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Claiming Forbes
For The Gay Nation
The ancient Romans had a time-honored policy that wheneverthey conquered a nation they would attempt to deprive that nationof its leaders, They reasoned that there was no better way to keeppeople docile and controllable than to separate them from what wewould today call their "role models,· It was a policy they pursued
by murder, exile and blackmail, And the policy worked, Deprivedof their native politicans, their philosophers, their literati, artists,
thinkers and natural leaders, most nations annexed by Rome sankinto centuries of provincial apathy,
Today, 20 years after Stonewall, the Gay Nation is in some ways
similar to Rome's demoralized provinces, Although we could always
coupt among our ranks some of the greatest Americans in every
field, most gay leaders are prematurely and pennanendy snatchedaway from us by the dark tyranny of the closet.
This ongoing tragedy has two primary causes: the external hate
generated against gays by society, and the paralyzing fear ofstraights' disapproval that springs from within gays ourselves, The
first is more blatant, the second far more insidious,
Most role models who are closeted gays, like most gays generally, don't come out for fear that drastic consequences await them ifthey do, Yet for the slowly growing number of celebrities who havecome out, the consequences are hardly as nightmarish as envisioned, and often have been genuinely positive, Openly gay members of congress keep getting reelected, gay pop stars keep having
hit songs, lesbian athletes keep winning tournaments, gay authors
remain on the best-seller lists, The fears of social and professional
catastrophe that motivated people like Malcolm Forbes to remain
hidden may have been well-founded in 1950 or even 1970; they're
wildly exaggerated in 1990,
Yet it's impossible to demonstrate how unfounded those fears
are unless leaders take the very plunge those fears prevent. And
unless they do, the myth is perpetuated that respected, successful,famous, powerful and brilliant people aren't gay,
This is a tragedy for America and it's a tragedy for those who,
like Forbes, needlessly cower in the closet. But the greatest losers
are gay and lesbian youth, Like subjects of a vanquished Roman
province, they seem destined to grow up not ever knowing thatwonderful, winning people like Forbes are their soul mates andcould be their inspiration in a hostile world, The tragedy of past
generations is thus repeated, B~t now, 20 years after Stonewall, it's
repeated needlessly,
So we say this to the youth of our tribe: There are idols you
aren't allowed to dream of, There are thousands of invisible
paragons you aren't allowed to know, There are lesbian movie
stars and gay sports stars and famous gay writers and famous lesbian singers and gay scientists and lesbian poets and gay politicans
and lesbian and gay geniuses, They are ours and, like them,
Malcolm Forbes was ours, And in your names and for your futures
we claim them all, ...

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LETTERS
Take Two Xanax and Call us
In the Momlng
It's 1:20 am-I
can't
sleep-I switch on the TVletterman
Is stili on-he's
Interviewing
actor Daniel

She listens and says she Istaklng down my comments
and thanks me,
Fine, I get back Into bed,
maybe now I can relax,
Costas Is now showing a clip

Stem (Hannah and HerSIsters, of Boyle from the film Joe,
the narrator on The Wonder ."You people are a bunch ofQueelSl"Years)-Stern says to LetterIt's 15 minutes later, Now
man something to the effect
I'm awake and mad, The 2of "You people from Indiana
am repeat of the 11 pm
only play sissy basketball,"OK, Fine, A commercial
comes on-for Coors beer,"Figures," I think to myself,
FIve minutes later Bob Costas
comes on, He's Interviewing
actor Peter Boyle, Rrst thing
they show Is a clip of Boyle
Imitating Brando on an old
Saturday Night Live: Boyle
splts out, "What are you all abunch of queerSll",
Now I've had It-two gaysneers and one commercial
for a notoriously homophobic company all within 15
minutes, Too much I Would amemberof any other. minority take such abuse? I
remember what Bette Mldler
once said to the gay communltyl "Don't you people
ever tire of continually beingslapped around?" I get up
and call NBC to complain,
The woman on the otherend of the phone Is polite,

comedy, much despised andsneered at by the theatrical
colTllTU'llty, written In 48 hollS
by Anna Nichols, an amateur
who made more money thanooy other playwright had evermade before,
Critic and Algonquin
Round Table wit Robert
Benchley described the playas "the new depths to which

the legitimate theater has
sunk: In his weekly column In
ute magazine, Benchley carried on a vendetta against
the play, which nonethelessran for 2,327 performances,·People laugh at this every
news come on, Four minutes
night,"
Benchley
comInto the newscast-Andyplained, "which exp!alns why
Rooney Is coming back on
democracy can never be a
the air,
success," later during Its run
Ron Parisi
he cried out, "Where do the
Hoboken,NJ
people come from who keep
P,S,Maybe I should havethis going? You don't see
turned on the stereo Insteadthem out In the day time,"of the TV, but the way things
Benchley's exasperated
were going, Axl Rose or
Donna Summer would have . comment that "In anothertwo or three years, we'll
come on,have this play driven out of
town" Inspired lyricist lorenz
Able's Candied Yams
Hart to quip In his lyrics forIn his review of Crowbar(no, 37, March 11), Joe E, the song "Manhattan": "Our
future bables/ We'll take toJeffreys states that "lionel
Able's / Irish Rose, / I hope
Barrymore and lillian Glshthey'll live to see / It close;'played the stage In Able's
The best criticism came
Irish Rose: Inadvertently
from
Benchley's
fellow
Insulting two fine actors andRound Tabler Harpo Marx.
demonstratinga shocking
who damned the play with
def!clency In his own theatrifaint praise: "No worse thancal education,
Able's Irish Rose was a a bad cold:
Mr, Jeffreys owes an apolsophomoric and sentimental

09'1 to the distinguished MissGlsh and the ghost of Mr,
Barrymore, neHher of whomwould have been caught
dead-or allve-ln the RoarIng 20s progenitor of BrIdget

Loves 8emJe,
Mitchel Ivers
Manhattan

Joe E. JeffreysResponds:
You're right, I'm
wrong, LIONELBARRYMOREAND LILIAN
GISH NEVER APPEAREDIN ANY PRODUCT/ON AT ANY
T/MEOF ABlE'S IRISH
ROSE, Misinformation
Is dangerous fare,
Take for example
Karen Finley forever
having to repute
sticking yams up her
ass. Thank you forpolntfng ouf the error.
Lookingbackover my notes on the
production, I fall tounderstandhowmuch a glaring mistake could have been
made on my part, MissG/shdid, however, play the current Victory Theater In January of 1913 as MarjorJe In A
Good Uttle DeVil, Mr. Barrymore played the stage In
April of 1917 as Colonel
Ibbeston In Peter Ibbeston,I hereby throw myself
upon the mercy of MissG/shand the ghost of Mr. Barrymore pleading for no less a
sentence than forever havIng to watch reruns of Fish
Soup,

Straightto Hell
Since OufWeek has been
active In the fight against all
forms of homophobia, both
Inside and ou!slde our communities,
I havebeen
appalled by the Intemallzed
self-hatredmanifested
In
personal ads In which Individuals Identify themselves as"stra-Ight acting"and/or"straight looklng: or Indicate
a desire to find people withthose traits, ThisIs Insulting toboth a healthy sense of les-March 4. 1990

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bIan and gay pride In general. and readers of the personals In particular,Thec::ISSU'riptionthat 'Iooldng- or'actingstralg.ht(asopposed to what? 'Foggy?'Dykey?- 'Queer?-) Is a p0sitive attribute Is not only pitiful. It Is offensive. Gay andlesbian communItIes revelwith good reason In bending
gender(s) and gender identities and offering a grob-bagof butches. femmes andeverything In between. andthe self-characterization'straIght looldng- Is In directcontradIctIonto thIs often
liberating
self creation.
"Butch- rFemmecan be
categories constructed andappropriated by the IndMdual as much to challenge
and parody gender and heterosex as to Imitate them.
while'straIght
actingmakes a desirable virtue outof heterosexuality
and anabhorrent vice out of thetrappings of homosexualHy,
Thus. I would suggest that
OutWeek adopt the follow-

Ing poOcy:

1. The personals shouldfeature a strongly worded
statement articulatinganopposition to such characterizations and explaining
the reasons for this opposition.

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2. OuMgelc should. In theMure. refuse to accept per.sona! ads which contatn thattype of description.
While I understand theCOfll)Ieldlles of 1tls sta'ld. crd
potential responses that thismeaue

woUd silence someforms of sexual or verbal
expression. Ithink It·s vital tothe heath of w corrm.rItIes.
'Mia the use of terms su:h as'1'TlCISO..tne- or the
II<e do IttIe to break down the
waIs of ~tero)sexlsm. at least
1hey do not Ql) wtth the seIf-"ferrtt'le:haired 'straglt acttng- taces

for granted. Wantlng-or
belng-someone'butch- or'femme- or 'masculine- or'femInIne:or someone
forced to
In the closet.
CCI'l I'lc:Ne the sane effect as
the description 'straight act1ng/lOOldng- but sends a veryreman

to Make an IrIsh-American
Faggot Screan- (no 20. Jan.
21) was Illalous. I posted It on
my refrigerator crd sent It togay Irish friends out of the .
COU"ltry. For Paul O'Dwyer towhine that the piece was"nertng- netfels to the Eeltor: no. 33, Feb, 11) was rothIng short of damned silly. It
was not 'How to
Make an IrlshAmerican Faggot Flinch- or'Howto PutDown an IrlshAmerIcan Faggot: but how to
make
a gay
gaelic scream.
Get It. Paul? Or
do you need amap?

Onecanorw

Moreover. such a policy
on OuMWk's part would not
be financIally detrimental.
Several lesbian and gay PIbIIcatlons have Implemented
this policy successfully;Ibelieve It would beneflt Out-wonderhowoften. It ever. Mr.
O'Dwyerhasuttered a protest(oreven a peep)against the ~ous. medieval
anti-sodomy
laws of his native

Weekto do Hkewlse.

Ireland.

cIffeIent message.

Sarah E. ChlM
Brooklyn
How to Make an ErseCurse
As a goy Irish-AmerIcan. I

F.X. RusseU
Shelburne Falls. MA

Buffer the Children?
In one respect. your edlfI:l.C:>lJQb!~I~~..N~\.'IIIE(~'Hc:>w torlal on Father Bruce Ritter

March18.1990(no. 36. Mar, 4) was pretty
off-base. You soy he could
have had a 'llfe-afflrming.
gay-posltlve Influence- If he
had opposed the policies of
the Catholic Church fromwithin and had been 'moreat ease with 1,1s nature: ThIs
Is highly dolbtful. It news stories ~ttu having sex withyoung men from age 14 on
are correct. this would put
him In the long tradition ofpederastry.
I.e,.
love
betweena man and ayouth, Do you really believethat a seIf-afflrmlng boy~ver
would be allowed to havesuch Inftuence. either In thechll'ch or In the goy community? I do not wtsh to defend
Ritter. who has built his caeer
by oppOsing gay rights andconsensualsex between
men and boys. And you aeright to point to the destructive dynamic of the closet-ls
It too much to hope that he
Is giving some thought tothese considerations during
his current ordeal?
But the fact remains thatthe options of gay men wholove youths and wish to help
provide them with needed
services are pretty limited.
espedally In the wake of thechild abuse and pornograpHy hysteria of the pastdecade, to which, of COllSe,
Ritter--<JSwell as some In thelesbian/gay and women's
movemenfs-confrtbuted,
You say that Ritter would
be a -hero to OU'~
If he had -gen~ challenged
homophobia from within theduch, More power to those
priests a'ld nuns Who are sHrring up trouble Inside theRomal CathoIc Ctuch, a'ld
let's hope they ae not aways-gen11e: Slrely, the ctuch Is
one hsIItuIIon that has earned
the hatred of homosexuals- , nIty.
1here's plenty of hypocrtsy
a'ld 01herrfor cen1\l1es, But
woUctI't It be more heroic, or In this case, and not all of It
at IOOst lberatng, for RItter to can be laid at RItter'sdoor,
Davtd Thorstad.leave an outfit that cannot
Manhattan
seem to stop behg a'l ogene:( of oppression, and cast his
Ad Ladlot with those who are strugYour publisher Is 100 perglng for sexuallberatlon? 1he
1rOlbIe Is that even If he Wefe cent correct that advertising
to do so, as a gay I'l'la"I who In the gay press Is of vital
loved youths, he would not Importance especially at thistime due to the attacks by
get fu'lcIng from the state-orSen, Helms,
Sl.pport from the gay commu-

I earn much of my Income
as a prostitute and I haveadvertIsed In the gay press
and wincontinue to do so,
stephen L. Crouse
BrIstol,PA
And Now a Note from
Someone Who Doesn't
Uke the New Cover
What Is the deal with the
new cover design? luckily,
the magazine was not next
to Self or TeenBeat or else I
would have surely overlooked It, I thought you guys
said that your move to theWest Village wouldn't bringabout changes like this,Get rid of that glossy 80s
crap, this Is the 90s,
Ron Pomerantz
Manhattan
Gays and the Jewish
Establishment
what was the purpose of-Do Progressives Make theBest Homophobes?-Inslde

the Tlkkun Conference· (no,36, Mer, 4)? Was It an attempt
to be kitschy, cute, funny,
pointed, cool? Why use thephrases -liberal Hebes:-cruising for Jewish white
trash: -neurotic-Jewish·? I
don't find the use of suchphrases funny, And the flip
comment about -wet-sulted
Hitler Youths..,found hanging
ten ..:? Doesn't tvlr, Sadownlck
know that an off-hand mention of a Nazi grm.p In al at!de on a JewlS'l topic Is bou'ld
to be construed as Insensitiveor even offensive? I found It
both, I kept reading the crtIcIe
until Its conclusion out ofcurtosllyto see just how r1c:Iculous It would get. and .alsoto
see If there wood be art( ser1ous reporting In It, It gOt I'1"lOl9
ridiculous, but there was also
some reporting In It, and some
Important points were made,unfortunately all but lost
behind the offenSve plYashg.
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the substance of the article
ald the IdIsc::trt tone wNch cis1rocIed from what was hl:>Ortcrn hthe a1IcIe.
Certainly, David Schulman was refetrlng to theJews of the Jewls-I-establlsh-

ment" (synagogues, notionalorganizations, usually very
conservottve on general lesbian and gay Issues, too)
when he said, as Mr. Sodownlck reports, that there
was -no concerted effort on
the part of the Jews to 1Ight
AIDS.' But why cld Mr. Schulman Ignore Jews who hove
participated In ACT UP andother activist organizations?
Perhaps It was partly anoversight and perhaps patty
because not many Jewish
gay and lesbian activists
speak or write about theirJewlshnessIn relation to their
poIHlcal octtvltles. Why did astraight man give the AIDS
talk at the conference?
.That's another story, not fuUy
explained In the ortIcIe. Why

was there only one openly
goy or lesbian rabbi moderating a diSCUSSionand one
addressing the entire conference? Maybe because
there are so few openly lesbian and gay rabbis, Why
are there so few openly lesbian and goy rabbis? A few
words about that In the artIcle coud hove been enlightening, And Tlkkun editor
Lerner's -retlsh for family volues?' It's a position of Lemer's that has bothered me fora long flme, too, and a p0sition that dearly has ImpllcoflOnsInimical to the Interestsof Jewish lesbians and gay
men. A Itttte more discussion
about that, a little more discussion about the protests
staged by the lesbians andgoy men at the conference,
would have been In order.
What kinds of actions against
synagogues will be plannedby those who protested at
the conference? How are
they organizing? I wouldn't

had picked up news of theconference.
Unfortunately, as It was,the artlde wasn't as much ofa service as It could havebeen. If OutWeek seeks toserve the diverse lesbian andgay
community,that
Includes Jews, and so has an
obligation to cover events
like the Tlkkun Conference. I
think that OutWeek con andmust do better.
Irene Koren1leld
Brooklynknow from this article,
There Isn't exactly anabundance of reporting In
the gay and lesbian press
about gay and lesbian Jews,
although there are Issuesto
be discussed, so why virtually
throwaway the opportunity
to present something of substance In this article? Open,
unclose ted gay men andlesbians hove been more or
lesslocked out of organized,
mainstream Jewish groups,
espedany synagogues, seminaries and other religiousorganizations.
We h'avebeen locked out to a lesser
extent from less mainstream
Jewish groups, as evidenced
at the Tlkkun Conference In
LosAngeles, but at least are
not totally silenced at suchgatherlngs. Meetings like the
Tlkkun Conference provide
an Invaluable forum foradvancing the Ideas anddemands of lesbian and goy
activists. That's why I was
excited to see that OutWeek

X Marks the Blot
Who Is this Modome X?
Did I get drunk one night
and get married without
knowing It?
Pleasj3 answer soon os I
am doing my taxes andneed to know If I should 1Ie a
jolnt re1un.
Rick X
Manhattan

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Tothe Editor:
It's six weeks Into.the caseheard Dr, Laurence say, "~a statistic, Dr. Prego has
about a year to live ..: We
read about Dr. prego having
to leave the witness standof Dr, Veronica Prego who
contends she contracted
AIDSas a result of a contamInated needle prlck to her
flnger ("Doctor's TestimOny Is
Disputed
In AIDS Trial:
2/12/90), She Is asking for$175 mllllori In damages,
Since the beginning of thistrial . we
have
been
swamped with doom andgloom headlines- about Dr,
Prego's Illness, We havebecause she was too weak
to continue, We heard how
she cried all night, All thiscourt room drama designed
for maximum effect and to
ccnvlnce the court and the
public that HIV
AIDS
Death., And why all thisattention? One reason could
be that she Is not readily
Identifiable with any of thehigh risk groups, So thismakes her (as the pres:; likes

Your Money or Your Ufe
The New Yorl< Times
New York, NY 10036==

to refer to children with AIDS)
an "Innocent victim." Onehas to wonder If It were aperson from a high risk groupsuing If this trial would begetting the same amount ofcompassionate attention,
Dr. Prego Is not fighting
for her life In this trlal-she Is
fighting for money-attheexpense of her life. And
that Is truly sad. There Is areal possibility that she
will eventually die from
AIDS-related
symptoms. Not because ofa needle prick, HIV or
even
AIDS.
But
becauseshehasalready excepted thisoutcomefor herself.
Her whole case Is built
on the mis-Informed
Idea
thcit
AIDS Is
always fatal. That there
Is no hope. And by
painting the picture as
dark and hopeless as
possible around this'Innocentvictim,"before you know It,
you have a great news
story, If not a "movie ofthe week."
I have compassion
for Dr, Prego but not for
the reasons she would
like. When a person
flnds out that they have
HIV,ARC or AIDS(or any
life-threatening
Illness)
they are faced with tWochoices, 1. "I will die
from this: or 2. "I canlife with this," Dr. Prego
has clearly chosen theformer and Is asldng tobe paid for It, My sympathy for Dr. Prego Is
that she Is playing themartyr In hopes of collecting$175 million and Is living therest of her life In misery,
But the real tragedy In
this trlal Is not Dr. Prego or
the hospital.
It's all thepeoplewho have AIDS
concerns and are scared.
All the people who are tryIng to live with this the best
they can, So many of theirhopes and dreams havebeen discreditedby themountain of mis-Information that has been used as
evidence, acceptedandreported
as fact In this .
trial.
There Is no way of everknOwing how Dr. Prego got
HIV. It's also never been
proven that HIV Is the solecause of AIDS, At best It
might be a co-factor In thisdisease. No human being,
Including
Dr. Laurence,can predict
how long
another human being has
to live. Nor can anyone
predict
when someone
might experiencea selfhealing, miracle or, as the
medlca1 profession callsthem,
a spontaneous
remission. But they do happen every day. And most
Importantly
Is that not
everyone who has AIDS will
die from AIDS. Throughol,lt
history there have be~nplagues and life-threatenIng diseases but there werealways survivors. We are livIng proof of that. AIDS Is no
different,
I'm Involved with three
A1DSofelatedsupport groups
a week, They each have a
different focus from alternative non-toxlc therapies andInformation, to medicationand stress reduction, to discussions of God, splrltuallty
and love, All of these IIfeaffirming groups share thecommon thread of. selfempowerment
and hope.
this trlal has come up In all
three groups and I haveseen how all this negative
mlslnforma1lon has effected
people. We might not knowwhat tomorrow holds but
we do know this. There Is nosuch thing as "dying from
AIDS," You are either alive or
you arenotl
The day you
give up your will to live Is theday you die,
.Where there Is a will tolive there are survivors andwhere there are survivors
there Is hope, There Is
always hope,
Michael Wayne Miles
Manhattan

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News

New York State Vetoes
Phone Sex Ban
by Gabriel Rote II 0
ALBANY- Gay and AIDS activists
and civil libertarians scored a victory
Wednesday when New York State
rejected an attempt to ban phone sex
services in the state, Despite the statelevel victory,
however,lawyers
stressed that the threat to the services
from federal legislation is still verymuch in force, They said they would
be filing lawsuits challenging
theconstitutionality of the federal statute
this week, and that without suchlawsuits the phone services might still
be interrupted
as early as next
Thursday.
The victory in New York came at a
meetingof the PublicService,Commission in Albany, The commission,
which oversees the operations of New
York Telephone and other utilities,
turned down NY Tel's request to change
its rules governing phone sex,
The phone company had filed
those new rules with the commission
last month, asking to be allowed to
implement changes that would haveterminatedthe sex services, On'echange would have allowed the phonecompany to cease its current prac:ticeof billing sex-line customers
andpassing the revenues on to the phone
sex companies, The second would
have blocked public access to the lines
unless customers
requested
suchaccess in writing.
Analysts had
maintained that either rule, if enforced,
would have put the IPs out ofbusiness,

Phone Company Derided
In rejecting the new rules thecommission made it clear that thestate's policy is to comply with the
new federal legislation in the least
re~trictive
way possible,
Severalcommissioners indicated that NY Tel

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REACH OUT AND TOUCI~ SOMEONE?
SAFE CAll Demo.t NY T.I
had attempted to go far beyond the
mandate of the federal law in thiscase.
"The company's request to ceasebilling is not even mentioned by thefederal law," said Commissioner Eli
Noam in rejecting NY Tel's rules,
In remarks scathingly critical of
NY Tel's approach, Noam said, "Thephone company
keeps trying tochange our minds on these issues, Allof us here should start to be really
upset with the company,"
Noam derided the request to ceasebilling for phone sex, comparing it to acredit card company's refusal to accept
charges for goods. it disapproved of.
Calling the phone company "theinformation highway o( society," hemaintained that it is not the business ofthe highway to worry about what kindof .traffic passes over it.
"The phone company is in asituation most businesses would die
for," he said, "They're in a position

Photo: Lee Snider/Photo Images
midway between businesses and theircustomers, If they learned to takeadvantage of that position they could
reap .billions each year, and we would
be lowering rates for everyone, Andyet, instead of taking advantage of thisadvantage, they're trying to throw it
away, They'll lose six or seven million
a year on this, and then come to us toraise the rates to make up'for it."
In a direct reference to the safer sex
implications of ·the issue, Noam held up
a copy of the full page ads which Safe
Call, a coalition of gay,AIDS and civil
libe.rties groups, had placed in the
VtJlage Voice protesting the proposed
new rules,"Thereis clearlyanother
perspective on this issue," he said,
contrasting the ads with opinions ofright-Wing pressure groups, "There areother sides, other people involved.
The chairman and several othermembersoftheseven-person
commission eXpressed agreement withII

Noam's views. The one dissenter was
Commissioner MacFarland, an upstate
Republican long opposed to phone sex
companies,

Llist Rlltrlctivi Compllinci
Acknowledging
the impending
federal statute, which takes effect
March 22, the commission instructed
NY Tel to comply with the law in as
unrestrictive a manner as possible. The
federal law, sponsored by Senator Jesse
Helms, mandates that information
providers (IPs), as the phone sex
companies are known, which offer
Madult"services must restrict access totheir services only to customers whowrite in to "pre-subscribe:
The commission instructed thecompany
to only mandate
presubscription if an IP Mvoluntarily selfcertified" that their service is adult innature. If an IP self-certified that theirservice is not adult, or if the IP refused
to self-certify
at all, the phonecompany must accept the status quoand not intelTUpt that IP's service.
Asked what would happen if an IP
which was obViously adult in nature
did not self-certify or lied in doing so, acommissioner responded that nothing
law this week in the Southern District
would or should happen. MIt'snot ourof New York Federal Court. The New
business to enforce an ambiguousYork Civil Liberties Union and Lambda
federal law,· he said. "That's between . Legal Defense
Fund were also
the IP and the federal government."planning suits this week on behalf ofSome commissioners expressedphone sex users. Lawyers said that thethe opinion that the Helms law was
two suits would probably be united byunconstitutional and would possibly be
the courts.
successfully ch~llenged in federal
Once the suits are flied, lawyers
court.
will attempt to obtain temporary
New York Telephone
is now
restraining
orderswhich would
required to draw up new rules inprevent
thegovernment
fromkeeping with the mandate of theinterferingwith the phonesex
commission, With the deadline ofoperations
while
the
largerthe federal law fast approacbing,constitutional issues are decided. Itandnocommission
meeting
was unclear whether they will bescheduledsoon,· those new rules
successful in this attempt.
may be approved by a single comIt was also unclear what themissioner without the formality of aintentions of the federal prosecutor were
hearing.
in New York, Some lawyers expressed
the opinion that with the actioos d the
LlWYI,. Stll Appreblllll"
Public Service Commission; it was
Despite the victory oh the state
unlikely that a federal prosecuta would
level, lawyers for both phone sex users
be likely to proceed against IPs in New
and providers stressed that the mainYork. Others disagreed, noting that in abattle is still shaping up in the federal
similar case which went to the Supreme
courts.
Court laSt year, federal prosecutors had
Joel DiChter, a lawyer retained by
moved in on the IPs despite regional
the IPs, said that he would be filing a
opposition to a ban on phone sex
constitutional challenge to the Helms
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Court 'Nixes Visitation Bid
By Lesbian Co-Parent
by Arthur S. Leornard

Ettelbrick WilS referring to Ronald

NEW YORK-An appeals court in
Brooklyn ruled March 2 that Alison D"
the lesbian co-parent of a nine-year-old
boy, was not entitled to a court hearing
on her request for visitation rights after
the breakup of her relationship withthe boy's mother, Virginia M,
The 3-to-1 majority opinion agreed
with Supreme Court Justice James D,
Benson of Dutchess County, who ruled in
July, 1988 that Alison was not a "parent"
within the meaning of the New York
Domestic Relations Law, which resetVes
to "parents" the right to claim visitation toa child,Justices Joseph J. Kunzernan, Guy
J. Mangano and Milton MoIlen, who wasrecently appointed Deputy Mayor for
Giminal Justice by Mayor David Dinkins,
made up the majority,
Although earlier decisions by the
Court of Appeals, New York State's
highest court, have held that those otherthan "natural parents" could contest
visitation rights in "extraordinary
circumstances," the appellate panel
found that Alison's case did not qualify
for such treatment. Alison and VlI'ginia
M, began living together in March 1978, .
and jointly planned to raise a family
using donor insemination. VirginiaM,
bore their son in July 1981. Theirrelationship ended in 1983, but VlI'ginia
allowed Alison liberal visitation rights
until 1987, when Alison moved to
Ireland for a year to pursue a job
opportunity. Virginia moved without
notifying Alison of her new address, cut
off all contact with the child and refused
to allow renewed contact when Alison
returned to New York,Paula Ettelbrick of Lambda Legal
Defense Fund, who argued Alison's
appeal on January 8, said, "We're very
disappointed in the court's decision,
and we feel that the court relied too
heavily on a case that was easily
distinguishable from this one,"
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March 18, 1990

