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Doing the Right Thing•"Gays and lesbians are all
God's children and should betreated as such.",; ,So reflected Mayor David
Dinkins several days after histumultuous St. Patrick's Day
gauntlet-walk up Fifth Avenue
with Irish lesbians and gays.
We couldn't have said it better.
" Since his queer-assisted
election, Mr. Dinkins has often
protested that he is our community's, best friend, even as
he took actions which beliedthat claim. Starting with his
appointment
of Woodrow
Myers as health commissioner,
the mayor's lesbian and gay. ='stock has fallen almost daily as once-avid supporters bemoaned
a series of mayoral missteps on crucial queer issues.
As recently as two weeks ago, Mr. Dinkins alienated many when
he inexplicably spoke out against the Channel 13 pledge boycott, aboycott endorsed by one of the broadest coalitions of lesbian and gay
groups-left, right and center ever assembled iri this town.
Yet in politics as in life, it is often the defining moment thatstays with us long after day-to-day disagreements are forgotten.
And for Mr. Dinkins' relationship with lesbians and gays, thatdefining moment will always be his insult-marred, beer-bespat_ tered and incredibly brave and moving march with lesbians andgays up Fifth Avenu(!, a sometimes dangerous experience helater compared to the scariest civil-rights marches of the '60s.
. The mayor's gesture was echoed by a wide group of city
officials who announced their intention to boycott the parade if
the parade boycotted queers. Among them were City Council
President Andrew Stein, COmptroller Elizabeth Holtzman, Attorney General Robert Abrams, Consumer Affairs Commissioner, Mark Green, City Councilmembers Ronnie Eldridge, Bob Dryfoos'and C. Virginia Fields, and many other officials.
The glaring absence from this roll of honor was Gov. Mario("Family of New York") Cuomo. As the controversy got noisier,the. silence emanating from Albany grew positively deafening.
Ultimately, Cuomo's cynical, hands-off approach couldn't havecontrasted more sharply with Dinkins' genuine solidarity.
In retrospect, it would have been easy for the mayor to have imitated the governor's moral equivocation. But David Dinkins did the~:right thing. He stood firmly behind his most embattled conslituents,
proved willing to alienate bigots for the benefit of justice and in sodoing put himself personally in harm's way. Whatever problems he's
. had with ~ in the past, whatev~ problems we may have with him 'in
tJ:1efuture, a bond of goodwill has been forged and sealed in the crucible
Of hate and homophobia
and will not soon be broken.
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., " An implicit campaign pledge was redeemed, and, for once, .
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lack of self-love, while whiteboys who dare greet an
Robert Vazquez qualifies African-American friend while
his decision to forgo white
walking by [at] the end of a
men as sexual/romantic part- GMAD meeting risk getting theners with a statement that he cold shoulder. And a boyfriend"publicly support[ s 1 interracial .of color can be an exotic aberrelationships." Yet, while he ration to white friends.
may not have written it, theMr. Vazquez reminds us
headline for his article-'T~othat his decision and views
Longer) Sleeping With the
Enemy" [no. 90, March
20j-telis
another story, as
STONeWALL RIOTS
does his repeated references
to white boys.
Mr. Vazquez presents his
decision as though it is therare one. And maybe it is, inTH[,(
SAY wE CAli
TR~OE Ol/I?
VOll £S FOilthat it is a conscious one: HeLEGSANDGO IV/TN
has chosen to take control ofTill 1'/. WHO CO"L 0
his own life and shape how he
RESIST'
shares his love. But my expe--.
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than his, leads me to believe., , ..
that inte rracial ity, far fro mbeing the social ideal, is denigrated in most quarters. Mostmen, white and of color alike,
do not look beyond the colorline for love (or even lust).
If Sunday is the mostsegregated day of the week,
Saturday night isn't far
behTnd. Doors are barred by
racist carding policies, butalso by an unchallenged social
discomfort with being on
someone else's turf. Even the
anonymity of telephone "chat"lines comes in distinct hues: aren't racist because, even if"La linea Latina" is matched they are prejudiced, he (a Latiby the Black "Bisexual" line, no) lacks the power necessary
while white men have "TooL"
to transform that prejudi&eMr. Vazquez may still see into enforceable racism. On a
an interracial relationship as a macro level, that is true, but"truly revolutionary act," but on the micro level that we allothe rS-"prog ressives". live in, individuals and theirseem quite wiiling to throw a expressed opinions on race
can be very powerful indeed.
damper on that revolution.
Interracially oriented men of After reading Mr. Vazquez'scolor get an earful about their powerful Micle, I was left with

"Yes, but." And that "but" isvery important to me.
Jake Stevens
Manhattan

BLEEPING WITH
THE ENEMY

I'm writing in response toRobert Vazquez's article/column which appeared in the
March 20 issue. In this article
he states: "I have no desire to

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sit down and educate white
people about racism anymore," and "I don't want to lie
in bed with some EuropeanAmerican
man teaching
Racism 101," and various
other such comments.
I'm a white gay man. I've
spent most of my life in New
York. I was raised (for various
reasons) with a clear understanding of what racism is,and I feeI I can safeIy say I'm
not a racist. I also grew up
with a clear understanding ofwhat white ,society is (i.e.
white, capitalist, patriarchal,racist, sexist, homophobic,etc.). I've also met horrible
sexist, racist white trash. But,
because I've met white racists
this does not then lead me toconclude that I'll never fuck awhite man again. What I do
concl ude is that I don't wantto fuck any white racists.
Obviously, there are a myriad
reasons why people choose
their sexual partners, and any
reason is legitimate, but Mr.
Vazquez seems to exclude
even the possibility that there
are any nonracist white boys.
Can this really be what hemeans? Is it really not possible for a white man to not be
racist? Granted, there are a lotof white racists. There are also
many white people who are
informed and who, in manycases, work very hard tochange racism and injustice ingeneral.
It's one thing if you just
don't like white boys. It's
something else if you don't likewhite boys because (by implication) they are all racists. It's
not true, and it is racist.
(Now, don't get.me
wrong!) But, as fo r Mr.
Vazquez's little blessing on
interracial relationShips, withfriends like you, who needs
enemies?
Joshua Paul Devlin
Brooklyn
Oh! Father, Mother, forgive me for I have sinned. I
am a gay white male and formy penance I promise to giveup my job, private health care
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and home so I can be just like and your points were well
my minority brothers and taken. I think these things
sisters who are only allowed need to be voiced more often.
to experience discrimination.
I just don't see things as
Give me a break! What clear-cut as you do.
Duncan Elliott
do you want me to do? Empty
Manhattan
my pockets and go stand in
the corner?
LITTLE LAMB, WHO
Robert Vazquez's article
SILENCED THEE?
"(No Longer) Sleeping With
It has been some years
the Enemy" was the straw thatbroke this camel's back on since I attended that gay
white-male-bashing.
Why social mixer of the ever-colormust everyone, except white ful "Yalesbians" (Yale Lesmales, be allowed to experi- bians) and met Miss Foster.
ence discrimination.
Is it The friend I was visiting, asomething we are not privy to? classmate of hers, did not
We all experience dis- consider it too very presumpcrimination at one level or tuous of himself to interrupt
another. Whether we are male her amorously colorful behavor female, white or Black, light ior with a striking youngor dark, gay or straight, Italian woman in the corner of theor Jewish,
Catholicor room in order to proffer an
Methodist, fat or thin, ugly or introduction. I was enticed bybeautiful, blond-haired or her charismatic personality, anbrown-haired. Republican or appealing blend of developing
Democrat, East Village clone feminine mystique, Brahamnic
or West Village clone, butch or carriage and just the rightfern, top or bottom, big dick touch of that spicy, deciduous,or little dick. Need I go on?
tomboy charm that has been
Robert, get over it! Better minted into nearly all of heryet, dbn't, because this is one roles. I remember thinking
white boy who doesn't want to how lucrative it could be tosleep with you either!
the then-burgeoninggay
Michael Runco movement to have such aManhattan popular young actress as an
iconic role model.
In "(No Longer) Sleeping
Now let us shift the scene
With the Enemy," you depict all some several years later, as I
whites as being racists. Obvi- am serving my internship in
ously, you have been sleeping Clinical Psychology at St. Elizwith the wrong white people.
abeth's Mental Hospital, CrimiI can understand where nal Division, WaShington, DC.
you are coming from-I had Tonight I will be working withto sever my ties to people (gay a brilliantly notorious patientand non-gay), who offended
by the name of John Hinckley,
my political sensibilities.
reknowned
both for his
You are assuming that. all startlingly prophetic political
people of color are politically accusations and hisunfortucorrect. What are you going to nate lack of precision as ado when you're on a date with marksman. He has just fina Latino who says something ished his first book, a fascinatoffensive to the African-Ameriing treatise on numerology
can community, or an African- and coming world events, in
American who says something which he foretells unimaginanti-Latino, or either one who able devastation the AIDS epimight utter a sexist remark? I demic will have on certain
have been in th is city ten areas of the globe and minoriyears, and I have heard it all.
ty populations in particular.
I enjoyed your article,"The AIDS epidemic is entirely,

artificially produced and manufactured by the Pentagon,"he tells me , "but not by the
Beast Reagan ... no, no,no .... He's not smart enoughfor that." I smile. "No, theAIDS thing is Bush's baby."
I make a note of this in
my notebook and write a little
star by it as he Changes the
topic of discussion
fromGeorge Bush having been theprevious director of the CIA to
Jodie Foster (whom he now
despises) as being the revelatory Whore of Babylon. My
professors
have clearly
instructed me not to surrender any outside informationthat could "encourage hjs
delusions,"
but the evil
schizoid Alice-in-Wonderland
queen arChetype that reigns in
the bowels of my unconscious simply cannot resist
this encounter. "You know,
John," I provide, "that Jodie
Foster is a lesbian. I've met
her myself. She very muchprefers the company ofwomen." He looks at me for a
moment, his head tilted andhis eyes slightly askew, sizing
me up to determine what partI play in this conspiracyen\ire.
Finally, he grins a's.aJdonic,
knowing smile and says, slowly, just above a whisper: "Iknow that. But she'll sell youout. She'll betray you. She'lllie, she'll eat you for breakfast.
One day you'll look at her andsay, 'Et tu, Jodie: He had perceptively assumed that I also
was gay.
We talked abQut manythings that evening, and I've
kept the notebook I used inthat session. I left St. Elizabeth's that evening convincedthat Mr. Hinckley was indeed
suffering certain psychologicaldisturbances and had not
merely copped the insanity
plea to avoid incarceration.
But as I review these notes
with the luxury of hindsightand the privilege of clinicalinsight, I am reminded of the
poetic irony Mr. Hinckley
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understood and which our gay
community is now beginningto comprehend in the matterof Ms. Foster and her surreptitious The Silence of theLambs, i.e., that one is never aprophet in one's own country.
Eric M. Pollard
Washington, DC

LAMBDA LAMENT

I am a member of Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund and have been following with some distress thecontroversy over Lambda's
upcoming fund-raising eventat the Broadway show Miss
Saigon. I fear the ,people
protesting Lambda's plans
The controversy surround- have lost sight of who ouring The Silence of the Lambs common enemies are. Somedeeply disturbs me. Having had times we attack friends
a close encounter with one because they are the only peosuch killer, who murdered my ple who listen to us.
lover of 15 years without
Gay men and lesbiansmotive, I'm troubled by the and all people of color-facemovie's homophobic fascina- discrimination and the threattion and exploitation of morbid of violence every day. Hate
curiosity. My lover's killer, who crimes are increasing against
was no less deranged than the all minorities. Lambda has ahomosexual killer fictionalized
long and distinguished history
in Lambs, was homophobic by of effective advocacy combathis own admission.
ting discrimination and proSadly, Jodie Foster, an moting the rights of al/ lesOscar [winner] for her porbians, gay men and people
trayal of an abused victim in with HIV. When 'Lambda
The Accused, makes a 360 changes the rent control laws
degree turn in Lambs, where in New York state, represents
the victim is little more than lesbians denied custody ofan object. There is no insight their children and fights disinto the victim's life achieve- crimination in the military, itments, nor is there witnessed helps all of us.
the devastation endured by the
Certainly there is room
victim's family or loved ones. for criticism and creative disThere are the typical graphic cussion among different
scenes of horror and focus on groups within the lesbian andcapturing the criminal. For the gay community. I agree withstory of the survivors of homi- members of Asian Lesbians ofcide victims is not thrilling. It the Ea,st Coast [ALOEC] andis heartbreaking.
Gay A¢ian and Pacific Islander
What does this movie
Men of -New York [GAPIMNY]
really say about the working
that Miss Saigon is not a proof the criminal
mind? It gressive, empowering show.
dishes out some cheap-shot
I don't think it follows,
psychology with a blunt and however, that Lambda's assodisgusting homosexual slant ciation with a politically 0 btuseof defamation. It perpetuBroadway production warates violence.
rants threats and boycotts
In the aftermath of my against Lambda. From what I
own tragedy, I kept asking,have read and heard, Lambda
over and over, "Why? Why?"can satisfy ALOEC and"There is no why," the GAPIMNY with nothing short
detective repeated. "It was just of cancelling their event.
his time to kill. It didn't even Why? Both the eXjlcutive staff
matter who he killed-justof Lambda and Lambda's
whoever was around when he directors have met with repregot the urge."
sentatives from ALOEC and
Gregory Maskwa
GAPIMNY. Lambda has made
Manhattan
a genuine effort to understandtheir concerns. Further, Lamb- versy and into the future, so itda has promised to change its can continue and expand its
good work to benefit us all.
planning process to ensure
James M. Emerythat these concerns are fully
San Francisco
taken into account when,
future events are planned.
Lambda has committed itself
ANTI·INFIGHTING
to continue its work building
It truly saddens me tobridges to all members of the read of the dispute between
Lambda Legal Defense and thelesbian and gay community.
ALOEC and GAPIMNY should Center on one side and Asiannow exercise some tolerance
Lesbians of the East Coast andand bridge-building as well.
Gay and Pacific Islander Menof New York on the other. It
To demand now that
Lambda cancel its fund-raiser, saddens me because thiscripple its finances and mort- whole incident is anotherexample of various groups
gage our future is misguided
and wrong. The educational
within the gay and lesbian
goals of ALOEC and GAPIMNY community fighting one anothare being achieved. I underer instead of fighting thosestand Lambda has written to who are most guilty of op•
pressing us.
all its ticket-holders, offered
I have never seen Miss
full ticket refunds and included
Saigon, so I am not in a posiALOEC and GAPIMNY statements in the mailing. In this tion to judge its content. However, I am sure that neither theway, the criticism of Miss
Saigon and the controversy
Center nor Lambda was awaresurrounding it have heightthat the content of the show
ened awareness of the inane would so. deeply offend many
stereotypes that populate
members of our community.
Broadway musicals. Those
I am grateful that the gay
who attend the show will, I an~ lesbian Asian groups have
hope, have these issues on brought this issue up so as totheir minds. Further, I am cer- educate and sensitize the Centain Lambda would be most ter and Lam bda as well as
receptive to any suggestions
many others in our communifor positive outreach, proty about the anti-Asian racism
grams that ALOEC, GAPIMNY that is prevalent in both thestraight and gay communities.
or others might propose.
Protest the show, not However, I see little net gain in
Lambda, if it offends you.
having both the Center andProtests, pickets and sit-ins
Lambda cancel their benefits,
are to make people listen to which would result in signifiyou when they are ignoring
cant financial hardship foryou. Lambda is not the FDA or both organizations.
the NIH. Tom Stoddard is not
On the other hand, as an
Cardinal O'Connor, or even Asian person, I know that antiformer Mayor Ed Koch.
Asian racism is an issue which
Lambda has reached out is too often ignored. I can
to ALOEC and GAPIMNY and empathize with my Asianlistened to them honestly and brothers and sisters who feelsincerely. Lambda for 17 years outraged that two prominent,
has been a determined and supposedly racially inclusive,
unrelenting fighter for our organizations in our commurights. Lambda does not need nity would give their support
to prove its commitment to to an arguably anti-Asian,our community by cancelingracist show.
I do not believethat a boythe Miss Saigon event. We
cott or bullying of either organimust continue to support
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this point. Tomake amends which no one else adheres?
With the gay and lesbian Asian Why the mockery of comparcommunity, I propose that ing a work that required somelambda offer to divert itself thought on the part of everypartially and temporarily from one who contributed to it to'its primary mission of gay the mindless consumer flotrights and PWA advocacy and sam that washes up on latehelp take on some significant night television? Maybe it's
Asian rights cases. The Center Ms. Maggenti's forte to review
could offer to help fund-raise the written word while shefor GAPIMNY and AlOEC and watches the idiot box into theoffer free use of the Centerfor a wee hours. But hey, if she's so
fascinated by Chia Pets, why
certain length of time.
doesn't she cover them andI encourage GAPIMNY
and AlOEC to continue their spare us her book reviews?
Terry Diamondfight against racism. But perManhattan
haps instead of accosting
Tom Stoddard, who has inarguably done much for the Maria Maggenti responds: I
entire community, the Asian said that lesbians still don't
wield the same publishinggroups should be zapping
Cameron Mackintosh and power as gay men, and thisleading protests outside the has to do with sexism andtheater where Miss Saigon lesbo-phobia in the main. stream publishing induswill be showing.
try-not with the quality ofEric Tsuchida,
Los Ange/es lesbian writing. I do not
SPARE USMaria Maggenti's snide
potshot at the "sorry state oflesbian literary affairs" basedon her reading of Lesbian
Bedtime Stories 2, is pureignorance [no. 87, Feb. 27].
. She lumps several literary
lights of the past w~th unnamed contemporary lesbian
writers as evidence that thep,atriarchy is not as omnipotent as everyone says it is.
(Those silly dykes.) Further,
lesbian writers don't measure
up to the achievements of gay
male writers because they
don't wield the same "publishing clout." When did "clout"
become equated with literary
excellence?
Why do, Ms. Maggenti or
her colleagues need to trash
all lesbian literature every timea bad book comes out? DoesThe New York Times bookreviewer, Chris lehmann, Haupt, condemn the whole
spy novel 'genre every time'
Tom Clancy or his ilk bring ina dud? No. So why hold lesbians up to standards toa ou I LlI'EEK April 3, 1991

equate "clout" with excellence
anywhere in my review. On
the matter of standards, I
hold lesbian and gay work up
to the same standards that I
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name-calling [no. 89, March
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'faggot' and 'nigger' in the
middle of the night in a campus courtyard?" Well, yes.
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someone, I don't have freedom of speech at all.
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example of the benefits of freespeech. Goff should remember how often the free speechof gays and lesbians has been
infringed in the past. It's ironic
indeed that he should be
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I have nothing against.. chiropractors per se they come·in very handy when one has
been in an auto accident andhas a whiplash injury. Often
they work hand-in-glove withambulance-chasing lawyers.
Onehand washes the other.
Your magazine could be
so much more interesting if
you hired some real writers
who know how to dig up real
dirt! Years ago, I wrote for Fag
Rag in Boston. The Fag Ragcollective, composed of someof the most seminal minds ingay liberation (Charley Shively,
Mitzel, Freddie,Greenfield andthe immortal·John Wieners),
knew the difference between
radical queer politics and radical "cheek" claptrap! I dare
you to print this!
John Connolly
San Francisco

bound to get lost in the shuffl,eof paperwork, but I feel. thatsome of the system could·use
a tune-up, in order to better
serve people who are already
faced with harsh realities andreal battles to be fought.
In the office on 13thStreet, there appears, out ofthe drop ceiling, in the centerof the room, a tangled bunchof electrical wires loosely
resembling a noose. I often
wonder if some poor, frustrated client will one day makeuse of this prop and solve hisor her problems efficiently,
quickly and without mix-up. .
John Odatq
Manhattan
SENTENCE
SENTENCES

In reference to your issue
no. 89 [March 13] oil my legalplight in Seattle, Wash., titled,•

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"Gay Men With HIV Given
Harsher Prison Sentences." I
was surprised to learn that
Ms. Dell Richards tied mycase [to] the one from Boise.
Admittedly, Mr. George Herbert Lewis received an outrageous sentence because of
his HIV status. These cases
have little in common. I wasnever charged with childmolestation. Ms. Richards
fails to mention that:
1) I do not fall under"sex-offender" status underWashington state law.
2) I was never "charged"
with "having sex" or [with]any "sex crime" as paragraphseven infers.
3) I qualified for a "firstoffender status" of 90 days,
not three and one-quarter
years.
4) Why AIDS was an
issue in my case at all, whenclearly it should not have been.

5) That this was a case
grandstanded by a prosecutor running for the GOP ticket
for governor, keeping him on
the front pages at the time.
6) That I have a 1OO~
page scrapbook full of the
mass-media coverage including six front-page Seattle
dailies screaming the resultof my "now-ruled-illegal"
forced HIV-test.
7) That this case is not
likely to be reconsidered by
the Washington state Supreme Court and will most
likely end up in Federal Court
the US Supreme Court, while
I wait in quarantine or solitary confinement.
I do appreciate the coverage on my case, and several
important points were made.
However, I provided Ms.
Richards with mass written
information and verbal interviews, including an interview

she did with the Stonewall
Committee for Lesbian and
Gay Rights (not mentioned in
the article).
To me, Ms. Richards had
the means in which to write an
excellent, detailed article on
this miscarriage of justicedisappointingly, it turned out
to be a mediocre one.
Steven G. Farmer
SeattleOn the contrary, the article
was entirely accurate, nonjudgmental and angled differently from most of what
has been written in the lesbian and gay press.
The comparison between
you and George Herbert Lewis
is clearly drawn between yourHIV-positive antibody-status,
not your convictions. Thearticle never stated that you werea sex offender charged withchild molestation or "having

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to pay a prostitute for sex.
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national news magazine
might not focus on the local
politiCS behind the case, its
central point was that people
with AIDS or HIV-infection
who are, rightly or wrongly,
convicted of sex-related
crimes are facing stiffer
prison sentences, and thatthe introduction of AIDS andHIV-status into the case had
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Court, OutWeek will cover it.
I hope your letter cleared
up any confusion that may haveresulted from our reporting, but
Dell Richards did a pretty goodjob of distilling the information
in your 100-page scrapbook
down to four columns.
-News Ed.
KEEP THOSECARDS AND LETTERS
COMING IN
It pains me to do it, but.1
have to correct the nice letter
Paul A.H. Babitts wrote about
my work ["Letters," no. 90,
March 20]. While he's certainly
entitled to his flattering opinions-heavenknows I'm notarguing with tha~the work hepraised was actually from thecolu mn I co-author
withMadame X. And the truth is, as
our editor once said, Madame X
is the funny one.
I hope this doesn't discourage anyone else fromwriting in to say kind things
about me and Madame X,
together or separately (hint).
We really appreciate it.

Anne Rubenstein
Brooklyn

as AGAIN
I'd like to address theissues of addictophobia, ignorance and intolerance of 12step programs, and the baitingand ,bashing of people in these
programs that has been foundin 'OutWeek over the pastmonths and, specifically, in
Noelle Hanrahan's article andresponse to Adele B.'s letter.
. R rst off, addiction is a disease, not a choice, and left
untreated will destroy one's life.
One of the most effective meansof treatment is abstinence within
a 12-step program, a decision
which needs to be made by theindividual affected by this disease. Recovery from addiction isa long and difficult process andhappens in its own time. AA/NA
has saved hundreds of thousands of queers from a life ofdespair and/or death and has

given much back to the gay andlesbian community.
Noelle Hanrahan claims
that "Ms submission to a higher power [is] sedating American
resistance." Bullshit! Your claim
could not be further from thetruth", As a pel"$on in re.covery, I
am very active in AIDS andqueer activism as well as the
war resistance. I've worked on
many issues and actions andhave been very outspoken on
the floors of ACT UP and Queer
Nation, my inspiration being thedozens of other recovering
addicts and alcoholics I see
doing the same, week after
week. My road to activism wasvia AA and NA, without which I'd
be of no use to the activist community for, most likely, I'd return
to a life of active addiction. People in recovery are everywhere
accomplishing, inspiring, taking
action and saving lives. We arepeople of all colors, women,men, queer, straight. We do notwear scarlet "A"s on our chests
to set us apart from the rest.
She also claims we are"too wrapped up in our recovery, [our] righteous indignation
surrendered to a higher power
and too shut down ...." Bullshit
again! We are an empowered
community who have arrested
our addictions, overcome selfdestruction and are moving on
to other issues in our lives. We
are on the front lines challenging those who would oppress
us, arm-in-arm with the rest of
the queer nation. More often
than not a 12-stepper helped
organize, run or pull off thatlast action you attended. We
are certainly not Shivering in
our closets, accepting our own
deaths and threats to our communities or world.
Her narrow-minded bigotry
is repulsive, and your attack
upon our community is shameful. We deal with an incredible
amount of addictophobia every"
day-and with people like you,who choose to condemn entire
communities, instead of making
the slightest attempt to underI

orrectionsat The caption for a photo accompanying the story on
the new domestic partnership law in San Francisco inissue no. 88 (March 6) misidentified one of the men pictured. The men are Martin Scott and Dennis Bush.
'at The following sentence was omitted from the discussion of the Opera Orchestra of New York's La Sonnamhula in issue no. 86 (Feb. 20): "Eve Queler presided with
an aptly light touch and made a particular highlight of'D'un penstero,' the concerted number parodied by
Gilbert and Sullivan in Trial by jury."
stand or at least accept it as our
choice of a way of life. Just incase you make your comments
to inspire change within ourcommunity or to enlighten us to
the ills of this world: "Climb
down from your ivory tower,
sister!" You are certainly no savior to our community, just as ahet could not be to queers, mencannot be to women, or just asa white cannot be to a community of color.
I suggest you think twice
before you rant, condemn andjudge. Remember, we are everywhere. Maybe the next time you
hear someone standing up for
his- or herself or community,
you'll pause and wonder ifmaybe that person is in recovery, and if maybe the reason heor she sounds so clear and, right .
on is, in fact, the voice of empowerment received from thestrength of 12-step programs.
Furthermore, I suggestthat OutWeektake responsibility for representing the entire
queer nation and cease allowing vicious attacks upon ourcommunity by addictophobic,
ignorant blame-seekers suchas Ms. Hanrahan. It is estimated that 30 percent of queers
are addicts or alcoholics, andmany more suffer from othermanifestations of the same disease (that's 100 percent morethan in the het wOrld). Insteadof offering only one-sided, narrow-minded opinions, why notoffer some facts and somechoices? Or does Out Week
really support this form of bigotry? Many people can drink

and use drugs safely, but for
some, abstinence is the difference between life and death.
Why not help save some lives
by offering informationon
addiction and where one canreceive help if [one] decide[s][one] has a problem?
You've been challenged.
fdO.
Manhattan
OUT SILENT
Thirty percent of all queers
have had, are having, or will
have, a problem with drugs
and/or alcohol. You're silent.
Seventy percent of IVDU's
entering rehabs are HIV-positive. You're silent.
Twelve-step programs arebashed in your magazine.
You're silent.
You have the ability to
inform thousands of addicts
and alcoholics about the disease of addiction and how tobetter protect themselves andtheir lovers during the AIDS
crisis. You're silent.
Out Week, must we remind you: Silence = Death?
Addicts' Rights Caucus,
ACTUP/NYAll letters to the editor must Include a

name, address anddaytime phone, although
names
may
be withheld
at theauthor's request. OutWeek reserves
theright to edit lettersfor clarity and spaceconsiderations.
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to make such designations and that hewas correct in his decision not to list it.
The doctors' groups, which include
the New York State Society of Surgeons,the New York State Society of
Orthopaedic Surgeons, the New
York•
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andGynecologists and the Medical Society of
the State of New York all claim that thecommissioner had no discretion under
the statute and that even if he had, heabused it by not adding HIV to the list ofcommunicable diseases and SIns.
According to Evelyn Tenenbaum, thelawyer from the attorney general's officeworking on the case, which is called
Public Health Law, Article 7:7(0, but is better known as the AIDS Confidentiality. NEW YORK-The thorny subjectsof mandatory HIV-testing and namereporting were debated in the New York
Cqurt of Appeals last week, when the
cciurt heard oral arguments in a caseinyolving New York State Commissioner
o~Health David Axelrod.
He is being sued by four state doctors' groups who claim that he failed tofulml a legal obligation to designate HIV
as,a "communicable" and "sexually transmissible" disease under the Public HealthLaw. Such a listing would allow for
mandatory testing, reporting of names. and contact-tracing of the partners ofseropositive individuals.'
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"We saw a direct conflict between the
AIDS Confidentiality Statute and adding
HIV to the list,"she told OutW~k
But the doctors' groups allege thatthe statute dealing with communicablediseases and STDs and those dealing withconfidentiality are not mutually exclusive.
A trial court judge ruled against thefour doctors' groups in November 1988.
They appealed to the Appellate Divisionof the State Supreme Court, which also
ruled against them on May 9, 1m. ""The actions taken by the commiSsioner and the department of health inresponse to the AIDS crisis are in accordance with the policies set forth by theLegislature and the recommendations ofleading public health experts in the,nation and are not in any way arbitrary,capricious, illegal or irresponsible," theAppellate Division's decision read
The state's highest court, the Courtof Appeals, which is currently reviewing
the case, accepted, last month, a "friendof the court" brief from 23 groups andindividuals with expertise in publichealth, urging the court to reject the doctors' appeal.
"Although these mandatory measures might have a superficial appeal in a
medical crisis like AIDS, careful analysis
reveals that implementation of such measures will actually foster the spread of, ~rather than contain, the disease," the brief ~..,declared. "For example, by eliminating ...
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conference at the Centers for Disease Control, or CDC, AIDS
lobbyists are looking forward to quick action from the agency
on new disease-prevention guidelines for HIV-infected he;ilthcare workers to help repel expected congressional proposals
on.
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the controversial issue.
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Sparked by last year's revelation that a Florida'dentist
may have transmitted .his HIV infection to three of hispatients, the Atlanta-based agency from Feb. 22 through Feb.
24 heard arguments from health-care, patient-advocacy andpublic-policy groups on the contested issue of HIV-infected
health-care workers.
There, in full force, Were representatives from a broadcoalition of AIDS, gay and lesbian and civil liberties groups, whoargued that the standing CDC guidelines calling for "universal
precautions" are sufficient protection from what they characterized as a "minimal" risk of HIV transmission from infected
health-care workers to patients.
But despite nearly unanimous pleas from a broad array ofinterested groups at the meeting, some in the health-care andpatient-advocacy arenas feel that something more needs to bedone to protect patients.
Among those groups are the American -Medical
Association and the American Dental Association, which havecalled on HIV-infected physicians, dentists and health-care
Workers to voluntarily inform their patients of their HIV status
and refrain from performing "invasive procedures" on them.
Gauging from the bulk of the testimony given at February's
Atlanta conference, the CDC's new guidelines are expected to belargely in keeping with the current "universal precautions.""

