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Congratulations, OutWeek
and Signori Ie. "Why 'By C. Carr'
Must Stop" [no. 91, March 27]
is the reply that the Village
Voice has needed for some time
now. Ifs thrilling to see Signo, rile take on those antiquatedcolumnists with a wit, charmand style that they could nevermuster. But the $64 question is,
Do they consistently attack OutWeek for its tactics or because
it's not their paper? Keep it up!
Christian Perez
Brooklynof those fakes.
Cynthia Carson
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Maybe Liz Smith's girlfriend, the archaeologist Iris
Love, should begin an excavation over at the Village Voice.
There certainly seem to be a lotof fossils over there.
Thanks for the illuminating
expose on C. Carr and the rest

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VOICE CHOICE
Michelangelo Signorile issurely approaching near-genius.
His handling of the Village
Voice was masterful, with all the
precision of a brain surgeon.
Once again he hit a raw
nerve that was bound to make.them squirm. But the attack waslong overdue and well-deserved. When will these people
wake up and see that the worldis changing?
It is quite sad that they
have to go through their midlife crisis in public (and ,I know
about this because I just successfully got through my own).
But it's painful and costly for allof us to have to endure it too.
Richard Furst
Manhattan

explore the operative psychosexual-racial dynamics thatform the basis of Madonna's
popular success. I have yet toreceive any comment (even a
rejection slip) from OutWeek on
the submission.
I find many of Signorile's
OutWeek articles illuminating';
and I am the first to appreciateon£~::;""

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Week's features editor. A week
. or so later, a gossipy piece byhis buddy, Michael Musto,
appeared, smoothing over manyof the areas of Madonna-thepop-idol's questionable tactics,
which I had also broached.
While Musto's article disclosed
various personal details which
did not so much inform as
entice the sale of records andvideos, my purpose was toa good catty dig, but I detected
an inherent tone of elitism in his
remark about the off-beat art
dives C. Carr usually covers for
the Voice. Too bad we can't all
be seen posing like him, rubbing elbows in the back pagesof Interview magazine. I suppose the dead noise of OutWeek's luxurious office spaces
have finally gotten to him. It
was disappointing to consider

that OutWeek's move to its present upgraded facilities wasmade at the expense of paying
writers, succumbing to thecommon business practice ofshafting the base workers,
knowing that they'll write justfor the opportunity to publish. I
question this order of priorities
and wonder if the slick surroundings are necessary toimpress potential advertisers. I
have written to OutWeek before
about the compromises adver.tising forces.
In reference to Signorile's
criticism of the Voice's mainstream aspirations (which they,at least, have admitted), I would
note that though he's "correcr
as usual, it would be reassuring
to hear him direct some of theseaccusations with equal vigor at
his equally deserving OutWeek.
Rnally, on OutWeek's wh~washed editorial policies: It is disturbing to consider how negative .
referencesto persons of color, as
regardS the homophobic andmisogynistic lyrics and attitudes, of rap groups-made more thanonce in "Gossip Watch," again
correctly are with the marked
absence of any contrasting positive referencesto non-whites. The
missing voices of persons ofcolor in OutWeek is a blatantfault
especiallyfor a publication which
initially presented itself as a progressive gay newsmagazine.
Nevertheless, carryon
OutWeek; you are (unfortunately) the best we have at the
moment.
JackWatefS
Manhattan•

MlchllangBlo SlgnorllB responds: Your letter reveals
some good points, some mis·taken beliefs and some rather

,,of her own means. Instead I wassour grapes.
Musto's Madonna piece disturbed to see your portrayal
was commissioned by the edi- of a rich dyke as a parody of
tor in chief, not myself, at least women. Lers face it, she looks
a month before your article more like a drag queen than aarrived at OutWeek. I was out dyke. (Don't misunderstandof town for some time and me some of my best friends
actually never saw your piece are drag queens.) How many
until after Musto's was in prine women interviewed in the article
just recently. (His article, by the would put together a clown out-·
by, certainly did question Her fit like this doll has on? Since
there are so few visible lesbians,
Highness' tactics and motives).
The "luxurious" offices you with or without wealth, why prospeak of are located in an old ject this image? What would thefactory loft on West 25th Street cover be for a story entitledthat has no walls, little heat (and "Rich Drag Queens?"
Miss Tina
no hot water) and an array of
Manhattan
wires, ducts and tubes hanging
overhead. Uke almost everyone
else at the magaiine, the editors Paul Leone "sponds for Eva
work not on desks but on fold- Leonard: We know who you are.
ing tables, located more or less Cover model Eva Leonard is aon top of each other. We're lucky woman and is currently on
to get a lightbulb when a lamp world tour and· cannot bereached for comment All further
bums out.
concerning
Eva
My statement about C. inquiries
Carr spending most of her time Leonard's clothes and/or gender"nodding out in the sooty cor- should be forwarded to me, Paulner of some dark performance Leone, Eva Leonard's manager.
space on the Lower East Side"
Sorry, Maria Maggenti, you
said more about her, and what
she doesn't do beyond her have it all wrong about dykes andassigned beat, than about that economics. Th,e unmoneyed lesscene, its location and what it is bian isn't a myth, and finding a
al/ about. I would hope so, half-dozen rich dykes to profile insince I myself live in some OutWeek won't make her one.
sooty comer of the Lower East Women as a group make only
Side, directly around the comer, two-thirds of 'the money men
make, but lesbians tend to be
Mr. WatelJ, from your performance space, which I've come even poorer than other women
becausewe don't have access toto on several occasions_Though I think OutWeek, . men's salaries. Didn't anyone
now more than before, does ever tell you marriage was fundashow "positive references to mentally an economic institunon-whites, " we can certainly tion? Do you think lesbians havedo much more. I encourage you magically escaped the economic
to propose pieces to the new position all other US womenfeatures editor, Victoria Starr, share, perhaps via secret injections of money from the Mother
who is eager for submissions.
Goddess? When Barbara EhrenRICH DYKE REDUX
reich coined the phrase "the femWhen I first heard that this inization of poverty," she wasn't
week's cov~r story, was "Rich referring to lipstick and mascara.
'Dykes" [no. 91, March 27] theWhy do you think lesbians
images that came to my mind have so fewer bars, neighborwere very different from your hoods, businesses, resorts, pom
cover photo. I visualized a mags and videos than gay men?
Differences in how we're socialsophisticated, elegant, welldressed woman. Perhaps a suc- ized to d~ with sexuality is one
cessful entrepreneur, a woman reason, but economic differences•

is another, major one. The major
division between lesbians and gay
men today is class, not ideology.
As for the "surprisingly richpolitical consciousness" Mag~
genti finds in rich lesbians, is it
possible that that's due to thefact that she found her interview
subjects through progressive
foundations? Lesbians who contribute to radical causes tend to
be rather progressive. Extending
this to wealthy dykes as a groupseems just a tad too charitable(pardon the phrase) to me.
Being uncritical about ,people
with money is probably'a fun
pastime, but OutWeeKs readers
would be better served by.aslightly less rosy portrayal. Afterreading Maggenti's article, I'm
waiting for the OutWeek coverstories on "Whites: A Damn Nice
Bunch" and "Men: Mainstay of
the Gay and Lesbian Community." Last time I looked, class was
still a basis for oppression, notjust an avenue through which
you could occasionally'findsome nice women willing tobankroll the revolution.
All my love to Anne Rubenstein and Madame X, downwardly mobile and proud.
Eat the rich.
', Donna Minkowitz
Manhattan
Maria Maggenti responds:
Yours was exactly the kind of
sma/I-minded, cliche-ridden andstereotype-loving response I had
anticipated when I set out towrite my story on lesbians· withmoney. In the introduction t() mypiece, I addressed the appalling
discrepancies in income between
working men and women. I did
noe like yourself, fabricate ec0nomic facts to serve a particularpolitical agenda. Where haveyou
ever read studies on "Lesbian
Wage-EamelJ in Comparison' to
Ma/8 Wage-Eamers?" And whetS
do you get off telling me thatmarriage is an economic institution, as if I didn't already know
that? You claim that the reason
we don't "have" all the stuff faggots have is that we have lessmoney. My research (research,
Donna,' not political wishfulthinking) revealed that it isn't justbecause we putatively eam lessthan men (still an unprovenpoin~ in my mind) but because
dykes are often closeted about
the fact that they do have money
and are, as women, less weI/socialized to deal with the macho
particularities
of economic
power. Indeed, I mentioned all
those "nameless" dykes who.won't lift a finger for anything
but their credit cards. Lesbians
need to take some responsibility
for what we do and do not have,
Donna, instead of twirling
around in a tired old dance of fin.ger-pointing and retrograde
political analyses.
My article was about richdykes talking for themselves andabout themselves. If you don't
like these women, categorically,.because they have money, thenyou have a little work to do on
your notions of sisterhood. Oh,
and Donna, valorizing poverty ina city that is crumbling with desperate, hungry people is sick to
the point of being obscene, in
my mind, If you would prefer aworld where everyone is "downwardly mobile and proud" as
opposed to a world where everyone had an equal and decent
economic chance to make it inthis sick capitalistic culture, then
you can have your goddamned.revolution. I myself am sick ofeating spaghetti every night fordinner and fending off creditors
until my anns are black and blue.
Wake up, Donna Minkowitz, andtake off your own rose-coloredglasses. Eat the rich, indeed.

While this clealty shows that gay . many factors that contribute tomen earn somewhat more than lesbian economic success. Lefs
dykes, it also clealty shows that leave aside for the moment ;the,dyke households earn more than obvious (to me) fact that dykes
average Ameticans. It certainly
are simply smarter than mo,"".
explodes the PC myth that dykeS . people and look at data even the;~average straight man would haveare universally poor•
to agree with: 1) Dykes often
That myth is extrapolated
from the fact that women earn realize from adolescence thatless than men, and that dykes, we're unlikely to get married;,
as women, must therefore be and thus begin planning careel'$poorer than practically anybody at an earty age; 2) dykes tend, as
else. But that theory is offset by a generality, to be more se1f-suf~that dykes are generally poor. We
are not Overlooked Opinions in
Chicago, the only reputable company that accurately surveys thequeer community, did a major
economic poll of lesbians and.gays last year. They found thatwhile the national median incomeof all American households isaround $30,000, the national
median income of lesbian households is $41,000 and that of gay
male households is $44,000.

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excellent piece on wealthy lesbians, Iwas sony to see her seemto support the notion that wealthis a big exception in the lesbianworld. She did this primarily byfocusing on lesbians who inherited money rather than those who
get it "the old-fashioned way."
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ficient than straight women; 3) ism. Many dyke activists seem todykes tend, also as a generality, have so much invested in the idea
to be more aggressive and less that we all must be poor that they
passive than straight women and ignore any evidence to the conthus are· more likely to succeed traIy. That, alas, is why so manyat school and in the male-domi- . of us who have become securenated workplace than straighteconomically avoid the lefty leswomen; 4) most dyke housebian movement altogether, where
holds consist of at least two we are made to feel suspect, isoworking, income-producing
lated and unsafe. And maybe themembers,' who often stay fact that we don't participate in
together in a stable economic
activism very often (except byunit longerthan straights or gay writing checks) conbibutes to themen; 5) while many dykes have idea that we don't exist.
kids,fewer of us do than straight
None of this negates thewomen, leaving us more time to very real fact that all women, gay
earn money and more disposand straight, are economicallyable money to invest than fami- cheated by this society. We alllies with children.
get paid less across the board,
Of course these factors, of and we all need to fight thatwhich the professional women in injustice together. But dykes, as
my circle of dyke lawyers and a group, have significantly narI
doctors and educators are well rowed that gap, eam more thanaware, fly in the face of that brand· the average American and, dueof aggressively seH-pitying lesbo to the factors Ii~edabove, haverhetoric which dominates so triumphed over adversity.
It's too bad, we aren't
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allowed to feel good about thatboth by the patriarchy and, ironically, by the lesbiarchy.
Anna Boyajain
New Haven, Conn.
PS. This moderately rich dyke
loves your magazine and Maggenti's writing.
I read with great interest
Maria Maggenti's article "TheWorld of Rich Dykes" and was
happy to have been a resourcefor her in her research efforts. I
am glad to see that this subject
is being addressed. Women
with the resources to take aleading philanthropic role in ourcommunity are much needed byour many organizatio~s.
I just wanted to add another foundation to the resource
directory that you publishedwith the article. I ain an officerof the board of directors of theStonewall Community Foundation, which was established lastyear to build an endowment for
the future of the gay and lesbiancommunity. So far, Stonewall
has given away over $200,000
to individual funds to support
the gay charities of their choice.
We help donors plan the mosteffective gift possible for themselves and for the recipient. .
To contact Stonewall, call
Tom Keane at (212) 593-4600, or
write to him at StoneWallCommunity Foundation, 825 Third Ave.,
Suite 3315, New York, NY 10022.
Vivian Shapiro
Manhattan
MORE LAMB SLAM

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in his own twisted way, GumbDon"I forget to check under your bed this weekfinds being a woman more
as strong, intelligent and capablefor the "Reverend"
Donald Wildmon. This
desirable than being a man. But(of outsmarting, outgunningslippery moralist heads the American Family
the closest he can get is wearingmen). Men need to recognize·on, a ha"ng right-wing culttheir skin, since the sex-changethat ~IIw0'!1en eel that all men
located in Tupelo Miss. and bides his timeclinics rejected his' applications
are VIolent, Irrational and dangerous to them and that we are Not
watch-clogglng our "values. HIS most recent
due to his criminal past.
. each one of us personally 'peridle fixe is Todd Haynes' (our cover boy) Poison,
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haps, but as a gender.'which he thinks is violent and pornographic.
gay lov~r whom he, killed. The
I'd guess Jodie Foster feels
Well, Wildmon, we like social critique andgay affair, the only one,he everthis way herself for reasons too
sodomy, and while it may make you sweat, it'shad, was his first attempt toobvious to belabor. The heat
worth noting that the nuclear family is one ofchange himself in this' story of'.Jodie Foster is taking personallythe most violent, institutions in our twisted
metaltJorphosis; the attempt
failed.. Now obviol!sly, :ifsomeis unjustified and cruel. She isculture. Nothing like wife-battery, incest andone has a gay affair, it does not
not a run-of-the-mill celebrity,
chilcklbuse to boost our morals, ell, Don?
she has a history of being unwitmean they are gaY'. As 'a gay
tingly associated with psychotic_
man, I had a straight affair atmale violence, both from Martin
one pOint in my IHe;that did not
Scorcese and John Hinckley. Fur- against outing in a mundane, fac- guys. Your posters attack Merv make me straight. Michelangelo
thelTTlore,isn't it time to discuss tual sort of mod.e:the more, the and Jodie for being gay, not for Signori Ie's failure to understanda women's perspective on out- better. Outing as punishment is a not being out 'We're here, we're this point makes his rallying ofing? Particularty on the outing of tricky concept as Mr. Signorile gueer" is not political until you the gay and lesbian community
women? Mr. Signorile is disin- has often acknowledged. Nor do add "get used to it")against the film reprehensible.
genuous to use the "they-have- I think Ms. Foster's career will
Getting back to SOL, I
Neither the film (nor theenough-money-in-the-bank-toactually be hurt if the public don't mean to imply that the novel) ever comes right out andnever-work-again" argument
know's she's a lesbian. (Confi- movie is unObjectionable, but says Jame Gumb is straight; theabout a performer's fears con- dential to the brilliantly named Demme is the culprit and shol!ld writers of both works must havecerning outing. He knows well Outpost guys: You got your inter- be our target He made the vil- assumed most people wouldthat performers do it for the nalized homophobia mixed up in lain a cross-dressing, gay-psy- have the sense to realize Gumb..
attention, not the money. How your anger about closeted high- Chopath stereotype. At last was sexually confused, not gay. Imuch money would it take for profile gays and produced what count, how many movies had he saw the movie with two other gay
him to give up his public voice looked like a viciously homopho- made with a gay hero? Zero. Did men and none of us were offendor, for that matter, forswear ALL bic set of posters. You have to the villain "happen" to look ed. I do think this point could
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m~e this connection, or, if theydid, they would have written it
off as stereotyping and notreflective of reality. The film
'makes it clear that these arethings associated with Gumband not all gays. I don't believe
Thomas Harris ever intended
for Gumb to be a gay prototype,nor does director Jonathan
Demme present him as such.
But just for the sake ofargument, lefs suppose Jame
Gumb is as gay as a daisy inMay, a clicM coming true. The
real problem then with characters like Jame Gumb (or similar
characters in Psycho or

Dressed to J(j/~is not them; theproblQm is there are not enoughpositive gay characters to balance against the negativeones.
You never hear heterosexuals complaining about, say, awomanizing male character ina movie. Now, stereotypically,straight men are womanizers,
right? Why don't they tum out
in droves to protest Andrew
Because there
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are also movies showing men
as sensitive, respectful people.
That's what Signorile,should be rallying for: movies
about gay cops, gay politicians,
gay astronauts, gay soldiers,
etc. That's what we need:movies about the positive sideof gay life, movies where theirsexual orientation is incidental.
The 1V movie When the Bough
Breaks, where Richard Masur
played a detective who just happened to be gay, is an excellent
example. Twenty years fromannow, all of this hubbub will beforgotten or regarded as ignorance. Positive gay charactersin film and novels, like Masur's,
won't be forgotten. Why? Because it's the good things in life
you remember.
As a final note, I think
OutWeek should think twice_about running ads for themovie The Doors. Andy Warhol, as portrayed by Crispin
Glover, comes off as a mincing,swishing art-fag. Read: stereotype. It's almost as if Oliver
Stone, in the process of bashing New York in general, told
Glover to tum Warhol into a
Saturday Night Uve skit along
the lines of SNL's Harvey Fierstein parody. If Signorile wants
something to be justifiably
angry about, then he should go
see the movie (if he hasn't
already) and hound ~one andGlover about the film's slanderous and fictionalized portrayalof Warhol.
Scott E. Hummel
Manhattan
Michelangelo
Signorile responds: Oh, dear Jesus, how. many times willI say the samethings over and over again? I
have, time after time, called for
positive images of queel'9-6f1(/
have never, ever called for censorship of negative ones. I justask that critics point them out
and understand that much ofAmerica is not as educated andperceptive as yourself and yourfriends, directly due to the crapthat Hollywood continually
serves up. As for The Doors
issue, I leave that to queer
reviewers to take on. I, as amedia and gossip columnist,came in on The Silence of theLambs debacle because it had
fast become a media debate
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very complex situation surrounding HAF. We are particularly trouHINCKLEY
bled by the fact that, by failing to
AND FOSTER
prevent a group of opportunists
I'm writing to express out- from orchestrating this folly, ACT
rage at Eric M. Pollard's letter UP threatens to create a riftconcerning John Hinckley and between itself and gay Latinos at a
Jodie Foster [no. 92, Apr. 3]. time when cooperation, not canniHis smug violation of a fonner balism, is most essential in orderclient's confidentiality in a letter to defeatthe AIDS epidemic.
to a national magazine (andACT UP has sometimes
OutWee/(s bland decision to go attempted, but has more often
ahead and print it) is offensive than not failed, to adjust its politienough. I'm sure he was taught cal analysis in or'derto accommoin his. clinical psychology pro- date the reality, experiences andgram to respect the rights of the accumulated wisdom of people ofmentally ill.
color. Even if it wields a Latino. I was also angered by Mr. Qlucus, ACT UP remains, instituPollard's self-serving decision tionally, a creature ensouled withto tell Hinckley about Jodie Fos- a white spirit which identifies
ter's alleged sexuality. The fur- opponents and chooses tactics
nishing of this informationaccording to the lessons of theseems to have added fuel to white middle-class experience.
Hinckley's current hatred of the The war against HAF bears eloactress ("She'll lie, she'll eat. quent witness to the accuracy ofyou for breakfast"), certainly a our perception. In its campaign,
dangerous thing to do if Hinck- ACT UP has been loyal to theley is ever released on parole.
American myth which asserts. In addition, by reportingthat in this country we are all
Jodie Foster's alleged sexuality equally positioned, all equallyon the basis of attendance at capable of effecting change and,one Yalesbian meeting, Mr. Pol- most ominously, all equally
lard. succumbs to the worst
responsible when change is not
temptations of outing. He does forthcoming. Thus, in ACT UP's
this in ignorance of bisexuality, rhetoric, HAFis transfigured fromin ignorance of the possibility of an institution battling the crisis,change 'in sexuality over time however imperfectly, into a cause, and in ignorance of the right of of the crisis. ACT UP should coma lesbian or bisexual to come prehend that HAFcame into beingout to their family and friends
because the Latino/a community
before they are outed to every was being overlooked by white
American, especially potentially AIDS organ.- izations. We wonder,
violent Americans like Hinckley.
With what does ACT UP plan toHiro Yoshikawa substitute HAF? Or does ACT UP
Manhattan think that pontificating andrepeating tired slogans will save a
HAF AGAIN
single Latino's or Latina's life?
We, members of Latino Gay
Furthennore, for all its proMen of New York, would like to fessed concem for the Latino/a
express our profound displeasure community, the fact is that ACT
at ACT UP for its behavior toward UP had no quarrel with HAF until
the Hispanic AIDS Forum, or HAF. after HAF had its quarrel withWe, members of the ethnic group those members of ACT UP who
in this city with perhaps the high- were once employed by HAF. It
estincidenceofHIV- would seem that ACT UP has
infection-someof us actually confused the community with
infected and in treat-ment~rge
itself, the struggle to provide
ACT UP to stop a campaign that more and better services to thehas sought to address in the most ill, with the struggle to get for
cavalier and infantile manner the .itself effective representation in

orrections• Due to an editing error, a confusing bit of misinformation

was inserted into Joe E. Jeffreys' piece on Charles Busch(issue no ..93, April 10), In Busch's new play, Red Scare; itis
Mr. Busch, and not one of his characters, who has penned a scene about a character who is blacklisted.
• Due to an editing error in the news section of thesame issue, the name of the gay man who successfully
won the right to adopt a child in Florida was misspelled.
It is Ed Seebol.
'• And in the analysis of current court challenges to phonesex ~tions
around the country, an editing error led tothe misrepresentation of the research done for an ~Week
article on the same subject last year. While that article
found that the absence of phone-sex advertising would'
have dire financial implications for most of the country's
lesbian and gay publications, it never concluded that many·
would "simply go out of business," as last week's article
erroneously reported,•..