F.F. v, Cindy G,G" a 1988 decision inwhich the state's highest court denied
visitation rights to the boyfriend of asingle mother who was proven not tobe the biological father of her child,holding that the situation did not meetthe "extraordinary circumstances' rule,
1bat case did not involve any agree-

ment between the parties to raise afamily together,"Alison really wants to appeal,"
said Ettelbrick. "We can't just let thisopinion sit, because, this is devastating
to everyone,
not just lesbian coparents,' due to its broad applicationof the Ronald F.F. case, The Alison D.
SeeWBIAN ~NT
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AIDS Inmates
Sue Cuomo Over
Prison Policies
by Arthur S. Leonard

helpful in the budget process going
on,' New York State's fiscal year
NEW YORK-The
Legal Aid
begins April 1, and all key players inSociety ftled a massive lawsuit against
state government are now engrossed
Governor
Mario Cuomo and thein negotiations over the new budget.
administrators of the New York StateThe 64-page complaint asserts that
Department of Correctional Services infederal court in Albany on March 6, Cuomo, Corrections Commissioner
Thomas A, Coughlin III and othercharging multiple violations of theprison officials have failed in theirconstitutional rights of state prisoners
duties under the constitution
towith HIV infection and AIDS, Theprovide appropriate care for prisoners
lawsuit, which has between assigned
affected by the epidemic, resulting into U,S. District Judge Thomas J,
and unusual
punishment
McAvoy, was brought in the name of cruelforbidden by the Eighth Amendment
ten anonymous prisoners with AIDS on
behalf of all present and future HIV- and violation of rights of privacy anddue process of law under the 14th
infected prisoners,
Amendment.
Legal Aid attomey William Rold,
At press time, Amy Colodny, aannouncing
the lawsuit at a press
spokeswoman for the New York State
conference in New York City, stated,
Department of Corrections, said she"There may be as many as 7,000
inmates with HIV infection, but current . ,could not yet comment on the lawsuit
itself because she had not yet seen afunding proposals are tens of millions
copy of the actual papers, but she
short of what is needed,'He alsostated that plaintiffs hoped that "the act called AIDS, "our major budget
initiative,'of filing the lawsuit itself will beColodny said the department is"very, very concerned about AIDS, andwe would love to be able to do morethings, But in times of tight fiscal
constraints, it's difficult."
A spokespersonfromthegovernor's office did not return phone
calls by press time,
Of the 50,000 state prisoners,
about 17 percent are believed to be
HIV-infected, yet the state lacks any
coordinated program for dealing withAIDS in prisons.
More than 800
prisoners have already died from AIDS,
and about 800 more are now known
to be living with AIDS as defmed by
the Centers for Disease Control within
the state system, but each individual
prison is left largely to its own devices
to secure treatment, order medications
and decide on how to deal with AIDS
issues, according to the complaint. The
lengthy complaint provides chaptersand verse on the lack of coordination,
inadequate services and inhumaneliving conditions. suffered by prisoners
with AIDS.
Among the. most serious charges
are: massive breaches of confidentiality
about the HIV status of individual
prisoners; lack of access to physicians
despite obvious symptoms of serious
illness; extended delays in providing
prescribed medication; inadequate or
nonexistent counseling for prisoners
who test positive; and deprivation of
medication, access to appropriate careor reduced food rations as punishment
for behavior
which is-insomecases-attributable
to AIDS-related
mental impa"trment.
De .... before diagno$isThe. complaint also charges thatlack of care has resulted in manyprisoners dying before their conditions
could be diagnosed, and cites studies
showing that prisoners with AIDS
survive only a third as long as similar
persons diagnosed outside prisons. In
fact, according
to attorney John
Gresham of Prisoners Legal Services,
who attended the press conference,
prisoners with AIDS fare less well thanhomeless persons with AIDS who
depend upon public shelters andpublic hospitals for their treatment.
.
The complaint includes detailed
histories of treatment of the plaintiffs,
It is hard to know whether "Kafka-

esque" or "Dickensian"is a more
appropriate
description
for these
histories, They provide a litany ofdelays, misinformation,
incorrecttrea~ent, inhumane living conditions
and official indifference to pain andsuffering,
At the press conference, a paroled
prisoner with AIDS, William Diffley,
who spent 14 months in the special
AIDS unit at Sing Sing, said that thecase histories were accurate, He said
that "people have actually lapsed into
comas when prescribed medication
was delayed·or not properly
administered," and that HIV-positive
inmates were denied contact visits withparents, grandparents,
siblings andchildren, in addition to the denial of
conjugal visits with spouses upheld by
the state Court of Appeals a few years
ago.
Asserting that "people are dying
unnecessarily
in prison,"Diffleyclaimed that "the system needs such an
overhaul that it makes economic sense
to release
peoplefor outside'treatment." His stark conclusion: "Itseems to be an unspoken policy to letthem die,"
The complaint
assertsthat
Commissioner
Coughlinand hisdeputies are aware of many of these
problems as a result of reports by avariety of independent agencies andassociations, but have done virtuallynothing to correct the. The complaintalso charges that Governor Cuomo has
impounded funds appr0p.riated for
dealing with AIDS education
andtreatment during the past two state
fiscal years.
The .lawsuit seeks a court orderbarring the state "from subjecting[prisoners with HIV infection and AIDS]
to the illegal and unconstitutional
conditions of confmement described inthis complaint" and requests the court
to oversee compliance with its order, .
Severalotherorganizations
showed support for the lawsuit byattending the press conference, Among
those represented were Prisoners Legal
Services, Gay Men's Health Crisis, the, ,American Civil Liberties Union and theCorrectional Association of New York,
which has issued several reports
calling on the state prison systems toradically upgrade the quality of their
AIDS programs, ...

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Local Latino Groups
Eye National Focus
Mizzette Fuenzalida,
national lesbian and gay conferences, Its
executive director of Wash- first formal meeting was held during theington D,G.-based LIEGO,
1987 March on Washington. The second
began by asking the gameeting was held in Los Angeles inthering to name the issues
February, 1988 where participants drafted
faced by the Latina(o)bylaws and selected the name LIEGO,
lesbian and gay community
an acronym which means 'it has anived'of New York, They includedin Spanish, LIEGO has an interim board
anti-violence, child custody,of directors consisting of 12 people: twodomestic partnership, AIDS men and two women from each of theand lesbian and gay rights inEastern, Central and Western regions ofgeneral. She pointed out thatthe country, Both the Central andthose were some of theWestern
regions
haveelectedsame issues raised
representatives
by communities
to the board
she has addressedalready,Atacross the country,
one point, Fuenzalida attempted to tum
Louis
Ortiz,
cothe room's attention to begin ~hechair-alongwith Isabel
selection of Eastern representatives bycalling for nominations for an upcoming
Photo~T.L_ Litt
S~ntos~f,
New York's
HUGL's Louis Ortiz
HispaniC Untted Gays andregional election
by Lazaro Hernandez
Lesbians (HUGL),said that later that
"This is your turn .now," said
NEW YORK-"When we go aroundnight he spoke to Fuenzalida andFuenzalida. "If you are ready, let's movethe country, people ask us 'How many
explained to her the position in whichon, We will take nominations."
members do you have? Who do you
HUGL is at the present time, "I can't
But before nominations could be
represent?' 1bat is why we need to work
speak for the body of HUGL, but I
brought to the floor, some audience
together," said Letitia G6mez, co-chair of
explained
to her the process ofmembers voiced concerns about the
LIEGO, the national Latina(o) Lesbian
reorganization we are goingand Gay Organization, "United we canthrough, My personal feelingis that a lot of work has to be
make a difference."
A group of about 50 people
done within the oIganization
and I can't extend myself
gathered on Feb, 24 at the Lesbian andpersonally to a national
Gay Community Center on West 13th St
organization. We have to be
showed interest in the idea of·a nationalorganized locally before weorganization to represent the Latina(o)start that process nationally,"community, but. many people voiced
concerns over their lack of familiarity
Other
local
with LIEGO and its goals, Qthers wereorganizations with memberspresent at the meeting wereconcerned with the need for local
Las Buenas Amigas, theorganizations
and individuals
toBoricua Gay and Lesbianconcentrate on the issues that need to be
Forum, the Latina(o) Caucus
addressed in New York City beforeof ACT UP/NY and three
taking on national issues,
members of Philadelphia's
In the .end, local new York
Fuego Latino,organizations
resisted a wholesale
The idea for LLEGO~ndorsement of LLEGO for the time
evolved in 1986 at a series of Salsa Soul Sisters' Daisy DeJesus
Photo: lL. Littbeing,

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Buenas Aniigas, "1he invitation was for a
reception, They never told us anything
about elections,
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Ne,,,sArmy Wants Gay Cadet
to Return ROTC Money
by Rex Wackner

should think virtually all) uriiversities,"
California,
Iowa, Minnesota
andAdding a new twist to its anti-gay
He urged the ROTC to drop its plans to
Wisconsin, and Harvard, Yale andpolicies, the Army's Reserve Officer
Northwestern,seek reimbursement from Holobaugh.
Training Corps is asking that a $25,000
Washington University is at least
ROTC provides 70 percent ofscholarship be returned by a college
the eighth major university to tackle
Armed Forces officers and offers
senior who realized he was gay andthe military's homophobia, following
programs
at 318 collegesandcame out of the closet.
in the footsteps of the University of
Sea GAY CADEt' l1li pal' 30
The early March ruling by an ROTC
hearing officer came in the case of 24year-old James Holobaugh, a senior at
Wdshington University in St. Louis.
Holobaugh had been an ROTC
favorite prior to being blacklisted,
appearingin an ROTC national
recruitment advertising campaign andperforming at the top of his class in St.
Louis,
by Rex Wockner
hurting. them with a remark I made that I
The Department of Defense has
60 Minutes commentator Andy
didn't realize would hurt them? It's
not previously asked for scholarshipRoon~, suspended by CBS Feb. 8 for . demeaning to have to sit here andmoney to be returned
unless a
homophobic and possibly racist remarks
defend myself."
particular gay or lesbian lied about his ,he made in public, was back on the airAnd, in relating the story aboutor her sexual orientation
to gainMarch 4, more than two months before
ejecting the racist guest from his home,
admittance to ROTC programs. DOD
the three-month suspension was toRooney added, "I'd feel the same today if
policy rejects all homosexuals as unfit
expire,anyone used an insulting word about
for military service.
In his regular 60 Minutes segment,
homosexuals,"
But in the case of Holobaugh, theRooney strongly defended himself
In closing, Rooney asked: "Do I
hearing officer found no evidence ofagainst the charges that he is a racist,
have any opinions that might irritate
deceit. Holobaugh was dating women
providing a litany of pro-Black steps he . some people? You're damned right I do.
when he entered the ROTC in 1984
has taken in his public life,
That's what I'm here for."The list included once kicking out of
Rooney'ssuspension
at CBSand did not realize he is gay until late
his home a guest who repeatedly used
reportedly triggered a massive mail andin 1988, He promptly reported his
the word "nigger," sitting in the back of phone protest from viewers as well asgayness to ROTC officials,
the bus with Blacks when he was in the severe peer criticism for CBS NewsIn retrospective, Holobaugh says it
Anny and writing a television program
president Davi!1 Burke, who made themight have been better to keep his
called "A Black America" for Bill Cosby
decision,sexual orientation a secret, but hein 196B,
Many of Burke's peers cha!ged that
added, "I'm also glad I'm not trying tohide anything,"
Rooney also made an effort to clear CBS was denying Rooney freedom ofthe. air with "homosexuals" during the
speech, but they were mostly angry that
Holobaughplans to fight theqroadcast. But many gay and lesbian
Burke seemingly took the word of gay
ROTC ruling with the support of theactivists are saying the attempt wasreporter Cluis Bull over that of Rooney,
American Civil Liberties Union andunsatisfactory,
Bull had said that Rooney told him
Washington University,Rool)ey's March 4 remarks about
Blacks have watered down their genes
Washington University provost
gays, in full, were:'
because the least intelligent ones get
Edward Macias, in a letter to university"I'd be known for the rest of my ., pregnant, but Rooney has denied making
ROTC commander Lieut. Col. Robert
life...as someone who had made life a that remark.
Rooney's suspension
Bates, called the military's anti-gay
little more difficult for homosexuals....
immediately followed publication of thepolicies"inconsistentwiththeHow do I apologize to homosexuals for
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D.C. Gay Rights Law
by Cliff O'Neill
WASHINGTON-The U.S. Senate
narrowly defeated a surprise measure
March 1 that would have exempted
volunteer youth programs from theDistrict of Columbia's stringent gay andlesbian rights law, The vote followed
hours of heated debate and intense
behinckhe-soenes negotiations,
The anti-gay proposal, introduced
the evening of feb. 18 during debate on
the unrelated National and Community
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razor-thin 47 to 50 margin when senators
refused to table a substitute measure, _. The original amendment, sponsoredby Sen. William Armstrong (R-Colo.),would have created a loophole in theD,C. human rights code allowing any
volunteer ~which "educates,
coaches, or trains any minor, or holds out
the adult as a role model, mentor orcompanion" to dlsaimlnate against gay·and b~persons,
The successful substitute measure,sponsored by Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), instead put the focus on"homosexual, bisexual or heterosexuals"
convicted and acaJSed child sex abusers
and allowed parents final say on theirchildren's counselors. After Armstrong's
motion to· table it was defeated, thesubstitute rider went on to pass 97-1,
with even Armstrong voting for it
The landmark vote, the f11'St such
vote in the Senate upholding the D,C,
lesbian and gay rights law, comes only
two weeks after senators overwhelmingly
defeated a fiercely anti-gay measure from

Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N,C,) on the Hate
Crimes StatisticsAct.
"Having voted against Helms
without the world caving in on them, I
think now senators realize they can voteagainst Armstrong," commented Greg
King, communications director for the
Human Rights Campaign Fund.
Armstrong's unexpected amendment
came in response to the resolution of acontroversy between D,C, gay andlesbian activists and the local chapter of
Big Brothers in which, ending years ofcontention with the gay Community andthe D,C, Office of Human Rights, theorganization last full repealed its policy ofbanning gay men from becoming
volunteer youth counselors,"Homosexuality
has long beenscorned by mainstream people as antisocial and destructive behavior," argued
ArmsIrong on the Senate floor, "In fact,
until quite recently, homosexual behavior
was unlawful in most jurisdictions, and in
my view, properly so,"Kennedy, however, argued that,even if such an amendment was needed,
it shouldn't single out homosexuals andbisexuals, "'Thelaw shouldn't assume thatany class of persons is a threat tochildren," he said,
The Armstrong measure came as acomplete surprise to gay and lesbianactivists, although they were given a
scant 30 minutes of warning when
staffers at the National Gay and Lesbian
Task Force were tipped off by aColorado newspaper
as to what
ArmsIrohg was planning,, Operating quickly, Task Force
staffers were able to hastily rally a
coalition of lobbyists for gay rights, civil
liberties and District home rule to comeup with the substitute amendment battle
plan, Meanwhile, realizing he could stave
off a vote on Armstrong's amendment.
measure until the next morning,
Kennedy bought anti-amendment forcesa night of strategizing by employing
parliamentary stalling tactics as soon as
Armstrong introduced his rider,
Once the debate bega~ the nextmorning, Armstrong railed against lesbian
and gay rights, deriding homosexuality as"anti-social, a fonn 'of aberrant behavior"and "destructive of individuals' families
and communities,"
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Senators Han Care Bill for
AIDS "Quake"in the balance
effectively."
Pointing out that a friend of his wasunless we begin to
confront AIDS as a featured on the large square from theNames Project AIDS Memorial Quilt
true national emerwhich. served as a backdrop to the press
gency."
conference, Hatch outlined .the bill's
In her remarks, Taylor vow- .provisions, calling for "compassion andtolerance" of all those affected by AIDSed to "not stop
fighting" and "not and predicting the bill would be
supported by the Bush administration, "I
be silent" until the
Kennedy/Hatch bill believe the administration will be looking
is passedby at this vel}' carefully," said Hatch, adding
Congress,that the $600 million price tag of the bill
Is still "not enough" to face the increasing. A day earlier,demand,of the epidemic.
Taylor had met
Speaking to the massive number ofwith First Lady
BIG GUNS TAKE AIM AT AIDS
Photo: Patsy Lynch Barbara Bush 'to' reporters at the press conference
Sen. Kennedy, Uz Taylor, Sen. HItCh, Mayor Dlnkllll, B.llnda MlIOn lobby her and the . attracted by Taylor's appearance,
National AIDS Commission member
president on thebill and other AIDS issues. "America Belinda Mason called it "sad" that it took
by Cliff O'Neill
WASHINGTON-5enate
leaders
responded within days to the California . a celebrity's appearance to draw attention
stated Kennedy in to the landmark AIDSbill.
unveiled a massive AIDS care and . earthquake,""I think: It's wonderful that [Taylor]disaster relief package at a Capitol Hill introducing his bill. "We have pledgedpress conference March 6, bringing in tens of billlons to rescue the savings and does the work that she does for us,· said
Mason, who Is also the president of theloan Industry. AIDS is a comparable
actress and fundraiser Elizabeth Taylor to." AID. -QUAJCE- on PI.. ao
help them draw attention to the ongoing disaster and we need to respondlack of access to treatment by people
with AIDS and the mounting health carealsls in hard-hit dtles nationwide.
To face the problems of the ongoingalsls, Sens. Edward KeMedy (D-Mass.)
and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) announced
their introduction of the Comprehensive
AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) A!.tof 1990,a massive package which would
By: Cliff O'Neill
activists alike criticized the .Bushprovide $600 million in emergency aid to
WASHINGTON-Membersof· Admlnstration's
proposal for $1.69
cities and states hit particularly hard bybillion in spending on· AIDS programs
the epidemic and would expand access Congress fighting the AIDS epidemic
were joined at a House budget hearing in flscaI 1991 as being inadequate andto treatment to early intervention services
March 6 by polltlctlans, health care short-Sighted in light of the doubling
for the HIV Infected.
experts
and AIDS advocatesAlPS caseloads nationwide,"AIDS Is unmercifully killing"Over the past nine years, thepeople-people 1 know and love, and, 1 including actress and fundralser
Elizabeth Taylor-in harshly crtlclzing country has gone through cycles ofsuspect, people you know and love,"
AIDS funding leve1s In President
AIDS awareness: From Ignorance to.
said Taylor, founding national chairhysteria to complacency,» stated Rep.
person of the American Foundation for George Bush's flscaIl991 budget.
Testifying before the U,S, House' Henry Waxman CD-Calif,), "We have
AIDS Research. "But sadly, the darkestdays of the AIDS crisis still lie ahead of Human Resources Task Force on the gone from a time whe!l no one knew.us. Hundreds of thQusands of lives hang Budget, House members and AIDS of AIDS to a time when everyone was

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terrified of it to a time when everyone
knows about it and most people are
seemingly unconcerned,·
Taking harsh exception with theBush funding levels, San Francisco
Rep, Nancy Pelosi pointed out that,while the number of American AIDS
cases is expected to swell to well over
200,000 in the next 12 months, andtwo successive national commissions
on AIDS have called for massive
increases in AIDS spending, the '91
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limit that is
unrealistic, it also goes to ideologicalextremes to eliminate programs that
actually help people with AIDS, It
would shift funding from effective
programs to ones which do not work.
I would suspend research to find acure."
Pelosiproduced
OfficeofManagement and Budget memoranda
which showed how Darman's office
only granted the National Institutes of
Health 59 percent of what it requested
for AIDS research, which she charged
would threaten the future of AIDS
vaccineand treatment
research.
Purther memos showed how OMB
now proposes to zero out funding for
63 federal and state AIDS prevention
demonstration programs which, Pelosi
stated, Mare literally holding back a
new wave of HIV infection.·
Her harshest criticism, however,
was held for the Bush budget's cuts in
AIDS patient care funds, down frot;leven current levels,
The Bush budget
seeks tocompletely eliminate funds for' homehealthservicesand AIDS drug
reimbursement programs, approaches
which have been viewed by AIDS
activists and health care experts ascritical in addressing the epidemic in
the 90s. Also in the budget proposal,
the White House seeks to zero fund aseries of AIDS counseling,
earlyintervention and AIDS sub-acute careand dental care programs,
Also testifying at the hearings,
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Gay/lesbian
couples'.
have niche
in u.s.
censusWASHINGTON-National
gay/lesbian activists in Washington are
aggressively encouraging gay and lesbian
couples to make sure their rehltionships
are counted in the 1990 census,
For the first time, the Census
Bureau has added the category of"unmanied partner" to the relationshipsection of its questionnaire, reportedly
to find out how many unmarriedheterosexuals live together,
But activists have pointed out that
two males or two females living in thesame household
who check the"unmanied partner" box will clearly show
up as a gay couple, and census officials
have agreed to publish those statistics,"For those of us working in thelesbian and gay families arena, thisinformation could prove vital to thesuccess of our efforts in the future," said
National Gay and Lesbian Families
Project director Ivy Young,"Public and private
industry
programs are affected by census data;social and economic policy is guided bythat same data; legislative agendas areset, initiatives launched and priorities
determined by the numbers gathered,"Young said,"If we choose todeliberately absent ourselves from thisprocess, if we elect to disappear, what
advantage do we gain?"Young acknowledged that somegay/lesbian couples will be concerned
about government intrusion into theirprivacy but said, "Our community
must be persuaded to put aside fear of
being exposed,"
Census data is confidential and,barring some dramatic change ingovernment
policy, could not beutilized to expose, track or identify. homosexuals,

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Some gay leaders have called for a
gay boycott of the census, arguing thatthe lack of education by the Census
Bureau coupled with confidentiality
concerns will lead to a gross undercountand a skewed statistical profile,
However, a recent poll by the
Washington Blade, a gay newspaper,
found that 75 percent of gay couples
surveyed said they would record theirrelationship on the census fonn,"Granted [the Blade) survey was
conducted in a major metropolitan areawith a history of gay Visibility," Youngsaid, "Similar results may not emerge
from some small town or hamlet. But
then again, they might. "Questions regarding the census may
be directed to Young at (202) 332-6483or
the Census Bureau at (202) 340-1570,-Rex Wockner

Midtowncops at gay
porn flick
NEW YORK-Six uniformed police
officers from the Midtown South
Precinct entered the Adonis Theater theevenins of March 4th and spent 20
minutes silently moving through thetheater shining their flashlights in thefaces of patrons,
A witness at the Adonis, which
serves an exclUSivelygay male clientele,
said the theater's security guard warned
the crowd' twice that evening of thepresence of the police, The first warning
came at 8:20 pm, but the police did notappear, The second warning OCCUlTedat
9:15 pm at which time the officers
entered the theater, The witness, whorequested anonymity, said the police did
not speak to anyone, or prevent anyone
from leaving the theater, Describing'himself as a frequent 'customer of theAdonis, he said had never seen thishappen before, a fact which was
confumed by Adonis employees,.
.,
Workers at the Adonis said they
had not summoned the police to themovie. house, and that they were

unaware of any aiminal activity in thetheater that evening that might haveprompted an Adonis customer to callthe police, One employee said thatupon entering the police stated they
were looking for someone,
The Midtown South Precinct
referred inquiries to the office of the
Deputy Commi~sioner
for PublicInformation, where a spokesman was
unable to say why the officers were in
the Adonis that evening, According to a
Police Officer Barry, the police may
have enteredin response
to ananonymous complaint, but the recordof such a complaint would be kept for
only 24 hours, Officer Barry wasinterviewed 36 hours after the incident
took place.
-Duncan Osborne

N8.IIlereportingnixedupstateSYRACUSE,New York-Activists in
upstate New York's Onondaga County
have successfully stopped the passage
of contact tracing legislation which
could have been the first in a series ofresolutions designed to overturn state
laws. which protect a person's right toan anonymous HIV test.
The resolution, as drafted by county
legislators James Salinger and John
Haley, called for the "New York State
Legislature to amend the Public Healthlaw to require every physician to report
the positive results of HIV confidential
testing to the Local Health Officer,"
Local AIDS activists first heard
about the resolution in the February 2,
Syracuse Post-Standard, a local daily
paper, They immediatelybegan acampaign to clarify the content andimplications of the proposed legislationand to bring awareness of it to the gay
and lesbian community,
Michael Crinnin of the AIDS Task
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Accordingto Salinger, who
introduced the resolution, he agreed totable it because of political pressure, inpart due to the activities of ACT
UP/Syracuse which he calls part of a"nation-wide homosexual organization,"
Salinger described the kind· of I i
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disaimination PWAs and HIV positive
people face as "probably a one andmillion type thing,"
Brenda Baker, a spokesperson for
ACf UPlSyraaJSe said, "If we hadn't been
there [the resolution] would have been
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through." Members of ACf UP, the
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ago, in the midst of a diphtheria
epidemic, a group of dogsleds made its
way across Alaska's frozen· tundra on a
mission to bring medicine to thestricken residents of Nome, Th~ year,
thedogsledexpeditionthatcommemorates that heroic trip, theIditarod Trail Race, one_ musher will
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Rally forsgt. BenShalom

bear a reminder that a ·new scourge
percent of the population refused tothreatens the lives of Alaskans.
.
pay taxes to a government
that
Diane Dronenberg,
who hasdiscriminated against it.
Newmann,formerly a Marine
traversed the 8ruelling 1,158-mile trail
sergeant, said he would be organizing abetween Anchorage and Nome in threeprevious years' races, will carry a panel
class action suit.
And Tim Grair, one of thefrom the Names Project Quilt In herorganizers of the rally, said that as a boy
sled, Through her dramatic journey,
he saw Ben-Shalom on the television
MILWAUKEE-Sgt, Miriam BenDronenberg, whose brother has AIDS,
news, and she was the first gay person
hopes to awaken
Alaska to the
Shalom officially wore her Army
besides himself he knew about.
realizationthat AIDS threatens toReserves uniform for the last time
"I always looked up to her," Grairravage the state's population, At least 49
March 6 and for the first timesaid, "In an age when there are few
people have died with AIDS in Alaska
intentionallydisobeyed
an Armyheroes, she's my hero," -Sue Burke
already, and 20 percent of the state's
regulation and wore it to a politicalHIV-positive people live in small towns
rally,
in rural Alaska,
The rally was for her, About 40"Diana is carrying the panel tofriends and supporters gathered in front
Nome out of love for her brother and toof the Federal
Courthouseinencourage a greater emphasis on AIDS Milwaukee in the one-degree wind chill
education for Alaskan youth," Danon her behalf,
Carter, a volunteer for the Names
Ben-Shalom was discharged from
Project/Anchorage
wrote
in histhe Army ReselVes in 1976 for saying
announcementof the event, The
she was a lesbian, Mter long court
Iditarod Trail Race began March 3 andCHICAGO-AIDS activists, at last
battles, she eventually won the right tois expected to last 12 to 15 days,
with help from the American Civil
return to complete
her term of
According to Carter, the local
Liberties Union, have forced theenlistment in 1987,
Names Project wanted to do something
But when her term ran out in 1988, Chicago Transit Authority to post
educational AIDS rnaterials in the transit
the Army refused to allow her to rethat would selVe "to carry a banner forsystem, even though the CfA called theenlist. She eventually brought her casehope and compassion and to encourag~advertisements "too Black-oriented."
to the U.S, Supreme Court, which on
personal
involvement,"
The stateFeb, 26 refused without comment tosport-dogsledding-seemed
to present
More than a year and a half after they
hear her appeal,
were produced, the ads were finallya perfect vehicle for their message, so
Ben-Shalom took off her uniform
posted in the city's buses and trains in
Carter sat down and wrote letters to 15
as she spoke at the rally, She explainedlate February,
mushers at random, When Dronenberg
that . theregulation
banning"People have called to say that
responded, disclosing that her brother
they've seen the ads and they don't
homosexuals from the military could
had AIDS, Carter was thrilled,still be changed by Congress,
understand
why there was ever a
On March 21, after the Iditarod's.
"Let's go get Congress," she said,
controversy about them," said John
conclusion,
the Names Project/
Hammell, director of the ACLU's AIDS
"We're going to make it a little hot for
Anchorage will present Dronenberg
and Civil Liberties Project, "Theythem,"and her brother, Dana, with letters and"Miriam did not lose," said Bill
communicate a critical message which,cards written in support of her mission,
hopefully, will save lives."
Meunier, preSident of the Gay People's
Although he has already received over
The advertisements, which depict a
Union of WISCOnsin,"Miriam forced the
100 letters-with more pouring in each
Alroy to ~ow its true bigotry,"like some
naked couple with a condom and the
day as word of Dronenberg's missioninternational "no" symbol represented byother speakers, Meunier said Ben~halom's
spreads--Carteris particularly prouda needle and syringe placed diagonallymany yeats of wOlk in the lesbian and gay
that he will present
her with aacross a drawing of a person using drugs,
proclamation from the city of Fairbanks, . movement had inspired him
are directed to the Black community.
Ben-Shalom's attorney, Patrick
which names Dronenberg the city's
Berigan, who is straight, said he has . "Sex without condoms and drug abuse official messengerof hope and
AIDS, AIDS in the Black community isfound mainstream support for gay
compassion, "We hope that it will put avery real," the ad's legend says,
rights, "We're simply not going to getface to AIDS," Carter concluded,The
advertisements
wereredress in ~e courts, We're going to get
Letters of support for Dronenberg,
developed by the Kupona Network,
redress in the legislature," he said,
and for her lead dog, Ruby, can be sent
J J. Newmann, Mr, Gay WISCOnsin, Chicago's only community-based
to Names .Project c/o Dan Carter, P,Q,
organization
devotedsolelytoBox 210072, Anchorage, Alaska 99521- said "money talks" and said theprovidingeducation
about
AIDS
to
the
government
would
notice
if
ten
to
15
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-Nina Reyes

