. Muscles, sideburns, sexy eyes hidden behind glasses,
and hairy and/or bow
legs a plus. Must haveshots,
no worms.
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Terriers,
GermanShepherds, and Great
Danes welcome. No
Huskies or Poodles,
please. Outweek Box
1258
HIV+

Attractive Med Student, 30 yo, 5'9·, 155,
seeks masc M toshare quality time. I
love the Mets, walks inthe park, cuddling,cats, quiet eves athome, walking acrossthe Brooklyn Bridge,
theatre, cooking andgoodbooks.
You
should be content withquality over quantity,
Romantic and supportive. Bklyn res. or Italian/Latin a plus. T.P.
Box 7047, FOR Station, NYC, 10150. Will

RSVP

I'm a successful,secure,admittedly
shy, GWM, 42, 5'8·,
144, and fit. Born withgood looks, acquired
tenderness,
selfawarenessand aromantic
outlook:
request the responseof attractive monogamy-oriented guys
for a quality life of
playfulness and sen·suality. Will exchange
photos.
P.O. Box
20141, NYC 10028·
9991.
1 T01
relationship desired.
WM, bl/bl, 29, 5'4·,
135, good-looking,warm, sensitive, caring, reall Looking forsomeone special, 2535, who is honest,
energetic, intelligent,
romantic, etc. to build
meaningful monogamous relationship.
Please send a letterand photo (if possible)
to P.O. Box 7166, FDR
Station,
NYC, NY
10150.
GBM, 20. NYU

Attractive, earthy stu·
dent seeks similar
masculine, witW guy
for warmth and special
friendship.
Latins,Europe~ns (French),
Carribeans a big +.
Genuine replies only.
Box
996,
New
Rochelle, NY 10801.
FRIEND/LOVER

GWM, 29, 5'4·, 135,
BI/bl, good-looking,intelligent,
shy,
healthy-not into bar
scene because I'm
shy-l find it hard meet·ing people. My tastes
are varied-music, fiim,
theatre, parties, dane·ing, reading, country
drives, antiques, quiet
evenings. I seek along term friendship/
relationship w/someone I can count on to
be there. If U R 28·36,
trim, good-looking,intelligent, masculine,
sensitive and easygoing, please respondw/photo and phoneand detailed letter to
P.O. Box 7166, FOR
Station, New York, NY
10150. Thanks.

I NEEOA MAN
who'D take a chance ...
on being open, aware,close, safely intimate,a friend. Possible relatlonshipllove
candevelop w/time-work.
Sure, we all have preferences; but, life's too
short to get hung up
on absolutes/attitudes
that are unrealistic. rm
a non-perfect, noncretin, nice bottom
GWM, 45, 5'7", 210
who seeks a basically
top similar
male.
Write: P.O. Box 4547,
L.I. City, NY 11104,
PEACH OF A GUY
Looking for someone
Intelligent, affectionate, loyal, employed,adorable, fuckable?
This GWM, 32, 5'11,
15S., brown /bluew/stache, HIV- (safe sexonly), likes keeping his
man happy, horny, satisfied, and comingback for more. If
you're a tall GWM, 3344, serious, who canenvision shacking up
with another guy for acouple of decades.
Send me a letter. Outweek Box 1268
HANDSOME GWM,
246', 150, br/br, swi m.mer's build. Do you
like dancing and Dvorak; the Met and theMets; moonlight&stagelights; working
out & sleeping in? Are
your tastes eclectic? If
you are tired of bars
and looking for new
friends or more, writewith photo and phone
to: Outweek Box 1270
PART 1 OF3
GWF, 22, seeks matesfor self and best friend(also roomie), GWM,
24: Both Taurus (andstubborn), "our since
early teens, long timefriends. Frequently
lazy,
sometimes
bitchy, and always lotsof fun. Looking especially for other pairs
like us, but singles
okay. No bi's, bores, or"confused". Must bepolitically aware if notactive. Photos a mustl
We may already know
youl (Phones optional).
Allrepliesanswered. See part 2
and 3. Outweek Box
1271