testing programs, thereby dramaticallyundermining the benefits of l-llV testing.·
Signers onto the amicus brief
includedtheAmericanNursesAsso,ciation; the American Red Cross;
AIDS Action Council; the American
FOllndation for AIDS Research; Dr. Allan
Rosenfield, dean of the School of Public
Health of Columbia University; Larry O.
Go~;tin, the executive director of theAmerican Society of Law and Medicine;and Mathilde Krirn, the president of theboard of the American Foundation for
AIDS Research.
However, Francis McKee, the executive director of three of the medical,
societies bringing the case, insisted.th3;t.
"the overwhelming majority of the profession is in support of our proposals.·
The Medical Society of the State of
New York, which represents doctors inspecialities, is considered to represent
the spectrum of the profession. The
other three groups, which McKee represents, involve those specialities which"Hopefully, the CDC will not change their guidelines significantly," said Belinda Rochelle, health lobbyist for the
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. "Hopefully, they'll favor
infection-control based on the improvement of equipment andprotective equipment like gloves and needles. because removing the worker from the workplace does not protect thepatient from AIDS:'
Once the proposed regUlation changes are announced,
federal law mandates that they be published in the.FederaJ
Register for 60 days, during which period the public may submit comments to the agency before the guidelines are madefinal. Sources suggest that the CDC may announce its new
guidelines as soon as this week.
But Capitol Hill lobbyists are concemed that some legislators will-try to capitalize on the attention around the issue toimpose their own restriction on any number of money- or
health-related bills while the CDC is finalizing its guidelines.
"Regardless of what the CDC does," said Feldblum,"I'm sure that [Rep. William] Dannemeyer of California and[Sen. Jesse] Helms of North Carolina will think they can doit one better:',Both Helms and Dannemeyer in each Congress haveintroduced a series of proposed amendments calling for the
mandatory HIV-testing of a wide array of populations. And
while each of their amendments have failed, Dannemeyer's
newfound position as ranking Republican member of the pivotal Health and Environment Subcommittee, however, is
expected to give the califomia conservative added clout to get
his expected amendments.
-Cliff O'Neillare considered to be at the highest risk
for HIV infection from a patient .
"There is no doubt that there is avested interest,· said McKee. "These specialities are most highly susceptible."
Civil rights attorneys from theLambda Legal Defense Fund also argued
that the universal precaution that all
hospitals are required to follow obviate
the need for mandatory testing. ·You

should not have to take them all thetime,· McKee contended. "As soon as
you make somethingroutine,itbecomes routine.·
If a patient's serostatus was known,
universal precautions would not be necessary, McKee added. Although headmitted that current HIV-testing produces false positives and negatives.
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WASHINGTON-Ranking membersof the House and Senate have formally
reintroduced the lesbian and gay civilrights bill in Congress, announcing arecord number of co-sponsors for the
proposal and renewed hope for action
on it during the next two years.
. Sponsoredin the Senate by
Democratic Sen. Alan Cranston of
California and by Democratic Rep. Ted
Weiss of New York in the House, themeasure would extend to American lesbians and gay men the protections of the
Civil Rights Act of 1964, maki~g discrimination on the basis of sexual orientationin the areas of employment, pubLic
accommodations, housing and federally
assiSted programs a federal offense. The'.;

bill has been introduced in Congress
every year since 1975.
"Gays and lesbians in many communities face discrimination, hostility andprejudice," said Cranston in introducing
the bilL "My legislation is needed to bringan end to that discrimination and to provide a clear remedy to redress violationsof individual rights.n
Weiss added: "By historically denying civil rights protections to gay men
and lesbians, our government shamefully
has neglected that responsibility to an
estimated 25 million Americans. To thisday, there exist no federal laws and nolegal recourse to protect this minority
when they encounter discrimination
based on their private lifestyle or their
public comportment. We can tolerate thisinequity no longer."With nine senators and 79 House
members originally sponsoring or cosponsoring this year's bill, the twin measures now boast the highest number ofco-sponsors upon introduction in the
bill's 16-year history. At the end of thelast Congress, the bill had 12 Senate and79 House sponsors and co-sponsors.
And on March 14, Democratic Reps.
Leon Panetta of California and freshman•
Rep. Rob Andrews of New Jersey SIgned
onto the bill, .bringing the number ofnames on the House bill to a record of 81.
"I think we're definitely off to . agreat start, n commented
Peri Jude
Radecic, the National Gay and L¢sbi~n
Task Force's lobbyist.
.
The 1991 co-sponsor numbers' so far
show no change in the overall 14-t0-1
ratio of Democratic-to-Republican back, ers of the bilL And while the co-sponsorship numbers are still far short to thoseneeded to yield any immediate movement toward the floors of the House and
Senate, lobbyists this year are taking
active steps toward effecting formal
House and Senate hearings on the bill by
the end of the 102nd Congress in the fallof 1992.
Bolstered by 1990 victories on the
Hate Crimes Statistics Act, which for the
first time included a provision on "sexual
orientation" in federal law; the Americans
With Disabilities Act, which, among otherthings, banned AIDS-related discrimination nationwide; the removal of theUnited States' ban on AIDS and gay
immigration; and several other AIDSrelated bills, gay and lesbian lobbyists' are
now suggesting that action on the gay

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SENATE:'...
Alan Cranston (D-Calif.), Daniel Inouye (D-H~waii),
Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii), Paul Simon (0-111.),Edward Kennedy(D-Mass.), John Kerry (D-Mass.), Daniel Moynihan (D-NY),
John Chafee (R-RI), Claiborne Pell (D-RI).
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES:
Arizona: Morris Udall (D).
California: Anthony Bejlienson (D), Howard Berman (D),Barbara Boxer (D), George Brown (D), Tom Campbell (R),Ron Dellums(D), Julian Dixon (D), Mervyn Dymally (D), Don
Edwards (D), Vic Fazio (D), Mel levine (D), Matthew Martinez(D), Robert Matsui (D), George Miller (D), Nancy Peolosi (D),
Edward Roybal (D), Fortney Stark (D), Maxine Waters (D),Henry Waxman (D), leon Panetta (D).
. Colorado: Patricia Schroeder (D).
Connecticut: Rosa Delauro (D), Sam Gejdenson (D),Barbara Kennelly (D), Christopher Shays (R).
District of Columbia: Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-nonvoting delegate).
Florida: William lehman (D).
Georgia: John lewis (D).
Hawaii: Neil Abercrombie (D), Patsy Mink (D).

illinois: Cardiss Collins (D), lane Evans (D), Charles
Hayes (D), Sidney Yates (D).
Maine: Tom Andrews (D).
,Maryland: Ben Cardin (D), Steny Hoyer (0), Kweisi
Mfume (D), Connie Morella (R).
Massachusetts: Chet Atkins (D), Barney Frank (D),Joseph Kennedy (D), Edward Markey (D), Gerry Studds (D).
Michigan: John Conyers (D), Barbara-Rose Collins (D).
Minnesota: Martin Olav Sabo (D), Gerry Sikorski (D).
Missouri: William Clay (D), Alan Wheat (D).
New Jersey: Robert Torricelli (D), Donald Payne (D), Rob
Andrews (D).
New York: Gary Ackerman (D), Elliot Engel (D), Bill Green(R), Nita Lowey (D), Robert Mrazek (D), Major Owens (D),Charles Rangle (D), Jose Serrano (D), James Scheuer (D),Charles Schumer (D), louise Slaughter (D), Stephen Solarz(D), Edolphus Towns (D), Ted Weiss (D).
Ohio: louis Stokes (D), Edward Feighan (D).
Oregon: les AuCoin (D), Peter DeFazio (D).
Pennsylvania: Bill Coyne (D), Thomas Foglietta (D),Peter Kostmayer (D).
'Tennessee: Harold Ford (D).
Texas: Craig Washington ,(D).
Washington: Jim McDermott (b), John Miller (R), Jolene
Unsoeld (D).
Wisconsin: Jim Moody (D).
-Cliff O'Neillrights bill is in the foreseeable future.
campaign with its National LQbby Days,"Each generation of Americans has
held each June, to push the bill toward
been given the task of expanding thethe co-sponsor mark of 100.
Constitution's protections to a new group
And the Human Rights Campaignof Americans," said Gregory King,
Fund has plans for a massive long-term
spokesperson
for the Human Rights
project to realize the bill's passage by theCampaign Fund. "Our generation has theyear 2000, which includes upping its
noble task of including sexual minorities
political contributions to congressional
under the edicts of the Constitution's
candidate1i in the 1992 election cycle toprotections. ". To effect that end, gay lobbyists will
initially focus on expanding the list ofco-sponsors and documenting incidents
of anti-gay discrimination for use at congressional hearings,
Also, activists are currently in the initial stages of discussing the possibility of ..
a third March on Washington for Lesbianand Gay Rights in either 1992 or 1993.
For its part, in addition to its regularlobbying efforts, NGLTF will continue its
grass-roots work to urge additional members of Congress to co-sponsor the proposal, combining its constituent postcard

an'unpre,cedented $1 million total.
The first target for actual legislative
action on the bill will be the staging ofcongressional hearings on the measure,potentially in 1992. Hearings on the bill
were last held in Washington in January
1982, when a handful of AIDS cases
were only beginning to emerge in several American cities. T

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SAN FRANCISCO-Activists

andlobbyists from coast to coast aredelighted at the current prospects forpassage of significant legislation barring
discrimination against lesbians and gay
men. In Connecticut, a law may besigned by the end of April while commit-

tee hearings in California and Maine indicate substantial support among state lawmakers. A broad-based anti-discrimination bill will be introduced this month inIllinois. The only defeat so far, in New
Mexico last week, was the first try everby ELLEN
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(above right) ended last week when Her Imperial Highness Empr~ssCamille Beauchamps crowned hermost Imperial Majesty Razor Sharp the new Golden Einpress Vef New York .
Duchess Electra (above left) and Queen of the Queer Nation, Rollerena, were among the many royalty spotted at the Imperial Court's Fifth Annual Forbidden Ball held this year at the Roosevelt Hotel .
.And one of the few ladies clad in ciwies, Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger, presented
Empress Camille, with a plaque proclaiming March 16 "Night of a Thousand Gowns Day." Proceeds will
go to the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center.
..6 OUTWEEK April 3, 1991

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Meanwhile, Michael Chitwood, theChief of Police in Portland, Maine, supported an amendment to that state's
Human Rights Act at legislative hearings
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caIifornia

California's Assembly Labor and
Employment Committee approved newly
introduced legislation, AB 101, by a 6.102 vote on March 13. Laurie McBride,
executive director of the Lobby for
Individual Freedom and Equality, or the
LIFE Lobby, reported that there is solid
support from several Republicans andsubstantial support from Democrats. The
bill is endorsed by a wide coalition,
which includes the California Teachers,
the state Council of Churches, Jesse
Jackson and even Coors Beer:
Newly elected California Gov. Pete
Wilson has not taken a position on thebill, though McBride said that they were
"optimistic" about gaining his support.
"He clearly has been on record in thepast as being opposed to any discrimination," she said.
. The opposition is led by Traditional
Values Coalition head, Lou Sheldon. Its
most effective tactic has been to mount a,letter-writing campaign. "They certainly
bring a pressure," she said, noting that
more negative letters than positive havebeen received in the Statehouse.
Connecdcut
Similar legislation passed the lower
house's Judiciary Committee last week,where the state Assembly is expected tovote on the issue by April 10. It· could
move quickly through the state,:Senate
and on to Gov. Lowell Weicker's desk
for signature by the end of April.
Weicker and Joseph Grabarz, an
openly gay state Assembly member, arecredited for supplying new optimism inthe.~tate for the passage of a gay anti-<iis-.
crimitiation raw.
"We now have a governor who isvery, very, supportive," said Betty Gallo,. spokesperson
for the Connecticut
Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Civil
Rights. Support also comes from a wide
coalition including ten major religious
denominations,the state's National
Organization for Women and substantiallabor support, including the state teach-"ers' union.

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League of Maine.
. Glenn Adams, a Maine Statehouseobserver said, "Chief Chitwood told thecommittee, there has been an increase inhate crimes in Portland, and he believes
many victims of anti-gay violence areafraid to come forward because theymight lOse th~ir jobs." It is for that reason
he supports the legislation.
The bill has been re-introduced inAugusta, the state capital, regularly since1977. The two state legislative bodies
have passed the bill in different years,
and proponents hope 1991 will be theyear it makes it through both houses atthe same time. Adams said that Maine
Gov. John R McKernan had not yettaken a position on the legislation,
And a broad-based anti-discrimi02'
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state Legislature. Lana Hostetler, lobbyist
for the Illinois Lesbian and Gay Task
Force said, 'There is a sense that we canreally do this~"She added that the bill will
have as many as 15 co-sponsors and thatlegislators are "quarreling over who will
be chief sponsor. It is a sign, of thepower of lesbian and gay community,
The enthusiasm is wonderfuL"
The Illinois bill adds sexual orientation and linguistic background to thecurrent Illinois Human Rights Act. It alsochanges the word "handicapped" to "disability" to be congruent with the Federal
Americans for Disabilities Acts,
New Mexico
The only defeat so far this year
came earlier this month in New Mexico.
But Neil Isbin, a spokesperson for the
New Mexico Lesbian and Gay Alliance,
said that he was not surprised by theloss. 'This was our first year, but we aregoing to keep trying," he promised. The
bill was passed by two subcommittees
before it was defeated by a 24-to-15 votein the New Mexico Senate,
The law would have amended thecurrent New Mexico Human Rights Act
by adding the word sexual orientation toother protected classes. Support camefrom several religious organizations, theAlbuquerque Chamber of Commerce,
both daily newspapers in the city andmany Native American organizations.
Opposition, which Isbin said was very
well organized, came from fundamentalist groups and the local Episcopal Bishop.
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we await the results of a poll by the Chicago gay and lesbian survey firm,
Overlooked Opinions, we can look north to Toronto for a preview. In midFebruary, Xtra! magazine's biweekly computerized telephone poll found that 37
percent of 341 gay and lesbian callers said that Canadian forces should participate fully in the war, including combat duties; 30 percent said that Canadianforces should partiCipate in the war, but not as combat troops; 34 percent said
that Canadian forces should not partiCipate in the war; and 20 percent didn't likethese preselected answers.

UK: Seven thousand British gays and lesbians marched from the
Embankment to Hyde Park (via Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly Circus and the Housesof Parliament) on Feb. 16 in protest of Clause 25, Paragraph 16 and Operation
Scanner-three new threats to gay rights. The group chanted, "They say, 'Don't
fuck!' We say, 'Fuck you!" and other, less-catchy slogans. Clause 25 is proposed
legislation that will sharply increase penalties for several public-cruising-related
sex offenses. Paragraph 16 would ban gays and lesbians from being foster parents. Operation Scanner netted 15 men who video-taped themselves and theirpartners having S/M sex. Some of the men were sent to prison for up to four-andone-h.alf years after a jud.ge declared all S/M sex unlawful-and you thought that
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GERMANY: East and West German boys more than 16 years of age ' :will soon be free to celebrate reunification from a male pOint of view. following '. ,,'.
months of gay protest, Parliament announced that it will delete Paragraph 175 . Iof the West German penal code from the lawbooks of the new Germany. The .•statute sets a higher age-of-consent for gay male sex than for lesbian or hetem- "~Isexual sex. The paragraph took on increased significance after reunification•
because the East German corollary had been repealed in 1968. Activists had •feared the West's law would prevail in the new Germany and turn former East •German boys between ages 16 and 18, as well as adults who have sex with•them, into criminals again.
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• Club Lambda, the only gay group in the West African nation of Liberia, has dis• ' banded for the duration of the country's ongoing bloody civil war. Prior to the time
• that rebel forces reached Monrovia, the capital, the grou~'s mem.bership had grown
I to 75 and plans were afoot to start a seco~d c~apter.1n a regional capital. Now,
• most of the 75 members have taken refuge In neighbOring Freetown, Sierra Leone,• or Abidjan, Ivory Coast. A few of the group members who have money want to• emigrate to the United States, but they must await a determination by the State• Department on who is and isn't a "Liberian refugee." Club Lambda was launched in• 1988 by US Peace Corps volunteer Tom Myers, who says that he "saw the spark"• of gay liberation "and blew on the spark really hard to start the fire."

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puffy's appointment to the three- .
member commission
has thrilled
activists, as cases filed under the ..
stat~wide gay-rights law, as well as AIDSrelated discrimination claims, will fallunder his jurisdication.
. In addition to awarding him thecommissionership,
Weld also named
Duffy chair of .the agency, which is
known as the Massachusetts Commission
Against Discrimination. MeAD handles
cases filed under all the state's anti-discrimination statutes, which include race,
gender, religion, disability and sexual or[-'entation, among others.
''This is a real victory,· cooed Duffy,27, who rose to prominence in the lesbian and gay community just last year,
when he attempted to unseat an incumbent Democratic state representative.

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THE SECRET LIFE OF ANIMALS: "Hate. It's notmonths after conducting amuch-publicized
talentsearch, the board of directors of the Gay and Lesbian
Alliance Against Defamation,or GLAAD, "has announced
the resignation of Steven
Beck as executive director."
Never one to mince
by ANDREW MILLER
words, Beck said: "We all
expected a strong and productive match between my skills and vision for GLAAD and theboard's expectations and vision for GLAAD. This did not occur."Well, that's clear, anyway.
Maybe the board needs to fix
that persistent vision-problem
before embarking on its next
brilliant move. In the meantime,sous director Karin Schwartz
assumed the helm. Again.

human."
So goes the signatureline on a series of slick publicservice TV ads being developed by the Anti-Violence
Campaign, the brainchild of
gay activists/publicists Alan
Klein and OutWeeKs own Jay
Blotcher.
And with names like
Susan Sarandon, Rob Epstein,
Ricki Lake, Holly Robinson,
Gus Van Sant,
Scott
Thompson, Harvey Fierstein, JOHN WATERS
Lara Flynn Boyle, John Waters and the ubiquitous Deee-Liteon their letterhead, it looks like the spots may be well on their
way to being produced and, hopefully, aired.
"People who beat up gay men and lesbians are cowards who are uptight about their own sexuality:' commented
John Waters. "The Anti-Violence Campaign will let themknow that society will not tolerate their stupid, illegal andhate-filled violence."

PARIS IS SPURNING:QUEER NATION, MEET ARYAN NATION: "Asians

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issue of the Boston-based gay STEVEN BECK
weekly.
Seems that Warner Books, the publisher of Paris' newworkout guide, Beyond Built, is anxious for gay men to purchase the tome, although its author won't talk to lesbian andgay journalists.
"Bob has a problem with the gay press," Warner Books'
Kelly Leonard tOld.Bay Windows.
Contacted by OutWeek, Kelly denied saying that but confirmed that Paris is remaining mum, and was unable to fill inthe blanks. Paris' Jan. 3 appearance on Donahue with his lover
Rod Jackson, whom he married last year, helped to flesh out
his position.
"Why should you have to have an article that appears
about the love of your life... and it appears next to a sex ad fora sex tOY?" he reportedly whined to Phil Donahue, presumably
about the cover stories that appeared last year in OutWeekand
the Advocate shortly after he married Jackson. "We had a lot
oftrouble getting respect for our relationship as a couple."
Not hard to see why. I'm sticking to Jane Fonda.
STAMFORD, WEAR FLOWERS IN YOUR HAIR:••

The Stamford Board of Representatives approved a gay arid
lesbian rights ordinance protecting city employees from job
discrimination earlier this month. The vote was 29 to 7, with
one abstention, according to The New York Times. The
Connecti~ut city joins the enlightened municipalities of New
Haven and Hartford in affording such protections.
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are the largest carriers of the AIDS virus, and you people aresick and perverted:' commented a caller to the Seattle-based
Asian Pacific Lesbians and Gays, or APLG, one of three to leavethreatening messages on the group's answering machine in thepast year, according to the Seattle Gay News, or SGN.
Speaking anonymously, an APLG member told,SGN thatmembers of the Aryan Nation, a neo-Nazi group, were the'source of the harassment.
Meanwhile, members of APLG have ceased using theirname in the press, no longer leave a pre-recorded events .caI-·
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your dancing shoes, put on your hiking boots and schlep
around the Upper West Side with a zillion queers and theirfriends. Yes, it's that time of the year to plan for Gay Men's
Health Crisis' annual AIDS Walk New York, slated for Sunday
May 19. To sign up, call (212) 807 -WALK. And look for
OutWeeKs contingent of sassy strollers there,
TO EVERYTHING, TURN, TURN, TURN,
THERE IS A SEASON, TURN, TURN, TURN:•

Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, General Motors and Philip Morris areamong the "top sponsors of pro-homosexual programs,"
according to a recent study by the Amer'ican Family
Association based in that hotbed of activism, Tupelo, Miss.
These companies, which have in the past also been .
under fire from gay and lesbian advocates, bou~ht airtime
during episodes of LA Law, Cop Rock, Doctor Doctor and
The Simpsons (!), which the good folks down in Tupelo
found objectionable because of their depictions of gay men
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While that battle showed Duffy was
clearly willing to publicly differ with themostly Democratic gay and lesbian political establishment, his new high-profile
position has been met with strong support from lesbian and gay activiSts.
His sudden rise to prominence also
serves, he says, to give greater visibility
to gay Republicans, both in the eyes ofstraight Republicans and among gay men
and lesbians. "I think it's helped makethe idea much more acceptable, and it's
legitimized the idea of gay Republicans,·
he commented
But even while political axes arebeing buried, from the outset, it is clearthat Duffy's job will be a- hard one:MCADhas a backlog of more than 6,000
cases, a staff that is half what it was at
the agency's resource peak and is facinglevel funding in the next fISCalyear. And,even as he surveys the swamp ofcases-going back to at least 1984-he
has declared that he will attempt toincrease utilization of the state's anti-discrimination protection for lesbians andgay men, which was enacted in 1989.
Some local activists, while pleased
that their electoral support for Weld has
resulted in the selection of openly gay
individuals to fill sensitive positions, havealso expressed misgivings about the factthat Duffy replaced the only woman on
the commission, leaving MCAD withouta woman on the executive board for the
first time since the agency was created.
'This is something that has resonatedwith the [Weld] administration,· Duffy
replied with equanimity, "and they've
committed themselves to having the next
(Mq.o] appointment be a woman ..
, Upon acce(Xing his job, Duffy madeit ~Iear that the lack of bureaucratic andpolitical experience can be used to hisadvantage, even while critics fault him
for his inexperience:
In a maverick
departure from the code of politicians,
Duffy announced that he would forego
20 percent of his salary to help offset thelevel funding the agency is faCing. Thatamount represents nearly half of theamount Weld has proposed that MCAD
lose in the next fiscal year.
_"I haven't gotten any direct feeaback,· Duffy acknowleged "But I realizethat times are tough, and everyone's got
to do a little belt-tightening:
Duffy fonnally assumed the positionof MCAD commissioner
and chair,salaried at 20 percent below the appro-.

-priated $58,000, on March 14 at a galaswearing-in
ceremony held in the
Massachusetts Statehouse.

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RACISM

C '.. ,GES,RESIGNATIONSFLY AT NATIONALAIDS GROUP. . .

WASHINGTON-Citing racism on
the parts of the executive director andother board members, five AfricanAmerican members of the board of
directors of the National Association of
People with AIDS, or NAPWA,signed a"statement of collective resignation· on
Feb. 18.
But NAPWA rejected their resignation and requested individual resignations instead-which
have, in fact,
come from four of the five. To complicate matters further, the executive director, Michael Merdian claims that threeof those who signed the resignation did
not actually have positions to resign, aclaim Vice President Bartholomew.
Casimir challenges.
,"If this infighting is put out on anational level, it's going to set back AIDSa long way, n Merdian said. Casimir
believes that the problems stem fr9m
personality conflicts, and not from race.
In the statement, three former
regional board members, one alternative
board member and the treasurer, claimthat the executive director withheldfinancial statemen~ regarding programs
aimed at people of color from the treasurer, Alexander Robinson, who is Black.
"[Merdian] was able to stonewall
me ....As treasurer, I interpreted [fmancial
oversight] as my role,· Robinson said
But Merdian asserts that he neverblocked Robinson from accessing materials. "It is not my responsibility to photocopy grant proposals for Alexander
when he lives two blocks from the,office,· he charged''There are more personality ronflicts,,

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trials that demands
action. Even the federal Food and Drug
Administratien
reportedly called anearly versien ef the trial "unethical." What
divides AIDS activists is just what type ef
actien to.take,At the eleventh NIH-spensered
AIDS Clinical Trials Greup, er AcTG,
Meetit;lg, #076 (the gevernment numbers
its AIDS clinical trials) served to. highlight
ene rift currently affecting AIDS activists
everywhere, and ACf UP/NY in particular: Sheuld AIDS activists jein the gevernment at the metapherical table ef de.cisien-makers?
In theory, #076 was designed to. test
AZT in 748 pregnant wemen. The "scientific" hypothesis is that AZT will decre-dSe
the chance ef the fetus beceming HIVinfected. In reality, the scientists invelved
ignered two. previeus trials (ACfG #019
and ACTG #082). in which AZT was
shewn to. have no. effect en transmissien
to. the fetus but to. negatively affect boththe fetus and pregnant wemen. In reality,#076 seems designed to. maintain Burre~ghs Wellceme's cerner en the AIDS
drug market.
Like the Tuskeegee syphilis trials, in
which
infected Mrican-American men•
were purposefully net treated in erder to.
study exactly hew slewly they died andexactly which parts ef their bodies thedisease ravaged, #076 is unnecessary
and unethical .
It is unnecessary, AIDS-activistcritics
charge, because previeus trials haveshewn AZT to. have no. effect en prenataltransmission, and because fewer than 30
percent ef babies born to. HN-infected
wemen are HIV-positive themselves,
It is unethical, they charge further,
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because trials have shewn that AZT
increased the risk ef vaginal turners infemale mice; because wemen will be
required to. bear any fmancial cests ef
hespitalizatien ef the baby after birth(and the NIH has admitted that malfermatiens in fetuses ceuld eccur); andbecause wemen will be infermed neither
ef the risks to them and to. the fetus nor
ef the fact that many of their babies
weuld be born HIV-negative anyway.
There is virtual unanimity among
AIDS activists that #076 sheuld net begin
as it is currently designed and thatwemen must be infermed ef the risks
and facts. Similarly, mest AIDS activists
agree that AZT is probably not the best
way to. prevent prenatal transmissien.
They point to. recent European studies inwhich the percentage ef HIV-pesitive
babies dreps to enly 15 percent whenHIV-infected wemen are given betterprenatal care.
AIDS activists do disagree, hewever,
over whether to. implement their timehenered tactic ef direct actien against#076. The players in the cenflict include

members ef ACf UP's Wemen's and latino. Caucuses frem Bosten, Los Angeles
and New Yerk, who. intenupted a planning meeting en #076; members ef ACf
UP's Treatment and Data Committee; andmembers ef the Community Constituency
Group, er CCG. They are advocates fer
HIV-affected cemmunities
includingmembers
ef ACT UP-who.
were
appointed as full members to. the ACfG
committees in Nevember (after a year ef
ACf UP direct actien) and have asked
ACf UP net to. protest at ACfG meetings.
The ether players are, ef ceurse, the gevernment scientists who. defend the trial.
I flew to. DC to. report en any new
AIDS develepments but feund it neccessary to. speak eut against this unethicaltrial. I began trying to. maintain S9me
ebjectivity, but the mere I heard, theangrier I became, and I ended up jeining
the protests.
On Sunday, March 10, the first ef
four days ef the ACfG meetings, roughly..'".
25 members ef ACf UP interrupted :an#076 team werking meeting by' reading
aleud a statement calling #076 "badPOINT OF ORDER-Members of ACT UP/NY's People of Color Caucus reading theirstatement March 18..

science and unethical." During the reading, Daniel Hoth, director of the AIDS
Division at the National Institutes forAllergy and Infectious Diseases, whooversees the ACfG, told those reading tostop, or he would adjourn the meeting.
When they continued reading, he did
indeed end the meeting. Dr. Janet"
Mitchell, a researcher at Harlem Hospital,
where #076 will begin, began screamingat the mostly white activists, "You are
racist," and two Black members and one
latino member of the CCG joined in.
Mayhem ensued. Two latino men,
one a member of the CCG and one fromACT UP, each accused the other ofracism; the same Latino CCG member
and a Native American man in ACf UP
got into a shoving match, And numerous
people screamed at each other. Meanwhile, the government scientists quietly
slipped out of the room.
The next day, a group of people ofcolor on the CCG put out a statement
calling ACf UP "racist" and "paternalistic," because #076 affects women ofcolor, while ACf UP is "primarily representative of white gay men and women," 'and because women of color on the
CCG were prevented by ACf UP from"scientific discussion." White members of
the CCG and of ACf UP's Treatment andData Committee (all white men, except
for one Asian man and one white
woman) agreed, releasing their own
statement condemning the intenuption as"racist" and "censorship."
Demonstrators countered by accusing the ACf UP men of tIying to "ingratiate" themselves with the CCG power
bloc and then produced a letter from Life
Force (an activist and education group of
HIV-infected women, mostly latina andAfrican-American) stating support of theaction and denouncing the accusations ofracism. Life Force claimed that #076 andits ·scientists constituted the real source of"patelTJaiism"and "racism."..' Meanwhile, the government scien-'tists put out a statement defending#076 and quietly continued their planning meetings.
In closed-door
confrontations,demonstrators called the ACf UP'men
who sit on the government panel sellouts, And a member of ACf UP/NY's
Treatment and Data Committee who alsosits on the CCG accused ACf UP womenof threatening to undermine a "newmodel of activism which is sweeping thecountIy." The CCG also appeared divid-

ed, as a Puerto Rican doctor' on the CCG
asserted that •he was excluded from the
CCG people-of-color statement because
he disagreed with them.
Meanwhile, the government scientists uneventfully conducted two further
meetings. At a private meeting with theprincipal investigator, CCG members arereportedtp,Pave sided with the government outbf.fuistration with the ACf UP
tactics. later,at the second #076 planningmeeting-which
demonstrators did notinterrupt-most CCG members and ACf
UP members were absent. There, thegovernment scientists discussed thefastest way to enroll women in the trial.
Then the #076 disruption moved
center stage .in ACf UPs nationwide,
sparking debate between those who
believe in challenging government andthose who believe in negotiating. During
the floor debate in New York last week,
the people-of-color caucus read a statement leveling a further charge of sexism
against the ACf UP men who advocatedsitting at the table with the government
and who criticized the demonstration.
But the '''new model of activism," which
Treatment and Data members advocate,is a relatively recent opportunity AIDS
activists have had to join directly in governmental debate.
The past eight months have witnessed an activist move from the street
to the negotiating rooms and a supposed
direct influence on the design and implementation of programs. One of those
programs is the representation of people
with AIDS at the AIDS Clinical Trial
Group-throughthe creation of theCommunity Constituency Group.
But many in ACf UP say that the
CCG does not represent their concerns
because it refused to let ACf UP speakat a plenary during November's ACfG
meetings, and' because its members havenot pursued #076 and other trials overwhich activists have expressed concern.
Infighting in ACf UP over whether
to sit at the table with government, as
well as over just who sits at the tableand just whom they represent, has been
plaguing ACf UP/NY since the CCG
was formed.
Meanwhile, government scientists
continue their plans for #076. T
Carrie Wofford is OutWeek s national CO"esporuient.