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Black communitY, with funds suppliedby the Illinois Departme~t of Public
Health. The controversy began when
the transit authority refused to post ads
that one of its representatives
had
accepted, Between August 1989 andMay 1989, Kupona officials wrote toand called the CfA in an attempt toresolve the' dispute, but they received
no response.
In September of last year, the
ACLU filed suit against the CTA
challenging
the transit authority's
refusal to sell advertising space toKupona, Late last month, the ACLU
announced that CfA had begun posting
the Kupona posters,"There was no good reason torefuse to post the ads," said Hammell,"It is an outrage that we had to ftle alawsuit to get the ads up,"
Hammell also said that the suitagainst the CfA will continue, to ensurethat CfA regulations on advertising will
be formally changed, Five years ago,
one of the attorneys involved with thecurrent case brought suit against the
CTA for refusing
to post otheradvertisements, In that case, the CfA's
policies
were
found
to
be
unconstitutionalby both tqe federal
district court in Chicago and the Federal
Court of Appeals,
Public health officials estimate that
Blacks account for over 30 percent of
all new and reported AIDS cases in
Chicago.
-Nina Reyes

Lesbianstake
Manhattan
NEW YORK-Just over a month
into the new decade, a group of
lesbians are already making sure the 1word doesn't get left out of all the
excitementof the "Gay 90s" by. planning the first ever "Lesbian Week in
New York City" from September 1-9,
Planners
see the event
as anopportunity to celebrate the strengths
and diversity of the lesbian community,
From herbal healing to politicaldebates, sex to softball, "networking" toperformance art, everything lesbians dothey can do more of during Lesbian

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Week, Organizers say they think thatthe week has the potential of involving
hundreds of thousands of participants,
The week was in-spired by the
mammoth lesbian week held in Berlin,West Germany.
Robin Fetchko
attended that in October and returnedto the States with grand plans of herown, "I thought, 'Why can't we do it
here?'" she said, "And if we can do it in
New York, why not everywhere else in

the country?" Fetchko put the word out
for lesbians interested in helping toorganize and planning has taken off
from there.
The site conunittee is scouting out
choice spots in all five boroughs andlesbians as far away as Philadelphia
have expressed interest in taking part in
the week, according
to Eva Yaa
Asantewaa,
an organizer
who isrecruiting
area gay and lesbianorganizations.
She explained that
mixed groups are encouraged to be
involved provided
all events are
lesbian-foCused. She also said it would
be nice to see gay men involved withbehind-the-scenes
organizingforlesbian events.
"This is our party," Asantewaa said,"We're doing it for ourselves so we
won't
get lost in the shuffle."
ASantewaa also sees the whole affair as
an opportunity to build greater strength
in the long-term
for the lesbiancommunity by building connections
and coalitions which will continue
beyond the week itself,
For more information, or to get
involved with or~ing
Lesbian Week,
contact Robin Fetchko at (718) 3922519, Representatives from organizations shQu1d c10ntact Eva Yaa
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NEW YORK-In celebrationof
Women's Health Day, the Gay andLesbian Alliance Against Defamation
will sponsor an afternoon of special
events, including its fourth annual
lesbian Blood Drive, on March 25,
GLAAD organizers
present
this
opportunity. for the lesbian community
to help alleviate the critical shortage ofblood supplies in the New York area.
"Raising blood in the middle of ahealth crisis is a responsible thing todo," commented
Karin Schwartz,
assistant director of GI.AAD/New York,By expanding the event this year into
Women's Health Day, GI.AAD hopes todraw more attention to the event and toheighten interest in GLAAD, "It's av'isibility
tactic,"Schwartz
acknowledged,
Ironi~y, while the event, Schwartz

said, is directedto the lesbiancommunity,
and
while
GLAAD
representatives will present a workShop
on lesbian invisibility, self-images andthe media as part of the event, organizers
elected to call the event "Women's
Health Day" instead of a name thatspeaks more specifically to lesbians.

Schwartz said that she did not know how
the name for the event was ch05en,
Among the highlights of Women's
Health Day will be a seminar on"Eroticizing
Safer
Sex,"
and
demonstrationsof self-defense
techniciues for wo~n by the Brooklyn
Women's Martial Arts. Participants will

be eligible for a variety of "intriguing"door prizes, which in the past,according to Schwartz, have included"goodiesfrom Eve's Garden," awomen's sex emporium,
Last year, GLAAD's blood drive
raised nearly 100 units of blood for theGreater New York Blood Program.

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Women's Health Day events will
be held from 1:00 to 5:00 at the Lesbianand Gay Community Services Center,
208 West 13th Street. For more
information, call GLAAD at (212) 9661700,
~ina
Reyes

Fighting
invisibility
NEW YORK-Por the first time in
20 years, the gay pride parade may
include an official people of color
contingent, made up of both gay men
and lesbians. Lesbians of color foughtfor the right to lead the women's
contingent at the fro~t of the parade,and have for may years, But a proposal.that is being discussed in the gay andlesbian communities of New York may
mean that lesbians of color may
withdraw from that position.
The proposal that women of color
leave the women's contingent to join
the men of color at the center of theparade was discussed at a lesbian town
meeting, Thursday, March 1, at the Gay
and Lesbian Community Center. The
People of Color Steering Committee, abody of Heritage of Pride, the groupwhich organizes the annual parade,came up with the proposal in an effort
to bring more "visibility to people ofcolor in the gay community, respective
communities and the political arena.""fhe most invisible of the invisible
in the homosexual community is theBlack lesbian, When we used to march,
we were overpowered. We had to form
security lines to keep the ~en out of.
our space," said Candice Boyce, who
was part of the original struggle to leadthe lesbian contingent and is a memberof African American Wimmin United forSocietal Change,.

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option for at least the next two years,"It doesn't look real promising,"
said Gary Sky, public affairs director for
the Colorado
AIDS Project,acommunity-based
AIDS-service
organization, The legislation was voted
down both on the floor of the Houseand in a health-care committee on the
Senate. "But even if it doesn't pass, itwill be re-evaluated again in two years,"
he said.
Although 18 other states followed
Colorado's example by implementing
HIV testing policies that require namereporting and contact tracing or partner
notification,
Colorado
is widely
perceived to have the most ruthless,least efficient system. According to
information
obtained by the AIDS
Quarterly, in one six-month period of
1988, the state spent$450,000
attempting to track down people who
had been exposed
to HIV, andmanaged to find only 52 of thoseindividuals. The Colorado state healthdepartrDent disputes those figures.
Colorado has gone so far, in fact, in
attempting to discover the identities ofpeople who test positive for HIV, thateven though the law does allow people
to give a false name when undergoing a
test, the state then attempts to find out
the test recipient's name through otherinformation given on the intake form.
"If you give a false name in Colorado
it's .important that you give a false
DENVER-Three
years
after
address and false telephone number asColorado became the first state in thewell," said Ann Shields, the Colorado
nation to require the reporting' of
AIDS Project's education director,
names, the. tracing of sexual contacts"because we do know that the healthand the notification of the partners of
department is cross-referencing
thepeople who test positive for HN, aaddress to see if they can pick up thegroup of AIDS service providers began . right name somehow."
working to provide an anonymous
Sky adds that while Colorado's
testing option to citizens of the state,
health department so far has refused to
After only two months, however, therelease its list of people who have
Colorado state legislature has refused totested positive for HIV, "every single
implement
an anonymous
testing . year it comes up that the police
department wants those names, andinsurancecompanies
want thosenames."
Operating as the Colorado Task
Force· on Anonymous HIV Testing, 21
activists succeededin convincing
almost half ,of Colorado's legislators,
according to Sky, that implementing an
But Michelle Bell who was also at
the meeting said, "We won't beinvisible. We're at a point in our history
where we can't be separated. If we
don't do this, we're not visible."
As stated in the proposal, the AIDS
service section of the parade would
also be lead by people of colororganizations,
If consensus can be reached, andthe proposal is accepted, it would only
be for the 1990 parade. Any change
would be reexamined before 1991.
Interested persons should fill out
questionnairesthat are now being
distributed through Black and Latinoorganizations, The questionnaires canbe returnedat the Center, Morediscussion will take place at the next
lesbian town meeting, 6:30, April 4, at
the Center, 208 W, 13th St.
---Kimberly Smith

Colorado
refusesanonymous
testing
optionanonymous testing alternative would
substantially increase the number ofpeople who consider undergoing mv
testing, In Oregon, for example, Sky
said, the number of gay and bisexual
men rose 125 percent when the state
introduced
an anonymous-testing
option,-Nina Reyes

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Patrick's Day,
Callers should demand that the
Irish parliament immediately overturnthe nation's sodomy law, in accord withan Oct. 1988 ruling of the European
Court On Human Rights,
Activists won the court ruling after
openly gay Senator David Norris
pursued the case to the European
Court, but Irish legislators continue toprocrastinate
in implementing
thedecision,"Since over 40 million Americans
have their roots in Ireland, public
opinion in the D,S, can affect issues
here," urged John Bergin, spokesman
for the Gay and Lesbian Equality
Network.
Ireland is one of the last European
nations to criminalize gay and lesbiansex, and legislators have come underheavy pressure
from right-wing
Catholic groups to keep it that way,
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LESBIAN CO-PARENT from pegl 12

New York groups. According
to
Torres,theopinion gives no cOnSideration to theorganization currently has over 200
best interest of the child, which ismembers in the U.S., seven c:i which areusually considered
the overridingorganizational members, A contribution
factor in matters of Child custody andfee is charged to members and is higher
visitation, and rejects the argument tl)atfor organizations,
While individual
last summer's
Brasch; decision,
members are able to vote at llEGO's
defining gay couples .as "families"
meetings, organizations are not, a fact
under rent control regulations,isthat troubled Luis Nieves, a member c:irelevant to this case,the steering committee of the Boricua
Dissenting
Justice Sybil Hart
Gay and Lesbian Forum.
Kooper disagrees, arguing that Brasch;"We cannot become members as an
required the court to take a deeperorganization because then we will not
look at the reality of the situation, She
have a vote. 1 am encouraging the idea
asserted that the narrow defmition ofof individual membership in order to"parent" used by the majority ishave more votes," he said llEGO is sti1l
inconsistent "with the progressive andin its infancy and it can be aucial for us
realistic definition of the tenn 'family'
to have an impact in its development As
recently adopted by the Court ofI see it, it is a predominandy aucano(a)Appeals in Brasch;,"organization that is why 1 feel that the
And she protested that the court's
impact of groups from other nations isfonnalistic approach would prevent any
important"consideration of the best interest of the
LLEGO's G6mez explained thatchild, obselVing that "simplistic analysis
LLEGO wants to be accessible to its
and the strict application of absolute
legal principles should be avoided... If members "What we hope is that you
don't have to go through a chain, justthe policy considerations presented incall us," she said "We want the board to
Brasch; necessitated a re-examination
be representative, You live here, youof so' traditionaland sacrosanct aknow what is going on. I don't know
concept as the American family, thenwhat the issues are in New York. Just
surely, the compelling circumstances
pick up the phone and call us."presented a bar mandate, at the veryllEGO has been representing theleast, a Similarly enlightenedcon, Uitino(a) lesbian and gay community instruction of the tenn 'parent',"
national conferences, such as the National
The opinion is expected to create a
Council Ui Raza, the National Minority
dilemma for lesbian couples who want
AIDS Conference, the Hispanic/Latino
to secure equal parental rights toward
AIDS Teleconference, the National AIDS
their children, The case attracted
amicus briefs from the American Civil Update Conference and the National
Hispanic Bar Association, "I've been to
Liberties Union's Lesbian and Gay
New York before, so I know the politics,"
Rights Project, and a coalition of lesbian.said Dennis Medina, interim board
and gay parents groups, T
member for the ~region. "1'0 me it
LATINO GROUPS from pegl15
is a little frustrating, but it is a process weFrancisco Domingues, a member of have to go through, We understand that
HUGL and the Boricua Gay and Lesbian New York has to work out its issues andthen come to us."Forum, said "1 was in charge of thellEGO's national office is located at
mailing of the invitations for this meeting,
714 G Street, SE, Washington, DC 20003.
and in my opinion there have been
numberthere isprocedural breaches, llEGO never told The telephone(202)544H0Q92.~
me that they were going to ask fornominations tonight, Personally 1 am
GAY CADET from pege1&interested 4llLEGO and its work, but weuniversities. Last year, the program
have to take this one step at a time."
awarded 1,500 four-year scholarships,
But Arcadio Torres, LLEGO's
which
include a tax-free $100-pertreasurer, while acknowledging the needmonth subsistence allowance,of local organizations to decide what
Upon completion of the program;'
kind of participation they want to have inllEGO, also pointed out that this was the officers must serve either four years
active duty or eight years in the reserves,
third. meeting llEGO has had with the30

Ou-r-..WEEKMarch 18, 1990

Put.

The DOD's anti-gay policy, inreads: "The presence in the militaryenvironment of persons who engage inhomosexual conduct or who, by theirstatements, demonstrate a propensity toengage in homosexual
conduct,: ..
adversely affects the ability of theArmed Forces to maintain discipline,
good order and moralej to foster mutual
trust
and
confidenceamongservicemembersj to ensure the integrityof the system of rank and command; tofacilitate assignment and worldwide
deployment of servicemembers who
frequently must live and work underclose conditions affording minimal
privaCYj to recruit and retain membersof the Armed Forcesj to maintain the
public acceptability of militarY servicej
and to prevent breaches of security." T
D.C. lIaHTS lAW froIII pege1.

conupt places on the face c:i thfs ,~,"
adding that "there is the stench ofconuption about this place."
Calling the Armstrong rider an "uglyamendment," Sen, Alan Cranston (DCalif.) countered that "Hider began his
persecution and genocide policies byattacking .homosexuals. He made themwear a pink star so that no young person
could mistake a gay German for a rolemodel," Cranston said, "Next, he went toyellow stars for Jews, and the Holocaust
followed."
Although gay and lesbian activists
suspect that Armstrong will try to
inlpose his amendment again on the D.C.
appropriations bill this summer, they notethat., as he did in this case, he could
bring it up at virtually any time,
Robert Bray, a spokesman for the
NGLTF,said, "1 think we need to watch
the senator every single time he goes onthat floor," T
AIDS -QUAKE- from pege 20

National Association of People With
AIDS, "but it's very sad we have to havethis to get the kind of attention that thisissue needs, I find that very demeaning
as a person with AIDS,"
Mason spoke in no uncertain tenns. of' the staggering problems of AIDS
patients' lack of access to treatment andsupPort services among people of color,the poor and those in rural communities.
"We want nothing more or less thanwhat each of you takes for granted
SM AIDS -QUAKE- on pegl 38

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In ()ur ()\\,n Hands

All About Breasts
by Rlsa Denenberg

A

nd of coune cancer ts poIfItcal-look at bow many of
our comrades bave died of tt

during tbe last ten years. As warriors ourjob ts 10 acIWeIy and consc1ousIy res1st tI
for as long as poss1bIe, remembering tbat
In order to win, tbe aggressor must conquer, but tbe reststers need only sutVitJe,-Audre Lorde, A Burst of L1gbt,
1988

1/you bave cancer, you watt endlesslyfor a support group, wb#cb if you are alesbian, woman if color, tJJOrldng class or
believe in alternatttJes, you don f fit into

terone and prolactin, Each month thebreast prepares for lactation, and sheds
its monthly buildup when pregnancy
does not occur. Often the cyclic accumulation of fluid and dead cells results inthickeninwl or lumps in the breasts. Most
breast lumps are not cancer, and mostwanen have textured Oumpy) breasts.
EIshtY percent d lumps are benign(non-ancerous); either cystic ex' fibrous.
Cysts are fluid-filled sacs, and fibrousmasses are more solid thickeninwl. Combinations of the two types also occur. FIbrocystic disease, which is veJY cormnon
in menstruating women, results in hard,
lumpy breasts which engorge apd are
painful especially premenstrually, Firmer, lesspainful benign

Who'•• tRI.k?
Predicting who may develop breast
cancer by identifying high risk groups
can be misleading. The high rate ofbreast cancer in women in the U.S.
should put all women on alert. Rates are
simply higher in some groups.
High risk characteristics include age(over SO); early onset of periods (under
12) or late menopause (after SS>; famlly
histoJy (mother, sister, gran~);'previous breast cancer; delayed childbearing(after 30) or no chlldbearing. Research isinconclusive on whether having benign, breast disease is itself a risk factor forbreast malignancies.

lumps are usually fibrous masses
called fibroade-nomas,

anyway ... No organtzatWnftgbtsforyour
needs, no one advocatesfor you.

Fibrocystic
disease improves-Jackie Minnow, from "Lesbians'
in some women
who decrease
Working on AIDS,· Outlook, Summer
caffeine intake
1989(coffee, tea, cola, chocolate and some·medicines) and who add a daily Vitamin
One in 11 women in the U.S, will
Ecapsule to their diet.
be diagnosed with breast cancer in her
Perhaps the worst part of having
lifetime, That adds up to about 120,000
benign breast lumps is the role they
new cases each year and beats a death
toll of nearly 42,000 women annually. . play in inhibiting women from trusting
our own hands to find the lump that is
Mortalityrates have changed very little in
not OK: One approach to this comthe past 30 years, although early detecmon concern is to remember that you
tion tends to yield better outcomes.
will always know your breasts better
White women are more likely to getthan your health prOVider; 90 percent
breast cancer, but Black women haveof breast tumors are found by women .
poorer survival rates, The fir.st statistic
during self exam or by partners during
may be related to genetics or diet (highsex.
meat consumption correlates to higher
Women should begin breast self
risk of breast cancer); the second fact isexams starting at least by age 20, because
obviously political (racism - bad healthat least 20 percent of breast cancer occare), Ninety percent of all cancers are
curs in women under 40, Younger
related to environmental factors,
women often have -rapid acceleration of
Women's breasts are complex ortheir cancers. And the longer you pracgans containing glands, skin, fat, muscle,tice, the more confident you become"ducts and fibrous supporting structures,
The earlier a lump is found, and cancer
Breasts go through monthly cycles indiagnosed, the less likely that a woman
women who mensttuate, and are sensiwill lase her breast or her life,
tive to changing levels of circulating female honnones such as estrogen, proges-

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Levels of female honnones. especially estrogen, is closely related to breastdisease, High doses of synthetic estrogetls. and meat produced by honnonefed animals both add estrogen. There is astrong association between high dietaryconsumption of animal fat and breast
cancer, The hormone levels in awoman's body can also be affected bybody weight and the total years of menstruation (which is why full-term pregnancies, late period onset and earlymenopause may decrease the overall
breast exposure to the body's estrogenproduction). Other toxic substances(such as pesticides uses in food produc~tion)· may also be stored in breasts.
which contain much fatty tissue,
Early Dltlctlon
Saeening for breast cancer includes
monthly self exams, annual breast exams
by a health provider and the use of
mammography (breast pictures using low
dose x-rays), The American Cancer Sod-

ety presently recommends a baseline
cision about use of chemotherapy,
mammogram for all women between
Younger, menstruating women are oftenages 35 and 40, biannual mammos from targeted for chemo, while postmenopausal women without evidence
ages 40-50 and annually after 50, Mammography, however, is expensive andof metastasis often do not need it.
not always covered by Medicaid/Medi, 'reventlng Breat Cane.r
care/insurance. And while mammography Is useful diagnostically when a lump
Many of us will get breast cancer
is found, it 'Is not conclusive in itself. Any because enviro~tal
and social realisuspicious lump should be biopsied, or ties will not change quickly enough toprevent it. Still, many sources exist whichaspirated with a needle. 1hls procedure
should always be done as a diagnostic suggest preventive measures that may
playa role in reducing our risk. In initiatworkup by a health care professional,
p-eferably under a local anethesia, with a ing a change in diet or exercise or starting new supplements to your diet, ta1ce
lime lnterval between it and Initiation of
SWBical treatment. If a biopsy Is positive time to read, ltarn and discuss thefor cancer c:ells, the SI2ge of cancer must changes you are making.
Reducing fat, especially from anima1
be determined; localized (breast only),
regional (in the nearby lymph nodes) or sources, Is important: 1aJBe sugar intake
often accompanies nutritional deficienmetasticized (spread to other distantcies and should be avoided, Excessive
body 0JB311S).
sourc~ (especially
Early detection provides an in- protein from ~b,eef and pork) is almost always
creased likelihood of less extensive
surgery, and an improved sulVival 0p- accompanied by excess feltintnke, Other
that correlate with breast diSportunity. It offers adequate time for su~cesease include affeine and alcohol. Alcoseeking second opinionS and ~ing
hol has been shown to. correlate to illpersonal decisions about treatment,
creased risk of breast cancer in recent·
Mastectomies are often unnecessary,studies, even in moderate amounts.
and less radlcallumpectomies followed
Many sources recommend regularby radiation therapy are now considered tb be a preferable procedure most exercise in cancer prevention, 1his helps
by decreasing overall body fat, improvingof the time, 1he type of tumor found,the stage of cancer, the woman's age blood and lymph circulation and enhancand health history are all part of the de- - ing general well-being, ~lillY
PRESENTS

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DR. JOSEPH
SONNABEND

A Forum:
TheIDVModeland the Causeof AIDS
Saturday, March 24th, 7:00 pm
p. S, #41 Auditorium, 123 W 11th St.
Comer of Sixth Avenue, Manhattan

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If you would like to applaud ~clerk Duane Rinde applied last Decemie's for its erilightened new personnel. ber for a spouse discount card for his
policy, write to Amo Arronson, CEO,lover, Robert Teir, the company refused
Woodward and Lothrop, 11th and F
his request and began a confrontation
with local gay and lesbian activists, The Streets NW, Washington, D,C. 20013, orcall him at (202) 347-5300,
card, previously given only to married
Recently at WZOU-FMin Boston, anheterosexual couples, grants discounts toannouncer used her early evening show
spouses on purchases at any of theto make fun of gay people, Karen Blake
store's outlets,
staged a skit with a man affecting theRinde, says Au Courant, filed a union
voice of an effeminate-sounding, lisping,grievance against the store and charged
ostensibly gay caller asking her to passthat Woodies violated D,C, and Monton a "Valentine wish for his lover," who,
gomery County, Maryland anti-<iiscrimination laws, The National Gay and Lesbian he said, was named Bob, Ms, Blake
Task Force and other gay rights groups .feigned surprise at his request and whenthe man asked if Ms, Blake could "doimmediately called for a meeting withsomething else for his lover," her punch
store executives and launched a camline was "I'm sony, you'll ~ve to call thepaign to pressure the store to change its
discriminatory policieS, Ultimately, in ad- bondage line for that." It's deplorable that
Ms, Blake and her cohort saw fit to pordition to granting Rinde's lover a discounttray a gay caller as a simpering freak:.
card, Woodies agreed to immediately imhe University of Califomia at
Would they likewise have set up a porplement gay and lesbian senSitivitytrainIrvine has just made a policy
trayal of a stereotypical Black or Jewish
ing at the store where the incident occhange which defames gay
person? Surely not, but, as usual, gays are
curred and training for management andrelationships by saying, in effect, thatconsidered fair game, If you would likestaff at all stores on discrimination andthey are not to be taken as seriously as
to protest this skit, write to Karen Blake
bias on the basis of race, sex and sexual
marriages between straight people,
or to Alan Shartrand, General Manager,
orientation, Since Woodward and Lothrop
After a year and a half of allowing
WZOU-FM, 313 Congress Street, Boston,owns the John Wannamaker stores in thelesbian and gay coqples to live in marMA 02210, Or give them a call at (617)Philadelphia area, the change in policy
ried-student housing at the university,
267-t:X1)O, T
will affect those stores as well,even if only one partner was attending
the school, officials now require that .-.--------------------------both partners be students, For married
Sex,
Blood
and
MartialArts
students, however, only one partnermust be a student to qualify for housing,
The .university claims that it has notbanned gays from family housing-only
non-students, "We don't ask students,'Are you gay?' We only ask them, arethey students?" says the director of public
information, Yeah, sure, but you don't
ask the spouses of married stud~nts ifthey're students,
If you would like to make youropinion lmown about this obviously discriminatory treatment of gay people,
write to Olancellor Jack Peltason, Room
501, Administration Building, Universityof California, Irvine, CA 92717, or call
him at 014) 856-5111.
.
Woodward and Lothrop, the trendsetting
D.C. department store(Washingtonians talk about "Woodies"with the same affection mat New Yorker's reserve for "Bloomies") has agreed to
grant discount cards to partners of both
gay and non-gay employees, add "sexual
orientation" and "marital status" to its
equa1 opportunity policy and to advocate
MARCH 25 • 1-5 PM • THE CENTER
for similar benefits elsewhere in the retail
FOR INFO CALL GLAAD (212) 966-1700
industry. As reported in the Philadelphia
gay newspaper, Au Courant, when sales

