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The Court andthe Damage Done
The us Supreme Court, in Rust v. Sullivan, upheld a Reagan
Administration regulation baning federally funded birth control clinics from discussing the option of abortion with their clients. It's a ruling which spells disaster ,for many of America's poorest women. But
in addition to its dire impact on pregnant women's right to the fullest
medical information about their legal options, it also strikes at theheart of free speech and sexual freedom in America, rights vital forgay men as well as lesbians. As such, it should be bitterly resisted byeveryone in our community, male and female, as though ourlives at least our sexuallives----depended on it. In a way, they do.
The government argued in Rust that it has the right to cut off
federal funds to clinics in which the option of abortion is even discussed. Such a rule can fairly be termed "government-eflforced malpractice," and, for that alone, it's an obscenity. Women, after all, havea right to an abortion, at least so. far, and such speech can therefore
hardly be considered a conspiricy to violate the law.
Lesbians and gays should thus take note of Rust's fullest implications. In his dissent, Justice Blackrnun wrote that if the government can deny federal funds to any workplace based on the speechwhich occurs in that workplace-not
the illegal actions, but the
speech of those who work there then free speech is now, in
effect, abolished on the job.
While Blackrnun is correct, he neglects to point out that this has
always been the case for queers. If you simply say that you're gay or
lesbian, you are already subject to dismissal from many government
jobs, including the military, the diplomatic service and many school
districts, as well as companies which do contracting work for the .
government. Not, mind you, for doing anything; simply for exercising free speech by saying you're gay. Such dismissals are frequently
challenged, and just as frequently upheld. But what the court now
apparently says is that if, say, a contractor is not bigoted and chooses
to keep a queer on the job, the government is constitutionallyallowed to cut off funds to that contractor.
This is not yet the case, because no one has yet passed such afederal regulation banning funds to establishments which employ.open lesbians and gay men. But don't think that they won't try.
Wherever there's a chink in the constitutional protection of queers,
the Helms and Dannemeyers are never far behind.
Such impending dangers should remind us of the close connection between all sexual freedoms, particularly women's rights to do
as they please with their bodies vis-a-vis abortion and lesbian andgay men's rights to do as they please with their bodies vis-a-vis sex.
Such a connection is at the heart of the alliance between the modern
liberation movements of gays and women. The fact that the federal
administration and the US Supreme Court are now willing to support
rules which, in principle, subvert free speech on any and every subject in order to ban free speech on sexual matters should only
strengthen that alliance. T
4 ou, "VEEK .Jun_ 12, 1991

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EQUALIZINGCONSIDERATIONS

Gabriel Rotello deserves
thanks for his important "outing/equalizing" guidelines [no.
100, May 29] and for wanting"those who oppose the practice to be perfectly clear about
what it is they're opposing."
But Rotello falls into namecalling when he tries to define
what his opponents in the lesbian and gay movement standfor. They advocate covering
up the truth about gay celebrities, he claims, so they're infavor of journalistic lying anddeception.
Nonsense! No journalists
ever tell all the truth they know.
All jou rnalists keep a large
number of facts confidential fora lot of practical and ethicalreasons. Rotello's guidelines
are about precisely that: what
notto say, and why. Pro-equalizers and anti-outers don't disagree about truth vs. lies; they
disagree about whether to disclose the sexual orientation ofa fairly specific category ofpeople: only those celebrities(the ones not likely to be damaged in their careers or with
their families, etc.) who are
outside of Rotello's guidelines.
Rotello states that, without
such candor, "an end to homophobia...will never become possible." I don't agree. It's a tactical and ethical mistake to disclose the orientationofanybody, including celebrities,
who doesn't make a choice todisclose it. It's the wrong way
to combat homophobia.
Peter Wilson
Manhattan
If essays can be judged bytheir ability to sway opinion,

then Gabriel Rotello's piece on
outing and equalizing shouldtake it's place among the more
important essays on recent gay
history. Having been totally,
absolutely opposed to the ideaof outing since I first heard theword, I now find myself in theposition of having to say I waswrong or, at least, misinformedthat really they don't. It seems
that Mr. Signorile, without ever
explicitly saying so, has been
following the guidelines in Mr.
Rotello's article all along.
The difference between thetwo is more tone than anythingelse. Signori Ie says, "AGREE
WITH ME OR YOU'REA SELFHATING PIECE OF SHIT!"

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KOIo/ALSJ(1about the practice.
After first reading thepiece, I felt that the problem
was that Mr. Rotello was propounding a new, humane
approach with which I could
agree, while still disagreeing
with the rabid-dog approach of
Mr. Signorile. But when I
looked over back issues of OutWeekto see where the two editors diverged, I have to admit

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poused, whereas Rotello's
approach has turned me into a
convert overnight.
The surprising thing is that,
obviously, the two editors agree
on the basics. OutWeek must be
an interesting placeto work.
Marty Kuhn
Manhattan
Thinking about the guidelines for outing in Gabriel
Rotello's excellent essay, I realized there is one more which
he forgot to mention but which
OutWeek has actually followed.
That is: Only engage in "equalizing" when the topic is newsworthy; in other words, when
there is a reason for writingthat a public figure is gay.
You have actually done
this in the homophobic past.
David Geffen was promoting
Guns 'n' Roses, for example,
or Jodie Foster was starring ina homophobic film, or Sandra
Bernhard was pretending tosleep with Madonna and thenpublicly denying it, etc. But
there's always a newsworthy
reason-you never just print"so-and-so is gay" for the heckof it, the way the National
Enquirer does.
What they do is outing.
What you do, you might callequalizing-I just call it goodjournalism.
Marcia Ranney
Brooklyn

Rotello mayor may not havethe same feelings, but heattempts to persuade and uses
LlZA WITH A ZZZZZ?
logic and compassion for those
After reading your cover
who don't yet agree, hoping
story, "Liza With a Q" ("Lizathat eventually they will.
Both approaches may With a 77771...1") [no. 98, May
have their place, but this reader 15], one can only wonder why
can report that until now, Sig- OutWeek agreed to an interview
norile's approach had totallywith such topic restrictions. If
turned me off, not just to him we wanted hype about her
but to the principles he es- Radio City Show, we could've•

A HORSE OF A DIF·
openedany celebrity hetero-rag.
It's absolutely appalling that FERENT GENERATIONTo all those queens on thesomeone we've enjoyed in thepast is not willing to discuss rag who wrote to complain
anything that may "anger and about Liza Minnelli-get over it!
alienate her fans." Is it too dirty What do you expect her toher ex-h usband,for someone with such an do-out
andamazing queerfamily line to talk brother, grandfather
about outing or anything "con- favorite composers? I don't
troversial?" Imagine what a think that's her place. It's amore truthful and interesting statement in itself that she evenagreed to talk to OutWeekpieceit could have been.
For starters, Miss Thing's how many other stars of her
first husband, Peter Allen, is stature have said yes-Missgay. Word has it that so is her Midler included?
Liza is still young-but
second, Jack HaleyJr. (yes, theshe's of another generation ofTin Man's son). Her grandfather, Frank Gumm (Judy's classy ladies. Expecting frankfather), was gay, and several sexual talk from her is likebooks have told stories about expecting it from Ginger
town gossip forcing the family Rogers. She has done manyfilm
to constantly move. Liza's pro-gay things-her
brother, Joey Luft, is gay, as Junie Moon had a major gay
was Judy's third husband,character-and in her show at
Mark Herron, one of Liza's Radio City she sang every
stepfathers. In Micky Rooney's night to 6,000 people about a
new book, he talks about the drag queen with great pride in"What Makes a Man a Man."
diva herself, Judy Garland,
being a lesbian. Finally, there's Go pick on Kathie Lee Gifford,
talk that Liza is in fact a sister, who helped Anita Bryant!
and when she's not glam
George Dupler
onstage or in front of a camManhattanera, she's quite butch in private with k.d. lang, one of her
PARALLEL WRECK"best friends." But wewouldn't
How niceto seefinally a bit
want to talk about thoseof a self-critique from ACT
things, would we?
UP/New York's Treatment andBy the way, Liza'sassertion Data Center honcho Mark Harthat she had never heard of any rington [no. 97, May 8].
of the folklore regarding her
Mark admits ACT UP/NY
mother's death [and] its con- made a mistake in joining
nection to Stonewall is an insult forces with super politician Dr.
to every queer that appreciates Anthony Fauci's endorsement
the genius that was Judy Gar~ of parallel track.
land. Having hung around with
Parallel track was a bad
Halston and Andy Warhol all idea born in desperate times.
those years, she should know
Parallel track gave Fauci
better. Liza, get over your inter- an out to look united with thenalized homophobia, and learn activisfs goals while really not
to appreciate the queerness accepting our demands.
around you and your family.
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Bottom line, parallel track
Dan Hunter enables the pharmaceutical
Manhattan
companies to experiment in
human subjects highly quesBarbra, Liza, Diana, tionable and possibly toxic
Bette-4 names, 10 years,
drugs without the usual moral
100,000 dead, not one big ben- obligation and responsibility to
inform and follow up fully theefit concert. Thanks, ladies.
Ron Parisi
recipients of their drugs.
Manhattan
Even more outrageous is

the freedom from financial
and medical responsibility forthe long-term side effects
these experiments on desper-'ate human subjects may
cause. The pharmaceuticalcompanies were given this"freedom" by the likes of Harrington, Martin Delaney and
Larry Kramer in their irresponsible, desperate attempt
to find a "cure" that works
against AIDS.
This gang of three previously had joined forces withthe first family of AZT, Margaret Fischel, MD, Paul Volvebing, MD, and Sam Browder,MD, to convince, first, thousands of asymptomatic HIVpositive (whatever that maymean) gay men to ingest an
extremely profitable, highly
toxic, known carcinogen into
their relatively healthy bodies
without any warning of thewell-documented likelihood oflymphoma. Now this gang of
six has led the way for thegovernment to pay for theingestion of the same toxic
drug by thousands of poorand minority people served bypublic health clinics andincarcerated in mental andpenal institutions throughout'the country.
Harrington, Daleney andgang are now pushing just as
hard to have more toxic nucleoside analogs (ddl, ddC and azdu,etc.) released. Each of thesedrugs are slight variation$ Oli
the same basicPZr formula.
PZr doesn't work. In fact,
as stimulant for long-term survival, it is deadly.
Why does this gang pushfor more of the same kinds of
toxic drugs? Did they learn
nothing from PZr? Do the ddl
deaths from pancreatitis, pneumonia and those suffering per- .
manent neuropathy mean
nothing? Is not quality of life
as important a principle as
being kept alive?
Yes, I do admit these aredesperatetimes.
But letting the FDA andthe government agencies off
the hook by placing all hopein the interests of pharmaceutical companies with theirown profit motives is, in myopinion, a wrong strategy. A
strategy that will mean thatthe very people these activist
strategies are designed tohelp will become willing subjects in a strategy to promote
pharmaceutical companies'
profits with quality of life
secondary.
How sad.
Activists have become
willing cons pi rators in the
search for profit by the pharmaceutical companies.
Yes, we must fight to·
make the government responsi ble to the needs of its citizens. Make the FDA responsive
to moving with due speed to
discover, test, promote andrelease those substances thatwill both prolong and improve
the quality of living.
What we do not need is
activists continuing to be thestorm troopers for the pharmaceutical companies.
I trust Harrington will, as
he has clearly demonstrated
his commitment to finding asolution. I, and others whoshare my view, look forward toworking with Harrington, etc.,
to prolong our lives and protect
our immune systems and to
make quality health care an
option for all.
Jim Fouratt
Manhattan

Mark Harrington responds: How
sad to see Jim Fouratt exercising
his usual propensity for unreflective, counterproductive, malicious misrepresentation.
I did not say that parallel
track was an error. I said that it
was a noble experiment which
could have been improved
upon (and hopefully will, if we
get another chance).
My proposal was to improve parallel track by getting
answers ("Does it work?") in
addition to access to unap-

proved therapies.
Bristol-Myers
has distributed ddl to over 20,000
people on parallel track in 18
months. By contrast, the ACTG
has enrolled but 14,000 people
in its clinical trials over 5years.
. By adding randomization(to different doses) to parallel
track, wt1 might have shown by
now whether the drug works,
enabling its early approval. (ACTUP proposed this "middle track"approach in 1990, and it is now
being used by Abbott with clarithromycin, among others).
Fouratt's misrepresentation of my (and ACT UP's) position on nucleoside analogues(AZT. ddC, ddl) is as faulty as
his spelling of the names ofDrs. "Rschel," "Volvebing, " and"Browder. "To my knowledge, ACT
UP has never advocated stuffing these drugs down the

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HIV HAVE THE FREEDOM TO
MAKE THEIR OWN INFORMED,
TREATMENTDECISIONS.
It is evident that Mr.
Fouratt has never been in theagonizing position of having to
make such decisions (vis-a-vis
acquired immune suppression)
himself. Let him stand aside sothat those with HIV can learn

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decisions-whether
to taketreatments approved or unapproved, or not-on the basis of
the best available information.
PS. Would that all PWAs
had the luxury of worrying
about long-term toxicity, whenshort-term efficacy is virtually
all that we have right now.
PPS. If "nucleoside analogues· are incompatible withlife," as Fouratt and confreresconstantly chorus, why have no
deaths been reported fromsuch nucleosides as acyclovir(Zovirax)?
TOTAL OVERHAUL

There is always someone
complaining about homosexuals using the word "gay." Itseems we have taken a perfectly good word and ruined it. I
never hear those same people
make that argument over theword "queer."

The word homosexual did a book review in the form of an
not exist before the middle of the interview, or maybe vice versa,
19th century. In 1869, a Hungar- with Jewelle Gomez which
ian doctor named Benkert intro- appeared in no. 99 [May 22] ofduced a new word: "homo" from your magazine. Ms. Gomez
the Greek word for "same"; and makes a number of interesting"sexual," thus describing some- comments but one struck me
one who was sexually interest- with almost physical force. She
ed in the same sex.
states emphatically that gay men
I have my own definition
would not respond to a healthfor the word "gay" as an alterna- crisis mainly affecting womentive for the word "homosexual." the way some women, both hetIt explains why the two words do erosexual and lesbian, havenot mean the same thing. I origi- responded to the AIDS crisis.
nated this in 1973 while managFirst of all, Ms. Gomez,
ing the San Antonio Country.
your statement is purely hypoBeing a homosexual only thetical, because a health criaddresses the genitalia. Being sis, comparable to AIDS, prigay is a complete mental,
marily affecting women has
physical, political, social, psy- yet to occur. Until this happens
chological, religious and spiri- you (and everyone else) cantual overhaul.
only surmise how gay men
Gene Wesley Elder would respond. Interestingly,
San Antonio, Texas . you didn't take your hypothesis to it's logical conclusion.
Since you think gay men
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AIDS workers who are womenshould abandon the AIDS
cause and leave the faggots todie. From your particular Black
lesbian feminist position, they
deserve to die anyway, first ofall, because they're men and,also of course, because they'resexist-which
naturally follows. You should have said it,
Jewel. Where are your guts? .
Speaking personally, andperhaps pOlitically incorrectly,
you cannot teach this Black gay
man anything useful except thatvengefulness and hatred is alive
and well. There are Black lesbians we can listen to and learn
from, but you, Ms. Gomez,
clearly are not one of them.
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showcase for the distinctive
qualities of some of the more
visible lesbian subcultures.
Apparently, however, it wasa lot easier for Carrie Wofford"National Lesbian Confab" [no.
98, May 15] (or was it her OutWeek editors?) to stand backand scoff at the collective product of nearly a thousand lesbians than to provide thoughtful
and constructive reporting.
Apparently, there wasinternal sabotage; confusion
and rumors were rampant.
Institutionally and personally
oppressive actions were rampant. Some of this resulted informs of hurtful mob mentality. BIG SURPRISEI We reflect
the fucked-up society we live
jn. Lesbians aren't as special
as our own propaganda
states. A sense of power andsecurity within a group canhappen only when there isaccess to clear and updated
information, and the ability tohave input into making
changes if needed. Not having this creates distrust, fear
and anger.
Rather than passing alongsuperficial assumptions about
thjs event, an attempt to identify' why the NLC was never able
to develop a fully functioning
steering committee would havebeen helpful reporting.
Ms. Wofford's choice ofcontent for her article, however, is very much like the "hardand mean" conference she
descri bed. It feeds the nastiness and trashing she appears
to condemn. Incisive and perceptive criticism is always
needed. But I am so disheartened by the willingness of lesbians to belittle and distancethemselves from the work ofother lesbians.
By choosing to imply that
the NLC steering committee andstaff were inclined toward a
combination of naive incompetence and "p.c." fanaticism, Ms.
Wofford does a disservice tothem and also to addressing thedeeper struggles around "leadership," access and power thatare being dealt with in many
lesbian communities all aroundthe country. It is such lack ofrespect toward issues facing
lesbians and lesbian organizers
which I would think OutWeek
would like to avoid.
I feel especially concerned about the currently"in" critique and label of"thought police" and ''the Newr,----------------

McCarthyism" applied toward
the desire to identify andchange historical forms of
oppression. Except for the
moments when we are personally experiencing
thesilencing or suppression of
our own lives, it is definitely
easier to ignore domination
systems. The apparent irritation caused by the sometimes
naive, questionably motivatedor misguided attempts to..

name examples of oppression
while they are happening may
result in self-censorship or·
public humiliation. But equating the power of the ':antioppression" movement withthe power of institutional
oppressions is distortion and
REALLY MISSING THE POINT.
No one should ever be treatedlike shit, of course. But, how
can the "pain" of "being called
racist" or "worrying" that I'm

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OUTWEEK9•. going to say or do the"wrong" thing be comparedin any way to the centuries
of dehumanization,mind
rape, cultural rape, physicalrape, economic rape, abuse,abuse, abuse, perpetuatedby all domination systems?
It may also be difficult
to equate the economic andstructural massiveness ofinstitutions such as racismor class with the more particular discrimination, objectification or lack of accessfor people who are fat orexperience the debilitating
effects of "environmental illness." But isn't the significance of each individual's
experience of exclusion anddehumanization the same?
When do we get it thateveryone counts? But like allother liberation struggles,
marginalization and ridicule
always must come before

damentally change the balance of power, or offer something positive to those newly"included." The work of fighting the institutional and personal shit is still often left tothose who experience it,
amidst all the "acceptance ofdifference."
Rather than"inclusion," isn't it time tostress the historical understanding and interconnectionof systemic oppressions, andeach of us practicing tochange power imbalances,lack of access, invisibility as
well as false assumptions?
As Ms. Wofford's article
mentioned toward the end,
most women saw the plenary
sessions for what they were:some wise speeches, but
mostly craziness as womenattempted to justifiably seek
accountability from a very
unhealthy group system. The
hurt and anger of years of

being taken seriously.
This is clearly a workingit-out phase that we are in.
There are many problems,
mistakes, hurt feelings. We
also have very stupid andinadequate language like
"isms," "politically correct"
and "oppressions." Instead of
ridiculing attempts to remove
the cages that constrict ourlives, why not talk about theeffective things people aredoing, in-cluding at this conference?
I am also concerned
about the national infatuation
with "multiculturalism" as a
strategy. Accurate representation and access to resources
is always primary. But, more
and more people are beginning to realize what manyother people have always
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but beyond that what do wehave to say to each other?"meant to signify? .....GIVE IT
UP GIRLS!" ???
I feel this article represented a party line of it's own.
That of some women who are
too experienced, too smart,
too used to being in charge tosully their hands ( and reputations) with such a messy,
naive, grass-roots effort. It's
too bad. Their talents could
have been well used.
The NLC was a massive
experiment. Rather than only
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and failures, why not use
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Carrie Wofford responds: I ·ties. Mr. Grabarz's speech on Iy. A new play called Round II:
appreciate your taking time to the gay rights bill was cited Gay Life in New York in thewrite. I'm sorry you felt I was by heterosexuals in the Legis- 1970s, by the celebrated Amerscoffing at the conference. I latu re "as a significant factor ican critic and playwright, Eric
Bentley,was almost completely
didn't mean to scoff. I felt that in the passage of the bill."
ignored by the media with therespect for what the organiz- Well done!
And Ms. Brett, chair of the result that few people saw thisers were trying to accomplish.
Commission
on Human Rights important play. Why is it that
However, while I have my own
thoughts and analysis of what and Opportunities, is equally the television media, The New
York Ttmes (where Bentley has
took place and where we are deserving of recognition for
publishedfrequently) and otherself-outing
in
order
to
strategiheaded, I was attempting tonewspapers and magazinescally approach the gay civil
provide a report for womenrights campaign. She took the even the Vii/age Voice which
who were not able to attend
initiative
to help "break stereo- published only a tiny squib
the conference.
A lot of lesbians at the types and to stop being a hid- about it-ignored Bentley's latde'n minority." Ms. Brett, too est play?
conference were upset andPeople who know theater
frustrated, so I quoted some of has added to the alreadycanspeculate:1) The play wasstrongfoundation
that
is
the
them. I also quoted organizers
produced at the the Wings
and others who felt the prob- gay movement.
With every new out queer Theatre, a small non-Equity
lems were important.
No, the quote from Farar our numbers increase, as does theater where the actors were
Elliot was not meant to say our voice and power. And it is not paid, and therefore the kindthat lesbians should give up, only with progressive, giant of theater that the media does
steps from individuals such as not usually cover; 2) Bentley isbut to express the amazing
diversity of lesbians and the Joe Grabarz Jr. and Leslie widely known as the foremost
Brett, that queers everywhere -drama critic of our times,
difficultyin bringing thatwhich makes many drama critwill be able to take steps
diversity of opinion together-which is what she said in toward enjoying the rights that ics unwilling to confront his
all humans deserve. Thank you plays. Yet neither of these reaa longer conversation.
sons suffices if the media areforyour courage!
Aside from my intentions,
Joel Reyna, Jr. supposed to have the freedom
I appreciate the feedback. I
Davis, Calif. to cover important events.
agree that after five days I did
Last Tuesday night, May
have to "choose content" to fit
14, with my wife, I attended
TAKING A FRESH
a few thousand words, so yourone of the final performances
LOOK (AWAY)
response lets me know that at
On the front page of the in the five-week run of Roundleast one person felt some"Arts and Leisure" section of /I at the Wings Theatre. The
thing was missing. Thanks.
The New York Ttmes, on Sun- direction by Greg Mehrten,theday, May 19, 1991, John J. well-known actor and director
GOGRABARZ
from Mabou Mines, was perI would like to commend O'Connor began an article
ceptively defined. The music ofcalled"Gay
Images:
TV's
Mixed
Democratic Rep. Joe G~abarz
Jr. and Leslie Brett forr their Signal," by stating: "The- mes- the 1970s that Hehrten selectempowering decision to pub- sage to the medium is blunt: 'It ed was enjoyable and pertilicly take a stand fo r~gay is time for the television indus- nent. As for the script, Bentley
has written a moving variationrights by self-identifying as try to realize that 25 million
homosexuals (May 8, no. 97). lesbians and gay men in Amer- on Schnitzler's famous play,
ica, along with our families and Reigen, or La Rhond-as in
Mr. Grabarz's press conference on the steps of the Leg- friends, make up a significant the film-which features a hetislature demanded that the share of the viewing audience.- erosexual round dance of varithe
public face the reality that We are tired of seeing gays ous couples representing•
queers are everywhere; that represented only as buffoons .range of Viennese society.
Although he includes some of
we are strong, confident indi- or villains.'" [The statement
Schnitzler's comic jokes and
was
from
an
advertisement
viduals who contribute topatterns of behavior. Bentleysociety. His colleagues' com- published by the GLAAD].
If television and society has created his own witty diaments prove that secure, out
gay men and lesbians do are being challenged about fair logue that illuminates a wide
indeed serve as role models treatment in the media and range of New York charactersand as living examples of gay equal rights for homosexuals, in the free, exploratory sexualalas, a starting case occurred climate of the 1970s before
life to both the heterosexualin the New York theater recent- AIDS. Bentley's purpose, as
and homosexual communi-

was Schnitzler's, is to portray'
various types-hustler, soldier,art student, lawyer, businessman, teenager, writer, actor·
and a civic VIP-who represent important social directionsof the periOd. Finally, the play
culminates in the most moving
scene of all between a gay
transvestite actor and a city
VI P who is still in the closet
and searching out his true sexual identity. For a moment,these two men fall in love andBentley makes the difference
between love and transient sex
powerfully apparent.
Bentley and Mehrten
auditioned many actors for theplay and the resultant performances were all competent,with three outstanding performances from Ron Brooker as
the hustler, Richard Aldis as
the writer, and Harold Gross
as the transvestite actor. It is a
decided shame when an
important play by a writer who
has contributed so much to
the American theater, a playwhich defines a significant
period of change and adjustment in our history, is ignoredin this discriminatory way. Is
Bentley too controversial in
the sympathetic, frank way
that he portrays gay sex?
Whatever the inadequate reasons that condemned thisproduction from the consideration that it deserves, it is time
for the media to take a newlook at the significant cultural
events they are supposed tobe reporting.
James Schevill
Providence, R.I.
All letters to the· editor must include a
name, address anddaytime phone, although names may
be withheld at theauthor's request. OutWeek reserves
theright to edit lettersfor clarity and considerations.

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supervision of the same physician. The
two men are the second and third
known fatalities associated with extracorporeal hyperthermia.
The American doctor who wassupervising the man's treatment has
refused to acknowledge that he performed the operation.
"I am not trying to hide anything, 1
am just not at the point of wanting to
make any scientific presentation," stated

NEW YORK-A 38-year-old Manhattan man with AIDS who underwent a
controversial and extremely expensive
blood-heating treatment in Guatemala
City died there in late March.
The news of the death was accompanied by information that another
PWA, also from New York, died fourweeks later in Guatemala City shortly
after undergoing surgery under the

Dr. William Logan Jr., the surgeon who
presided over the experimental treat-ments in Guatemala City. Responding toinquiries about these two particularcases, Logan hedged, "Out of the 10
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in association with Logan, reported that afederation of physicians organized by agroup in Dallas, TexaS, have been performing what he termed a "high-flowrate" version of the surgery in various
places throughout Central America. Last
summer, Alonso himself was involved
with a hyperthermia-related
fatality
which occurred in Mexico City.
Despite the chilling news of two
deaths associated with the procedure,interest among PWAs about the treatment's potential benefits remains piq,ued.
Hyperthermia first came into the national
spotlight one year ago, when the firstman who underwent the surgery claimed
that after extracorporeal hyperthermia heproduced negative HIV cultures and his
Kaposi's sarcoma lesions dramatically
faded. 1hat patient was under the care ofboth Logan and Alonso, and his story
became public shortly before the twophysicians parted professional company.
Extracorporeal
hyperthermia
involves cycling the blood outside thebody, heating it, returning it to the bodyto induce a high fever and then maintaining the overall heightened body temperature for one to two hours, depending upon the particulars of the protocol
used. Some of the more serious risks
associated with hyperthermia include
brain damage, heart attack and vasodilitation. While the procedure itself is quite
dangerous, there is no evidence of any
kind of wrong-doing associated with thetwo deaths in Guatemala.
Other PWAs who have since sought
hyperthermia as a way to delay the progression of AIDS say that the procedure
may have some short-term therapeutic
effects. And while use of hyperthennia in
PWAs is a novel application of the treatment, researchers have studied hyper- I
thermia as a potential treatment for various malignancies quite extensively overthe last 20 years.
Jeff Shinn, an Atlanta man who has
AIDS, said that three weeks after heunderwent hyperthermia treatment in
Italy this past March, some of his
Kaposi's sarcoma lesions were significantly reduced in size, while others continued to grow and still others reflected
no change at all.
"I think it did me a lot of good, but
I don't think it was enough," he told
OutWeek, noting that his cancer reacts

similarly to chemotherapy.
As no American hospitals are currently willing to test the hypothesis thatsome heat-sensitive opportunistic infections will respond favorably to a sustained, artificially induced fever, PWAs
right now must travel outside the country if they wish to try out the experimen- .
tal procedure.

Same Doctor, Same Fwleral Home
The PWA who died in Guatemala
on March 28, whose identity OutWeek
agreed to withhold, died only hours after
undergoing the treatment, according to
one of his closest friends.
Laura Ward, another close friend
and the executor of the man's estate,stated that his death certificate lists cerebral infarct, hipoxia, cerebral edema andmalnutrition as the causes of death andthat the official document was signed bya Dr. Luis Aldana. Ward also noted that,like the patient who died last summer in
Mexico City, the New York PWA was inextremely poor physical condition at thetime he underwent the procedure. Unlike
the Mexico City case and all other individuals who have reportedly sought
hyperthermia, however, the New YorkPWA did not have Kaposi's sarcoma.
Out Week was unable to reach thepatient's primary-care physician to confirm Warc;l's lay assessmentof thepatient's health status and to verify that
he did not have KS.
Michael Wolff, a close friend of the
New York PWA, said, "My understandingis that the treatment cost $35,000."
The second individual, Tony Santasiera, who also went to Guatemala City
to undergo hyperthermia, according toseveral sources, also reportedly died afew hours after the surgery.
A contact at the US Embassy in

Guatemala City said that, although she.
could not definitively state that SantaSiera
underwent hyperthermia, evidence suggested that: "The same doctor, the same
hospital, the same funeral home? One
could certainly surmise." The embassy
source stated that she was introduced toLogan in the company of the first
patient's father, who had traveled to
Guatemala City with the New York PWA.
According to Michael Hart, a friendof Santasiera's who lives in New York,the cash-up-front price tag on the procedure was $40,000. Another friend, Maur
Dubin, stated that, after Santasiera initiallymade contact with Logan, an individual
claiming to have undergone the treatment
under Logan's supervision came to visit
Santasiera here in New York. "There wassomebody here in New York reauiting,"
Dubin recalled. "He said that he was
HlV-negative after he had it done."No Clinical Support
While last year's news of hyperthermia's possible efficacy as a treatment for
AIDS excited a great deal of public interest and not a little bit of hope amongpeople with AIDS, initial announcements
did not ultimately prove accurate.
An investigation into the Atlanta
physicians' reports, conducted by the
National
Instituteof Allergy and
Infectious Diseases and based on the
only two individuals who had at thattime undergone the procedure, concluded that "there appears to be no clinical, immunologic or virologic support for
the use of hyperthennia in the treatment
ofHlV disease.". .
The NIAID summary also sharply
criticized Logan and Alonso's science,stating that the team of doctors andresearchers assembled to study hyperS __

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NEW YORK-Pride comes before afall, warns an old adage that has comehorribly true for openly gay Irish
schoolteacher Brendan Fay. His is gay
pride, and you last read about him in
OutWeek in connection with the St.
Patrick's Day parade, in which hemarched proudly as a member of the
Irish lesbian and Gay Organization.
A theology teacher at the MaryLouise Academy in Queens, Brendan

TEACHER FEATURE-Brendan Fay with
Mayor Dinkins at a post-parade fete.
admonished Cardina1 Jo1m o'Connor andhis cronies at the parade for their bigotry
toward Irish lesbians and gay men, saying that discriminatory attitudes were perpetuated by institutiona1ized religion. He
reconc;:i1edhis own Catholic faith with theprevai1ing position of the Catholic hierarchy on homosexuality,
noting that
Catholicism in fact preaches tolerance,
respect and justice for all people.
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But less than two months later, eventhis ardent defender of Catholicism ishaving a hard time believing that there is
any justice for queers within the framework of the Catholic church. Or if there
is, he certainly was not around when
they were doling it out.
Since the parade, Brendan has
become the subject of a witch hunt at
the Catholic high school where heteaches freshman and junior level religious studies. The week after the parade,he was hauled before the principal andtold that his teaching contract would not
be renewed. Because he is an Irish citizen in the United States on a workrelated temporary resident's visa, he mustfind another job before June or facedeportation. It will be a task made difficult by the fact ·that schools, closed forthe summer, will not be interviewing
applicants for teaching jobs.
Concurrent
with his dismissal
notice, all 1,200 pupils at the school
were made to attend classes on homosexuality and the church, a novel feature
for the school curriculum.
The principal, Sister Joan Petito, told
Fay that he was confusing the sexualityof his 14-to-17-year-old
students.
Curiously, this had not previously been aconcern of Sr. Petito's, although she had
been aware of Brendan's sexual orienta~tion for the three years that he had beenwith the school.
"I think the problem started when
I went public at the parade and OQ atalk show. The school does not want
any publicity,· said Fay. It may get
rather more than it bargained for, however, as Fay has fIled a complaint withthe city's Human Rights Commission,
charging the Mary Louise Academy with

unfair dismis5a1.
He was told by Sr. Petito, when she
put him on notice of dismissal, that if heinitiated such a case that he would haveto leave the school. It is a fairly empty

threat, as Fay has to leave in any .case.
He is sti11 teaching there until his contract
runs out.
Staff at the school, pupils and evenparents have been very sympathetic.
"They are outraged. They love me todeath,· he exclaimed. Unfortunately, notenough to stake their own careers on it:
All the staff have been coming to him
secretly to express concern. Alumni of .
the school have also been calling him to
express support. But according to Sr.
Petito, alumni are calling her to express
concem that an openly gay man is teaching at their alma, mater, Fay said.
Ostensibly, Fay is being fired for
failing to meet "time-management" standanis. A letter he received from the principal referred to his failure to meet theschool's requisite standards for teachers.
But this was news to Fay. "I never before
heard anything about these vague standards, nor was it a subject ever discussedwith me before.·
Sr. Petito refused to talk to areporter, referring Out Week to theschool's attorney, who remained unavail'"able for comment.
Fay has not been approached by
the principal on the matter since getting
the sack, except to inquire after hishealth, which he says sharply deteriorated as a result of "so much stress as tomake one physically ill.·-

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though the Human Rights Commission
has taken on his case, chances are that
he will not be around to testify. The
commission is not empowered to ordera stay of execution on his marching
papers, so if he is unable to find a job
and is forced to leave the country, it will
have to fight his case in his absence,
which will not be an easy task, according to Betsy Girths at the commission,
who is handling the case.
"It is not advantageous for us to dothat, or what we would like to do.
Normally, the complainant has to testify.
However, we understand his circumstances and would hope to expedite hiscase as soon as possible," she said.
But, she added, "there are a lot ofcases here that have been waiting a longtime. We are very backlogged, and it
could take up to a year."That'smore bad news for
Brendan Fay, who is counting the days
until his visa expires. Although he isextremely bitter at his treatment anddetermined to pursue the case until hegets justice, he has still managed tokeep his faith intact.
"For me, the inspiration for my radicalness comes out of my religion. As far
as I am concerned, what the Catholic
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EAST VILLAGE SLASHER GETS THREE YEARSNEW YORK-A gay-basher who
attacked three gay men in the East
Village, slashing open the face of one,will serve a minimum of three years inprison, the district attorney's officeannounced last week.
Anthony Baez,19, of 629 East 5thSt., pleaded guilty to a charge of assault
in the first degree on April 25 and wassentenced by Justice Rose Rubin on
May 23 to serve three years to nine
years in state prison.
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A spokesperson for Manhattan
Distrigt Attorney Robert Morgenthau
said that the length of Baez's sentence
was influenced by two unrelated casesin his record. The first was a 1989
criminal w.eapons possession charge,
and the second was a 1991 attempted•..

robbery in the first degree.
"The reason why he got thissentence was because this involved
a violation of the condition of his
probation. Had there not been thatprior conviction, the sentence would
have been one and one-third years tofour [years)." commented Matt
Foreman, director of the New York
City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence
Project, noting again that a statewide
bias crimes bill would have ensured
a longer sentence for Baez even
without the added weight of his priorrecord. "I hate to sound like a broken record on this, but the only reason we got this sentence is because
he's a two-time loser."-Nina Reyes

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Tri al Instincts
by Lowell B. Denny IIIo some, it may

T seem surpris-

ing that the gay
publisher of a gay
newspaper
shouldbe the first bogeyman I heard about
when I moved to
San Francisco nearly
two years ago. Of
all the infamous enemies of the lesbian
and gay community, I half expected thevirulent homophobes to the left of Jesse
Helms---the Democratic Party, for example-tobe the object of scorn in thisostensibly progressive Mecca. But then,like all childlike impressions, mine had
to be erased, sooner or later: Might aswell be sooner.
Still, I wasn't surprised.
African-American history-my
history-is a refuse heap of sellouts, traitors
and Toms who've broken from theirpasts (and presents), escaping to the suburbs to shop at those mega-corporate
supermarkets and shopping malls. Black
flight doesn't take much willful self-delusion either, since Black Power, for all its
articulate voices, never made Black truly
beautiful: It's still ugly so the farther
away Mr. and Mrs. Tom
get from theghetto, the more society will like them.
Progressive
African Americans,queer and otherwise, caught on to thebuying and selling of certain Blacks for
PR purposes a long time ago, perhaps
because of the similarity between thefacade of independence
manufactured
during African neocolonialism and thefacadethat exists here at home.
President Mobuto of Zaire and President
Doe of Liberia may have African features, but they know on which side thebread is buttered. Their militaristic,
oppressive behavior may seem atrocious,
but it's not so shocking when you con-cansider who's funding the shows.
Ray Chalker, the publisher of the
San Francisco Sentinel, a local, weekly
gay newspaper for which I sometimes
write news, was recently ostracized forallowing a bar he owns to be used in the
fIlming of Basic Instincts, whose anti-gay
script has been targeted by activists. But
the only thing I found surprising was thesense of surprise behind all that moral
indignation.

