No. 2S

December 10, 1989

.NEWS' SEXUALPOUTICS'

AU&U« I! ,Remembering
Harvey Milk on'the eleventh
anniversary of his
assassination.
see pg 24 and 28.
Photo: Rink Foto

Political Science (Harrington)
London Journal (Navarro)

34

Outspoken (Editorial)
Letters
Sotomayor
Stonewall Ricts (Natalie)
XeroxedNightmare of the Week
Blurt/Out
Dykes to Watch Out For (Bechdel). Quote of the Week
San Francisco Journal
Out of Control (Day)
GLAADTidings
Lookout
SOCialTerrorism
Out of my Hands (Ball)
Gossip Watch
Calender(X)
I
Community DirectoryClassifieds
Personals
Crossword
Hot Shot (Conrad)

4

Theater A Few Good Men .
Theater Nose Job (She Had to Model)
Film Gays in Hollytwod
Film Mystery Train
Music Deborah Harry

54
55
56
56

Art Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing
Art Technological Reliquaries & Insights
Video It~ a Lezzie Life
Video AIDSFILMS
Books The Construction of HomosexuaHty

58
59
60

57

61

62

ON THECOVER:Police Officers Pe,dro
Velazquez (left) and Peter Guardino.
photographed by Ellen B. Neipris

30

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10
11

BRAVE NEW WORLD
Signorile Walks the Beat with Lesbian and Gay Membersof the New York City Police Department

page 38mE TOP MAN
Pettit Gabs It Up With Author, Editor, AIDSEducator John Preston

page 42

22
28

32

36
46
48
50

51

KICKING mE HABIT

66

Liz Tracey Flips a Hot Nun at an Operation Rescue Demo

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page 52

SSO-HARD to Take
Thank you for OufWeek.
New York has been long
overdue for an intelligent
periodical devoted to thelesbian and gay community ..
One thing that has consistently disturbed me, however, is the appearanceofthe SSO-HARD ads at theend of each issue I've seen
so far. I can't help but readthe image as a faceless,headless gay person cuffed,
barefootand helplessly
awaiting torture (symbolic orotherwise). My presumpyonof what this image cOnnotates negates the impact ofmuch of the content which
precedes in the body of themagazine,
These articles

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and other contributions on
the whole aspire to liberation and revelation, in contrast to the humiliation
implied by the ad in question: I can certainly understand the necessity of raisingmoney for the publication
through advertising,andthat one can't always afford
to be idealistic about thesource of such income.
However, I question whether
the choice of running this ad
is a productive compromise.
In raising similar questions ina panel presentation at lastSeptember's NY Lesbian and
Gay Experimental Film Festival (Anthology FilmArchives)
on Complacency
andActivism in the Media, I felt

December 10, 1989

that much of the audience response was thatof evasive consternation. I will be presenting
a film in February (also• gt Anthology) which. I
hope will further develop the discourseinexamining the implica:.ry
tions of the prevalentiJ,~.i\1:'...
S&M sensibility in g~yculture. I hope others In t~,,,,,··,·
the gay community willl'begin,
continueor ~t~;':~i!l':':Z'
resume the assessment ~'~'~:7;;..... .
'.
of the issues which this '''''~(:.~:t-''':;;::JI!!!.
. ,!iii~~
conditionbrings up, andthat gays, particularly male
how it relates to our position
whites (whicl"ll am not) mustin a society which seems
begin to question thesemore and more to teeter on
implications more seriously.
the brink of fascism. Sadism
Well you may say that thatis the traditional expression
sexual practice isthe individof
fascistic
exercise:ual freedom of one's private
Masochism
is the mirror
domain.
Not so, I reply,
oppositethroughwhich
when
manifest
throughsadism more easily perpetuadvertisement(being theates. It is my strong feelingmost effective means of per-

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suasion, potentially)
andespecially within the context
of a news magazine. Then it
becomesa public issue
which warrants discussion.
After the panel I wastold that I have the consciousness of a 70s feminist.
I'm not sure why, but theidea appeals to me.
Jack waters
Manhattan

Premature Adulation
Cliff O'Neill's
report("Surgeon Specific: Nov. 20)
on the appointment of the
new Surgeon General Antonia Novello, sparked questions in the minds of those of
us who work with CUREAIDSNOW in Florida. We feel that
George Bush's selection
bears close scrutiny. The factthat certain AIDS lobbyists
credit the new appointment
with a clean account before
she gets started is reason to
be doubly suspicious of her.
An AIDS lobbyist for theAmericsm
Psychological
Association assures us she's
shown ·an extraordinarylevel of sensitivity'fromwhich we can take •a great
deal of comfort:
Can wetake this extreme compliment seriously? Hardly. Oftena lobbyist must find room on
the ground floor when aPower Hat he lobbies takes
office, Otherwise his lobbying falls on deaf ears. He
works within a system which
requires of him that he kissposteriors-even when thosesame buttocks have messed
In their pants,
To respond to Bush's
appointment by Insisting on
Its excellence Is, diplomatically speaking, premature,
Before rushing to embrace
Ms, Novello, It may be wise
to reflect that her opposition
to abortion probably stems
from a Roman Catholic
upbringing,and that. her
approach to sexuality and Its
social ramifications Is, there- fore, colored by medlev,alreligious beliefs, Our organization has sent her a letter

requesting her response torenounce
this grotesquethe Supreme Court in thestatements in Rome by John
moralism if she is to be worlast three years (the GeorCardinal
O'Connorwho
thy of even one satisfactory
gia sodomy case, the CIA
said, ·Sometimes I believemark on her first report card.
gay employee
case andthe greatest damage done
As long as she opposes fetal
the gay Olympics case)to persons with AIDS is done
research she stands forhave been ACLU cases.
by the dishonesty of thosedeath, and her grade is F-'
The record should behealth care professionals
minus.
made clear because many,
who refuse to confront theJack Nichols
many lesbian and gay men
moral dimensions of sexual
CUREAIDSNOW
are supporters of the ACLU
aberrations or drug abuse.
Miami,FL
as well as of diverse lesbianGood
moralityis goodand gay organizations. It is
medicine:
ACLUSnafu
important for them to know
While Ms. Novello may
I write to correctathat their membership dolnot be dishonest, she maystatement in the article inlars, as well as their earvery well turn out to belast week's (Dec. 3) issue
marked contributions to theschizophrenic
if her reliconcerning the internal turACLU Lesbian and Gay
gious morality comes into
moil at National Gay Rights
Rights Project, pay the bills inconflict with reality as it has
Advocates.
That article
these cases and in fact supalready done in the casedescribes NGRA and Lambport an enormous chunk ofof abortion.
da as "the only national
the lesbian and gay civil
We already know Bush legal organizations whichrights work which goes on in
prefers making appointregularly litigate gay and les- this country.
ments to high posts of thosebian civil rights cases.· That
Nan D. Hunter
who conform to his narrowstatement
is incorrect;
it
Directorright-wing-pleasing stances.
omits both the National CenACLU Lesbian and Gay
We can't gloss over the fact
ter for Lesbian Rights, directthat opponents of abortion
ed by Roberta Achtenberg,
are usually the same ideoand the ACLU.
logues who see AIDS as a fitAlthough organizations
ting condition
for moral
which litigate only lesbiandeviates.
and gay rights cases are a
The new Surgeon Gennatural focus of attentioneral opposes not only aborwithin our community" it istion but. by extension, fetal,
also important that we realresearch as well. How can aize and recognize where a'saneSurgeonGeneralhuge amount of the work is
oppose fetal research, obvi- , actually being done. The
ously proven· to hold such
ACLU, throughboth thepromise in AIDS research, as National Lesbian and Gay
in a host of other diseases
Rights Project in New York
Braff New Worldand cancers? She isjoined inand our affiliates throughCongratulations
tothis lunacy by Dr. Jamesout the country, now has
GMHC for coming up with
Mason, Assistant Secretarynine attorneys working fullan executive director, suchfor Health, who sees thetime on AIDS and gay rights
as Jeffrey Braff, that my very_rights of those who have notissues.This is more attorneys
dear friend Paul Popham,yet been born as morethan NGRA (pre-firing) andfirst president and founder ofimportant than the rights ofLambda combined.
Not
GMHC would be very proud
those who are fully alive,
to hove carry on In his tradisurprisingly, then, many of
As long as the new Sur- the most significant
gaytion, Very best wishes to you,geon Generaland her, Jeffrey Braff,rights cases have beencohorts stand In the way,
handledby ACLU attorMel Cheren
creating blocks to the conneys, Including Brasch I v,
Manhattan
tinuanceof life for living
Stahl Associates (the gay
patients, It cannot be said ofcoupleas family
case
Supporting Sa'erSex
her that she Is pro-life In any
under New York City rent
Last week I ottended arational sense, In fact. her
control) and Watkins v, U,S, safer sex seminar/support
Interferencewith fetal
Army (the only military casegroup at the GMHC, At a
research and her acquiesIn which a final federal rul·
time when AIDS has affect·cence In the stoppage of
Ing has ordered a gay sol- 'ed us all. In some way, thefetal experiments will lead todier reinstated), Indeed, 01/
weekly· occurrence of suchcountless deaths, Our new
meetings Is long overdue, I
three of the gay rights
SurgeonGeneralmust
cases which have reached
do not mean to Insinuate

December 10, 1989

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7

that men and women are
unaware of the dangers, On
the contrary, I believe mostare, But learning to Incorporate the presence of this'danger Into our daily lives
must be a deliberate practice In order to stop the devastation that this microscopic virus has taken on ourlives, Education Is not only
being aware of how thevirus Is transported, but also
how to utilize that awareness outside of the bedroom, When the government is afraid
to evenacknowledge the presenceof AIDS,it is up to the individual to actively support thepractice of safer sex, She or
he should not view it as analternative to sex but. withcondoms readily available,
should celebrate sex as loveand life affirming.
If you hold the erroneous belief that a safer sex

seminar has nothing to offer
you, why not offer something of yourself? Or as acouple? The gay community Is still facing seemingly
Insurmountablebarriers
from all sides, By actively
showing support for sex thatis safer, we can reaffirm
that those of us who areconcerned and aware are
not a mInority
within aminority,
William C. Newcomb
Manhattan

Lisbon Trlvlallzation?
I'm incredibly perplexedby Jonn Wasser's review ofTerence McNally's Lisbon
Traviata. Where does he saythat it is filled with ugly, old,
pernicious stereotypes ofgay men growing sad andunbeautiful? Did he reallynot see what enraged me?
Did he not see that this wasa story which endorsed thenotion that gay men growbitter and depressed as theylose youth? Thiswas the firsttime I ever hissed at a stage.
In the briefest of allusions to Mendy's daughter,
Stephen tells us that hebelieves the emptiness of his
emotional well would be
filled If only he himself had
been a parent, The sad
Mendy Is thus renderedmore valid because of his
procreational
accident,
Stephen really means hewouldimaginehimself
happy If only he had a captive human attachment-arole which he seeks to assign
his lover, who is understandably running scared in thesecond act. Bullshlt fantasy!
There are enough painfully
empty parents out there. Of
course many lives, gay, lesbianand straightareenriched by parenting. But
the idea that gay and les-~ A~OR.E.4
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blan lives are somehow
Incomplete
continues torationalize the subtle homophobia
of
even
our
"friends,' Yet that thesis isnear the core of this play,
Here Is a significant
piece of cross-over theaterand it Invests all its energies
in telling its audience a storyof a depleted
life andfoundQrlng
narcism, No
doubt the world is filled withpainfully desperate characters such as Stephen, But
Jonn Wasser ties it to homosexuality. Is this what a writerof gay themes has to promote in order to be shownat a mainstream theater?
Must we supply them with
self-hatingstereotypes?
How sad for us. Yes massa, I
sho' do know dat I be lazy,
but p'haps I can dance a
few steps fo you.
Ron Winchel
Jonn WasserResponds:
If Mr. Winchel feels
angered by what he saw
onstage, he would be best
to adckess his peeves to theauthor, (c/o Gilbert Partner,
William Morris Agency, 135
Avenue of the Americas,
New York,NY 1(019) I standby my review.

The Real Deal
Tothe Editor

The New York Times
The majorityof thepeople (and not a single
patient I) that Gina Kolata
Interviewed fbr her article ofNovember 21. 1989, ("Innovative AIDS Drug Plan May
be Undermining Testing:)
told her that her thesis wasbaseless. (Since when did
the Times begin reserving
front page space for what"may be?") All the activists,
officials from the National
Institutes of Health and representatives
from BristolMyers, sponsor of the drug inquestion, were unanimous:
there's no evidence that
expanded access is slowing
trial enrollment.
But that
didn't stop the article, orchange its headline.
If Kolata, rather thanflipping thro.ugh her rolodex
till she happened upon thenames she could attach tothe sentiments she'd framed
already, had spent a little
time in thinkIng the thesis
through critically, she'd perhaps hove asked the salient
questions.
She'd
have
asked, first: how quickly
hove ACTG (AIDSClinical Trials Group) trials historicallyaccrued (to provide somebasis for comparison); andsecond: how quickly was
ddl's expanded access program expected
to enrollpatients (to see if anything isawry). But the answers might
have deprived her of her
boffo headline-tabloid
inwingtips-andhence herfrontpage slot. Because theanswers are that: ACTG trials
have rarely accruedsobriskly as the ddl studies are
accrUing, and the dembnd
for pdl on the expanded
access protocols has In fact
been less than Bristol-Myers
expected it to be.

Kolatacould
havedone us all a real service
had she written an article
about the real barriers to
accrual to the ddl trials,
none of them being the
drug's availability on a prototype for parallel track. She
would have found that several of the sites around thecountry were late in receiving approval for the ddl
studies from their institutional
review boards (IRBs). She
would have found that thepharmacies at many of thetrial sites received the druglate, or received an incorrect constitution of the drug.
She would have learned
that many trial sites only
have enough staff to perform the requisite baseline
tests on a few trial partici-

pants a week. She would
have learned that many
people who at first consider
entering the two trials thatmeasure ddl vs. AZT havesecond thoughts when they
hear the AZT dose is 1200
mg. a day, a dose which
medical practice now says
is far too high. She might
have learned that people
on the waiting lists for the
ddl trials can wait formonths without
hearingfrom their local trial site.
Yes-that's
right-waiting
lists.At every site in NY there
are long waiting lists for the
ddl trials. Just as there arearound the country. Many
hospitals are no longer
adding names to the lists.To
read the Kolata article,
you'd never know there arepeople trying desperately to
get into the trials. But this, ofcourse, would have required investigative
AIDS
reporting of a sort we'velong despaired of ever seeing in the Times.
So why are the trial's
principal investigators (Pls)the only people who see a
problem-complaining
about
accrualwhen
they've far from exhausted
their waiting lists? Because
it's easier to blame the one
humanitarian program that
we've ever been able towring from the researchestablishment'(parallel
track) for the problems
they'vealways had in
accruing patients than it is
to take some responsibility
for resolving the problems.
The fact that there are wait- ,ing lists for the ddl trials is infact a direct result of the
publicitythat we who
worked for the early availability of ddl were able togenerate about the drug.
And now, through their
ineptitude at accrual, thelocal Pis are about to fritter \This week's nasty piece of business is Health and Human Services Secretary
Louis Sullivan. Arch-homophobe Congressman Dannemeyer wrote Sullivan complaining about an HHS report which confirmed that homophobia often drives gay kids
to suicide. Sullivan replied that the report, although undoubtedly true, didn't reflect
his or the government's "pro-family" view and he then proceeded to try to supress it.
Therefore, we dedicate this ditty to Secretary shitty:
There once was a nightmare named Louis
Whose Party kepttrying to screw us
Our deaths you condone
You shit-eating drone
Up yours, Lou. Now go try to sue us!

December 10, 1989

OUTTWEEK

9away that human resource,
waiting listsof willing trial participants, that we activists
have delivered to them. (Ifthey do, may they be defunded!)
Of course there are a
lot more people taking ddl
outside the trials than inside
the trials: the trials by theirnature are very exclusionary.
That's how clinical trials are
conducted
in this country.
Everyone I know who is getting ddl on an expanded
access protocol is ineligible
for a clinical trial. That's how
the program
has been
designed. The Pis fear there
is mass cheating.
They'rewrong. In order to cheat to
get into the expanded
access program, a patient
would have to convince a
doctor to lie about his or her
condition. Believe me, forthose who are ineligible forparallel access but unwillingto enroll in a clinical trial. it'seasier to get ddl on theunderground than it isto finda doctor who'll risk malpractice and lie,
If Kolata's
headline
were simply an untruth, itwould be easier to overlook.
Those of us who know it's,

10

wrong could simply wait till
history proves it wrong. But
this headline, because it's a
prediction,is particularly(murderously) dangerous.
When the NY Times predicts
an outcomeon its front
page, it becomes a player inhistory, helping to bringabout the very thing it's predicting. Who in my community who reads the Kolata
article is going to rush toenroll in clinical trials thatthey feel their fellow-community members are avoiding in droves? If accrual now
does lag, the Times and thewhining Pis who fueled thisbaseless story will have ashare of the blame. (I shouldnote here that Dr. Fred
Valentine of NYU,though hisname appears in the story, is
not one of those Pis: he has
been misrepresented in the
Kolata article. He told me
privately, and then told anaudience full of community
members last Saturday, that
it is far too early to say
whether ddl's expanded
availability will interfere with
accrual and that, though it
might in the future, there arestillwaiting liststo get into thetrials. Kolata was told this.

December 10, 1989

She chose to misleadingly
trim Dr. Valentine's
comments for her own ends.)
The longer the trials take toaccrue, the longer my community will wait for a definitive answer about ddl's
effectiveness. With AIDS, we
measure delays in lives. The
Pis who contributed to thisstory sure found one hell of
a way to facilitate
trial
accrual.
Talk about "investigatorbias"! At least in our clinical
trials we usually "blind" thePis (as the jargon has it) toguard against bias. But what
can we do to minimize theirbias when it comes to theparallel track? It would seemthat a number of them wereblind to parallel track before
it even began. How scientific! How humane! How sadly
typical.
Jim Eigo
Strange Conclusions
Letters

1he New YorkTimes
Of all the idiotic, halfbaked conclusions you hovecome to in your editorials on
AIDS and of all the incomplete/inaccurate
reportingthat Bruce Lambed
hasdone on the AIDS crisis,
never has the Times recorded itself in history as being so
stupid as with your recent
article "Health Board Backs
Move to Trace AIDS" (1S
Nov, 89) and editorial "Dr.
Joseph and AIDS Testing"(16 Nov. 89).
'To begin with, Lambertshould do a little more investigatingon the subject
rather than just regurgitating
what comes down in official
DOH media releases. He justmight have discovered that
there was a story here-likehow some ~embers of the
New York City Board of
Health ddn't even know thisplan was going to the state
until they read about it in
the Times! How did theyread "consensus" if not all
members even KNEWabout
the action?
Secondly, if your editorial and reporting staff werereally doing their homework
like even mediocre media
persons should, you would
realize that contact tracing
programs
such as wealready have for gonorrhea
and syphilis don't reallywork. Just look at the dramatic increase over the last
decade we have had (inNYC alone) in these two sexually transmitted diseases.
And this increase has happened while your great Dr,
Joseph and his staff havebeen doing contact tracing. These diseases evenhove complete cures available, If contact tracing Is as
effective
as you and hewould like Listo believe, why
haven't they been able tokeep them under control?
Contact tracing may lookgood on an administrator's
paper plan but It doesn't
work In reality,
The third Importantreason why contact tracIng Is a stupid Idea at thistime In this epidemic Isthat
It Is not coat effective, We
already
don't
have
enough money to pay forthe prevention, treatment

and care needed to combat this epidemic. The city
is already woefully neglectful in taking care of thepeople who have alreadybeen
identified
eitherthrough voluntary testing or
diagnosis with AIDS or ARC,
Since the city already can't
meet the needs of thesepeople, how are we supposed to believe that the
government
will do anything more for more peo'pie. Especially if they are
spending
valuabletime
and money on just identifying. Where will the money
come from to provide
treatment and services tothese people? Or are wejust planning on identifying
them? It seems to me to be
only logical to have a clear
plan for treating and providing services to people
BEFOREyou launch a plan
to merely identify.
All this is beside thepoint that study after study
has indicatedthat thosemost in need of care willbe less likely to come forcare if contact tracing is apart of the process. Why
can't supposedly the mostintelligent media left in thiscountry
not be braveenough to see what is really happening here!
Rodger Pettyjohn
Skid Row Must Go
Atlantic Records
Dear Mr. Ertegun:
I must protest the neonazi propaganda "AIDS kills
fags dead" on the T-shirt ofSebastianBach of yourgroup Skid Row (as seen in
Metal Edge magazine) ...inpart because I am a survivorof nearly fatal anti-gay violence.
The bad will towards
Atlantic Records, created bythis bigotry, will cause me toboycott your company, until

it stops supporting this advocacy of hatred and violence.
Jim Davis
Elizabeth, NJ
Sorry, Wrong Bummer
Bohdan Zachary
GLAAD/LA
LosAngeles, CA 9COO4Dear Mr.Zachary:In response to your letter, I agree that Sebastian
Bach's t-shirt was offensive,and neither I nor my publishers condone its message.
We thoroughly regret printing the photos and will
include a statement to that
effect in the April issue ofMetal Edge, on sale Dec. 26(the March issue has alreadybeen printed).
Please accept
ourheartfelt apology and assurance that this will never happen again.
GerriMilier
Exec. Editor
Metal Edge

Blinder, Gentler Nation?
The Hon.George Bush
The White House
Washington, DC 20050
Dear President Bush:
As you know, a recently
published"Report of theSecretary's Task Force on
youth Suicide" showed somestartling statistics on a rarely
talkedabout
national
shame-namely,
the high
number of lesbian and gay
youth suicides. The study,
conducted by former Secretary of Health and Human
Services, Otis Bowen, wasresearched with scientificobjectivity,and points up
what r('Iany professionals
working with adolescentpopulations have long suspected:• Lesbian and gay
youth are two to three times
more likely to attempt suicide
than other young people;• Lesbian and goy
youth may comprise up' to

Dykes to Watch Out For

December 10, 1989

OUTTWEEK

11

away that human resource,
waiting listsof willing trial participants, that we activists
have delivered to them. (Ifthey do, may they be defunded!)
Of course there are a
lot more people taking ddl
outside the trials than inside
the trials: the trials by theirnature are very exclusionary.
That's how clinical trials are
conducted
in this country.
Everyone I know who is getting ddl on an expanded
access protocol is ineligible
for a clinical trial. That's how
the program
has been
designed. The Pis fear there
is mass cheating.
They'rewrong. In order to cheat to
get into the expanded
access program, a patient
would have to convince a
doctor to lie about his or her
condition. Believe me, forthose who are ineligible forparallel access but unwillingto enroll in a clinical trial. it'seasier to get ddl on theunderground than it is to finda doctor who'll risk malpractice and lie.
If Kolata's
headline
were simply an untruth, itwould be easier to overlook.
Those of us who know it's

10

OUT~WEEK

wrong could simply wait till
history proves it wrong. But
this headline, because it's a
prediction,is particularly(murderously) dangerous.
When the NY Times predicts
an outcomeon its front
page, it becomes a player inhistory, helping to bringabout the very thing it's predicting. Who in my community who reads the Kolata
article is going to rush toenroll in clinical trials thatthey feel their fellow-community members are avoiding in droves? If accrual now
does lag, the Times and thewhining Pis who fueled thisbaseless story will have ashare of the blame. (I shouldnote here that Dr. Fred
Valentine of NYU, though hisname appears in the story, is
not one' of those Pis: he has
been misrepresented in the
Kolata article. He told me
privately, and then told anaudience full of community
members last Saturday, that
it is far too early to say
whether ddl's expanded
availability will interfere with
accrual and that, though it
might in the future, there arestillwaiting liststo get into thetrials. Kolata was told this.