every board and in every agency. We hope that ACT UP will
not subject other AIDS organizations to the blackmail which will
inevitably result from such selfagg,-,ndizing confusion.
Our criticism of ACT UP
should not be interpreted as ablind support for HAF,or anyone
else, which arises from sharedethnicity. Even within its constraints, we believe that HAF cando more and better than it has
until now. We will offer HAF ourideas, but we will also offer HAF
the necessary cooperation. tocarry them out because weunderstand that activism requires
not only a will to denounce andto yeti but also a commitment tocreate and to transfonn. We haveno reason to believe that our
overtures will be spumed.
We would also like toclarify that, notwithstanding"Ourdisagreement with ACT UP,
we will not incur the irresponsibility of denying its past andpresent accomplishments. We
also realize that there is significant dissension within ACT UP
on the subject of HAF. But thefact that ACT UP has done a lotof good or that some membersof ACT UP disagree on themanner in which their peers
have been behaving cannot•

keep us silent in the present
circumstances. ACT UP .is hol-.
lering empty rhetoric an~
doing nothing constructive fQr
the Latinato community. We
deserve better than that.
Latino Gay Men of New York
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SOUL OF·DISCRETION~.
In spite of the fact thatlama loyal subscriber, each andevery issue of OutWeek that I
receive offends me greatly.
Nowhere on your subscription
mailing envelopes does the backaddress say "OutWee~ the lesbian and Gay Newsmagazine." I
can only imagin~ the damage
that a consistent, recurring, "selfloathing" message like a "discreet back address" can cauSe.
.Sid Wagner
Los Angeles"

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NEW YORK-Ten needle-exchange
advocates, arrested more than a year ago
on misdemeanor charges of needle p0ssession, will go to court April 8, whereattorneys will present a necessity defensethat will highlight New York City's
response to the HIV epidemic among Ndrug users, claiming that clean needle
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spread of HIV infection in a population
already devastated by AIDS.
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State legislators, including New YorkState's ftrSt openly gay elected official,
will attend a press conference on the
courthouse steps the ~ day of the trial
to announce bills they have introducedin Albany which would decriminalize'
needle possession.
One of the defense's star witnesses,
fonner· CommisSioner of Health Stephen

Joseph, is a fonner nemesis of many AIDS
activists who has apparently found somecommon ground with them on this issue.
And the judge in the case, Laura
Drager, will not be an unfamiliar face formany in the courtroom, either.
The defense will concede that theirclients did in fact possess the needleS butthat their actions were necesSaiy'and justified to prevent IV-drug users fromacquiring HIV through needle-sharing.
To win their case on a necessity defense,
attorneys must prove that the danger to
N-drug users is immediate and that illegal needle possession is less onerous
than the damage needle-advocatessought to prevent.
"One of the things it is important to
us to show is that as a public health matter, needle exchange is necessary," said
Jill Hams, one of two attorneys for the 10
defendants who were arrested on March•6, 1990, as they attempted to distribute

For Starters, former New York City
commissioner of health, Dr. Stephen
Joseph, will testify for the defense.
Joseph'S tenure at the Department of
Health was marked by a stonny relationship with AIDS activists that included two
sit-ins by activists in his office.
Though activists have slammed thecurrent Commissioner of Health, Dr.
Woodrow Myers and, in some instances,waxc::d nostalgic for Joseph's morehands-on style, the mention of Joseph's
name as a defense witness at a recent
ACf UP general meeting drew hissesfrom the crowd.
Joseph instituted the only officiallysanctioned clean-needle-exchange program in New York state during his time at
theof Health, That program,begun in November of 1988, was slated tooperate out of four sites around the city,

clean needles to IV drug users on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
The defense team will present witnesses, including public health officials,
drug-treatment professionals and fonner
and ClI1TeIltIV-drug users, who attorneys
say will paint a picture of inunediate peri1
to IV-drug users who share "dirty" needles. The defendants say this strategy will
prove their assertion that possessing needles with the intent to distribute to prevent the spread of AIDS is not a crime,"We are saying the danger is imminent. The next time a drug user puts aneedle in his or her ann, there is a highprobability that if it is a shared needle, it
is an HIV-infected needle,· said Mike
Spiegel, the second attorney on thedexfense team. "You have to offer evidence that the violation was a lesser evil
than the imminent injury.·
The Manhattan DA's office, which isprosecuting the case, declined to comment, but defense attorney Harris speculated that Assistant District Attorney
Michael Solomon will suggest that thedefendants were merely demonstrating
against the needle law and not attempting to save lives. The necessity-defense
statute states that the defendants' actions
cannot be only an expression of disagreement with the. particul3r law.
Assessments of the number of New
York City's estimated 250,000 IV-drugusers infected with HIVrun as high as 60
percent, and, according to New York
City health department figures, IV-drugusers constitute 42 percent of'the tota1
cases of AIDS reported to date,
Defendants include ACf UP members Gregg Bordowitz, Cynthia Cochran,Richard Elovich, Debbie Levine, Kathy
Otter, Monica Pearl and Dan Williams.
The ACf UP members were joined byI~
Jon Parker and Velma Campbell, mem- . I
hers of the Boston-based National AIDS
Brigade, which attempts to distributeclean needles nationwide. One otherdefendant, Phil Flores, who is homeless,could not be reached by press time. The
needle-possession
charge is a misdemeanor and carries a maximuni of six
months jail time.
When arrested, the defendants werealso distributing bleach, condoms andsafer-sex infonnation and needle-deaning kits and instructions.
The tria1 will feature more than one
ironic twist.

but connnunity' opposition forced Joseph
to scale back the distribution and run it.out of the health department's administrative offices in Lower Manhattan.
Although the program managed toserve only a few hundred users, Joseph
contended that the program was a success. Blood tests run on returned "diity"
needles indicated users were cleaningneedles and not sharing them. And
Joseph claimed that the program was a"bridge to treatment,· speeding users'
entry into treatment programs.
NevertheleSs, Mayor David Dinkins,
who opposed the program, along with amajority of the state's African-American
political leaders, shut it down soon after
he took office.
In another twist of fate, Judge Laura
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CALIFORNIA LAWYER:
CLEAN NEEDLES A NECESSITY
SAN FRANCISC'o--A judge innearby San Mateo County is allowing
attorneys to use a necessity defense todemonstrate the reasons why theirclients exchanged dirty needles forclean ones with IV-drug users.
According t.o a report in the San
Francisco Sentinel, two AIDS outreachworkers were arrested last September
outside a methadone treatment center
while exchanging needles.
Joey Tranchina, California director of the National AIDS Brigade, andCamille Anacabe, a staffer at Prevention Point, which also works with IVdrug users, were allegedly distributing the clean needles to prevent the,

spread of AIDS.
"This is not simply a m!ltter of peo- ,pie possessing hypodermic syringes,"
Anacabe told OutWeek. "The evidence
was pretty compelling that San MateoCounty is at this point in time on thebrink of a potentially serious problem interms of HIV infection among injectiondrug users."
The necessity defense suggests a
crime can be committed to prevent agreater harm from happening. .
Anacabe says that the laws regarding the possession and distribution, of .
needles in California were not writtenwith the AIDS epidemic in mind.
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John Frohnmayer, the embattled
Chair of the National Endowment for the¥ts, or NEA; trying to steer a course
through the quagmire of national funding for the arts, has once again ended up
in troubled waters, under attack from all
sides for hemg unable to make the NEA
all things to all people,
Curr~ntly, Frohnmayer is underattack from the religious right for hisorganization's $25,000 post-production
grant to the award-Winning film Poison,~hichopened in New York last Friday.
Directed by gay filmmaker Todd Haynes,
the $250,000 movie, based in part on thenovels of the late gay writer Jean Gen~,
depicts, among other things, forced sex
between men in prison.

.It has been, predictably, cleaied by
the Rev. Dooald Wddnxm and his Tupelo,.Miss.--bas¢ American Family Associationas. , and described as "in<redibly dangerOus" by Dee Dickelman of Fam-

ily Issues in Government and the Child

like to soak myself in Qorox," Dickelman
reportedly declared
Meanwhile, Ralph Reed, the leaderof erstwhile presidential candidate Rev.
Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition, compared the NEA's funding for Poison togiving federal funds to Playboy magazine
and called for Frohnmayer's resignationand the abolition of the NEA. Representatives from a dozeq other conselVative
groups who attended a special April· 1
screening of the film at the NEA are backing Reed's demands. And the screamingright-wing tabloid of the nation's capital,
the Washtngton TImes, called Haynes "theFellini of fellatio" in a recent editorial.

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celebrated the AIDS a¢ivist organization's fourth anniversary
last week with a demonstration outside the city headquarters ofGov. Mario Cuomo.
The action was called to protest Cuomo's proposed budget,which activists say will cut per-case AIDS spendingby 31 percent and will reduce Medicaid expenditures
by $875 million.
"AIDS services in New York are already drastically under-staffed and -funded," commented Mike
Frisch, a member of ACT UP. "Now Cuomo has proposed to cut back these services. These cuts will kill."
Steve Villano, a spokesperson for Cuomo,
responded that the governor made increasing AIDS
spending, even with the constraints imposed on thestate budget by the deficit, a priority, and stated thatthe amount allocated to AIDS in the budget has actually gone up. 'We believe that it comes to a 25 percent increase," Villano said.
. 'We agree with ACT UP that it is not enough,"Villano added. "When you have an illness that is ravaging the population, of course irs not enough."
And there was a great deal of grumbling among
the protesters about the lackluster quality of theanniversary demonstration, which paled in comparison to thesize of those in previous years.
The action; which consisted of a moving picket and a flash ofguerrilla theater, took place during the April 2 morning rush-houroutside the state executive's local offices in the Wond Trade Center.
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The Legacy ofMapplethorpe's Bullwhip
But despite the right's attempt tocreate a replay of last year's controversy
over what the NEA does with its money
and whether the federal government
should give it anymore, a backlash
against the reactionary,censorious
debate that played itself out on the floorsof both houses of Congress may findWlldmon and his colleagues spitting into
the proverbial wind.
Sparked by an NEA-funded exhibition of the photographs of the late gay
photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in a .
gallery near the Capitol, pressure fromthe right resulted in the "defunding" offour perfonnance artists, three of whomare gay and all of whom deal with sexual themes in their work. An anti-obscenity proviso was also attached to all NEA
grants, which accepting artists are asked
to sign. But then Congress voted overwhelmingly in favor of funding the arts
agency for several more years.
Frohrunayer has also reportedly beenchastised by the White House for continuing to embroil the NEA in controversy.
"He's not our favorite agency head," anunidentified senior White House official
recently told the Los Angeles 7fmes.
"If he••doesn't keep his nose clean ...there may
be a.
for the White House to
make another
But Congress itself seems reluctant
to further fan the flames of the fracas.
According to the Village VOice, eventhough Wlldmon's crew has been flooding the House and Senate with inflammatory letters, when Frohnmayer appeared
before a Senate appropriations cotmIlitkie
on March 29, none of the senators asked• about them. In fact, Sen. Thad Cochran, aRepublican from Wlldmon's home Slate,reportedy told Frohnmayer: "There aregoing to be letters continually written andreceived by members of COngres.... You
wouldn't object if we send those over toyou to help us answerr'The scene stands in stark contrast to
the !mage c:i New York Republican sen.
AI D'Amato tearing up the catalogue
from the Mapplethorpe exhibit on thefloor of the Senate not two years ago.
Prorient, Obscene;
Inc;Iecent,tFrohnmayer defended Haynes' film
before the senators, noting that NFA funders had been fully aware c:i PoIsorts c0ntent when they made the grant, citing its
grand jury prize at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival earlier this year andaddlng: "Taken as a whole, the film iIlusIr.ltes the destructive effect c:i violence. It ~neither prurient nor obscene.·
Haynes himself has acknowledged$e jagged edges of his movie. "The film
does deal with various kinds of socialdeviance,· he said. "The film is notmeant for every general audience.·i
But reports from a long-sought
March 6 meeting between Frohnmayer
and lobbyists from the National Gay andLesbian Task Force seem to indicate thatsuch subject matters are OK by him,
During that meeting, Frohnmayer reportedly said that he would n« attempt to bea "decency czar" in judging, :u;ts grants. .
He also promised to include lesbians and gay men on the revi~ panels
that must establish the congressionallymandated "decency standard,· which
requires that the NEA chair insure that. "artistic excellence and artiStic merit ares •• NEEDLE 0 ... P_ •• 23

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flagged down and an eyewitness pointed·Gttt ihe alleged assailants, who had slipped
into the aowded street bazaar that forms
each night just south of St. Mark's Place.
Bill Bytsura, 34, an East Village photographer who often free-lances for thismagazine, was walking home with afriend from the Bar, at Second Avenue
and East 4th Street, at about 2:30 am on
Thursday, March 28, when two men•
began shouting at them and following-.

them up Second Avenue, he said
At the comer of East 7th Street; oneof the men, later identified as Freddie
Fields, 25, of 1978 Morris Ave. in the
Bronx, allegedly kicked him in the head,
while the other, Scott Walker, 23, of 3495
DeKalb Ave. in the Bronx, turned his
attention to his friend, according to thepolice report.
Fields allegedly continued to kickBytsura in the face, even as he attempted
to call 911 from a pay phone. Bytsilra
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Fields was charged with assault,
intent to cause injury and harassment
and released after posting $750 bail.
Walker was charged with harassment
and released on his own recognizance.
The case has been dedared a biasrelated crime, according to Detective
John Leslie of the police department'S
Bias Investigating Unit. A court date of
May 7 has been set for Fields.
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"Legal marriage is not an option
for hundreds of thousands of New
Yorkers who live together, including
gay and lesbian couples, about half ofwhom, it is estimated,have Iifemates," continued New York's first les-- .
bian lawmaker. "Lack of legal status
for domestic partnerships means thatmany of these people are being discriminated against."
Under the proposed legislation,
domestic partners will be eligible to register at the county clerk's office after six
months of living together. Both members
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welfare and to the fact that they share aresidence. Neither partner may be married at the time they file a domestic partnership. Termination of the domestic•

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NEW YORK-In
its requiredIcomments on Mayor David Dinkins
Ipreliminary budget made last week,1
the City Council flexed its recently
1
1 developed budgetary muscles granted
I
I under the city's new charter. Althought
MEXICO: Maybe AIDS isn't a gay disease, but the International Les- 1
a number of proposals put forward by
1 bian and Gay Association, or IL~A, has.changed the dates of its 13th annual 1
the City Council would have a dra1 conference in Guadalajara,Mexico, to avoid conflict with the VII Internation1
matic and sure-felt impact on city
1 aI Conference on AIDS in Florence, Italy. Organizers are urging delegates to 1
AIDS and drug-treatment programs,
I get their registration forms and fees in pronto for the June 3O-July 6 gather- lone
proposal made by the chair of
1 ing. Write to: ILGA 13th Annual Conference, Ana Isabel Lopez Garcia. clo 1
the City Council's Finance Committee
1 Patricia Tr~jillo Avila, PO Box 1-2497, Administracion de Correos #1, CP 1
on a national radio news program is
I 44100 Guadalajara,Jalisco. Mexico. Registration, lodging and food is $350 1 now being termed an error.
1 for the week.
1
On a recent program on Nation1
1 al Public Radio, Brooklyn council1.. P':'ERTO .RICO: Fi':lt it was A~T UP.!,"d now the ~ueer press has 1
man Herbert Bennan suggested that
1 arrived In the Canbbean.Caribbean Heat ISpublished monthly In the San Juan 1
the mandate of the city's Human
1 suburb of San~urce:The ~agazine is featu,res-orientedand about one-third en 1
Rights Commission is d~plicated by
1 e~panol. To subscnbe, write to: 106 de Diego Ave., Box 78, Santurce, Puerto 1
state and federal agencies and that
1 RICO00907. '.
1eliminating the commission would
1.
1 assist in closing the city's budget gap
1,CZECHOSLOV~K~A: When th!s. reporter drove from Vienna to I now put at $2.5 billion for this fiscal
1 Bra.tlslava, Czecho~lovakla, In 1989, Bratlsl~va was the gra~est, drab~est, 1
year and estimated at $3 billion for
1 ugliest, deadest city he had ever set foot In. A~d. the tedlO~~ly serious I the coming fiscal year,
1 Czech border guards were slow, stem and agomzlngly SUSpICIOUS.Well, I"He misspoke himself," Peg
I that was then, an~ this is. now. More tha~ 400 ~omos~xuals sta~ed the 1 Breen, spokesperson for the City
1 largest gay event In the history of Slovakia (Bratislava IS the capital) on I Council, later commented. "He must
1 Feb. 16. Billed as uCarnival," the day featured dancing,. raffles and other I
have meant reductions--or was referI merrymaking. It was sponsored by Ganymedes, Bratislava's only gay 1 ring to another agency. In the view of
1 rights group.
1 the City Council, the Human Rights
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Earlier in the day, gay groups from across Czechoslovakia-united
1
Commission is exempt from elimina1 under the banner Union of Homosexual Citizens Organizations (SOHO)-held
I· tion, but not from cuts."
I' a national mini-conference. ILGA Co-Secretary GeneralJohn Clark addressed 1
According to Breen, the cuts in
I· t~e gatheuring.Ult was electrifying," he said later by ~hon~ fro~ his home in 1 . the commission's budget suggested by
1 Vienna. One year ago there was absolutely nothing In thiS part of the 1
the City Council approximate those
I world not an iota of any gay and lesbian aura." (You tell it like it was, I made by the mayor, although the
I honey.) Under,SOHO's.guidance,.Cz~choslovakia~as. become one of onlr a I ~ouncil does recommend consolidatI handful of nations actively consldenng the legalization of gay and lesbian I mg the commission's nine field offices.
1 marriage, which. to date, is only permitted in Denmark.
1
The Human Rights Commission'sI
1 spokesperson, Lonnie Soury, told Out1
1 Week, "We feel very strongly that ourI
1 effortsarenot~u~licatedelsewhere.".J
The commISSion,budgeted at $11

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achieved a high profile under its cur- ,I_"'-..
rent, openly gay commissioner, Dennis II I
deLeon. And it has become particularly important to the gay and lesbian I
community, which is not protectedfrom discrimination by any state or I
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federal statute.
Other proposals made by the City ,,Illr f.\\.S
Council include eliminating
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The Department of Mental Healthis headed by Dr. Billy Jones, who isalso gay. The City Council proposal
would vest the functions of Jones'
agency in the Department of Healthfor a savings of $5 million.
Though the proposals do notenter into great detail, the City Council would also remove all AIDS services from the Human Resources
Administration and place those services in the Department of Health.
And the city's Health and Hospitals
Corporation would become responsible for all drug-treatment programs inorder to improve coordination of policy, planning and service delivery.
The Dinkins administration will
now consider the council's recommendations and submit its proposed executive budget by April 25.
-Duncan Osborne

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NEW YORK-A former employeeof the Pleasure Chest, a sex-novelties
shop in the West Village, successfully
sued his erstwhile employer, claimingthat he was illegally fired on the basis ofperceived AIDS-related disability, thecity's humanrights commission
announced last week.
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The decision, handed down by the
New York State Supreme Court, foundthat "Jo1m Doe" suffered . ..
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when he was fired for his "funereal"appearance. Doe's termination cameshortly after the owner of the Pleasure
Olest died of AIDS, and was ordered by•Patrick Deveney, the executor of, andheir to, the Pleasure Olest owner's estate.
The Commission on Human Rights
said that Doe was fired after Deveney
made comments on his appearance andits potential impact on sales. The court
awarded Doe more than $25,000 in damages and ordered that he be offered theright of first refusal to any open managerial or sales position in the store.
"It's a great vi~ry for me and the
CXlIDIUlity that has SIood behind In! in th5
fight for people with AIDS or those perceived to have AIDS," Doe said after thededskn "I went 1hroogh hell, but I loved
my job, and fd go back to work 1olmrroW."
Deveney declined'to retum repeatedphone calls fromOutWrek