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~retelEhrlich, Our PrivateLives
Almost every evening, I wake up
from a nap and look outside my window
on Avenue C to observe what is there:
Pigeons strutting on the opposite roof;
fights or deals going on in front of the,bodega below; the souped-up cars thatrev their motors at the stoplight. It is myfavorite time of day because things arewinding down a bit, and I am in thatbetween dream and wakefulness,statewhen I feel happiest.· The light is turning,and I am allowing thoughts to slowly
surface easily without trying to give themfonn, just letting them flow to observe
whatever comes. Call it the slowed-down
state, semi-consciousness, drifting. I p,ut apremium on it.
Lately, I've been talking about thishabit of napping to explain what's missing from New York life and especially,
our .lives-gay and lesbian lives. Call it
WlStructured time----as opposed to structured time, which is the way we usually
do things, cramming in meeting after
meeting until it becomes hard to thinkand even harder to analyze our actions.
We rarely take the time just to lob ideas
around, to talk about what we're feelingwithout having to come up with answers
or even a goaL As activists, we're so
focused on "doing something" that we've
become experts at creating agendas andslaves to completing them. We forget
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time to create. We lose sight of what it is
we are trying to change, including ourselves. While we need direct action andprotest, we also need the opportunity toconsider our actions.
I bring this up because it's 1991, andthe question of liberation and socialchange is very much on my mind,
though it seems so narrowly defined in
the gay and lesbian community as an"is5ue," rather than the way we live out
our values and what kinds of barriers weare actually "breaking down." Aside fromsexuality and gender, how personally liberated are we as American gay men andlesbians? In ourselves and with eachother? How fearful do we remain? How
conformist? How do we participate in the
power structure and capitalisrIi What are
we doing in our community to address
racism and class bias? Who do you know
who lives what would be called a "politically radical lifestyle"? What does thateven mean nowadays?
We're in a period of history that,while repressive, offers its own opportunities for change. We must closely examine this question of what a truly pr0gressive gay and lesbian community would
look like. It would mean focusing togeth- ,er on collective needs as opposed to individual needs. It would mean questioning
the way most of us live now, in our separate apartments rather than more communally, eating out instead of cooking
together, etc. It would mean an alternative to the consurperisrn and '-_,"
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as it does the rest of American culture.
Looking at the "big picture," which
few of us need to be educated about,what we have before us is sobering andoverwhelming. We have ative president who's hugely popular. Our
economy, based heavily on military production, is in shambles. The cuts in city
funding we are seeing are unbelievable:
arts, education, public transportation,
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about maybe a dozen teachers per publicschool. What will that do to the literacy
rate in America? About AIDS, we know
all there is to know-4hat it's been hell,
and it's only getting worse. Racism seems
to be epidemic (instead of just endemic);
housing and homelessness are almost
impossible to discuss. And to top it alloff, we have the war, which is only over
if you have your head in the sand.
It's not surprising that, given the"new world order," one either feels
numb, frightened or very depressed.
Newsweek calls it the "Age of Anxiety,"
and, for most people, it probably will be.
On the other hand, I don't want it to bethat way for me, and I think one way tochallenge that is to look to ourselves as
the reservoir for change, to become thealternative, as it were, to try to get moreof what we need from each other andour community.
The war is a goOd examt>Iefor me,
because my reaction was to be so pissed
off that I didn't want to participate in ·it. I
decided not to avoid the war (I did
protest, march, etc.), but consciously put
my energy into changing what I. might
within my own community. As the first
US bombs were dropping, I was at theregular Wednesday meeting of ACf UP
Treatment and Data Committee at the
Lesbian and Gay Services Center on 13thStreet. I remember feeling relief that there
were other people like me who weren't•
willing to see their energy completely
diverted to something over which we
had so little control or say.
At the same time, I realized how little discussion takes place at most meetings I attend. I mean the kind of rambling, open-exchange::'of-ideas
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think that we're deftning the terms of thebattle, but are we? Are we really?
We need to start talking and listening to one another again, to fmd out who
we think we are, as individuals, ~as acommunity, and how we've been tryihg
to do what we've been trying to do. We
need to ftnd ways and resources thatencourage a slowed-dO'wn pace, that let
us, gO'through our, feelings. It's from thisposition that the real agendas develop:, I tell people that in the '90s I'm
becoming a hippie, and that's orny in 'parta joke. I look out my windQW and thibk
about all Qf us living in cities that are
falling apart. I feel so frustrate<;!thatwe.
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Pyrnnud which becQme all gay but hiketheir door CQveralmost
each week. 1'hat's,
private enterprise, which takes us 'back to
the questiQn Qf individual-vs.~collective
needs, but if we dQn't like the system, we
care r.·Qf Qur
have to change it. Let's take.
Qwn.As fQr the Pyramid and. other joints,
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They StoodOn March 15,
you couldn't miss. the news. "Color It ~"LavenderandGreen," proclaimed
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Will March," announced the, paper ofrecord on p'clgeB1 (Metropolitan Section).
For all the dissension in our community over the compromise that, allowed
the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization,
or ILGO, to march in the St. Patrick's Day
parade, there is no' question that theentire conflict was
turned into a tremen,dous lesbiari and gay PRcoup.
Just, what happened
behind the.~enesto,jAake
what looked like a no.,', - -.
... ')\rin" situation become a victory? Who~ong our straight .-"friends" was willing,~·f~stand up for our community and betaunted?
'Let's take a lookc·l,·First, some background:
Last Octo.~ .
''Der, ILGO applied to the organizers of
New· York's St. Patrick's Oa:y parade, the""'Ancient Order of Hibernians, The Hiber-'•riiansacknowledged
ILGO's request but
did not issue an invitation to march. As·the parade date neared, ILGO pressed
theit request, only to be told that they·would not be allowed to march this year.
The story might have died there. But
Jqe 1IIicholson, an openly gay reporterfrom the New York Post, who received a .
·tip from gay activist Andy Humm, learnedof the exclusion and penned a shortpiece for that paper. The Hibernians told
Nicholson that ILGO had been placed ona waiting list necessitated by a supposed
city restriction on the length of theparade, but gay activists didn't buy it. The
story wasn't long, but it was hot. "St.
Paddy's.Day Gay Furor," screamed
the,Post cover on March 7.
That headline ignited a firestorm of
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would be happy to be on the waiting list
if such a list existed. When the Mayor
asked his office for the Lesbian and Gay
Community ~d his office for European
Affairs to try to resolve the dispute, ll.GO
quickly caught on to the fact that the socalled waiting list constituted a permanent limbo for groups not favored by·parade organizers: discrimination pureand simple. .
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about the parade fuss?
,"I'm glad I'm not the
mayor." We're glad
you're not theOn March 7, Manhattan Councilmen
Ronnie Eldridge and Bob Dryfoos andCouncilwoman
C. Virginia Fields allannounced that they would not march if
ll..GO didQ't. Queens Councilman Walter
McCaffrey, an opponent of the Gay
Rights Bill, said that he intended tomarch with us or without us, while thesleepy Carol Greitzer refused to take astand one way or the other. Surprisingly,
Council Speaker Peter Vallone, an ardent
opponent of the city's gay ,rights bill, toldme, in front of Joe Nicholson, that hewould not march if it was determinedthat the Hibernians were discriminating
against gays. However, he said nothingof discrimination to Newsday, which
reporteq on March 14 that "Speaker Vallone will lead a COuncil contingent here
but hopes the fuss is settled fl1'St."
Joe Hynes, the Irish district attorney .
from Brooklyn, said that he'd boycott
the parade, thus taking a bold stand on
behalf of lesbians and gays. On Tuesday, March 12, while speaking at the ,Lesbian and Gay Community Services
Center, City Comptroller EI~zabCth~oltzman announced her intent to. boycptt if
ILGO couldn't march. The riext' day,COuncil President Anillew Stem issued apress statement saying that fie would
participate in the parade only if ILGO
could and wrote a letter to the ,Parade
Committee urging them to rev;e~ theirdecision. The mayor did not commit to
not marching and pressed for further
negotiations. The big surprise was Manhattan
BoroughPresident
Ruth
Messinger, would not state her intention
and took no position publicly.
Oil the state level, Senators Manfred ,Ohrenstein (Senate Minority Leader) andFranz Leichter both added their names tothe list of potential boycotters. The governor's was an entirely different story.
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mayor too, Ed.

True .Colors
At first, the mayor came up with an
artful compromise. He offered to extend
the length of the parade So that all thegroups on the waiting list, could be
included. That's when the Hibernians
balked and showed the true colors ofbigotry. They refused the compromiseand said that the Irish lesbians and gays
(as well as a group of wheelchair-boundkids who were also excluded) could
march only if they were invited to join agroup already in the parade--and then
only if they did not carty their own identifying banners.
ILGO got their Irish up, refused tomarch without their banner and called
upon the city's politicians to boycott
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On March 12, Cuomo made this .
outrageousstatemer:lt
throughaspokesperson:"I certainly plan to[march), and now it looks like I may bemarching with our friend Steve McDon.cald, a great law-enforcement hero, and "the Irish-American disabled children."Not a word about ILGO's exclusion! He
completely ignored us!
Outraged, I called VIrginia Apuzzo,
Cuomo's deputy executive director of the
New York State Consumer Protection
Board and the highest-ranking openly
lesbian in h~ administration. I was surethat she would have spoken to Cuomo
about the parade controversy, and I
wanted to know what he'd said. Apparently, she hadn't spoken to him though,because she asked this reporter why I
would call her on this matter andreferred me to Lance Ringel, the governor's official liaison to the lesbian andgay community.
Atftrst, Ringel had no explanation
for the governor's lack of comment on
the ILGO controversy. He did call me
back'on the night of March 13 to tell methat Cuomo was announcing that everyone should be able to march, including
lesbians and gay men. But Cuomo continued to skirt the issue of whether hewould march if we were not included.
On the day of the march, in fact, the governor did not acknowledge our presence,
To gain a broader political perspective on this issue, this reporter conductt"da poll of prospective candidates for theuS Senate. The results were mixed. BothNew York State Attorney General Robert
Abrams and New York City Commissioner of Consumer Affairs Mark Green statedemphatically that they would boycott theparade if ILGO could not march. Long
Island Congressman Robert Mrazek said
through a spokesperson that he was not'invited to march and never had any
intentionof attending. Former Queens,
Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro did
ngt return my calls.
Of course, Ed Koch announced that
he would be marching. Old Eddie,.a selfproclaimed
heterosexual, loves sucking,
up to the Cardinal. Koch's observation
about the parade fuss? "I'm glad I'm not
the mayor." We're glad you're not the
mayor too, Ed.
Meanwhile, amid all the politicalposturing, ILGO refused to pursue theredress available to them. They rejected
an offer of help from Lambda Legal
Defense to go to court and fight for an
injunction. They declined to file a discrimination complaint with the New York
City Commission on Human Rights,
despite the urging of openly gay commissioner Andy Humm to do so.
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in NYU Medical Center. Born on May
1960, Joe was raised on Long Island's South
Shore, where he began writing mainstream
pop songs at age 9. He launched his performing career while attending Five Towns
College and, in a male-female duet, wassoon being booked in Long Island and Manhattan bars. Over the years, especially after
moving to Hell's Kitchen, Joe found his own
voice; to be true to himself, he drifted awayfrom composing synthetic "hit songs" andtook a more meaningful direction-writing
songs that portrayed gay feelings and lives
in a positive way. With his melodic flair, Joe
crafted a repertoire of solid materiai-ranging from romantic fantasy ballads ("G reat
Expectations of a Knighf') to quirky, humorous tunes ("He Tried to Be an Aardvark") tomoving, timely pieces ("Coming Out" and"With au r Voices").
As an openly gay singer, Joe appeared2:

on national and local cable TV and radio andperfonned concerts (solo and with others) at
New York area nightclubs and universities. He.also was guest artist at benefits for ACT UP,
the PWA Coalition, the New York Memorial
Quilt and the Lesbian and Gay Community
Services Center.
Joe was unable to complete an independently produced cassette of his music, but
one of his songs has received, and will continue to receive, media attention. When working as a volunteer for GMHC, Joe wasinspired by a poster with the slogan "A Rubber Is a Friend in Your Pocket." As part of theeffort to educate the public and save lives, Joewrote "Friends in My Pocket." This upbeat,catchy tune has been used on several cable
TV shows, including the soundtrack to
GMHC's "Say Yes to Safer Sex" and thesoundtrack to a Flo Kennedy Show on safer
sex; was featured in a multimedia exhibit on
AIDS at the Uddoh Gallery's Keith Haring print
retrospective; is currently being used as thesoundtrack for a condom-use campaign

shown on gay-related TV programing; andwill be published in a book on lyric writing by
Sheila Davis, a lyricist/composer.
Joe was a very close friend of mine formore than 18 years-we met on the first day
of junior high in 1972. I cannot say enoughabout the incredible courage he showed in thelast two years, during which he was subjected
to one medical horror after another, or about
the courage and love shown by Joe's family,
particularly his mother, Millie, who was
aAvays there for Joe.
Joe's funeral service, attended by manyfamily members and friends, was held on
March 6 in Seaford, his hometown. His
ashes will be scattered on the beach at
Jones Beach's Field 6. Donations made in
Joe's name to God's Love We Deliver will bemuch appreciated.
"We will not go back, take our word.!
If silence equals death, then we've got to
Our Voices," Joebe heard. "-"WithBracco (1988)-Ron A. Boudreau

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the magazine. This means that in New York you will find neither the
Gay Cable Network (GCN) nor the Gay Broadcasting System listed.
Ditto for the five other cities in which GCN is broadcast.
TV Guidus reasons for their refusal are as contrived as they
are varied. For example, TV Guide told us that they only list those,
I program services that are on the air for defined periods of time.
We pOinted out that GCN fits that criteHa. Then they said that they
do not list any networks that air on Manhattan Cable's channel 35.
So we pointed out that they list National Jewish Television, which
does broadcast on channel 35. Then they said that they only list
networks that run a variety of shows. So we sent them GCN's programing schedule, which includes a talk show, a public affairs
program and a male-films segment.
Finally they said that. the largest impediment to listing GCN
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a regular basis, broadcasts insix cities and has been written
up by the "mainstream" media.
We also demonstrated that it
airs only one hour less than
National Jewish Television,... -, which is listed.
The bottom line is that TV
Guide is ready to lie, cheat or steal in order not to list GCN or any
other gay cable station. The real impediment to obtaining this listing is, of course, anti-gay bigotry at TV Guide.
Send your postcards and letters to: Mr. Roger Youman, Editor, TV Guide, 4 Radnor Corporate Center, Radnor, PA 19088. Or,
call (215) 293-8666.

GLAAD Tidings is a program of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance
Against Defamation. For more information about the material inthis week's column, or about GLAAD, call (212) 966-1700.

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The cardinal stood on the steps of St. Patrick's surrounded by lay people, described as "friends of the cardinal"by joseph Zwilling, a spokesperson for the archdiocese. To
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diocese of Brooklyn. To the cardinal's righe were the auxiliary bishops, Sheridan and Ahearn. The cardinal's unobstructed dais provided an enviable view of the parade.
Had the cardinal looked south down Fifth Avenue when
Dinkins arrived, late as usual, he would have seen the
mayor, clad in a bright green sportcoat and carrying a shillelagh, race to the head of the ILGO contingent that had
st<;>ppedjust below St. Patrick's. The cardinal could not havemissed Dinkins throw his arms around ILGO members Anne
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A few moments later, the contingent arrived at the stepsof St. Patrick's, and Dinkins was met by a cold, unsmiling
Cardinal O'Connor who introduced Dinkins to Bishop Daily
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Ahearn with a flip of the hand.
Standing on the steps behind him, one of the cardinal's
friends gave both-thumbs-down to the ILGO members. The
cardinal had a clear view of the ILGO contingent. And once
Dinkins had turned his back to return to the avenue, the cardinal's face became a mask of displeasure, an unhappy scowl.
Many gays and lesbians view the parade as a huge victory, and Dinkins, for a change, is being steeped in communirywide praise ranging from the qualified to the effusive.
And the archdiocese, after enjoying years of influence andwarm relations with City Hall, cannot help but see that its
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stood behind the chancellor's undertaking, and it wasWestina Matthews, his own appointee to the Board ofEd, who cast the deciding vote.
But the confrontation that was paraded down
Fifth Avenue has been brewing for even langer. Former Mayor Ed Koch was a frequent visitor at St.
Patrick's, and the relationship between the outspoken
jewish Bronx native and the Catholic church's highest local
authority was celebrated for its unlikely warmth. Indeed, thetwo co-authored a book, in which, ironically, Koch outlined

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f there were any lingering douts as to the depths ofhatred felt by many straights toward queers, thenlast week's 5t. Patrick's Day parade in New York City. finally put them to rest.
Amongst the estimated 2.2 million men, women andchildren gathered to watch approximately one-quarter of amillion marchers high-step it up Fifth Avenue was a large
proportion who seemed hell-bent on turning the day ofcelebration of Irishness into a verbal shooting-gallery for
those who were Irish and queer.
There was a peculiar irony in.the fact that a good dealof the abuse directed at members of the Irish Lesbian and
Gay Organization, or ILGO, came not from their compatriots but from men and women of other nationalities, someof whom would be hard-pressed to locate Ireland on aworld map.
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screaming that the parade was a celebration of Catholicism and that the gay,group's presence was a sacrilege,
but who were themselves 'obviously only there for thebeer, would almost-have been darkly humorous, had they
not been so disturbing.
Only about 40 of ILGO's 135 members marched in
the parade. Their ranks in the parade were swollen to
about 250 by supporters, both gay and straight, including
a contingent froni ACT UP and Queer Nation.
Mayor David Dinkins compared it to a civil rights
march he remembered in Birmingham, Ala. It alsobrought to mind last year's debacles in the Bensonhurst
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Dinkins was in good company during the parade, joined
as he was by a bevy of New York's leading political lig~ts.
Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger marched withthe gay group, as did Comptroller Elizabeth Holtzman, Commissioner for Human Rights Dennis deLeon and Robert
Abrams, the state attorney general.
Once-and-future openly gay City Council candidate Tom
Duane, Commissioner of Consumer Affairs Mark Green andQueens Assemblyman Alan Hevesi and, of course, mayoral
liaison Marjorie Hill were also helping to fly the queer Irish
flag. But not even this show of support from politicos andcommunity leaders quelled the homophobic sloganeering of
the hatemongering throng.
Comments from the crowd that the gay presence was,alternately, gross, irreverent and motivated by a craving for
publicity were commonplace. Such sentiments might havebeen expected from the mouths of middle-aged, pig-ignorantCatholic fundamentalists, but coming from teenagers andfrom toddlers egged on by their hate-filled parents, they were
especially ominous.
To take only one example: Hollering, "You're gross, it's a
disgrace" a young, blond cheerleader-type, visibly recoiled andscreeched, ''Yuck!'' when a lesbian marcher refused to respondto the provocation f~om the crowd and blew her a kiss instead.
But ILGO spokesperson Anne Maguire, who had anticipated violence, said that she was surprised that the crowd's
reaction was not worse. "It was te'n times worse during theanti-bashing protest in Greenwich Village last August," sherecalled. "I was in fact surprised by the level of support fromspectators. I only looked at those people who were cheering.
I couldn't be bothered with the rest of them. I think that thepeople who stood there, in the midst of all that viciousness,and cheered us on deserve a handshake."
Maguire's lingering memory will be of those people whostood, mute, on the sidelines. "Their silence was deafening.
Maybe they were scared to show their support. Maybe they
were ambivalent. I believe that these are the people we have toreach. The others, who abused us, are beyond redemption."
The viciousness of some of the heckling will be grist to
the queer-activist mill, she continued, "if only in dismissing
any illusion that homophobia is not all-pervasive."
Marie Honan, 29, from Brooklyn, who is a member of
ILGO, agreed that the parade will bring home once and for all
110wdeep-seated is the hatred felt toward gays. "People who
may have thought that gays are always whining over nothing
will have seen with their own eyes on TV the level of homophobia. It is going to have some impact on those people who
didn't take a position."_
And Honan congratulated the gay contingent and theirsupporters for their reserve in not reacting to the crowd's
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his support for the civil rights of gay men and lesbians, andO'Connor politely dissented.
But Dinkins has spoken at St. Patrick's -Cathedral fewer
than five times since he has been mayor, and the two rarely
make appearances together. And in Dinkins' view, his political alliance with the gay community, if at times rocky, isnonetheless longstanding.
When members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash
Power, or ACf UP, led a loud demonstration outside andinside St. Patrick's in December 1990, Koch suggested thatthey go elsewhere to establish a church more to their liking,and Dinkins joined every other politican in the country, it
see,med, in denouncing the disruption. Yet when Irish gays
wanted into the parade, it was Dinkins who made it happen.
"The mayor is very committed to the inclusion of the lesbian and gay community," said Marjorie Hill, the director of
the mayor's Office for the Lesbian and Gay Community, whois credited with much of the behind-the-scenes maneuveringthat resulted in the lavender contingent on the Day of Green.
The cardinal was sent a message that, like it or .
not-and clearly he does not like it-inclusion is the policyof the Dinkins administration.
It is also the law. And at least one member of the Dinkins administration, openly gay Human Rights Commissioner
Dennis deleon, feels that the parade committee may also
hilve trampled on the municipal ordinance guaranteeing
equal treatment for gay men and lesbians that passed during
Koch's last year in office.
Deleon's office is currently conducting an investigation
into the parade committee's opposition to ILGO's presence andhas promised a lawsuit should evidence of bias be proved .
he gay odyssey into the arcana of New York IrishCatholic politics began in October of last year,'when
the organization made its application to thy Ancieµt
Order of Hibernians, the all-male fraternal group thatoversees the parade each year. ILGO sought to marchbehind its own banner. After three months o(noncommittal communication with Frank Beirne, the .
parade chair, ILGO was told in January that "due tophysical and municipal restrictions," the group could
not march.
ILGO was wait-listed, though the parade commIttee declined to produce the list that allegedly had roughly
30 groups ahead of ILGO on it.
As the parade date arrived, ILGO's exclusion received
high-profile media play, and, true to the Dinkins administration's penchant for the role of arbitrator, the mayor orderednegotiations. Marjorie Hill, whose help the Irish gays had
sought earlier; Debra Pucci, director of the mayor's Officefor European-American Affairs; and, ultimately, Bill Lynch,
deputy mayor for Intergovernmental Affairs, spearheaded
administration efforts to find a solution.
ILGO wanted to march behind its own banner, but
the Hibernians would not hear of it. The administration
proposed extending the parade by an hour, allowing all
the wait-listed groups to participate, but the Hibernians
demurred. ILGO rejected an administration solution thatwould have had them kick off an hour earlier than therest of the parade, together with any other group that•

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Messinger, who also had a role in the••negotiations.
Paul O'Dwyer, another ILGO
. spokesperson, seemed confident thatthe orgy of press activity leading up !othe parade would ensure that there
were no doubts as to the group's identity. "We're counting on you to tell people who we are,· he said wryly at aBlue Room press conference announcing the parade plan.
And while the process had beenstalled, numerous elected officials,
Bigot. di.played their lack ofgraphic talent, while ILOO'S PaulO'Dwyer marched with a friend.

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The media, which once might have ignored such a
conflict, was fixated. Following a front-page story by Joe
Nicholson in the New York Post, headlines blared from thepages of the tabloids. Columnists lined up to denounce
the bigotry inherent in the decision to nix the gay group.
Even an editorial in the Irish Echo, the city's right-wing
IriSh weekly, seemed embarrassed by the parade committee's stand.
. The Wednesday prior to the parade marked the admini~tration's most intensive series of meetings, reminiscent of
those sparked by Dinkins' clash with organized labor the
week before. Hibernians, Irish gays and administration representatives met no fewer than three times that day, but aresolution remained elusive. Speaking of the request to
march with their own banner, ILGO member Marie Honansaid, "The Hibernians said, and we reali~ed, [thatl this wasout of the question.·,<' •The ultimate solution came early Thursday morning.
fLGO agreed to march with Division 7 of the Ancient Orderof Hibernians, a subgroup with apparently more liberal leanings, or at least a lower thresh hold for embarrassment
Mayor Dinkins would be ILGO's only banner. A similar formof this proposal was among a number originall¥ put forth byamong them City Council President Andrew Stein, andCouncilmembers Robert Dryfoos, Ronnie Eldridge and C.
Virginia Fields vowed that they would not march if ILGO
was not allowed to march with its own banner, adding.weight to the considerable political pressure from City Hall.
Those officials were ultimately left to finesse theirstance: Eldridge and Fields did not march, but Dryfoos andStein joined the parade with Stein walking with Ed Koch,right up front. 'Taking a noticeably lower profile on the parade controversy was Gov. Mario Cuomo. Responding to a question at apress conference just before the parade, Cuomo said, "Iknow that the mayor is trying to resolve it. I hope that he .
can. If there is any way we can be helpful, I would bepleased to be helpful. I would be perfectly comfortablemarching myself with Irish-Americans who describe themselves as gay or lesbian, if anybody asked me to. What I
would like to see personally is everybody included.·
But when a group of wheelchair-bound children werealso denied permission to march, Cuomo, along with Dinkins and other politicians, rallied to their cause, and it waswith them that the governor marched along the green stripe
in the middle of the avenue, pausing once to kiss the
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ut the solution brokered by Dinkins was nottaken easily by ILGO members. Reports are thatwhen members not present at the negotiations
heard of the deal, they declared that their negotiators had no authority to take such action. But
with the outcome announced in front of all theworld at City Hall on Thursday morning, theseobjections were academic.
"It seemed important to us to be visible andmake a statement," said ILGO's Honan. "I wasvery torn about that decision. We seemed to have
let the Hibernians off the hook, but in the end, it was theright decision."
Nonetheless, no decision can be made in the gay andlesbian community without someone objecting, and thisone was no exception. Some felt so strongly about theissue of visibility, symbolized' by the banner, that they characterized the solution as "a sellout." Their feeling was thatILGO should have settled for nothing less than its own
contingent parading behind its own banner. But insiders
say that the eleventh-hour solution was proposed as "takeit or leave it."And when ILGO, bannerless, turned the corner onto

Fifth Avenue at 46th Street, it was clear that every last person in the crowd knew exactly who they were. In fact, thecrowd never let them forget it along the entire parade route,described by one mayoral aide as "two miles of hate."
Vicious anti-gay verbal artillery was hurled at the contingent from start to finish, and more than one can of beer.
sailed through the air toward the gay marchers and them~yor. Dinkins would later liken the experience to that ofcivil rights marchers led by Martin Luther King through thestreets of hostile Southern cities nearly 30 years ago. Less
like a banner than a lightning rod, Dinkins bore more thanhis share of the crowd's insults and wrath.
"One term, Dinkins, one term," yelled many on Fifth
Avenue. "Fag-lover" was the imaginative epithet of a second bigot. More predictable anti-gay invective was ubiquitous as this mob screamed its hatred and sheer disbelief
that the mayor would champion the cause of those so
repugnant to them at a parade they considered theirs andtheirs alone.
Activist Bill Dobbs had been among those who disapproved of the Dinkins solution. "The issue of discrimination
was lost," he commented. "ILGO was not let in as ILGO but
was shoehorned in with the mayor."cultural and political organization for Irish and Irish-American
gay men and lesbians to being "a support group for Irish lesbians and gay men.",.
Since its inception nearly a year ago, membership hasgrown to about 135, about 70 percent of whom are first-genera-by Avril McDonald
he Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization, or ILGO, the group
central to the community's latest and most public conflictwith the Catholic church, was spearheaded in New York
City last April at the instigation of a heterosexual couple.
Niall Q'Dowd, a reporter for the Irish Voice, the city's leftleaning Irish weekly, was interested in an article on AIDS andthe Irish expatriate gay community. So he set up an informal
meeting between himself, his girlfriend, Anne McMahon, andsome gay male friends, in order to knock around a few ideas.
Out of that discussion came a decision to explore thewider issue of Irish-born gay men and lesbians living in thecity. An advertisement was placed in the Irish Voice, SOliciting
input from interested parties.
A few weeks later, 20 men and three women met at a restaurant in Chelsea. The group first hit on the name Cairde, the Gaelic
word for friends, but this was quickly rejected as too ambiguous,
if not closeted, in favor of the current monicker.
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highlighted. Millions of people saw miles of homophobia,
and a Black mayor was fag-bashed.'
Some in the gay and lesbian community are concernedthat Dinkins' high-profile stance on the ILGO controversy
may allow him to rest on his laurels, leaving him an out onother issues of importance, like AIDS funding.
"Dinkins now has an excuse to say, 'Look what I did for•you," said Dobbs. A similar view was voiced by longtime
gay activist Andy Humm, who told OutWeek: "It's going to,'be very hard for people to say this mayor does not stand by
the gay and lesbian community. At least in spirit, it's hard tosay he is not on our side. n
In spirit and in fact: After Saturday's display, should
Dinkins fail to come out strong on issues such as domestic
partnership or police brutality, the community will have a
hard time accusing Dinkins of not caring.
"I think he's gotten a charge out of standing with us,'
Humm added optimistically. "That may make him want tostand with us again."
Dinkins' choice to march with the queers wasundoubtedly a heartfelt moral one. But it was a politicalone, too, and appears to have been a pretty savvy one atthat. Of all of the city's spiritual leaders, Cardinal O'Connor and his constituency are the least likely allies for Dinkins. While the mayor certainly had some support among
the city's Irish-American voters, it is probable that mosta __tion Irish, according to Anne Maguire, a spokesperson deeply
involved in arranging the group's stroll down Fifth Avenue on St.
Patrick's Day.
Maguire believes that the recent furor that saw thetabloid papers launch her group to rare heights of front-pagevisibility can only help its membership drive. "We havereceived dozens of calls from prospective members since thisall' began," she commented.
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<' Maguire went on.to assert that ILGO's membership represents only the tip of the iceberg of the queer Irish presence in
New York, bolstered by the recent wave of both legal and Illegal
immigration from Ireland's counties and cities. "We will have totry and contact more people through outreach programs," shesaid. The group also wishes to increase its links with lesbian
and gay groups back home, through exchange of newslettersand interpersonal contacts.
In addition to increasing the group's visibility, thebrouhaha over ILGO's participation in the parade will allow it tobetter focus its nascent energy, accordtng to Marie Honan, amember of the group. "Up till now we have been fairly quiet,"
she said. "The only thing we did for visibility was to march in
the Gay Pride Parade. We haven't really been following any kindof agenda and have been fairly amorphous. One result of thiscontroversy will be a tighter organization, now that we have acause to rally around. There is a lot of energy there. Our members are very enthusiastic."THE

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adopted'in the future, particularly if membership grows.
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Anyone who can trace their lineage back to the Aurd Sod
can join ILGO. Irish-born members get no special privileges.
"We don't exactly ask to see your credentials when you join,"
Joked Maguire, "but I can't see why there would be much pOint
in being involved unless you have some link with Ireland."Maguire reports that some men of other nationalities havesought to join for no reason other than that they believe Irish
men to be cute, and ILGO has been firm (albeit gOOd-natured)in its stance that the bars are the place to cruise for them.
_ ILGO does have a healthy social scene going, but the focus
at its monthly meetings is largely on business. Informal socialand political discussion is -left for the bi-weekly women's andmen's groups meetings and for the occasional get-together forceo, caint agus crack or good old Irish-style fun.
While no topic is taboo, the most tension-creating ones
are probably unique to a gathering of Irish gays. "There are certain SUbjects we cannot broach without it creating a lot of tension," said Hoan. "We can't talk about Northern Ireland or
Catholicism without someone getting up in arms. We havesome ardent Catholics in the group, while others hate thechurch." There are some Protestant members as well.
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Sonny Bono, "to Palm Springs, California.
Playground of the stars."
Since the Golden Age of Hollywood, movie stars, Las Vegas acts andeven Albert Einstein have flocked to thistiny desert paradise in the heart of the
Coachella Valley (made up of Palm
Springs, Cathedral City, Rancho Mirage,
Palm Desert and Indio). One look at amap of the area shows what kind ofcontrol that the stars have had over theregion, with roads named Gene Autrey
Trail, Bob Hope Drive, Frank Sinatra
Drive and Dinah Shore Drive. (Even Gerald Ford has a drive.) But times havechanged. Although. Bob Hope still maintains his $10-million estate high in thehills (visible day or night on your way toand from the gay bars), the area is dominated more by gay porn stars than Hollywood stars, more by self-elected queens
than' unelected presidents ...and plenty ofEuropean tourists.
The gay vacation season normally
begins around Christmastime, althoughsome people weekend in Palm Springs.year-round. The busiest times, of course,
are holiday weekends Labor Day, Easter, Memorial Day, Presidential weekend-when
there always seems to besomething gay going on. Last year for
Memorial Day weekend, a few Los
Angeles promoters rented an entire gay
resort and threw a continuous weekend
of gay debauchery, which, I'm told,
makes the Saint parties of the past seem
like a,couple of nights out at UncIe Charlie's (The word on the West Coast is that
it will be repeated again this May.) Until
then, another fun weekend party has
been planned for this Easter weekend.
Graee jones, believe it or not, is one ofthe organizers of the upcoming Easterweekend parties, one of which has been
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PWAs: the Desert Community Outreachand MIZPAH. To build, encourage andfoster a year-round community spirit
and pride, the Valley's gay and lesbian
populace
has created the Desert
Women's Association (in it's fift!l year),the Coachella Valley Men's Group andthe newly formed Coachella Vall~yCouples Organization.
There are no direct flights to Palm
Springs from New York City, but theplace is a short two-hour drive from Los
Angeles on Highway 10, throughparched mountains and hills of cacti.
Sure, you could fly into Palm Springs
Municipal Airport from LA (approximate
time, 40 minutes), but you'd miss one of
the seven kitsch wonders of the world:
the four-story fiberglass dinosaurs at the.
rest stop where Pee Wee Herman
escaped a motorcycle gang of fag-hashers

by dancing to Tequila (see Pee Woo~Big
Adventure). And you'd miss.the fields

and fields of windmills (which provide
environmentally correct energy to thearea) immortaliZed in numerous gay
porn classics.
As you enter Palm Springs, a large"Welcome to Palm Springs"' sign greets
you, and the panoramic arid landscapeof the past two hours magically turns topatches of green grass, palm trees andcondominiums, as if you stepped into Oz .
from black-and-white Kansas.
Once in Palm Springs, you must
. operate with one word in your head:relaxation. For relaxation is what thisplace is all about.
Many people from LA, San Diegoand San Francisco have winter andweekend homes in Palm Springs, but if
you can't manage to set yourself up inone, don't worry-there
are plenty ofgay guest houses, hotels and inns.
Most,,
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patch of asphalt called Warm Sands
Drive, a short distance from downtown
Palm Springs, the airport and Cathedral
City's gay bars, is a cIusterof small, private guest houses (a section I like to callthe queer cul-de-sac).
As you might
imagine, it could be a fun little area for a
mid-afternoon bike ride to get a glimpseof who's checking in and who's checking out 0 guess this is one of the reasons that most of these guest houses arewalled-in and very private).
Although I recommend lazy and, ofcourse, relaxing poolside activities likereading (books or friends), drinking (keyto this heat: Consume plenty of liquids)

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and I proudly did one crazy, lucky thriftshopping day, a chic white-sequinned
bathing cap, two pairs of ultra-comfortable, ultra-bright and ultra-stylish golf
shoes, a pair of Pucci bell bottoms and,the piece de resistance, an assortment of
cast-off personalized
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acrording to Lambda's Tom Stoddard.
"This could turn us on the path tocoercion," he predicted. "If the doctors
prevail, the patient might never be told
their serostatus. This could nullify doctorpatient confidentiality. If the result was
doctors notifying the partners of HIV
individuals of their patients' serostatus, itwould be more ominous stilL"
Stoddard also raised questions about
pre- and post-test counseling, and healthcare access for HIV-positive patients.
Columbia's Dr. Allan Rosenfield
believes that the potential for serostatus
to determine whether or not a patient istreated, and how. He said that he recommends testing because serostatus should
affect how a patient is treated, for theirown well-being, but it should be voluntary, as should [partner] notification.
'''The problem with mandatory testing is that then you have no such thing
as confidential testing. Many people will
have access to a patient's records who
don't need to know a person's serostatus. I believe that there is also a responsibility to counsel people, and that might
be impossible with mandatory testing,particularly where -the patient might notknow that they are being tested. If AIDS,
like syphilis, was curable, I would ,befully in favor of notification of names
and anonymous testing, but since it isnot, I am not."And McKee told OutWeek that "themore we know about AIDS, the more
important it is to have early tracing andtreatment, and the only way to ensure
this is by mandatory testing and notification. "We would be treating it as a disease.and not as a political football.", ·Of course, for contact-tracing to succeSsfully lead to early intervention, doctors will have to rely on a patient's willingness to name names, so there are no
guarantees that the plan will work. '"Here you have to assume
decency," said McKee. "No one knows
how this would be done. The methodol-. "ogy would be left to the doctors."
But these are precisely the sort ofpublic health decisions that doctors
should not be allowed to make, said
Stoddard. "Doctors say that AIDS is an illness that they should be able to treat asthey wish. They insinuate that gay rights
activists have skewered public reaction

to HIV. But doctors by virtue of their
medical degrees are not qualified to
speak out on public health issues."
Who else' but the doctors? asked
McKee. "Must a physician give treatment
to people who refuse to test for HIV?
How the physician treats the patient
depends on their HIV status." And, perhaps, whether' the patient receives treatment at all. ,:' "...'''There'!s always the poo;ibility that a
particular physician would opt not totreat," McKee, admitted. "1bere is no way
to force individuals. But the history of
medicine shows that doctors don't opt out
because ci a risk to themselves," he said.
The state health department is cynical about the doctors' motives in trying to
get HIV listed as a communicable diseaSe. Its spokesperson, Frances CharIton,
told OutWeek that "in bringing this suit,doctors are primarily interested in testing
patients withOUttheir knowledge for theirown information. Probably most patientswould, in fact, consent to testing if they
believed that it was in their best interest"
Charlton continued: 'There is voluntary testing funded by the department
which we believe.is adequate. There is aprocessfor voluntary notification-coun,
seling and testing and reporting of AIDS
cases under a different section of the law.
What there is not is simply the latitude for
doctors to do testing without consent"
The Court of Appeals is expected toissue its ruling on the case within a couple of months . .,.