It was devout heterosexism that created twogroups where there had•
been, in all of humanhistory, only one.

And when I considered--orreconsidered-thebrief history behind a more
visible lesbian and gay movement, I realized that what's old news to Black folks
is a new phenomenon for others. As in
the Black community,
this "splintergroup" of sellouts is invariably comprisedof those who work at Hewlett-Packard,
live in the suburbs and aspire to all those
things our middle class is noted for coveting. They are, more or less, acceptable.
They also run the popular gay press andwork in City Hall.
While gay whites function in a social
dynamic completely different from that ofpeople of color, the client class operates
in more or less the same way for both.
The white gay men and lesbians
who seem to have turned their backs on
the gay community have not broken
from the past and present but rather havejoined it. They are relating to a societythat has traditionally welcomed them.
Among people of color, racism has
been the basis of our relationships withwhitesfor more than 500 years.
Obviously, there was never a way tohide the fact of race, to blend more orless comfortably into the Eurocentric
patriarchy, as the Irish and Italians were
ultimately able to do. If the Europeans
had done away with race hatred, thedarker skin of Africans would not havegone away. But had those same patriarchs drawn no distinction
betweensame-sex and opposite-sex
behavior,
queers would never have had reason to
identify themselves apart from their particular tribe. It was devout heterosexismthat created two groups where there had
been, in all of human history, only one.
But as the sexual tensions slowly
ease, the distinction takes on a very different hue. The white gay male, who,
strictly on the basis of race and sex, has
always had institutional doors open wide
to hJm, has returned to his racial tribe tojoin the ranks of Rudyard Kipling. Of
course, this is not always the case. There
are the conscientious
who choose toconfront the heterosexism, homophobia
and misogyny in our SOciety, rid their
sensibilities of class comforts and live theturbulent life of an outcast. But these fellows generally don't run the newspapers.
The success of the Oargely white)
gay middle class has come not on thebasis of inclusion but through that old
custom of racial and class privilege. Moreand more of these privileged individualshave decided to express their sexuality
openly, and that has made a notable difference. But the gay middle class wasnever the gay underclass. The victories it
has won are the triumphs of gaining
access to the privileges that their white,
middle-class families enjoy.

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client class and the one that exists in
Africa as well as in American Black communities. The African client class props
up the notion that Africa is independent
because the Blacks are running things.
This is similar to the African-American
client class, whose mantra is that racism
is over or, at least, dying. An AfricanAmerican queer, regardless of how dedicated she or he is to class comforts, is
not thereby guaranteed a ticket to the
Big Time. Our dark tribe is still muchdisliked. The gay client class is not sucha creation.
White lesbians and gay men are
merely picking up where their skin-color
privilege left off and are not so restricted
to a few "tokens." But in the meantime,
the gay client class functions like other,more traditional ones. It helps serve
those tired liberal sentiments that
progress is being served and homophobia is on its way to the history
books---so why won't those loud queers
just shut up ...This is quite possibly amore dangerous phenomenon to queer
activism-which,
to me, means being
aware of class struggle and how classinterests
haveshapedgenderroles than the political career of Mr.
Jesse Helms, since any suggestion thathomophobia
and heterosexism are·ebbing is wrong-headed.
In any case, that a gay newspaper
publisher should help out with the ftIming of a lesbophobic movie like Basic
Instincts and that the San Francisco Gay
Softball League should take moneyfrom Adolf Coors prove that thesethings haven't gone away and that
more than a few framing myths need to
be extinguished.
The lesbian and gay community
can expect to confront more bogeymen(and -women) in times to come as
those closet doors in the middle classswing open and the petit-bourgeois sensibilities rather than a radical sexual
politic are adhered to. The irony is thatthe gay middle class seems always tolose sight of its dependence on thepolitically and sexually radical, and theconnection between the life to which
they aspire and the oppressive values it
fosters. But that's their problem. Our
problem is redefming just whose revolution we're having.

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PWAs OUT OF USWASHINGTON-As
the June 1
implementation
date for a recently
passed immigration reform bill cameand went, White House officials madeready to renege on their promise toremove HIV from a list of diseases forwhich one may be denied entry into theUnited States.
The move to take HIV off a list of"dangerous contagious diseases" wasmandated by the Immigration ReformAct of 1990, passed by Congress last fall,
which ordered Health and Human
Services Secretary Louis Sullivan to
strike the existing excludable maladies

list and replace it with a roster of diseases of "public health significance,"drafted by public health experts. Last
January, Sullivan unveiled the proposed
new list, which did not include AIDS
and HIV infection.
But reportedly after immense pressure from the right wing in Congress
and the administration and a flood ofletters from conservatives, the Whiteby ELLEN
B. NEIPRIS•<--.-. '-'."SOMEWHERE WEST OF THE LADIES' MILE-Whileother queer New Yorkers flocked to the beaches, parks andpiers for the Memorial Day weekend, everyone's favorite
hostesses, Joey Ferrari (left) and his lover; Lee Schy, were
. found roasting wieners and flipping burgers with all the fixings while celebrating yet another extended-family holiday
at home in their loft .

..B ou. 'VEEK "un_ 12, 1_1"You haven't experienced New York until you've barbecued on the fire escape for 30 people," noted Lee, balanced
precariously on the rather narrow ledge. "It's the most glorious urban experience."
Right up there with cleaning up after 30 of your closest
extended-family members. Peace and love. Wait a minute ...
What party?

•House appeared ready to shelve theproposed change.
"They can't blame Congress on thisone," said Democratic Rep. Barney Frankof Massachusetts, the openly gay congressman who sponsored the removal of
the AIDS ban. "Yes, they could haveblamed Congress until last Octol::>ef we
had passed the [19871Helms amendment[creating the HIV banl. But we undid thedamage that we did ....This is not a congressional problem. This is purely andsimply a George Bush chicken-out."Frank called on gay Republicans topressure Bush into putting into effect thepolicy change but appeared skepticalthat it would work. Bush, he suggested,is placating the "crazy right" wing of the
Republican party on domestic issues
such as this so as to balance its criticism
of his foreign policy positions.
"'This is indeed a mess," commented
Belinda Rochelle, health lobbyist for the
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. "Itis a prime example of health policy
being held hostage by politicians. And if
this is an example of President Bush's
attempts to protect the public, he should
do so by putting more money into education and research efforts and not byadding to misperceptions
about HIVtransmission, pushing public hysteria."
AIDS and HIV infection were firstincluded on the excludable diseases listin 1987, after the Senate approved anamendment sponsored by Republican
Sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina,
adding the condition to the "dangerous
contagious diseases" roster. Since then,
AIDS activists have made the removal of
the immigration ban a primary target of
their movement, focusing mostly on thepolicy's ban on HIV-infected visitors.
That may simply fall by the wayside, since people on both sides of theissue agree that, short of testing visitors
for HIV at the border, there is not muchthat can be done to enforce it. AIDS
activists have long argued that the ban isselectively enforced against foreign travelers carrying AIDS medications andthose suspected of being gay.
The right wing's criticism is instead
focused on the issue of HIV-infected foreign nationals being allowed to become
permanent residents. Critics of the policychange have argued that allowing HIVinfected foreigners to immigrate to the
US would place an undue financial burden on the nation's health care system.

to comment on the measure's fmancial
impact, Sullivan referred Dannemeyer to
the Justice Department.
Health and Human Services officials, the Washington Post reports,
responded to the Justice Department's
concerns over the policy change's financial impact by asking the department if it
wanted HHS to fonnulate another plan
to exclude from permanent immigration
foreigners with heart disease and cancer,
more widespread and costly diseases
which are presently not the basis for

The White House's stance on shelving the proposed change shines a spotlight on the differences between Healthand Human Services Department andthe Department of Justice, which has
jurisdiction over the Immigration and·Naturalization Service.
Earlier this year, upon questioning
by Republican Rep. William Dannemeyerof California, a fierce opponent of thepolicy change, Sullivan brushed aside
complaints that striking the HIV ban was
bad public health policy. But when asked

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I from 1985-89, when an overhaul of regulations wiped the relevant mechanism
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Sydney.
Delegates
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diversity
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CANADA-ACTUP disrupted the opening session of the British Columbia
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Legislaturebytossing
condomsand pink triangles onto the floor of the assembly.
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I Provincial Premier Vander Zalm "looked up with shock and horror," according toI reports. The protestors demanded money for AIDS drugs, tests, treatments,
I research, education and the establishment of an AIDS-research center. In a related
I event, activist John Kozachenko was arrested for public mischief after he flung
I himself on Vander Zalm's limousine outside a TV studio.
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA-Eighty
delegates from 17 countries set a newI
I attendance record at the International Lesbian and Gay Association's Fifth
I Regional Conference for Eastern and Southeastern Europe, held in Prague. And
I Bulgaria made its first appearance at an ILGA gathering. "It was just amazing,"
I said Co-Secretary General John Clark, speaking by telephone from Vienna. "These
I two Bulgarians walked in in black suits not knowing what to think and left the conI ference in jeans and smiles with a 'we~re-gonna-do-if attitude."
The conference was opened by member of Parliament Klara Samkova andI
focusedon the theme of gays, lesbians and the media. Workshops dealt with pubIlishing
gay
newspapers, translating gay literature and securing coverage in theI
I mainstream press. Delegates from most former East Bloc countries proudly
I unveiled new, or newly improved, gay and lesbian newspapers and magazines.
I Next year's East Bloc conference is in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. This year's ILGAI World Conference is June 30 to July 6 in Guadalajara, Mexico.
I- ENGLAND-Sixty
members of the London direct-action group Outrage
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protested outside Canterbury Cathedral as the new Archbishop of Canterbury,I
I George Carey, was enthroned inside. In response, Carey told journalists: "I am
I struggling with the issue. I haven't made up my mind. Biblical statements on pracI ticing homosexuality are very negative." Protestors blew whistles, chanted andI carried signs reading "Keep Your Bigotry Off My Body" and "Church Prejudice
I Stirs Up Anti-Gay Hate," Princess Diana and South African Archbishop Desmond
I ,Tutu waved at the demonstrators. Activists later marched to St. George's Tower,
I where they staged a mock whipping and burning of gay martyrs.
Ibanning a JX>tential inllnigrant.

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The Justice Department reportedly
I rebuffed the suggestion. Some obI servers are predicting that the WhiteI House will stick by its stance and not
I change the policy. Others suspect that
I the issue will be pushed to the backI burner until a presidential panel can be
I fonned to gauge the economic impact
I of the change.
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A bill that would force HN backI on the excludable diseases list-if it isI removed-is already pending before
I the US House. The measure, which isI sponsored by Republican Rep. John ].
I Duncan of Tennessee, and 25 others,
I would amend the 1991 list of diseases
I of "public health significance" to specifI ically include HN infection.
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AIDS activists are presently mobiI lizing again behind the HN immigraI tion issue, already making plans for a
I large national demonstration in the
I middle of June.
I"Maybe they'll put this on the
I back burner for now and then change
I it at a later date," said Rochelle. "But
I the gay and lesbian community must
I force them to take it off the list. They
I need to know that there is public outI rage around this issue."I--QiffO'NefJl
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I percent to 45 percent.
It was only the fifth time in theInationthat a gay rights law survived aI
voters'referendum, according to theI
National
Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
I"The Denver activists did a dynaI
I mite organizing job on this," said
I NGLTF's Tim Drake. "It's very hard to
I win referendums because the emotional
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The drive to save the ordinanceI-wasled by the Equal Protection
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I Federico Pefi.a and the Colorado
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"We affinned that Denver is a greatcity,· added EPOC leader Tony Ogden,"regardless of who you are, what you areor why you are.""This is the first major city in the
country to overturn those bigots,· beamed
EPOC co-chair Rabbi Steven Foster.
But the "bigots" are not giving up.

expertise, we can win this thing down
the road," Heckmann said.
CSR treasurer Jim Lucero called the repeal campaign "a great experience ....We just felt Denver had to make adecision,· he said. "Personally, I'm disappointed in the decision that they made,but I can live with it."Citizens for Sensible Rights, or CSR,
leader Richard Heckmann says that thegroup will likely begin work on a stateballot initiative that would invalidate
existing gay rights laws statewide andprevent passage of any new ones.
"Our troops are optimistic thatwith ...a little more worl<:and a little more•

resignation was due to fiscal restrictions placed on his agency
by the city's budget crisis. In his resignation letter, the commissioner called the move "the best course of action for my family
and myself."
Myers' resignation letter and Dinkins response did notrecount any of the department's accomplishments in the past
year and a half, focusing instead on Myers' handling of scandals
involving lost Pap smear results and restaurant inspection fraud
as the major achievements of his short tenure.
Myers
took office in March 1990 over the strident protests•of AIDS activists, who objected to Myers' AIDS-related quarantine policy while he served as Indiana state commissioner ofhealth. The appointment prompted calls for the resignation of
Tim Sweeney, the executive director of Gay Men's Health
Crisis, who sat on the Dinkins transition committee that recommended Myers.
The debacle irked activists all .the more because Dinkins
had carefully included at least two other gay people on the transition team that oversaw many of the administration's appointments. But Myers' problematic record did not come to light until
OutWeek published an investigation of his record in Indiana.
AIDS activists have since been angered by Myers management style, a style health department staff describe as "Iowkey," but activists have slammed as a "lack of leadership." Butactivists' worst fears about quarantine, mandatory testing andcontact tracing never materialized under Myers, as the mayor
had promised they would not.
"I think there's been a vacuum in leadership at the city level
on AIDS," said David Hansell, deputy executive director for policy at GMHC. "I hope the Myers departure will give the mayor
the opportunity to appoint someone who can provide thestrong, aggressive leadership on AIDS that we've been lacking."
Hansell said that GMHC had not been approached to participate on the search committee for a new commissioner.
GMHC's Sweeney could not be reached for comment.
Echoing the GMHC sentiment, Robin Haueter, a member of
ACT UP, told OutWeek: "In the 15 months Myers has been in
office, the AIDS crisis has grown worse, and Myers has done
-nothing. Hopefully, the mayor will appoint someone who canprovide some leadership."
Haueter said that ACT UP had not been approached to join
the search committee.
Dr. Margaret Hamburg, the department's deputy commissioner for Family Health Care Services, will serve as acting commissioner until a search committee, chaired by Dr. June
Jackson Christmas, can find a suitable candidate.
The city's charter requires that the commissioner of healthbe an MD with eight years experience and hold a Masters of
Public Health or a Masters of Business Administration.
-Duncan Osborne•,•

WOODY MYERSCALLS IT QUITSNEW YORK-After 'less than 15 months on the job, thecity's health commissioner, Dr. Woodrow Myers, who took
office in a storm of controversy over his AIDS policies as
Indiana's health commissioner, has resigned his position toaccept a jo~ in the private sector.
And AIDS activists are calling his departure an opportunityfor Mayor David Dinkins to pick a top exec for the health department who will provide the leadership on AIDS and health issues
which they say that Myers never demonStrated.
Myers' last day will be June 11, and he will begin work as
senior vice president and medical director with the AssociatedInsurance Companies in his hometown, Indianapolis, in earlyAugust, according to health department spokespeople.
Speculation in mainstream media has had Myers frustrated by city budget shortfalls and on the verge of resigningsince the start of the year. Budget gaps required Myers tospend much of his first year slashing programs at the healthdepartment and allowed little room for new initiatives. Even
Reality House, a program Myers devised to deliver a variety ofhealth services to pregnant, drug-addicted women, was cut
this year.
At a May 28 press conference, however, Myers denied his

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Localities that have vetoed gay
rights laws by voters' referenda include
Athens, Ohio; Broward and Dade counties in Florida.; Duluth, Minn.; Eugene,are.; Ft. Collins, Colo.; Irvine, Calif.; St.
Paul, Minn.; Tacoma, Wash.; andWichita, Kan.
Voters have upheld protections forhomosexuals in Austin, Texas; Boulder,Colo.; Davis, Calif.; and Seattle, according to NGLlF.
-Rex

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INLA,ACALLFOR GAY VOICESFROM A TARGETOFGAYWRATH
LOS ANGELES-Amid escalating
charges of harassment against the Los
Angeles Police Department from the gay
and lesbian community, City Councilman
Joel Wachs, himself the target of protests
from gays who say that his politics conflict with his sexual orientation, called fora gay man or lesbian to be put on thecommission that oversees the cops.
Wachs' aide, Greg Nelson, said that it
was about Qme a gay man or lesbian wasadded to the Christopher Commission.
"The gay and lesbian segment of thecommunity which is large and growing
and has had problems
with thepolice-has
never been represented
before," said Nelson.
The five-member conunission fired
the first shot in the battle for control ofthe police department when it called
for Chief Daryl Gates' resignation after
the March 3 beating of Rodney King.
That nationally broadcast videotape of
the LAPD atrocity caused the current
uproar about police brutality in this cityand elsewhere.
The City Council vetoed the ouster
attempt, with Wachs voting in Gates' favor.
As a result of that vote, Wachs
came under attack from some membersof the gay and lesbian community, of
which he has been a longtime ally.
Queer Nation activists, in an April 8 letter, called on Wachs to come out andsupport .gay rights-Qs the gay personthat they claim that he is. They continued calling on him to come out in talkshows and demonstrations.
Local Wachs-watchers
saw thecouncilman's latest move as an attempt
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to take the focus off Wach's sexual orientation, which he has steadfastly declined
to discuss, and turn it e1sewhere.
"From the timing, it's obvious ourtactics are working-he's
feeling thepressure," said Mickey Wheatley, an
activist attorney and Queer Nation member. "That's not to say he hasn't done
anything good in the past, but it's beenmutually beneficial."
Aide Nelson, however, said that
Wachs initia11ymade the suggestion during a campaign talk this past March, long
before the brouhaha about Wach's sexuality started.

Wach's office used the occasion to

tout Wach's past accomplishments onbehalf of local gays and lesbians, fromthe city's historic 1978 ordinance prohibiting discrimination to a recent multimillion dollar AIDS housing and education program.
While most political observers
agreed that the move was a step in theright direction, some saw it as a small
favor. "I applaud Wachs, but the city is ina state of paralysis," said Roger Coggan,
director of legal services for the Los
Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community
Services Center. "The only person who is
exercising any leadership is Gates. Untila court of law reasserts the authority of

TIDE OF PRIDEWASHINGTON-Hundredsof lesbians and gay men, including the two
pictured here, gathered in Banneker Field near Howard University for a daylong
celebration sponsored by DC Black Lesbian and Gay Pride Day, Inc., on
Saturday, May 25. Complete with food, sporting events, poetry readings, award
presentations, musical entertainment and eight hours of fun in the sun, organizers are expecting this first Black Lesbian and Gay Pride Day to become anannual District event.
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the police commission, the name of thegame is not the police commission."-DeU Richards/BoiseILLINOIS GAYRIGHTSBILLGOESDOWN•

CHICAGO-The illinois Legislature
voted down a gay rights bill late lastmonth, although the measure received
40 of the 60 votes needed for passa~ inthe House of Representatives and 21 of
the 30 votes needed in the Senate.
"It is an abominationthat theLegislature would condone discrimination in any form," said Illinois Gay andLesbian Task Force Co-Chair Joanne
Trapani.
She said that the measure had more
supporters than the vote tally suggests,
but when it became obvious that themeasure was going to fail, the remaining
representatives
who we·re "nervous"
about their planned "yes" vote felt free togo ahead and vote "no" or "present"
Added IGL1F lobbyist Lana Hostetler:"We knew who the nervous folks
were-who
could fall off-and,boy,
when they went, they just went-domino.
On the other hand, the fact that they werewilling to say- 'yes' in the first place is avel)' good sign."
Some "nervous" senators also
backed away from their planned "yes"votes, after the measure failed in theHouse a day earller.
"Our community now has sophistication and knowledge and informationand political awareness," she said. "Ourfirst gay-rights vote in the Senate got 21
votes-more than a third of the senators.
That is a major victory. When we first.
started working gay rights in the Housewe would get about 10 percent."
Only four states-Connecticut,
Hawaii,
Massachusetts
andWisconsin-havepassed statewide
gay-rights laws.
In other legislative news, a measurerequiring state compilation of gay-bashing statistics passed both chambers andwill likely be signed by Gov. Jim Edgar.
Illinois already has a law increasing
penalties for crimes that contain an antigay component
A comprehensive domestic partnership measure that would have allowed

New Zealand Immigration Department
announced last month that citizens' foreign gay and lesbian lovers are welcome
to apply for residency.
The New Zealander must write aletter supporting the partner's application and promising housing and financial support. The couple must prove
the relationship is "genuine, stable,
and of at least four years' duration."If the relationship is less than four
years old, the foreigner can obtain awork visa in the intervening time. No
HIV test is required.

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New Zealand joins Australia,
Denmark, Holland and Norway inallowing gay and lesbian partner
immigration.
Australian immigration authorities
created the category "relationships ofemotional interdependency· on April

15 of this year to cover various gay
and straight relationships that lack alegal familial link.
Gay activists hope to iron out awrinkle in the policy that requires residency applications to be filed fromoutside the country.

Australia informally permitted
gay and lesbian partners to immigrate from 1985-89, when an overhaul of immigration
regulations
wiped the relevant mechanism fromthe law books.

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DON'T JUST STAND
THERE: Harvey Milk did

it, Harry Britt did, Roberta
Achtenburg did it andnow, so has Carole
Migden.
All of San
Francisco's
gay citysupervisors have at one
time been appointed acting mayor while the city's
top exec was out of town.
Migden handled the job
by ANDREW MILLER
admirably May 22 and 23.
In presenting awards
to three local community leaders, Migdim said: "WhenHarvey Milk was acting mayor, our communities were justlearning how to 'work out' in the political arena. Now that
I am acting mayor, we've been in the gym for more thanten years! and our three honorees represent models ofoutstanding citizenship in commuities proud of theirpolitical muscle."
LET'S GET TO IT: New York City is home to the oldest
and largest lesbian archival collection in the world. But
after 16 years, the Lesbian Herstory Archives' tens of thousands of books, photos, letters, diaries, magazines andother dyke artifacts have simply outgrown their home inco-founder Joan Nestle's Upper West Side apartment. To
date, the Archives have raised $100,000 toward purchasing
a new building, mainly through small house parties, butthere's still a ways to go.
.
"It is essential that we act quickly to purchase a building in the currel]tly favorable real estate market," said Deb
Edel, an Archives co-founder and its current treasurer. "Asuccessful house party campaign in 1991 would enable us
to make a down payment before the end of the year."
For more Info on the building fund drive or on giving ahouse party, call (212) 873-9443.
STRIKE A POSE: California's gay-friendly anti-discrim-

ination business laws notwithstanding,
Los Angeles
Superior Court Judge Sally Disco(l) ruled on May 21 thatthe Boy Scouts of America are entitled to prevent openly
gay men from becoming adult members. In her view, the
US Constitution prevents California's "compelling interestin eradicating discrimination in all forms," because to doso would interfere with the Boy Scouts' "ability to achieve
its expressive goals."

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ACHTENBERG, HARRY BRm, HARVEY MILK~The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Timothy Curran, 29,
a former Eagle Scout who got the boot once he came out.
"I will not give up my fight to have the same kind ofopportunities as everyone else in this country and not tobe judged differently because of whom I love," Curranvowed. The ACLU's John Davidson, the lead counsel in thecase, has formally objected to the ruling and has promised
to appeal.
Lancaster, Pa.
became the fourth city in that state to add sexual orientation to its anti-discrimination ordinance. The other threecities are Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Harrisburg, the capital. The Lancaster Council passed the measure 6 to 1.

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TAT

Hoffman-La
Roche abruptly ended research into its
TAT gene inhibitorwith last month's
sudden announcement that further
trials would be put I'V~"on hold" while thecompany sou'ght a business partner tohelp develop the drug. The announcement seemed to shock even the Johns
Hopkins clinical investigators who had
been involved with studies of the drug
from its inception and had recently completed a small single-dose phase-one
study at the Baltimore medical center.
While Roche undergoes negotiations
with potential partners or "licensees" for
TAT, treatment activists are pushing the
National Institutes of Health to take thedrug under its wing. Repeated calls to
SmithKline Beecham regarding the existence of their TAT research program
went unanswered.
Roche officials say that there wereno medical or scientific reasons for thewithdrawal of TAT;rather, it was strictly abusiness decision arrived at after a recent
review of its complete HIV antiviralresearch program. Instead of proceedingwith its work on TAT, Roche says that it
will focus on its other two AIDS drugs,
ddC and protease inhibitors.
Roche is expected to file a new-drug
application, or NDA, with the FDA for
ddC within the next couple of months,
and the drug could receive marketing
approval· by the end of the year. Morethan 3,000 people are now getting ddC
through Roche's expanded-access program. A bootleg chemical-grade version
of ddC is also available nationwide
through various buyers' clubs, including
the PWA Health Group in New York. Pr0tease inhibitors are being studied in aphase-two trial in the United Kingdom
under, according to sources, a "shroud ofsecrecy." A report on progress with protease is expected in June at the SeventhInternational Conference on AIDS in florence. Several drug companies, in addi2&

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tion to Roche, are believed to be working on their development.
Of the half dozen or so antivira1s intrials right now, the protease inhibitQfS
and TATgene inhibitors are considered tohold the m<E promise because they caninhibit virus production in already infected cells, thereby preventing new rounds
of infections. Reverse transcriptase, or RT,
inhibitors-whether
nucleosiode analogs(AZf, ddI, delC, d4T, AxdU, FLU or benzodiazepine derivatives (1-551, TIBO, BIRG-587)-can do nothing to stop viralproduction in cel1s that have already been
invaded and coopted into manufacturing
new virus. Still, even a protease or TAT
inhibitor is likely to benefit from combined administtation with one or more ofRoche officials
say that there were no
medical or scientificreasons for thewithdrawal of TAT;
rather, it was strictly areview of its complete
HIV antiviralresearch program.
these RT inhibitors.
L-679,661
R. es from Merck say thatthe preclinical data on its new anti-HIV "1'drug ("L.{)61"for short) are very strong. A
smal1 phase-one safety study of the drug
has now concluded at the NIH OinicalCenter, and a larger phase-two efficacy
trlal is currently underway in both Bethesda, Md., and Birmingham, Ala. The
Bethesda study is designed to enroll 75
participants, some of whom will be randomized to receive only AZf or placebo
for the first 12 weeks. People eligible forthe phase-two study must have T-4 counts
greater than 200, measurable levels of HIV
in their blood and a healthy liver and kidneys. For more infonnation, call Susan
Haneiwich (extension 403) or Donna
O'Neill (extension 312) at (800) 772-5464.
In a symbolic nod to activist pressure, Merck announced that it would
open an arm of the phase-two study topeople with fewer than 200 T-4s. Whileostensibly another coup for activists, thatparticular arm of the trial will be held
only at the Birmingham site about asfar from the epicenters of the epidemic
as can be imagined. How convenient for
all of us.
Merck's L-661 drug is a benzodiazepine derivative (:1 la Valium) believedto stop HIV from copying itself into the
DNA of targeted human cells. Other
related approaches are being developedby the European-based drug companies
Janssen Pharmaceuticals (TIBO derivatives) and Boehringer IngeJheim (BI-RG587). Initial results with TIBO in England, where a phase-one
study wasconducted,
have not been terribly•
exciting so far.
BI-RG-587
A phase-one
dose-ranging
trial(AIDS Clinical Trials Group 164) ofBoehringer IngeJheim's benzodiazepine
reverse transcriptase inhibitor BI-RG-587
is currently screening participants for,its
trial sites in Worcester, Mass., and San
Diego, Calif. The study will include 30
people, will begin with three different
doses (12.5 mg, 50 mg and 250 mg) of
the drug and is designed to be "openlabel," which means that everyone will
get the study drug. T-4 counts below 400
are required.
If all goes as planned, a larger
efficacy study could begin as early as- .
next month-which
will test BI-RG587 alone and in combination
with
AZT. BI-RG-587 has been shown to besynergistic in combination with AZTand effective against AZT -resistantstrains of HIV. Tests for efficacy
against ddI- and ddC-resistantviralstrains are underway.

Pentoxifilline
Pentoxifilline is an FDA-approved
drug marketed under'the trade nameTrental and is commonly prescribed forcirculatory problems in elderly people.
The orally administereddrug hasrecently been observed to lower the
body's level of circulating protein calledtumor necrosis factor, or 1NF, which isfrequently
elevated in people withsymptomatic
HIV infection. TNF is
believed to contribute to AIDS-associated "wasting" by stimulating the breakdown of fat. It is also thought toincrease productionof HIV and toantagonize the effects of nucleosideantiviral therapy. Symptoms of elevated
1NF include weight loss, fever and hightriglyceride levels.
The Community Research Initiative,
or CRI, in New York is now "pre-screening" prospective participants in its novel
pentoxifilline protocol that will measurecirculating TNF in study participants.
Those eligible for the study will have T-4
counts below 300 and measurable levels(15 picograms) of TNF circulating intheir blood. The study is double-blind
placebo controlled, which means that
only some of the people will actually getpentoxifilline and that the rest will begiven an inert look-alike substance---Q1ld
that no one will know who's getting
what. Concomitant antiviral therapy isallowed. For more infonnation, call CRI
at (212) 481-1050.
At the Beth Israel Medical Center in
Newark, Hoffman-I.a Roche is offering topay patients $1,500 a head to enroll in its
12-week study of the drug-in combination with either AZf or ddC. PentoxifJ.!line is thought to increase the potency ofthese drugs and may also have some sortof antiviral effect of its own. Those interested in being screened for the study cancall Nonna at (800) 999-8660.

NAe
A drug approved for bronchitis andTylenol overdoses called NAC (for Nacety!cysteine) has also been observed tolower circulating levels of 1NF. A small
phase-one dose-ranging trial of NAC isdue to begin at the NIH dinical Center in
Bethesda, Md The study will test the drugin 16 people with fewer than 500 T-4 cellcounts. Participants will be given four different doses of NAC orally and then intravenously for six weeks at a time. 1his pro-cedure will help to determine which
method of administration results in higher
blood levels of the drug. Lumbar punctures (spinal taps) will help to assess
NACs ability to cross the blood-brain barrier. Twelve people have been screened ,so far, and three have received the drug.
For more infonnation, call Chris Boenning
at (800) 772-5464 extension 401.

d4T
A phase-two dose-ranging study ofBristol Myers' new nucleoside analog
d4T began screening volunteers early lastmonth. The 52-week study will seek toenroll 140 people at 7 trial sites aroundthe country. Mt. Sinai Medical Center, in
New York, and Yale University School of
Medicine, in New Haven, are two ofthese sites. T-4 cell counts below 500\illd a brief hospitalization are required.
Trial participants will be asked to takeone of three oral doses of d4T threetimes a day.
As in the case of ddI and ddC, thedevelopment of painful tingling or burning sensationsin the hands or feet("peripheral
neuropathy")has beenreported on the higher doses. With early
detection, this neuropathy is usually
reversible upon discontinuation of the
drug. For infonnation about the Mt. Sinaistudy, call Ellen Chuski at (212) 2418902. For the New Haven site, contact
Rebecca Mark at (203) 785-5303. T

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by Jon M. Greenberg.