PART TWO OF
THREE
GWF, 22, 5'6", dark
hair/eyes, butch/fem
depending on attire
and situation. Hatesports, eat red meatand smoke, but don't'
do drugs; quiet except .
when complaining but
friendly, compassionate and cute.Needs:
Outgoing GF, 5'2"-5'6",
21-35, who can laughand cry with me, likes
music and dancing.
Must be modern and
N.Y. oriented. See
also parts one andthree. OutWeek Box
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closet Romantic withan unequalled senseof humor. Very I»pularand used to being thecenter of attention butvery giving and caring.
Happy with flowers ;and a phone call.
Needs: Strong, silent
type, long dark hair,
5'4"-5'10",
18-25(30?).
Must have
patience, pretty eyes,
and a steady job. See
also parts one andtwo. OutWeek Box
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guys
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NYC/AREABKLYN PREFERRED.
Ph/Ph please. David,
P.O. Box 30221, NYC,
NY 10011.
BARE BUTT SPANK
by small guy, 5'5", 115#, 32. Bend over theback of my couch. Rollaround on my carpet.
Straddle across myknee. Beg for more.
Now tell me why you
need it. Box 20079,
NYC 10009. E. Village.
LONDON ENGLAND
Handsome Irishmanjust returned fromvacation in New York
City. Would like verymuch to keep in touchwith some friendly
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knowswhatmaydevelop I An uncomplicated, fun friendship is
all I ask. Write withphoto to: Joe Kelly,
Flat 24, Grosvenor
Court, 75 Christchurch
Avenue, London England, NW.6. 7NXSEEK LIFEMATE
WM, 3t, attr, 155, br.
hr., hazel eyes, seekshusky, bulky, possessive guy for old-fashioned romantic 1 to 1
sex only. I crave
humping and erotic
talk, my interests
include photog., video,
sci-fi films and t.V.
(avid trekker). DCH,
P.O. Box 1401 Cooper
Station,NY,NY10276.
HOT ITAL BB BTM
Just leaming to take itand I love to give il.
How about you? Helpme teach him how
much he can take.
We're mid-30's-hol. If
you're hung, attr and
under
40,
send
photo/phone to P.O.
Box 150, Prince Street
Station, NYC 10012.

FUN/BRIGHT/PAS.
SIONATE,GWM, 42, handsome
and fit looking to meetsimilar attractive guys
who understand that
tendemess and laughter are the keys to loveand sex. You are playful and stable for thelong run. Ph/ph to P.O.
Box 20141, NYC,
1OO2S-999f.
HISPANIC GWM
Goodlooking 22, 5'5·,135 Ibs, lean, youthful,carefree,mature.
Healthy oudook on life.
Love to dance, bike,skate, touch, learn.
Am artist, masculine,
non-smoker. Looking
for for others with similar interesis and more.
Outweek Box 1286
VINTAGE 1948
Handsome GWM, hlthprof, 5'S·, 150 #, BVbr,native NY sks mate togive quality loving
when I'm home from ahard day at the hospital. I love Aretha,
Bach, theatre and film.
I do have wonderfulfriends and family butlacka husband.

LES
HamES
baa• shoP•TOWN VIIKO MUS,N:.