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A Call,to Riot
compoops, quack doctors who should
hands are killing us as sure as if they
have their licenses revoked,
stuck actual daggers into our hearts,
New research is on hold while they
4, The same Doctor Strangeloves
ith this article I am calltake a year off to sort out their fucked-up
who control the ACfG system are theing for a MASSIVE DIScomputer data base, Their'research hassame Doctor Strangeloves who are
RUPTION of the Sixth
not been adequately available to minori- controlling the agenda of, and shutting
International AIDS Conference that isties, women or children, Thousands ofout any dissident voices from, the Sixth
being held in San Francisco June 20-24,
ACfG treatment slots are emµy, am you International Conference on AIDS,
Every human being who wants tobelieve that there are thousands of va5, These are also the very sameend the AIDS epidemic must be in San
cancies for people to receive free drugs,
doctors who are trying to screw us out
Francisco from June 20-24, at the Sixth
and this asshole government and this assof Parallel Track, (They don't like ParalInternational Conference on AIDS, either
hole ACfG system doesn't fill· them up? lel Track because they don't have control
inside or outside the Moscone ConvenHow fucking inefficient, and SAVAGELY of it.) This historic and revolutionary
tion Center, or the Marriott Hotel, scream_
i method for getting
ing, yelling, furiousmore drugs intoly angIy, protesting,more bodies withat this stupid confermore speed was
ence,
conceived, fought
These are thefor, orchestrated
facts:and obtained by
1, A cure for
ACf up, All you
AIDS is available
PWAs and HIVmuch more rapidly
positives: all thosethan y,re are getting
promising experiit, Treatments aremental drugs yOu .
available that we
can't afford to buy
cannot get, Vital
overseas or on the
research
simplyunderground andisn't being done,
yOu thought were2, We are not
waiting for us on
getting any of thisParallel
Track?
because of bureauThey just got
cracy, red tape andsnatchedaway.
a president who, toJust when weput it mildly, doesn't
were about to get delC and GM-CSF to
INHUMANE. can a system be?
give a shit. George Bush has even reWhat new treatments has the ACfG follow delI, Do yOu want them back?
fused to speak at the opening of thisThen yOu fucking well better show up in
conference, It is customary, at these l.."1ter- system come up with in the four years
San Francisco June 20-24!
of its dreary existence? NONE, NOTIinational conferences, that a head of state
6, TONS OF BASIC SCIENCE
lNG, NIENTE, NADA, Every drug that is
opens it,
HASN'T EVEN BEEN DONE YETI Can
presently available for AIDS has comeGeorge Bush has been a fucking
you believe that! I repeat: MASSIVE
from Some source other than the ACfG
shithead about AIDS, ignoring it just as
AMOUNTS OF RESEARCHSTIll HAS
system-a foreign country, a pharmamuch as his doddering, imbecilic preceutical company, independentre-. NOT EVEN COMMENCED.NIH doctors
decessorwith his Machiavellian wife,
know this! .They know what should besearch, You'd think such failure would
3, The government's ACfG systemr~chedand still it is not being remake the ACfG less powerful. No way,for delivering promising treatments tosearched! TIiEY KNOW m am yOu beTo make certain we are exterminated athose who desperately
need themlieve such tactics, such an attitude?
little faster, the ACfG has control over(which is administered by the National
And people think we are being
what
new
drugs
are
studied(orrath~,
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disparanoid when we scream GENoaDE!
not studied) and what research is fundeases, part of the National Institutes of
7, The excuse they use is that GOVed (or rather, not funded), Thus, our
Health), is a sham, a shocking, sinful
ERNMENT'RESEARCH IS INVESTIGAlives are totally in its hands and its. sewer of ineptitude, run by idiots, nin-W

36

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TOR-INITIATED, NOT GOAL-ORIENTED. In other words, any stupid asshole
can submit a grant proposal for funding,even if every lab in the world is alreadystudying the same stupid thing. God forbid Drs, Tony Fauci or Sam Broder orPaul Volberding or Margaret Fischl orThomas Merrigan or Dan Hoth or !.any
Corey or' Martin Hirsch (some of thesepeople are not your friends, no matter
how nice you think they are) should
then go out and LOCATEan investigatorand hire him/her 10 research the question
like you hire an actor to playa part. 'Ibts.:\..,..CllSoFBqo~C

any accuracy or genuine understanding,
9. We are being royally fucked
over, screwed to death, whatever you
want to call being INTENTIONALLY
AllOWED TO DIE, This is no longer
hyperbole, exaggeration, opinion-it isfact, The systems this government ha&in operation simply could not move
any more slowly,
HOW MANY TIMES DO YOUHAVE TO HEAR mIS

YOU
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RIOT from pagl 'nmm

BELIEVE
AND RISE UP AGAINSTTHIS GOVERNMENTOF SHlTHEADS WANTS US DEAD, WHY
CAN'T EVERY GAY MAN AND LESBIAN GET lHAT TIfROUGH HIS/HER
HEAD? INDEED,
UNCLE GEORGEWAN:TS ALL FAGGOTS,
NIGGERS,
JUNKIES, SPICS, WHORES, UNMARRIEDS AND mEIR BABIES DEAD,
mE STRAIGHT WHITE MAN IS
TIlE GAY PERSON'S ENEMY! HAVEN'T
WE HAD ENOUGH
PROOF? HOW
MUCH MORE EVIDENCE DO YOU
NEED? DO YOU HAVE TO BE UNEDUP IN FRONT OF A FIRING SQUAD
BEFORE YOU FIGlIT BACK?

WE HAVE BEEN LINED UP IN
FRaNI' OF A FIRING SQUAD AND rr IS

CALLED AIDS,WE MUST RIOT! I AM CALLINGFOR A FUCKING RIOTI
It is imperative that ACf UP chapters from everywhere and activists fromeverywhere
and all their friends andfamily and all marchers and all screamers, FROM EVERYWHERE, be in San
Francisco June 20-24 in front of all the
1V cameras and photographersand reporters and media that will be there to
see us, WE MUST BE TIlERE TO LET
TIlE WORLD lHAT IS WATCHING SEE
mAT WE ARE FUCKING FURIOUS!
Would you believe that more pe0ple have already registered
for this
conference than showed up in Montreal? That 'means over 15,000 people
have already registered,Thus, a lot of sleazy,
scabby,strike-busting people who are not boycotting the conference
will be there,
Whether your organization
is offICiallyboycotting
or not, IT IS VITAL. FOR
YOU TO BE mERE INDMDUALLY,
Because we are being gtven a rare

and perfect opportunity to act out ouranger and fury where much of theworld's media will see us,
We accomplished miracles last year
in Montreal, We ·got the release of delI,
fluconazole, DHPG, low-dose An, An
for kids, expanded access for EPO andlaid the groundworkfor ddC, GM-CSF
and Parallel Track, We got all this not because they were given to us generously;
we got them because we fought fol' eachand every one of them like furies!
Now we. must make history again.
.WE MUST SCREAM AND FIGlIT LIKEFURiOUSFUCKINGGOD DAMN
TIGERS FOR OUR DRUGS AND OUR

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RESEARCH AND OUR CURE!
WE MUST RIOT IN SAN FRANCISCO!
FROM ALL CORNERS OF AMERICA,
AIDS ACIlVISTS AND TI:IEIR FRIENDSAND FAMILIES MUST COME TO SANFRANCISCO AND MAKE 1HEIR VOICESHEARD!
BE TIIERE!
TELL YOUR FAMILIES TO BE
TIlERE!
PASS THIS ARTICLE AROUND,(Make as many copies as you can,)REPRINT IT ANYWHERE AND EVERYWHERE YOU LIKE, (Gay publications everywhere:
please reprint thisarticle,)JUNE 20-24.
A MASSIVE DlSRUP710N (Outside
and Inside) of the Sixth International
AIDS Conference in San Francisco June
20-24,MASSNE! DISRUPTION! RIOT! LIFE!
More next month .., ....
ROONEY from pagl16
renwk in The Advocate, a gay magazine,
Rooney's homophobia was never indoubt throughout the highly publicizedbrouhaha, In the past six months, he hasslanderedgays repeatedly
in remarks
made on 60 Minutes, in ~ syndicatednewspaper column and in a letter to The

Advocate,Those remarks did not get him inmuch trouble, however, until they werecombinedwith the alleged
racistcomments,
Among the activists dissatisfied with
Rooney's 60 Minutes aPology are staffers. at New York's Gay & Lesbian Alliance
Against Def.unation,"The whole tone of the discussion
was that the charge of racism against him
was somethiilg to be taken very seriously
and the charge of homophobia
againsthim was much less important,"said
Executive Director Craig Davidson, "Butat least he acknowledgedthat what hehas said was unjust and harmed gay
people, and he seems sincere about not
wanting to'hurt us in the future."
Robert Bray, spokesman
for theNational Gay and Lesbian Task Force,
was less generous,.
"The two phrases that were missing
from his'so-calledapology were 'I'm'sony" and 'I apologize,'" Bray said, "We
are still waiting for his apology to the 24
million 8llYS and lesbians in this country,

He apparently
doesn't think that gays
andlesbians
are the victimsofdiscrimination
andhatredanddefamation whereas obviously he knowsthat Blacks are." ....
TAYlOR from pagl 21
Director TlOl Sweeney likewise decried
the Bush AIDS budget, citing the overburdened
status of New York City
hospitals
and the lack of access totreatmenton the part of poor andminority HIV and AIDS patients,"The New York Times was not
exaggeratingwhen it said New York is
in dangerof becoming
the new
Calcutta," said Sweeney.
Drawing the most attention to thehearings,
however,wastheappearanceof American Foundation
for AIDS Research national chairperson
Elizabeth Taylor at the hearing.
Outlininga bleak future on the
AIDS front, Taylor denounced
themindset that would have it that AIDS is
now getting too much of the "pie" ofhealth care dollars,.
"That simply is not true," said
Taylor. "The hard, cold facts tell a very
different story." Taylor later added thatwhile today some people
are more
comfortable
talking
about AIDS inchildren,many are still unwillingtoaddress
the issue of gay men withAIDS .....
AIDS -QUAKE- from pagl 30
today," she said, "a place to live, the rightto have a job, to live our lives without
unreasonable baniers and to have accessto have decent medical care, We are notasking for extras,"
Kennedy and Hatch were joined at
the event by New York Mayor David
Dinkins and Sen, AiphonseD'Amato(R-NY),
Underscoring
the New York City
crisis,Mayor
Dinkins
voicedhis
support of the bill, saying that it would
make the difference
betweenAIDS
patients"dyingwith dignity"
and"dying in rags and rage.""There are those who would have
us believe that this health crisis is no
crisis at all," said Taylor, "that the number.
of AIDS cases is levelingoff, thatheterosexuals
are not at risk and that
AIDS has been overfunded_"Well, those people are wrong," sheadded "Dead wrong." T

e Other Side ofMateo tm
He was the 'epitome of the fabled American Dream. The guy withthe bucks, the brains and the beautiful movie actress by his side.
But like so many in the upper echelons of glamour, glitter andglory, Malcolm Forbes was living a senseless lie.
by Michelangelo Signorile

A short, plump woman dressed in black feverishly gave
programs to reporters and photographers outside the church,
As the flashbulbs popped and the 1V cameras rolled, Le Cirqueowner Sirio Macioni played doorman in front of St. Bart's on·
Park Avenue, pointing to those whom the 50 aggressive police
officers should clear a path for.
·Oh yes, that's daudia Cohen ..,Yes, yes, that's Diane Von
Furstenburg, Let her in!"
. The next day, The New York Times-which had previously
published an obituary implying that Malcolm Forbes was-romantically involved with Elizabeth Taylor and said he had. once'planned to many her, only to mysteriously strike the refer-

40 ,. OUT'YWEEKMar.ch18, 1990

ence in the paper's later editions-had
this to say about theevent: ·Some worldly mourners said they had never seen such asplendid mix of people-not even at another somewhat heterogeneous gathering, Truman Capote's fabled Black and White
Ball at the Pia23 Hotel two decades ago," .
. It was a splashy memorial service indeed, Lots of pretty
boys, Hollywood agents, publishing magnates and celebrity
beards, as well as Richard Nixon and quite a few other staunchconservatives; But did the homophobes know that they werecoming to pay homage to someone who embodied what theyultimately detested? Did notoriously: anti-gay Bill Buckley, who
only a week before wrote a syndicated Daily News column

headlined "Forbes-A Man Larger Thafl Life Itself," know that he was laying praise
upon a "sex driven gay" whose ass he might have wanted to tattoo? Did USA Today
founder AI Neuharth, who a few months ago made anti-gay remarks about male flightattendants, know that his dear friend "Chairman Malcolm" was one of those dreaded
perverts? Did Newsdays Dennis Duggan-who still refuses to believe Father Ritter
toyed with boys--know what his "Peter Pan with dough" did with his capitalist tool?
Did Forbes's own son Steve, who now takes over the empire and whom The WallStreet Journal describes as an "ideological, conservative Republican," have any ideathat his own greenback-conscio~ dad was as queer as a three-dollar-bill?

Dan [not his real name] worked for two years as a waiter at the Forbes townhouse and galleries which adjoin the Forbes offices on lower Fifth Avenue.
"It's the homoerotic art that hit me when I first got there," he recalls. "There's thisone painting on the wall· called 'Sailors and l'1oozies', in which all the floozies look
like drag queens, Then there's this .one caJled 'Manhole'-it's the top view of a manhole with construction workers toiling inside." .
Dan had great respect for Forbes, He says he was always treated exceptionallywell, Although he never engaged in sexual activities with Forbes, he watched thecomings and goings of many men,.
"He really went after the waiters, I mean he did it a lot-as much as he possibly
could,' If he liked them he'd ask them to show up the next time early~t the townhouse, He'd ask them to go in the jacuzzi with him, Then, of course, they'd have sex.
He'd give them a 100-dollar bill when he fmished-dley used to love to talk about it.
They got the money even if they refused the sex.".
Troy, Hal, Andy and Mitch [not their real names], all waiters, each separately
described the same scenario, In each case Forbes would ask the young man to comeup to the house, He'd ask him into the jacuzzi, Forbes would then begin to stroke the .
man's legs slowly, He'd then proceed to masturbate him before goirig on to perform
oral sex on the young man, if indeed the man desired it (not all of the four had lethim), After the sexual encounter ended, Forbes would hand the man a 100-dollar
bill,"He never forced anyone," says Dan, "One friend of mine was actually straight,
believe it or not, but he figured, 'what the hell? He's a millionaire.' But then after hegot in the tub and Malcolm started touching him, he got uneasy, Malcolm said, 'Am I
bothering you?' and he said, 'yes' and they just stopped, He still gave him a hundreddollar bill.
"Of course, if you were lazy you had to put out, otherwise you were gonna get
fired or you had to start working harder, "some of the people present at the memorial service bad to have
known that Malcolm Forbes was gay, no matter what they may actually say, They,
after aU, were privy to the same information that the rest of us were, But their
hypocrisy is easily rationalized,
Malcolm Forbes was a rich and powerful man and if he wanted to. be secretly
queer, well, ·then, none of them would be the first to stop him, Besides', that was all
bts business and be kept "quiet" about it, a highly praised' quality in wealthy andultra-conservative circles, Bill Buckley, for instance, probably fmds it highly commendable that certain individuals who float about in the same social arena as he andhis wife Pat remain "discrete" about their sexual orientation,
It becomes increasingly clear that while the thought of our big, macho, American
publishing tycoon being a homo comes as a shock to many, lots of others knew for along time of Forbes' secret gay .life and simply excused his being a fag, Others, nodoubt, were in denial, sloughing off any rumors or stories they'd heard,
Actually,

Georg Osterman is playwright-in-r~sidence at The Ridiculous Theatrical
Company, the company made famous by the late Charles Ludlam and now being carried on by Ludlam's long-time companion, Everett Quinton, Osterman has received
quite a bit of publicity for his current adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for Quinton at the Ridiculous,.
But before becoming a near-well-known playwright, Osterman worked as acommunications manager at Forbes, That was in 1982,

CRUISING BOTH WORLDS
Top: Forb.. with lJIrry Bud Mil/men end gey pe",promoter John Simonll downtown.
Bottom: Forbll' in TengilllS with thll Ki"inglllS.

"I was personally involved
with Malcolm,· he says flatly. "I
was impressed with him. He
worked that business into
something amazing. And his
art collection was bizarrely
eclectic. But to be honest, I. thought he was very self-centered, The times I spent withhim, he'd spend 15 minutes or
so asking 'how are you?'· thenfrom there on in it was 'me,
me, me, me, me, IDe .... .'"How it starts is--it's thesame with everyone; he's done
it with others in the office-he
notices you working there andhe starts to follow you around.
"I'm delivering something
and there's Malcolm following
me, and asking, 'How are you
today?' and I answer, 'I'm in ahurry, Mr. Forbes.'.
"I'd heard from other pe0ple that he tries things. My
friend who worked in the art
department had a bad experience. Malcqlm was very persistent, Things became very

difficult for him when he didn't want to do it.
"He invited me to the townhouse for drinks, I went to the townhouse, I think hethought it would be some idiot who would just pop into the sack:with him right away,
We talked a while, There were all these beautiful paintings all around. It was beautiful.
,There was a lot of work, and I knew all of these painters. He just sort of sat there andstared at me, I don't know if he was impressed or appalled.·"We then watched a Colt gay porn video, and got around to the bustnessafter that-and after some of the best strawbeny daquiris I've ever had!
"It continued a few times after that. To a degree, he was very channing. I did it for
the experience, I mean, I was having sex with a millionaire, It was an experience. It
was fine,··Osterman says that, though Forbes' marriage to the former Roberta Remsen laidlaw ended in divorce in 1985, the two had been living separate lives for years, Themarriage was, in his opinion, for cosmetic purposes and for the sake of creating heirs,"They only got together during the holidays to take pictures and such and they
hadri't had sex in ages,· he claims,

Throughout the marriage, it seems, Forbes pever stopped engaging inhomosexual activities, which as the years went on would become his predOminant, if
not exclusive, form of sex, Trapped withiil the confines of family and big, big business, Forbes found himself trying to fit gay sex into his daily routine-trying to incorporate it somehow into his life, For him, that meant hiring men as chauffeurs, waiters,
captains and house boys with whom he could have sex on a daily basis, It meant
putting sqme of his staff in charge of scouring the town to fmd hired help that would
also potentially put out. It meant propositioning people on staff he might not know
were gay or who he did not originally seek o~t for strictly sexual purposes, (Sometimes these people were writers and other employees of his magazines, And manytimes the sex took place inside his office at Forbes,) It meant engaging in practices
which many have described as explOitative, coerc;ive and tantamount to on-the-job
sexual abuse, Many times it meant-~)f even most times-paying for the sex, carrying
around a stack of $100 bills and slipping one to each employee after the sexual
encounter. took place, It meant also passing a bill to thoSe men who were insulted,
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outraged or just plain said "no" so that theywould keep their mouths shut.

"If you were a waiter, or anybody, andhe liked you, he might ask you to be his chauffeur," says Dan, Ernest [not his real name],
who briefly worked at the townhouse, confIrms this, He was at one point asked to be achauffeur, but refused, As the men point out,
Forbes would have easier access to the chauffeur and a better chance of having regular sex
with him since they could do it in the car, It
was considered a "special" position,Peter [not his real name] had arrived in
New York from a European country a few
years ago,.
"A friend had set me up on a date with arich man the week I arrived in the U.S,," herecalls, "He said his name was Malcolm Forbes,
I had never heard of him, I asked anotherfriend if 1 should go, He said, 'Of course, areyou crazy?!'"[Forbes]picked me up on his motorcycle,
We went to dinner and then to a nightclub,
And then we spent some time together later,"
The two saw some more of each other in
the next two weeks. Peter is extremely coy
when it comes to' talking about sex and about
discussing just what they did "later," but does
not deny that they had a physical relationship, THE ms HAVE IT - DDnny Osmond with Forba
Photo: Aubrey Reuben
Within weeks of first meeting Forbes,.
Peter left New York for Los Angeles to become "an actor," But nervous, And every now and then he'd pull his head up and ask
he was back within a year.
me some sort of business question so that they would hear us"I went back to Forbes and became a chauffeur for him,"talking outside the office, Then he'd go back down on me andhe says, "I was driving around people like Elizabeth Taylor, It I'd be answering the question. He did this-leaving the door
was very exciting, And I spent a lot of time with him, Some- open-because it was safer, No one would think anything, He
times we'd go out on the motorcycle, 1 liked him a lot, He was a was very careful. He wouldn't shut the door because he didn't
great person,"want it to look weird, And, also, I really think he liked the
Evelyn [not her real name] remembered hearing all of the intrigue and excitement.
rumors at the magazine about certain young men in the office"When it was over, he'd slip me 100 bucks."
having flings with Forbes,"Half the people in the offIce were totally blind to what While many of those who knew Forbes spoke highly of
was going on, If you told them, they would never believe it," him, others were much more critical. Some employees felt serishe says, "I mean, 1 think they'd think you were crazy if you ously ~rced and even abused,
told them, The other half, well, 1 think they just sort of knew
Richard [not his real name] was one of quite a few men
everything that was going on and talked about it a lot. 1 certain- . who worked for Forbes 'as 'cater waiters and felt angry about
ly knew that some of the guys were fooling around with him,"things that went on,
Victor [not his real name] had had encounters with Forbes"When you start working there the other waiters tell. youin the editors' offices at the magazine.
what to eXpect: he ewlains, "1bey tell you that he asks you to"I remember when he'd call me up to the offIce, Everyone
strip and to go in the hot tub, Or to escort him to dinner as hiswould be impressed, thinking it was business, 1 mean these 'bodyguard,' It's not that he hid that. He was always on his. people were so stupid, They really didn't know what was going motorcycle with hot \x>ys, Everyone knew. It's surprising thaton,
nobody mentioned that-people
like Liz Smith-but
they"Those closet doors are six-foot lead, This is before· the didn't.
renovation, His office Was on the end, Just 30 feet from his desk
"One night I went into wor* and the captain said, 'the old
man wants to see you.' So I went up to his office, He said, 'I
was where his son Steve was sittlflg,"The door would always be wide open, And the secretary admire the work that you're doing.' He ~ked me to come up
would be sitting there, 'J1lere was no way she could see in to the townhouse after the cocktail party and see some pictures
though, And she would never just come in, She'd always call from Tangiers, I said to myself, 'well, why not?' I was curious, I
wanted to see the pictures,first.
"Anyway, he'd just start going down on me, I would get so"It was ten o'clock and I was up there. He made me·aMarch 18. 1990

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.drink. Then we were sitting there and' he put his hand on my Forbes: While he tried to keep it all very hush-hush, he behaved
Imee and said, 'You don't mind an old man liking you, do you?' many times in a sloppy, seemingly deliberate way, yearning to
He was rubbing his hands up and down my thighs. I said, 'I have fun,and testing the limits of living a closed life,
gotta go.' He gave me a copy of this ' book~me
hot air balThe result was that, unlike the cases of other, more cauloon book, one of those self-indulgent books he wrote, He said, tious millionaires, lots of people got wind of Forbes' escapades.
'I don't give this book out to many people.' In the elevator, he Certainly many of those who moved in his circles had been told
slipped something in my pocket and said, 'Keep this between
a thing or two. And that meant people in the' media,
you and me.' And then he said to give his secretary a call if I
. "I'd heard all of the stories, You always heard the stories,"
wanted to go to dinner and rate restaurants with him. 'Well go says Newsday's James Revson. The Datly News' Billy Norwich
to dinner and you can be my bodyguard,' he said
reiterates: "Like anyone who traveled the circuit, I heard the. "I got outside and found a hundred dollar bill in my pocket
rumors." And Michael Musto of the Village Voice wryly comand thought, 'this is hush money. Puck this!'ments, "I always Imew he was a friend of Dorothy-and I don't"In general I think he was really a very nice man, I don't
just mean Kilgallen." But the Daily News' Liz Smith, in a onefault him at all for trying to pick up boys, He really meant well, page stateinent faxed to OutWeek, claimed to be "too square" toHe certainly was not as bad as a lot of other rich people, How- have been privy to information regarding Forbes' hom05eXUaliever, I have a lot of trouble with people who have money and ty. Without addressing what she might or might not have been
have to put on this major charade. When you have so muchinformed of regarding Forbes in the past, Smith speaks only ofmoney who gives a shit? He was trying always to wony about
her personal relationship with the man. "The subject never
his image in Peoria.
came up at any time. I neyer saw any evidence of it. In fact, it"What did bother me was his saying, 'this is between us,' I never occurred to me," she states. "I must say he and I were'find that offensive,
both at an age where sex never came up as a topic of conversa"He's exploitative. He thinks he could just give some boys tion." Smith goes on to refute claims that Forbes purposely- usedmoney and they'll do what he wants, It's not good, I don't think Elizabeth Taylor as a "beard" to make him appear heterosexual,
anyone should need to feel pressured to do it. I think some"I never saw any evidence of such pretense, Both of them said
people thought, 'hey, I might be fired if I don't do it.' I Imow to me on several occasions that they were just friends, The
people who have had sex with him and that's probably whyromance was completely in the mindS of the tabloids." But
they did, That's the most egregious part of the whole bargain. It Smith herself has never stated thilt fact in her own column; she\.i wouldn't occur to him that he was taking advantage of them, has never said these two were just friends, Quite to the con,',\,
But people I know thought that they were taken advantage of,trary, she was one of the major perpetrators of the false\' '\. "The whole thing kind of sickens me, This man with all of Forbes/faylor romance two years ago, trying to convince read"this power feeling that he could do all of this as if it's not a big ers that they were a hot item.
, deal,But if Smith appears to be nervously fence-sitting, others"It's pathetic that in order to be a happy man he'd have to are downright indignant. Many columnists, writers and editors,.'.
go out and humiliate himself and do all this secret stuff.
as well as others who worked for Forbes who knew of his gay"',"I always wanted to say to him, 'if you would just come out life, became quite upset upon being approached by OutWeek,
you could be so beneficial to gays instead of being this pathetic,
and refused to comment for this story, (The Forbes children,
secretive person.'"having been tipped off early on about this story, never returned,
my calls. Neither did editors at Forbes and Egg).
From what can be surmised based on the available"Why dig up all of this stuff?" angrily asked a one-time
information, Forbes rarely had any long-tenn relationships with columnist who'd enjoyed a friendship with Forbes over themen since any attachments would naturally make it all thatyears. "I mean, what does it matter now?"
much more difficult to stay in hiding. He ~eered clear of gay
This was the attitude encountered from many both withinestablishments, having once even approached the disco Mars the gay and lesbian community and among those straights whoon a Sunday night only to leave immediately, realizing it wasclaim to be "liberal;" "understanding" and "pro-gay."
gay night. His closeted lifestyle kept him from minglirig in any
way within the gay community, And, of course, he had to keep
"He was as good as gold," says Dan. "It didn't matter
this side of him a secret, hidden from his friends, his business
whether you were a fling or you meant something more. He
associates and his public,
treated people right.
But still the stories were everywhere, Judging from infor"Actually, he rareiy, if ever, had really long or involved
mation uncovered it's probably true that Forbes had been with relationships with men. From what I could gather he lived inhundreds of men, not all of whom would stay quiet. People
such a medieval way, He was the King, who married the Queen
talked and, in quite a few segments of the gay male community
just for the purposes of siring offspring, And then he wentat least, it seemed that everyone knew someone who'd done it about just having quick flings and affairs, Of course, with men, Iwith Malcolm Forbes, He was also quite showy, liking to ride mean, I never, ever, ever heard of him having sex with women."around with his "dates" on his motorcycle, It was, not uncomDan, as well as Ernest, .independently identified one man
mon to spot Forbes on Christopher Street taking a break next to by name who worked at the townhouse and who they say
his bike with a hot, young, leathered bikemate by his side, He acted as a "headhunter" for Forbes' male sex partners. This peralso would show up-often with young men---Qt such mixed
son is described as being immensely good-looking. Part of his
clubs as Love Machine and Celebrity Qub at the Tunnel, where
job, according to these sources, was to always be on the lookthe crowd was predominantly gay but was never listed as suchout for attractive young men who might work at the townhouseor considered a gay club per se, Thus the contradiction of . and be persuaded to have Sex with Fo~bes,

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. "He always got great people." says Ernest,"Some really hot guys,"
According to Dan, Forbes treated the "headhunter" extra-specially,"He got Malcolm his boys," he says, "He was
responsible for getting that fresh meat. So he wasimportant. Malcolm had a special place for him,"
According to Dan, at one point a couple of years
ago, the headhunter had left Forbes' employ andmoved to another state. This, he said, left ForCes solost that when the headhunter decided to come back,at Forbes' bequest, Forbes sent out his private jet,
The Capitalist Tool,toget all of his furnishings andbelongings and get him back as soon as possible,.Once back, he was given a better position in Forbes'
empire, which he now occupies,.