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small, brownbottle between thepalms of his hands
to warm up the liquid inside. Gingerly Ir,..
removing , the protective cap from aplastic syringe, heglides the point!
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into the· rubber stopper and draws theviscous vermilion liquid into the plastic
tubing. He undoes his belt, drops his
pants to expose his smooth, melonlike
butt-cheeks, swabs a thickly muscledglobe with a cool pad, thrusts the sharp
point into his waiting ass and slowly
plunger. The thick red subpushes instance is released into his anticipatingmuscle and ,within seconds he tastes thedistinctive organic tang in the back of his
mouth and throat.
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Oinical studies have indicated thatanywhere between 15 percent and 50
percent of people with HN infection
have some degree of B-12 deficiency. A
1989 study, co-authored by Dr. Anthony
Fauci, director of the National Institute ofAllergy and Infectious Diseases and published in the Archives of Internal
Medicine, concludes that B-12 malabsorption (and, by extension, deficiency)
is common in patients with AIDS andmay be a very early manifestation of
infection with illY disease. Further studies indicate that this B-12 deficiency
could be a significant factor in cases of,
HN-related nervous system disorders,
AIDS-relined dementia and peripheral
neuropathies
both those related to drug
toxicities and those not related to otherdrugs. A recent study in the Archives of
Neurology, written by Karl Kieburtz et aI.,
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concludes that B-12 deficiency may be afrequent and treatable cause of neurological dysfunction in patients with illY
infection. In other words, if you feel thatyou may be losing your mind or yourmemory or just not thinking quite asclearly as you used to, well, it may bevery advisable to start supplementing
with B-12.
Long employed as a therapy for
pernicious anemia, B-12 supplementation has only recently,beenused for

Studies indicate that
B-12 deficiency could
be a significant factor incases of HIV-related
nervous systemdisorders if you feelthat you may be losing
your mind or yourmemory, it may be very
advisable to start
supplementing
with B-12.
HN-related neurological disorders bysome of the more open-minded AIDS .
doctors. Unfortunately, not enough doctors have caught on to this valuable therapy, and many of those who have are
far too conservative in its use. Given thefact that a large portion of the deficiency
is due to malabsorption (the stomach
doesn't properly metabolize nutrients,and many nutrients are lost before they
get to the celIs which most need them),

simple oral supplementation (B-12 capsules or tablets) is usually not sufficient
to counteract a serious B-12 deficiency.
Lark Lands, PhD, a holistic practitioner working with the Carl Vogel Foundation in Washington, DC, suggests thatall people with illY infection go on an
intensive regimen of daily B-12 supplementation. Essentially, she suggests thatfor the first two weeks, people get daily
injections of 1,000 mcg of B-12, and thentwo or three injections a week indefinitely. Although admittedly still a conservative dose of B-12, it is at least sufficient
to counteract any pernicious deficiencies
and maintain adequate B-12 levels to
help insure that symptoms not reappear.
I am a B-12 junkie; I inject myself
every day. A friend of mine who has
been shooting B-12 for years offered togive me shots three times a week. I
would go to his downtown loft and, overthe course of several weeks, he taught·me how to handle the needle and inject
myself with a sterile technique. The firstfew injections caused me to break out ina sweat-not from the B-12 but from thelearned reaction of being afraid of shots.
Now, I'm doing it like a pro and shooting
up my friends at their request. I believe,in the stuff. The actual B-12 "high" is not
so much a rush as it is the feeling thatyou've simply taken a step up on the ladder. Over the past few months of daily B12 infections, I have noticed increased
energy and mental acuity as well as more
vivid dreams and better sleeping patterns. It has cleared my complexion,
opened my brain and unblocked myspirit. It acts as a natural stress reducer .
and significantly alters my level of tension. On the whole, B-12 has become asignificant part of my strategy to maintainmy health in the face of AIDS.
B-12 is available in many fonDSmost commonly as an oral supplement.
Capsules are probably more absorbable•than tablets but either way, in order toinsure an adequate dose, it is advisableto take several times more than the recommended daily does. My own recommendation is about 1,000 mg two or
three times a day. A more absorbablefonn of B-12 is an intranasal gel madeby Nature's Way. Ener-B, as the productis marketed, comes in small white tubes,
which one squirts up the nose for an
instant rush of B-12 energy. By far themost effective fonn of B-12 is intramuscular infection. Aside from being themost absorbable and readily utilized, it isalso the only form of the vitamin ~hichis covered by Medicaid and most private
insurance companies. The only possible
hindrance to accessibility may be yourdoctor's reluctance to prescribe it-aswell as the insulin needles one needs toadminister it. In most cases, however, aself-empowered patient can demonstrate
the need for the vitamin and 'reassure
her or his doctor that the needles. will be
used responsibly.
It is important to take B-12 with agood-quality B-complex supplement
since the vitamin works synergisticallywith other B vitamins. Do not, however,wony about overdosing on B-12. One of
the beautiful thing about B-12 is that it
doesn't appear to have significant toxic
side effects even at doses several times
the normal therapeutic dose. Take toomuch, and it comes out in your urin.e-e
your pee turns a bright, Crayola-crayon
orange-red. Lovely.
The most exciting news about B-12
may be coming out of the National Institutes of Health's AIDS Clinical Trials
Group. In March, Dr. Karl Kieburtz of
the University of Rochester introduced aconcept sheet to test B-12 for its use in
the alleviation of peripheral neuropathy.
Although there are a number of problems with the protocol as proposed,with a little bit of work-and
someactivist pressure it can be shaped intoa truly exciting clinical trial with farreaching consequences. If it happens, it
may open the door to other government-sponsored trials of nutritional supplements in the management of AIDS
and HIV-related conditions.
As part of an overall holistic approach to AIDS, B-12 is an accessible
and valuable therapy which should be
included in every HIV-infected individual's treatment protocol. Enlisting afriend's help in the injection process canbe exciting as well ....

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GEOFFREY FINE
Geoffrey Fine, an actor, dancer andcomic performer, died on May 1 after living with AIDS for four and a half years. He
was 40 years old.
Born in Hollywood and raised in Ann
Arbor, Mich., Mr. Fine moved to New
York in 1970, where he appeared in plays
Off-Broadway and at Max's Kansas City.
In 1975, he returned to Ann Arbor to
study dance and choreography at the
University of Michigan.
After graduating, he moved back to
New York with his friend, Madonna. In
the 1980s, while working as a typographer, he became a movie stand-in for
Gene Wilder and performed frequently
at the Improvisation. He was perhaps
the first comedian to make AIDS a subject of his stand up act.
From the early '80s on, Mr. Fine

also worked as a volunteer intake-clinician for
GMHC. As a patient at
Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Hospital, he served on
the Community Resource ..
Board for the AIDS Clini- .,cal Trial Group of New
York City.
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Alpha Chi Rho•

by Henry Yeager
Even a T-shirt can be a deadly weapon when it's used tofrighten and intimidate, or when it incites violence.
Some members of Alpha Chi Rho fraternity at Syracuse
University, who call themselves the "Crows," have produced a
new-and vicious- T-shirt, which they have been selling atuniversity events. On the front is the motto "Homophobic andProud of It!" along with the circle with a slash (the international
symbol for "forbidden") over a limp wrist. The words "It's anexit not an entry" add a crude reference to anal intercourse.
The back of the T-shirt carries the slogan "Club Faggots
Not Seals," which is illustrated with a macho-looking bird (representing a fraternity Crow) who wields a club over a prone figure seeing stars.
These T-shirts appeared on the Syracuse campus in thewake of a number of incidents of harassment and violenceagainst women and gays. The university has been highly resis~nt to disciplining the Crows. When pressed, officials asserted
that they have not "established" that lesbians and gays are "adistinct group."
It's not too surprising that a blatantly hateful message

30 OUTWEEK.June 12" .._..

against gay people is being spread by a Greek-letter fraternity,with their reputation for perpetuating "real-man" attitudes. It's
also not too surprising that they focus on a narrow idea of what
it is to be gay. Equating gayness with anal intercourse is crudeand very unintellectual, as is the boorishness with which Tshirt-wearers take pride in being homophobic. And the slogan
advocating "Club faggots" is a clear example of incitement toviolence motivated by hate.
What Alpha Chi Rho and Syracuse University officials(who haven't made efforts to distance the university from thereprehensible behavior) need to hear is that it's not a validationof "manhood" to openly hate gay people, and it's not OK to
advocate violence against us.
Write to: Dr. Kenneth Shaw, Chancellor, 300 Tolley ASministration Building, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244. Or call the university at (315) 443-1870.
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month or so. Such a move would involve
her having to memorize a new addressTherevised """"""""";~
instead, she may just pack it in. Now that
proposed
City
Council lines are in,an opportunity has opened up in Bob
and the so-called
Dryfoo5' district on the East Side, howevgay district
has
er, this at least presents Greitzer with
been modified soanother option.
that it's very much
This possibility opened up this week
to our liking.
when 1be New York TImes reported that
The
$64,000
City Councilman Robert Dryfoos amassed.
. Wh ere .,:""
a $170,000 non-campaign fund that,questionIS,will the bewildered Carol Greitzer run?
records show, disbursed iaIge payments
to him and has been used to pay forWith the latest lines, the speculationsuch personal expenses as clothes, trips,
widens. Greitzer, a 22-year incumbent,
could run in the 3rd District against her
1989 openly gay opponent Tom Duane,
but most people consider this unlikely
since Duane was a big winner last time in
Tom Duane is no longer
the areas that currently comprise the district. Greitzer could also move into Counthe only gay candidate
cilwoman Carolyn Maloney's district andchallenge her in the district which runs ain the 3rd District.
corridor from East 14th Street to East 96th
Street. But there are many Republicans in
Liz Abzug announced
that district. and they have elected a
Republican state senator and assemblythat she too is running ,man. Greitzer would face a costly primaryrunning against Maloney and, should she
and that she too is aprevail, could face a tough Republican
challenge in the general election.
member of the gay•
More likely, Greitzer could moveeast and run against Councilwoman Miricommunity.
am Friedlander in the 2nd Council District. Although the district includes muchof Friedlander's Lower East Side base, it
synagogue dues and health-club bills. He
also covers the more conservative areas
was also reported not to have filed tax
between 14th Street and 35th Street
returns since 1987 and to have solicited
between First and Fifth avenues-prime
donations from people who had business
Greitzer territory. Or Greitzer could move
before his Council committees.
south and run in the 1st Council District,Dryfoos is being investigated by thewhichiilcludes a large chunk of lower
Federal Bureau of Investigation, who,
Manhattan, including Chinatown, Tribeca,
canying a subpena, sought records at his
Independence Plaza and lower Central
office, and by the City Council's Ethics
and South Village below 14th Street.
Committee. Dryfoos' days as a CouncilHowever, Greitzer would then have to
man may very well be numbered. His
run against Asian-American Margaret Chin
district under the new lines would
and possibly against District Leader
extend from 51st Street to 96th Street,
Kathryn Freed of Independence Plaza.
mostly east of Second Avenue to the East
All of these possible opponents
River a district chock-full of Democrats.
would run tough campaigns, and, inWith Dryfoos out of the way or, at theorder for Greitzer to run in any district
other than the 3rd (where she currently , very least, quite vulnerable, it's an ideal
place for Greitzer to contemplate a run.
lives), she would have to move within a

Dryoos has very few redeeming
qualities; however, he was OK strictly on
the gay issue. You may remember that hecast the key vote to make Peter Vallone
who is no friend of ours, the speaker of
the Council An added complication isthat Chris Collins, who's openly gay anda former Dryfoos staff member, is also
considering a run in the same district.

Out of the Closet
Tom Duane no longer appears to be
the only openly gay candidate in the 3rd
Council District. Bella Abzug's youngest
daughter, liz Abzug, announced at theVillage Independent Democrats Candidates' Night that she too is running in the
3rd Council District and that she too is amember of the gay community. While
we are to congratulate and welcome thiscoming out act, many think that itsmacks of opportunism-Abzug
decidedto come out only after she was sure that
she would be running in a Council seat
designed for a gay candidate.
Where has Abzug been for the
past 20 years while people like Tom
Duane have been on the front lines
fighting for our rights, needs and ourvisibility as a community? Abzug isreportedly setting up meetings withleaders of our community to learn what
our needs and concerns are, and so
Duane may find himself having a toughsummer. I've said it before, and I'll say
it again: With her mother, Bella, pullingthe strings, the younger Abzug is a
viable candidate with the ability to raiselarge sums of money.
Another possible candidate to enterthe 3rd District fray is Clinton District
Leader Jim McManus. McManus was
outed by the VtIlage Voice a number ofyears ago, but his being gay is irrelevant.
McManus is a regular Democrat (~sopposed to a reformer), and he has a
Democratic club with his family's nameon it in Ointon. It's not clear how serious
his intentions are, or if he's only dropping his name as a way to help the
younger Abzug, since Jim and Bella are
longtime friends. At any rate, it's going to
be a long, hot summer.

And What About the Gays?
In the 2nd Council District, Antonio
Pagan will be challenging incumbent
Miriam Friedlander. Pagan tells me that
he is running as openly'gay. Yet a leaflet
put out by the Committee to Elect Antonio Pagan entitled "Who Is Antonio
Pagan?" says absolutely nothing about his
being gay. He does say that he was cofounder of the Hispanic AIDS Forum, but
not a word about his being a Latino gay
man. The HAP has been the focus ofconsiderable scruitiny and criticism by
the Latina/Latino Caucus of ACf UP, andI suspect that Pagan will have some
explaining to do on this matter too.
Pagan also states that he is the co-coordinator of the Tompkins Square Park
Neighborhood Coalition, "a group working to return the park to the conununity
as a safe, clean facility for all to enjoy,"and refers to his having received death
threats and harassment from "self-styled
anarchists," i.e., the homeless fighting tolive in the park. And not a word about
lesbian and gay rights, lesbian and gay
safety on our streets or a domestic partnership bill. What gives? We will keep aclose eye on this district. It has a large
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On Saturday May 18, Lambda
Independent Democrats of Brooklyn presented its Lunch with Lambda at thestately Montauk dub in Brooklyn.
Of course, Brooklyn Borough President Howard Golden chose not toattend. However, Golden did meet withthree members of Lambda on May 9.
Supposedly, Golden has decided to try to
work with the lesbian and gay community, and there are those in Lambda's leadership, apparently, who want to give him
the chance. Golden also says that he will
look into possible support of the domestic partnership bilI. Don't hold yourbreath. Golden has not been a friend to
our community, and I don't expect that
he will become one. In fact, I expect him
to attempt to take Lambda for a ride. I
also wonder if Golden will join Bronx
Borough President Fred Ferrer and Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger
in the Gay Pride march? I'll bet you tento-one that he doesn't. Don't expect
much from this character.
Golden's liaison to our community,
Ed Rogowsky, said in Brook~yn Paper
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he latest eye-popper adorning public spaces, "Safe Sex Is Hot
Sex," is a spin-off from the perpetually conceptual Red Hot andBlue project. Photographed by Steven Meisel, with creative
direction from Anneliese Estrada, these two posters promise to
kick off a sizzling summer of sex, coinciding with the release of
the original, uncut Red Hot and Blue home video. The album,
by the way, went gold last month, raising over $1 million so fur in the US alone.
"SOmething was missing," explained Estrada, referring to the RHB project andthe transformation the video program underwent in the editing room of ABC-lVprior to its airing last fall. "We were really upset that ABC left out the Jimmy
Somervil!e video, which featured two men. Jon [Carlin, executive producerJ reallywanted to re-involve the gay conununity, and Steven Meisel had shown an interestin doing something, so we went from there."
Unlike the 9O-minute home video, which is a sensuously potent collage ofmusic videos, interviews with artists and activists, and visual segments by artistssUch as Barbara Kruger and Gran Fwy, the ABC version that aired on December I,
1990, was sanitized beyond comprehension. In addition to scrapping both theSomerville video. and that of the Jungle Brothers, many of the interview segments
and almost all of the visual segues were cut, replaced by "hosts" who, among otherthings, waxed nostalgic about Cole Porter.
"Red Hot and Blue has been succesSful in that it has reached a lot of young
people," conunents Estrada. "But the kids still aren't learning about safe sex. In New
Yolk City, we hear a lot of discussion about it-but what about the kids who comein from other areas? Every summer) kids are coming to New York who still don't
know about safer sex."
The posters are both stunning and explicit, a juxtap05ition of image and language that hits both heart and groin. "They are meant to project a positive image ofsafer sex to a community that has been bomparded with negative images of sex,"
explains Estrada. "You cannot crack an egg in a frying pan and say, 'That's you
when you have AIDS.' Our community has been too shattered for that. Instead wewant to portray love and affection. Those are the things that keep us sane."• ACf UPs around the counRed Hot and Blue has donated posters to various
try to use as both attention-grabbers and fund-raisers. In addition, they will besold at A Different Light bookstore (all locations) and at Patricia Field's in New
Yolk (the lesbian version of the poster will be in the works as soon as they canrecoup some of the cost involved). To order the poster from A Different Light,
send $16 (includes shipping and handling) to A Different Light, 548 Hudson St.,New York, NY 10014, or call 1-800-989-4850 (non-NY residents only). And don't
forget to look for Jimmy SOmerville on the Red Hot and Blue home video.
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Osborne•he liturgy of activism includes torrid
rhetoric, an unrelenting pursuit ofstated goals and a refusal to surrender a single point on one's agenda.
It also includes the assumption that
one's activities are of tremendous
import to the powers that be. The
belief that government, as represented by law enforcement, has asingular, insidious interest in gay
and lesbian activism, an interest
matched only by the furor of..
activists themselves, has indisputably become part of the activist mindset.
ACf UP and Queer Nation open with a facilitator announcing, erroneously, that any law
enforcement representatives must, by law, identify
themselv~s. Those same groups have organizedteach~ins to train members in guarding against infiltration and harassment. But it seems that this is wasted
energy, at least where the feds are concerned.
For it appears that, after nearly 30 years of needlesssurveillance of gay and lesbian organizations, the Federal
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In 1988, the FBI began Inv.stlgatlng
Gay Treasures for the distribution ofchild pornography.

iBureau of Investigation has learned
to mind its own business and not go
sniffing around in the activities ofgay men and lesbians who are simply exercising their First Amendment rights.
In July 1990, Out Week, hoping
to catch the feds engaging in illegal
surveillance, made 64 requests
under the Federal Freedom ofInformation Act to nine different
FBI field offices, seeking files on
gay and lesbian political organizations, social groups, businesses and
AIDS service providers. The FBI
responses to those requests, together with documents provided to
Out Week by Dan Siminoski, a former professor of political science at
Texas Tech University who made asimilar FOIA request in 1982, reveal
a pattern of FBI surveillance of gay
and lesbian organizations that dates
back three decades.
In fact, FBI records obtained by
Siminoski on the early gay rights
movement run to the thousands ofpages, revealing that the FBI snoopedon the Mattachine Society and theDaughters of Bilitis and later peakedwith the surveillance of the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Activists
Alliance in the 1970s.
But OutWeelfs requests, mainly
on groups founded since 1980, yielded few main files, together with a few
unexplained cross-references, suggesting that the FBI has ceased its
spying on the queer community.

In the early 1950s, when Mattachine was just beginning, J. Edgar
Hoover, a suspected homosexual
who ran the bureau from 1924 until
his death in 1972, apparently became
obsessed with the connection
between the nascent gay rights
movement and the Communists
believed to be hiding under every
American bed. According to Siminoski's documents, Hoover dispatchedagents to uncover the workings ofthe homo/Commie conspiracy.
While Harry Hay and other
Mattachine founders were, in fact,
active Communist Party members,
no conspiracy that would justify
the FBI's extensive surveillance
existed. But Hoover, unconvinced,
continued to fire off memos to FBI
field offices demanding that agentsproduce the evidence. The surveillance lasted years. Additionally, theFBI, as late as 1967, used the Mattachine file information to screen
federal job applic~nts. FBI scrutinyof Mattachine was quite detailed.
Among the documents Siminoski
obtained is the dinner menu from
Mattachine's 1959 national convention in Denver. The surveillance
was extensive as well. Responding
to OutWeelfs FOIA request, the FBI
said that it currently has 4,800 documents on Mattachine and otherearly gay groups, making the FBI
the owner of one of the largest,
single sources of archival information on the early gay and lesbian.In the early 1950s,

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became obsessedwith the connection
between the nascentgay rights movement
and the Communists
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Washington, DC, chapter of the
Mattachlne Society, received aphone call from the FBI In 1964.

liberation movement.
Frank Kameny, who founded the
Washington, DC, chapter of Mattachine in 1961, reports that he waslargely unaware of any FBI surveillance until August 1964, when hereceived a call from FBI Agent John
A.O'Byrne.
MattachineIWashington had been
publishing 1be Gazette, an early gay
magazine, and had mischeviously
placed a number of public officials
on the magazine's mailing list-J.
Edgar Hoover among them. Seeking
to have his name taken off The
Gazettes mailing'list, Hoover had
O'Byrne meet with Kameny. Because
Kameny's name was not mentioned
in 1be Gazette, it was apparent toKameny that the agency was watching Mattachine.
"It was obvious," states Kameny.
"We were treated as deviates, perverts.
We were equated with communists,
due to J. Edgar's own moralism."
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Members of the Gay Liberation
Front, or GLF,and the Gay Activists
Alliance, or GAA, report experiences
similar to Kameny's where, despiteextensive FBI surveillance, theyremained largely unaware of theagency's attention. When OutWeek
shared the FOIA information withseveral GAA members, they were notsurprised to learn that the FBI had
surveilled the group, but they weretaken aback by the extent of the spying. The bureau holds 38 separate
files or cross-references on GAA infiles on other individuals or organizations. One member of GLF,who
requested anonymity, told Out Week
that he had direct knowledge of FBI
surveillance and added: "It makes
sense. [GLF]was linked with groups·that were espousing violence," refering to alliances with the Black Panthers and the Venceremos Brigade.
And while no members of Mattachineor GAA reported harassment by theagency, the anonymous GLF member
recounts that federal agents told his
family that he was "involved in a subversive group and possibly violent."

The GLF member said, "It definitely
was harassment."
The FBI told Siminoski that they
have 63 cross-references or files on
GLF, and OutWeek's request pro.
duced one investigative file in the
New York field office which they
have yet to release. The extensive
references to GLF undoubtedly result
from the name being commonly
used, although the many GLFs were
unaffiliated.
,
This vast accumulation of documents serve as a testament to the
FBI's paranoia, its conservative natureand its unbridled power under
Hoover. Siminoski obtained, in all,
6,500 documents after an 8-year court
battle with the agency. Despite thisextensive effort, there is no indicationthat the FBI uncovered any criminal
activity or produc.ed a single arrest' .
In addition to the information on thegay and lesbian organizations, there
are many references to other leftist
groups, including the Black Panthers
and the Students for a DemocraticSociety, revealing an FBI view of theleft as a single, monolithic threat.

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of an FBI witch-hunt, a fact of life to
As for OutWeelt s 64 FOIA
which they appear to be resigned.
requests, ten main files pertaining toRenato Corazza, spokesperson fororganizations in the gay and lesbian
NAMBLA,said, "We act as if they arecommunity have been unearthed towatching us all the time evendate. In addition, there were 31 crossthough there is no overt sign the FBI'
references, defmed as a reference tois investigating us now." 'the subject of the FOIA request in a
San Francisco's Project Inform,
file on another group or individual,
the AIDS research and advocacy orgasome pre-dating 1980 and others
nization, is also the subject of a main
related to criminal investigations.
file held at the FBI's San Francisco
Historically, the agency has
field office. According to the FBI, thesurveilled groups it deemed subverfile is currently lost, but the San Fransiveagents
keeping tabs on us for
cisco field office has told Out Week
political reasons. But this seems ~o bethat the me's number is 89E, the claschanging. Currently, where organizasification concerning "conspiracy totions are the main subject of FBI
impede or injure a federal officer."files, the bureau appears to be
The me was opened in March 1987
engaged in investigating a possible
and closed three months later. Martin
violation of federal law as opposed
iDe1aney, executive director of Projectto surveillance, although there are
Inform, speculates that the me wassome in the gay and lesbian commuopened when the feds learned that henity who would find the laws themand a friend planned a PR stunt thatselves objectionable.
involved making a citizen's arrest, on
A case in point: The Northmurder charges, of Frank Young, then
American Man/Boy Love Association,or NAMBLA,has the distinction of
the commissioner of the Food andDrug Administration.
being the subject of mort: investigative files than any other currently
FBI agents sought an interview•
active group OutWeek,sought records
with Delaney, who declined to speak
on. The FBI holds siX files on NAM- , to the feds on the advice of an attorney. Delaney received phone calls
BLA in the bureau's New York fieldfrom the bureau every Friday afternoon
office and one file in the Clevelandat 2 pm seeking information. Eventualfield office. This is likely due to thely the calls stopped, suggesting that thegroup's philosophy: The group's
FBI was not overly interested in pursupreamble asserts, "NAMBLA'sgoal isto end the long-standing oppression
ing the Project Inform case.
The largest file obtained by Outof men and boys involved in any
mutually consensual relationship."Week on a current gay organization isRegardless of our view of such rela:Gay Treasures, a Manhattan store seiltionships, they remain a violation ofing gay male erotica and memorabilia.
federal statutes on the sexual
The me, 6O~rpiiges long, was opened
exploitation of children, and theas a part of an FBI investigation into
bureau can legally-some in the gay
an alleged "kiddie porn" ring ..
and lesbian community would say
Gay Treasures came under FBI"legitimately" surveille NAMBLA
surveillance in January 1986 whenmembers if an ,agent has reason to
Gay Treasures' former owner, the late
Donald Sherin, was implicated in thesuspect criminal activity.
manufacture and distribution of childIn the early 198Os, NAMBLA
members claim, federal agents leaked
pornography. In March 1986, thestore was raided by the FBI and theinformation to the press trying to link
New York Police Department. Sherin,
NAMBLAto the disappearance ofarrested on a variety of state and fedEtan Patz, a 6-year-old who disaperal charges, would eventually
peared on his way to school on May
receive two years' probation. '25, 1979. But despite the investigaThe FBI, notoriously stingy withtion and all the records the FBI has
FOIA information, released only 43
produced, the bureau does notappear to have made any successful
pages of the 609 page file to Outprosecutions of NAMBLAmembers.
Week, including copies of physicalInstead, NAMBLAmembers assert
surveillance reports, photographsthat their group has been the target
taken the day of the raid press"•

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Renato Corazza, spoke.per_n
for
NAMBLA, Is resigned to the factthat the FBI Is watching them.

reports on the raid and documentsfrom the Department of Justice concerning Sherin's prosecution. The
store was thoroughly photographedon the day of the raid; included
among the photos are shots of thestore's bathrooom and coffee maker.
Physical surveillance reports
include one document detailing anagent's undercover visit to the store.
The agent, identified only as "writer,"states, "Writer examined approximately 2,000 color photographs and recognized an individual named.[blacked outl who was 15 years ofage at the time the photos weretaken. It is recommended that thiscase be opened and assigned to writer." A final note, dated May 8, 1989,
from "writer" requests that the casebe reassigned, suggesting that, as ofthat date, the file remained open.
What is common to these files,
and what differentiates them from thefiles on early gay groups, is that the
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photographed a susplclous.looklng
coff_ pot.

been, or would be, committed. In thecase of Project ·Inform, the argument
is weak, but, then, the investigation
was not at all aggressive:
Not surprisingly, the AIDS
Coalition to Unleash Power, or ACT
UP, is the subject of at least one FBI
main file.
Originally, all of OutWeek'srequests for records on ACf UP cameback in the negative, with the exception of a number of cross-references
held in the New York field office. But
in April 1991, 11 pages of FBI telexes, obtained under FOIA, arrived at
Out Week. Five separate file numbers
were listed in the documents, all
beginning with a 157 code designating "civil unrest." Seeking those files
by number, Out Week learned that thebureau's Los Angeles field officeholds one file on ACf UP and FBI
headquarters in DC holds the other
four, which mayor may not have
ACf UP as their subject. FBI headquarters has yet to process the FOIA•

request for the four files.
According to FBI spokesperson
Mike Kortan, ACf UP came to thebureau's attention as a result of
numerous demonstrations at federalbuildings, since the bureau is responsible for investigating "destruction offederal property."
The telexes, two from Los Angeles to headquarters and the thirdfrom New York to headquarters, support this view. All three warn ofpending ACf UP actions at federal
sites, including the federal building inWest Los Angeles and the American
Consulate in Toronto.
Yet in a frankly ridiculous twist,at least some of the documents
appear to have been routed throughthe bureau's Domestic Terrorism Unit.·
The head of that unit, Keith Mendenhall, declined to be interviewed, but
presumably "threats" to federal prop-.
erty are sent to Domestic Terrorism .
Kortan asserts that the FBI is notinvestigating ACf UP but says that·the bureau has a responsibility to
inform other federal agencies uponlearning of possible demonstrations

at those agencies. Information on
ACf UP actions at federal sites
obtained by the bureau most probably comes from local law enforcement.
The New York field office also
responded in the negative for a fileon ACf UP, although they hold anumber of cross-references on thatorganization.
The number of cross-references
has grown in the past year and a half.
In 1989, ACf UP member Steve
Quester sought the group's records
under the FOIA and was told that theagency had only six cross-references
consisting of 17 pages in two meso
The bureau would not release theseto Quester.
Responding to OutWeek'srequest, the New York field officereported 12 cross-references consisting of 29 pages in eight separate files
on other organizations or individuals.
One page comes from the State
Department, and a second was provided by the Secret Service. The FBI
has declined to release any part ofthese documents, and the bureau••

Edwards, told Out Week, "The FBI has
declined to comment on them.
The temptation is to conclude that assured us that today, 1990, it is not
the eight files have eight ACf UP
monitoring or investigating gay organimembers as their sobjects, but there
zations or activists because of their
could be any number of explanations
political or sexual views."
for these references. ACf UP may
While this is ail well and good, it
have gained the attention of a hateis also true of the agency that its policy
group the agency is watching, or they
concerning gay and lesbian employees
could involve an ACf UP member
continues to be abysmal, suggesting
who is suspected of involvement inthat the anti-gay bigotry that motivatedsome criminal activity.
the surveillance remains.
An FOIA request made to the
In 1987, Margaret Padula sought
Secret Service revealed what is essenemployment at the FBI as a special
tially a chronology of ACf UP demonagent. Although Padula was ranked
strations at presidential and vice' presi39th out of 303 qualified applicantsdential appearances, as well as ACf
and 279th out of a total applicant
UP's activities at the 1988 Republican
pool of 1,278, she was denied ,a posiNational Convention.
tion. It is Padula's belief that it was
The document originating withbecause the agency, while performing
the State Department, on the other)a background check, had learned that
hand, relates to ACf UP activity on
she is a lesbian.
September 22, 1988, at the United
In its decision upholding the
Nations, according to a department
bureau, the US Court of Appeals'official. But ACf UP archives, have noraised the standard spectre of blackrecord of a UN demonstration
on ormail despite Padula->s"out" status. Thf"•around that date.
court added, "The FBI, as the bureau'
Some cross-references reported inpoints out, is a national law enforceresponse to Out Week's FOIA requests
ment agency whose agents must be
are easily explained, like the reference
able to work in all states in the nation .
to A Different Light Bookstore, which
To have agents who engage in conappears in the Gay Treasures file (theduct criminalized in roughly one-halfstories are next door to each other).
the states would undermine the law
Other cross-references, however,enforcement credibility of the bureau."
are more intriguing. For example: Why
In the case of two recently fired
are Gay Men's Health Crisis, Men of
bureau employees, agent Frank ButtiAll Colors Together and the Humanno and a second staffer who requested
Rights Campaign Fund mentioned inanonymity, an arbitrary personnel polFBI files? As long as the FBI declines
icy appears to have been applied toto release these documents, allremove the two gay employees fromanswers are speculative.
their jobs.
What can be concluded from all
The FBl's policy states, "Where
the information gathered by Siminoski
homosexual conduct is indicated, it is
and OUtWeek is that the FBI has largely considered a Significant factor in FBI
ceased surveilling gay and lesbiandecision-making, with respect to bothorganizations, a practice which somehiring and retention of employees.
times led to harassment
butrarelywent
Issues which arise regarding sexual•
further. Instead, the bureau appears to
conduct rather than status or preferinvestigate groups in the gay and lesence are reviewed In each case tobian community only when they susdetermine whether the conduct may
pect a clear violation of federal law.
be of concern to employment."
In fact, in late 1989, the FBI told
Both Buttino and the staffer admit
the House Subcommittee on Civil andto minor infractions that led to theirConstitutional Rights, the congressionbeing investigated and fired, but theal body responsible for overseeing theinvestigations were protracted andagency's non-counterintelligence operbrutal. They were required to answer
ations, that, as of 1980, it no longer
questions on their sex lives, in detail,engages in such surveillance in thewhile hooked up to a polygraph. The
gay and lesbian community.
polygraph sessions lasted hours.
Speaking through a spokesperson
Congressman Don Edwards said
last year, the subcommittee chair, Don
in a statement last year, "The FBI•.Why are Gay Men's

Health Crisis, Men 9f
All Colors Together
and the Human Rights
Campaign Fundmentioned in FBI fues?
As long as the FBI

declines to release
these documents,
all answers
are speculative.
claims it treats homosexuals and heterosexuals alike, but the policies arevague, and, to the best of our knowledge, these vague policies are usedagainst gays."So, if the FBI has ceased thewidespread surveillance it once practiced, it has done nothing to address
the underlying condition-the bigotry,
the suspicion-that moved agents toundertake that surveillance. And recent
discrimination lawsuits by Black, Latino and women officers underscorethe scope of that prejudice.
"From all ,the evidence OutWeek
collected, it appears as although the
FBI has curtailled political surveillance of gay and lesbian. organizations," stated Bill Rubenstein, directorof the American Civil Liberties Union's
Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights Project.
"One would hope this recent enlightenment would carry over to their personnel policies, with the result thatthey would employ openly gay people. It looks like we've got them tostop spying on us. If we could only
g.et them to hire us, it would movethem into the 20th century."~",un_ .. 2, ......

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field Parish prints, Jonathan Katz's Gay History on the bookshelf,
Fiesta Ware, South American Indian Crafts, Mexican icons, clippings from memorial services. These are things that make ahouse a queer home.
At first glance, a visitor might not notice any queer design elements in a tiny West Village studio like mine other than the factthat absolutely everything of import is within ann's reach of- thebed. But a closer look reveals the queer det:ai1s---a newspaper picture of Madonna lovingly cut out and floating against a white wall,a shelf full of snapshots of my "family" of friends and lovers andmany more female nudes on the walls than would be decent for a straight girl to display.
Whether with subtle touches or giant gestures, lesbian and gay New Yorkers put a
lot of themselves into their apartments, and the results range from gorgeous ornatenessto startling simplicity, with a healthy dose of politics and camp thrown in.
Ricky Gilt, a Manhattan art director with an impeccably appointed Hoboken one-bedroom
apartment, weighs in at the gc»geously ornate end of the selie. His t:hree-room apartment is ,filled to the brim with collecti
Wedgwood, glass, stone and wooden grapes, birds,
pillows, cupids. "Don't fO/Betto mention my beautiful tassel collection!" he chimes in.
The cupids, all 37 of them, are stuffed into the bathroom. "It's the tiniest little bathroom. You can't close the door when you're standing at the sink, and the tub's only three
and a half feet long. But there's 37 cupids in there."I ask Ricky if there's anything particularly gay about his apartment. "Well, I have a

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CONKEY•Louis-the-Fifteenthliving room-the
sofa, the chair-ood most people of myage and income bracket just don't havethat. I used to think 'it was pretty flamboyant and gay for an apartment thissize, but, the other night, I was watching
An Inconvenient Woman on 1V, andJason Robards plays this very rich man
who's so straight he has a wife and a
mistress, and I noticed he had a Louisthe-Fifteenth office, so I guess it's OK."
On the other end of the decorating
scale lies Linda Matalon's Clinton Hill
apartment in Brooklyn. Painted ·completely bright white, including all thefloors, and lit with 200-watt light bulbs,
the place might strike the reader as cold.
But a visitor quickly feels the warmthand quiet of this carefully plannedapartment. Linda is an artist whose
sculptures and drawings are enjoying abusy round of gallery shows in San
Francisco, Santa Monica and upstate
New York.
"It's all white because that's very
peaceful. There's so much sensory overload in the world, it's nice to comehome and have it be quiet."
Most of the apartment's sparse decoration is functional-agrouping of
antique, but still used, all-metal knives
and forks magneted to the kitchen wall;a beautiful, old footed bathtub, stripped
down to the cast-iron; and an elegantly
simple metal-and-woodslat bed,
designed and handmade by Linda. Oneof the most striking design elements inthe bedroom is the red brick wall only
five inches outside the room's two large
windows. "In the afternoon, the lightshoots through and turns the wall abeautiful bright gold. "I asked Linda if there's anything
gay about her apartment. "There's me.
And maybe the stack of OutWeeks in
the recycling pile outside the door."
Tim Morrow is an artist and an
ACf UP member. His large paintingsand drawings with their religious, biotechnical and war themes
occupymany of the walls of his one-bedroom
Long Island City apartment. His frontroom is a studio workspace; his kitchen
is done Mexican cantina-stylecomplete with Tiki lights--and his bedroom
doubles as a comfortable sittingllivingroom for visitors.