CITIES OF •t•
Good news from aroundthe country has been cascading in to Rim Shots
Central.
In
Pittsburgh,
activists
recently crushed a rightwing attempt to repeal amunicipal gay rights ordinance adopted last year by
documenting over 5,000'
by ANDR~ MILLER invalid signatures on thewith reporting by Allen While petition ... More than 45
Minneapolis
couplesregistered their domestic partnerships with City Hall on thefirst day of spring, taking advantageof an ordinace passed by
the City Council in January.... A lawsuit was filed in Indl·anapolls
by Lambda Legal Defense Fund under a state
insurance regulation that prohibits discrimination based on
sexual orientation, on behalf of a gay male employee of thelocal opera company, who was denied group health insurance... A Columbus,
Ohio, appellate court ruled that thestate's domestic violence law must be interpreted to coverlesbian and gay domestic partners, concluding that thestatute should "provide protection to persons'who are
cohabiting, regardless of their sex ... " Gle.n Maxey, theexecutive director of the Lesbian and Gay Rights Lobby of
Texas, relinquished his lobbying activities in order to takehis seat in Austin
as the state's first openly gay member of the House of Representatives ... And on his way outof town, San Francisco
Mayor Art Agnos designatedSupervisor Roberta Achtenberg "Acting Mayor," making
her, however briefly, the first lesbian mayor of a major city.
Achtenberg spent the day holding receptions, issuing
proclamation and soaking up the much-deserved attention.
(The first gay Acting Mayor was Harvey Milk, tapped bythen-Mayor George Moscone, who "spent the rest of the-NtnaReyes

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill.-The
Illinois
Supreme Court 00 March 28 upheld thedeath-penalty conviction of a murderer
who killed because he hated gays.
Richard Nitt, of downstate Qubondale, murdered 23-year-old Michael
Miley in 1988 when Miley went to Nitz's
trailer to complain about Nitz's frequentmorning priVately speculating to friends on the merits of themayor's massive desk as a seduction site for any of a number of handsome young City Hall bureaucrats," according to
Randy Shilts' The Mayor of Castro Street.)•

ALMA MATER WAS A LESBIAN: When gay

artist Rob Clarke's male nudes were covered over by museum curators at Rutgers
University's
Mason Gross
School of the Arts' annual show of students' work for the
benefit of a large group of schoolchildren who had come tosee the exhibit, Clarke's peers got pissed. They reportedly
returned later that week, handed the curator a statement on
homophobia and proceeded to drape their own artwork inprotest.. .Citing a philosophical opposition to the establishment of alumni subgroups, the director of alumni affairs at
Dartmouth
reportedly denied that university's gay andlesbian alumni group official recognition, even though
the school already recognizes alumni groups for Blacks,
Native Americans and lawyers ... The vice president for
student affairs at the University of Notre
Dame
reportedly ordered the editor of the school's newspaper
to censor an ad placed by Notre Dame's unofficial lesbian
and gay group, announcing the formation of a gay andlesbian alumni association, or face expulsion from free
offices at the student union. The Observer's editor blasted
the order in an editorial, and, citing the paper's support,
the gay group decided to pull the ad. (For more info on the
new group, write to: Box 194, Notre Dame, IN 46556, orcall Mike Miller at (219) 237-0788 ... A gay SanlFrancisco
couple, both of whom died of AIDS, set up a $200,000
scholarship fund for gay and lesbian students at Stanford,
UC/Berkeley
and San Francisco
Stat .... Lesblan and gay alumni of Kent Stat.
will
be celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Kent Gay andLesbian Foundation, which in the '70s used to be the Kent .
Gay Liberation Front, as part of the group's annual conference, April 12-14. (For more info, call (216)-672-2068).

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harassment of gays. Nitz beat Miley witha baseball bat then put Miley in the trunkof a car, drove him to a wooded area,
shot him in the head, cut off his head
and then disposed of the headNitz's wife Rita assisted in the murder and is serving a life sentepce without~tyof parole.
.
Among the key issues decided by
the Supreme Court was the question of.whether Nitz's self-professed hatred ofgays could be introduced as evidence of
his motive for killing a gay man.
The court concurred with the state's
contention that bias against a group
could be shown to be a motive for violence against a member of that group.
Testimony in the case establishedthat Nitz regularly harassed gays andonce spoke of his gay-bashing activities
in a 1V interview,
State Attorney General Roland Burris praised the Supreme Court's ruling,saying that it "reinforces our finn belief
that prejudice can never justify violenceor murder.""The extraordinary viciousness of
Nitz's aime is just one manifestation of avery ugly trend toward violence andabuse of minority groups," Bunis said
1be court has indicated, however,that this trend is not acceptable, it is notdefensible, and it is never justifiable.
Studies have shown that the gay community is the most frequent target of hatecrimes," Burris added. "But we should
never tolerate violence against anygroup, regardless of their race, religion
or sexual orientation."
The Supreme Court set a Sept 11
execution date for Nitz, but it will likely
be postponed as the appeals processcontinues.

-Rex

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Jones has coordinated the annual candlelight march to honor Milk and Mayor
George Moscone,
Supervisor Hany Britt is also considering entering the race but reportedly
would not run against Jones or John Burton, the current assemblyman, who may
announce his intention to step down at.the end of his tenn, according to published reports.
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The 16th District encompasses thecity and county of San Francisco.
Jones, who is HIV-positive, told
. OutWeek that this particular district has. been dramatically affected by the IllY
epiQemic. He feels that the California
LegiSiature has not I,lloved fust enough toad&,ess the problem.
T "I'm hoping gays and lesbians, andevefYone who is concerned with IllY,
will see a reason to support my campaign," Jones says, "because the steps
taken by the California Legislature will
have a profound national impact." .
•Reports of Jones' intentions originally appeared in the Bay Area Reporter andthe San Francisco Sentinel.
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Oedit Union is drowning in applications
for the world's first gay credit card No

fewer than 3,500 requests have poured
in so far.
"We're astonished at the response,"
said DGA Credit Union President Dan
Wallace. "We had 500 information packets ready, and they were gone in threedays [after the news stories broke].""It's a wonderful position to be in,"added DGA's William Waybourn, theman who thought up the idea of a gay
credit union.
"We knew that gay men andwomen are entitled to be in control of .
their own flIlancial institutions, and it
looks like we're going to have a very
succesmd one."The credit union is receiving 150
requests per day for the gay "~~H"~.
Applications have come from nearly
every state, Puerto Rico and Canada.
DGA's MasterCard is an ordinary
credit card with the added advantages ofno annual fee and a relatively low 14percent interest rate. It reads "Dallas Gay
Alliance Credit Union" across the top, inlarge pwple letters.
The card is available to anyone anywhere, contingent on one's credit history. The one-time costs are $30 to join
DGA and $10 to join the credit union.
One must also make a minimum $25
deposit in a credit-union account DGA
couple memberships are $45.
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For membership information, write
to: D.illas Gay Alliance Credit Union, PO
Box 190712, Dallas, TX 75219. It may
take three weeks for swamped DGA
staff to respond to the inquiry.

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fight in court for years with Kowalski's
family simply for the right to see herlover, at this point, Thompson is the only
person who has med for.
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Kowalski.
"It's just been delay after delay after
delay," remarked the National Gay andLesbian Task Force's Families Project
Director Ivy Young. "I don't see how
they could not already have detenninedthat Sharon would certainly be best
taken care of by her life partner, by CIt
Karen Thompson."!District Court Judge Robert Campbell, who is presiding over the case, ~declined to comment on the hearings. ~However, Campbell did disclose that he t:
will release a decision within the next
couple of weeks.
On March 22, when the additional
day of hearings was conducted at therequest of medical personnel from
Leisure Hill Nursing Home, where
Kowalski's family had her placed following her disabling accident in late 1983,
the Leisure Hill staff members reportedly
spoke only about the quality of care that
Kowalski received when she was a resident at that facility.
Uurently, Kowalski is living at Trevilla of Robbinsdale, a nursing homelocated north of Minneapolis, but Thompson hopes ultimately to bring Kowalski
home to live in the entirely accessible
house in St. Cloud that Thompson has
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allowing staff members from the facility
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ago to add their testimony to the four
full days of hearings conducted last fall.
The hearings, which will decide
whether or not Karen Thompson,
Kowalski's lover, will be awarded
guardianship of the disabled lesbian,were concluded in December. Despite
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being attacked by artists who claimthat the provision
is vague and~nconstitutional. Karen Finley, Holly
Hughes, Tim Miller and John Fleck,
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the NEA by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the National Campaign for Freedom of Expression.
The lawsuit alleges that the NEA
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to clarify the meaning of Congress' rather
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But radical left-wing artists, whether
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"If he ever saw my perfonnances,
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NEW YORK-Tucked•in the cornerof a nondescript building, on the cornerof a deaepit block, in the western corner of the East Village, Terry McGovern,
lesbian lawyO-, sits, madly scribbling out
grant applications, assessing motions and'counter-threatening bureaucratic functionaries who have failed to serve herclients. If she had a partner or five to,help her out, she might have more time
to fix the hinges of the law in which she
works. Instead, with each client, as she
encounters yet another dosed door, she
has to break it down.
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It is arduous, repetitive work, on, behalf of poor people with HIV and AIDS,'and it is a legal fiefdom that precious few
other lawyers have deigned to enter,"In ten seconds, I'm like thisexpert," McGovern says, speaking about
the ~she has developed in thelast year, with characteristic self-mockery
and not
little bit of puzzlement,
Although legal services for PWAs were
Quickly established throughaganizationS and myriad advocacy law
firms, McGovern's practice, MFY Legal
Services IDV Project, is one of only ahandful of services in the country exclusively for impoverished people with HIV.
MFY Legal Services is the sole sur~iving arm of Mobilization for Youth, aprogressive social-services agency that·was 'establishedin the '60s. MFY,
which funds a number of legal-service
projects including McGovern's, currently exists under the umbrella of Legal
services of New York.
McGovern herself is lively, refreshingly open and completely free of the~nd of hard cyncism that is rampant
ainons. people who wOlk professionallywith the society's most disenfranchised
individuals. She avoids burnout, shesays, un-self-consciously revealing her
workaholic core, by concentrating on.,ourts
Her two paid staff members, Angel
Martinez, a paralegal, and Mercedes
Quilan, an administrative assistant, are a
god-send, but what McGovern reallyneeds most is a partner. "We need
another lawyer in here because weshould be filing suits," she explains. "It'sjust amazing to me how many systemic
issues need to be attacked."
As of this writing, McGovern is triply
over- loaded: Both Martinez and Quilan,
members of the city- wide legal services
union, are on strike against Legal Serviceof New YOlk in an attempt to gain salary
parity with Legal Aid, And while McGovern fully supports her employees' action
and regrets having to cross the picket 4cCIiline to continue serving her clients, the ~strike also means that 70 clients from ~other MFY projects, who had previously
been handled by union-member case- 'CDmanagers, have just been plopped in her :lap.
jAside from the primary work of ~helping people with IDV-infection and ~little money maneuver through a paperwork-driven system of assistance programs, the project hopes to force thelaw to acknowledge the existence andthe needs of poor people who are IDVpositive. As it is currently constructed,
the bureaucracy routinely rejects people
in desperate need of lifesaving assistance simply on technicalities: A gooddeal of McGovern's time, and most of
Martinez's work, is devoted to providing
the advocacy required to ensure that her
200 clients receive the fmancial assistance and health care that the federal,state and local social services are supposed to supply.
One tool that McGovern has-at her
disposal to achieve that goal is the law
itself. And last fall, McGovern enteredinto a Significant skirmish in her campaign to force the system to respond to
the needs of poor people with HIV-re!at-l:a

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raising enough money to bring anotherattorney into her office.
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The HIV Project came into being last
spring, after McGovern, who was thenworking in a branch of MFY's housing
project, began seeing more and more ofher clients coming with HIV-re!ated c0mplications and discovered that the needs ofthese individuals were not being met bytraditional legal resources. MFY gave her atwo-month salary grant to establish the
project, and McGovern has pulled the restof the effort together by cajoling moneyout of foundations, putting together aghost staff of volunteers and working 90hour weeks without any respite.

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the federal government.
That class-action
suit, naming
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan, seeks tochange the defmition of AIDS used by
the Social Security Administration toencompass infections that occur in, andeffectively disable, HIV-positive women.
As it is currently defined by theCenters for Disease Control a standard
that is used by most federal, state andcity agencies AIDS does not include
most of the diseases that commonly
afflict women with HIV. And many men
with HIV become seriously ill long
before AIDS is officially diagnosed. Since
an AIDS diagnosis is the key that unlocks
the door not only to social security benefitS but, among other things, to experimental treatments, McGovern is arguingthat the current definition, and the agenciesthat use that definition, discriminate
against her clients.
"It's not like any sn:oke of genius oranything," McGovern says with demure
dignitY, even as lawyers who work with
PWAs and women with HIV have unanimously applauded McGovern's ingenuity
and legal derring~o in filing suit against
SUllivan. "It was not being afraid to deal
with the issue.". 'But while the opportunity to do
innovative legal wolk on behalf of poor
peaple· is part of what initially brought
McGovern to poverty law, the suit against
the federal government has quickly
become an insatiable time-gobbler .
.'. "This lawsuit takes up 60 to 70 percent of my time," McGovern admits.
1hen, watching her statement being duly
recorded, she sighs. "Actually, you
should probably make that 75 percent of
my time.", And what does she do with the
r6naining 25 percent, nearly 23 hours, of,lief working week? "I write grants," sheSays. "That's the other part of my time.". . The driving force--the bigger pic. d McGovern's lonely fight for
her· dients is her desire to create permanent pOints of access to the system, sothat not every effort she undertakes onbehalf of a single individual is simply

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hile • theUnitedStates, was actively
elJ.gaged in thewar:. . .". .. in Iraq,. raging.
it; was nOf,stµpnsirig to. see ,only afeW, dark faces at
the many antiwar
teach-ins' that,sprang up in response here in San Francisco..' Despite all the rhetoric. that the USsponsore<;l intervention was yet anotherracist war, fought by people of colora~people of rolor, to enrich the a>rporate white ruling class, Afiican Americans
seemed.
. nct . to take as active an interest inthe· mue.as one might have expected.
,' It was not surprising becau~ theqd~movement is facing the very'same
9ilemma. Queers of color are generally$IQall in number at San Francisco's
Queer N;ation and ACf UP meetings.
And while there's much talk about being
inclusive, and people of color are persistently asked to participate, many still
have not taken up the cause.
.. ,Some in the movement honestly
doq't noti(!ethis lack of participation anddon't care. Others do care a great deal
and have gone out of their way toeQcourage queers of color to be more
active. What each group has in common
is a Wrong ,notion of the "queer revoluqon,":The Ia~er group, with all its sincerity, belieVes that people of rolor are kindof shy and, staggering under the weightof centuries of racism. But the. morete~ciously they recruit, the reasoning~,
the more likely we are to open up
and join.
; Well, Afiican Americans do still suffer
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class, and there lies the basis of the dilemma of inclusivity, because people of roloi'
are disproportionately
under-represented,
among this country's middle class.
It's especially important that whitequeers understand this as not simply aBlack or Latino or Asian issue, and tounderstandinstead how the queer
movement has come to represent • part ofthe problem. Yes, queers of color have
lagged behind in this movement, still trying to fulfill-unsolved issues of the Black .
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Vidal was right:,
Slaves do hold amorbid fascination for
their masters.
difference between a petit-bourgeois
agenda and all-inclusive Mrevolution" lies
the basis for the schism between whites
and people of color in the lesbian andgay liberation movement.
People of ~ormust rontinue to deal
with ~es of poverty---into whk:h 1l105t
of us are born-Md prison-into which
many of us are sent Our position in sodety often restricts our participation in, andinhibits enjoyment of, any "leisure time."
I am not arguing th;u the civil rights
movement or the Black nationalist movement are fights for leisure. The System,
which is the problem, is not ended bycreating more (B1a~gOblins, But having. g within, andleisure time atembracing, that dynamic-tends to shapestrategies and aspirations, unless that very
dynamiC is questioned and disposed of.
•But the queer movement, at least as it isperceived, has gradually adopted 'a petitbourgeois sensibility.
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That perception
is not without
foundation. Queers of color can look at ~some of the primary gay "victories" won ~in the last few months and start from e
there. The recently adopted domestic ~partners ordinance in San Francisco was ~an intensely-fought-for measure. More If
recently, Queer Nation/SF joined thiscity's three gay supervisors in their currem attempt to make San Francisco an
official refuge for queers.
These two incidents are not only
excellent symbols but real movement
toward further weakening the heterosex'ist dk;Iatorship. But while they drew uponmuch of the eneIgy of !pe queer movement and the lesbian and gay rommunity, they failed to draw in the large numbers of darker queers, the way Queer
Nation's recent forum on racism did
The privilege to many and divorce isan important achievement for a groupthat wants it but can't get it. But fromanother perspective, lesbians and gays
seem in large measure determined toemulate the bourgeois rituals of the rulers.
Gore Vidal was right: Slaves do hold· amorbid fuscination for their masters.
The privilege to many and divorce
is not something the queer movement
should be asking for. For one, maniage
is a class credential that many queerS of
color aren't even in the running fol' 50
it is not at all inclusive. And it is part of aclass system that, by necessity, demonizes people of color. So even if bysome divine act of equalization all pe0ple of color in the US were suddenly
elevated to the middle class, with all thetastes and needs that define it, the System would still need to exploit our Third
World brothers and sisters,
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newest features is
It reads, in other words, like a fantasy of a Queer Nation visibility demo, andthe 3-D film Capthe gay subtext is at times overwhehning:iain Eo, shown in
Viewers wear lavender 3-D glasses; thea special cinema ,Captain Eo logo is pearly pink andt se~ next to SpaceI Mountain . in the
shaped like a Pride triangle; Michael! center of TomorJackson has never looked more like
Diana Ross; and we are .even spared ai• rowland. Captain( Eo1is a sci-fi high-production
music . faux-heterosexual
love interest. It
I vid¢ostarring Michael Jackson in theremains, to my mind, the best available
analogy for the Lav'ender Tortoisetitl~ role. The plot: Eo and his ragtag.\.
; cre~ of freak puppets,f the( well-intentioned'tro~blemakers of what~ev~t g;dactic fleet they,are ~ part of, are trying,to"go home: The obsta\ des are. (in' this order):r faulty ~quipment,
an .
(evil ,queenwith a: woman's torso and a'high-tech spider's body,~an army of thorny,.rogues and two beast:men with whips. The'aesthetic is somewhere
between Star Wars and:Xanadu, with Eo look•ing and acting like thechild Luke Skywalker,and Mahogany might,have had.
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MAWS BESTFRIEND-Ggreg meets Pluto.
·about dancing instead of
Obscure Tour #1, which brought me 'tokilling and spreading love and underthat dizzying place in Anaheim, Calif.
standing., Eo fires off bolts of rainbow•
The Obscure Tour excursion to Los.colored'energy,
and at their touch theAngeles and Anaheim was the pet pro·soldiers are transformed from fascist
ject of Ggreg (three "gos) Taylor, notori;thugs to Vegas dancers. The captainous drag impresario, last year's candiWins the day, of course, and the world
date-to-beat for emperor of San Francisco,is ,overcome with color and joy, the spiand girI-about-town. Ggreg has long had.der-queen becoming a matronly figurea fascination with both Disneyland and. l(e.\"{llitle/" Clwe is {I UTile/" {llitl
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to .get on a bus to Los Angeles andspread the fabulous word was that,·lor
queers, every day of our life is a:x~ib,Wity c4':monstration. And Ggreg, a.:swelt!'!,bald five-feet-eight-inches(five~lc;v~n
in mirrored' platfollIlS), is adept at 9I'~t••••
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After alternately go-going, sleeping,•making out or making over, the sm9ky
and lively bus pulled up at the Cor,alSands Hotel, an LA institution, of gay
white male cruising,' its
inner courtyard featuring aswimming pool, ,sauna
and dosed-circuit compHmentary pom-video.s" forwhat turned
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demo. Exceedingly rlou.dand lively after\th~:phour hus ride and occupying. well over two-tl}irds
of.
the hotel,
theObscure••Tour dominated, apd. theboys ran. for their rQQ~
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weekend: We showed up; u;people ran for cov<4;fVld ~if
we just kept laughing.,
The next morning
began with' a trip ,to Hol. lywood Boulevard, beginning with Frederick's of Hollywood and the Bra. m~um at the back, featuring the. bras .of
famous female' and male customers; .
June Lockhart, Judy Garland, CybilJ
Shephard, Cyd Charisse, Tony, Curtis
and Milton Berle. Cher trumped with ·an
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our presence, lay in wait as we left. The
officer confronted us on the sidewalk
and asked if we were a demonstration.
He looked confused as several groupmembers assured him that we were simply on vacation. (He had assumed wewould be protesting The Silence of thelAmbs.) We left, vindicated by our assurance of bourgeois intentions, and we
stepped lightly past tattoo parlors, wig
shops and convenience. stores, leaving"FAG" and "DYKE" stickers on the starsof the closeted and famous.
We went on to the Max Factor
Museum, where we were entertainedby the director's oral history of Factor's
contribution to the glamour industry,the organized codification of genderand inventions
like the Beauty
Calibrator, circa 1933: a hideous cagefor the head fitted with screws much
like those in a tree-stand that were
adjusted to mark exactly how muchyour face fell short of the ideal measurements set by the Industry.
The crew slowly slinked off to
examine the four makeup rooms andthe wig room. Ggreg's protest was that
there was no room colored to accommodate the makeup needs of the bald,
to which the director responded with an
enthusiasm that marked much of thereaction we were to receive everywhere: polite disgust.
After lunch, the Rodeo Collection,
Rodeo Drive's approximation of a mall:We entered, a rush of neon stickers,
neon or black hair, neon or black
clothes, combat boots, platfonns, pumps
and Converse. All of the normals lined
up along the railing and gripped it tighdy
as we said hello, shouted over sales andasked where the Pay-Less oudet and theWalgreen's Drugstore were.
Contrary to our original suspicionsthat people just drove slowly on Rodeo
Drive, we learned that cars were, in fact,slowing down to check us out. Struck by
a bond between the mannequins andsome of the club kids along on the tour,
the photographers could not stop. The
uncontested stars were the Popstitutes,
who had obviously read Mirabella's
recent assertion that color was back inand were working combinations impossible to reproduce with hallucinogens; Eric,
who was channeling Brooke Shields during the entire trip; Roderick, as always the
picture of taste in black rayon acetate;
and Robin, looking like she was there tokill James Bond. Ggreg of course continued his exploration of Star Trek drag.
We left to meet the bus, with only
one hostile comment from a truckful of
teenage boys who looked like a crew of
future sisters: "Faggot." After 12 queens
had gone by waving at them, it tookthem five minutes to get even that out
proving our suspicion that assimilation
equals slow-on-the-uptake. We concluded our warm-up for Disney with a dragstrafe of Queer Nation/LA meeting,where we collected comrades for theDisney excursion.