Whars life without caring for someone special and letting themcare for you? Left politics and sense ofhumor
essential. ..
Please senll.pi'!Oto (ifpossible),phone.
WriteOutweek
Box
1287
BEASTMASTER
Feel like an animal
during sex? Hypnosis-.
may let you feel as if
you are really transforming. I am goodlooking or better. Send
letter and photo(face)to DH, P.O. Box 35014S, Brooklyn, NY
11235-0003.
S+M ROMANCE
Handsome GtBtM, 34,seeks GM 25-50, forsafe healthysamromance. All serious
replies. Ans. right nowl
Photo/phone to: P.O.
Box 314, New York
City 10009.
BEYOND THE
STARS
GWM, 34, 5'9·, 150,
brn/brn,muscled,seeks partner interested in relationship/friendship. Our Interests include gym,
sports, theatre, art,
movies, reading, travel, skiing and beach.
We compliment eachother as winners, areboth professionals,
successful, very goodlooking, masculine,
smart, secure, know
who we are and into
personal growth. If you
are 26-40 and meet
my criteria, please
send phone # andphoto and written
response for a reply.
Outweek Box 1291
DOUSKATE·
BOARD?
GWM, blonde, blue,
29. My religion is
Industrial
Design.
Weaknesses for: steel
blue eyes, music of
the Simple Minds, airwalking on ramps or
streets, and systems
using MS-DOS as the
keys. User friendly
from downtown arts to
Uptown stars. Gentlemen: VGA Display &640 K (good looks andsmarts) recommended; modem input w/
postscript. output(phone with photo)desired; Macintosh
support (different interests) welcomed; copy
protected (no moustached clones). Joystick required. Outweek Box 1298
LOOKING FORWARD
to Romantic nights infront of fire, candlelightdinners and special
friendships GWM, 32,
6'2", 200, bluetblondeseeks similar nsmkr.,
profl, to share life, loveand especially laughter. Ph/ph to Outweek
Box 1299
NATURAL BODIES
WM, 27 y.o., 6', 170
lb., slim build, ruddy
complexion, pleasantface, very long redhair. Long time celibate interested in dating. Prefer WM, darkhair (balding fine),paunchy or chunkybuild. Good attitude
and easy-going. Kindly
direct replies to: Outweek Box 1300
FALL ROMANCE
GWM,
32,
6'3·,
hndsm, prof and at hi

swimmer's build seeks
similar GWM, deanaJt
for fall Romance, funand exploration ofthe
physical and spiritual.
Hot times are waiting,so send your ph/ph
ASAP. Outweek Box
1301
TEN GlBIWM'S SEEK
like, trim, masculine,
health-conscious,
greagrious for monthly
meetings
midtown
hotel suite. Send note
& SASE: P.O. Box.
6653 FDR, NY, NY
10150.
HANDSOME AND
HUSKY
Latin, 31 years old,
5'9·, perf. artist,mal.,educ'd, HIV+, healthy,
sensual. U R: mal.,masc., hung top w/
varied interests into
big guys for fun androm. Serious + loving
men 30-45 a plus.
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green things and solitude.
You:2535/brains/sexy/goodkisser/like Jukebox at
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Outweek Box 1321

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Two hot GWM buddies, 3O-15H with gym
bodies, seek same foruninhibited, exclusive
safe sex party. Greatpees, arms, smiles aplus-couples welcome.
Foto/fone to PO Box
149, Cathedral Station, 10025.

ONLY THE BESTWILL DO
for this x-tra handsome WM 25, 5'-11",
160, hot body, I seek
only the hottest, best
looking, in shape, G,
Bi, Married men forsteamy,creative,2somes, 350mes, 4(?)
into role playing, locker room scenes, otherhot fantasies. Send
photo (a must), phone
and turn ons to Box
1298, NYC 10185.
Don't be disappointed
again-write now.

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lor
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Box 326, New Iii""
NY 10040.

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I've enjoyed bulking
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like to meet Qtherswith similar interests
for one or both of us.
Besides food, I'm
Interested in architecture, film, theater, travel, and big city life,
Please be GWM toage 44, phone a must.
Photo a plus. Chasers
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New York, NY 10021.

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BRlHazel 40yrs very
oral into safe sex + hottimes send PH/PH to
POB 20446 London
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York, NY 10011. Letme lick you allover, I'lltreat you right.
FAT AND SASSY
GWM
37, 5'11", 190', interested in meeting avery fat GM for fun,sex and possible relationshipl Replies withphoto answered first.
No weight limit, thelarger the better, themore to love. LTS
20053 New York, NY
10011.
P·TOWN WINTER
Hot blond facing lonely
winter seeks stimulation. I am 29, BIIBI, 6',
160 Ibs. of lean, hardmuscle. Spiritual, sensual smart and fun.
Open to anything fromphone sex to serious
relationship. Send me
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dreams, fantasies-I
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478, 496 LaGuardia
Place, NYC 10012.