After spending a long day selling
ACf UP T-shirts at the AIDS Walk, TIffi
joined me in his living room to talkabout queer style. "There are ways of
expressing, in design, concepts that are
inherently homosexual. The wallpaper
is an obvious example." The wallpaper
Tim points to, covering one wall of the
bedroom, is of his own design. It is a
giant excerpt from Jean Genet's Funeral
Rites, typeset in inch- high letters for all

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wallpaper becomes inherently queer.
Wherever it was, it would be queer."
The text is morbid, fascinating, masturbatory, frightening. TIffi calls it "active."
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Like many people I talked with,Tim said the queerest stuff in his apartment is the literature that lies around.
"When you're politically involved thesedays, you're constantly being handed
paper, which I bring home. Then friends
come over and kind of sort through it,
and it gives them a chance to see
things that they might not otherwisesee." This constant transmission of
information
is a theme in Tim's
home from his wallpaper to his own
painting to a GANG (an art collective
off-shootof ACT UP) poster ofGeorge Bush as the Marlboro man toa little Xerox of Keith Haring in an
ACf UP T-shirt.
And then there is TI1TI'stotem wallcovered with a couple of favored postcards, a voodoo doll, a snatch of blue
velvet. Many-maybe most-gay and lesbian homes seem to contain a place likethis. Though these spots are often•••

tongue-in-cheek and their designers don't
call them anything in particular, theyamount to modem-day shrines or altars.
Jonathan Starch, a free-lance mm
producer who owns his spacious onebedroom in the West Village, has devoted his front hallway to a whimsical reli•gious tour of his travels. Four beaded
money necklaces from Africa hang next
to a lovely dried Hawaiian lai. Belowthat is a shelf holding a Koreap. prayer
candle and a Lower East Side prayer
candle. ("It says 'Our Lady of the Ransom,' but I don't really think it's aboutkidnapping.") Guarding the entrance isa Demon Scroll from Macau, a Portuguese colony west of Hong Kong.
When I mention to Jonathan that religious icons seem to be a decorating
theme in gay apartments, he says: "Maybe
we're looking for passion. Something togive ourselves over to."Nan Buzard's "altar" is a tiny shelf in
her sunlit East Vtllage living roqm. Before
she became associate director of the
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use it to pray, but it is a center of clarity
for me. Everything on it represents a
moment, a person, a place that confirms
for me the myste'Y and beauty of living."
Clark Robertson, a painter and textile designer who teaches at Parsons,also has such a spot---Q marble shelf hedesigned and built himself-laden withcandles. But the really queer element in
the beautiful Park Avenue home heshares with his boyfriend is the bathroom. It's plastered from floor to ceilingwith "postcards, drawings, press releases, stuff from my students, newspaper
photos of Elvis and Kennedy'S son,
pornography ..." Stacked beside the toilet
is a pile of porn magazines left overfrom Clark's famous porn party. "I've
got everything in there. Gay porn,straight porn, transsexual porn, chicks
with dicks, pregnant women porn ..."The striking thing about Jacqueline
Charlesworth's apartment is its fluid mix
of gay male and lesbian items. Jacqueline moved her Park Slope, Brooklyn
apartment to New Haven, Conn., three
years ago to attend Yale Law School
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"The gay boy's stuff is the art-deco
furniture, the Fiesta Ware, the depres- •sion glass, the art-deco toaster and someof the kitchen-thepanther planters
and the happy-face mug. The gay girl's
stuff is my collection of 1920s Nancy
Drew novels, 1950s lesbian porn, theMaxwell Parish prints and, of course,
my collection of belly-dancing jewel'Y
that hangs on the bedroom door. It
makes such a nice sound when you
close the door."
The belly-dancing
jewelry fits
around the hips and ankles and serves
to remind Jacqueline of "my wild days
in San Francisco. I first saw them at thefirst lesbian strip show I ever went to,
and I thought it was the sexiest stuff. It's
worn in a way that accents womenCS'
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is that the secret surprise of the Third Annual
New York International
Festival of Ftlm-the special, unnamed,sneak
screening mentioned in
the program-will be thedebut of k.d. lang's new"film. This is the Percy
Aldon film, written about in some of last
year's columns, in which k.d. plays alesbian Eskimo. It's also being said that
this is k.d.'s way of officially coming
out of the closet? We'll see.
'
The Festival did get some goodpress breaks last week, among them
Billy Norwich's society column in the
Datty News. In his usual list of socialite
parties,
Norwich boldfaced
Larry
Kramer, Charles Busch, Deborah Glickand Jennie livingston, among others, allas possessing "priority invites" to theFestival's benefit screening of Ron
Peck's Strip Jack Naked, and he included the phone number for those wishingtickets. This wonderfully queer item
directly followed one about a party for
the Post society columnist, Suzy, which
would be attended by Pat Buckley, Carroll and Milton Petrie, Bill Blass, Sid andMercedes Bass, Carolina ~errera andOUvin and Kelley Klein, among others.
Wouldn't it be great if some of thesocialites got confused and went to thewrong party? (Oh, but I suppose this•
could never, ever happen in the case of
OUvin Klein, could it?)
Norwich, like most of the othercolumnists, also covered the Love Ball,that gala voguing event! AIDS benefit,
which brought out every zany and fauxrespectable person in town. And hegleefully mentioned how Sandra Bernhard said onSfage that she wanted to"French kiss" the socialite Judy Peabody, who was one of the judges. But
only Michael Musto at the Voice would
dare to report how the out-again (forhow long this time?) Sandra also
engaged the audience with the notionof "finger-fucking" the big-haired, bigmonied Mrs. Peabody.
Sandra's words were enough todrive WOmen's Wear Daily, a publication
run by closet cases who pander to theladies who lunch, into a hissy fit.
Joseph Storia, the pompous idiot
who covered the ball, said thaI
Bernhard "went way overboard"by saying "crude things" about Mrs.
Peabody, who "stiffened." Oh, please.
Grow up, you prudish asshole-and,while you're at it, take a look at what
constitutes really "crude" behavior. D0ing the dirty work for your evil megalomaniac publisher John Fairchild, sucking
up to every corrupt, rich slimebag in
town, bolstering a truly homophobic
industry in which gay men are grossly
exploited and providing self-indulgent
recreation for the wives of the very men
who are out murdering
us everyday-now that's "crude."S~ingofcrude~crudor&Um~ whatever, was it just me, or were you•
absolutely sickened by New Yom magazine's cover story last week entitled"Don't Blame Me!" and written by thenauseating John Taylor? It was yet
another one of those PC-bashing articles(which New Yom has been obsessively
printing these days) that attempted toonce again tell us all that we're being"too sensitive." Rather than go into it
here Oook for Michael Goff's more indepth analysis in "Gaydar" next week),
I'd like to discuss New Yorlis editor andpublisher Ed Kosner, who perhaps
thinks that throwing us a bone with along-overdue gay-bashing story now
and then will shut us up with regard to
the trash he prints.
Kosner and his gang don't see
what's happening to them. Where once
New Yom magazine was a liberal, with-it

publication,
it is now areactionary rag filled withcleverly written babble
which tries to convince
people that it is actually thehip, new line, but which isreally all of the same oldshit that the right has
thrown out for years. And,
if the constantly-trend-seeking Kasner thinks that this abundance of
drek he's served up is fashionable, he's
off the mark. Even the chic set is now
bored with these stories, and many ofthem, if just for the sake of being stylishly contrary, have now decided that it's
the anti-peers who are whining profusely in the most tiresome manner,
screaming that they are "victims." (Howthe tables do turn.)
And why have the Kosners andsuch begun this crusade in the firstplace? It is due, in part, to the simple
fact that Ed Kosner-and Ed Koch andPete Hamill and the Voials Nat Hentoff
and the Wall Street journal's Dorothy
Rabinowitz and every other one-time
liberal columnist-is
now old. (And I
don't at all mean that as a derogatory
generalization about older people.)
All of us change as we get older.
Some people retain their ideologies andbeliefs, while others-perhaps
due to aplethora of factors, such as a change intheir economic status, location, health,etc.-drastically transform. The danger
is that the aforementioned opinion-makers, so publicly formed and defined over
the years, can'tor don't-see
thechanges in themselves. They refuse tolet go of the fact that they are not liberals any longer (after all, that is whatmade them-it's their bread and butter),and so they try to fit all of these new(but old as the hills) ideals they've now
taken on into a liberal or even leftist
framework. And you can thus imagine
how any real new ideas are immensely
threatening to them.
They'd probably agree with me tosome extent. They might figure that they
are older and wiser, and that we're justa bunch of silly kids who need tok
told "the right thing" (which, if they canremember, is probably what their parents told them). Of course, they probably don't realize that there arescores of older and wiser people
among us here, who do offer
the "right thing"people who

il I a011 0 i oori I•haven't lost any of their original vision
and who haven't been affected bypower, social circles or political fads.
Kosner and his kind will simply
keep whining into oblivion. They'll also
probably realize that, as straight whitemen, they can't just keep on telling evetyone else that they're being too 'sensitive,
and so they'll keep finding some token
younger, hipper person with the same
beliefs or the token so-called feminist
who will agree with them or the token
queer who toes their line. Of course, it'll
all be futile. For now they'll have theirlast gasp spouting their feeble garbage

and revealing to us all how threatened
they really are. Ultimately, however, they'll
slough off and be swept away.
But in the meantime, it's painful for
us to endure this proce~nd
to literally
pay for it dearly as they continuously
defame us in their disguised tones. We
must continue to fight them and bash
them back until they shut their stupid
mouths and accept the inevitable.
And if these endless, hysterical,
pseudo-intellectual
stories are all evidence of their irrational fear of us taking
over the world, then let's just get morethreatening. It seems to be working.Tc_,

USA Toy's~~Innocent"Blundernowledge is power, and every day,child." So, although abortion remains

Supreme Court ruled last week that clinics funded by the government must, as
The New York Times editorialized,"hide information or even mislead poor
pregnant women about
their right to choose
whether or not to bear ato federally funded clinics will not get
all the information, whether or not her
doctor feels that terminating the pregnancy is a valid option.
When spe,akingof economics, conservatives couch their

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arguments in "free-market", discours;e-ethe key assumption of which is a "rational, m-formed consumer." On paper, ·it
works because buyers are assumed to act
like machines, possess!ng all the neces'sary information and flexibility to makethe "best" decisions. In the social realm,
they also assume that everyone comesfrom a cold, logical, fully informed pointof view. They restrict safer-sex information and then call those who have AIDS
"guilty." They call inner-city kids "lazy"for simply not pulling up their bootstraps and applying for college and jobs.
And now they are putting the onus foreducation about health care on thepatient, instead of the clinic or the healthcare provider.
Whether a pregnant woman is introuble or not, it isn't a time when sheshould have to "shop around" to fmd out
her legal options. And, in the case of many
who use federally funded clinics, they
have neither the time nor the money tocomparison-shop. What they need-'.Uld
are entitled to-is one-stop shopping witheverything right out there on the shelf.
With the new abortion ruling, their reasoning, summed up by the Times, is, "Since
the patient has no reason to rely on theclinic for complete medical advice, she will
not be misled." In other words, the patientis responsible for the clinic's sin of ornission. Somehow she just has to know thatsomething isn't being mentioned.
So, our two-tiered health care system
is further aggravated. Can you believe thatin America, in 1991, it is illegal for a professional to take money from the government and participate in the free exchange
of information?

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something, it is your own fault, and if
sOmething bad happens to you, it must
be because you did something stupid
and deselVe it-except for the rare cases
where someone else does something
stupid, and you get caught in their hell
. fire. In that case, you are "innocent."
Last week's weekend edition of USA
Today carried a blaring front-page headline, "AIDS: Guarding the Innocent," fora huge story on the few cases where
patients have gotten HIV from healthcare workers. Selling papers is easy
when you play to the fears of "nearly 6
million readers." Who doesn't want toknpw how to protect themselves from all
those evil, nasty people who don't know
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But, USA Today knew that it hadscrewed up when it was deluged with
angry letters over the weekend. Thirteen were printed on Monday, each
one slamming the paper for "irresponsibility," "value judgment" and its "disgusting line" (that last one came from
Madonna interviewer Don Shewey).
The paper also apologized in an edi-

tor's note: "We did not mean to imply
that any victims of AIDS are 'guilty' andapologize for leaving that impression
with some readers."
It would be nice if every paper tried
to right their wrongs in such a timely
fashion. The front-page editor, John Ritter, said that he "handed the story off tothe page-one desk, and the headline
was written long after I was gone ....We

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Congratulations to Catherine Woodard, the finest
AIDS reporter in the city. She had a baby a few
weeks ago and will be taking a leave from Newsday for about five months. The editors at that fine••paper haven't decided whether or not they canreplace her in the interim because they aren't hiring new staff. Hope so, folks ....

The Times final-

ly covered the MGM suit against the Pink Panthers that was filed in January. But we love thelead, which included" ...attacks on homosexuals
more than doubled in New York City last year."
Just in time for bashing season....

Thirty-three,percent of unmarried women have changed theirsexual behavior because of AIDS, according to a
new National Center for Health Statistics study ....
Who's really being punished? Pity for Marjorie

Hill who must entertain the beer-can thrower fromthe SI. Patrick's Day parade. His sentence was towork in the Mayor's Office for the Gay and Lesbian Community for a while.

-M.G.

are clearly wrong, and that is the position that we are taking." The paper's editor, Peter Pritchard,
also said, "We
messed up, and we didn't see the meaning of it." Both editors denied being personally involved with Jthe offendingwords but also said that they might havedone it themselves out of ignorance.
NOW,people wi~ AIDS are not a
new phenomenon, nOr is this the firsttime the issue of "innocence" has beenraised. After all, these are well-known
editors living and working in thenation's capital. Their apology and "letters" column are accepted on good faith(I sent them for a remedial reading of
the GLAAD media handbook on how towrite about AIDS and qUecers-send a
copy to your favorite editor). But it
seems to me that their apology hedged,
if ever so slightly. Why couldn't they
just say that all people with AIDS are
innocent? Why was the impression only
left with some readers? If someone isdesoibed as innocent, then there is certainly a state of guilt. And, when are
papers going to correct their egregious
front-page errors on the front page?
Many readers never open the paper orskip the "Letters" column.
No one has ever been convicted ina court of law for bringing AIDS on
themselves. And only religious fanatics
openly condemn people with AIDS as
guilty sinners. If this is the company C&
Today wants to keep, then they should.
continue to dance around the fact.
Instead of fanning hysterical flames, howabout doing a cover story on the real
guilty ones in this epidemic~epoliti~dans, bureaucrats and right-wingers who
are killing people by restricting healthcare and safer-sex information to those
who need it? That act would be a case ofprotecting the innocent, and completely
in the spirit of good journalism.

• • •Victoria A Brownworth's Advocate cover story on dyke-bashing in
professional sports (reported to be theirfirst lesbian cover) really started something. The Village Voice picked up a
Ladies Professional Golf Association ?R
person saying, "I don't think there are
any lesbians on the golf circuit." So,
why are they supposed to have a fulltime staffer whose job is to "feminize"
the tour? The Times also went with thestory in their own "Sports" section piece
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Ahhh, summer. ..the time of year when pe0ple dress to undress. Liz and Sydney, going
through their closets, discovered that they didn't
have a clue when confronted with that mostdreaded of aU questions: "What should I wear?"
1bey went to the experts, aU of whom are known
for a certain individual flair. Although we canteUyou that most respondents named hot pants,
skimpy shirts and Doc Martens as the fashion
standard for men, women and each sex in
between, for those of you who take clothing wry
seriously, this column is not for you. But if you
are one of the few, the proud, the weird, wholongingly eye the sequined mumu in the window of a thrift shop, read on.
Michelle Van Voorhies, a.k.a. The
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tion for others in the steamy summer months: "Lots of Truth orDare T-shirts."

having spent too much time on the West Side Highway,
describes the return of the tire as a fashion accessory: ''What do
I think people will be wearing this summer, or what do I thinkthey should be wearing? Rubber is the fabric of the future. They
should all be wearing rubber shorts. And hats. And as always,-there's nothing like the perfect brassiere to lift a girl's spirits."

Shelly Mars, a.k.a. Martin, lesbian go-go performance
artiste, most recently ripped off by Sheila E. in her "Sex Cymbal" video, unraveled the mystery of lesbian fashion by, wellwe think it speaks for itself: "Bolero jackets continue to be a
fashion statement unless, of course, you are a bullfighter.".

Michael Musto, trend-setting colutnnist and fashion idol for
millions, lastwearing an olive on his head and purchasing
his haute couture from street vendors on Second Avenue saysthat he will be wearing "lots of Bob Mackie and earth tones."'Asked what he didn't want to see on others, he replied, "Earthtones and Bob Mackie, because Iwant to be the only one. "seen

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Jake Corbin, porn star, activist and condom-user, whose
answer reflects his job choice more than a little, claims he will
be purchasing new lingerie because "myoid ones have holeS."
Lincoln Palsgrove ill, door personality, promoter andself-described "glamourpuss" unlike others chose to answer, theessay section of our SUlVey. He stated that he would be wearing "everything everybody else isn't.", He further elaborated on
the state of real high fashion (something weknow little about): "'The only designer at the
moment with new ideas is lhierry Mugler."Patterson-lloyd,

performance
artist/comic,
mother of two and mistress of the non sequitur, says that thosewith the "look to look for" this summer will wear "a synthetic
fabric that hangs like a natural one."
Kate Harwood, door personality from
Copa and beyond, evidently sick and tired offuchsia~clad club kids whining for comps
answered finnly: "No Day-Glo. I'll be wearing earth tones and natural fibers." And forothers, 'she expects a spate of "I slept with
Merv" T-shirts. (Won't he be thrilled?). Linda Simpson, the Carol Burnett ofChannel 69, tipped us off to her new Bob
Mackie by saying that she "hopes to bewearing
more dresses
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the only
woman to be photographed in the same outfit
more times than herself, 'Tm seriously considering buying new jeans." Renouncing any semblance of a fashionable appearance, Sydney
replied that she was "giving up because, no matter what I wear, I always look like Carol Seaver
on Growing Pains. "'Y

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way to cheery billboards
an open bar. A huge wicker
touting the pleasures of.'basket overflowed with greenmilk, and a.frisson of delightbacks. After the winners werecame over me. I welcomed''
paid off, the profits would go
the sight of suburban sprawl
to a local AIDS hospice. The
as our car tooled up Routefeverish huddled around the
17 to Orange County. Dan
large television, as waitresses
was at the wheel of a rented
in staid unifOITIlS
were profferDodge Dynasty, pointing
ing liver-and~baconhors
out the territory with and'oeuyres.
, expert's eye; last summer,
For all the hoopla, thehe had managed the cam,race was over in two minutes.
paign of a local gay politiGo for Gold was the victor.
ciano Tom was poring over
There was a run for the bar,
an old yearbook from a
as winners toasted their forManhattan
textiles hightune and losers drowned
school, alternately chuckling
theirs. The party had alreadyas he read the corny insaipmoved out into the backyard,
tions or squealing over a
spilling over the patio onto
humpy photo. Drew and I...
the lawn that extended for
were in the back seat, as I
1t1A.,
yards back into a copse ofbreathlessly recounted last"trees. The more ~bullient invinight's date (my second)tees were insIalled at the poolwith an irresistible East Vuside bar, savoring mint juleps
lage manboy.
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and dishing freely. Drew an4 I
majestic Hudson Valley hills rolled by, as we glided up the roadapproached them, and were buttonholed by "Bobby," a slightto verdant Middletown for a Kentucky Derby party.
man with an animated face. His boyish demeanor was still intact,
TIle robust lawn was already full of cars as we drove up.
although he was approaching 60. "What can I do you out of,Rows of BMWs and Mercedes struck elegant poses. But theirgentlemen?" he chuckled, liquor at the ready. His bourbon pourgrandeur was eclipsed by a Bentley Turbo, with a price tag of aings were generous to a fault, and he delighted in watching thosequarter-million bucks. Our host, a wealthy mid, . .. ,around him growing fuzzier of speech anddie-aged Southern aristocrat whom we'll callpurpose. His lover, a husky, silent man with a"Tad," shifted his gin-and-tonic to the otherpipe, watched as we drank the libations.
hand to welcome us. His hearty handshake"Frank~ was dressed like a used-car
was rratboy calibre, his tanned face seeming
salesman &pm the suburbs, with an unfortuevidence of a thousand and one days of yachtnate toupee and a flashy gold neckchain. He
ing. We walked up the endless driveway to the
had downed several of B9bby's concoctions
country home, a '50s ranch house. The crowd
with ease. He leaned over and fingered thewas a mix of middle-aged homosexual gentlediamond stud and gold hoop on my ear lobe.
men, their young charges and preppie dykes.
"Oh, Jesus, that's really nice. I really like
Guests were scrutinizing the tip sheets, whichthem," he spluttered, "but I could never wear
were taped to the fireplace mantle and nearlyone. They think I'm straight at the office."
everywhere else, obscuring country paintings
Although divorced from his wife for several
and bric-a-brac of dubious pedigree. By the
years, with no other woman in sight, Frankbay windows in the parlor, a betting table had
was still deriving mileage from his reputation
been set up. Kelly green ballots, listing evety
as a randy divorce.
horse, lay in unifonn stacks on the table. A man
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THE NEW FESTIVAL: The Third Annual International Festival of
Lesbian and Gay Film. The Biograph Theater. 225 W. 57th Street.
(212) 966-5848. June 7-23.

by Broce C. Steele
Last year, the New Festival introduced Jennie livingston's Paris Is Burning, which, one year later, is still playing
at the Film Forum. In a special February
program, the Festival debuted Todd
Haynes' Poison, which was soon at thecenter of a national debate on funding
for gay and lesbian film. What program
will grab the limelight this month?
Will it be Monica Treut's My Father
Is Coming, the festival's opening feature
on Friday, June Tt The German lesbian
director of The Virgin Machine fUmed
this one in our own East: Village. Perhaps
the other first-night offering, Ron Peck's
autobiographical Strip jack Naked, willcapture everyone's attention. After all, it
starts a run at the Public Theatre the day
after its festival appearance.
Or maybe it's the mysterious,
unnamed closing-night "preview" on June
23, of which New Festival Co-Director of
Programing Sande Zeig will say only, "No
one will be disappointed, I promise."
For this year's hot ticket, the Festival's other co-director of programing,
Jeffrey Lunger, nominates Canadian
Bruce LaBruce's No Skin Off My Ass,showing as part of an evening4(!ntitled"]D's: Queer Punk Movies." "It's uniqueand humorous and offbeat,an intentionally
low-techkind of ftlm," he says, "and I
Bettina Wilhelm's All of Me (top),
Bruce LaBruce's No Skin Off My
Ass (bottom)•

regular Carmen Maura as a nun in 16thcentury Spain during the Inquisition. "It'sbizarre and wonderful--to see Maura as
a lesbian nun is an experience one
shouldn't miss, n says Zeig. That fIlm may
have a commercial New York run after
the festival, she notes.
Other new lesbian and gay features
this year include Bettina Wtlhe1m's All ofMe, about a German lesbian nightclub
performer in a love triangle on the road to
Warsaw; Hagar Kot's It's 1bat Age, anintergenerational lesbian love story from
Israel; Jaime Olavani's Las Gbsas del Querer, a musical from Spain; Stuart Marshall's
Over Our Dead Bodies, a documentary
about AIDS activism in Great Britain;
Paulus Manker's Weininger's Nacht, a.
hard-hitting biopic from Austria; and, fromthis country, Thank You and Goodnight,
Jan Oxenberg's exploration of death,memory and the afterlife seen at thisyear's Sundance Film Festival. [Some ofthese and other fihns are reviewed below.]
Just as diverse and promising are
the many programs of shorter films,
focusing on Latina and white lesbians,
Latino gay men and gay men of color,
Asians, punks, drag queens, teenagers
and even S/M-identified lesbians.
Each year's Festival has taken on acharacter of its own. Four special thematicseries were included in 1990; two programing themes recur this year: "Buscando
Nuestras Voces," a Latin American and.....
Spanish series, and "Growing Up Lesbian." .
The Latino films continue the New
Festival's ongoing surveyof international
lesbianand gay cinema, a project
begun with last year's focus
on Asia. "We concentrateon different regions every

year," says Lunger. "Next year, we plan to
do Eastem Europe.""Buscando Nuestras Voces" encompasses both features and briefer works,
including "We Are Hablando," an afternoon of Latino shorts that, according toLunger, will be especially "hot." Highlighted are works by Cuban-born Raul
Ferrera-Balanquet
and the late AIDS
activist Ray Navarro.
Although Extramuros
and oneevening of Latina short.s-<alled "Dyke
After Dyke"--«re included in the Latin
survey, Zeig says, "I felt that, from a lesbian point of view, we needed anotherfocus as well." Thus she created the"Growing Up Lesbian" series. "A lot ofvery young lesbian ftImmakers are up
and coming, and I've always felt that
there weren't enough images about lesbians growing up," she notes.
The young-lesbian series features
more than a dozen screenings, including
an evening of videos by teenage ftImmaker Sadie Benning; Simone, a French
film made by Christine Ehm when she
was 19; and Framed Youth, a 5O-minutevideo made in the UK by and about lesbian and gay youths, which appears on a
triple bill with two videos focusing on
being young and queer in America.
One last-minute addition to both
"Buscando Nuestras Voces" and "Growing Up Lesbian" was Sex and Sandinistas,a documentary featuring two lesbians
and one gay man from inside theNicaraguan Revolution.
Besides the two ongoing series, theFeStival is peppered with special guests
and one-time events. Lesbians confront
c1~ssical Hollywood
cinema under
Anorea Weiss' guidance on June 9;"Beyond Superdyke" honors filmmaker
Barbara Hammer on June 11; Tom
Waugh shows and discusses
preStonewall erotica dating back to 1850 on .
June 14; a benefit for Housing Works will
present Absolutely Positive on June 17;
guest curator Karola Gramman will beon hand to present S!M lesbian shorts on
June 21; and Jan-Ouistopher Horak will
introduce two examples of early Germancros&<lressing films on June 23.
Whichever ftlm or event grabs the
spotlight, it'll be another chapter in thecontinuing success story of the new Festival. The annual New York International
Festival of Lesbian and Gay Film is theorganization'S centerpiece, but it's nolonger the only piece. "There's the New
York focus for the June exhibition, but, asJaime Chavarri's Las Cosas del Querer (top),
Miguel Picazo's Extramuros (bottom)

an organization, we see ourselves as having a national mandate to take this kindof community event into America, where
the opportunity [to see lesbian and gay.
films) has not been present before,' says
Executive Director Susan Horowitz. Earlier this year, the New Festival took 25
ftIms and went on the road to five US
cities, from Atlanta to Seattle. "We had atremendous first-round response [to thetour)," says Horowitz. The group packs
up its canisters and heads for the hinterlands again in September.
The June exhibition in New York is
not just a "Gay Pride.
t event,"
adds Lunger. "We're IIying to make it moreof a film community event as well, so thatit can exist on its own as a film festival. I
think that this is the flJ'Styear that it's
really beginning to take that shape.' ...

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Festival Premieres and Highlights
Absolutely Positive(NY Premiere)

Absolutely Positive is archetypal of
the best and the worst of talking-head,social-issue documentary: It gives media
voice to disenfranchised individuaIs-in
this case, 11 HIV-positive men andwomen of various races, sexual orientations and ages and, with that accomplished, then assumes that the story has
been told and the work is over. The ftlm,
which will have its national premiere on
PBS on June 19, goes out of its way topresent an image of the HIV-infectedpalatable for the mainstream home audience, with the worthy intentiOn, no
doubt, of breaking down the'stigma ofseropositivity. In doing so, however, itflattens its interviewees into a sort ofhomogenous rainbow coalition, different
only according to the rules of identity
politics (gay white man, Latina IV-drug
user, middle-aged straight transfusion
recipient) and linked primarily by the actof going for the test, getting an HIV-positive result and then "dealing with it."
None of this is to slight the individuals involved: Many of them speak eloquently, providing insight into love, lifeand death, and all emerge with dignity
and admiration. But director Peter Adair's
decision not to match names to faces,
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the specifics of symptoms, illnesses,
treatment options or economic concerns
unavoidably leaves little more than awann, fuzzy feeling as thea-edits roll.
There is no sense of what these people,
and in fact all those living with HN,need-from the health care system, fromthe government, from anyone at all.
Adair seems to be fashioning a sortof "essential identity" for the HJY-positive, with its hallmark courage apd pioneering spirit. Given the ongOing culturaland legislative apathy facing anyone
who falls into the spectrum of HIV illness, this construction seems, underneath its feel-good surface, at once too
benign and potentially dangerous.
-Karl Soebnlein"complications" of life is what the film's
all about; there's pathos here, but theemphasis is on its transience.
And
although Orlanda and Elisabeth happily
return to Berlin together, the expected
heterosexual closure of Hollywood cinema is hardly in evidence. Instead, what
one feels is just the opposite: an openness that Orlanda and Elisabeth's love
will now not only tolerate but encourage.
All of Me is shown with Azian
Nurudin's Witbout Makeup You Haven't
Got a Prayer, a fun-to-watch,
fiveminute short, featuring an adrogynous,
black-leathered
blond applying her
makeup to Dionne Watwick's "I Say a
Little Prayer for You.".

'ADo/MeThe Evenings(NY Premiere)It's. e in the Netherlands
in 1946, and Frits van Etgers, 23, has
vowed that by New Year's he will havetold his father ...some unspoken secret.
That he's gay? Pf9bably not, since Frits
seems not to admit that even to himself.
Based on an autobiographicalnovel by Gerard Reve, author of The
Fourtb Man, director Rudolph van den
Berg's fUm is a quirky, generally lowkey study in frustration and indecision .
Frits is an introverted clerk with a wild
imagination.
He fancies himself aphilosopher but lives a confined existence at home with his father and mother--'aSort of Dutch, working-class Mr.and Mrs. Bridge.
He has a homosexual fixation on atall, blond ex-classmate but is unable tocontrol or act on his feelings, and he isalternately withdrawn, sarcastic, infantile and angry. VIVid fantasy sequences
depict his rampant Freudian anxieties.
His use and abuse of a stuffed raboit isparticularly curious
imagine a scenefrom Sa/o featuring WlOnie the Pooh.
Beautifully photographed and often
evocative, 1be Evenings fits a mold
most gay and lesbian viewers know
only too well: the artsy film about theanguish of a cute, young closet case.
Resolution comes not through affirmation of gay desire ~ut through acceptance of one's alieQ~tion-here
represented by one memorable
shot of a brightly lit camilboat peopled by muscle-boy
musicians, clearly isolated
from the dark city aroundthem. As part of the queer(US Premiere)
There has always been a strong
showing of German works at the Festival, and this year is no exception. Oneof the best is Bettina Wilhelm's 1990
feature, All of Me, the story of a gay
transvestite, Orlanda (Georgette Dee),
who makes a living as a nightclub
singer (if you like this kind, of music, his
German/English version of the title songalone is worth the price of admission).
The story begins with Orlanda's marriage to Elisabeth (Mechthild Grossman)and their subsequent trip to Warsaw fora series of performances. In Warsaw,
they meet several people, all of whom
Seem smitten-in
one way.or another-with Orlanda. (Both Georgette Deeand Mechthild Grossmann appeareq in
Monika Treut and Elfi Mikesch's Seduction: The Cruel Woman, the latter inthe central role of the dominatrix.)
Orlanda, in turn, is smitten with ayoung Polish man (Miroslaw Baka)
who seems unsure of his own attraction to the chanteuse.
As the relationship$ between Orlanda and Flisabe$ ~ this }'Quog man getcomplicated, Orlanda perfonns his songs
as a kind of commentary. And when
Orlanda gets upset and wants to leave,
the theater director who has booked him
in Warsaw advises: "Be glad everything is
so complicated-it is good for ~" On avery- basic level, coming to appredat~ theRudolph vall den 8arg's The
Evenings. Ron Peck's Strip Jack
Yasufumi Kojima's
Naked.
Rough Sketch, Dietrich in
Andrea Weiss' A Queer Feeling
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•community, we're presumably insidethat boat, looking back at Frits 'on theriverbank. Why doesn't he join us?
-Bruce C Steele•,

JD's: Queer Punk Films(NY ands US Premieres)Queer punks have arrived. Having
branded as "meaningless" both established, commercial gay and lesbian culture and the neo-fasdst hardcore/skinhead scene, this movement of tattoos,
dyed mohawks,
body piercing andunapologetic sodomy has taken a fum,rebellious hold across the US and Canada. Toronto's Bruce LaBruce and' G.B.
Jones, creators of the fanzine jD's,
express their non-{l5Similationistsensibilities in three mms making their New York
debuts here: LaBruce's No Skin Off My~ and two by Jones, Boots, Boobs andBitches, an aut<Kiocumentary detailing
Jones' up-and-coming status as "the lesbian Tom of Finland" and (not available
for preview) The Yo-Yo Gang, about "theexploits of two all-girl gangs roaming thedesolate dty in search of kicks."
In No Skin, LaBruce plays a tattooed hairdresser who picks up an aimless skinhead in the park (played withbrain-deadcutenessby Klaus vonBrucker), brings him home, bathes him,
locks him in the guest room and thenfantasizes handcuffing
him, flicking
ashes on his. skin and forcing him to eat
dog food and lick the toilet bowl. Later,
the skinhead's dyke sister (Jones), busy
filming her own mini-epic, Girls of theSM, urges her brother to take up withhis new benefactor, opining: "If you're askinhead, you're stupid. If you're aqueer, you're smart." Our two heroes
eventually wind up in bed and, a few
popped zits, licked toes and cum shots
later, all seems well with the world.
There's a certain deadpan, ironic
humor to all of this, but for so much
cutting-edge posturing, -these mms are
disappointingly dull. LaBruce's style displays all the hallmarks of the untethered novice too many scenes of pe0ple walking, no cutaways, unexplained
jumps in action--and,at 73 minutes,
the ftIm is too long by half. In Boots,
Jones exhibits a sturdier directorial
hand, but, if she believes wJ:1at her
character in Skin says "My camera::i$my machine gun" she had betteitake
some target practice.
But perhaps demanding too much ofan underground production is to ffiiss the .

mer between one of those male-bondhe hot, blockbuster days ofing movies (Robin Hood, Backdraft,summer, when brawnyetc.) or a second or third viewing of'(male) physiques are again
Thelma and Louise, go see the latter
what American youth (male,again. The more money it makes, themostly) pay their $7 to see,more likely we are to see more like it.
will be upon us soon enough. If TerThelma and Louise could evenminator 2 or Hudson Hawk (are there
make it onto the New Festival's screenreally people who like Bruce Willis?)
ing list in future years. The Festival
don't exactly satisfy your libidinal (andbegins this week, and though the preother) desires, there is, for the firstmiertls get most of the press attention,
time in too long, a movie that will:
there is lots of other good stuff too.
Thelma and Louise;[See coverage starting on p. 54.] FassI fell in love with Susan Sarandonbinder's The
when she was waitBitter Tears of
ing on CatherinebyPetra vonDeneuve's brown•
Kant, andstone steps in The
1'nOnzca
Geza vonHunger, brushing- .
dorenka1'np
Radvanyi's
her hand through1957 remake
her hair. She's been
in better (andof that dyke
worse) films since, but, as the film inclassic, Maedchen in Uniform, withwhich I realized how fabuloUs she is
Romy Shneider, are must-sees. There(even before her love scene withare also several programs of shorts,
Deneuve), The Hungerhas always
including Transportations, an evening
been my favorite Sarandon
of fabulous lesbian work from New
movie until now, anyway.
York aod New Zealand, and Cerebral
Ecstasy, a group of four films with SIM
I fell in love with Geena Davis justthemes. And for classic Hollywood
the other day: As Thelma, Davisfans, there's Edmund Goulding's 1941.
reveals how fabulous she too can be
The Great Lie, with Bette Davis and(it must have to do with her recent
Mary Astor. The New Festival packs aseparation from Jeff Goldblum).
lot into two weeks of screenings. And
It's difficult to decide which ofit's not just great films; it's sitting inthese girls)'ou like better. With their
the dark with lots of fags and dykes.
red, red hair matching the red desert
So check it out.
landscape that surrounds them
Keep your eyes open too for Dark
through most of the film, Sarandon
Obsession, a new film from Nickand Davis are the sexiest couple to
Broomfield, starring Gabriel Byrne andcome out of Hollywood in years. Even
Amanda Donohoe, which received thethough director Ridley Scott wouldn't
dreaded NC-17 rating because of a .
let Sarandon have a tattoo for her part~etero anal-sex scene. Variety quotes(we love her all the more for wanting
George Pelecanos, an executive at Cirone), her Louise still exudes the kindcle Releasing, the film's distributor:
of faux butch sexuality that educates"They told us what we had to do to get
and liberates Dav.is' vrai femme Thelan R, and we didn't want to do it
ma. Is the film "anti-men," as somebecause that particular scene [of anal
critics have wanted to see it? No way.
intercourse]
is essential to really show
JM
it's
very
pro-women.
And
if
there
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been explicitly pro-dyke.
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point; there are other concerns at work
here than making pretty pictures. Seethese films for their uninhibited, gritty gleeor as portraits of other ways to be gay.
And check your impatience at the door.
-Karl Soelm/ein

La Cosas del Querer(NY Premiere)
A Technioolor backstage musical witha gay subplot? A song-and-dance vehicle
that addre.sses fasdsm, feminism, gay blackmail, homophobia and queer-bashing? It's
all here in Jaime Chavarri's Las 0l5a5 delQuen>r(roughly, 1be Things weLove).
Lushly produced and enormously
entertaining as a musical, the film also
fleshes out the characters of Pepita andMario, an up-and-coming
song-anddance duo in 19405 Spain, and Juan, their
piano player. Steadfast Juan loves Pepita,
but he can't handle her independence
and liberated sexuality; Mario is gay inevery sense of the word. The film follows
the threesome from the end of the Civil
War as their rise to fame and fortune parallels Franco's consolidation of power incollusion with the aristocracy.
The countless musical numbers arevibrant and fun. This is traditional Spanish pop, not brow-beating
salsa-it's
stagy, romantic music: And like any
good musical, the plot is a bit stagy andromantic as well. But the generally feminist/pro-gay perspective is refreshing,and Angelina Molina, as Pepita, andManuel Band~,as Mario, are gorgeousand incredibly talented. (You may recognize Manuel from Madonna's visit to
Spain in Truth or Dare.)Alas, one bad guy in Las Casas isalso gay, but he's a nobleman, so his villainy is to be expected.
-Bruce C Steele
Otra Historla de Amor
If you're feeling that old, politicallyincorrect
urge
forHarlequinromances
especially if you're a gay
man who likes older, perhaps married,
men-lrecommend
this 1986 first feature by Argentine filmmaker Americo
Ortiz de Zarate, who died from AIDS lastyear. The title, Another Love Story, says it
all-unapologetically
gay-positive, it'salso unabashedly
melodramatic.
Raul
Lovera' (pun intended?), a successful
businessman in his 405, finds his happy
family life disrupted when his new maleassistant announces: "I like you. I'd liketo go to bed with you."