decision to restrict demographic representation was "racially motivated"; andthat NAPWA's recent decision to merge
with LifeLink,a Washington AIDS service
organization, was "offensive" because
the group "lacks African-American representation" and because not all the groupmembers were informed of the decision.
Merdian asserts that "NAPWAand theboard have tried to be very inclusive ofpeople of color." He adds, "Before [one]was terminated, there were three Black .
members on the executive cxxnmittee, so.they had a majority ci the vote and could
swing any issue any way they wanted."
And Casimir agrees: "Precisely,"he said
"We're dealing with a lot of stress inthis disease," Casimir added. "I do wish
they'd come back." Casimir plans toaddress issues of racism at the scheduled
May meeting, when he also plans to run.
for board president. In addition to
Casimir, one other African-American
member remains on the NAPWABoard-Carrie Wofford,

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Casimir, who is also Black, said that henever faced opposition when trying toaccess information from Merdian ..
Although he himself has not resigned, hesaid that he signed the letter "in solidarity." Although he agrees with the chargesof racism, be believes that racism exists
everywhere, and he "wands] to stay [atNAPWA]to fight."
According to their statement, firstdrafted during the National Black Gay
and Lesbian Leadership Conference in
Los Aqgeles last month, the former
board members experienced "a lack ofunderstanding and sensitivity to peopleof color living with HIV disease." They
allege "racist depiction[s]" of some members in minutes of board meetings; that
their ideas were discounted; that a board

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. hough the press coverage was pretty decent,
we all know that if the St.
Patrick's Day parade debacle had involved an ethnicor racial group instead ofqueers, every newspaper
columnist and editorialpage editor in New York
would have vehemently
condemned those freaky parade organizers, the monstrous spectators and that
bastard, O'Connor.
But because it was us the perverts who were discriminated against,
we got a fair share of positive commentary from some [see "Gaydar"] and awhole lot of silence from others. And
then there were those vicious, demented,
relentless attacks from that same handfulof ghoulish nightmares, including the
Kingpin of Hate and Bile himself.
Yes, columnist Patrick Buchanan,
one of the last to toss in his opinion,
spurted out his grotesque rant onto thepages of the New York Post last
Wednesday like bloody puss eruptingfrom a canker: "The parade judges
who turned their backs on the mayor
and his friends did the right thing. All
the fashionable voices are now weighing in with shock and horror, andDave will be up for scads of 'humanrights' awards. But it was the booing
crowd, and not its purblind mayor,
that reflected, even if rudely, native
common sense and the wisdom of theages ....A visceral recoil from homosexuality is the natural reaction of ahealthy society'wishing
to preserve
itself. A prejudice against males who
engage in sodomy with one anotherrepresents a normal and natural bias infavor of sound morality."
IT'S HARD TO REFRAIN FROMTAKING THIS MAN BY THE THROATAND SQUEEZING AS HARD AS YOU
CAN WHILE YOU LOOK INTO HISUGLY, DISGUSTING
FACE ANDWATCHHISEYEBALLS
BURST
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MAYBE YOU FEEL LIKE STEPPINGON HIS FACE AND SQUISHING HISDEMENTED BRAIN UNTIL THE ROTOOZES OlIT OF IT AND ONTO TIlE
PAVEM.ENT. I HAVE NO PROBLEMWITHIMAGINING
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max. He's not like otherconservative columnists who
may weigh both sides of anissue and rationally come toa conclusion (even though
it's still a morally wrongone). No, Patrick Buchanan
is a loony. And he has apathological obssession withthis community.
EXCUSES FOR MURDER-OUR MUR. Buchanan's
attacks on queers,
DERS AT THE HANDS OF GAY-BASHduring a ten-year period in which
ERS AND THIS NEGLIGENT GOVERNwe've been struggling and fighting for
MENT. AND WE MUST DEMAND
our lives, have been unstoppable. He
THAT HE CEASE IMMEDIATELY-OR
regales in kicking us when we're down
ELSE.
and gets a sick thrill out of watching
Buchanan, who is a nationally syndius writhe in pain. And yet, like thatcated columnist, has been around for
hypocrite behind the pulpit, Buchananconstantly invokes Jesus and "Christian" morality. Ha! JESUS HAS NEVER
BEEN SO DESECRATED.
A racist to the core, Buchanan,
writing a few weeks ago about the
recently publicized police beating of aBlack motorist in LA, claimed that the"re,al racism in America" is that of"Blacks against whites" because of thehigh number of "Black-on-white"assaults in this country.
And his antisemitism is such that
the Post distanced itself from him in an
editorial last year, reminding readers thatthey do not share his views. At the time,
the paper had been flooded with calls
and·l'ettersfrom people who ~ereappalled by his blatant insults,horled at
Jews during his much-covered debaclewith The New York TimeS Abe Rbsenthal.
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In this vein, Buchanan's
quotations last week about queers, also
. seem to apply to others: "To the moral
relativists who dominate our public
discourse, the greatest of evils is prejudice, the greatest of sins, discrimination. But to discriminate is to choose.
We all discriminate in our choice of
associates and friends. And prejudicesimply means prejudgment.
Not all .
prejudgments are rooted in ignorance;quite some time. He was hurled into themost are rooted in the inherited wisworld of media years ago after retiring
dom of the race."from the Nixon Administration, where he
AAAARGH!!
was speech writer. Having helped RepubAt this point, it seems as if we alllicans slay us with inaction, he is now ajust try to ignore this .boob, thinking
tool of the religious right. Buchananthat he's completely
unable to be
champions their demented fanaticism andreached through rational means, andfollows their warped ideologies to the
feeling that there's absolutely nothing ,••we can do, save for waiting
until he retires or keels over.
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THE POSTOR ANY OTHER DAILY TO
AT LEAST COUNTERACT AND FIGHT
THIS NUT, BUCHANAN IS CAUSINGIMMENSE DAMAGE TO US AND THISMOVEMENT-AND
TO ALL PEOPLE-AND THERE IS A LOT WE CANDO TO STOP HIM.
This is an issue not of censorshipbut of commercial viability. Columnists
are commodities,
and newspapers
make decisions every day about whose
column they will and will not run,accordingto their own ethics andmorals and the community's expectations and demands. The Post sure ashell wouldn't run my column. And it isperfectly within their right not to.
Similarly, there are papers that won't
run the freak Buchanan's column. The
Pos~which has gotten considerably betterin its coverage of gays since Jerry Nachman took over, must now be vigorously
hounded to drop Buchanan and add an
openly queer columnist. We must demandthat they not sell papers on the backs oflesbians and gays. Years ago there werescores of blatantly racist bigots writing
colulTU1S.
But many of them became unacceptable. That is what should happen withPatrick Buchanan----and damn fast.
We must phone-zap the Post over
and over again and tie up their fax
machines. We must badger the editors
in person, picket the offices and pull
off some bold demonstrations
andprotests. And we have to go after
Buchanan himself. We must be willingto go as far as is demanded of us tomake this man stop affecting our lives
in'this sick way. It is absolutely abhor- .
rent and disgraceful that, in 1991, ournewspapers are running this shit ascommentary-and
we're all just sitting
around and letting it happen,
Call Post editor Jerry Nachman andeditorial page editor Eric Breindel(anotherrabid homophobe)
anddemand that Buchanan's column be discontinued. (And don't listen to theirgarbage about how they have "no control" over it. They run the fucking'place.) Then call Buchanan's
officedirectly and leave him a sweet message.
PATRICK BUCHANAN, IT'S YOURTURN NOW,YOU DERANGEDBABOON. YOU CAN GO QUICKLYAND QUIETLY, OR WE CAN MAKE IT
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s story that could" leapt from the Irish
press to the New York Post (in a frontpage article by openly gay reporter Joe
Nicholson) to an international spectacle.
Other papers and media picked up thescandal, and we made some enormous
gains. The New York Times amazed,
covering the story with thoroughly
responsible reportage and taking theobscene display of homophobic violenceat the parade to the Sunday front page.
When the issue changed from Irishvs.-homos to basic human rights, there
was no going back. Mayor Dlnklns had
to take a clear stand on gay and lesbianrights the one we have been pressuring
for since he took office. (A thank-you

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hisinevitable hate mail wouldn't hurt.)
Though horrifying to see, the hateand harassment of parade-participants
showed the world what we face everyday. And finally, the determination of
ILGO, the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization, made it clear that we are everywhere and refuse to be invisible evenamong the Irish.
Perhaps most interesting was how
columnists scrambled to take a position,facing their own discomfort and trying to
make some sense of the hatred, so suddenly and undeniably, brought to the surface.
The Bad: Ray Kerrlson weighed inat the Pest with his "Message to HomosexuaI Activists: Enough!" a piece riddledwith factual errors, faulty logic and lastditch desperation. This guy is spooked.
He began with a litany of "civil
strikes" committed by homosexual activists recently. He
said that we ,threw "Andy
Rooney for a spin." (Ithought that it was the otherway around.) He said thatgays and lesbians "imposed
their values on public-school
sex-ed courses and persuaded
a weak schools' chancellor to
distribute
free condoms."(Never mind that the Catholic
church did all it could toinfluence these same issues.)
Then he got to theparade, calling ILGO's request to march "inflammatory" because, in his version;
they wanted to ~stick it to the
Catholic church by defiantly
filing past the cathedral.'
When the group rejected anoffer by parade organiZers tomarch without identifying
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purposes, to promote their agenda." He'then went on to compare it to theparade committee inviting the KKK.
From what slime did this guy climb?
Other groups, of course, do marchwith banners, and ILGO made it veryclear that they did indeed want to celebrate Irish, heritage and their contributions to it-but they didn't want to do it
invisibly. I daresay that the Irish arewelcome to celebrate their contributions
to gay pride at our June parade if you
come, though, bring a banner, we wantto know where you are even though I
am sure that parts of our community areirresponsibly damning all Irish people
for what happened on Sunday.
Kerrison isn't going to last much
longer as a colulTll1iSunless he changes
his tune like racist columnists of days
gone by. In the near future, it will be
unacceptable to readers when a writerdescribes a homophobe like .Bierne, thechief parade OffICial,as someone who "hasvalues and the courage to defend them."
This is the man who told the Pc6t on the
day after the parade: "We don't like thebad publicity they gave the parade thisyear. Let's hope they settle down."• • •The Good: Naturally, the TimeS

the mayor framed it As a columnist of
Irish descent, she effectively took us
through Stereotypes 101, relating prejudice faced following the Irish diaspora tothat faced currently by lesbians and gays.
She reminded us of the signs thatused to read "'No Irish' because all
employers were sure the Irish were lazyand unreliable." She called all of us on
our stereotypes of the Irish as drunk, corruIX potatoeaters and then turned to theissue of the day--gay stereotypes. At theroot of the Irish problem, she says, is thefact that "they cbn't know any gay pe0ple or more accurately, don't know theyknow any-and so create the bogeyman."
Of course, this is what we havegrown to expect from Quindlen. But thisweek she is joined in ruling New Yorkby Jimmy Breslin who wrote in Newsday, "The qifdinal of the Irish Catholic
church, John O'Connor of St Patrick's
Cathedral shares the blame. He simply
didn't do enough. Because of whatturned into a profoundly disgusting day,the St. Patrick's Day parade should be
abolished, or changed ...This sort of Irish
have had their day in this city anyway.
They don't live or vote here and they
don't like it here." No excuses. No hemming and hawing.

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did a great piece on how more fags and dykes are winning elections ..•Newsweek trend-pieced Deee-lite and C+C Music Factory (hOWlate?),saying that they glorify their roots in New York's queer underground.
Lady Miss Kie "looks most like a woman impersonating a drag queen" ..••• •In •many ways it isAnna Quindlen saw the issue for what
it was: stereotyping and prejudice, just as

And spys response to a letter complaining about their use of "obscenities and vulgar slang" was "Ah, go fuck yourself."-M.G.

. The Confused:easy to take on writers like Kerrison andQuindlen because they say what theymean, and you know where you standwith them. Much harder are the columnists
who know what is right, but who just
can't get over themselves to give it
tongue. The tug of a homophobic upbringing and Mother Ireland is just too
strong. But the rampant harassment at
the parade made it clear that the generalpublic they write for lives in a world
other than their rarified and cultured
media circle. They would do well totake note.
These columnists, like Jim Dwyer
in Newsday and Pete Hamill in thePost, swathed the hatred of their readers with feel-good anecdotes. They want
us to believe that the hateful, violent
people we saw in the street last Saturday
are actually bumbling but incredibly
stubborn, leprechaun-like creatures whomean well but don't know any better.
(Just remember these "creatures" run thepolice department).Dwyer wrote about the parade
twice and had trouble both times. On
the one hand, he recognized that ILGO
clearly should be in the parade, but qejust couldn't admit that they were being
discriminated against in the same waythat Jews, Irish and people of color havebeen over the years..,·..
To him, the parade committee is notbigoted but thick-headed and determined (in that adorable Irish way). An
odd quote from an lrisb Voice columnist discussed the Irish everyman: "He'sworking on different brain patterns. It's anon<ompiiance with social norms-he's
wrongly dressed, his boots are too big,and his appearance can confuse the reality of those obselVing him. Thick' can bea demeaning term ...or it can mean he's
very determined." Sounds pretty queer to .
me, and a lot like someone who should
understand discrimination.
In his second column, the day after. the parade, Dwyer detailed the crowd's
vicious taunts and hateful actions, but hejust couldn't come out• and condemn
what happened as obscene. He didn't
go so far as to damn the hecklers as hedid the protesters at St. Pat's last year.
In fact, he back-handedly blamed
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life when you realize that being
bill is going to be pretty high thissurroundedby pallid drugmonth, considering all the damage
crazed 17-year-old sex maniacs
our friends WTeakedon the washer.
who think that the primary colLiz: That's what happens
ors begin and end with metallic
when a bunch of gay men havewatched too many reruns of The
fuschia, chartreuse and ma8en~
ta was not what your parentS
Brady Bunch and want to see if
had in mind when they said "getthey, too, can flood Alice's rooma life." Whatever glamour you
with suds. It is now a proven scionce found in this self-centered,entific fact-all you get is really':...:;.p..
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pooed out of your hair, In frushave no reason to fear him.
tration, you scream, "Where do:Liz: Yes, you do. You were
all the normal, real people go?"and head out hoping to findstanding right next to me when hesomeone who talks about anysaid, "When someone messes with, J
thing but the party they are, me, Idestroy them."
Sydney:
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throwing next week.
VINCENT DOES HIS lAUNDRY AT SHAMPOO
I hope those laundry machines
But of course, you get there
aren't too close to his heart.
and realize that normal, real people are just as sex-crazed andliz: This is too ridiculous--dlere has to be a better way.
drug-abusing as the 17-year-olds, it'sjust that they're not wearing
three dresses and a flower pot on their bead. And that tbfry are as
Sydney: Well, how about the Testosteroom? ,..
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celebrity-crazed among their own circles as club /and is with
Liz: Now, that's closer to my idea of a party-too
baditself.Mulling over these issues, Liz arzd Sydney sit amidst a washthere aren't any girls. Guys can go out almost eyery~night of.theweek and find a legitirrJate nightclub with a backr09m.to satisfy
er-and-dryer se~ fully functional, with a dozen other people attheir needs.'
Shampoo, the Tuesday night jete at Limelight.
.Sydney: Well, the closest thing to that for lesbians is the'
LIZ: I think this trend toward "realism" in night life has Clit Club-where I heard that the Leather Love Party featured a'.real S/M scene.
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gotten out of hand-first the Outlaw Party, now this.
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liz: Or the DARE2 benefit that had erotic photos and lots·
you're complaining about the two-block 'subway ride we had toof girls talking about sex. They had a really great turnout.
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endure at the Outlaw Party.
Sydney: Stop thinking with your libido.
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only two people who paid for tokens irked
Sydney: I wouldn't be surprised if you
me some. But the really unendurable part was
opened a backroom in your bedroom.
the crowd on the platfonn before someone
Liz: I don't have one. I'll tell you though,the Bank has the best basement for that sort
had the bright idea to actually get on the train.
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die among burnt feathers.
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Sydney: And then it would have • turned
cops for some dumb violation like too many
into a barbecue. No, the only part I hated waslightbulbs or something. .
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The
openingparty
was·when we were trapped at the Third Avenue
super-though
I wouldn't have called it a,stop because someone pulled the cord.
"mixed" night. I've seen more straight peoLiz: Jesus, four ambulances and 12..
ple at Crazy Nanny's. If the opening is any
police cars-theyshould send the bill toindication-it'sworth the wait.
Limelight.
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ob is a familiar face at the Tunnel Bar, a queer watering

R hole in Manhattan's East Village. But Rob's never seen the•inside of the bar, a rough-hewn wooden decor resembling a
mining-town saloon. He commands the slab of sidewalk outside,
hitting up patrons for loose change.
Rob is the Tunnel Bar's resident panhandler.
He gives his age as 24. His puffy face has a perpetually
bewildered look, as if he'd been slapped silly as a child. A filmof dirt is tattooed on his fair, freckled skin. Tonight, under a cold,
light rain, Rob wears a blue trenchcoat, a blue hooded jacket,
white sneakers and a striped train-conductor's hat that reads
Strasburg Railroad. His entire wardrobe, he says, has been
begged, borrowed or stolen.
His hard-luck story has noticeable gaps, but Rob tells it simply, without overdramatizing. -A native New Yorker, he fell out
with his family and fell in with a charity scam that landed his
bosses in jail for racketeering. The IRS nailed him for back taxes,
and his roommates stuck him with the rent on their roomy SoHoloft. He lost the place. After being busted for selling weed, Robdecided that he'd better find a new means to income. Panhandling "has been keeping me alive ever since."
A year ago, he wandered over to the southeast corner ofSeventhStreetand First Avenue.
This was virginterritory-noOOdy else seemed to be staked here. When he told
his cronies of his good luck, they scoffed: None of them would
be caught hustling coins near a gay bar. "I don't care," he says,
shrugging. "I'm not running for mayor." Sexual orientation is theleast of his concerns: "I see a dollar sign over every head." •Soon, Rob vyas a ftxture outside of the place. Regulars
throw him a few coins or a token, In about four hours, he collects about $40 in bills and change. Friday and Saturday
evenings, he says, rake in the most. Rainy nights are a total loss,
because it's impossible to make eye-contact as
people rush by: The psychology of begging
dictates that passersby appreciate a witty word
and a grin before you put the bite on them "Ichecked around with other panhandlers:
You're more likely to get money if you givethem a smile," Rob says, "They don't like to
see you frowning." Eventually, the management of the Tunnel came to accept their unofficial doorman. One evening toward closing
time, after Rob had been there for a month, abartender popped his head outside and said
with a grin, "OK, what are you drinking?" Robordered a ruin and coke.
One patron, "a nice-looking guy with agoatee," lives across the street from the bar.
After hearing Rob's pitch night after night, hefmally said, "OK, I'll give you some change, but
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you can't ask me ever again." He went home and returned a few
minutes later, lugging a bucket nearly topped off with quarters---$129 in total. Most people aren't so generous. "You getyour assholes too," Rob says without malice. One guy responded to the charity pitch with a British coin, sneering, "Fuck you, I
don't give bums money." Ten minutes later, a man in flashy garb
alighted from a cab. Rob hit him up too. In an English accent,the man said that he'd be glad to accommodate him, but only if
Rob would escort him through New York's mean streets to thenearest cash µlachine. For playing bodyguard, he was given fivecrisp $20 bills. A week later, an Asian man blew off Rob byhanding him a Chinese half-yen. "I don't give you guys change,"
he explained. "You're white-rc)U look too good." Rob told him
the coin would bring him good luck. Ten minutes passed, and aJapanese man walked into Rob's pleading eyes. He peeled off a$50 bill.
Occasionally, a patron will tell Rob that he can make a night's
wages for relatively effortless work. One guy offered him $50 andwaved the bill under his nose. Rob stammered that he's straight,
has a girlfriend (a topless dancer, whom he says, is pretty) andisn't attracted to men but respects the guy for who he was. Satisfied with the open-minded answer, the man gave him $20.
How do gay men differ from every other Manhattanite hit
up for money each day? "They talk to you more. They ask more,.
questions," Rob says. "I've communicated with some.ofthe ~pie more so at this bar than at any other place." ;Oileguy
called upon Rob for some street-smart advice. He'd been salivating over a fellow patron but was sweating bullets about'the right
opening line. Rob suggested that he offer a drink and then movein for the kill. "I don't know if he likes me," the guy stammered.
Rob responded, ''Why don't you just let him know that you likehim?" An hour later, the guy came out of the bar with a triumphant look on his face and a stud on his
arm. Each of them handed Rob a dollar
before jumping into a cab.
The story of the genial beggar strains
when you hear from the staff inside. Bartender Pierre, who's been here six months,
grimaces at the mention of Rob. 'We get complaints from people all the time. He doesn't
just ask customers for change he harasses
them." Pierre points out that Rob doesn't
seem to be homeless: He always wears clean
clothes and is fresWy shaven. "He gets bentout of shape when people make gestures orsexual advances. He does get upset if peoplesuggest that he is gay. He just pisses them off,
so they try to piss him off." Jody had worked'here since October. Questions about Rob are-n e r
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by Maria Maggenti"1 wish 1 could drive a motorcycle•on stage, take off my cape and cap
and get up to do a solo," laughs
Toronto-based
chante.use
MaggieMoore, "but the Duplex isn't ,bigenough for that."
Her resume reads "Miss Maggie

Moore: Singer/Songwriter/ Actress/Motorcyclist," and her repertoire dabbles ineverything from Vicki Lawrence to thePartridge Family to original material. A
known club and cabaret performer inToronto and a fIxture at gay and lesbian
benefits in Canada, Miss Moore modest1y describes her act as "a piano and aperson onstage." But it is more likecabaret with a peppermint twist.· Playing the vampiest vamp- and the campiest camp, Moore winks at the audiencethroughout, allowing her clear, beautiful
voice to tell the real story. She counts
among her influences "anyone who wasa gun gal in the '4Os, and anyone from,"56 OUTWEEK April 3, 1991..

•the '408 and the 70s combined, which
to me, seems like the '90s."
This month, she dons her singer's
hat (or is it a long slinky dress?) andglides through a campy, torchy
evening of original and well-known
hits at the Duplex. For an evening ofstartling new talent, check out Maggie
Moore. If she's this hot onstage, we
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During my adolescence, my bestfriend, Jeff, and I would periodicallyifventure to New York, catch a Broadway show and explore some of Manhattan's classier nightclubs. Most of
thej!acts we saw melded together in
my: mind over time. But one evening,
we were able to secure last-minuteres.ervations for the then-current rage,
the· musical-comedy group Gotham,
and although I cannot now recall
Gotham's entire show, I remember
being struck by their adroit blend of
campy comedy, harmonic renderingsand skillful timing. The trio's (Gary
Herb, David McDaniel and MichaelPace) joie de' vivre captured the Pte~
dominantly gay audience.
Fast fOlWardto 1991 when, following a lengthy performing
hiatus,Gotham has returned with a brand-new
show entitled Top Banana. The passing years have been relatively kind to
the group, and if they are paunchier~

GAY CABAu.EROS-Gotham~ Triothan I remember, they still serve up aunique blend of comic schtick.
The mind habitually plays funny
tricks, and if Gotham failed to excite
me again, it is not due to their lack ofverve. Unfortunately,
they seemtrapped in a time warp from which
they cannot escape. Unlike Funny
Gay Males, whose comic routines
derive from a current gay senSibility,
Gotham takes a non-nostalgic backward glance. Imagine watching The
Boys in tbe Band and realizing ,that
your life bears little or no resemblance to Mart
Crowley's birthday
celebrants.
The
same holds true
for, Gotham. These
guys are no longer•

part of the gay vanguard, nor have they
adapted their talents to today's moresophisticated audiences.
Top Banana is Gotham's attempt toresurrect the clowns of yesteryear, albeit
tinged with wisecracks and easily decipherable double entendres. Donningbrightly colored costumes, the trio
make their way throµgh a similarly
clo~ny series of songs and sketches.
They parallel "Be a Clown" with"Make 'Em Laugh," then swing into
their own maladroit, lyrical version of"That's Entertainment."
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merely to showcase one member;sspecific . talent,
usuallyDavid"
McDaniel's throaty baritone. Interspersed are leaden routines and jokes
concerning dildos, Saddam Hussein
and a tasteless comparison between
lesbians and elephants,
The' primary, question raised bythis brief 50-minute act is, How can.'

Gotham succeed in today's. environment? Surely, generational differences
abound, but age should never deter
one's enjoyment. I wanted to enjoy
this show-after all, how many gay
caballeros are there in 'New York City?
My multiple reservations stem fromeither a renewed sense of consciousness or a change in my musical tastes.
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religious and spirituai, with an ascetic
intellect reminiscentof stories from Livesof the Saints. It is not surprising,then, that Brown's latest book, TbeChildren's Crusade, which is being
released from Seal Press this month,uses the Crusades as a metaphor forthe dark world of childhood.
The book tells a variety of tales,
andeach
explicates
Brown's
provocative vision in which innocence is frequently betrayed andthere are few happy
endings.
Brown's work has been widely published and well received in Britain,
which was her home for three years
and where she is perceived as a serious feminist writer with a lesbian"edge" to her work. Her books havebeen reviewed in the Times Literary. Supplement-one of the world's mostprestigious critical venues-aswell
as weekly magazines and dailies.
Tbe Children's Crusade is the second work that Seal has reprinted,
but in the US, the author's writing
has met with a confused audience
unable to categorize her work. She
has found that response disturbing
but not surprising. "In London, I
think, people simply read more," shenotes. "There's less television-it'sexpensive to have television-andnewspapers, magazines and books
just seem more important. There's
also more of a tradition of literary
criticism and less categorizing. My
work isn't labeled by my l~$bianism,for example.""
But Brown admits that.' her work
isn't easily accessible to audiences,
British or American. "My work isn't
obviously lesbian, although characters are lesbian and refer to their Ilesbianism in the course of the stories,"
Brown stresses. "I think what lesbian
feminist readers look for here issomewhat more uplifting-positivef
stories about their lives. Why I think
my books do so well in England isthat the split between 'literary' and"
'popular' fiction is less dramabc." ~Has her work sold well in the US? "It ~would just be a lie to say it's done ~well here," she replies flatly.
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Brown's other US publication,
if
The >Haunted House,dealt with the impact .
of a dysfunctional
alcoholic family on
the daughter in thatfamily. "There's no,•YOU DROPPED THE BOMBON ME... March 25's Oscars are sure
to be spiced with controversy. We hearrumors of an ACT UP/LA zap, Bruce Davison is up for Best Supporting Actorthere will be lots of hoopla. But don't forget to look out for Susan Robinson andher lover, Judy Stribling. Robinson,
whose Building Bombs has been nominated in the Best Feature Documentary category, told theSouthern Voice that the gals plan "to parade ourselves into
the Awards, arm-in-arm."
THOU SHALT NOT... Far from the balloons andwhistles of our Pride parades is the grimmer matter of
reparative therapy-the movement to alter individuals' sexual preference from homo to hetero--and the ghouls whopractice it. Videomaker Francine Rzeznick is presently at
work on one Nation Under God, an hour-length broadcast
documentary on the subject, which reigns in a wide spanof concerns including "identity, sexuality, religion, politics
and social prejudices," Rzeznick still hopes to uncover'more archival footage on aversion-therapy treatments andto speak with individuals who may have undergone such"therapy." If you have information on either o(these subjects, write or call Rzeznick at 3Z/Hourglass Productions,
35 S. Oxford St., Brooklyn, NY 11217, (718) 797-0312, ormeet the One Nation crew at 8:30 pm on April Fools' at
the Pyramid Club for a project fund-raiser.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD ... On a lighter note,
independent filmmakers Ann Alter, whose No Need toquestion that much of my work isdepressing," she admits. "The colorof the world is dark-it'san evoluItion of darkness. Haunted House ,is aIittre Iighter-[theprotagonist) has
som;ething at the end. But Children's
Crusade is about how we are compEcit in war, deception and betrayal-theylearn something, but whattµey learn is pretty bleak.". ,Although Brown's literary visionshows the' full range of humandespair, she is no cynic. One of thereasons she returned to the UnitedStates from Europe was her belief
that she had a "duty to be here andtake part in the anti-war moveme.nt,
to act and live as an American citizen
against the war." Brown also does
work with people with AIDS andother community work that she seesas "for the good." She is, ultimately, a
believer in hope, and much of her· •work is within the context of what•

Repent premiered at Berlin last year, andLaine Goldman are at work on a documentary about honeymoons. They wish to speak
to couples about "the 'special vacations,' the'gay and lesbian honeymoons' [that) ,arememorable and significant events in the
lives of many lesbian and gay individuals·
and couples." Got any hot tales? Contact
Alter and Goldman through Horizontal
Mambo Productions, PO Box 5657, Athens, Ohio 45701.
SLIPPED DISC ... Listeners are feeling a little queasy
about a song currently getting airtime. Entitled "People Are
Still Having Sex" and served up by La Tour, this ditty contains the following tasteless morsels: "People are still having sex./This AIDS thing isn't working." Be on guard until
further notice. Or call Marvin Gleicher at Smash Records (adivision of Polydor) at (312) 751-0200, and sing out.
OPERA HUFF ... Speaking of having or not having
sex: In October 1990, opera News, the Metropolitan Opera
Guild's magazine, published a sensitive, posthumous interview with baritone Wayne Turnage about singing in opera
and living with AIDS. In the periodical's Feb. 2 issue, theeditors printed reaction letters from readers. Two were moving, but the third, from R.D. Bulos, a New Yorker, proclaimed that a PWAis "a person who has ...a disease brought
upon himself
by his own
disordered
actions.
,
Homosexual[sl...have got to stop having sex" and so forth. If
this misguided attempt at balance offends you, write toOpera News, 70 Lincoln Center, New York, NY 10023.
-compiled by Sarah Pettit, Bruce-Michael Gelbert

she terms "my religious duty as aplanet member."Brown reads regularly from theworks of ascetics and "f!eminist"
saints, such as St. Teresa of Avila and
St. Catherine of Sienna.' She loves thework of Virginia Woolf, SamuelBeckett and, of course, Franz Kafka.
Writing, for Brown, is "religious, a
meditative act. My most intimate
relationshipis with the muse. I
believe in the goodness and truthfulness of the storytelling act." She dislikes much of 20th-century writing
and finds most current fiction "silly
and superficial." She has applied theuse of religious terms, including
Christian terms, to her writing anddiscovered that there are elements to•religious writing that parallel her
own sense of language: "It's a culture that believes in high drama,
suffering, mercy and resurrection. It's
useful language for me to know."