Is our society so overwhelmingly repressive thateven individuals as all-powerful as the late Malcolm
Forbes feel they absolutely cannot come out of thecloset?
It would seem so. Much like Congressman Barney Frank before he came out, Forbes was the victim
of a virulently homophobic society which he too fed
into regularly. He was forced to lead a life of secretpursuits and dark, dirty doings; of exploitation andabuse, His own internalized homophobia far outweighed the commanding authority that any amountof dollars could possibly wield,
And what is the Significance of bringing all of
this out now?
First, for the sake of posterity the truth must be
told. All too often history is distorted. One of themost influential men in America just died, andregardless of how we may or may not see him as aproper public figure, he was gay, And that must berecorded.
Second, it sends a clear message to the public atlarge that we are everywhere,
Third, perhaps gays and lesbians at all levels ofsociety can learn a great deal from the story of Malcolm Forbes, In researching this piece, in an attempt
to try to obtain more information about Forbes andget to people 'who were close to him, I came uponsomeone who kneW the family very well and who
would have been able to discuss intimate details
about the man; not merely about sex, but about thethe real inner-workings of Forbes' mind, It was a person who could perhaps provide an insight into what
Forbes thought about such issues as gay rights andAIDS, But, after considerable thought, he decided
not to speak to me. Currently living a closeted existence with regard to his own family and business, hesaid, "My choice in speaking to you is between
myself and the greater gay community, And~t this. moment-I have to go with myself,"
Ultimately, that was the tragedy of Malcolm
Forbes' entire life, Under the guise, perhaps, ofdoing the best for "himself," Forbes initiated a senseless, self-imposed prison sentence which benefited THE USUAL SUSPECTS - (Top to Bottom) Calvin Klein, Fran Lsibowitz, Ed
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March 1B. 1990

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letter from a reader who apparently
community and thus detracts from ourthought we were stilldlscussing Janecommon struggle. (There are, I would
Ponda's Oscar upset in 1978. 'imagine, deeper and more disturbing
Throughout
the day I have
implications to be considered in this .
received a series of phone calls during
Issue as Passover approaches but that's
which the caller has belched and thena different column altogether.)hung up. I presume I am to regard
I had promised to share with you
the startling results of this survey asthese as threats of an indeterminate
well as a cross-sampling of some ofnature, much in the same way as I am
the more legible comments but, alas, . coming to regard my experts, As you
all we11lmow by now, I have requestthis is not to be. When I arrived at theed a meeting with their spokesperson
office this morning I discovered that(presumably Sandy, who has traditionmy experts had broken in during theally handled their contract negotiations
night, eaten all the candy com in thein the past) in an attempt to containjar on my desk and soaked the entire
this rapidly escalating controversy.
mailbag in Bombay Gin. A message
They have replied (via a letter attachedscribbled in blue violet aayon on theto a brick) that the time for negotlationwall read, in part: "7bis is wbat gtn
has passed and they demand thatcan do! TeO tbe publtc! Or else!!! 7beexperts! P.S, We're not ktdtitng! P .P.S,
forthwith all advice to be dispensed
through this column must include,
And wbere's our coffee maker???!!!"All
without variation, a warning that mixI could salvage from the mess was.one
ing gin with anti-depressantsmayresult in death. Pailure to comply with
BY ANDREA NATALIE
this demand, they warn, will result ina
call for my resignation coupled with apublicity campaign denouncing me
HfJl1VJ ANJ) L.ENTILS
as-weli, never mind the specifics oftheir wild and, I assure you, completeA',fINl J)A~LING, WE
ly unsupported accusations. The point
NE,fl.iy}fvrr FINO
is that these are the tactics they have()IIIUEI."'&~A
elected to employ, (You will note I say/)IF,r:E~£NT IEJ/~&tle~"elected.» Throughout their tenure,these experts have exhibited utter disdain for the consensus process inwhich I, myself, am a firm believer.)Needless to say, dear readers, thisis not the first time (nor, I am sure, thelasO I have been the target of persecution. Remind me sometime to tell you
about my sophomore year at Lord
Beaverbrook High School. As I havenot in the past, I will not now acquiesce
to these misguided hoodlums, If theywish to participate in rational discourse
for the purpose of our mutual understanding and development, I will be, as
I always have been, more than wi1l.lng
to oblige. If they want to get rid of me
they will have to assassinate me, •A few weeks ago I asked you, mybeloved readers, to submit your opinions as to whether or not shirts were
replacing sweaters as the garment ofchoice these days, Although I had
expected some measure of healthy andinformed debate over the relative merits of the two apparel items, I was inno way prepared for the vehemencewith which sweaters were attacked,
Wool sweaters, in particular, drew
heavy fire. In light of a recently
released study detailing incidents ofhomosexual behavior among the animals at the U.S, Department
ofAgriculture's
Sheep Experimental
Station in Boise, Idaho (see OutWeek,
No, 24, 12/3/89) many readers charged
that the wearing of wool sweaters perpetuates the exploitation of. our gay
and lesbian comrades in the ovine

SrONEIf'Al.1.

OFmarital affair, cower in the cornerharm she inflicts on her own people,
whenever someone asks you about
I could spend hours dissecting
your private life, Instead of proudly
every sad word that this self-loathing,ageist, sexist, homophobe had to say in answering and giving the truth, youthat creepy article. But, I'll stick to the freak out, become "frightened" and"desperate,"and even reportedly
ridiculous remarks made about me
tQreaten lawsuits.
since I don't have that much space.
Last week someone even overIn response to slippery writerheard Jeannie Williams (USA. Today),Jonathan Van Meter's question about
asking you if you were a lesbian. After
what she thinks about that "aUlWeek
columnist who has harangued her," Liz all, she hears lots of things, reads OutBy Michelangelo Signorlle
says: "Oh those gay guys don't like me, Week and certainly read what you said
I call them the beatnik fringe, I think in ., Days. But (though Williams
ROGER AILES, .
they must be very frightened and des- declined to comment when I asked herThis is the man with whom Liz .perate people, They're so hateful and about this), you were overheard
Smith (Dally News) has gleefully decidirrational. Talk about not living-a:nd-Iet- responding, "You have no right asking
me that." Really, Liz? But you have theed to host a TV commentary show on living, Who are they to tell everybody
the Fox television network.
else how to live?' I don't get it. I also . right to ask and write about everyope
ROGER AILES.
think they're jealous of anybody that else's personal life? And why is homoThe biggest homophobe of thethey think made it. I mean, what do sexuality So horrible that no one 'can80s. The p,r, man behind Ronald Rea- they want me to be the great lesbian of ask questions about it? Don't you seegan, George Bush and Rudolph Giu- the Western world? Forget it! If I was the internalized homophobla here, Liz?
I was even told, by a friend who
liani. A man who has said some of the Sandra Bernhard, maybe. But evenspoke to nme reporter J,D. Reed, thatmost hOlTendous, outrageous, anti-gay then I'm not so sure,"
public statements of the past ten years,
Well, Liz, First off, we're not just you threatened to sue Reed when heasked you about yourA MAN WHO AllEGEDLY
personal relationship
TRIED TO STRANGLE AN
with archaeologist Iris
AIDS ACTIVIST! And ofLove and when hecourse, this little sideshow
said that he simply
is being put together byanother self-hating phoney,
wanted to Print THE
TRUI'H in his recent
20th Century Fox's Barry
article on you. I
Diller.
IT'S AKIN TO
called Reed myself to
SAMUEL GOLDWYN PROask if you had threatDUCING AN HISTORICAL
ened a lawsuit, and,DRAMA
STARRING
after a long pause, he
NORMA SHEARER AND
said, "I'm .. .I'·m not
ADOLPH HITLER!
really .. at liberty to.I am steaming madanswer that question.
As usual,
But you shou~d call .
I read the story in 7
our corporate
lawyers." They, ofOap, the one, which I'm sure you all "guys." There are actually lesbtanswho
course, had no comment. You also had
are out of the closet t()() and-heaven
read, with the headline, "Liz Smith"no comment" when I called to ask
forbid!~ey
actWj.llyw<?rkhere.
Under Siege" (which, I guess, is supIt's funny that you' call me "fright- you about this.
posed· to make us feel sorry for thisLiz, do you know how homophobig, giant press whore who kisses the ened" and "desperate," I would actualbic it is to threaten such a lawsuit?
ly say that what I'm doing is theasses of the privileged so that perhaps
opposite-fearless, I say a lot of things What would other Blacks think of a ,they'll pet her and say, "There,that get a lot of people upset. I bum a Black person who threatened to sue athere ...yes, yes ...good puppyl"), .
If there was ever a time that I lot of bridges in the Process of trying to magazine if they printed that he or she
expose the hypocrisy of this town.
was Black?
thought that this woman who reaches
As for your thinki~g that I, am
millions of Americans every clay was a You, on the other hand, tip-toe whensomehow "jealous" of your supposed
writing about the rich and powerful;dangerous monster it is now, after
success, let me set you straight on thatyou even shower them with praises
reading that article and hearing about
her upcoming'TV gig with Ailes. Liz, many times over, No, Liz, I would say it too, I don't think you've Mmadeit," Lizis you who are "frightened" and "des- Smith, I consider you an embarrassing
Smith is the Joan Qawford of American
perate." You, who chronicle all of the fool. I consider. you a woman who,
journalism, so self-absorbed in her
own glamour and so frighteningly out deep, dark secrets of the famous and much like Malcolm Forbes, will be
he BOSSIP WATCH on PI,eS1
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Oul on Ihe Town

With Liz and Sydney

the video monitors in the very bright lounge, (Sydney:
I guess it was kind of like watching Peter Pan in the
Bijou for most of the men who went into the oosement.)
We decided to have one of those dykes-to-mg
talks with Ron Dobrin, the new Pyramid manager ond
an openly gay man, In the midst of giving us his r~sons for the firing, he said, "We're going to start advertising with OutWeek, and we hope we won't be.getting any bad press from you," Sydney replied:"Pressis press," He reiterated this sentiment by soying,"I hope we can keep advertising with you," His threats
weren't exactly "write a bad story and we'll pull ourads," but he did mention .in the same minute, that hewos pulling his ads from The ViII"Se Voice becouse ofthe "bad press" he was expecting from them,Now, aside from the fact that if he doesn't advertise with either the Voice or OutWeek, his only outlet
for hot boys will be the Native, we don't take kindly
to our stories being dictated by clubs,
According to Ron Dobrin, Johnson and others
connected with FagBarwere fired for these r~sons:-The most recent invitation for Fag Bar r~d: "A
Stevie Nicki Tribute: bring your shawll Bring yourspoon I Coke dealers admitted free with this invite,"
The Pyramid feared cocaine purveyors would show
up Wednesday night demanding entronce, (ElIrlier inthe week, the manager of a Christopher Street clothing
store asked us "What do you think Stevie Nicks will
think when she gets there?")-The Testosteroom was housing unsafe sexuol
activities with no monitor and no lighting of ony sort
(so that one could not see breaks in a condom), This
is not the first time the Testosteroom has been controversial.
When Dobrin WaS asked about having a monitor
for the room, he replied, "the Pyramid is not a sex
club: Quite true, it's a club, But Dorbrin has also l'T'lOde
allegations against Village Voice columnist Mich•• 1
Multo, charging that Musto was practicing unsafe sex
in the Testosteroom, (Sydney: While the allegotions
SEX IS SAFER ON WEDNESDAYS - Ol.n JohnsoR
about
unsafe sex are a rumor, Dobrin, in the course of
Photo; Michael Wakefield
our chat, stated that the Pyramid would be getting
Uz: Dean Johnson'. Rock and Roll Fag Bar has once again bad press from the Village Voice because Michael Musto was 0
moved-this time omidst much controversy, The closing of Fag. regular patron of the Testosteroom,), Musto refutes both ofthese versions and is considering legal action against the PyroBar at Pyromid Club two weeks ago was sudden, So suddenthat many showed up for it and were greeted with a sign on mid and Dobrin, Several Fag Bar regulars (that is, every weeK)
can vouch that Musto has set foot inside exactly once, a night
the Pyromid door reading "Politically Incorrect FagBarl" The visible changes we could see were drag queens dancing on the before the Tetosteroom was open, Asked why the Pyromid. bar, go-go boys wearing clothes and the absence of the Testos- would be smearing him, Musto said that on a call to get
Dobrin's side of the Fag Bar fiasco, Dobrin "freaked out" while
teroom. Downstairs, The Wizard of Oz was being shoWn on
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he w~s simply trying to get the club's
r~ctionto ~lIeg~tions of uns~fe sex
pntctices in the Testosteroom,
In response, D~n Johnson has
cI~imed greed ~nd homophobi~ ~s thernctiYes fa' his firirs. He claims there v.here
monitors in the Testc6teIoom, that the ~tia1 was jokethat the sex on Wec:tlesdrys was f8r ~rer than on the weekends,
Wlen the m:w.d is predomirmtly
stRJight(except. of COlI'Se, on 5u'lc:iIy).
Pyramid insists that the bottom liner~son for the firings was concern for
their license, How Musto got into this no
one quite understands.· For right now,
H8p1~~wnoso~nd~off~edtotake over, will now be doing Wednesday nights, as well as his regula-r Backdoor C~b~ret, Meanwhile
Dean h~s
moved Fag Bar to Woody's in the Village,
conveniently loc~ted across the street
from The Bar,
SydneytParis is Buming-, the wor1<ing title of ~ film ~bout the House Ballscene in New york by Jennie LIvIngston
and Berry Swlmer, prooves on the one
h~nd that there is little difference
between the club scene and the b~1I
scene; both revolve around faux glamor,
artificial societY, and limited fame, On
the other hand, it also exposes the difference-whileboth ball kids ~nd club kids
believe that they can ride the scene tomainstream fame, being black, gay and,in most cases, poor, provides an added
urgency to -make it- out of the scene,
The film features some of the bestlines-like one queen explaining the difference between reading and sh~de,Reading is telling someone how ugly
they are wnile shade is saying something
like this: -I don't have to tell you how
ugly you are, because you are, because
you already know what an ugly queen
you are: Or DavId, the father of Houseof Xtravaganza, explaining that the houseloves its mother, Ansie, so much they
paid for her tits, They then sing: -All she
wants for Christmas is her two front tits:
The film ends with a startling juxtaposition: Willi Hinja, a cross-over success,tells us that he paid for his Gaulthier earring
have the receipt somewnere-)and has his foot in a lot of different
doors (like Lambada-heis a Lambada
dancer at Palladium) and Angie tells thestory of going down to the morgue andidentifying the body of Venul StraY.
sana, a pre-op TS hustler interviewed
in the film, (Venus' drea'm was to have a-sex change, adopt children and' live inmrl

the Peekskills: She was killed by a john,)

Besides being untrue, these invites are~Iso utterly offensive, Yet another invitation we are none too happy with, though
but money is still needed to finish it for
we ove the hQst(ess): Lahoma Van
U.S. distribution.
Kilimanj~ro w~s once called Tr~cks, Z8ndt'l love Connection invites men to
NON KiIJl1l!!I1jero is ~as "Tmcks nigtht" . -meet that special someone through themagic of video- wnile women are asked
on Tuesd~ys, Strong, pumping house
l1lJSic, late hours m Ids of energy make to -tease him with subtle innuendo: If
men can meet a special someone of ~nthis seem ~ lot like Sound Fac:tay used tounspecified gender, wny must women
be...too bed it's on ~ Tuescmy night.
be forced into teasing a -him"? One final
The inviUltion for smarmy promoter
R. Courl Hey'l Saturday night party at note: Gorgeous photos of the late Keith
Quick reads: RealWomen who want Real Haring were exhibited at Red Zone byMen, ~ch he«ling is then followed by a nightlife photographer nna Paul, He is
pictured at a number of events ~ndlist of supposedly -real- (we think meaning heterosexual) men and women. Well, places, from the Paradise Garage to thelove Ball, proving that he was and will~t least one of the women, ~ blondebe remembered as an important figure inhaired faux-drag queen, is probably not
gay culture and as an artist and influenti~1
interested in ~ real man, (Uz: wnile that
personality, T
may be exactly Vvtlat the host is seeking.)

The film will be ~ired on the BBCin April,

GOSSIP WATCH from pege 41

remembered not for what you have done
for humanity and for the gay and lesbiancommunity-yourcommunity-but,rather, for sucking up to· Barbara Walters,
I think on this one youivegot it switchedtoo, liz, See, I think I've "made it." I'm ina position where I can live my life openly and freely with no skeletons in mycloset and do work that' has redeemingsocial value and may do some good inthis world.
You, meanwhile, talk in that article
about your four friends who were"dying" of AIDS. And yet you only build
up and praise the homophobes who are
killing them, You never make any plea
for the government to do something, And
when you write about your friends'
deaths, you say that they died of "brain
tumors."Then, to top it all off, you sign a deal
to do a 1V show with a man who was oneof those directly responsible for yourfriends' deaths, Liz. Meanwhile, you talkabout being too exhausted going to thehospital to see them, You, Liz, may as wellpull out the plugs on them, It's lesspainful.
As for Jonathan Van Meter, .wh'owrote the piece: YOU AREA PHONEY!
Playing a dangerous game, you are
one of the new breed of se1f-loathers
who do a balancing act. You try toappease me, since, as you expreSsed tome on the telephone once, you're afraidof me. But at the same time you try tokiss up to the people whom you ultimately want to pal around with,
It is no coincidence that your threemost recent stories have been about pe0ple whom I stirred up controversy about.
First it was Mark Kostabi, then Pat Buckley, then Liz Smith. You latch on to thesepeople because controversy makes themhot, then you make the controversy moreor less one of the key issues of the interview, But you never mention where it all
started. In. the Kostabi piece I was
sloughed off as "an activist" who threw
butter at him.
In the Buckley interview you don'trefer to me at all and I was the one who
first attacked her and the reason ,why
ACT UPfinally decided to protest thebenefit, You knew this, since you called
me to have me feed you every one of mycolumns as background,
Then, in the Liz Smith piece, I'm"that Out Week columnist," Van Met~r,
you are playing a tricky little game, But
you're caught now, How unprofessional,
But let's tell everyone how reallyunprofessional you are, Let's tell how you
ran around party after party for the past
few weeks, carrying a drink in your hand,
and telling everyone that Liz Smith was"coming out" in your article and how it
was the story of your career, .Let's tell
everyone how I then got wind of it andcalle9 you, Let's tell everyone how you
became all flustered and freaked out. Let'stell everyone how your editors at '7 Days
were so infuriated that they called a"breac,h of security~ meeting, Let's tell
everyone how the story, when it fmally _appeared, was hardly a "coming out" story
and how everyone is laughing at you,
Now, put that on your resume to
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ny, I'm queer." But more and more 1 wanted to ask him why hedidn't just come out. With all his wealth and power, he had nothing
to lose. And think of the publicity, When he donated a leather jacket to an ACf UP auction, 1 had visions of him attending W}lite
House dinners in an ACf UP t-shirt, boyfriend in tow.
My big chance to talk to Forbes came at a Forbes Christmas party,
only a few weeks before I had planned to quit, It wasn't actually theForbes Christmas party. That party'was held a few days before, andconsisted, as it did every year, of all the employees sweating in ahuge auditorium while they watched upscale home movies of Malcolm's exploits about his trip to Spain, narrated by Placido Domingo, and a film about the notorious party in Morocco, to which thevast majority of Forbes employees were not welcomed,
No, this party was to celebrate the retirement of two maintenance men who'd slaved at Forbes for almost 30 years,
When 1 saw him corning across the room toward me, 1 knew
this would be my last chance to say what 1 wanted to say, He cameup to me, extended his hand and flashed his photo-ready smile, 1
introduced myself and told him 1 had written him. a letter about the
AIDS article. He pretended to a vague recollection, then 1 plunged
right into it"I'm gay," 1 said, "And 1 think it's important to publicly acknowledge it. But 1 think it's even more important for a public figure like- yourself to acknowledge when he is gay."
He paused for a moment, his smile frozen on his face as
if it were already a sti1l photograph.
"And [think," he flna11ysaid, "it's important for people tolead their own private lives and that it's nobody's business,"
1 plunged on: ·Considering that 40 percent of teen suicides are corrunitted by gay and lesbian teens with no rolemodels and that homophobia is rampant, 1 think a publicacknowledgement from YOllwould do a lot of good,"
By this time his right eye had started to twitch, 1
couldn't tell if his eye was twitching because there wassomething in it, because he was nervous or angry, or if it·
was a crude attempt to wink salaciously. He began to spitout his words.
"And 1 think, 1 think," he sputtered, "that it's uh, great;.1' that we live in a country where, uh, y-y-y-ou can leadf.} your own p-:p-p-private life, and that no one, no one canPhoto: Aubrey Reuben tell you how to, uh, live your life. That's why we live in a

CAPlTAUST CJ..OSET from page 42
to recreate himself, though, was his liaison with Elizabeth Taylor,
He usually spent too much money indulging his whims to botherwith charitable causes, but there was one cause he was interestedin, mostly out of self-interest, and that was AIDS research, Like any
gay man, he was very interested in seeing AIDS cured, The only
problem was how to give a lot of money to the cause and get a lotof publicity, without giving riSe to rumors about his sexuality, His
solution, one must hand it to him, was brilliant: Give the money
within the context of a well-publicized heterosexual relationship,Thus was born one of the great non-romances of the 8Os-Malcolm
and liz, As their relationship dominated the media, Forbes was free
to go out in the company of more young men, giving rise to thecaption in gossip columns "Malcolm and friend" (not unlike whenyour mother says, "How is your, uh, 'friend?'")While he partied with some of the decade's most notorious
homophobes and his magazine towed an even more reactionaryline, something had to give, Then last June his rabidly right-wing
editor printed an article called "Straight Talk on AIDS" whose basic
premise was that only Blacks and gays were going to get AIDS somoney spent on research was being wasted, Forbes was caught
between his conservative bedfellows and his own self-interest. He
risked looking like a hypocrite or at least an idiot giving so much~:1. }

j'n",v,';;.'1 /A BEARD IN MOROCCO
FotbllS with,Elizsbllth

TaylDf at the infamDuS Tangiers bash

money to AIDS research on the one blind and printing an article inhis magazine saying it was foolish to do so on the other, The day
after that issue's deadline, he was leaving the country for two
weeks, He claims he didn't see the article before it went into themagazine, This may be true, though I and a few other disgusted
employees sent him copies of the story before he left, Most likely'
he was waiting to see if anyone saw the article, hoping it would die
unnoticed without his having to take a stand, But people did notice
it. Although I wasn't a member of ACT UP at the time, I knew
exactly who to go to, Two weeks later, about 40 protesters wel-·comed Forbes home, while a group snuck inside and planted
themselves in the editor's office until he met with them, He handled the situation with his usual publicity-aware fmesse, turning a
potential embarrassment into a coup, He not only retracted the article, but printed ACT UP's fact sheet as well, The controversy wasdefused, and he squeezed a little more publicity out of it.
.
Naively, perhaps, 1 thought this was the beginning of a newawareness for Forbes, I didn't really expect him to go on Johnny
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free country,""I ~'ttelling you how to lead your life," I said, "I wasonly suggesting ..."
"Good'" he snapped, "11len we're in 100 percent agreementl"
He smiled again, thinking this was the end of it.
"Well, actually," 1 said, "we're not."The smile left his. face and he plunged into a group of people,
turning his back on me,"I'd like to discuss this issue with you further some other time," Iyelled after him,
"We just did talk about it. Now that's it," he said angrily, returning to smiles and handshakes,
I don't know what I expected him to say. At least he didn't
shrink back in horror and protest," "What, me gay?"
Any hope of his doing anything really important with his life forthe gay and leIDian community is over, Everyone now knows thelife he led was a sham, but. his homosexuality will be treated as
something that was too horrible to be revealed while he was alive,
It will be a character flaw, a skeleton, in the closet that "respectable"
biographies will skirt over and homophobic family members will
no doubt deny, TIf you have sex with other men, no matter how infrequently,
always use latex condoms.
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Film

SOAPED UP AND GOING DOWN--Scenes

from Lino Brocka's Macho Dancer

Ten Cents a Dance?
by Peter BowenL

ost in Madrid several years ago, I tried to find myself in a copy of the "Guia Gai" Ibought on the street. Loitering among the ads for American gay pomo and the ungrammatical warnings ("be'careful1y")was the persistent phrase, "rent boys." For the sodomitical tourist, gay guides routinely explain where and how boys can be "rented" in undeveloped
countries, In fact, specialized tourist agencies regularly exploit the inequalities of world trade toprovide Westerners and Japanese with speci3.l vacation packages where cheap labor provides
hours of equally cheap pleasure, What is, of course, omitted from these trade pages of international desire is the complex socio-economic conditions which create the "seIViceeconomy'" they
exploit. Lino Broka's new film, Macho Dancer, turns such vacation plans inside out by tel1ingthe
complicated labor story of Philippino Macho Dancer.
In making a film about the economic and political conditions of male prostitution, Broka has
been no less prostituted by the complex political conditions which govern Philippino film production and international distribution, Unable to make the film under the repressive Marcos regime,. Broca, who has produced his share of exploitative pot-bOilersas well as "political"films,has found. the Aquino government slightly more encouraging, but no less censoring, The film, which stands, ..