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Jorge, the much younger assistant,claims to be bisexual, while man-ta-man
sex seems never to have crossed Raul's
mind before. Nevertheless, the two soon
find themselves inexplicably in love.
After a celebratory sequence of mutual
indulgence, the plot shifts into a "bittersweet" mode, with spectres of death andhumiliation. Various characters make theappropriate speeches about privacy andfreedom of choice, and we wrap it up
with a touching pop song.
The movie is admirably acted andemotionally effective, despite the sometimes-facile,somewhat-misogynistic
screenplay.
Hot sex and politics areequally absent, however-simulated
lovemaking and mouth-ta-mouth kissing
are shunned in favor of gentle caressing
and lots of naked, slightly out-of-shapehips, thighs and buttocks.
-Bruce C Steele

Rougb Sketcb of a Spiral(US Premiere)
The first documentary to explore
the gay male subculture in Japan is attimes intriguing, but it doesn't delve too
deeply. Filmmaker Yasufumi Kojima
pays ever-so-brief visits to gay night life,
a gay beach and a gay support group,
but how this shadowy, carefully circumscribed world interacts with the wider
Japanese culture remains unclear. Perhaps Japanese closets remain too wellfortified for the camera to penetrate.
The film focuses on a small group ofgay men who come together to put on aplay. They each express simplistic opinions that fit their lifestyles: the celebrated
poet, the female impersonator, the flamboyant professor. The notion of gay idenprobatity seems new to the Japanesebly borrowed, like all the words they use
for things gay, from American culture somaybe what are tired cliches to us are sti1l
fresh in the East. It's a pre-Stonewall culture; AIDS and activism seem not to exist.
The young couple at the film's center
eventually takes on soine substance.
Yoshikazu, a grocery clerk and playwright,
is 25 and rather pushy; Takashi, whoworks at a gardening center, is 23, naive
and sensitive. The documenting of their
daily routine
and the rehearsals of
Yoshikazu's play~alternately
absorbing, troubling and boring. But when their rocky relationship undergoes new strains
on camera, a Ia PBS's AnAmerican Family, the film begins toresonate. Stick around for the last 10 minutes for some soap-operatic fireworks, as
Yoshikazu's deceptions reveal that wherever two or more gay men gather, you canfind disagreements about the meanings offidelity, love and sex.
-Bruce C Steele

StripJack Naked(US Premiere)
The big untold story in queer film is
one not of "positive role models" or"non-sterotypical characters" but of theepic determination and single-mindedstruggle needed to bring any queer
vision-positive,
non-stereotypicalorothetWise to the screen. In 1975, gay
British fUmmaker Ron Peck began preproduction
on his first -feature,
Nighthawks, the story of a schoolteacher
looking
for love within the postStonewall London bar scene a pioneering effort for such subject matter. Modestly budgeted and acted by non-professionals, Nighthawks took five years tocomplete. Twelve years later, Peck ispremiering Stripjack Naked to tell thestory of that effort. A conglomerate ofouttakes from the original and new,more poetic footage, it's part production
journal and part autobiography,anappendix revealing what wasn't evident
the first time around. We learn about
how the film came to be,- the plot twists
and characters left on the editing-roomfloor and Peck's own coming-out saga,
the story behind the screenplay.
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Peck's personal narrative is notunique. Teen heartbreak and humiliation,
the exciting discovery
of American
physique magazines, a collegiate awakening of sexual identity and an emergence
into the fragmented bar scene of the mid70s all have a familiar ring, but !,eck's
voice-overaccount has, at its best
moments, the compelling force of poetry.
His devotion
and determination
toNighthawkS completion is played out asboth a personal and a community ausadeagainst a history of cinematic misrepresentation. To label such a project a labor oflove is simplistic; few love affairs are tested by anything resembling the. relentlesstreachery of the independent film production schedule. The effort to makesuch work remains daunting,but Peck's own experience,and eventual success, offer
both enlightenment and hopefor all queer film to come.
-Karl Soebnletn

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BETTY. June 7-8. The Bottom Line. West 4th and Mercer Streets.
8 pm and 11 pm. HELLO BETTY! ("Man From B.E.T.T.Y.").

by Kurt B. Reighley
For fraternal twins Amy and Bitzi Ziffand henchwoman Alyson Palmer, theprogression from early musical efforts a
decade ago to their current luminaly status evolved slowly. The women often
known collectively as BEI1Y seemed todevelop by taking "three steps fOlWard,two steps back." But patience rewards thevirtuous, as both BEI1Y and their devoted funs can attest. Years of nurturing andnon-stop performing honed BETfY's
unique mix of music, theater and performance art to a deadly sharp~ess. With therelease of their debut album Heik>BETJY!
on their own "Man From B.E.T.T.Y."label,
the threesome now stand poised for theirgreatest leap forward.
In performance, BETfY runs thegamut from euphoria to terror, flaying asexist stereotype with a scathing bit of
repartee one moment, then settling intohonest pop songs. VISUally,the trio dazzles: Alyson's statuesque build stands
over six-feet-one-inch in basketba1l shoes,
her striking sepia features framed bykinky locks and endless pairs of the
fiercest eanings. Bitzi's lithe figure shimmies across the stage, lights glinting off
her nooe-ring and auburn tresses. Amy's
blond mop explodes from her crown, her
Rubenesque physique barely containing
her diverse talents and manic energy.
Hello BEI7Y! 's triumph lies in an
ability to mesmerize without the charismatic visual appeal of BETIY's live show.
The components seem simple: Alyson's
bass, Bitzi's keyboards, Amy's cello andan occasional rhythm track augment theirdeft vocal hannonies. But as the album
unfolds into 26 succulent sung and sp0ken pieces, the permutations of these elements grows more dizzying with every
CUt. Best of all, Heik>BEI7Y! features fullbodied cameos from BE1TY's many
bizarre live characters, including the frustrated, mate-hungry "Wolfwoman" andthat conniving "Ms. Snake" on her evil
.quest to snatch your lover.
A conversation with BETIY is notmuch different from the roller-coasterride of their perfonnances. Each member
offers enough personality to occupy any
intenriewer for hours. But BEI1Y equals
more than the sum of its parts, and, as
our discussion unfolds at a cafe near the
East Village apartment they've shared
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since moving to New York four years
ago, the three reaffirm what their stage
personalities suggest-BETIY never rests.
"Our record is number seven at
Tower Records in 00" exclaims a gleeful
Amy moments into our chat. "Isn't that
exciting?" Orders have begun coming infrom Boston and Philadelphia. The bandswelled with delight during a recent stintin florida, discovering their popularity
spreading farther down the coast. Not
only did cuts from the album find their
way on to the radio during BETIY's Visit,
but the only store in Petersburg stocking
Hello BEI7Y! sold out virtually overnight.
But overnight success is not a fairdesaiption of the BETIY phenomenon.
Though in earlier incarnations the band
made several demos, the results rarely
met their rigorous standards. After yearsof redefining
their live act, BErry,couldn't envision working with a producer selected by a record company. As
Amy recently wrote in the Washington.
Post, "the idea of having our virginal.musical ideas and' songs sullied by someclueless boob terrified us." It was a fortUitous day, ·then, when they ftrst encountered producer
Mike Thorne,. initiating.
the lengthy courtship that led to the actualization of Hello BEI7Y!. 'Thome's workwith unuslial stars like Nina Hagen attested to his commitment to developing aunique relationship with each individual
artist, and his role in hits including Soft
Cell's "Tainted love" had taught him theignominious fate of many young acts on
major labels. In addition, Thorne possessed his own New York studio. Nevertheless, Bitzi insists that "we talked tohim for a long time" before committing
and then only after the producer followed BETIY as far as San Francisco in
his determination to understand theirintricacies and eccentricities.
Hectic schedules made recording
difficult (it took over a year), but thegroup learned as they went along and,as months passed, grew increasingly
confident. "Originally, we were gonna
do a single," explains Bitzi, "and then an
EP..., and then we just kept working onit." Several major labels came calling, but
BETIY never received the sort of offer
they cqnsidered worthwhile. Instead, they choseto remain independent.
But independence
meant that, while Thomeand the girls could record

as they pleased, the finished productremained unpaid for and without ameans of reaching audiences. Determined to give their musical offspring
only the best, the trio "all sat down one
night and, after a couple of shots oftequila, decided to do it alone." With little fanfare, necessity spawned the creation of the in-house"Man From
B.E.T.T.Y."label.
"If we had decided we wanted tosay forget it and not do spoken pieces or
go for the lowest common base, wewouldn't have had to do it all ourselves:,
insists Amy. "But we wanted tl£album
to be representative.'t While'learning to.,cope with design and, promotionalchores proyed' stressful', the women of"Man FromB.E.T.T.Y.",leamed
that call.ing your owri'shot.{offuts bther'rewards.
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Rather tha£!.relYing on label repo~,an:'~Ct
countof
BETIY canmamtaih
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record'sal¢s(Alison claims'to haveol?ened, ch'~Sks,c<?htaining :no'tes like
"Love you 8aIs~but thank GO(:l..~FINALLYl" frt:nn fa1ls' worn thin from anticipation). And' though -tpe final cost ofrecording HellolJIi'in1'nclred $100,000:
BETIYremain 'confid,ept.thar the ends
justified the'meaI1s-fShoul(Falarger label- '...::~-.-.
optipn the albu~,. !iel{o:BE17Y! "i~ .
majo'r-la:belqUaiity afr~dY:" '.'"'.: .
With the completed. album fendmg
for itself in the racks, BETIY nciw turns
to other concerns. Selecting a single
and video prove challenging, so' the
BETIY Hotline routinely asks fans toname a favorite cut for proposed projects. The story line for a "Wolfwoman"video involves some "great ideas: and,
when Alyson voices her desire to ftlm
"Shrinkback," Amy rattles off a descriptive montage of "sex with a marriedman/fun with an African/tea with a lesbian": "Showing a hand with a wedding
ring, and then we're fucking ..." (using"body doubles: naturally).
Given their eye-catching looks, 1V
experience and recent success on Tbejoan RiveTsShow, one of the most exciting prospects on the BETIY horizon
seems obvious. "Hopefully, something
that's happening is our own televisionseries," reports Amy. What small-screen,
scenario could contain
BETfY? Bitzi suggests a
combination of music
and comedy a la "theearly Beatles movies."
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"Yeah ...," the redhead deadpans, "andbum it down."
A great deal of the current BETIY
buzz originated in the pages of Vanity
Fair, Glamour and Mirabella, Pressed for
BETIY's idea of "glamour," a plethora oftenns flies fust and furious. ''Talent is very
,glamorous," announces Amy. Biceps,
wackiness, strength, intelligence ...thediversity of BETIY's channs outstretches
conventional notions of beauty. "Beauty
is an outside thing," proposed Alyson.
"Glamour comes from a depth. You're
projecting what makes you attractive."
Slapping a label on BETIY foils
many, and at various career stages they'vebeen pegged everything from New Wave
to Women's Ml;Isic. Following a breakthrough stint at the Ballroom, the band
now wrestles with another tag. "Here,when we're called 'cabaret,' it's very
pigeonholing," explains Alyson, as Amy.
bursts into a vibrato and vanity parody.
"In England, 'cabaret' means everythingthat isn't like anything else." To solve theirdilemma, BETIY coined a new term:
Divarock. "A valid category," insists
Palmer, "and people are starting to use it.
When you think about it, there are somany Divarockers out there." Gm afficiandos hope for the trend to catch, as trios ofyoung women and men weaned on Marc
Almond, Teresa Stratas and BETIY huddle together in garages to practice hannonizing? "It won't be in garages," corrects
Alyson, "it'll be up in their mom's roomwith all her makeup and clothes on."Having conquered the recording studio, BETIY show no signs of slowing
down. Though their promised rock opera
looms hazy in the future, they plan toplay brand-new material at their upcoming Bottom Line shows. After years ofbuilding up a 10,OOO-strong fan base,
BETIY can't conceive of disappointing
the faithful. Bitzi projects that trends "youcan't always rely on" will continue tocome and go, but as long as the womenof BETIY have one another to depend
on "artistically and emotionally," thenmusic lovers can continue to exp.~ct
nothing but the best from BETIY.....
HeiloBETIY! is available at con-certs, Tower Records and by mail. Write
to "Man From B.E.T.T.Y.," PO Box 339,
Cooper Statton, New York, NY 10003.
(Cassettes $10, CDs $15. New York residents include 83 cents sales-tax. BEI7Y
pays shipping and handling.)•by John Donahue
Robert Gober has been making
body parts for about two years. "I had
never really shown the body parts•
before in New York," he said, "and I had
been working on them a long time. I
thought it might be a good opportunity.
The first piece was a leg. Then I made alonger leg. I wanted more of a body."
I met with Robert Gober at his stuclio overlooking a cemetery on the edgeof Little Italy. Several legs were in ~duction for an upcoming show at the
Jeu de Pomme in Paris. We talked about
his work in the Whitney Biennial. 'Projecting from the bottom of oneof the Whitney'S walls, Gober's "MusicalButt" is one of the most startling works
in a show that includes contributions
from Felix Gonzalez-Torres,
NaylandBlake, David Wojnarowicz and the colt! lective Group Material. The life-size cast
6 of a man's lower half, "face" down on.s the floor, is complete with hairy legs,~ white socks and Topsiders. Several stan~ zas of music are tattooed across the ass.
If
Once the visceral shock of "MusicalButt" passes, several layers of meaning
emerge. Gober explained: "The piece isambiguous and operates on a lot of different leve1s-from the slightly morbid
to a very positive image of music on a
man's butt being a symbol of pleasure,which for me is the overriding image.
The wax has a translucent white quality,
so there's something kind of deathly
about it too.""I found the music on the street
years ago and took it out when I had
the idea for the piece," he continued.
"I liked it because it was upbeat. It
looked like very lively music, the way
the notes ran on." His inspiration forthis particularpiece came from
Hieronymous
Bosch's painting "The
Garden of Earthly Delights."
Accompanying the "butt" piece is"Half Man Half Woman," which, as its
title suggests, is a mixed-sex torso
whose gender attributes have been graft- .
ed onto a sack. My own thoughts when
encountering these two sculptures wereof dismemberment
and crime, and I
looked around for other missing limbs.
Gober's work frequently eng;lges

everyday objects
but, unlike Pop art, the,undercurrents are of a dark nature. In
the past, the artist has handcrafted sinksthat may be exaggerated in size, cribs
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Concerning his own work, Gober is.
reluctant to limit its meaning by supply, ing explanations. When asked about, thesignificance of the drain, which appears
in a lot of his work, he said: "I'm notoverly self-conscious about it. It's justmy subject matter. "A print Gober recently produced for" .. ",.".I,I.I..II ..~..,... ,.~... ,_.,·····AI Taster's II
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our OF THE STUDIO-Gober at largethat are slanted, wallpaper patternedwith an image of a hanging Black man
easy chairs, a wedding dress. The bodyis evoked whether by its absence or, as
in the Biennial, by its painstaking replication. The '-work is tactile, the artist
favoring white silky surfaces. Gober's
method is obsessive and intensely
focused, and, by subverting innocuous
objects, he addresses
gender, sex,
racism, identity and· the concept ofhome and family.
With body parts, Gober's art moves
to a heightened degree of drama. His
trunCated fonns
stand out in the Bienni•al, the perspective of the legs in "MusicalButt" irresistibly drawing the viewer's
eyes up to the balls.
His own reaction to the Biennial ismixed: "There's very little dialogue withthe artists, and they don't reallywant it, and that's not very
interesting for me. I'd muchprefer to work with a curator
who's interested in talking toartists. There's also zero dia-

Parkett magazine may offer a key tounderstanding. Gober recreated a pagefrom The New York Times with, the actual
articles rearranged: "I cut these articles
up that I've been saving and put them all
together. I've been dying to work withthe wedding page for a long time. One
article I wrote we set it in Times typeand slipped it in," he recalled.
. Gober's article concerns the deathof a sma1l boy. The child, named Bob
Gober, is found face down at the bottomof a swimming pool being drained forthe winter. Besides its location on the-engagement page, what's notable about
this news story is its allusion to many
motifs found in Gober's sculpture.
"I can get so infuriated by theTimes," he said. "The Times more so
because it's insidious. In the Post, it's
so much more clear what the,prejudices are. I remember
once there was an article
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he ~as gay, -and they [the Time.si put itright next toa story about AIDS. What
do ,these two stories. have to do with- each other?". "1would love to paste up the paper.
I'd love to put stories of the perfectfather who shoots his family and put it

al.erinon the wedding page. You know-hookup pathologies about heterosexuality inthe newspaper." ~Bob Gober's work appears as part ofthe 1991 Whitney Biennial, which will beup through june 16. The Whitney is located at Madison Avenue and 75th Street.

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praised and decried for the same reasons: his straightfolWard descriptions ofdisaffected, almost' emotionless SoCal
gaytee.ns. do4tg 'a I~t of drugs, having
sex and bejng maimed or murdered.
Born and raised in and around .LA,
Cooper rater lived, on and off, for' five- years in'New York City and also spent
two and ~ half years in 'AmsterdaqJ..
Frisk, his new novel, features a~nairator•

named Dennis who lives in these sameplaces-and
who pretends to be aserial murderer.
Dale Peck: I'm very interested in
the narrator being named Dennis andyou being named Dennjs..-:.whatis therelationship between Dennis as narrator and Dennis Cooper as author?
Dennis Cooper: There's a pretty
strong relati6nship-not
in,like, actual•
detail, 'cause very little in the bookactually happened. I've never pretended I was a serial murderer or anything.
I mean, it frightens me, it fascinates
me. When I was really young, I readde Sade when I was 15---00d it madea strong impression on me. It reallyscared me, and I found it really erotic,
and I was confused about that andabout myself. I've always been interested in people who, for whatever reason-'cause
they're so psychotic orlonely or whatever--actually don't feelthey're worthy of love or sex, sothey'll kill someone.
When I was living in Amsterdam I
wrote Closer [the novel before Frisk J. I
felt really isolated over there, and I
was trying to use that. Like, if I was adifferent person--i mean, you get so
isolated, and you feel so distant fromeveryone around you that you just feel
like, Puck it, I'm gonna find out, I'm
gonna do this. But [I'm) like the narrator who doesn't really do it. I mean, I
think that it's interesting-it'seven kind of
beautiful in a way-but

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doing it is totally wrong. The reasons
not to do it are abstract-you
just,like, don't do it because you just don't
hurt other people. But that doesn'tmean you aren't still haunted by it.
DP: I was looking through He
Cried [an early book of poetry), andthere's a poem, "Poem for George
Miles," who's also the main characterin Closer. So who is George Miles?
What is George Miles?
DC: (He laughs.) George Miles isa real person I knew when I was inschool. I tend to use people's real
names 'cause it makes me feel more
about the characters, and also more
protective of them. He was younger
than me, and he was really attractive
and well-liked by everyone, but hewas extremely confused and did a lotof drugs and was very, very unhappy.
I was friends with him, and I was trying to help him-sort of like being hi,sboyfriend, but also trying to save him.
It was really complicated, and there
were relationships later in my life thatwere very much like that. I used him
because he was a person 1 have a lotof feeling about, and using him is away for me to write about somethingthat was really important to me anddeal with it in a really personal way.
It seems like I got in a kind ofpattern with him, trying to help people who were screwed up and who
were considered to be really beautiful.
No one really tried to understandthem-they just tried to exploit them.
And because they're attractive, they
get whatever they want, and therefore
they don't develop in other ways, theways that people who aren't attIe-ctive
do. This is a real generalization, butthese are people I've known.
DP: Images of cutting up and getting inside-tbat happens a lot in yourwork. What does it mean to you?
What are you using it for?
DC: It's been part of this thing
where I've been trying to understand-I reject all the belief systems,
like Christianity or any kind of religion, and I find it really difficult tobuy into Marxism or Communism orcapitalism or any ofthat stuff. So what
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I've been really fascinatedbywhat desire's about-that
it's for theother person, and the person is justthis body, and the body is just a
machine, really. There's this discrepancy between what you have in yourhands when you're with someone
you're attracted to, and who they are,and even if you tear them open,
you'll understand physically how theywork, but you would never be able toenter them or feel like, you know,
like you're less alone or something,or that you've actually communed
with someone.
DP: Do you think you've arrived
at arrived at any conclusions about violence? I've read several of your books,
and it's clear that you're interested in it,
but have you decided anything?
DC: Well, I'm sort of working
through it, 'cause I don't think mywork's really about violence. I think
my work's about how difficult it is to
be intimate with other people, how
the body is, like, this thing that's reallyseductive, but you don't understand it.
I've been trying to study it through thisextreme, to see if I can understandmore, ftnd a position in the world formyself in relation to other people.
In Frisk, I wanted to deal with it as
someone who thinks it's fascinating andkind of interesting aesthetically, without
taking it back to any kind of Freudianinterpretation. It's not as much at thecenter of the next book, which is verymuch an emotional book.
DP: A word that comes up a lot inyour books is "information," which is aword I love, because I always believethat it's you talking and not the character. (He laughs.) What is "information"?
DC: In a way, everything's information. Whether I'm interested in abook or going to see a band or evenwatching Nightmare on Elm Street, I'mlooking for information
about howother people understand something.
It's also a way of protecting yourself
emotionally from people by thinking,This encounter is just going to give mesome information, rather than engaging with it emotionally, and certainly
in Frisk I was dealing with that a lot.
Unless something is really heinous andfascist, I'm interested in it. I want to try
to pay a lot of attention to things even
if they seem ugly, just to see if there's
some clue in there about why people
do things.
DP: Frisk talks about AIDS. I don't·
know if you could say it's about AIDS,
but it's in there, and it wasn't in Closer
or anything before that. Do you thinkof yourself as writing about AIDS, or
by not writing about AIDS you're writing about it, or is it just there, justanother piece of information?
DC: In Closer, rightly or wrongly,
I had this idea that I wanted AIDS not
to be mentioned,
but there to be this,incredible
fear of the body andstuff----and of sex-andthat to be the•e Tnlnit an

way it was reflected. And in Frisk, thatnarrator's a person mostly obsessedwith his own interests, and I think that .
the way the Dennis narrator or thecharactersin the book [felt] about
AIDS was "I don't want to get it:' The
narrator mentions people he's known[who] have died, but it seems like hejust can't deal with it at all. I'm working on other things where I don't think
it's about AIDS, but it's impossible notto reflect it. I mean, the main thingthat affects the way I think about
everything now is, like, that my friends
are dying and sick, and all the injustice, of course. I'm trying to ftgure out
how to write about it politically, 'cause
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by Judith Shulevitz
Dennis Cooper slices through language as if he'd like to pull a skeleton
from it, which is exactly what his characters would like to do to themselves or
each other. In Frisk, his third novel,
Cooper comes terrifyingly close to that
goal. This is prose at its barest, the literary ironies about as subtle as a grinningskull: Both author and narrator are
named Dennis, both share the flat voice()f Cooper's past two novels, Closer andSafe; and the book's central conundrum-whether
Dennis kills boys after
fucking them or just makes this stuff
up-is never meant to be solved.
The pared-downstyle and thepseudo-autobiographical"I" notwithstanding, Dennis Cooper is no middleclass minimalist hela over from the early'80s. His irony may be clean-shaven, but
his subject matter isn't. Frisk is the storyof a man who, having been exposed at at~der age to some "snuff' photos (of aboy with his ass presumably blown off),
descends into an obsession with snuff
fucking and mayor may not, dependingon your readerly inclinations, become aserial murderer. But don't confuse Cooperwith~horrorof horrors
Bret Easton
Ellis, either. True, both hail from LA, write
about fucked-up youth, explore the dra-maties of inappropriate party behavior I
and have just published novels about
serial killers. But otherwise it's likeputting Dan Quayle in a cell with JackHenry Abbott.
Cooper, a gay writer who has been I
plugging away at the margins of literary
recognition
for the past ten years, iinforms his relentless brutality with such I
outmoded qualities as integrity, radicalsensibility and an advanced understanding of the world's most dangerous sexualterrorists-Georges Bataille and the Marquis de Sade, for starters, notto mention
Jean Genet. And Cooper outdoes absolutely everylxxly in one category not yet •accorded its own PEN prize: most consistent mention of shit throughout an oeuvre. This is a man who understands how
revolting the reader can be a revOlution. ary act.
So: The odor of fecal matter shator unshat-wafts
up from nearly every
page of Frisk, from asses pulled open so
as to obtain a better view up the rectum,from the last craps of boys being dismembered and, eventually, from theirdisemboweled guts. There are also, yousee, a lot of guts. The thing about shit
and guts is that they're, as Dennis would
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it-more obsessed with getting it, in fact,
than with getting laid. It's as if Cooper set
out to invert the Fox News formula:
Instead of sexualizirig information, he's
informationalized sex (it's like frisking).
Not that Cooper's characters don't fuck all
the time; residents of some sort of gay
Fantasy Island or a suburb, sans curfews
and practically sans parents, these kids
do nothing but fuck, talk about fucking
or watch movies about fucking. But lookat how the termina1ly stoned Henry, forexample, behaves after sex. For Henry,
who can't get hard anyway, the whole
point of the exercise is getting to pose hisquestion: "Uh, if you could change one
thing about the way I acted when wewere having sex, what would that be?"
Or why Joe likes to get hurt: "I tend to
experience things, even weird things like. violence, as fonns of information about
what or who I am physically."
Then there's Dennis. We follow himfrom that unnamed suburb, which we
figure is in Southern California (a scandal
involving Joe and a sadistic B-movie
actor seems to place it near LA) to New
York and Amsterdam and the book's
gruesome or not-so-gruesome-depending, etc ending. Dennis pronounces
Frisk's credo when he asks a beautiful
porn star hired for the hour to piss in a
glass and shit in the toilet, then refrainfrom flushing. "It's not, 'Ooh, shit, piss,
how wicked,' or anything," says Dennis.
"It's, like I said, information." "1hen what
are you going to do with it?" the pornstar wants to know. Dennis' answer:"Uh, create a mental world ...uh, wait. Or
a situation where I could kill you andunderstand ...5hit, I sound ridiculous."
For Dennis would kill to know.
Know what? That's harder to say. He
seems to be waiting for a message fromsomewhere inside a cute guy's body.
From some place he can't-but
wouldkill tb--5ee. He's a positivist with blue
balls for world beyond skin. "I mean, I
know there's no God. People are only
their bOdies, and sex is the ultimate intimacy, etc., but," he tells the porn star,"it's notenough.",As you've probably deduced, Dennis Cooper's characters are not positive
gay role models. They are not particulady nice to each other. A teenager
scams on his little brother, lured by afine, tight ass. Dennis shifts gears in
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64 OUTWEEK.June ~ 2, ~_~night table, crushing his skull, thenmutilating his body, especially his ass,
while he tried to dissuade me frommurdering him in a brain-damaged
voice." AIDS is in the air but is notreally an issue, except that it numbs
everybody and makes them even charier than they already were of intimacy.
So: Why, you ask, your rage
having barely boiled off after 1beSilence of the Lambs, Basic Instinct
and all the other commercial films
starring Perverted People Who Kill
Others, should you shell out $17.95
for Frisk? Because this one's different, folks; this one taps into feelings,

thoughts, fantasies you've had out of
the comer of your imagination, probably while fucking, sudden hot flashes you weren't about to share withyour partner (or maybe you did andare further along in figuring them outthan I). Frislts epigraph is a quotefrom Genet: "Put all the images in aplace of safety and make use ofthem, for they are in the desert. And
it's in the desert we must go andlook for them."
Buy this book,because for you it's a place of safety;
while Cooper's around to do the St.
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by Walta Borawski
for Emie Schnell

When I decided to wear
the black polyester
pegnoir to my 43rdbirthday party I
asked Ernie to cometo my room as I
switched from theDashiki I'd worn
for the lasagna partof the festivities
to the babydoll I'dpurchased at thethrift shop incase this was
my final birthday& I'd never get

to wear a garment
I've always wanted
to wear. Ernie
helped me find whichside was actually
the front, and after
we'd clasped thegardenia corsage
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ADVANCE LISTINGShTHE NEW SCHOOL presents The
InvenUon 01 Heterolexualty: A History.
Instructor: Jonathan Ned Katz, author of
Gay American History. The'history ofchanging definitions of normal sex inthis country is traced with reference tomedical and popular advice literature, aplay, a movie, a Broadway show song,
works of fiction and The New YorkTimes. $8. June 6. 8-9:30 pm. Aleo,
beginning June 4, The New School presents a three-week course on HomoIIxuality
and Religioul Tradltlonl.
Instructor: James Waller, project editorof the Encyclopedia of Religion, The
course discusses issues of homosexual·
ity and religiosity in a number of traditions, looks at religiosity in 20th-Century
art by lesbian and gay artists, and examines the struggles of queer Christians
and Jews to gain acceptance in main·stream religious denominations, $15. Tufrom 8-9:30 pm. Info: (212) 741-8778.
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Directed by Sarah Eckhardt. Starring
Robert Bella, Nell Pepe, Jordan Lage,
Todd Weeki, Christopher McCann and
Ray Anthony Thomal. $12. 336 W. 20thSt, between Eighth and Ninth avenues.
Every night except Sunday, June 2, at 8
pm. Reservations: (212) 645·8755.
Through June 8.
hPDG ART presents AIDS Artlfactl II,
an art exhibit. 319 W. 47th St. Info:(212) 262-2990. Through June 8.

CDllpllld by DIll PIck .

Send announcements and listings to: 159 W.
25th St., 7th floor, New York, NY 10001_ Next
deadline: Monday, June 3, for issue #103,'available in New York on Monday, June 10.
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h THE CENTER FOR ANTI-VIOLENCEEDUCATION/BROOKLYN WOMEN'S
MARTIAL ARTS presents Sell-Defense
lor Lublanl and Gay Men. The classlocuses on elfective physical techniques to use in violent confrontations,'plus safety and prevention strategies,
role plays and discussion. Sliding fee$5-$50. The class meets on June 8 andJune 15. Also, beginning June 13,
BWMA presents a five-week class in
Sell-Defense lor Women. Sliding fee$5-$115.
Free child care for bothclasses. 421 Fifth Ave. Park Slope,
Brooklyn. (718) 788-1775.
hTHE KARATE SCHOOL FOR WOMEN
Karate lor Beginners. New participants
accepted on June 4 and 6 from 6-7 pm,
and June 8 from 9-10:30 pm. $80 per
month for unlimited classes. Somescholarships and 'work-exchanges available. Also, on June 21, it's SelfDelenle lor Lelblanl and Gay Men. A
six-week
coursemeetingfrom
7:30-8:45 pm taught by lesbian martial
artists. $65. 149 Bleecker st. Info:(212) 982-4739.
HERITAGE OF PRIDE presents a
Community LoHery, offering randomly
selected members of the community
the opportunity to speak for three minutes at the 1991 Lesbian and Gay Rally
at Union Square Park on June 29. Entry
forms are available throughout thecommunity and in various publications.
Submit them to HOP, c/o The Center,
208 W. 13th St, New York, NY 10011.
For more info, call (212) 691-1774.

LIVELY ARTS
Also see the daily listings for Showingsof one or two days.
RAINBOWAND STARSpresents Mauraen
McGovern in a salute to Cole Porter. $35.
30 Rockefeller Plaza. 65th floor. Tu-Sa at
9 and 11:15 pm. Reservations: (212) 6325000. Through June 8.
ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY pre·sents Quincy Long'l Th, VIrgIn Molly,"a modem miracle play set in the peacetime Marine Corps" about the investigation into one recruifs sexual orien1ation,

He'l almost alfamoul for being the IIrst comic to do an openly gay HAl
Ipeclal 81 he II lor being funny. Both are good re .. onl to 188 him:
MCGREGOR'S prelentl Frank Maya'i UNauthoriz.d AUTObiography: An
Outing for Ib, Whol. family. Ullng storllll and comedy rouUnlll, the Ihow
latlrlzel urban, gay and Itralght culture, Ihow bUlln .. 1 and tame. $10
plul a on.. drl,* minimum. 15 St. Malb PI. We and Th at 9 pm and Fr and
Sa at 8 and 11 pm. Relemtlons: (212) 674-1851. Through Jun,15.
Everyone Irom Claude Montana to River Phoenix to yours truly hal been
thera. Now, CHANNa 69 celebratllllll one-par anniversary. ThelCheduled
Ihow II "The Linda Simpson R8VUe," with Ipeclal gu.... The Lady Bunny,
Tabbool, and other liars. Expect anythlnt--ilnd letDe lor nothing lell.$5.
Pyramid. 1111Ave. A. June 5. 0001'1 open at10 pm. Into: (212) 420-1590.
Thlill one library where you'll want to go lor the booklandthe crulsng: It'l
the Pat Parker/Vlto Ru.. o Library, at the Center, 01 course, and It'l New
York's IIrst Illblan and gay lending library. Be there lor the opening cel ..
braUon and rub Ihoulders with your favorite writers, who are expected toread from their favorite work IIf queer III The Centet 208 W. 13th st. June
6.H pm. Into: (212) 620-7310.
THE THIRD ANNUAL NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF LESBIANAND GAY FILM, a.k.a. the New Festival, kicks on tonight. Monica Treut'i
My Fath" II ComIng at 7:30 pm and Ron Peck's Strfp Ja~ Nak,d at 9:30
pm. Cockfall recaptlonl with the directors precede IIch 111m.For a complete schedule of IIImllor the two-week lYent,consult the dally IIstlngl.
The Biograph Cinema. 225 W. 57th St. June 7. Inlo: (212) 966-5848.
OTHER COUNmlES prelents The Long Read, a benellt lor Llrlng In theAg. of AIDS, the Other Countrlel Journal. At lealt 3D 01 our.cemmvntly'agreater and le.. er literary lumina riel are expected; lor the whole list,
18e June 9'1 listing. Surprlle gueltl are expected, and an open mike
will be available. $1O.The Center. 208 W. 13th St. June 9.
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OUlMUSIC presenla a Festival 01 Lelblan and Gay MUllc. The thre .. day
lestlval, June 14--16, leatu~ a varlely 01 qu.. r mUllcal talant, Including
folk, rap, techno-pop and rock perlonnanclll, and lemlnara on the ltata ofqueers In mUllc today. S.. the calender IIlIlngllor the program breakdown, placII and IImal of lYents.