Ljving by writing is a struggle
for Brown, as it is for most writers.
"I've always wanted to write, but I've
always supported
myself, mostly
with grunt jobs," she laments. She
currently teaches college writing
courses in Seattle to supplement her
income, but, when asked if she
would consider writing more popularist lesbian fiction in order to makemore money, spe insists,"It'simmoral to write just anything."
In addition to her two novels,Brown
has also written a book of short,stories. "My stories are even more dark
and weird. My editor of my first book[of stories) stared at me over lunch andsaid, 'Rebecca, you're so normal, andyour books are so weird.' But the work
is simply the most important thing in
my life," she comments . ..The Children's
Crusade by
Rebecca Brown ($8.95 pb, 110 pp) is

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Boys Like Us

Peter McGehee needs to get someflesh on the bone. His first novel, Boys
Like a, is so thin that when stood on ashelf, it all but disappears. Most membersof Congress have more pages than thisbook. Generally, they also have moreinteresting things to say. In fact, the only
striking similarity between Boys Like Us
and the average congressperson is that itnever seems to do anything truly damning. It is, frankly, an inoffensive anddiverting book. The characters are unifonnly likeable, without being too appealing. The range of emotions is narrow
enough not to risk touching upon any of
the reader's own. The plot is comedic, theending hopeful and the language simple
enough for a president, much less a senator, to understand without strain.
Bo)5 Like Us reads like a rehash of1986 film, PartingBill Sherwood's
Glances. McGehee tells the story of Zero,a thirtysomething gay man trapped in a
too-safe relationship with a corporate
stud. Zero divides his time between fucking the doll, hating his job and caring for
Randy, his wiseaacking friend and longago boyfriend, who has AIDS and is, itturns out, Zero's true love. If that scenario doesn't already sound familiar, tossin a golden twinkie who gets everyone
all hot and bothered by reminding themof "what we might have missed."
But whereas Parting Glances wasbreathtakingly unsentimentaI, Bo)5 Like Us
is merely affectIess. In seeking to avoid.the cliches of melodrama and romancethat ShelWood soundly defeats, McGehee
avoids the only things that might havegiven some style, if not substance, towhat remains an enormouslY'conventional and, therefore, meager book. Authors
and publishers who dish out this kindof pabulum cater to our blandest taste,
not to our sharpest
hunger, and leave us
wasting away.
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doing the provocative and difficult workof fiction is a cheap way of focusing attention on the moribund state of gay letters.
But it also encourages us to ask what weshould expect of our writers, and whether
we have the right to expect anything at
alL John Preston has spoken emphaticallyin this magazine about the need "to get it
all down," to document in as full and fast
a way as pa;sible our experiences in thewake of AIDS, without over-scrupulous
regard to frivolous standards of literary
judgment. His argument is that conventional narrative structures cannot adequately accommodate the seemingly ineffable scale of the AIDS crisis. He suggeststhat such structures be dispensed with infavor of an exhaustive reportage, a truthtelling that would more faithfully depict astory too strange for fiction.
Confronted with mediocre productions such as Bo)5 Like [;5, I find Preston's
impatience with careerism and literary
fashion very sympathetic. I disagree,
however, with his notion that historicalcircumstances (even our own) ever callfor the abandonment of the careful attentiveness to language and form th~t iswhat I take "literature" to mean. I also
take exception to his insistence upon asingle mode of writing, as though ','historic documents" had some sort of transparent, immediate quality that renderedthem universally sufficient.
"Writing," says Preston, "must be
action." Absolutely. But writinggm neveremulate action unless it startS :by taking
itself seriously as writtng. Histor;icaldocumentation is itself a literary convention;
our libraries are full of "historic documents" that purport to "get it all down"
but that fail to acknowledge their 9.wn
status as the subjective, interested wtrks
of writers who, like novelists, live in theworld, have careers and are frequently
swayed by fashion.
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have historians enough. God knows,lwe
have more than enough novelists 1ike .
Peter McGehee. And while the efflorescence of an unapologetic
and mar,,ketable body of gay writing is itself a triumph, its generally poor quality is a disappointment and a failure. But instead of
calling for no fiction, we
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Street Y, Feb. 21; SAMUEL RAMEY, Carnegie Hall, Feb. 24; KATYAKABANOVA by Leos Janacek, Metropolitan Opera, Feb. 25; UPTOWN.
SATURDAYNIGHT, Lesbian and Gay Big Apple Corps
Symphonic Band,,.
West-Park Church, March 2; YOU'RE GO~ALOVETOMORROW,
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momento," written for castrato, from
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Lucio Silla; awickedly vivacious "Una voce poco fd'
from Gioacchino Rossini's n BarlJiere diSiviglia;and finales from the latter's La
Cenerentola and La Donna delLago. Bartoli demonstrated agility and assurance
over a wide vocal range, but she shouldbe leery of relying on aspirates in rapidfife florid passages and on heavy chest
voice that could cost her the health ofher higher registers;,
For ~e rest, the young singer injected 'more life than most into -Rossini's-.
Regata veneztana, sanga rousing rendition of
the composer's' Spanishsong "En medio a mis
roloreS' and offered spirited, almost vehement
accounts of Mozart's

Intriguing vocal recitals, music of
our community's
ensembles and turbu,
lent drama took local stages recently.
Alice Tully Hall was the gathering
place for hard-core diva fanciers on thenight of the first New York recital bypromising Roman me~zo-soprano Cecilia
Bartoli, age 24. With vibrant delivery,
dark timbre and fast vibrato, Bartoli often
called to mind legendary coloraturamezzo Conchita SupelVia. Ably assisting
was pianist Martin Katz.
Bartoli executed the pure Renaissance line of Caccini
and Cesti with deftness
and grace and brought
freshness and a touch ofmischief to 18th-century
love songs. Her bravura
solos were ..II tenero•"Voicbe sape«!' and "E amore un ladroncelld' from Ie Nozze dt Figaro and Cos{
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now-du1cet, now-urgent reading of Pilgrim Strangers (984), openly gay composer Ned Rorem's haunting setting of
pacifist protest prose and poetry fromSpecimen Days, by great gay poet Walt
Whitman. In this doubly timely piece,
singers tenderly described vulnerable
young Civil War soldiers, reflected on
the shock of Lincoln's death, limned
war's banal violence in jagged phrases
and offered a simple, unbearably
wrenching lament for a fallen youth.
Another contemporary work was Steven
Sametz's "Ob llama de amor viva,"
which concerns a Carmelite friar imprisoned for progressive views and incorporates folk elements, Gregorian chant and·vocalists' sharp cries ~:,(pain and gentle
imitations of bells.
Gender blurred in madrigals from
Adriano Banchieri's comedy Festino(1608) when countertenors
sang thesweet song of flirtatious village women
and, in cackling character voices, recounted an ancient aunt's raucOus story. Music
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spirituals, honoring African-American History Month, were nearty, subdued~
mournful, exultant and campy in turn.
One title "Straight Street"-brokeupartists and audience alike. Haydn andBartok music completed the program.

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days later, of a solo appearancebysonorous. bass Samuel Ramey, capably
supported by pianist Warren Jones.
Ramey proved anew his rare flexibility and breath power in zesty Rossini
songs and ringing arias from George
Frideric Handel's Orlando and Giuseppe
Verdi's Oberto, the last an at-fust-smoldering-then-furious call for vengeance. He
mined farewells "Mentre ti lascio" by
Mozart and ''L'ultimo ricordd' by Rossini
for depths of sorrow and solemnity.
Contrasting selections by American gay
composers Aaron Coplafld and Cole Porter
followed. Representing the former wereRamey's aptly folksy "The Dodger," a goodnatured warning about schemes and scams;
fervent hymn "At the River"; the playful "I
Bought Me a Cat"; and the lively "Clling--aRing Claw." The bass cut a suitably suave
figure in Porter's "Tale of the Oyster," a fubleof social climbing and queasy stomachs;"Night and Day," in which he floated exceptional pianissimm, and an earnest renditionof "Blow, Gabriel, Blow!"
Other offerings included a breathlessly paced but fluent "Finch'han dalvino," from Mozart's Don Giovanni; "HeIs There!," an odiously jingoistic military
march by Charles Ives; and "01' Man
River," from Jerome Kern's Showboat, on
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Leos• Janacek's terse and tempestuous
Kdtya Kanova (1921), sung in Czech andset in a small, repressive Russian vill.age,
took place the next night. Katya, who isunhappily married, has an affair and,.driven by guilt, confesses, her "sin" andcommits suicide. Conventional morality
triumphs, but those who espouse it are, clearly depicted as villains oppressing thefree spirit.· .
Returning maestro Charles Mackerras
and theater's Jonathan Miller (debut),
directing ,a strong ensemble, r~lized Katya's richtonal color and dramatic
intensity. Making a longawaited Met debut as
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ova was radiant and her clear, full-bodied
soprano soared as she dreamed of freedom. She grew agitated as she wrestledwith her conscience, rapt in the presenceof her lover, Boris. Benackova aptly
shaded her bright tone and appeared
increasingly dispirited as her character's
peace of mind shattered. Veteran soprano Leonie Rysanek was a forbidding
Kabanicha, Katya's mother-in-law andadversary, who spread gloom and doom
relentlessly. Disgusted, she separated son
Tichon and his spouse as they embraced;
fended off, or tolerated, boorish Dikoj's
attentions; and had an icy last wordwhen Katya's body was hauled from theVolga. Mezzo-soprano Susan Quittmeyer
made an agreeable,
lyric Varvara,
Kabanicha's foster-daughter, who aids
and abets Katya in her romance.
Idiosyncratic
instrumentsof thethree tenors in key roles scarcely jarredin this angular music. Wieslaw Ochman
was a Boris more elusive than ardent,
Allan Glassman a meek Tichon, thoroughly cowed by his formidable mother,and Peter Straka (debut) an affable
Vanya, Varvara's beau, despite a raspy
serenade. Best of the men was bass Aage
Haugland, a huge, overbearing bear of a
Dikoj, Boris' stem uncle.
Pale hues and weathered wood predominated in Met newcomer RobertIsrael's stark settings, with a vivid storm
in Act 3, mirroring the heroine's turmoil,
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Corps Symphonic Band concert led by
Tom Ferguson and given early in Marchat West-Park Church on the Upper West
Side. New York's "Empress" Razor
Sharp served as emcee for this vital andvaried evening.
Classical pieces included a rollicking
overture to late gay composer Leonard
Bernstein's candide, a coIOIful processionalpolonaise from Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's
Mlada and a serene and dignified "PavaruJ'
by Gabriel Faure, the last dedicated to the
merIlO1)' of tha;e who have died of AIDS.
On a different note, the Corps' New
Amsterdam Dixieland Jazz Band got hot
with. a toe-tapping"It
Don't Mean a Thing (If It
Ain't Got That Swing)"
by Duke Ellington and"Five Foot Two (Eyes ofBlue)" by Ray Hender-son. These numbers featured ,sizzling clarinet solos by Joe Avena and lusty'trombones solos by Trudy Lundgren.
Broadway babies could revel inpenetrating and effervescent excerpts
from Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban's A Gborus Line and Mitch Leigh andDale Wasserman's Man of lA Mancha,
courtesy of the full complement.
Anenergetic march, complete with flag
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Gay Men's Chorus collaborated on You're
Gonna Love Tomorrow, a delightful
revue, with music by our own Stephen
Sondheim, at the Harold Clurman Theater. Exploring the familiar and the rare,
the company began with Larry Moore's
vocal arrangement of "All Things Brightand Beautiful," from Follies, and a tonguein<heek list of audience dos and don'ts,
from tbe Frogs. There were upbeat quartets from Follies-the evening's title song,with Michael Schultz, Joanne Lessner, Bill
Poock and Jennifer Joy~nd
Paciftc
OVertures "Someone in a Tree," sungcon brio by Schultz, Poock, Gary Bruback
and Dan McGeachy. The cast broke intosame-sex pairs, plus "fifth wheel," for a
touching ensemble version of A Lif!leNight MusiCs "Send in the Clowns. n
Playing a parting couple in. "With So
tittle to Be Sure Of' (An;uneCan Wbistie), Poock and Brubach bid eichother a ,loving, lyrical fare~eIl. Later, Brubach
and Jane Wasser competed for Poock's
affections in "Not a Day Goes By"(Merrlly We Roll Alonl!). In scenes from A

Funny 7bing Happened on the Way to tbe
Forum, a whip-wielding dominatrix anda high-heeled, leather-harnessed muscle
queen were part of pimp Marcus Lycus'
stable, and Miles Gloriosus (resonant
Brubach) numbered strapping Amazons
and a flaming sissy among his troops.
"What More Do I Need?" (SaturdayNight) and "Another Hundred People" .
(Q)mpany), WI)' love songs to our frenetic
and fiustrating city, were winningly delivered by Lessner and Joy. "Being Alive"(Q)mpanys hero's song) was pIangently
sung by Wasser. A heart-warming "OldFriends" (Merrily We Ron Along) concIud~ed the revue.
Staging was by Paul Lazarus, instru- ,mental accompaniment by a quartet led
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HOMO LOVE SONGS. The Lesbian and Gay Community Services
Center. 208 W. 13th St. March 26. 8 pm.
by Jim Fouratt
The gay male perfonner attempting
to come to tenus with external expression of his creative muse while heembraces both his sexual orientationand hisaffectional
preference often,by habit, throws himself smack dab
into a wall of mirrors that artisticallyreflects back only what has been
deflected previously.
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That, my friend, in a nut shell, isthe artistic dilemma facing today's gay
male perfonner. .'.
The defiant reemergenceofdrag-Lypsinka,
Boy George and a
bevy of downtown (NY, LA, SF, Miami,etc.) bar dancing tinsel beauties-as apolitical and artistic polemic in theface of homophobia
and violence
states a case loudly in a post-feminist
manner that flirts with misogyny onlyin the imagination of the closed-minded observer. Men like these "dollies"
are not trying to pass as female. They
are playing out the roles that men in aheterosexual society have created to
identify women, roles that have nothing to do with the actual experience ,of.2 being a biological female, As in the
J! work of Genet, these men are playing~ women for men's attention~nd
per~ ha~s for women's amusement.
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Transvestites and self-defined "Ies~ bian" transsexuals demanding to betreated as "real women," along with
the notorious "Kathy"s of the late-nightcabte world (chicks with dicks), arenot significant in. any progressive artistic manner except when they reflect
the -meshing of the destructive oppression. of desire with a ruthless roleidentification. These manmade creatures are dealt the Queen of Spades ina life game that art critic Jill Johnson
once described as the "ultimate crime
heterosexist society perpetrates againSt
gay men, forcing them to self-mutilat~ .'in order to conform to some external
idea of what it means, in a patriarchal
society, to be a woman."Contrast this role with the othere;,.."tremeso well known to the viewersof the stereotypicalfantasies offetishism and the hyper-masculinity

seen in slick porn mags (even Hunt,
OutWeek'S,bar-rag brother) and videos,along with the consumer-exploiting
cable shows that manipulate desire
and encode' consumer compulsion(such as Men and Films or the tacky
and twisted Robin Byrd Show). Nothing more needs to be said about thesuper-boy/man-hunk with muscles ofsteel and dick homed like a weapon
for hunting in the erogenous zone,
and how the marketing and manipulation of this image has driven you, meand even George Michael into spiritual, physical and material chaos andto forge individuality and express diversity in irqage and role-making.
Recently, I observed a very different and exciting attempt to reach deep
inside and pull out the secrets gay
men have kept hidden from audiences.
In Homo Love Songs, a queer musictheater piece, lovers Dan Martin, asinger/song writer, and his life-partner,
Michael Biello, a performing visual
artist attempt to jettison the self-obscuring defense tools traditionally used forprotecting any vulnerability from exposure through a forceful manipulation of
fake serisitivity. The perfonner generally accomplishes this by donning amask of false superiority, commonly
called "camp" by hetero critics.
Not since Tim Miller and John
Bernd presented Ltve Boys at PS 122(1981), a work that explored the inter--

AN INTEGRATEDWHOLE?-Dan Martin and Michael Biello bare all.
allegedly drove poor, drug-soaked
porn stud-boy, Ted Cox, to prove his
manhood by murdering his gay pimp
.as a manly expression of his love forthe ever-trendy bi-gal.
Today there are other choices androles being looked at by gay male performers struggling with. identity andartistic expression. From skin-head fag
clones eroticized by Homocore and by
Bruce La Bruce in his queer-cinema
breakthrough,No
Skin O)j'My Ass, to themulti-cultural intertwinings of the Flirtations, gay male perfonners are attempting

weaving of their personal relationshipas lovers with their professional collaborations and competitions, has such a
naked look at the strengths and stresses of homo love and artists at work
been presented.
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Homo Love Songs was staged at the
fabulous new perfonnance-space on thethird floor of the lesbian and Gay Community Services Center (which may be
our community's safest creative space
not dependenton
10,000 dance-crazed
queers in search of a
drink
ticketandentrance into a VIProom-now if only the

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its potential audience). Recreqting theirliving room ,onstage by sharing, rather
than hiding, their spontaneous intimacy,
Dan and Michael work hard to remove
the fake performers' masks and reveal
the tender, sexy side of two men interacting as lovers and artists.
Michael is the writer, and Dan
the principle performer, who sits atthe baby grand, operating the tapedeck and taking center stage to present a queer version of Elton John,
James Taylor, Johnny Mathis, theseductiv'e syncopated back-beat electronically weaving with his heartfelt'post-cabaret sensibility. Their musicaldiscourse charts the emotional waves
gay men in touch, with .the world
around us are forced to navigate: life,
death, the meaning of friendship,
sex, relationships, support, fear and,most eloquently, the complex meaning of love. Schmaltz, it was not.
The evening opened with a sly
and wicked slide-show of slickeddown and heightened minimalizations of graffiti-like collages juxtaposing ordinary images with highly
erotic totems: Michael also did physical props, the very small things thatmake the real difference in transition
and transformation.
He danced,
mimed, posed and pranced, effec-

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tively balancing • the emotions of. Dan's songs. And we saw flesh,thank you very much, including
dicks and ass, in a manner that integrated the whole person rather thansimply objectifying the surface. I
cried, I laughed, and I saw two sexyguys across the room. Most of all, myheart was thrilled.
If you care about the living as
much as you fight for the dying, checkout Homo Love Songs. And, by the way,
it is defmitely woman (and even hetero) friendly. '"A cassette of the songs performedin the show is available at most gay
bookstores.

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5. "Queer Nation" by 2 Queens, a King and a Drum Machine
6. "Pax Americana" by Test Department
7. "All Right" by Urban Soul
8. "The Phantom/Swing Low" by Renegade Soundwave and Diamanda
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HENRY IV. The New York Shakespeare Festival. The Public Theater. 425
Lafayette St. (212) 598-7100. Through April 7.
by Otis Stuart
The New York Shakespeare
Festival's marathon staging of the Shakespeare canon couldn't have picked a better time to bring on Henry IV-both ofhim. Together, Henry Iv, Parts One andTux>, are about as unsparing, unhappy a
portrait of political leadership as you're
liable to fmd: There are no good guys
and not an unsuspect motive in sight.
The title character is a usurper, his heir
proof from his ftrst monologue that conniving runs in the family. The plays arescarier still as a bull's-eye example of
how Shakespeare made a specific event,
the reign of a 14th<entury king, into an
abiding course in current events. The
contemporary parallels are downrighteerie. A stealth king to rival our own
stealth president, Henry IV specializes in
PR, lives for battle and acts on a single
objective, staying in power. The plays
end with the dying Henry advising thefuture Henry V: Start a foreign war, in the
Mjddle East if possible.
JoAnne Akalitis' staging of the twoparts of Henry IV does its danmedest to
give the plays an updated edge. The
introductory choral ftgure, Rumor, setsI
the tone: spike heels, spikier hairdo and, a
black vinyl coat splattered with scaflel:mouths giving you lots of tongue. From•
there, characters and situations are crossdressed
across centuries: York is attended,
by Black men in black leather wearingS¢ous sunglasses, and the Boar's Headbrothers' have more than a touch of
uptown, too. And both productions are
li~ered with local props. Part One opens-on original music by Philip Glass in a
soft-rock mode. Budweiser cans coverFalstaff's room. Poins enters, canying a
television like a boom-box and tosses abagel to Hal, whose blue pants might aswell be jeans. Hal teases streetwise Poins
about his "seester." Pistol rides aminibike. Hotspur has a ponytail.
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Happily, Akalitis keeps the addenda
peripheral and largely unobstrusive(although she might rethink that big blue
blotch on Doll Tearsheet's arm, particularly
since her compatriots are decked out inthe chalky pallor of plague victims). The
result is a traditional Henry lVin spite of itall. Even.the problems are traditional, likea tendency to go for the volume in theverse an4l1()t' its subtleties. Akalitis may
graze the·.unorthodox prospect-Falstaff
and Hal are first seen asleep together in asingle bed~nd
she is not adverse to
extremity-Doll is played as a cankered
Everywhore but, possibly because she
directed both plays as a piece, Akalitis
hears their symphony rather than the. solos, .the rush of events rather than thedetails that set them in motion.
This works for Hotspur but blurs
everyone else. Scenes hurtle by, and thepace picks up an inevitability thatdrowns out the private dramas at theircenter. The resultant energy, direct anddown-stage, is no mean achievement,
and perhaps the only way to play theendless tavern scenes in Part Tux> is toindulge their fr!mtic
schtick. Akalitisevenuses projections andfilm footage to fill out
the battle sequences,
and, safely up-stage,ress

they succeed in echoing the images ofendless carnage.
The individuals are missing, and 'they're what' make the Henry IVs morethan morality plays in military drag. Akalitis goes for the icons-basedon these
two productions, she seems to be thekind of director who's better with theplay than with the actOl'S--QIldthe intricacies of character fall by the wayside, or to
the actor's particular devices. In good
hands, the going is a good time, as it iswith Ruth Maleczech's vaudeville Mistress
Quiekly and Louis Zorich's Kris Kringly
Falstaff. Lisa Gay Harnilton is an impassioned,if slightly piercing, Lady Percy,
Jared Harris is a jackhammer Hotspur.
When the characterizations
becomeshadier, as in the duelling Henrys IV andV, Akalitis and her actors take the easier way out-the
big note. Handsomerthen even a future Henry V has any
right to be, Thomas Gibson is a threequarters-time Prince Hal, even in thetavern scenes,. and Larry Bryggman's
Henry IV is a dead man from his firstspeech.
Takingpoliticiansattheir own mythology is exactly
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by John Donahue
Like wet laundry blown off the line,
Collier Schorr's sculpture seems to havefloated through the air and stuck to thegallery'S walls. The laundry is mostly
dresses, infant-sized, all white and stiffened with plaster. The sculpture is vulnerable and small, artifacts from childhood, like bronzed baby shoes, yet morefragile. The clothes are animated and full,but the bodies are missing
What sets these sculptures apart,what makes them artful, is apparent
l!pon closer examination. A dress opens
like a bell above your head,
and inside there is writing,revealing the secret thoughtsof the wearer. Across thefolds in pencil, ink and marker admonitions, bits of dia-logue, fears and desires are scrawled: "It'sfunny how often they say to me, 1ane,
have you been a good girl?'" In fact,"Have you been good?" repeats mantralike in several of the pieces. Occasionally
there's also an answer: "No." In otherpieces, Jane reappears as well, a possiblereference to those homogeneous learning-to-read characters, Dick and Jane.
, Sometimes the words are smudged,
upside-down or illegible, trailing off into
nether regions. A few pieces carry illustrations of naked women, or of their
naked breasts. Further countering theworks' innocence are titles
such as "Covet Slowly," "1heWhipping Girl," "Be Brave,
Beware, Be a Boy."
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•seven dresses, two pairs of pants with suspenders and my favorite, one sailor suit,called "Hey Diddle Diddle." Some of thewriting refers to gayness or gender problems: Down a boy's pants, "Be a Man"
appears in red marker; up a dress, "Shewanted to push her against the wall andfuck the shit out of her." In this way, thewriting not only cuts the outfits' sentimentality but also for~ the viewer to look up
a little girl's dress or down a little boy's
pants. This produces its own thrill, and thepartidpant viewer becomes petYert.
The all-white wardrobe and its fragile manufacture suggest the vulnerabilityof childhood and identity, and how eaSily
small children are manipulated and over~powered by others, even other children.
At least in theol)', early childhood is also
the time when we're all still androgynous
and bisexuaL But in reality, even babies
are color-coded, enabling sex identification, and peIhaps for this reason, Schorr
chose white to blur such differences.
This compelling work is doubly subversive: As the viewer is seduced into a sexual curiosity regarding these children, she or
he also wants to mother them and givethem good advice. These shells of childhood' seem to suggest that children are
scolded, shamed--even loved--mto being"good girls" and "brave, little boys." While
being coddled, the indoctrination begins ....

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April 3, 1991•
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by Charles Socki,

When I finally told my parents,
we gathered under a fluorescent rectangle
in the panelled basement of the house where I grew up.
My dad sat across from meat the old kitchen table:
My mom, hands folded, sat besiqe'me.
Dad took my hands in his,and said their house would always be my home.
My mother stared,
asked me what I'd said,
and as I spoke, she crumpled into sobs,
her red hands over her red face.

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route were never Dinkins fans.
That fact was not lost on Cardinal
O'Connor, whose diminishing influenceon municipal politics was paraded up
Fifth Avenue in front of him.
So while drawing boos from his
opponents, Dinkins solidly cemented
the support of a community much
more within his natural constituency.
Other longtime Dinkins supporters,
including Rev. Calvin Butts, view hischampioning of a civil rights cause
favorably and have sa·id so publicly.
But the continuing power of the. Catholic church, whose real estateholdings are surpassed only by thecity itself, cannot be discounted. Econom ically, the church will remain a'force to reckon with. Ci-tyHall
spokespersons
take pains to pointout that the mayor maintains a "cordial" relationship with the cardinal.
(Zwilling, the cardinal's spokesper~son, declined to characterize the Cardinal's feeling about the mayor, atleast for Out Week.).
Dinkins' supportive stance for the
ILGO did not end with the parade.
Invited to join its membership at astreet fair the next day, St. Patrick's
Day proper, Dinkins initially declined.
So Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization members were surprised andpleased when I;>inkins, fresh off thetennis courts, arrived at Sheridan
Square in the West Village to dance a
jig or two with some of his mostardent supporters. And the usually
circumspect mayor, clearly affected by
the hate-filled atmosphere of the previous day'S long walk, seemed genuinely happy to be among people heconsidered his own home.
City Hall sources playfully told
OutWeek that while the mayor is anaccomplished ballroom dancer, they
could not comment on his skill at traditional Irish dance. Terpsichoreantalent aside, that the mayor chose
Sheridan Square for his homecoming
after a long, bruising game of political football-andthat he chose todance with'gay men and lesbians
rather than chat with ·the cardinaltells a story all by itself. And thatstory is not likely to be quickly forgotten byanybody.T•

As a reporter covering the parade
for OutWrek, I saw firsthand the level ofvitriol felt by many spectators toward thegay group. The standard response to mypolite requests for an explanation ofabusive behavior was "Get out of myface~ dyke bitch." I was told, among

Brendan Fay, Irish-born teacher oftheology at a Queens high school andan ILGO member who marched in theparade, told OutWeek that "stepping out
on Fifth Avenue was a step further outof the closet for Irish lesbians and gay
men, and it should be remembered as avery courageous act-far more courageous than the cowards who were b0eing and hissing us."
Fay was horrified, although unsurprised, by the verbal violence of someof the spectators. "The display of hateand rejection from the sidewalks wasanything but a reflection of Christiancharity and justice and simply reflecteda sickness and uncomfortableness withsexual issues amongst the IrishAmerican community," he added"The most homophobic gesture of
the day was as we passed the review- -'"u
ing stand and the leaders of the AOH ilturned their backs on Ireland's gay sons ~oand lesbian daughters," he continued "I a:do not believe that their gesture wasrepresentative of the entire Irish com- . l:imunity but reflects more on themselves ~as an organization."
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it on the spot. I quickly realized that theywould rather see me dead than a proudlesbian. Most of those I spoke with, whowere, literally, hissing and spitting, wore
their venom on their contorted faces.
The reaction of the police to thegay marchers was mixed To their credit,
most were supportive and went all-out
to protect them from what could easily
have been a lynch mob. After theparade, ILGO members and their supporters were escorted to the subway station at leXington Avenue and East 77th
Street by cops who warned them that totravel alone would be to risk injury.
Thirty members of GOAL, the gay
cops' fraternity group, linked arms with
ILGO members up Fifth Avenue. Nevertheless, there were allegations ofpolice brutality.
And of course, there were many
people yelling out their support, thank- 'ing ILGO for fighting so hard to realize
its right to be there, and these spectators
made ILGO's valiant battle for inclusionin the parade worthwile, said members
who took part.
Lined up with many of the thumbsturned-down were many pointing up,that belonged to straights and gays alike.

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Order of Hibernians had compared agay presence in the St.-PaJrick's..
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parade to the Ku Klux Klaii at a Martin
Luther King Day celebration~,
This year is the 75th anniversay of
the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin, when agroup of Irish intellectuals staged an iIlfated coup against the British administration occupying their country. One of theparade's central themes was the remembrance of the rising, which, for Fay,
brought to mind the struggle of the Irish
people aginst years of hatred, fear and'
oppression at the hands of the British.
•"The parade organizers and thespectators who abused us seem to haveforgotton that two of the leading figuresin the [up]rising, Roger Casementland
Padraic Pearse, were gay," he said "Theparticipation of Irish lesbians and gay
men in the Sl Patrick's Day parade wasan equally historic Easter Rising. It rep-:resented a rising up against hate, fear
and oppression. What I did in marchingup Fifth Avenue," he concluded, "was toexpress my own passion for justice."T.

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But the St. Patrick's Day parade
turned the spotlight on the inherent
conflict between being gay andCatholic as never before in this city.
ILGO has a Roman Catholic priest
amongst its ranks, in addition to a theology teacher and a number of strong
believers. For them, Cardinal O'Connor's treatment of the issue was particularly painful.
According to Brendan Fay, a theology teacher at a Catholic HighSchool in Queens: ·"O'Connor is amouth on his own. The. issue here
was discrimination. Cath61fc church
teaching on this is consistent. The US
bishops write in their 1976 pastoral
letter, "To Live in Jesus Christ,' thathomosexuals have a right to respect,friendship and justice like anyone
else, and that they should not suffer
prejudice against them. To me, that's
the key. That's why I marched. However, .J realize that what has been
going on has been perpetuated byinstitutionalized religion.', In other ways, the group is very
ml!lchlike
other community groups of•it~ ilk. Another problem the groupacknowledges is in dealing with sexiSf amongst the male members, a
conflict created throughout the community by the last decade's shift
toward co-sexual advocacy.
"The egos we have to deal withare enormous,' said Honan bluntly. "A
lot of our male members are totallyunaware that they are sexist, because
they come from a country where it isacceptable. Now, for the first timethey have to face it.'
A cardinal 'principleof thegroup ethos, for which its female
members have pushed hard, is its
equal representation by lesbians andgay men. "Even if we have only two
lesbians and 500 gay men as members, a lesbian is going to be a cospokesperson,'concluded Maguire,
who, in the past three weeks, has'
lived that decision beyond any point
she might have thought possible
previously ....
To contact the Irish Lesbian and
Gay Organization, call (212) 9677711, ext. 3078. Or write to PO Box
4276, Rockefeller Station, New York,NY 10185.

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First Ave. Thursdays through Sundays
at 9:30 pm. Rese.rvatlons: (212) 4775288. Through March 31.

ADVANCE LISTINGSI

THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIALRESEARCH presents The SIale ollhe
City: A Gay and Lesbian Perspective,
given in conjunction with OutWeek magazine. "Gay men and lesbians are• vital
participanm in the lile 01 New York City,"says the class description. "Despite this,many believe that the popular media andmainstream arts communities either fail
10 represent or actually misrepresent
gay and lesbian concerns.' Given inthree sessions which focus on the arts,
the media and politics, respectively, theclasssswill be led by Arts Editor Sarah
Pettit, Features Editor Michelangelo
Signorile and News Editor Andrew
Miller. $15 for the course, $8 for a single session. Ths first session is April 25.
For,more info, contact the New School at (212) 741-5600.
THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIALRESEARCH presents Gay and Lesbian
Writing:
From World War II 10
SIonewal1. Instructor: Jossph Cady.
"The years after World War II witnesseda significant body of gay and lesbian literature that has tended to become overshadowed by the more open homosexual expression of the post-Stonewall
years of the '70s and '80s. But the relative burst in gay and lesbian writingfrom the mid-1940s through the 1960s
contributed to the change in cultural
atmosphere that helped make possible
the contemporary gay and lesbian liberation movement and is an integral partof the background of the present gay
and lesbian situation. Among theauthors we may consdierare:Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers,
Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Townsend
Warner, James Baldwin and Janet
Flanner." The six sessions begin on
April 4. $130. For more info, contact
Jim O'Connor at the New School at(212) 741-8778.
6SENIOR ACTION IN A GAY ENVIRONMENT takes you on a Crulce AroundlYIanhattan. Join SAGE on the Spirit of
New York-they've
reserved all threedecks/and offer a gourmet brunch, aBroadway revue, dancing and views of
the New York skyline. $45 for one/$80
for tWo. Prepayment required by April
1. Cruise date is May 5. Boarding timeis 11:30 am at Pier 11, near Wall Street
For more info and reservations: (212)741-2247.

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MOSAIC BOOKS presents Prlnny AlavI.
The photographer'swork, mostly
nudes, will be on display at the bookstore. 167 Ave. B, at 10th Street. 2-10
pm daily. (212) 475-8623. ThroughApril 6..