December 10, 1989

She chose to misleadingly
trim Dr. Valentine's
comments for her own ends.)
The longer the trials take toaccrue, the longer my community will wait for a definitive answer about ddl's
effectiveness. With AIDS, we
measure delays in lives, The
Pis who contributed to thisstory sure found one hell of
a way to facilitate
trial
accrual.
Talk about "investigatorbias"! At least in our clinical
trials we usually "blind" thePis (as the jargon has it) toguard against bias. But what
can we do to minimize theirbias when it comes to theparallel track? It would seemthat a number of them wereblind to parallel track before
it even begantlllow scientific! How humane! How sadly
typical.
Jim Eigo
Strange Conclusions
Letters

1he New YorkTimes
Of all the idiotic, halfbaked conclusions you hovecome to in your editorials on
AIDS and of all the incomplete/inaccurate
reportingthat Bruce Lambert hasdone on the AIDS crisis,
never has the Times recorded itself in history as being so
stupid as with your recent
article "Health Board Backs
Move to Trace AIDS" (1S
Nov. 89) and editorial "Dr.
Joseph and AIDS Testing"(16 Nov. 89).
'To begin with, Lambertshould do a little more investigatingon the subject
rather than just regurgitating
what comes down in official
DOH media releases, He justmight hove discovered that
there was a story here-likehow some members of the
New York City Board of
Health didn't even know thisplan was going to the state
until they read about it in
the Times! How did theyread 'consensus" if not all
members even KNEWabout
the action?
Secondly, if your editorial and reporting staff werereally doing their homework
like even mediocre media
persons should, 'you would
realize that contact tracing
programs
such as wealready hove for gonorrhea
and syphilis don't reallywork. Just look at the dramatic increase over the last
decade we have had (inNYC alone) in these two sexually transmitted diseases.
And tbis increase has happened while your great Dr.
Joseph and his staff havebeen doing contact tracing, These diseases evenhov~ complete cures available, If contact tracing is aseffective
as you and hewould like us to believe, why
haven't they been able tokeep them under control?
Contact tracing may lookgood on an administrator's
paper plan but it doesn't
work In reality,
The third importantreason why contact tracIng is a stupid Idea at thistime In this epidemic Isthat
It Is not cost effective, We
already
don't
have
enough money to pay forthe prevention, treatment

and care needed to combat this epidemic. The city
is already woefully neglectful in taking care of thepeople who have alreadybeen
identified
eitherthrough voluntary testing or
diagnosis with AIDS or ARC.
Since the city already can't
meet the needs of thesepeople, how are we supposed to believe that the'government
will do anything more for more peo'pie. Especially if they are
spending
valuabletime
and money on just identifying. Where will the money
come from to provide
treatment and services tothese people? Or are wejust planning on identifying
them? It seems to me to be
only logical to have a clear
plan for treating and providing services to people, BEFOREyou launch a plan
to merely identify.
All this is beside thepoint that study after study
has indicatedthat thosemost in need of care willbe less likely to come forcare if contact tracing is apart of the process. Why
can't supposedly the mostintelligent media left in thiscountry
not be braveenough to see what is really happening here!
Rodger Pettyjohn
Skid Row Must Go
Atlantic Records
Dear Mr. Ertegun:
I must protest the neonazi propaganda" AIDS kills
fags dead" on the T-shirt ofSebastianBach of yourgroup Skid Row (as seen in
Metal Edge magazine) ...inpart because I am a survivorof nearly fatal anti-gay violence.
The bad will towards
Atlantic Records, created bythis bigotry, will cause me toboycott your company, until

it stops supporting this advocacy of hatred and violence.
Jim Davis
Elizabeth, NJ
Sorry, Wrong Bummer
Bohdan Zachary
GLAAD/LA
LosAngeles, CA 9CXlO4Dear Mr.Zachary:In response to your letter, I agree that Sebastian
Bach's t-shirt was offensive,and neither I nor my publishers condone its message.
We thoroughly regret printing the photos and will
include a statement to that
effect in the April issue ofMetal Edge, on sale Dec. 26(the March issuehas alreadybeen printed).
Please accept
ourheartfelt apology and assurance that this will never happen again.
Gerri Miller
Exec. Editor
Metal Edge

Blinder, Gentler Nation?
The Hon.George Bush
The White House
Washington, DC 20050
Dear President Bush:
As you know, a recently
published"Report of theSecretary's Task Force on
youth Suicide" showed somestartling statistics on a rarely
talkedabout
national
shome-namely,
the high
number of lesbian and ~ayyouth suiCides. The study,
conducted by former Secretary of Health and Human
Services, Otis Bowen, wasresearched with scientificobjectivity,and points up
what r(1any professionals
working with adolescentpopulations have long suspected:• Lesbian and gay
youth are two to three times
more likely to attempt suicide
than other young people;• Lesbian and @ay
youth may comprise up to

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30 percent of 01/ completedsuicides annually;• Gay teen suicide canonly be prevented by ending
discrimination against youths
based on sexual orientation.
As I am also sure you
are aware, Congressman
William Dannemeyer of California is a long-standing foeof the entire lesbian 'andgay community of the United States. He has recently
contacted you and Secretary of Health and Humanservices, Dr. Louis Sullivan, in
attempts to squelch theserecent findings, by condemning them as anti-"traditional family values." This
type of hate-mong ering
censorship of the facts will
only result in one thing-theneedless deaths of thousands of lesbian and gay
teenaged Americans.
I ask you, Mr. President, to please consider
this: From where,
if notfrom ~traditional American
families:
do gay and lesbian teenagers
come?
Lesbian and gay youth are
the offspring of heterosexual ~traditionalfamilies,
as are heterosexual youth.
Lesbianandgay
teenagers are indeed partof American society-theycomprise at least ten percent of those ~thousand
points of light" of which
you so eloquently
spoke.
Mr. President. don't support the snuffing
out oftheir "points of light" bycaving in to Congressman• Dannemeyer's
campaign
of hate. He is playing political games with the lives ofour young people by his
moral posturing.
"Traditional family values" are not the issue here;
preventing youth suicide is
the issue! The people whoserve youth in this country(doctors, teachers, parents,
counselors, etc.) need toknow the results of the task
force study on youth suicide-it
is literally a matterof life and death. I urge

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you and Secretary Sullivan
to meet with representatives of the National Gay
and Lesbian Task Force todiscuss this matter. Don't
send out a message tha't"kinderandgentler"
applies to only the lives ofa select few in this country-by
the very definitionof those words, your compassion must extend to 01/
Americans.
Richard S. Haymes
Deputy Director
Community Health Proj.
Youth Services Division
Manhattan

God's Wrath?
John Vliet Lindsay
Board of Directors
Lincoln Center for the Performing ARTS
Dear Mr. Lindsay:
I am concerned, having
just been shown the current
OutWeek (19 November
1989), which indicates that atdinner parties you have discussed some "gay problem"and stated that AIDS may
indeed be "God's retribution
to the gay community.'
Whether or not you havebeen correctly depicted, you
owe it to old friends to makeyour position clear and in
more detail to editors at OutWeek. Or write me, and I will
relay your views to them.
Warren Allen Smith, President
Variety Recording studio
Manhattan
Bash Re-hash
Ms. Barbara JonesFirstAsst . to the Dist.Att'y
Dear Ms. Jones:
Thank you for meetingwith us last week, after theconclusion of the Carl Schurz
Park gay-bashing case. We
write to you as members of
GLAAD, ACT UP and of thegay and lesbian community
at large. At thistime, we would
liketo restate our demands.
1) It is imperative that
Mr. Morgenthau use his influence to lobby for the BiasRelated Violence Bill that

December 10, 1989

has languished before theState Senate. We demandthat he strongly endorse thebill, both as an individual
and as representative of theManhattan
District Attorney's office. Finally, wedemand that he use his
influence and leadershipwith the New York State
Association of District Attorneys to convince the organization to strongly endorse
and lobby for the Bill. It
should be clear that we
considerthe so-called"generic" Bill to be unacceptable, all endorsements
should be for the Bill thatclearly identifies specificforms of bias, including
attacks on gays and lesbians.
2) Gay-bashingcases
across the country should beresearched to determine
effective strotegies for successfully prosecuting thesecases. This material should
be made available to all the
ADAs in your office.
3) We demand homophobia sensitivity training for
all ADAs and all staff of the
D.A. 's office. If this has
already been implemented,
we want the opportunity toreview existing training procedures and offer advice on
how to improve them.
4) We demand
theimmediate appointment ofa openly gay or lesbian
ADA We also demand theopportunity to review recruitment policies of your office,and specifically, any existing
program aimed at recruiting
gay and lesbian ADAs.
While we are concentrating on general issues inthis letter, we continue to beoutragedby the way inwhich the Carl ,Schurz Park
gay-bashing case was handled by the ADA, Dan Parker and others in your office.
We assume that you will be
investigating the matter internally and ask that you inform
us of your findings.
It is crucial that wemeet directly with the District

Attorney since he figures
prominently in a number ofour demands. We would
consider such a meeting to
be an essential indication ofyour office's commitment toresolving our concerns. While
we appreciate
your pastefforts and look forward toworking closely with you toresolve this matter, we don't
feel that another meetingwith you alone would be
productive at this point.
An increasingly publicized epidemicof antigay/lesbian
violenceissweeping this city, state andcountry; it is evident that thecurrent system for prosecuting these cases is insufficient.
We cannot afford to wait
any longer, as gays and lesbians (and those perceived
as such) are being attacked
every day. We are dealing
with a crisis,and swift action
is necessary.
We will be monitoringthese cases as they comeup. We will not hesitate toblame publicly those whose
inaction, or lack of competence, results in gay/lesbianbashers getting off with just aslap on the wrist. For gays
and lesbians to be safe in
New York, gay-bashers needto know that they will bepunished swiftly and surely
for their actions.
Please contact GLAAD
with your response by Friday,
December 1.
Alan Beck, ACT UP
Bruce Ellerin,Crime Victim
Mark Carson, ACT UP,
GLAAD
Jim Fouratt, ACT UP, Art
Positive, GLAAD 'Gordon Harrell, ACT UP,
GLAADMarty King, ACT UP,TeamNew York
Ken Lustbader, GLAAD
Tom McKean, ACT UP
Adrian Milton, ACT UP,
GLAAD
BillMonahan, ACT UP
Michael Petrelis,ACT UP
Karin Schwartz, GLAAD
Randy Synder,ACT UP
Josh Weyser,GLAAD

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Rights Panel ~acks
Fired AIDS Staff
City HRC Chief Forced to Reinstate Gay Execs
actions taken agalnst the AIDS division's leaders and exploring the reciprocal allegations of bias that had been
made by O'Connor and Taylor, bothgay, and by Acosta and others associated with the HRC.

by James Waller

NEW YORK-A group of morethan 40 representatives of a panoply of
AIDS service organizations operating
throughout New York City together
with other members of the lesbian andgay community crowded the hearings
UConditional" Reinstatement
chamber of the city's Human Rights
But in response to the ad hoc
Commission on Wednesday morning,committee's proposals, Brandon origNovember 29, eager to make theirpresence felt and to voice their dismay
over what they considered the unsatisfactory resolution of the case involving
the demotion and dismissal, lastmonth, of the director and deputy
director of the commission's AIDS Discrimination Division.
The session, which was held at
the commission's offices in lower Manhattan, was the agency's regularmonthly meeting, but, as at its previous
meeting in late October, much of theagenda was taken up with a discussionof the continuing problems that haveensued after a decision by commission
chairman, Rev. John Brandon, on October 24 to demote the AIDS Discrimination Division's director, Keith O'Connor, RECONSIDERED
Photo: BillBytsura
and to fire his deputy, Katy Taylor.
John Brandon
The so-called disciplinary actions
initiated against O'Connor and Taylor
by Brandon, on the advice of deputy
inally chose to implement its recomcommissioner for law enforcement
mendation to establish a thoroughRolando Acosta, instigated a wave of review of the division's approaches
outrage within the gay and AIDS-ser- to AIDS discrimination
cases, but
vice communities, and have ultimately stopped short of adopting' its suggesled the Human Rights commissioners
tion to fully reinstate O'Connor andthemselves to reflect deeply on public Taylor. Instead, he opted to restore
perception of the commission's work O'Connor's
title and duties on aand to set in motion a plan to rectify "conditional" basis and to transfer
the philosophical, structural and proce- Taylor to the pOSition of deputy
dural problems besetting the agency.
director of the commission Field SerOctober's meeting had closed
vices Division, where, as his memowith a decision by the commission to in the subject puts it, she could "conset up an ad hoc committee charged
tinue her work in fighting againstwith investigating the reasons for the AIDS discrimination."
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Unanimous Dissent
But following
an executive
session held immediately after thegeneral meeting, which was closed toobservers and to the Pfess, Brandon
announced that the 12 members of
the commission present had unanimously recommended that he reconsider his decision,and unconditionally reinstate Taylor and O'Connor to their jobs.
And on Friday morning, Dec. 1,
LonnieSoury,
a department
spokesman, announced that the twowould, in fact, be returned to thepositions they previously held, andpromised a "reorganizationin thelines of communication" in the various divisions of the commission sothat similar situations do not arise in
the future.
No Incidence of Bias
"Once the commissioners
got
involved, there was only resolution:
what's best for the agency," Soury told
OutWeek, adding, "The commission
found no incidence of bias on eitherside. The fact that Katy and Keith are
gay was never part of the equation."David Wertheimer, the executive
director of the Lesbian and Gay AntiViolence Project and a New York City
human rights commissioner, said heagreed with Brandon's assessment.
"The problems that emerged
were rooted in structural and organizational problems, not racism, sexismor homophobia," he told Out Week.
But he added, "It took enormous
effort on the part of all parties tocome to such a productive resolution
to the crisis."
Acosta and Taylor both said thatthey were asked not to speak to thepress. But in a prepared statement
released by the Human Rights COrri-miSSion, Keith O'Connor wrote, "We
are relieved to see that services areback in place to assist people withAIDS there needing our help and wejust want to get back to work."
In the same press release, Rolando Acosta stated, "The work we do at
the commission is bigger than any
one of us. It is time that we all put
this matter behind us, so that thecommission can devote all of its
resources to fighting all of the ugly
forms of discrimination in this city."
In a phone interview,David
Wertheimer also noted how importanta role the community can play in similar cases. "It is extremely importantand valuable for the community to letpublic agencies, like the HRC, know
exactly what they're thinking," hesaid. "The value and importance ofoutspoken
community
activismshould never be underestimatedin
New York City. When the community
has something to say, it should not besilent.".

during early November in consideration of the issue, conducting
dozens of in-person and telephone interviews and examining
letters solicitedfrom former
employees of the division.
In a report submitted
toBrandon on November 16, thecommittee
discounted
thecharges of bias made by the parties on both sides of the issue,complemented the AIDS Discrimination Division on the "effectiveness and innovation" it has
shown under O'Connor'sandTaylor's leadershipin solving
problems encountered by people
with AIDS, and recommended
Photo: Bill Bytsura
that both O'Connor and Taylor RED~UBTAB~
be reinstated in full to their for- DavId WertheImer
mer executive positions in thecompromise, Brandon's move to pardivision.
tially reinstate O'Connor and Taylor
The committee's
investigation
only fueled the dissatisfaction of conalso revealed that the tensions that led
cerned AIDS workers within and outto O'Connor's demotion and Taylor's
side the HRC and disappointed anddismissal grew out of a fundamental
puzzled the members of the ad hoc
difference of opinion concerning thecommittee as well as a number ofmodus operandi of the AIDS division,
Investigation Commences
other commissioners.
with its leaders preferring hands-on
The ad hoc committee of human
While expressing gratitude tomethods of advocacy and mediationrights 'commissioners,
who areBrandon for having permitted thein contrast to upper management's
appointed by the mayor and receive
investigation, ad hoc committee chairpreferred route of conducting Iitigano salary from the city, included
man Neuborne, during his opening
Glenn Lau-Kee, Philip Rivera, Harilyn 'tion against alleged offenders.
report at Wednesday's meeting, also
(In a talk with OutWeek, a source
Russo and Marie Wilson, an open lesvoiced his befuddlement at the combian and executive director of the Ms. closely familiar with the agency's workmission chairman's revisals to accept
ings speculated that the real reason forFoundation. The panel, which was
all the committee's recommendations
O'Connor's demotion and Taylor's dischairedby commissioner
Burt
anq stated that he was "troubled by
missal had been a growing dissatisfacNeuborne, spent more than 20 hours
the possibility that the issue may nottion among certain of the HRC's
be put to rest" because of the course
bureaucrats with the unorthodoxof action Brandon had chosen.
methods employed by the AIDS
Neuborne was also bothered, hedivision's leadership. According tosaid, by the fact that he and the otherthis source, differences of opinion
committee members had not b~enconcerning approach were allowed
told why their recommendationof
to degenerate into grievances of acomplete reinstatement
had been
personal nature.
rejected, and he was upset that "theDuring the course of lastaffected 'party [Taylor] had not had a
Wednesday's meeting, Chairman
chance to make her case to the perBrandon made several cryptic
son who made the final decisionstatements implying that even if[Brandon]. "the situation had not developed in
the way it did, some sort of
Mystery Decisionchange in the AIDS division's hierNeuborne's
assertion
wasarchy had been inevitable, hinting
corroborated later in the meeting bythat this applied especially tQ TayTaylor herself, who contended that no
lor's role within the agency.)
accusations had ever been formally
Photo: Bill Bytsura
REINSTATED
made against her and that, during all the
Failed Compromise
Katy Taylor
Obviously
intended as a
See HRC on page 68

December 10, 1989

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Chicago Mayor Storms
Out of Gay Meeting'~9mmunity"Cut Off" from Administration"
Activists Arrested in City'Hall.
by Rex Wockner
CHICAGO-Livid and beet-red,
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley stormedout of an explosive meeting with several hundred members of the gay andlesbian community Nov. 20.
And as he shot down the stairs of
Ann Sather restaurant on Belmont,
Daley reportedly turned to his cadreof associates and snapped, "You people really fucking blew it."
Daley had been summoned tothe meeting by a full-page ad in the

Lesbian Issues (COGLI) has not been
granted a single meeting in the firstseven months of the administration.
Further, Daley has failed to formally appoint five COGLI nominees
who have "languished in bureaucratic
limbo" since the day he took office.
In the meantime, activists say that
community communication with themayor is increasingly restricted to one
person-mayoral
special assistantNancy Reiff, whom Daley has identi~
fied as his gay liaison.

Asked about the reaction, one
activist
explained,"Nancy has
angered us by repeate'cily toeing what
she perceives to be the administration
line-advocating
for the mayor
thecommunity, rather than for the community to the mayor. She's a teamplayer in the bad sense of that
term-probably
even more than theywant her to be."A number of the city's activists
say they would prefer that the city'S
paid Coordinator of Gay and Lesbian

CUTOFFPISSED OFF

WENT OFF

COGU's Jon Simmons

COGU's Larry Rolla

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley

Chicago Sun- Times and the gay press
following two months of growing
anger with Daley's alleged inattention
to the community.
Under former Mayors Harold
Washington and Eugene Sawyer, gay
activists say they had direct and virtuallyunlimited access to the mayor's office,Under Daley, activists say, themayor's own Committee on Gay and

Reiff, a lesbian, is a personal
friend of the mayor but does not havea working relationship with most of
the city's gay and lesbian leaders.
At the Nov. 20 meeting, thecrowd loudly booed and hissed eachtime Daley mentioned Reiff's name,Sitting besidethe mayor, she
appeared stunned and hurt by' therejection,

Issues, Jon Simmons, have themayor's ear.
But Sjmmons, who was hired by
Mayor Sawyer, says he has been "cutoff" from any access to City Hall andinstructed to report to Human Rights
Commission (HRC) head Clarence
Wood, who reportedly
reports toReiff, who then reportedly relays
information to Daley.

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toPhotos: Rex Wockner

How It Happened So Fast
Activists first publicly expressed
distress with the administration following the late October postponement of
the HRC Annual Awards Luncheon.
Four activists who spearheaded
last year's passage of Chicago's gay
rights ordinance
had been set toreceive awards and all was proceeding smoothly until the last-minuteaddition of an award for the latealderman George Hagopian.
Hagopian, who was to be honored for his support of veterans, wasthe city council's loudest anti-gay voice
during hearings on the gay rights law.
When the four activists objected
to receiving their award on the samestage as Hagopian, HRC's Wood cancelled the whole luncheon
andrevoked all the awards,
At f1l'stthe administration said thereason for the cancellation was gay
anger. Two days later, they announced
that the problem had been "low ticket
sales." By the Nov. 20 meeting, Daleywas saying the luncheon was postponed so HRC could devise a better
process for selecting awardees.

Frustration Grows, Publicity Mounts
As a wide spectrum of activists
began informally discussing the "luncheon fiasco, - they learned that frqstration with Daley's "inattention!' hadspread to all of the community's
diverse political factions.
In short order, COGLI chair Larry
Rolla hand-delivered a letter to Daley,
putting forth the community's concerns. The letter demanded that Daley:• honor campaign promises toappoint open gays to city boards andcommissions,• formally appoint the five COGLI
nominees and retain the communitybased COGLI selection process,• meet directly with gay leaders,• hire open gays for city jobs,• and give Simmons the resources
to properly do his job.
By the Nov. 20 meeting, thedemands also included:• more city money to fight AIDS,• the scrapping of a new city
AIDS education campaign that has
been criticized by community-based
AIDS organizations,• and the implementationof apromised education
cize the protections
Rights Ordinance.

"blitz- to publiof the Human

The Meeting
Daley entered the community
forum to a raucous standing ovation,
but he left amidst boos, jeers andchants of "Shame, shame, shame."
Depending on who is dissecting
the breakdown, blame is placed on
one of three sources:• Daley, who many believe was far
too aggressive in his opening remarks,• Rolla, who apparently departed
from his promised remarks and questioned the adminstration's
honestyand integrity, or• ACf UP members and others,
who angered the mayor with a small
amount of heckling.
Community activists took a toughstance from the start, with emcee Mike
Savage asserting, "In the last six
months, some of our hopes andexpectations have changed to doubt
and frustration and, in some cases,
anger ..., We don't want decisions madefor us, we want them made with us."
Activists then gave the mike to
Daley for opening remarks. But the
mayor departed from his preparedtext after the crowd booed his introduction of Reiff.
"I'm very proud I appointed
Nancy my special assistant," Daleyemotionally responded. The crowd
booed and hissed. "I know it's notyour choice," Daley continued, "it's
my choice. You're right. Hey, thisdoesn't serve anyone's purpose. I
don't boo you, you don't boo me. If
you want to get into a confrontation,
the press love it. You want to justshow confrontation constantly?"
The meeting then turned to AIDS
for ten minutes, as Acting Health Commissioner Richard Krieg argued that his
department does not need more citymoney to fight AIDS until the alleged
financial mess left by the previous
administration has been untangled.
Then it was Rolla's turn to speak.
Apparently
departingfrom hispromised text, Rolla stated:"Tonight, my brothers and sisters,
you are going to hear the whole truth....
There has been a concerted effort to
See CHICAGO on page 68

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British Healtg Agency
Shilts AIDS Office
Press proclaims J1StraightSex is Safe"I
by Keith Alcorn
LONDON Great Britain's
Health Education Authority disbanded
its AIDS Division last week, after atumultous week which saw threenational newspapers, with combined
circulations of over 6 million, claim"straight sex is safe.""This situation is more serious
thah Clause 28," said Maureen Oliver, of the Organization of Lesbianand Gay Action (OLGA), which
spearheaded resistance to the twoyear-old legislation that bans government
fundingof any art oreducational
materials deemed to"promote homosexuality."
On November 17, the Sun, The
Daily Express, and the The Daily Mail, allstrong supporters of the Thatcher government, ran front-page stories proclaiming that heterosexual transmission of HIV
was nothing but gay propaganda.
This followed the revelation during debate in the House of Lords that
only one British AIDS case was due toheterosexual transmission so far. This
figure does not, however, take into
account the number of heterosexuals
who are currently infected with HIV,nor the fact that the number of heterosexuals who actually have AIDS, buthave not been officially diagnosed bypublic 'health authorities, is probably
greater,"This is merely the latest stage in a
'Iong-running campaign by the moral
right in the U.K. to marginalize the epidemic, and pin the blame on gays anddrug users," said author Simon Watneyof London's leading AIDS organization,
the Terrence Higgins Trust.

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related issues" was being downgradedby the government. The first sign was
the disbanding of the cabinet AIDS
committee, set up to oversee policy.
And in September, Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher personally intervened to scrap a government-sponsored sexual behavior survey on the
grounds that it would be "an invasionof privacy."
In November, the Health Education Authority postponed a campaign
aimed at normaliZing condom use.
Although the dfficial explanation wasthat advertising prepared for the campaign was unsuitable, sources within
the HEA claimed the campaign wascancelled on the direct orders of theprime minister.,'
Following a reshuffling of thecabinet last month, Virginia Bottomley took over as second in commandat the Department of Health. Her
husband is a Member of Parliament,
and a keen Thatcher supporter. He is
also a member of two pro-familyorganizations.

Civil Servants Silenced
And members of British AIDS
organizations are increasingly worried
about the way civil servants concerned about AIDS issues in the
Department of Health have been shutout of decision making by rightwingers, led by Bottomley.
Watney believes the network ofpro-family groups is now so influential
it will make a pUblic attempt to disfund the Terrence Higgins Trust, andother non-government groups, on the
grounds they are homosexual lobbyists. The Trust is 50,000 pounds (about$75,(00) in the red this financial year,
and severe cutbacks would be necessary if it lost any of its 400,000 pound(about $600,000) government grant.
"This also means we can expect
cuts in AIDS funding, and no money
for treatment research. Coupled withthe government's refus!J to address
the reality of heterosexual HIV, this isa genocidal campaign orchestrated by
viciously homophobic
politicians
scared that the Tory party (to which
Thatcher belongs) is losing its grip on
power," Watney said.
ACT UP/London
planned an
action for December 1, World AIDS
Day, to draw attention to the crisis, but
is also asking AIDS organizations in the
United States to write to the Health
Education Authority and the'Department of Health, pointing out what theycall the devastating results of government neglect of AIDS in the U.S.

