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TV: Miss America 1991 Otis
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the Doclor Is Out

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Out of Control..

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Oul on Ihe Town

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ARTCETERA: Karl Soehnlein
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Going Oul Calendar

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POETRY: To Spirit

Tuning In

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BOOKS:Voyages Oul 2 Maria
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our long struggle' for PQlitig{I<;!~~nchisement in..,,:' .' .. '. New York, nothing h<lSbeen mQre f~st,ratingthan the les- ..
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candidatecan indeed win elections. It should hearten all, les,, bians ,and gayS who seek to ron for office in New York.' But unfortunately, Glick's well-deserved victory was.',.' ignored in. 1be New York Times. Instead .' of a headline proclaiming that history ,had been made, the Times ctlose to,.bury any mentionof Glick until the 17th paragraph of a .
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read, was this; "In the,~id-{ough~ contest for a Democratic Assembly nomination: . . in Gre.enw!ch Village, Deborah J. Glick won handily with 43, "percent of. the vote in. a five-way race."That's it. Period.
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instant historical ·account.of our era. lhe Times, Uke any falli- ','. bleinstitution, frequently fails that standard. But for lesbians .
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READING READ

Nearty every week for the past
62 issues there has been something that has made Ilie want towrite to OutWBBk- either to send
my support of something or comment on some of the outrageous
anti-queers out'there. But thisweek's Issues has only been In
my house a haIf-hour, I have gotten through the editorial and thefirst letter, and I simply must
wrffB a I'8sponse.
On the surface It may seem a
response to the "I Hate Straights"
furor; it isn't. It Is a dl rect
response to campion Read, MD,(now you know another doctor toaVOid). How dare he refer to Ms.
Reyes as a "spiel< cunf'1 I wish hewere here right now to check out
the autonomic reflexes triggeredby that outrage. Is Mr. Read truly
queer? He sounds Just like every
woman-hating straight dlckhead
I've ever heard praise my anatomy
thinking that mybrain was too•
puny to register the insult
There is a real trend in the gay
press toward attacking what lesbians write on the basis of theirgender and sexual equipment
rather than on their cogent
thought processes. And lest Mr.
Read think I am splitting cunthairs here, let me say that I, inlarge part, disagreed with Ms.
Reyes, but felt no need to write acondescending, "women-are-toostupid-to-get-it"
New Age psychobabble letter showing how sh8
was the problem. Read doesn't
understand the word go when It
comes to a united movement forqueers. Does he think that African
Americans such as Malcolm X
and H. Rap Brown had no place inthe civil rights movement forBlacks? Is Read as conciliatory
about everybody's oppression as
he Is with Ms. Reyes?
It seems that It is far past timethat a few queers got angry. Someof us lifelong queers have been
angry for our whole lives-;mgryfor ourselves andfor the bfainlessand spineless (and possibly dickless) queers like Read who suckoff the energy of those working
for change while critiquing withpinky extended from within theirplush-lined closets. How's that tor
some rage, Campion? (Do yourfriends call you Camp for short, or
do they know better?)
Listen up, Read. Consciousness begins at home. No man has
the right to refer to a woman's
argument through her anatomy.
But then a dlckhead like you probably wouldn't understand. And
now, since I've been forced towrite a letter to OutW88/(, let me
Just say that my Saturday mornIngs are made so much finer by
the arrival of your magazine. It
makes me laugh, makes meenraged, makes me feel good,
makes me feel like quarantining
straights, makes me feel liberated,but most of all It aJways gets mybrain In gear and always makes
me feel something.
Here In the provinces, OutW86k is a natural wonder. Everyone in my house reads itIncluding the pussies (cats, that
Is). Braval
Victoria A Brownworth
Phllade/phia

UP accomplished there.
For instance, in tenns of percapita rate of new AI OS cases, PR
has the nation's highest rate, morethan three times the national average. This rate exists on our colony
where AZT, pentamidine and other
AIDS drugs are essentiallyunavailable, at the same time as
the PR government focuses on
contact tracing.
Vour story not only failed toquote any Puerto Rican memberof the newly formed ACT
UPlPuerto Rico, but also failed tohighlight several precedents thatwere set in PR: the first ACT UP
chapter • established in a Spanish
speaking, Latin American country;
and the longest series of actions
and events in ACT UP's history, all
the more remarkable for having

been accomplished outside theAmerican mainland.
Here are just a few more
examples of insufficiency. An
unknowing reader of your article
would have no idea that: a) a
counter mass was held outside
the San Juan cathedral (the distribution of condoms Inside thecathedral was only one part of theaction, carried out by a few individuals, but to which, nevertheless, you devoted a major part ofyour "coverage"); b) the surrounding area was plastered withfliers identifying PR's Cardinal
Aponte Martinez as an AIDS crimInal; and c) both New Vori< andPuerto' Rican activists at thecathedral, and other actions, were .
joined by their parents and otherfamily members.

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From its headline In the Sept.
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Puerto Rico"-thenews story
was inaccurate and insultingly
insufficient in Its coverage of ahistoric five-week series ofactions and events in, Puerto Ricoand New Vort<.
The story completely failed togive any background infonnation
about the tragic slate of the AIDS
epidemic in Puerto Rico, which
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my senses. "Queer" has nMr left O~ has led me to Introapec- people publicly defining me a. athe mainstream. I was called tively clarify for mysetf the reaerva- faggot or a quaer, regard I... of"qultr" thlaaummer In rural tions I have long held regarding th8 ; thalr Intenttona.
"'are,al1 atralght people who
Pennsylvania outBlde a gay bar by uee of the wordl "faggot" anda taenager In a puling car.
"queer" In gay political and camp will alwaya uaa thele warda to
Both that taenager and I grew partance. I have long been agalnlt d.. crlbe a kind of perlonthay
up buying Into the notion that I . any IUch usage, aal feel It II mOI1 loathe-.o be It, but that II no
wu a qultr, a faggot, a paney and of a defensive and deceptively aeW- reaaon to loin them In their mla·
a homo, and I waa no damned deatructlve poatul1 than a creative guided Ult of the dictionary. I
good. It took me decad .. to one, and the 8ftect.. or gains had or would much rather uo and help
I1progllm thtBe daeply embed· made by appropriating the Ian· create the language of gay andcledtapti, and even today the old guage of an alleged oppressor al1, Itralght people whOle healthnegative acrlpt aurfacaa fromI fol, frequently more theoretical antennae hava allowed them tonevar hear the worda "faggot"
Bme to Bma. Perhapa that's why thin real.
my favorite queer nation chant II
I am not a faggot, and I am and "quaer," and. whoae dignity'We'l1 Here. We're Queer. We'l1 not a queer, and I am not Inclined and aeW·relpect have encouraged
Fabuloul."
to honor anyone elle'l desire to them, quite naturally, to deslat
Ves, Mr. Salemo, I would be call me by those names, whether from using auch languaga-not
delighted If the president's wife or straight or gay. Appropriating an out of fear or In deference to ahusband or, batter yet, sama-sax undesirable language doesn!t
power that such language might
ACTUP/NY
spouse publicly called us "queer." change the essential undasirablll· be saan as having over them, but
QUIER AND HERE
After all, I was taught as a menag- ty of the language. The effect Its because they want a batter way ofusage has, for me, Is to make life and a better way of speaking,I want to thank Tony Salemo er I was one.
Ha/Bramson
reading and following the about themselves and about the 'for his letter [no. 63, Sept. 12] .
critical of OutWBBKs use of theManhattan
progress of gay politics and P89ple they love.
Gay Boy Ric
word "queer." H8 asks If Outactivism more of a deconstructive
Hollywood, CA
W"kwants "quaal'" reintroduced NOT QUEER AND HERE experience than a constructive
Recent coverage of the admir- one, and it has often made collabto the mainstream and Barbara ,WORD SEPARATISM
Bush using the word. I must able work and intentions of the oration with some activist segRegarding your letter fromadmit Mr. Salemo had me agree- group Quaar Nation, as well as a ments an undesirable prospect. I
Ing with him but I quickly came to concem over the Issue vis-~-vis will not link anns with a group ·of Tony Salemo [no. 63, Sept. 12]
We know with Qertalnty that
this li'I1onnatlon, and a gi'eat dealmore, Wla. provided to OutWHk.
Inataad of tha r.. ponalbla andconcemed lournallam we expectfrom a friendly publication, wa
I'8C8Ived a kind of 1ICIIt, Impertal1st.ahort-ahrtft and grtngo memalIty coverage we can gat from anyother malnltl'llm media rag.
The LatlnolLatlna Caucus of
ACT UP d.mand. a full article
which will tall your readell whatreally happened and what la ItIIi
going on In Puarto Rico. Anythinglaaa la unacceptable.
. PUlrto Rico Cont"tacs In I.
Luch. Cont" II Sid•.
Th' Lat/nolLlt/na Caucus

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and the dllcullion around the un Icloully Itruggled for freedom have been In the gay movementof the word "quetl": IlICIIla dll· and against annihilation during (which Ie by no meane to eaythat
oUlllon I had In the· .. rly '801 molt of that tlml (1.1., for more the Involvement of men In thewomen's movemsnt or whites In
about the UII of the word"nlg· . thin 21 years). .
If we wlr .. to take leadlrshlp the civil rights movemlnt halglr." After htI~ngthe word UHdby(Cluculln II I am) In from the pollttCl of QUllr NatIon been adlquate). VI., thl Uml II
Mlnnllpol", I called my fonner and thl HI Hate Straights" manl· long sinci OVlrdUI for Itralghtl
lovlr (llveral tim .. rsmoved) flato, at next yean Lelblan and to get Involvld, but not In pOll·
who ~ II. No, hi Informed Gay P~de march, or even looner. tlons of Iladlrshlp.
I havi been 'a flmlnlet Iinci
ml, molt BlIoki do not use the we would loglCll1ycirculate a docword. He flit that, within . hll , own umant IntItIed "I Hate Whites" or befors I caml out, and I have did·community, It IIrvlCl to dillnel·"whlttll" or "honkl ... " PerhapI, Icated much of my acadlmlc
tIzt him. AlIO, he expllln.d, the given thl movlment'e ongoing Itudl .. and political actlvl.m to
But, II a man, I
1m."
and p.rvulve IIClem, the docu· womln'lllluH.
word WI. ulldlmong
groupe of IIckIj usUIIIy from the mInt would be entitled HI Hate would never prllume to be an
expert on what It mean. to be alower IOOIIOmIc IeveII of thl oIty, White aullrs."
Uke other fonnl of I8paratllm woman In till. cultura, nor would I
to lltablleh th.lr .. paratene..
from whites: to Istablllh their and nationalism, lesbian and gay ever presume to become a leader"clan" or "lndMduallam." .
nationalllm II a politically reac- (leading women) within the movement. I am also appalled at, andI, for onl, do not wllh to tlonary dead end. I organize
enraged by. the racism within the
become dellnlltlzed. I do not against and hate homophobia,
want to negate the emotions I felt racism, misogyny, class oppres- gay community and In general.
when called "queer" asa child sian. antisemitism, ageIsm and Lesbian. gay and bisexual people
and, later, the empowerment I felt ablelsm and not all the members of color face a double dlsenfranwhen I realfzed that one day I of groups whose identities differ chlsement-by both the heterosexual communities. of color andwould me.et the world as an from my own.
Barbara Smith .. the white lesbian•.gay and blsexuequal; or the hope I feel when I
Albany aI community. Although I will consee a small dart<-skinned baby,tinue to make issues of racea plithat they may be able to growority on my political agenda. I
THE MYTH OF
and flourish In a world of loveintend, as a white person, to folHETEROPHOBIA
and tolerance and community, .
My Initial reaction to learning low the leadof people of color:
not In a worid of segregation andDoes this make sense to anythat the directors of both thealoneness.
one else but me? If so, then why
The world "gfff Is not a pejo- Campaign to End Homophobia
rative and has been used for gen- (Cooper Thompson) and the don't we get angrfer when we hearerations to Identify us, not only Fund for Human Dignity (Robert that more and more of our gay
amongst ourselves but by the Brading) were straight was leaders are becoming straight? I
communications media (maybe "What the fuck does a straight really don't mean to sound so
self-rfghteous. I'm just frustrated
not T1JB Nfw Yom TlfTlBS,but ..) as person know about homophobia?" or, In the words of a friend, and a little confused-confusedwell. Indeed, In 1990, almost
everyone In rural Aniertca knoWS "Couldn't they find a queer to do about why we as a lesbian andthat liaar' means a homoselCual It?" Upon discussing the Issue gay community have been sowith several gay and lesbian effectively "stralght-washed." Permale WIth a poS/tIv8ldentity.
haps we are so unaccustomed to
Our language Is full and lush friendS, however,: I discovered
and complete Just as It fs. To litter that few of my cQmpatrfots were (active) heterosexualsupport, that
as Incensed as 1:U1t's about time. we are loath to be the least bit critIt with words suoh as "klke,""hebe," "splC" or "Wop" can only I'm tired of doing all the work," leal of the fonn it takes on thoseserve to hinder us trotn partICIpat- was a common response. Indeed rare occasions that it does appear.
To Mr.lhompson
and Mr.
Ing In the greater community, to It Is high time that our straight
separate us amongst ourselves "friends" get off their complacent Brading, I encourage your continand to drive the wedge deeper butts and overcome their fear of ued support and Involvement, but
Into the chasm between ourselves being stigmatized for assOCIating I urge you to reconsIder thethemselves with the gay move- appropriateness and legitimacy ofand the straights.
G,I}' L Walblrg ment. Just a cursory glance at your current positions. You, gen. Manh,ttan both the women's movement and .tlemen, will never be experts on
the civil rights movement will homophobia, and you will neverconfirm that the respective domi- know what it means to be gay in
ISM'S, NOT PEOPLE
People of color have been nant groups In question (I.e., this culture. Mr. Brading, you realoppressed In this country from men and whites) have been sig- ly betray yourself In your' comthe time Europeans arrived five nificantly more represented In ments quoted In the Aug. 15, centuries ago. We have con- these movements than straights Issue [no. 50] regarding the

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obvfously don't get it. "I Hate
Straights" is not about hatred ,but
about anger, about justified rage.
Perhaps it is a weakness of thehuman mind that we must always
search for symmetry in our social. world, but just as there is noreverse sexism that is the opposite of and equivalent to sexism,
and no reverse racism which is
the opposite of and equivalent toracism, thef8 is no "heterophobia" which is the opposite of andequivalent to homophobia Thereis only rage, and a life or deathnlied to effect change.
To the gutless "breeder" (this. is the. first tfme I have ever calledanyone a breeder) who wrote theanonymous letter in the Aug. 1
issue [no. 57], I don't give you
the right to call me a queer, nomatter how supportive of gay
rights you are, and I am not, norwill I ever be, your "girlfriend."
You get over it. (P.S. Why didn't
you sign your letter? Were you
ashamed to have your nameappear in a gay magazine, or were
you afraid of "straight-bashing"?),,

To Marianne G.C. Seggerman["Letters," Aug. 1, no. 57], you
may be a gay rights activist, but
as a straight person you will
never be a "queer" activist,"unabashed" or otherwise. How
dare you presume to tell the Dartmouth valedictorian
how heshould feel. How dare you invalidate his experience as a gay person. To P. Tobin ["Letters," Aug.
22, no. 60]-well, your particularbrand of heterosexual smugness
and ignorance isn't even worth a
response. Suffice it to say, thatperhaps your gay friends would
be better off If you did stop caring. And get a clue: If gay anger
turns you off as a heterosexual
supporter-end I address myself
now to all heteroSexual supporters-then perhaps your commitment to gay rights is not asstrong as you believed. No shit,
we need your support, but don'ttell us how to feel and don't tell us
how to run our movement And
get over your delusions of heterosexuai persecution.
Andy Hostetler
Ithaca, NY

FIRST YOURCYNICISM, THEN
YOUR PANTS
Thank you, oh inspired andanonymous queers, for writing
and disseminating the controversial '" Hate Straights" essay.
The pen is mightier than thesword, so congratulations
inyour victorious and' eloquent
strike against the enemy. The
emergenco of creative inspiration as a political and psychological tool for ,empowerment
and healing of our community Is
exactly what we need; and weneed a lot more of It.
The .creative expression also
applies to innovative forms ofsocial interaction, collectively andpersonally, in order to affect andenlighten societies and individuals. Young organizations such as
ACT UP, Queer Nation, SANOE
and Boy With Arms Akimbo
come immediately to mind as
examples of collective ingenuity.
, We stili isolate so many of ourown brothers and sisters, throughbrutal competition for self-adoration and -aggrandizement ...even

through this most painful era ofdeath and social persecution.
Rejection in love, abuse of another's feelings just for being physically intimate (tantamount to spiritual rape), male-hatred, femalehatred, raCism, ageism, Aryan
worship and destructive "cliquetype" gossip are just some examples of how we break the spiritsof (and kill) our own kind, without
any assistance from the homophobic majority. This "exclusMty"
is not limited to the bars, caf6s
and streets but extends also to
those very organizations fighting
for our lives and rights-discouraging many potentially inspiringsouls from active participation.
It is my greatest hope that,once the cure for AIDS isfound, we wilt also have cured
our own internalized persecution. It is likewise my greatest
fear that, even after AI OS iseliminated, we will fail back to
our pre-AIDS "sexual revolution" without the concomitantingredient of spiritual compassion. It is my dream of dreams
that our post-AIDS
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respect and liberation for lesbian and gay rights. Drop your.
cynicism for a moment; andthink about it. Then drop yourpants.•.in love.
Gene Catalano
San Francisco

stein is loathsome scum not party parlors that treat us to. worthy. of being skimmed off a· Coors, Miller and surly phobe
stinking pond. Yes, Robin Byrd's bouncers.
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But Lou Maletta provides
show is fluffy,· frivolous and far
from fomenting the queer or cities throughout the countrysocialist revolution. Yes, gay TV with a dose of gay visibility.
is merely a commercial for the . Goldstein's tuck you's have
pom industry that, until recent- warned us about bait-andly, pretended there was no gay switch deals, in electronic
health crisis. Yes, The Gay Dat- stores. Robin Byrd gives us aing Game Show is ",S inane and, respite,from our tragic realities.
The Gay Dating Game Showembarrassing as the nongay
version. Yes, the club shows allows us to be just as tastelessand silly as the hetero mainsimply 'promote Mafia-owned,

stream, without apology. GayTV
documents thE!-slow rise in condom use in fuck films ,and lets
us save a few bucks before we
rent a film we wouldn't haveenjoyed. And the club show.s
give us an idea of the furr.-orlack thereof available in thosenoise traps.
', Speech is good when it isfree; it is deadly when it is not.
The Jews in Germany did nothave any means with which torespond to Nazi rhetoric. Gays•

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real. A few fascists and their.cowardly apologists are al,ready resPQnsible for illegally "keeping safer-sex ei:lucationoff" of public access channels.
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Shame on, youfor,concealing the identity of the"spokesperson" for Liz Holtz~
man who defended her unfortunate regulation limiting se~~ually explicit advertising on
cablevision to the wee morning hours [$ept. 5, no. 62].
One doesn't have to be too
knowledgeable to'guess that
this .hidden person is none .
•other than Tom Duane, who
has never "really accomplished anything for the gay
and lesbian community,,
althciuQh"he's-taken-a lot fromit, inclUding a very well-paid
jOQas Hol~,man's gay and lesHOJ-1'2MAN = HELMS?
bian community liaison.
Thi$' is in response to "New "Duane ,obviously
wanted toGroup to Combat Rules Block.
,have his. cake and eat it too:Ing Gay TV' [Sept. 5, no. 62].
defend his. boss who gives
As. one of the media giants who
him his paycheck but not be, sirnplywant to h(,mlogenize
associated with her crass , ,everything, Time/Warner's
political opportunism ~n his
stance is ·expected. (Forget•,
future personal political ambiabout Manhattan Cable; it's
"This w'eek's adorable love slave Is scrumptous:,
tions-andyou went along
TimelWarne.t talking). Butheartthrob Christian Slater who, it tunis out, was ,with it by "protecting" him in
In~trumental In getting an educational and positive
because Elizabeth Holtzrnan
scene depicting the horrors of being a gay teen in his"" ,doesn't think children should bewhat you call a "news" article.
latest youth-tebellion, film, pqmp lip the" Volume. But
If Duane didn't want tei .be
exposed to sexually explicit ads,
mOre than that, Slater, rather
than shying away. from.
associated with his boss" posipublic a~cessootomes a joke.
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homo rol~s like ~o many of HQllywood'sfinest, saystion, he should have had the
Entitled to her "opinion, shethere need to be more queer characters il) films. And,
courage to resign and get a realis free to keep any kids in her
when asked by Miami's Weekly News what would be
job, like most of us,haveto.
cfi~rg~ from viewing them: I
his dr~am part to play, cream-inducing ChristianFor"you, who have b~en
am also entitled to my .opinreplied, "a gay hero.",Lafs pump him lIPI,,'"
outing other people Whether"lon:,,6'lven everything kiQs arethey consent or not; to cover"
exPosed to in this town, sexuAct,into the 101st Congress.
an"dseaports,,,provide for the"up Duane's identity and his, , ally explicit ads are the most
HR 4079 would suspend the" "mobilization of all civilians
cowardly, hypocritical mimipuoffensive to her? Ms. ,HoltzUS Constitution and the Bill
into work brigades under govlations is a disgraceful double
man has jumped on the bandof Rig~ts'due to drug traffic
emment supervision, etc.
~tandard which severely com" wagon of creating emergenHow many of u.s average . . promises your credibility in thea~d high ~rimes. The bill is 96 _- ..""- "cie,s wherll none existed- andpages long ... [and]if passed,
folks even know this is going
community. You may also
ignorin~ the real ones. (Shewould'[enact]thefollowingon?'This
bill
is
now
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learn a personal lesson from
mu~t
have
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existing executive orders',considerationin· five committhis: Not every opportunistic
which were Signed by Presi- . tees. That it-is to be ,debated
gay politician who flatters and" What's next? A horrifying.-.
dents Nixon through Reagan,at all is scary. And who is totoadies up to you has your"item in the September Health[into] law: .
. decide what constitutes "highbest interests at heart or those,.:Car8 Rights Advocate, a*Executive orders would
crime" justifying the. imposiof the community.
II ',,',,", newsl~tter ofthe .coalition for.. P8ter Anderson
empower the prjlsidentto take'tion of all these orders? I ,.
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Nutrition and,..Manhattan "over all communications,nominate 'Liz Holtzman, New..,:'~e,alth Care', tells us exactly
electric power, gas, fuel and·" York's very own Jesse Helms"" "', where we are headed:
Gabriel Rote/If) responds: An ".
minerais, food resources andAnd lesbian and gay orga", "Rep., Newt Gingrich ofinteresting pOint, 8XC8pt that
farms, all modes of trans-"
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it's totally out to lunch. The,. 4079, the Emergency Powers
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In reference to the letter"How Now Brown Cow
Yogurt?" [Sept 12, no. 63] may
Iquote:""They say they don't want
us around, but honey, we're
stepping so far out of the closet,
we're stamping them like little
roaches on the kitchen floor."
Focus, please,on the phrase"stepping so far out of thecloset." Now notice that theletter is signed anonymous1
Honey, name calling is notgoing to accomplish anything if"they" can still slam the door In
your face becauseyou are in the
doorway.
Lsa.. RlvBra
Brooklyn,,

WHOOPI FOR MIKELove your magazine. I'm
glad Michelangelo has his
steamback. It seemed
like hecooled off for a while. He
only harangued the regulars,(Liz, Calvin, David, etc.). It's
great to see the ci rcle ofnames expanding once again(Jann, Whoopl).
Keep up the good work.
Greg Grsgory,,

VOICES VOICE
Many thanks to you andWickie Stamps for her
positive review of VOiCBSof
Batt8fBd LBsbians [no. 57"
Aug. 1]. Lesbian-battering is
too often seen as a rareoccurrence,a personal rather,
than political Issue, and areinforcment of homophobic
stereotypes of lesbians-andis therefore passed over bymuch of the gay and lesbian
media. We appreciate yourspreading the word bothabout the abuse and ourefforts to erid it. ''A couple of corrections;though: Voices is an audiiMpe,
not a video, and the price Is $5
for individuals and $10 fororganizationsand professionals.
Anyone unable to afford theseprices can call us at (617) 4268492 or write the Lesbian
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BBth Leventhal
MCBWSG
Boston
MACT, GMAD AND
RAINBOW DATING