Sucked in by Vampire Lesbians of Sodom? High and dry
because you missed Psycho Beach Parlfl Now, THE WPA
THEATREpresents Red Scare on Sunset,the latest madcap creation by (and starring) Charles Busch, creator of
Vampire Lesbians of Sodom and Psycho Beach Party.
Directed by Kenneth Elliott. Starrring Ralph Buckley, Roy
Cockrum, Andy Halliday, Julie Halston, Mark Hamilton,
Judith Hansen and Arnie Kolodner. 519 W. 23rd St. Tu- Th
at 8 pm and Su at 7:30 pm-$22. Fr and Sa at 8 pm andSu at 3 pm-$26. Reservations: (212) 206-0523.
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Goldberg (hmm) and Kevin Costner (hmm hmm) ar'ereaching for his crotch on the cover of TV Guide? Perhaps
COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECTcan tell you, when they
visit the Pyramid to present Queer Os'car. Featuring
Mistress of Ceremonies Linda Simpson, and performances by SheUyMars,
Frank Maya and Diviana
Ingravallo. Also expected to be on hand: Michelangelo
Signorile, Deborah Glick, Peter Adair, Michael Musto,
Danitra Vance and Martin Duberman. $5. 101 Ave. A
March 25. Midnight. Info: (212) 675-3559.
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ARTS offers Karale ClasslS lor Womenin Golu karate. Beginners may start theweek of April 2. Sliding fee of $5-$115
based on monthly income. Free childcare offered. 421 Fifth Ave. Park Slope,
Brooklyn. (718)788-1775.
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Also' see the daily listings for showingsof one or two days.

Meanwhile, back in th!lleal world ... BRONX LESBIANS
UNITED IN SISTERHOOD and GAY MEN OF THE BRONX
present a Forum on the domestic partnership bill. Invited
speakers include Fernando Ferrer, Bronx borough president; Carolyn Maloney, council member and chief sponsor of the legislation; and Liz Holtzman, comptroller of
New York City. One Fordham p,laza, suite 800. March 26..
7-9 pm. Info: Ron Jacobowitz at (212) 519-8746 or. Lisa
Winters at (212) 829-9817.
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presents Evan Matthews, performing a
blend of popular tunes, jazz, bl ues andtheater music, $8 cover/$l 0 minimum.
49 W. 44th St. Wednesdays at 9 and 11
pm. Reservations: (212) 764-8930.
March 6-27.

SPLIT BRITCHES and BLOOLIPS present B.f1. Rlprl" •. What if Stanley
Kowalski were a lesbian In drag and
Blanche DuBois were a drag queen?
Belle Reprieve addresses all this andmore in a hilarious send-up of A
Streetcar Named Desire. Th-Mo at 8
pm. Sa at 7 and 10:15 pm. One Dream.
232 West Broadway. Re8ervatlons:(212) 274-1450. Through March 31.

PS 122 presents Mabou Mines' Th.
Brlbl, a poetic musical work inprogress which traces a day in the lifeof Gill Clout. Written by Terry O'Reilly.
Directed by Ruth Maleczech. Music byJohn Zorn. Performed by O'Reilly andBlack-Eyed Susan. $6. PS 122. 150
Rrst Ave. March 13, 20, 27 and April 24
at 8 pm. .Reservations: (212) 477-5288.
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THEATRE-AT-224-WAVERLY-PLACE
presents Homoll1Cu.'Alit', a series of
12 short plays, including seven world
premieres and three New York premieres. They are: Robert Palrick's
Ludwig and Wagner, The Family Bar
and The Way We War; Daniel Curzon's
S&M, Celebrities in Hell and One Man'S
OpiniofT, Carl Morse's Annunciation and
Fairy Fuck-In, or A Call to the States;
Roberl Chesley's Sqmebody'slittle
BoY; Victor Bumbalo's Show; Bil
Wright's Mother Father Lover MalT, andRich Rubin's That AI Pacino Look. $20.
We-fr at 8 pm, Sa at 7 and 10 pm, Su
at 3 and 7 pm. Tickets: (212) 564-8038.
Through May 26.
THE NEW YORK OPEN CENTER pre'. sents Susan aennell's Sh,pllhtn.rr,
an exhibition of painters. The New York
Open Center. 83 Spring St. Mo, Th, Frfrom 1--5 pm. (212) 219-2527. ThroughApril 3.
THE PUERTO RICAN TRAVELING THEATRE presents Alberlo Adellach's
Sdln •• nd Lueffcl•. The play ie about"two women fugitives from an. asylum
whose views of reality clash wilh one
another in a series of oddballsequences which ultimately end in aserious resolu.tion.The
play wa~
inspired by a true incident which wasreported In the Argentinian newspapers." With Cordelia GonZiles, Marilyn
Romero and Nancy Walsh. Director:
Alba Oms. Design: Edward Glanfran~ .
C8lCO. Ughting: Rick BuUer. Costumes:
Mary Marsicano. $10/$12/$15. The
Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre. 304 W.
47th St., at Eighth Avenue. Opening
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pm..Spanish schedule: Sa-5u at 2:30 pm. and 8 pm. Reseriations: (212) 354-1293.
Through April 21.
.6THE WINGS THEATRE COMPANY presents Roman Sp,ctac/" "a night in theorgy chamber of the teenage emperor of
the Roman empire, Heliogabalus," written
and directed by David Michael Gallagher.
Featuring 'a spectacular drag wedding in
the palace: 154 Christopher Sl TLHr at 8pm. Beginning April 13, Sa at 7 and 10 pm
and Su at 3:30 and 7 pm. Reservations:(212) 627-2961. Through April 28.
.6 THE DUPLEX presents Caf, Ber/ln,
starring Sybil Bruncheon, Bob GutoWlkl,
Jay Rogers, Thomas Stoehr and Jeffrey
Wallach. The Duplex. 59 Christopher SI.
Fr at 10 pm. Reservations: (212) 2555438. Through April 30.
.6 THE WPA THEATRE presents R,dSca" on Suns,t, a new play by and starring Charle. Busch, creator of Vampire
Lesbians of Sodom and Psycho Beach .
Party. Directed by Kenneth Elliott.
Starrring Ralph Buckley, Roy Cockrum,
Andy Halliday, Julie Hallton, Mark
Hamilton,
JudithHansen, Arnie
Kolodller. 519 W. 23rd Sl Tu-Th at 8 pm
and Su at 7:30 pm-$22. Fr and Sa at 8pm a:nd Su at 3 pm-$26. Reservations:(212) 206-0523.
THE LESBIAN HERSTORYARCHIVES and
THE CENTER present Keepln' On:
Images of Afrlcan-Am.erlcan Lesbians.
Opening Feb. 28. Wheelchair accessible.
The Center. 208 W. 13th SI. Hours: daily,
4-6 pm. For more info, contact theArchives at (212) 874-7232.
55 GROVE STREET presents Cam
Brainard and Bob Koherr's Br/cMac, &stU"O, performers who both appeared inParting Glances, their original comedy
material includes two jocks who learn
they can vogue, retired Solid Gol~
Dancers, Amish rappers who put the"men back in Mennonite," an early Simon& Garfunkel, and the Rocky Mountain
Butt Boys who open at a gay rodeo inWest HollyWood; videos serve as transitions between livs routines; at 55 Grove
St (west of 7th Ave South); $8 + 2-drink
minimum; Fr at 8 pm; 366-5438
CHERRY LANE THEATRE presents David
Stevens' 711, Sum of Us, by the writer ofBreaker Morant, starring Nell Massln andRichard Ventura, directed by Kevin
Dowling, ab,out a father who tries to help
with his son's gay relationships while helooks for a new wife; 38 Commerce St;$27.50-$32.50; Tu-Fr at 8 pm, Sa at at 7 &10 pm, Su at 3 & 7:30 pm; 989-2020
MEN WITH· WIGS, INC., presents II'. a
Man's World: Ladles Sing the Blues, afun-filled, gender-bender fantasy, fromthe Cotlon to Motown. Men, with wigs,
examine Incandescent images of theblues' queens and their descendants.
$10. The Producers Club. 358 W. 44th
St., 2nd floor, euite 7. Fridays at 11 pm.
(212) 971-9021. .
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More hard facts: ACT UP presents TheTruth About AIDS, ateach-in examining ten years of AIDS eduCation, politics,
media coverage, medical and social resources. With Dr.
Ernest BrUCker, epidemiOlogist; Larry Kramer, ACT UP
founder, novelist and playwright; and Ann Northrup, AIDS
educator and ACT UP member. Cooper Union Great Hall.
41 Cooper Square. March 26. 8 pm. (212) 353-4155.
Relax and unwind with JOCELYN AND JULIE at cm Club
East. It's the regular Tuesday night dance party, plus mas'sages by Shelly Mars, dyke comedienne (and now
masseuse) extraordinaire. $3 before midnight/$5 after. The
Pyramid. 101 Ave. A. Doors open at March 26. 10 pm.
(212) 473-7184.
Funny hmmm or funny ha-ha? KELLY'S presents The'
Mary Jo Comedy Show, starring Mary Jo Wobker,.Carolyn May, Suzanne Westenhoeffer and Peggy Boyce.
$5, plus a two-drink minimum. Seventh Avenue South at
Bedford Street. March 27. 8:30 pm. Info: (914) 353-4168.
-. "If you're into spoken words, choose from one of the following: First, HIGH RISK READINGSpresent Gary Indiana,
Michael Lassell, Terence Selles and Lynne Tillman. The
writers will be reading from their work, which appears in
the anthology, High Risk. Tower Books. Lafayette at Fourth .
Street. March 28.
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Or you can take IN OUR OWN WRITE, presenting writersfrom the anthology, Naming the Waves. Cu rated by
Christian McKuen, the reading features Roz Calvert, Joan
Larkin and Sapphire. $3 suggested donation. The Center.
208 W. 13th St.-March 28. 7:30 pm. Info: (212) 620-7310.
Step on it! JULIUS presents Foot Friends Bar Night, formen into bare feet, socks, sneakers, boots, shoes and alltypes of feet and foot-gear action. Here's your chance tomeet in a friendly, supportive, social atmosphere. 159 W.
10th St. March 28. 9:30-11 pm. Info: Andy Rowe at (212)675-7352.
Feeling unloved lately? MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER
offers you a Day of Indulgence. Your choices: haircut,
massage, facial, manicure, pedicure, reflexology or cardand palm reading. $10 per indulgence, or $40 for a full
package. The Center. 208 W. 13th St. March 30. 12-7 pm.
Call for reservations: (212) 222-9794.
Now that you're beautiful, head over to EIGHTY EIGHT'S to
see The Flirtations. The a capella, openly gay and politically active men's singing group will be performing one
time only, so don't miss it. $10 cover plus a two-drink
minimum. 228 W. 10th SI. March 31. 5:30 pm.
Reservations: (212) 924-0088.
This revolution will not be televised ...THE PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES invites you to his Resignation
Ceremony. Also expected to surrender: Jesse Helms,
William Dannemeyer and New York's own Mario Cuomo.
Insid~rs expect Norm Schwarzkopf to premiere his new
revue, Desert Drag. Rumor has it that Ronald Reagan will
even make a cameo as Bonzo. Tax credits to all who come.
The White House. April Fool's Day. See you there.

summer share? Owners, renters andlookers meet to benefit the l.esbian and
Gay Anti-Violence Projecl Share seekers:$15. Shars offerere: $25 first pereon, $15
each additional. First drink free. The
Center. 208 W. 13th Sl &-9 pm. Info: theNetwork's 24-hour hotline at (212) 5H-

0771.
GAY MEN OF THE BRONX and BRONXLESBIANS UNITED IN SISTERHOOD preeent a Public Forum on domestic partnership legislation. 1 Fordham Plaza,
suite 800. 7-9 pm. Info: Chris at 6010806.
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER
Fllllneial Affairs Planning Meeting. 169
Manhattan Ave., 14B, at loath Street. 7
pm. (212) 932-3138.
SAGE preesnlll Adult Survfvors of Sexual
AbUII, an experiential therapy group for

women ages 21 and up to support therecovery process and free you from thepain and silence of eexual abuse.
Psychotheraplslll: Joyce Z. Meyere, CSW
and Robbye Stuart-Russell,
MA. TheCenter. 208 W. 13th Sl 7--8:30 pm. (212)741-2247.
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GAY ACTIVIST ALLIANCE I N MORRIS
COUNlY presenlll Womyn'. Nelwoll! andMan's Rap Group at 7:30 pm, before
their General Meeting at 8:30 pm.
Tonighfs topic: 'Sex and Spirituality." Dr.
Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, professor ofEnglish at William Paterson College andmember of the board of directors of theCenter for Sexuality and Religion, Is theguest. Morrietown Unitarian Fellowship.
21 Normandy Heights Rd. Morristown,
NJ. Info: GAAMC Gay Helpline: (201)285-1595.
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ACT UP General Mlltlng. Cooper Union.
Fourth Avenus at 7th Street. 7:30 pm.
Info: 564·AIDS.
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COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT Invitee
you to watch The Academy-Awards in abenefit for CHP.$50. 112 E. 19th St 7:30
pm. Afterwards, join CHP at the Pyramidat midnight, where they present Queer
Oscar, featuring Mistress of Ceremonies
Linda Simpson, and ,performances by
Shelly Mars, Frank Maya and Dlvlana
Ingravallo. Also expected to be on hand:Michelangelo Signori Ie, .Deborah Glick,Peter Adair. Michael Musto, Danltra
Vanci and Martin Duberman. $5. 101
Ave. A Info for both evenlll: (212) 6753559.
CELLBLOCK 28 presents the New YolI!
Strap and Paddle Association Party.
'For all of you who like to bend over andtake it like a man." Cellblock 28. 28 Ninth
Ave., between 13th and 14th streets.
Doore open 8 pm. (212) 733-3144.

TUESDAY, MARCH 26
LONG ISLAND GAY MEN'S GROUP presents an Open Forum. For complete
details on thie bi-monthly diecussion
group, contact LlGMG at (516) 6942407.
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS presents a
Health Seminar: Medical Treatments.
129 W. 20th St., third and sixth floors. 7
pm. For more information, call the GMHC

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THE LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY
MEDIATION SERVICE presentsa
Educallonal Forum discussing mediation, its benefits and how the Mediation
Service works. There will be a video, simulated mediation and a question-andanswer period. The Center. 208 W. 13th
Sl 7 pm. (212) 713-3089.
BRONX LESBIANS UNITED IN SISTERHOOD and GAY MEN OFTHE BRONX pressnt a Forum on ths domestic partnership bill. Invited speakers include
F.rnando F.rr.r, Bronx borough president; Carolyn Malon.y, council member
and chief sponsor of the legielation; andLiz Holtzman, comptroller of New York
City. One Fordham Plaza, suite 800. 7-9
pm. Info: Ron Jacobowitz at (212) 5198746 or Uea Winters at (212) 829-9817.
THE NINTH STREET CENTER presents
Quur QUllllonl;
Quur Answ.rs, aseries of rap groups whose focus is dsfinIng homosexuality
for the 1990s.
Tonight's topic: "Tired of the Bars? SameSex Relationships, Opposites Attract."
Facilitated by Ross Howard. 319 E. 9thSt, basemenl8-10 pm. (212) 228-5153.
LESBIANS AND GAY MEN OF NEWBRUNSWICK presents St.ph.n B.ck,
executive director of GLAAD, discussing
ways to end bias in the media against gay
men and leebians. Friends Meeting
House. 109 Nichol Ave. New Brunewick,
NJ. 8 pm. (908) 247-0515.
ACT UP presents Th.Truth About AIDS, ateach-In examining ten years of AIDS education, politics, media coverage, medical
and social resources. With Dr. Ernllt
Bruck.r, epidemiologist; Larry Kramer,
ACT UP founder. novelist and playwright;
and Ann Northrop, AIDS educator and ACT
UP member. Cooper Union Great Hall. 41
Cooper Square. 8 pm. (212) 353-4155.
THE CENTER presents Homo Lo" Song,"an original concert of love, passion andlight," performed by composer Dan
Martin and lyricist/performance
artistMichael BI.llo. Featuring Martin's live
piano and vocals and Biello's slides andperfb'rmance art vignettes. $7. The Center.
208 W. 13th Sl8 pm. (212) 620-7310.
STEVE MCGRAW'S SUPPER CLUB presentsJaml.
D. Roy and Frl.nds, anevening of cabaret featuring Ms. De Roy
and .Joy Behar, Ann. Francln., RUI!.rt
Holmll, Fr.ddl. Roman, Linda Wallem
and Jull. Wilson. $15 cover/$8 minimum. Steve McGraw's. 158 W. 72nd Sl
8 pm. Reservations: (212) 595-7400.
JOCELYN AND JULIE present Cllt Club
East. It's the regular Tueeday night dance
party, plus massages by Sh.lly Mars. $3
bsfore midnight/$5 after. The Pyramid.
101 Ave. A. Doors open at 10 pm. (212)473-7184.

BRONX AIDS SERVICES offers a Support
Group for HIV-Posilive Women. Shareyour concems, ideas and feelings. Freeand confidential. The moming program isin Spanish, the afternoon program is in
English. One Fordham Plaza, 8th floor.
Bronx. 10-11 am and 1:30-2:30 pm.
Info: Edith Gutierrez at (212) 933-24oo orlea Martinez at (212) 295-5605.
ANNTAYLOR presents A Taste of
Broadway, a store-opening and benefit
for AmFAR. AmFAR founding co-chair Dr.
Mathilde Krlm is scheduled to be there.
Admission includes a chance to win
prizes. $35/$50. AnnTaylor::.575 Fifth
Ave., at 47th St. 6-8 pm. Tfekets: Joy
Haber at (212) 719-0033.

trol of your life through good planning.
st. Vincent's Hospital. Cronin Building.
Tenth floor auditorium. 170 W. 12th St
8-10 pm. Info: (212) 721-1619.

7:30, it's First Tlm.rs Night, for women
who've never been to a SAL event before.
Bring snacks and drinks to share. Pleasecall 24 hours in advance to confirm all
SAL activities: (718) 965-7578.

KELLY'S presents Th. Mary Jo Com.dy
Show, starring Mary Jo Wobker, Carolyn
May, Suzanne Wlltenho.ner and Peggy
Boyc •. $5, plus a two-drink minimum.
Seventh Avenue South at Bedford Street
8:30 pm. Info: (914) 353-4168.

OPEN CIRCLE presents Celebrlte theGod/den.
Gather for the full moon.
Please arrive early, ae the ritual is onehalf hour long and begins promptly. The
Center. 208 W. 13th Sl 7-7:30 pm.

THURSDAY, MARCH 28

THE GAY AND LESBIAN ANTI-VIOLENCEPROJECT Peer CouMeling for survivorsof bias assault, domestic violence andsexual assault. Held every Wednesday
and Thursday from 6-,'1 pm. The Center.
~208 W. 13th Sl (212) 807-0197.

BRONX AIDS SERVICESoffers a Support
Group for HIV-Posltlve Wom.n. This Is
an ongoing, closed group. Individual consul1ations are required before admittance.
Free. 349 E. 149th St, room 609. Bronx.
11 am to 12:30 pm. Info: Donna Berschat (212) 585-5001.

QUEER NATION DYKES and DYKE
ACTION MACHINE present a Fund·Ralser
to send women to the National Lesbian
Conference. Party at the Pyramid, andhelp send a dyke to Atlan1a. The Pyramid.
101 Ave. A 8-11 pm.

THE GAY AND LESBIAN ANTI-VIOLENCEPROJECTPBBr Couns.llng for survivorsof bias assault, domestic violencs andsexual assault. Held every Wednesday
and Thursday from 6-,'1 pm. The Center.
208 W. 13th St (212) 807-0197.

BISEXUAL WOMEN'S SUPPORT GROUP
Gen.ral Meellng. Tonight's topic: "Our
Relationship to the Lesbian Community."
The Center. 208 W. 13th Sl 6:3Q-8 pm.
(212) 459-4784.

JUDITH'S ROOM presents B.cky Birth,
reading from her book, The Forbidden
Poems. Judith's Room. 681 Washington
St 7 pm. (212) 727-7330.

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HIV/AiDS Conc.rns Committee M.etlng.
169 Manhattan Ave., 14B, at 108thStrest 71lm. (2,12) 932-3138.

HIGH RISK READINGS present Gary
Indiana, Michael Lillell,
T.r.nc.
S.lIers and Lynne Tillman. The writers
will be reading from their work, whichappears in the anthology, High Risk.
Tower Books. Lafayette at Fourth Street

INTEGRAL YOGA INSTITUTE presents
PATH Seminars:
The Body-Mind
Connecllon. Tonight's topic: Being a
Caregiver. Seminar leader: Peter
Hendrickson, PhD, psychologist. $7 perclass (scholarships available). IYI. 227 W.
13th Sl7:30-9 pm. (212) 929-0586.

SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS prssents Couples Video Night. Meet SAL at
the video store to pick out the 1apes.7:30
pm. Please call 24 hours in advance toconfirm all SAL activities: (718) 965-7578.

SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS presents Pool Night. Featuring free pool,ping pong, billiards, air hockey and shooting hoops at Brownstone Billiard. Seventh
Ave. at Ratbush. Afterwards, relax at the
Roost at 9pm. Seventh Avenue at 8thStreet. The evening begins at 7 pm.
Please call 24 hours in advance to confirm all SAL activities: (718) 965-7578.
GAY MALE SIM ACTIVISTS present The
Next Voice You H.ar .... Dramatic readings of "sizzling and thought-provoking
srotic literature with SIM themes,"
including pieces written for staging rather
than solitary (i.e., one-handed) reading.
Tonight features the first public presen1ation of excerpts from the privately circulated Scenario for a Leather Fantasy, by
Jim St.wart of Fetters. The Center. 208
W. 13th Sl8 pm. (212) 727-9878.
A DIFFERENT LIGHT presents Nicol.
Bniisar4;"reading from her book, Picture
Theory. 548 Hudson St 8 pm. Info: (212)989-4850.
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BODY POSITIVE presents Personal
Rnane.s and HIV, a monthly orien1ation
forum. Topics include: immediate steps
you can take to protect your financial
future; getting and keeping life. medical
and disability insurance; selling life insurance policies for cash; and keeping con-

IN OUR OWN WRITE presents a RBBdlng,
with writers from the anthology, Naming
the Waves . Curated by Clrristian
McKewen, the reading features Roz
Calvert, Joan Larkin and Sapphire. $3
suggested donation. The Center. 208 W.
13th St 7:30 pm. Info: (212) 620-7310.
CRAZY NANNY'S presents Carla's Rock'n' Roll Party. Featuring a live band.
$5/free with invite. 21 Seventh Ave.
South. 8 pm.
TOD'S presents a Somerset County NOW
Benelll Dinner. The speaker is Delight
Dodyk, a professor of history at Drew
University.
2 Georges Rd. New
Brunswick, NJ. Call for complete details
and tickets: (201) 545-8990.
JULIUS presents Foot friends Bar Night,
for men into bare feet, eocks, sneakers,
boots, shoes and all types of feet andfoot-gear action. Here's your chance tomeet in a friendly, supportive, social
atmosphere. Julius. 159 W. 10th St.
9:30-11 pm. Info: Andy Rowe at (212)675-7352.

FRIDAY, MARCH 29
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS presents Thirty-Pius Night Out. For womenover 30, SAL keeps it cheap with pizza anda movie at the Plaza Twin. Also tonight, at

BODY POSITIVE friday Night Social, for
all HIV-positive individuals and theirfriends. Fre. Middle Collegiate Church. 50
E. 7th St., off Second Ave. 8-10 pm.
(212) 721-1346.

SATURDAY, MARCH 30
INTEGRAL YOGA INSTITUE presents
Hatha Yoga Class. Hatha Yoga refers to
the physical postures, deep relaxation
and breathing practices which revitalize
and strengthen the body and calm themind. This class is especially for those
who are HIV-positlve. IYI. 227 W. 13th
St. 12-1:30 pm. (212) 929-0586.
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER presents Day of Indulg.nce. Your choices:haircut, massage, facial, manicure. pedicure, reflexology or card and palm reading. $10 per indulgence, or $40 for a full
package. The Center. 208 W. 13th St 12-7
pm. Call for reservations: (212) 222-9794.
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS visits
the ClroulIl
Reopening in Prospect
Park at noon-an historic thrill for only
50 cents. Then, at 1:30, it's the SAL Gil.
and Pals Sports Picnic, a monthly mixer
for gay men and women. Bring food andsporting equipment. Then, at 7,SAL
lakes a trip to the West Village for a k.d_lang Party. Featuring k.d:s very own chillrecipe (though not k.d. herself). Pleasecall 24 hours in advance to confirm all
SAL activities: (718) 965-7578.
CONGREGATIONBETH SIMCHAT TORAH
presents a Jewl.h Women'. Rosh
Chodnh/New
Moon
C.lbrIUon.
Congregation Beth Simchat Torah is New
York's lesbian and gay synagogue. 57
Bethune St 7:30 pm. (212) 929-9498.
THE NINTH STREET CENTER presents
Qu .. r Qu •• tlons, Quur Answlrs, aseries of rap groups whose focus Is
defining homosexuality for the 1990s.
Tonight's topic: "Anger: When Is It a
Useful Reeponse?" 319 E. 9th St., basement. 8-10 pm. (212) 228-5153.

SUNDAY, MARCH 31
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS presents Brunch at the Seventh Avenue
Kosher Deli as an "alternative to all thisEaster nonsense." 90 Seventh Ave.,
between Berkeley and Union streets.
Then, at 3, it's an Easter Egg Hunt in
Prospect Park. Please call 24 hours inadvance to confirm all SAL activitlee:(718) 965-7578.
EIGHlY EIGHTS presents Thl Rirtatlolll.
The a capella, openly gay and politically
active men's singing group will be performing one time only. $10 cover plus a
two-drink minimum. 228 W. 10th St 5:30

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PEOPLE WITH AIDS COALITION presents
a Sunday Evening Weekly Social for gay
men and lesbians who are HIV-positive or
have AIDS, and theirfriends. PWAC Livingroom. 6:30-9:30 pm. (212) 889-2334.

MONDAY, APRIL 1
THE MOMENTUM PROJECT presents
Volunteer Orientation. Momentum provides communal meals, clothing and groceries to people living with HIV and AIDS.
19 W. 36th St. 6:15-7:45
pm. Info:
Sandra Levine at (212) 268-2610.
NEW YORK ADVERTISING AND COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK presents the first
NYACN/PFV Reel Night, directed by Dan
Berkowitz.
PFV screens the best of their,best for NYACN members. Downtown
Community TV Center. 87 Lafayette St.
6:30 pm. Info: (212) 517-0380.
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SAGE presents Adult Survivors 01 Sexual
Abuse, an experiential therapy group for
women ages 21 and up to support therecovery process and free you from the pain
and silence of sexual abuse. Psychotherapists: Joyce Z. Meyers, CSW and Robbye
Stuart-Russell, MA The Center.208 W. 13th
St 7~:3O pm. (212) 741-2247.

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ACT UP General·Meetlng. Cooper Union.
Fourth Avenue at 7th Street. 7:30 pm.
Info: 564-AIDS.
IN OUR OWN WRITE Writer's Wortlshop
for lesbian and gay writers. Workshops
are held on the first and third Mondays ofthe month. Please bring work. The
Center. 208 W. 13th St 8-10 pm. (212)620-7310.
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HIGH RISK READINGS present Bob
Flanagan, Mary Galtsklll, Ana Marla
Sima, David Trinidad
and David
Wolnarowlcz. The writers will be readingfrom their work, which appears in theanthology, High Risk. There will be a publication party after the reading. The
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GAY MEN OF THE BRONX General
Meeting. 1 Fordham Plaza, 8th floor. 6-8
pm. Info: Chris (212) 0806 (English) or
Robert (212) 882-3404 ..

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GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS presents a
Health Seminar: Benefits Informallon.
129 W. 20th St., third floor. 7 pm. For
more information, call the GMHC hollineat (212) 807-6655. IDD (212) 645-7470
for the hearing impaired .

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THE COALITION FOR LESBIAN AND GAYRIGHTS General Meellng. The Center.
208 W. 13th St 8 pm. (212) 627-1398.

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Queer QU8l1l0ns, Queer Answers, aseries of rap groups whose focus isdefining homosex.uality for the 1990s ..
Tonight's topic: "Tired of the Bars? I Just
Don't Fit Inl" Facilitatedby Larry
Wheelock. 319 E. 9th St., basement.
8-10 pm. (212) 228-5153.
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RIGHTS, STONEWALL DEMOCRATICCLUB and LOG CABIN CLUB present Do
You Like to 'Be Called Queer? Invited
speakers include: Stephen Beck, executive directorof GLAAD; Warren
Johannsen, Encyclopdia of Homosexufrom Lesbianality; representatives
Feminists/Radical
Lesbians; Donna
Mlnkowltz, lesbian journalist for the
Village Voice; representatives from Queer
Nation; and Dr. Campion Reed, a member of the Stonewall Democratic Club.
The Center. 208 W. 13th St 8 pm. Info:(212) 627-1398.
TWENTYSOMETHING presents a Rap
GroUl!, addressing "Body Image." $3.The
Center. 208 W. 13th St 89:30 pm. Info:
Perry at (212) 242-3038.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3
BRONX AI.DS SERVICES offers a Support
Group for HIV-Posltlve Women. Shareyour concerns, ideas and feelings. Freeand confidential. The moming program isin Spanish, the afternoon program is in
English. One Fordham Plaza, 8th floor.
Bronx. 10-11 am and 1:30-2:30 pm.
Info: Edith Gutierrez at (212) 933-2400 or
lsa Martinez at (212) 295-5605.
THE GAY AND LESBIAN ANTI-VIOLENCEPROJECT Peer Counseling for survivorsof bias assault, domestic violence andsexual assault. Held every Wednesday
and Thursday from 6-8 pm. The Center.
208 W. 13th St (212) 807-0197.
JUDITH'S ROOM presents Claire McNab,
reading,from her book, Cop Out, thefourth Detective Inspector Carol Ashton
mystery. 681 Washington St 7 pm. (212)727-7330.
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS,presents Pool Night. Featuring free pool,ping pong, billiards, air hockey andshooting hoops at Brownstone Billiard.
Seventh Ave. at Flatbush. Afterwards,
relax at the Roost at 9 pm. Seventh
Avenue at 8th Street The evening begins
at 7 pm. Please call 24 hours in advanceto confirm all SAL activities: (718) 9657578.
ORGANIZATION FOR GAY AWARENESS
presents Dr. Richard Plant, author of The
Pink Triangle, speaking about Nazi persecution of lesbians and gay men. The
evening will include information from Dr.
Plant's recent inspection of newly opened
archives in what was formerly East
Germany. St George's Church. The corner of Ridgewood and Woodland roads.
Maplewood, NJ. 8:30 pm. (201) 7435322.

THURSDAY, APRIL 4
LONG ISLAND GAY MEN'S GROUP presents Bar Night at Grand Central. For
complete details, contact LlGMG at (516)694-2407.
BRONX AIDS SERVICES offers a Support
Group for HIV-Posltlve Women. This isan ongoing, closed group. Individual consultations are required before admittance.
Free. 349 E. 149th St, room 609. Bronx.
11 am to 12:30 pm. Info: Donna Berschat (212) 585-5001.

THE GAY AND LESBIAN ANTI-VIOLENCEPROJECT Peer Counseling for survivorsof bias assault. domestic violence andsexual assault. Held every Wednesday
and Thursday from 6-8 pm. The Centsr.
208 W. 13th Sl (212) 807-0197.
ACT UP OUTREACH COMMITIEE presents Falhlon Fcir Action, a benefit auction to send a representativeof theOutreach Committee to the SeventhInternational
AIDS Conference
In
Florence, Italy. A parnallist of contribu·
tors includes: Andy VII entin, Dlyld
Spada Dalgn, Lee Chappell, UYing Dollby Amanda Uprlchards, and Mlchlll
Kors. $5 admission. Visa. MasterCard andAmerican Exprees accepted at the auction. The Center. 208 W. 13th St. 7 pm.
Info: Andy Valentin at (212) 564-2437.
TOWER BOOKS presents Bo HUlton,
Marti Ameen, Patrick Moore and 8tan
Leventhal, reading from, their moet
recent works. Lafayette lit Fourth Street.
8 pm.
GAY WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVE presents
Robin Morgan, political activiet and editor
in chief of the new M•. magazine, in
Another Around the Wor1d in 80 Minuteewith Robin Morgan. For women only. $5.
The Universalist Church. Cenbal Partl Westat 76th Street. 8 pm. (212) 595-8410.

FRIDAY, APRIL5,MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGHETER present thsl r Slventh AnnUli Pilsover
Seder. The Center. 208 W. 13th St 7 pm
sharp. (212) 222-9794.

St 12-1:30 pm. (212) 929-0586.
LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND goes to see MI"
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DIXON PLACE presents
Mltthew
Courtney In a new poetry performancethat works with "found conversations,rhymes and rhythms of speech'. Also on
the bill, Jasmine, who brings you"impressions of the abysmal drudgery
which pa8888 for life,today" while accompanying herself on the accordion. $6 or
TOE 37 E. 1st St., between First andSecond avenues. 8 pm. (212) 673-6752.
MAXWELL'S presents Two Nice Glrll,
live in concert Other bands will also be
playing tonight. In between bands,
OutWeeKs own Madam X will be spinning records "for your non-dancing education." Maxwell's. 1039 Washington St
Hoboken, NJ. (201) 798-4064.

SUNDAY, APRIL 7
THE GIRTH AND MIRTH CLUB presents
Brunch at the Dugout Christopher Street
at Weehawkin Street 12 pm. Info: (914)699-7735.
AMERICAN GAY AND LESBIAN ATHEISTS Monthly Meeting. AGLA is a non- .
profit, educational organization dedicatedto preserving separation between stateand church and upholding the civil rightsof lesbian and gay atheists. The Center.
208 W. 13th St 1-3 pm. Info: Dial-A-Gay
Atheist at (718) 899-1737.