GWF TOGETHER
30 something, smart,easygoing,
Italian/Scorplo,feminist,
healthy,
happy,
cool/warm/hot,oldfashioned
valuesmixed w/ wide streakof bohemianism seeksemot. healthy, softhearted, hot-blooded
woman for life partnershipspicedwithbeaches, brunches,
friends,
media(bookstmagstfilmsteven t.v.!), all performing
arts ( rm a prof. stage
manager), changes,
choices,
hystericallaughter, wild sex,
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FLOWER OF THE
MOUNTAIN
Yes, when I put therose in my hair like theAndalusian girls used
to or shall I wear ared. Yes, and how hekissed me under the
Moorish Wall and I
thought, "Well, as wellit's him as another ..'and then I asked him
with my eyes to ask
again and then heasked me would I say
yes, my Mountain
Flower ... GWM, 28,
mystical, smart, has
Ideals, open heart,surevoice.
Photo/phone to PO
Box 401157, Brooklyn,
NY 11240.
GWF, 30, VERYPRETIYfunny, faithful, complex, moody, matur",sarcastic, selective.
I'm semi-normal, not, into gay scene, clubs,roles, or men. Searching for a goodlooking,unpretentious, older(30-42) woman withvalues and an off thewall sense of humour,
who isn't dykey, tall, bi,easy, or a funloving
partier.
Redheads,
dark-eyed brunettes,
accents, kids, and big
breasts are a plus.
Recent photo and letter if you're for real,'cause I am. P.O. Box3092, Clifton,
NJ
07012. Manhattan or
Jersey preferred.