THE GLINES present Evan Bridenstine's
High-Strong Quariet, a comedy in which·David loves Greg, Greg loves Sally, Sally
loves Bruce and Bruce loves David."
Directed by Leille Irons. Starring John
Carhart III, Suzanne Cryer, Dane Halland Mark Leydorl. $15. 39 Grove Sl, at
Bleecker. WlrFr at 8 pm, Sa at 6 and 9
pm and Su at 7 pm. Reservations: (212)869-3530. Through June 9.
hMCGREGOR'S
presents
Frank
Maya'i UNauthoriz,d AUTObIography:
An Outing for the Whol. family. Using
stories and comedy routines, the show
satirizes urban, gay and straight culture, show business and fame. $10 plus
a one-drink minimum. 15 Sl Marks PI.
We and Th at 9 pm and Fr and Sa at 8
and 11 pm. Reservations: (212) 6741851. Through June 15.
h THE NEW SCHOOL presents Graphic
Pride, an exhibit of broadsides, posters,
buttons, shirts, stickers and banners usedin the lesbian and gay pride movementfrom 1970-91. Bridge Gallery. 66 W. 12th
Sl Through June 28. (212) 741-8778

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THEATER NADA presents An Evening
With Shelly Mars. $8. 167 Ludlow SI.
Sa at 10 pm. Reservations: (212) 420·
1466. Through June 28.
ART IN GENERAL presents POIIUons 01
Authority, installations by Leone &Macdonald, Glenn Llglon and Judith
Welnperlon; Among Good ChristianPeopllll, photographic and video installation by Catherine Saailleld, Jocelyn
Taylor and Jacqueline Woodlon; The
Whole/Hole Serlll, an installation by
Bonnie Van Allen; Dlverle Vole .. , a~audiotape by COllt to Coast: National
Women Artlltl of Color; and Pall andPr .. ent, a window installation
bySUlln Wide •. 79 Walker Sllnfo: (212)219-0473. Through June 29.

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hPS 122 GALLERY presents-PubliCSpacel/Prlvate Thoughtl, an exhibition
featuring the work of Stanley Banol andRobert Marlhall. Opening reception
June 6 from H pm. 150 First Ave., at
9th Streel Th-8u from 12~ pm. (212)2284249. June 61hrough June 30.
hT. SCHREIBER STUDIO presents Enid
Rudd'i D.a",t Coulln, a two-woman
play dsaling wi1h 1hemystery and questof power and sexuality. Directed by
Terry Schreiber. Starring Gwendolyn
Lewll and GlneHe Molina. Free. 83 E.
4th Sl Th-Sa at 8 pm and Su at 3 pm.
Reservations: (212) 420-1249. June 6
through June 30.

EVE'S GARDEN presents Prlnny Alavi's
C.lebratlng Wom,n, a photographyiii'.luna '12, '1•• '1 OUTWEEK

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present Alice AUlten: The larky life.
From her bio, Alice Austen sounds likethe Gertrude Stein of Staten Island. Visit
her house, now a museum, and see picturee that she took of upper middle classmen and women. 2 Hylan Blvd. Staten
Island. Th-Su. 12-5 pm. Info: (718) 8164506. Through December.

exhibition. 119 W. 57th St., suite 420.
'Mo-Sa from 12-6:30 pm. Info: (212)757-8651. Through June 30.
THE CARNEGIE HALL MUSEUM presents
its Inaugunl Exhibition, featuring memo
orbilia of gay Russian composer PeterlIylch Tchalkonky. Included in the exhibition are pages from Tchaikovsky's original manuscripts, some of his diaries andletters, and letters to him. 881 Seventh
Ave., ,at 57th Street 11 am to 4 pm. Info:(212) 903-9750. Through June 30.

MONDAY, .JUNE 3
THE CENTER presents a lesbian Town
Mealing to discuss fighting invisibility, r.rism
within the COITlTlunity,and strengthening New
Yor1(s lesbian community. The Cen1er. 208 W.
13111St 7:3CHl:30 pm Info: (212) 62H1702.

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PLAYHOUSE presents
Robert Patrick's Th. Haunt.d HOlt andHarvey Fierstein's Sal. S.x. Directed by
Eric Conelliln. Starring Harvey Rerlleln
and Jason Workman (The Haunted Host
only). The Haunted Hos~ written and set
in 1964, tells the story of a "Greenwich
Village playwright haunted by the ghostof his young protege when the deadman's double walks into his life." $27.50
and $32.50. 100 Seventh Ave. S. We andTh at 8 pm, Fr at 8 and 11 pm, Sa at 7
and 10 pm and Su at 3:30 and 7:30 pm.
Reservations: (212) 691-6226 or (212)564-8038. Through July 14.

TUESDAY, .JUNE 4
THE FRIENDS OF TOM DUANE AND THE
FRIENDS OF DEBORAH GLICK present a
II8n8IIt to help pay off Glick's expensesfrom
last year and to raise money for Duane's
upcoming campaign. $50. Jerry's 103. 103
Second Ave., at 6th Street 6:30-8:30 pm.
Info: (212) 967-3180.

WEDNESDAY, .JUNE 5
THE GIRTH AND MIRTH CLUB presents
Newsletter Stuffing and Mailing. For complete de1ai1s, ca1Ild G&M at (914) 699-7135.

THE CENIER presenIB New Vorkln June,a history of the lesbian and gay pridemarch. The show includes banners, placards, flyers, posters, costumes, organizational records, various other documents
and memorabilia. 208 W. 13th SI. Info:(212) 620-7310. Through July 19.

WOMEN ABOUT presents Book of theMonth discussion. For complete details andto join Women About, call (212) 642-5257.
HYACINTH FOUNDATION presents a
Confldenllallty
Seminar for health care
professionals, social service providers,
court personnel and correction officials on
the legal and ethical issues surrounding
AIDS. New Jersey Law Center. One
Constitution Sq. New Brunswick, NJ. 9 am
to 1 pm. Registration: (800) 433'()254.

THE CASTILLO CULTURAL CENTER represents James Chapman's Our Young
Black M.n Are Dying and Nobody
Seeml to Ca", a look at some of thosemen whose lives and deaths are reflected
in drug-abuse, crime, police-brutality,
alcoholism, poverty and AIDS statistics.
$20. 500 Greenwich St, suite 201. Th-Sa
at 8 pm and Su at 3 pm. Reservations:(212) 941·5800, Through Aug. 31.

MID-MANHATIANLIBRARY presents
Self-Censorship and Self-Revelation In
Writing, a lecture and conversation with
Joan larkin. 455 Fifth Ave., at 40thStreet 6 pm.

BLUE ANGEL THEAIER presen1B Pag.ant,
New Yor1<'snightly, audience participation,
musical beauty contest. $50 includes
show and dinner. $30 for show only on
Tu- Th/$32.50 for show only on Fr-Su.
323 W. 44th SI. Tu-Fr at 8:30 pm, Sa at
7:30 and 10:30 pm and Su at 3:30 and
7:30 pm. Reservations: (212) 262-3333.

WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITYCENTER presents
White Women
Working on Our Own Racism. WACC.
West Hempstead, Long Island. 6 pm.
(516) 483·2050.
LAMBDA INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATS
presents Candidate Night and Endorsement Meeting. Come meet the candidates for the newly enlarged New York
City Council from Brooklyn, and find out
where they stand on issues of impor·tance to the lesbian and gay community.
Free pizza and soft drinks. Pak Slope
Methodist Church. Sixth Avenue and 8thStreet 6:30 pm. Info: (718) 643-1790.

THE WPA THEATRE presents R.d Sea"
on Sun.. t, a new play by and starring
Chari .. Busch, creator of Vampire
L8sbians of Sodom and Psycho Beach
Party. Directed by Kenneth Elliott.
Starrring Ralph Buckley, Roy Cockrum,
Andy Halliday, Julie Halston, Mark
Hamilton,
JudithHanlen,Arnie
Kolodner. 519 W. 23rd St Tu-Th at 8 pm
and Su at 7:30 pm-$22. Fr and Sa at 8pm and Su at 3 pm-$26. Reservations:(212) 206-0523.

SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS presents Pool Night. Featuring free pool,ping pong, billiards, air hockey andshooting hoops at Brownstone Billiard.
Seventh Ave. at Flatbush. Afterwards,
relax at the Rooll. Seventh Avenue at 8thStreet. The evening begins at 7:30 pm.
Please call 24 hours in advance to confirm all SAL activities: (718) 965-7578.

CHERRY LANE THEATRE presenIB DavidIt"ens'The Sum 01UI. Starring RobertLansing and Matt lallnger. Directed by
Kevin Dowling. By the writer of Breaker
Morant, this play is about a father who
tries to help with his son's gay relationships' while looking for a new wife. 38
Commerce St $27.5D-$32.50. Tu-Fr at 8pm, Sa at 7 and 10 pm, Su at 3 and 7:30
pm. (212) 989-2020.

THE GAY AND LESBIAN ALLIANCE presents Meellhe
Nlw York POlt. With
Post editor Jerry Nachman. The Center.
208 W. 13th Sl 8 pm.

THE FRIENDS OF ALICE AUSIEN HOUSE&&

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ABOVEGROUND RECORDS presenIB Tom
Wilson Weinberg, composer of the "TenPercent Revue," with his accompanist andmusical director, lisa Joy Bernstein. $10.
The Center. 208 W. 13th SI. 8 pm.
Reservations: (212) 924-3292. [See June 8]
THE LESBIAN AND GAY TEACHERS
ASSOCIATION BUllness Meeting. The
Center. 208 W. 13th St 8 pm. Info: (718)258-4102 or (718) 626-4699.
ORGANIZATION FOR GAY AWARENESS
presents In Ihe Beginning ... Tonight's
meeting focuses on "our own personal
gay history. Please bring memoriss, yearbooks, pictures, toys and other childhood'clues' that revealed the secrets of who
we were to become." St. George's
Church. The corner of Ridgewood andWoodland roads. Maplewood, NJ. 8:30
pm. (201) 743-5322.
CHANNEL 69 celebrates its One-Vear
Annlvemry. The scheduled show is "TheUnda Simpson Revue," with special guests
The Lady Bunny, Tabbool, and other stars.
$5. Pyramid. 101 Ave. A. Doors open at 10
pm. Info: (212) 420-1590.
THE EAGLE presenIB Movie Night: Jacob.,
LaddBf. The Eagle. 142 Eleventh Ave., at
21st Street 11 pm. (212) 691-8451.

THURSDAY, .JUNE 6
THE LESBIAN AND GAY ISSUES COMMITTEE of DISTRICT COUNCIL 37 presents Lelblans and Gays Working In a
Union SeUlng. Featuring the films Just
Because of Who We Are and Tongues
Untied. Speakers include Stanley Hili,
executive director of DC 37; Assemblywoman Deborah Glick; Manhattan
Borough President Ruth Messinger; andDr. MarJorie Hili, of Mayor's Office for
Gay and Lesbian Concerns. 125 Barclay
St Brooklyn. 6 pm. Info: (718) 832-3626.
THE CEN1ER dedicates the Pat ParkerNHo
RullO Ubnry, New Yor1<'sfirst lesbian andgay lending library, with a celebration
whose guests and speakers include Gnce
Paley, Harvey Fierstein, AssoHo Saint,
Jewelle Gomez, Sarah Schulman,
Charlel Busch, Blna Sharif, Thomas M.
Disch, Marlanal Romo-Carmona, Bene
Geboe, Rulh Messinger and Dr. MarJorie
Hili. The evening will be hosted by Stanlevenlhal. The Center. 208 W. 13th St.
!HI pm. Info: (212) 260-5652.
SOUTHERNERS presents Game Night.
Bring board and card games and spend
time with Southern kinfolk. 215 W. 91st
St, #27. 7 pm. Info (212) 674·8073.
WOMEN'S ALIERNATIVE COMMUNITY
CENIER presents A1lematlve Communlt
Dllcusslon Group. Tongiht's topic: OBi
the Way: A Discc~sion
About
Bisexualtiy." WACC. West Hempstead,Long Island. 8 pm. (516) 483·2050.
GAY WOMEN'S ALIERNATIVE presents
Celebnllng the life of Mabel Hampton,a slide show and discussion led by Joan
Nellie, poet, writer, teacher, co-founderof the Lesbian Herstory Archives andauthor of A Restricted Country. For
women only. Refreshements
served.
$5.Universalist
Church. Central ParkWest at 76th St 8 pm. (212) 595-8410.

QUEER NATION Weekly Meeting. The
Center. 208 W. 13tl] St. 7:30 pm. Info:(212) 9788-8720.
COALITION FOR LESBIAN AND GAYRIGHTS General Meeting. The Center. 208
W. 13111St 8 pm. Info: (212) 627-1398.

FRIDAY, .JUNE 7
MANHATTAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE presents Managing AIDS In a Multi-Ethnic
Gay and lesbian Community. Wor1<shop
topics include: the relationship between
gay and lesbians clients and non-gay and·Iesbian service providers, community
based AIDS service providers and gay andlesbian people of color. 199 Chambers
SI., at Greenwich Streel. 9 am to 5 pm,
with a wine and cheese reception to fol·low. Info: Elliot Rivera at (212) 285-4635
or Sebastian Pemice at (212) 566-4995.
NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH, MENTAL RETARDATION
AND ALCOHOLISM SERVICES presents A
Day of Tellimony to solicit testimony ofconsumer and provider experiences andproblems of gay men and lesbians in the
publicly funded mental hygiene system.
Hunter College School of Social Work.
129 E. 79th SI. 9:30 am to 1 pm. Info:
Susan Frankel at (212) 877-5114 orHarold Kooden at (212) 473-8266.
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS presents Thirty-Pius Dines Out at the Oasis.
Part of dinner will be planning for Gay
Pride month. Seventh Avenue between
Garfield and Carroll streets. 7:30 pm.
Please call 24 hours in advance for all
SAL activites: (718) 965-7578.
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER
General Membership
Meeting. The
Center. 208 W. 13th st. 7:45 pm. Info:(212) 222-9794.
THE ANSWER IS LOVING presents
Women Talking Women's Talk. Tonight's
topic: Intimicay. "Tell me about you. What·
are you thinking about, what are you plan·ning, what are you doing the rest of yourlife?" $10. 1964 E. 35th SI. Brooklyn.
7:45-10 pm. Info: Ruth Berman andConnie Kurtz at (718) 998-2305.
THE THIRD ANNUAL NEW YORK INIERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF LESBIAN AND
GAY FILM presents Monica Treut's My
Father II Coming at 7:30 pm and Ron
Peck's Strip Jack Naked at 9:30 pm. A
cocktail reception will precede each film.
The Biograph Cinema. 225 W. 57th St.
Info: (212) 966-5848.
WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY
CENIER presents a Singles Group. Funfor single lesbians.
WACC. West
Hempstead, Long Island. 8 pm. (516)483·2050.
PS 122 presents Avanl-Garde-Arama
BUlts Oul, a two-night event of perfor~ .
mance, dance, music and film. Tonight's
program features Brlgme Markland's MJ,
a film; Scott Heron's performance-dance
piece, Death Fort Fuck; Amy Plvar's solo
dance work, Telling; Bndley Glen in The
Squid Mambo; Katy Dlerlam's perfor·
mance piece, Siren; Mary Pallerno and
HalTlel Hirschhorn's film, Rove; and Nla
Kumba in a performance-poetry
piece.

•$10 or TDF plus $5. 150 Rrst Ave., at 9thStreet 8 pm. Reservations: (212) 4775288. [See June 8]
THE GAY SWIM TEAM, .BROOKlYN
WOMEN'S MARTIAL ARTS and FRONTRUNNERS presen1BWei Dance, a benefit .
$61$3 with student ID. Columbia Unviersity
Earl Hall. Broadway at 116th Street 10 pm
to 2 am. Info: (212) 865-0361.
THE DUGOUT presents Dudley'l Man
Blr. Featuring Impala, Jennller Blowdry.r and John Canalll's One in Seven:
True Confessions of a Gay Reshpounder.
Promising "sleazy, sex-obsessed performance." $3. 185 Christopher St, just east
01 the West Side Highway. 11 pm. Inlo:(212) 473-5625.

SATURDAY, ..JUNE 8
THE THIRD ANNUAL NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF lESBIAN AND
GAY FilM presents Th. Great LI. at 12
pm, Roman~. at 2:10 pm, Th. Gard.nand War Song. at 4:30 pm, Th. Last'./and at 6:50 pm, Las Coa.a. d.,
Qu.rer and Th. Earring at 9 pm and Th.
Bitter T,a,.. 01PIfnI VanKant at 11 pm.
The Biograph Cinema. 225 W. 57th St.
, Info: (212) 966-5848.
WOMEN ABOUT presents HoI Air
Balloonlnl. The $140 per hour pricetag
Includes a champagne toasl Join themlor a Hlkl Through Osborne loop in the
Manltoga Nature Preserve. Or spend the
day in Rye Playland. For more info or tojoin Women About, call (212) 642-5257.
THE BLACK HEALTH RESEARCH FOUNDATION presents a Benelll, featuring.Pattl LaBelle, Robert TOWDl8nd, Melba
MODre, Tyne Daly, ABC News Anchor
Rollndl
Walts, Elrl "lhe Pearl"Monroe, rscording artist Nicki Rlchardl,
jazz flutists Bobble Humphrey andSherrie WlnltDn, jazz instrumentalist
Branford Marallll, JOl8ph Phlllipi andCllriCI Tly! or of The Cosby Show. $175
members/$250 non-members. Holiday
Inn Crowne Plaza Hotel. 11 am. Info: Joy
Pearse at (516) 379-5466 or Sheila
Morris at (914) 965-7898.
INTEGRAL YOGA INSTITUTE presents
Hltha Yogi CIIIS. Hatha Yoga refers to
the physical postures, deep relaxation
and breathing practices which revitalize
and strengthen the body and calm themind. This class is especially for those
who are HIV-positive. IYI. 227 W. 13th
Sl12-1:3O pm. (212) 929-0586.
CERF-PAC pressnts the Long III and Gay
Inti Lisblan Community Picnic andExpo. Munchies provided. Thoss wishingto sst up info or merchandiss tables must
call .in advance. $5. Friends Quaker
Meeting Ground. 550 Post Ave. Westbury,
NY. 12-Q pm. Info: (516) 399-3048.
AIDS CENTER OF QUEENS COUNTY andGAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS present
Eroticizing Safer Sex for gay and bisexual men. ACQC Jamaica Office. 90-10
Merrick Blvd. Jamaica. 12-2:30 pm.
Registration: (718) 896-2500 or TOD(718) 896-2985.
PEOPLEWITH AIDS COALITION present a

Single" Tea for lesbian and gay HIV-positive persons, PWAs and their friends.
Featuringfood, live en1Brtainmentand a best
hat contest Free. 222 W. 11th St, west of
Seventh Avenue. :Hi pm. Info: 53Nl290.
MEN OF All COLORS TOGETHER 11th
Annlnnary
Barbecue. The Center. 208
W. 13th Sl6 pm. Info: (212) 222-9794.
. GAY MEN OFTHE BRONX prsssnt Dinnerand Bowling. Dinner: Royal Coach Diner.
3260 Boston Post Rd. 6 pm. Bowling:
Gun Post Lanes. 1215 E. Gun Hill Rd. $3
per person per game. 8:30 pm. Info:
Jimmy at (212) 365-6239.
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR lESBIANS presents Barbecue In Cobble Hili. Bring
thinge that make good grilling and fixin's.
Rain or shine. 6:30 pm. Please cali 24hours in advance for all SAL activites:(718) 965-7578.
ABOVEGROUND RECORDS presents Tom
Wilion Weinberg, composer of the "TenPercent Revue," with his accompanist andmusical director, Lin Joy Bemlteln. $12.
The Center. 208 W. 13th St. 8 pm.
Reeervatiol18:(212) 924-3292. [See June 8]
PS 122 presents Avanl-Garde-Arama
BUill Out, a two-night event of performance, dance, music and film. Tonighfs .
program features Diane Muldrew's performance, Skinny, Stephen Raull's
dance, Cue for Passion; Peggy Pettll'smonologue, Urban Wolf, Jason Chllden
and Patti Bradshaw's dance, The KisS;
Olher Countries, the Black gay writers
collective; Jolly Oberfelde ....Rlehm's cinematic dance piece, Duet, and Angela
Idealllm, accompanied by keyboardist
ltaal Shur. $10 or TOF plus $5. 150 Rrst
Ave., at 9th Street. 8 pm. Reservations:(212) 477-5288. [See June 7]
NEW JERSEY WOMEN AND AIDS NETWORK celebrates its Third Annlvenary
wilh Iheater and music. The Narratlns
Perfonnlng Company will stage a readingof Re/Membering Aunt Jemima: An Act
of Magic; Jazz vocalist and pianist
Llllette Jenklnl will also perform.
$15/$12 for senior citizens
andchildren/lreefor PWAs. Glen Ridge
Congragational Church. Glen Ridge, NJ. 8
pm. Info: (908) 846-4462.
BRONX lESBIANS UNITED IN SISTER·
HOOD and DYKE ACTION MACHINE presents Jusllfy My Prlde/Celebrlle
Our
Love, a dance and party. Juice and cash
bar. Door prizes. Midnight Raffle. $8/$6
for students with ID. The Center. 208 W.
13th St8 pm to 1 am. Info: (212) 829:
9817 or (718) 271-4932.

SUNDAY, ..JUNE 9
THE THIRD ANNUAL NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF lESBIAN AND
GAY FilM presents Prlvll.g. at 12:30
pm, Th. E"nlng. and A Va/.ntln. forN.lson at 2:30 pm, Otrll Histor/a d,Arnor at 5 pm, A Queer Feeling When I
Look at You at 7 pm and oa/.l.. at 9
pm. The Biograph Cinema. 225 W. 57th
Sl Info: (212) 966-5848.
WOMEN ABOUT presents Summer
Barbecue Celebration.
Bring $5 or apoUuck dish. 11 am. For more info or tojoin Women About, call (212) 642-5257.
THE GIRTH AND MIRTH CLUB presents
Brunch. The Dugout. Christropher andWeehawken streets. 12 noon. Info: (914)699-7135.
BISEXUAL PRIDE DISCUSSIONAND SUPPORT GROUP General Melling. Today's
topic: "Bisexuals and Monogamy." The
Center. 208 W. 13th St 3-4:30 pm.
CEllBLOCK 28 and lAVENDER AND
lACE present a Pink Panther Benellt.
$10. The Vault. 29 Ninth Ave., between
13th and 14th streets. 3-8 pm. (212)255-675!\.
MOSAICBOOKS presents The Doorknob
Slllen with Viola Malhews and Sluart
Roberll reading from their work. $2. 167
Ave. B.4 pm. Info: (212) 475-8623.
DIXON PLACE presents Alternallves-A
Nonfiction Serl ... Scheduled guests are
Michele Wallace speaking on the heresyof Black women's creativity, and Eugene
N.. mllh rading from his autobiography,
Black Male Characters. $5 or TDE 37 E.
1st St., between First and Second
avenues. 5 pm. (212) 673~752.
SENIORACTION IN A GAY ENVIRONMENT
presents a Folk Art Aucllon to benefit
seniors with AIDS. Featuring work by Kathy
Jakobsen, MIHon Bond, Bryan McNutt and
SylvIa Alberti. $50 donation. Piermont, NY.
Wine and hors d'oeuveres at 4 pm. Auction
at6 pm. Info: (212) 741-2247.
OTHER COUNTRIES presents The Long
Read, a benefit for Living in the Age ofAIDS, the Other Countries journal.
Featuring,from 4-6:30
pm: Roy
Gonsalves, Sheilah D. Mabry, Mark
Ameen, LlII Jones, Carl Mone, ~uyMark Fosler, Nla Kuumba, Steve
Williams,
Paull
Marllnac,
Larry
Duckett, SIan Leventhal, Gale Jacksonand Lorna Skyen. From 6:3O-a:30 pm:
Rodney Dildy, Bell Hookl, hllx
Hemphill, Jacqule Bishop, Robert
Vasquez, BII Wrlghl, Mariana RomoCarmona, Samuel Delany, Jackie
Johnson, Eric Lalzky and Jaquellne
Woodlon. From 8:30-11 pm: AllottoSaint, Greg Tate, Pamela Sneed, Kalhy
EngllS, Cheryl Clark, Colin Robinson,
Paul Beatty, Quincy Troupe, Michelle
Wallace, Michael Paller and SUlln
Sherman. Surprise guests expected, andan open mike will be available. $10. The
Center. 208 W, 13th St
THE AIDS CENTER OF QUEENS COUNTY
presents their Third Annual Awards
Ceremony and Fund-Railer. The evening. consists of an awards ceremony and auction, hosted by Vlrglna Apuzzo, ViceChai r of the New York state AI DS
Advisory Council. The New York Hali of
Science. For complete details, contact
ACqC at (718) 896-2500.
THE PNA COALITION presents a Sunday
Night Social for lesbian and gay HIV-posilive persons, PWAs and their friends. Meet
and mingle in a rslaxed atmosphere withmusic and refreshemts. The Uving Room.
222 W. 11th St, west of Seventh Avenue.
6:3<Hl:3O pm. Info: (212) 532-0568.

MONDAY, ..JUNE 10
THE THIRD ANNUAL NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF lESBIAN AND
GAY FIlM presents Rough Shtt:h of a
Splrel at 5:40 pm, Om:, Upon a 11m,In
thl Eut and Thl ClISt 01 L or, andProust'. Favorlt, Fantllsyat 7:50 pm
and All of M' and Without Mllk,up You
Hall.n't Got a PraYIT at 9:55 pm. The
Biograph Cinema. 225 W. 57th St. Info:(212) 966-5848.
THE NATIONAL NETWORK OF RUNAWAYAND YOURTH SERVICES with THE
EMPIRE STATE COALITION OF YOUTH
AND FAMI lY SERVICES and THE AIDSAND ADOLESCENTS NETWORK OF NEWYORK sponsor Sale Choices: AIDS and
HIV Prevention Training for Youth inHigh-Risk Situations. The two-day seminar is designed for program staff, counselors and executive directors of sheltsr
programs serving youth in high-risk situations. $20 members/$50 non-members.
Empire State Building. 350 Fifth Ave.,
between 34th and 35th streets, room2925. Info: Rea Carey at (202) 682-4114.
THE lESBIAN HERSTORY ARCHIVES
pressnts Joan Nestle, leading a discussion, reading letters and journal entries,
and giving a slide show on "lesbian
Courage Pre-Stonewall."Suggested
donation $10. The Center. 208 W. 13th
St 7-10 pm. Info: (212) 677-2008.
ACT UP General MeeDng. Cooper Union.
Fourth Avenue at 7th Street. 7:30 pm.
Info: (212) 564-AIDS.
HERITAGE
OF PRI DE General
Membenhlp Meeting. All interested persons invited. The Center. 208 W. 13th St
8 pm. Info: (212) 691-1774.
CEllBLOCK 28 prssents New York Slrap
and Paddle Alloclatlon Party. Themed"and the beat goes on." 28 Ninth Ave.,downstairs, between 13th and 14th
streets. 8 pm to 3 am. (212) 733-3144.

TUESDAY, ..JUNE 11
THE THIRD ANNUAL NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF LESBIAN AND
GAY FilM presents Om:, Upona 11m.In
th, Eut and Th' Colt of LOll. andProu.t'. Fallorlt. Fllnta.yat 4:10. pm,
Dona HlTllndll and HIT Son at 6 pm,
Beyond Superdyke: A Tribute 10 Barbara
Hammer at 8 pm, and An At;tor'l R,",ng'
at 9:55 pm. The Biograph Cinema 225 W.
57th St Info: (212) 966-5848.
SOUTHERNERS presents a Tour 01
Midtown An:hetecture. led by art historian William Levitt. Meet at informationdesk. in Grand Central Station. 11 am.
Info: (212) 674-8073.
MID-MANHATIAN LIBRARY presents
Gay Fiction Today, a lecture and conv~reation with George Stambollan. 455 RfIh
Ave., at 40th Street 6 pm.
'
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS presents a
Heallh Seminar: IlIIurance Information.
129 W. 20th St., third floor. 7 pm. Fo'r
more information, call the GMHC hoUine
at (212) 807-6655. TOD (212) 645-7470
for the hearing impaired.

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LAVENDER HEIGHTS Speaker Series presents Joan Neslle, author, editor andscholar of the lesbian movement in the
United States. Co-founder of the Lesbian
Herstory Archives. Author of A Restricted
Country and co-editor of Women on
Women, a collection of lesbian short stories. $7. The Cornerstone Center. 178
Bennett Ave., one block west of Broadway
at 189th Street 8 pm. (212) 304-2471.
LESBIANS AND GAY MEN OF NEWBRUNSWICK present Skin Cancer and
Ice Cr.am, a skin demo by Mary Kay
Cosmetics combined with an ice-creamsocial. Friend's Meeting House. 109
Nichol Ave. New Brunswick, NJ. 8 pm.
Info: (908) 247-0515.
THE EAG LE presents Out In the '9D.
Night. A portion of the bar proceeds will
benefit GBS and Out in the '90s. The
Eagle. 142 Eleventh Ave., at 21st Street
10 pm. Info: (212) 691-8451.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12
THE THIRD ANNUAL NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF LESBIAN AND
GAY FILM presentS Brolhertobrother at 4
pm, Framed youth: Revenge 01 theTeenage Perverts at 6 pm, Transportations: Lesblln Shorti at 8:10pm and
JD's Qu .. r Punk Movies at 10:05 pm.
The Biograph Cinema. 225 W. 57th SI.
Info: (212) 966-5848.
AIDS AND ADOLESCENTS NETWORK OF
NEWYORK presents Adolescent InterIctlve Theater, featuring STAR Theater,
the Sinai Teens Arts Resources Theater,and Streetwlie Theater of Society for
Seamen's Children. College of Staten
leland. 130 Stuyvesant PI., College Hall.
3-5 pm. Info: (212) 925·6675.
NYABN Blllxual
Women's Support
Group. The Center. 208 W. 13th SI.
6:30-8 pm. Info: (212) 459-4784,•

INTEGRAL YOGA INSTITUTE presents
PATH Seminars:
The Body-Mind
Connection. Tonight's topic: "Breath andHealing.· Seminar leader: Peter Hendrickson, PhD, psychologist $7 per clase(scholarships available), IVI. 227 W. 13th
St 7:30-9 pm. (212) 929-0586.
HERITAGE OF PRIDE Independent
Marshal Training. For those interested inworking the Rally, March or Dance on thepier. The Center. 208 W. 13th St 7:30 pm.
Also tonight, at 8 pm, it's Dance V
Commltt .. Milling. HOP Central. 128 W.
26th St, fifth floor. Info: (212) 691-1n4.
GAY MALE S/M ACTIVISTS Annual
M.mbers Melling. Reports, elections
and socializing. $4 members/$6 nonmembers. The Center. 208 W. 13th St 8
pm. Info: (212) 727-9878.
THE LESBIAN AND GAY TEACHERS
ASSOCIATION Planning Mlellng. The
Center. 208 W. 13th St 8 pm. Info: (718)258-41~2 or (718) 626-4699.
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS presents
Men Meeting Men. The Center. 208 W.
13th St 8-10:30 pm.
THE EAGLE presents

Movie

Night:

M.nnllld •. The Eagle. 142 Eleventh Ave.,at 21st. Street 11 pm. (212) 691-8451.

CELLBLOCK 28 presents Muscle Party.
"Bare your chest, show your gym cardand get in at member's price: 28 Ninth
Ave., downstairs, between 13th and 14th
streets. 8 pm to 3 am. (212) 733-3144.

THURSDAY, JUNE 13
THE THIRD ANNUAL NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF LESBIAN AND
GAY FILM presents Drama In Blonde at 2
pm, The Silt Mines and Th. Bllnt, ofTunl.nllau. and Prof.ulon: Tranwuttt.
at 4:10pm, R16ld.nt AII,n at 6 pm,
Wild Flow.n and It .. Thllt Ag' at 7:55
pm and SIM: Sex and Music Vldeol at
10:05 pm. The Biograph Cinema. 225 W.
57th St Info: (212) 966-5848.
QUEER NATION Weekly Meeting. The
Center. 208 W. 13th SI. 7:30 pm. Info:(212) 9788-8720.
THE BAR ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN
RIGHTS OF GREATER NEW YORK EDUCATION COMMITIEE presents Where
Th'ere's a Will, There's a Way, The
forum, led by queer attomeys, features
segments on will drafting, estate contests, power of attorney, living wills,
health care proxies, desgination of conservator, nominations of committee, surviving life partners and landlord/tenantconsiderations and life and health insurance considerations. Speakers include
Ertca Bell, Jim YalSky, Paul Je .. lsohn,
Peggy Brady and Mark Scherzer. The
Center. 208 W. 13th St 8 pm,

THE DUGOUT presents Dudley'S Man
Bar. Featuring Blna SharI!, Tommy
McKean and Robert Hlllerty's Cirquedu
SIDA, featuring Dlamanda Galli andCirque du Solell on video. Promising"sleazy, sex-obsessed perfonnance.· $3.
185 Christopher St, just east of the WestSide Highway. 11 pm. Info: (212) 4735625.

HERITAGE OF PRIDE presents Dance V
Volunteer Orientation. The Center. 208
W. 13th St 3 pm. Info: (212) 691-1774.

SATURDAY, JUNE 15

THE STONEWALL CHORALE presents
Psalms and Celebrations, the final concert of its 11th season. Featuring guest
conductor
Nancy ,Vang ahd theGreenwich Village Orchestra With wor!<
by Leonard Bemiteln, Benjamin Britten,
Irving Fine and others. $18/$15/$12.
Town Hall. 123 W. 43rd SI. 8 pm.
Reservations: (212) 840-2824.