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Assembly;woman Deborah
Glick and activist
MichaeI Callen will
.be the Grand Marshals of this year's"[Lesbianand· . Gay.
j Pride march. Glicklis-~ur 'city'S firstland only openly
llesbian (or gay)ielected
official, and Callen is a founder ofI'the People With AIDS Coalition and a forimer member of the gay singing group the;flirtations. Both have distinguished them"selves inour community, and both are a'sourceof pride. The parade committee,
Imade a wise decision. Congratulations!
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ll!$ well as two important bills that would
help control the spread of AIDS. One
would require hotels, motels and inns tos~H condoms, and the other would
deCriminalae
the sale and {XlSSe5Sionof.}
Rypoqermic
syringes. Both bills were,introduced
into the state Senate by
Br90klyn Sen. Veimanette Montgomery.
WQrd has it that Glick is already well
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We regret the news that Stephen
aeck is stepping down as executive director of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance
Against Defamation, or GLAAD. It seems
that things just didn't work out for him
there. It's difficult to determine if this was. because Beck's vision for the organization's future differed from that of the c0chairs or because the chemistry justwasn't right. This is, however, an amiable
departure, and GLAAD will continue toperform its vita1 tasks. Beck is articulate,progressive, sincere and hard-working.
This columnist wishes him well and iscertain· that Beck will continue contributing to our movement
Hot Under the Collar
There is no word yet from Brooklyn
Borough President Howard Golden

regarding his refusal to speak before
Lambda Independent Democrats, or LID.
Golden's gay representative on the City
Planning Commission, Ed Rogowsky,
should intercede with Golden' since the
UD leadership is getting very hot under
the collars. One has to do more thanjust complain about one's padrone,
Rogowsky. If Golden is that unresponsive, then Rogowsky should call forhis replacement.

Governor's Choice
Lance Ringel, the governor's liaison to the lesbian and gay community,
was appointed upon the recommendation of Virginia Apuzzo. One hopesthat the governor reaches out to othersegments of the community for advice
in making the next appointment.
U. Governor's Choice
Lt. Gov. Stan Lundine's political
people are setting up county advisorycommittees and seeking out representative gay politicos who "can make a difference." These committees are usuallynothing more than a way for an elected
official to make a few party activists feel
important, in hopes that they will returnthe favor in a future campaign.
- You may remember that Lundine's
bid for lieutenant governor. in 1986
caused a fair amount of controversy in
the gay and lesbian community becauseof his poor record on our concerns.
Lundine's record has not improved.
Though he promised us that he would
pay attention to our community, he has
not. Lundinehadsome gay-handlers
back when the controversy arose, andthey haven't followed through or produced for our community. As Lundine
looks ahead for an eventual run for governor, our community will continue towait for him to show an iota of support
for our many concerns.

-. Am a HeterosexualIn the March 22 New York Post, Ed "I
am a heterosexual" Koch said that p~
suring the st. Patrick's Day parade organizers to include gays and lesbians waswrong. He compared it to forcing theorganizers of the Martin Luther King Day
parade to open their ranks to DavidDuke, the fonner Ku Klux Klan leader,and his followers, and asked if skinheads
with banners should then be allowed tomarch in the Lesbian and Gay Prideparade. Of course, self-hating, homophobic Koch's analogies are moot In the firstplace, he misses the fact that the gays
and lesbians marching in the St Patrick's
Day parade were not there to bash the
Irish but to celebrate the lesbian and ~ycontribution to Irish rolture.
It must be noted that Koch did notmarch with the lesbians and gays in theparade. Koch marched with the HolyName Society of the Police Department.
Amazingly, the organizers of the parade
absolutely detest gays and yet they
love Ed. Go figure.
Many elected officials and politicos
did march with us during the parade.
They include Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger (who steadfastly
refused to take a position on a boycott if
gays were excluded), City Comptroller
Elizabeth Holtzman, Manhattan Democratic County Leader and Assemblyman
Herman "Denny" Farrell, Queens Assemblyman Alan Hevesi, Manhattan Assemblyman Ed Sullivan, Bronx Assemblyman
Oliver KoppeIl, labor leader Bill Nuchow,
Consumer Affairs Commissioner MarkGreen, openly Irish, gay City Council
hopeful Tom Duane and City Councilwoman Miriam Friedlander. The glacial
City Councilwoman Carol Greitzer was
nowhere to be seen. And City Council
President Andrew Stein, who publicly
supported the boycott, chose not to join
us in the march.

Hack or FlackOn March 13, over 70 people
packed into one of the smaller rooms at
the Lesbian and Gay o:>mmunity Services
Center for a Gay and Lesbian Independent Democrats, or GUD, forum on
police brutality. Rachel Levine moderated
the program which included video
footage of the Feb. 11 ACf UP demo at
which cops charged
non-violent

••protestors and featured insights and historical background on police brutality byBill Dobbs, Ruth Harlow, Joyce Hunter,
Bill Chong and Marguerite Lopez.
People who stayed until the end of
the forum witnessed verbal brutality
among members of our own community
as ACf UP's Bill Dobbs got into a war ofword with Jan Carl Park, the assistantdirector of the mayor's Office for the lesbian and Gay Community. Dobbs, a tireless and angry activist, has never beenaccused of mincing words, so when Park
defended the mayor's Lesbian and Gay
Police Council, which many believe to beineffectual, Dobbs called park a "patronage hack." Park snapped back that if he
was a patronage hack, then Dobbs wasan "ACf UP flack." A clearly agitatedPark then launched into an impassioned
recitation on the three press conferences
Dinkins called addressing the Feb. 11
incident. You may recall that while mostactivists in our community worked hardfor the election of David N. Dinkins,
Parks supported the re-election efforts of
Edward I. Koch.

A Stem Affair
On April 10, GUD will have Citizen's Union President Henry Stem at its
general membership meeting at the Center. Remember Henry Stern? Stern was
the parks commissioner that wouldn't
allow George Segal's sculpture "Gay liberation" to be placed in Christopher Parkat Sheridan Square. It wasn't until Betsy
Gotbaum took over as parks commissioner that the sculpture could take its
rightful place. Stern was also parks commissioner
when Parks Department
employee Katherine Herzog sued the city
for anti-lesbian bias. Stern's response andperformance in the matter were a disgrace. Now Stem is president of Citizen's
Union, or CU, a group which has a history of denying preference ratings to qualified lesbian and gay candidates such as
City Council candidates Jim Owles,
Charles Larkin, David Rothenberg, Tom
Duane and David Taylor, and Assembly
candidate Deborah Glick.
It was in Glick's case, in fact, that
CU crossed the line of no return. CU
gave all Glick's heterosexual
opponents-three
openly straight opponents--preferredstatus in the primary.
Deborah won the primary ovelWhelmingly, so guess what? CU then gave
her openly heterosexual
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My hands are I.~..
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tied together securely with a belt and lie
upon the pillow
above my bead. My
ankles are boundby leather restraints
which pull my legs
open as wide as
they can go and are r·'·'· ,.
tied to the bed posts. A piUow is under myass. I watch the woman place my thicklavender dtldo into the leather harness
and fasten the straps tofit. Sbe is powerful
asSbe ties a silk scarf over 179' bead andacross my eyes. Tbere is a kmg, unsettlingpause as she puts a tape into the player,
and a sultry woman's voice begins tomoan. Suddenly she is fucking me, and I
amwfld.
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escribing the world of sex toys forD lesbians reveals diverse paradigmsof sexual enjoyment. My first memorable
erotic experience was in a public swimming pool, plac!ng my girlish monsdirectly against the rush of water spraying into the pool. I was hanging over theedge of the pool, chubby in my onepiece swimsuit, resting my head on folded anns, talking junk to my 8-year-<>ld
best friend, who was, I presumed,
unaware of the intense pleasure focusedon both my clit and her grin.
Soon I learned to lean up against
the washing machine during the spin
.cycle, a trick I still perfonn without display of emotion at the laundromat, while
quietly enjoying the bodies of women
intimately immersed in the dirty underwear of their own fantasies. I love theidea of public sex because of the collective gestalt in which we must engage toaccept our own private pleasures.
My own sexual odyssey is strewn
with fantasy, porn, talk and sex toys.
Many factors, including repression,
exploitation and abuse; clash with "normal" and "natural" diffuse , infantile sexuality. Each of us enters into a private

sphere of sexual identification with random notions, shapes, textures, odors,
scenes and objects. As adults, we havelittle choice over what turns us on otherthan to accept or reject.
Some portion of our sexual excitement relies on visual cues. Many of us
consistently "see" a scene in our mind
during sex, and this visual area of thebrain often must be stimulated in orderto get excited or to achieve orgasm. It issomewhat of a breakthrough when wecan bring this needed "fantasy" into ourreal lovemaking by using words, costumes or toys with our lover, instead ofbeing with our partner on one planeand having separate sexual fantasies in
our heads.
Sexual fantasies often involve common, recurrent themes, including: beingtied up (not in control or responsible forthe acts of ~; being forced to have sex(again, not being the one responsible orin charge); being spanked (which may
resolve issues of guilt or allow one to feellike a bad girl who loves sex); rescuing
and rewarding a stranger with acts ofsex. Such themes often become integrated into our sexual selves before puberty.
In fact, so much has already shaped
the definition of our sexual imperatives
before we become adults that it is logicalthat certain sex props may be useful anddesirable in our seXual experiences, bethey casual or within committed relationships. We should not feel guilty about
our sexual themes and fantasies, norshould we feel obligated to extinguishthem. Acknowledging and acting onthemes that arise from our own earlyexperiences in concert with a lover can
be a powerful and healing experience.
IntileSexual exploration, including theuse of objects, is an early habit, refmed
over years of practice. In the beginning,
there were crayons. Later, fruits and vegetables entered the scene: Carrots holdup well; zucchini fall apart rapidly understress; bananas just make a mess. Many agirl has been caught with objects lost
inside her vagina.
The transition to grown-up sex toys
is not always easy. Prohibitions, inhibitions and internalized repression areclose at hand. And as lesbians, we police
ourselves: We don't need dicks; penetration is politically incorrect; porn is bad.
But let's start easy. Most women
who want sexual pleasure to be part oftheir lives feel OK about vibrators. Aftermany years of talking with women about
sex, I believe that the use of the vibrator
is more likely than almost anything elseto transport woman from non-<>rgasmic
to orgasmic experience. And of course,
once learned, orgasms become a way oflife. For many women, orgasms vary inintensity due to a number of variables,,•

including penetration.
Some of UsUkeit

Penetration:
Some like it; some
don't. The feel of a woman's Ixxly riding
along or behind you during the excitement of being fucked is clearly a different experience from having her fingers
doing the fucking. A dildo can be used
for self-service, held by a lover or wornin a ·harness fitted to keep it strapped
securely to the wearer's pelvis. There areeven double harnesses which allow adildo to fit in both vaginas.
Above all, a dildo allows the woman
wearing it to fully experience the pleasure of fucking her lover, and the woman
getting fucked to fully experience theexcitement of being fucked by a woman.
It is not difficult to create adequate
stimulation to the wearer's clitoris tobring her to orgasm while she is fucking.
Regardless of whether or not they haveever fucked men, many lesbians learn toenjoy stimulation to orgasm from theinside by a variety of techniques, including fingering, listing and fucking with dildos. Some women prefer and thoroughly
enjoy outside stimulation and climax.
(Buy these women vibrators for theirbirthdays.)
Dildos 'come in different shapes,
lengths, widths, sizes, colors and· repre. sentations. Some are quite phallic; others
are shaped like fingers, wands, even dolphins. Some are designed specifically to
fit in the ass. They vary in cost and quality. At minimum, a dildo should be madeout of good material, with a wide basethat is held or fitted into a harness, andwhich will prevent the dildo frombecoming lost within the vagina or rectum. It makes sense to purchase yourown dildo. You know best what will fit,
what will feel good. Shopping with alover can be fun, too.
It can be fun to shop for, and experiment with, other playthings also. Tit
clamps, or nipple clamps, fasten on andcan be adjusted to create varying degrees
of sensation. Unfortunately, most of theseclamps are designed with men's nipples
in mind and tend to be too small for
women who have been pregnant or
nursed babies.
Use of sex toys requires a certain
familiarity with the different lube products, which also vary in cost and quality.
Restraints, paddles and costumes canalso be I?art of our sex play. In fact,
dressing up can be a real turn-on for••many women: heels, stockings, garter
belts, crotchless panties, leather panties,
silky, revealing underthings are all exciting to wear and display for your lover.
They're great for creating mood andscene to complement your fantasies.
Toy-Shopping
In the city, Eve's Garden (119 57th

St., Suite 420), is the only shop exclusively for women and features a wide variety
of products. This store also has a good
selection of self-help books, a few videos(there simply aren't enough of theseavailable) and other made-for-women
products. It's a fun place to shop and listen to women debate the quality of thedildos or argue about who is going towear what. It's a little pricey, but worth it
Other sex shops abound on 42ndStreet, and there are some in the Village
Oike the Pleasure Chest on 7th Avenue
South, near Peny Street). These shops
are all very male-oriented but may be
more convenient and affordable.
Safer Sex
Lesbians, like our straight and bi sisters, have to traverse dangerous groundto claim a healthy sex:ual expression. An
impOrtant issue is emotional comfort, firstwith ourselves and then with our lovers.
None of the enjoyment of sex: or benefitsof using sex toys can be fully experienced without lots of communication,
caring and boundary-setting. None of us
should engage in any sexual play withwhich she feels uncomfortable, and since
we routinely overstep that rule as
women, we should attempt to express
any discomfort to our partner when it
arises. We can clarify what we want andwhat we will allow by talking about it.
Safety is a health issue as well. SIM
activities can be quite safe but can alsopose the risk of hurting the participants.
It's not difficult to learn what is mutually
enjoyable without anyone getting hurt.
Transmission of germs (including herpes,
warts, yeast infections, trichomonas,
chlamdyia and HIV) is also an importantconcern. It's best to have your own sex:
toys and not share them. But, if desired,its OK to· cover a dildo with a condom
for someone else; it's a must to cover it
when going from vagina to ass.
Dildos and ass plugs should be
washed with soap and water or a mild
bleach solution after use and dried carefully before puttin~ them away. This will
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Haynes are all the rage this season. They bothtook home top honors from the Sundance andBerlin film festivals, he in the dramatic
category, she in documentary. Her film, Paris Is
Burning, smashed the Film Forum's box-officerecord one week and then topped its own
achievement the next. His film, Poison, raised anational ruckus last week-even before its
opening when the American Family
Association's pater, Donald Wildmon, attacked. the National Endowment for the Arts forfunding a project he deemed "pornographic. "And every journal from the New Yorker toEntertainment Weekly to The New York Times isspilling ink over the wild, seemingly boundlesssuccess befalling the two young filmmakers.
Taking an afternoon out of their madschedules to meet, Haynes and Livingston
discussed the blessings and curses of their present•'" good fortune, the challenge of making and8c::: identifying 'gay"films and the lessons quickly~ learned on the road to celluloid celebrity. Artso
if editor Sarah Pettit was there to get it all down.
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odd Haynes: I didn't realize it, but apparendy me and Christine [Vachon, producer on
Pots-on] were just signed to CAA [Creative
Artists Agency). (He laughs.) A guy who'wasan advocate of my work-Martin Scorcese's
agent-apparendy
made an announcement .
that we had signed with him.

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kind of agent. Right now, it doesn't seem .. .1 don't know,•

JL: Maybe you should,
TH: It just shows this weird, competitive we-havethis-new-thing mentality on the West Coast that kind of
freaks me out. My instinct is to run.
JL: The thing about Los Angele&--QOd I grew up
there, so I love the city itself-is that the director who
makes five times as much money is five times as good.
And that is the reigning mentality, so that does make
New York the right place for directors who really havesomething to say.
TH: I think much of the time it's this hype thingthat looks beyond what films are actually saying or
actually doing. But I also don't see this simple division
between marginal, low-budget, thinking fllms and studio, high-budget, banal fllms. That's imaginary. Moreoften than not, independent films take fewer risks
because they're in a less secure position than mainstream fllms and often replicate the worst and mostuninteresting aspects of c;:ommercialfllmmaking just so
they'll get sold, just so the person can get to a position
where they then can make creative decisions.

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JL: If you work at the lowest level of film production,
there's nothing romantic about hiring someone and saying,"Would you mind working for one-third what you usuallywork for?" There's nothing romantic about essentially knowing you have to exploit people to make your illm.
I don't want to get rich or be a big big-cheese, but I
would like to be able to pay people what they are worth.
I've worked as a production assistant on Hollywood illms,
and I know that things run smoother when you actually
have the money to get what you need to get. I have all freeproduction assistants, you've probably had some too ...
•T8: Tons.

JL: You tell yourself, "I'm giving them the opportunity
to learn about ftlm production," but what you're really
doing is having labor for free. Ultimately, you don't want to
aim for that. You want to work in such a way that you're
an employer.
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works. It's such a waste. I mean military spending and Hollywood are probably the most wasteful industries in thiscountry. But I share [your) goal to use whatever success Potson has generated to get to a more reasonable budget for,

the next ftlm where I can take care of the incredibly wonderful people I want to work with again.

JL: There's no romance. That's something you loose
very quickly. (She laughs.)
T8: I think we both felt in Berlin incredibly excited andthrilled to recognize [that] some of the most important illms
that were present, especially in the Forum [the section of the
Berlin Fest Parts Is Burning and Poison were in), were gay
illms. And I also felt that [you] and I had some weird experiences with the gay scene in Berlin as we recognized how
incredibly misogynistic the gay male world is, and how split
the gay and lesbians are in Berlin even in 1991. It really felt
like New York,maybe the US, was way ahead. Not that it's arace, but I had lived in Berlin in 1983 when it was in its
complete heyday, and I had felt a bit embarrassed about thebaggage of American associations. At that time, I felt the
intellectual pulse was a European one. I didn't feel that thistime. I felt like the work that was coming out of the States,
and the political and social awareness and self-awareness,
was more sophisticated.
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JL: Well, also we have things to fight against in America
that they don't. I don't know enough about it to say that
there's decent health care. I know there's better health carein Europe. That's one thing right there. Obviously, our government has been so nasty and repressive for so long. And
all of the jingoism about this war-whether or not weshould have been in the war-is unbelievable. So we as
artists have to react.