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according to Broca, as "anindictment against the government as well" as thepolice which control the sex
and drug trades was, not surprisingly, rejected by thegovernment censor board forpresenting too negative an
image of Philippino youth.
Unable to secure a governmental authorization, Broca
was subsequently charged
with smuggling after presenting the film at a Toronto film
festival,
While controversial,
the fUm's representation ofgay desire is equally complicated, Touted as a "gay"fUm, its story of a ooyntry
boy, Pol (Allan Paule),
moving to Manila to seekricher clients after his G,I.
lover/patron returns to thestates, suggests the povertyof such convenient western terms as gay/straight todefine the actual contoursof sex and desire in
Philippino
culture, Foralongside one's personaldesire hangs the more
fmancially important pricetag of their deSirability as asexual object, Pol, whoeasily fucks with men formoney, ultimately falls inlove with a female sex
worker, Bambi OacylnJose), who finally rejects
his utopian dreams of heterosexual
marriage formore realistic businessplans, And even as Pol ispositioned as ostensibly
straight, the fUm recognizes
an unrequited and unclarified relationship between
him
and
his
coworker/roommate,
Noel(Daniel Fernando),
Indeed, while the fUm
unapologetically portrays
same-sex
activity (gayporn, prostitution,
floorshows of boys jerking off
See DANCE on pille 64

Film

Mountains ofrthe Moot

byBruce C Steele

F
::~=
irst

Voice:,

After theslick seductivenessof Black
Widow (1986), thesteamy silliness of The

Postman Always Rings
Twice (1981) and thecountercultura1 cool of(l~~~~ WHITE BOYS IN A FOREIGN IAND-JDhn

picked Bob Rafelson as the heir to David Lean? But there it is:an epic, historical adventure of the sort you thought they didn't
make anymore.
Mountains of the Moon is the story of the quest for thelegendary source of the Nile by English adventurer Captain
Oater Sir) Richard Burton and his protege Oater rival) John
Speke, It features gruesome battles, noble savages, fantastic
landscapes, comely aative womeri, a hot hetero romance(between Burton and his fiance), intrigue and safe social
commentary-~ll the ingredients of a classic of an oftenbotched genre, And it feels like a movie from a different
age, Rafelson has no interest in making a preachy allegory
like The Mission, and he doesn't attempt to modernize thecharacters 'in order to glibly deconstruct the 19th century,
as in Greystoke. The issues are straightforward and oldfashioned: loyalty, bravery, integrity to one's ideals,
Everything is neatly, beautifully, even powerfully set
forth, and as the adventure steams forward past natural
obstacles, threats of death and apparent dead-ends, it's
clear we're being driven to sympathize with the utter rightness of Burton's passion for the alien, his vision of exploration as immersion in the element-an experience of the
moment rather than an excuse for. later laurels,
Second Voice: That's just it, of ~burse, It's all much too
neat, The agenda is so clearly delineated because it's aclosed system, and what's shut out is any real examinationof baser motives 'and historical implications, David Denby

H.nning Spelce (Isi.n Glen) .nd Iiich.nJ ButtDn (htdc/( lhHgin)has already pointed out the movie's complete failure to consider Britain's imperialistic intentions, I might easily add to "that list the movie's inability to deal with class except as q
device to differentiate the main characters, poor Scotsman
Burton and aristocratic Englishman Speke, as well as thefilm's bardy endorsement of machismo, the sexism impltcl;lin its preference for things "masculine" and, perhaps mostglaring, its heterosexism,

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But the film should not be slighted for what it chooses
not to deal with, lbe photography is stunning and the,;lead .actor&-Patrick Bergin as Burton and lain Glen as Speke-perform handsomely, with broad strokes yet great depth and I.
~yen nuance of character, To dump 20th century issues into
the laps of these Victorians would be entirely inappropriate,

Except that it's not a Vu;torianji1Tn--'-it'sa movie of tbe~,.It's no longer appropriate,for example, to bint at boma;ex-.
uality whenever you want to question a character's integrity,
Mountains of the Moon does that not once, but twice. It iriJpltes
repeatedlythat Speke may be motivated by a repressedgay love
for Burton, and then it shamelessly indic,atesthat the repukive
publisher-the movie's only real villain, who urges SfJe.~eto
betray Burton-simply wants theyoung blond to himself.
Making the publisher gay was certainly gratuitous, but
Glen's per~ormance incoIpOl'ates Speke's sexual ambiguity
into a whole complex of repression, insecurity and moral
tunnoil, It's one significant tension ~ a movie that weaves an
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Film

No Bomb in Gilead
by Monica Dorenkamp

At

the beginningof TheHandmaid's Tale, the main
character
Kate (Natasha
Richardson)gets caught
while
attempting to cross the border into
Canada from the Republic of Gilead,
formerly the United States. It is thefirst indication of conditions in this"recent future" than' an opening title
tells us we are in, And it is an appro-

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priate one, for borders and the controlling of them are what this film is
all about.
Run by right-Wing fundamentalists, Gilead has erased all cultural andethnic difference (people of color aresent to the toxic-waste filled colonies)
to produce a homogenous,
white,
patriarchal state with a strict class system, Positions within the system arecolor-coded by dress, making who
you are less identiflable--and certainly less important-thanwhat you are.
Handmaids are dressed in bright red.
Margaret Atwood, on' whose
novel the film is based, got the idea
f~r her story from an episode inGenesis; Rachel, unable to bear children, instructs het husband to sleep
with her handmaid, Bilhah, so that
she may bear ~hildren for her. In

futuristic· Gilead, one of the effects ofyears of nuclear accidents and environmental neglect has been to leave
most women infertile. Those who still
are able to bear children become
handmaids, and are assigned to commanders (in dark blue) and theirwives (in an offensively bright blue),
between whom they must lie in a sex"ceremony."At the training center for handmaids Kate meets Moira (Elizabeth
McGovern) who was picked up for"gender treachery," that is, as she
explains further, for "liking girls." In afundamentalist
state where theboundaries around what is acceptablesex-heterosexual
sex for reproductive purposes--m-e as strongly policed
as country borders, lesbian or gay sex
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Theater

Icing on the Cakewalk
to a shady Black gangster called H,P,
(Jack Landron) who plans to tum theplace into a speakeasy, A few of theactors, who believe that Alma's storyof a Black president is just too uppity
and would make folks nervous, abet
H,P.. Harding's story ends unhappily(just as he begins to learn of the enormous raids his cabinet and appointees
are making on the national treasury,
he dies); Big Jim triumphs,

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hio has given
Americasix
presidents,
Their luck (and ours)
was not good, Three
were utter mediocrities,
three died in office,Warren Gamaliel Harding .'I(1921-23) belonged. toboth groups, As the newmusical, Capitol Cakewalk points out, Harding
had the profile of Francis
X, Bushman. That was
about it for his head, He
had enormous appetites
for food and women, anatureastonishingly
trusting and naive and agift for resonating, empty
rhetoric which he truly
beJj-eved,He
also 1-···'"rhad-<>hwdas ruBffilorekd
to HALF FULL OR HALF EMPTY?
Photo: Linda Alaniz
h ave a -aac or The Csk,wslkcrew ()"Ifrom top : Adnan 8al ey, M'mnette.
mu Iatt0 gran dm 0th er,.
The latter is the Coleman, Tena Wilson, Kimberly JonesI~

ostensible reason why a company of
The storY frame and theme areBlack actors, led by the late pres i- very problematic, but the music anddent's cousin Alma (Sharon Hope), is lyrics (by Terry Waldo and Lou
prodUCing a musical version of his life Carter), and a number of perforin' 1924, Set in a rundown Harlem
mances are superior, They make it
auditorium optimistically called the possible to admit the show's flaws but
New Renaissance, Harding's story is nevertheless be glad for having spentparalleled by the efforts of ·Big Jim two hours in the Dimson Theater,
Moses (Adi'ian Bailey plays both) to
Waldo's score is a mixture ofkeep the theater open, Once the .cakewalks, rags, tangos, ballads andproud possession of Big Jim's father, blues, It has an unpretentious way of
the theater is now abc-ut to be closed producing joy, while Carter's lyrics.by the city for numerous building vio- provide some knowing, if a bit easy,
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Bailey is an actor of great appeal.
He has an unknowing smile whichannounces himself as a man open forbusiness to every passing shyster, anda knowing eye for the women who
throw themselves at him at every
opportunity. If Bailey succeeds lesswell as Big Jim, it's because there's little part there. Jack Waddell plays
Harding's campaign manager andmanipulator Harry Daugherty withsuch an astonishing grace (beginningwith his fltst entrance, a nifty softshoe duet with the also-graceful
Jeffrey Smith) that one feels the urge
to throw a spotlight on him andpolitely ask the other actors to leave
us alone for awhile,
As the long-suffering
Mrs,
Harding, Minette Coleman makes themost of her essentially clich&i opportunities. Tena WJison is the longer-suffering mistreSs who follows Warren to theWhite House and presents him with a
new citizen eligible to vote in 21 years,
Tom O'Horgan has directed thepiece as a cartoon, Perry Arthur
Kroeger's sets are whimsical andmany of the props are ov~ized, as ismuch of the acting (the costumes
have been decidedly ignored; mostare 1990 suits standing in for tum-ofthe-<:entury fashions). The broad style. of acting and production
doesn'tseem to suit the theme, but then, it's
hard to discern what the theme is,
The book, by Elmer Kline andPerry Arthur Kroeger, offers no special perspective on this Black president. Alma's story views Harding
simply as a good man bad men took
advantage of. The rumors regarding
his ancestry are treated as only one
episode among many in his life;
everything about Harding is white.
There is an odd lack of irony in theplay: it could be performed by awhite·cast and it wouldn't matter,
Just what do Big Jim and the oth. ,ers think of this president who singsthe praises of debenture bonds, a milSM CAKEWALK on pege &5

MusicFreedom of Speech ...
My Ass!
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trying to tear her clothes off while he
CE-T,supposed champion ci free.. rapped to the audience'about what hedom the world over, is at it again. was going to do to her, Such blatantThis L,A: rapper who ~nary violence prompted a young' woman
sing a soog without showing his utter watching to tum to another, with terhatred for women and leSbians~
and gay men has taken his
oppressive stage show to newheights, and one should wonder
just how fur his "freedom march"
will go. (Could his hatred for
women be seen as something fur
more complex than macho
curity? Doesn't rap music promote ,.
the ultimate in male bonding?)
It's time to scream "enoughis enough." It's time that we tum
the tide, showing the musicindustery that ultimately, only thesociety/consumer will detellXline
what is and is not acceptablebehavior from a fellow humanbeing.
If the following documented
instances of hatred and oppression (compiled by Jim Fouratt)anger you, it's time to get angry
in a way that oounts: by making
life miserable for the people who_are profiting the most from this rot in her voice and say, "fm going to. shit-therecord companies thembe raped tonight."
selves.
ICE-T was a featured speaker a
the College Music Journal's annual
oonference in October 1989. He was
ICE-Tis a rap artist sign~d to championed as a frontline fighter inWilmer Brothers records. His producthe antkensorship/freespeech battle,
tion company has been signed by Epic His speech was replete with misogyrecords, a division ci CBS recprds, to nistic and homophobic language. He
produce a series of Rap records that received a STANDING ovation.
ICE-T, himself, will produce.
ICE-T recently toured Australia
ICE-T performe.d at the New and New South wales in support ofMusic Seminar last July in New York his Warner Brothers records, BLK, a
City, at the Rapp Arts Center, His per- national lesbian and gay journal pubformance eXhibited some of the most lished in Los Angeles, reports a story
blatant n'lisogynistic and homophobic
in its February 1990 issue verified bybehavior seen from any major Rap Outrage, the Australian lesbian andartist. Activities included his pulling a gay magazine, 'The story reported thatfemale fan out' of the audience and ICE-T ",:.on tour in Sidney, Australia,

inse-I \-:-"• • • • •pissed off at least half of his audienceat BASE, a popular nightclub, when
he gave his approval from the stage to'bash poofs' to a vocal minority at thefront of the audience who werechanting 'Bash Poofs.'"
Radio Station 2J)J, which spon. sored the ooncert, reportedly received
numerous calls the following day
demanding they account for the Blackrapper's statements,.

• • • • •If'S TIME TO ZAP!
/CE-Ts management:
George Hinojosa
451 North Reese
Burbank, CA 94506(818) 563-1030
FAX:(818) 563-2826
7be record company e:xx!CS:
MoOstin.Chairman
Warner Brothers Records
3300 Warner Blvd, .
Burbank, CA 91510(818) 953-3201 FAX:(818) 846-8417
Lenny Waronker
President
WEARecords

3300 Warner Boulevard
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Walter Yetnikoff
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51 W, 51st St. NY, NY 10019(212) 445-5383
FAX:(212) 445-4456
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51 W, 51st St. NY, NY 10019(212) 445-8240
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Danceby Otis Stuart.

C

horeographer
Lar Lubovitch
took on two big ones for the
recent engagement of his Lar
Lubovitch Dance at City Center,
Fandango, the fU'stof Lubovitch's two
premieres, was a duet set to music
that, to date, has been given its justchoreographic desserts, Host to a hostof abominableballets,
Ravel's"Bolero· just can't relax its poke-me
insistence long enough to let in adance, Lubovitch's second new 'fork
for his modern dance ensemble,
From Paris to Jupiter, was set to
Mozart, a composer who screams forpointe shoes,
At the very least, Fandango was a
highpoint as the dance that broke the"Bolero· losing streak. Lubovitch's
Rhapsody In Blue for New York City. Ballet's American Music Festival in1988 rethoughta score that had
become familiar to the point of irritation, and Fandango did the samething, Rather than dive headlong into

the swell of the music, dragging us
alongkickingand screaming,
Lubovitch channeled the flow into
eddying vignettes, each circling arourida couple that just can't decide who's
on top,
Fandango did tap into one
aspect of the "Bolero· tradition, Itsaudience
is proof,"Bolero·isdesigned to rouse the house-reverberations of the riot that greeted thescore's premiere still attend every performance-and
Fandango did justthat. In every other respect, the work
was its own climax, The scaling seriesof sexual skirmishes, each unfinishedand ~ching for more, brought thedance a quality "Bolero· can't-ambiguity, a sense of questions rather thanset answers, The physical couplings,
including doggie style, keep the relationship open-ended, and the dance
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Morals are for little people,
M d h 'ts
a1 'd
ur er as 1 sexu SI e,
The writing on the walls of New, Yolk City spelled out what we were up
against, It was wild to me when Keith'shieroglyphics appeared on the blankspaces in the subway stations: the radiant child on a Penthouse playmate's tits,
the barking dogs always at the Wrongtree, the tragi-comic struggle between
good and evil, cryptographic portraits ofrevolution and evolution confronting
you as animation vis-a-vis the methodsof rapid·transit. I used to watch out thewindows of the train his pictures go byin the stations I didn't stop at. On themorning after a rambunctious night ofdraWing by Keith you could see as
many as' five new pieces on the
Lexington Ave, #6 between Astor Placeand 68th St. It was the most brilliant display of public art I'd ever seen, I liked
graffiti, and don't disparage it, but thisshit had a cohesive statement that overwhelmed 99 percent of the homeboy
scrawl on the wall that'd grown accustomed in my face,
Fortunately the work was documented by Keith's illustrious cohort,
Tseng Kwong Chi, camera safari
guide par excellence, who'd follow
the footsteps interborough,The subway art involved fancy
footwork, Robert Farris Thompson'sbook African Art in Motton brought
my attention to the coincidental relationship of movement in Yoruba art toII

Photo: Zoe LeonardIthen early 80s, musings of abunch of poverty-stricken, viceridden artists in lower Manhattan
became the stuff of the international attention span, which, in the
80s, was nothing to brag about. My
sister was bartending at the Club 57
on St. Marks Place and, as I only lived
a couple of blocks away, I used tostop by now and again for a drink,
The club's conceptual curriculum wasbewitching and befuddling, The who,
who were there, have Bongo Voodoo
night or the Reggae Putt-Putt gold
tournament etched in their memory as
events over par, I saw a girl frenchkissing a dead chicken without feelingshocked or amazed, The evening waschoreographed so's to make a peculiar impression and succeeded, Keith
had an exhibition of drawings there,
I knew Keith first through his Xerox
posters, I'd see them plastered at the baseof lamp posts in the East Village, A picture of a dachshund with no hind-legs
strapped to a doUy with a tabloid headline reading "HUMIliATION VICTIM,""REAGAN DEATH;Mt'~1f'iW" ':..a,;,\lJt't',
HUNG'
fFY4. !,..,,{,.A'
COPS
111
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POPE: Our only
\Y'f~ ~ ,~mistake was not
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COP." "MOB FlEESPOPERAUY," I had
been paying attentioo to the street artof Sarno, Richard
Hambleton, Futura
5000 and Fab Ftve Freddie, Sarno would
scrawl on a wall things like:
I,m',

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,

"

',>n'

"SAMOas an end to mindwash religion,
nowhere politics and bogus philosophy
SAMO as an escape clause
SAMO saves idiots."
or"Abuse of power should comeas no surprise
Humanism is obsolete,

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what Keith was doing beneath stairs,
Wheh I showed Bob pictures of Keithat work what struck him was the
aspect of Keith, ctouched' in sneakersquelched concentration,
chalk inhand, talking tribal tales on the walls,
The political nature of the work
was enlightened and unmistakably
humanitarian, His advocacy of liberationfrom apartheid, for the awareness au-

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'"
,
cia! to copmg With AIDS, concOlrutant
with the celebration of birth and its
attendant increment in age, being childhood, made riding the subway an education, an entertainment and a moral
lesson geared directly to the "little peopie" Sarno so shrewdly dismissed asexistentially out of it. In the 1983 book
Art tn Transtt, Keith's subway work
documented by Kwong-Chi, edited by
Dan Friedman and editorialized by
Heruy Geld.zahler,dramatized a scenario
three and a half years in the making,Kwong had ~en close to three thousand photos of Keith's pictures,
Success and celebrity, with theirattendant absurdities, were inevitable,
There are people in this world who
know no more of Keith than that heused to date Brook Shields and I arn
heartily sorry for them,His work is well documented, his
biography is in the works, his art canbe seen today on F.D,R Drive ("Crack
is Wack"), in museums, in books,
When he died he was as deeply
mourned by the guys in shipping andreceiving as by the guys sitting behindthe des.k .. , equally moved, Keith's
work to me meant the jazz age isn't
behind us, Keith had what I mean
when I say soul and the soul don'tdie, God bless,-Kurt Tbometz

Isuppose we all have our own
Keith to remember, Mine is a
new-to-New York Keith, young
and awkward and on fife, You
could feel how intense he was evenwhen he was oblivious
to you,focused on his idea, his task or trainof thought. But when he turned toyou, took you in, ready to BE withyou, you REALLY felt it. When hehugged you, there was solid heatcoming from him,
When a mutual friend died many
years ago, we embraced outside thechurch at the funeral, both crying,both aware of the fleeting nature oflife and how precious friends are,He always used to say he would
die' before he was 30, Of course wenever believed him, but we should have
known, he was in such a rush living life
with such fury, But that live wire insideof Keith is still humming through us,
The transmitter may be gone, but thewave goes on, -CarmelJobnson

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I became friends with Keith Haring
while he was picking up bottles at
the Mudd aub and I was checkingcoats, I remember the ftrst time
Keith sold a painting, He called up andtook a whole bunch of us out on thetown, He was always that way, Keithshared what he had with everyone that
was around him, I spent many years
close to Keith, malVelling at the kindness
and generosity the flowed from him as
abundantly as his work, Being an artist
myself, it was very
inspiring to. watch
him succeed andgrow, It was also
intimidating andeven quite difftcult at times, naturally wanting toachieve those successes
myself,Keith was very
supportive of mywolk, inviting me
tocollaborate
with him andGrace Jones, andhe even commissioned
a few
pieces so I could
pay back loans he
had made to me
in my times ofneed, He once
said that I worked
harder than any. artist he knew, as
I diligently createdthe day-gio jewelry and costumes
we wore so many~
being around him, was always a chaIge.
His abounding energy would emanatefrom him into everyone around. Keithreally cared about people and was fullo,f love to the very end, I miss him
deeply,-Kenny Scharf
Keith was my friend. I can't believe
he isn't here in New Yolk, I can't evenbelieve the c1arity he found here, how hemade sense of this city and how he managed to make an inJI:act on it with draw-

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-Samantha

K

HE WENT TO TIlE BIG MAYBE
MY AMERICAN HERO, AND LEFf
EVERYIlflNG SHINY AND NEW
AND .BRIGHT FOREVER ALIVE.
-Bruno Schmidt
e i t hHaringis a Heroo He
was both a profound artist andhumanitarian. His
relentlessly accessible style made.
him both controversial and appealing. The concept ofaCCessibility in thecontemporary art
world is a "toughnut to swallow" inan arena where
people play the art
market with the
aplomb of highrolling capitalists,
Keith's aesthetic
also
took
on
humanitarian proportions as witnessed in his Free
South Africa poster,done at a timenightsat the The ""en~ room at the Gay and Lesbian Community Center
beloved Paradise.
Garage, Keith was a good friend, a ings, He was brilliant, kind, funny,brother and a shining light. I feel'luck:yto humorous and completely enegized He
have been in the company of this won- never doubted his own potential and hederful man,
-David Spadanever doubted anyone else's,eith Haring, the great artist.
we all know, He was accessible and giving to all who
wanted to be a part of it, And
many were, and will continue,
But the Keith I think about ·mostand miss, was my friend Keith. His silly
sense of humor, his driving passion andhis total honesty about everything, The
excitement he used to' incite, just by

I KNOWYOU CANUNDERSTANDMEHE WASA LITfLE AGITATED,
TIffiN HE GOT CALM.
TInS MORNING VERY EARLY HE
DIED. IT'S A VERYGREY AND
DRIZZLYIN N.Y,
AND I CRIED AND CRIED.

McEwenFROM MY DIARY
FRI, 16

KEITII DIED TODAY
nnSMORNING
HE WASIN A COMALASTNIGHT KENNY
WENT TO' SEE illM
AND HELD illS HAND
AND TOLD illM I LOVE YOU

Photo: T.L Lin

when freeing South
Africa was not invogue, He sold huge gorgeous posters
for one dollar each, or the fliers hemade for the anti-nuke rally in Central
Park where he passed out over 30,000
himself, or his subway art, valentines
and New Year greetings to the peopleof New Yolk many years running, His
many mural projects with chil<!ren(howhe must have made them feel "all things
are possible"), and his going ahead with .t!:te Pop Shop when most people
warned him that it would jeopardize hishigh art st;mding, Yet, he insisted pe0ple should have multiples when they$. REMEMBERING KEITH on ...