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THE ANSWER IS LOVING presents
Women
Talking
Women's
Talk:
Women's Passover Seder, dinner and asubstance-free, sugar-free, smoke-freeevening with women of all backgrounds;
reading from a Hagadah for women
about women. $15. 1964 E. 35th St.
Brooklyn. 7 pm. Info: R.uth·Berman andConnie Kurti at (718) 998·2305.
GAY FATHER'S FORUM General
Meellng. The Center. 208 W. 13th St 7
pm. (212) 288-3236.
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS presents First llmel1 Aprtl Fool's Plrty andGame Night Specially designBd for women
who've never been to a SAL event before.
Bring snacks, drinks and games. 7:30 pm.
Pleass call 24 hours in advance to confirm
all SAL activities: (718) 965-7578.
DIXON PLACE presents Richard Eloylch
in Someone EI.e From Quellns I. Queer,
a new solo play written and performed by
Elovich and directed by Itamar Kubovy.
Also on the bill for tonight. EII.. n Myla"does verbal improv or else talks." $6 or
TOE 37 E. 1st St., between First andSecond avenues. 8 pm. (212) 673-6752.

JUDITH'S ROOM presents Loul .. Rafkln
and contributors, reading from Different ~Mothers: Sons and Daugthersof
Lesbians Talk About Their Lives .. 681
Washington St 3 pm. (212) 727-7330:

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PEOPLE WITH AIDS COALITION:ptesenlBa Sunday Evening Weekly Social for gay
men and lesbians who are HI\(~positiveor have AIDS, and their friends. PWAC
Living room. 6:30-9:30 pm. (212) 8892334.
DIXON PLACE presents Marti Ameen andPaula Martlnac, reading in the poetry
and fiction series cllrated by Cathy
Taylor, owner of mosaic Books. $6 or
TOE Dixon Place. 37 E. 1st St, between
First and Second avenues. 8 pm. (212)673-6752.
MOVEMENT RESEARCH presents Thr .. Day PlI .. Up, featuring performances anddiscussion
by Laurie Carlos, TIre
O'Connor,
DANCENOISE, Jennifer
Monson, Kate Stafford and Eileen
Myles. $5. 179 Varick St 8:30 pm. (212)691-5788.

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INTEGRAL YOGA INSTITUE presents
Hatha Yoga Clan. Hatha Yoga refers to
the physical postureS, deep relaxation
and breathing practices which revitalize
and strengthen the body and calm themind. This class is especially for those
who are HIV-positive. IYI. 227 W. 13th"•Tuning In: A TV/Radio Guide for OutWeek Readers,,,

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ME (Arts & Ern, 555 Fifth Ave, 10th FI, NYC 10017;661-4500)
CCTV (Rick X, Box 790, NYC 10108).
GBS (Gay Broadcasting System, Butch Peaston, 1787th Ave, Ste. A-3, NYC 10011;
243-1570)_
GCN (Gay Cable Network, lou Maletta, 32 Union Square East. Suite 1217; 4n- .
4220),:" ...
GUB (Gay and Lesbian Independent Broadcasters. (212) 473-1689.)"'.'
GMHC (Gay Men's Health Crisis, Jean Carlomusto, 129W 20 St, NYC 10011; 8077517)
RB PROD (Robin Byrd Prod., Box 305, NYC 10021;988-2973)
WABC-TV (T7 W 63 St, NYC 10023; 456-7777)
WBAI-FM (505 8th Ave, 19th FI, NYC 10018;279-0707)
WCBS-TV(51 W52StSt, NYC 10019;975-4321)
WNBC-TV (30 Rockefeller Plaza, NYC 10112; 664-4444)
WNET-TV (356 W 58 St, NYC 10019; 560-3000)
WNYW-TV(Fox, 1211AV/AM, NYC 10036;556-2400)
WPIX-TV (220 E 42 S1; NYC 10017; 949-1100)

MONDAY, MARCH 18
9:00 AM WIND-lV Best Talk Scheduled: Promoting racial and ethnic
understanding in New York City. CH 11.
11:30 AM MAXA Woman's Face Joan Crawfrod stars as a scarred blackmailer who embraces a career of crime to get even with society.
Repea1ed Friday at 6 am.
1:30 PM WUSB 90.1 FM The Ward Is OutMarc Gunning hosts a weeldy lesbian, gay and bisexual variety show.
2:00 PM WUSB 90.1 FM Lavender Wimmin News, songs and music produced by women for women.
2:30 PM WUSB 90.1 FM This Way Out More queer news.
8:00 PM WABC-lV Barbara Walters She talks to Jeremy Irons and ,Sophia
Loren, but watch especially for Whoopi Goldberg, who's been both adreamboat and a nightmare to our community in the past CH 7.
8:30 PM Manhattan Cable The Brenda and Glennda Shaw CH 17
9:00 PM WABC-lV Academy Awards Just watch. You never know whatmight happen. CH 7.
9:00 PM GBS Out in the 90's. community news, discussion, interviews. BQ
Cable, CH 56 (1:00)
10:00 PM BRV Ten Great Writers Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen is profiled.
10:35 PM TBS What Ever Happend tv Baby Jane? Betts Davis and Joan
Crawford doing the things that Bette and Joan do.
11:30 PM Tomorrow/Tonight live: entertainment; Manhattan and Paragon
Cable, CH 0/17 (1:00)
Midnight CClV The Closet Case Shaw. Kloset Klips; Manhattan IParagon• Cable, CH C/16 {:30{~

TUESDAY, MARCH 26
7:00 AM WCBS-lV This Morning Scheduled: Part two in a sexuality series.
(Part one was never listed.) CH 2.
12;00 PM SHO Cry-Baby John Waters' latest movie. Johnny Depp stars.
. Repea1ed at 10 pm,
5:30 PM WFOX-lV Mr. Belvedere 'One of Wesley's classma1es, ahemophiliac, contracts AIDS and is ostracized." CH 5. "8:05 PM TBS Rebecca One of Hitchcock's best. about a woman haunted by
the specter of her husband's former wife. Joan Fontaine stars.
10:00 PM DIS Judy Garland: The Concert Years A Disney version of Judy,with host Lorna Luft and all your Judy fave~:
10:00 PM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and female strippers;
Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:oo)•
10:30 PM LlF Legends in Love Speaking of camp queens, this 'documentary'
profiles Princess Grace, Uz Taylor, Princess Di and Evita Peron.
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11:00 PM GBS Out in the 90's. news, information and intervtews;
Manhattan/paragon
Cable, CH C/16 (1:00)-•

9:00 AM WIND-lV Best Talk Scheduled topic: sexual harassment
11:30 PM MAX Cleo/Leo A male chauvinist is mysteriously transformed intoa woman, Viewers interested in drag should note that a man and awoman play the male and female parts.
Midnight RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and female strippers, live
call-in show; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35,

THURSDAY, MARCH 28
Noon MAX Mothra Probably the best Godzilla spinoff ever.
1:00 P~ WBAI-FM This Way Out; the international gay/lesbian news magazine; 99.5 FM (:30)
1:30 PM WBAI-FM An Afternoon Outing: local news and infonnation about
the gay and lesbian community with Lany Gutenburg; 99.5 FM (:30)
3:30 PM WNBC-lV Phil Donahue Scheduled: Jeanne White, mother ofRyan. For television's version of that story, see Tuesday at 5:30 pm. CH 4.
5:00 PM WNET- TV Sex and Gender No program description was available
for this installment of the show Discovering Psychology. CH 13.
9:00 PM HBO The ,Josephine Baker StoryShe was fabulous, but we canonly cross ourfinges about the movie.
10:00 PM WUNI-lV Fama YFortuna Invitado: el director Pedro Almodovar.
CH 41.
10:00 PM GCN Be Our Guest entertainment for and about the lesbian/gay
community; Manhattan Cable, CH 0/17 (:30)
10-.30PM GMHC living With AIDS: health and politics; Manhattan Cable, CH
V/35 (:30).
11:00 PM GCN Gay U.S.A.: news and entertainment from around the country; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:00)
Midnight GCN Men in Rims. male erotica, interviews with adultfilmstars;
Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:30) ,,12:30 AM RB PROD Men For MerT. Robin Byrd presents gay male pornostars; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:30)

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2:30 PM WBAI-FM Rompiendo el Silenciu: todos los viernes, Goozalo. Aburto con temas y noticias para la comunidad latina gay y lesbiana;
99.5 FM (:15)
7:00 PM WBAI-FM AIDS In Focus, Michael Alealey, produc 1:00 AM RB
PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and female strippers; Manhattan
Cable, CH V/35 (1:OO)
1,
8:30 PM BET Conversation With Ed Gordan Scheduled: Whitney Houston.
Maybe she'll talk about her hubby-to-be. Repeated at 1:30 am.

),.;- SATURDAY, MARCH 30
8:30 AM WBAI-FM Any Saturday with, Dllyid Rothenberg; live call-in; 99.5

FM (2:00)\
7:00 PM GCN Gay U.S.A: news and entertainment from around the country;
Ba. Unity, Ar;..J Cable, CH 56 (1:oo) lForManhattan Cable, see THURSDAy)
11:00 PM Gay Tv. male porn; Marihattan Cable, CH V/35
1:30 AM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male & female strippers;
Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:oo),.,

SUNDAY, MARCH 31
7:30PM WBAI-FM The Gay Shaw Alternates with Outlooks. 99.5 FM (1:oo).
10-.30PM RB PROD Men For Men: Robin Byrd presents gay male pornostars; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:301
11:00 PM GaS Way Outl Mark Chesnut and Michelle VanVoorhies hostRich Volo is the producer. CH C/16 (:30)
Well, that's it for this queer week in television. Sorry if it seems a little
slim--but then, we've known fora long time thBt the mainstream medill
aren't our friends. There are some good Hitchcock movies on. Might as well
give those a tty. Or there's lliways the movies. Anyone far Silence of theLambs? See you nllirt week.

-Ed.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27
7:00 AM WCBS-lV
series. CH 2.

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• Hatfield's (women's nights are TUE & FRI)
126-10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens, Queens;718/261-8484'
Mea Culpa (For men, with video and live entertainment. $7/$10.) 47 W. 20th St. (212) 807-.

Private Eyes (Marc Berkley's Kool Komrads;
strippers; downtown crowd, students, professionals. 2-4-1 drinks till midnight .$7) 12
W 21 St. (212) 206-7772.
Pyramid ( Ivory presents 'Gentle on My Mind,"
Opening March 4. No cover, no hassles, no
kidding.) 101 Avenue A. (212) 473-7184.

7840.

Tuesday• Clit Club (Drink specials till midnight. Lesbianerotic videos and slides. $3 before midnight/$5 after.) Pyramid. 101 Avenue A. (212)473-7184.
.ll'Club Edelweiss (TIs, TSs, gays, bi's, singles, couples·; Tuesdays are especially for
lesbians, but everyone is welcome.) 167 W.
29th St. (212) 868-6989.
Danceteria (Coming soon: Chip Duckett's gay
Tuesdays. Keep your eyes on this space for
opening.) 29 E. 29th St.
• Grand Central (Women's nighttonight. Mixed
We-Su.) 210 Merrick Rd. Rockville Centre,
LL (516) 536-4800.
Jack Officer's Club (Cruising, Bruising, Drinking'ilnd Carousing. Audio, Video and Manual
Manipulation by OJ Craig. $3) 505 E. 6th St.,between avenues A and B.
Roxy (John Blair's 'Muscle on Wheels." Gayrollerskating. Doors open at 8 pm. Varied
cover.) 515W 18 St. (212) 645-5156.

Wednesday
ll'Channel69 (Drag Extravaganza, with Unda
Simpson. Go-go stars, OJ Dany Johnson.
Sexy, upbeat, East Village fag and dyke
crowd. $5.) Pyramid. 101 Avenue A. (212)473-7184.
The Building (Dallas' The Boys' Room. House
music, downtown crowd, go-go boys and a
60-foot ceiling. $101$7 with invite.) 51 W.
,"26th St. (212) 576-1890.
:. Excalibur (Ladies Night. $1 drinks.) Located;. atthe corner of 10th Street andJefferson
behind football stadium. Hoboken, NJ. (201)795-1161.
ll'Limelight (Disco 2000, with Michael Alig andLarry Tee. Doors open at 10 pm. $10.) Sixth
Avenue at 20th Street. (212) 807-7850.
ll'Limelight (Queer U. DJs Andy Anderson andKeoki. $51$10) Sixth Avenue at 20th Street.
(212) 807-7850.
• Cadillac Bar (Gini DeSantis presents Pure
Party Production Dances for Women. Freebuffet from 6-a pm. Renee Cooke, bartender. $5.) 16 W. 22nd St., between Fifthand Sixth avenues.
• f\'ivate Eyes (Shescape Afterwork Party from, 5-10 pm. 2-4-1 drinks before 7. $5 before 7
pm1$7 after.) 12 W. 21st St. Shescape: (212). 645-6479. Private Eyes: (212) 206-7772.
Private Eyes (YMVA Night. Students, professiOllal and women. Door often benefrts agayllesbian organization. $7.) 12 W. 21st St.
(212) 206-7772.
Silver Lining (2-4-1 drinks.) 175 Cherry Lane.
Floral Park, LI. (516) 354-9641.
Stutz (2-4-1 drinks.) 202 Westchester Ave.
White Plains, NY. (914) 761-3100.

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stairs, Egg Bank for Dykes features guest
DJs and hot and sleazy Girl Action. $101$7)
225 E. Houston St., at Essex Street. (212)505-5033. [Please note: The Bank is closed
until March 30.]
Blacglama (Celebrating gay men and women ofcolor. Bi-montly; next is Feb. 28.) Pyramid.
101 Ave. A. (212) 473-7184.
ll'Copacabana (Susanne Bartsch. Last Th of themonth. Iffy door) 10 E. 60th St., at Fifth
Avenue. (212) 755-6010.
Excalibur ($1 drinks.) Located atthe comer of
10th Street andJefferson behind footballstadium. Hoboken, NJ. (201) 795-1161.
Hatfiald's (2-4-1 drinks, female impersonators.)
1Z6-10 Queens Blvd. Kew Gardens, Queens.
(718) 261-8484.
More Men (Tony, Keith and Dominic present OJ
Tommy Richardson, go-go boys, videos, billiards. $10/$7 with invite.) 239 EleventhAve.(212) 633'{)701.
Stingray's (New club, new sound system,
everything else is a surprise. No covertonight) 641 W. 51st St. (212) 664-8668.

FridayABC (Chip Duckett's ABC Fridays, OJ Merritt;ballroom, balcony, boogying; $101$7 w.
invite; opened Nov. 16) 17 Irving Place at 15
St.
bThe Bank (Alternative Music Night, hosted by
Lee Chappell, David Leigh and Michael T. OJ
Ralph Duncan. Mixed crowd. $101$7.) 225 E.
Houston St., at Essex Street. (212) 505-5033[Please note: The Bank is closed until March
30.].Clit Club (Jocelyn & Julie, Every Friday Party;
go-go girls, lesbo videos; opens 8 pm, billiards & $1 drinks between 8 and 9 pm; $5)
432 W 14 St; 406-1114
Columbia Dances (1st Friday of every month,
Earl Hall, 10 pm-2 am.) 116th St &Broadway; 854-3574 days

Meat on Friday (Xclusive performances at 1:30
am. OJ Nobody's Pussy. $5.) Pyramid. 101
Avenue A. (212) 473-7184.
• Millannium (Ladies' Nigh~ 1770 NY Ave (Rte110), Huntington, LI; 5161351-1402
Privete Eyas (YMVA Night; students, professionals, men) 12 W 21 St. 206-7772
Stingray's (New club, new sound system. Free
before 10 pm. $7 after.) 641 W. 51st St. (212)664-8668• Visions 56-01 Queens Blvd, Woodside,
Queens; info 7181846-7131, club 718/899-9031

SaturdaybThe Bank ( Controversy. OJ Patrick Butts. Dragqueens, drinking, dancing and scandal •$15/$10/$7.)225 E. Houston St., at Essex
Street. (212) 505-5033. [Please note: The
Bank is closed until March 30.)
Canter (2nd & 4th Sat, 9 pm to 1 am, $8. OJ Peter
Arden.) 208 W 13 St; 620-7310• Canter ('Women & Friends." Every first
Saturday. Next is April 6. OJ Gini DeSantis. 9
pm to 1 am.) 208 W 13 St. (212)620-7210.
.Clit Club (Jocelyn and Julie expand to both
weekend nights.) The Pyramid. 101 Ave. A.
(212) 406-1114.
Club Wast End (Michael Fesco's Saturdays;
midnight - 9 am) 547 W 21 St
Columbia Dances (SamE BuT DifferenT. Third
Saturday dances. OJ Karin Ward, 10 pm - 3
am; $5) Earl Hall, 116 St/B'way; 629-1989
419419 N. Highway, Southampton, LI; 5161283-•

5001
Love Zone (dancing & performers) 70 Belich ~t,Staten Island; 718/442-5692'
b.Girl Saturdays (Shescape presel)ts Satur,
day Nights for Women.WIth go-go gilts anda guest OJ. $8 before 10:30/$10 after.) 20/20.
20 W. 20th St., between Rfth and Sixth
avenues. (212) 645-6479.
Meat (OJ Aldo Hernandez, every Saturday; gogo boys, videos; opens 10 pm; $5)432 W 14
St.
ll'Roxy (Locomotion; gay boys, guys, men; nongay women, some lesbians; mix depends on
party) 515 W 18 St (btwn 10/11 Aves); 6455156• Silver Lining (women's Sat) 175 Cherry Lane,
Floral Park, LI; 516/354-9641
Sound Factory (Mixed crowd but mostly gay.
Serious House music offered. No alcohol.
Doors open at 11 pm.) 530 W. 27th St.,between Tenth and Eleventh avenues. (212)643-0728.
Stingray's (Brand new club, brand new sound, system, everything else is a surprise. $8.)
641 W. 51stSt. (212)664-8668
The World (Christina Vista and Junior Vazquez
present an after-hours party. Doors open at
midnight) 254 E. 2nd St., at Avenue C.

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bCrazy Nanny's (Sunday evening Tea Dance.
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*FUCKI (DJs Craig and Victor spin industrial,_house, bass, soul and twirly disco. 'Downstairs, the Lesbian Luv Lounge with OJ
Lori E. Seid and guest DJs. $5.) Pyramid. 101.Avenue A. (212) 473-7184.
Kelly's (OJ Moaning Lisa spins the records for
dancing dykes. Doors open at 8 pm. $3.) 46
Bedford St (212) 929-9322.
Monster (Sunday Tea Dance at 4 pm; dancingals!) on other nights from 10 pm) 80 Grove St
at Sheridan Sq.; 924-3557
Safe $lm~!lYS(Kool Komrads' party at theCa~illac Bar; go-go boys, $2 shots, $5 beer
bias from 5-8 pm.) 15 W. 21st St (212) 645- •

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The Break, 232 Eighth Ave. (22nd St.) 627-0072
Cellb(ock 28, 28 Ninth Ave., 733-3144(M-W)
Chelsea Transfer, 131 Eighth Ave. (bet 16th and17th) 929-7183 .
'Eagle's Nest, 142 Eleventh Ave. (21stSt) 691-8451,
Private Eyes, 12W. 21st St (bet Fifth and Sixth
Aitenues) 206-7770
Rawhide, 212 Eig~th Ave., (21st St.), unlisted
Spike, 120 Eleventh Ave., 243-9688
The Vault; 28 Ninth Ave., 733-3144 (F, 7-11 pm,
women) 255-6758

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bSOBs (Leticia Montalvo presents The Lust
House. First Sunday of the month only.
Grand opening April 7, with OJ Marlow. $5.)
204 Varick St, at Houston. (212) 243-4940.
20/20 (Michael Fes,co's Tea Dance, opens 4 pm;$6; free Mimosas .& BMs from 4-6, buffet at7:30) 20 W 2QSt;727-8841.

Every Night (or almost)West Village .

• Bedrock (lesbian club, closed MaN .&TUE)
121 Woodfield Rd" W. Hempstead, U;
516/486-9516*Club Edelweiss ('TVs, TSs, gays, bi's, singles,
couples all welcome'; TUE for lesbians, but
open to all TUE-SUN night) 167 W 29; 8686989
419 (nightly Gay House Party, opens 6 pm) 419
N. Highway (Ate 27), Southampton, U;
516/283-5001,
Grand Central (closed Mon, 2-4-1 drinks
ThursdQY) 210 Merrick Road, Rockvilte
Centra, U; 516/536-4800
Magic Touch (ethnic mix: Anglo/Latin/Asian) 731337th Rd, Jackson Heights, Queens;718/429-8605.'
Monster (West Village) 80 Grove 8t at Sheridan
Sq.; 924-3557,,• Pandora's Box (formerly the Duchess)
Sheridan Square.& 7th Avenue. (212) 2421408.
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The Pyramid (Look under daily listings for individual parties and themes. Also check Going
Out'for special events.) 101 Ave.A. (212)P3-7184.
Spect{Um (good mix of gay men.& lesbians;"
closed Mon- Tue, WED free, THU free .& 2-4-1
drinks, FAI male/female strippers, SAT
recording stars, SUN variety show.& freea~mission 9-10 pm; Coors served) 802 64th St'@ 8th Ave, Bay Ridge, Bldyn; 718/238-8213.
• TO~'$ (Night club and restaurant, Mostly
women, but men are OK.) 2 ~eorges Rd.
New Brunswick, NJ. (201) '545-8!19o••

Badlands, Christopher and West streets, 741-9236
Boots.& Saddle, 76 Christopher St, 929-9684
Crazy Nanny's 21 Seventh Ave. South, 366-6312(women)D.T.'s Fat Ca~,281W.l2th St,243-9041-,,Pandora's B~x, 70 Grove St. (Seventh Ave.) 2421408(women)
Dugout, 185 ChristopherSt, 242-9113 (formerly the
Ramrod).

Eighty·Eights, 228 W. IOth,St, 924·0088
The Hangout (J's) 679 Hudson St,242·9272
Julius, 159W., 10th St.,929·9672.
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Keller's, 384 West St/Christopher, 243·1907
Kelly's Village West. 46.Bedford St,929-9322
Marie's Crisis, 59 Grove St, (Seventh Ave.) 243-

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New Jimmy's 53 Christopher St, 463-0950
Ninth Circle, 139W. 10th St, 243·9204
Sneakers, 392 West St., 242-9830
Two Potato, 145 Christopher St., 242-9340 'Ty's, 114 Christopher St., 741·9641
Uncle Charlie's, 56 Greenwich Ave., 255-8787

West Side.Candle Bar, 309 Amersterdam Ave., 874·9155;,
Cat's,730 Eighth Ave., 221·7559
Don't Tell Mama, 343 W.46th St., 757-0788 .'Gents, 360 W. 42nd St., (Ninth Ave.)967·0659\' .
Sally's Hideaway, 264 W. 43rd St., 221·9152
Town .&'Country, Ninth Ave. at 45th St,307·1.503
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Bogart's, 320 E•.59th St., 688,8534'•
B[andy's Piano Bar, 235 E. 84th St.,650·1944
G.H. Club, 353E. 53rd St., 223·9752· Johnny's Pub, 123 E.47th St.,355·8714
NY Confidential, 306 E. 49th St.,308·8390
Rounds, 303 E.
. 53rd St., 593·0807 "South Dakaota, 405 3rd Ave., (29th St.) 684·8376
Star Sapphire, 400 E. 59th St., 688·4710
The Townho~se, 236 E. 58th St., 754·4849· Twenty·Nine Palms, 129 Lexington Ave., 686·8299

Staten Island "(ar.a cod. 718)
Sandcastie,88 Mills Ave., 447·9365,

East Village
The Bar, 68 2nd Ave., (4th St.) 674·9714
101 Avenue A. (former(ythe Pyramid), 101 Avenue
A,420·1590'Tunnel Bar, 1161st Ave., (7th St.) 777·9232,.

Brooklyn(area code 718)
After Five Plus, 5 Front St., 852·0139
Spectrum, 802 64th St., (Eighth Ave.), 745-9611
Sweet Sensations, 6322 20th St, 435·2580

Queens(area co'Cie718)
Breadstix, 113·24 Queens B(vd., Forest Hills,
236·0300

Friend's Tavern, 78·11 Roosevelt Ave., Jackson
Heights,397·7256
Hatfield's, 128·10 Queens Blvd.,Kew Gardens,
261·8484
Hideaway, 87-36 Parsons Blvd., Jamaica,657·4885
Love Boat, n·02 Broadway, Elmhurst, 29·8870,
Magic Touch, 73-13 37th Rd., Jackson Heights,
429·8605

Westchester,(ar.a cod. 914)
Playroom, 590 Nepperhan Ave., Yonkers, 965·6900
Stutz, 202 Westchester Ave., White Plains,
761·3100

Long Island

Nassau(ar.a cod. 516)
Bedrock, 121 Woodfield Rd., West Hempstead,
486-9516 (women)
Blanche, 47-2 Boundary Ave., Farmingdale, 694-

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Grand Central, 210 Merrick Rd., Rockville Centre,

536·4800
Pal Joey's, 2457 Jerusalem Ave., North Bellmore,
785-9301
Silver Lining, 175 Cherry Lane, New Hyde Park,354·9641
Station House Pub, 3547 Merrick Rd., Seaford, 785-

9808

Long Island,

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419,419 North Highway (At. 27), Southampton,.'

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Bunkhouse, 192 N. Main St, Sayville, 567·2865
Cherry's, Bayview Walk, Cherry Grove, Fire Island,
597·8820.
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Club Swamp, Disco/Annex Restaurant, Monta~kHwy, Wainscott, 537·3332
Ice Palace, Cherry Grove Beach Club, Fire Island,597-6800. .
Kiss, 161 Farmardie Dr., Lake Ronkonkoma, 467·9273
Club 608, 608 Sunrise Highway, W. Babylon,

661·9580
Millennium, 1770 New York Ave., Huntingdon,

351-1402
Starz, B36 Grand Blvd., Dear Park, 242·3857
Thunders, 894 Jericho Turnpike, Smithtown, 864·1410'New Jersey(area code 201)
Charlie's West, 536 Main St, E. Orange, 678-5002
Feather's,77 Kinderkamack Rd., River Edge,
342·6410
Friendly's Bar, 6310 Park Ave., West New York,854·9895
Excalibur, 10th and Jefferson, Hoboken, 795-1023
Nite Lite, 509 22nd St, Union City,863·9515
Vibrations, 165 Cedar Lane, Teaneck, 836-5518
Yacht Club, 366 Berksire Valley Rd., Jefferson,
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VOlu.... r Opportunili .. (718) 896~v9ice}(718}896-2985(TDD)ACT UP (AIDS CoDlilion III
Unlealh "-r)496A Hudson Street, Suite G4
NYC 10014 (212) 564-2437 A
diverse, non-partisan group ofindividuals united in anger andcommitted to direct actionto
end the AIDS crisis. Gen. meetings Mon. nights 7:30, in The
Great Hall, Cooper Union, on
Cooper Square between Astorand St Marks Place's.
AIDS RESOURCE CENTER (ARC)
Supportive housing for homeless PWAs (Bailey House andapartments). Non-judgemental
pastoral care for PWAs andloved ones. Volunteer opportunities. (212) 481-1270, 24 West
30th St., NYC 10001

ALOEClAPlN-NY(A,ian Le,biansof the East
Coa,I/Asian
Pacific Le.bian
Network-NewYork) We are apolitical, social and supportive
network of Asian Pacific lesbians. Planning meetings on the
1st Sunday and social eventson the last Friday of eachmonth. Call (212) 517-5598 formore infonnation.
AMERICAN GAY/LESBIAN ADf8STS
AGA.lncj701 7th Avenue, Suite
9W/New York, New York 10036
A non-profit, educational organization dedicated to preserving
separation between state andch9rch and upholding the civilrights of Lesbian and Gay Atheists. Meetings the firsts Sunday
Community Cen18r, 1 to 3 P.M. Diala Gay Atheists (716}899-1737, 24
hours;,. 'ARCS (AlDS-llelIItDd- ComrIInity SeMc_)
for D'utchess, Orange, Putnam,
Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster andWestchester
counties. AIDS
education, client services, crisis••
intervention,
support groups,
case management,
buddy andhospital visitor program. 214
Central Ave., White Plains, NY
10608 (914) 993-0006 838 Broadway, Newburgh, NY 12250 (914)562-5005 AIDSline (914) 993Il107

ASIANS" fRlEND5- NEW YORK
A not-for-profit
organization
which promotes friendships with
Asian/PacificIslander, AsianAmerican, and non-Asian gay
men 1hrough social, cultural, educational, and service activities
and programs. Call our Hotline:

212-874-5064, or write to: P.O. Box6828, NY. NY 10163-8m3.

ATR (AI)S TREATMENTRESOURCES,IIIC.)
Publishes a quartally Directol)' of
clinical trials of experimental
AIDS/HIV treatments in NY/NJ,
and Philadelphia, and has educational ma18riaW seminars for trial
panicipants. AlR also advocates
for improvements in the trial sys18m..25QW. 30th St,9th fl., NYC,
10001. (212)268-4196. Publications
free/donation requested.

BAR ASSOClA1l0N FOR/llMAN RIGHT'S
Lawyers Referral Service forthe Lesbian and Gay Community
Full Range of Legal Services(212) 459-4873 Free Walk-in
Legal Clinic. Tuesday 6-8 pm.
Lesbian & Gay Community
Centro Ground Roor
BIDS (BISEXUAL DOIoINANCE"
SUB_ION
GROUp)
Share S/M experiences
andfantasies with oti),ers in a positive, non"judgemental
atmosphere. First Sunday 'of themonth, 4:45pm at the Community Center 208 W. 13 Street,
NYC. This group is part of the
New York Area Bisexual Network.
BISEXUAL INFORMATION"COUNSEUNG SERVlCE.INC.
A professionaly
staffed, nonprofit organization for bisexuals, their families and partners,
fa cing problems of a psychological or medical kind. We also
work with those in doubt a bouttheir sexuality. Confidentiality isprotected by law. For information phone: (212) 496-9500-

BISEXUALPRIDEDISCUSSION GROUP
Topical discussions on issues ofinterest to the community in acongenial
atmosphere,
followed by an infonnal dinner ata friendly local restaurant.
Every Sunday, 3:00- 4:30pm at
1he Community Center 208 W. 13
Street, NYC. Part of the New
York Area Bisexual Network.
BIWAYS NEW YORKMonthly social,eve.nts for the
Bisexual commun[ty·and friends.
Call NYABNfor details of upcoming events. (212)459-4784'.. '.' BISEXUALYOUTH
Infon'lial social & support group
for,BiaQxual kidsfyouth. Monthly
ma-ating7potluck
lunch held
'1:00pmon fourth Sunday of themontli at members homes. Call
NYABN for 1his month's location.
This group is pa rt of the New YorkArea Bisexual Network. .
BWS-BRONX LESBIANS
UNITEDIN SJSTERJfOOD
Social, political and support
networking group for women.and their friends. Regular social
events and meetings on the first
and third Fridays of every
month. At The Community Center, 208 W. 13 Street, from 6:3()"8pm. For more info call Lisa at(212) 829-9617.
BODY POSITIVE
If you or your lover has tested
HIV+, we offer support groups,
seminars, public forums, reference library, referrals, social
activitie-s
and up-to-datenational monthly, 'THE BODY
POSITIVE" ($2!i/year). (212) 7211346.2095 Broadway, Suite 306,
NY, 10023
BROOICLYN'SL£SBIAN AND GAY
POUTJCAL CUJ8lA1011DA
IIIDEPENDENI' DEMOCRATS
Ll.D. endorses and works forcandidates in local, state andnational elections, lobbies for legislation, and conducts community
outreach through street fairs andmeetings on special topics. Join
us. 336 Ninth St, Suite 135 Brooklyn, NY11215 (718}96&-8482
CllClE OF MORE UGHT
Spiritual support and sharing in agay/lesbian affirmative group.
West-Park Presbyterian Church
165 West 88th Street Wed: worship service 6:30 pm, program
7:30. Marsha (212) 304-4373 Charlie (212) 691-7118.