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liberation I've felt since we overcame the Vietnam syndrome. (1bey laugh.) I feel incredibly liberated as an artist,
as a gay person.
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JL: Thank god for that, thank god for that. But, as an
artist, I can only represent what I perceive. I guess I feel

more of a burden in terms of being female, in terms of there
not being very many female illmmaking role-models that I
have. I just read in 1be Times that 5 percent of all people
directing Hollywood features are women. Five percent! Mostof the illmmakers that I admired, that I looked at-like John
Waters, like [Stanley] Kubrick, [AndreUTarkovski, [Werner)
Herzog, when I first watched illm--are not women, they're
not representing women's viewpoints. I feel much more
responsibility toward that viewpoint. My first film is about agay male thing, and I can't say I'll never make a illm about
lesbians. I must say I do feel too close to my life to make aillm about my life. If you look at most illmmakers' work,
they very rarely make illms about illmmakers in relationships
like theirs, living in places like where they do.

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Kids on the street in Paris Is Burning

JL: It's so bad. And I would hate to think that people
would hold either you or me to any particular subject matter.
It irks me when people say to Gus Van Sant, "Why wasn't
Dntgstore Cowboy about gay people?" Gus Van Sant is a fine

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going to make films about. And he does the gay community a credit by making the films he makes and being open about
his sexuality. The more the gay community tries to pin othergay people to do what it wants them to do, the more individual gay artists will feel they have to flee from the gay
community. And I don't think it behooves the gay community to do that. Artists are not agitprop. We're not politicalleaders, necessarily-we're artists. The political climate will
influence us if we're politically minded, but I never said,
when I decided to make a film, that I was making an organizing piece. People are going to use it to organize, and I
think people will use [your] film as sort of a way to think
about issues of sexuality and AIDSand the way deviants aretreated, but [youl didn't make it to prop up some arm ofsome political structure.
I mean, look at Fassbinder's career-he did make a couple of films which had gay characters, but mostly the geniusof his vision is that he had something to say about straight:
society that straight society had never seen before--becauSe
a gay person sees straight society differently.

TH: I think what's really cool about Fassbinder is that
he was as hard on his gay characters as he was on his
straight characters. He saw everybody as subject to the samekinds of oppressive situations, living in society. It makes me
think that what's got to change is this simple idea thathomosexuality and heterosexuality are content-related rather
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ftlm they go away on vacation, and when.
they come back, everything is OK
becau.se everyoqe who used to make'fun,of them, who used to oppress them, realizes there's too much to be gained fromthem. The neighbors need the help, thelandlord needs the money, the kids need
the old woman to babysit. Better toaccept them for the purposes of gettingfrom them what they can get. So, it's ultimately this evil sort of statement about
the capitalist society. You know, it doesn't / •matter what you do if you fit into the corlsumerist loop.
[A ftlm like Sirk's Imitation of Lifcl isreally appealing to me because he takes
the fonn of the melodrama, which is a 'very common fum fonn-it takes 90 minutes or so to go from the beginning to theend-and yet Sirk-and Fassbinder-are
taking these forms and showing you stoBARRING NOTHING A ,moment from the prison segment in Poison
ries you do not expect to fit into the melodrama. And that's what's so appealing-that you don't necessarily need to break everything
thap. fonn-related as weIl. In a sense, heterosexuality, as I
down about a ftlm and then rework it.
see it, is a form, like narrative. If you play with form andAnd I think that's what we're doing in Paris Is Burning.
break fonn up, behind every rule that defmes it as heterosexual, there's the breaking of that rule, which you canIt's not radical at all. It's a very conventional documentary indefme as homosexual. Some of the most interesting "homosome ways. Paris Is Burning is giving you defmitions. It's
saying, "A House is a group of Black people who comesexual" ftlms might not even be made by gay people. Some
together to be nice to each other because the world isn'tof Hitchcock's ftlms are so complex and perverse and amaz~
nice." When you think of House, automatically that word
ing. Douglas Sirk, Billy Wiider-who knows what their sexubrings up those images of Mom and apple pie, and so it's
ality was, but it doesn't' even matter: The ftlm itself is a testataking those words and images and the act of defming andment to how certain rules and conventions are dealt with.
sort of turning it on its head. And, in a way, Poison is taking
Whereas ftlms like Longtime Companion, An Earlythese very commmon forms that we have, that we have
Frost rums which stick to narrative fonn so completely-I
these set reactions to, and mucking them up a bit. Saying,
think are really heterosexual.
"What if a horrible person is someone you see on your street
JL: I think a perfect gay ftlm-and it is by a gay
comer all the time?" It's taking forms that you're used to andman-is [Fassbinder'sl AIt, Fear Eats the SouL Some people
doing something else to them.
will say "It's not a love story, this Black Moroccan worker
TH: What's also amazing about Paris Is Burning is thatand this old, ex-Nazi, white woman, so why didn't he justit's a critique of heterosexuality and the heterosexual world
make a ftlm about gay people, since it's clearly a film about
through the eyes and gestures of this gay subcUlture. I thinka gay situation?" But that's the beauty of it. It's not shocking
the worst reading of this ftlm is when you look at these subto think that two men would live together, two women, but
jects and you pity them. The guys at the end say, "I justit's shocking, even to gay people, I think, to see a young
man and an old woman, particularly a woman who used to _ want to be a spoiled white girl," and you say, "Isn't that sadthat they want that?" rather than saying, "These are the valbe married to a prO-Hider guy. That's going to cause evenues that are forced down everybody'S throat, and this is agay people who think they're so politically on to question,. way to look at them in such an incredibly critical way;
"Why does it shock me that these two people have justthrough this incredibly beautiful and disturbing and vulneraslept together?"ble voice."
TH: Your defenses are down. You don't expect to be
JL: Yes, I hate it. The English reviews said, "Isn't it
moved by these incredibly tender scenes between the two ofpathetic that these people want to be a member of anotherthem: That scene I actuaIly totally rip it off inclass?" WeIl, it is pathetic in England because it's so
Poison--[when my characters are] sitting together in the lunimpossible to transcend that structure. But in America,cheonette, having lunch, and people just stare at them. Comalthough there is a class structure, you can become anotherpletely frozen, just staring at this couple, pointing, accusing.
•class as long as you have the money. It's not pathetic, it's
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through it.) The details that people areusing to construct these social classes at
the Balls made me think of this lJean]
Genet quote: "I was surprised by so rigorous an edifice whose details were united against me. Nothing in the world isirrelevant-the stars on a general's sleeve,
the stock market quotations, the style ofthe judiciary, the wheat exchange, theflower beds, nothing. This order had ameaning: my exile." That's why thesedetails matter to the Ball people-perfectlead-in to Poison!
TH: I used that quote in this film I
did called Assassins about [the French..
pqet] Rimbaud. That's so funny! Part of the.
motivation for doing the film in three stories, all of which are about deviance, wasto begin by contrasting points of view andperspectives that these three genres carry
EXPERIMENTATION-Dr. Graves (Larry Maxwell) and Nancy Olson (Susan
Norman) do lab work in Poison.
with them, The documentary and the horror genre for me are the voice of the culture speaking-both of those stories begin
very much with a project to define
deviance and put it in a safe place, or answer it, like a docusomething everyone is doing.
mentary will answer an enigma. Those perspectives are definitely contrasted to the prison story, which is more literally
TH: It's not pathetic that real white girls want to befrom the Genet universe and the perspective of the person
spoiled white girls and don't happen to articulate it inthat way?
·who is shut out as opposed to the dominant societal view.
But, by the end, I think each genre begins to break out of its
JL: And that litany of things that Venus [Extravaganza]conventions and find a closer alliance to the other. In a way,
and Octavia [Saint Laurent] want, I mean, I can't speak forthe stories of the various kinds of suffering the charactersyou, and I can't speak for the readership of the magazine,
undergo become more of a global problem and maybe force
you to think about the conditions under which these people
but I want most of those things. I would like to have money.
live and suffer.
I would not mind having a nice house. I would not mind living with my lover and having a child. Those are very com•
mon values. What they're saying is pretty common to most.
JL: I was just sitting here getting chills because I think
it's so effective the way they do break down. [In the horror
people. I don't want a career in modeling, but I do want a
career in something else, and I do want it to be successful.
fIlm] when finally [the lead] accuses those people, the hypSo, it's not pathetic, it's about all of us in the deepest sense.
ocrites, it's sort of the moment you always want in real horIt's about the pressure of culture on all of us to be a perfectror fIlms-you want King Kong to go ...
rich man or a perfect beautiful woman.
TH: "What did they tum me into?"
TH: I think [those viewers] want to see the disenfrachised
as victims and people who are white or who have access to
JL: And that's very satisfying. But for me the realcultural benefits as the privileged or the oppressors a very
epiphany of Poison comes at the very end when the mothersimple sort of dichotomy. I think to look at those people assays, "My little boy." It's about love--the saving power oflove-a.nd I don't expect to feel what I feel. That's what's very
pathetic becomes a real, genuine, liberal, kind of sick instinct
surprising to_me about Poison as a movie. I'm not surthat tries to have sympathy or empathy for people. What I
prised-you're a very intelligent person--that you could makethink is so interesting is the way that greed undoes thethis critique of genres or the world and edit them in a very
authenticity of the white original. The attempt to be "real" is askillful way, or that people can act well, or that on a very low
mirror ~ge of everyone who is white trying desperately tobudget you could recreate a prison. What's surprising is, fitbe a kreal white person.' It still takes play-acting, it's still ating all of these very disparate parts together, for me it's a
total falSity. It's still this idea of what a white person is supposed to be, or what a Wall-Streeter is supposed to look like,
very, very emotionally affecting movie. That's very difficult. At
the very end, this documentary story, which is, in many ways,
or what an Ivy-Leaguer is supposed to look like. We playearly on, the weakest story, [has] this transcendent thing there.
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TH: That's interesting because I'worned that in using threecharacters it's impossible to identify with any particular character in the way that a typical narrative sets up. Since Poison has
three characters competing for the central position in the film, U
wornedJ that that hope of a catharsis that you want as a dramatic filmmaker would be hard to achieve. If it does, and when
it does, for people, it's interesting because it's not linked to any
one character. If it gets you, maybe it does on this larger level.
JL: I wanted you to address the issue of editing. I
assume that the flOal form you found was not exactly designated by the script. Paris Is Burning, being a documentary-{Jonathan Oppenheim and 1J, having cut it down from
70 hours of footage, really created the structure. What wasthat process like for you?

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TH: It was very difficult. I worked with Jim Lyons, he
acted in the film. He's a professional editor, he's also a closefriend. (He laughs.) I felt the need for somebody who had a .
little more distance from the film but was also someone I
really trusted. There's this nervousness about all your ideas
when you take them apart. .
JL: Did the structure change very much?
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ended with Graves [from the horror segmentJ in the hospital.
I had a tilted shot from a car. What about Paris Is Burning?
Was it mostly a process of paring it down?
JL: It's just painful, obviously, to leave things out that wereaddressed in the material but can't be addressed in an effective
film There's nothing I hate more than a documentary that goeson too long, where the director leaves in all of his favorite scenes
and where half an hour ago I wanted to be outof the theater. I want it to be dramatic in thesense that people were moved-they got out justas it was time to get out. In the course of making
that sort of structure, there were strays left along
the side of the roadAs a way of coming to some sort of structure, I made ''theme roles" like gay families, gay
fun-you know, how gay people have more funthan straight people, (1bey laugh.) Really! It's
people saying, "Straight people never have
fun-they just live these boring lives." Then
there was this reel on religion, with Venus saying, "I think gay people go to hell, but on theother hand, God loves you, he must be able tosave you." She was an intense Catholic-ltalianand Puerto Rican. So, there were all these reels,and from them we beat it down to this threehour movie, and from that we did the realmachete-hacking to make it work. That was anextremely painful process--! loved all that stuff
about gay people having more fun. Jonathan
and I were always fighting. I was saying, "Getthe political material in," and he was saying,"Make people like the characters." In the end, I
think we arrived at a wonderful maniage of that
Then, of course, [we faced] all these dilemmas about whether or not to talk about AIDS. U
have been asked], "Why doesn't your film talkabout AIDS when it's this community under
seige?" There were people like Pepper [Labeijal
saying ,all of these really politically astute things ,about AIDS, party-line sorts of things, but I was
like, "My film isn't about that." There are otherfilms which do that far more effectively, and ofcourse none of the people I had been focusing
on did have AIDS, but my feeling was, ultimately, ,anti-gay violence is a much more salient reality for the people in the film Venus was murdered. When AIDS is cured and gone, there will
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His first play, 1be Sum of [.6, opened Off-Broadway last fall to mostly rave reviews,
repeating the success of its previous two runs in Los Angeles and Williamstown, Mass.
For this openly gay Australian playwright, it's been nothing short of a dream come true.
After years of writing and directing film and television in the US and Great Britain (hiscredits include A Toum called Alice and Breaker Morant), he turned to a highly autobiographical work for the stage and hit ~y dirt.
The Sum of Us is a simple drama
simple to a fault, according to some
aitics-which
explores the relationship between Jeff, a gay Aussie in his early 20s and his oh-so-accepting dad, with a minimum of external conflict. Dad is the kind of guy who stays up late chatting with his
son's tricks, sometimes• scaring them off because he's "too weIl-adjusted." But by the play's end, this harmonious dynamic shows its weak spots a bit, when Dad finds himself hiding Jeffs sexuality from his new
girlfriend and is forced to look closer at his seemingly limitless tolerance.
For Stevens, the play is about grand themes: love, loneliness and family duty. For some gay viewers,
however-including
the OutWeek reviewer-4he attention to these larger themes is at the expense of amore challenging look at queer identity, I spoke recently over the phone with Stevens at home in Los
Angeles and began our interview by asking him to address these concerns.

What is your response to tbe kind of critICismtbat you received In OutWeek and elsewbere?
David Stevens: There' is a small but very strong core of gay. y more militant gay
men-who don't like the play. This has been true since it was first done in Los Angeles. In a sense, I•

expected it. One of the points of the play is that it isn't trying to preach to the converted. Nor is it trying
to reach a sense of angst about being gay. One of my intentions was to write a piece in which there is noconfrontation, an ideal world if you, like, and then just see what happens ....For me, in the play, sexuality
itself was never an issue.· O:>nsequentiy, for people who are fighting the battles for sexuality, they arebound to resist or resent that aspect of the play.
When I saw the play, the audience was probably 80 percent gay men. And I thougbt it was curiousthat very early on, thefatber introduces the son by "explaining" tbat he's gay in a way that to me, as a gay
man, wasn f an explanation that I needed. I wonderwbat your sense was of who your audience would be.

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done has been written for money, but this play came out of the blue. I had some time on my hands andjust wanted to write what was in my head. I don't think I ever thought it would be produced, certainly
not in America. If I had been writing it for America, it is possible I would have changed things, because
obviously the Manhattan experience is different from the Melbourne experience. You are much more in
the forefront of the battles here. The thing that's very pleasing to me is that it does seem to be speaking
to a 1arge number of people. That it speaks to gay men and women I take as a compliment because theyfind something there that is reassuring. For the Slrnight people in the audience, what rm \TYingto say is,"Look, it's not a problem, it shouldn't be a problem." A number of people have said that the relationshipbetween Jeff and Dad is not possible it is possible and is based on many r '. of this kind that I
know. Some fathers are not volcanos exploding at their son's sexuality; they take the trouble to find out
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What I found Interesting in the second act was when the father has to confront his own homophobia and sense of
shame when he brings his girljriend into

the bouse. Were you making a statementthat .fighting homophobia, whether you're
straight or gay, is an endless battle foreach person?
DS: I'm not sure I'd quite desaibe it
like that It is a battle just coming to tenns
with your own homosexuality, but thencoming to terms with how you live yourlife under those conditions is anotherthing. OK, so you come out. What next:?
Is it all a bed of roses in all your relationships with people just because
you are out? And the simple answer is
no. It may not be as traumatic as theprocess of coming out is for so many
people, but life isn't going to become
magically wonderful just because youcome out You still have to fight thebattles of life.

"militant"-come to the work with expectations that you have a responstl7llity toaddress?
DS: Yes, I think that's true, because
usually the gay cause is seen from thatperspective. In the world of my play, I'm
trying to see the world from both ends ofthings, not just from one. So if there arelimitations as to how much I espouse thegay cause, it is because I'm trying to beeven-handed, I guess.
Is the fact that the play is as successful as it is a surprise to you?
os: Oh yes, a wonderful surprise.
And it's the stuff of dreams. When you
write a play in your little house in Mel-Is it ever possible for people tocompletely erase that from your POintof view? When the father is put to thetest In the play, he doesn't quite comeout with shining colors.
OS: I guess what distresseS me
about a number of the gay militants
is that coming out and homophilia
become the only objective. One ofthe points that has to be made hereis that this is a first play at a time inlife when people don't usuaIly write
first plays. A great deal of it is autobiographical, so these are the problems SUM KIND OFWONDERFUIr-Playwright David Stevens
as they seem to me as I live my life. I
never came out of the closet because I
bourne, you dream of what might hapwas never in the closet; I moved frompen to it. But there's never been an Australian play successful in New York.-...It
the Middle West to England when I was
about 16 years old, having led a very
happenedby a series of accidents.
open and active sex life from puberty
When I came into New York for theon. When I got to England, I found thatrehearsals, even though we had had two
there were suddenly all these people
successful
runs in· other places, I
trying to force me into a closet that I
thought, Well, you're coming into the
didn't want to go into. Being-I hate thejungle, all you carl do is just relax andword, but there you go "out" at thatenjoy the experience.
time raised an enormous amount ofproblems which still exist.
What does it feel like when you sit
through ityouTSelf!
But since you are gay and the play
OS: It's tough, because it's fromyour heart. There are things in the play
has gay subject matter, don't you think
which are intensely personal and verypeo~espectallythose you describe as

dear to me. One is Jeff's early speech
about waking up when he was six orseven and seeing his grandmother and .
her [female] lover in bed together andthinking it was the most natural thing, in
the world, and that actually happened tome. And to hear an actor do it, no matter how well, it's a very curious feelingof what is it, d~ja vu? In my mind, I
keep going back to that moment when I
was six or seven and saw that image,which is a seminal image in my life. I
think if I didn't know before, or wasn't
conscious of it at the time, that is themoment when I understood what loveis. It's actually quite painful, and I put
up a barrier that doesn't let it penetrate
into my heart.
. Is this a new reaction for you