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place to place in the film in cars withblackened windows, we never get ae1ear sense of where things are andwhat the distances between themmight be. The fragmented perspective
reflects Kate's own. She gets her world
as we do; in bits and pieces, And all
the time that she is watching, there is asense of being watched, Surveillance,in the form of a rotating pyramid withan eye on each side (very much likethe pyramid on the back of a dollarbill), is a theme of this country,
Any dystopian vision raises questions about what has infonned it. In anote i'neluded in the promotional
material, Atwood says that when her
novel was published in the UnitedStates the reaction was not the "shoutsof 'paranOid,' 'impossible' and 'ridicu~
lous,'" that she had expected, Instead
she was asked the question of "'How
long have we got, and how can we
prevent it?'"evidence that her ideas are
not really so fantastic, Indeed, one of
the most effective things about the film
is just how very familiar everything
looks. There is no attempt to seem
futuristic in any technological sense,
The 1V is still the central electronic
device, endlessly reporting news of"the war,"
More haunting though are therelations between the characters, (Thefilm is extraordinarily well-acted, perhaps due to a very good script by
Harold Pinter,) Although their positions have been exaggerated, mademore extreme in this society, much of
the tension between them is all too
familiar. Serena Joy, who watches oldtapes of her evangelicalshow,
becomes the restless, dissatisfied
housewife trying desperately to console herself about her life, And evenwhen the cOmrDander has Kate illegally visit him in his study every
evening-to
play scrabble and to
talk-we never doubt his devotion to
the system that gives him the power tochoose to do such things, His seemingly kind gestures-giving
Kate oldcopies of long-banned magazines--atonce show him to be conscious of her
position and to condone it
Gilead represents a society inwhich men decide what it is that will
make women happy, Babies and thenuclear family are what are treasured;and simulating soapy stage sex), free
intricate
networkof competingand freely expressed gay desire is theforces-personal, social and narrative,
film's subtle secret. Invited· to Manila
First and foremost, it's an incredibleby his friend, Greg (Bobby Sarno),
story, skillfully told, and with a directwho unsuccessfully waits for a plane
ness that's been missing from historicalticket from a Japanese' client to mateepics for years, Rafelson elicits that
ria1ize, the new boy, Pol, is invited bysense of history-become-Iegend thata fellow "macho dancer" Noel to live
has eluded more self-conscious andwith him, In becoming friends theself-righteous filmmakers like Hughtwo agree to search for Noel's lost sisHudson',' 'Richard Attenborough. andter, Pining (Princess Punza\an), Whileeven Bernardo Bertolucci.
their search through the numerous
But isn't it about time that new
Manila sex shops serves as a clumsy
legends ceased to incorporate old,plot device to unveil a dangerous
prejudicial
myths? Not only does
subculture of prostitution, drugs andRafelson present confused and evil
police corruption,it also pieces
gays, he has the usual assortment of
together an ambiguous love affair
dupable Africans and pliant women,between the two men,Is this sort of stereotyptng permtsstble
It is the film's uneasy recognition of
stmply on the grounds of genre?
desire, in a world where desire is so easThe essence of genre is exelui1y bought and sold, that seems mostsion, Should a coherent mode ofpoignant At once tender and confused,
expression
be forbiddenon thethe boys' "affair" can never be clearlygrounds of inherently shaky politics?
divorced from the economic and politi- Mountainsof the Moon must be
cal reality which frame;s it. Prostituting
judged on its own anachronistic terms,
himself to save his sister from prostituor what you're judging isn't the movie,tion, Noel unsuccessfully attempts to
but it's entire cultural construct,
seduce Pol at the moment of his greatest
Exactly, I rest my case, T
pain, In the end, after Noel is killed by I-------------~
the police during a successful attempt to
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rescue his sister from sex slavery, andis reason to be sent to the colonies,
after Pol revenges his fiiend's death by
Moira is saved from such a fate only
killing the murdering police official, Kid because she is fertile.
(Johnny Vicar), Pol recognizes his feelMoira and Kate become as goodings for Noel by flashing-back to sexyfriends as they possibly can given theshower dance they both perfonned on
extraordinarily de-humanizing circumstage, Unable to be freed from its ecostances in which they find themselves,
nomic reality, male gay desire can neverThey are refreshingly-ood often frus.theless be mediated through it.
tratingly-sanein the midst of theSuch economic realities are whatbizarre ritualistic trainings they must
produce the film's most profound andendure, The dystopian vision of the film
enlightening contradictions, Advertised
is made more real by their conscious,as gritty "true-life" expose of gay life inthough often' silent, resistances to it.
Manila, the film remains bound both to
Together they play out what are the only
the melodramatic narrative that defines
possibilities in such conditions; wheremuch of Philippino film production andKate patiently, frustatedly waits, Moirato a heterosexual love story, In revealplans several risky escapes, Neither
ing the danger of such life, the film fails
choice ever seems quite possible,
to mention the increasingly real danger
When Kate is assigned to anof AIDS or the possible protection ofimportant commander (Robert Duvall)condoms, Rather than detracting theand his wife, Serena Joy (Faye"reality" of film, such contradictions
Dunaway), she enters a space of picreveal the unique structure of this sociture-perfect suburbanism, the lawns
ety, And although the kisses exchanged
just a little too-green, the flowers a lit. betWeen the two heroes on stage havetie too abundant (the film was shot inbeen completely bought and paid for, North Carolina). The atmosphere isthey remain, as Pol's flashback sugreminiscent of The Stepfora Wives,
geSts, kisses after all, T
Beca~se Kate is transported from
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although handmaids are expected to be Lubovitch's choreographic architecture(why don't we see it?), and for that reapassive servants, they are told theyson, Alma considers him great. But
and, in particular, to Lubovitch's parshould feel privileged, and some do. ticular specialty, the free-flowing pha- ,. even in Capitol Cakewalk, the only
The central and difficult irony is that lanxes of dancers who flood the stage
great thing about this president, whose
when she is caught and sent to the with muscular imagery,idea of "normalcy" effectively excluded
handmaid's training center, Kate is tom
all but male WASPsfrom his cherished
1i1 fact, the match of music andfrom her own child and husband.
American Dream, was his capacitY formovement was almost deceptively
Images. of her daughter haunt her smooth, As in Lubov.itch's 1985 Brahms
delusion. Nor is it clear what Big Jim's
throughout the film and her own posi- Symp/xmy, which opened the program,struggle to save his theater has to dotion as a mother problematiciIIy threat- the modus operandi of From Paris towith Harding's serenely feckless strollens to privilege her victimization over, . Jupiter is perpetuaI motion, creating athrough life. Looking beyond the scoresay, Moira's. The fact that Kate is preg- peculiar paradox-theand performances, one detects a play
beautiful dancenant again at the end of the film, andthat got away. The tide of humanity that in danger of a thematic collapse,
not with the commanders child, also rushes across the rust movement of
So one doesn't look too hard The
raises questions, Where on' the one
pleasures provided by Bailey, Waddell,Brahms sympbony sculpts an entire unihand, Kate's pregnancies repreSent the verse of activity that evanesces on ~ight
Waldo and company are rare enoughpossibility of an independent choice
to deserve your full attention. 'Y
The community of commedia courtiers
that she is robbed of as handmaid, they in From Paris to Jupiter are equally elu- I
I
could also represent a more subdued
sive, Because Lubovtich's images are REMEMBERING KEITH from ..... aversion of the desperate need that the never lingering-they
don't hang
wives have to define themselves, and out-we are not allowed to hold on to can't afford originals,
each other, in terms of children,
Keith was wielding an einpire. He
traditional focuses, We don't have theBut such ironies complicate the time to, because the images are as transi- had massive appeal, worldwide, His wasfilm in a way that is good, showing us tory as they are thoughtful. They'rea mix of genius and generosity that mUre
that there is no all~-nothirig way out here--Md then gone. However carefully people like Donald Trump seen'l like aof life's daily compli~ons, It is good crafted, and Lubovitch. is one of an dime a dozen.-Mary-Ann MOIf/brnIon
to keep in mind that the story, insofar
endangered species of choreographer
as it must have a hopeful, if not happy, who works with a dancer's entire body,y strongest memories ofending, is Kate's because she is in many we can't keep the dances. It's one of theKeith are when we were. laughing together andways conventional. It is good to keep
reasons why Lubovitch's dances havein mind that this could not be Moira's their signature trace of melancholy,
being silly. The way I
story, Although we see, with Kate; bits
Problems remained. Mozart's zing- laugh used to make Keith laugh, so
and pieces of Moira's story, it is obvious ing filigree, for example, can undercut
when I laughed, he laughed at me andthat it could not end with the hope that the breath and strength of Lubovitch's with me, He would always cover hisheterosexual union and motherhood
mouth when he laughed and had amodern dance vocabUlary, forcing"hee, hee, hee" giggle. I'll always
bring to Kate's. It is difficult to deter- small, tight phrases that make themine whether Moira's presence is a cri- dancers-lookbitsy rather than deli- remember the fun times we had laughtique of such contemporary values that cate, More often, however, Lubovitch's ing, I miss them already~1n Sanchez
may eventuaIly produce a Gilead, or if choreography exercised the full range
skill,
it is a reinforcement of them, Either of his dancers' considerable
eith Haring's death fromway, the film is good insofar as it ques- Lubovitch's dancers are a paradox of
AIDS has left a great. many .
their own-an
ensemble of soloists
tions and provides no easy answers, 'Y
people with a profound
who make the group as focal a point
LUBOVITCH from pa.' &0of the proceedings as the solo figuressense of loss, His death atsuch a young age was tragic, yet thebuilt to that last blast of brass rather
who break away to claim centerstage,
than faking'the orgasm,. and who are not too shabby either,life he lived will forever be celebrated and remembered,
I consider
Mozart, of course,
is evenLubovitch's company, like his choreogtougher stuff, and the first testament
raphy, manages the trickiest balance of myself blessed to have been a friendof K:eith's for the last 11 years.and toto Lubovitch's success with From all-physicalabandon and technicalhave had the opportunity to enjoy his
Paris to Jupiter was the fact that has clarity, 'Y
dance managed the music's most elu- I-Cj-._-KEW...:.....~--from---5I----~---lsense of fun, his unique artistic vision
sive quality, the combipation of thepe••and his desire to live life to its fullest.
I will always treasure the opportuantic and the formal that reads as halflion dollars in the bank and other privnity to have been touched by his love,
sweet, half smartassed and always
ileges not available to Blacks who,friendship, talent, generosity and posismart. Lubovitch set the work to
unlike Harding, can't pass? They seemtive outlook towardS life, It is hard toSymphony No. 40, part of Mozart's last to think he's just flOe. We're told that
believe he is no longer with us, as hegreat burst of symphonic sailing, andHarding shocked the nation by delivhad been such an important part of so
the spaciousness of the music wasering a speech Calling for equal ecomany peOple's lives, -Kitty BroPby
perfect partner to the airiness of
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6CN The Right Stuff. media, antartairvnant, advica; Manhattan Cabla, CHJ/Z3; 11:00-11:3l pm
RB PROD Moo For Msn: Robin Byrd presents gay male pornostars; Manhattan Cable. CH J/Z3; 11:11 pm - midnight .
WHET-TV Swing Tlflle: GeOl1leStevens directing Frad andGinger to Jerome Kem~ music; CH 13,11:50 pm. 1:50 am(followed by a one-hour fred Astaire special)

FRIDAY, MARCH 16
ThB Gay Dating Gams Show. Manhattan Cable, CHJ/23; 7:30-

8:00pmweaS-TV Peanuts, "Wtrf, Q\arlie Brown, WIry?": linus must
deal with schoolmate Janice's diagnosis of leukBmia; CH2, 88:30pm
Gay Tv. male porno clips; Mamattan Cable,CH J/Z3; 11-11:l) pm

RI PROD Robin Byrd Show. male and female strippers; Manhattan and PeragonCable. CHJ/Z3; 1·2 am (FRVSATISATURDAY, MARCH 17
RB PROD The Early Byrd. Robin Byrd presents male/female
strippers; Manhattan Cable, CH J/Z3; II'midnight
ME The Foe Mark Rydell (The Rose, The Riyar, The Reivsn.
On Golden Pond, directs Sandy Dennis, Anne Haywood andKeir Dullea in this vanguard 1968 movie with a lesbian theme;.4-6:30 am (SAT/SUN)SUNDAY, 'MARCH 18
ME Death in Venice; noon - 3 pm (see TUES)WBAI-FM The Gay Show. tOnight, Bob (Takin'the Town By)
Stonn, with his-report on homophobia; 99.5 FM, 7:30-8:30 pm(every other Sunday,alternating with Outloo/G1
GCN MBn & Films: male erotica; Manhattan Cable, CHJ!23;
11:30 pm· midnight

March 18, 1990

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67

enhance self-confidence
andability to negotiate safer sex
with potential partners; at theCenter, 208 W 13 St; 8-10:30 pm;
free; no pre-registration,
8076655 (TOD 645-7470)
GAY MALE S/M

ACTIVISTS

Meeting: StlnlOlf o.prirstion &withanswers
to the question,-What's it like when you not
only can't move a muscle, but
can't see, feel, or hear anythingoutside your skin?-; at the Center,3rd Floor, 208 W 13 St; 8:30
pm (doors open at 8); $5; 7279878
Rigofous

Bondage,

EAGLE BAR Movie Night Parenthood; 142 11th Ave (at 21 St);11 pm; 691-8451~

M:~'P;Y!:'ASIANS AND FRIENDS NY Discussion Group, at a member's
home in the Village, 7:30-9 pm;
member info 674-5064

LUTHERANS CONCERNED FOR
METRO NEW YORK form a newchapter tonight, -a ministeringcommunity supporting Lesbianand Gay people-; at Grace & St.
Paurs Church, 123 W 71 St; 7:30
pm; info 914/693-7018
HERITAGE OF PRIDE OutreachNight, with rare film of NYC's
first Gay and Lesbian Pride
March in 1970, video of last
year's march and fireworks overthe Hudson, discussion of thisyear's volunteer opportunities
both before and during the Pride
Weekend, with free refreshments; at the Center, 208 W 13
St; 7:30 pm; free; 691-1774 (Editor: general membership meetings will be held at the Centeron second Mondays: APR 9,
MAY 14, JUNE 11; executive
board meets first Mondays:
MARCH 5, APR 2, MAY 7, JUNE
4, at the HOP office, 57 W 16 St)
JUDSON MEMORIAL CHURCH
presents La Gran Scena Opera
Company, doing spoofs of opera
favorites, a benefit for Judson's
yearlong Centennial Celebration; 55 Washington
SquareSouth; 8 pili; $15; reservations
777-0033 (also FRI & SAT,
'MARCH 16 & 17,8 pm) (Editor:
Julie Kurnitz appears MARCH 23& 24; The Airtations sing APRIL
6&7)

68 ' .OUTTWEEKWOMEN'S
ALTERNATIVESCOMMUNITY CENTER Waakly
DiscussionforLesbians;
tonight, "long-term
relationships"; 675 Woodfield Rd, West
Hempstead, L1; 8 pm; $3 more
if/less if; 516/483-2050 (Editor's
note: This discussion
group
meets every Thursday. There
are also monthly discussions for
lesbian educators, lesbians inhealth care, lesbian mothers, aswell as sociaVsupport groups
for single lesbians and older lesbians,)

CENTER STAGE sees GnpBS ofWnth, with lois Smith, William
Hurt. Gary Sinise, Terry Kinney;
8 pm; $55; 620-7310
BODY POSITIVE Friday Night
Socials, for HIV Positives andfriends; every 1st & 3rd Friday;
Rutger's Church, 236 W 73 St (offBway); 9 pm - midnight; free;
info 721-1346

M*?;':~:ff:)/7
ST. PATRICK'S DAY~Ajf¢ij:i::~BANK STREET COLLEGE Wortshop: Talking with Chi/dfan
About AIDS, with Jonathan Silin,
who will help explore ways tointegrate AIDS info into theongoing classroom curricula of
all grades; tonight, 5-9 pm, andtomorrow, 9-5; 610 W 112 St(#1/#9 to 110 St); $110 noncredit/$315 credit; registration info
222-6700 x249
SAGE Women's

Fifty+

Rap

Group: Sharing OUf ",sbiBn history, at the Center, 208 W 13 St;
7:30 pm; limited registration 7412247 (This is the third of a fiveweek series,)

THE ANSWER
IS LOVING
Wa.n
Talking Woman's Talk:
The Heart of the Matter; -Thebottom line, The hidden agenda,
the bigger picture, The sourceof the sore. The layers, Thepromise that goes with thesearch-; led by Ruth Berman
and Connie Kurtz; Sheepshead
Bay, Brookly'n; 7:45-10 pm; $8;1181998-2305
MEN OF All COLORS TOGETHER/NY Educational Forum~ SistIl,. (anti Broths,.) are Doing It
fOf OUfsa/" .. , with Lesbianactivist
Brenda Jones and'women from Brooklyn Women's
Martial Arts, discussing basic
self-defense and how to deal
with attacks and harassment; at
the Center, 208 W 13 St; 7:45 pm;. 222-9794, 245-6366
THE FRANKLIN FURNACE presents Sapphire in Afa You
Ready to Rock?; 112 Franklin St(#1/19 to Franklin); 8 pm; $8; 9254671 (also 3/17, same time)
JUDSON MEMORIAL CHURCH
presents La Gran Scena Opera
Company, see MARCH 15

March 18, 1990

Lonlof ths Flies (the American.version) opens today at a theater near yoti (Editor:acautionary tale about a bunch ofyoung men who, when facedwith a natural disaster, andnobody to help them out of it,
start beating each other up)

GAY MEN'S

HEALTH CRISIS

members $40; 620-7310
ASIANS AND FRIENDS NY St. .
Patrick's Day (3rd Saturday)
Social, at the Center, 3rd Aoor,
208 W 13 St; 8 pm - midnight;
member info 674-5064
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS
Arista AIDS Benefit Concert
with Arista's recording artists at
Radio City Music Hall, including
Eurythmics, Hall & Oates, Barry
Manilow, Melissa Manchester,
Jeffrey Osborne, Dionne Warwick, Whitney Houston, manyothers; with post-concert reception; 8 pm; tix 307-7171, info
Payton Silver 977-4180
JUDSON MEMORIAL CHURCH
presents La Gran Scena Opera
Company, see MARCH 15
THE FRANKLIN FURNACE presents Sapphira in Are You Ralldy
to Rock?; 112 Franklin St (/1/19 toFranklin); 8 pm; $8; 925-4671

Workshop: ~ep It Up/, to -reaffirm the importance of safer sex,
and feel confident about saying
yes, whether you're into casualsex or serious dating, and nomatter what your HIV status is-;at the Center, 208 W 13 St; noon 6 pm; free; registration necessary, 807-6655,TDD 645-7470
SAGE Weafin' of tha Gfean
Social, with music, dancing,
food, refreshments; at the Gay
Synagogue, 57 Bethune (at WestSt, inside the Westbeth Complex); 1-5 pm; $8 advance/$10
door ($2 discount for members);
741-2247
CONGREGATION B'NAI JESHURUN AIDS OUTREACH PROGRAM Service of Hope andComfort for person$'with AIDS
and their loved ones; conversation and refreshments follow;'JS7 W 88 St; 4 pm; 787-7600

WOMEN'S
ALTERNATIVESCOMMUNITY CENTER St. Patty's(sic) Day Gayrne Night/Corned
Baaf and Cabbage Dinner for
Lesbians; 675 Woodfield Rd,
West Hempstead, L1; 8 pm; $10;
5161483-2050 (Editor's note: The
next dinner party is 3/31...and
isn't the boy Padd'/l)
GIRTH AND MIRTH St. Patrick's
Day Party at the Center, 208 W
13 St; 8:30 pm; $10; 620-7310
COLUMBIA PEP BOYS PRODUCTION Same But Different St.
Patrick's Nile Bash, party tonightand every third Saturday, for gay
men and lesbians and theirfriends; DJ Karin Ward; Earl Hall,
116 St & B'way (#1/#9 train); 10
pm - 3 am; $5; 629-1989 (part ofthe proceeds will be donated to acommunity-based charity)

Churt:h,to Patty, a screening of the ACT UP affinity group's
videos, including some footageof ACT UP's most beloved andhated demonstrations; funds will
help put DIVA TV on Deep Dish
TeleviSion; at Downtown Community Television (DCTV), 87
Lafayette St (2 blocks below
Canal); 6-10 pm; $5; 941-1298

SAINT AT LARGE Black Party:
Rites XI, DJs Michael Fierman
and Terry Sherman, lights by
Richard Sabala, live erotic acts,
dress "heavy"; at "The Saint:
105 2nd Ave (at 6 St); 10 pm till
the next day; $35 advance/$45
door, Ticket Master 307-7171;
info 674-8541 (Editor: Rumor has
it that this will be the really la~t
party
before"The Saintbecomes a movieplex.)

CENTER SPORTS se'es NY
Knicks vs. Milwaukaa Bucks,
basketball game; at Madison
Square Garden, 33rd St & 7th
Ave; 7:30 pm; members $3O/non-

SPECTRUM
presents
The.Wes1har Girls, singing Irs Raining Men; 802 64th Street, Brooklyn (N Train to 8th Ave stop, Bay
Ridge); 7181238-8213

DIVA TV Benefit:

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Monday
Private Eyes (Marc Berkley'sKool Komrads; malestrippers) 12W 21Sf, club 'JIIrm2

Tuesday
Better Days 316 W 49 St (8/9 Aves); 245-8925*Love Machine.at Underground, 860 Bway, near 17th St; 254-4005*Quick (Chip Duckett's 1st Tuesday ofthe month, AIDS benefit) 6 Hubert
St (on Hudson, 5 blocks below Canal); 925-2442

Wednesday
Better Days 316 "" 49 St (8/9 Aves); 245-8925
Private Eyes (Jeffrey Sanker & Dallas's Club Bad) 12 W 21 St, btwn
5th/6th Aves; 206-7772*Pyramid (now simply -Fag Bar-; Dean Johnson has moved to Woody's;
see SUNDAY) 101 Avenue A, btwn 6th/7th Streets; 420-1590.
Silver Uning (2-4-1 drinks, also open Tues-Sun) 175 Cherry la" Aoral Pk,
1I; 516/354-9641.
Stutz (2-4-1 drinks, also open daily) 202 Westchester Ave, White Plains;
914{761-3100
Twenty/Twenty (Marc Berkley's Kool Komrads, gay men after 10 pm) 20
W 20 St; club 727-8841

Thursday*Boybar (has a new wave drag show) 151/2 St Marks Place, btwn
2nd/3rd Aves; 674-7959*Copacabana (last Thu. of the month has Susanne Bartsch party) 10 E 60
St, at Fifth Ave; 755-6010
Excalibur ($1 drinks, also open Tues-Sun) corner 10th/Jefferson behindfootball stadium, Hoboken, NJ; 201-795-1161
Grand Central (2-4-1 drinks, also open Wed-Sun) 210 Merrick Road,
Rockville Centre, 1I; 5161536-4800
Hadield's (2-4-1 drinks, female impersonators; also open nighUy, women on
TUE & FRI) 126-10 Queens Blvd, Kew Gardens, Queens; 718/261-8484*Quickl (Chip Duckett Thursdays) 6 Hubert St (on Hudson, 5 blocks
below Canal); 925-2442

Friday.

*Boybar 151/2 St Marks PI., btwn 2nd/3rd Aves; 674-7959*Carmelita's (Chip Duckett's Boy+Boyll50 E 14 St; club 673-9015
Cohl1lbia Dances (1st Friday of every month) 116th St & Bway; 854-3574daYs
Private Eyes (preppies and young professionals) 12 W 21 St, btwn Sth/6th
Aves; 206-7772*Quickl (Scott Currie + Panty Girdles party) 6 Hubert St (on Hudson, 5
blocks, below Canal); 925-2442
Twenty/TWenty (Marc Berkley's Professional Happy Hour, 2-4-1 drinks)
20 W 20 St, 4-8 pm; club 727-8841

Saturday
Barefoot Boogie (smoke & alcohol free) 434 6th Ave (btwn 9110 S1$);832-6759*Boybar 151/2 St Marks Place, btwn 2ndl3rd Aves; 674-7959.
The Center Dances (2nd and 4th Saturdays) 208 W 13 St, btwn 7th/Sth
Aves; 620-7310
Girth and Mirth Club attha Center (3rd Saturdays, heavy men & theiradmirers) 208 W 13 St; 620-7310
Pep Boys at Cohl1lbia (3rd Saturdays, through June 16) 116 & B'way, 10
pm - 3 am; info 629-1989
Private Eyes (Jeffrey Sanker & Dallas's Club Bad) 12 W 21 Sf, btwn
5th/6th Aves; 206-7772.
Red Zone (John Simone's Talent Show, mixed gay/straight) 440 W 54 Sf,
btwn 10/11 Aves; 582-2222*Roxy (mixed gay/straighVTVs/club kids) 515W 18St (btwn 10/11Aves); 645-5156
Saint At Large (Saturdays discontinued; March 17 Black Partywill be
the last party at 105 2nd Ave); 674-8541.
Sound Factory (mixed 9ay/straight, Acid House, no alcohol).530 W 27 St(btwn 10th/11th Aves); 643-0728

SundayBetter Days 316 W 49 St (8/9 Aves); 245-8925*Mars (Chip Duckett's Mars Needs Men night) Westside Highway and13th St; 691-6262 .
.
*Pyramid (Hapi Phace's Backdoor Cabaret) 101 Avenue A, btwn 617
Streets; 420-1590

Hoi Rod (Marc Berkley's Sinful Sundays; Father Ritter'S friend, Kevin
Kite, on the door) 270 11th Ave (btwn 27(1JJSts); C;lub 244-1963
lWanty/1W8n1y (T-Dance; 4 pm ~2 am) 20 W 20 St (Mi Aves); 727-8841
Woody's (Dean Johnson's original Rock & Roll Fag Bar, in its 9th c~angeof venue) 4th St at 2nd Ave; 982-3686

Every Night (or almost)
Monster (West Village) 80 Grove St at Sheridan Sq.; 924-3557. Spectrum (closed MON & TUE, WED free, THU free & 2-4-1 drinks, FRI
mlf strippers, SAT guest star show, SUN live show & free 9-10 pm)
80264th St@8thAve, Bay Ridge, Bklyn; 7181238-8213

Dancing Out for Women
Tuesday
Hatfield'sl~..
10 Oueens Blvd., Kew Gardens; 7181261-8484

VVednesday.

Bedrock 121 Woodfield Rd; W, Hempstead, 1I; 51&1486-9516.Excalibur(Ladies
Night, $1 drinks) corner 10th/Jefferson behind footblill
stadium, Hoboken, NJ; 201-795-1161
1\vanlyJTwenly (Shescape After Work, 5-10 pm) 20 W 20 St (btwn
5th/6th Aves); info 645-6479, club 727-8841

ThursdayBedrock 121 Woodfield

Rd, W, Hl!mpstead, 1I; 51&1486-9516

FridayBedroeJ( 121 Woodfield Rd, W, Hempstead, 1I; 51&1486-9516*Carmalita's (Chip Duckett's Girl+Gir~ 150 E 14St; club 673-9015
Chaaks2000 Long Beach Road, Island Park, L1; 51&1431-5700
Hatfiald's126-10 Queens Blvd" Kew Gardens; 7181261-8484
Roxy (Shescape party) 515 W 18 Sf, btwn 10th/11th Aves; info 645-6479,
club 645-5156
Visions 56-01 Queens Blvd, Woodside; info 7181846-7131, club 7181899-9031

Saturday.

Bedrock 121Woodfield Rd, W, Hempstead, L1; 51&1486-9516
The Centar (Women & Friends 1st Saturdays, Feb. thru May) 208 W 13
St; 620-7310
Silver Uning 175 Cherry Lane, Aoral Park, L1; 5161354-9641
StaR 836 Grand Boulevard, Deer Park, L1; 5161242-3857
1Wenty/TWenty (Shescape party) 20 West 20 Street (btWn StIV6th Ayes);
info 645-6479, club 727-8841

SundayBedrock 1~1 Woodfield Rd, W, Hempstead, L1; 51&1486-9516
Cava Canam (Sandwich Sister Sundays) 24 1st Ave at 1st St; 529-9665 .
Heartbreak (Nasty Girl Prods. Party for Women)' 179 Varick St (7th Ave),
below Houston, 5-11 pm; info 353-0227, club 691-2388
Hoi Rod (Our PartieS/Ourselves, Tea Dance 2nd Sundays) 270 11th Ave. (btwn 27(1JJSts), 5-10 pm; info 245-1786, club 244-1963
Mars (Girl Sunday. Tea Dance 1st Sundays) Westside Highway and 13th
Sf, 5-9 pm; 691-6262

Every Night (or almost)

Cubby f'toJa ~ Hudson St@ Morton St; 243-9079
Duchess II Sheridan,Sq, & 7th Ave South; 242-1408
Spectrum (closed Mon & Tues; good gay/lesbian mix, see Every Nigh~above, for details) 802 64th $t, Bklyn,; 7181238-8213

OUTWEEK BAR GUIDEWESTSIDE

Town & COUnt!y, 9th Ave at 46th St, 307-1503

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

Trix, 246 W. 48 St. (bet. Bdwy & 8th Ave), 6648331, Cash and cany,

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

Candle Bar, 309 Amsterdam Ave" 874-9155,
Friendly leather/western bar,

The Works, 428 Columbus Ave (at 81st), 7997365, Cruisy west side crowd,

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

Cat's, 730 8th Ave., 221-7559,
younger guys

EAST SIDE

South Dakota, 405 3rd Ave" 684-8376

Brandy's. Piano Bar.. 23 5 E, 84th St., 650-1944,
Sing-along piano bar,

Star Sapphire, 400 E. 59th St, 688-4710

Older men,

Don't Tell Mama, 343 W, 46th St" 757-0788,
Sing-along piano bar and cabaret

Johnny's Pub, 123 E. 47th St, 355-8714, Neighborhood restaurant and bar.

Friendly

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

The Bar, 68 2nd Ave, (at 4th St), 674-9714, East
Villagers and ACT UPers.
Boy Bar, 15 St, Mark's PI., 674-7959, Dancing /Drag shows,
The pYramid, 101 Avenue A. 420-1590, Dancing /Drag shows,Tunnel Bar, 116 1st Ave (7th St,), m-9232 W,
Village crowd in the E. Village,

WEST VILLAGE
The Annex (to Cellblock 28), 673 Hudson St. (bet.
13th & 14th), 627-1140, J/O ClUb,
Badlands, Christopher & West St. , 741-9236,
Cruisy waterfront bar.

The only gay and lesbian TV programming
serving all of Manhattan.

Boots & Sadtlle, 76 Christopher St, 929-9684,
Funky dive and juke joint.
Cellblock 28, 28 9th Ave, 733-3144, J/O club,
The Cubbyhole, 438 Hudson (Morton St), 2439079, Neighborhood bar for gay women & men.

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Television That
Matters to the
Lesbian and
Gay Community.

live News • Interviews • AIDS Updates
Tuesday Nights 11pm-12midnite
Manhattan & Paragon Cable
Channel C/16

D,l's Fat Cat, 281 W, 12th St" 243-9041, Pianobar, Mixed M/F,
Duchess II, 70 Grove St (7th Ave.1. 242-1408,
Women,'J's, 675 Hudson St, 242-9292, J/O club,Julius, 159 W. 10th St, 929-9672, Serving Coors,
Coors lite, & Coors Draft.
Keller'S, 384 West St. (at Christopher), 243-1907,
Friendly neighborhood crowd,
Kelly's'Village
Piano bar,West, 46 Bedford St, 929-9322,

The locker Room, 400 W, 14th St. (9th Ave), 459- .
4299, J/O club.
Marie's Crisis, 59 Grove St, (7th Avel. 243-9323,
Sing-along piano bar.