Stress Straight Sex"Around 45 percent of thosediagnosed with HIV in the U.K, areheterosexual,"
said an ACT UP
spokesperson.
"We would ask [letter writers] to stress the developments,oftheheterosexualepidemic, independentof IV-druguse, in the U,S, and to point out
the responsibility of the British government to devote money to AIDS
treatment research," the spokesperson told Out Week.
Activists are also planning amajor demonstration in London in the
new year.
Those wishingto write to
British government
officials cansend their letters to: Chief Executive Spenser Haggard, Health Education Authority, Mabledon Place,
London WC1; and to Health Minister Virginia Bottomley, Department
of Health, Richmond House, Whitehall, London SWI. T

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for Lesbian Rights
SAN FRANCIsco-A
Bay AreaI~§bian couple 'has won the right toJointly adopt a child they raised forover two years, Although the case set
no legal precedent, the ground-breaking decision marks the first time that alesbian couple has won a joint adoption case, and the outcome could
instigate policy changes at social service agencies across the nation.
Gay men and lesbians involved indomestic relationships have successfully
adopted children as individuals in the
Achtenberg. Pa.'!.{ikand Jessen with Eric
Photo: Darlene/Photogri3phics
past in many parts of the country, but
this is the firsttime that two women have tions to the court. ,;from the time he came into our home."
been awarded joint custody of a child.
"The pqlicy' of DDS is irrational"There is no reason why kids like
An Alameda County Superior
and wasteful. We would like to see
Eric should not be able to find love
Court judge overruled a negative rec- cases decided on their individual merand affection in good homes like Milommendation from the state Departits instead of marital status."
lie and Sue's. Good homes come in
ment of Social Services CDSS) and"He is a child who needed love,"
all different sizes and shapes, attorallowed Millie Jessen, 38, and Sue
Pavlik told reporters. "That's what we , ney Achtenberg said. "They can be "Pavlik, 31, to legally adopt two-year-old
saw. He needed to be cared for. Grantlesbian or gay, sttaight home~, orEric, a child born with HIV infection.
ed it takes extra care, but the rewards
multiracial homes. But if they're good
Eric was initially placed in the
See ADOPTION on page 68
go way beyond that We just loved him
foster care of Pavlik and Jessen when iI
he was released from the hospital at
the age of five weeks. His natural
mother died of AIDS and his father
was unable to care for him. The couple filed papers to legally adopt th~
boy shortly after his arrival.
According to the couple's attorney, Roberta Achtenberg, director of
the National Center for Lesbian Rights
by Rex Wockner
the Dallas Times Herald:
CNCLR), the judge agreed with her
DALLAS-The judge who told
"These two gays that got killed
argument'that Eric had bonded withthe media last December that he gave
wouldn't have been killed if they
the couple since his placement in theira murderera lighter
sentence
hadn't been cruising the streets
home, and that the child's best interest
because the victims were "queers"
picking up teenage boys. I don't
would be served by allowing Pavlik
was publicly censured Nov. 27 by themuch care for queers cruising theand Jessen to legally adopt him.
Texas State Commission on Judicial
streets picking up teenage boys. I've
"The department's
policy is to
Conduct.
got a teenage boy"" Some murder
make automatic
negative recomOn Dec. 15, 1988, follOWing thevictims are less innocent in theirmendations if an unmarried couple
sentencing of 18-year-old Richard Lee
deaths than others. In those cases, atries to adopt a child jOintly," AchtBednarski to 30 years in prison for
defendant is unlikely to deserve aenberg said at a press conference
the homophobic murders of Tommy
maximum sentence""
I put prostiheld on November 14. "They don't
Lee Trimble, 34, and John Lloyd Grif- tutes and gays at abou't the same
approve or disapprove adoptions.
fin, 27, District Court Judge Morris
level. If these boys had picked up
They can only make recommendaJackson Hampton told a reporter for
two prostitutes and taken them to.

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the woods and killed them, I'd consider that a similar case .•In censuring Hampton, the state
wrote that his comments had been
"destructive of public confidence in
the integrity and impartiality of the
judiciary [because) the public reacted
to this judge's comments with disbelief, abhorrence and indignation, The
hostility and distrust generated by thisjudge's irresponsible statements,· thestate continued, "created an additionalburden for the entire judiciary,·
The censure was praised by New
York's Gay and Lesbian Alliance
Against Defamation, which spearheaded a successful national letterwriting campaign to the Commission
on Judicial Conduct, decrying thejudge's statements. Executive Director
Craig Davidson said "it demonstrates
that, in the eyes of the court system, agay life is worth just as much as astraight life."
But the preSident of the Dallas
Gay Alliance, William Waybourn,called the censure "merely a slap on
the wrist.
"We're going to continue to push
for the removal of Judge Hampton
from th~ bench,· Waybourn said, "If
he's been found gUilty of being
biased, why is he still a judge? It's acloud hanging over the entire Texas
judiciary."
In a' statement
to the press,
Hampton's
lawyers
specifically
blamed the Dallas Gay Alliance andthe American Civil Liberties Union for
Hampton's censure, charging that thecommission "must have succumbed topressure from, ..uninformed special
interest groups,·. Bednarski murdered Trimble andGriffin last Nov" 19 after they picked
him up in the cruisy Oak Lawn neighborhood and were forced at gunpoint to drive to a secluded park.
Trial testimony showed that Bednarsky ordered them to strip and thenplaced the gun in Trimble's mouthand pulled the trigger.
When Griffin was not killed bythe first shot and attempted to crawl
away, Bednarski stepped on his leg
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High school
was neverlike this ...
OAK PARK, Illinois-A si~-monthfight to add protections for gays andlesbians to a suburban Chicago highschool anti-discrimination policy continues to escalate this month, as fundamentalist Christians face~off against
a united front of community groups
and school organizations.
The controversy at Oak ParkRiver Forest High School began inJune when the school board decided
to add the phrase "sexual orientation"
to its human dignity policy.
Six months and three rewrites later,
the Christians remain outraged, whilemuch of the rest of Oak Park has cometogether to urge the policy's adoption.
Supporters include mainstream
churches, city government and a hostof school groups such as the Citizens'
Advisory Committee, the Parents
Human Relations Advisory Committee,
the Parent-Teacher Organization, theFaculty Senate and the Student Council.
Both the senior class president
and the presidentof the Student
Council have publicly lobbied for themeasure, along with about a dozen
other students. None of the students
said they were gay.
The Christians,
meanwl),ile,
staged two postal and newspaper
blitzes containing detailed descriptions of homosexual love-making anda list of pro-gay moves they fear will
follow the policy's adoption.
Among much else, the Christians
anticipate a gay prom, a gay awarenessmonth and a gay studies curriculum.
At the most recent public hearing
on the policy, Nov. 16, an estimated 900
persons engaged in four hours of debate.
"One-hundredand fifty-one
speakers
got one minute each,"recalled Mel Wilson, of the Oak Park
Lesbian and Gay Organization, "and a
lot of them said they were only there
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December 10, 1989

come to their mailboxes, The fundamentalists were isolated and facing a
united front of ministers, rabbiS,
politicians, the National Organization
for Women, th<o League of Women
Voters and others."
The school board is again set tovote on the measure Dec, 16. It is
expected to pass unanimously, Wilson. said, barring any unforseen blow-ups
in the interim.
In the meantime, Wilson says thecontroversy "has been the best thing
to ever happen to Oak Park gays.
"Awareness of sexual orientation
as an issue" he said, "both in the highschool and in the community, is at an
all-time high. There are even several
churches running workshops on confronting their own homophobia."-Rex Wockner

All artists
with AIDS arecontroversial
NEW YORK-An art exhibition
entitled "Images and Words: Artists
Respond to AIDS," is scheduled toopen at the Henry Street Settlement
House on the Lower East Side on
December 1 after it had been withdrawn from the gallery by its curator
because of a dispute over the displayof a banner on the outside of thebuilding. The show has now been
reinstated after a compromise wasreached to display the banner on abuilding across Grand Street.
The banner, which carries thewords "All People with AIDS are Innocent," was proposed by Gran Fury, anartists' collective that designs works
about AIDS for mass display, including
the current "Kissing Doesn't Kill: Greedand Indifference 00" campaign which
can be seen on the sides of 40 city
buses throughout the five boroughs.
A dispute arose when representatives of the Henry Street Settlement
House Informed the guest curator,
Humberto Chavez, that policy prohib-

ited the hanging of banners on thefacade of the building, They thenoffered to display the banner in thegallery, but Gran Fury refused. "We
don't do gallery art that will only beseen by people going into thegallery,' Gran Fury member Robert
Vazquez told Out Week. "Our work
addresses the entire community in the
public arena.' An extremely busy
Chavez was unavailable for comment.
The incident emerged in a gay
arts community already angry andtense from a recent fray over the
National Endowment for the Arts'
threat to defund ,an exhibit of works
about AIDS critical of many U.S. political and religious figures.
Barbara Tate, chief administratorof the Arts for Living Center at the
Henry Street Settlement has statedthat Henry Street has previously had
artworks on the front of the building,but this is the first request she has
had for a banner that is considered apiece of artwork, framing the disputeas a matter of art versus advertising.
"Benson and Hedges did a jazzfestival and wanted to put banners
outside the building and we said no,"added Daniel Kronenfeld, executive
director of the Settlement. "Once you
say yes to one person you have to say
yes to everybody."
The Henry Street Settlement is a
century-old social service agency withan arts program that takes up ten percent of its $12 million annual budget.

Among its programs are a counselingservice for people with AIDS andbereavement counseling for children
whose parents have died of AIDS.
The arts program at the settlement receives funds from a variety ofprivate and public sources,
notincluding the National Endowment
for the Arts. "Images and Words:
Artists Respond to AIDS," which
received no public financing, will be
displayed in the gallery and loungeof the settlement's
annex at 466
Grand Street beginning
Friday,December 1 and includes works by
47 artists and collectives,~KeithMmer

Your day incourt
NEW YORK-A statewide association of landlords has asked the State
Supreme Court for a permanent injunction against recently hard-won tenantsuccession rights for lesbian and gay
families, and tenant and lesbian/gay
activists are asking supporters to attend
an upcoming court hearing on the status of the regulations.
Following this year's landmark
Braschi !}, Stahl case, in which theState Gourt of Appeals ruled that
"non-traditional"
family'members
must be treated the same as otherfamily members under New York
City's rent control guidelines, thestate's Division of Housing and Community Renewal (DHCR) announced
similar amendments to statewide rent
control and rent stabilization guidelines to take effect immediately.
But the Rent stabilization Association, a landlord advocacy group, succeeded in nullifying these emergency
measures by obtaining a temporary
injunction in Albany, This group andothers are scheduled to appear before
the State Supreme Court on December 7
at a hearing on whether the injunction
will be vacated or made permanent.
"We knew the landlords weregoing to sue," said Michael McKee,member of the New York State Tenantand Housing Coalition, a state membership organization of tenant's rights

advocacy. "But we didn't count on atemporary injunction."
As well as broadening the definition of "family" to include lesbian andgay couples, the announced amendments protect the tenancy of unmarriedheterosexuals, and people living as
companions with or without sexual or
romantic involvement, such as seniOi'
citizens who are not related by blood ormarriage, The measures also establish a
uniform two-year residency requirement
for establishing this relationship.
"Landlords like to have vacantapartments so they can advance coop plans and remove units from rent
control," said Tom Duane of Succession-Tenant Unity Coalition and a
recent openly gay city. council candidate, who said he is confident, in theend, that the State Court of Appeals
will support DHCR's decisions.
"We are proud of DHCR," Duane
told Out Week, "for [its) far-reachingmoves in recognizing the rights of lesbians and gays as tenants." The DHCR
setS policy and regulations affecting succession and other issues for the 150,000
rent controlled and the over one rcdlion
rent stabilized households state\',Je.
The hearing is on Thursday,
December 7th at 9:30 am in State
Supreme Court, 60 Centre Street in Manhattan, in room 116 on the first floor.
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the perpetrators was extremely questionable, All of the witnesses in thecase were employees of the county,
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the office of the Board of Supervisors,
according to Marshall.
The police investigation resulted
in charges of/harassment against theSheriffs Department by members of
ACf UP. In a letter to Sheriff Sherman
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ACLU.
The released documents revealed
that the Sheriffs Department also photographed members of the gay andlesbian press, including a reporter for
the Advocate and a journalist andphotographer from The News, a local
weekly newspaper, while they werecovering an ACT UP news conference. Other non-gay reporters werealso photographed,including one
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Nov. 22 having finally passed a budget reconciliation bill which reinstates
some, but not all AIDS dollars cut in
October by the automatic GrammRudman budget axe, and contains a
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The bill will now supercede theautomatic across-the-board
budgetcuts which went into effect Oct. 15
when Congress had not yet passed abudget reduction bill by the GrammRu<,iman-Hollingsdeadline.
Previously, most AIDS spending
had been exempted from the budget
cuts, This year, however, they were
subjected to the same automatic five
percent reductions as were most allother federal programs, resulting inan $80 million cut from 1990's $1.6
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Previously, people with AIDS
who left their jobs because of illness
could pay their own insurance andretain their group coverage for only
up to 18 months. But because Medicare recipients must be officially dis-abled for a minimumof twoyears--six qlonths longer than they
were preViously able to maintain theirgroup health insurance-many
wereforced into the low-income Medicaid
programs, or found themselves without any health coverage at all.
With the new extensions, they
may retain their insurance for 29
months and go from the group plan
directly into Medicare programs.
Jeff Levi, Washington lobbyist for
the Gay Men's Health Crisis, termed
the legislation "major,' saying, "Tosome degree this resolves the problem,' Levi added, "Obviously, theaffordabilityof the premiums forsomeone who is out of work remains
an issue, but that is different fromhaving no access to insurance at all."-Clif( O'Neill

Stop theChurch,I want to
get off
NEW YORK-On December 10th,at 9:30 am, St. Patrick's Cathedral may
well be swamped with demonstrators,
police and parishioners in what is
expected to be the largest protest
against the Roman Catholic churchever in New York City.
ACT UP/New York and the
Women's Health Action Mobilization(WHAM), a direct-action committee of
the Reproductive Rights Coalition, willstage the massive demonstration,
which spokespeople
predict will
attract at least 5,000 protesters. According the groups' flyers, they are staging
the action "to draw attention to thepolitical activities and lethal policies ofJohn Cardinal O'Connor [Archbishop
of New York] and the church.'
The activist groups say the issues
are the church's refusal to offer safersex education, to support a woman's
right to abortion, to condemn homo-

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December 10, 1989

phobia and violence against gays andlesbians and to allow the use of condoms and a clean-needle exchange
program for intravenous drug users.
"What we are talking about
here,' said WHAM member Stacey
Mink, "is who is going to tell you
what to do with your body. I havecontrol over my body and I make thechoices, not the church.' Mink said
that both abortion rights and access tocondoms and safer-sex information
are issues of freedom of choice andthe right to control one's own body,
Members in bpth groups haveexpressed concer~ that the protest
not be misconstrued as against theparishioners. "We are not attacking
Catholics, clarified Mink, "we areattacking the church hierarchy andthe Cardinal." Mink says a leaflet stating the groups' support of freedom ofworship will be handed out on the
day of the protest at St. Patrick's. "Wewant Catholics to understand that
their church makes policy that affects
members and non-members in a murderous way," Mink said.
For more .information, call ACf 'UP at (212) 989-1114 or WHAM at(212) 713-5966.
-Rick Sugden
H

Lawyers on
the law
WASHINGTON-Representativesof more than 150 law schools which
are members of the Association ofAmerican Law Schools (AALS)will vote
January 6 on a Bylaws amendment
proposed by the Association's Executive Committee to require all member
law schools to adopt policies banning
discrimination in admissions, personnel
and placement policies on the basis of
disability and sexual orientation,according to a memorandum from
Betsy Levin, the executive director of
the Association, which was sent to allmember law school deans last week.
The vote will occur in San Francisco during the Association'S annual
See OUT TAKES on page 71

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1974
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when Elaine Noble, anavowed lesbian, was elected to
the Massachusetts State Houseof Representatives she became thefirst openly gay official elected to apUblic office in the United States.
Thereafter, a parade of gay politicians
and celebrities climbed out of their,Harvey and constituents at 1978 Castro St. Fair.which he founded.

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The United States was really hopping that year. Anita Bryant, theorange juice queen, was leading a
campaign to repeal a gay rights ordinance in Dade County, Florida. She
had collected tens of thousands ofsignatures on petitions to bring theordinance to the voters again, and she
had become a national media starduring the course of, the campaign.
Her photographappeared on the
cover of Newsweek magaZine andinside were lengthy descriptions of
the blossoming
gay rights
movement, gay lifestyles, gay
relationships
and more gay
news than I'd ever seen in a
publication.
I began reading about
Harvey Milk and Anita Bryant
with more than just a passing
interest. I was gobbling up
every word, key phrase, image
and photograph I could digest" about the growing gay movement. It was the beginning of
the end to my post collegiate
what-am-I-doing, where-am-Igoing state of confusion blues.
I was finally finding thecourage to come out as a lesbian and in some way I ,felt
that Harvey Milk understood
my struggle. Maybe I wasn't
that kid from Altoona, Pennsylvania that he used to talkabout, but we sure had a lotin common.
Many': of us were disco
maniacs back in 1978, and I
was no exception. Sylvester's"Don't Stop," Donna Summer's"On the Radio" and "We are
Family" by Sister Sledge were
the big hits downtown at The
Bistro where I danced myheart out while waiting forthat first big k iss, that firstquivering moment with somewonderful woman.
In his biography of HarPhoto: Rink vey, author Randy Shilts

closets and marched down the mainstreets of Every town U,S.A. in full
public view. San Francisco Supervisor
Harvey Milk was probably the loudest
and best known of them all.
I lived in a big closet in Chicago
back in November of 1977, but somehow I found Harvey Milk on a newspaper page buried deep somewherein the first section, He had been elected to the Board of Supervisors in San
Francisco and, because he was gay, it
made national news.

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points out that after the Dade County
gay rights ordinance was repealed bya vote of more than two-to-one, Harvey wrote in his column in The Bay
Area Reporter, "No matter which way
the vote in Florida went, 'We-Won.
The word 'homosexual'
has now
appeared in every household in the
country. More good and bad was

"It
means
.hope
and
we-no-youand you and you andyes, you. You've got to give people
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probably written about it in the last
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pushed the gay movement ahead
and the subject can never be pushed
back into darkness."
Supervisor Harvey Milk continued to push forward in San Francisco
and in speeches he was invited togive around the country as an elected
gay official. One of those speeches,
dubbed "The Hope Speech," originated during his campaign for office, but'
continued to be a recurring theme
throughout his short service to thecommunity.
''I'll never forget what it was likecoming out," he said. "I'll never forgetthe looks on the faces of those whohave lost hope, whether it be young
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inspired hundreds of gays to riot andsmash windows at City Hall on thenight of Dan White's sentence formanslaughter. ,Ten years after the assassination,over 15,000 people marched to thosesame steps of City Hall in San Francisco to commemorate the anniversaryof their tragiC deaths. This year theqUiet crowd that gathered there wasconSiderably less in numbers, but noless in feeling and commitment.
"He. cried for us. He was prepared to die for us," Milk's friend andsuccessor Sup. Harry Britt told thecrowd. "He gave his life as a talented
and brilliant human being so that wemight be free."On a tape marked "IN CASE"thatHarvey Milk recorded just after hiselection, he spoke of the danger hesensed he was in because of his outspoken views. After naming possible
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Positively Scandalousby Ray Navarro

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medicine's critique of the poisonousedited by former Heaven
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One should note that attacks
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Commentary by Susie Day.De;r Mr. President,, .I bet you think that this letter isgoing to be about' El Salvador, I bet
ypu're saying to yourself, "Christ. Another letter from a lesbian, They're alw:~.yss:darn strident and anti-war
a,oout .things. Everyone knows thatlesbians ,can't have children, so
they try to adopt the Third World.
No doubt this is 'one of thosewhining lesbian letters about ending U,S. military involvement in El
Salvador.".
Well, you're wrong, Mr. President. Deeply wrong. For, although'1 am a lesbian, this letter is notabout El Salvador. Please do notassume that all lesbians and gay
men are peace activistsj this is anoffensive, heterosexist stereotype.
Many of us are, in fact, mature, sophisticated political leaders, who
are firmly committed to gaining
equal rights at every level of society. This includes equa: rights in
the U.S. Armed Forces. Therefore,
it I, a mature sophisticated lesbianof today, were to say to you, mypresident:·STOP U.S. aid to ~he repressive,
right-wing government of El Salvador·TAKE BACK the $85 million
you'vealready
designatedforweapons and ammunition in the current fiscal year
·DON'T SEND El Salvador any
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children and women and men in thelast few weeks ,aloneI would be employing
tiredrhetoric to tamper with your First
Amendment right as a president to ex-press yourself, using armed intervention. I would also be guilty of whining. And I, as an au moderne lesbianactivist of the 1980s, never whine.
Today, when I experience discrimination as a lesbian, I call all my gay activist friends together, and we holdmature, sophisticated conferencesj westrategize effective legal campaignsj

we write cogent articles, Clearly, Mr.
PreSident,' we have done a lot ofgrowing up in the last nine years.
So why won't you let us lesbian
and gay men into tbe milita1j¥ We'll
be good. Wepromise, PleasiR
It took me a long time to reachthis level of maturity and sophistication.
During the 70s, I must
admit, I personified the downwardly-mobile stereotype of the typicallesbian peace monger. I knew all
the verses to "Blowln' in the Wind";
I had a crush on ,Joan Baezj I
prayed on Gandhi's birthday. I actually thought there was something"wrong" with me for being a regularly voting citizen in the world's
most militarily oppressive democracy. And when politicos from othercountries called me an "imperialist
dog," I wept.
Then Ronald Reagan waselected president, and I began tore-think my place in the worl5i. I
saw that white North' Americans
were systematically disparaged bycommunists in Third World libe,ra-'tion struggles. I got in touch withhow really validated and whole
you can feel as a human being,
when you internalize the fact' thatyour country can perpetrat~ ,any
number of invasions,c6'ups,bombings and harbor minings;
and successfully evade interna'tional justice every time. Finally, I
developed a deep sense of Imperialist Dog Pride. Take that, Qadafi!
Yet, as I became more politically mature and sophisticated, Ialso saw that gays and lesbians
with exemplary military recorps
were being thrown out of the,Armed Forces, simply because of
their sexual orientation. And I was
outraged. So I hope you will see
why this letter is not about EI Salvador,
Mr. Presidentj this letter is about realsocial injustice! Compared to gays
being discriminated against in the U.S.
military, 1,200 civilian deaths in E\ Salvador is nada. (That'S campesino for"nothing," Mr. President.)
History has shown that, given achance, lesbians and gays are just ascapable of defending our country as
our heterosexual counterparts-and
we can be Just as indifferent to thewholesale devastation of native peoples and cultures, too, You don't
have to worry about our being security risks, Mr. Pr<:sldentj not when weare primarily concerned with equal
rights. Why, for Instance, should gay
people care about a few hundred patriarchal, nuclear family units being
torn apart In El Salvador, when lesblans and gays don't have the right tobe legally married In the UnitedStates? It's all a matter of priorities,
Besides, HaVe you ever heard of agay Salvadoran?
So how could this letter possibly be about EI Salvador? It's justthat gays and lesbians want to be included in a progressive
fighting
forc& that has already opened its
armed arms to people of all races
and both sexes. One of the best arguments I can think of for U.S. military 'domination of the planet is thatour gOJ(ernment teaches its disadvantaged youth valuable ~kills indecimating whole populations,atthe same time it gives them freehealth care. Why, my own dac! we_nt
into the army in the 40s because heneeded food and clothes and an education, You may think it ironic, but, I find. it a source of great pride, Mr.
President, that I, as a no-frills, righton dyke, could be the indirect resultof a G.I. Loan.
So forget about EI Salvador; homophobia hurts everyone, Mr. President. We, as lesbian and gay activistsof the 80s, simply want equal rights.
We want equal rights to bomb andstrafe and pillage and rape and humiliate and do kinky things with bayonets, just like you normal people do.
We want the right to hole up in Third
World .luxury hotels with the Green
Berets and order room service on the
CIA's 'tab. Help us to help you makethe developing world safe for rightwing'death squads. Please, Mr. President. We look real good in uniform.
Just give us a chance to serve ourcountry, It will be as if EI Salvador
never existed, ....