because you've never written anything so personal before?
OS: I never discussed mygram's relationship with her girl-.
friend all her life. It's discussed onlywith great pain with my mother,whose mother she was, and in asense, there's a feeling that you're
trespassing on private family skeletons. At the time, I think they are ofsome moment to other people, so I
think it is incumbent on me toshare them. It is the duty of those
who have been there before toshow that the path is safe.
Do.you still find that you're trying to figure out what the play"means"?
DS: Oh god, yes. People often
ask me what the play is about, and I
can ramble on at length. I can tell you
what the plot is and what I think it's
about, but you can present me with anabsolutely other case and I can say,"Well, yes, you maybe right.".
Are you at the point where you'retired of talking aroutThe Sum of Us andwant to move on to other things?
OS: I kind of want to put it a little
bit behind me, but not completely. It
sort of has nothing to do with me anymore it's still a child that I love very
dearly, but it has a life of its own. It
has to be allowed to live that life now.
And yes, I want to move on. I'm stilltrying to write that second play . ...,
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•K, New York Maga-zine and its editor, Ed
Kosner, must be commendeq for fmally doing
the kind of queer-bashing story (focusing on
the Julio Rivera murdercase) that they~ndtherest of the mediashould have penned longago. Even the writer himself, crimesleuth Eric Pooley, acknowledges asmuch in his rather excellent story:"Rivera's murder became the gay Bensonhurst, but few outside the homosexual community even noticed."(Well, it wasn't as if we weren't
screaming at you lamebrains to getwith the program.)
It seems that gay-bashing stories,
perhaps with the parade and all, aremore in vogue-a
grotesque but,
nonetheless, true observation, and typical of how the media responds. However, one writer who isn't noted in anyof the pieces is John Voelcker, who
did a seminal piece on the psychology
of gay-bashing (in OutWeek last July)and which provided a base for all theothers. (But I guess we should be
happy enough with coverage forget
about getting credit.)
Carrying on, it is only fitting that,while on the topic of lamebrains andthe grotesque, we turn our attention to
the supposed actor Steven Seagal. You
know him: He's one of those freaks of
Hollywood, the kind of media mishapthat now seems ·to occur more often
than two-headed cows in Chernobyl.
Sea~ starred in that memorable martial-arts nightmare, Marked for Death,and recently served up the equally
mind-numbing Hard to Kill
Last week, he wrote a letter toSaturday Night Live producer Lome
Michaels. Seagal is set to host SNL in
the next few weeks, and he had a few
skit ideas that he wanted Michaels to-mull over. Of course, Seagal-and
Michaels for that matter-probably
didn't think that some queer media
insider might intercept the fax, pop a
copy of the letter into an envelopeand send it to moi.
qEven though they are sore subjects and often controversial, I believe'that SOl. of black, sardonic
humour [sic] would be the best
.way to bring subjects [that are
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QUEER AMERICA IS
WATCHING.
Oops, there's thatnasty word again, No, not"asshole"-"queer," Yes, ananti-"queer" movement...,...,.
formed by "gays" and "lesbians"-is the newest bitof backlash in what someare describing as a, "generation gap" which, though widening forof great importance and interest to
the past few years, is suddenly becomme] to light," writes Seagal. "Skit Idea:
ing more ugly-and more public-by
For many of those who have seen my
the minute.
fIims, I've had a history of violence in
If you thought that recent hysterior around bars and pool tables. It
cal attacks made by gay writers at awould be interesting for me come [sic]certain Neanderthal leftist weeldy
into a bar to meet a friend or date,(directed at several gay activists; Outand the others in the bar all run for
Week and mo{J were indicative of thiscover as I enter and hide the poolprevalent and paternalistic onslaught,
you had only to be at the Community
Center last week for "Do You Like to
Be Called 'Queer'?" At this C01l.lmapity
forum, sponsored by GL ; ::::.,.::
Coalition for Lesbian and Gay~g ""tS,
the Log Cabin Club and the Stonewall
Democratic Club, the name-calling,
we're told,: reached a deafening
crescendo, and participantS were, by_the end, lucky to get out of the Community Center with limbs still attached.
"You are the enemy!" screamedsome of the anti-"queer" types tomembers of Queer Nation.
"You people are dinosaurs!" theQueer Nationals yelled back. "YQu're•
white assimilationists!"
Now, just for clarification: When
. we refer to this as a "generational"
equipment
and other potential
thing, we don't qecessarily mean ~age."
weapons. In addition, you could have
We're talking about ideologies and whatreps from the tabloid magazines insome have called a "pre-AIDS"mentalithe bar. This could bring an interestty vs. a "life-during-wartime" frame ofing conflict in the bar, and I could
mind. While, for the most part, thisfind another weapon out of somedebacle probably does divide along age
thing no one would have everHnes, there are, nonetheless, manythought possible. (I could also say toolder people with the "wartime" minda friend, 'Do -you know the fat homoset, and lots of younger people who
prick that did the article on me?' Her
somehow have a "pre-AIDS"mentality.
response, 'Yeah, he ran off with my
And the division is not clear-cut
husband.') I hope we can come up
regarding issues either. Outing, forwith something good."
example, is by no means universally
Perhaps, Mr, Seaga1,you are Hard
acceptedamong
theyoungerto Kill. But certainly, after the entire
activists~nd
neither is "queer" forlesbian and gay nation gets wind ofthat matter. What does differentiate thethis, you will also be Marked forgenerations is not necessarily their
Death. BE VERY AFRAID, ASSHOLE. positions regarding controversial tactics•••
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Those with a "wartime" mentality
realize that we're in a critical situation
here and accept the fact that every possible means must be tried. For themost part, they respect everyone else's
efforts, even if they don't particularly
agree ("I don't believe in outing, but if
that's what you're going to do, that's
up to you. It makes me uncomfortable,
but I've got my own work to do and I
respect your judgment anyway. ").
The "pre-AIDS" types, on theother hand, don't seem to see or
don't want to see-the urgency of ourcurrent mess, think the entire gay
movement has lost its mind, cannot
believe that activists are trying all ofthese "destructive" actions whether at
ACf UP, Queer Nation, Out Week orwherever~dfeel that these crazed
terrorists,
if left unchecked,
will
destroy the entire movement and thus
must be interfered with immediately("~lllhlg
must stop! Invading the.
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church must stop! Calling all of us'queer' must stop!")
Of course, there are extremes onboth sides which illustrate just how far
apart the two groups have and willcontinue to--become.
Qunpion Read is a member of theStonewall Democratic Oub and has had
several run-ins with OutWeek regarding
our use of the word "queer." On thenight of the Community Center deoore,
he gave out a two-page statement.
"No wonder there is a movementin the streets of extreme rage!" heexclaims. "No wonder individuals
preaching a gospel of hatred and intolerance against entire classes of people
are finding supporters within the community. As the center of gravity of gay
activism moved from the aging clonesof the West Village, the style of gay
activism came to be set by the East VIllage, a style influenced by punk rage,
anarchism and contempt for middleclass culture ....Many thousands of middle-class gays find the word 'queer'
ugly and unacceptable to their identity....The contemptuous, self-righteous
refusal of queers to acknowledge thetruth about real differences in thehomosexual community is a form of
oppression ....It must stop now ....Fashion is fun, especially for the young. I
really see the switch to 'queer' as a•

Buy Playboy.
Lave '''Ifenta.fJ.
dyke friend told me to look at the

I May Playboy for "something goodon gay-bashing." I also picked up theanorectic premiere issue of Genre,
subtitled"Your Guide, to Gay
Life/Style" (take out the slash, and it's
the scariest word in the language).
In searching out the gay-bashingarticle, I came across a Playboy map of"states with most AIDS cases" ("Do youlive in hostile territory?" the bannermused. "Take a look.") and a weird
editorial accusing the media. of being
sex-negative. Their proof: The Times"•• GOSSIP""A'rCIHI _.

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ran a Larry Kramer piece pointing
out that someone dies of AIDS every
12 minutes, and Newsweek wrote thata rape occurs every six minutes. They
complain that the media doesn't "celebrate the positive side of sex with thesame rhetorical device ....Someone has
fun [sex] every .00003 minutes-thevast majority without disease, violenceor death," True-perhaps.
But if you play the odds, consult
your Playboymap, ignore the "hype," andhope for the best, it's still not enough.
Sure, the media needs to face the fact thatpeople have sex and like it, but theyalso need to know the other stats.
Playboys deal is sexual freedom,

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,a·nd their "gay-bashing" article. by
Voice columnist Nat Hentoff is' brilliant-worth
buying the magazine,
because Hentoff gets the whole story,:•
An example: "It is the conventional
wisdom that the most vicious hateCrimes are racist, but the mounting evidence indicates that violence against
gays is more ferocious than any otherform of bigotxy."
Hentoff takes on the media, saying: "What passes for documentaries
about bigotxy on national television do
not directly address many viewers'
most cherished prejudices ....A primetime program, however, that would
begin to reveal the extent and horrorof unleashedhomophobia
mightawaken more of the populace to thesavagery that explodes when homophobia is no longer limited to taunts
and other verbal onslaughts."
He recounts some horror stories,
quotes all the figures, explains that ourcivil rights are only legally protected in
two states and reveals that "73 percent of
the victims of anti-gay violence never saida word to the police. One primary reason
is fear of being a vicilm for the second,
time a victim of the police." And hequotes the ·Ioving lyrics of our friends at
Guns 'n' Roses, Heavy D and Audio.Two whish drive home the ~udice.

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Goes Mainstream," had nothing to say

about gay-bashing, but alleged :AIDS
doctor Robert Noble wrote a hysteri~"My Tum";COlumn ending with: "Thereis no safe sex. Condoms aren't going to
make a dent in the sexual epidemics
that we are facing. If the condom
breaks, you may die." Safer sex may not
be an exact science, but it clearly makes
more than "a dent" We can't eliminate
all risk, particularly in the time of AIDS,
and the reality is that people will still
have sex as we should. Kids needmore than condoms-they need information. You've heard it before, andwe'll have to say it again.
More· egregiously, Newsweeli s
media section picked up on the latest
story to "spin, spin, spin" (as awardwinning Outweek journalist Nina
Reyes calls it): "Catholic-bashing."

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Copy this article, and give it toeVerYone-fax it to your friends in the
media, hand it out at church, show it
to your family, send it to the VOice,and ask why we haven't see such a
definitive treatment in tbetrnewspaper.
It took a. straight writer like Nat
Hentoff and straight editors at a maga- .
zine like Playboy to do the jobright-for a change.

Human Rights Campaign Fund's blow-in Advocate brochurefeatures photos of Jesse Helms, Phyllis Schlafley, Pat Robertson. and Sen. William Armstrong and this copy: "Do Politicians,.

Win And Our Friends Die Because of Our Silence?" The answer•

is "Damn s~raight," and it's nice to see the rhetoric of the vanguard
trickle down...And in the Advocate's story of a Hollywood gay mur,•,. . d~r, there's a photo of the victim with Rex Reed. I wonder how he•••feels about that appearing with a notorious homosexual.
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They blame the "nominal
Iris
Catholics" Jimmy Breslin and Pet,
Hamill for what Cardinal O'Connor
wrote in his Catholic paper a few
weeks ago, "This Lent, Catholic-bashing has been the in thing." Newsweek
glossed over the hellish conduct at theparade, Tbe McLaugblin Group(including Patrick Buchanan.) for themost part agreed that the media does
bash Catholics, and US News gave awhole page to John Leo's piece, "TheGay Tide of Catholic-Bashing. "None of these people knows what
he or she is talking about. Leo writes of"the intense campaign by gays against
the Roman Catholic church." Where are
the fact-checkers? Besides ACT UP
demos to protest Cardinal O'Connor's(not the church's)
forays acrosschurch/state lines, there is no "campaign," not even a position paper or official position. They complain that thepress doesn't cover gay attacks on
Catholicism, but if this is true, how do
any of them even know about it?I didn't
see Pat Buchanan at the cathedral,
Leo goes on to say that "savage
mockery of Christianity is now a conventional part of the public gay ·culture." As it should be, I say, in light ofthe savage mockery of gays and lesbians that has ever been a conventional part of straight culture.
Sure, Catholics have faced hatred in
America, and most of it was long ago.
There aren't roaming bands of fags anddykes beating Catholics with baseballbats, only all-Americangrass..roots politics.
Where is the article on the intensified Catholic tide of gay-bashing?
And which came first, anyway?
"Catholic-bashing"is self-defense,
They just don't like it when people
bash back. As my media buddy,
Michelangelo Signorile, wrote in his
NY Post rebuttal to Patrick Buchanan:
Just consider the Spanish inquisition.
(As of press time, we still don't know
if Jerry Nachman was serious about
printing it.)In that paper, Buchanan continued
the "Catholic-bashing" binge with a second piece on the parade, asking why astudy of the mainstream media showedthat "on most controversies involving
Catholic teachings, the church came out
on the losing side of the issue debate."
Patrick, it's because the Catholic church
is wrong and evermore irreleVant....

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••rlando remembers that evening in 1984
when he won the World C:µampionshipin Las Vegas, The site was the Coliseum.
When the judge announced his name, Orlando
jumped up, squealed and ran to the stage. Camera flashes exploded as Orlando hoisted the
grand trophy, ann in ann with his hairdresser,
Orlando Padilla, 36, is·a world-class hairmodel.
"Anybody can be a hair model if they have the righthair, ,the right color, and they go on a runwa,y andmodel," says Orlando, his luminous dark eyes flashing.
While pursuing a degree in hair and makeup in Puerto
Rico, he was invited to appear in hairstyling competitions. Insiders call them "hair .shows." Orlando had
already acquired stature on the international hair-show
scene when he returned to the United States (he was.
born here) in 1984. Two years earlier, he landed abronze medal ,in the international competition in Sweden, for his lush salt-and-pepper hair.
Each hair -model has her or his own Pygmalion with ateasing comb. The model is, in the best sense, a raw pieceof clay that awaits sculpting. The ideal hairstyle may takea year of practice. Nothing is haphazard. Hairdressers are
given specific guidelines. Creations are judged for color,
length, tapering and texture. Any aberrations in length orstyle are disqualified. Hair extensions aretantamount to steroids at a Mr. Universe
cattle-call.
Hair models compete in three categories: Classic, Artistic Gala and Commercial. Men and women are judged separately.One
hairstyle may compete inseveral categories. Models sashay down
the runway, where smiles at the audience yield big points. Subtle movements
are favored; an abrupt tum of the headcan disturb the line of the hair. Contestants must sit in a chair as 15 to 20
judges surround them, one by one, andrun their fingers through the person's
hair. This seems an unseemly task, given,.

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the amount of hair-control exercised. It is not uncommon, Orlando says, to drain an entire can of hairsprayfor a gravity-defying do. "The hairdresser wants thehairstyle to look perfect," he says. "They looks like wigs
sometimes, that's how perfect they are." After a show,
when Orlando goes out on the town, he hastily rearranges his Ken-doU coiff.
Since his face and his hair are his fortune, Orlando protects his investment. He uses superior shampoos
and hair vitamins. The blowdryer is used sparingly.
Keeping a fit body is also essential to high scores. "If
you want to be a good hair model, you should have all
the best qualities: the hair, the look ....You don't want tohave beautiful clothes and have a big belly."
The biggest shock in all this pageantry, however, isthe dearth of queers. Orlando's mentor is straight; so areother stylists. He explains that these people are more barber stylists than salon hairdressers. Moreover, most models are straight and married. Orlando picks out the occasional queers through eye contact but is much too busy to
pursue them. Besides, do Olympic athletes sleep together
the night before they compete for the gold medal? Orlando has no discomfort over being the sole (known) gay
person at hair shows. "They like me the way I am,
because I'm, very friendly and funny, sometimes making
jokes," he said. Besides, sexuality is not the criterion forsuccess. "They just want my body and my head."
The hair-show glamour has limits; only the hairdresser gets her or his name carved onto the winning
trophy. Orlando has all show-expenses
paid, and the chance to globe-hop. He
remains faithful to his stylist, having
turned down several offers to workwith others, Beyond the realm of thehairstylist world, Orlando and his contemporaries are mere mortals on thestreets of America, But he knows his
importance in the hairdo universe.
"1be model is 85 percent of the competition," he says. "A lot of hairdressers
don't know what they're doing sometimes, and they don't practice hard enoughto win a big prize. If you get a goodmodel and the hairdresser doesn't knowwhat he's doing, they lose everything."TIII erI+•

ollywood, that great tinseled abyss of
the American dream. Whether you
love to hate it or hate to love it,around Oscar time you just can't escape it, Like abad date from years past, it just won't leave you
alone, Everywhere you turn, self-proclaimed"psychics"fill the ainvaves hawking their Oscar·•
predictions to anyone who will listen. To say that. life imitates art would not be a lie, you think, as
you overhear a clubbie practicing her acceptance.
speech in front of a .bathroom min-or, Finally,
you realize that club .life is just the videotapedcommunity-access version of the silver screen,
whether they go home with a golden Oscar or agolden boy.
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SYDNEY: You'll never eat lunch in this town again.
LIZ: Why? Did everyone get acting jobs at the same
tim·e.?

Sydney: No. It's just an idle threat.
Uz: Gee, thanks. You know, Julia Phillips has actually lost restaurant tables over her book.'
Sydney: 1 didn't think that most maitre d's took bad
writing seriously enough not to seat people.
Uz: You're telling me. Bret Easton Ellis will never eat
anything but Stouffer's Lean Cuisine until hell freezes over.
Sydney: What do Julia P.hillips and Mr. Ellis have incommon?
Uz: They both have egos the size of a
CedI B. DeMille production. They're bothpencil-necked
geeks. They're both selfloathing homosexuals. 1 don't know.
Sydney: Well, yes. But 1 was thinking
more along the lines of sexist, racist, homophobic idiots than pencil-necked geeks.
Uz: Yeah, but at least Ms. Phillips has,
a humorous bone in her body.
Sydney: I was more fascinated by her
obsession with Goldie Hawn's butt. I lovethe fact that every reviewer quotes her assaying that Goldie has "stringy hair," eventhough she mentions Ms. Hawn's ass more than her hair.
Uz: 1 think she's "on the team," despite numerous mentions of her many attractive, poot-adolescent boyfriends .
Sydney: My second-favorite part was when she salivated over Corey Raim. If we believe what she says, thenit wasn't for lack of opportunity. Anything with a nervous'
system had the hots for her.
Uz: A legend in her own mind.
Sydney: These are drugs. This is the book your brain ,writes on drugs. Any questions?
Uz: Oh, the glamour of Hollywood. This hefty tome
will probably keep more people out of Los Angeles than

Sandra Bernhard.

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Sydney: Limelight is writing a screenplay of its own.
Uz: lhat's a really weak transition. But go ahead.
Sydney: lhat item they planted in Newsdayabout twocolumnists spilling a drink on Grace Jones' bra and trying
to run it through. the wash before she noticed ...
Uz: i don't think she's been to Limelight since they
"reopened. "Sydney: They had a press dinner for, among others,
the Wall Street Journal arid had to hire clubbies to fill the .
room, Then they gave out a mushroom punch to makesure the "filler" would misbehave, i.e., be press-worthy.
Uz: Well, when they make Limelight: the Movie, I'msure that's one story that won't make the cut, and the people who came up with that idea should be cut.
Sydney: For someone whose first featured role ended
up on the cutting-room floor, Kevin Costner did pretty
well at the Oscars.
Uzl Quite.
..
. Sydney: Maybe there is hope for this world after all.
Wasn't it a big victory for multi-culturalism an African-American actress withdreads, an actress who doesn't look like a"traditional" starlet and an epic film about
Native Americans all won.
Uz: Yeah, and then there was the tri- .
umph of pop cu!tura!ism-Madonna's'
homage to Marilyn Monroe.
Sydney:"Talk to me, Norman
Schwarzkopf, tell me all about it!"Liz: Well, at least she didn't try t(hplay brain-dead and say, "I didn't even
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POISON. Directed and written by Todd Haynes. Produced by Christine Vachon. A Zeitgeist film release.
Angelika Film Center. NE corner of Houston and Mercer. (212) 995-2000.
by Peter Bowen
morality. Not unlike the fake biograhumiliation when they were adolesIn 1989, Todd Haynes' Superstar,his profoundly fabulous story of Karen
Carpenter's life and death, featuring an
all-talking, sometimes-mobile cast of
disfigured Barbie dolls, won criticalpraise and corporate ire. First, Mattell
threatened to shut it down for marring
the good name and plastic face of theircelebrated doll. Then Richard Carpenter, before dehumanizing his sister's
memo.ry for the sanitized TV-movie
version (particularly by sentimentalizing her struggles with her sexuality,
her eating disotders, her suicide), successfully sought a cease-and-desist. order against the film.
While perhaps less scandal-ridden, Haynes' new film, POison,proves no less transgressive. Winnerof the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, this interwoven
trilogy of crime, science and patricide has already touched a criticalnerve, The predictably homophobic
New York Times, for example, felt
the need to describe (erroneously)a scene of spectators fleeing the
Sundance screening in disgust. But
transgression
is not simply thefilm's modus operandi-it
is itsvery subject.
The film's toxicity resides, however, not in the shameless shock
value of a film like Pink Flamingos,
but rather in its relentless resistanceto filmic convention or conventional
56 OUTWEEK April 17. 1_1

phy of the now-outlawed Superstar,
Polson internalizes its criminality byplaying havoc with the laws of narrative and genre., Braiding together
three seemingly separate stories withwhat at first feels like the editing
logic of a late-night channel-switcher,the film ultimately takes on a seamless editing rhythm, uniting its disparate elements in its shared conspiracies. Largely and loosely inspired by
the writings of Jean Genet, the film
recounts fransgression, finally, not asa crime but as a miracle. Indeed,even the film's parodies inhabit their
Hollywood originals-theCurrent
Affair shocking expose, the '50s sci-fi
thriller-with such a straight face that,by the end, there remains only thetransformative fiction of sincerity.
At the heart of each section,
steering the different plots on parallei courses, is Genet's poetics ofrejection. "In submitting to prison
life, I could reject the world that had
rejected me," explains the voiceoverof the Genet-like character, .John
Broom (Scott Renderer), in the section aptly titled "Homo." Broom,
now imprisoned
as an adult at
Fontenal prison, is tormented alternately by his desire
for the hunky inmate, Jack
Bolton (James Lyons), andby his sentimentally technicolor memories of Bolton'scents together at the Baton reformatory. Alternately viscerally disturbing
and lyrically erotic, the segment, like
Broom's torment, moves back andforth between violence and beauty
until these separate effects become
not only inseparable but-forallpractical purposes-thesame. Neither an obvious parody nor a traditional narrative, the "Homo" segment even '1fter a rape, a killing
and a sudden shower of rose petals
and spit-feels
slightly static andstilted next to the other two sections.
Yet if it seems to go nowhere, thismay be because it has alreadyescaped the worlds the other sections are struggling to reject.
The miracle of abjection that so
fully saturates "Homo" becomes in theother two sections, "Hero" and "Horror," a point of conclusion. Dressed
up in documentary drag, "Hero"marches out various interviews byschoolmates, teachers and neighbors
to piece together ~e story of Richard
Beacon. For, according to his sublimeIy suburban mother, Felicia Beacon(Edith Meeks), Richard shot his father
and then flew out of the bedroom
window never to be seen
again. Begun as an absurd
Oedipal joke, the mother's
story, bolstered by thetruth machinery of TV
journalism, finally soundsutterly credible. Where else does aboy-theperfect homo-child, tormented and taunted, beaten up andperhaps sexually abused-belong but
as, to quote his mother, the "gift from
God" return to heaven?
Inverting the black-and-whitesci-fi genre, in which the scientist
must kill the monster his sciencehas created, "Horror" transforms its

The result is, of course, disaster. His
face begins to mutate, festering withrunning sores and molting flesh.
Contaminated, the doctor turns intoa sex maniac, lethally infecting others, including the one person he haslearned to love and trust, Nancy
Olson. Bordering dangerously on an
unsafe allegory of the AIDS crisis,the "Horror" section rescues itself by•

beautiful cinematography of Maryse
Alberti and to the work's multi-textured walls of music and soundeffects. Yet within Genet's paradoxicalaesthetic economy, such beauty-to
paraphrase Sartre-allows us simply
to eat shit and like it. It is fmally inthis championing of transgression thatthe entire film becomes significantly
homosexual. Working off of Genet's

LAUGHlBlIS THE BEST REVENG~Melissa Brown and Joe Dietl in Poison
scientist into a monster and thenmakes the monster the hero. Distracted by the charms of an adoringcolleague, Nancy Olson (perfectly
played by Susan Norman), theabsent-minded
Dr. Graves (Larry
Maxwell) aCcidentally swallows thecup of human sex-drive that he haslaboriously attempted to contain.

revealing the public's hate and disgust as more monstrous than thelesions that disfigure the doctor'sface.
Poison, as the title suggests, is
not always easy to swallow. Yet by
its own homeopathic recipe, it isfinally its own antidote. Much praise
is due to the deftly versatile, often-

equation of homosexuality with criminality, each section locates in its
degradation, monstrosity and torment
the power to escape and rewrite aworld that has already rejected
us-and,to judge by the recently
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There are a number of reasons why

High Risk: An Anthology of Forbidden
Writings is an important read. Startingwith statistics and epidemiology (as all
good reports in the US do nowadays),the collection contains
classifying)oosely-13 male writers, 13 female andone lesbian transsexual. There are anumber of Black and Hispanic writers,
both gay and straight. All of them have
either engaged in a:>C-defmed high-risksexual activities or ingested body fluids
at one time or another in their lives thatwould be called dangerous, if not suspect and in bad taste, by some.
High Risk is dedicated to Gregory
Kolovakos, a gay writer and translator
who died of AIDS. Several authors are
IDV-~itive; one is dead of drugs and
AIDS. Of the living, I can't imagine any
who don't think about death and thed ecay 0f· Amencan culture regu Iar1ylike flossing, which causes a little bleeding each time. Nor do any appear
repentant about sex or desire or pain;
their emotions are far more complex,
layered with hidden meanings likedreams, which many of them allude to
as a central metaphor for all forbidden
activity. Yet ov~rall, what strikes me
the most about this collection is thesimplicity of the voice, in many cases,
a straightforward honesty that smacksof truth and needs no embellishment
to make it powerful, moving anddeeply human.
The lines I loved most were theones I could not deny, like these from
Pat Califta's poem "Heroin":
the drug lays down along my bloodslream
like a strange animal
it takes. over my heartand makes it beat uncomfortably fast
it looks out through my eyes
seeking its own future.