It's 8:35 pm and I try to slip
'Into what I believed would be acalm Gay Men of African Descent meeting for a little bonding with friends and brothers.
The topic is "rainbow dating"and the boys have turned out
in full force. What could havebeen a rather nasty evening ofaccusations and confrontation
is kept down to a mild murmurof opinion, personal testimony
and speculation. No real discoveries made, nl) revelations,no new truths bared thatevening, maybe a few old ones
revisited. 1) Can we separate
sexual desire from a politicalcontext? 2) Are men who dateexclusively outside the race
looking for love or escape?
Acting out of passion or selfhatred? 3) Is one's commitment to the race reflected in
his choice of mate? Though I
had some very definite opinions about these questions, I
chose not to comment. I stoodsilent and listened throughout
the meeting. Wrong move.
Now I am holding in myhands the Men of All Colors
Together/NY Information Bulletin, dated Sept. 1990. The title "For Gay Boys Who Have
Considered Suicide When the
Rainbow Was Clearly Not Enufn glares at me In all its minstrel gleam and appeal. Three
MACT/NY members (twowhite, one Black) give accounts of the GMAD rainbow
dating meeting. Again, the
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The /Jri8t account by the Black ,member isatbest vague but
generally pOSitivewithout any,obvious opinion. The two accounts by the white members
are another story. The first,"the single white panelist" hecalls himself, accuses GMAD
of trying to "promote a negative view" on the issue of rainbow dating. Wrong. GMAD did
not promote a view on the is~sue, nor does it promote views
on issues. It's left up to theparticipant to offer views andarrive at his own conclusions.
Such statements by thepanelist like: "Several things I
said which I thought were
provocative evoked no re~sponse, [such as] relating my
almost exclusive attractions toLatino and Black men to
racism....No one tried to challenge me on that issue" further
support my conclusion. Could
it be that his thoughts weren't
provocative or warranted response? It's no surprise thatracism is a major factor inmany Black/white relationships. One only has to look at
white porn or Mapplethorpe's(newly crowned queen of gay
white male America) objectification of Black men to know
this. The panelist should admit
to himself that his agenda had
little to do with exploring
views and more to do withmaintaining hidden biases andugly prejudices.
"When I heard that GMAD
was holding a forum on interracial dating-I had to be inattendance. As a white man I
am seldom extended a warm
invitation that has the reputation by some of being a gay
male
African American na,tionaJist/separatist(andsome might say bourgeois)
organization was going to address this."
Again, a White boy scorned.
First, MACTINY has a reputation by' many of being a rir
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embarra~sment, but What i,sina reputation? Again,nationalist and separatist areused as dirty words. Why is it,that whenever people of color
want to meet without thepresence of white people, Irs
viewed as negative and hos- 'tile? Aren't we entitled tobond with one another, create
agendas and address. concerns without whites? Should
we seek approval? Scrutiny?
Ask permission? A statement
like: "I am seldom extended awarm invitation to attend,,' a,GMAD meeting" Is Indicative ,of the problem. GMAD is anorganization for Gay Men of
African Descent. Get it? It
seems a lot of whites don't
get it or won't accept it. Somestill show up at meetings trying to get in. I know the dating
possibilities are limitless andtherefore make the temptation
enormous, but come on. \If the rainbow dating
meeting, our agenda, ourchoice of concerns to address do not meet your approval, that's too bad. GMAD's
meeting on rainbow dating
was a loose discussion andachieved nothing more thanraise an issue that clearly Is
being thought about a lot byboth whites and Blacks. The
fact that white/ Black relationships became the major' "focus or that passions ran
high is to be expected. Whitemen, gay and otherwise, still
dominate radio, television,
newspapers, movies, theeconomy and so on, andtherefore are a force constantly addressed and scrutinized. It seems that GMAD
succeeded in stirring up a little liberal racism that echoedin the very title of the rather
disappointing
article In
MACT/NY'$ Bulletin: "For Gay
Boys.... " Well, this is one gay\,man for whom the rainbow isdefinitely enufl
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Gay Man Loses Bidfor Congressby Nina Reyes and Duncan Osborne
NEW YORK--Lesbians and gay menscored an immense and historic victory inlast week's primary elections when feminist and openly lesbian candidate Deixr
rah Glick decisively won her race for the. Democratic nomination in the heavily
gay and lesbian 61st Assembly District.
Glick's primary triumph virtually ensuresthat she will be sent to Albany in the general election, where she will take a placein state history as the first openly lesbiancandidate elected to statewide office.
But, while Glick swept the polls inher downtown Assembly district, openly gay upstate New York candidate
Sean Strub lost his bid to become thefirst non incumbent openly gay man
elected to Congress in a defeat that. surppsed many political analysts.
In a third race, for surrogate justicein ths;: New York County Surrogate's
Court, lesbian and gay votes and queer
politiCal clout were credited with decid-,,-A VICTORY OF GRASS-ROOTS pounCS'-Deborah Glick"'THE GAY VOlE WAS A MAJOR FORCEIN
MY VICTORY.- Eve Preminger

ing the race. The victor, Eve Preminger,
had received the endorsements of aslew of activists and gay community~
based organizations,,

Unoffical Election Results,,

61st Assembly District
Deborah Glick-4,930
Elizabeth Shollenberge-2,315
Kathryn Freed-2,177
Anthony Hoffman-1 ,617
Robert Rygor-297

Surrogate's Court
Eve Preminger-19,628
Lewis Frieqman-18,311. Arlene Harris-17,597
Jacqueline Silbermann-9,281

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,"I think that it is very exciting notjust for me, but for the lesbian and gay
community and the women's community, n Glick commented after the primary. "It's a victory of grass-roots politics over clubhouse politics. n
Glick wrested the Democratic nomination from her opponents after a long,
fairly decorous race. ToWard the end of
the race, however, one of Glick's four
opponents, Liz Shollenberger, whom
pundits had expected to give Glick thehardest run, offended some lesbians andgay men by alleging that a le~bianwould be a less passionate advocate forabortion rights because lesbians, shesaid, need only be concerned with pregnancy when raped.
Glick beat Shollenberger,
whocame in second in the race, by a morethan two-to-one margin.
While Glick still faces a Republican
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For those lesbians living with the.,.
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But to women from cultures where· marriage is inevitableand often
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attest, those freedoms do not come l.
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Choosing a lesbian
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Should a woman come out to her faniithought of a marriage to a man and a
by Victoria A. Brownworth.
ly, parents roay wish to return her
return to a culture which, she says;
Marya simply doesn't think about
immediately to her native country to"doesn't even recognize that lesbianism
gofng home anymore. Her lover ofclaire" her of what they see as a Westexists" is unthinkable. But she misses
three years would l~ke to travel, but
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more lenient and allow the woman
herself in the dilemma more and more
may never get back in."time to be "rebellious," with the tacit
women are facing, particularly natives. Marya (not her real name) isunderstanding that she will eventuallyof Asia, latin America and Africa.
Mala~ian. She has not been home toreturn to her native country, marry andEach year; thousands of women
her native country in three years, She
come to the US from other countries · raise a family.
came to the US for graduate school andUndoubtedly,
there are cases
while' here met and' fell iIi love w~th to study; some of those women are
where the reaction of a woman's family
drawn to the ideals of American femi. mother woman. Her ~ywants heris not negative. But regardless of familnism and sometimes through that to. to return home, marry and start a famiial response, a woman's decision to stay
are lesbians wholy. But for Marya, home is in New York lesbianism. Others,in the US can raise conflicts surroundcan openly explore sexual expresCity.
with Suzanne now, and the.
ing allegiance to culture, country and,sions in the US in ways that are,.
,perhaps most painfully, family.
Fighting Invisibility is an ongoing series impossible in their home countries.
Marya believes that she can never
For women who come from the sexuof occasional articles on subjects notreally go home in spite of her longing
often discussed in relation to the lesbian ally restrictive cultures that Marya and,for family and friends. "1 don't miss .
. the other women interviewed for thiscommunity.

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of guilt about disappointing my parthe Engl~h,word. "I don't think 1 everbQys, and ·about ,hQw 1 might behave
ents, 1 think. 'There's just a different
knew about lesbians there," says Kim,
witholit th~ir protec~ive' influe~ce.
attitude about the roles women are'
Although 1 .have frequently traveled in. 22, who returned to the US to go to
supposed to play in my culture. It's
college. "Sexuality isn't discussed, and
the West and spent jhr~years at school
progressive of my family to let me
certainlynotwomen'ssexuality.
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expectation , is still
the same-that 1 willthings from Americans or people who
netWork,. th:i:es nqt true now, ahd.
return home to the life there, that I willafuii<!" tliat my 'parents will yiewthiS as a weren't Korean. Korean gay men
marry, and that whatever happened toreaction to. US~sexual" liberalism-that ' wouldri't tell me about it.
me here in terms of my feminist awakAn.intensely
political
person,Kim,
they'll thipk if they can get me homean AmeriCan citizen, cannot imagine liv- ening or in terms of my becoming lesand backin'a''prpper'setting
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Mehta has heard similar sentiwent rock last sUmmer,and that time infor the firsttime in my life 1 am feeling,mentsfrom her parents and, as a conKorea
told
me
v.:hy
I
COUldn'tever
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nonna1-.iea1ly normal. In Pakistan-:-thesequence, doesn't even want to returnrise aJ;ld (all of Bepazir Bhutto aside . I there again. There is simply not a place
for a visit. It's been three years sincefor me there. I. won't say it's the worst
felt, .incredibly stifled. My.. life was· a foreshe's been back to India" but the mempossible sexist
ory of her life there still affects her. "Iconditions,come from an important family, and in
becauseI
India" family is everything. I don't want
think
that
to make things difficult for my family
there's pretty•by having the fact of my being a lesterrible sexbian spread around. 1 do have to be
ism here too,and seXism is careful, I do feel that I have to watch
wllat I say and where I say it. And if I
sexism, 'but,,
returned to India, then I would haye tothere are cer,
return to that kind of life,. I'm not saytain expectaing my parents would force me• totions of wo~
marry, but you do get compelled bymen, of my,circumstances ...
class and edu. The impact of being caught
cation that I,>just wouldn't , among the culture of a native country, ~be able toan irrefutable sexual orientation that ~.
, seems irrefutable and the promise of .~fu1fi1l". .
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these women and other women in ~rentlyatheir situation. And as Singh notes, theat," HAVE TO W~TCHWHAT I SAY AN~ WHERE I SAY IT."-Shilpa Mehta reporter'.
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US border policies that exclude homo'gone condpsion. Here, 1 feel as if i phia Gay News; has talked to her par- , sexuals rm,ke entering and leaving difficult, rendering some decisions unalhave, options, that 1 Can cboose not to· ents about not returning, and she has
terable. "If I decide to go out of thetold them about aspects of her. life here.
many 'orthat I can clioose to love othercountry," she explains, "there, is a very
She hasn't "officially"come out to them,
womeJil. These simply would not bereal chance 1 may never be able .tooptions for me, in my country. My fami~ she says. "They j~ figured it out."
The .conflict for these women, is return .. If 1 am too openly lesbian, ,Iy. wouldn'J allow it, and I wouldn't
here, my residencytenuous, as it
tremendous, thqugh it ,is worse for',' allow myself-because
1 have strong
is will be in jeopardy."
some than for others. Some have legal. feelmgs .about my family and, my culThe future for these women
residency here, while others do not.
,' hire, and those .feelings would have' toremains conflicted at best. Says Mehta,
But regardless of their legaJ status, the. come fi~st;They would have to pre"1would never go back. There's no life
pull toward home and family presents- elude my own desires.",for me there no feminism, no lesbian- In Korea', where Lorrie Kim's fami~ a seemingly unresolvable dilemma.
ism, no freedom as I know it here. My"It would be different if I were aly is and. where
she spent half her life,,
parents wouldn't deliberately takegay man," explains Singh, "There,
there is no word for "lesbian." Whenaway my freedom, but it would be
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And the forced ,exile of these
women also means keeping secrets fromthe people they lo\'
. Y immediate family. Marya observes: ,~Ihave awonderful, full, rich life here that I really
am very happy with. But because it is alesbian life, because my lover is awoman, I cannot share that with theother people I love, my family."
Mehta echoes her. "I can't tell them
[my parents] that I have a lover, eventhough I've been out to them for three
years. They just would be very upset"
For Kim it is a question of identity. "I have always identified as an
Asianamerican. I was raised biculturally in one sense-interms of myeducation.
In Korea, there is not, much of a concept of 'other.' So if
you have always felt c,iifferent somehow from other Koreans, then there
isn't a place for that-it's a strongly
homogeneous
culture. To have aplace for the 'other' [in the US] means
I can fit in. If I went back to Korea,
they would say, 'Let's help you, we'll
take away your Americanism.' But it
isn't America that has made me lesbian, although I would not have
known the alternativeof loving
women in Korea. It is merely accessto my own feelings-all of them.
Singh looks to other women in, similar circumstances and to American
lesbians for support. She believes thathaving' access to other women feelingtorn between their sense of duty totheir family and their love for womenand the freedom the US offers to
express that is essential. "I'm lucky
now. I'm at a major university in a
major urban city where there is a lot ofgay culture around me. There aremany other women from my country
here as well. But we need the community support of this because that iswhere our strengths are in community. Besides, I feel strongly that weneed to have the community realize
we are here, a part of them and inneed of them. Because for many of us,
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SpecifiC discussion of reSidency
status of some of the women in thisarticle has been omitted at theirrequest, as have cerlaln details about
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quiere tener relaciones sexuales, un cond6n de latex y
un espennicida son la mejor
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Uselos siempre, desdeel principia a1 fin, siguiendolas instrucciones del fabricante. Porque nunca nadie halogrado curarse del SIDA. En
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NEW YQRK;-Angered by what
they are calling an inadequate police
response to the gruesome murder of agay fi1an in Queens, gay and lesbiancommuQity leaders are pressing thecity :to add resources to the ongoinginvestigationand to classify the murder, .
as a bias crime.
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Matt Foreman, executive directorof the New York City Gay and Lesbian
Anti-Violence
Project,
and EdSedarbaum, a member of Queer-Nationand the Julio Rivera Anti-Violence
Coalition of Queeru;, are pressuring theadministration of Mayor David Dinkins
and the New York City Police
Department to classify Rivera's murdera bias crime, to add investigators to thecase and to match a $2,500 community
reward for· information lead~g.
th~arrests of the kiIiei': Currently, the city
is offering $1,000, the standard amountin a murder investigation.
JulioRivera was killed. atapproximately 3 am on Monday, July
2, in the Jackson Heights section of
Queens where he lived. According to
medical reports, Rivera had been
struck ten to 12 times in the head with· the claw end of a hammer and stabbed
four or five times in the chest and backwith a knife. Passersby are said to havereported to police that three white
men were seen running from the sceneof the, attack. The crime has beenclassIfied as a drug-related robbery by
the 115th Precinct, which is conducting
the irivestigation.
At a recent
meetingwith'representatives
with the police· department's bias crime unit, the 115th· Precinct ,and Marjorie Hm, the director,of the mayor's ,office for the gay and· lesbian community,
Foreman and
Sedarbaum
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Sedarbaum noted. Foreman cited thehistory of bias murder and assaults inthe area, other recent bias-motivatedhammer attacks in the neighborhoodand the brutality of this attack asevidence of bias motivation. Rivera wasmurderednear Jackson Heights'"Vaselme Alley," a cruising area popularwith
who have sex with men;
Foreman also said that he had
spoken'to a local Queens man who,
he said, was told, in a confrontation
with a man claiming to have acted as a"lookout" for Rivera's murderers, thatRivera was killed because he was a"cocksucking faggot." Officers at themen

115th Precinct
havestill notapprehended a suspect,· and detectives
at the 115th took a week to contact thealleged witness. Said Sedarbaum,"Clearly, they do not have enoughresources to respond effectively." Somefollowing the investigation
havesuggested that police "foot dragging" isdue to the fact that Rivera was a Latino
gay man who is known to haveworked as' a hustler and who useddrugs.
But Marjorie Hill of the mayor's
office maintained that the stance of thebias crime unit is appropriate. Hill
expressed
concerns
about
theresources
being appliedin thisinvestigation
but added that any
murder investigations understaffed,,.,

How a Crime8ecOmes a 81as Crime· .. . ...
•NEW YORK-The NVPO's Bias Incident Investigating Unit employs several criteria
in detennining if the motive behind any given crime is bias-related, according 11> &!rgeant
Phil Banks, a spokesperson for the unit.
Rrst and foremost is detenniQing the motivation of the perpetrator. Investigators
speak to the suspect, the victim and witnesses to find clues to bias motivation. But theabsence of any clear motive can sometimes indicate the presence of bias. When thevictim was not robbed and did not know the perpetrator, ponce often look for somemotive other than easy money or an interpersonal dispute.
Investigators also hunt for reports about the use of antagonistic epithets during thecrime, but even these can be tricky. Banks said that New Vorkers are quick to use racist,
sexist or anti-gay epithets as the readiest verbal weapon even In a nonblas-related
dispute. Symbols like swastikas or the initiaJs KKK are better indicators of bias, because
forethought Is required in displaying these. Cops also examine the date, time andcircumstances of the Incident If the c)fme took place on Gay Pride weekend In Greenwich
Village, for example, the motive may well have been anti-lesbian or -gay hatred.
Typically, groups, rather than IndMduals, commit bias crimes. Investigators also
check if similar incidents have occurred In the area and for similarity among the victims.
When a crime has been classified as bias-motivated, the unit may conduct Ita own
investigation, monitor the rnvestigatfon of the local precinct, or the local precinct and thebias unit may run a Joint investigation. The detennlnatlon Is most often made by thecaption of the precinct where the crime occurred.

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"I am satisfied that the 115th Is
giving this Investigation the sameattention they would give any murder
investigation,»Hill told OutWeek, notingthat in addition to detectives from thebias crimes unit, detectives at die l1Sthwere coordinating with the Tactical
Narcotics Team. Hill has also met with
Police Commissioner Lee Brown andsenior police officials about the case.
Because investigators on the case feelthat they have promising leads,
additional funds are not being allocatedtoward a reward. Currently, Crimestopper bulletins offering the reward of$1,000 for information are posted in thearea where Rivera was killed.
Sergeant Phil Banks of the NYPD'sbias crimes unit told OutWeek, "We are. not officially investigating [Rivera's
murder], but we are working on it.»According to Banks; the bias crimes
unit continues to investigate' the murderwith an eye toward either finding or
disqualifying bias as a motive, and theunit expects to come to a decision
soon. But their efforts are being
stymiedby the circumstances
surrounding Rivera's death, according
to Banks, A determinationof biasmotivation is often made, in part, basedon theperceptipnsof th~
victim or, in amurder case, on' theperceptiop,sofwitnesses. But police' have not yet
found any witnesses, and none may, infact, exist. Banks added that thepositive determination of an anti-gay
motive for Rivera's murder would not,however, result in the allocation of
additional police resources, although it
would place the bias crimes unit incharge of the investigation.
Lt. Shelly Neal, commanding
officer of the detective squad at the115th Precinct, which is currently
heading the investigation, declined tocomment but termed the case an"active Investigation, pursued diligently,
with the probability of an arrest.»
Since meeting with police andcity representatives,
Queer Nation,
the New York City Gay and Lesbian
Anti-Violence Project and the Julio
Rivera Anti-Violence Coalition of
Queens, a group that has sprung up
in response to the murder, spurred amarch on Aug. 18 through Jackson
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MINNEAPOLIS-The seven-year
struggle to tear down the legal barriers
separating
Karen Thompson
andSharon Kowalski encounteredyetanother roadblock on Friday, Sept. 1,: when a judge denied Thompson's petition to become Kowalski's guardian.
An October hearing is scheduled todetermine the couple's fate.
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but a temporary one. We will win,whether it is at this stage or in appeal."
Thompson had expected District
Court Judge Robert Campbell to grant
her guardianship of Kowalski, after
medical and legal experts testified that
Thompson is best suited to care for her
lover. Kowalski's parents gave up theirbattle to prevent Thompson from seeing their daughter last year.
But two women who say that they
are friends of Kowalski are now CQntest-,'.'.'.-.-..

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accident left Kowalski severely disabled, and Thompson,
her lover,began a legal battle with Kowalski's
parerits for the right to care for her.
Thompson's
legal struggle
here
spawned a nationwide network of les~bians and gay men who rallied
around her, arid began a more generalr:p.ovementfor domestic partnershiprights for gay couples.
"I'm just so furious," said an emotional Karen Thompson. "It's a setback,•I

ing .uch a judgment. They allege that
Thompson is attempting to "control"
Kowalski for political purposes, a notionthat Thompson vehemendy rejects.
Karen Tomberlin of Coleraine,
Minn., and Cathy Schroeder of Carlton,
Minn., came forward two months ago
to contest Thompson's guardianship.
Neither Tomberlin nor Schroeder-both
phYSical education instructors in northern Minnesota-want to be Kowalski's
guardian themselves. They did not

return a reporter's phone calls.
Thompson said: "I'm being eaten
up by this. We live in fear of some
homophobic person talking against us.
Sharon bas made it clear that the only
person she wants to be with is me.
Still, the legal establishment, alongwith Kowalski's parents, refuses to recow:nze their relationship.
Even Kowalski's court-appointed
attorney, Fred Friedman, said: "It's justa tragic thing. There are a lot of wellmeaning people that can't or won't get. together for the sake of Sharon's healthand welfare."Lesbian and· gay legal advocateshave long been watching the Thompson-Kowalski struggle. Minnesota state
law stipulates that a husband or wife
assumes the guardianship in similar
situations, but it does not accommodate lesbian and gay partnerships.
Opponents of Thompson's guardianship have suggested that a neutral
third party serve as guardian, but thestatute requires that a personal relationship exist between the guardianand the ward.
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Thompson said that Kowalski's !5health was hindered during the three ~years that Kowalski's parents had::!lcustody. From 1986 to 1989 Kowalski i
lived in a Hibbing, Minn., nursing fhome. Kowalski has lived for the
past 14 months at the Treville Nursing Home in Robinsdale, Minn., asuburb of Minneapolis.
A final decision is expected to bemade on the c lSe within a week after
the hearing, which is scheduled forOct. 12 in Duluth, Minn. Thompson
said that the hearing will be open to
the public and media.
"I continue because I love Sharon
Kowalski," she added. "I think she is abeautiful persQIl. We've touched souls
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• NEW YORK-Wrtnesses and victims
who described a series of physical confrontations and riot-like conditions
between gays and youths in front c:i an
East Village bar on Second Avenue, earlyon Sept. 8, say the police were unresponsive to their pleas for help.
They say that officers from the 9th
Precinct, whose headquarters is housed
just a block from where the confrontations OCCUlTedon Second Avenue and
4th Street, reluctantly responded after
groups of gay men, some bleeding, went
over to the police station to complain.
And when cops were finally sent out toquell the confrontation, witnesses said,
the police turned against the gay men.
Four youths were eventually arrested, and the police classified the incident., as .
said Matt Foreman, executive director of the New York City Gay•. Gay Men Attacked in Greenwich Village

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Avenue and 9th Street on Sept 2, were pursued into a nearby standing in line offered to call 911.
greenllrocer and allegedly bashed by three young men, while sev"Then one of the three came into the store and bashederal customers and the cash register attendant looked 011. Accordme on the side of the head and pushed me into a rack of
ing to a witness, when one of the men was arrested, he disclosed something," related Farrell. "He punched me and pulled mythat he is actively' enrolled in a dMsion of the armed services.
head back by the hair and continued to hit me." When Farrell
Greg Farrell, one of the two gay men assaulted, reported that momentarily broke away from his attacker, the two gay men
the confrontation began at about 10:30 pm, when he and a friend ran to the back of the store for shelter.
.were jostled by three young men 011 the street "I was kind of just
"At that moment, I found the telephone, and I made sureside-hit, and I honestly thought it was an accident, so I said, . that they could see me holding the receiver and speaking into
'Excuse me' and continued 011," Farrell recalled, "and about 15 sec- it," Farrell recalled.· The alleged assailants fled the store, and'onds later, Iheard We can do that because you're faggots.'"someone came in and reported that the men had run into theThinking that the incident had Concluded, the two men 9th Street PATH station.
When the police arrived a few minutes later, the two men
proceeded on their way. However, as the men reached 9thStreet, Farrell stated, "Somebody came up from behind me accompanied them to the PATH station, where they caught up
and kicked me in the back, and at that point I knew we had with two of the three alleged attackers on the platform.
The accused assailants are Joseph Murphy, whosesome trouble."
The two men hustled into a grocery store and asked the atten- address is listed as an armed forces station in West Germany,
dant behind the counter to call the police, but the cleric said that and Edward Gibbons, 60 Sherry Rd., T~mersville, NY.
there was no telephone. "Faggotsl Faggotsl" screamed the two-Nina Reyes
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Dr. Charles Silverstein
added that three gay men were known toPsychotherapist& Al,lthor
be injured, with one requiring six stitches.
Four gax men !lave filed Charges; he said.
Now•
Foreman met with victims and witacceptmg
nesses Sept. 12 to determine the confusing
newsequence of events. "We documented ten
Patients
separate inSancesin which polire responded.
y, or their response c0nMedical
Insurance
tributed to the problem," Foreman said
HonoredWitnesses say that the confrontations
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in front of Woody's, a nightclub on thersouthwest comer of the intersection, were,taunting patrons leaVing the Bar, as well as, gay men who were walking by. A bartender at the Bar reportedly tumed off the
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the street," reported Ken .Lindley, who
said one of the youths punched him,
twice in the face.
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"It says a lot about the gay community in that people weren't hurt badly,",
Foreman said. "It's a comment on the gay
commuruty's restraint."\-.While officials at the 9th Precinct
declined to comment' on the incident,
Officer R31ph st. Juste, a police department spokesper:son, toldOUtWeek, "It is/ the policy of the NYPD that we respond, to all calls responsibly.and in a timely
Television That Mattersmanner; without regard to the nature of
To The Lesbian .and Gay
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The police department, using its nar- I,,
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and representatives of the gay and lesof the violerit murder, had been president of his high school class and, .bian commun~ty pushed for the maxiaspired to go to law school. Friends
mum possible sentence. Pennsylvania'sand family characterized the tall andEthnic Intimidation Act provides stiffer
athletically built man as an "all~Ameri- ~nalties for bias crime offenders, but
can boy."
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In an effort to thwart the increaspe~ins only to religious and minority