COMMUNITY HEALTH
PROJECT
208 West 13th Street, NYC, NewYork 10011 For Appointments andInformation(212) - 675-3559(TIYNoice}PROVIDING CARING,SENSITIVE AND LOW COSTHEALTHCARE SERVICES TO THE
LESBIANAND GAYCOMMUNITYCOMMUNITY HEA1JH

PROJEcr. HEAlJllIllFORMA-

l10N UNE fUR mNS
Do you have questions about
BIPAC (BISEXUAL POunCAL• your health? Your Body? ComACTION COJlollollITTEE)
ing Out? Safer Sex? Feel like
Political action on issues ofyou have no one to talk to? Not
importance to the Bisexual /lesany morel Now you can call thebian/Gay community. Monthly
HOTT-lINE.212-255-1517The
meeting! potluck held 8:00pm on
Teen HOTT-LiNE for Healthl Callfourth Thursday of the month at
Monday to Thursday, 7pm tomembers homes. Call NYABNfor
9pm. At other times, leave athis month's location. ((2121 459message
and we'll call you
backl
4784

COMMIW4ITYRESEARCH INrnAllVECRI tes1S experimental drugs andtreatments
for AIDS and HIV
related illnesses. Monthly treatment and research group for HIV+
individuals.
Treatment
andresearch newsletter, forums andpublic seminars. Call Alice Spears
or Ken Fomataro at (212) 481-1~
for info and maning list
CONGREGAllON BETHSIMCHATTORAH
NY's Gay and Lesbian Synagogue
Services Friday at 8:30pm 57
Be1hune Street For info. call: (212)929-9498.
CONGREGAllON
B'NA1JESHURUN
Monthly Spriwal Gatherings andtnle ca18red fastiveluncheons for
a// People With AIDS, their lovers
and families. Program includes
music and discussion led by our
Rabbis. Call (212)787-7600

DIGMTYBIGAPPl£A community of Lesbilm and Gay
Catholics. Activities include liturgies and socials evel)' Sat, 8:00
pm, at the Center, 208 W. 13
Street, NYC.CaIl(212}816-1Q.

DIGNITY NEW YORK
Lesbian and gay Catholics andfriends AIDS Ministry, Spiritual
Development The Cathedral Project Worship S.ervices & SocialSun. Eves. 7:3OpIJt'St John's Epi&copal Church 21aWest 11th Street
C Waverty.875-2179
BlGE Education in a Di.... 1ed
Gay &MIDI.INIII
For the physically disa bled Lesbian and Gay Community. P.O.Box
305 Village Station, Now York. NY
10014
RIGHT RUNN8IS
A running club for lesbian and gay
athletes of all abilities. Fun Runsof 1-6 miles held every Sat. at
108m and Weds. at 7pm in Cantral
Park and every Tues. at 7pm in
Prospect Park. For information:
call (212) 724-9700.

Friday each month, 7pm, at The
Center, 208 W. 13th St., West of
7th Ave. Contribution: $8. Bring amain course for 4 people (or pay i$!i food charge.1 For infonnation
call: 212-979-7541 or212-286-3238
GIAAD -GIIy" Lesbi8llAlliMca
Apb. Defamation.

80 Varick Street, NYC 10013 (212)866-1700 GlAAD combats homophobia in the media and elsewhere by promoting visibility of
the lesbian and gay communityand organizing
gra18roots
response to anti-gay bigotry. Do
you have 30 minutes a month tofight homophobia?Jointhe
GlAAD PhoneTreelCall (212j-8661700for infonnation.

GlIl
Gay and Lesbian Independent
Broadcasters invites you to tune
into Ol1TLOOKSon WBAI-NY, 99.5
FM every other Sunday, 7:30&:3opm and join us &Vel)'Tuesday
at 7:00pm to 1t00p1n to become amember of GLIB. No experienceneeded. 505 Eighth Avenue, NY,
NY 10018 Attn: Outlooks or call(212) 24&838&-ask for GUB.

GAY"lESBIAN HEAIJII
CONCERNS
An office of the NYC Dept. of
Health, provides linkagesbetwn
NYC Health & Human Svcs, and,the Lesbian & Gay community,
focusing in ALL health concems;
resource information for healthservices
consumer,,andproviders. 125 Worth Street, Box
67, New York. NY 10013. For info
call (212) 566-4895.
GAYMAll St'M ACTMSTS
Dedicated to safe and responsi- ,ble S/M since 1981. Open meetings w/programs on S/M techniques,lifestyie issues, politicaland social concems. ;.w, special
events, speakers bureau, workshops, demos, affinity groups,
newalettar, more. GMSMA - Dept
O,496A Hudson Street, Suite D23,NYClOOI4.(212}m-9tf18. .
GMAn (GAYMEN OFAfIICANDESCEN1l

80 Varick Street, NYC10013 a sup-THE GAYAF!IICANAMERICANS OF
WESTCHESTER(Tha G.A.A.)
is a community based support
group formed in Westchester
County. Various activities areplanned for th~ coming months.
Call 914-3~mfor more info.

port group of Gay Men of African
Descent dedica18d to consciousnas&-raising and the developmentof the Lesbian and Gay Community. G~ is inclusive at African,
African-American, Canbbean alld
Hispanicl Latino men of color.
Meetings are held, weekly, on Fridays. For infonnatiori, call 718-

GAYrADfBl'S fURUM
A support organization for gay
father's, their lovers, and athers inchild-nurturingsituations.
Monthly meetings include a
po1luck supper, support groups on
varied specialized topics, speakers, and socializing.Meetings: 1st

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212-807-t855 212.a4s.;7470 TDB(Far'the ... ring Impaiiwd) Mon.Fri.ll1:3O a.m.1II 9 pm. 12:001II31lO•. GIRTH. MIRTH!

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Social club for heavy, chubby
gay men a their admirers.
Monthly socials at the 'Center",weekly bar nights Thursdays at
the 'Chelsea Transfer", monthly. Fit Apple Review, bi-monthly
F.A.R. pen pals. For more information call Ernie at 914-899-7735
or write: GaM/NY, Dept 0, P.O.
60x 10, Pelham, NY 1~

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Weekly info. and support groupfor treatments for AIDS which
do not compromise the immune
sYltem further, including alternative and holistic approaches.
Wed 8pm. 208 W. 13th St .
(212\674--HOPE.
HERITAGEOF PRIDE-INC.
Organizers of New York's Lesbian and Gay Pridi events: theMarch, the Rally and the Denceon thli Pier. Call (212) 891-1774
for meeting schedule or more
information.
'208 West 13thStreet, NY,NY 10011.

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for lesbian and gay youth. Counseling, drop-in center (M-F, 38pm), rap groups, Harvey Milk
High School, AIDS and safer
lex information, referrals, profeslional ,aducetion.(212) 8338920 (voice) (212)833-8928
for deaf.

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HISPANIC UNITED
GAVS.IESBIANS•
Educetionalsarvices,
political
action, counseling and social
activities in Spanish and English
by and for the Latino Lasbia.n and
Gay Community. General meetings,8:00 pm 4th Thursday of every
month .t 208 WfIItt 13th Street CaR
201-863-7824 orwri1a H.U.GL, P.O.
Box 228 Canal Street Station, New
YOlk,NY 10019.

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Now in our 20th year, we provide
peer counseling, therapy referrail and groupl for the lesbian,
gly and bisexual community.
Call us at (212) 243-8181. Visit us
at 544 8th Ave., bet.ween 14th1~ Stree1ll, Mimhattan.
INTERNAnONAL GAY &lESBIAN HUMAN RIGHTS
CO....
SlON
workl to foeul the spotlight ofworld opinion on the oppresaion of gays and lesbians
throughout the Yt!ortd. Currently
Qrganizing' an Inti symposium
on Gay and Lesbian issues tobe held in Moscow and Leningrad in July 1991, in additon to
many other exciting projects.
For more info write IGLHRC,
2978 Folsom Staet, SF CA 94110,
or call (415)847-0453.

INSTIIUTE RIR WMAN
IDENTITY IIC.
New York's non-profit lesbian
and gay psychotherapy center.
Ucensed psychologis1ll, psychiatrists, and clinical social workers. Sliding scale fees. Insurance accepted.
Individual,
couple, and family therapy. VariIIty of Men's and women'sgroups forming continuously. 118
W.72nd Street 212-799-9432

INlIGRnY/NY
Lesbian and Gay Episcopalians
and friends. Eucharist and program lIVeryThursday, 7:30pm. St
Luke's Church, Hudson andChristopher Sts.INFO: P.O. Box5202. NYNY10185 (718) ~lMIIDAlEGAL DEflNSE
AND BJUCATlON RIND
Precedent-setting
litigation
nationwide for lesbians, gay
men and people with AIDS.
Membership ($40 and up) inc.
newsletter and invitations to
special events. Volunteer
night
,
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on Thursdays. Intake calls: 24pm Mon thru Fri (212}99H!i85.

unions working on domestic partnership benefits and AIDS issues.
For more informationcall(212)923-8890.

Come play with usl For information: MTG, Suite K83, 498-A
Hudson St., New York, NY
10025.
(718) 852-8582.
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LESBIAN AND GAYRIGHTSPROJECrof the Amarican Civil Ubarti ..
Union KNOW YOUR RIGHTS/
WE'RE EXPANDING THEM (212)944-9Il00, axl545

MOCA (Man of Color AIDS
I'Nnnlion Program.)
Provides safer sex and AIDS
education information to gay
and bisexual Men of Color;
coordinates a network of peersupport groups for gay andbisexual Men of Color in all 5
boroughs of New York City 303
Ninth Ave, New York, NY
10001or call (212) 239-1798.

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OFRA1BUSH
Brooklyn's social organization
for both gay men and lesbians. P.O. Box. 108, Midwood
Station Brooklyn, NY 11230·(718) 859-9437
LESBIAN H8ISTOIIY ARCIIVES
P.O. Box 1258 New York, NewYork 10118212/874-7232Since
1974, the Archives has inspired,shaped and reflected Lesbian
lives everywhere.
Call toarrange a visit or to volunteer
for Thursday worknights.
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ToIl-Fre. Service

1-8OO-L1FE.

lAVA-(LESBIANS ABOUT

VlSUALARll
Call for slides for Lesbian Artists'
Exhibition, Gay a Lesbian Community Center, NYC. For more
information, send SASE to :Miriam Fougere, 118 Fort Greene
Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217.
lESBIAN AND GAY
ADll.TEDUCATORS
Meet with other lesbians andgays who work in adult education as teichers; administrators,
counselors, tutors, etc., to discuss issues such as coming out
to staff and students, materials
and curriculum, workshop andconference participation. We
meet the first Friday of every
month at 8:00 pm at the Lesbian
and gay Community Center 208
Wast 13th Street. Call Bryna
Diamond at (212) 932-7902(days) for information
me LESBIAN AND GAY
BIG APPlE CORPS
Get your instrument out of thecloset and come play with us.
Symphonic, Marching, Jazz,
Dixieland, Rock, Flute Ensembles and Woodwinds. 123 West44th St Suite 12L New York, NY
10038 (212) 889-2922.

LESBIAN. GAY
CO.uNIIYSERVICES CENTBI
208 West 13th Street New York,NY 10011(212) 820-7310 9am11pm everyday. A pia ce forcommunity organizing and networking, social services, cultural programs,
and locial
events sponsored by the Centerand more than 150 community
organizations.
lESBIAN AND GAYlABOR NE1WORKAn organization of Lesbians andGays who are active in their labor

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lDNG ISlAND ACT...
Meets Tuesdays at 8pm at 181
Post /INa. in Wes1b~ry, NY. Support
us for change on Long Island.
Mailing address: PO Box 514,
Wes1bury, NY11m 51&.338--4882.
LSM
is a support and informationgroup for lesbians and bisexual
women interestad in fantasy, roleplaying. bindage, discipline, SlM,
fetishes, altemate gender indantities, cOS1Umesand so forth. Membership is availabl\l only towomen 18yuars and older. Ac1ual
experience is'not required but
genuine interest and an open
mind are. For infonnation pleasewrite: P.O. Box 993, Murray Hill
S1ation, NawYork, NY,10158.

MARANATHA:RNERSIDERS AIR
IESBIAN/GAY CONCERfG
Monthly program meeting on
second Sunday for gay/lesbian
Christians and friends. Educational, political, and social
activities scheduled, 12:30 p.m.
Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Drive, Sunday worship
10:45 a.m .. For info.,call (212)222-5900 (ext 290)
MEN OF AU. COLORSTOGEnlERNY
A multi-racial group of gay men
against racism. Meetings every
Friday night at 7:45 at the Lesbianand Gay Community Services
Center,208 W. 13th Street. For
more info. call: (212) 245-8388 or(212)222-9794.
METROPOUTANTENNISGROUPlMrG)
Our 200 member lesbian andgay tennis club includes players from beginning to tournament level. Monthly tennis parties. Winter indoor league.

NATIONAL GAY AND lESBIANTASKFORCE
is the ~ational grassroots political organization for lesbians andgay men. Membershipis
S31Vyear. Issue-orien~d projects
address violence, sodomy laws,
AIDS, gay rights ordinances,families, medi~, etc. through lobbying, educ_tion, organizing anddirect actio". NGLTF 1517 U
Street NW, Washington,DC
20009. (202}332-8483.
NBNYORKAD~NGAND
COMMUNICATIONS NEtWORKNYACN is the community's
largest gay and lesbian professional group, welcoming all incommunications-andtheirfriends. Monthly meetings, 3rd
Wed 8:30pm at the Community
Center. Members' newsletter,job hotline, annual directory.
Phone . (212). 517-0380 for more
info. Mention OutWeek for one
free newsletter.
N.Y.FEMMESSupport and discussion group for
lesbians who self identify all
Femme and are primarily
atttacted to butch women. For
membership information call Usa(2J2) 829-9817.
N.Y. WOMEN'S SOFIIIAU. GUIlD
For experienced, serious Softball Playurs, Coaches and Managers. We play mod/fast pitch
weekenc!s in Manhattan andQueens. Try-outs begin Feb. 11
thru April- or until filled. (212)255-1379 Janet

NINTH STREff CENTBI
Since 1973, a community dedicated to demonstrating that ahomosexuallifestyte
is a rational, desirable choice for individuals dissatisfied
with therewards of conventional living.
Psychologically - focussed rap
groups, Tues., Sat., 8 to 10 pm.
peer counselling ava~able. 319 E.
9 Street, New York, NY 10003, forinfo call (212) 228-5153.
NORTH AMERICAN MANIIIOY
lDVE ASSOClAnON (NAMBlA)
Dedicated to sexual freedom
and especially interested in gay
intergenerational relationships.
Monthly Bulletin and regular
chapter meetinga on the first
Saturday of each month. Yearty
membership is $20; write NAMBLA. PO Box 174, Midtown Station, New York, NY 10018 or call.(212) 807-6578 for information.

NOII'IHBIN UGHTSAIJBIrwMS
Improving Quality of ute for People with AIDS/HIV. THE AIDSMASTERY WORKSHOP: Exploring
the possibilities of a powerful andcreative Iifa in the face of AIDS.
Can (212) 255-8554
NYC GAY & lESBIANANTI-VlOl£NCE PROJECf
Counseling, advocacy, and information for survivors of anti-gay
and anti-lesbian violence, sexualassault, domestic violence, andother types of victimization. All
services free and confidential.24
hour hotline (212) 807-0197,-

PAllENTS,flllENDS OF

lESBIAN AND GAYS
Let P/FLAG help you and yourfamily deal with the upheaval ofyour coming out. Our meetings
a re free: monthly on the 4th Sunday, at 3:00 pm, in Duane Church,
201 West 13th. Inf07 call Jeanne,
212-463-0829
PEOPlE WITH AIDSCOAUTION(212) 532-0290/1-800-828-3280/
Hotline (212) !i32-0588Monday
thru Friday 10am-8pm Meal pro·grams, support groups, educa·
tional and referral services for
PWA's and PWArc's.
PEOPlE WITH AIDSHEALTH GROUP
Underground buyer's club importing not-yet-approved medicatiol18and nutritional supplements. 31
West 28th St 4th RoorJ21~}5320280

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Community street patrol i~'East
and West Village dedicated todeterring violent crime against
gays and lesbians. For info andmeeting time for West Village,call 212-475-4383. for East Village Patrol info, call 212-2488588.70 A Greenwich Ave., Box107, NYC 10011

PROFBSIONAlS IN FUWMDEO
338 Canal Street, 8th Roar, NYC
10013212-845-3351
QUEER NA110N
Queer Nation is a multi-cultural
direct action group dedicated 111
fighting homophobia,
queer
invisibility, and all forms of
oppressionthat any queers
might face. Anyone can suggest
an action and should come tomeetings prepared to organize
and implement it QN, Box 1524,
Cooper Station, New York, NY
10003. CaJI 212-483-7208 formeeting info.

SAG£: ~Senior Action in.GayEmi~Social Service Agency. providing care, activities, a educational services for gay & lesbian
senior citizens. Also serves over
180 homebound seniors & older
PWA's .208 West 13th St. NYC
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exuberance to spontaneously
explore and expand
upon the SetlVJane Roberts 'Philosophy" as it realtas
to our lives, personally, sexually and politically. Call AI(2121979-5104

SUNDANCE oumOOR
ADVENTURE SOCIETY
A non-profit club offering Outdoor activities for every
season including hiking, biking, skiing, water activities
and other outdoor activities for the Gay/lesbian community. For information or complimentary Newsletter
call (2121598-4728.
TASK RlRCE ANNOIftCEMENT
The legal Action Center located at 153 Waverly Place,
NY.NY 10014, has begun two new programs. All theirservices are free. The HIV/AIDS Legal Service Projectprovides free legal services to people with HIV/AIDS.
Their scope of service is wide, encompassing childcare and custody, discrimination, hou, housing, healthy
health planning, confidentiality and employment. The
HIV/AIDSAgency Training and Assistance Project provides tachnical aS8istan.ce to public and private agencies about legal and policy issues on HIV/AIDS. anddrug abuse. They provide training, individual consultations, and model policy guidelines, among other items. If
you have any further questions, please contact Ms.
Catherine O'Neil at (2121243-1313. Th. Aslociation of
Nu ..... in AIDS Car. (ANACI just received Chapter
Charter for the local Greater New York Chapter. They
have monthly meetings with speakers and networking
opportunities. Their next meeting is scheduled for January 9,1991,6-8 pm. at the AIDS Institute, 5 Penn Plaza,
4th floor, NY,NY. If you have any further questions,please contact Janet Vaccariello at (212)340-8724
TIE OI1l1lEACH USING COMMUNALHEAlJNG{TOUCHI
Community volunteers providing a weekly buffet supper for the Brooklyn AIDS community. TOUCH meetsMonday eves. 5pm to 8:30pm- at downtown Brooklyn
Friends Meeting House (110 Schermerhorn St. naar
Boerum Placel. Limited transportation
maybe
arranged. Info: (7181 822-27!i6. TOUCH welcomes con~tributions of funds, food and volunteers.
ULSTER COUNTYGAY AND WBIAH AWANCE
Meets first and third Monday of each month at 7:30 pm
at the Unitarian Church on Sawkill Road in Kingston.
For Information, call' 914-626-3203

UNnv94
NEEDS YOUto become a part of itl Organizers for Gay
Games IV, to be held in New York in 1994. Olympicstyle sports and cultural event is largest in world.
Theme is INCLUSION,everyone is needed. SUPPORT
THE_GAMESbyvofunteering, joining or making a donation. Call 212-732-3812 or write UNITY'94, PO Box 202,
NY,NV10038.
WHAMI-WIlllllln'1 Health Action And MobiliatiolL
A direat a ction group commited to demanding, securing and defending absolute reproductive freedom andquality health care for all women. We meet every Wed.
at 6:311pm at 105, E 22nd Street, 4th floor. 212-7135966Mailing address: WHAMI, PO Box 733, NYC10009

WOMENS ALTERNATIVE COMMUN nv CENTBI (WACCI
A non-profit, Lesbian community center serving
Queens, .N8Ss~u and Suffolk Counties. Thurs ..n!~ht
weekly diSCUSSiongroups. 8:30 pm, for othgr actiVities'
please contact usat516-483-2050.
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Watch the men of the knights wrestling club inaction
every Sunday at 7:30 PM at the GAYCENTER.The clubalso conducttraining classes on alternate Saturdays
afternoon (1st & 3rd Saturdaysfor man 2nd & 4th Saturdays for womenl for morelnformation plesse call:
716-639-5141

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and an open-air patio in back. There areabout three or four different bars and avery rugged-looking crowd (no pastelcolored polo shirts with upturned collars
here). I might add, at this point, that it
was the one. plaCe where I could consistently fUld a"'date."
Daddy Warbuck's (with such a
name, there's really no need for description, is there?): This place offers a fair mixof older and younger, local and tourist,gay men and lesbians. There's a dance
floor and piano bar which luckily do not
run simultaneously. On Sunday evenings
at Daddy Warbuck's, you can witness aspectacle that I never truly believed existed: whipped-cream wrestling. Large, oilcovered, muscle-boundmen (someshipped in from LA) appear one at atime before the packed house and perform a striptease for dollars. Once bothhave stripped to G-strings, they are"auctioned off" 'separately to the highest bidders, who ,receive the privilegeof, slathering their new purchases witha few cans of whipped cream. Whenboth contestants have been covered(some decoratively, some inventively)
with cream, they, uh, wrestle. There
are usually three matches. The third
match recruits a member of the nowvery-riled audience. The evening must
be seen to be believed.
It's diffkult enough to be a New
Yorker stuck on the WestCoast, always
reminding my well-tanned, car-driving
friends there that life is more thanwhipped-cream wrestling, car phones,
gym bunnies and pastel colors. But every
time I enter Palm Springs, it becomeseven more difficult. It's as if that everpresent gorgeous sun, which has baked
the surrounding mountains brown, is
melting every last drop 01 integrity and• .
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CYnicISmou 0 my Ire ,pa ey. ying by a pool with a quickly meltingt.
ita in my handth th,fOzen margar
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was "bored with the theatrical rage of
gay activists" and was offended by theircalls to "bash back!" Well, the events at
the parade should demonstrate
to
Hamill and everyone else where, in fact,
the truly dangerous and immoral behavior can be found in New York. We're notbashing back . ina vacuum.'"announced themselves as heterosexual"
at the parade, and he paints New York's
privacy and tolerance as heaven on
earth for young Irish gays.
Dwyer never addressed the right oflesbians and gays to be public, saying,in essence, that we should be happy forwhat we have. He doesn't see that pe0ple don't have to announce themselves
as heterosexual: It is' assumed, if not
demanded. By the end, Dwyer is desperate to put on a happy face, focusing
on the wonderful but out-shouted Irish,
who supported ILGO and the mayor. He
Center for Anti-Violence Education
calls them "heirs to the greatest-legacy of
SELF DEFENSE • KARATE • TAl em
Ireland, which is hospitality."
5 week SD ooursefor women • SD.for
Of course, you remember Dwyer,•
lesbians and gay men • works1wps
who wrote about good gays and bad gays
throug1wut the. NYC area· karate & tal
after WHAM!and ACf UP's massive demochi. classes for womenand disruption at St Pat's last year. He
421 5th Avenue
said that that action "pretty much [tookl
Park Slope, Brooklyn 11215
the wind out cl gay political activism in
718-788-1775
the city," and he advocated that gays walkquietly and take communion, "offending
nothing in Catholic doctrine.",
Well, in this case, it was the members of ILGO who played by the rules
all the way through. The parade committee didn't Without going into the sinsof the Cardinal, if 50 peaceful AIDS
Men of All Colors
activists can damn the whole gay comTogether are men
munity for the Irish, then, according tounited in struggle,
that twisted logic, how are we, and allrefusing to be divided,
other thinking people, supposed tocelebrating our diversity.
think of the Irish after the
shameful dis,play by thousands last Sunday?
Join us! We meet every Friday
Hamill also had a hard time withat the Lesbian & Gay Community
Center, 208 West 13th St., at 7:45 pm
this whole thing, though it is clear that212/222.9794
he also knows what is right We all know
about Pete's painful and embarrassing
Macl/NY P.O. Box 1S1a An.onia Station. NY 1002l
bout with homophobia from his anginainducing Esquire piece last year. In his
parade column, he steers way clear ofcivil rights and discrimination, preferringBronx
to c\isCuss the long history of Irish thickheadedness. By using most of his column inches to detail past Irish idiocy, heLesbianscame out strongly for including gays andUnited In
lesbians, without having to deal with the
Sisterhood
nasty bits like his own, and his readers', .
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discomfort with the issue.
When it comes to gays and lesbians, .,' We meet in Manhattan & the Bronx at
he would rather write sarcastically about
The Lesbian'" Gay Community Center. 1st '"stereotypical Irish problems with sex and3rd'frl$faYs of every month. 6:30-8:00pm. k'
I fordham Plaza. 8th floor.
th elf. exaggerate d ".ears 0f a St . Patrlcs
BroDI AIDSSe"lces Room.
Day celebration gone camp, complete
2nd Wed. of every month, 6:30-8:00pm.
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Sydney: The thing that 1 like best
about places like the Bank, More orSound Factory is that people have thebest gossip about real celebrities not justabout themselves. At the Bank, my friend
told me that his sister claims that Ivana
Tromp tried to pick her up at a businessmeeting.
,liz: Sbe''s not a lesbian-what about
Donald and the kids?
Sydney: Have you ever heard of
bisexuality? And besides, didn't it makeyou wonder when Liz Smith and Martina Navratilova
sided with her
against Donald?
liz: Well, not really-l mean, every-one should wish Donald Tromp some
misfortune. But whose side was Helen
Reddy on?
Sydney: What? Sbe's not a lesbian.
Just because she sang "I Am Woman"doesn't mean she wants 'one. But Iheard arumor about that other Australian pop star.
Liz:
Which
one-':"Michael
Hutchence?
Sydney: No, the same guy told me
and Christie
that OHvia Newton-john
Brinkley had an affair before either one
wasmanied.
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liz: Ooh ...fun Down Under. But, tellme something, Sydney. Now that you've
exposed me for the sex-crazed 24-yearyour idea of aold that I truly ~what's
good party?
Sydney: I go !Jut for the music.
Which, 1 know, puts you to sleep--like thetime you actually fell asleep at Sound Fac-

tory.

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liz: I wasn't the only person sleep-

ing, I was just the only person not crashing off of a coke high.
Sydney: Yes, but now it is the new
Sound Factory, and I guarantee you will
never fall asleep with Frankie Knuckles
playing. That is, if you ever go back there
with
me.
,
liz: Some of us have day jobs.
Sydney: Then there is always MoreMen with deejay Tommi Ri.
lightweight version of Frankie Knuckles.
liz: I'll just curl up here while you
do another load (she indicates tbe wasberand-dryer seO. Is there room in there formy socks? T.

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mildly annoying. ·"1 ignore him, 'cause 1
see him every day, and I get tired of seeing him. He probably makes moremoney than 1 do."Rob admits that he doesn't know
where his life is heading. When he's notpanhandling,he hangs out on a St.
Mark's Place stoop with his friend Spaz, ashort blond punk-rocker with a mouth
full of jack-O'-lantern teeth. Rob insiststhat he has standards, intimating that others on the street don't. He never begs
from people at outdoor cafes, nor will hehaunt cash machines for a handout: "I'ma bum with class. I'm not going to be
one of those guys with a pushcart." T

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ery-give a massage, get a massage. A
women's bathhouse, with saunas. ,And
while I'm at it, a gay clothing bank,where we can trade suits for fabulOuS
dresses, depending on our gender moodthat day.
There are people in our community
who have been putting some of thesecommunal ideas into practice, usuallywith a lot of struggle and no cash. Off
the top of my head, there's the Lesbian
Herstory
Archives,
the St. Mark's
Women's Health Collective, Kitchen
Table, Women of Color Press, the PWA"Living Room," and, of course,. the lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, where space is tight, even for meetings. But as community resources, they're
still limited by the frame of private enterprise and profit.
The "big picture" ,is a matter of perspective. From my little window inAlphabet City, 1 see a decade full ofchallenge, where the day can be long
not short, the broken sidewalk a goodplace to sit and talk, and my friends andcommunity the greatest source of energy
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While the mayor's people continued
to negotiate with ILGO late into the nighton Wednesday, March 13, word came ofa story to appear in the next day's Post
quoting Frances Beirne, the parade chair,
bitterly criticizing the mayor for interfering in the parade and comparing ILGO's
attempt to get into the parade with 'theKKK trying to march on Martin LutherKing Day. Calling himself an "out:st:\Pding Catholic," he also said that he and the
cardinal would not tolerate a gay groupin the parade.

Was Marching the Right Thing?
The bigoted Hibernians had tipped
their hand, and Deputy Mayor Bill Lynch
said that if Beirne has been quoted accurately, the mayor would not march. At 1
am, however, a compromise pushed by
Ruth Messinger came to the fore. It
would allow ILGO to march within theranks of the liberal 7th Division of theHibernians without the ILGO banner butwith sympathetic politicians, including
the mayor, by their side. ILGO represen-,tatives Paul O'Dwyer and Anne Maguire
accepted the compromise.
The upside of the deal was that the
mayor demonstrated to the whole city
whose side he was on and took the heatalong the parade route for doing so. He
was quoted as saying that it was'like,marching in Binningham, Ala.,, during
the..
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practices if they refused to grant it? Perhaps. But it seems clear that the gay andlesbian community won this fight on theevidence of the media's parade coverage.
On March 16, the lesbian and gay
marchers were the top story on all the
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Color this St. Patrick's Day lavender.
Now that this year's parade is over,openly gay commissioner of human rights
Dennis Deleon is initiatipg an investigation into the discriminatory practices ofthe Hibernians. We hope that ILGO cooperates with the investigation and is able toreceive official status in the parade next
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Returned upon request Send to Outweek Box 4187

Fra Grp gent ofquality objct dating
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SPIRITEDAMBITIOUS
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Into Music, Art lit,
Film & conversation
seeks student of
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Box 3873
WANTS TOFALLIN LOVE
Down-to-earth redhead actor dancer
looking for someone to share my life
with. Mysterious
eyes and an unforgettable smile aredefinite requirements -also a sens
e of who you are,fun, adventure,
witty, able to laugh,in·shape body, romantic,spontaneous, sta. acting,no drugs, NS. I'm
5'10·145lbs., 30 yrs.
old and want todate someone whowill be both a bestfriend and a lover.
send photo & le,tter
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3684
WHOLESOMEVALUES 'Handsome, mascu- ,line 40, 6' 2' 190,bn/blue, clean
shaven, muscular,hung All Americanwith successful
business car-e-er
and wholi)$.oine
values seeks sin'gle
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reI. photo, and"phone a mustfor
replyl Outweek Box
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WISE MEN STOPHERE
GWM, 38 5'9'150 br/ b~ moustache .~~dtrim beard, hairy,
defined, muscularbuild, handsome,masc., intell., unpretentious. Enjots
movies theater'
photo., cooking bicycling nature.,
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WRESTLE
Ex-college jocklacks opponents
and floor space.
Slow and easy orrough and sweaty.
Ring, mat, or mattress. Or do you justlike to watQh?
Photo, phone, andfantasy to Outweek'Bo)!:3687 -GIPM 23 YEARS OD, 5'7"
Goodlooking, seeking ~ very attra ctive
Hispanic or Blackman to be Top,and
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Signorile is assuming the job of editor atlarge, and Victoria Starr, who has been
the magazine's comptroller and freelance music editor nearly since its inception, becomes the new features editor.
Signorile will continue to write"Gossip Watch," a column that has
become a notorious must-read for gay
men and lesbians throughout the country. He will also retain editorial oversightof columns within the features section.
"I am working on a book, a personal account of the last few years' queer
activism, which will take up most'ofmytime," Signorile commented, explaining
his decision to give up his full-time staff
position at OutWeek. "And I'd like to getback to some more grass-roots politicalactivist work."-Nina Reyes

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NEW YORK-Four men attacked alone gay man in the Sunset Park sectionof Brooklyn last week, at first attempting
to mug him and then, egging each otheron with anti-gay epithets, beating him
severely. But when two police officers'from the 72nd Precinct arrived on thescene a few minutes later, they refused
to claSSify the attack as a bias-related
crime and only agreed to a cursory
search of the area, for the man's attackers, the victim said.
"[The cop] was engaging in a conversation while he was supposed to be 'canvassing the area," recalled Eric
Torres, who sustained pain in his kidneyarea, a swollen eye, a painful bump on
his head and abrasions all over his bodyfrom the beating.
While the beating began as a robbery, T<?rres said that his four attackers
seemed less interested in mugging him
than ~in assaulting him. "They justwanted to beat me up," he said in a telephone interview, "[even though] I was•dressed in an expensive leather coat,and all my jewelry:
Torres noted that once they had
determined that he had not been robbed,
the police showed little interest in pursuing the assailants. Torres said that while
he was in the cruiser with the two officers, allegedly searching the area for thefour men, the police stopped off to chatfor five minutes about the Mike Tyson
fight with another pair of patrol officers.
The officers also refused to classify
the assault as a bias-related crime, despite
Torres' request that they do so and his
description of the anti-gay language thefour men used as they beat him.
The public information office for
the New York City Police Department
refused to respond to repeated inquiries
for information on the case.
While bias-related crimes against
lesbians and gay men do not carryincreased penalties because state hatecrimes legislation is not yet in place, abias determination aids the investigation,and ultimately the prosecution, because
additional investigators from the police
force are assigned to the case.
The cops' alleged indifference tofinding Torres' attackers was particularly
frustrating to Torres because he recognized one of his assailants and thinksthat he knows approximately where theindividuallives.,
Torres said that he was.soout~agedby tbe disinterest of the cops :9Jliotame
to his assiSlance that he rued a complaint
with the Civilian Complaint" Reyiew
Board, a body composed of both civilians
and police that is supposed to provide amechanism to .regulate pol ice conduct
Liz Garro, the Kings County district
attorney's lesbian and gay liaison, is
working on the case.
-Nina Reyes,,

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