Or this one from Essex Hemphill's"Heavy Breathing": "I know I don't live
here anymore/but
1 remain in thisbody/to witness."
The body and its addictions has
become a 2Oth-century (OK, postmodern) genre by now, so it's not surprising
to find writers as different as these two
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talking about the mental distance one
takes from the bOdy on drugs, duringsex, during pain. What makes so muchof the work in High Risk good is theclose, dispassionate attention, the clinicallove, attached to the body as it fucks orshits or receives pain through a protective wall of blank or released emotion.
The fonn here is closer to reportage thanliterature; it's urgent and subjective, fiction verite (a tenn first coined by journalist Laura l'1anders to indicate thosetimes when your reality exceeds yourfantasy but you have to pretend to makeit up because nobody will believe it'strue); no matter the voice or device ofcharacter, the bottom-line perspective isnearly always first-person:
I spent a lot of time searching out theworld of pornography. It wasn't the·only literary country to which I journeyed, but it was· always my favorite.
Oohn Preston, "How Dare You EvenThinks ch Things?" )uhere in the dark I miss the fine lines
beneath Dion's eyes running like rivers

It was an animal thing, just him using
me. I fell into shame like a suicide
throws herself into a river. (Dorothy Allison, "Private Ri1uals" )Stylewise, I notice that some writers seem to favor piling on verbs todescribe the activity taking place inand outside of their bodies, while others use descriptive adjectives such as"sullen" and "languorous" to connote
the slower, fluid rhythm of a surreal
inner reality. Often, the choice ofwords is precise and satisfyingly perfect. Consider Mary Gaitskill's paean to
pre-teen sexuality, "Action, Illinois," inwhich hardly innocent games of childhood are referred to as "little social
massacres." Her attention to detail is
keen: "They weren't big boys they
were small, with sinewy, racing-dog
bodies-but their strength came out of
their huge bawling mouths and their
human indifference to pain,"
Most of the collection is urban;
Gaitskill's suburban mall-life is an
exception. There's no escaping thatthese are American writers too; theS __...ISK••
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A Talk With Editors Amy Scholder
and Ira Silverberg
by Sarah Pettit[find that [ kap coming back to ;ourintroduction in High Risk because It's theclue to the whole. I'm tnterestsd in how )VU
perce;ve the 11Ctkm of. in 1T!Ialion to thefy and as an overarching amcept ..7mngressfon can m«.ln a lotof things, and, [think, the danger would be
In the amorphous, the undescribed, thelat-doesn't-fit. And [ would beInterested to know haw that umks in teTmsof hierarchies of oppression. How de you
take drug addictkm, SM and ethnicUy andmanage tofind a common thread between
those things, when, In ,91me sense, there's ewrything not In common
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at mainstream values, there are bonds
between all of those areas because
they're falling outside of what the dominant culture wants to reinforce as theaesthetics of the culture.
Amy Sdlolder: I think our project
was, first, a .literary one, so what wasmore immediate in our considerations
were the links literarilythat these sorts ofwritings have and picking out ones that
we thought were exceptional. We're notpublishing pornography-it'sa literarycollection, and we wereinterested in that sort ofaesthetic project first. The
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transgressions? What dothey have in common?
We're not suggesting that
there isn't a hierarchy andthat in the world thesethin~aren't extremely different The sort of honestyof expression, [and whatl
we described in the introduction, are literarily very
essential values for thework and are relatively
meaningless for communities at Jarge in the world.
IS: It was a very
direct response to areasthat we both saw that noone was writing about or
painting about originalIy we were hoping toinclude art in this book.
We looked at a lot of
those areas like SIM, likedrug use, like prostituTRANSGRESSIONSESSION-Amy Scholder and Ira Silverberg
tion, like those things
give pause to people who are already
So how do you define banal?
that became very taboo very recently
within a process of resistance.
IS: Lifestyle.
as American morals have allegedly
IS: Amy and I kept referring back
AS: I also feel there's a certain
been rising. A lot of this was tied in to
to 1be Olympia Reader, which was nothonesty and thoroughness that I tried
a literary response to AIDS. People
a model because it was a very excluto select for High Risk that I don't see
weren't willing to take risks with theirsive book but, I think, lives on in
too often. What we were looking forwriting because they were afraid ofavant-garde culture as a very important
was challenging fiction. Challenging tobeing deemed "politically incorrect,"
document of its time in terms of bringwhat? Challenging not just to dominantwriting about certain things which, if
ing together a group of challenging,
culture but actually to the individual. I
actually acted out, might be high risk.
inventive writers who hadn't been
think certain writers really dig deep,
It was very much a statement of saying
given a lot of exposure. 1be Olympia
there's a sense of exposure, of...
there's an aesthetic that's there, that's
Reader probably took years to get intoalways been there that we don't want
IS: Risk?
the number of hands it eventually got .
to see' die becauseof a political
AS: Thank you.
into, and I hope that High Risk will
response. A lot of writers react very
have a more long-tenn effect on pe0In that way, I wonder: If your edisensitively to what's going on in theple rather than an immediate one. I
torial decisions were translated into aworld around them and are really worcare that the work of the writers conpolitic, would it be a queer politic, inried about getting their work out.
tinues to get out there, and that maybe
the sense of an expanded gay, lesbian,the book can tum people on to a lot ofbisexual, deviant politic?
Do you feel that the book is a comdifferent writers as they explore their
IS: I think there's a politic involved
munity response to any sort of estabown aesthetic and their own values.
in editing this kind of anthology. Ifs very
lished tradition of gay wrltin~I realAS: By putting together so many difmuch about saying that we do not accept
tze that not all of the contributors areferent writers in terms of the fonns thatthe proliferation of a literature that wegay but specifically in terms of gay
they write in, their audience and their
are not interested in; and the "we" is defiwriting? Dennis Cooper made the point
subject matter, I am interested in showing
nitely queer-not
gay and lesbianin his talk {at the OutWrlte Conference]. the connections between all of our inter"queer" -but "queer" in terms of those ofthat he feels that we've all fallen very
ests and all of our values. I think thatus who support a deviant aesthetic. If it'seasily for mainstream acceptability,
sometimes, as gay men and lesbians, wepolitical to support work that falls outside
and that Is something we should be
accept certain things within our ownof the mainstream, then yes.
wary of Is this a response to that?
community but then don't accept what
IS: Absolutely. The proliferation ofsomeone else in the straight community
I want to talk about the issue of
banal literature is something that Amy andmight hflve to deal with as someone who
your audience. In some ways, the chalI will not aa:cept in our roles as arl>iters of...~..t""':'.. .'. :. .,'b]is "~;J'*~.;iflljgb::J$It··contriutor
lenge of the book would be for It totaste in the culture world. (1bey laugh.) I
Bob Flanagan, who is a total outsider as
have a very broad audience, to shock
don't want to publish banal fiction, I don't
a heterosexual masochist: For a lesbian
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audience to think about reading andbeing interested in and appreciating his
expression takes some work. But thisbook also has Pat OiIifIa, Dorothy Allison and writers who I think are very
important to the lesbian community, sothey might pick it up, and they mightread Bob~swork and realize that there's
this kind of aesthetic, there's this honesty, this shared sensibility that is worth
looking at

7b1s Is a landmark anthology inthat, aside from one of the Christopher
Street readers, I think, it's the firstanthology to have lesbians in the same
covers as gay men, as well as bisexuals and straights. That's a real stepping-o/f point. Did you have a senseof that history, or Is that incidental to
the larger project?
IS: It's incidental. The writers aregood writers, and I don't think it matters what their sexuality is.
AS: Actually, I think we madeoUr final decision about the first 20[stories] and afterward looked andsaid, "OK, how many men, howmany women? How many gays, howmany straights?"
So you didn't set out with a "we'regoing-to-bave-thls-ktnd-<Jf-balance"?
AS: No.
IS: It just worked out that way.
AS: Frankly, it suprised me that
we had so many ~traight people.
IS: That's true. It's about 50 percent straight.
AS: But that was not part of thecriterion we used when we were looking at the pieces. It was based on two
things: the literary value and a kind ofbalance we wanted to achieve. We
didn't only take the best literari1y,pointblank, we did want to have a certain
kind of representation that we could
achieve while having the excellence.
IS: But the representation
had
more to do with content then it did
with ethnicity or sexuality. If there
were 15 fist-fucking pieces in thisbook, it wouldn't be as interesting as
it is now. So we looked for the best.

Does that mean you have a problem with the sort of process that setsout in advance to decide its quotas?
IS: I do.
AS: Personally, I don't.'"

RESCUING THE BmLE FROM FUNDAMENTALISM by John E.
Spong. Harper San Francisco. $16.95 d. 267 pp.
by James Waller
As a matter of political principle,

it's essential that we keep repeating
until we're hoarse the unadorned factthat history is crowded with famous
people who were gay and lesbian andthat gay m~n and lesbians whether
recognizedas such or not-havealways performed some of world culture's most significant work. And it'salso essential that we name them.
But how do we decide who belongs. on our list of famous homosexuals? It
seems logical enough to include a person
if she or he is alive or died just recently or
had a life that was well documented or
produced work whose content is evidently gay or lesbian. But what about someone who died nearly 2,000 years ago, forwhom we have only a rather sketchy
biography, and whose denunciation ofhomosexuals has been a mainstay ofWestern Civilization's homophobia? Inother words, what should we make of
information, revealed just weeks ago, thatSaint Paul was a Nancy girl? That's right:
the same Saint Paul who wrote in Romans
2:29-31 that girls who like girls and boys
who like boys are "filled with all mannerof wickedness, evil, covetousness, malice.
Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity, they are gos5ips, slanderers, haters ofGod, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventorsof evil, disobedient to parents, foolish,
faithless, heartless, ruthless."
Why was Saint Paul so mean?
Well, Jack Spong, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark, has suggested
an answer. Marshalling all the received
wisdom of pop psychology, Spong has
detected the object of bigotry hiding in
the psyche of the bigot: Saint Paul wasgay and hated himself for it. In his
book, Rescuing the Bible From Fundamentalism, the good bishop outs theapostle, presenting him as a gift tothose lesbians and gay men who have,over the years, given
him so many "spiritual
gifts that arise out ofthe very being of theirunique life experience."
On fIrst reading of

Spong's gesture (in The New YorkTimes, which has not let the story die),my response was a sarcastic "Gee,thanks a lot." There aren't too many ofus, probably, who want Saint Paul on
our list. But, then, we also don't want
Roy Cohn or J. Edgar Hoover, do we?
Come to think of it, I don't even want
Liz Smith on our list. Still, without
being quite sure that our list is politically roomy enough to accommodate
the bad guys, I think that it's worthwhile to examine the case Spongmakes for Saint Paul's being gay.
Now, there's good reason to bewary of gifts borne by this particular
Anglican bishop. Jack Spong is the clericwho, with a great deal of fanfare,ordained the Rev. Robert Williams to the
Episcopal priesthood in December
1989--«n event that was, depending on
your point of view, either the first time
an open, actively homosexual person
had been elevated to the Episcopal
priesthood as such or the first time sucha thing had been done with quite somuch fanfare. In any case, the love-feast
between Spong and Williams ended
with both suffering a dose of spiritualindigestion. At a conference in January
1990, a reporter heard Williams saysome nasty things about Mother Theresa(for which Williams later apologized)
and some sensible things about thevirtues of non-monogamy (for which hedid not apologize), and reported them.
The story was picked up by the national
media, Spong enjoined Williams to shutup, Williams refused, and the flap resulted in Williams' dismissal from the leadership of a gay ministry in Hoboken andin his fleeting notoriety on the talk-show
circuit (Phil Donahue didn't like himvery much).
Spong, on the other hand, is thekind of defender of gay rights whom
Donahue does like (he's been a frequent guest): For one
thing, he's straight.
To•
be fair, Spong's liberalism is a far cry fromDonahue's sickening
variety, and even his

enemies admit that the bishop has
shown himself willing to court controversy and even endanger his standing
in the Anglican hierarchy by calling thechurch to honest, active commitment tohuman rights and Christian inclusiveness. In Rescutng the Bible, he daresgrapple •with a theological tar baby ofincredible stickiness; the problem of
how modern Christians can take theBible seriously without succumbing to
the inane beliefs of biblical literalists.
It's telling that Spong's claims about
Saint Paul's sexuality are the only aspectof this interesting book that have received
any attention in the general media.
Through much of the book, Spong is simply providing a SUlVey of academic biblical scholarship, and his overview is lucid
and succinct. I'd recommend Spong's
chapters on the Hebrew Scriptures andthe Gospels to anyone interested in learning a little biblical history.
. I can't say the same for the chapter
dealing with the letters of Paul. The
argument Spong advances to support his
hypothesis that Paul was a "self-loathing
gay male" has been criticized elsewherefor its homophobia. Homophobic it is,and not only in Spong's seeming equation of male homosexuality with fearand loathing of women. ('There's something disingenuous, though, about thosegay critics of Spong who defame him forsuggesting that gay men are, in perpetuity, misogynistic; certainly the point isthat gay men have--among males nomonopoly on misogyny.) Spong's argument is much more subtly~nd
profoundly-homophobic
than this.
What Spong says is, in essence,that Paul~ Jew who despised himself
because of his homosexual
feelings
and who was unable, despite thestrictest adherence to Jewish law, tosquelch or transform his loathsome
desires found forgiveness, acceptanceand love in Christ. The point that
Spong seems to miss is breathtakingly
obvious: Even if Spong's guess about
Paul's sexuality is a reasonable one,
Paul's cOnversion to Christianity did not
make him more accepting of homosexuality (note the previous quotationfrom Romans). All it did was let Paulknow that his basic moral hideousness
was something that God, in his unfathomable love, might choose to overlook. After recovering from his blinding
vision of Christ on the road to DamasIcus, Paul sprang up and started preaching the gospel; he did not go out andtry to get laid some "gift."
In addition to being homophobic,
Spong's argument is, in one important
respect, plain stupid---QIld, I think, vies
with the idea of sin that is central to a
Christian understanding of life. Timeand again in his letters, Paul complainsof his inability-as
a natural man,enveloped
in sin and as yet unredeemedby Christ-to
control theactions of his body. His mind, he says,
wants to do one thing-the
goodthing-but
his members, subject tosin's devices, invariably disobey.
The word "member" (the Greek
word used by Paul is me/os) is given, by
Spong, a very definitive interpretation.
According to him, when Paul says
"member," he is referring in a veiled way •to his sexual organ, since sexua1 arousalis the only sort of activity engaged in by
any of the body's members that is not
subject to voluntary control. This inter..:
pretation leads Spong to conclude thatthe root of Paul's self-hatred is sexual innature, a deduction pivotal to Spong's
case, and the quicksand on which therest of the argutrient is built
Fortunately
for· us list-makers,
Spong's interpretation seems to defy an
intelligent reading of Paul's Idlers. FII'Stof
all, Paul often uses the word me/os (againtranslated as "member") in quite a different context when he speaks of Christians as "members" of the body of Ouist.
If Spong's interpretation is applied here,
the picture of Ouist's body that it conjures
up is quite uncanny. More important,however, is the way in which Spong's
argument undennines--end reduces themeaning of sin in Paul's writin~.
As much as I may dislike Paul~r
rather, the way in which his words
have been, and are still, used by the
church as instrumentsof oppression-I
must admit that there havebeen few deeper -thinkers
abouthuman nature and how it sometimes
seems inhabited by evil: I tell my hand
not to strike my loved one, but it
strikes; I tell my mouth to say the kindwords, but it stays shut; and OK, I tell
my dick not to get hard when I knowthat my lust is wrong, and sometimes
it doesn't listen. My willingness
todespise my body doesn't go nearly so
far as Paul's utter desecration of the
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homosexuals?
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documented or produced work whose
content is evidently
gay or lesbian. But·
what about someone.who died nearly
2,000 years ago?
I•eelnearls 01 Ine
The Dilemma of the Contemporary Girl•
by Kurt B. Reighley
Many pop aficionados view thehistory of the classic American girlgroup as a Cinderella story 6f youngsters swept up from the ghetto into amagical world of bouffant hairdos anddesigner gowns. Since the '50s, thesegroups of three or more young women
we could all identify with have sungtales of young love in vocal harmony
with gut-wrenching honesty. But fromthe earliest hits of the Chantels and theBobbettes, through the glamorous reignof the Supremes, right up to today's topselling artists Expose and Seduction,
female vocal groups have been regarded by journalists and fans alike as thepuppets of male producers and songwriters. The pop marketplace of the'90s, redefined by a crop of female
artists as diverse as Madonna, Sinead
O'Connor and Rosanne Cash, offers thegirl groups a new chance to break outof 30-year-old stereotypes and assume agreater role in selecting,their own soundand image. Will modern girl groups
control their own careers any mQre thantheir predecessors,· or are these talented
performers destined to remain several
steps behind other artists in reflecting
the attitudes of modern audiences?
In her detailed history, Will You StIll
Love Me Tomon-ow-Girl
Groups From
the '50s On (Vll'ago Press Ltd., London,1989), British journalist Charlotte Greig
proposes the stereotype of the girl groupas "an entirely passive group of 'young
women who are called in by a male pr0ducer to make real his musical fantasies,
and who have no part to' play in thewhole business beyond donating theirservices as so many sets of vocal
chords." Just as Belly Gordy shaped thecareer of the Supremes, and Phil Spector's name remains iITevocably linked
with the Ronnettes, male producers
stand behind every major girl grouptoday. latin sweethearts the Cover Girls
were originally the brainchild of Fever
Records' Andy "Panda"
Tripoli in 1987. That same
year, Steve Peck and Ted
Currier of Platinum Vibe
productions
began theirtenure as Svengalis for
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Sweet Sensation. Last year, after working
with several female dance groups(including the Cover Girls on their Capitol release We Can't Go Wrong), ace
producers Robert Clivilles and David
Cole (a.k.a. C & C Music Factory) decided to enter the girl-group arena andformed Seduction, a "highly gifted, musically and ethnically diverse female trio"
carefully designed with an eye toward
the shortcomings of earlier girl groups.
But Expose, the trio created in 1985 bysongwriter/producer Lewis A. Martinee
to record his dance classic "Point of No
Return,~ continue to outshine them all.
Just a few moments with Ann Curless, the "most outspoken" member ofExpose, quickly dispels a handful of girlgroup prejudices. Curless majored inmusic merchandising at the University ofMiami, a background that provides her
with an edge against a classic weakness
in girl-group politics-business dealings.
Like so many of the young stars of the'60s, the sudden initial success of
Expose's multi-platinum debut Exposure
took Ann and fellow members Jeanette
Jurado and Gioia by surprise, But when
it came time to begin work on the follow up, 1989's What You Don't Know,
Curless says that they realized that it was"our images on stage, our voices onvinyl, and we wanted more control."Getting a greater degree of creative control away from producer Martinee "wasa fight," but Expose felt compelled toexert more influence over the soundand image associated with their name,and Curless considers the singers' overallrole on the second album "an enormous
leap" from their debut.
Curless sees another major difference
between the girl groups of yesterday andtoday. The Supremes and the Chantels
began as groups of young mends determined to break into big-time show business. While their male producers overshadowed them in later years, their own
ambition and talent were responsible forshaping their early achievements. Modem
female vocal trios are often "products ofan ideal conceptualized by a producer."
As a result, Curless fears that many of thebeautiful young women involved in theseprojects come across as "superficial entities that don't necessarily have the talent
to back up the look."
From the tight slacks and hip bootsof the Shangri-Las to the futuristic costumes of Labelle, "the Look" has always

been a crucial component of the girlgroup legacy. Unfortunately,
theincreased role of video in promoting
new artists further charges that many
producers value looks over talent and,thanks to modem technology, the faceon the stage or the screen doesn't need .
to belong to the voice on the record.
Both Ronnie Spector and former
Supreme Mary Wilson write of singer
substitution in their autobiographies, andmany critics insist that the practice continues to this day. divilles and Cole originally claimed that only singer April Harris sang on the hit "You're My One andOnly True Love," billed as the first
Seduction single, but a lawsuit byuncredited Black Box vocalist Martha
Wash, who recorded an earlier versionof the song for the team, challenges thevalidity of that claim. In a classic case of"Flo today, Cindy tomorrow," Sinoa
Loren replaced ldalis Leon on the Seduction roster shortly after the release of
their debut album Nothing Matters Without Love. Likewise, Evelyn Escalera
recently replaced Angel Sabater as thelead vocalist for the Cover Girls. Since
none of the members of the 1985 incarnation of Expose are part of the current
lineup (formed in 1987), the trio rerecorded all the vocals on "Point of No
Return" for release on Exposure, hoping
to avoid similar entanglements.
Anninsists that Expose has "always sung live
vocals, even as a track act" (singing overprerecorded backing tapes) and that the
only true outcome of playing bait-andswitch with the performers is that "theaudience is really cheated."
Ironically, the visual side of the girlgroup has become the area where performers usually display the most control.
The credits for Nothing Matters Without
Love read "Seduction's design, image andstyle by Maripol...in collaboration withDavid Cole and Robert Clivilles," butworking closely with their choreographer, the girls created dancing and p0sing that made the video for "Two to
Make It Right" just as memorable as the 'tune's singsong hook. Stylist Andrea
Smith's association with Sweet Sensation
goes back to their earliest days, and, as