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"Political Science·Big Brother is Watching You~J'Mark Harrington'1«As it is designed, parallel track
will not worfe. What was actually put
in place is an invitation to disaster. It
will prevent us from finding drugs
that will help people. •-Douglas Richman, M,D.
AIDS Clinical Trials Unit (Acm)
Principal Investigator (PI)Univ. of California, San Diego 'The New York Times, 11.21.89"I was quoted out of context."-Douglas Richman, M.D.
Bethesda, MD, 11.21.89

Every nation has its Pravda,
its citadel of disinformation,
whence official falsehoods
are dispensed with a noblesse d oblige
so bland many citizens are grateful tohave their thinking done for them,conventional wisdom pre-packaged
for just pennies a day, No one has
worked harder during this shameful
decade to propagate the lethal fictionthat all is well in an America blighted
by the four horsemen of our viral
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Pravda, The New York Times.
Thus it was no surprise when, on
November 21, the Times published an
unfounded, premature, dogmatic, biased and inept attack on the right ofpeople with AIDS to obtain treatments outside of government-sponsored controlled clinical trials. The article proceeded, with the flimsiest ofeVidence, to attack the Parallel Trackprogram even though the ddl trials
have been underway for just six
weeks--far too soon to judge how
expanded access will affect enrollment I will bracket to the sidebar just
how many ways Gina Kolata waswrong and leave to others to document just how shoddy was her "research" (Jim Eigo's letter to Times editors sums up the key points [Xeroxed,page 9D.
What are the motives for collusion between the U.S, biomedical establishment and the established print
media? Both of them share an instinctive antipathy to the fundamental demand raised by people with AIDS
during the epidemic-the demand forautonomy to make their own treatment decisions and to question thehitherto unquestioned
authority ofacademic medicine and mass media
alike. Larry Corey, of the University of

Seattle, who chairs the ACfG Executive Committee, said last week that heviews the AIDS Clinical Trials Group(ACfG) as "a giant combine cutting aswathe through the field of AIDS,·With its present policies, theACfG may more aptly be considered
a combine cutting a swathe throughthe people with AIDS themselves. At
the ACfG Primary Infection Committee (Le., the "HI" Committee") on
Wednesday, November 8, chairman
Thomas Merigan, M.D., of Stanford,architect of the ACfG system and purveyor of ddC, lamented:
The Treatment IND for ddl is drawing
patients away from our trials. Thereis a temptation for our patients toleave the program-an
unfortunate
loss, .. We're going to monitor on amonthly basis the comparative accruals in the ddl studies,and expanded access, We're going to look at enrollment by zip code "catchment,
areas: We may need to use this information to argue against the use ofTreatment INDs at the start of Phase
II--after all we're the people most affected by it
Like the researchers he manipulates, Merigan seems to be sufferingfrom a delusion that the ddl Treatment IND affects him more than it af-

fects people with AIDS, people withno other treatment options, people
who have suffered high, prolonged
and unnecessary toxicity from AZT,
for whom the Treatment IND is designed. Merigan continued:

There are early signs of a downturnin accrual. Most of our Phase I or II
studies are pausing in accrual, The
ddC studies are not accumulating
many patients, We need to define awindow of usage for ddC, In the studyof ddC for long-term AZT users, sixsites are willing to participate, but
only" twomay
accumulatepatients-it hasn't opened yel ddC in
AZTintolerant patients may not open
in this country-it may have to bedone in Europe,
Merigan is upset about theprospects for ddC trials because he
was the principal author of previous
studies and the principal investigatorof the current ones. Such career advancement, rather than therapeutic
benefit to people with AIDS, is thechief motive for the clique of ACfG
researchers who consume hundreds ofmillions of our dollars and Wish, concurrently, to deny anyone access to"their drugs· outside of "their trials."
Paul Volberding, principal investigator (PI) of the recently-suspended
ACfG 019, is also PI for ACfG 117,
the study of AZT vs. ddI ihpeople
who have taken AZT for more than
48 weeks. Considering Douglas Richma'n's discovery that AZT -resistantstrains of HIV were found in the
blood of each person he measured
who had been taking AZT for longer
than six months, this trial may well bedifficult to fill, Volberding spoke formany researchers when he said:

We applaud the vigilance of the Primary Infection Core Committee forkeeping records on this,through their own phYSicians, whocare for them, rather than from theclever,federally-sponsoredresearchers who keep coming out withnew ways to use AZT, bHt can't comeup with a. single other treatment fqr
AIDS or HIV infection.
And here comes The New YorkTimes, leading the charge to protect
the career prerogatives of these researchers, not even bothering to ask aperson with AIDS for his or her perspective. Kolata's article, and the researchers' fears, came down to thesentiment voiced by Harvard's
Jerome Groopman:

FJr.

If the philosophy is that anyone caDI!
decide at any point what drugs he or.
she wants to take, then you will not
be able to do a clinical triai,r,This is flatly untrue. People wIth
life-threatening conditions have thesame right to evaluate available information about approved and potent'ial
treatments that scientists do. Moreover, they do 'not have the time scienSee POlITICALSCIENCE on page 37

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GLAAD
tiDINGS

LovingLiving Color
Homophobic, racist, sexist andanti-Semitic lyrics in rock, heavy
metal and rap music have been muchin the news recently. Among othermedia outlets, The New York Times,
Rolling Stone and Entertainment
Tonight have reported on this growing problem.
Heavy metal groups have gotten
much of the attention, with Guns 'nRoses lead singer Axl Rose on record
defending derogatory references tofaggots in his group's best sellingalbum and Skid Row lead singer Sebastian Bach pictured in Billboard
wearing a t-shirt that says "AIDS Kills
Fags Dead."
Lest we be accused of heavy
metal defamation, we want to bring to
your attention a refreshing counterexample, Billboard reports that at a concert in L.A. featuring the Rolling
Stones and Guns 'n Roses, a memberof one of the opening acts, Vernon
Reid of the group Living Color, said tothe audience, which he might reasonably have expected to be unsympathetic to his views:"If you don't have ~nything
against gay people, don't call them faggots. If you don't have anything against
Blacks, don't call them niggers."
Vernon Reid's comment is rightto the point. If you don't mean it,

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calls for an end to discrimination
against young people on the basis of
their sexual orientation.
Proving once again that rightwing homophobes
are afraid that
Americans might be exposed to thetruth about gay people, Congressman
Dannemeyer of California contacted
President Bush and HHS Secretary
Louis Sullivan demanding that theyreject the portion of the report dealing with gay teens. He made no scientific objection, of course, asserting
instead that the report was simply"anti-family. "Because we have come to expect
raw bigotry from Congressman DanWith role models like quarterback
nemeyer, the real bad news is that
Doug Williams publicly ridiculing fagBush and Sullivan seem to be pangots, it's no wonder that gay and lesdering to it. In a letter to Dannemeybian teenagers are an emotionally vuler, Sullivan agreed that' t.h~ views exnerable group. The special problems
pressed in the report about gay youthof gay youth were recently discussed
run contrary to his and his departin a report prepared by the Department's policy of advancing traditional
ment of Health and Human Services.
family values. Just how family values
Called Report of the Secretary s Task
might be advanced by gay teen sui-.
Force on Youth Suicide, the document
cides is, of course, never addressed.
concludes that "gay youth are two to
The National Gay and Lesbian
three times more likely to attempt suicide than other young people," and ' Task Force has asked for meetings
with the president
andSullivan to discuss thisissue. Bush has alreadydeclined; preventing suic,ides by gay youth is ,notpart of his agenda for akinder, gentler America.
Sullivan has not yet
responded, and so we ask
you to write him in support of the Task Force's request for a meeting. Thisis a matter of life anddeath, He must not allow
his own prejudicestokeep his head in the sandon the issue.
Write to: Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., Secretary, Department of Health andHuman Services, 200 Independence Avenue S.W., 'Washington, DC 20201.
HHS Secretary Louis Sullivan-Craig Davidson
don't say it "Faggot" is a hate word.
We encourage you to write lettersof protest to all the perpetrators mentioned above. But we also urge you
to write a congratulatory note to Vernon Reid for his courage in speaking
out to the concert audience in L.A.
Write, to: Vernon Reid/Living
Color, P.O, Box 407, Bushwick Finance Station, Brooklyn, NY 11221.

Sullivanon Suicide

POUTICAl SCIENCE from page 3S

tists have to wait for results from controlled clinical trials.
If people do not enter controlled
trials, researchers must consider new
ways of conducting them, It was ironic that Kolata's article came out on thesecond day of a major conference on
AIDS clinical trials methodology,
There, statisticians inspired by
ACf UP's National AIDS Treatment
Research Agenda had confirmed thatmany of the ideas advanced by people) with AIDS and AIDS activists did
not conflict with the needs of science,
Placebos are unnecessary(theyhaven't been used in cancer trials for
decades). Exclusion criteria are too
restrictive, Trials should allow newtreatments as soon as they become
available, People can be in antiretroviral and anti-opportunistic infection
trials at the same time,
But the researchers didn't seem tobe listening. Their narrow-minded views
were summarized by Ellen Cooper of
the FDA at the end of the conference,
when she criticized the notion that trial
subjects could be heterogeneous. What
could be more heterogeneOus than therange of diseases and conditions attendant upon illV infection?
ThiS, then, is the fa~1 blindnessof the U.S. regulatory and research establishment, as created by the likes ofEllen Cooper, Dan Hoth, Thomas
Merigan, Paul Volberding, Larry Corey,
Margaret Fischl, Douglas Richman etat.: trials must be homogenous. Those
who don't fit the inclusion criteria
must wait. Too bad if some have todie--that's science~we've got to fmd
out I-we need your bodies to prove
this drug works! That's the only kindof data peer-reviewed journals acceptl(Not to mention the FDA),The ACfG is like an enormous,
costly, high-tech ocean Iiner-a
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GOALat last summer's Gay Pride Parade

For Lesbian and
Gay Police it's a

Struggle Battling
Homophobia on
the Force and
Cop·Phobia in
the Community
by Michelangelo 5ignorile
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RUE BLUE"If I can't be a civilian at a demonstration then I'd rather work it. I
want to be the cop dragging people away rather than there being somestraight cop who might have a bad attitude, who might be having a bad
day and is thinking, 'I'm cold, I'm tired, I don't want to deal with these
fuCking faggots.'''-Pollee officer Louise Gomez

Tbecops.
The phrase conjures up some bizarre and conflicting feelings. Some queers cringe at thethought, with all sorts of visions-from the horrific to the simply annoying--<iancing in theirheads. Restroom entrapments. Bar raids. Police brutality. Civil disobedience. Speeding tickets.
Ugh!
For others, the mere words increase testosterone and estrogen levels in the body as
thoughts turn to nightsticks, badges, sunglasses, leather-uniforms!
But for some gays and lesbians, the cops doesn't produce either of these extremes or anything on the spectrum between them. For these people, the phrase means punching in, goingto your locker, getting your detail, and covering your beat. It means perhaps seriously risking

your life on a daily basis, and trying to do some good within a systemgave them for transferring. He couldn't tell them it was because I wastainted with corruption and homophobia. It means constantly being atgay, but that was it, I'm sure.
odds with many members of your own community who, when they
"I decided not to lie anymore. When the guys would say, 'look
think of cops, envision the enemy.
at that ass, look at that cunt: I wouldn't say anything. Soon they wereAnd it means working within a field that has traditionally viewed
asking, 'are you married,' and I'd say, 'no, I have a lover.'gays and lesbians as pariahs when it came to enforcing the law. In"People talk behind your back. They write things on the bathfact, our very existence was, at one time, against the law. In someroom walls. But homophobia is all over, not just in the police
states it still is.
, department."
New York City, however, is now one of a few places in the
country where police officers themselves are protected from losing
their jobs if homophobia is involved, and, according to many gay andWhile many lesbian and gay cops still choose to stay in the closlesbian officers, these charges are taken very seriously within theet, many others are out now, realizing that they are legally protected
department. Su.ch protection is a major advancement, considering thatwithin the department, and also feeling se'cure that GOAL will help
just a little over ten years ago, not one gay man or lesbian on thefight their battles. Though they encounter homophobia on a regularpolice force was out of the closet.
basis, and expressThat changed in November of 1979, when, testifying before thethat they are painfulcity council, Sergeant Charles Cochrane became the first member ofly coming out in one
the New York City Police Department to publicly declare himself gay.
respect or anotherA sudden new hero in the community, many thought Cochrane's
every day, openly
coming out would sway the city council into passing the gay rights
gay and lesbianbill that year.
police officers are
Of course, the council took seven more years to pass the bill.
relatively comfortBut almost immediately Cochrane had rattled things up a bitable in their jobs.
throughout the NYPD. Swooped down on by local, national and interThey speak of being
national media, he had broken the silence and challenged long-standpart of the "family,"ing prejudices regarding gay and lesbian cops. 1bree years later, inof being
totally
1982, Cochrane co-founded, with retired officer Sam Ciccone, the Gay
acceptedandOfficer's Action League (GOAL). That June, Ciccon\: and Cochrane
respected
by theirmarched in the Gay Pride Parade as GOAL's only members. One year
heterosexual
partlater membership was up to 35. Today there are roughly 300 active
ners and superiors.
members of GOAL and some 2,000 men and women have passed
In the subculthrough the organization.
ture that is thepolice department,
one has to prove
After ten years on the force, Peter Guardino came out by
oneselfa "goodmarching with GOAL in the Gay Pride Parade in 1983, knowing thatcop." "The main crihis hetero fellow officers would' be lining the parade route (theteria for acceptanceparade, in fact, is the way that most officers come out within theamong police offidepartment). At the age of 42, Guardino has now been out on thecers is if one per- 'job for six years.
forms
one's
job TRUE BLUE
"A few people on the job knew that I was," he reflects. "A few
well .. says Patrick.
,.
Sara~i, a civilian clin- Now retired Sergeant Charlie Cochrane In 1983
suspected, but nothing was ever really made of it. I had a good reputation as a good cop. But like anything else, when you are part of aical psychologist who workedl.or the NYPD in 1981. "If so, that perminority and you do good work, they try to knocK you down. I feel I son will be very well respected." As Saraci explains, a police officer iswasn't given choice assignments. When you're not out, you fmd out
pUlling his body on the line, risking his life all the time. He or she
things sooner. It got back to me. I figured it'd be better to be out
wants more than anything to be sure that his/her partner will be there
since I could be protected by law.
when the bullets start fICing.The biggest concern is "being covered.""Where I work I'm the only so-<:alled gay person. I don't fmd it Though they say they have to prove themselves more than other cops
too bad, my working conditions. I don't have anYthing said about me.
(and though the women are fighting sexism as well as homophobia),
And in 17 years it's amazing that my name's not appeared on bathlesbian and gay cops claim that once they have proven themselvesroom walls. Being,out, it's hard for me to pinpoint homophobia. Peothey are treated no diffently than anyone else -and wind up developple kind of hold back comments when I'm around. I don't think I'm
ing strong bonds with straight officers Within the department. In thistreated [by the force) differently than anyone else now, I get alongsense, they feel they are fighting homophobia within the department,with mostly everyone I work with. Sometimes, some people feel a lit- educating fellow officers as well as higher-ups.
tle uncomfortable, but I think they may sense that I sense something
about them-maybe that they're gay or something. I don't have problems with the people who are so-<:alled straight.""To me, we are proving ourselves continuously," states Louise

At 27, Pedro Velazquez has been a cop for five years.
"I moved here from Puerto Rico in August 1984. I [became acop) for the benefits. It was the best job I could fmd. I only had two
years of college. Before that I was a jewelry salesman and before thata bookkeeper, but this is much better pay and benefits. I saw the ad, in the newspaper and decided to go for it.
"I came out to my first partner and he transferred himself. We
were friends, used to go out drinking. I don't know what reason he

Gomez, who, after a few years of going in and out of college, andafter being' an accountant for a while, became a police officer two
years ago at the age of 30. "Women in the deparunent really do haveto prove themselves even more. I would think 'very small men havethe same problem. It's really strange, because the police profession isreally macho. People are not always aware that lesbians are macho.
I'm aggressive. I think being a lesbian may actually work toward mybenefll in that sense because they pe(ceive a lesbian to be 'not likethe typical female' and tougher, maybe. Then again, that could just be
me 'cause, see, I don't take shit from anyone."\

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Tony is in his early 20s. He's out in the department and has spoken to the press before using his full name. But currently he's underconsideration for· an assigment which would include undercover workand says he can only speak on condition of anonymity. He lives in
Brooklyn, where he grew up as the son of a police officer, in a familywith a long line of police officers.
"In myoid precinct they would hang stuff on my locker-DOA,
seals, that's Dead On Arrival, Property of NYPD, DOA stickers. It
didn't really affect me. I didn't care. I didn't let it bother me. Cops
love to talk. So you just ignore them.
"Once you prove yourself, it's okay. In my new precinct it's
great. My lover comes in and the women in the office COfI¥Ilentabout
how cute he is. They like him. I'm able to talk to them about problems. You know, we have the same problems. My lover worries every
night when I go to work. He kisses me and tells me to be carefuL If

SEmNG THINGS IN MOTION
Community Affairs Officer Vanessa Ferro

Photo: Ellen B. Neipris

I'm making an arrest and I'm late, he doesn't sleep. He stays up allnight worrying."

Pepper (not her real name) had become a cop in the early 80s
because she felt that working the child-abuse unit would be rewarding. But she left after a few years because of the mounting pressure ofhomophobia and sexism. All someone who left the force, she tells asomewhat different story.
"I worked in Harlem in the child-abuse unit," she says. "And I
was too busy working to be in GOAL or any other group.
"If you're a woman on the job they are uncomfortable with you
unless you're dating them or unless you're married. It was weird like that.
"There were times when I saw excessive force being used on
people because they were Black or gay. I would protest it by leaving
the scene. If I were to make a report or something, my back wouldn't
be covered. That means if I go to make an arrest and someone pulls
their gun out, [the cops presentl wouldn't cover me. It's happened toother people.
"They're even suspicious when you don 'I get involved.
Ifthey're making an arrest and they beat someone up because they'regay, and if you don't go and give your little kick, then you're
cosidered not part of the cop family.
"All cops are not homophobes and racists, but I'd say at least 60
percent,are. It's part of a whole kind of macho attitude.
"I was called a dyke once or twice. I was given a lot of shitty
shifts, strange shifts. You can tell who gets the better shifts, the guys
who are part of the good 01' boy network.
"You hear things in the locker room, 'That faggot' or 'that nigger.'40

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To say there is no homophobia or racism is a joke.
"I think that police are necessary in this city. [And gays and lesbiansl should be on the police force. It's an honorable job if you don't
go kicking people's asses and throwing them in jail for no reasOn."

Many gay cops say the bigger conflict in, their lives-bigger
than homophobia encountered in the department-is
the animosity
between the gay and lesbian community and the police department itself.
Historically, the lesbian and gay community and the NYPD have
had a terrible relationship. If Stonewall was a turning point, many saw
the violent raid only a few years ago of Blues, a Times Square clubfrequented by gay men of color, as a step backward. On the whole,
the community is mixed about whether or not the relationship has
improved. "There is much more dialogue now," says Lee Hudson, liaison to Mayor Koch's office. "There are more internal avenues for people to pursue." David Wertheimerof the Lesbian and Gay
Anti-Violence agrees: "The relationship between [the commqnity and
the NYPDl has evolved significantly over the past ten years. I thinkthat relationship is better than that betweert gays and police in any
other city in the country, including San Francisco."
But Donna Minkowitz, a writer for the Village Voice who has
covered the lesbian arid gay community for the past several years, isin strong disagreement. "The current relationship is disasterous," sheopines. "Right now, for instance, you have cops calling people 'faggot' and 'dyke' with impunity, thinking it's okay to do. It's unacceptable." Minkowitz also points to several cases recently in which policearrested the gay or lesbian person being attacked rather than the
alleged attackers. One of those of particular note which Minkowitz
had written about from the beginning was the case of Joy DiVmcenzo, who brought her lover to S1. Vincent's Hospital after she'd been
raped. DiVincenzo was allegedly verbally and physically abused by S1.
Vincent's security guards. When police were called in, they arrested
DiVincenzo for assault (she was later acquited upOn contemplation of
dismissal). "She was arrested after she was called a dyke and beaten
up'" exclaims Minkowitz.
'
Tim Powers of ACf UP, a group which has had many dealings
with the police, characterizes the police department as "a system
which rewards cops for being racist, sexist and homophobic, putting
us in a bad position, in a position where anti-gay bias crimes justaren't taken seriously." He points to an incident at hist summer's Wigstock Festival in Tompkins Square Park in which a gay man, Mark
Carson, was arrested after he tried to come to the aid of three gay
men in drag who were being beaten by several men wielding lacrosse
sticks. Carson apparently "tapped" a police officer on the shoulder tocall his attention to the gay bashing and was arrested for obstructing
governmental administration. Newspaper accounts of the incident
reported that the police were still slow to arrest the gay bashers. "I felt
the police's atttitude at Wigstock', was, like, 'if you dress like that [indrag], you deserve what's coming to you,'" says Powers.

Vinny is 28. He's a police officer who is not fully out of the closet. Even he doesn't know why. "It's a personal thing," he says. "Iknow it'd be better for me to be out, but I...I just don't know. My
partner, and the guys at GOAL and some people on the force know
I'm gay, but I'm not out to my higher-ups, my superiors.
"Demonstrations and stuff by gays is a conflict, without a doubt.
Inside of me, it bothers me. I'm totally on their side,·We're assigned to keep the peace, but unfortunately, demonstrators, because of the media, seem to feel they must get themselves attacked by the police. It makes the news. I think it's
misconstrued as police brutality. I've been on the side of theprotestors before. It's always the demonstrators who provoke thepolice. I fmd it embarraSSing.
·We had a police officer who had AIDS and was interested inon the chests of ACf UP members and shoved them backwards justACf UP and went to a meeting and was chastised by ACf UP memas Ed Koch began speaking. The shoving by Ferro and other officers
bers because he was a cop [this could not be independently conprovoked chants from ACf UP."firmed within ACf UP and among its membership]. I can't tell you
Ferro maintains that she was'merely trying to keep the peace.
how mad that made me. How discriminatory. I remember he felt realShe also realizes she made a mistake that she's sorry about. "In myly shiny after that.
situation as a community affairs officer, my priority is to mediate and"lhere was a time when the women [members of ACf UP after a
City Hall demonstration last March] were illegally strip-searched. It , to try to bring peaceful resolutions to different demonstrations," sheexplains. "I don't have to take police action or do law enforcement.
wasn't the police who did it. It was matrons--civilian members of the
As a community affairs officer that is not my priority. I try to remain
department. But the media made everyone think it was the police.
neutral. But I'm human. Sometimes I agree with the protesters andThat's probably why it's hard for me to come out. Because sometimes
sometimes I agree with the police. [The Stonewall dedication demo]
we make a spectacle of ourselves. Instead of sitting down with us, thewas certainly a conflicting situation for me'. I was in the middle of agay cops, IACf UPers] run around demanding."rushing crowd of demonstrators and had no recourse but to plant myfeet on the floor or be trampled. I did not push people, but rather
held my ground, and tried to calm people down. That was, my first
Many officers become defensive when the topic of the departdemonstration. I was trying too hard and got caught in the middle. It's
ment's relationship with the community is brought up. Almost alla place I won't be caught in again."'whom I spoke with expressed uneasiness at working a demonstration. Marly felt that protesters, most of the time, overstep theirbounds and that it puts the police in precarious positions. For a gay
or lesbian cop covering a demonstration organized and attended bygays and lesbians, that can cause a major internal conflict. Most, but
not all, feel their first duty is to being a police officer and preserving
the peace, although officer Louise Gomez says that she expresses
solidarity with protesters and trys to let them know she's a lesbian. At
last March's City Hall ACf UP demo she says she wore a little pink
triangle, though wearing anything besides department insignia isagainst regulation.
Quite a few lesbian and gay cops feel the community is unduly
hard on them. They say the community, and partieuarly the moremilitant segments of it, attack them all too often, and don't realizethat "it's not all the police" who may be overly abusive. They express
sadness at what they perceive to be a lack of support from the community, which they find hard to understand. "If you believe in total
anarchy, and believe that there shouldn't be a police force, then we
can't even have a discussion," states Cochrane. "But if you feel there
should be some kind of a police' force, then 'you have to feel that
YOUR BEAT OR MINE
Photo: Ellen B. Neipris
gays and lesbians should be represented on that force. And they
Officers Peter Guardino and and Pedro Velazquez
should be supported."
In spite of apparent conflicts, Ferro does feel she is making
advancements in the department for the lesbian and gay community.
"I think I'm changing things in the department. I'm educating the"I wanted to be in a position where I could be of service to peodepartment about what the community is about. Sometimes [my supeple. I wanted to be able to help people," says Vanessa Ferro.
riors] read about a demonstration, and they'll ask what it's about,
In June of this year Ferro became a Community Affairs Officer
they'll ask me what the issues are. I think I've opened up their eyes toand the fiCStpolice department liaison to the lesbian and gay commuthe injustices of our city regarding gays.
nity. She pushed hard for the job, having first applied in early 1987.
"I've been called to speak to higher-ups in the department. I"When I came out, I had knowledge of the community affairs
go out and actively attend classrooms at the police academy anddivision of the police department. I had worked as a community
affairs officer in the Bronx, and I had known about the CA division. I give sensitivity training. Also at the precinct levels. I have ongoing dialogues with the chief of the department and other higherknew that the CA division at police plaza had liaisons for different
up personal, regarding issues and needs of our community andgroups -Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, even Europeans. I wondered why
how the police could respond in a favorable way. Whenever I'mthere wasn't one for the gay community and I felt that with all the risincluded in anything it is their intention to better the community.
ing needs of the other communities the department was able to
They ask me my 'opinion on certain cases, bias incidents andrespond by assigning a liason to get the police to meet those needs.
demonstrations.".
So why not the gay community?
"She's in a ridiculous anp crazy position," says Tim Powers of"Every time I opened a gay periodical I would see anti-cop artiACf UP about Ferro. "She gets hell from both sides. But she's good.
cles and an anti-cop anitude. I felt that gay liaisons, or a group of gay
She really wants to genuinely know the issues, and really wants toliaisons, would maybe try to turn that around. To fmd out what thehelp put things into to motion. I respect that."needs are of the gay 'community and try to change that negative"I'd like it if people would call me when something happens, or
police image.
even just to talk about conditions in general," asks Ferro of the. com"Being a cop in the gay community is just as difficult as being
munity. "It's not all 27,000 police who may be doing bad things, andgay in the police community. The biggest conflict is being looked at
we, gay and lesbian police, are here for you to come to." T
as a traitor by people in the community because I'm a police officer."
Last June, during the dedication of Stonewall Place, Ferro, who'd
Vanessa Ferro can be reached at 212-374-5370 and urges all, just taken over her new post, found herself at her first demonstration.
members of the lesbian, gay 'or any other community to call her with
It was there that ACf UP had planned to silently protest while Mayor
any problems or questions they may have regarding the New York City
Koch took the podium. But, according to Donna Minkowitz, in a story
Police Department.
reported in OutWeI?k, "Ferro, wearing plainclothes, placed her hands