THE THIRD ANNUAL NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF LESBIAN AND
GAY FILM presents Poetry In Motion:
Shorts by Lesbians of Color at 12 pm;
We Are Hablando: Latino Men's'Shorts
at 2:10 pm; Curt and Kurt: Vld,o Album
15, Th, ThursdllYP.opl. and Y.llrnlng
for Sodom at 4:10pm; Queers Bash
Back and a special sneak preview at 6:20
pm; An Evening With Sadie Benning at
8:10pm; and Otra HI.torlll 0,Amor at
10:10 pm. The Biograph Cinema 225 W.
57th St Info: (212) 966-5848.
OUTMUSIC presents a Fesllval of
Lesbian and Gay Music. Today's schedule includes a seminar led by Jim
FourraH on 'What's Possible for Gaysand Lesbians in the Music Industry" from
12-1 :30 pm, a seminar led by Victoria
Starr on "The State of Women's Music·from 1:30-3 pm and a "How-To· seminar
led by various experts. Each workshop
costs $2. The Center. 208 W. 13th SI.
Then, at 9 pm, the Lavender Light
Gospel Choir, rock performers M Thang
and Nedra Johnson and rapper Usa
Rlflkln perform. $5. The Bank. 225 E.
Houston St, at Essex Street Info: (212)691-9408. {See June 14 and 16]

FRIDAY, JUNE 14
THE THIRD ANNUAL NEW YORK INTER·
NATIONAL FESTIVAL OF LESBIAN AND
GAY FILM presents All of M, andWithout Mllfrlup You HIlIt,n't Got II
PrIlY" at 12 pm, Rough Sfrltch of /I
SpIral at 2:10 pm, SIM: Sex and MusicWOMEN ABOUT presents a Fishing
Expedition for flounder and fluke. $22.
lOam to 5 pm. For more info or to join
Women About. call (212) 642-5257.

Videos at 4:30 pm, Khush: South Allan
Lesbian and Gay Films at 6:45 pm, Hllrd
to Imllgln, at 8:30 pm and Mlo.
Rob,"oat 11 pm. The Biograph Cinema
225 W. 57th St Info: (212) 966-5848.

SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS presents Tabling for the Lesbian Herstory
Archives. Help them staff a table in front
Key Food for their Archives Building fundraising campaign. Seventh Avenue at Carroll
Street Please call 24 hours in advance for
all SAL activities: (718) 965-7'578.

OUTMUSIC presents a Fesllval of
Lesbian and Gay Music. Tonighfs per·formers include folk artists Laura
Wetzler, Hillary Kay and Clydle Brown,
and techno-pop artistsMlcahel lod and
Xotlka. $5. The Pyramid. 101 Ave. A. 9
pm. Info: (212) 691-9408. [See June 15
and 16]

INTEG RAL YOGA I NSTITUTE presents
Hatha Yoga Class. Hatha Yoga refers to
the physical postures, deep relaxation
and breathing practices which revitalize
and strengthen the body and calm themind. This class is especially for those
who are HIV-positive. IVI. 227 W. 13th
St 12-1:30 pm. (212) 929-0586.

SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS presents Poker at Pat's Place. One of SAL's
most popular activities.7:30 pm. Pleasecall 24 hours in advance for all SAL
activites: (718) 965·7578.

CONGREGATONB'NAI JESHURUNpresents
Shabbat Luncheon for People With AIDS
and their loved ones, regardless of religious
affiliation. With food, music and dialogue.
Lindenbaum Center. 270 W. 89th SI.,between Broadway and West End Avenue. 2
pm. Reservations: (212) 787-7600.

NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF WOMENLESBIAN RIGHTS TASK FORCEGeneral
Meatlng. Tod's. 2 Georges Rd. New
Brunswick, NJ. 7:30 pm. Please RSVP at(609) 393-0156. Tod's: (201) 545-8990.
CONGREGATIONBElli SIMCHAT TORAH
presents a Jewish Femlnlll Friday Night
Shabbat Service, followed by Oneg
Shabbat Congregation Beth Simchat Torah
is New York's lesbian and gay synagogue,'57 Bethune St 6:30 pm. (212) 929-9498.

THE GAY AND LESBIAN SWITCHBOARD
presents a Bar-B-Q Beer Blast to benefit
the switchboard. Food will be served, and araffle will be held. Prizes incl ude "The Gay
White Way Weekend for Two,· valued at$1,000, and "The Baker's Dozen Restaurant
Package: valued at $600. Admission
includes six raffle tickets. $10. The Center.
208 W. 13th St 2-6 pm. (212) m·l800.

DIXON PLACE presents Judith Sloan, ina collaboration with Warren Lehrer withmusic by Brian Lehrer. $6 or TOE 37 E.
1st SI., between First and Second
avenues. 8 pm. (212) 673-6752.

THE LESBIAN AND GAY ISSUES COMMlm of DISTRICT COUNCIL 37 presents
their First Annual Dinner and Dance.
$40. The Center. 208 W. 13th SI. 8 pm.
Info: Pedro Morales at (212) 757-5726.

SUNDAY, JUNE 16
THE THIRD ANNUAL NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF LESBIAN AND
GAY FILM presents Wild Row.1f and n..
Thllt Ag' at 12 pm, Dyke Aftar Dyke:
Latina Shorts lor Everyone at 2:10 pm,
Th, SIIIt Mln8$ and Th, BllttI, of
Tunl,nhauund Prof,ulon: Tranllt."".

at 4:10 pm, E.vamuro. at 6:20 pm, Olt"Our D.ad Bodlll and R"llx at 8:50 pm
and GotlToBeaDrag at 11:10 pm. The
Biograph Cinema. 225 W. 57th SI. Info:(212) 966-5848.
OUTMUSIC presents a Fesllval 01
Lesbian and Gay Music. Todays's sched·ule features a Performarama, featuring
dozens of gay and lesbian musicians.
People wishing to perfonn should arrive
between 12 and 12:30 pm. $2. Then, at 7pm, the festival concludes with performances by Tom Wilson Weinberg and.. Llsa Bamlleln, Dan Martin and Michael
Blello, Elliot Plishaw, Gary Paul Wrightand Joel Maisano. $5. Both events happen at the Center. 208 W. 13th SI. Info:(212) 691·9408. [See June 14 and 15]
BISEXUAL PRIDE DISCUSSION ANDSUPPORT GROUP General Meellng.
Today's topic: "Is There a Bisexual
Community?" The Center. 208 W. 13th
St 3-4:30 pm. (212) 459-4784.
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RECOVERY GROUP FOR THE BISEXUALCOMMUNITY General Milling.
The
Center. 208 W. 13th SI. 4:45-5:45 pm.
Info: (212) 459-4784.
THE PWA COALITION presents a Sunday
Night Social for lesbian and gay HIV·posilive persons, PWAs and their friends. Meet
and mingle in a relaxed atmosphere withmusic and refreshemts. The Uving Room.
222 W. 11th St, west of Seventh Avenue.
6:30-9:30 pm. Info: (212) 532·0568.
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Compiled by Dale Peck.
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System. Butch Peaston. 178Seventh Ave., suite A-3, NYC 19(111.(2121243-1570)
GCN (Gay Cable Network. Lou Maletta ..32 Union Square East. suite 1217.(212)477-4220) GUB (Gay and Lesbian Independent Broadcasters. (212)473-1689)
GMHC (Gay Men's Health Crisis. Jean Carlomusto. 129W. 20th St, NYC 10011.
(212) 807-7517) RB PROD (Robin Byrd Productions. P.O.Box 305, NYC 10021.
(212) 988-2973) WASC-TV
W. 63rd St, NYC 10023(212)456-7777) WBAIFM (505 Eighth Ave., 19th floor, NYC 10018(212) 279-0707) WCBS-TV (51 W.
52nd St., NYC 10019. (212) 975-4321) WNBC-TV (30 Rockefeller Plaza, NYC
10112.(212) 664-4444) WNET-TV (356 W. 58th St., NYC 10019.(212) 560-3000)
WNYW-TV (Fox. 1211 AV/AM, NYC 10036.(212) 556-2400) WPIX-TV (220 E.
42nd St, NYC 10017.(212)949-1100)m

MONDAY, .JUNE 3
6:00 AM WIND-TV Broadcast New York Scheduled: ·A discussion oflegal protection from violence and harassment for New York's gay
and lesbian communities: CH 11.
6:05 AM TMC A Different StoryThe difference is that both the boy andgirl in this boy-meats-girl story are queer.
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6:00 AM WNBC- TV TodayWhoopi Goldberg is a scheduled guest CH 4.
8:00 AM TMC Breakfast at Tiffany's Truman Capote's clasic.
1:30 PM WUSB 90.1 FM The Word Is OutMarc Gunning hosts a weekly
lesbian, gay and bisexual variety show.
2:00 PM WUSB 90.1 FM Lavender Wimmin News, songs and music produced by women for women.
2:30 PM WUSB 90.1 FM This Way Out More queer news.
8:30 PM Manhattan Cable The Brenda and Glennda ShowCH 17
9:00 PM WNET- TV Love, Hate, Prejudice, Peace A Bil Moyer's vehicle
interviewing "30 youth leaders· about their feelings on the roots of,and solutions to, prejudice. CH 13. Repeated at 4 am.
9:00 PM GBS Out in the 90's: community news, discussion, interviews. BO
Cable, CH 56 (1:00)
9:00 PM GCN Gay USA Paragon Cable. CH C/16 (:30)
11:30 PM WFOX-TV Studsihree women each go on a date with two men
and all five singles discuss the dates and select the most compatible
couple: Hats have become so hard up that they need a game show tomake they're dates. CH 5.
11:30 PM Tomorrow/fonight Live: entertainment; Manhattan and Paragon
Cable, CH Dm (1:00)
Midnight CCTV The Closet Case Show. Kloset Klips; Manhattan IParagon
Cable, CH C/16 (:30)

TUESDAY, .JUNE 4

THURSDAY, .JUNE 6'

9:00 AM WIND-TV Joan Rivers Her scheduled guest is John Travolta, andif any talk show host is tacky enough to ask him about his sex life, she
is. CH 30. Repeated at 3 pm on CH 4 for those of you who sleep late.
1:00 PM WBAI-FM This Way Oue the international gay and lesbian news
magazine; 99.5 FM (:30)
1:30 PM WBAI-FM An Afternoon Outing. Local news aboutthe gay andlesbian community with Larry Gutenburg. 99.5 FM (:30)
7:00 PM TMC A Chorus Line I don't need to give you a plot summary, do
11Repeated at 3 am on Thursday/early Friday.
8:00 PM WFOX-TV The Simpsons From last season, it's the episode thatfeatures Harvey Fierstein as the voice of a secretary. CH 5.
9:00 PM WNET- TV Safe Speech, Free Speech and the University Fred
Friendly (I don't know if that's his real name) leads a panel discussion
on "the crisis threatening the freedom of speech in American colleges
and universities: Nat Hentoff, wild man of the Village Voice, is a participant. CH 13. Repeated at 4 am.
10:00 PM WNET- TV Two of Us·A gay teenage couple in 19505 England isforced to run away from home and school because of their love foreach other.· CH 13. Repeated at 5 am.
10:00 PM WNBC-TV LA Law An episode about who'lI receive the theguardianship of a terminally ill gay.man: his lover, or his homophobic
parents. One of those LA Law-type tea~erkers. CH 4.
10:00 PM GCN Be Our Guest entertainment for and about the lesbian/gay
community; Manhattan Cable, CH D/17 (:30)
10:30 PM GMHC Living With AIDS Health and politics. Manhattan Cable,
CH V/35 (:30)
11:00 PM MAX Tie Me Upl Tie Me Downl An Almodovar-not
his best,
but still, an Almodovar.
11:00 PM GCN Gay U.S.A.: news and entertainment from around thecountry; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:00)
Midnight GCN Men in Films: male erotica, interviews with adult film stars;
Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:30)
12:30 AM RB PROD Men For Men: Robin Byrd presents gay male pornostars; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:30)

FRIDAY, .JUNE 7
2:30 PM WBAI-FM Rompiendo el Silencio Todos los viernes, Gonzalo
Aburto con temas y noticias para la comunidad latina gay y lesbiana.
99.5 FM (:15).
4:00 PM SHO Special Gift·A young boy's desire to be a ballet dancer
causes problems in his relationships: How do you spell homophobia1S-P-E-C-I-A-L G-I-F- T.
7:00 PM WBAI 99.5 FM AIDS In Focus, Michael Alcalay, producer.
1:00AM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and female strippers;
Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:(0)9:00 AM WCBS- TV Geraldo ·Scheduled: homosexuality and lesbianism:
Yes, kids,homosexuality and lesbianism. CH 2.
9:00 PM WNET- TV MoyerS/Beyond Hate In his ever-elusive quest to
become TV's biggest bleeding-heart liberal, Moyvers ·examines hate,
SATURDAY, .JUNE 8
and whether there are 'practical ways to cope with it.,. A discussion
8:30 AM WBAI-FM Any Saturday with David Rothenberg; live call-in; 99.5
of gay-bashing is included. CH 13. Repeated at 4 am.
FM (2:00)
10:00 PM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and female strippers;
7:00 PM GCN Gay USA News and entertainment from around the country.
Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:(0)Bn. Unity, ACV Cable, CH 56 (1:(0)11:00 PM GBS Out in the 90's: news, information and interviews;- 11:00 PM Gay TVMaie porn; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35
. Manhattan/Paragon Cable, CH C/16 (1:00)
1:00 AM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show Male and female strippers.
Paragon Cable, CH C/16 (1:00)
WEDNESDAY, .JUNE 5
1:30 AM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show Male and female strippers.
9:30 AM WBAI99.5 FM Ghosts in the Machine This radio show is hosted
Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:00)
by OutWeek Features Editor Victoria Starr. 2.5 hours.
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Pyramid (Michael T. presents New York Nights.
Alternative music with OJ Bad Taste: $1)
Pyramid. 101Ave. A. (212)420-1590.

Tuesday+ ~Club Edelweiss (TVs, TSs, gays, bi's, singles, couples; Tuesdays are especially for
lesbians, but everyone is welcome.) 167 W.
29th St (212) 868-6989.
Denceteria (Chip Duckett's Gay Tuesdays.
Doors open at 10 pm. ) 29 E. 29th St. Info:(212) 353-8775.
+ Grand Central (Women's night) 210 Merrick
Rd. Rockville Centre, ll. (516) 536-4800.
Roxy (John Blair's 'Muscle on Wheels." Gayrollerskating. Doors open at 8 pm. Varied
cover.) 515 W 18 St (212)645-5156.

Wednesday

Jtu[newinfo]~Channel69 (Drag Extravaganza, with Linda
Simpson. Go-go stars, OJ Dany Johnson.
Sexy, upbeat, East Village fag and dyke
crowd. $5.) Pyramid. 101 Ave. A. (212) 4201590.
,
The Boys Room (Hosted by Dallas. Cheap Thrillspresents House music, downtown crowd,
go-go boys.Three floors. 60-foot ceiling.
$71$5.)51 W. 26th St (212)576-1890..
The Bunkhouse (Club Trash, a night of WDREalternative music, with Freddie and OJ
Karriakazie. May 8: guest hostess Cherry
Vanilla.) Montauk Highway. Sayville. (516)567-BUNK.
+ Excalibur (ladies Night. $1 drinks.) 10thStreet andJeHerson behind football stadium. Hoboken, NJ. (201)795-1161.
~Limelight (Disco 2000, with Michael Alig andlarry Tee. Doors open at 10 pm. $10.) Sixth
Avenue at 20th Street (212)807-7850.
+ Private Eyes (Shescape Afterwork Party from
5-10 pm. 2-4-1 drinks before 7. $5 before 7
pm/$7 after.) 12 W. 21st St. Shescape: (212)645-6479. Private Eyes: (212) 208-7772.
Private Eyes (YMVA Night. Students, professional and women. $7.) 12 W. 21st St (212)206-7772.
Silver Lining (2-4-1 drinks.) 175 Cherry In. Roral
Park, LI. (516) 3!j4.;9641.
Stutz (2-4-1 drinks.) 202 Westchester Ave.
White Plains, NY.(914)761-3100.

Thursday~Copacabana (Susanne Bartsch. Last Th of themonth. Iffy door) 10 E. 60th St., at Fifth
Avenue. (212) 755-8010.
Excalibur ($1 drinks.) located at the corner of
10th Street andJefferson behind footballstadium. Hoboken, NJ. (201)795-1161.
Hatfield's (2-4-1 dririks, female impersonators.)
126-10 Queens Blvd. Kew Gardens, Queens.
(718) 261-8484.
More Men (Tony, Keith and Dominic present OJ
Tommy Richardson, go-go boys, videos, billiards. $10/$7 with invite.) 239 Eleventh Ave.
(212) 518-3283.
The Pump Room (Dallas presents go-go boys, alight show and a large dance floor. $12/$8.)
51-5W.·18th St (212)645-5156.
Stingray's (New club, new sound system,
everything else is a surprise. No covertonight.) 641 W. 51st St (212) 664-8668.

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FridayThe Bank (Nightmares on Wax/Damnation '91:
Alternative music hosted by lee Chappelland Michael T. OJ Brian Damage. Mixed
crowd. $10/$7.) 225 E. Houston St, at Essex.
(212) 505-5033.
+ Clit Club (Jocelyn & Julie present Clit Club
West. With go-go girls and lesbo videos. $1
drinks between 8 and 9 pm. Doors open at 8pm. $5) 432 W 14th St (212)406-1114.
Columbia Dances (First Friday dances. 10 pm to2 am.) Columbia University Earl Hall. 116th
Street at Broadway. Daytime phone: (212)854-3574.
+ Hetfield's (Women's night.) 126-10 Queens
Blvd. Kew Gardens, Queens. (718) 261-8484.
HEAD Dance (Homo core mix and dviatne fags
and dykes. OJ Nobody's Pussy. $5.)
Pyramid. 101Avenue A. (212)420-1590.
Mea Culpa (For men, with dancing, video andlive entertainment. $7/$10.) 47 W. 20th St.
(212) 807-7840.
+ Millennium (ladies Night.) 1770 New York
Ave. (Route 110) Huntington, LI. (516) 3511402.
Parallel (Page and Don's new party. This week,
it's a celebrationof love.Spit.love.
Featuring Ronnie and Kelly Cutrone, Larry
Tee, and a host of club personalities, andthe Bedroom of love. $51$12.) 229 W. 28th St(212) 563-9292.
Private Eyes (YMVA Night. for students and professionals.) 12W. 21st St. (212) 208-7772.
Stingray's (Free before 10 pm. $7 after.) 641 W.
51st St (212)664-8668.
+ Visions 56-01 Queens Blvd., Woodside, .
Queens. Club: (718)899-9031.

Saturday
The Bank (Guaarana, dance, music, trance.
Featuring guest DJs and a mixed crowd. 225
E. Houston St., at Essex Street. (212) 5055173.
Barefoot Boogie (For adults, kids on 2nd and 4th
Saturdays. Smoke- and alcohol-free. May 13
is 'Oldies Night.' 8:30 pm to 12:30am. $5/kids
free.) 434 Sixth Ave., 4th floor, between

Ninth and Tenth avenues. (212) 857-5152.
Center (2nd and 4th Sa, 9 pm to 1 am, $8. OJ
Karin Ward.) 208W. 13th St (212) 620-7310.
+ Center (Women & Friends. First Sa. OJ Karin
Ward. 9 pm to 1 am.) 208 W 13 St (212) 6207210.
+ Clit Club (Erotic lesbian videos, slides and gogogirls.Doors open at 10 pm.) The Pyramid.
101Ave. A. (212) 420-1590.
Club West End (Michael Fesco's Saturdays.
12-9 am) 547 W. 21st St.
Columbie Dances (Next dance is Sept. 21. Third
Saturday dances with OJ Karin Ward. 10 pm
to 3 am. $5.) Columbia University Earl Hall.
118th Street at Broadway. (212)629-1989.
419419 N. Highway, Southampton, LI. (516) 2835001.
Lova Zane (dancing & perfonners) 70 Beach St
Staten Island. (718)442-5692.
+Girl Saturdays (Shescape presents SaturdayNights for Women.With go-go girls and aguest OJ. $8 before 10:3O!$10after.) 20/20. 20
W. 20th St., between Fifth and Sixth
avenues. (212)645-6479.
Meat (OJ Aldo Hernandez. Go-go boys, videos
and a slide show. $51$7.) 432 W 14 St
Parallel (John Blair and The Athletic Complex
present New York's hottest go-go boys. OJ
Tommy Richardson. $15.) 229 W. 28th St.
(212) 563-9292.
~Roxy (locomotion. Gay men, straight women,some lesbians.) 515 W. 18th St., between
Tenth and Eleventh avenues. (212) 645-5156.
+Silver Lining 175 Cherry In. Floral Park, ll.
(516) 354-9641.
Sound Factory (Mixed crowd but mostly gay.
Serious House music. No alcohol. Doors
open at 11 pm.) 530 W. 27th St., between
Tenth and Eleventh avenues. (212)643-0728.
Stingray's ($8.) 641W. 51'stSt (212) 664-8668.
The World (Christina Vista and Junior Vazquez
present an after-hours P!lrty. Doors open at
midnight.) 254 E. 2nd St, at Avenue C.

SundayThe Men's Roam (Dallas presents muscle men
and boys. Go-go boys, three floors and 60foot ceilings.) 51 W. 28th St. (212) 576-1890.
+Clit Club (Jocelyn and Julie's Tea Dance. $1
drinks from 6-7 pm. Go-go girls and free fingerfood. OJ Lisa legendary. 3-a pm.) 432 W.
14th St (212)406-1114.
+ Crazy Nanny's (Sunday evening Tea Dance.
Free before 9 pm/$5 after.) 21 Seventh 'Ave.
South. (212)366-6312.
~FUCKI (DJs Craig and Victor. Industrial, house,
bass, soul and disco. Downstairs, thelesbian luv lounge. OJ lori E. Seid andguests. $5.) Pyramid. 101 Avenue A. (212)420-1590.
+ Kelly's (OJ Moaning Lisa spins the records
for dancing dykes. Doors open at 8 pm. $3.)
46 Bedford St. (212) 929-9322.
Monster (Sunday Tea Dance at 4 pm.) 80 Grove
St at Sheridan Square. (212) 924-3557.
_
Parallel (Michael Fesco presents Sunday Tea
Dance. Open bar 5-7 pm. Free hors d's at 7.
Go-go boys. $6.) 229 W. 28th St. (212) 5639292.
+Peggy Sue's (Ande and Dany Johnson present Perk Up. Featuring dancing, a pooltable and a roof.) 120 University PI., between
13th and 14th streets.
+ SOBs (leticia Montalvo presents The lust•House. First Sunday of the month, beginning
June 1. OJ Marlow. $5.)204 Varick St., at
Houston. (212)243-4940.

Every Night (or almost)
The Bank (Look under daily listings for individual parties and themes. Also check Going
Out for special eventS.) 225 E. Houston St,
at Essex. (212)505-5033.
• Bedrock (Lesbian club, closed Mo and Tu.)
121 Woodfield Rd. West Hempstead, LI. (516)486-9516.
*Club Edelwei .. (Tuesdays are for lesbians,
but it's open to all Tu-Su.) 167 W. 29th St(212)868-6989.
419419 N. Highway (Ate 27). Southampton, LI.
(516)283-5001.
Grand Cantral 210 Merrick Rd. Rockville Centre,
LI. (516)536-4800.
Magic Touch (Anglo/Latin/Asian) 73-13 37th Rd.
Jackson Heights, Queens. (718)429-8605.
Monster 80 Grove St, at Sheridan Square. (212)924-3557.
• Pandora·s
Box Sheridan Square & 7th
Avenue. (212)242-1408.
The Pyramid (Look under daily listings for individual parties and themes. Also check Going
Out for special events.) 101 Ave. A. (212)420-1590.
Spectrum (Look under daily listings for individual parties and themes. Coors served.) 802
64th St., at Eighth avenue. Bay Ridge,
Brooklyn. (718)238-8213 •• Tod's (Night club and restaurant. Mostly
women, but men are OK.)2 Georges Rd.
New Brunswick, NJ. (201)545-8990.

Chelsea
Barbary Coast, 64 Seventh Ave. (14th St)675-0385
The Break, 232 Eighth Ave. (22nd St)627-0072
Cellblock 28, 28 Ninth Ave., 733-3144(M-W)
Chelsea Transfer, 131 Eighth Ave. (bet 16th and17th) 929-7183
Eagle's Nest, 142 Eleventh Ave. (21st St)691-8451
Lavender and Lace, at the Vault, 28 Ninth Ave.,
255·6758 (Fr, 7-11 pm andSu, 3-8 pm, women)
Private Eyes, 12W. 21st St (bet Fifth and Sixth
avenues) 206-7770
Rawhide, 212 Eighth Ave., (21st St), unlisted
Spike, 120 Eleventh Ave., 243-9688

West Village.
Badlands, Christopher and West streets, 741-9236
Boots & Saddle, 76 Christopher St, 929-9684
The Comeback Bar, 507 West St, at Jane, 242-2432
Crazy Nanny's 21 Seventh Ave. S., 366-6312(women)O.T.'sFat Cat 281 W. 12th St, 243-9041
Pandora's Box, 70 Grove St (Seventh Ave.) 2421408(women)
Dugout, 185 Christopher St, 242-9113

Eighty-Eights, 228 W. 10th St, 924-01188
The Hangout (J's) 679 Hudson St,242-9272
Julius, 159 W. 10th St,929·9672
Keller's, 384 West StlChristopher, 243-1907
Kelly's Village West, 46 Bedford St, 929-9322
Marie's Crisis, 59 Grove St, 243-9323
The Monster, 80 Grove St (Seventh Ave.) 924-3558
New Jimmy's 53 Christopher St, 463-0950
Ninth Circle, 139W. 10th St, 243-9204
Reeds, 8 Christopher St, 675-7333
Sneakers, 392 West St, 242-9830
Two Potato, 145 Christopher St, 242-9340
Ty's, 114 Christopher St, 741-9641
Uncle Charlie's, 56 Greenwich Ave., 255-8787

Tribeca
Altar, 161W. Broadway. 571-7272.
G-spot, 50 Warren St, 219-2588 (Fr and Sa, women)West Side
Candle Bar, 309 Amersterdam Ave., 874-9155
Cat's, 730 Eighth Ave., 221-7559
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Sliding fae scale. Insurance
accepted. Village location. For
immediate appointment, cell 212353-2888. A staff member will
return your call within 24 hours.
COMMUNITY IlEAL11fPROJECT
208 West 13th Street, NYC,New
York 10011 For Appointments andInformation(2121 675-3559(ffiNoicaIPROVIDING CARING,SENSITIVE AND LOW COSTHEALTHCARESERVICESTO THE
LESBIANAND GAYCOMMUNITYCOMMUNITY HEALTH
PROJECT's HEAIllIINFORMATlON UNE FORTEENS
Do you have questions about
your health? Your Body? Coming
Out? Safer Sex? Feallike you
have no one to talk to? Not any
morel Now you can cali the
HOn-LiNE. 212-255-1517Tho

Teen HOlT·LlNE for Healthl Call
Monday to Thursday, 7pm to
9pm. At other times, leave a message and we'lI call you backl
COMMUNITY RESEARCH
INmATlVE. NY (CRI)
The Community Resea rch Initiative of New York ("CRI NY" isa not-for· profit, community·
based center for AIDS and HIVrelated clinical research. Created in 1987 by people withAIDS and their physicians, CRI
NY tests promising experimental treatments
which many
restore or sta bilize immune
unction, and treatments
andpreventions for AIDS and HIVrelated opportunistic
Infections.There is no change forparticipationin CRI studies.
Many laboratory
tests andphysicals are provided free ofcharge to participants.
Childcare can also be provided. All
Identifying information is kept
confidential. Call (2121481-1050
CONGREGAnON BE11f
SlMCHAlTORAH
NY's Gsy and Lesbian Synagogue Services Friday at 8:30pm
57 Bethune Street For info. call:(212192~9498.
CONGREGAnONB'NAI JESHURUN
Monthly Spiritual Gatherings andfree catered festive luncheons for
s// People With AIDS, their lovers
and families. Program includes
music and discussion led by our
Rabbis. Can (2121787-71m
DIGNITY-BIG APPlE
A community of Lesbian and Gay
Catholics. Activities include liturgies and socials every Sat, 8:00
pm, at the Center, 208 W. 13
Street, NYC.Call(2121818-1309.
DIGNITY NEW YORK
Lesbian and gay Catholics andfriends AIDS Ministry, Spiritual
Development The Cathedral Project WOllihip Services & SocialSun. Eves. 7:3Opm-St John's Episcopal Church 218 West 11th Street
OWave~7S-2179
DROP-IN COME OUTRAP GROUPSFor Lesbians and Bisexual
Women. Fridays starting April
5th 8:30-8:30 p,m. For Gay andBisexual Men. Seturdays sta rting April 6th 11:30 a.m.-l:3O pm*$5.00 Donation Rap Group for
Lesbian and Bi-Sexual Women
over 40 1st $ 3rd Saturday 8-8
p.m. *$5.00 Donation Rap Groupfor Lesbian and Bi-S.xual
Women Every Saturday 2:305:00 p.m. *$5:00 Donation Rap
Group for gay and Bi-Sexual
Men Every Sunday 2:30 • 5:00
p.m. "$5:00 Donation.June 12.1_1

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••EDGEEDUCAnON IN A DISABLED GAY ENVIRONMENT
For the physically disabled Lesbian and Gay Community, P.O.
Box 305 Villa ge Station, New
York, NY 10014
THE RFTH NEW YORK WBIAN
AND GAY EXPERIMENTALRLM FESTIVAL
will be held at Anthology Film in
September 1991. Submissions
will be accepted until June 30.
Please send your 16 or Super· 8
prints or video transfer (only film
will be show at the festival) withreturn postage to Jim Hubbar,
503 Broadway, Rm 503, New
York, NY 10012 Early applications and premieres will begiven priority. For further info
please call (212)925-5883.
flIONT RUNNERS
A running club for lesbian andgay athletes of all abilities. Fun
Runs of 1-6 miles held every Sat
at lOam a nd Weds. at 7pm inCentral Park and every Tues. at
7pm in Prospect Park. For information: call (212)724-9700.
GAY AFRICAN AMERICANS OF
WESTCHESTER(THEG.A.A.)
is a community based support
group formed in Westchester
County. Various activities areplanned for the coming months.
Call 914-37EHJ727formore info.
GAY FATHER'SFORUM
A support organization for gay
father's, their lovers, and others
in child-nurturingsituations.
Monthly meetings include a
potluck supper, support groups
on varied specialized topics,
speakers, and socializing.Meet·
ings: 1st Friday each month, 7pm,
at The Center, 208 W. 13th St.,
West of 7th Ave. Contribution: $8.
Bring a main course for 4 people(or pay a $5 food charge.) For
information call: 212-979-7541or
212·288-3238
G~AY& L£SBIAN

AWANCE AGAINST IIEFMtATION
80 Varick Street, NYC 10013(212)966-1700 GLAAD combats homophobia in the media and else·
where by promoting visibility of
the lesbian and gay communityand organizing
grassroots
response to anti-gay bigotry. Do
you have 30 minutes a month tofight homophobia?Join the GLAAD
PhoneTreelCall (212)-966-1700forinfonnation.
GUB-GAY AND LESBIANINDEPENDENTBROADCASTBISGay and Lesbian Independent
Broadcasters invites you to tune
into OlJTlOOKS on WBAI-NY, 99.5
FM every other Sunday, 7:308:30pm and join us every Tuesday
at 7:30pm to 9pm to becomll amember of GLIB. No experienceneeded. 505 Eighth Avenue, NY,
NY 10018 Attn: Outlooks or call
Mack, Allen, (212)4n.1689.

Health, provides linkages betwn
NYC Health & Human Svcs, andthe Lesbian & Gay community,
focusing in ALl health concerns;
resource infonnation for healthservices
consumers
andproviders. 125Worth Street, Box
67, New York, NY 10013.For info
call (212)!i6&-4995.
GAY MALE SIM ACTIVISTS
Dedicated to safa and responsible
S/M since 1981. Open meetings
w/programs on S/M techniques,
Iffastyle issues, political and social
concerns. Also special events,
speakers bureau, workshops,
demos, affinity groups, newsletter,more, GMSMA - Dept. 0, 496A
Hudson Street, Suite 023 ,NYC
10014.(212)TrH.flB.
GMAD (GAY MEN
OFAfRICAN DESCENT)
80 Varick Street, NYC 10013 a
support group of Gay Men of
African Descent dedicated toconsciousness-raising and thedevelopment of the Lesbian and
Gay Community. GMAD is inclusive of African, African-American, Caribbean and Hispanic/
Latino men of color. Meetings
are held, weekly, on Fridays. For
infonnation, call 719-802,0162.
GAY MEN'S HEALTHCRISIS HOTUNEFOR INFORMAnON ON SAFERSEXAND HIV-RELATED HEALTHSERVICES,AND FOR INFORMATION ON ONE-nME,WALK-IN
AIDS COUNSELING SERVICES
212-807-6655 212-645-1410 TDD(For the Huring tmplli,.) Mon.Fri. lQ:30 am. to 9 pm. 12:00 to 3:00
GAY STAMP COUECTION
One of the collections on exhibit
will be Alternate Lifestyles -outof the Closet. This is the only
gay/lesbian stamp collection ofits kind. It hl8 won 9 gold
awards so far. For informationon GLHSC, send a SASE to:
GLHSC, P.O. Box 230940, Hartford, CT 06103-0940
GIRTH& MIRTH
CUlBOFNEWYOIIK
Social club for heavy, chubby
gay men & their admirers.
Monthly socials at the ·Center·,weeldy bar nights Thursdays at
the ·Chelsea Transfer", monthly
Fat Apple Review, bi-monthly
FAR. penpals. For more infonnation call Emie at 914-699-7735or
write: G&M/NY. Dept 0, P.O.Box
10,Pelham, NY 10803.
HEAL- (Health EducatiDn
AIDS Liaison)
Weekly info. and support groupfor treatments for AIDS which do
not compromise the immune
system further, including altemative and holistic approache's.
Wed 8pm. 208 W. 13th SI. (212)674-HOPE.