P.I1TSBURGH--:Aconvicted gayI
killer was sentenced to serve six to ten,
years in a minimum security facflity last•month.
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Commentary.
Following a bench trial on july 18,•>
before Co1l;1ffiOO Pleas judge-Robert E.
Dauer, john Smouse, 20, was foundguilty of third-degree murder in the brutal slaying of a gay man, David Piergalski,,
last September. The murder shook thesmall gay community here, and became,a focus of lesbian and gay activism.
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A jury trial cOlnmences in October. by Janet Rodgers, for 20-year-old
Mark Glusic,
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u81ity is morally wrong." Apparently, thisski had solicited Smouse and Glusic forit or not-vampires.'.
character has never studied ancient Greece.
a ride at Shanley Park, a, cruising area,.' Forming a positive 'gay or lesbian
The nanie-calling is a reaction to a
popular with gay men. By their own
new student group called Gay and Les- identity in this society is particulary
admission, Smouse and Glusic hadbian Organization, or GALO, at ,County hard for young people who live in relabe~n, to the park on' a minimum' ofCollege of Morris in New Jersey. . 'I tively small. cities and towns. The fall ffour previous, occasions
to ridicule and,The' formation of GALO has been term sta,rts soon,· and GALO needs sup,verbally harass gays. According toaccompanied by an enormous. controport and encouragement from all of us.
Smouse, he gave Piergalski a rid~ in·versy. Many articles and letters to the'Write to: Dan Collins, Editor; Young- .
his van and did not physically attack
editor on the subject appeared last town Edition, County'College of Morris,.
him until Piergalski alkgedly made a' <spring iQ YounfltDwn Edition, the school Rt. 10 and Center Grove Rd., Randolph,'.
pass at Glusic, who was supposedly
newspaper. Although some letters were NJ.07869, or.eall hir:nat (201) 32g;.5224. .
asleep in the back of the vehicle.
supportive,a significant
portionYou can also send 'copies of corre- .
A pathologist's report revealed ~t·revealed a frightening amount of bigotry spondence to Edward Yaw, president of
PJergalski:s'face had been struck' in .the ,.and ignorance of homosexualitY.
the college, at the same address. If
same spot at least seven times. AddiAmongtheletlerwriters'rhetoricwere
you're a New Jersey taxpayer, your,tionally, it 'was determined that theaccusatio!1s that GALO's purposei.s toresponse:will
carry extra clo~t.
seduce heterosexuals, that gays tend . ..
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tim's' eyeballs. The ,official cause ofdalism, and that homosexuality is an abom- Gav and Lesbian Alliance Agairist'Def,
death was attributed to multiple injuries,
in8tipn that shQiJldbe cured, not accepted.
amation. For more information about. . most notably, aspiration of blood.
, '. '. Perhaps mostdisturbing was a letter' the ,material in this w~ek's column, or. . from a professor at the college, Joseph about GlAAb, call (212) 966-1700.
Police measured !l pool of blood,,, three feet in diameter in the back of,\Morris County,,,

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Prior to sentencing Smouse, Dauer
compared what he called Smouse's"egotistical discrimination" t6 the injustices committed by both Hitler's persecution of Jews in World War II and theenslavement of Blacks by white people
in this country; yet, he still granted thedefense's request to place Smouse in a
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"The result of this case is in no
way a deterrent to attacks and assaults
on lesbians and gays. The sum total of
all the benefit of the doubt John
Smouse received added up to anothergay bashing in the criminal justice system!" raged BU!Hileman of the newly
named CRY OUT!ACT UP (formerly
known as CRYOUO, a group dedicating itself to gay rigµts and AIDS
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1I:acandidates
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In the national Congressional racein New York's upstate 22nd district,
Strub, an entrepreneur whose directmail Wizardry has helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for gay
community organizations, lost by justover 1,200 votes, more than 1,000 ofwhich were cast in the conservative
Rockland County polling stations.
Strub's defeat shocked pundits,
who had predicted that Strub would
Win the district handily against his 85year-old opponent, Rockland County
resident John Dow. Dow served as theCongressional representative from that
district for two nonconsecutive terms
but was ousted from office both times
by Republican Rep. Benjamin Gilman,
now the nine-tenn incumbent.
But it was one of Strub's own
direct-mail solicitations, a gay and lesbian community card pack with ads formany different kinds of products andservices, that may have been the single
largest factor in his defeat. ,Just a few days before the primary, two newspapers based in Rockland
and Westchester Counties ran a story
from the Associated Press wire thatdetailed the manner in which one
Strub SQlicitationwas packaged.
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Local media reportedly leaped on
the story, which also noted that Strub's
direct-mail company, Strub-Dawson,
had sponsored the mailing. Although
Strub's campaign bought space in thesolicitation
at cost, some people
believed that connection
gave anappearance of impropriety. And somepolitical observers have noted that it isunusual for any candidate to attach hisor her campaign literature to that kindof bulk solicitation.
But it was the gay orientation of
the companion ads, rather than thenovelty of the technique, that local
media chose to sieze on. One radio
station in the area broadcast the story
throughout the day before the primary,according to Strub.
Ironically,
the Washington,
DC-based Associated Press reporter,
Kim Mills, is a lesbian who got theidea for her story when she received
the community card pack in the mail.
In his concession speech, Strubpointed out that his defeat proved, if
nothing else, that homophobia has notbeen wiped out in the district, eventhough the incumbent is a moderately
liberal Republican. "While we didn't
win the election, it was enormously
important, and it was good fQrthe
community,' Strub said.
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"A lot of people have a perceptionthat we should only run candidates
against notorious homophobes,' Strubcontinued. "The point is that Jews
shouldn't
only be eligible to run
against antisemites, Blacks shouldn't
only be eligible to run against racists.·
The Manhattan Surrogate's Court
race, which drew a field of four candidates, was spotlighted by lesbian and gay
electoral activlsts because of the increasedrole that court, which deals with wills,
estates, trusts and adoption, has played in
the lives of gay men and lesbians.
Preminger, one of the original
board members at Gay Men's Health
Crisis, won the race handily, and said
the community's $Upport had propelled
her to victory. "Certainly from theresponse that I got at polling places, alarge number 9f people told me that it
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recentT wave of antigay violence in New
York and other cities
has broughtgay
men and lesbians
together in anothershared crisis. But for
lesbians,
the vio· lence is nothing new; just as gay men
are more subject to the epidemic of
AIDS than are lesbians, so too are lesbians at higher risk from violence thangay men.
According to the US
Justice Department and the
FBI Uniform Crime Report,· violence against women, at
an all-time high, has reachedepidemic proportions. The
most common violent crimesin the US are assaults on
women. Rape has increased
at four times the rate, ofother violent crimes, andsince 1979, the rate of via-.
lence against women, age 15
to 35 has increased 49 percent even as the ra~e of violence against men in thatsame age group decreasedby 12 percent.
Over four women are
murdered each day, and ...... ,,*murder is the leading causeof death for women of color in the US~d the second leading cause of death
for all women. A woman is assaulted·every 12 seconds in the US and raped· every s~ minutes. Violence kills more,women than ·AIDS has killed gay men:
· It's the country's worst epidemic (50percent of all women in the US will bea victim of violence before they are35), and very little is being done aboutit.

same solidarity against violence that thelesbian community has provided on the
AIDS front.
Take Back the Night marches haverarely, included gay men. The mostrecent such march in Philadelphia
found only a handful of men amongthe 3,000 women in attendance. Whenthe marchers passed the gay strip thatnight, men came out of the bars towatch but not to join.
Violence against women has adirect link to anti-gay violence. Sexism
and homophobia are inextricably entwined,
and thisshould compel gay men to
involve themselves in the fight... 1 II r
against that violence. But the
majority of gay men may be
unaware of the scope andseverity of the violence. Stillothers may feel that violenceagainst women is not theirissue. Lesbians, however, havetaken an active role in the
AIDS crisis regardless of the,tiny numbers of lesbians with ~Iv.WERt IIERE
HIV infection. Gay men must ~r. '£Rc~Ef/r see the need for a Similarly ~U!{Oltrm active role in our epidemic. ~.. 77 \ -:.
People who argue that .~the gay community brought
AIDS on itself-people such as ==Jesse Helms-also argue thatwomen deserve the violence
focused on the massive epidemic of they receive Simply because they might
be in the wrong place at the wrong
violence
against women in thetime or be dressed a certain way. The
US either from the media as a wholeor from the gay community. The recent anti-AIDS-funding lobby is also the antirally and march in Park Slope, Brook- choice lobby and the anti-gay rights
lyn, showed gay and lesbian solidarity lobby. People who say that the Constion the issue of violence. But for the tution doesn't protect women also
most part, gay men have responded to believe that it shouldn't protect queers.
Gay men need to recognize thatanti-lesbian violence because it is antigay and therefore affects them as well. these biases are connected. They are in
But lesbians need from gay men the a unique position to help in the strugPor lesbians,the problem is
twofold: It is both gender- and identitybased. Ninety-one percent of the pe0ple who attack women are men. Whenan act of violence is perpetuatedagainst a lesbian, it is as much because
she is a woman as because she is gay.
Thus when Claudia Brenner andRebecca Wight went hiking in theAppalachian foothills near Gettysburg,
both of these factors led to Wight'S
murder and Brenner's near murder.
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While they are male, they are rarely,, rapists, attackers and murderers of,
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power to speak out against such violence and argue for protections for- women, tough sentencing laws andservices for victims of the violence.
Marching against anti-gay violence
IT you are IllY positive with a T,that includes lesbians is not the same
cell count. of 200 or-lesswith a new.
as taking an active role in an issue thator
increasing
cough,
shortness.
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only engages you peripherally, yet that
breath, - fatigue, and/or.~ fevers, youis t;xactly what is necessary. Lesbians.
are at risk for their lives in the same •• may have Pneuniocys'tis
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oscopy, a procedure, in which aof the gay and lesbian community has
respiratory
specialisi
passes acome to be "Silence = Death." And thatflexible tube into the lungs to obtainis certainly the case :with anti-woman
violence.
fluid and sometimes
tissue for
The gay community needs toexamination. Usually examination of..
adopt it pro-active, rather than resputum has been inadequate and theactive, stance against violence. Lesdiagnosis frequently missed. Now
bians are gratified when gay men joinwith the devel<;>pmentof
a newin an effort such as the Park Slope
immunoflourescenttest:whichisanti-violence march. But gay men must.
also engage on a deeper, more conextremely sensitive and accurate, thestant level. They need to speak out
diagnosis °of PCP from sputum
against the violence being perpetrated
examination eliminates the.
foragainst women-not
just because it
bronchoscopy in over.90% of cases.
affects them, too, but because we are
At' our facility . we obtainatryfng to build a coalition of shared:sputum
specimen
withinririnutes
by.
responsibility.
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a procedure known as sputum inducWhen gay meri fight their own sexism and the sexism of other men, theytion which requites inhaling a mist ofhelp to break down the very foundations
3% saline which provokes coughingof violence against women. When gay
up of a deep specimen. We perform
men respond to the harassment andthe immunoflourescent test immedassault of women, they are, helping notiatelyand report the results the same
only the lesbian members of their comday to you and your doctor. There'ismunity but also themselves. The perjoratives "fag" and "pussy" are interchangeno risk, discomfort, or hospitalizatio~'able in this society; that alone should tellinvolved.
The cost is $200 and is,gay men that this is very much their issue,.reimbursible
by most insuranc,etoo, Combating sexism and homophobia•
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You m~nti()n that you have been
element in your identity as a gay man.
, stein,haviI,lgdifficulty with concentration
You ma¥'want to consider a part-timeand decision making; as well as" I was diagjob or a volunteer position. The
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nosed with AIDS
workplace (professional o~ volunteer)
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provides acce~s to, a social network,- sion. Other signs of depression include
when I,was 32. I,and, of' course, you should maintain
irritability, change hi appetite"' along,am doing well on
your relationships 'with current friends,
with ensuing weight gain-pr loss,'medication
and
who are a vital source of emotionalchange jn, sleeping p~ttems"deCreased
usually maintain a'
support and self-esteem,"
positive a"ttitude. ,-_ iptefest in activities that were formerly
You and your lover shoufd talkpleasurable, ,such as work andl:Iowever,'recently I have, been feelingabout how going on' disability may
sad and listless, and at times I just can't
effect your' relationship. If you end up
concentrate on my work,. as a datawith less money. will you experience,analyst.. My th04ghts often wander to, this as less' power and control in thethe lilcelihood that my life may be
You neeed to make two
relationship? r suggest short-term
signifiCantlyshortened,and that I won't
individual
or couples therapy to help
have the opportunity to do more of the.
decisions. The first is
you sort out the advantages andthings that I enjoy~veling,$~ndjng,,•,
disadvantages of going on disability.
time with my fami1y,(who live out of'w.hether
or
not
you
Also, cheek out the services of theI)tate), my hobbies (photography and
People with AIDS
Coalitiop and Gay
pottery). For three months now, I have"
qcceptthefactthatyoa
Men's Health Crisis. They can be, been considering going on disability,
helpful to both you and yo~r lov~r. 'but I can't seem to make up my ,mind.
AI Sbordone, )fSW
My lover says that he~ll support whathave AIDS. The secoiul
ever decision I make: Disability would
Dear Undecided,
give me the free time to do m~reof thedecision is,·whether you.
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I am earning now. How. do I decide?
want to go on disability
whether or not you aG.<;~,ptthe fact.
Undecided- ,•ithat you have' AIDS. The second,, while you're still in,decision is whether you want to go
Dear Undeci~,
on disability while you're still inIn the past, disability, like retirerelatively
goodhealth.
relatively good health. If I were in
ment, was mostly a problem formid,dleyour'place, I'd go on dis<ibility. I'd:ilgedpeople and senior citizens. It's anmake those faI)lily visitS while I'm still
especially difficult conflict for young
in good shape. I'd ·travel to places
men like yourself.· I've asked a
I've always wanted to se,e (even, if I
colleagUe and therapist, AI Sbordone, to , s&ializing with frien'ds, a resulting,had to travel second-class).
Your
tc:rndency to isolate oneself and, respond to your question, because he's
hobbies of photography and pottery-,
advised a number of clients in his " lowered self-esteem.',sound fine. Enjoy the time more now,
Depression can interfere not only
practice a~ut disability. 111add a few
evenwith less money. What good iswith' yOl,lr decision making but also',,'cqmments
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your plans. Yoli want to avoid making• ," What you:~e' dealing with is notwant to live now. If you can't sort ~I
plans that are unworkable o,r that
Simply a matter of 'time vs. money. The" this out with yqur lover" f agree withincreaSeyour depression, ' .
diagn.osis <;,fAIDS has a profound
Al Sbo.rdone that you should get, Many people connect their career
psychological impa~, part of which isshort-term crisis-oriented therap.y. T
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idea: I, too, could have a baby! After; ~ night" asAnentirecommunityof,all, I am a. sod~llly sensitive, underI lay:waiting for
employed, fortysome!ging single gal .
sleep, I kept hearhetf!Tosex'Ualsquirrels'
WOO cah,'stilIrememb'er·aH the guitar
ing little puffing
I used to play. "Blowiri'in thechordsand wheezing pois;.
Wind" at those ban-the-bomb rames.,
had squeezed through a .
es conling from theWith the world in the shape. it's in,
attic. I grabbed aflashUght
and 'this could .be my l~st chance to raisehole In the roo/anda beautiful, 'highly evolved child
crept up the stairs, aµd what do'you
think I saw? An entire community'of het~ who could help ·promote world,
settled into the rafters,
peace!
P,eople on the street . who'erosexual sq~irrels had squeezed,,
would have sneered or beateri methrough a hole· in the roof and settled
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andfrolickin8 and fucking as if there'.'
I wheel my organically gfo~ri t~t in 'fere no tomorrow. As a lcrsbian, thisandjrolicking aIJd .. ' ;'.,,
its cute, little stroller. "Ah, sodal
inade me feel invisible..
justice," they wiil -sigh. "Now I
I went back to bed but couldn't•
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,, •my life for ;'a reasoil, don~t y.ou?
Tomorrow, rm going to call- up an,
strollers are. not gasoline-power~d,old boyfriend and ask'if I can drop
T01t!0rrow,,by tb borrow a cup of sperm. Well? .. you might not hav,e the~finances ~ttakes to give you~ baby an adequate
Aren't you going to -congratulate me?
going ta call up',..:.-Passed My MidUfe Crisis.
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. Dear MidUfe,.become a soldier. Of course,' you,
coula choose to off-set some ofI( I. were you, dear, I would
your child-rearing
expenses by
have that hole. in my roof fix~d.
and ask I canhaving your picture taken in army
Next, I would sit down and, in,auniform, holding yOur baby, for therealistic and grown-up fashion, I, drop byI to
cover of a national news magazine:
would figure out just how much it
I don't know, dear. I think I '
will
cost.
to
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a
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would
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would go back to bed and sleep onthen ,compare that figure with the,. borrow a cup•
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takes center stage, the federal
government is carefully
dismantling the pornindustry--without media
attention.
BV NINA REVES
ast spring, a series of swift

and brutal government
raids was launched on amultibillion dollar industry.
Some businesses wereforced to reexamine and pare down theirinventory; others exited the field altogether.
Curiously, while the businesses subjectedto the search and seizures operate legally,
the plundering they experienced at thet agents received
hands of law
virtuallyno coverage in the press.
"Nobody cares about us b~cause
we're pornographers,· states one businessperson Simply. "Everyone is up inanns about the National Endowment for
tl\e Arts and censorship, but when we getraided, no one writes about it·
Unfortunately, the allegation is all
too accurate: Aside from several
newsletters and publications specifically
devoted to First Amendment issues, acoo.rdinated effort-consideredbyexperts to be one of the most serious
assaults on freedom of speech to occur
in the last few years-has surged ahead
with almost no media attention. Even
- alarming, the government-sponmore
sored .anti-obscenity' unit behind theattack, which one commentator aptly
termed "the national undercover morals
squad,· continues to recei~e plump
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While many would~agreethat the government's morality brigad~
must be stopped, the public certalnly isn't very interested in defending therights of pornographers to
distribute their dirty little
pictures. And since thegovernment
anti-porngroup recendy changed its
IlaIl'lC from the bureauaatie-sounding
National. Obscenity Enforcement
Unit to the more. emotionallyloaded Olild Exploita,tion and Obscenity Section-due, a spokesperson
claims, to the fact that halfd the unit's SIaff hours are
spent prosecuting child
exploitation
and abusecases-whicb makes convincing the public to scrutinize its urge to censor
even more problematic.
For lesbians and gay
men, considering the rolethat visual erotica has
played in the age of AIDS,
and pondering the growIng significance of pornography in the expression of .
lesbian sexuality, this ~testassault on Xrated visuals is particularly chilling. Just
as gay men and lesbians nationwide
have once again seized on the power ofvisibility actions as a tool for liberation,of porn have found that visuals featuring same-sex smut, particularly
gay male sexual acts, are more likely tobring convictioris than heterosexualromps In the hay.
The Irony, of course, is that queers,
as well as our liberal allies, have risen in
elOquent defense of high-brow erotica,such as the late Robert Mapplethorpe's
work, insisting that the images overwhich so much ink has been spilled are, art, not~ The Implication left
. lingering in the air, then, is that censorShip of erotic visuals considered overtly
pornographic will be tolerated.
And, unfortunately, in these times,
as Mapplethorpe's
lesbian and gay
defenders have discovered, when censorship hits, queerly erotic images areburned first.

tors on staff at the unit's
Washington
headquarters a staff which is
expected to grow to 13 itt
the near future-the unit
may, at its choosing, use
an assistant US attorneyspecially trained for 0bscenity proseCution itt each of ...
the· 94 federal districts.
Furthermore, for researchand enforcement actions
itt the prosecution of ittdividual adult. businesses, the unit utilizes the Federal Bureau
of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service, the
US Postal Service andlocal police.
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It's no wondet; then,.'that the anti-ponl unit hasforged a· novel
approach,to obscenity prosecutionthat melds mOdem legal
tools and a medieval mentality with frighteningly
successful
results. By
threatening
legitimate'businesses and their managers with simultaneous
ittdlctments from Ii number . of' 1ll,rlsdictions '. debDi- .,'.' .
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ceration for violationof•federal law, and, more recently, asset
forfeiture, the obscenity unit can win
without even going to trial.
Earlier this year, for example, theowner of a gay mail-order business itt theMidwest returned ftom an l8-month stint
itt jail that had resulted ftom a series ofindictments brought against him by theJustice Department task force, and lastyear, a West Coast distributor of gay porn
videos closed its doors as part of a plea
bargain in response to charges broughtby the obscenity unit. Some companies
have paid fines nearing $1 million. 0thers have attempted to fight the charges
broUght against them and found, that thecost of putting up a legal defense against
a number of indictments forces them Intobanlauptcy.
"Even if the defendants win, It's apyrrhic victory," comments John Weston,a West Coast. attorney and member ci theprivate bar of lawyers that spedaIizes inadvising and defending businesses witl:µn
the X-rated Industry.
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he force behind thismost recent crackdown
on visual sexual images
is no less a power thanthe United States
t of Justice,which, under the direction of Attorney
General Dick Thornburgh, has lifted
obscenity prosecutions out of the backwaters where they have resided since
the Warren Court in 1973 broadly
defined the parameters of the First
Amendment to include most fonns ofsexually explicit material. With a little
help from his predecessor, Edwin Meese,and the fonner attorney general's 1985
Commission on Pornography, Thornburgh has nurtured and refined a fighting force of litigators who are spearheading the national war on porn.
This anti-obscenity unit, created inconsonance with the recommendationsof the Meese commission, has access toresources far beyond its ten staff litigators and its annual $1.7 million budget.
In addition to the ten coordinating litiga,,~~

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obscenity unit has been operating at full
throttle, a working pattern has emergedthat observers think belies the· political
agenda. behind the unit's Slated purposeof enforcing federal anti-obscenity laws.
The pattern involves the use ofsting operations in small towns-where,
presumably, an unjaded grand jury
could be convened-followed·by
sean:hand-seizure raids conducted in conjunction with agents from the FBI, the IRS,
the US Postal Service and local police,on out-of-state distributors. After , indictments are returned, defendants areoffered plea bargains that includCastronomical fines and agreements to 80 out
of business. Since the alternative is typically the prospect of a lengthy legal battle, followed by decades of incarceration~ the defendant is convicted, an overwhelming number of defendants choose
the plea bargain.
ne of the more alarming aspects of theanti-obscenity
unit'smethodology
is thatthere is no solid basis in the law for the
charges they file against the pwveyors of
porn: Unlike narcotics, for example, theobscenity-;md consequent illegality-of
adult entertainment products is left to the
judgment, of the beholder. In otherwOrds, what may offend the cOmmunity
standard in one jurisdiction---Md thereby
be deemed illegal-may not raise hackles in a more cosmopolitan bailiwick, sowhile a video's producer languishes in a
Tennessee jailhouse because a local jury
finds the material obscene, hundreds ofthousands of viewers enjoy the same
tape with complete immunity in tities all
across America.
This seemingly arbitrary obscenity
standard was carefully crafted in the 1973
Supreme Court ruling in Mfl/er v. CalifornIa. That decision included a threepronged obscenity test: An "average person applying contemporary community
standards" must find that that the work,taken as a whole, appeals to prurientinterests; the work must depict or .
describe sexual conduct, explicitly
defined by state law, in a patentlyoffensive way; and "the work taken as awhole [must] lack serious literary, artistic,
political or scientific value." The standard,
particularly given the inclusion of the latter requirement, provides pornographerswith a virtually foolproof defense.

On the other hand, the fact that"contemporary community standardS"
play a role in dedding what constitutes
obscenity has given ,prosecutors a hugeloophole through which to make alegal leap. Given the right community, azealous team of prosecutors could put
the whole adult entertainment industry
out of business.
And that is precisely what the Olild
Exploitation and Obscenity Section is
attempting to do.
n 1988, in conjunction with the
FBI and the US .Postal Service,
the Child Exploitation
andObscenity Section initiated Project PostPorn, an anti-pornography
prosecutoria! blitz aimed at mail-orderbusinesses that ship X-rated 1lli!erial..
Filing charges that the targeted businesses had engaged in conspiracy and'racketeering and had violat~d federal
laws governing use of the postal system, the government 'sought to Pl,lt

Under thedirection of
Attorney General
Dick Thornburgh,
the federal
obscenity unit isoperating at full
throttle,
conducting sting
operations
followed by search';'and-seizure raids.

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adult entertainment operations out ofbusiness by employing a controversial
tactic known as multiple prosecutions,or the simultaneous filing of charges
from a number of separate jurisdictiQns.
The fmancial drain of erecting' alegal defense against a number of suits, •the government correctly reasoned,
would quickly drive even established Xrated businesses into
. A secondaryeffed: of the effort-and presum; .
ably the desired long-term goal-would
be to frighten other businesses into a
Slate of self<ensorship.
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The effectiveness of this strategy
relies largely upon two things: first, theavailability of multiple prosecutions as ananti«>scenity weapon; and second, thecommunity standard element of the ob' scenity test devised by the Supreme Court.
. According to Bruce Ennis, a First
Amendment specialist who has closely
followed the work of the government's
anti-porn unit, and who has filed suitagainst the Department of Justice onbehalf of a North Carolina mail-order
distributor that has been subjected toharassment by the government's antiobscenity agents, "The multiple pr0se:cution approach is disfavored by theJustice Department
in all contexts
except this one."'However, the prosecution of obscenity, and conseqJlently the federal antiobscenity unit, is reportedly a top priority
of US Attorney General Dick 1bombwgh,
so it is unlikely that multiple.'
will cease without direct intervention
from the courts. Additionallr--and this iswhere the. standards elementsof the obscenity test comes intoplay-multiple.
serve a utilItarian standard from a fiscal point ofview: If a grand jury in one jurisdiction
does not return a decision that the disputed material is obscene, a grand jury in amore
. district may find justthe opposite. In other words, filing multiple prosecutions reduces the hit-or-missrisk of going for an obscenity conviction. .
From a First Amendment point ofview, however, the fact that one community can determine the highest threshholdof sexually explicit material that will betolerated in another community poses a
potentially grave threat to freedom of~.
In essence, it inverts the notion of
the greatest good for the greatest number .,of people, because while a ruling against
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The possibility also exists that oneof these cases will end up before theSupreme Court, which would have theauthority to devise a. new obscenity
standard. And while the existing law
does not explicitly state what is legal
and what is obscene, few First Amendment attorneys could look forward to
the definition of obscenity that Chief
Justice William Rehnquist's
court
would return.
Not coincidentally, a number of thevideos and magazines selected for trial
under Project PostPom featured same-sex
sexual acts. According to attorneys familiar With some of those cases, the prosecutors found gay male sex so offensivethat they expected members of the grand.jury to experience similar revulsion and, consequently return indictments withoutworrying about the nuances of First
Artlendment protections.