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JOHN PRESTON"BEARINGWITNESS
Author, Editor, AIDS EducatorJohn Preston Discusses
His,
Latest Work, the Anthology
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Personal Dispatches
by Sarah Pettit
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I remember meeting John
Preston and suddenly understanding what the Mr. Benson
brouhaha was about. In 1979,
Preston wrote a book by thatname which was serialized inDrummer. It became a cult classic, with boys across the landslapping, ramming and dressingin time to the author's directives. Preston has the same
power of persuasion in personthat he has historically maintained in his writing. Piercing
eyes, a slow, rolling voice, acertain composure that bespeaks control and talent.
Currently the writer-in-residence at the AIDS Project inPortland, Maine, he has over the years
worn more hats than Elton John: author,
co-author andlor editor of over 30
books including the popular slm porn
Master series, the adventure tales ofAlex Kane, Franny,
The Queen of
Provincetown and Safe Sex; editor at
The Advocate, founder of the first gay
community center in the states; board
member of Maine's Health Foundationand its AIDS Project; sex educator andlecturer; book critic, While unusually
dedicated to his dinosaur computer andthe cold hinterlandof the Vacation
State, he does occasionally breach city
limits, This time he did so in grandstyle and was nice enough to cut me inon hot dlocolate
and a spectacular
view of the metropolis.
Sarah Pettit: I reread your introduction and prologue to Personal Dispatches yesterday, which led me torecall the enormous impact the book
had on me the first time I read it, how it
haunted my dreams for several nights
afterward. I know that people have hadstrong reactions to the anthology, as
several pieces bring up very deep andunresolved arguments in the community, How did you, as an editor, manage
to bring thes,e disparate writings together in the context of one book and say,"This is writing about AIDS," without
either making them all some way toe
the same line or sacrificing the integrityof each piece? 'John Preston:
The pieces were
written by a wide range of writers,
everyone frbm icons of gay literature topreviously unpublished writers. I think
it's inevitable that people are going toreview it in terms of the finite articles,
but I do think this is a book, in the best
sense of the word, In my introduction I
talk about how E,).praff's piece on the
Politano family ("Bring Them Home")
was really the beginning of the process.
It was a brutally honest piece that reverberated through many people's psyches
when it appeared in Bay Windows,
Although extremely romantic-it
pulls
one's gut to see such a totally supportive, never abandoning family-it
wasalso honest in the truly corporate senseof the word. One felt the newspaper's
honesty, the writers honesty, the family's honesty. The progression of the disease was described in an unrelenting
fashion, but also In an entirely nonmanipulative fashion. It allowed me, and7

many others, to grasp hold of what was
happeningin a way that we hadn't
before. We had seen "victim" stories
before and we'd seen polemic-intheworst and best sense of the word-but I
don't think we'd seen this sort of writing, I don't think I w.as immediately
aware of a book, but I did write a few
people and ask, "Are you seeing thissort of writing?" That's when I got thefirst few pieces back and when I realized that something was happening withwriting about AIDS.
SP: What is really interesting is thatmost of this new writing was being
done outside of the mainstream in smallgay "bar rags," if you will, The community had grabbed
a hold of any
resources it had and used them, transformed them into things that are reallyvery unique,
They are playing roles
they never did before.
JP: There's no question that many
gay journals have risen to the cause inways that I don't think we had any rightto expect them to. I was very self-conscious about making sure they were represented, not for the sake of "balance,"
but simply because I was after the finest
writing. I knew some of the finest writing was in Bay Windows, Front Page inNorth Carolina and Update in San Diego.
I am particularly proud to include thosein an anthology.
Other people may
have avoided them for the very reason
that they were not prestigious', notmetropolitan. What I care about is thateach author tried to do his or her best,
becal,lse ultimately what holds this book
together is its sense of first person honesty. The Publishers Weekry pre-publication review made note that the drive ofeach author was to bear witness, and inrereading the book, I was struck by how
often that word was used. It's in mystuff, it's in Andrew Holleran'S, it's in
Scott Tucker's and so on. I think that the
unblinking bearing witness binds thebook together and is its success.
SP: The last ten years have seen thecreation of several Holocaust archives,
places where survivors of the camps canrecord their stories. They allow for theviewing of a nightmare in retrospect,from a different space. Wholly different
about the present sort of bearing witness
is that it's witnessing in the midst of thenightmare. Speaking out in the midst ofan event has to hold with it the notionthat witnessing can effect change.
]PI I come from a very strongly reli-gious background and find Christianity
to be one of the most ludicrously primitive religious. Still, it uses a very richvocabulary and the word "witness· is
not a passive word, it's a very active
verb. To "witness· is not simply to makenote, not simply to record, although
there is is power in that. It is to go out
and see what is going on. Many of thecontributors to this volume are activists,they are doing things that must be done.
There's a quote at the beginning of thebook, "For some of us must storm thecastles. Some. define the happening,"that I hesitated before using because it
seemed to imply a separation of roles.
Writing one hand, action on the other. I
kept it in because I came to understandthat it was a corporate statement; thatboth must be done and that much of it
is done by the same people,
We dobreak those roles over' and over.
SP: It's maddening to me that something which speaks for so many voices
can be ignored. Even thougH it's published by a mainstream press and has
had good reviews from PW and Kir!eus,
the traditional veins of reception, it still
battles with its own status. Whether thissort of reading ever makes its way into
the hands of the white bookreading
public is questionable. I don't mean topronounce a premature judgement on it,
but it does seem that we're constantly
creating these strong and powerfulmementos for ourselves and yet it takes
something like the Quilt-squareofmiles of death memorialized-for
ourefforts to be acknowledged. There has
to be an active denial of voices. It's notjust these things are one in many, people are simply not wanting to hear the
resonances.
JP: I am painfully aware that that'strue. I used to do a great deal of college
lecturing three years ago when AIDS
was a hot, important topic. As a gay
man who had sex education credentials
and had written a mainstream book onrisk reduction through safer sex, I wassought after because the panic, felt overrode their problems with having a gay
man speak on anything. I was perceived
as someone who had information for thecommon good.
It's of note that. I
haven't been invited onto a college campus in 18 months.
SP: At a time when it's being
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people were willing to acknowledge ...
}Pi I think the entire society is in a
mammoth state of ,denial and has fallenback on ItSworst defenses, People havegras~d hold of the media overplay ofAZf thinking, "Oh, we have the pill so
why worry?" They take solace in the
comforting words about making AIDS achronic condition and not a deadly disease, All of which flies smack in theface of reality. It also goes back to theinitial. primitive assumption tqat there
are risk groups and only the risk groups
need wO.tryabout this. In the last weeks
the head 'of the World Health Organization .S,tood. up and said, "We're going tolose ,'thls.'battle because of complacency.;' Giving to AIDS organizations hast~ken;a qosedive, We're no longer able
to provide the basic services we used toand ~ri~numbers continue to grow. But, th~ CQmplacency is our's too. Recently,
there was ~ report of sudden, drastic
increases' in anal gonorrhea in Seattle,
Wastiihgt~m. ·That is terrifying, There is
an aSsumption that gay men know allthat ttiey need to about safer sex, whichis 'belie4 by every 19 or 20-year-old I see
who'tests positive because he committed
unsafe ~cts. The commitment to education al'>.c!~t·.~;rualityand sexual behavior
needs,
be a total, lifelong commitment
and i~hasn't been,. SP:\I know from my own experience. ~ a I~bian that that's true. I called
up a.safe sex hotline looking for informatibl'l, wanting to know what was permissible and what wasn't. I had a pretty
good idea; but wanted to hear it from an"authority.", A woman answered thepftomLa,nd 'before I got two words out
she said, "He'll have to wear a condom."
I answered, ."Well, he's ashe," and it sortof dete.rior!ltC~d' from there, It's very
frighteril!1&'~cause even if you're willing to take the ihitiative to be educated,
there are barriers_to education.
JP:' I wrote a book for NAL called
Safe Se::Jf.~'newspaper'.in Maine sent a
writef'to interview me even though I am,
considered dangerous. or at least exotic
beyond 'belief, by lots of the publishingcommunity ~ Maine. the guy came inand vJas ,vjslbly;upset. He began by saying, "I need- to tell you that when yourbook 'c~fueinto the office it was treatedlike 'a .dirty joke and this assignment
didn't fare much better," He had readthe bodk aqd ~id that after he got overhis discomfort wid} the overtly pornographic'descriptions, it dawned on him

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that it was about saving lives. He added
So, stupidly, I went through thiS elabothat he was proud to be doing the inter- rate process to become a Maine state
touring artist and it included having toview, But, I don't think those moments
give a reading to the commisSion, I readstill occur, The barriers are going up,
That doesn't mean we stop. I think the the epilogu.e to Franny, my statement offact that Personal Dispatches exists, for what it means to be a gay writer. I was
example, is a defi~nt statement by the halfway through when I realized that thisauthors. It says, "This, did happen, We statement was utterly incomprehensible
have paid attention. We have, lived."
to the group of straight men and women
SP: You must certainly believe in I was addreSSing, I was really struck by
defiant statements and the power of that because a part of me says that literawriting. You've written or edited aboutture is specific and that the way to"the.
universal is through the specific. But
20 books, including Franny, the Queenof Provincetown and the Master series.
we're taken so unseriously as gay artists
that no one can find the universal in
How do you see these different works
what we're saying, Perhaps, that's our
feeding off one another?
JP: The one thing that's very clear fault. Perhaps, I'm so vernacular! that I
to me, and it's'hard to explain to othercan never get out of this audience,.
I have another, small grant frompeople, is the extent to which these area whole. I don;t feel schizie about it at the Maine Arts Commission that ~lIows
all. I want to be totally pretentious andme to work 'as the writer in res\~etlce
say that it has been a real struggle to be at the AIDS Project in Portland.
Ia pornographer in our society and to get applied for it and received it under aany respect for it. I have demanded of certain set of assumptions, I diO now
see they were fascile assumptiOns,
myself that I write good pornography
and I have also been defiant about the although I don't mean to put the comfact that I will be taken seriously as a mission down on this one. They
writer. I have stood by that and haveseemed t9believethat fine poetry
paid dues for that, but I think I havewould come from this grant work, as I
won. I do, however, consider it the great would be working with people in thetragedy of my life that I cannot get the midst of 'the crisis, people who werestuff published anywhere anymore. At sufferingin this epidemic.
What I
least, not with any iota of dignity that I (~und was something close to illiteracy,
would demand as a writer.
jf not true illiteracy then cultural illiterSP: One of the ways that gay writ- acy. I was staggered by how few peoing has been accepted, and I don't think , pie feel they have the right to write;
lesbians have been allowed this yet, is the extent to which writing has becomeby being white, university-educated gay something for a rare class of people.
writing. W.H. Auden, Edmund White
Rather than working on people's poetand David Leavitt are a few names that ry, I was having to help people write
shoot to mind. They are prized by the letters. The most common request
mainstream in a way that the vernacularcomes from people who are terminal
will never be.
who want to leave a record, a footprint
JP: I think what you're talking
in the sand. When their time comes,
about is gay men who are so polished,
they turn to writing even thoughthat they can't be denied by the
they've felt totally disenfranchised fromacademe. And let me say that I do
writing the rest of their lives.
admire much of their work, but the
The first time this happened, it waslove of the academe
is extremelywith a father who desperately wanted toseductive. I think I speak to and for an leave behind a letter to his son. He wantaudience that other people don't. My ed the son to have something that proved
audience is vital to me and the intensethat his father had loved him, It was too
populism from I work. One of thehorrible, tqo beautiful and too hard tothings I get from living in Maine is begin With, but was made even more sobeing with that audience.
because the father was 19. I almost needI just got very angry with the Maine ed something like that to prove to' me
Arts Commission, I discovered that in how important writing is, ...
order to get this grant to work with
PWAs, they had to waive my designation John Preston will be reading at the lesas an artist. It turns out that only Maine bian and Gay Community Center onstate artists are eligible for grant money.
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Lest you think that the National Enquirer, in whose pages these headlines recently appeared, has finallygone off the deep end, let me assure you that these are actual incidents in the eventful life of journalisttumed-scandalist Geraldo Rivera.
Rivera has also had his nose busted by white supremacist skinheads (on camerC;l),and, according to theEnquirer, was ambushed by the Viet Cong In Cambodia. River", will tell all In a soon-to-be-released autobiography (volume one of several Is my guess).
-I just didn't care about my own life. I only cared about the story," the Enquirer quotes Rivera as saying.
I know just what he means.
'
Why, Just last week I spent an hour on the phone with the press office at the national headquar:ters of theAssemblies of God Church In Springfield, Missouri, read the Native, covered an ACT UP meeting from start tofinish and attended a GMHC press luncheon: pasta salad again.
A reporter's life is truly dangerous.
Just walt until I write my life story.
- Andrew Miller

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Photos by Erich Conrad

VERYDODGEY
Donald GJ,!karda somewhere or other

WHO? ME?
Madame Plcklewlnker at the WorldNOT NOW, I HAVE A HEADACHE
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PAINT BY NUMBERS?
Julian Schnabel at BAM

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Billy Erb at Candyland
THERE'S NO PLACE UKE HOME
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HUSTLE WITH MY MUSCLE
East Berlin's Kim at Red Zone

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oJarBrad:,.
I Something terrible happened andI tpink I'm going to lose my mind
from worrying about it. About two
Idays ago I found out

IDear Readers:I have decided that we shall not
di~uss other people's problems thisweek. Instead, I wish to tell you aboutso~ethingthat happened
to me.
Circumstances (the details of which are
unifIlportanO compelled me to go byRockefeller Plaza one day last week. I
waS feeling almost happy- primarily
due to the fresh, sharp Arctic snap in
the 'air which always takes me back tothose simpler times in the old country,-when I turned the corner at 49th
Street and was confronted by that
endrmous Christmas tree, that fell
reminder of the evil season which has
more or less officially begun. Afterallowing myself a few moments of bitter reflection (What manner of humanbeing would shatter a young person's
trust so callously and completely? Whatmanner of SOCiety conspires so efficiently and relentlessly year after year
after year to mock this dark memory?)
I re~lized, with weary resignation, that
the Itime has once again come to put"Operation Bradley" into effect.

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OF

M y,:!(~'".,H ANDSBRADLEYBALL
For the benefit of those readers
who may be unfamiliar with this column; I will explain. (For the rest ofyou, no explanation should be necessary by now. You know what needs
to be done, so go do it. You canalways come back later and read thelittle box on the corner of this page.
I'm sure it's very funny.) "Operation
Bradley" was started eight years ago
as a way to provide relief from thesocially enforced "jolliness" of theseason and to claim the holidays forourselves by creating our own special
brand of merriment. At its heart, infact, this "Operation" is really all
about outreach, which I'm told by my,experts is quite essential to the community-however
one chooses toconstrue that term-so
there is anaggregate benefit.
First, examine your circle offriends-if you don't have any, makesome for the time being (they're only
strangers you haven't met yet, if that's
possible)-determine
who might bein the happiest relationship--or any
relationship at all, the quality, as is sooften the case these days, hardly matters--and then wreck it. It's thal simple. In fact, the operation can behandily executed with just some redconstruction paper, a pair of scissors,a jar of library paste and any old magazine (use this one if you want but
only after you've read all the articles),Even a 25 cent telephone call can do
the trick, if placed at the proper timeto the proper party,
You may, of course, choose to
make it more complicated; I leaveelaboration and extra~gance entirely
up to your discretion. Past participants have told me that it's sometimes
more fun, and therefore more satisfying, to work in teams. In fact, judging
from my readers' responses,
theinherent possibilities are so vast thatjust considering them all is far moreentertaining than having to compile a
shopping list. One person, for example, wrote to say that before she
became involved with "Operation
Bradley," she hadn't reaIlzed how
crammed the month of December
was with social functions, each ofwhich presents its own unique andfascinating array of opportunities.
"The acts of sending out greetingcards and exchanging gifts have beentranscended
above dreary season
obligations," exclaimed another reader, "now that they have been invested
with a larger, and yet subtler, purpose!" ''I'd always dreamed of sleeping with my best friend's lover andthanks to 'Operation Bradley' that,dream became a reality," said yet one
more formerly cheerless person.
And those are but three of thecountless, gleeful letters I've received
in ever-increasing numbers every year
since "Operation Bradley" came into
being. I won't even begin to takecredit for its abundant success. The
concept, of course, was entirely mine
but anybody can, and usually does,
have a concept. No, it's you, dear
readers, who are responSible, throughyour whole-hearted participation, formaking my dream become a reality,
Bless you all and don't forget to letme know how it goes this year.... 'TI

By Michelangelo Signorile

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Grace
s
Mirabella insane? Or did
she simply attend the Liz
SmithIDaily News School of Liesand Disinformation All For the Sakeof Doing Favors For People Who Are
Important In the World of Power
Mongers?
I think it's the latter. See, in thecurrent issue of Mirabella, Gracie
has a little puff piece on the Design
Industries Foundation
for AIDS(DIFFA), in which it says-BRACEYOURSELVES!-"So while the dollar
figures are impressive, increased,awareness is one of DIFFA's great
accomplishments,
Last month,
Manhattan socialite Pat Buckley
cochaired Skating For Life, a~DIFFA
benefit that could eventually raise$1 million for the foundation. It
wasn't too long ago that her husband, columnist William F. Buckley,
was calling for all HIV-positives to be
tattooed, concentration-campstyle.
AIDS education has come a long way,over the last few years, and DIFFA
deserves a lion's share of the credit."
Oh, reallyi You mean William F.
Buckley has changed? You mean thatsince Pat is doing AIDS benefits itmeans that her husband is not homophobic
anymore?
EARTH TOGRACE..,EARTH TO GRACE... COME
IN PLEASE.JUST ABOUT A MONTH
AND A HALF AGO-TWOWEEKSBEFORE THE BENEFIT-WILLIAM F.
BUCKLEY CALLED AIDS A SELFINFLICfED DISEASE BROUGHT ON
BY "SEX-DRIVENGAYS" AND "DOPE
ADDICTS." IT WAS WRITTEN UP
FROM HERE TO KINGDOM COME,
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THE BENEFIT. PAT BUCKLEY,IN ALL
HER UGLINESS, WAS DRAGGED
THROUGH THE MUD ONLY TO
WIND UP AS THE LEAD ITEM ON
PAGE SIX IN THE NEW YORK POST
WITH THE HEADLINE, "THE GAY
WAR AGAINST PAT BUCKLEY." Butyou knew all that, Gracie. This was
yet another attempt at white-washing
the circumstances and-inline withyour good friend Liz Smith(Daily
News)-making dear old Pat look simply wonderful.
It was only twomonths ago when we said that Pat
Buckley'S efforts all seemed like a calculated attempt at good public relations for her maniac husband. Somethought this idea kind of far-fetched.
But, dear friends, the above Mirabella
item appears to explain exactly what
we're talking about.
But let's get back to Liz. Oh, let's!
She's been going off the deep end

herself lately, doing outlandish things,
and making a complete ass of herself.
Of course, we love when she makes
an ass of herself. It gives us something
to write about.
In her Daily News column, Liz
Smith spent the past couple of weeks:$.. ""_'.. 1_1_'1) kissing Tina Brown's (Vanity Fair)
and Anna Wintour's (Vogue) asseSj 2)
meeting Marily~ Quayle at a dinner
and worshipping
the ground she
walks
on when
only a year
ago-before
the election and before
they could invite her to a lot of BIG
parties-she was ripping the Quayles
to piecesj 3) me<::tingMike Tyson andworshipping the ground he walks onwhen only a year ago Liz was practically calling him a wife-beater (shesure does get star struck once shemeets these idiots)j 4) Letting her
racism once again rear its ugly headby attacking the Japanese for buying
Hollywood film companies and, at
one point, actually trying to imply thatat least American film titans and companies have the American people inmind. Hal
Then there was Liz's appearance
on A Current Affair when they asked
for her to comment on Sandra
Bernhard's and Madonna's relationship. Our juices began flowing!
Asking Liz Smith to comment 'about
lesbianism!
It was like )lsking
Mother Teresa to comment about
the nunhood! But, of course, Liznever used the "L" word, anddownplayed the relationship as a"tease",while Michael Musto(Village Voice) pointed out thatthough the two may not be muffing
with each other, Sandra does havea girlfriend, wh~m she told him
about in Spin. At the end of thereport, supreme homophobe Cindy
Adams (New York Post) put the icing
on the cake: "[Sandra and Madonna}
were lin L.A.}at a bar called Muse andthey left with ten women who all
looked like truck driyers-but I'm not
one to say." ...