HEY DYANI
Happy Birthday to you
Hope your dreams callcome true. May thisyear find you happy,
and all the years tocome too. (did you
sing?)(sometimes
corny Is the only way)
Love ya, KATHIEASIAN STUDS
Chubby GWM, baby·
faced, 39, 5'5", 200,
clean-shaven,hairychest and belly, br/br,
utc, seeks wt.blt., masculine GOM, "South
Asians" 4 safe, hot
action I
Midtown,
day/night Ph/ph 2 TJ,
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Importantly, there is a call toarms. Noting the understated "delays
and disappointments,·
it calls attention to the new federal AIDS commission manda~ed to push for research,treatment and vaccine development,
public education and care for people
with AIDS. Attempting to involve
directly, it asks that the viewer join
the mobilization to keep pressure on
Congress and the Administration tocarry out the commission's
mandate-and also to support the work of
AIDS organizations.
Leaving, theviewer passes this comment by HBO
chair and chief executive Michael
Fuchs: "The AIDS epidemic will beconquered, But an America that rallies
to the cause with understanding, concern and compassion will speed theend to this crisis, And save precious
lives." Along the wall are yahrtzeit
candles-withwhich Jews memorialize the dead.
For me The Quilt is akin to a college reunion, People close to me in
my undergraduate years at Michigan
State University-Rick Rapaport, Jim
Dawson,John Mathieson,
Ben
Lowery, Jim O'Connei and Scott Evan
Flack-have panels in the patchwork.
And though MSU friends Wade Keas,
Michael McDonald, Roy Reinholtz,
Steve Franklin and Michael Bennett
don't have panels at this writing, I
think of them as well,
After viewing The Quilt fourtimes, I didn't feel that I had tears left.
Yet going through the Parson's Exhibitof Response, seeing the ·panels ofJeffrey Sevcik and Dr, Waddell, andhearing the names I couldn;t help but
cry, I cried because I would neveragain be able to .sit with Wade overvodka tonics and sing to Cookie
Monster's I Left My Cookie at the Discoon Disco Sesame Street, I'd never hear
the Republicans. losing the WhiteHouse
on NPR's "All Things
Considered" with O'Connei over a big
pot of Earl Grey the way we listened
to reports of them taking it in 1980;
and never would Scott introduce me to
new music the way he introduced me
to Bob Marley and Jane Olivor whileliving at the Sigma Alpha Mu house. I.cried because The Quilt reminds me ofbeautiful things lost forever.
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Danny grapples with the filmmaker'S
unapologetic desire and a longing
brought about by the AIDS crisis.
Kalin's taP!'!revises compulsory heterosexuality and the AIDS crisis against ahomo-romantic and homo-sexual retaliation with appropriated and original
footage cut together.
Tom Rubnitz's Made For TV
makes a good pair with Barbaranana
by Kapra Fleming, In the former, Ann
Magnuson satirizes a multitude ofwomen characters (all of them white).
In Barbaranana, the media coverageof AIDS and condom etiquette is satirized in a public service announcement about bananas called "Food forThought."
Suggestions for how toapproach your banana, how to choose
it, how to peel it, how to eat it, and soon, ends with a woman posing in abanana dress,
Julie Zando's tape, I Like GirlsFor Friends, stands out as the narrator's masochistic desire takes her on aquest for love. In a seductive whisper
Zando explains why she would
choose to go to a movie with awoman before a man, as well as why
she still wants her girlfriend, eventhough she beat her for three of theirfour years together. (I'm sorry there
aren't more "lesbian" tapes-ones
made by and for lesbian&-in this festival. I'm sorry the rest of the tapes
leave me feeling like boy's are getting
the one over on us again.)
Other work includes Suburban
Queen, by Mindy Faber, which
images a daughter (the filmmaker)
wanting her mother to be a heroine,
an amazon, maybe someone more
like herself, a Suburban Queen,
Instead, her mother asks, "If you wear
only one earring does that mean
you're a homosexual?" "Does everyone in Chicago dress like that?" Faber
tells us in the voice-over, "She takes apill to start the day and one to end
it..." The Mom Tapes, by Ilene
Segalove, is a brief off-screen dialogue between an impatient motherand a whinny daughter; what should I
do today if I don't want to sit down
and have a conversation with you?
Joan
Does Dynasty,
by Joan'B'raderman
and
Paper
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collectives favorites as Joan questions
why "100 million people in 78 countries welcome this department store of
dressed-to-kill aliens into their homes
every week?"
These three tapes are primeexamples of my confusion over thedefinition of gay and lesbian video,
which doesn't mean the work isn't
good or that queers shouldn't try to
see this stuff ... But why only boy
films? Why am I almost done withthis review before I find a girl tapehidden in' the midst of so much maleglory? My problem with Meyers' programming is not only that there are so
few tapes by women, but fully half of
those programmed aren't by lesbians
and/or don't really seem to be
involved in "lesbian issues," Is thisindicative of the response by lesbians
to the call for tapes? Are there reallyfewer lesbian tapes available, being
made? That is partly true. But also,
when I discussed this with Meyers,
she said that she not only wanted toprovide educational and entertaining
work, but that she was organizing her
thoughts around the idea of a "Gayand Lesbian Audience," and "whatthey would like to see."
Sure, thes'e tapes are good,should be seen, and for the most part,haven't been seen, Low-budget video
productions need as many screening
venues as possible and DCfV remains
in the forefront of places to do justthat. However, why not just call her
two days "a cool video festival,"
where most of the tapes just happen
to be made by queers and the rest by"feminists?"~
The next two screenings are on Oct.
10 and 13. For more information,
call Maria Beatty at DCIV, 966-4510

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FUND and NATIONAl. GAY ANDLESBIAN TASK FORCE ·Congresslonal Updates The Status
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New Yo"CONGREGATION BE1H SIMCHAT TORAH Yom Kippur Day
Service, at 9 amj and Mlncha(Yom Kippur Afternoon) Service, at 4:30 pm, concluding justafter sunsetj 57 Bethune St (nearWest St), 929-9498