,onslderlng ,that, formost of us, adultentertainment
enterprises exist in a kind

A zealous team ofprosecutors could put
the whole industry outof business ..
of hazy, red-lit netherworld, it doesn't
seem like a very great leap of logic togo from netherworld to underworld
and conclude that the X-rated indu~
is controlled by the Mafta. Perhaps it isfor that reason that the heaviest
artillery yet wheeled out in the government's war on porn is a law that was
tailored specifically for use in the fightagainst organized crime.
. While RICO, the federal Racketeer
Influenced and Corrupt Organizations
Act, allows the government to seize
the assets of people charged with racketeering, it has not been used extensively so far. But a conviction under
the federal racketeering statute recently
upheld by the Fourth Circuit Court ofAppeals In Virginia may have laid thegroundwork for future application of
the forfeiture law in obscenity cases.
"The thinking was that they would

hold off aggressively using RICO until
they had a circuit court uphold it," explains Ennis. Other First Amendment
experts concurred with Ennis' assessment but added that intensive application of RICO forfeiture to other obscenity cases may again be postponed,
since two cases are currendy working
their way up to the Supreme Court,
where the constitutional questions thatarise when the statute's forfeiture provisions are invoked could be resolved.
The federal RICO statute wasdesigned to help prosecutors dismandemob empires by forcing ~e forfeitureof all property acquired or supported
through racketeering activities. However, in 1984, by tacking on one of his
infamous amendments, North Carolina
Republican Sen. Jesse Helms added
obscenity violations to the list of activities included under the scope of thefederal RICO statute, and since then,prosecutors need only show a patternof illegal activlty-or a series of prosecutions on similar charges within a
specific period of time to justify starting RICO forfeitureproceedings
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Although the obscenity provision
RICO law was on tHe ed to this business is, that there's no' nearly '120 years in prison, stands to ',of the federal"' "pay $1.6 million in fines and may ultiboOks for se~eral years before, prose,.' sureness to it.",With the 'arrival of the AIDS epi- " mately lose millionS of dollars worth of, tutors
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'statute, recent successes the govern- , demic: and safer-sex campaigns, gay
producers, manufacturerS and would1
inent has scored, with,RICP obscenity•,'m afraidbf
the' authorities
be distributors, In particular, were vul- cases'suggest that the law will be morecracking
down
on ,me,", frequently ~pplied in the futUre. \' . , 'nerable to ,the 'advances of shady VeQexplained the manager' of a,-' , , "They're going to bring moreture !:apitalists from more establish~dWest Coast soft-coregay
distribution houses.
RICO caSes because that conviCtion
pornography vendor, echoing a sentiAt this point, whether o! not theputs fear in tile hearts of manufac:turers
ment expressed by-every producer,
and distributors;" warns Barry Lynn, Maf~is, involved is moot, considering
diStributor and'manufactUrer of X-rated
that the RICO statute has, been usedl~gislative counsel for the' Washington
material contacted for this article. "If,office of the American Civil Libenties with immense success by 'the, government in a number of recorded cases. , we don't get some sort of Supreme'
Union, pointing out once again thatIn the' RICO <:onvictiqn upheld before - Court ruling or something to stop this,because producers can never be certhe vrrginia Court of Ap~ls, Dennis, I think that one by one they'll go aftertain what will be'deemed obscene, andthe hard-core companies, and thenbecause the prospect of ,losing an
Pryba forfeited oVj!r $'1 million worth
they'll work their way up the line."
entire business due to an errpr in judg- of property after 'being convicted on, To forestall the manager's prediccharges resulting from the seizure ofment is so devastating,' the mere threat-- ' tion, which a number of experts
of RICO can be used as persuasion for barely more than $100 worth of Xrated, videos and magazines. And after , agree is a very real possibility, some~mpliance.
Interestingly, while specialists in 'being convicted on Jederal charges in people in the business are ceasing
sale of sexually' explicit products altothe field of adult entertainment
Minneapolis, adult bookstore- andgether. 'For instance, Malibu Sales, adefense' generally agree that beliefs
division of' Liberation Publications
that 'the erotic ,industrY and the mob
Inc., which publishes the AdvOcate,are closely allied owe more to theannounced early this summer that it
popular imagination than to fact,,
would no longer sell X-rated videos
some people withi~ the field say. thecharges may be accurate.
and magaZines.
, "When someone grows out [of)"This 1deCision,is the result of the
nowhere all of a sudden, supported bycontinuing unfriendly business climate.,for sale of X-rated products," Malibu,all of this upfront capital;" said one gay,producer, "it makes everyone .else inpresident John Knoebel wrote ii1 a letthe business wonder if they were
ter to the mail~order company's venloaned big chunks of money throughdors. "1he actions of the Justice,
Department in, moving against many
one of these l~rger distributors,
and,..
other firms over recent months pave
they took it. It's a classic organizedcrime mechanism."I't
led us to reevaluate our own 'involvement in this area."
Furthermore, the producer ex-",
Other businesses have simply
plained, with the ,advent of the ,video•
stopped shipping to states q-om whichbOom, it suddenly became clear that,
grand jury indictments are known to .
hundreds of millions of dollars cail be\
have come, and, ,in fact, soine distribumade in the production, manufacturtors are becoming more and more, ing and distribution of erotic videos,reluctant to deal with any orders outand, at the same time, there were veryXside major metropolitan areas at all. 'few legitimate sources that would lendI
On the consumer level, video stores
start-up capital to an X-rated entre,
are increasingly unwilling to rent or
preneur beoluse of the constant threat
sell 'sexually explicit videos to out-of- ~that the government's obscenity prose- ,cutions pose. Noting the irony in thestate customers for fear that they willI
fact that the government efficiently
be indicted on federal charges of sending obscene materials over state lines.
creates a bogeyman where ,none need
"We're not doing this becauSe we want
have existed (by keeping the heat onlegal businesses, which 'forces them,to set any kind of precedent or anything," says the manager of a New
into such a high-risK category that traYork City video store. "We're just trying
ditional lenders will not do business,
to make sure that we don't get .'with them, forcing them to seek initial-,involved with anything that will get us
investments from less respectable 'in trouble."sources), the producer said, "The rea.

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so 'intense that 'a number of businesSes involved with the adult entertainment industry, particularly gay-owned .
enterprises, declined to attend one of
the largest annual industry tradeshows, which was held in August.
,A<;cording to several sourc,es, word
had gotten around that most of thebusinesses hit in the 'series of raids
last spring had been visited by undercover authorities during a trade show
/ in January. A lesser,_example of thepervasive' paranoia was the consistent
refusal of businesses to be interviewed for this article, lest their operations somehow end up under a higher level of scrutiny. by thegovern. ."ment If the Department of Justice has
not yet managed to destroy the pornindustry, it has very successfully convinced the industry's' managers that. Big Brother is watching.

UI'm afraid 01 theauthorities cracking down on me,"says a'soft-core gay
porn vendor. all we,don't get a Supreme. Court ruling' to stop't
this,
I _,'.think one by'h gay coml?UOl y,e..'nationally has suffered'
one they II go after
disproportionately from"h 'ha dthe new' brand oft e~ -coreredlining that has resulted from ~he\ companies andgovernment's crackdown on erotlca.
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sought to make gay-oriented, sexually
explicit products'risky investments,
and, given the comparative fragility.of
gay-owned and -operated X-rated busi~
nesses, som~ commentators are be~,ning to wonder if the- Department of,Justice is winning the war on porn.
Ultimately, the success of the government's anti~porn, crusaders shortof forCing a more restrictive deftnitionof obscenity into law-lies simply in its
ability to harass and intimidate businesses who deal with X-rated products ',into leaving the market. At that point,
the anti-porn forces will move on to
torment more sophisticated players inthe ~gof America, because, ~ one
X-rated pI'ociucer"notes, "If YQQ.ielimi" 'nate ?t,e lea~g 'edge, then, all of the .
sudden all the people who are sort ofrespectable and stuff behind it are in'jeopardy because they are the newleading edge."' _,"Censors a-lways come back,"
explains the ACLD's -Lynn wearily,
pointing out that this latest aSsault on
the First Amendment is hardly the government's first concerted effort' at supptession of protected speech, "Censors.:~'will always find something to go after,and unless you ,stop them, they'll
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tJtIt government's war on porn, the Child pandering obscenity, and while the Child Jock Sturges, who has gained fame for his
Exploitation' and Obscenity Section (the Exploitation and Obscenity Section claims black-and-white portraits"bf families in thethat it had nothing to do with stirring up the buff, was raided by the FBI.
Departi1;lentof Justice's tactical strike,At the very least, Thornburgh's
force). is not alone in the purge to rid us of brew that led to Barrie's indictment, thewhat.it deelJls evil. And what it deems evil carefully orchestrated legal assault on bluenoses may take credit for creating a, .
erotic art bears aU the hallmarks of the context in, which the work of eminently\ clearly Isn't always what's traditionally
govemment'sanli-'obscenity unit. Indeed, respected photographers such as Sturges
considered "porn.",The destruction of the porn industry is news organizations covering the deba~le . is construed to be obscene. Furthennore,
since the govemmen!s anti-obScenity unit
. such a high priority for Attorney General came to the same conclusi.on:, Althoughmandate both to provide law, ,Dick Thornburgh right now that ente- they have miserably failed to track the has
please the questionably constitutional modus operandi enforcement officials with r~search ·and": '. . rprising prol!ecutors-eagar. feds....,.re IIniog up left and right to bring of the Department of Justice's porn technical assistance- on obscenity.' forth hlgb-profile suits based on the federal prosecutorS, both The New York Times and prosecutions, 'and to help lawmakers draft, the Boston Globe linked the Child anti-obscenity legislation, experts worry, obscenity raviS. 'Witness, for instance; the Robert . Exploitation and Obscenity Section with the that the current actions of.the Child
Exploitation and Obscenity Section are a
Mapplethorpe
controversy'
at the First Amendment furor in Cincinnati.
In an,otherexample, for which the anti- mere prelude to an imminent all-out war.
Contemporary Arts Center ,in Cincinnati.
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the folks at Orchis, the home-furnishing catalog,
are trying to reach with their queerly suggestive
ads that have popped up in all the trendiest
bourgeois interior-design rags.
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Having fooled that pretentious gang over at
Women's Wear Daily last year when theysnapped her in a nightclub as one of many
fashionable women spotted out, downtown
dragster Codie Ravioli has now made it intoW (above). But still, the Fairchild crew can't
seem to get their categories straight, de·scribing the blond one as "one of New York's
top transsexuals." Is that an allusion tosome sort of contest going on, or are they
revealing her in bed position preference?
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troublc::so~qu~ionsabout a· d~dline, when~eissue ,of~lec~gawinher
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Once he'dfinish~ he leaned, w;ross" ,"". the table and whispered, "I have a message,
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, :'didn't know anybody named Julian"he~. ,continued: ~The .best lack all conviction,
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certainly can'f talk to my editor about the missing competition· eptries. TImes being what they, are, I'm afraid that he simply, "We think-we do not guarantee-vou will be-withOUttrouble.
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meeting. All.I' coUld recall was that the missing entries for 'the .
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to me were diScussirig, 1 .. I
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whon,t 1 itnmediately recognize~ as Johann, the pianist frQm,
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when our receptionist, Reggie, informs
me that there's
someone calling "fromthe Coast." These are usually long, enticing conversations, which we at OutWeek have come to label "Dchats," since they're divinely and devilishly dripping indelectably delicious and dizzying drama, dish and dirt.
And, oh, did that Reggie ever continually announce
those coastal calls last week. So here's what the crQSScountry buzz was about: AIDS Project Los Angeles hosted
a benefit two Fridays ago called "Commitment to Life N."
Though the benefit committee
and the guest list included Hollywood closet case after Hollywood
closet case, the organizers had togo halfway around the world and
get Ian McKellan as an openly
gay actor to honor for the event'·(such a sad commentary on Tinseltown). Among those co-chairing the do which also lists "stars.
to greet and entertain you" like
Whoopi Goldberg, Lauren Hutton, Richard Gere, Christine Lahti,
John Glover, Sam Harris and others were David Geffen of Geffen Records, 20th Century Fox's
Barry Diller and agent Sandy
Gallin (all three of whom havespent plenty of time in the hotseat here and elsewhere for theirbacking of Andrew Dice Clay as
well as other homophobes).
Starting a few weeks before
this event, I was getting word ofsome uneasiness. The LA groupcalled Artists Confronting AIDS
had sent a letter of denouncement to APLA:"In looking
over the ill-conceived list of notables chosen to promote[the benefitJ, we noticed a startling number of closet-casecelebs listed alongSide some of Hollywood's most notorious homophobes. Is this an AIDS fund-raiser or a monument to showbiz self-hatred? ..Commitment to Life?!
Honey, next year, call it what it really is: Commitment to
the Closet.» (Contacted for a reaction to any protests
or questions regarding who is chosen to chair benefits,
APLA Chief Executive Officer Stephen Bennett was inagreement with some of the concerns of activists but firmly insisted that he "will not give a litmus test to donors.")
And Queer Nation/LA was planning its own little
party, which finally took place outside the benefit as
bedazzled guests arrived and walked a long rM carpet
from their limos. The group stood there chanting, holding huge posters and giving.
out.fliers,
both of which
depicted photos of Geffen,

Gallin and Diller whichwere captioned,
respectively: "Miss Geffen,
the Record Producer"; •"Mary Gallin, the Agent";"La Diller, the Movie Mogul."
It was one of those parties,I'm told, where EVERYONE showed up, and the protesters report that many of
the stars raised their f1Stsin solidarity and/or certainly
giggled, getting a kick out of the the camp sensibility ofthe protest. All, of course, except for Barry Diller himself, who reportedly read the flier and appropriately
turned lavender-perhaps
even more so because of themessage on the bottom of theflier that read "David, Sandy andBarry, you self-loathingshitheads, your tax deductible AIDS
charity work won't wash away...• the blood on your hands promoting Andrew Dice Clay, noto- .
rious queer-bashing 'comic""
Look, I just report these things.
(Oh, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!)
But since we're on the closet.
case bandwagon, let's get to thatfreak of the week, Sandra Bernhard. WOMAN,WHATmE PUCKAREYOU TRYINGTO PULU!Says
Ms. B. in People: "I am not alesbian, and I'm sick of being called
one. I'm not, and I want to set therecord straight." Well, Sandy, let's•
suppose, for a moment, that you
aren't a dyke. Isn't it still quite
homophobic to say, "I'm sick ofbeing called one," in a nationalmagazine? And the only response I
have to that statement anyway is:"But ya are, Blanche! Ya are!" Yes,
Ms, Bernhard, read my lips: YOU ARE A LESBIAN.YOU'
AREA LESBIAN.YOU AREA LESBIAN.So says that flashy,
arty editor girlfriend of yours. So say lots of other closefriends of yours. So says your cute but faux ex-boyfriend
whom you used Simplyfor press "bearding" purposes (and
who I know isn't straight also because, well ..J've slept
with him myself! Oh, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! And he's
now explained everything about you to us). And so saidyou, yourself, sweetie, in Sptn magazine last year or did
your manager bash you over the head and cause you todevelop amnesia because you've suddenly hit People mag<,azine,Hollywood and th~ big time?
Who would have thought that it'd be you, Ms. Hot,
Hip and Happening, the girl who was kicking ass to thegreat straight, white patriarchy? YOU AREmE SELLOUTSLIMEOF mE CENTURY.And to think, we, your loyal••
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movement called Fa~ Against Fadal Hair.
One Village Voice writer actually took
before and after pictures (with and wlthout his moustache) for publication. Keith,
Haring was loosely affiliated with thegroup. The affinity group stencilled East
Village sidewalks with "Clones Go Home"and planned a picket of the Saint on
opening night; unfortunately, it may havebeen too loosely affiliated--they couldn't
get it together enough to do the action.
Sydney: In the beginning, the otherclubs, like the Mudd Club, "didn't respectus." Tension existed between East andWest and an unoffidal club war also emtLADIES OFTHE EVENING-Andlf Why/and and Dany Johnson
ed between the moreclubs
and Club 57. Dany says that when people
from the Mudd Club came to Club 57,"they. had to take a lot of shit from us,
Club 57 wasn't really a pickup
They met at the taping of a cable 'XV
becausethey didn't want us in their club.
scene,.butsomepeoplemet
there.
The
show, tbe Wf/d World of jeff 1Urtlelaub,
For Halloween, we built a haunted house
club was mixed, filled with filmmakers,
where they got drunk, destroyed the set
and charged $1 to get in. Some nonmemband members, writers and, according toand were asked to leave. Some years andbers(from the Mudd Club) !mocked it all
Ande,
not
"boys
in
their
underwear,"asclubs later, Ande Whyl~nd and Danyshe describes the current gay scene. . down, and we had to chase them out eX
Johnson are still together, going to parthere. Club 57 was kind of an anti-club
Ande blames the inflated hOUSing marties, working the clubs, shooting photos,
club. If the owner of the Mudd Club
ket,
in
part,
for
killing
thecreativityofthewriting on downtown .dyke culture· andcame to 57, we would harass him by
scene. "The rents were low, and anyone
doing lots of other things.
throwing things at him. When Mudd Club
could move here and make a living
Sydney: Dany and Ande started
startedto slide, they changed their attiAt
the
same
time,
the
doing
anything."
working and hanging out back in thetude about us. They asked some eX us towhole West Vtllage clone scene was hapearly '80s at Club 57, which they describe
work there I took over Anita Sarko's
as "a social club in the basement of ajob,
and John Sex perfumed.". Polish church," at 57 St. Marks Place.
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Liz: Dany and Ande are of two"Ann Magnuson was the manager, andminds about the lesbian scene of that
we fonned the Ladies Auxilliary of thetime. Dany's favorite bar was Bonnie andLowei East Side to plan the schedule for
Clyde's (now a comedy club on West 3rd
57," sa)'S Dany. "We would meet at Ann's
Street), which had a "cute crowd" andhouse,to plan the whole month of per~",women
playing pool. But the West Vtl. formances, Alms and contests. One of the
Ia$e really wasn't their scene. As Dany
was a Nell Campbell show
says, "I came here to be a punk, andwith the president of tbe Rocky Horror
here were all these dykes in suits." She
PIcture Sbow Pan Club, Sal Piro," Dany
once witnessed a woman yelling at her
would deejay there on wow (Women's
girlfriend for hugging a pole.
One World Theatre) nights, and AndeAnde, on the other hand, liked andtook her first pictures. She became thestill likes the Duchess-which she feels
house photographer and put on several
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THE MARGARET MEAD FILM FESTIVAL.
American Museum of Natural History, Sept. 24-27 (Charlotte's Diary, Sept. 24,
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The Margaret Mead Film Festival
provides a telling glimpse of how thestraight world must often try to understand the lesbian and gay community.
In a program of films that focus
almost entirely on difference-fromthe filmmaker, the projected audienceor from both-lesbian
and gay topics
ought to be right at home.
This year, the museum pointed out
three films of interest to gay men andlesbians, Jennie Livingston's Paris Is
Burning, a riveting and disturbing documentation of the late '80s Harlem ballscene, and Comrades In Arms, Stuart
Marshall's tepid mix of shallow interviews with gay and lesbian World War nveterans and nurses along with newsreel footage and rather silly reenactments, were both shown in Jure at the
New Festival. (Paris also showed at last
week's Lesbian and Gay Experimental
Film Festiwl.) The third film is theAmerican premiere of director Puck
Goossen's. Charlotte's Diary, a moving
and insightful documentary about atranssexual Dutch factory worker.
What's telling is not the festival
programing, which is limited by what's·.available, but rather the ,subjects that. fascinate filmmakers enough to devote. up to three years making afilm
about them.
Proud,.
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. open activists and' lesbians
and gays in settled relationships rarely attract the filmmaking voyeur, Instead,•,,lesbian and gay viewers
must be satisfied with theelderly, reserved Brits ofComrades, the spunky "housemothers, n drag queens andquasi-transsexuals of Paris,and the quiet, matronlyCharlotte, who makes the
final transformation fromman to woman during thecourse of Charlotte's Diary.
It's no wonder that straightpeople can't figure out who
we are we are all the gender rebels they reject and a
lot of people they didn't
even know existed.
Nevertheless, the festival programer's lumping ofCharlotte's story with Comrades and Paris raises a difficult question: Are transsexuals part of the lesbian andgay community? To exclude
transsexuals betrays our
inclusive political convictions, but to include themdemands that we reject thesimplest explanations of
who we are-thereby
fu rther confounding thestraight .world,
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we must. If wedefine ourselves
largely in termsof desire and-HERE COMES LOTTlE-A REALWOMAN;
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ness. She teaches herself how to drink agender identificatiOIl-ilS in a "man-loving
had been tom down," but we still can'tbeer arid comb her hair "like a woman,"man" or a "woman-identified woman"be, sure exactly what it is that madeand she clearly' clings to the prevalent
we leave no place for 0larl6tte; who has,\.
her go through the hell of gender reasimages of femininity that she probably
sexual desire for neither gender and who
signment. "It's not a question of will,"
admired when growing up-the "grande
seems to identify herself not,as a liberatshe says, "it's like a royal commantl
dame" and the "woman of mystery." .She
ed woman but as a variation on the,from inside the body and soul." Anyhas no use for men or for sexuality ("Imiddle-class spinster stereotype.
can't grasp it. Sex was always a chore"), . attempt to locate Charlotte politically isCharlotte does indeed resemble thedoomed to failure, She's essentially aand she expresses her closeness tovision of woman she
carried within,
private, conservative person who was
wome'n as an asexual desire to "holdherself for 52 years: "a real grande
compelled to perfonn a publicly revothem, be next to them, be a part of theirdame," as she puts it, who spends onelutionary act-two revolutionary acts, if ,world." It's gratifying to those of us who
third or more of her income on "classic
you also count her allowmg her story
respond positively to Charlotte that after
clothes." On the job as a machinist,
to be ftlmed ....
her surgery she feels that "the wall
before the -fmal surgery, Charlotte isclearly, if gently, masculine. But properly
dress,ed, she is "maybe not the woman I
dreamed [I'd bel, but I am who I "j\ am--more or less a wom;m."MISS
AMERICAPAGEANT
1991.
NBC;
Sept.
8.
The emotional stress , of her situa,tion is at all times evident-particularly
at the close of the filin, when legal
entanglementsfrom her male past
threaten to overwhelm the psychological victory of her surgery. But the undercurrents of self-doubt that so often make'filmed interviews with transsexuals
painful to watch are undetectable in
Charlotte. She may be uncomfortable
having to explain herself to the world,but she's no~ the least insecure about·
who she is. After the final surgery, she,jokes, "I looked ciqwn at my belly andthought, 'Poor thing, it's gone!'''-Qlld
laughs. She's anxious to get out of thehospital and walk down the street inhigh heels, thinking proudly, "Herecomes
Lottie a real woman.".
Charlotte's self-confidence makes
Charlotte's DIary the best film document
I've seen aboutism, because
in Olarlotte's case there are no gnawing~l'questions of regret or psychopathplogy.
mE APPUED SCIENCES' Former Miss America';a·p·es-a·st~all!l!tio·nllll!b~re-aic·,.Here stands a healthy woman born as aby Otis Stuart\.
man. One recurring image is of CharOJ
Miss America, age ~70, returned to
year's event, is not flattering. One can lotte, modestly but handSomely decked'"'"
Atlantic City last week with Bert Parks,
only hope, for example, that \the guest :>OJ
out, addfes.sing the unseen filmmaker' in
her new and as yet empty apartment.
perfonnance by dinton HolmeS, backed u
age 75, in tow. An' eighth decadec.
'"Eby an ensemble of eight men who Her old life has been swept away, her
prompted reflection from, our reigning";:cshould
never
sing
words
·of
even
potenbeauty
pageant,
theonenoteven
Be$s
new existence waits to be filled, andu..
"tial sibilance, said more about Atlantic
she1s prepared to do whatever it takes
Meyerson's trial or Vanessa Williams'..0City than American entertainment stan- c::tongue could stop. In addition to the 50
to survive. It's quite art affecting portrait;"..
dards in general, Unfortunately, the "Charlotte is eminently likeable. (Hercontestants, 29 past wmners were on"
pageant's pandering to the mob instinct "reluctantly "accepting" brother, on thehand to' see Miss Illinhis, Marjorie Judith
was only enhanced by the four-score
other hand, is an old prude who won't
Vincent, crowned Miss America 1991,
crowned heads crowding the Convenand the collision course of past and preallow his face to be filmed, insists that he•tion Center, all looking remarkably
sent spotlit the contest's annual,and Charlotte "keep our lives separate"
alike. This year's winner, the mostand refuses to use the word '"vagina"queasy massage to the American
individual choice in the pageant's
ego. Circa 1990, the question isn't
he prefers "thing.")history, was the only woman withwho will be Miss America. It's whoCharlotte's personal appeal makesout big hair, and Vmcent clarified·it all the more difficult to deal with her
is Miss America.
how little Miss America has to do
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sexual asset personified, a perpetual teStament to the insecurity of the ,American'male. -She is, after all, a runway model
for standards in contemporary flesh ,fronts are full, and then some, thisyear and each ample angle of theswimsuit competition confirms Miss
America's uniqUenessroyaltY born ofa butt shot. Her single concession towith any specific, woman. (Namethree---and' not Meyerson, Wtlliams or
Phyllis George.) In contrast to her, hnmediate predecessor, Debbye Turner,
Vincent is a Black woman who looks
like a Black "f0man. She answered her
test ,question with s~cifics rather than,, platitudes and played real Chopin, but'her winner's walk down the runway
showed just hoy; hard Miss America andher subjects must fight reality. Vincent
had to share the televisionscreen with a,close-up of Parks yodeling the show's
themesong;-{'fhe-man
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adds duplicity to the dealings. The current emphasis on physical fitness iIi theprelude to the bathing suit parade, without a mention of looks, is an obvious
attempt to clean up the meat market; tohave your cunt and eat it, too. All it
does is make the stilettos look downright profeSSional, in, a kinky sort of,Way. Who is Miss America? The dominatrix next door?'" '
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quafferwith ,cries of _;",'," ,," "Show your shoes;,")"Headliner' ilu Sti~
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A critical, "dihic31 or both" and she's still uneasy,himor his ' ':ulou,s Th~tiical Compa~,
q,uandary rises with it.: Imagine John
about walking-in
high heels. Thenyas Cam, ,The role ~ethe late
Waters remaking. his 1974 mm, Female
lengths ,to which she has taken mani-, 'Mr. Ludlam's signature perfonnance and,
Trouble. New actors would be required
cure were blisteringly clear among boththe company's calling card. Created in
to portray the roles so qosely identified
the returning winners and their '90s SUc-' 1973, it was presented more than 590
with Divine, Edith 'Massey, David'cessors. Th,estring of facc::s softened
times arid toured internationally. Locbary and Cookie Mueller. In the fina1'slnce,the'50s
dune to a eruelhalt on,-j'D RATlIER'EDALI ....YCOSSIE IN nfE STREm THAN BEAN ACTREss ON THE STAGE/'
the w~ge, ,rankest back to within, an
EverettQuintonas C~mille"", inch of life, that waS Mtty Anne Mobley.
': Bouffant-bent" the current contestants.. did, as much to the ozone layer in a single mght as ueason of Yosemite fires. '" ~America's priorities, obviously, ,are as, sUspect ~ her tasteS,' which are'~" ','~ry(and never scarier tlial1Debbye
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body, little fingers of spangles lifting andseparating her breasts). The, annual,, , attempt to f.1ckup the contest's IQ with
pop ,quizzes on child abuse,
drugs and,.' the, environment backfired again among,,,hosannahs, on 'theord6: _of ,MiSs Texas',.' ',"all the way for .M!~~!~"
9r inanIties -" ;', like Miss Oldahdma's taIl to "sOlVingthe'," 'So1ution.;-' theuptown,ptet~nsionsof:: " the talent compe!ition w~re dependably,, '" Wl<lerinined by the whimsy of a ventrill,:,< !oquist~S& Pennsylvanja, Miss Southf " ': ,Carolina's Iilariinbas andaching-to",,.'.
" 'drop-to-the-:kQ~
renditionof ·Stormy-"I' '" Weather" by Miss Louisiana, who saw
r', , Leria Hcimeand didn'tget it ", , .'",Notgettirig-~it, Ol,'"
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jote de vtvre. His ,~u',<ly,:¢.. tlle'very"eIements :whiclfenaPle•
would,beu.navoid-,
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lends' a _ "!ilit} to µiake the'comeqy fly fightagains,t,u,ShildliJce 'you thfulthe~t.!#~c )ilOlll~ts.QU~ton
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ture Camme.'L1idlam~re, Quinton'
his way ~d 'jumps up ~ddoWn with.
dea,tli bytesonateS:,in . ' ..
fils:
~Hthe Melmac, and whi~ , " glee when he'does. In th~ m.~cousfust, .endless,sp~s,.f~~ela~e Cbfuies :Wdo:''" ,.the Limoies? '"0",, '."",.
,'act, Quinton!ildiitt~,
like Limoges. ,As:,'.'lam's 'lij<iJic\llo\l!l,r!i?trical'''GQ~pany.i;,:},
HaviRg never seerr'LlidIatn in the
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more . Fa~froP:t,stagthg )l':museurn pf~ce, .' .~", .'role, 1 cannot make the comparison
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mac. Qumtori'S biting word attack, now.,
precise comedy vvith tragedy:of senti-..
'independently~ Though the mythjc protakes the soft edge' a-wayt1:om ,Mar- . ;'mept tJtat la~kS ()perat~c scale. Quin: . " .
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THE-~EA by, pluticurar. Ridiculous play, Quinton
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greatest'
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own artistic prowess. Meln'lac or Limo- C by Jim Fouratt".
ges becomes a moot point. Quinton
Greenpeacers,
neo-hippies
arid
joints are roiled, and everybOdy takes asmashes the last piece of tpe family
sonic youth' who say no, no, no totum in the center of the Sun Ra circle.
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. china with love and carefree spirit ascrack, sexual violence and the domi': Embracirig tHe spirit· of Matthew
only Camille can.
nation of corporate metal-, rap and'Pox's cosmic creation blueprint, Poi
mindless Milli Vanilli noise on the aii'dog Pondering reaches across the cul- ,Even if I had seen the original protural differences among people andduction, it is hard to imagine whatwaves, and say yes, yes, yes to Mancould compare with this one. Elizabethdela's nation, Ziggy's dream beat, genbrews in its musicalcauldrona.
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,Michal Pried has filled the postag~..,der-free relations, the wet kisses ofpolyrh~c,gumbo spiced with nonstamIHiiZe stage witP mo~efubric'~our-Iegged
anIm~ls and the, pabeI.,'
Inateri~lv~ll{~s,cr,~a~i,!%,~:~~f.t!1_~icr;,.i,4".,) ,hoop skirts, per square inch· than 'im3.g~ 'ofburping babies will 'immediately .. ' . Qouquet o.ut;,dhl ftyf~g,:'pa!ir,piano; "'.~,,:~, inable.· Paced with potential costUme '. dig the, organic ear-food ladled into. /" autoharp,Jru~pei~,.troI!lDSIi~}"Qrian,'~>.,'cow ' nell, violiq;,tiinoale,':''
gridlock, Quinton dire~ts his actors
the 'groOYes ·of this Iiost-Dead;pancul-: ,Xyl9ph6ne,,
toward the only logical sblution: polka!
tural dance band. Poi d9g Pondering ~,.accordion,
guitar; cello, .$; eleeAnd if the costQmes-weren't
big - proof perfect'thateigh(,',', , . -: .' "',:';ttiic and.aC:oustic gui-:".~'..
enough, Larry, Vrba has acceSsorizedpeople can expand to,"'tars,
marun~; wood :.
them with' jewelry of truly profoundencompass a universe;..
"blocks,
mandolins,:•..a party under the-stars ..
'4rum
trapS; tap, danc-, , ~ _proportions. ~kBeard's set is once
again a thing of grace,beauty,and sightsoar~ when the instrq. . ing' and cQngas, tum- .. ~~.
gag subtleties to die for. Camille does.
' ~erits are ,brought out,;
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over-his teeth conjures a'vilehess into
Baron de Varville beside which thecharacter's
frequent Sade allusions
wither. Eureka snarfs, guzzles andhoists her skirt-the
bener to fan her,crotch-witha crudeness'that can only
lead you into loving the money-grubbing Prudence Duvernoy. StephenPell
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and sing inside your radio,!1 want toand cosmic dreaming. Urban cynics
be the yeast inside your bread" areand ultra-cool des~air-heads beware:
lusty odes for the save-the-earth gener, This music' will revamp' your· goth'ation: It's a heartfelt
affirmation for,
fantasies, with a sunsweep of thebelieving that people care, that music. vampire's den. Poi dog Pondering isis for the soul, that dreams can comea conspiracy of hope, an' aural rebirthtrue, that kids are worth giving birthin the '90s of the San Francisco Diggers " to, that friends breathe life together.
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one of the most'difficult forms to master. Out 2: Lesbian Short Fiction.
Its economy, pacing ,and depth must be
This volume, like the first one,parceled quite delicately. Without the features ,the work of two lesbian'.
latitude allowed in a novel, there is authors who are not yet widely pub,lished. Julie Blackwomon and Nona
Caspers have had most of their work ;rll~:fTw
published in feminist or lesbian journals and in small press anthQlogies of .:.:.,:;'1<.,...."'1:.,.
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women's fiction. Neither' writer is mlNt:!/j:~;~;-:::;:,'
particularl¥ accomplished or com~~;*-~;:..,
pelling, and thqugh their writing is ~",:.stylistically and thematically different,
its flaws combine to make for a very ,lackluster reading experience:
Nona Caspers work is edgy, circumspect and given to moments ofrefreshing silliness. Julie Blackwom~\
on's stories, are sure, flat-footed, even , ... SCRIBES
Julie Blac/cwomon
and warm. But whilt both women
have in common is an inability to bal- .' rehearsed smugness to Blackwomon's ~~ce form and content. It is as though,stories" as if her mostly lesbian charac- ~because they are each writing, aboutters in the Black community were, by J!
lesbians in a lesbian universe, they
virtUe of existence in a white male lit- ~,, really needn't worry about nuance,erary landscape, simply endugh to if, '--tone, character development, details ofturn dull, ordinary descriptions i,nto. 'thor e exacting. ch a 1good prose,,' , SAPPHIC".' _."
space an d t1Ille
Npna Caspers'"
lenge of language. Caspers' attempts to
In "Symb61s," a story of a man,
small margin' for error, and flaws can, inspire, enlighten or provide iµsightwhose wife comes out as a lesbian,Blackwomon creates a-world that is,so, stand out hideously. The formal chal- into white lesbi~ existence fall too,
leveled and so devoid, ,lenge requires a writer to compress' thequi~ldy a~d too easily
magnitude- of real life into a .carefully into innocuous,politiof interior conflict thatthe conclusion seems
laid map of detail, leading to a swiftly cally correct portraits of. unequal to the emodeveloped resolution . .It is an ambitious the way we are (or are
tiqnal demands of thetask. It was not, therefore, so surprising supposed to be). Simistory. Where characto find my~elf disappointed by ,Seal larly, there'is a certain,"~;~t;:<c,~--<:

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only thing keeping,. them distinct from one another istheir names. One of her stro~gest,offerings, "The Long Way Home,",,,t, originally published as "Cat" in Homeby Karl Soehnlein
Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, is, The most interesting character inbut later, becomes possessive, of him.
the story of a teenage girl discovered
Darkman--the latest comic-book fantaWhen Doc fmally tries to intervene inin flagrante delicto with her best girlsy film-is Robert Durant, a sadistic, the kidnapping plot, Collie, a former
friend. Tight, spare and genuine, it
psychopathic crime boss who uses aboxer, delivers a swift punch to his
captures some of the devastation,
cigar-cutter to chop off his victim's
abdomen. We later learn that Doc is
confusion and betrayal that accompafmgers. That Durant is, additionally, porfound dead, killed by "a single blow to
ny adolescent lesbian passion. ~Ophetrayed as gay has promPted the Qay andthe heart."
lia," on the other hand, about a white
Lesbian Alliance Against DefaIDationto, Goldman was described recendy in
wom'an who wants to be Black, isissue a statement condemnibg the film.
the Village Voice by Gary Indiana, aconfusing, awkward and below the'GLAAD'sposition isqueer writer, whoseliterary, not to mention psychosocial,
demands of such a story: These littlebased, I assume, on a
Is it "safer" towor/< I respect
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condemn what might
effeminate, creepy
The film opens withshould be rich as honey on the
tongue. Regrettably, Blackwomon'sa rival mobster refer- be construed as homo,doctor, whose obvi,
ring to Durant and,• 'ous fag lust forinsistence on simplicity has kept her
his gang as "girls"
phobiC than to be
Patric is predictably
from developing the kind of strong,
loud voice these tales deserve.
sorry later on that it
rewarde~ with aan~ "a bunch of
Nona Caspers' stories range fromcunes." H.e threatens."•.
fatal beanng." Havthe
absurd-a young girl with, a crush ' to cut Durant's balls
passed without
ing read the Indiana,
on Marcia Brady goes to California to?ff but rescinds, ~ycomment? Or are we~ev:iew befo~e see~mg that "that would.
109 the fllm, I
meet the Brady Bunctt only to witness
a surreal and severely dysfunct~onalprobably be more
queers so on guard,expected the worst.
family-to the mundane~
woman
ag' ainst negative '. ,I- watched this char.:satisfacto~ for you."
Pretty routine macho.' ' acter closely as hevisits a bar with her best friend in an
attempt to conquer her fear of dancing·
stuff: To insult a real depictions of ourselves
took Collie underwith someone she hasn"t slept withman, you liken him
th t
I.k ~ .·1
his wiqg, waiting(to a woman. Later,a we 00 lor eVltenselyfor· the. yet. The' stoty "Black Bananas" nicely
counterpoints a woman's dejection
Durant is at a cocktail
fags and dykes within
moment of truth
and angst at losing her lover with herparty with one of his•when the seedy,
I every cellulOid, , ,lustful intentions.
,sidekicks, a preppy
morbid observations of a' bunch of,
bananas slowly rotting on top of her
younger guy. Durant
shadow?
'behind his kind gesfridge. It is a nice metaphor, bbt its
I,'tures wouldbeasks him graciously,
emotional 'potential isn't fully realized. / ''Would you l~e a martini?" The preppy,
urunasked. It never happened. No shotsof hands lingering on thighs or shoul-' ,charmed l:iy the offer, responds, "I:dlove
This has partly to do with her use of
the diary/journal format, a structureon~." Pemaps this is someone's idea of aders, no· extended glances. Goldman isthat looks easier to use than it actually
fey exchange. When the preppy is later
hardly Mother Teresa, but neither is he
is. Caspers' writing feels like that ofkilled, Durant mistakenly believes thatthe "fag villain" I anticipated. (Thethe best student in an advanced fiche has lrun off to Rio with another gang,proof of the pudding for Indiafla is that\tion seminar l;urrounded by very
member and ,goes a bit' apeshit. It
Doc "doesn't appear in the original
mediocre classmates-she
needs andoesn't get more,dense than that. Durant ,novel"; iD. fact, he does, though 'he isn't
even tougher writers' group than the one
never even gets called a "faggot.", killed, only bound and gagged.)
she thanks in her acknowledgments.
Another film currentiy receiving,Both GLAADand Indiana certain- .
•It is tempting to be dismissive ofsome heat, from gay sources is Afterly have the right and the responsibility
work that you think hasn't lived up to
Dark, My Sweet, an adaptation of Jim
to Call ;em as they see 'em. As potenits potential. You want to just say, "It'sThompson's potboiler novel. It is thetial yiewers, w~ can take their warnbad, don't buy it, don't read it." But thatstory of Collie QasQ,n Patric), an
ings as sound advice either a chance•
seems a wholly consumeristic way toescaped mental patient who drifts
to save $7.50 on the' ticket or to forge
approach the still-nascent lesbian voicethrough Southern California and getsahead to witness the offending material
mixed up with a kidnap-''\'
in contemporary fiction. Perhaps thebest purpose poorly written literatureping plot.. At ohe point, heserves is as a lesson on what not to do
is taken in by Doc Goldwhen trying to write, Hopefully, Voy~ man, a small-town MD whoseems, at first, to have Colages Out 3, unlike Voyages Out 2, will
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and lesbIans, but in 1990 we have a-' if th~"average straight teen"'(or "closet" , ". being conc:lerilried' for ,characterizationS degree of visibility, that we' didn't have ed self-hating queer") left iJar/nnan'in 1981:~hen Vito Russo'published his , thinking that Du~t was a· fag, woUldthat no, one sees--not ~ststraight pea:they QYextension also' believe that' helandmark rbe Celluloid Close.t: Homo" pie", to whom queers are more often. ' than not'invisibl~
anyway, but gay
Gay men and . was ~tativeof all gay men? Will ~. sexuality in the M~;, viewers, who are 'hip 'to the homopho.
lesbiaris, regularly covered in.the news . people who ~ After Dtlrk, My sweet•come away with the impresSion that all
and frequent topics
for the talk shows,,bla that. Hollywo~d churns out and.
are even c making inroads into primeolder single pten who show concern forschooled' in 'the brand of movie 'going,science, that Vito Russo terms "sp<>tthe
younger guys, are actually perverted
time lV. ThQugh of"course the coverage
homOs moving in,for the' kill? I'm notislimitecl' and often skewed by its hethomosexual." Not o~e of the three Pe0ple who ,saw Dtlrkman with ~thQught
erosexual origins, it's no longer possible
convinced.
Not that I believe that.
, that Durant's "hOmoseXuality" ~ even.
GLAAD should tum doWn the heat,',or
believe
that
gay
men
and
in America -.tor.
that' responsiQle jourt?-alists shouldn't
lesbians
do not exist,,w~ ~tioningj~Q fri~nds' at anoth",,
expose bigotry wherever they see it, but
Screen images of us no Jonger
tbaf~ey didn't see it
er ~:said.pack as powerful a punch,to the "gen; ,at all. 'Is it ~Safer~ to condemn, whatmaybe the time has come for us toreevaluate, the importance we put on.might be comtrued as hOmophobiC ,thaneral population" (among which I'would; "to be sorry Jater on .trui:tit'passed withinpude queers) as they once did. Even
how the media represent our lives.
T ,.
,out comment? Or are we queers' so on,
guard- against negative depictions of•,, : , ~, ourselveS that' We look for evil fags and. .
,"dykes within every cellUloid' shadow? If·a homophobe bash~ in the dark, and,,; 'no One hears Ii, d.oe$ it'make 'a sotind?
by Joan Larkin,',"" I.realize 'that'dd-eridingfilms made••,'::r.:'...God of ,breathing, .'.
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symposium)by the , Centerfor
Traditional Medicine of Green Cross,·
Inc. 1510 U St., NW, Washington, DC
20009; (202) 265-0100. $10.00.
These three scientifically oriented,
but generally lay-reader-friendly, books
explore Third World. healing approaches
to AIDS. They offer valuable scientificinformation, leads' to explore and foodfor thought. on the use of low-tech,••lhexpeIlSlve
treatments,'hasn't changed all that much since she
began going out.
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And now? They definitely think the
girls' scene is a lot more wild: At Channel
69, the My Comrade/Sister! magazine
party, the women who participated in
Strip-O-Grama (a game show) had to put
some clothes on before they could
play---Qnd once on'stage, they put themen to shame. They also favor Cave~em(for the neighborh~
feel andthe shows, though it unfortunately closed
recently), the Duchess and the dit dub.
Sydney: Anele, thinks that the guys'
club scene has gotten stale in the past
few years. '1t's just all these boys ,in their 'underwear. Everybody talks about how
they saw this cute guy or that cute guythat's what makes a good party."
Liz: They work with Les/Linda
Simpson not only on Channel f!) (which. is aCtually becoming a cable 1V show)
but also on My ComradelStster!as well.
Les
had released his first issue, and D.iny.
called him for an advertisement for her
recoro company. / Simpson had the. ideafor Sister!, and with Dany and Ande's
input (and Whyland's
photography), it,·t.".....cI .ro .....pag __31•,

" Immuntty- and Chinese Medicine

includes theoretical views of Chinese
medicine, applications to I-llV and AIDS
and clinical data from -AIDS projects
around the US. AIDS and Chinese
Medicine, cohesively' presented by one
author, covers similar themes and has
detailed suggestions on acupuncture
points and herbal formulas. Ancient
Roots notes that "the majority of theworld's' population is still being treatedby traditional healers." and, in that light,
offers articles , on -indigenous HIV and
AIDS treatments written by scientists,
doctors, holistic practitioners and patientsfrom China, Africa, India and the US.
Finally, here are several other useful
resources on alternative I-llV and AIDS
treatm~nts. '(most available at A Different
Light and Oscar Wilde Memorial
Bookshop):A

World Without AIDS: The
Controversial
Holistic Health Plan by,Leon Chaitow, MD, DO and Simon>
Martin. ThorsOOs Publishing Group. 19BB.
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AIDS, Cancer and the Medical

PstablishrneiTt by Raym~nd lJrowp., MD.
, Robert Speller. 1986. 'Psychoimmunity and the 'Healing
Process by Jason Serinus, Ten Speed
Press. 1988. ,AIDS and Syphilis: 1be Hidden
link,by Harris N, Coulter.
Books. 1987.

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seemed less a -good intention than a'companion magazine. They h;tve become more and more involved as each
new issue comes out---and it's getting
easier to get help as MyComradelStster!
has gotten recognition and respect .. "At
first we couldn't get anyone to photograph," says Ande. Now, they havebegun to do their own soliciting for COl)tributors, and Simpson still has manyideas for both of the sections. Dany
desaibes
their ideal audience:"Girls who,'. are not assholes" and "lesbians who
sleep with women.".

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LIVElY ARTS
Startlnll with the next issue,
Also see the daily listings forof illusion. quick change and spectacle"; 1990 recipient of the Richard
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featuring 11Ie Holid.y Sisters: Mr. Crab.... , Jennifer Smith and Mark Lazore,with John Treacy Ellan; Theatre at SaintPeter's Church, 54 St &. Lex. Ave; $20;
TUE·SAT at 8 pm, also SAT &. SUN at 3pm; 688-6022 (thru OCT6)

daily, noon to midnight,

212-777-1800-LUCILLE LORTEL THEATER presents
Fa/setto/and, the William Finn/James
Lapine musical, the third in Finn's M.,..
IIln Trilogy, an examinationof theimpact of AIDS on a,gay male couple, alesbian couple, a heterosexual couple,
and a child; 121 Christopher St; $27-$35;
TUES-FRI at B pm, SAT at 7 &. 10 pm,
SUN at 3 pm; 924-8782-PERRY STREET THEATRE presents
Christopher Widney's Big, FBI .nd Ugly
with • Moustache. about two gay men
BILL REPICCI, M.D. MINICHIELLO &. who try to edopt an "at risk" baby, and
P.A.P.A. present Michal Tremblay's
ali the hurdles they face; 31 Perry St;
HONnna, starring David McCann and $10; previews start WED, SEPT19;
David DaBeck as two lovelS experiencopens SUN, SEPT 23; shows WED- SAT
ing a bizarre Halloween night; directed
at 8 pm. SUN at 3 pm; tix 869-3530, box
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RAPP THEATRE COMPANY revives
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691-8226(thru OCT7)
Thomas M. Disch's Th. C.,dln.'
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hierarchy of the modern CatholicCharles Dwyer's St8irc .. a, about two Church exploring such issues as AIDS.
middle-aged homosexuals trying to abortion, ties to organized crime andmake sense of their lives; directed by homosexuality"; directed by R. Jaffrey
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AnnfJllnctllll."" will be a paid bulletin show(jng)s of one or two days.
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Males (back from P. Town); 61 Christopublic announcements (partnerships,
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Queer. Out In M a "group exhibition of after 5); 880-1888(thru NOV 1)
Grove St; $10 cover + 2-d rink minimum;
The UVELY ARTS, GOING OUT (daily work by queer women and men whose
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Bold type may be used for the mostcharacters in a series of vignettes
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Feyk; with Shish. McKee. Andrew
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Courtyard Playhouse, 39 Grove St; $15; Clticorpo block; 5:15 pm; public invited;
De Gay 1& lesbian Switchboard of NY J.mes B.bbln. Fr.nk Dowd. Robert· .WED-FRI at 8 pm, SAT at 8 &. 9 pm. SUN 288-2810
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with t~e creator of the (l1))famo'us'Daisy Spot' for Lyndon John.on'. '64
campaign against Goldwater; at,theCenter, 208 W 13 St; 8:30-9:30 pm; $5
memberst$B nonmembers; 517-0380

DYKES 11& LEZZIES LESBIAN FEMINIST
lltEATRE 11& SCHOOL begins Filii CI... ••• that run on Monday nights fromIEPT 17 • DEC 10, playwriting, directing'and acting taught by DI•• Hamilton; at
the Center, 208 W 13 St, Alexander
Room; 8-10 pm; Info 807-8017
GAY ACTIVIST ALLIANCE IN MORRISCOUNTY,NJ WHIdy Meedq & SocI.1
with The Annu.' $1.98 8eeuty Contest
at Morristown Unitarian Fellowship, 21
Normandy Helghta,Rd, Morristown NJ;
B:3O pm; 201/285-1595
MARC BERKLEY'S KOOL KOMRADS
present TIle lattle ", the B"lg., week
, three of a nine-week contest at Private, Eyes, ending OCT 22; with Men ofDancesations va. Men of Good-N-Plentv; MC I18mr Sharp with special guests;
12 W 21 St; doors open 10 pm. contest
at midnight; $7 generaiJ$5 with Invite;
208-7172

TUESDAY, SEPT. 18
PINK PANTHERS M .. tlq at the Center, 20B W 13 St, 8-8 pm, 31~B469 IEditor'. note: Changed from Wednesday inob.ervance of Rosh Hashanah.)•

QUEER NATION EDUCATION ACTIONGROUP M .... q It til. D.c ...... Grove
St at 7th Ave. 8 pm, Info 498-7535
CENTERKIDS DllCUI8lon Group: DN/·
I", WIth ,.",11_ ", 0""", facilitated
POUIOl, discussing relaby ROI...
tionships with psren1l and siblings andhow their families of origin have reacted to the partlclpan1l' decision to par·ent; at the Center. 20B W 13 St; 6:30-8
pm; 620-7310
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GAY 11& LESBIAN ALLIANCE AGAINSTDEFAMATION Volunte.r Op•• Hou•••
to 'give people an opportunity to learn
about GLAAD. ita activities. ita commit·
tee., and how to get Involved'; at
GLAAD'. office, 80 Varick St, Suite #3E;
. 6:30 pm; 968-1700
LESBIAN RIGHTS CMTE OF NOW·NYC
Flr.t F.II M •• tlng. to 'work on thelasues you bring to us'; at NOW offices,
15 W 18St; 6:30 pm; 807·0721 IHere·, after. every $Icond Tuesday of themonth)•