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Dr. Charles Franchino
30 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10011
212.673.4331
office hours by B.ppointment
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by Liz 1

John Cardinal O'Connor has
another brilliant Idea.
In his personal, political and holy
war against any control we have left
over what we do with our bodies (letalone when, with who and how
often), O'Connor feels he (and hence
Catholicism as a whole) needs to be"more aggressive"In the fight for abolIshment of abortion. He hassuggested
a new order of nuns, the "Sisters oflife," to protect and defend "the livesof the unbom."I'll come right out and say It: I
have a love/hate relationship withnuns. Actually, It's more of a lust/fearthing. I went to Catholic school for
one year, The only reason I got to get
out of the Seventh Circle of Hellcalled Our Lady of The Cenacle was
because I was asked to leave. The primary reason for this pOlite expulsion
was that I had slapped my teachingnun, Sister Joan had spanked me In
front of my entire first grad class:overher knee, little Carter's underweararound my ankles, the whole horriblenightmare. I hadn't sat down when I
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She's not struggling very hard, but starIng at me. She hissesat me:"I know what you women are like.
I know what you want. ""How would you know anything
about It, Sister?""I used to be like that. But now
I've found my calling, I've been a Sisterof Ufe for two years,""It's just like a bicycle, Sister. You
never forget how, Or how good it
feels, Do you, Sister?"I pull off her hat and run my hands

through her hair. She looks like Kelly
McGillis, I look at her eyes, her cheekbones, the swell of her breasts underneath her habit. She moans:"No, no, I've been so good!""I know, But I'm so much better ...""Oh God, yes...take me..."(Oh God, I feel like going to confession now,)
Just remember this: There havebeen other orders of nuns founded
for single purposes, But those were
mostly for ple9sure, T

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for her. Hence my reluctance to sit
down,'
So here I am, 16 years later. Mary
Jane has grown up, Is married and has
two kids, and I have this bizarre nun
fetish that forces me to watch bad
German lesbian nun-sex films with
unintelligible dialogue, no subtitles
and fake Artaud sets a la "Jeanne
D'Arc,",As I was thinking about the "Sisters of Life," and Imagining this bandof tough, young nuns, my mind started wandering:
It is an Operation Rescue demonstration, I'm counterdemonstrating.
I'm late. I wander towards the chantIng, but get lost. As I approach thisdoor In an alleyway, a tall woman In
black commando nun garb comesshooting out from behind me and flips
me to the ground. We struggle, Shetries to get my hands behind my backand handcuff me, I flip her overinstead and handcuff her hands
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TheaterJust the Facts

ARE YOU NOW OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN ...
Megan Gallagher, Mark Nelson and Tom Hulce
drama revolving around the trial of
two Marines-one
Black,
onewhit~accusedof killing an Hispanic
member of their unit in the course of"disciplining" him for conduct not
worthy of a Marine (this irony is not
by Michael Paller
touched on until the last two minutesof the play). The Marines, played byVictor Love and Michael Dolan, areacts" come at us fromreluctant to tell the entire truth about
every direction and in the episode to their Navy lawyer,
every form in A Few
Daniel Kaffee (Tom Hulce), because
Good Men, by Aaron Sorkin. They
doing so would violate the Marine
appear as exposition, as testimony, as code instructing them that the Corps
confession. The "how" and the "what" , is more important than their country
are exhaustively explored, but Sorkin or the Constitution (a position not
has in his busyness, left out the more commented on at all). Kaffee himself
important "why." He throws such a is reluctant to take the case to trial.
strong spotlight on the externals of He'd prefer to plea bargain, but isthe crime at hand that the inner work- eventually goaded into pursuing theings of the accused and of the system case by Navy lawyer Joanne Galloway
within which they exist remain in the (Megan Gallagher).
dark-and we, at the end, are unilluIn the course of events, Kaffeeminated.
runs up against the bunker mentality
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by the base comman~er
Jessep (Stephen Lang) andtheunit
commander
Kendrick (Ted Marcoux).
This being a commercial
play, none of our basic
assumptions about the military are questioned, andneither is the notion of justice which eventually prevails.
The appeal of courtroom dramas lays in their
reducing everything to "thefacts": Who did what towhom, when. Life is boiled
down to a simple narrativeof heroes, villains, c1earcut
explanations
and tidily
wrapped up endings. The
characters are types whobehave according to our
expectations, and after amodicumof suspense,things end pretty much theway we suspected
theywould. The audience issent home feeling that,after a temporary aberration, all is well, and that
we can sleep safely in ourbeds once more.
As for questions as to why somepeople join the Marines (many ofwhom are minorities whose country
has never stomached fighting forthem), why they believe so fervently
in their code and are willing to live a
Iife based on total obedience-in
short, why they live the life they
do-well, this is Broadway, and we
don't ask those questions here.
If only Sorkin had worked
against our expectations now andthen. Jessep, for example, is a monster, an easy target for our contempt.
But what if he seemed a reasonable
man, one who could convince anUpper West Side liberal that the deathof one unfit Hispanic Marine didn't
matter? What if the battery of defense
lawyers were less interested in thetruth than in their careers? What if
came away thinking that the Jesseps
are the norm, not the exceptions? The
play would have been less mechanf:.

we

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TheaterDrag Liftby Maria Maggenti

I

have been noticing
a verycreepyand sinisterphenomenon lately. If a club spaceis designated as gay male thenit will inevitably be populated,indescendingorder, with gay men,straight couples and a sprinkling of
lesbians. If a space is defined as lesbian or women-only you are sure tofind all lesbians, one or two gay men
and no straight couples. This rule ofthumb for queer nightlife now also
seems relevant to theater. If it's lesbian or women's theater (WOW Cafe
Productions, Split Britches TheaterCompany) the audience will be populated with lesbians, straight womenand maybe, a couple of curioUs fags,
But if it's gay-boy theater, including
and especially if drag is involved, theaudiences' increasingly look like this:straight couples, some gay men and
one dyke who is on the prowl for
new theater so she can finally write
some positive reviews.
This last scenario was the case
Friday night at the Cooper Square
Theaters production of Nose Job (SheHad to Model) starring William Love(alias Jasmine Allspice). The play is alight and witty frolic through themany campy misadventures of Miss
Tara FeJchberger, proud graduate of
the Barbizon School of Modeling, as
she enters the dog-eat-dog world ofhigh fashion modeling. For those who
frequent
the Pyramid,
JasmineAllspice will seem warmly familiar.
This theater space is a bit more conducive to carrying a narrative story fora full 60 minutes, though, and the castrises well to this challenge. The plot Is
simple: after graduating from the
Barblzon School of Modeling, Tara

FeJchberger enters the concrete
jungle with the naive hope that
she will get her first modelingjob in ten minutes, She is convinced by a sleazy agency-type
to spend $2,000 cash on a nose
job, pays the money to a creep
wearinga blood-spattered
white jacket who uses D-CON
roach killer as anaesthesia andgets her nose thwacked with amonkey wrench. We don't get
to see the results until later, butthey are guaranteed to provoke
an astonishedguffaw. Undaunted by this experience,
Tara's dream of magaZine cover BRUCE WEBER HAD NOTHING ON THIS BROglory only intensifies as she KEN NOSE, William Lon a.k.a, Jasmine
romps from suburban teenage Allspice a,k,a, Tara Fell;hberger
innoc.ence to sleazy urban wisPhoto: Michael Wakefield
dom, On the way she meets up
is really all about?
with the predictable cast of colorful
Without a sense of irony, dragcharacters and rip-off artists, thoughsinks to the level of a freak show
they all have a decidedly downtown
allowing its straight consumers thedrag/camp edge to them. There's the
comfortable opportunity to reassure
zaftig telephone
sex solicitor, athemselves that men in dresses arecocaine and sex crazed photographer,a couple of evil models (I could havenothing but circus faggots whosesworn I met them at Wigstock) and astockings and lipstick should be relegated to the stage of a dark downWhiskey-A-Go-Go promoter who ultimately saves her life.
town theater, but who, seen in the
The story isn't as compelling as
light of day, serve as nothing but ablaZing target for hatred and violence.
the (dare I say it?) Amazonian presence of William Love who wears the
For those of us who are lesbian andmany mannerisms and emotions ofgay, the theatrical and artistic creTara FeJchberger as comfortably andations of our subculture not only
as smoothly as Jackie O. wore herserve to differentiate us from mainpillbox hats. Love's character is comstream culture, but give us a sense ofbination girlish naivete and girlish
our own uniqueness and astonishingmoxie and the result is more than astrength in the face of adversity. For
few good laughs. The rest of the castthose outside of gay culture, genderis heartily enthusiastic
and funny
fuck should do more than simply
including the person who manages
entertain-it
should provoke, enrage
the lighting (the lights rise and dim as
and threaten its viewers with the posthough animated) and the live piano
sibility that life as they know it is perplayer whose goofy score interrupts
haps nothing but an oppressive andand enlivens the wackiness of theugly illusion. Nose Job (She Had towhole piece. Overall, it is charming
Model) treads too lightly here, but
and humorous, although remarkably
even if it doesn't scare off big old
unbitchy. And, isn't bitchiness, thestraight guys and their idiotic giggly
angry and unapologetic testing of the
girlfriends, it does make for a fun
straight world's categories of mascuevening of campy delights. (Or should
I say spicy?)~. .
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Film

Is There a Place for Gaysin the Hollywood Fam:Uy?
by Bruce C Steele

their worlds so narrowly that gays arecompletely excluded, nonexistent. A
New York State court may haven the recent spate of Hollywood
asserted that gay lovers make up a
movies about parenting, there
legitimate family, but the news hasn't
are but two references to homoreached Hollywood,sexuality-both~~~;i,::::;f!X:''''_'_'~''''~'i:~Of cou?se, homosextimes as the butt of the' , '"", ;'wm'Jit~,.
ual characters have neversame joke, In Look Wbds'" " '*
had more than a rare ~md
Talking, the grandmothrarefied role' in mainer-to-be (Olympia Dukastream cinema, There'skis) says sarcastically that
presumed to be no market
artificial insemination isfor movies compassionate
something done only by
towards gays, After all, it
women who are "verywas a big deal when Kiss
ugly or lesbian,Theof the Spider Woman (not"joke" is that her daugha Hollywood
product)ter (Kirstie Alley) is as
grossed about $20 million
likely to be a lesbian as
during its half a' year in
she is likely to berelease, Look Wbds Talkthought very ugly-how
ing has made four times
absurd! (laugh laugh),that much in less than six
But the ugliness belongs,. 'weeks. Yet, now that theentirely to Amy Hecker- SAY CHEE~Y. .
Photo. Pete Souza family ·problem" picture
ling, the writer-director, Hollywood s HappIest Huddle
has moved from the TV
who bulls her way through thisacter stands in for the mOViegoers networks into the theaters, tacklingsmash-hit comedy by playing up to Heckerling has so accurately targeted. such ticklish subjects as sterility, sen ilithe most base assumptions of theThree other current Hollywood ty and unwed motherhood, the continaverage audience. The audience was movies demonstrate similar pro-family uing failure to admit the existence ofabout haH children
when I sat concerns. Immediate Family, Dad ten percent· of the populationisthrough the picture; some of themand last summer's Parenthood, define
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thbught the lesbian joke was quite ahoot Heckerling herself finds the gag
so clever she repeats it later, in thefirst scene with John Trav,ol,ta,,that living dinosaur from the disco epoch
whose stupid but well meaning char~

December 10, 1989pMusicDefO'umb &Readyi .

(~by Mark Chesnut
I don',t like flashbacks in movies
I like the story to proceed
I don't like talking' abour-the 'blddays!

Except if it tells where the future
will lead-"The End of the Run"'

perform at The World acouple of weeks ago.
I was actually surprised
when they announcedathird New York show had
been added on Sunday,
November 12, I was uncertain as to how much drawing power she still had. But
the crowd packed into The
World on Friday proved thatshe still has a solid core offollowers, particularly in the
East Village, where Blondie
got its start at CBGB's.
It was quite a big deal
to see a living icon from myyouth on stage. Deborah
Harry made a very unpretentious
entrance to the stage with her band,
which includes her former life partnerand con!inuing business partner, Chris
Stein. They broke immediately into
"The Hunter Gets Captured by theGame," a song written by Smokey
Robinson that Blondie had covered intheir final album The Hunter. An interesting, slow, moody song to open with,which most people probably thought
was a cover of Gr:aceJones' hit.

The pace picked up as they faithfully performed almost all of Blondie's
top 40 hits. We also heard seven songs
from Deborah's
new album, Def
Dumb & Blonde, ranging from the
pop bounciness of "I Want That Man"
(written by the Thompson Twins) toan engaging, funky "Get Your Way,"in which Deborah Harry raps once
again (even better now than she didin "Rapture," the song that, like it ornot, was the first rap cut to ever reachwhite middle-America).
.The group made a smooth transition from the poppier sounds ofsongs like "The Tide is High" to acomplementary
post punk sessionthat included new headbangers like
"Bike Boy" and "Comic Books."
Deborah added to the ambience bybiting the petals off several ros¢s andspilling them out at the crowd, atwhich point I couldn't help smashing
my friends' heads several times as I
bounced up and down like an insane
straight person on West 8th Street.
,
The two encores included a'cover of Lou Reed's "Waiting for theMan" plus "Call Me" and "French
See HARRY on page 65'w

here have you
been?"
ArsenioHall asked repeatedly in his interview recently with
Deborah Harry, revealing that he obviously had not done his homework,
Deborah Harry has been around, it's
just been harder to keep track of her.
Since Blondie broke up in 1982,
Deborah has worked through several
films, television appearances, commercials, single releases and two albums,
i And while much of her activity has, gone unnoticed by the masses, her
new album and tour is an attempt tocorrect that pattern, and I must admit
it was an exciting occasion to see her

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Art

Witness This

emptied of personal belongings-possibly at his parents' house in the emptied room of his childhood-andoneof a thank you card (from friends?
biological family?).
Hujar's (1934-1987) Mack and white
Continuing on the photo front,
photographs denote with every line
David Armstrong's various portraits
and shadow, the various levels of life. amaze with their emotion
andWhile capturing the sexuality andexpression. While beautifully stylbeauty of his subjects, he does not doized, Armstrong allows his subjects,
this at the expense of their otherindividuals at the frontlines of the
by Jon Nalley
deeper qualities. Philip-Lorca Di
AIDS crisis, to speak for themselves,
Corcia's selectedektacolorandslapping the viewers with their very
polaroid prints can be said to reprereality, One can sense their various
he controversy surrounding
sent various rites of passage in terms
interfacing levels of denial, coping
the funding of'and survival., Speaking of
Wit n e sse s :slapping, Mark Morrisroe's
Against Our Vanishing(1959-1989)
exhibitedby the National Endowworks are intense and at
ment for the Arts rings
times unpleasant. An upwith Shakespearean resoper middle class, suburban
nances. For most New
woman standing next to 'York viewers the exhibiher husband
remarkedtion is quite tame, nothabout them, "That's. mind
ing that one wouldn't see
boggling."
Not exactlyor hear in the streets.
boggled, his various por"Much Ado About Notraits, self-portraits
andthing?" That Artists Space"".In
the Hom~ of a
was granted $10,000 for
Rubber Fetishist"werethe show, but not for thepiercingly
fascinating.
catalog, is interesting in
Almost an accelerated
that the show contains
Picture of Dorian Gray,
the kind of homoerotic
Morrisroe's photos take us
work bannedby thethrough unencumbered,Helms Amendment while
exuberant beauty and sexthe catalog does not. But
uality to emaciated degrawhy the furor when adation and loss of dignity.
much more controversial
Particularly beautiful is his
exhibition called Upris"Self Portrait in the showing: Videotapes on theer." Accompanying
his
Palestinian Resistancework is Ramsey McPhillip's
goes on downstairs
atdisturbing 1989 multimedia
Artists Space with NEA" ', ..,,'.,.
".
.. piece about Morrisroe,
funding? A "Comedy of SELFPORTRAITAFTERPHOTOGRAPHBYROBERTMAPPLETHORPE,"Am I Dead Yet?"
Errors" anyone?
1989,INK ~N PAPER
The work of David
Above and beyond Darrel Ellis
Wojnarowicz, confiationary
that, however, much of the workof AIDS. The first colorful and whimin use of image and text strikes hardpulled together by exhibition curator 'sical photo of a person sitting in his with political fury, a fury that hit too
Nan Goldin is quite powerful-so
cluttered apartment wearing "downclose to the yellow home of NEA
powerful, in fact, that it can be diffi- town clothes," captures life on one's
chairmanJohn E. Frohnmeyer.
cult to look at and assimilate. At the own before AIDS dissolves it. The
Wojnarowicz puts it on the line in hissame time, much of it exhibits a dis- next print, "Vittorio," brilliantly con- 'Connective representation of the realiembodied quality. Witnesses, whileveys the borderline between deathty of AIDS, money and the intersecdaunting in its array of media, is par- (the emaciated PWA on life support)tion of race and class privilege in theticularly strong in regards to photogand colored balloons representing
plight of poor and minority PWAs
raphy.
life. Concluding the set is a photo of a seeking AZf from big-city clinics, theThe stark, graphic detail of Peter person in a sterile room not his own,
only option for the less fortunate.

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Text in this artist's collage juxtaposes
the ravings of the Right about "carriers' and its desired suppression ofsexuality with unapologetic discourseon cruising, fucking, sucking and various expressions of homosex. In thiswork, with its aerJal view of lower
Manhattan, there are two enemie£viruses attacking
our individual
immune systems and riot-geared
police attacking our community. His
concluding work, with intermingling
sperm cells and money, is a thundering manifesto denouncing SOCiety'S
homophobia and hatred which castigates the refusal by Republicans in
Albany to approve
the Antibias
Crimes Bill,"Permeable
Membranes,')0
Shane's 1989 mixed media aS$emblage is a walk on the dark side of
the AIDS epidemic. With its two metal
hospital bedside tables, blood vials,
urn, memorial chapel parcel andmushroom-shaped photo representations of friends affected, "Membranes·
genuinely represents the ugliness ofpeople being consumed by AIDS. A
companion piece to a work in The
Quilt, in memory of "the many thousands of women disappeared
with
AIDS,· Kiki Smith's 1989 silkscreen on
muslin "All Our Sisters· conveys thevery numbers and suifering ~of t~.Osewomen, all too ignored in the epidemic's equation, Particularly powerful is the hanging paper body whichhovers as a "presence of absence likethe many souls of my community
dead from AIDS alive in [mel.'
Allen Frame's exploration of acontinuum of gay sensil;>ility overtime and situations stands out as ahistorical document, as weB as storytelling. The 1989 series of six c-prints
by Clarence Elie-Rivera from "Sofie yMaralin" to "Beso para EI Sobrino"
lays the mystique of and response to
AIDS in the Latino communities at
our feet The subject1!, ranging from adrag queen to a young child, arenotablefor their emotionsofendurance. The very transient andisolated nature of American society,with or Without AIDS, is aptly captured in Sheelburne Thurber'S Motelseries, The motel rooms in theseektacolor prints convey the finality ofthe spaces in Thurber's life, a life left

empty by AIDS,
A representation of a bridge tonowhere and its textural impact elicit
the spiritual quality in Tom Chesley's
oil on canvas "Time for Communion
II.· Greer Lankton's series of mixedIl)edia works are, meanwhile, a powerful comment on the transitory andfragile nature of our bodie£-a condition made abundantly clear by AIDS.

TI

The eight untitled marker drawings by
Vito Scarpati (1955-1989) are brilliantly reminiscent of historical depictionsof the plague and Europe's barbaric
response, a metaphor particularly
consistent with the AIDS crisis in the
United States. His large untitled 1989
crayon drawing can, on the other
hand, be seen in terms of an individuSee WITNESSESDeCember 10, 1989

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VideoHere's a Story of Some
Lovely .Ladies ...

by Wickie Stamps

Remember when, laden down with makeshift
props and impromptu scripts, the women's
movement spilled into the streets and took an
artful guerilla theater swing at the Right? They'd prance forpassers-by, mug for the press (if they could grab theirattention) and thumb their noses at the self-righteous Right.
In Its a Lezzie Life, a 30-minute "dyke-umentary," producer
Ingrid Wilhite continues this legacy of comical parody,
although this time the zany pot shots are aimed at ourselves rather than the establishment.
Ingrid Wilhite, who grew up among Jerry Falwell followers, is no stranger to comic gay/lesbian filmmaking. In
fact, she's a longstanding "fan of slapstick humor." Barely
irito puberty, she was hollering "lights, camera, action" andturning her camera onto right-wing fundamentalists. Her
first "homo movies" were Fruit Salad and Fruit Cocktail.
"The main star was my drag queen friend, who would
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imagine what a scandal I was!" claims Wilhite. Taking
leave of the bible belt, Wilhite went on to train as afilmmaker and produced Fun with a Sausage, a genderbender lesbian spoof which, in 1984, won the "BestSuper 8" at the San Francisco Interrptional Gay andLesbian Film Festival.
In Its a Lezzie Life, which originally debuted at the1988 San Francisco International Gay and Lesbian Film
Festival and is now available for distribution, Wilhite isback with slapstick situation comedy as well as her "sadsack" star who first appeared in Fun with a Sausage.
Set in-where
else but-San
Francisco, Ifs a
Lezzie Life zooms into the lives of four lesbian roomies
who are daffy caricatures of very conflicting dyke
lifestyles. There's beer swilling Lee, the butch militaryenlistee who just arrived home from some military
exercise. She just wants to drink her brewskies, zoneout on the football game or cruise her roomie's newest'chick. Only when she's moved by a need to "take awhiz" will she pry herself from her sedentary ways. Then
there is Ova, the overbearing politico, who is always on
the lookout for some unsuspecting victim she can strongarm with her moralistic diatribes. Next, you'll bump into
snooty Mistress Judith, the total fern slm dyke who sleeps
with a foofy eye mask. Dressed by day like a school
marm, at nightfall she's transformed into a dominant
swathed in leather, lace and latex. Last but not least is
Ingrid, the newly-out midwestern nerd. She's a total mess.
Periodically, she falls prey to well-meaning Mistress Judith
who, in an effort to fern up Ingrid's look, paints her facewith garish makeup,
From the first clang of the alarm, these four come out
swinging. All are cO'ntending for which politics, look andlifestyle will rule their roost. Between her endless meetings, Ova relentlessly pounces on her peers for their"bourgeoisie power trips" or reams out Coors-drinking
Lee, Lee is a street brawler' who spends an inordinate
amount of time belching defiantly or flipping Ova thebird. Mistress Judith pins her opponents with her scathing
glances or slices them open with her razor sharp tongue.
Ingrid just mopes.
No corner of lesbian turf is sacred. Whether standingin line for the bathroom or passing in the hallways, these
lezzies spat over a million burning issues: lesbians in the
military, violence against women, monogamy, eachother's eating habits. Ova gets it good though when she
See LEZZIE LIFE on page 64

VideoPaper, Sciss9rs, Rockand a Hard Placeby Peter Bowen

W

hile the majority of
AIDS education continues to target an
amorphous "general public," AIDSFILMS, a not-for-profit
production
company, has recently produced aseries of educational AIDS videos
which specifically acknowledge thesocial and culturaldifferences

which constitute communities (inthis case, Latina women, AfricanAmerican
womenand AfricanAmerican male youth). Conceivedof and produced by people fromthose communities, these videos are
aimed at the individuals most drastically affected by and most direly inneed of educational material about
the AIDS crisis. Although they might
receive a television broadcast, they
are specifically intended for use by
needy organizations and come witha discussion
handbookwhichenables viewers to locate their personal experiences in the artful narrative of each video.
As with most educational material, the format is intentionally formulaic. In acknowledging the very real
existence of AIDS about them, characters grapple with culturally reinforced fears about AIDS in order toultimately work out individual strategies to cope with the AIDS crisis. In
Vida, Elsie Qeanette Toro) is fright-

ened even to name the illness devastating her 'friend, Blanca (Millie
Cupeles). She is finally persuaded byher friend, Lucy (Sandra Paulino), to
confront her denial and insist that
her boyfriend wear a condom. In Are
You With Me?, two African-American
women-a mother, Evelyn (Gwen M.
Coleman), and her daughter, Aiysha(Kalimi Baxter)-force
each other toacknowledge the need to insist on
protection with their male lovers.
And, finally in Seriously Fresh, agroup of young African-American
guys take time out from basketballpractice in order to hesitantly consider their own risk of HIV inf~ction
after learning that their friend andmentor Kenny (Richard Barboza) has
developed AIDS.
While each video is unambiguously didactic, each creates enoughambiguity to stir up questions anddiscussions. In Are You With Me?, forexample,it is entirely
unclearwhether the mother will insist that
her longstanding boyfriend wear thecondom which she has, with a certain reservation, brought with her on
her date. Seriously Fresh raises thedifficult issue of same-sex behavior
when Billy (Malik Yoba) confesses
that he might be at risk from fuckingaround with other boys, although thevideo does not connect such activity
with a "gay" identity. Much to his
credit, the executive
director of
AIDSFILMS,John Hoffman, ~as produced a series of videos which do
not presume to tell people how todeal with AIDS. Rather, these stories
hold out the hope of empowering
the otherwise
disenfranchisedto"change the rules."Information about these videos
can be obtained from AIDSFILMS,50
W. 34th St., Suite 6B6, New York, NY
10001, (212) 629-6288. T
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BooksConstructi QJ1 oJ'unction
What's Your Function?
iby Michael SchwarzW

hen asked what hethought
of Christianity, Oscar Wildeis reputed to have responded that hethought it would be a good idea. One
could reach much the same conclusion about David F. Greenberg's
book,
The
Constructionof
Homosexuality. It would be a very
good idea to have a single volume
summary of the history,sociology and anthropology of homosexuality,
It would
be wonderful-andastounding-if that book could
also resolve many of thevexing theoretical questions that have been at
the center of academic
debate in these areas.
After reading Greenberg's book, one
is left with the clear sense that
although such a book might be desirable, it has not yet been realized. If
ever there was a book that will both
subtly mislead the general reader andinfuriate the specialist, this is it.
Why is this book so unsatisfying?
The book's main problem stems fromits author'S intellectual arrogance. One
expects a certain lack of critical distance from a' sociologist who pro-instances, Greenberg,is, to put it mildly, less than convincing.
Other examples of carelessness
abound. Greenberg attempts textual
analysis of Latin and Persian poetry,claims that an analysis of primary
without giving any evi<tence that hesources is no longer required because
understands the original languages.
of the wide range of secondary
My suspicion is that he has done asources available. And to be fair,close. reading of the translations, anGreenberg does attempt to critically
act which, displays tremendous insenanalyze certain historical and ethnographic sources. The problem is ' sitivity to issues of translation andsemantics,
In anothersection,inconsistency, He treats some docuGreenberg appears to give Arthur
ments in great detail, while glossing
Evan's highly unreliable, Witchcraft
over whole areas of research in aand the Gay Counterculture the same
paragraph,weight as Peter Brown's acclaimed
More serious still is Greenberg's
The Making of Late Antiquity. Therelack of care with secondary sources,
are citations in the text that do not
and particularly his use of secondary
correspond to anything in the bibliogsources that are unreliable, out ofraphy. And one finds a disturbing
date, or both. Perhaps the most amusoverreliance on sources that are moreing example of this is Greenberg's
than 20 years old. Each of these faults
statement that ancient Egyptians wereby itself would not be excessively"sexually inhibited and modest." Introubling, but taken as a whole they
the footnote, Greenberg's only supundermine the reader's sense thatport for the statement is, "personal
Greenberg has taken
due care in constructing his narrative.
This is not to saythat the book is anunmitigated disaster: it
is not. Greenberg's
conclusions,andespecially his discussion of theoreticalquestions>, are hancommunication, Robert Bianchi." Nowdledskillfully
and with wit.
Greenberg's use of Mary Douglas'
I am no Egyptologist, and I am surethat if I knew who Robert Bianchi
Grid/Group analysis (a kind of functionalist analysis of the relationshipwas that I would be duly impressed
between group behavior and belief) in(he is not listed in the 113 page bibliography), But even if he personallyanalyzing homosexuality in the early
witnessed
this type of behavior
Christian period is insightful and stim(which of course he could not possiulating, although once again, his citably have done), Greenberg would stilltions are out of date. His analysis ofneed to document why he believes
the development of homosexual subhis evidence is compelling. In thiscultures in 18th and 19th century
See HOMOSEXUALITY on page 64
instance,
as in so many other

A book that will both subtly
mislead the general reader
and infuriate the specialist.