WOMEN ABOUT CUt-off date
for Flat Rock Brook Nature
Sanctuary trip; 201/481-0440
POSITIVE ACTION OF NEWYORK ForoOl: Slowing the Pr0gression of HIV Infection, discussion on medical treatment
strategies with Drs. JonathanGold, Jeffrey Laurence, Barbara
Starren, Fred Valentine, Danlel
William, moderated by Dr,
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CENTER presents Brad Gooch,author of Jail Bail and Other Stories, reading with actors Carlos
Jimenez, Michael Milan, Will
Robinson and Afton Smith fromhis new novel, Scary Kisses, 208
W 13 St, 8 pm, $3, 62(}7310

1HE NAMES PROJECT and
LAMBDA LEGAl. DEFENSE &EDUCATION FUND NY Premiere of the HBO Film: Common Threads, Stories from theQui/:, direaed by Rob Epsteinand Jeffrey Friedman and narrated by Dustin Hoffmanj a benefit
for both organlationsj at Florence
Gould Hall, Alliance Francaise, 55
E 59 St {btwn Park & Madison)j 7
pm reception, 8 pm screeningj$35j reservations with Lambda,
995-8585
GAY FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS
present Frankie's Boys In Concert, performing Gershwin,
Sondheim and Porter at a Cabaret
MondaYj 415 7th St (btwn 6th &7th Aves), Park Slope, Brooklynj
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OUT.-WEEKWOMEN ABOUT CUt-off datefor Night Batbeque andHayride In JlUj 201/481-0440
NATIONAl. COMING OUT DAY"a day to be truthful, powerfuland liberated. It Is a day for eachof us, and each of our organizations, to take our next step In theprocess of coming out.' (Editor's
suggestions: Wear a bunon. Comeout to a friend, enemy or relative.
Write an honest entry in yourdiary. Design a gay/lesbian history or literature course. Ask apolitician about partnershiprights. Fly a rainbow flag. Read
OUTWEEK on the subway. Kiss
your lover at the airport. Display
hislher picture on your desk atwork. Tell your 6th-grade teacher
to stop saying, "When you get
married ..,") Info: 5051982-2558,

October 15, 1989

KAnIEXIS COVEN Open Circle
Meditation and Ritual marking
the Full Moon and in praise of
the God/dessj in the Center's garden, 208 W 13 Stj 7-7:30 pmj $lj
620-7310

GAY MEN'S HEAL1H CRISIS Men
Meeting Men Workshop, "anevening to enhance self-confidence and Increase the ability tonegotiate safer sex with potential
partners,' at the Center, 208 W 13
Stj 8-10 pmj free, no pre-registration requlredj 807-6655, TOO
645-7470
GAY MALES/M ACTIVISTSMeetInJI Exquisitely Excrudatlng
Experiences, with Bob Buckleyof Australia discussing sensuous"abrasion triPS"j at the Center, 3rd
Floor, 208 W 13 Stj 8:30 pmj $5j
727-9878
EAGLE BAR Movie Nights The
Nalted Gunj 142 11th Ave (at 21
St)j 11 pmj 691-8451

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NATIONAl. ORGANIZATION FORWOMEN March on Washington
New YorAr
WOMEN ABOUT CUt-off date for
Millbrook Mt. HIke; 874-2104

SIECUS TralnIng Workshop for
Health Professionals on
HIV/ AIDS and Sexuality,
through Saturdayj HIV/AIDS
update, sexual concern$/attitudes,
homophobia, cross-cultura! concerns, N drug users and safer
sex, counseling. pregnancy
issues, safer sex education techniques, sexual issues for hospitaI$/hospices, taking a sexual
hlstoryj at NYU Loeb Center,laGuardia Place and Wash, Sq,
Southj 9 am - 4 pm 1H & F, 9 am
- 1 pm SAj $15j 673-3850

JUDITIf'S ROOM BOOKSTORE
presents carmen de Monteflores presenting Singing
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Bajito. 681

Washington St (btwn W 10 &Charles St)j 7 pmj free, but seating is limitedj 727-7330
LAMBDAINDEPENDENf
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Assembly Speaker Mel Miller,
who will discuss David Dinkins'
mayoral racej at Park Slope
Methodist Church, 6th Ave & 8th
St, Park Slope, Brooklynj 7:30
pmj 7181768-6187