70

O~EEK

March18,1990

The Monster, 80 Grove St. 17th Ave,), 924-3558,
Piano bar & disco/dancing,.
Ninth Circle, 139 W. 10th St., 243-9204, Younger
crowd,

68 SECOND AVE. AT FOURTH ST.
Ramrod, 185 Christopher St.
Sneakers, 392 West St., 242-9830,
Two Potato, 145 Christopher St., 242-934Q.
Ty's, 114 Christopher,741-9641, Cruisy neighborhood bar,

OPEN1P.M.-4A.M.

674-9714"An East Village
Tradition"

Uncle Charlie's, 56 Greenwich Ave" 255-8787,
Huge video bar,

CHELSEA
Barbary Coast, 64 7th Ave, (14th St.), 675-0385,
Friendly, neighborhood bar.
The Break, 232 8th Ave, (22nd St.), 627-0072,

The Cubbyhole

Chelsea Transfer, 131 8th Ave, (bet. 16th & 17th),
929-7183, Neighborhood English pub,

'438 Hudson Stre~t
at Morton(212) 243-9079

Eagle's Nest, 142 11th Ave (21st St.), 691-8451,
leather / levi's,

A neighborhood

Private Eyes, 12 W. 21st St. (bet. 5th & 6th), 2067770, Dancing, Video Club,bar forboth gay men & women

Rawhide, 212 8th Ave" (21 st St.). leather /levi's,Spike, 120 11th Ave" 243-9688, leather & Uniforms,

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hom ... ClU NY ABN for thia month'.loeltion.
Thia
group il ~ rt of the New YOIXArIt Bi.. XUlI Network.

A community of lA.biln Ind BIY Cltholica. Activiti ..
inoludl Uturgi .. Ind locilll every Slt,ltOO pm, It
the Cllllar, 201 W. 13 Street, NYc.
Cd (212) 81&-1308.

DI8NITYNlW YOII
IlIbiln Ind glY ClthoIica Ind frilllell
AIDS Miniltry, Spiritual D_lopmlnl
Th. Clthedrel Project
Worlhip SaMCII a Sooill-Sun. EVIl. 7:3Opm-St.
John'l Epi.co~1 Church 218 Wilt 11th StreIt 0
Wlver!y-875-2178
ED8E
Ed...... I. I DIaMIIII., ElM_III
For the phyaicdy di.. blecI Leabiln Ind GIY
Community.
(212)88&-1821
P.O. B.ox 305 Vililge Station, New Yo$. NY 10014

FBIIIE SUPPOIT GlOW
For llebiane who aeIf icllntify II feImw. For info IIId

8Wl-811ONX lESBIANS
UNR'ED .. SII1UItOOD/lllllting tilllll CI. UN It(212) 12NB17. No mill ......

Socill, politicllind IUpport nltwortdng group forwornen .nd thlir frilnell, Regullr IOcill_ntllnd
meltinge on the firat Ind third Fridlya of .very month.
At Thl Community Clntllr, 208 W. 13 Street, from 8:308pm. For more info cd UII It (212) 82&-8817.

BODYPOIITIVE
If you or your 10000rh .. tilted HIV+, WI offlr IUPportgrou~, .. minlra, public fo"""" referenci 6brary,reflrrlll,lOcill
Ictiviti .. Ind Up-to-dlte nltionll
monthly, "THE BODY POSITIVE" ($1r.'y8lr).
(212) 833-1782.
2085 Bl'OIdwly, Suite 308, NYC, NY 10023
ClIICI.l OF MORE UGHI'
Spirituallupport.nd "'.ring in a g.y/lllbian affirmativi group, Welt-P.rk Pre.byteriln Church
1116Wilt 88th StreIt
Wid: worahip .. Mel 8:30 pm, program 7:30 •.
MI""I (212) 304-4373 Chlml (212).'-7118.

CO_UMTY
IIEALJH PIIo.ECI'
208 Wilt 13th Streit, NYC, New YOIX10011
For Appointm&ntI .nd Informltion(212) 875-3558 (TTYNoice)
PROVIDING CARING, SENSITIVE AND LOW COSTHEALTH CARE SERVICES TO THE LESBIAN AND GAYCOMMUNITY.

RIONT IUMWII
A running club for IlIIiln Ind g.y Ithlltea
of II,blliti ... Fun Run. of 1-41mil.. held ev.ry Sit. It
101m Ind Wed .. It 7pm in Central Plrk
Ind every TUII, It 7pm in Pl'Dlplct Plrk.
For informltion: cIIi (212) 724-1700.

1HE RIND FOIIIIUMAN DI8NITY
Nllionll GIY Ind IMbiln Criait Linl
"AIDS 800"-I-81JO..SOS-GAYS
Educltionll RelOurc. Center; Poaitive Imlgll
Mldil Center; NY Stete ArIa Progrem• B'way Suila 410 NYC,NY 111112(212) fi2&.11100

TIE GAYAfIIICAN AMERICANSOF WESTCIIEI1'EI{The &.A.A.)
ia I community ba.ld .upport group formed in
Wlltchllter
County. VlriOU' Ictivitiel Ire pllnned
for thl coming months.
Pi.... elll 914-378-0727 for more info.

GI.MD
Gay. LnbIe. AlII_Api...........
BOVarick Street, NYC 10013 (2'21 __ ,700
BLAAD eombtll homophobia in the medii and ...
. wh.re by promoting llilibllity of tIII_biln
Ind gey
community Ind orglnizing grellroota nIIpoIIII to.
1nti-gIY bigoby.

COM ... NITY RESEAlCH INIMJIVE

PWA., PWARC. a their phyaicilne taking the initja. tive to I .. k promi.ing intlllVlntion Iglinlt AIDS in I
reap, minner, For more info orto voluntller pi ....
cIIi (212) 481-1050.
CONGllEGA110N BETH IIMCHAT TDIIAH
NY'. GIY inC! Lllbiln Synlgogue SaMCII
Fridly.t 8:30pm
57 B.thun. StreIt
For info. c.lI: (212) 829:9488,

Do you hive 30 minutll I month
to fight homophobil?
. Join thl GLAAD PhoneT,..1
CIII (2121-88&-17OQ.for informetion.

GAY. lESBIAN IIEAL1HCONCEIINIAn office of the NYC Dept of H.. Ith, providea UnltIg" bltwn NYC H.. 1th a Humin Svca, Ind the Le.
biln I:GIY community, foculing in All h .. 1thconc.me; /MOure. informltion for hllith .. MCII
coneumera Ind provide,., 125 Worth StreIt, Box~,New York, NY 10013. For info cIIi (212) 58&-49115.

GAY. lESBIAN P1YCHOlHElAPr
Sliding ·Iclle f... -Ineurance ICClptlld.
Inetitlrtl for Humin Identity.
(212) 78&-9432

GAYMALE.,.. ACI'MIII
Dediclted to life Ind r.. ponlible 81M .inoel981.
OP'" meetinge w/prograll1l on 81M teehniquII,
lifeltyle iaau .. , politicllind
IOcill con cerna. AlIO.",cillevenll,,,,,.k.reburelu, worklhoPl, demo.,
Iffinity groUpl, newalltter, mor .. BMSMA -D.pt 0,
488A Hudson Street, Suite 023 ,NYC 10014(212) 727-8878.

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GIlAD(GAY lIEN OF AFRICAN DESCENT)
80 V.rick Street, NYC 10013. IUpport group of Gay
Men of Afric.n Dncent dedic.ted to consciouane .. railing and the development of the Lesbi.n .nd Gay
Community. GMAD is inclulive of African, Afric.nAmeric.n, Caribbean .nd HiapanicjLatino men ofcolor. Meetings .re held, weekly, on Fridays. For
more infonnation, c.1I718-802-o182.
GAY MEWS HEALTH CRISIS HOTUNEFOR INFORMATION ON SAFER SEX AND HIV-RELATED HEAlTH SERVICES, AND FOR INFORMATION ON
ONE-TIME, WALK-IN AfDS COUNSELING SERVICES
212-f117.e&
212.... 747DTDD IForthe HNringlmpaired)Mon,-Fri, 10'.30 a,m, to 9 pm, Sat 12:00 to 3:00

GIRTH. MinH CLUB OF NM YORK
Soci.1 club for he.vy, chubby g.y men & their admirera. Monthly socials .t the 'Center'; weekly bar
nights Thuradays at the 'Chelaea Transfer', monthly
fI.t Apple Review, bi-monthly F.A.ft. penpala. For moreinfonnation call Ernie.t 814-89&-7735 or write:
GaM/NY, Dept 0, P.O. Box 10, Pelh.m, NY 10803.
HW 1.... 1111Education AlDi Uai_)
Weekly info, .nd support group for tre.tments for
AIDS which do not compromiae the immune ayatem
further, including altern.tive .nd holistic .pproaches.
Wed 8pm, 208 W,.I3th St. (212)674-HOPE.
HETRICK-MMTIN INSTITUTE
for lesbi.n and g.y youth, Counaeling, drop-in centerlM-F, 3-8pm), rap groups, Harvey Milk HighSchool, AIDS and aafer aex infonnation,referrals, professional education.
(212) 833-892OIvoice)(212)833-8928 m for deaf
HISPANIC UNITED GAYS • LESBIANS
Educationalaervices,
political action, counseling andaocialactivitiaa in Spsnilh and Englilh by and for theLatino Laabian .nd Gay Communil\tGeneral meetings 8:00 pm 4th Thuraday of every
month at 208 West 13th Street
Call (212)891-4181
or write H,U,G,L, P,O, Box 228 Canal Street Station,
New York, NY 10019,.
LAMBDA LEGAl. DEFENSEAND EDUCATION RIND
Precedent-setting
litigation nationwide forlesbi.ns, gay men and people with AIDS. Membership 1$35 and up) inc, newsletter and invitations toapecialevents,
Volunteer night on Thurad.ys,lnteke
calla: 2-4pm Mon thru Fri 1212)895-8585

LESBIAN AND GAY WOR NEIWORK
An organiZition of Lesbians and Gays who areactivein their labor unions working on domeatic partnership
benets and AIDS iuues. For more infonnation call,(212)823-8880.
LESBIAN AND GAY RIGHrS PROJECT
of the American CIvil Liberties Union
ICNOWYOuR IIIGHI'S /Wf!fE ElCPNIIWG 1HEII(212) ~8800,
ext 545LESBIANS AND GAYS OF RATBUlH
Brooklyn's aocial organization for both gay men and. lesbians, P.O, Box 108, Midwood Station
Brooklyn, NY 11230 °(718)858-9437

NORTH AMERICAN MANlBOY
LOVEASSOCIATION (NAlElA)
Dedicated to .. xual freedom .nd especi.11y intereted
in gay intergeneration.lrelltionships.
Monthly Bulletin Ind regular chapter meetings on the fim Saturday of e.ch month, Yearty membership i.$2O; write
NAMBlA. PO Box 174, Midtown Station, New York,NY 10018 or c.1I(212)1!CI7-8578 for infonn.tioli.
NORTHERN UGIITS ALTERNATIVES
Improving Qu.lity of Life for People with AJDS/HIV.
THE AIDS MASTERY WORKSHOP: Exploring the possibilitiel of a powerful and cre.tivelifa in the flce of
AIDS. C.1I(212)2!i5-8554
NYC GAY • LESBIANANTI-VlCUNCE PROJECTlDNG ISlAND ACT""P.O. Box 281, New Hyde Park, NY 11040
Support us for change on Long laI.nd,(518)338-4e82 (518) 887-5238 Naaaau. (518)82&:-5530 Suffolk

Counseling, .dvocaCy, and infonnation for .urvivol8of .nti-gay and .nti-Ieabian violence, sexu.1 .... ult,
domestic violence, and other types of victimizltion.
All services free and confidentill,
24 hour hotiineI212)807-o187

MEN OF AU. COLORS TOGETHER NY
A multi-racial group of gay men .g.inst r.cism, Meetinguvery Frid.y night.t 7:45 at the Laabian and Gay
Community Services Canter, 208 w, 13th Street For
more info, call: (212)2~or (212)222-8794.

PEOPLE WITH AIDS COAUIION(212) 532-112!1WI-800-828-328CVHotIine (212)532-0588
Mond.y thni Friday 10am:Bpm
Meal programs, support groups, educltionallnd
raferralservices
for PWA'aind PWArc'a.

MElIOPOUTAN TENNIS GROUPiMl'G)
Our200 member lesbi.n and g.yterinia club includes
player8 from beginning to tournament leVIIl, Monthly
tennis psrties. Winter indoor le.gue. Come pI.ywith usl
For infonnation: MfG, Suita K83, 488-A Hudson St.. Naw
York, NY 10025. (718) 852-8582.
MOCA I"'" err Color AIDS Prwontion Pragram.)
Providu ufar lex and AIDS educ.tion infonnation
to gay and bisexual Men of Color; coordin.tea a network of peer-Iupport groupl for g.y and biaexual
Men of Color in .11 5 boroughs of New York City,
303 Ninth Ave, New York, Ny 10001
or 0.11(212)238-1798,
NATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN TASK FORCE
ia the n.tional gr .. lroots political organization for
lesbianl and g.y men, M.mberahip il $3IVya.r,
Issue-oriented
projecte addre .. violence, aodomy
law., AIDS, gay rights ordinancel, familiaa, medi.,
etc, through lobbying, educ.tiim, organizing anddirect action,
NGLTF 1517 U Street NW, W.shington, DC 20009,(202)332-8483.

lAVA ILESBIANS ABOUT VISUAL ART}
Call for slides for Lesbian Artists' Exhibition, Gay &.
Lesbian Community Center, NYC. For more infonna, tion, send SASE to :Miriam Fougere
118 Fort Greene PlaceBrooklyn, NY 11217,

NM YORK ADVERTISINGAND COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKNYACN il the community'. largest gay and lesbian
professional group,walcoming
all incommunic.tions-andtheirfrienda. Monthly meetingl, 3rd Wed 8:30pm at the Community Center. Membera' newsletter, job hotline, annual directory, Phone(212)517-«1380 for more info, Mention OutWeak for .
one free new.letter,

THE LESBIAN AND GAY BIG APPLE CORPS
Get your instrument out of the closet and come playwith us, Symphonic, M.rching, Jazz, Dixieland, Rock,Rute Ensembles and Woodwinds,
123 West 44th St. Suita 12L New York, NY 10038(212)888-2922.

N.Y. WOMEN'S SOFTBAU. GUID
For experienced, serioul Softball PI.yal8, COaches.nd Managel8, We play mod/f.st pitch weekends in
Manhattan and Queenl, Try-outs begin Feb, 11 thru
April- or until filled,(212) 25&-1379 Janet.

LESBIAN. GAY
COMMUNRY SERVICES CENTER
208 Weat 13th Street New York, NY 10011(212)62~7310
8am-l1pm everyday.
A place for community organizing and networking,social services, cultursl programs, and social events
sponaored by the Center and more than 150 community organizations,

NINTH STREET CEN1BI
Since 1973, a community dedicated to demonstratingthat a homosexu.llifaatyleil a rational, delirable
choice for individuals diu.tisfied
with the rew.rda of
conventional living, Psychologically - focu8Ied rap
groups, Tues" Sat, 8to 10 pm, peer counselling available, 319 E- 9 Street, New York, NY 10003, for info call(212)228-5153.

PEOPLE WITH AmS HEALTH GROUP
Undtrgroll1d buyer'a club importing not-yat-approved
medic.tions and nutritionalsupplarnanta.
31 West 28th
St 4th Roor (212)532-0280.

SAGE: ISenior Action in a Gay EnviI'Olll'*lt)
Socill Sarvice Agency. providing cire, Ictivitiaa, &.
educ.tion.lservices
for gay & lesbiln lenior citiz-.
ArlO selV8lCMIr 180 homebound seniors & older PWA's,
208 Wast 13th St. NYC 10011, 12121741-2247
SETHIAN GAYS, LESBIANS AND BISEXUALS
For.1I of UI interested in reaching out to each otherwith exuber.nce
to aponteneously
explorelnd
expand upon the SeWJ.ne
Roberta "phiIOlOphy" II
it rel.tea to our lives, personally, .. xuiRy and politil1ally. Call AI 1212)87&-5104,. THE OIl11lEACH
USING COMMUNAL HEAUNG (TOUCH)
Comnunity voIuntael8 providinlr a _eIdy-buff1ItlUpperfor the Brooklyn AIDS community; TOUCH 11188111 Monday
8V8I. 5pm to 8:30pm- at dCMiniilwn Brooklyn Friends
MeatinIi Houael110 Schermarl1o!n St near Boarllll
Plsce~ Linited transportation may be liianjjeil.lnfo: (718) . ,.
1122-2758. TOUCH welcomaa contributiOlll offundl, food ~.nd voIuntrI8l8.
ULSTER COUNTY GAY AND LESBIAN AllIANCE
Meets fim and third Mond.y of e.ch monthat 7:30 pm, attha Unitarian Church on Slwklll Road
in Kingston, For infonnation, call 1814)628-3203.
WHAMIIW_n'1.... Ith Action MoIIilizalion)
A non-partiun
co.lition committed to dem.nding,securing Ind defending absolute reproductive fre ...
dom and qu.lity health c.re for all women, We meet
every Wed, at 8:30 pI)'1 at the Village Independent
Democl8ts, 224 West Fourth Street loff Sheridan Sq,).
We .re not affiliated with VID,(212)713-5988. Mailing
Iddreu: WHAM I, P.O, Box 733, NYC 10009
WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVECOMMUNRY CENTEIIIWACC),
A non-profit, Leabian community center serving
Queens, NaSlau and Suffolk counti .. , Thul8 night
weekly discuaaion grpa, 8:30pm, for other Ictivities
please contect us at (518)483-2050,

March 18, 1990

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TAX.TIMEIS.BUDGETWISEBOOKKEEPING TIME
Limited Appointments AvaDable
PIeIL'Je call early. (718) 726-3847
10,. dllc:oun~with ad

AIDS MINISTRYIN THE SPIRIT OF
FRANCIS OF ASSISI...serving
our brothers and sisters affected by!AIDS
SL Francis AIDS Ministry
135 W, 31st Street Manhattan 10001
695-1500

AN NOUNCEMENTS

APARTMENT SHARE

SAGE INVITES AU WOMENDIPLOMATIC ROOMMATE
Young GM seeks very responsible
roommate to share 1 bedroom nearTimes Square. Prefer GM who wortsnights or travels, or does not spend
much time at home. Non-smoker,$425/mo, Vann (212) 255-4053

TO THE 6TH ANNUAL ALMOST SPRINGDANCE. APRIL I, 1990, AT THE RED
ZONE, 440 WEST 54TH STREET, 5:0010:00, $15,00 IN ADVANCE, $20,00 AT
THE DOOR. SEND CHECKS TO SAGE.
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10011. (212) 741-2247,

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79TH AND YORK-CLEAN AND OUIET
own bedroom in airy, cozy aptroachfree bldg nr buses, 24 hr sprmkt.
I'm BiF, ACT-UPer, wort at home on
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in apt (allergy),
Leave message w/best times:459-4811,

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ANNOUNCEMENTSGAY ARTISTS WANTEDQUICKI is seeking gay artists to exhibit
homoerotic art on its Thursday nights,
Both gay male and lesbian eroticism
sought in any medium, Contact Chip
. Duckett at 925-2442 to set up an
appointment .

GAY MALES WANTED
Gay males wanted to participate inresearch to create a national public·
service campaign_ Fee will be paid for
1/2 hour interview, Confidentiality
assured. Call collect 919-544-5448 3PM
to 7PM M-F. Ask for Mike,

WITH A MIDWEST FlAIR
DONE BY A GUY
WITH BRIGHT RED HAIRWEEKLY AND BIWEEKLY LEGIT ONLYRATES $40.00 AND UP
CALL PAUL 941-()603

CASTLE CARE. INC.

APARTMENT WANTED
OutWeek staff person seeks sublet or
snare, Prefer downtown,
Need immediate, Call Raul days
(212) 337-1232
Eves (212) 932-1496.

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

ART BUY/SElL-ART SOURCE UNUMITEO'"THIS MR. CLEAN
WILL DO A TOP JOB
AND LEAVE YOUR HOUSE SPIC & SPAN
FASTER THAN A WHITE TORNADOI
727-2858 JIM

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We buy, sell, trade and locate artworks.
ARTISTS AVAILABLE: Keith Haring,
Robert Longo, Ross Bleckner, JamesRiui, Andy Warhol, Martine, and many
more .., For information,
call Dan at 255-6680.

ASTROLOGYOONNAAPARTMENT RENTALPROSPECT-UBffRTS,BROOKLYN
Large, sunny, 1-2 bedroom floor-throughapartment with yard. 1 block fromsubway and shopping,
Aexible lease, available immediately,(718) 941-1204 or(718) 469-0782, ,74

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E,S,P' Psychic-Professor of SpiritualismReader and Advisor-Palm and Card
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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIESDENTISTSFITNESSOWN YOUR UFEJI .
Do your goals and ~reams include morethan 4O-.hrwork weeks with no time toenjoy the rewards? How about yourown business with low start-up and no
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recorded messa.ge.

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TAlE ME TO YOUR GYMPERSONAL FITNESS TRAINER
MEN AND WOMEN-BEGINNERS
WELCOMEREASONABLE RATESCAlL.JEFF (212) m-3288

William De Bonis DDS,
. Suite 704,
. 200 West 57 Street,
New York, NY 10019,
Office hours by appointment only call
212-333-2850.

FOR SALEElECTROLYSISCLUBSFORESKIN LOVERSThe New York City chapter of the
UnclrtlUmC!S3d Society of America(NYC-USA) ao~ks new male members(with or withuut foreskin) to join its .
. swelling ranks. Call for more clubinformation or to make relervatlons forthe new members party. (212) 7n-4208.

).. LAllBDA El.!CTROLYSIS )..
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MerVWomene TVITS's. All Methods
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By PhY'iclans~ AId
14 Years experience.
Sliding Scale Fea
Ucensed and Board Certified- (718)937-3389

AFFORDABLE ELECTROLYSISCHIROPRACTOR
DR. CHARLES FRANCHINO
30 fifth Avenue,
New York, NY 10011,
call for info (212) 873-433,.

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CO-OPSICONDOS
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BodY'culpting
Paul Siinpson(212) m-3858
by appoiritment

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GROUPS
MEN'S GROUP
Ongoing group dealing withproblems related to positive
self-esteem and male Intimacy
Ucensed psychotherapist
Call for consultation.
(212) 941-9830

GROUP MASSAGE
MEN'S MASSAGE GROUP
Get together with a group of men to
give and receive rnassages. Taught by
Terry Weisser, Ucensed MaHeur andteacher st the Swedish Institute.
SundaY', 7-1Opm,$20.00,. I:all (212) 483-9152.

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HELP WANTEDRECEPTlONISTJflLE CLBUC
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full-time
w/benefits·
after 90 days; good
personality to handle pressure, callFrank after 1pm M-F. 212-787-7820,

LEGAL SECRETARY
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STAFF REPORTER
Energetic news-hound/excellent
writer needed to work long hours
covering both NYC and national
lesbian and gay news scene.
Strong Joumallsm background andfacility with AP-style news format
essential. Should be experienced
working quickly and accurately ontight deadlines.
Competitive salary plus excellent
benefits. Non-smoking office.
Send resume, cover letter and at
least 6 recent news clips to:
Andrew Miller

OIllWEEKMalUm.
159 West 25th Street, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10001.

HElP WANTEDHElP WANTEDPASTORAL SEARCHPUBUC EDUCATION
COORDINATOR

Faith Temple, a nondenominational, Evangelicalchurch with a special ministry to adiverse population Is seeking aqualified candidate, supportive of
our special outreach to the gay
and lesbian community, to serveas pastor.
Please forward resumes on or
before APril 1st to:
Pastoral Search
5521 5th Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20011.

Lambda Legal Defense and EducatiOn
Fund is looking for a staff person to
oversee educational publications andevents, Must be excellent
writer,creative, and have some experience
working for lesbian and gay rights;
computer skills very helpful; legal
background helpful, but not necessary,
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encouraged to apply.

CO-DIRECTORINVESTMENTS

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(718) 424-1064. No
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170LBS.
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2175
I LIKE NY IN JUNE
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RICAN,5'11",
162, black hair,
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looking for amonogamous, lovIng relationship,with another Puerto
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Letter and photo to:
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New York, NY'10276.

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SAME·our GWM, 21,
who Is: down-toearth, fun, kind, attractive, flt and a
Romantic, wants tomeet another similar GWM (under 30)
for supportive relationship. You MUST
be smoke/drugfree, ·our, honest
and genuinely Interested In ·settllng
down" with a guy
who will be there
for you as a friend
or lover. I likestaches-but Is not arequirement Photo
would be nice, but I
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Include phone #.
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BIG DRILLNEEDS WELL
Big equlpl!18nt
available for drilling
exploration. Equipment can be temperamental but
Patience leads togeysers. OSHA
compliance. GWM
30's 5'8" 130#
Brlbr. Prefer slim,
boyish looking, long
hair + Intelligence +sense of humor required. Current
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2228
TIRED OF MALE
JUNK BONDING?
High yield followedby Inevitable default? Invest In a
quality friendship/relationshipw/me, GWM, 30,
5'10", 150 Ibs, from
Connecticut, offthe-Wall St professional who runs
and works out In
gym seeks similaryuppie type. Write
Outweek Box 2230
LIKE 'EM HAIRY?
Tall, handsome, 33,
da.x hair, greeneyes, extremely
hairy guy seekssmooth bodied
guys for hot sensual fun and possible
relationship. Prefer23-33 yrs, old.
Send photo andphone P.O. Box176, NYC, NY
10024,
GWM35SEEKSGORBIM
25-40 who likes tolaugh, dance, sharegood conversation,
movies, ballgames.
I'm looking forfriendship possleading to relationship. Sincere, honest, more Interested
In what's In yourhead than in yourjeans. Write LD,
Box 155, 298 Fifth
Avenue, NYC, NY
10001.
BIG BALLFETISH?
Exceptionally large
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getting serviced only. MLD Suite 348
163 Amsterdam
NY, NY 10023.
BUSINESSMAN
Hot WM, 33, 6'1",
185, vy hdsm,
masc + wks out.
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P,O. Box 304, Village Station, New
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TWICE THE FUN
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Outweek Box 2238
LIKE WHAT
ILlKEDancing, films, me- 'dla, politics, goingout and we'll getalong fine. Be
community-minded, sensitive, Interested, curious; I
will reCiprocate
your enegy. M 32
5'5" 120 brlbr sks
M who's not overly
angry, just conscientious, and fun.
Send reply to Box
20010, NYC
10009.
BLUE EYED TOP
Clean cut boynext-door type,
30's, nice guy
seeks same forsafe fun. If you're acute hot bottom,
please answer withphoto. Outweek
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HELL OF A
NICE GUY
GWM, 25, 6'2",
205, blond, blue,
masculine professional, Interested. In movies, music,
cooking and longwalks, Bars arefine withJrlends,
but I don't-expect
to meet Mr. Right
In one-someone
caring, Intelligent,sincere, easy-golng, healthy, andfun to be with.
Please write If
you're of similarage, sick of onenight stands andplaying the field
and ready for amature, satisfying,monogamous relationship. Outweek
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DADDY/SON
43 year old Dadneeds son. You
18-26, race/color
not Important. Me
attr 5'6" 1501bs.
blond blue versatile kind. Photo andphone get mine.
Respond to Box
255-250 Mercer
Street, NYC, NY
10012.

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