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HOMOSEXUALITY from page 62

LEZZIE UFE from page 60

Europe is informed, although not par- . lays into Judith the makeup queen for
ticularly provocative. The literature on"faillingl to see the political impact ofthe medicalization of homosexuality is cosmetics." Judith snaps her with a
discussed in a workaday fashion. And southpaw, ''I'd rather have Elizabeth
his attack on Michel Foucault, and on Arden or Mary Kay on my face thanthe extreme fringe of social construcsome of the floozies you've had on
tionism, seems fair, although overstatyour face!" And she proceeds, "Theed. Greenberg
likes to see his
issue here is personal choice, ..theapproach to sexual history as clearly
freedom to look however I want",
differentiated from that of Foucault
reaSserting my God given right to be
and other so-called "social construcalluring."maybe you can get laid intionists," I for one am unconvinced,
Birkenstocks and a gunny sack but
Foucault wrote of the freedom of sexnot me babe",these are the 80s bean
ual meanings from essentialist catesprout breath ...fem is in!"gories, but this is not the same thing
An admirer of "physical comedy"
as claiming that sexual meanings areor "sight gags," which is body lanentirely without context. Although
guage humor often seen in the mugFoucault brought into question thegings of comediennes
like Carol
relationship between social consciousBurnette, If s a Lezzie Life is ripe withness and social structure, nowhere
eye rolling, mimicking and teeth suckdoes he make the positive claim that
ing. Ova rattles dishes to rattle Mistressone is irrelevant to the other.
Judith's nerves. Lee is a master at
Greenberg's
Constructionofdeadpanningwhen she catches a
Homosexuality,
in other words,
glimpse of the satins and furs dripping
should be read with extreme caution,
off Mistress Judith's newest conquest.
as should any book that attempts to
Only when Ingrid's old right-wingsummarize the findings of more than
Pastor ("call me Dick") pops in for a
2,000 books. Its analYtical framework
visit do these girls let up on each otheris interestingand provocative,
and switch to some tag team tactics
although as a whole it failed to thoragainst his repressive moralism. Ova
oughly persuade this reader. If peopleand Lee do everything possible to flip
find individual sections of the bookhis conservative wig. They loudly disstimulating, they should read further
cuss the newest course at the local slm
on the subject. For these purposes,
society and blatantly flip through erotic
Greenberg's bibliography is helpful,lesbian magazines. Despite their talentalthough, again, it should not be
ed antics, the pace and dialogue falter
relied upon all by itself. Despite theseduring this segment, something a little
deficiencies, the book does provide a more cutting could have prevented.
good discussion of some of the theo-'
The props in If s a Lezzie Life
retical debates of interest to' gay acabolster its madcap energy. Instead of
demics. For these limited purposes,'
the oversized shoes or gargantuan
and for these purposes alone, I recmallets that typify the Keystone Cops
ommend it. ... 'or The Three Stooges, If s a Lezzie 'Life is filled with mongo "Rent Due"notes clipped on refrigerator doors
and mammoth coffee filters poignantly designating the exact amount ofcoffee that is to be rationed from thecollective's food coffers,
A tight script, strong acting andmeticulous attention to props fuel thisdamned funny, albeit racially limited,video. Wilhite gets us enViously wishing that we too could sling mud and, zing our sisterly adversaries in likemanner. In an interview with Out Week,
Wilhite explained the drive behind thatcomic i~,P~~::_;.,''There is a need for

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lesbian humor, humor which is about
lesbian sexuality and filled with characters and situations unique to us, The
creation of lesbian sitcoms and theopportunity to see ourselves treated ina positive, humorous way is a visualform of acceptance and validation. By
the way, lesbians are funny. Our reputation which says we have no sense ofhumor is pure malarkey!" Is there aseries in the making? "One of the ideas
under discussion is a sequel in which
Ingrid goes home to the failing farm fora visit with her new Marxist lover in
tow ...It's kind of a "Dykes of Wrath"social statement come~r· ...
JUST THE FACTS from page 54

cal, more human, more interesting.
Sorkin treats his one female character with contempt. Galloway has
plenty of feminine intuition-she has
terrific hunche~butin court, whereintellect counts, she blows it and the
day must be saved by Kaffee, Indeed,
after Galloway prods Kaffee into
becoming a fearless lawyer, andplants an important plot point in our
minds, her role in the play is essentially over.
With two exceptions, the actors
perform as the script and the director
Don Scardino require: All is smooth,well-oiled yet rather tense and notespecially imaginative. As written andacted, the characters are interchangeable cogs in a plot machine. Mark
Nelson, as Kaffee's reluctant assistant,is more human however; he leaves
questions about himself unanswered,
while all otherquestionsareanswered resoundingly. Lang's performance is what the English call "interesting acting": It is invested withimagination and we find ourselves
watching him whenever he's onstage.
The performance,
however, seems
more an 'accomplishmentof technique than of truth.
There is a certain satisfaction inthis kind of story and acting, It's thekind we get from watching the gears
turn smoothly, from knowing that themechanism works and that the clock
will strike on time. This particular
clock is, indeed, an accurate gauge ofour time and place-but
in a lessreassuring way than either its author
or audience apparently believes ....

HARRY from page 57

Kissing (In the USA),· a number thatbarely crawled into the top 40, butseemed to tie in conceptually with
Deborah's television commercials forSara Lee,
Some people are looking at De!
Dumb & Blonde as a real comeback
for Deborah Harry. The sounds aretruer to the original sounds ofBlondie. And her new label, Sire
Records, seems more committed topushing the album-Deborah
Harry
has been more visible in the media
recently than she has been in a long 1.-,
time, They even somehow got a story
about her alleged hitchhiking experience with Ted Bundy onto Page Sixof the New York Post.
De! Dumb & Blonde is a fun
album. It has some catchy numbers,
with a mix of music that should
please most of her followers, eventhough she is dressed too much like
Stevie Nicks in the video for "I Want
That ~an." The plan now is to getback to basics-playing
smallerclubs, releasing dependable
pop/
rock tunes,alongswith some"punky· stuff to win back some ofthe' audience that first established
Blondie. I hope that a n~w success .,will bring back more experimental
work, like Blondie, dared with
AutoAmerican,(v!hicp featured"Rapture",plus a Rogers andHammerstein cover) and Deborah
Harry did with Koo Koo, which was
producedby Nile Rodgers andBernard
Edwards
of Chic, andincluded excellent graphics by Giger(the artist responsible for Alien).
But then again, it was Blondie'sand Deborah Harry's flights into
other territory that added to thedemise of Blondie, according
tosome. Maybe that's one reason why"In Love with Love" from Deborah
Harry's album Rockbird got more
play in dance clubs than anywhere
else, and "Feel the Spin," from themovie Krusb Groove, got no airplay
at all that I am aware of. Maybe thisshift back is what Deborah Harryneeds to return to the forefront of themusic scene. It remains to be seen if
the pop/rock formula that proved
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LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE ANDEDUCATION
FUND Forum:
Lambda Law '89, a year-end
review of legal issues facing gay
and lesbian people; Paula Ettlebrick will moderatea panelwhich includes Tom Stoddard,
Nan Hunter, David Barr, Sandra
Lowe and Evan Wolfson; at NYU
Law School's Tischman Auditorium, 40 Washington Square South;
7 pm; free; 995-8585

CENTER STAGE sees Meel Me t"
SI, Louts, with George Hearn
and Milo O'Shea; at the Gershwin
Theatre; 8 pm; $58; 620-7310
COALITION FOR LESBIAN AND
GAY RlGIITS Hollday Party, at
The Center, 627-1398

COMMUNI1Y RESEARCH INITIATIVE Night of 1000 Trees, inwhich celebrities decorate trees
for auction; at the Sheraton Center, 7th Ave & 50 St; 7 pm; 3087029
CONGREGATIONBETH SIMCHAT TORAH Jewish Education
Courses; tonight: Contemporary

Jewish Social Issues: Interfaith
Relationships at 7 pm; at 57
Bethune St; info 929-9498
CENTER
SPORTS
sees
NY
Rangers vs. !IU Devils, hockey
match; at Madison Sq. Garden,
33rd St & 7th Ave; 7:30 pm; members $25/non-members$35; 6207310

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OUTTWEEKGAY TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
Monthly
Meetingand Panel
Discussion:
Gay Admt"tslra.
Im-s; at The Center, 208 W 13 St;
8 pm; 620-7310.
GAY MEN'S HEALTIl CRISIS Men
Meeting
Men Workshop,toenhance self-confidence and ability to negotiate
safer sex withpotential partners; at The Center,
208 W 13 St; 8-10:30 pm; free; no
pre-registration,
807-6655 (TOD
645-7470)
EAGLE BAR MovieNight:

Bal-

mart; 142 11th Ave (at 21 St); 11

pm; 691-8451

For more information or referrals, torap, or to volunteer, call the GLSB
daily, noon to midnight, 212-777-1800

FA'///AJ':J,f'~;t·,.

MEDIA NE1WORK, BROOKLYNAIDS TASK FORCE and TIlE
DEPT. OF HEALTH presentaVideo Preview
of "innovative
AIDS/HIV
educational
videos ...plus a discussion of how
to rent or borrow these tapes foryour organization"; at The Hub,
349 E 149 St, the Bronx; 2-4 pm;

free; 292-8000
GAY
MEN 'OFAFRICANDESCENT sees TonguesU"Ued,the first American video documentary on the Black Gay Maleexperience,by Marlon Riggs,
who will be at the s,creening
leading an audience discussion
afterwards; NYU Tsch 'School of
the Arts; 7:30 pm; $7; rsvp a mustat 718/797-1474

SAGE Women's
Sexuality
Workshop,
led by Suzanne
Newman,exploring"feelings
about our bodies, self-esteem,
flirtation, intimacy, monogamy,
medical issues and safety"; at The
Center, 208 W 13 St; 6-8 pm; limited participation,
rsvp with
Arlene 741-2247

MEN OF All COLORS TOGE1HERlNY Educational
F~rom: II's
Nol Always Carmval be BrIUiI;with Jake Steven's slide presenta, tion on Bahia, Brazil; at The Center, 208 W 13 St; 7:45 ,pm;
222-9794, 245-6366

CENTER NYC Orientation,
to"learn more about your gay andlesbian community";
with community leaders to talk to and lotsof leaflets to pick up; 208 W 13
St; 7 pm; 620-7310

DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS TIiEATERSTUDIO
presents
RobertPatrick's
The Ha"1fled Host;
432 W 42 St; 8 pm; $10-$12; 5648038 (FRI, SAT and SUN, this andnext weekend only)

CENTER STAGE sees Victor
Bumbalo's
Adam a1fd Ibe
Experts, produced by 3-Dollar
Bill Theatre, with Louie Miller,
Jenny Diver and Lucy Brown; at
the Apple Corps Theater, 336 W
20 St; 8 pm; $25; 620-7310
GAY WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVEpresents Lee Hudson, Mayor's Liaison
to the Lesbian and Gay Community, showing the video AntiGay \<Wlence, produced by the Mayor's
Police Council of Lesbian and Gay
Issues; also Ginny Vida, editor of
Our Right to Loue, discussing key
legislation affecting, women on thestate and federal level; with arefreshment break; at the Universalist OlUrch, Central Park West at 76
St; 8 pm; $5 (for women only,
meets every first Thursday)

December 10, 1989

General Seminary, 175 9th Ave(at 20 St); 10 am sharp - 6 pm;
free, but rsvp a must at 807-6655,
IDD 645-7470
SAGE Holiday Bronch at Rogers
and Barbero, 149 8th Ave (btwn
17/18 Sts); 11:30 am or 2 pm
seating;$15; pre-paid
rsvp amust, 741-2247
SAGE WorkshoQlDlscussion:
Belwee1f Two Worlds: Orga·
1ftzedReltgto1f a"d Gay Com"'"1ftly Com",ttme1fl; led bypriest/therapist
Daniel
McCarthy,at The Center, 208
W 13 St; 4-6 pm; $1 members/$3
non-members;
rsvp amust, 741-2247
FEATIJRE (GAllERy) RecejxJonforTomof FinlandandBastille
Exhibit;showing Finland's"drawings
of sexuallyactive, over-endowedmen" andBastille's "paintings of S & M scat
scenes;" at 484 Broome St; 5-7
pm; 941-7077 (Editor's note: notan NEA,sponsored show)
PRESBYTERIANS
FOR
LES-"
BIAN/GAY CONCERNS Christmas Party, following the annual'Advent Worship Service at WestPark Presbyterian Church, 165 W
86 St (ring "receptionist"
doorbell); 7 pm; party nearby, info362-4890
CENTER
SPORTS
sees
NY
Knlcks vs. Boston Ceitlcs, basketball game; at Madison Square
Garden, 33rd St & 7th Ave; 7:30
pm; members $30/non-members$40; 620-7310

TERRY WEISSER
andL.K.
AUBREY Seminar:
Sex, Metf,a"d I1fUmacy, a "one-day
hands-onseminarexaminingerotic connections
and how weexperience intimacy and sex withother men"; $75; Terry 463-9152,
Aubrey 475-1497
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS
Workshop:Sex, Dati"g a1fd
l1fltmacy, an all-day "sex-positive
learning
experience,designed especially for gay andbisexual men. We'll explore themany ways that men are loving
men in the age of AIDS"; at the

MEN OF All COLORS TOGE1HERlNEW YORK Dance: Rhylbm
N qt'to", with cash bar andsnacks; 135 W 14 St, 2nd Floor(btwn 6th/7th Aves); 8 pm - 1
am; $10; 222-9794, 245-6366
CENTERSHOWS presents Opera
Ebony, a company that performs
excerpts from Lost in the Stars,
Ellington's
Freedom Songs,
Joplin's
Treemonisha, and thePrison Scene Trio from Faust; at
The Center, 208 W 13 St; 8 pm;$12; 620-7310

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PEOPLE'S VOICE CAFE presents
Lifeline,
DC's
all-woman
pop/rock band; in the Washington Square Church Parlor, 133 W
4 St; 8 pm; $6; 7181426-2183
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS THEATERSTUDIO
presents
RobertPatrick's
The Haunted Host,
see DEC 8
STONEWAll CHORALE Holiday
COncert at Town Hall, featuring
carols and music of the season,plus Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of Carols and Bach's Nunkomm, de,. Heiden Heiland(BWV 61), with chorus, soloists
and orchestra;
123 W 43 St; 8
pm; $12-$18; info 721-2924

CEN1ER and TEAM NEW YORK
(NY's Gay Games team) co-sponSOlS the 2nd Saturday
Dance,
with OJ Jerry Armstrong; at 208
W 13 St; 9 pm - 1 am; $&'$6 formembers, seniors, students; Center 620-7310, Team NY 580-7668
SPECfRUM DISCO presents Seventh Avenue, singing "The Love
I Lost"; 802 64th St, Bay Ridge,
Brooklyn(N train to 8th Avestop); opens at 9 pm; 71&'2388213
COLUMBIA PEP BOYS PRODUCTION 'Same
But Different
Dance, for gay men and lesbians 'and their friends; Earl Hall, 116 St& B'way (#1/#9 train); 10 pm - 2
am; $5 with invite or student
ID/$6 without; 854-3574 (pan of,
the proceeds will be donated to'
ACT UP)
TIlE SAINT AT LARGE MSalntSaturday Nights, with tonight'S
OJ Terry Sherman,
lights by
Richard Sabala, and live entertainment; at the address of theoriginal Saint, with lower levellounge, upper level light show,
balcony viewing area; 105 2nd
Ave (at 6 SQ; doors open 11 pm;$15 (door only); 674-8541

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cutes gays and women in society"; 5th Ave and 50 St; 9:30 am;
ACT UP info 533-8888, media
contact 533-4913
SAGE Christmas at Mystic Seaport, including a private escorted
tour
of
the
famousmuseum-village
in Connecticut,
luncheon,
Christmas shopping;741-2247
CONGREGATIONBETH SIMCHAT TORAH Seminar:Jewisb

Resistance to tbe Holocaust,
conducted by Saul Mizrahi andHowardAbramovitz;
at 57
Bethune St (Westbeth Complex),
up center courtyard ramp; 2 pm
sharp; 929-9498
WOMEN'S Circle,
Line andSquare Dance, with live musicians and instructor,"all youneed are two feet and a sense ofhumor"; at The Center, 208 W 13
St; 2-5 pm; $10; 7181784-2554,

The Center, 208 W 13 St; 4 pm;
info 889-4099
ST. CLEMENT'S CHURCH presents The ARC Gospel Choir,
35 voices of present or former. residents of the Addicts Rehabilitation Center, in "a benefit for St.
Clement's outreach to the homeless, hungry, people with AIDS";
423 W 46 St; 7 pm; $12(deductible);
rsvp 255-1654,
press 582-8971
TIlE GLINES presents Final Performanceof Jane Chamber's
My Blue Heaven, ending the 4week run; at the Courtyard Playhouse, 39 Grove St; 7 pm; $12;
869-3530 (plays WED, TIill, FRI
at 8 pm; SAT at 6 & 9 pm; SUN at
7 pm)

JUDITII'S ROOM Book Party inhonor of Ann Ferguson, Blood
qt the Root; Alison M. Jaggar
&:
Susan
R_
Bordo,

Gender/Body/Knowledge;
Sara RuddIck, Maternal Thinking; Adrienne Harris &: Ynestra King, Rocking the Ship ofState; with wine and hors d'oeuvres; 681 Washington
St (nearCharles); ?:30 pm; free; 727-7330
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS TIIEATERSTUDIO
presents
RobertPatrIck's
The Haunted Host,
see DEC 8
THE VILLAGE GATE presents
Jokln' Off, women comedians ina benefit
for the Gay Men's
Health Crisis, 9 pm, 586-1900

2121567-2636
BISEXUAL PRIDE Focus

Group:

Coming On Bt,' at The Center,
208 W 13 St, 3 pm, $5, 71813538245
GAY AND LESBIAN ALLIANCE
AGAINST DEFAMATIGN BeneBt
Performanceand Reception:
Vito Russo's
Tbe Celluloid
Closet, the.lecture based on his
revised book of the same name,a documentary of how homosexuals have been depicted historically in films; at the Public
Theatre, 425 Lafayette St; 3 pm
performance, champagne reception follows; .$65 (+ $60 for an
autographed
copy of Russo'sbook); 966-1700 (mail check to
GLAAD by 12/8, 80 Varick St,#3E, NY, NY 10013)
SAGE Basic Broadway - Part n,
in which "Professor Dossey willtalk about the Post-Civil
War
period of the American Musical
Theatre from 1860-1903"; in the
SAGE room at The Center, 208 W
13 St; 4-6 pm; $1 members/$3
non-members; 741-2247~•• I

ACT UP (AIDS Coalition
toUnleashPower)and WHAM!
(Women's
Health Action andMobilization) Stop tbe Cburc:bl
A March on st. Patrick'.
Cathedral, to 'challenge
Cardinal
O'Connorand the Catholic
Church hierarchy for their interference in public policy concerning AIDS and abortion, and thereligious influencethat perae-

CENTER DANCE COMMITTEE
Winter Social, hosted by Reno,
with performancesby cabaret
artist David Ross, comedians
Jaffe Cohen and Bob Smith; 208
W 13 St; 4-7 pm; free; 620-7310
CENTER DANCE COMMITTEE'
MTree of LIfe" UnveWng, a tribute to those who have died of
AIDS, with ornaments engravedwith their nllmes; will be on display through December
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CHICAGO from pag.17

freeze out Jon Simmons, who is ourcommunity liaison coordinator, fromany access to city haIL.. COGLI and, this community's direct access to the
Office of the Mayor has been blocked."
Rolla continued, charging that at
a meeting with Reiff and mayoralpress officials, he had been told "to'get on board" and affirm that COGLI's
only function Is to work for "the(1991) re-election of the mayor:
As Rolla elaborated,Daleyjumped up and said, "I really object
to you saying that I'm worried about
my re-election .... I'm not freezing anybody out. I'm not taking an attitude of
my re-election, whether it's Nancy or
anybody. This is ridiculous .... I reallyobject to that political statement."
Someone from the crowd thenyelled, "Your brother hasn't died,""Oh, come one," Daley pleaded.
"My son died (of spina bifidal andyou're trying to say I'm not human
about people's illness I this city.
Please, sir, don't ever do that to anybody in this city because you're really
doing a disservice to the entire city."
Seconds later, Daley interrupted
Savage to add, "I just want to make apoint. There are people with political
positions. I know, they're right here.
Adios."
Daley and his assistants thenstormed out as the crowd beganchanting, "Shame, shame, shame,"and ACT UP's Daniel Sotomayor
repeatedly screamed, "How much,
Nancy, how much?"
City Hall Arrests
As the meeting broke up, those

assembled were urged to attend an
ACf UP demonstration outside City
Hall the next day at noon.
About 200 people turned out forthe protest, where mainstream activist
Laurie Dittman told reporters, "We do
not need any more house queers
speaking for us.... They're already trying,to divide us, trying to find individuals topull away and say that we are not
together, that our issues are not everyone's issues ... but [don'tl let them dothat.... When they keep saying 'Be good
little queers, be quiet, be patient andwait outside the door,' don't let them,"
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we say fight back," the demonstratorsthen marched into the building, Fourteen activists sat down and linked armsin the center of the main corridor,
As TV cameras rolled, police violently tore the prote~'tors apart anddragged them to a holding area,
After the last arrest, ACT UP's
Sotomayor shouted, "We're going to
the fifth floorl" Daley's office is on thefifth floor.
Sotomayor was Immediately tackled by five police officers, One held
him In a neck lock as another forcefully twisted his ear. He was charged
with "disorderly conduct:
At press time, mayoral spokespersons and many gay/lesbian leaders
were saying they deeply regretted theunpleasant nature of the community
forum and the necessity to movetowards
civil disobedienceandactivism by media.
But gay leaderssaid theirdemands are not going to change andvarious administration officials continued phoning around the community in
an attempt to determine how activists
might respond to the possible moves
the administration can now make....
ADOPTION from page 20

homes, then the children's interest is
protected. That's what the department
and the courts and our government
should be trying to foster: good famiIy life and support and protection forchildren in need."
The National Center for Lesbian
Rights represented Michael Pesce andJonathan Jarnig, whose story is featured in the current
issue ofNewsweek magaZine'S special edition,"The 21st Century Family." They were
the first gay male couple in the nation
to be approved as joint adoptive parents of son, James, and a daughter,
Carl y, earlier this year.
According to Achtenberg, thetrack record for gay individuals to
adopt children is improving in New
York and California, but lesbians andgays still stand in line behind marriedpeople for prime placements.
State law in Massachusetts prohibitS gays from being foster parents,
and New Hampshire and Florida havestate laws that prohibit lesbian andgay adoptions ....