S... ln.r: B.... lts, I.'o,..tlo••• dNutritional III'''~
tonight and every
3rd Tuesday; 129 W 20 St; Benefrts. 3rd
Floor 11& Nutrition; 8th Aoor; 7 pm; free;
B07-8655(TDD 845-7470)

A DIFFERENT UGHT BOOKSTORE pre·sents F.II 1990 R•• dlng lerl .. :MattIIew Stadler,
548 Hudson St (btwn Charles/Perry Sts);
8 pm; free Ibut limited seating, arrive
earlyl);9B9-48!iO

SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS Ice
C.... m Socl.1 & PI.nnl.g P.rty, BYO
ice cream and toppings. or some otherdessert; no booze. tonight, please; SAL
info/rsvp 7181985-7578

CONGREGATION BETH SIMCHATTORAH Ro H
Flnt Evenlq;
57 Bethune St Inear West St, inside theWestbeth Complex); 8 pm; 929-9498

COALITION FOR LESBIAN 11& GAY
RIGHTS Forum: CIIbl. 7V CollfrDversy:
Ctlllsollhip aT Accas fDr G.y NIt•• nd
Lesbi.ns. invited panelists include Bill
Squ.dro.
INYC CommissionerofTelecommunications), Tom Blewitt IFair
Access), LotI Maletta (Gay Cable Net·work), Ro"ln Byrd I Th. Robin 8yrd
Showl, Chris Lya. lIawyer) ..... n C.rlomUlto IGMHC video and cable pro·
ducer). Rick X ITh. CIO$BtC,se Show!;at the Center, 208 W 13 St; 8 pm; 6271398 IEdltor's note: CLGR Forums areheld every third Tuesday.)JUDSON MEMORIAL CHURCH Centen·
nl.1 Forums: 11,.,., DI'I/fII: A R•• xam·
In.tio. of public polley; with Dr.
Klld.,. ClarklKlngs County Hospital
Adult Emergency Dept.). Joe KI.ln
IN.w York Magazine), Joyc. Purnlck
IN.w York Tim.s); 55 Washington
Square South; 8 pm; free; 477-0351
NINTH STREET CENTER R.p Group:'Queer Questions, Queer Answers' withthe focus on defining homoseuxality for
the '90s; tonight's facilitator is Rich
K.m.nclk; 319 E 9 St, basement; 8-10
pm; 228-5153
THE CHELSEA TRANSFER Body Posl·
tlVII Night for HIV+s and their friends;
131 8th Ave 116117 Sts); all night; bar929-7183, Body Positive 721·1348 (Editor's note: Bqdy Positive will meet at
The Chelsea Transfer tonight and every
Tuesday.)

info/rsvp 71&1985-7578

ALTERNATIVES COMMUNI·"'''ca''''''''ory; WOMEN'STY CENTERWHIdy Soc~1Ic1lllloll:
Deeling with the M.ln.rreenr 8.lng •Ll8bl.n (In or out) in the Reel Worttt,
875 Woodfield Rd, West Hempstead, U;
8 pm; $3 more If/IISS If; 5161483-2050

DAVID LEIGH 11& LEE CHAPPEll present

New 1iId at Private Eyes, with special

performer Mall Foot.; 12 W 21 St;
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS ErvIlc/zl", opens 10 pm; S1 genereV$5 with invite;
Saler SM Worbhop. a two and a half 2fJ'J-7772
hour workshop for gay men to help
DISCO INTERRUPTUS presents Holymake safer sex more erotic. creativeand satisfying; at the Center. 20B W 13 Cb."., a culture exchange with San
St; 8 pm; free, no rsvp required; info Francisco's Club Chaos; opening p.rty
blt It 10 pm;
for NOW's pbto
B07-8655(TDD 845-7470)
Adall H... "recllt". film Our F,ther at
SLOPEACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS Pool 10:30 pm; RoIJert HIJfIrty'. fflm Stop t/II
Church at 11 pm; a Uv. Cracffixlo.
Night. DrlnkllSnacb; at Brownstone
Billiards. 7th/FIatbush Aves. Brooklyn; 8 starring a six·month pregnant woman
pm; followed by Landm.rk Pub. 1$7 7th as Jesus at midnight; perfonnances by
Ave/2nd. St, Park Slope; 10 pm-ish; SAL Joey ArlIS as I, puta Mary Magdalene
and Jobn Kelly a. The Virgin; witb ,...
info/rsvp 7181985-7578,
boo, La.. b.rt, M.d ••• as Catherine
EAGLE BAR Movi. NlgJlt: Hatrl to 1011; The Great; Lallo... 11& R. P•• I slrvlng
Kool Aid in the People's Temple
142 11th Avelat 21 St); 11 pm; 691·8451
Lounge; NY DJs p.trlck B .... andCr.lg Sp.ncer, SF DJs Mlc" •• ' &PYRAMID presentS Lilld. Simpson's"Ou LadyC".nn.1 89: Th. lri, Ch.con V.riety LaWia; featuring the II......
PIty ChoIr; 515 W 18 St; 10:30pm • 4 am;
Show. starring That Latin Spitfire.
GI.m.mo,.;
101 Avenue A Ibtwn B/7 $10; 845-5158
Sts); 1 am; $5; 420·1590.x••

THURSDAY,
SEPT. 20
ROIh H•• hueh IJewlsh New Yllr)
CONGREGATION BETH SIMCHATTORAH Re.b Hllh.n.hFlnt D.y; 57
Bethune St Inear West St, inside theWestbeth Complex); 9 am; 929-9498
ASIANS AND FRIENDS/NY DllCulllon
Group. a "forum for discussion of tuples
which are relevant to our lifestyles, cui·tures. and relationships"; space is limit·
ed; at a hom. in Brooklyn Heights;
7:30-9 pm; member info, 674-5084

FRIDAY, SEPT. 21
CONGREGATION BETH SIMCHATTORAH RoalaHahalll" IeooIId Day; 67
Bethune St Inear West St, Insld. theWestbeth Complex); 9 am; 929-9498
GAY 11& LESBIAN INDEPENDENTDEMOCRATS Beaelltfor'" NYC8.,
La"I •• AntI·Vlol •• cl Prot- honor·
ing Congressman Jo •••• rr•• o, Lee
Hudson INYS HPD) and Dnld H..... I(President of thil NYCGLAVP);'1t I
home In the West Village; 8-9 p~ $25$1110;Info/rsvp Eddie Bace, 348-01182

a

QUEERNATION MeedlllJ at the Center, CENTERKIDS Welcoming Plrty for GlY
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 19 208
and lesbian Paren1l Coalltan, Intern.·
W 13 $to 7:30 pm. 483-7208 lalter·
PAULA MARTINAC (Voyeg.s OUIIle.dB
a IIx·W •• k Creatlv. Wrltln, Work·... op with ilsslgnmen1l/discUBsions on
homophobia, coming out, writing about
sex. political responsibility;
beginstonight at the Center. 20B W 13 St; 6 pm;
rsvp 718/384·2234
INTEGRAL YOGA INSTITUTE Posltlv.
Approach •• Tow.rd H.. llng Semln.r:
C.re·GIII.r. For D.... " orA.otIJer. for those whose lives havebeen affec18d by HIV or life-threatening
illness in themselves or a loved one;
227 W 13 St; 7:30·9 pm; $5; 929·0588(Editor's note: Hatha Yoga classes areoffered Saturdays.)nate Thursdays •• xcept OCT 18 Ismo",d to OCT '6,.t NYU; next regularmeeting is atthe Center. OCT4)CONGREGATION BETH SIMCHATTORAH Rosh H•• b.n.hS.condEVllnlng; 57 Bathune St Inear West St,.inside the Westbeth Complex); 8 pm;
929·9498

tional; at the Center, 20B W 13 St; 7 pm;
620-7310
ALTERNATIVESTO VIOLENCE PROJECT
presen1l Fred 811.. 11. ~Friends
Meeting House at East Hi St btwn
2ndl3rd Aves; 7:30 pm; $10 edvancel$12
door!$B limited Income; 71Il1985-8809

ea..11,...

MEN OF AU. COLORSTOGETHERGAYMENANDLESBIANSIN IClou ...... R.I.I.g ..... 01:,., IIl1r Co.trad/ctlo •• , around the
BROOKHAVEN Women's R.p Gro.p:
Lasblu Uterltll,. • RIIOIIICI Sh.rllIIJ issues of sexuality, health. sexism and"racism; at the Center, 20B W 13 St; 7:46
Night; at Old South Haven Presbyterian': . WOMEN ABOUT C.I.nd.r
M.lIIl1g,h.rp;
245·6388 (dey.), 222-9794
Church. South Country 11& Beaverdam
Plrty at the Center. all volunteers welRds. Brookhaven, U; 8 pm; 516/751-2901 (evening)come; dinner follows the stuffing; 208
lmeats every 1st 1I&3rdThursday)
W 13 St; 8:30 pm; Info 677·8595
GAY MEN OF AFRICAN DESCENT,.
Adopt/", • CllII", with members
SLOPEACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS Ln- ~:MOSAIC BOOKS F.II R•• dlng I.rl .. : TIMES S,QUARES Fr•• Introductoryof C•• t.r Kids. gay men who hive
Jewell Gomez, reading women's erotl· lqu.,. D.ncJq CI.II at PS #3. H\ldson bl.n Ut Night, to discuss your favorite adopted children; at the Center, 208 W
St btwn Christopher/Grove; 7:30-10 pm;' fiction. non·fiction. lesbian books, car·ca; 187Ave B at 10 St; 7 pm; 47~8823
toons, etc.; bring snackS/bevs, books, 13 St; 8 pm; 620-7310
741-0168
etc. to The Clubhouse; 8 pm; SAL
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS HIV H•• M

B.,.,••

OTHER COUNTRIES: BlACK GAY MENWRITING presents F.. lln, UIre...I:
Rudl ... oi Femmes, Etodclsm. HI..
tory IRd AIDS; with B. Mlch.aI Huater,
C.ry AI.n Johnlon, P.... I. Sn •• d,
Au.tl,.
Mlch •• 1 Wiggin •• · J.y.
WlIIIIIIIII; at the Center, Z08 W 13 St; 8
pm; $10 for one night/$15 for twonights; 505-0506 (also tomorrow, sametime, different artists)
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS
M.n.llllln
Night, with a trip to Karen
Finley'. We Keep Our Victims Bu""
Joyce Theater, 175 8th Ave at 19 St,
Manhattan; 8 pm, $25; followed by The
Clh Club. new lesbi.n dance club. 432
W 14 St, 10 pm-ish. $5; SAL info/rsvp
7181965-7578 (Note: Get your own
Karen Finley tix immediat8/y, 242-0800)
CONGREGATION BETH SIMCHATTORAH Ern Sh •••• t Shav., 57
Bethune St lWestbeth Complex, nearWest St, up courtyard ramp); 8:30 pm;
929-9498
THE CLiT CLUB presents a lI.hlan
Ditty re/kl •• P.rty with sexy go-go
women, lesbo erotic videos $1 drinks
before 10 pm; dr.ss for hot, sweaty
dancing; 432 W 14 St at Washington St;
9 pm - 4 am; $5; 406-1114
DON'T TELL MAMA presents J.ck
HoIfmen: TIllesF"." Seyollllllle I'lnk
CifnHI, "songs, story, stand-up, gossip,'ash Ion and outrage"; 343 W 46 St(Restaurant Row); 10 pm; $10 cover +2-drlnk minimum (no credit cards); 7fi10788 (also SEPT 23 at 5:30 pm)

SATURDAY, SEPT. 22
BODY POSITIVE and MANHATTANPlAZA FOUNDATION All D.y Work.bop: I'e"onel Rnenell" HIV; atManhattan Plaza. 400 W 43 St. 2ndRoar Ellington Room (WC accessible);registration at 8:30 am; $50; info/registration from David Petersen, 897-2580
STONEWALL DEMOCRATIC CLUB 2nd
AnnUli Ston.wl"
Fe.tlvilalong
Washington Place, Greenwich VIllage,
11 am - 6 pm; vendors call 593-3247
1II1II An.uII wa.hlngton Squire Plrk
Arts. Crafts • AntIq~ Festivil. 764-

6330
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS
Glrag ... le1l1p to .Ie,.., City, 9 am,
SAL Info/rsvp 7181965-7fi18
WOMEN ABOUT Adutlc City TrIp, notfor gamblers only; bus approx. $20; Info
from 217[179-0289
GAY CIRCLES Work.hop: Detln, et
rwe.ty,ometbln""for gay men in
their 20s who want to meet men withconfidence and ease"; at the Center.
208 W 13 St; 10 am - 5 pm; $15; rsvp
598-9680 (with a Sunday picniC, tomorrow, in Prospect Park, Brooklyn)•

THE LOFT (IN WHITE PlAINS) 0 ...... 1lAIII... 1 Meed for • ow Peer Coun.all.g Progrfor lesbians and gay
men from Westchester County, NY andsurrounding areas; at The Loft the
Lesbian &. Gay Community Services
Center, 255 Grove St (off East Post Rd),
White Plains, NY; 11 am; 914{948-4922(mail to Box 1513, White Plains, NY
10602)

songs of peace, justice and the "American Way"; &. Clthy WI.... r, feminist
guitarist; 133W 4 St; 8 pm (Doors open
7:30); $8 or TDF; Info 7181428-2183,club
212/T17-2S28

gay/non-g(lY; at the Center; 208 W 13
St, 3rd Roar; 1-6 pm; free, registration
required; 807-6655 (TOD 645-7470)
RADICAL FAERIES a ....... ln at theRamble, Central Park; "a tribal picnic,
a happanlng, an equinox indulgence. amusical jam. an uplifting smooch for
lesbian/gay artists, a groovy dressup/dress down fest, a queer cosmic
blow-outl"; bring food, beYs, percussion and. other types of instruments;
enter at 81 St, West Side; 2 pm to dusk;
7181318-0789 (rain date Sunday, SEPT23)

JUDITH'S ROOM BOOKSTORE pre881
sents D.II Rlch.rd., Lest/.
Washington St (at Charles); 3 pm; frll&. WC accessible, but leatlng il limited; 727-7330

CENTER resumes its 4th Ind 2nd Saturd.y D.nce. tonight; DJ, cash, bar,juice bar; Z08 W 13 St; 9 pm - 1 am; $8($8 for seniors, students with ID, Center members); 620-7310

20/20 presents Mlc ••• 1 Fe,co', T••
D.nce, with tonight's DJ Mlrk Clclro;
free Bloody Marys and Mimosas from
5-7 pm, buffet at 7:30 pm; 20 W 20 St;
opens 5 pm; $8; 727-8841

COLUMBIA PEP BOYS PRODUCTION
JeIH H.lm,
Dlnc., at which tastefully proVOC.tiVfl.rr will be displayed; with a Harvey
Gantt for US Senate table; tonight (the4th Saturday), thereafter, every third
Saturday; for gay men and lesbians
and their friends; DJ Karin Ward; Earl
Hall, 116 St &. B'way (#1/#9 train); 10
pm - 3 am; $5 (lD to drinkl); 629-1989

DON'T TELL MAMA pr .. ent. Jlok
HoIfnIan: TIll. FtrIm B.,ond .. 1I"t
Cloud, ·songs. story, stand-up, gossip.
fashion and outrage"; 343 W 48 St(Restaurant Row); 5:30 pm; $10 cover +2-d rink minimum (no credit cards); 7fi1·.... e But Different .,NORTH CAROLINA SENATE VOTE '90
presents Mindy Carter, African American lesbian and national organizer for
NC Senate Vote '90; speaking on how
New Yorkers can help defeat Jesse
Helms; at PS 122, on 1st Ave at 9 St;
3:30-5 pm; 633-8534

NANCY AND TREVA present Her 1'1_
et at Handle Bar, alternate Saturdays,
beginning tonight; ·hottest go-go girls
in NYC"; 232 E 9 St (btwn 2nd/3rdAves); 10 pm; $8 generaV$5 with invite;
info 255-7875

ASIANS AND FRIENDS/NY see
Cemllle, the Ridiculous Theatrical
Company pro~uction starring Everett
allnto. (1 Sheridan Square, 891-2271);
7 pm; rsvp with AFNY. 674-5064

SUNDAY, SEPT. 23

WHAMI and REPROVISION present
Vitltlo lor .... n·' LIves, a benefit for
both groups; with BeproVllion',This
Is NJZt a
R.Slrv., Dolly MeierKlfp Your Lews Off Our Bod;.s,
Ledl., ot til. lIk.'.
GrfJIt Gobs 0'
Country Gold. Sclrlet H.rlot', Outl.w
and Pop.
Pov.rty Not Prostitutes(Jon't Preach, Stafford·Juhlsz·Goldt.,.',
S.If-Protection.
C.rl, Hili',
Reproductlv.
Histories Upd.t., and
LorI Hlri.' With a VfmgfJfJnCB; at D
87 Lafayette St; 7:30 pm; $7; 713-5966.n·, Fed.",m-

NINTH STREET CENTER RIp Group:"Quaer Questions, Queer Answers"
with the focus on defining hornoseuxailly for the '90s; tonight's facilitator isG•• e Bohek; 319 E 9 St, basement; 810 pm; 228-5153
OTHER COUNTRIES: BlACK GAY MENWRITING presents ,..11., Llke...l:Reldi.g. 01 Fllllllles. EroIIclsm. HI..
tory ad AIDS; with CraIg Hint., Gale
Jecklon, C.ry A1ln Johnson, Shlllle.
Denll8
Carlos Seq .. re; at theCenter, Z08 W 13 St; 8 ~m; $10 for one
nlgW$15 for two nights; 505-0506 (also
Friday. SEPT 21, same time, different
artists)Me.".

PEOPLE'S VOICE CAFE presents Ani
H.r ••• dez, a "Puerto Rican lesbian
trumpet-playing folksinger," singing•-

BISEXUAL PRIDE DIICI .. lol lrolp:

How ro tell our IMb/en ",."", ... ,.
Sf; at the Center. 208 W 13 St; 3-4:30
pm; 459-4784

SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS
Newlywed Gem. at The Clubhouse.
"both newlyweds and oldlyweds havebaen selected for tonight's entertainment"; Pari<Slope, Brooklyn; 8 pm; SAL
info/rsvp 7181965-7fi18

GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS Work-.• hop: Bink Abo", It: Dflcidin, frI rekl
the rllt; open to all, male/female,,of Udell Jackson', 39th birthday.)Medlev.1 Festlvil at Fort Tryon Plrk,with jousting, puppetry, pageantry,
medieval music, dance &. combat,
magic, storytellers, falconry, demonstrations, marketplace; enter 192 St &.
Fort Washington Ave (A Train tl! 190
St/Cloisters; M4 Bus to Fort Tryon
Park); noon - 6 pm; free; 781-4051
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS
goes to 8rooldyn Arts MUllum, meetat coat check at Eastern Parkway
entrance. 10:30 am, SAL info/rsvp
711!,1965-7fi18
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS
goes to a Lesblln ScrftbIII 1bum.mat• Picnic In Prospect Park, ·come toplay, che,r, or just indulge In the cookout"; a fundraiser for The Center, Manhattan; meat at Eleanor's Hill or find theplayers later In Long Meadow; 11 am 7 pm; SAL info/rsvp 71BJ985-7578
WOMEN ABOUT Skul:lIDUllk Hlkl. 8
miles, moderate with beautiful views
and steep climb; info/rsvp 201/481-0440- MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER/NY

U,.

0788
BODY POSITIVE Rlv.r Cral •• around
Manhattan, for HIV+ people, theirlovers, fammes, &. friends; mualc,
dancing, cash bar; live music by Blackgay male rock band M. Th... ; Circle
Une Pier 83, 42 St &. Hud.on River; 8:30
pm boarding/7 pm departure; $15; 721·
1619
COSMIC FLAIR DESIGNS Cro •• •Ore ... ,.' Filblon Sbow, "one·of-a·kind fashlonl by David and Barbara,plus.j8Welry, makeup, wigs, .ho ...
samples by portrait photographer andpastal protraltlst"; baneflts 1I1eCenter;
light refreshments served; 2IJI W 13 St;
8-9 pm; $5; 620-7310 .

0" ..

THE BUTCH/FEMME SOCIETY
lites Abet D.nc. P.rty. with contln·
uous house music, raffle. butch/femml
game of "Fatal Attraction" judged by apanel of experts; at Cave Canem, 241.
Ave at 1st St; 6-10 pm; $7; 7181961-8238(proper attire. no .neaker., for butch.
femme. and their friend. only) (Editor'.
note: Thi, item was .ubmittad far-in
advance. Call to confirm.)
DIXON PLACE B,n,flt for Wo .... ••N.tworl!JMul''''Unldl. with Cr.lg
Luc •• , author of Longtime Companion
and Prelude to a KIIS; 37 East 1st St(btwn lsV2nd AVI.); 8 pm; $8; no rsvp.
arrive a half hour early; 873-6752
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS
Dining at Aunt Suzie'., Italian food at alesbian-owned establishment; 247 5th
Ave (btwn CarroIVGarfiald), Brooklyn; 8
pm; SAL info/rsvp 71BJ985-7578,

Smorga.bord 8runch Buffet .t Wlndow.-on-the-World,a fixed-pricebrunch with all-you-can-eat;
One
World Trade Center, meet in lobby atnoon, reservation for 12:30 pm (l02nd
floor); lacket aid tI•• ,I .... about $30
with tax and tip; 222-9794 (there are
only 9 spaces available) (Editor's note:This is also the first annual celebration

MONDAY, SEPT. 24
QUEER NATION/NY Joins Clnel •• ld
City Tuk Fore.: Aft till
Itr.tlon
against canaorship in that
beleaguered Ohio city; travel Info fromEd, 674-2799

mel0._·",•PINK PANTHERS .........
at the Ceilter, 208 W 13 Sf, 6-8 pm, 315-8469.
GRACIE SQUARE HOSPITAL BREAKTHROUGH OUTPATIENT TREATMENTCENTER announces the start of an
Elrly Recovery Group for Newly Soller
Le.lliin.,with group leader Blrllirl
Ani Levy, MPS; 421 E 75 St l1st/Vork
Aves); 6:15-7:45 pm; info 222-3854/8
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR lESBIANS LesIIlan La.ndry Night. ·we'll even pick
you & your laundry up If you live in Park
Slope (Bklynt; the laundromat at 173
7th Ave/1st St; 7 pm; followed bydrinks/snacks at Two Boots, 512 2nd
St/7th Ave, 8:30 pm; SAL info/rsvp
7181965-7578 (Editor's note: A lesser
organization
might take you to thecleaner .. )A DIFFERENT .L1GHT BOOKSTORE pre·sents Fall 1990 Reading Series: Terry
Sweeny, IfI
My Jilm; 548 Hudson
St (btwn Charles/Perry Sts); 8 pm; free(but limited seating, arriva .. rlyl); 9894850.11

GAY ACTIVIST ALLIANCE IN MORRIS. COUNTY, NJ Weekly MIIII ... 1& SocIII
with Dell Rlchlnl., author of Lesbla.
at Morristown Unitarian fellowship, 21 Nonnandy Heights Rd, Morristown NJ; 8:30 pm; $3 members/$4
non-members; 201/285-1595

U_

MARC BERKLEY'S KOOl KOMRADS
present n. BIIfII. 01111.Bul,., week
four of a nine-week contest at Private
Eyes, ending OCT 22; with Men ofDancesations VI. Men of Good-N-Plentv; MC Ramr Sharp with special guests;
1~
W 21 St; doors open 10 pm, contest
at midnight; f1 generaV$5 with invite;'JD6-77n

Tuning In: A TVJRadio Guide for 01

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Information must be received by Monday to be included in the following
week's issue. Send items to Rick X, Tuning In, Box 790, NY, NY 10108.