GAY&WBIAN
HEALTH CONCBINSAn office of the NYC Dept. of

HERITAGEOF PRIDE.INC.
Organizers of New York's Lesbian and Gay Pride events: theMarch, the Rally and the Danceon the Pier. Call (212) 691-1774

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19111

for meeting schedule or more
information.
208 West 13thStreet, NY,NY 10011.
INSTITUTE FORWBIAN ANDGAY¥OUTH.
Counseling.drop-in centsr (~36pm), rap groups, Harvey Milk
High School, AIDS and safer sex
infonnation, referrals, professional
education. (212) 633-8920(voice)(212)633-8928 TTY for deaf.
HISPANIC UNITBl GAYS& WBIANS
Educational services, politicalaction, counseling and social
activities in Spsnish and English by
andfor the LatinoLesbian and Gay
Community.General mee1ings81Xl
pm 41h Thursday of every month at
206 West.13th Street Call 201-6537824or write H.U.G.L,P.O.Box 22B
CanalStreet Station,New Yor1c,NY10019.
IDENTITY HOUSE
Now in our 20th year. we provide
peer counseling, therapy referrals and groups for the lesbian,gay and bisexual community.
Call us at (212)243-8181.Visit us
at 544 6th Ave., between 14th15th Streets, Manhattan.
INTERNAnONAL GAY &WBIAN HUMAN RIGHTSCOMMISSION
works to foc us the spotlight ofworld opinion on the oppressionof gays and lesbians throughout
the world. Currently organizing
an Inti symposium on Gay andLesbian issues to be held in
Moscow and Lenin-grad in July
1991, in addition to many otherexciting projects. For more info
write IGLHRC, 2978 Folsom
Street, SF CA 94110, or call(415)647-0453.

raising, education, support andempowerment for Latino gay
men. We are inclusive of Latino
gay men of all nationalities, colors and ages. We meet weekly
and publish a monthly calenderof events. For more infonnation
call (718) 834-8785 or write to
P.O. Box 7108 Grand Central
Station N.Y.,N.Y.10163.
lAMBDA !£GAL DIHNSEAM) BJUCA110NRIND
Precedent-setting
litigation
nationwide for lesbians, gay
men and people with AIDS.
Membership ($40 and up) inc.
newsletter and invitations to
special events. Volunteer nighton Thursdays. Intake calls: 24pm Mon thru Fri (212) 995-8585.
LAVA
WBIANS ABOUT
VISUALART
Call for slides for Lasbian Artists'
Exhibition, Gay & Lesbian Com·munity Center, NYC. For more
information, send SASE to :Miriam Fougere, 118Fort Greene
Place, Brooldyn, NY 11217.
WBIAN AND GAY
ADULT EDUCATORS
Meet with other lesbians andgays who work in adult education as tea chers, administrators,
counselors, tutors, etc., to discuss issues such as coming out
to staff and students, materials
and curriculum, workshop andconference participation. We
meet the first Friday of every
month at 8:00 pm at the Lesbian
and gay Community Center 208
West 13th Street Call Bryna Diamond at (212) 932-7902(days) for
infonnation
THE WBIAN

AND GAYBIG APPLE CORPSINSTITUTE FORHUMAN

IJENTTTY INC.
New York's non-profit lesbian
and gay psychothera py center.
licensed psychologists, psychia·
trists, and clinical social workers.
Sliding scale fees. Insurance
acceptad.lndividual, couple, andfamily therapy. Variety of Men's
and women's groups forming
continuously. 118W. 72nd Street
212-799-9432
INTEGRITY/NY
Lesbian and Gay Episcopalians
and friends. Eucharist and program every Thursday, 7:30pm. St
Luke's Church, Hudson andChristopher Sts. INFO: P.O.Box
5202. NY NY 10185(718)~31!i4
KLGO--IKOREAN WBIAN
AND GAY ORGANlZAnON)
Is a group of lesbian and gay
Koreans who are committed tosupporting each other, creating
positive visibility and confronting anti-lesbian and gay
bias within the Korean community. For more information call
Gene (212)4n-8558
LAnNO GAY MEN OFNEWYORK(LGMI NY)
Is dedicated to consciousness·

Get your instrument out of thecloset and com'e play with us.
Symphonic, Marching, Jazz, Dixieland, Rock, Fluto Ensembles
and Woodwinds. 123 West 44th
St Suite 12LNew Yor1c,NY 10036(212) 86&-2922.
L£SBIAN & GAY COMMUNITYSERVICESCENTER
208 West 13th Street New York,NY 10011 (212) 620·7310 9amllpm everyday. A place forcommunity organizing and networking, social services, cultural programs, and social
events sponsored by the Centerand more than 150 community
organizations.
WBIAN AND GAY
LABOR NElWORKAn organization of Lesbians andGays who are active in theirlabor unions workingondomestic partnership benefits
and AIDS issues. For moreinfonnation call (212)923-8690.
WBIAN AND GAYRIGHTS PROJECT
of the Am.rican Civil Liberti ••Union KNOW YOUR RIGHTS/
WE'RE EXPANDING THEM (212)944-9800, ext 545

WBIAN & GAY TEACHERS
ASSOClAnON-- NYC .
The LGTA has been in existence
since 1974. We promote theneeds and rights of Gay/lesbian
educators, students and parents. We re currently in active
negotiations with the Board of
Education conceming the multicultural curriculum, sensitivity
training of guidance councilors,social workers, and teachersand many other issues. We also
have a friendly working relationship with the U.F.T. For moreinfonnation call (718) 626-4899·(718)596-1864
WBIANS AND GAYSOFRATBUSH
Brooklyn's social organization
for both gay men and lesbians.
P.O. Box 106, Midwood Station
Brklyn, NY 11230,(718) 859-9437
WBIAN HERSTORYARCHIVES
P.O. Box 1258 New York, NewYork 101162121874·7232Since
1974, the Archives has inspired,shaped and reflected Lesbian
lives everywhere,
Call toarrange a visit or to volunteer
for Thursday work~ights.
UFEUNETHE NAnONAL LESBIAN AND
GAY TOLL-FREESERVICE
1-8OO-UFE &6
LOST PEER SUPPORTSERVICES(LPSS)
Lost Peer Support Services, a
new program to provide counseling and support to the lesbian,gay and bisexual community ofGreater Westchestar, is planningits. first volunteer training. Thoseinterested in becoming groupfacilitators and peer counselors
should call the Lost switchboard
at (914) 948-4922 for further'details. Experience and beginning volunteers welcomed.
LONG ISLAND ACT-UP
Meets Tuesdaysat 8pm at 181Post
Ave. in Westbury, NY.Support us
for change on Long Island. Mailingaddress: POBox 514,Westbury, NY
115!1l. 516-33&-4fl62.

LSM
is a support and infonnation groupfor lesbians and bisexual womeninterested in fantasy, role-playing,
bondage, discipline, SIM, fetishes,
altemate gender identities, cos·
tumes and so forth. Membershipis available only to women 18
years and older. Actualexperi·ence is not required but genuine
intarest.and an open mind are. For
infonnalion please write: P.O.Box
993,Murray HmStation, New Yort
NY 10156
MARANATHA: RIVERSIDERSFORWBIAN/GAY CONCERNSMonthly program meeting on
second Sunday for gay/lesbian
Christians and friends. Educa·
tional, political, and social activities scheduled, 12:30 p.m. Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Drive,
Sunday worship 10:45 a.m.. For
info.,call (212)222-5900(ext 290)

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MEN OF AlL COLORSTOGETHER NY
A multi-racial group of gay men
against racism. Maetings evary
Friday night at 7:45 at the Les-'bian and Gay Community Services Centar,208 W. 13th Streel
For more info. call: (212) 2458388 or(212) 222-9794.
METROPOUTAN TENNIS
GROUp(MTG)
Our 200 member lesbian andgay tennis club includes players from beginning to tournament level. Monthly tennis
parties. Winter indoor league.
Come play with usl For information: MTG, Suite K83, 498-A
Hudson St., New York, NY
10025. (718) 852-8582.
MOCA (MEN OF COLOR AIDSPREVENTION PROGRAM.)
Provides safer sex and AIDS
education information to gay
and bisexual Men of Color;
coordinatesa network ofpeer-support
groups for gay
and bisexual Men of Color inall 5 boroughs of New York
City 303 Ninth Ave, New York,NY l000lor call (212) 23&-1796.
NATIONAL GAY ANDl£SBIAN TASK FORCE
is the national grassroots political organization for lesbians
and gay men. Membership is$3OIyear. Issue-oriented
projects
address
violence,
sodomy laws, AIDS, gay rights
ordinances,families, media,
etc. through lobbying, education, organizing
and direct
action. NGLTF 1517 U Street
NW, Washington,
DC 20009.
(202)332-8483.
NEW YORK ADVEII11SING
AND COMMUNICAT10NS
NETWORKNYACN is the community's
larg-est-gay and lesbian professional group, welcoming all
in communications
and theirfriends. Monthly meetings, 3rd
Wed 6:30pm at the Community
Center. Members' newsletter,job hotline, annual directory.
Phone (212) 517-0380 for more
info. Mention OutWeek for
one free newsletter.
N.Y. fEMMESSupport and discussion groupfor lesbians who salf identify as
Femme and are primarily
attracted to butch women. For
membership information callUsa (212) ~9817.

and especially interested in
gay intergenerational
relationships. Monthly Bulletin
and regular chapter meetings
on the first Saturday of elchmonth. Yearly membership ia$20; write NAMBLA. PO Box
174, Midtown Station, New
York, NY 10018 or call (212)807-8578 for information.
NORTHERN UGHTSAlJ'ERNATlVES
Improving Quality of Life for
People with AIDS/HIV. THE
AIDS MASTERY WORKSHOP:
Exploring the possibilities of apowerful and creative lila in theface of AIDS. CaD(212) 255-8554•

NYC GAY"ISBIANANTI-VlOL£NCE PROJECT
Counseling,
advocacy,
andinformation for survivors ofanti-gay and anti-lesbian violence, sexual assault, domestic
violence, and other types ofvictimization. All servicas free
Ind confidential.24 hour hotline (212) 807'{)197
PARENTSIRIIENDS OFI£SBIAN AND GAYS
Let P/FLAG help you and yourfamily deal with the upheaval ofyour coming out Our meetings
are free: monthly on the 4th
Sunday, at 3:00 pm, in Duane
Church, 201 Wast 13th. Info? caD
Jeanne, 212-46J.0129
PEER COUNSElING FOR SURVIVORS OF BIAS ASSAULT,DOMEmC VlOI£NCE ANDSEXUAL ASSAULT
Tho Now York City Goy and
L.. bian Anti-Violanca
Proj.ct (AVP) is offering freepeer counseling for lesbians
and gay men who are survivors of bias assault, domestic violenceand sexualassault'. Trained volunteer
paer counselors will be availPM neryable from Ii to"1
.Wedn .. day and Thunday at
tha AVP oHice., ~08Wa.t
13th Str.et. AVP offers freecounseling,
advocacy
andinformation and referrals tosurvivorsof bias assault,
domestic violence and sexualassaull Call (2121IOHn97 for
maN infolllllltion. 'PEOPI£WJJH
AIDS c;DAUTlON(212) 532-029lV1-800-823-328!V
Hotline (212) 532-0588Monday
thru Friday lOam-6pm Meal programs, support groups, educational and referral services for
PWA's and PWArc·s.

N.Y.WOMEN'S SOFTBAll
GUILD
For experienced, serious Softball Players, Coaches- andManagers. We play mod/fast
pitch weekends in Manhattan
and Quaens. Try-outs begin
Feb. 11 thru April- or until
filled. (212) 255-1379 Janel

Undergroundbuyer's club
importing not-yet-approved
medications and nutritional supplements. 31 West 28th Sl 4thRoor (212) 532-(1280

NORTH AMERICAN
MAN/BOY LOVEASSOCIATION (NAMBlA)
Dedicated to sexual freedom

PINK PANTHER PATROL
Community streat patrol in
East and West Village dedicated to deterringviolent

crime against gays and lesbians. For info and meetingtime for West Village, call
212-475-4383. for East Village
Patrol info, call 212-246-6566.
70 A Greenwich
Ave., Box
107, NYC 10011
PROfESSIONALS IN
RlMIVIDEO
336 Canal Street, 8th Roor, NYC
10013212-&15-3351
QUEER NAT10N
Queer Nation is a multi-cultural direct action group dedicated to fighting homophobia,
queer invisibility, and all formsof oppression that any queers
might face. Anyone can suggest an action and shouldcome to meetings prepared toorganize and implement il ON,
208 W. 13th St., New York, NY
10011. Call 212-978-8720 for
meeting info.
SAGE:(SENIOR ACTION
IN A GAY ENVIRONMENT)Social Service Agency. pro-viding care, activities, & educational services for gay &lesbian senior citizens. Also
serves over 16lfhomeboundseniors & older PWA's .208
Wast 13th Sl NYC 10011, (212)741-2247
SETHIAN GAYS,ISBIANS AMI BISEXUALSFor aU of us intarastlld in reaching out to each other in exuberance to spontsneously explore
and expand upon the Se1lVJane
as it
Roberts 'Philosophy'
relates to o~r lives, personally,sexually and politically. Call AI(212) 725.1289,x287
SUNDANCE OUTDOORADVENTURE SOCIETY
A non-profit club offering Outdoor activities for every season including hiking, biking,skiing, water activities andother outdoor
activities for the-Gay/Lesbian co.mmunity. For
information or complimentsry
Newsletter call (212) 598-4n6.
TASKFORCE
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Women's HIV Support Group at
349 Eastl49th Street Room,609,
on ThursdaYll1:OO· 12:30. Thisis an on going closed group for
women who are HIV infected.
2-3 individual
consolations are,
required before admittanceinto group. No fee. For further
information call Donna Berschof Planned Parenthood/HUB at(212)585-5001

PEOPl£ WJJH AIDSHEAI1H GROUPTASK FORCE
ANNOUNCEMENT
The legal Action Center
located at 153 Waverly Place,
NY, NY 10014, has begun two
new programs. All their services are free. The HIV/AIDS
Legal Service Project provides
free legal services to pe'ople
with HIV/AIOS. Their scope ofservice is wide, encompassing

child care and custody, dis·
crimination, ,housing, healthy
health planning, confidentiality
andemployment.
The
HIV/AIDS Agency Training andAssistance
Project provides
technical assistance to public
and j1rivate agencies about
legal and policy issues on
HIV/AIDS and drug abuse.
They provide training, individ·
ual consultations, and model
policy guidelinas, among otheritems. If you have any further
questions, please contsct Ms.
Catherine O'Neil at (212)243of
1313. The Association
Nune. in AIDS Care (ANAC)
has monthly meetings withspeakers
and networking
opportunities. For meeting info,
please contact Janet Vaccariello at (212)340-6724
THE OUTREACH USING COMMUNAL HEAUNG (TOUCH)
Community volunteers providing a weekly buffet supper for
the Brooklyn AIDS community. TOUCH meets Monday
eves. 5pm to 6:30pm- at downtown Brooklyn Friends Meeting House (110 Schermerhorn
St. near B\>erum Place). Limited transportation
may bearranged. Info: (718) 622-2756.
TOUCH welcomes contributions of funds, food and volunteers.

tad to demanding. securing anddefending absolute reproductive freedom and quality health .
care for all women. We meet
every Wed. at 6:30pm at 105, E
22nd Street, 4th floor. 212·7135966Mailing address: WHAMI,PO Box 733, NYC 10009
WOMENS ALTERNAT1VE
COMMUN CENTER (WACC)
A non-profit, Lesbian community center serving Queens,
Nassau and Suffolk Counties.
Thurs. night weekly discussion groups. 8:30 pm, for otheractivities please contsct us at
513-483-2050.
ATIENTION WOMEN SOfTBAll PlAYERS
There is a Manhattan softballleague looking for players;
especially experienced pitchers.lf interested please callMary at (718) 377-7279 Hopeto hea r from you soon.
WRESTUNG FOR GAYS&l£SBIANS
Watch the men of the knights
wrestling club inaction every
Sunday at 7:30 PM at the GAY
CENTER.The club also conduct training classes on altarnate Saturdays afternoon (1st& 3rd Saturdays for men 2nd& 4th Saturdays for women)
for more information plasse
call: 713-639-5141

ULSTER COUNTY GAYANDISBIAN AWANCE
Meets first and third Monday
of ea ch month at 7:30 pm at
the Unitarian
Church on
Sawkill Road in Kingston. For
Information, call 914-823-3203
UNITY 94
NEEDS YOU to become a partof itl Organizers
for Gay
Games IV, to be held in New
York in 1994. Olympic·stylesports and cultural event islargest in world. Theme is
INCLUSION,everyone
isneeded.
SUPPORTTHE
GAMES by volunteering, joining or making a donation. Call
212-732-3612 or write UNITY'94, PO Box 202, NY, NY 10036.

COMMUNITY ..
IlSTINGS AREUPDATEDMONTIlLY. PLEASEVISUAL ARTS PROJECT
In Honor of Artistic Vision
Effectad by A.I.D.S.
The Visual Arts Projects isinterested in documenting andcollecting a rt work (slides) by
those people.who have AIDS
or Arc. It is the Project's intan·
tion to not just focus on AIDS
but on someone'
work andartistic vision. We are interested in receiving responses
from those people in the following disciplines-painting,drawing, sculpturing, illustration, architecture and environmental design, interior design
and graphic design. Should
be interested please call Eric
Strauss at (718) 855-8491

MAIL OR FAX SUBMISSIONS TO:
ROGEIlO

PARRIS

OtnWEEK,

159W. 25m

STREET, 7 FL, NY, .
NY 10001
FAX 212-337·1200
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p_g&3face and liquor-red eyes, approached, theothers applauded. He and his lover,"Paul," an interior designer, were collaborating on a dream house. Greg told methat he used to collaborate with Richard
Bettis, a lyricist for the Carpenters. I
savored the coincidence;
the night
before, the irresistible East Vmage manboy and I had watched Todd Haynes'
classic Superstar: Tbe Karen Carpenter
Story, an epic dramatized with Barbie
dolls. I told Greg of the plot, and its
depiction of Karen's battle with anorexia
nervosa. He shook his head mournfully
in recognition. "We used to talk on thephone all the time," he said. "We got
along really well together. She had somuch pressure on her, from everybody.""Chet" was rough-hewn and sexy,in a way that resembled Dave Kopay, an
appearance only enhanced by a brokennose :µ1d not diminished by a '70s "drylook" hairstyle. When Drew and I confessed that we were New Yorkers, hesmiled broadly. "Oh yeah, I grew up in
F1atbush. You know where that is?" Chet
was an antique dealer in a neighboring
town, sharing a house with his lover ofseveral years, a short, impish man named"Phil." I told him that I was a journalist,
and he chuckled loudly, a sound that gurgled as he chugged his drink. "Oh, youwant a good stOt,,?I
got one for you," he•said. Bobby was on the spot with his
rem!. Chet was one of the original American Bandstand dancers, in the early '60s
when Dick dark ruled Philly with his 'IV
rock party. In fact, he says, there was awhole gay enclave there. "Of course, thefags were the best dancers," he added.
His friend Dino won a white Thunderbird
for his masterful Madison steps. After theshow, the gayboys would pile into the car
and cruise up to New York City, where
they'd hit the bars as demi-celebrities andhorse around all night
Chet stopped to gauge my reaction.
My writer's eyes were alight with enthusiasm and Absolut. For good measure, hetold me that he had enjoyed a two-year
relationship with a sex-symbol gridironstar, who looked as good in pantyhose as
he' did' in shoulder pads. Intoxicated withinformation, I stumbled to the house for a
pen and paper. Frank called after me,"You gotta watch out for those journalists--they record eveI)'thing you say." He
wasright.T.Jun_ 112, 11_11

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I'm an anarchist, but I'm not a person
who's involved in activist movements
or anything. I've never gotten involvedin ACf UP or Queer Nation [because] I
don't function well in groups, I just get
really confused. It's easier for me to doreading benefits for organizations
rather than be involved in them. I'mtrying to figure out how to deal with itpolitically, 'cause that's a real horror
too, but I haven't figured out what tosay or if I have anything much original
to say about that.
DP: I read the Eric iatzky article
that was in LA Weekly. One of thethings he talks about is this idea of"the marginal of the marginal," thatbeing you in this case. Do you thinkthat's true? Do you feel like part of thehomosexual community, but then evenpushed farther out on its extreme?
DC: Yeah, I guess, but gay culture
seems so divided now. There's somany generations
that people aredoing different things, like this whole'zine thing, from My Comrade to Bimbox or whatever. I feel really connected with those people and the sense ofbeing alienated from a kind of assimilationist gay culture. But it seems likemore and more people are feelingalienated from the imperatives of gay
culture there's so many that it doesn't
even feel like a fringe to me anymore.
It's interesting,'cause it seems to
involve people who aren't necessarily
gay. It's like a community made up ofpeople who feel disenfranchised fromwhat they're supposed to be. T"Gay Bias Moves Off the Sidelines"(only in the Times).
While writing the article, Brownworth said that she "really wanted toout a couple of people, but I really feltthat it wasn't fair because I promised I
wouldn't." One of the women she interviewed freaked and called Brownworth
at 2 am after seeing a copy of her
strong pro-outing piece in OUtWeek
from last year. The reality of women's
sports is that you can't make it if you
don't "feminize" your image, and, whencloseted people fmd themselves in positions of power-whether
it's Hollywood, the Pentagon, Washington, thepowerful media organizations or the
LPGA-"the inclination is not to usethat position of power, but to protectthat position of power," she says.
Professional sports is a businessbuilt on the insecure fantasies of heteromen, so coming out seems to havegreater implications for players. Fanswant to imagine themselves a hero on
the field and a Don Juan to sexy lady
golfers. But this is what makes it all themore important. Sure, if those fags whoplay and work for the Mets come out, alittle business might be lost. But thinkof all the messed-up young boys andtomboy girls, dragged to the ballpark
with Dad, only to get back home an<;lthink about suicide because they thinkthat there was no one like them out on
the field. There's no reason a coalitionof responsible sports figures couldn't
come out en masse as a bunch of actors
and actresses did in London last year.
They're still working and are worth ahell of a lot more than the bottom linesof their new contracts. T

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th6nua could find no evidence of KS in-the biopsies of lesions that were takenfrom the initialpatient prior to treatment.
Instead of KS, the government teamspeculated that the so-<:alledlesions were
evidence of a disseminated bacterial
infection that began with cat scratches
and that the post-hyperthennia responseof those infections could probably becredited to antibiotics the patient
received just prior to undergoing the." ,hyperthermia operation.
Dr. Gabriel Torres, medical director at Gay Men's Health Crisis and amember of the NlAID team that investiga'ted Logan and Alonso's claims
about extracorporeal hyperthermia lastyear, said that he still believes pre-c1iniC'alevidence of the treatment's potential efficacy is needed before further
human experiments are conducted.
. '." A person infected with HN man, ifests sO many different types of effects
to [an] intervention, we need to bereally careful," he stated. "You don't
know what [hyperthermia] is going to
do to other viruses that are present in. the blood."

Concern over the potential for
massive trauma associated with extracorporeal hyperthermia peaked shortly
before the NIAID investigation was
released, when reports came that apatient under Alonso's care had diedin Mexico City only hours after undergoing hyperthermia.
Alonso reportedly said at that timethat he expected a 30 percent mortality
rate with the hyperthermia protocol,
designed by Logan, that he was using.
Contacted for information regarding the hyperthermia-associated deaths
in Guatemala City, Alonso, who is currently one of two principal investigators on the hyperthermia treatments
being conducted in Italy, stated that
he, too, had heard that his former partner had conducted two hyperthermia
operations in Guatemala City and thatboth patients had died. Alonso also
said that, to his knowledge, Logan was
not working in association with theDallas-based group of physicians who
were arranging hyperthermia treatments in various places throughout
Central America.
Dr. Terry Pulse, the Dallas contact, responded to a general queryon hyperthermia
with the statement, "If you have a specific problem with what I am doing, write me
a letter."
Alonso also stated that he hasabandoned the "high-flow-rate" procedure which he used in Mexico Cityin favor of a "low-flow-rate" versionof the operation.
As the latterapproach to hyperthermia is less traumatic, Alonso said, it requires lessintensive monitoring, is conducted as
an outpatient
procedure
and isinfinitely less costly.
Jeff Shinn, who elected to participate in the Italian experiment andwho arranged his operation throughAlonso, paid only $4,000 for the treatment.
"If I sHould do any work andcharge money for it, then I get
criticized,"
rebutted Logan, who
would not discuss the Guatemala
City cases, or any part he may
have played in them. But when
asked directly about hyperthermiarelated fatalities, Logan defended
his procedure, stating, "We've said
all along we don't know all therisks involved." T••"

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212·677·7656
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212-684-2677

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Noon to 4am.
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TAKE IT TO BE YOU
To touch. To talk. 35
In recovery. HealthCare worker. I value
political action honesty lesbians na.ture dancing Nonsmokers laughing
baseball let's gol To
Outweek Box #4507

ATTRACTIVE
FEMME HISP./ITAL
WOMAN
26, 5'9" 160lbs, greeneyes, looking for matlJre attractive
femme female 21-38,
outgoing funny, intelligent for walks inthe park. dining out
and dancing. If sincerely i.nterested inestablishing true
bliss send phone andphQ~oto Box/4587.
FINE UPS?
28, Warm, Sensitive,
GHFwould like you
to join me for achampagne limo ridearound the city on
my B-Day. You arefem, blond 25-35, intelligent, no drugs,
matlJre, good senseof humor. Send
photo + letter ASAP
to Outweek Box 4483
OKSOISMOKE& DRINK
These are not myworst habits. (I also
bite my nails, but
lesbians should nothave long nails anyway) this-26 GWF islooking for someone
to play with on Tue& Wed (the worst
days off possible) orafter midnight (howdid I get this job?) If
you still eat meat &cook with butter
drop me a line we'll
see a movie or I'llcoo~ you dinner,
we'll do snow bongson the roof. OutWeek Box 3722
TIRED OF QUEENS'The borough, thatis. I've left all mygirl friends in Long
Island City. Just
moved to Park
Slope, looking forfun and fantasy between Fourth Ave.
and Prospect ParkWest Outweek
Box3nOACTIONWOMAN SEEKS
Overto share greatlife I I am a morning
run in Prospect Park.
a squirt of kumquat
as you bite, the hotbreath of a woman
speaking from theheart Love fresh
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Calif, O'Keefe, AI
Jarreau, colors. Attractive Androgyneous, successful
entrepreneur /Teacher, LWF,33.
Write w/ photo or
drawing to Outweek
Box/4420
BISEXUALPERVERTDYKE(Also anti-war activist, ACT UP-er, andgeneral pillar of thecommunity) seeks
women who like toplay in new places

as well as in·the traditional whips-andchains venues.· No
smoke/perfume.
Msgs: 459-4811
CATCH ME IF
YOU CAN'cuz it's spring andI'm runnin'freell'm
a cute, fun dyke
who's a little crazy,'a little calm, got it?
Versatile. Multi.
faceted PQrsonality.
Infected with spring
fever. Looking forsome dates. fianging out, 1)10vies,.walks, dancing,
anything,but especially dinners (we allknow how sensual
food can be). So answer my ad because after all, we
could have. somefun I Photo, phone to
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JUSTINEA new mail ordercompany for the
S&M woman. To beon our mailing list
send name and address stating you
are 21. Justille, P.O.
Box 922947, Sylmar,
CA 913922947

HEY THERE
I'm a nice, cute,1()()% lesbian who
needs to meet more
fun dykes to hangout with. No specifications-just like tohave one hell of agood time.Outweek
Box 3945
ANDROGYNOUS,
GWF,21
Healthy body & psy-che, fascinated by'Ishrilael"from 'fanny&. alexander. seeking similar w/similar
fascinations for romantic friendship or
relationship. Mustbe honest, able tocOlT!municate,&slightly academic.
Send letter, Outweek Box 3n6.
Photo helpful.
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STARTlNG 1O LOOKAT MEN. '33,5'3", br hair ~eeks
sporty-fem womenfor relationship. Intohumor honestyro. "mance and treating
you right Enjoy cozyevenings by a fireplace. Take Ii .
chance on some'One
nice. your photo will
get mine. tIIo drugs
non-smoker preferred Outweek
Box 3707
ARTSYBUT
NOTFLAKEY.
YUPPIEbut not square ... but
definitely artisticlooking, so not reallyyuppie, but could
pass at the country_ club and JUSTLOVESMONEYIAMBITIOUSI But spiritlJal...vegetarian ...
kind, sweet,
sensitive, youngish,
pretty, longhaired,yet strong
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smart(both in theway you'd describea hand bag and ascholar). All you
have to be is wildly•~

clever, as tomboy ~sthey come, over 30
and not too terminally cynical or chicken
to for heaven sakewrite instead ofguessing ..Dutweek
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woman with sensea major crush on 'of humor. I'm 36,
you, but couldn't 'pleasantto look, at,quite figure you out
tax ai:counta'nt, like
It was always fun,. foreign films, books,
talking toyou ~write
desire serious com. back, will du? E.L. 'mitted relationship. , Outweek Box 3315
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able.to Outweek
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Box #3905
Baby I'm an inferno-:-will you be my fuel? .
BI-F F1UPPINA
I ca n burn even the
40 YO
Pretty,:Petite, ,marmost infiammablEis.
ried child less, seeks
5'6' 23 y.o. GWF
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eye glasses make•••I am gentle, honest
my vIsion pierce,& caring. I love simyour soul to dep1tJs .
ple pleasures of dinyou never knew it .
ing, occasional travhad. A photo/ phone.
el, talking, relating# will get you the. loving. Box 443
same--if you have
Manorville, NY 11949
the courage to se.e 'in yourself-what!
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can show you. Out- :CHINAPAmRN
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AT BLOOMIE'S
GF,35, 5'6', 135,
BI/gr, alcohoV drug
LEFT HANDED
free SF native/ ManABCDE
hattan dweller
Seeks same. Who 'seeks to end years.knows why someof serial monogamy.
people 'click'. Alii
Softball, Dianeknow for sure, isKurys films,ferron,that I'm 32 with .
short red hair. I 'gardening, politics
and cruising thewantto make tbe
p.age of Elle andworld abetter place.
for Lesbians and .
Mirabella. Sweep
gay men. I also 'me off my feet andwant to eatChinese.
into a domestic
food and take long ,pal1nership. Photo/walks.,Send me .
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something that de- .
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scribes you. Outweek Box 3845.
HOW DO I SPELLREUEF?
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Lets have fun andgive each othersupport Wsrite,
to Outweek
Box/4129
ONE DATE
ATAnME
GWF, 29, Attractive, sincere,
funny, insightful,stable, attentive,
somewhat spiritualand politieallyaware seeks thesequalities in an 'out"
woman who isemotionally articulate, sensuallyspiritual, dynamic
yet grounded, willing to,listen andlearn and allow fora possible rela-,tionship. Old
enough to know
better; young
enough to takerisks? Send photo
and, letter to:
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OUT,LOUDAND PROUD .
26 Yr. old Queer TS
woman tired of exclusionary politics'
in the women's
community seeking
friends, maybe
dates, maybe
more. Intelligence,maturity, and asense of humor are
prime importance.
The unadventurous
need not apply ,ifyou're new to TS
women, ~e don't
bite (unless you
ask nicely). Notew/phone. photo optional. To Outweek
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RENAiSSANCEWOMAN SEEKS
same in SSF Bay
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Classics iIIustr.
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Christian.Oh yesSex manjac. Outweek Box 3718
SEXY PLAYMATEWANTEDGF Br skin mixed,
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31 fun hot creative
into Art Music,
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generous warm
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pal to call to invite
to join U in some ofyour many pleasures. Write; fantasia Box 1234
Edgemere, NY
11691
WARM,
SENSITlVE,
HONEST,
androgynous,5'5',30, blonde, blue
eyed, virgo wants
to ge~to know you.
I like to sit in acafe and sip ca ppuccinos, go to themovies or just stayhome and cuddle
by candlelight
let's keep it
simple and slow.
Tell me about yourself. Honesty,nonsmoker, sober anddrug free a must
Send photo andletter. Outweek
Box 3662
HEAVYSETBISEXUAL
WOMAN
and her husband
are seeking a very
heavy bisexyal
woman for loving
triad. Country setting, close to nature, the richnessof three lives entwined. Bonnie &Bill, P.O.Box 62,
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38,5'5200, hairy chest,
br/hzl., u/c seekslean, imaginative
chasers under 40, for sweaty, safe
goodtimes, midtown, day/nite/lunch. Photo/descrip. to Tim J.,
Box 144, Annex,
25W. 45th Street,
Suite 11401, NYC,
NY 10036-4998.
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GWMn EARLY 50'S,
5'8 , Grey hairgreen eyes, attractive, sincere
loyal executive
educated, seeks
nice guy, GWM
good person,
loyal, 40-50, stable
and attractive forfriendship andpossible lasting
relationship Box
6609 NYC 10128
HI MY NAME IS
DAVID
looking for you
lets get serious
GWM 425'71951bs
successful secure
sweet guy looking
for a special man
to start a relationship send photoand phone number
to PO Box 31 Jackson Heights NYC
11372
IT WAS THE
BEST OFTimes, it was theworst of times-38
yo GWM, healthcare prof., handsome slightly insecure, seeking
similar man, 25-40
for friendship &romance. let's
share these times
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25-35 GOD
If you have abeautiful face,and a spirit tomatch ... Send
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Box #4661
CUTEGOM,2457 120
Attractive boyish
look nice body, Ivy
grad student sincere/romantic,
enjoy classicalmusic. Seek GWM
24-30, student,
hairy at letter/
photo / phone to
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FUN & HUNG 32
GWM 6FT 170
sane, solid, fit
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pain, tickling, teasing stroking,touching, rubbing,spanking, licking,kissing, manipulating, harnessing,fucking, sucking,whispering, sleeping, holding, arguing, seeing, doing,
again, again andagain. dark roast
coffee, too muchsugar, open fields,
cool summer
breezes, my lips
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tomorrow, theHamptons, butterflies heartbeats,
giggles, joys, toysploys, boys, boxers, white socks,
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Reply explicitly 380
Bleecker, #135
New York, NY
10014
AFTERNOON FUN
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skin4head, 5'6"

130, bl/bl. I'm into
showing off, muU!al worship, fantasy and inventive
naughtyness.
Send ph/ph +ideas to Box 478
532laGuardia PI.
NYC 10012
SEEKING BIG
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CUPPER HAIRCUTS
Handsome, hungWM barber, 32,
gets hot giving
buzzcuts-flattops, crewcuts,
military, etc. AIready shorn guys
also an automatictum - on POB
2291, NY, NY 10185
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WITH GOOD
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GWM 6'l , 33 fit nhunky, HIV +asym. Healthy, endowed with hot' mix of Ontn
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bitch what theheck optimism,
guys any color,
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to Outweek Box#4642
GBM BTM SEEKGWMTOP
30-40 Someone
who is specil.
knows what hewants and is notafraid offinding it
I am 6', 28, affectionate, need to
be touch and be
loved by a compassionate person. Fun and hot-

sex is part of ourrelationship.
Ph/ph to POB
7833, FOR Sta,
NYC 10150
BIG DADDYWANTED FORA
GBM 30 years oldwiry hung heavy
seeks a versatile
ac/dc Daddy. No
drugs, race un-important I am fun
exciting; high energy can keep youup all night Senseof humor a must
Photo / phone to
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TAll ATTRACTIVE
GBM
looking to meet
GBM 25-35 who
enjoys Jazz, Dining
out, interesting
conversation andpossesses a good
sense of humor. I
am 6'2" 220Ibs, Brn
hair and eyes. If interested in meeting an exciting
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EXUBERANTGUY WITH
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w/a cute smile anda goal in life.
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5'10",175 drk hie,cln shv, very aggressive in life and•a warm, canng guy~
looking for a boy
friend to be proudof. Note / Pic to:
P.O.Box 7901 NYC
10150-1915
COUPI£ SEEKSFRIENDS
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for socializing &friendship. We'rewell educated professionals who•
enJoy museums,
theatre, travel, good
food & stimulating
conversation. Reply
to Box, FDR Station,
NYC 10150.

musician / writer,
SW. London. I Am
, 5'10", slim, warm,
gentle, straightlooking and have myown house close tocity centre. You are
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gressive, employed,
butc,h, ageless.
send photo andphone to Outweek
Box #4449
GLM 19, 5'8",
142LBS'
Seeks funny, strong
sincere, individual
for friendship, possibly mo~e. Phone/
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Ple@sewrite to
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GwM 30 y.o. 6ft 165
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seeks hot, horny
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GWM, &'2", 25
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New York;NY 10016
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Outweek Box #4402
GWM, Tall, attraccure in being gay,
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Dynamic Francis KunreutherOn May 17 New York Newsdajs
Sheila McKenna profiled the dynamic
Frances Kunreuther in its "Manhattan
Profile." Kunreuther is the executive
director of the Hetrick-Martin Instituteand works effectively for our community's lesbian and gay youth. McKenna's
profile of Kunreuther is well done andsensitive. McKenna has done other profiles of members of our community. I
respectfully request that GLAADconsider
recognizing her contributions at award
time next year.

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My Father is Coming
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