HRC from pag.15

time that had passed since her dismissal,
she had not once been invited to meetwith Brandon to discuss the issue,
Marie
WilsonandDavid
Wertheimer, the two gay commissioners, were also outspoken concerning
how seriously the committee hadtaken its mission and the distress theyfelt when its recommendations were
not adopted in full,Wilson emphasized
the thoroughness with which the committee
had tackled the question
as towhether the AIDS Discrimination
Division, under O'Connor and Taylor,
had "served the whole community·
and adamantly defende& the committee's finding that they had performed"exemplary work in serving people ofcolor," a comment that drew a briefround of applause from the observers
attending the meeting.
Wertheimer'S remarks were in aneven stronger vein. He reiterated
Neuborne's dismay that the precise
charges against Taylor had neverbeen revealed and went so far as toquestion the leadership structure of
the HRC, saying that the' way inwhich the controversy
had been"resolved" by Brandon led him tobelieve that the other commissioners"are nothing but furniture ...designed
to catch the flak of various constituencies" but without any real power indecision making.
The commissioners' questions andcomments elicited minimal response
from Brandon during the public portion of the meeting. He opened thesession by praising the committee's
work, but pointed out that he had
never been under any obligation toaccept all-or, in fact, any-of its findings or recommendations.
Unanimous Commendations
After about 40 minutes of public
discussion, a motion was made thecommiS1!ion to go into executive session with the aim of tying up the matter as expeditiously as possible so thatthe commissioners could move on toother, pressing business. The motion
was, however, interrupted by severalof the observers
present,
who
demandedtime
to air theirgrievances. This was allowed, though

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BraiKion Imposed a ten-minute limiton audience comments, a time constraint that allowed about seven of
those present to s~k,
Those who ·dld get a chance totalk were unanimous In their commendation of Taylor's and O'Connor's
work for the AIDS Discrimination
Division and expressed a consensus
of outrage that the Issue still had notbeen satisfactorily resolved.
The most elQquent objections
were voiced by Ronald Johnson of
the Minority Task Force on AIDS,
who said that he was deepl)' distressed both by "the process and theeffects of the process" that had led to
O'Connor's and Taylor's removal.
johnson said that the result of thecontroversy had been to create "afalse division between lesbians andgays and people of color."johnson's demand to be let in on
exactly what was going on and his
contention that the fight against AIDS
was much too important to allow thekind of diSSension' the commissioners
actions had created were echoed by
the other speakers, ..
-A ndreiu Mtller contributed tothis artic7e.

-.:

HOUYWOOD from page 56
becoming a glaring omission.
What would the bland, materialistic couple in Immediate Family (Glenn
Close and James Woods) have done if
the lover of the unweO mother whosebaby they covet turned out to be awoman, instead of the cuddly punkplayed by Kevin Dillon? Imagine Mary
Stuart Masterson announcing, "ThIs Is
Helen, my lover, We had broken up
and I didn't want to raise the baby
myself. But now we're back together
and we're keeping the child.· What if
the teenage son in Dad had confessedto his father (Ted Danson) 'that he wasmoving In with another man, rather
than joining a Mexican commune? "I'mdropping out of college to become amale model, Dad. And Luke is a great
photographer, You'll like him." What if
anyone of the several pubescent oradolescent children in Parenthood had
been found fondling a same-sex friend?
Hollywood producers don't wantto know, because they assume moviegoers are opposed to those sorts or variations on the theme of family.
Homosexuality, they believe, would disturb the placid waters on which profamily pictures inevitably float: theeternal fount of procreation, Thesemovies are all about how traditional
American values pass from generation
to generation, and Hollywood presumes
to offer-and resolve-only thOse familial differences that fit within that
scheme, The idea that lesbians ",nd gay
men were all, at one time, children andare not infrequently parents themselves
is irrelevant, and the idea that gay lovers
comprise a family, unthinkable.
To Hollywood, "family· doesn'tmean a network of supportive interpersonal relationships, it means grandparents and babies. And lately, babies
have meant boffo box office. Three
Men and a Baby (the implications ofwhich can wait for anOther time) wasa huge hit and Look Wbds Talking isshaping up to be one of the most profitable movies of the 80s. It's not justBruce Willis's voice that does the trick;
Heckerling's bitterly clever and aggressive exclusionary tactics are making
audiences melt and snicker, The-lesbian jokes are typical of a movie that
also makes fun of bald men, old men(Abe Vigoda's nasty, toothless grand-

dad is a running joke) and buxom
women (through the eyes of the prematurely hetero baby boy), and devalues intelligence or fair-mindedness infavor of prejudice and goopiness.
While Look Whd s Talleing is by
far the most hostile of these films
seeking to reconstruct the nuclear
family, Immediate Family is equally
exclusive, eliminating
peripheral
issues so ruthlessly that the central
couple is left with nothing to characterize them save their wealth andtheir sterility. Their willful exploitationof a young woman in financial straits
struck me as pathetiC, particularly
since the Masterson character is as fullof life and passion as the yuppie couple is empty. Dad at least attempts acritique of restrictive familial roles: thejack Lemmon character is so unhappy
with suburban drudgery that he lives
half the time in a rural fantasy. But'
when the old man dies, it's clear
things will return to "normal.' In allthese films, the lack-of-wisdom of one
generation
is passed
onto thenext-not only to the children in.\hemovies, but also to the children in theaudience, ....
WITNESSES

from page 59

al consumed by a fireball, just as the
AIDS fireball consumes the str~ngth,
financial resources and societal statusof the PWA.
Coping and questioning introspection are the power evident inDarrel Ellis' two 1989 ink on paper
self-portraits
juxtaposedwith theinspiring yet haunting photo portraitsof Ellis by Peter Hujar and Robert
Mapplethorpe. The two acrylic paintings by Taboo! Stephen Tashijian(one a portrait of Mark Morrisroe)
speak to the unescapable tragedy of
AIDS and the ambivalence toward
our SOCietyby those of us living daily
with its effects.
As we enter AIDS' second
decade, the political opposition andthe direct action by the lesbian, gay,artist and civil liberties communities
in order to protect Witnesses speak
volumes about the real progress wehave made with our government indealing with issues of this crisis.
There's lots of surface drama and notmuch else, ....

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Community Directory
A.c.o.c.
AIDS CENTEROF QUEENS COUNTYSOCIAL SERVICES. EDUCATION· BUDDIES COUNSELING • SUPPORT GROUPS
Volunteer Opportunities(718) 896-25OO(voice) (718) 896-298S(TDD)ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power!
496A Hudson Street, Suite G4 NYC 10014(212) 989 -1114
A diverse, non-partisan group of individuals united Inanger and committed to direct action to end the AIDS
crisis, Gen. meetings Mon. nights 7:30, the Community Center 208 W_I3th_
ARCS (AIDS-Rallltad Community Services)for Dutchese, Orange; Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan,
Ulster and Westchester counties. AIDS education,clientservices, crisis intervention, support groups,
case management, buddy end hospital visitor program_
214Cen1raIAlle.'M1iIBPlains.NY lOEre(914)~
838 Broadway ,Newburgh, NY 12250(914)562-5005
AIDSline (914) 993-0607
BAR ASSOCIATION FORHUMAN RIGHTS
Lawyers Referral
Service for the Lesbian and Gay Community
Full Range of Legal Services (212)459·4873

BODY POSITIVE
tlyou or your lover hlltasted HIV+, wa offer support
groups, seminars, public foruml, refer.ncelibrary,referrals, IOclal .ctivlll .. and up-to- date national
monthly, 'THE BODY POSITNE" ($1!i/year).
(212) 633-1782.
•
2095 Broadway, Suite 306, NYC,NY 10023

GAY & LESBIAN HEALTH CONCERNS
An office of the NYC Dept of Health, provides linkages betwn NYC Health & Human Svcs, and the Lesbian & Gay community, focusing in All healthconcerns; resour ce information for health services
consumers and providers. 125Worth Street, Box 67,
New York, NY 10013.For info call (212) 566-4995.

CIRCLEOFMORE UGHT
Spiritual support and sharing in a gay/lesbian affir, mative group.
West-Park Presbyterian Church
165West 86th Street
Wed: worship service 6:1I p.m. program 7:30.
Marsha (212)114-4373 Charlie (212)691-7118.

GAY & LESBIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY
Sliding IClie tee.
hlsurlnce ICcepted.
Institute for Human Identity.
(212) 799-9432

COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT
208 Wast 13th Straat, NYC, New York 10011
for Appointments and Information (212) 675·3559
PROVIDING CARING, SENSITIVE AND LOW COSTHEALTH CARE SERVICESTO THE LESBIAN AND GAYCOMMUNITYCOMMUNITY RESEARCHINITIATIVE
PWA's, PWARC's & their physicians taking the initiative to seek promising intervention againstAIOS in a
resp. manner. For more info or to volunteer pleasecall (212) 481-1050.

BAR ASSOCIATION FORHUMAN RIGHTSFree Walk-in Legal Clinic. Tuesday 6-8 pm
Lesbian & Gay Community Centro Ground Aoor

CONGREGATIONBETH SIMCHATTORAH
NY's Gay and Lesbian Synagogue Services
Friday at 8:30pm
57 Bethune Street
For info. cali: (212) 929-9498.

PRIDE FOCUS GROUP
Topical discussions on issues of interest to the community in a congenial etmosphere, followed by an
informal dinner et a friendly local restaurant Every
Sunday, 3:00 - 4:30pm at the !:Qmmunity Center 208W.
13 Street, NYC. Part of the Naw York Area Bisexual
Network.

DIGNITY NEW YORK
lesbian and gay Catholics and friends
AIDS Ministry, Spiritual Development
The Cathedral Project
Worship Services & Social-Sun. Eves. 7:30pm-St
John's Episcopal Church 218West 11th Street C
Waverly-675-2179

BIDS (BISEXUAL DOMINANCE &SUBMISSION GROUP)
Share SlM experiences and fantasies with others ina positive, non-judgemental atmosphere. First Sun·
day of the month, 4:45pm at the Community Center
208 W. 13 Street, NYC. This group is part of the New
York Area Bisexual Network.

EDGE
For the physically disabled lesbian and Gay
Community.
(212)989-1921
P.O.Box 1I5 Villaga Station, Naw York, NY 10014

BIWAYS NEW YORKMonthly (or more frequent) social events for the
Bisexual community and friends. Dates, times andlocations vary. Call NYABN for details of upcomming
events. Planning meetings held quaterly_ This groupis part of the New York Area Bisexual Network_
BIPAC (BISEXUAL POlITICALACTION COMMITTEE)
Polit/calaction on Issuas of Importance to the Blsexual/lesblan/Gay community_ Monthly meeting/potluck
held 8:00pm on fourth Thursday of the month at members homes. Call NYABN for this month's location_
This group Is part olthe Naw York Area Bisexual Net~
work.

FEMME SUPPORTGROUP
For lesbians who setl identify as Femme. For info andmeeting times call Usa at (212) 829·9817. No men
please.
FRONTRUNNERS
A running club for lesbi.n and gay athletasof all abilities. Fun Runs of 1-6 mnes held every Sat at
lOam and Weds. at 7pm in Central Parkand every Tues.• t 7pm In Prospect Park.
For Information: call (212) 724-9700.
THE FUNO FORHUMAN DIGNITY
N.tional Gay .nd Lesbian Crisis Line"AIDS 800" ... 1-800-S0S-GAYS
Educational Resourc. C.nter; Positive Images
Media Center; NY State Arts Program
666 B'way SuiIB410NYC,NY 10012 (212)529-1600

BISEXUAL YOUTH
Informal social & support group for Bisexual
kldslyouth. Monthly meeting/potluck lunch hald
1:00pmon fourth Sundayof the month at mamba,.
homes. C.II NY ABN for thl. month's location. Thl.
group I, part of the Naw York Ar .. BiSlxuII Network,

THE GAYAFRICAN AMERICANSOFWESTCHESTER(TheG.A.A.)I,. community b... d lupportgroupformed In
Wlltchelter County. Varloua activities are plann.dfor the coming month.,
Pl.... call 914-376-0727for more Info.

BLUS-BRONX LESBIANS
UNITED IN SISTERHOOD
Social, political'nd lupportnatworklng group for
women and their friend •• Regular loclal evenll andmeetings on the firlt .nd third FrldaY'1of every month,
At The Community Center, 208 W. 13 Street, from 6:308pm. For mora Info CIII Lis. 1t(212) 829·9817,

GLAAD
Gay' Lalblan AIII.nc, Agalna. D.'lIIIl1lon
I) V.rlck Stra.t, NYC 10013 (212)966-1700GlAAO
comball homophobia In tha medii and ,I .. wh.re bypromoting visibility of 1hel.sblln and gly communityand orglnlzlng grallrooll r.. pon.. to Inll'gay blgoll'(.

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GAY MALE SIM ACTIVISTS
Dedicated to safe and responsible SIM since 1981.
Open meetings w/programs on SlM techniques,
lifestyle issues, political and social concerns. Also
special events, speakers bureau, workshops. demos,
affinity groups, newsletter, more. GMSMA -Dept 0,496A Hudson Street, Suita ll23 ,NYC 10014.
(212) 727-98)8.
GMAD(GAY MEN DF AFRICAN DESCENn
80 Varick Street, NYC 10013a support group of Gay
Men of African Descent dedicated to consciousnessraising and the development of the Lesbian and Gay
Community. GMAD is inclusive of African, AfricanAmerican, Carribean and Hispanic/latino men ofcolor. Meetings are held, weekly, on Fridays. For
more information, call 718·802·0162.
GAY MEN'S HEALTHCRISIS HOTLINEFORINFORMATION ON SAFERSEXAND HIV-RELATED HEALTH SERVICES,AND FORINFORMATION ON
ONE-TIME, WALK-IN AIDS COUNSELING SERVICES
212-107-6655
212-645-747OTDD (For the Helring-Impaired)Mon.-Fr!. 10:30a.m. to 9 p.m. Sat 12:00to 3:00
HEAL (Health Education AIDS Ulison)
Weekly info. and support group for treatments for
AIDS which do not compromise the immune system
lurther, including alternative and holistic approaches.
Wed 8pm. 208 W. 13th St (212)674-HOPE.
HETRICK-MARTIN INSmUTE
for lesbian and gay youth. Counseling, drop-in cen·ter (M-F, 3-6pm), rap groups, Harvey Milk HighSchool, AIDS and safer sex information,referrals, professional education.
(212) 633-892O(voice)(212) 633-8926 TTY for deaf
HISPANIC UNITED GAYS& LESBIANS
Educational services, polilicalaclion, counseling and
IOcialaclivities in Spanish and English by and for theLatino Lesbian and Gay Community.
General meetings 8:00 p.m. 4th Thursday of every
month at 208 West 13th Street
Call (212)691-4181
or write H.U.G.L, P.O.Box 226 Canll Str.et Station,
N.w York, NY 10019.
LAMBDA LEGALDEFENSEAND EDUCATIONFUND
Preced.nt- •• tting litigation nationwide forlesbians, gay men Ind p.opl. with AIDS, Member'hlp ($35 and up) Inc. nawsl.tter and Invitations to.p.clalev.nta.
Volunt .. r night on Thur.dlya, Intake
calli: 2-4pm Mon thru Fri (212) 995-8585
LAVA (LESBIANS ABOUT VISUAL ARn
Call for .lid .. for Lublan ArtiN' Exhlblllon, Gay &Lesbian Community C.nter, NYC,For more Informalion, lend SASE to :Miriam Foug.re
118Fort Gr.. ne PlaceBrooklyn, NY 11217,

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THE LESBIAN AND GAY BIG APPLE CORPS
Get your instrument out of the closet and come playwith us. Symphonic, Marching, Jazz, Dixieland, Rock,
Aute Ensembles and Woodwinds.
123West44th St Suite 12l New York, NY 10036(212) 869-2922.
LESBIAN & GAY
COMMUNITY SERVICESCENTER
208 West 13th Street New York, NY 10011(212)620-7310
9am-11 pm everyday.
A place for community organizing and networking,social services, cultural programs, and social events
sponsored by the Center and more than 150community organizations.
LESBIAN AND GAY NETWORKAll organization of lesbians and Gays who are activein their labor unions working on domestic partnershipbenefits and AIDS issues. For more information call(212)923-8690.
LESBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS PROJECT
of the Am.ric'IIn Civil Uberties Union
KNOWYOURRIGHTS/WE'RE EXPANDINGTHEM(212) 944-9800, ext 545
LESBIANS ABOUT VISI,IAl ART (LAVA)
Call for slides for lesbian Artist's Exibition, Gay andlesbian Community Center, NYC, for more information
send SASEto Miriam Fougere, 118Ft Greene Place,
Brooklyn, NY 1217.
LESBIANS AND GAYS OF FLATBUSH
Brooklyn's,social organization for both gay men andlesbians.
P.O.Box 106, Midwood Station
Brooklyn, NY 11230. (718) 859·9437
lONG ISLAND ACT-UP
P.O.Box 291, New Hyde Park, NY 11040
Support us for change on long Island.
(516)338-4662(516) 997-5238 Nassau'(516) 928-5530 Suffolk
MEN OFAll COlORSTOGEJHER NY_~_
A multi·racial group of gay men against racism. Meet-"ings every Friday night at 7:45 atthe lesbian and Gay
Community Services Center, 208 W. 13th Street fur m
re info. call: (212)245·6366or (212)222-9794.
METROPOlITAN TENNIS GROUP(MTG)
Our200 member lesbian and gay tennis club includes
players from beginning to toumamentlevel. Monthly
tennis parties. Winter indoor league. Come play with usl
fur information: MTG, POB2135,New '!brk, NY 10025.
'(212) 662-0695.
MOCl\
Men of Color·AIDS Prevention Program. Provides
safer sex and AIDS education information to gay andbisexual Men of Color; coordinates a network ofhealth education providers and peer-supportgroups
for gay and bisexual Men of Color in ailS boroughs of
New York City. MOCA is located at 303 Ninth Ave,New York, NY'I0001, or call (212) 239-1796,
NATIONAL GAYAND LESBIAN TASK FORCE
is the national grassroots political organization for
lesbians and gay men. Membership is $l0/year.
Issue-oriented projects address violence, sodomy
laws, AIDS, gay rights ordinances, families, media,
etc. through lobbying, education, organizing anddirect action.
NGLTF 1517U Street NW, Washington, DC 20009.
(202)332 ·6483.

NEW YORKADVERTISINGAND COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKNYACNis the community's largeSt':gay:arid lesbian
professional group, welcomintt all in communications--advertising, PR, rriark8ting~media, graphic
design, illustration, photography, chpywriting, journalism, pU,blishin,g,radio; TV and film--and theirfriends. Monthly meetings, 3rd Wed 6:30pm at theCommunity Center. Members' newsletter, job hotline,
annual directorY: Phone (212)517·0380for more info.
Mention OutWeek for one free neWsletter.
NINTH STREETCENTER
Since 1973,a community dedicated·to demonstrating
thata homosex,uallifestyla is a rational,. desirable
choice for individuals dissatisfied with the rewards ofconventional living. Psychologically - focussed rap
groups, Tues., Sat, 8to .10pm. peer'cQunselling available. 319 E. 9 Street, New York, NY 11m3, for info call(212) 228-5153.
'
NORTHAMERICAN MAN/BOY
lOVE ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA)
Dedicated to sexual freedom and especially intereted
in gay intergenerational relationships. Monthly Bulletin and regular chapter meetings on the first Saturday of each month. Yearly membership is $20; write
NAMBLA. POBox 174,Midtown Station, New York,NY 10018or call (212)807-8578for information.
NORTHERNlIGIfTS ALTERNATIVES
Improving Quality of Life for People with AIDS/HIV.
THEAIDS MASTERYWORKSHOP: Exploring the possibilities of a powerful and creative life in the face of
AIDS. Call Jack Godby (212)337-8747
NYC GAY & LESBIANANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT
Counseling, a6vocacy, and information for survivorsof anti-gay and anti-lesbian violence, sexual assault,
domestic violence, and other types of victimization,
All services free and confidential.
24 hour hotline (212) 807-0197
PEOPLEWITH AIDS COALITION(212)532·0290 / Hotline (212) 532·0568
Monday thru Friday 10am-6pm
Meal programs, support groups, educational andreferral services for PWA's and PWArc's.
PEOPLEWITH AIDS HEALTHGROUP
Underground buyer's club importing not·yet·approved
medications and nutritional supplements. 31 West 26th
St 4th Roor (212)532-0280
SAGE:(Senior Action in 8 Gay Environment)
Social Service Agency providing care, activities, andeducational services for gay & lesbian senior citizens. Also serving over 160 homebound seniors andolder PWA's. 208 West 13th St NYC 10011(212) 741-2247'
THE OUTREACH
USING COMMUNAL HEALING (TOUCH)'
a program of Brooklyn community volunteers providing a weekly buffetsupper for the Brooklyn AIDS
community. Occasional programs of information, edu·
cation and entertainment TOUCHmeets Monday
eves, 5p,m, to 6:30p.m. at downtown Brooklyn Friends
Meeting House (110Schermerhorn St near Boerum
Place). Limited transportation may be arranged.
Info: (718)622-2756.TOUCHwelcomes contributionsof funds, food and volunteers ..
ULSTERCOUNTY GAYAND LESBIAN ALUANCE
Meets first and third Monday of each monthat 7:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Church on SawkilrRoad
in Kingston.
For information, call (914) 626·3203.

meeting. A two-thirds vote of approvalby schools represented at any meetingis required to amend the bylaws. A
proposed affirmative action policy
would not,' however, extehd to thehiring of.gay and lesbian professors.
A survey by the Association's Section on Gay and Lesbian Legal Issues
determined that several dozen schools,
including Harvard, Yale and Stanford,
have already adopted such policies, andthat many schoolss are located in dties
which bar employment discriminationon the basis of sexual orientation.
The American Bar Association"
the largest legal organization in the
country, adopted a resolution last
February urging governmental bodies
at alllevels to adopt laws and policies
banning sexual orientation discrimination, and the Natjonal Association for
Law Placement adopted a statement
several years ago urging member law
schools to ban such discrimination in
their placement offices.
The AALS ExecuUve Committ~eproposal recognizes an exemption
from the non-discrimination r~qJirement for ,school with a "religious-affiliation or purpose" for whom such a
policy would be inconsistent withreligious teaching. The committee has
also proposed an ambiguous regulation that would excuse schools fromcomplying with the sexual orientation
provision if such compliance would"violate" any "state law." This regulation, proposed as part of a "compromise'" to secure passage in the
Executive Committee, is expected to
become the subject of considerable
debate at the meeting.
The AALS action may put additional pressure on the 'u.s. Defense
Department
to reconsider
its gayexclusionary policy, since the non-discrimination, proposal would eXtend tolaw school placement offices. Severalof the nation's leading law schools
already bar the Defense Department
from recruiting military lawyers attheir Placement Officers, including
Columbia, NYU and New York Law,
School. If the non-discrimination proposal passes, many more schools may
interpret it as requiring the exclusionof military recruiters.
.
--Art Leonard

December 10, 1989

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

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30 Fifth Avenue,
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call fqr info (212) 673-4331.

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After 5 p,m. call answering machine
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ARTISTS AVAILABLE: Keith Haring,
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call Dan at 255-6680.

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FILM
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The Coordinator of Group Services is
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THERAPYTRAVElFriendship: an 8 week group for gay
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staltin g friendships. Professional
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phone a must to Brian,
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Outweek Box 1767
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PO
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and hopefully more. Pissend photo/phonellJr to
Outweek Box 1782
BALLS
Give yours to me toworkover for our mutualpleasure. I am a 6'4', 40
year old w~h a great feelfor testicles. Young andcurious to experiencedall comers. Robert, P.O,
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and maybe more. Me:
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IT TAKES TWO:
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black spikey hair, (Joan
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music, concerts, gay
clubs. Learning gulJar.
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pre!. (black and spikey).
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an intimate, monogamous
relationship.
Smoker preferred. No
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10272.
BIWM, 21, 6', TAN
and blond seeking other
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and is not into bars. I'm
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30, with a photo. Box
402 SUNY, Purchase,
NY 105n-1400.
WAY FUNI!!
GWM, 27, wriler, very
funny, very bright, very
hairy. Loves: The B-52's,
Douglas Sirk movies,
British magazines, polka
dots, hot hors d'oeLNres, ,.
'Munsters' reruns, ice
cream in pinls, tall men
who look good in baggy
grey sweatpanls, frenchdoors, Wamol's Tunafish
Disaster, and the tasle ofcoffee first thing in themorning. Hates: Sade,
Stephen King novels.
dinner partners who
stack plates. low-vamp
shoes, small dreams,
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Box 29, 201 Washington
Street, Hoboken, NJ
07030,KINKY NEOPHYTE
GWM, Upper West Side,
wants to learn kinky safe
sex. 31, 5'10", 15011is,
Br/Gr, pretty face, masc.
You: clean-CUI, filthy
mind, creative, 28-40.
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Photo by Lizzerd Souffle/In the Dark Studios

LEIGH BOWERY,designer, performer, artist and pop Icon, Is probably the most visually shocking
character since Oscar Wilde.
A native Australian who once envisioned a career in archaeology, Leigh is currently starring in John
Mayberry's latest film. Other film credits include Cerlth Wyn Evans' Degrees of Blindness, which swept
awards in Holland and Switzerland, and a New Year's Day premier of Charles Atlas' Because We Must.
Famous for being famous, Leigh's self-invention Is a creation almost as genius as his art. An avid
fan of travelling, he's in high demand among the outrageous Jet set and can be frequently seen terrorizing some of the world's best parties as simply an "object d'art." Color being one of his most important tools, Bowery explains, "I've never understood this black thing. I love colors and I don't thinkthat I've ever owned a piece of black clothing except possibly I once had a black pair of shoes."
Whether it's hot colored wax dripping off his head or a hot pink satin bondage suit, Bowery will
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