AlE (Arts & Ent, 555 Fifth Ave, 10th R, NYC 10017; 6614500)(Rick X, Box 790, NYC 10108)
GBS (Gay Broadcasting System, Butch Peaston, 178 7th
Ave, Ste. A-3, NYC 10011; 243-1570)
GCN (Gay Cable Network, lou Maletta, 32 Union Square
East, Suite 1217; 477-4220)
GMHC (Gay Men's Health Crisis, Jean Carlomusto, 129 W 20
St, NYC 10011; 807-7517).
RB PROD (Robin Byrd Prods., Box 305, NYC 10021; 9882973). .
WABC- TV (77 W 63 St, NYC 10023; 456-7777)
WBAI-FM (505 8th Ave, 19th FI, NYC 10018; 279-0707)
WCBS- TV (51 W 52 St St, NYC 10019; 975-4321)
WNBe- TV (30 Rockefeller Plaza, NYC 10112; 664-4444)
WHET·TV (356 W 58 St, NYC 10019; 560-3000)
WHYW· TV (Fox, 1211 AV/AM, NYC 10036; 556-2400)cm

with Victoria Starr; 99.5 FM
12:30 PM WNET-lV AIDS BabIes: FIght Ing for the
ChUdren; Dr. James Oleske, Newark ChIldren's
Hospital, In a pediatric AIDS ward; CH 13 (:30)
10:00 PM WABC- TV An Evening WIth... Cher. Goldie
Hawn, Bette Mldler, Olivia Newton-John. Meryl
Streep, Robin Williams benefiting Mothers andOthers for a Uvable Planet, In LA; CH 7 (1 :00)
~mldnlDht RB PROD 1116Rabin Byrd Show. male and female
strippers; Manhattan and Paragon Cable, CH J/23 (1:00)

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20

1:00 PM WBAI-FM 11Iis Way Out; the Int'I gayJiesblan magazine; 99.5 FM (:30)
1:30 PM WBAI-FM An Aftemoon Outing: local news and information about.the gayJil1Sblancommunity; today: a special
one-hOUr'bilingual edition with Larry Gutanburg and aon. 1110 AburtD; 99.5 FM (1:00)
2:30 PM WBAI-FM AIDS: Paths to Se/f-Empowennent &LMng: Bob Ladarer and Jim Filuratt discuss alternative~Refers to those shows which may be affected by the naw
treatments, salf-empowerment, politics; with Interviews
clbla TV franchise Igreamant eliminating Channel J/23
of health practitioners, PWAs, activists; 99.5 FM (1 :00)
(which Is one channel, not two, as misstated by the~7:O0 PM GBS Way Outl: Mark Chesnut and carol Polconml1S and Voice,. Some shows may return to Manhattan
varhost a lesbian and gay entertainment show; tonight:
Gable (but not Paragon) channels Ml26 and Vl35.
Stavan Broadway, body painter and Quickllnvltation.
September Is fund-raiSing month for WBAI. You can 'vote' forartist; Wlastock coverage; Rich Volo, producer, 254more gayJiesbian programming by making a pledge while7685; Manhattan Cable, CH J/23 (:30)
a gayJiesblan show is on the air. Money talks,
8:00 PM WOR-TV Rebel WIthout a Cause (1955), Jamas
Dean, Sal Mlnao, Natalie Wood. Jim BackuS. Dannls
Hoppar; CH 9 (2:00)
10:00 AM WNET-TV Soutar Hearings, till 6 pm, with a lunch
9:00 PM WLlW-TV People's Podium: members of our combreak from1-2 pm; CH 13 (8:00)
munHy pose questions to CHy Health Commissioner
9:00 PM WNBC-TV Babil1S, Dinah Manotl, Lindsay Wagner,
Woodrow Myars and openly-gay Mental Health CommisMarcy Walker are three close friends, different from eachsioner Billy E. Jones; ManhtnJParagon Cable, CH L/25
other, but who all want kids; CH 4 (2:00)~9:30 PM GMHC Living With AIDS: health and politics; .
9:00 PM WNET-TV John Cage: I Have Nothing to Say and I
Manhattan Cable, CH J123 (:30)
Am Saying It, performance biography, with Yoko Ono,
~10:30 PM GCN Gay U.SA.: news and entertainment from
Merce Cunningham, laurie Anderson, Cage biographer
aroundthe country; Manhattan Cable, CH J/23 (1 :00)
Rlcahrd Kostelanetz; CH 13 (1 :00)
(For Paragon Cable, see SATURDAy)
9:00 PM GBS Out In the 90'~communHy news, discussion,
Interviews; (tape of last Tuesday's MCTV/Paragonshow) BQ ~11:30 PM RB PROD M6n For Men: Robin Byrd presents
gay male porno stars; Manhattan Cable, CH J/23 (:30)
Gable,CH 56 (1:00)~11:30 PM GMHC Living With AIDS: health and politics;~10:O0 PM GCN Be My GUl1StMlchl1 Tremblay's
Paragon Cable, CH J/23 (:30)•. Hosanna, Wlastock; Manhattan Cable, CH J/23 (:30)
11:38 PM TomorrowlTonight Liw/: entertainment; Manhattan and Paragon Cable, CH 0/17 (1:00)
2:30 PM WBAI-FM Romplendo el Silenclu. todos los
mldnlaht CCTV 11IeClosfJt Case Show. Jock Special; Manvlernes, Gonzalo Aburto con temas y notlclas para Ia
hattan and Paragon Cable, CH CI16 (:30)
comunidad latina gay y lesbiana; 99.5 FM (:15)
12:38 AM The Br6nda and Glennda Show; Manhattan Cable,~7:30
PM The Gay Dating Game Show, with tommy and
CH CI16 (see 8:30 PM)
Lahoma; CH J/23 (:30)~1:OOAM Gay Tv. g~male pom ; ParagonGable,CH ..lI23 (:30)
9:00 PM WNET-TV EL Matador, RIcardO Montalban narrates as 17-year-old Mlgual Espinoza, In tight pants,gores Mexican bulls; CH 13 (1 :00)
4:00 PM WCBS- TV Geraldo: fatal accidents at chil.~ 11 :00 PM Gay Tv. male porno cUps; Manhattan Cable,
dren's summer camps; CH 2 (1 :00)
CH J/23 (:30)
5:00 PM HBO The Truth About Alex: Jock Scott Balo
~1:O0 AM RB PROD Robin Byrd Show. male and female
learns his best.friend Is homosexual (1 :00)
strippers; Manhattan and Paragon Cable, CH J/23 (1 :00)
8:00 PM A&E Richard M. Nixon: a portrait, IncludIng the Watergate scandal; Interviews with Helen
Thomas. BIn Bradl ... John Ehrllchman. John
~ 6:00 PM GCN Gay U.SA.: news and entertainment from
Daan. Tad Soransen (1 :30).
around the country; BO, Unity, ACV Cable, CH 56 (1:00) .
9:00 PM WCBS~ TV Field of Dreams (1989), a base(For Manhettan Cable, see THURSDAy).
bali fantasy with Kavln Costnar; CH 2 (2:20)~ 6:38 PM GCN Gay U.SA.: news and entertainment from9:00 PM Lifetime My Body, My Child (1982): Vanesaround the country; Paragon Cable, CH J/23 (1 :00) (For.a Radarave as a Catholic woman considering
Manhattan Cable, see THURSDAy)
abortion of a likely-deformed
unborn child (2:00)
7:00
PM WLlW-TV PfIOple's podium, see THURSDAY
10:00 PM WABC- TV Tribute to Oprah Winfrey, recog~11:00
PM RB PROD The Early Byrd: Robin Byrd presents
nizing her generosity and humanity are Barbara
malelfemale strippers; Manhattan Cable, CH J/23 (1 :00)
BUlh, Lily Tomlin. WhOOPI Goldbera, MC Hammar. James Earl Jonas, Rosallnna Barr. Frad Sav'
aaa. Kirk Camaron. Bob Hopa, others; CH 7 (1 :00)
noon WNET-TV AIDS or Eighty-Somllthing, teens are told
10:00 PM MTV Sex in the '90s: candid opinions on
about HIV transmission; CH 13 (:30)
abortion, AIDS, bith control, pornography (1 :00)
7:30 PM WBAI-FM OutLooks: news and Information about
11 :00 PM GBS Out In thlJ 90's:Nall Brooma's Pertect
the lesbian/gay community; every other Sunday, alterTargets; Manhattan & Paragon Cable, CH C/16 (1 :00)
nating with The Gay ShoW; 99.5 FM (1:00)~11:30 PM GCN Men & Fllm~ male erotica, Interviews
with adult fllmstars; Manhattan Cable, CH J/23 (:30)
9:30 AM WBAI-FM Ghosts In the Machintf. women In pop,

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20/20 (Michael Fesco's Tea Dance, opens 5 pm; $6; free Mimosas &. 8Ms ', "" ,,"froin 5--"1,:buff,et at 7:30;, Miller served) 20 W 20 St; 727-8841"" _.'

rm- Eyes (Hom-o-Sexual ~nack"A~ Tena; Razor Sharp &. ~Ippe~,
72,
Every "Ni,ght (or almost I .
"'"." ",' ,,"419 (nightlY Gay House Party, opens 6 pm) 419f.l; Highway (Rte 27),

snackboys; students, professionals; $7) 12 W ~1 St,C;lub "/.fJ)::r

Tu_sdav,,-~,,"-Love Mle,hlne lLarry Te.e&.lahoma Van"Zandt, young &. exQti.c,crowd), ~Bway, at 17 St;-Private Eyes (MarshalfSimon's Rock 'n' Roll Drag Bar, $7) 12W~1 St,. btwn 5th/6th AVes; 206-m4.i""",,*Roxy (Men on,wh88ls, gay roller skating~star1S8 pm)"515W 18St;fi45:51~

SOlJ!:hampto,!"LI;5161283-5OO1",
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Grand Camal" (closed Mon &.Tues, 2-4- J drinks Thursday) 210 Merrick
Road, Rockville Centre, LI; 516/536-4800".
Magic Touch (ethnicmix: Anglo/latin/Asian)73-13 37th Rd,,,Jackson,," ,HQights, Queens; 718/429-8605"
W.dnesday'"", {'""",, ,,' "Monster(We~Viliage) 80 Grove St at Sheridan Sq.;,92~3557-~"r
DayS (pr~marilYgay'men Qf'color)316W~49 St (819Aves); 245-8925$p~(clos~d r,.1oll,,~Tue~WED
fr~e, THU free &.2-4-1 drinks, FRI mit" -Umelight (Michael Alig.&. IlarryTee's DIsco2tDl, 10 pm, $10; Cqors .; '",,'''"" strip, SAT record stars, SUN vanaw show &.free 9-10 pm; Coors";8IVed) 6th Ave at 20 St; ; club 807-7850";",,,,"
served) 802 64th St@8th Ave, Bay,Ridge, Bklyn; 718/238-8213••
Private Eyes (YMVA Night, students, professionals, lesl1ians and non•,
QilYwomen; $7) 12 W21 St"bt,wn 5tJY6th'Aves; ~mz "-~mid(Unda's Chanll,el69,party, DJ ~ live lesbian/gay shOws; East•
Village crowd; $5) 101Avenue A, btwn 61! Streets; 420-1590 ".
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Tuesdav """.""".'"'."(Ila., Floral Pic,LI, 516/354-9641
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Hltfielcfsl26-.1lJ Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens; 7181261~8484*Sc!d-Cl"M .. (lahoma Van:"Zandt,porn,stars, go-go boys; opens 10:30 ;tGr.nd
Ce"'I'(w~men'snight, also operiWed.$un),210 Merrick Road,. pm, ~7)
56~ W 23 St (11th,I\V~); 366:-5253 '".,.
"RockvilleCentril, U; 5111/536-4800
Stutz (24- 1drinks; alsp op.en dally)20~'Westchester Ave, White Plal,ns;. W" : 'd"" ,l d"
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Sept 27; iffy .door) lD ,E60 St, at Fifth Ave; 755-601.0.
" ,,', \ Private Eye~ (SheseapeAftefWOrk Party,,5-i~pm; $5 before 1 pm, f!
Exca"b""($.1.~rln~, also ope~ Tues.-Sun,women WED) corne~ lOthl~ef-""'after'2-4.Urinks
before 7) 12 W 21st; info 645-647~, club zoo.m2 ,,,, ferson behind fuotball stadium, Hoboken,NJ; 201-795-1161'",,',''',,',":'.
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HatlieJd·.:(2:~ 1 d,rinks,female impe!lonators; also open,nightly, womenI 01) TUE &.FR!)126-10Queens Blvd, Kew Gardens, (lueen,s;7181261-8484 , Bedroc.k 121Wo~(lfi~ld Rd,W. Hempstea,d,ll, 516/486-9516
h PriVate, Eyes (David leigh &.llle Chappell's New Turf; with biker
Fridav"'·' , "dancers;'$8) 12 W 21 St, btwn 5thI6th Aves; 200-m2
Bedrock dl WoOdfield Rd, W. Hemp~ea~,ll; 516/486-9516, 'Quiekl,6 Hubert st (on Hudson, 5 blocks below Cana!); 925-2442'
Cnt Club(Jocelyn &.Julie's B.ltemate FridaY., next is'Sept 21; go-go girls,*Roxy (Disco Interruptus, DJs Sister Dimension &'P~rick Butts, enter- 'lesbo videos; ~ pm; $l drinks before 10; $5) 432W 14,St; 406-1114
tainme.nt breaks; $10; opens SEPT 13)515 W 18;645-5156 'Hatfield's 126-10 Queens B.lvd., Kew Gardens; 718/261-8484 'Friday''" "'""Mlnenni.UIII(Ladies' Nig/i41770 NYAve(Rte 110),Huntington,U; 51P/.1i,1·1402 ,cOlUIIIlti.JfancJJSnst Friday of evel'{ month, inCI!ldin~ summer, next is
Viiio~,~ ~Ol Queens ~~, Woodside;jnfo 7181846-7131,club 71__ 9131
October 5) 116th St &. Bway; 854-3574days" .
Sat,urclay" " ' ,." "". " ", Meat,(Aldo Hernandeis alternate Fridays, next is Sept. 28; DJ, go-go
Bedrock 12,1Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516:,
boys, videos; opens 10 pm; $5) 432W 14 St; 353-3866 . ,0.
. HandleBar(He; Planet, alternate'Satur~ays, $II; opens SEPT 22) 232 E9.
. "Octagon (Patrick's Friday Night Jam SeSSion,primarily gay men of color;"
St (btwI;l2nd/3rd Aves);,iilf025~-7875 ,,',free muchies; opens 11 pm) 555W 33 St; 947.,()4()()," ".
'. "Silver
Uning 175 Cheri'ylane, Roral Park;U; 516/3~!!641,
Private,~s (yMVA ~ight, studll~, profession.al~, mllh) "12W 21 St,
Sta.rz 836 GrJlnd B~ul~liard, Oeer ~ark; [I; 516124Z-3857 .:" . ".
• btwn ,5thI6th ~ves,,200-n72..
". Sunday,,"" '. .'. .' .
-Ouickl (Panty G"dles; TVs, gays, straightsl 6 Hlibert St (on Hudsonr5
BJdrock 121Woodf:i,eld Rd,W.Hempstead" LI; 516/486-95.18'~ , blocks below ,~anal); 925-2442. "",'.
Pulse (~hescape Tf!a Dances for Women, l pm -.midnight, $5 before 8
Saturdav,,".
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prn/$7 thereafte(j.226 E.~ St (2nd[3rd ~vesl; l~fo.~-6479.,'. '", Ba~BoogielS111Oke&.alcohol~ee)43461t1A1ie(btwn9l10~);,832-6759
Everv Night (or"alm.st)"',.'I,h Colpmbil Dances (Same But Different, 3rdSAT except next on'Duchess .IHsmall irance floor) Sheridan Sq.&'.7th AveSputh; ~42-1408
22; DJ K~rin Ward, 10 pm - 3am; $5) ,Earl Hall, .116St/B'way; 629,1.989 'Spectrum (cIO:s"edMQn'&.TUIlS;,good gay/lQsbian JJiix;S~8 EverY Night,,419419N. Hlg~ay, Soµthampton, LI; 5161283-5001,:'.'.
a~ovCl;for detilils) 80264thSt, Bklyn.; 718/~-8213"'•.
Love ZoiIe(d.anclng &.p~rformers) 70 BeBch St, Staten Island; 71B1442~5692!.".'.
.,"• t: _ ,,'"''-Roxy" (gau.mJs/club kid.; non-gay women some lesbians' mix depends
for tourlS" • ") ," . " " __,,,''''p
St (btw .
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A (*1d,n~es a ,club1h~ .ttr.actslVs. A,(b dan~s.an~,liSling.,,Clubsge".rallyopenat 10pm. closel!t.am;unlass~JWisa 1!~.AI!~iqni.,,,'
on party) 5~5W 18,
n.'0111 Avel),646-5156. ,," . ",,' "'.'c.
, Sound f~ctolY(mostly gay; sefioliS lioule/Club danCing, no alc(!holf
rangafrom$!ito$!5, li1I!it88~t dls1l0"!"'B,an,~!IresornQli~'requlr::ed.lt'aWlee",
open."n pm) 530W 27 St (lOth/11th Aves); 643:0728',,'" , "to callahaadto\=onfiiiT!tIIatapartyisSlil1haP!lanlng., '" ,.'''i.. ".
S dSomaclubs,aspaciallyCOl1ac;aban"4,b~ a~o Umallgttt.~v,a~achlna;Ro~ andD-!Tpprimarily gay men of color) 316 woW St
Avesf 245-8925" "" "', <ot~e!$,letpeQplain filndpmJyo.f 8"'CtiV,ly.i~.•d:of haVlng~sln:ll!Je.h~aat
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'I1Ie B"lIdi", (Club Bad I ., e en s Room, ~dents, professlonal~, ,,)en; " Clubs1hatsarVe'Coors QrMil/erwill banotadb~ not excludadfrom,1haaalistings.
" , go·go boys &.8O-ft. ceillngl51 W ~6 ~ 576-11J90 ,.,'.•
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,Monster (Sun4ayTeaDance, ~ 4 pm; danCing also on other nights trom, .' You'may also f.-j Rick,)( at,!2i?i33M220:,'
Hi' ;",~"' ",'to"pm)80 Grove Stat Sh~ndan Sq.; 92~3557',,,"'. " " Dl~trimi~!rtion9~
ina basis !if'JlC~,O,and~md.oi1entatlO~lsn~g~l,Sajactlvlty .
,-Pyramid (ScreBm; DJs Patrick and Aaron, host loretta; $5) 101Avenue·" ."besedon,attire,~ctiven"ass andr~dals ~ot.COmingaarly h!lpa.
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CONG~EGATION
ing llisibiitt of the lesbian and gay,days at the 'Chelsea Transfer',. A!"encalt" an,d .no~-Asl~o.g.ay.
meeting/potluck
lunch held
B NAI;
CCJTI'IU'iW nI0f!I81 izi I!l !JI1ISI!IIlds monthly Fat, Apple Review, pim\l~throu~h,soclalf.cu~ra~,~~u1:00pm on fourth Sunday of the
J~SHURUN '.
1IISpOI1S81p a~~!lo)OO monthly FAR, penpal$.
',c8~onal, ,and ~rvlce actiVl~es .' monthl at members. homes. Call
Monthly Spntua~ Gathenngs andFor more in,formationcall
htMI:IllTiUIsa no"" tgt00 uo·,',' : and programs, Cal! C1'!f Hotline:
NYABNforthis month's location.
free catored festJIIelunch~forpma?.m~ClAADPhcniTIIlIIICaI~rnieat 914-,899-7735 or write:,..... 212.-874-~lorwnte
to: P.O; Box
This group, is pal1 of the ~8YV al(Peopl?WI1h AlDS,th~r lovers(212}lBHjOOforiiftrrnaticr1,
G&M/NY, Dept 0, P.O, Box 10,•, . 8828"NY"NY.l0l~.
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,: and famlhos, Program ,"cludes., "Pelham, NY 10803 .
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an d d'ISOUssion led by our, .....
GUB ',HW~ ATR(AIDST"EATM~NT. . ,,'
BLUS-8RONX IJ;$B~S'
Rabbi" Call (21?) 787-7800, ,Gayand l.esIian ndependentBroad(Health Education AIlS Liaison),'. ,~~EG!ST!IY.INc;.),UNITED IN SISTERHOOD
caslBlS irMtBs'YOU'1O\lnI i1ID OUTDIGNITY,
Weekly.info. and support groUp• ,'P~~Shes 1I:linJlll11hlyDII~i:1Dryof. Social, pOlitical and support netLOOKSon WlW-NY, 995 I'M IN9IY
,BIG
APPlE
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,clml,c,l!l' ~nals, of e~pe.rnfJent.al
1I'JOikilg group for W!lII1IjI1andtheirfor treatments for AIDS, which do
OIhfJrSmday,~nI
jan US,
A community of L8~bia,n and
n!JI,cOl)lpro.niSe the imm4na ¥AI~S/HIV~a1n!8nts In N.YJNJ,~~ . friends. Regular social 8WnIS and,
IN9IYTiiooday at~ 1O~1O.
Gay Ca!holics. Activities include.
.haseduc~tiOna~ '!18te!lal*e~l. eeti
the first and third
FriIJE;oorm a i1llli'I1b!r ofGlJ8;No 8lCpII" fem further, il)cluding alternatiVei)8iS'fortnlll pa(1lc,lpants.,ATR also.
m n9l!,on. ,., . Liturgies and socials every Sat,and holistic approaches.
nenes nooc!ed. Sli Eighth Avenue,
day-! of owry month, At The ...<Jrtlad'lOC8tBs for improvements in the•
8:011pm, at tho C9nter, 208 W. 13
Wed 8pm.
208 W. 13th St.
NY, NY10018 Attn: Outlooks 01' call'hi aystam. ~O. 8Qx30234, NY, t:N
mtmyCents~lIB~~3~(romStlllet,NYC.Call(212)874-HOptI(212) 24S-&:Wl- ask for GLIB.
ft:3G.8pn. For more Info callJisa at
10IHl1ot.(2,12),268-4198, Public&(212) 816-1309,,•
1ionsfreeldOnation IlIquested.
(212)82&8117, . c"A.c.a,C •... ~BAR ASSOCIATION FOR
HUMAN RIGHTS
lawyers RefeITal SeMce for thelal!bian and Gay Cqrnmunity Full
RangeoflagalSarvicas(212)49l~73 Free Walk-in Legal Clinic.
Tuesday 6-8 pmLesbian & Gay
Community Centro Ground Roor

BODY POSITIVE
If you or your, lover has tested
HIV+, we offer support groups,
seminalS, public forums, referooce
library, IlIfeITals, social activities
and up-to-date national monthly,."THE BODY,POSITIVE" ($2WyaJ!r).
(212)~1-1348.
2m5 BlJ)8divay, Slits:DI, NY. 10023

DIGf4nY NEW YORKLesIian nI'F(Calldcs ard friends
AIDS Mi1isUv. SpiduaI DevaIopnent
1h8 Cafledllli ~'Mn/ip Services &Socia~ EiIas. ~John's Episcopal Church 218 West

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OFPRIDE-INC..
0rganizIiI8 IiNaw Yodt'. Leabianand Gay Pride __the Mardi,
1I1a RIlly and 1111Danci on 1I1a
Pill: Cal 1212)881-1774 for IIIIIIIfing tchecIuIe or lI1OI'I infonnIIion.
.West 13111 SIraat, NY. NY1111111E1IIICI[-MAR11N INmIUTE
for lubian and gIY youth. Co~.. ling, drop-in canter IM-F, 38pml, rap group', HarvlY Milk
H91 School, AIDS and safar iIformllion. rafanal8, profal8iu1l1l
educalion. (2121~(vaical(212)833-81128 for dNf

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LESBIAN AND GAY LABORNElWORl
M organization of Lesbians andGays Ytt10 ara aclive it1hair labor
IricI'1IWIIIIiitg on ~pamerahip bana&ta and AIDS __For"lDIIIi1Iormnancal~

WBIAN

AND GAY IIGIII'S

PROJECI'of 1I1e American Civil Libalti ..
Union KNOW YOUR RIGHTSI

WE'RE ElllWaWG1IIEM'12121944-9800,8Xl545m

LESBIANS AND GAYS OF
RATlOSHIISPANIC UNnED GAYS.
WIlMS
Educational .. IVica., politicalaction, coun.eling and aocial
ac1iviti.. in Sp'niah and English
by and for 1I1e Latino Laabianand Gay Community. Genera I
mealinga 8:00 pm 4111Thursday
of evary month at 208 Wast
13th Straat. Call (2121881-4181
or write H.U.G.L, P.O. Box 22B
Canal Str .. t Station, New
Yorlt, NY 10018.

1IrooIdyn'1 eocial organizltion forboth gay m~ and lesbianL P.O.
Box I., Midwood SIrion Brooklyn, NY I1ZlO°{718181i1H437

HoUSE

IDENmYNCIW in our 20Ih year, we provide
peer counHling, 1I1erapy rafarrsll and group' for 1I1e lesbian,gay and bilaxual community.
Callus at (2121243-8181. VISit us
at 544 11th Ave., bat.waan 14111l!i1h Stream, Manhattan.

INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN

IDENTITY
Sliding Icale faea • Insurance
Icclptad. Gay a. Lesbian Psy~arapyI2121799"9432
LMBJA lHALlIEIUSE

AND EDUCATION RIND
Pracedent-IItting
litigation
nationwidl
for Ilabians, gay
man and people with AIDS.
Membarship ($40 and upl inc.
nawaletter and invitations toapecial avants. Voluntear nighton Thursdays. Inteke calls: 24pm Mon 1I1ruFri (2121995-8585.
LAVA (WBIANS ABOUT
VISUAL ART)Cal for slid .. for Lesbian.Artis1II'
Elchibi1ion, Gay &. Lesbian C0mmunity Canter, NYC. For mora
information, .. nd SASE 10 : Miriam Fougere, 118 For1 Greene
Place, Broc*.IY"~NY 11217., •,. TIlE WBIAN AND GAY BIG
APlUCORPS
Gat your instrument out of 1I1e
clout and come play with ua.
Symphoric, Marching. Jazz, Dixieland, Rock, Aute En,IBmble.
snd WoocIwindL 123 Welt 44th
St. Suita 12L New-York, NY
10031 (2121889-2922LESBIAN. GAY
COMMUNITY SERVICES
CENTER
2Q8 Wast 13th Street New Yorlt,
NY 10011 12121 820-7310 9am11pm _ryday. A place for cOllt'
munity orgallmllg and I18lWOfIcing.
IQCiaIIllMC8I, cuhursl programa.
and IOcial events aponaored by
1I1a Cantar and mora1l1~n 150
comnuity organizationa.

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. LESBIAN HEllSTORY
ARCHIVES
P.O.Box 12!i8Naw York. New York
10118217}874--7232Sinl:a 1974, 1ha
An:/Was has .II1IfII·rad , 'iihlped andraflacted Lelbian livla everywhere. Cal 111 ananga a visit or 10
YOI...... rforThiRday~LONG ISLAND ACT-UP
Ma8IB T~
Itepm at 181
Poet/We. illfWaduy, N'£ Support IIIforchange ori Long Island. Mailing
IIIIdr-= PO Bux514, Westbury, NY
11!i111l51&338-4882.