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WOMEN ABOUT CUt-ofJ datefor Beginning Kyack CIInIcj
2011481-0440
SIECUS TraInIng Workshop for
Health Professionals on
HIV/ AIDS and Sexuality, seeThu~y,Oc~rI2
1HE OUTREACH INSTITIJTE presents Fantasia Fair through OcL
22j in Provincetown, esp. for
those of alternative gender
Iifestylesj including seminars on
legal, health, sociological,
lifestyle, and partner issuesj Town
and Gown supper, Fantasy Ball,
Awards Banquet, Fashion Showj
workshops for couples, personal
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Andetre, 718/499-8675

PEOPLE WI1H AIDS COAIJ1l0N
Singles' Tea, for PWAs, PWArcs,
HIV+s; 222 W 11 St, 3-5:30 pm;
532-0568

CONGREGATION BE1H SIMCHAT TORAH SUkkot Evening
Service, at 8:30 pm, 57 Bethune
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GAY MALE S/M ACIlVISfS Dungeon Demo Night, with"instruaive demonstrations ofabrasion, bondage, flogging andother lV'm techniques"; at Paddles(Zone DK), 540 W 21 St (near
11m Ave); 6-10 pm; 727-9878

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for Jamaica Bay BeglnnJng

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and campout;Range
874-2104

SmCUS Training Workshop for
Health Professionals
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MEN OF AIJ. COLORS TOGE1HER Annual Fall Membership
Retreat in Tuxedo; NY; at.
Arrow Park Inn, through Sunday;
info 245-6366, 222-9794
PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN
Last Day of "The QuUt:. Response to a National 'Crisis, •a multi-media exhibition docume~ting the lives of five people
with AIDS and the making of
The AIDS Memorial Quilt; at the
Exhibition Cehter, 2 W 13 St; 10
am: 6 pm; free
CONGREGATION BE1H SIMCHAT TORAH SUkkot Day Service, at 10 am, 57 Bethune St(near West St), 929-9498

CENTER SPORTS sees Champions on Ice, with Torvill andDean; at Madison Square Garden, 33rd St & 7th Ave; 7:30 pm;
members $35/non-members$45;620-7310
CENTERSHOWS at the Center,
208 W 13 St; 8 pm; 620-7310
WOMEN ABOUT Night of
Change: Sodal Dance Raffle, atTracks; with food from 8-9 pm,
raffle from 9-10 pm, disco from10 to midnight; 531 W 19 St; $10;
prize donations solicited; 7790269
BRONX LESBIANS UNITED IN
SISTERHOOD and TIlE CEN1ER
co-sponsor the 2nd Saturday
Dance, DJ Jerry Armstrong, cashbar, juice bat, snacks; 208 W 13
St; 9 pm - 1 am; $8/$6 members,
students and seniors; 620-7310(one free drink before 10 pm)
SPECTRUM DISCO presents
Seduction, singing Seduclion
and You're My One and Only.
802 64th St, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn(N Train to &h Ave stop);
718/238-8213

MARANATIIA: R1VERSIDERS FORLESBIAN/GAY CONCERNS

Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Excursion,
meeting at theentrance closest to the Brooklyn
Museum to enjoy the beautiful
fall flora, including the new glassconservatory; bring lunch fordining among the dahlias; 11 am;
2,3,5 Train to Bklyn Museum
stop; info 212/866-400
WOMEN ENrnRPRENEURS IN
BUSINESS Workshop:
MarketYour Business, "for lesbians
with their own businesses, ideas
or dreams"; materials andrefreshments provided; at theCenter, 208 W 13 St; 1-4 pm; $5
more/less if; 718/237-2399,
118/499-6984

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Fall Fundralslng
Event, 532-

0568
IDENTI1Y HOUSE History Day
and Reunion, where founding
members discuss their philosophy and vision of Identity House
for its participants and the community in the 1990s; all past andcurrent members invited; at theCenter, 208 W 13 St; 11 am - 6
pm; 243-8181
LAVENDER HEIGHTS Pot Luck,Book Sale a: Flea Market, at theCornerstone Center, 178 Bennett