LIM
is a support and informationgroup for I.. bians and bisaxual
women interested in fantasy,role-playing,bindage, discipline, S/M, fetishes, alternate
gendar indentities, costumes
and so forth. Mambership islVailable only to women 18
years and older. Actual experience is not required but genuine interest and an open mind
are. For information
pleasewrite: P.O. Box 993, Murray Hill
Station, New Yorlt, NY 10158

MEN OF All COLORSTOGmtERNY
A muhi-racial group of gay men
against racilill. MaaIi1gs _IV fri.
~ ~ at 7'.45 It fie I.eslliIi1 and
Gay Community SelVices Centar.D W. 13111Sbaat For mora i1fD.
'catl21217AS«!88crl2121222-819l

TENNISGROIip(MTGI

MmOPOLJrAN

Our 2llo member lasbian and gIY
lanni, club includes playell frombeginning to tournament level.
Mon1l11y tennia par1i ... Winterindoor I.. gue. Come play withusl For information: MTG, Suita
K83, 48&-AHudaon St, New York,NY 10025. 17181852-8582. .

MaCA(Men" Color AIDS p,.wntion

Pragrwn.1~rovid .... fer sax and AIDS
education information to gay
and bisexual Man of Color;
coordinates.
network of pears~ppOr1 groups for gay andb.. exual Men of Color in all 5
boroullhl of New York City.
303 Nin1l1 AVI, New York NY,OOOlorcaIl12121_,798.'

UPPER MANHAnAN
PEOPlE WITH AIDS ..
NADONAL GAY ANQ WBIM,TASI FORCE ON
COAUnON'TASIFORCE
AIDS
12121~
il the national gl'888l'OClllpolitical
Education, Hollinl, Supportive(2121 !i3'l.allleMon~1hru Fridayorganization for lesbians and gIY
Ca .. Managemint, and Volun10amfpmMeal prDglIlIII, 8iiflIIOIt
men. Membership ia $3O/yaar.
teer Racruit!neilt and R.far~
gRIUpII, acIucrionaI and nIfanaI_
Issua-oriented projects add .....
ral.212-870-33S2
1Iicasfor l"e'IA'a and I"f'\an:'a.
violence, aocIon.1y laws, AIDS, gay. ,.
rightB ordilances, famias, madia,
WHAMI(WomH'.1INIdI
PEOPllWII1I
AIDS
ate. 1I1rou!#1lobbying. educejion,
HEAIl1I GROUP 'Action And Mallili __ )organizing and direct eC,tion. I,.
A direct-action group commit~
NGIJF 1517 U Sbaat tNI, Wash- . lIndargnlIIId bi¥N'a club inpoI1iIg
not-yaHpprwacI madicetiona andted to deman,ding,· ".curing
ington. OC1Um 12OZ)33H4B1
nutritional supplamanta. 31 Wastand deflhding ali,oIl/t1repro2IIIh St ., floor (2121!i3H280
ductive freadom and quality
NEW YORI ADVEII11S1NG
health cara for all woman. WI
AND CO .... NICADONSPilOJUSIONALS IN
NElWORK
meat every Wed. at 8:30 pm at
RlMIVIDEO
105, E 22nd St., 4111Aoor.
NYACN is the C"'IUunity'Slargast
338
Canal
Street,
11th
Aoor,
NYC
gay and le.bian professional
12121713-58111.
1001321~1
group, walcoming all it corrmllliMliling addrln: WHAMI, P.O.
cation_and
their friends.
Box 733, NYC 10009
QUEER NADON
Monthly meetings,. 3rd Wed
8:30pm at Iha Co,,"ullllity Canter.
The Lelbiand and Gay direct
WOMEN'S AUERNATIVE
Mambers' IlWI8Iattar, job hoIIine,
action group dedicated 10 fightCO.... NnY CENrElIWACQ,
aMusl dirsct.ory. Phone (2121517ing homophobia and Gay andA non-profit"Lealiiancommua.I for mora info. Mention OutLesbian invisibility. Myone cannity center IIrving Quaena,r Weak for one free I18WIIIaUar.
suggest an action and ahould
Naueu and Suffolk countia'.
come to meetings prepa red toThull night Wlekly di.cuaaion
N.Y.R:_ESorganize and implement it QN,
grp'. 8:30pm, for other ICIiviSupport and discussion group forBox 1524, Cooper Station, New . ties pll •• e contact us It 15111
lesbians who lalf identify al
York, NY 10003. Call 212-483483-2060.
Faumeand ara prillalily attracllld
720B for melting info.
10 butI:h W'OI1I8IL For mamberahip
ilfolillation cal lila (2121B2NB17.
SAGE:(Slnior Action in a Gay
N.Y.WOMEN'S
EnvirelllMlltl
SOfTBAll GUIlD
pIOoih.j en,
For axpariancad, sariolll SoftbaD..... &acb:IiinI __ ugil'(a.
Players, Coaches and Managers.
laIDIlarir.....
~
We play mod/fast pitch weekhmabDInIari:JIs&*PMsDends in Manhattan and Queens.
IMIiIt 13f1StNYC1IIII1,1212I741-ac1
Tiy-OII1Bbegin Feb. l11hru Apn1,or unlll filled. (212151379 Janet
smtlM GAYS,
lUBIANS AND BISEXUALSNINtH STREET CENTER
For al Iiiii inlal'llltlld itl1llcting
Since 1973, a community dediout to 88ch o1har.118lC11barancelOcated to demonstrating 1hat a
sponbIl1IIOIIIIylllCplora and &XI*)dhomosexual lifestyle is a rational, desira.ble choice for indiupon the Satb'JaIl8 RobaiIB "Phividuals dissatisfied
with thelosophy" al it millis to our livas,
rewards of conventional living.
paraonally, S8XUIDy and poIitica~, PIYchoiogical1y - focussed rsp
CaDAI (212197H104
group', Tu.... Sat, 8 10 10 pm.
peer counaelling available. 319
SUNDANCE
E. 9 Street, New Yorlt, NY 10003,
OU11)OOR ADVENTURE
for info call 12121228-5153.
SOCIETY ...
A non-prolit club oIfaringOUldoor
NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY
activitiaa for -ry .....,
includLOVE ASSOCIADON INAMBlA)
ing hiking, biking, skiing, water
Dedicated to s.xual freedom
ac:tivi1iaaand o1har CIU1IIocii acINiand especiallyinteretedinlies for1haG8\f'l8IIbian corrm.my.
gay intergenerational
relaFor information orcompliiilentery
tionahips.
Monthly Bulletin
Nawlllallllr cal 12121!ilI&4n&.
and regular chapter meetings
on 1I1e first Saturday of each
THE OUTREACH
month. Yearly membership is
USING '
$20; write NAMBLA. PO Box
COMMUNAL HEAUNG
174, Midtown Station, New(TOUCHI
York, NY 10018 or call 12121
Community voIimlllBlI providing a807-8578 for information.

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SociaI~"'"NOIl11lERN UGHUALTERNA11VES
Improving Quality Iilife for People with AIDS/HIV. THE AIDSMAS1BIY WORKSHOP: ExpIo....
ing 1he possibilities of a powe",,1and creative life in-1I1e face of
AIDS. Call12121585s4
NYC GAY. WBIAN• ANTI-Y10lENCE PROJECT
Ccu1eah;i.acMIca~nIifarmaD1
for IIIM"n Iiri1IaY nI anIHat........... _wi I.• Lt,dcJinIIac........ nI ahr\'P81 Ii1oicIiriIItlion. AlIIIII\'icas fnIa and confidan.
El24hiuhohl212llmG197~
bulfut8llPp8l'for1ha I!roaII¥l
AIDS community. TOUCH meam
Monday evIL 5pn 10 8:30pm- at
drMriIIMn BraoId',n I1iands MaaIi1g
HoI_1110 Sc/18nI18IhoII1 St near
Boanrn PlaC8~\iiiIBiI1nii1iIpOIIIiIi
nay be all1ll9lCl Wo: !718111'lb2l!lll.
TOUCH waIc"'1111 conllibutiolw Ii
fmdI,foodandYOlu$lll8.

ULSTER COUNTYGAY AND WBIAN
AWANCE
MeaII tnt nI tint Monday Ii-"
marifI. 7!IIpm idlIlkiIiIian Dud!
CllSiM111R*illGngIm Fcrilbllllt'

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Sally's Hideaway 264 W. 43 St 221-9152
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..,. Keller's, 384 WestSt. (at Chnstopher).243-1907.. .' 428 Columbus .' Ave (at 81st).
The Work.s,
799-7365 ".
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Charlie's, 56 Greenwi~h Ave., 255-8787

Regent East, 204E. 58th St., 355-~5
Rounds, 303 E. 53rd St., 593-0a07

The2:~19h(~~:8M~~)dson (Morton St), . WEST SIDE.
.'C 'N' y"razy . enn S; 21 7th Ave~l!e South, 366-6312 Candle Bar, 309 Amsterdam Ave., 874-9155.'. !WQm.!ln) '. , "', .'.
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Star Sapphire, 400 E. 59th St. 688-4710'
The Townhouse, 236 E. 58th St., 754-4649.
Twenty-Nine PlIlms, 129 LexingtonAve., 681H1299

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InAssocl.tlo,nWith P.A.P.A:' . ENOUGHTO KEEP YOU IN STITCHES."=EA:.::S::..T:..V.:.:I::LLA::..:.:G:.:E=--"REAL WIIN~~EsINSIGHT."

The Bar, 68 2nd Ave. (at 4th St.), 674-9714""POWERFUL WRiTING.
TRULY MOVING~n -N;Y,POSTuSWEENEYi$NANCY. A
METICULOUS POUTICAL CARTOON. "Bill REPIC~='::'-MINICHIEllO,

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The Pyramid, 101 Avenue A, 420-1590
Tunnel Bar, 116 1st Ave (7th St.), m-9232 .

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Spectrum, 802 64th St. (at 8th Ave), 745-9611
Sweet Sensations, 6322 20th St., 435-2580,.QUEENS

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236-0300,.

Hatfield's, 126-10' Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens,
261-8484
Hideaway, 87-36 Parsons Blvd.,Jamaica,
657-4585.
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Sandcastle, 86 Mills Ave.., (7181447-9365

WESTCHESTER (914),,Playroom, 590 Nepperhan Ave., Yonkers, 96&-6900,

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

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486-9516
Blanche, 47-2 Boundary Ave., Farmingdale,694-6906Grand Central, 210 Merrick Rd, Rockville Centre,

536-4800
240/ JerusaBnf4le.. ~Pal~,

BE STREET SMARTI
Anyone can be a victim of crime. Anti-gay'& anti-lesbian
violence is random. You can reduce your chances of
becoming a crime victim in the following ways:

Belnoe,1I5-!Bl1

STAY ALERTI

SMrUrirv. 175 Ctety Lare, N9N Hyde Palt, l54-$41

Awareness is your best self-defense.

Station House Pub, 3547 MerrickRd, Seaford,

TRUST YOUR INSTINCTS!

785-9808

LONG ISlAN~UFFOLK-,.: .

If you think something is wrong,.remove yourself from the situafion.

(516t

PROJECT CONFIDENCEI..

419,419 North Highway (Rt.27I, Southampton,
283-5001..

Walk as if you know where you're going.

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Bunkhouse, 192 N. Main St. Sayville, 567-2865
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Club 608, 608 Sunrise Hwy., W. Babylon., 661-9580
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sights and parks after dark.
~ If you feel threatened, cross thestreet, turn around, run to a safe
place or walk closer to traffic.
~ Always have money for a bus,
cab or phone call.
~ Be aware of who is in front of
you and who is behind you.

~ Don't wear headphones.
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you reach your home or car.
~ Conceal your money and jewelry.
~ Carry a whistle, and if ,you 'feelthreatened, blow, it, or shout"fire" to attract
attention. ,i.
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home, introduce her or him to a' .
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~ Harassment is often a prelude toanassault.
If you decide to .'answer back, be prepared for any
consequences that may occur.

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Blow it if you feel threatened. If you hear the.
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become. Pine. But do not even try
coming back to us when everythingcrwnble&-f.nd it always does, Sandy.
It always dOes. See, as you once said,
without us, you're nothlns.
Oh, boy. Someone just threw the
new issue of Paper on my desk, andafter briefly breezing through it, I see
that, whUe Joe Dolce continues to dO
a great job addressing gay and AIDS
issues, and while the monthly forthe most part gives us an honest andcutting-edge slice of downtown life,
George Wayne's "In the Raw" gossip
column is severely bumming meout. Message to Paper editor David
Hershkovits: If Wayne wants a job atCond~ Nast, you should instruct him
to send his resume there and notshamelessly use his column and yourpublication to apply· for it by kissing
up, thereby insulting the readers withsuch drek and embarrasSing the editors. I mean, it's disempowering andjust plain annoying to open up analternative publication and then see
photos of monsters like Tina Brown
and S.I. Newhouse in the gossip column, accompanied by glowing write.ups of them and other high society
oppressor boldface types. I can read
Suzy (NeW York Post) for that. (Wayne
also has his own underground publication called ROME, and this month's
cover girl is Vogue editOr, Anna Wintour. Get the picture?)
But I suppose
we shouldn't
expect more from alternative or community presses. And the Amsterdam
News Is a clear example. In the same
week in which they endorsed open
lesbian Deborah Glick for the state
Assembly and printed a story about
Rutgers University cutting ROTC scholarships because of the armed forces'
anti-gay policies, the weekly ran achillingly homophobic piece headlined"vtllageVotee Exceeds Boundaries ofDecency," written by their media
columnist, Abiola Sinclair.
Sinclair takes issue particularly
with what she calls "a gay trash column," Michael Musto's "La Dolce
Musto," in the VoIce's Aug. 2S editionin which Musto ran a photo raken at
the gay club Sod-O-Mee. In the picture, a club patron's mouth is on a gogo boy's plastic covered crotch (the.',dancers wore clear plastic jockstraps).
Sinclair gets all bent out of shapeabout Musto's !lsting of gay "und~ground" clubs (because, she says, kids
can pick up the Voice) and about thesexual imagery (as well as about otherphotos that have appeared in the
VoIce showing "lesbians bare-chested"). "Not satisfied with his normal
tweak at the boundaries of good taste,
Musto and the management of the VIllage Voice have literally flushed themselves down the toilet of journalism.
They are nothing more than a gay rag
masquerading as a 'newspaper. ,. Gee,
Abiola, what if someone called theAmsterdam News "a Black rag mas. querading as a 'newspaper'?" You'drightfully claim that that was extremely
racist. DON'T YOU TIffiN SEE HOW
HOMOPHOBIC AND HATEFULYOUR
STATEMENTlS, ASSHOLE?
Sinclair goes on to tell us that "theVIllage Voice is...promoting homosexuality in one form or another," and thatthe paper "assumes everyone wants
their noses rubbed in homosexuality,
lesbianism and sexual exploitation.·
And she informs parents that theyshould not have their children readthe Votee, but rather, they should read"the rap magazines [which are] nice,decent, interesting publications that I
recommend." Not to give rap a badrap, dear Abiola, but I've looked at
plenty of those magazines, and lots ofthem are all about groups which haveadvocated raping and then slicing up
women,' beating children to a pulp,
instigating gang wars, canying knives,
guns and bombs and pulverizing andpummeling the horrible, despicable,
disgusting queers until they're dead.
Oh, but I suppose the latter would beright up your alley.
No, Abiola, you should tell the
kids to read the VoIce. Because ifsome of the kids happen to be lesbianor gay (and 10 percent of them areand always will be, no matter what
you or they do), they'll thank God
that there's a publication that recognizes them, makes them visible as anintegral part of society and does notdepict them as grotesque freaks whoshould be banished. Perhaps thenthey wdn't be among the statistics, themany victims of suicide (a whopping
30 percent of all teen suicides areamong gay and lesbian teens who feei
shunned by society and want only tobe accepted for what they are). And,

the straight kid. need to read theVOice, too, so that they will be sensitized to gays and won't feel that theymust act on the irrational fear thatmonsters like you have reinforced inthem-theurge to go out and beat •lesbians and gays because they perceive them to be perverse and subhuman. (Gay-bashing in New York City
Is up 162 percent this year.)
The editors of the Amsterdam
News should realize that being sensitive and gay-positivein someareas of the paper and then having
bigots in others doesn't cut it. Suchbiases should be tolerated nowhere.
Abiola' Sinclair is a homophobe .
And, with every hateful, anti-gay
word she spews, she discredits.
the paper as well as condones violence against lesbians and gay men.
But perhaps the editors need tohear that message-OVER
AND
OVER AND OVER AGAIN spittingout of their , fax machine until it getslodged in their brains. Pax themthis column at (212) 222-3842. And
then ... PAX IT AGAIN.~

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FREE ESTIMATE
212-397-0926
Renovs, ,Alterations, Arch & Ph~n
Fully ins
' (212) 397.0926

ARTHUR LOVEJOY
LICENSED ELECTRICAL, CONTRACTOR
Repairs and New Installations.
Commercial ,and Residential.
CourtllouS, Professional Service.
Available Eves. aM Weekends.
(718) 782-4735

MICHAEL Tullmo
A professional Disc Jockey for
private parties/clubs,.
Specializing in hi-energy/morning
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Published, experienced professional.
Ten years in field see~ freelance
projects. Call for appointment
212-627-0415.
,,·llICTRICIAIS ,','. 'COMPUTER SERVICES
Wordprocessing, desktop publishing,spreadsheets, etc. Resumes, flyers.
Also, consulting, tutoring andinstallation, MAC or IBM. Call(718)802-0787 days or evenings

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tile. Refs. Call Mike at 212-807-6737

to find fabulous go-go boys to please
the hoards of ,young, trendy, East
Villagil Boys that Sod-o-mite every
Wednesday ••••and I'm sure the best'
still are out there to be found. I need
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receive are beyond your wildest
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14 years exp./ Sliding scale fee, that's
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3 Min. to Lex. LI.C. QNS.
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you through a program of exercise
designed specifically for you in a
private fully equipped Nautilus gym.
Call Michael Wright(212) 633-9706 (Certified)

NUTRmONAl MEDICINESTEVE BELT, M.D.
Fm. Med.
W. Orange, NJ(201) 731-1535•

YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR
with Scerri Quality Wood Floors+.

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GIIIPIGAY SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTlm
SDA Kinship, a support group of selfaffirming Lesbians, Gays andbisexuals with an Adventist background, provides fellowship, understanding and love.
P.O. Box 3840
Los Angeles, CA !i1X178-3840(213)876-2076.
(213) 662-8656(509) 525-0202 TOO,

MORMONS
Support group for Lesbian/Gay LOSAFFIRMATIONPO Box 46022
Los Angeles, CA 90046(213)255-7251

BROOKLYN HEIGItTS AND VICINITYLESBIANS?
We know there are more of us. let's
gather for socializing &. whatever •.
Send a note with ideas, needs,
convenient times to meet, and acontact number ...Let's get this
togetherl Write c/o Outweek Box 2815

Streetfor theNlN'IH STREIIT CI!Nl1!R, INC,
319 East Ninth Street
NYC 10003s•,

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GIIUP MAIIAGE, MEN'S MASSAGE, GROUP
Get together with a group of men to•
gIve
and receive massages. Taught by
Terry Weisser, wcensed Masseur
and teacher at
the Swedish Institute. Sundays, 710pm, $20.00, call (212) 463-9152.

HllPWAITEDNEWS HOUND?
IU'.EEI has several freeI,ance positions for talented
NYC-based writers with. anose for news. Journalism
experience and queer politicalsavvy a plus. Interested
reporters should send a
resume and clips to:
ANDREW MILLER
OUTWEEK NEWS
159 WEST 25th STREETNYC, NY 10001
EOE.Women and people of color
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finish your woodwork to your taste.
Custom baseboards, moldings,. saddles, chair rails, doors, built-ins,
etc. No middleman ...THE RIGHTCHOICE. designer quality/affordllble rates.
Showroom ...by appt (212) 472-0671

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COMPUMENTARY CONSULTATIONPROFESSIONALLY OPERATEDPRIVATE GR. VILL OFFICE(226 West 4th St., NY NY 10014 lower
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By Appointment Only.
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just relocated to NYC. If you need tobetter understand any asp"ct or yourlife, and want to turn your goals into
realities. Experience this unique levelof insight and support. CALL DAVID(212) 535-0256

TRANSFORMATIONCONSCIOUSNESS
Exploring dance technique on the
body thru inner and outer energy
flow using fabrics/textures, healing
tools and relaxing music. Event tailordesigned for individuel preferences.
Consultation prior to appointment.
(NO SEX/)Joy Abounds
San Francisco, CA(415) 863-5824
In NYC/CT thru 8/31

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CHANGE WITH HYPNOSIS
Wide range of problems helped by
exp'd multi-skilled certif. caring
therapist. Low-mod fee. R. Hamilton,
MA 212-794-9619

IIId PIIn•(201) 434-5309
Beeper (212) 461-2349.

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COMPLETE MOVERSEXPERT LEGIT MASSAGE
Exp'd w/professional Dancers& serious Athletes
BRIAN (212) 868-2797
Lic. #003720

mONG,. No,job too small
Prompt and Professional
Storage Available
Last Minute Jobs--:;r;::::'''::1'1-.::,.!NC. . . .
COMPLETE
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Will give a relaxing, legitimate
Swedish style oil massage. Clean,safe and pleasant surroundings. Callnoon to midnight, 7 days. Daniel' 212673-7633.

LOW COsT SERVICEIIDICll

SALES & RENTAL,
OF MOVING EQUIPMENT·,PIANOS. ANTIQUESPROMPT. RELIABLE','NIGHT &WEEKEND CREWS AVAILABLE

JOHN MONTANA. MD

7 DAYS A WEEKEXPERT .PACKING &'CRATING. FREE ESTIMATES·

int medicine
ROMAN OSTOWSKI, MD
pulminary medicine
30 Fifth Avenue NY, NY
505-7730
VISA/MC accepted•

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IASSAGE,lICIISIDTANTRIC EROTIC MASSAGE
Experienced massage, breath, andBody Electric techniques thatheal and awaken yuor spirit
Upper East Side location. $65/HR
Call Chuck. (212)861-4862

REAL MASSAGE
When you need the real thing.
Expert legit massage. by experienced
dedicated practitioner.
Reas. rates. PWAs welcome.
John (212) 475-0452
License 4162-1

Hottest new matt red lipstic;k. Last forhours. Channel/YSL $18.00 your intro
price $4.50 plus $1.00 shipping andhandling. Send to V.S. P.O. Box 21068,
NY NY 10129

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EXPERT PACKING
7 DAYStWEEK - NO OVERTIMETRAINED. PROFESSIONAL•
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BIG JOBSSNiAUJOBSAUJOBS
LOW LOW RATES
Call now ....212-580-1288
or Call now.718-575-9410

HOUSEHOLD & COMMERCIAL. FREE: ESTIMATES
FREE: BOX DELIVERY,

Mail order catalogue of fine art
celebrating the male form ~ photos,
oil, sculpture, pen & ink, acrylic$9.95 per copy. Ganymede Gallery
Pru Box 66-W, Boston, MA 02199.
Must be 21. Tel. 617-437-9598.

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Headshcits/Bodyshots/Portfolio. .... . 212~567-5402
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CHP'':' COMMUNITY HEALTHNORTHERN CALIFORNIA
Profa$sionaran~ Reliab!e. .
PROJECT$AN FRANCISCO BAY AREA
Serving the Gay Community 15
208 W. 13 Street"New York, NY 10011,*Palo Alto to San Jose*
years. Sensitive, fun people who get,
fo r info call (212) 675-3559.
Live and work in thethe job done right with no bullshit.
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UcensedDOT 1016:6.Insured.
ANAL
WARTS,RSSURES,HEMOR45 minutes to S.F.
Reaspnable storage retes ..
RHOIDSFor Personal Real Estate Service. .- 'Pianos-Art.Antiques
treated inminuteswith lasers. call for.
Call and asldor:
Packing;cMoving Supplies. 426 E91
8' free consultatiQn. Laser Medical
RIC PARKER_, "Call 289-1511.
Asso c., Jeffrey Lavigne M.D., call 1Re/Max Silicon Valley, ..' Mention OUTWEEK for Special
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a healing journal of EMERGENCE
22nd St/6th Ava:
KIETH AI,LEN
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RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE
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Specializing in luxury waterfront
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BROOKLYNPARK SLOPE
Jay Graham and Dale Campell ..
BRAND NEW CO-OPS. ':'COT RATE .. INSURED".
Intercoastal Realty(305) 467-1448
OPEN HOUSE SAT & SUN
Paintirig, ..Plasteri"g, Sheetro~~ing,,
Beautiful, private, affordable. $peckling, 'CarpentrY. Proff work
PALM SPRINGS/CAT cnv PALM
lUXUryco-ops in the heart of one
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FIREPlACES, BACKYARDS,
Painting,$heetrock/
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BALCONIES,.
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DON OR ROGER
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LAGUNA BEACHIDANA POINT.' .bly
I can help you visit relocate, etc.
low monthly maintenal1ce from only
Experienced and knowledgeable.
$1641
DOUG MIDDLEBROOK, Broker(714) 493-0467
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Very special corner loft on best teensblock. Open city views, plus an 'incredible !IOOSFpr.ivate decked rQof.
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Far corner 800SF 1BR on hi Fl in fullservice bid. Totally mint-just rel)Ov.
New big wind9wed kit, reamed
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8. Pear-shap~', fruit
11. Division~word .
12. Eager,.
14. Northern European capital
16. Land unit'
17. C*'s craft
19. Controversial pesticide
20. VISit
21. Featured perfonner in one version of 45-across
23. ,"Asaintto be for two."•
25. Rains cats and dogs
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42. Moving
44. "Instant," Lennon song
45. Film thrice-made48. Playwright Orton
51. Catafalque
52. Beach locale
53. Appendages
54. Mine entrance
55. "Theof Living
Dangerously"
56. Gymnast Conner
57. Printer's measures
58. TIC dispensers
59. Snicker __DOWN
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3. Featured performer in one version of 45-across
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