October 15, 1989

Ave (at 189 St, Mnhtn); 6:30 pm;
all welcome; call Barbara Ray forinfo and directions, 567-4033
HERITAGE OF PRIDE Awards
Ceremony for floats, contingents and people in the PrideDay Parade IastJune; recipients
include Cave Canem's Glamour
Dykes, Imperial Court of New
York, the Center, ACf UP/NY,
Brooklyn Women's Martial Ans,
L&G Big Apple Corps Marching
Band, Gay Dating Game, Gay
Swimmers, Greater Gotham Business Council, Sober Together(the largest contingent), Arthur
Strickler, Red Mahoney, manyothers; at the Center, 208 W 13
St; 7 pm; 620-7310
HAPI'S BACKDOOR CABARET
presents Mrs.. Fashion andDavid IUku as Carol-Channing;at the Pyramid, 101 Avenue A(btwn 6th & 7th Aves}, midnightand 1 am shows, dancing till 4
am; $5; 420-1590

LAVENDERLIGHT GOSPEL
0I0lR Concert at Delta 88; 332&h Ave.at 26 St; 9:30 pm; 9243499
TIlE CLOSET CASE SHOW presents Jeffrey's Drug and Lie
Detector Test, in which our
young hero interviews for a job
working with the Kweerz Beer
Company; on Manhattan Cable'
1V Channel 16/C (if it's not censored); midnight (Editor'S note:the producer encourages you totape and share this show, foreducational and charitable purposes only)

FPES//AJ'
PROFESSIONALS IN
FILM/VIDEO present Lou Maletta, President of Gay Cable Network, who will discuss thegrowth of GCN and show
excerpts from new snows; lightrefreshments; at the Center, 208
W 13 St; 6:30 pm; $5; RSVP
required at 718/353-3006

NEW YORK AIDS COAIJ1l0N
Two-Day Conference:
The

Community Based Service System: An Answer to AIDS, highlighting the key role ofcommunity-based efforts in the
struggle against HIV/ AIDS; to beheld in Albany; write Susan
St2mler, NYS AIDS Coalition, 132
Nassau St, 2nd FI, NY, NY 10038
INSIGHr SEMINARS Gift oftbe
Hearl, a five-day seminar for
people with any stage of HIV
infeaion or other life-threatening
illness, to encourage "positive
personal growth in the face of
life's many challenges and circumstances"; significant others,
family and friends also invited;through October 22; $50; register431-7777SCRABBLE-PLAYERSCLUB
Game Night, newcomers should
bring a board; at the Center, 208
W 13 St; 8-11 pm; 570-9369
GAY MENS HEALlli CRISISErotJd%ing Safer Sex Workshop, to learn the how-to's ofplaying more safely while meeting other men; at the Center, 208
W 13 St; 8-10:30 pm; free, noregistration required; 807-6655,
IDD 645-7470
CENrnR STAGE sees Tbe Lady in
Question, at the Orphcum The~
atre, 2nd Ave & 8th St; 8 pm;$35; 620-7310
PERFORMANCE SPACE 122 REELTIME presents Six FDms to Disgust and ()utl'age Jesse Helms,with Jerry Tartaglia's Ecce Homo,
Roben Hilferty's Cirque du SIDA,
Carl George's DHPG Mon Amour,
Lisa Laquier's MueU, Jennifer
Montgomery's Home Ar.oenue, andPhillip B. Roth's BoysILife, at 1st
Ave & 9th St; 9 pm; $6 or IDF +1; reservations at 4n-5288

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Pride & Progress

October 12

10:30 pm

• Gay Week in Review• Act-Up• GCN Close-Up• Sports• Lavender HealthNational Coming Out Day
New Yorkers speak out about coming out
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11:00 pm

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Men & Films

October 15

11:30 pm

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Jack Laufton returns with a hot new look
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