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1. "I've Got thet Feeling" by Ru Paul
2. "It's a Shame" by Monle Love
3. "Party Time" by Pal .Joey
4. "Hypnosis" by Psychotropic
5. "Energy Flash" by Beltram
6. "Tonight" by Ba_ment

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8. "I'll Be Your Friend" by Robert Owens
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LIBRARY

LIBERATION... TheGay and Lesbian Task Force of the· American
Library Association has selected the winners of
its annual book award In existence since 1972,
the task force's announcements are currently
the only rival to the Lambda Book Reports
yearly I.ammys for their importance to the gay
and lesbian writing community. Topping thefiction category for 1990 is Minnie Bruce Pratt's
most recent collection of poems, Crime Against Nature,
Nonfiction accolades went to thefa of Homosexuality,
a two-volume resource book edited by Wayne Dynes. Runners-up
to Bruce Pratt were Michael Cunningham's Home at the End of theWorld, Matthew Stadler's Landscape: Memory, John Gilgun's.Music I Never Dreamed OJ, Paula Martinac's Out of Time andDclvid Leavitt's A Place I've Never Been. Dynes was trailed by Allan
Berube's Coming Out Under Fire, Cal Gough and Ellen
Greenblatt's Gay and Lesbian Library <Service, Mary Ann
Humphrey's My Country, My Right to Sen:e, Bret Hinsch's Passi0n5of the CUI Sleeve, Bonnie Zimmennan's tbe Safe Sea of Women,
Stuart Tunmons' 1be Trouble with Harry Hay and Janice Rench's
Understanding Sexual Identity. The task force will 'Present its
awards on July 1 at the AlA annual Conference in Atlanta, Ga:
THE FRONT LINES ... Lesbian Contradiction is

the girls have matured, their look has
grown from teeny-bopper miniskirts tothe sophisticated furs and swept-up
hairstyles on the cover of their Love
Child album. Expose collaborates withthe directors when conceptualizing andfilming new videos. But "the control that
we have most," 'insists Curless, "is [whenwe are] touring," when they handle costume, set and lighting design, right down
to the hiring of personnel. In the future,they plan to increase their role in songselection and vocal arrangement.
. Once they enter the studio, even themost assertive groups exercise control
only "up to a point." All three members of
Expose write music, yet none of theircompositions are currently slated forinclusion on their forthcoming summer
release. In an interview for Entertainment
Week{y last September, Robert Clivilles
complained that the public overlooked
many of Seduction's talents, including
writing. However, none of the singers
received writing credit for any of the tensongs on their debut album. Curless
rema,ins undaunted by the situation andcontinues to write and promote "original
material that caters to my needs."
While the singers still don't write
the group's material, the songs selected

looking for writing and illustrations by women
involved in protests against the war in the
Gulf. Send your stuff to 584 Castro St., Suite
263, San Francisco, CA 94114 by Apri115.

WE WERE ALL WRONG ABOUTMICHELANGELO... No, not thatMichelangelo, but rather the one who wasinvolved in such ephemera! creations as theSistine Ceiling and the sculpture David. Queers athome when CNN aired their two-parter, .smson of G1anls, ·say thatthey learned about all of tha;e bits of art history but apparently also
gleaned new info about the artist's. the program
paints Midlelangelo as a happy hetero. CNN has no plans to rerun
GIanIs for three to fivem~, but it may be worth it to tune inthen. 11lao>e bees just love a bit of revisionist history.
I THINK I LOVE YOU ... Partridge Family pre•adolescent Danny has grown into adult -size Danny Bonaduce,
recently arrested for battering a transvestite, according to l&
Today. Bonaduce apparently picked the Native American man up
while cruising his neighborhood, offered him a $20 spot for ablow job and only became violent when he "wish[es]to do a little
bit more." The unidentified victim sustained injuries including a
broken nose. Bonaduce was arrested after being discovered~plledby Sarah Pettit
naked in a closet at home.

for them have grown to offer a wider
scope of emotions than in the past. In
creating material for .girl groups, bothmale and female songwriters alike mustreflect the attitudes of an audience com.
prised mainly of teenage girls. Many
current hits show little change in subject
matter from their '60s countE'11i
four of Seduction's charting singles,
especially the ballad "Could This Be
Love," were classic examples of "girlmeets-boy" pop formulas, But whilenothing has been recorded to surpass
the independence of Lesley Gore's 1964
classic "You Don't Own Me," girl groups
today aren't afraid to speak up forthemselves in sOng. Tracks like Seduction's "One Mistake" and Expose's"Stop, Listen, Look and Think" warn
men to think twice before crossing that·
line, displaying sentiments more fitting
for adult women than impassioned.
teenagers. Even Sweet Sensation, following their producers' decision torecord a Supremes' cover, selected"Love Child" over more obvious choices
because they were impressed by the
lyrics and felt the song would speak totheir adolescent female listeners.
Growing up in the public eye,both as young women and performers,

has long been the curse of the girlgroup, and male producers
haveremained in the spotlight years after
many young players in the girl-group
drama faded into poverty, obscurity andworse. Rumors that Michelle Visage of
Seduction, who sang and rapped nearly
half the vocals on Nothing Matters
Without Love, had "quit the group"
circulated for months, while C & C's
publicity crew claimed that the groupwas "dormant" but not "broken up." In
the March "Rock and Roll Quarterly" ofthe Village VOice, producer Robert
Clivilles insisted that the members of
Seduction lack the necessary "determination and discipline." Meanwhile,
Expose has stopped working on songs
written by Lewis A. Martinee and recognizes that they "need new materials andnew producers" to grow. Breaking
away from a producer's established hitmaking formula may seem a bold
move, especially considering the shadowy existence to the lineups of the
Shangri-Las and the Marvelettes on therevival circuit, but, as with any artist,
the longevity and continued success ofa girl group depends on its ability to
evolve, however subtly, both as a unit
and as individuals.T•by Michael Paller

New York, and Bumbalo's Show, Ches
ley's Somebody's Little Boy, Daniel Cur-'
Almost any playwright will tell youthat you've got to be crazy to write plays.
zon's S and M, Carl Morse's Annunciation and Fairy Puck-In, Patrick's 1be Way
Yet every year, new plays are churned out
by the hundreds. Alma;( any director will
we War and Rubin's own 1bat AI Pacinocomplain that you've got to be either a
Look will have their world premieres.
masochist or a sadist to work in the the"What's appealing
about theater. Meanwhile, New York is overrun
evening," Rubin offers, "is that it veers sowith unemployed people claiming to becompletely from serious plays to comedirectors. And aImost any producer in thedy, and that so many subjects aretheater will say that you've got to havetouched on."rocks in your head tostage plays in New
York. There are fewer
plays being produced
these days, which suggests that there may be
fewer rocks around,
too. Still, there areenough eX them to fill theheads eX producers who
dream about making
money in the theater.
Talk about gay theater,
and the situation is evenaazier-or,
dependingon how you look at it,
m:.re cJerressing.
Enter Rich Rubin.
"I was sick of not-:.:-:.
seeing my life repre::::::;\"::"-'
sented onstage, " the..•. :: :,:::";".,:
35-year-old
director
said recently. "And I
was sick of readinginterviews where an.t: actor says in the first~ paragraph,'Yes, I'm
~ playing the role of a
~ gay man, and, by theway, have I mentioned.
my wife and two kids?'" ACTING OI1T~Director Rich Rubin
To any person
Acts is indeed varied inmerely imprudent enough to work in
its styles, voices and subject matter, but
the theater, the solution might be toevery piece is concerned with someproduce a play by a gay writer and castaspect of sexuality and the implications of
it with gay actors. Rubin, apparendy litbeing a same-sexer. The pl:j.ys consider
de concerned about perceptions of his
the social and political implications, thesanity, responded more dramatically,
rewards and penalties, of being gay inproducingand directing 12 one-act
America. It was notplays by seven gay playwrights, includRubin's explicit ining Victor Bumbalo, Robert Chesley andtention to make theRobert Patrick. Under the tide Homosexual Acts, the results can now be seen atevening a thematic
the Theater at 224 Waverly PI.
whole, but that, hesays, is what has
All but two of the plays are new tohappened. "The evening seems to 'havetaken on a shape that makes sense,
although I can't explain it. It's not simply
12 disjointed plays. It clearly moves frombeginning to end."
For those bemoaning New York gay
theater as an arena bereft of good writing, Homosexual Acts will be somet:hiQgof a revelation. Each piece will not suitevery playgoer, of course, but the qualityof all the writing is high and unusually,,';';-."':.,':".",-,","

thought-provoking.
, In 1be Way We War, Robert Patrick,
who has never been afraid to take oncurrent issues, debates whether or not
gay men and lesbians ought to enlist in
the military of a nation which has always
proven singularly unwilling to fight forthem. His Ludwig
and Wagneris a bitof revisionist history, a meeting be••
tween a pnaplc
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.Bavaria and Richard Wagner, a reluctant
former employee. It is an example of agenre Patrick has perfected, which cOmbines high moral purpose (here, thesketching in of gay history) with thelowest theatrical gags in the book.
Robert Chesley's Somebody's Little
Boy is a portrait of loneliness, in which agay man examines the detritus of yet
another one-night stand. In two plays,
divinity and divines are on the mind ofDaniel Curzon-S and M explores thetransformation of pain and suffering into
an expression of sublimity, while Celebrl.ties in Hell features Pope John Paul II and
Eddie Murphy consigned to the same
smaIl afterlife room with no exit-and
One Man's optnion is a graphic portrayalof a serial basher. Rubin's 7bat AI Pactno
Look is an encounter between a gay man
and a mugger.
Carl Morse is a poet and playwrightwhose plays tend to be no-nonsense,rough-edged denunciations of homophobia, but he has provided Homosexual.Acts with two pieces which
demonstrate less familiar facets of his
talent. In Annunciation, a pregnant
word-processor is visited by a mysterious worker from personnel with a vital
message. Fairy Fuck-In, or A Gall to theStates, is a Whitmanesque exhortation to
red-blooded Americans in all comers of
the land to produce more fairies. The
first is whimsical and touching; the second resounds with infectious, bouyant
energy. Every strai.ght couple in America
ought to see it and then valiantly
answer the call.
One reason Rubin has chosen playswith verifiable content is his feeling that,these days, gay theater in New York isoften without it: "Gay plays often seemto be either beefcake or just unbelievable. Or they're produced by straig}\tpeople trying to profit off a market they
think they can snag. I hope there reallyis an audience interested in intelligent,
provocative plays written and produced
by gay people. This show has its sex
appeal, but it's not just an excuse toparade beefcake across the stage."
One of the evening's most engrossing pieces is Robert Patrick's tbe Family
Bar. In a vein very different from eitherof his other• two pieces on the bill, 7be
Family Bar takes place in·an unspecified
time when anyone caught playing astereotypical member of a nuclear family, or referring to others by their tradi-

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by Essex Hemphill
Sometimes I holdmy warm seed
up to my mouthvery close
to my parched lips
and whisper"I'm sony,"
before I tum my handover the toilet
and listen to the seedsplash into the water.

and trousers,••
voting,praymg,•paymg rent,
pissing in public,
cussing cabs,
fussing with utilities.
,

What I learn
as age advances,
relentless pillager,
is that we shrink
inside our shirts
and trousers,
or we spreadbeyond the seams.
The hair we cherisheddisappears.

I rinse what remains
down the drain,
dry my hands.
They returnto their tasks
as if nothingout of place
has occurred.

Sometimes I holdmy warm seed
up to my mouthand kiss it.

I go on being,
wearing my shirts
Essex Hemphtllts the editor ofBrother to Brother: New Writings
by Black Gay Men.T ~tional family roles, can be imprisoned.
Among Patrick's points is that we know
others by the roles we identify themwith-be it father or faggot. The playalso tells us that attempts to regulate
human desire, don't eliminate it but
merely warp it and drive it underground,and those who, by ties of desire, ought
to be allies become enemies, separated
by fear, or commerce. tbe Family Bar is
one of Patrick's most provocative plays.
The evening ends with a major new
play by Victor Bumbalo, author of Adamand the Experts. Entitled Show, it follows
the journey to self-lmowledge of a priest
incarcerated in what his superiors call a"rest home." The play lashes out at bigotry and makes a strong political statement But like all of the author's plays,
anger is leavened with humanity, humor,and Bumbalo's vast capacity for understanding. Show contains a universe ofsorrow, but it is an experience which•leaves one climportant workby a playwright whose reputation has
not caught up with his enormous gift.
To select the plays for HomosexualActs, Rubin turned first to writers headmires: "In most instances, I started
with playwrights I knew. I wanted a mixof serious plays and comedies, and had
an idea of topics I hoped would betouched On. But I didn't have a specific
set of criteria to determine what theplays would be or what subjects tocover. Rather, I let a lot of plays come to
me by a number of playwrights."
One can't help noticing, however,that there are no plays by women in
Homosexual Act5, and that only one, Bil
Wright's MotberFatberLoverMan, is by aBlack writer. Rubin posted a notice in A
Different Light bookstore soliciting plays.
It brought in, he says, one play by a___

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references
to popular culture comefast and easy. I notice the difference instyle and political tone of the poems
by Hattie Gossett and Wanda Coleman, both heterosexual Black women.
There's a broader social context atwork, and the struggle to write thetruth includes the history of Black
struggle
to deconstructwhite language, reclaim the oral traditions. I put
Coleman's poem, "Black Madonna,"
next to Kathy Acker's prose story, "A
Young Girl,· and enjoy the juxtaposition.
Both writers
are drawn to•
extremes of Christian iconography,
crucifixes
and virgins and biblicalplagues, as a locus for female experience. At some point, race departs fromgender, but exactly where?
That same question arises when thecontext is gay and male, such as Michael
Lassell's "Dreams of Bondage":
My dreams are Renaissance ~. of the flagellation of Quist that hide a sa
.c secretin the textured flesh of ttianguIar canpositioo.

Obviously, there's a coounon thread
uniting these three writers to the Marquis
de Sade, but it would be something quite
different for a female writer to say, as Lassell has: "My dreams are the bound feet/ofa Chinese concubine/who sings at night"
As a literary event, High Risk is amixed bag: some really great work, therest' good but uneven. One disappoint•
ment is William Burroughs' "Just Say No
to Drug Hysteria," where the tone ispreachy and assumes a reading audience
far' more stupid and naive than we are.
Burroughs deserves his place as a pioneer outlaw queer writer, but not for thispiece. As reportage, as a social testament
to sexual desire in a violent culture, as abook selling in mainstream bookshops
where people who continue to wear yellow ribbons will see it, High Risk is definitely charting the waters.'"•

HOMOSEXUAL
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woman-Hillary
Sloin's Lust andPUy-but not until a month after he had
selected his dozen. "By that point," hesays, "doing her play-which
is very
good-would
have
lookedliketokenism. I didn't want to invite lesbians
to 12 plays, with only one by a woman.

And I know there's a perception that gay
men shouldn't direct women's plays. I've
thought lorig and hard about this, and I
don't feel great about it. I hope that I canestablish the connections with lesbian
playwrights that I don't have."On the subject of racial diversity, he
explains: "I saw Bil Wright's play at
LaMama and loved it Doing his play is
not the result of a desperate attempt tofind a play by a Black writer. Here, too, I
wish I had stronger connections withBlack playwrights. I hope that I will. I
don't pretend that the evening is something it's not. It's not representative of
the gay and lesbian community. It's representative of what I see as my experience, which is trying to exist as a gay
man in the world at this moment."
A native of St. Louis, Rubin does
not come to this gay theater marathon
unprepared. From 1976 through 1984 heworked in Seattle, producing and direct. ing such gay plays as Passing By by Martin Sherman (author of Bent), Noel
Gregg and Drew Thomas' As Time Goes
By and Robert Patrick's Cheep 7beatrics,
a collection of some of Patrick's oneacts; and at the First Gay and Lesbian
Theater Festival there, he directed Curzon's One Man ~ Opinion.
In New York, he has directed a portion C"aslice," as he describes it) of Carl
Morse's performance oratorio Impolite to
My Butchers at LaMama and the 25thanniversary production of Patrick's 7be
Haunted Host. Most recently, he directed
poet/perfonnet' Mark Ameen in his oneman performance, tbe Seven Pillars of
Wu:ca-dick in Washington, DC, and San
Francisco, a piece, Rubin says, "which is
too good not to be done in New York."
Rubin has not only taken on thetask of directing each of these pieces; heis producing the evening, as well: "This is
not a project other producers would takeon. I discovered that the only way to see
it done was to produce it myself. So I run
around all day-but I'mI not in rehearsal
ten minutes before I forget all that andremember why I'm doing all this."Nevertheless, Rubin discovered thatdoing 12 small plays is more difficult thandoing a single long one. "Rehearsing one
heavy piece is tough enough, but I've
found myself having to work on two or
three of them back-to-back. I also have toalter styles from piece to piece: One will
require a careful beat-by-beat..

of characters' rootivationj in another, theblocking [the physical moves actors make]is the key." One might expect that handling the egos not of one but of six writers
might also be a problem, but Rubin insiststhat it is not. "No one has been difficult todeal with," he says. "I have six writers to.
hold my hand, to build my ego."
Rubin is also planning a kind ofminiseries on Monday and Tuesdaynights at the Theater at 224 Waverly Pl.,when Homase:xual Acts doesn't play. He
has invited Carl Morse to do a staged
reading of his Discharges and Admissions on April 29-30 and May 6-7, and,Rubin says, other writers might take partas well. "I'm talking to a major lesbian
writer whom I can't name. I'm hoping
she'll participate."
What does Rubin hope that people will
t1ke away with them after seeing lbmosexuaJ.AcN "I think a lot cf people are asking
themselves these days, What does it mean
to be f!j1.'f? How different is our view cf theworld from other people's? I hope people
will say to themselves not only that they
like being queer but also, 'There's more
to being queer than I thought,'" ...
Performances of Homosexual Acts
will ron at 7beater at 224 Waverry PI.
through May 26. Call (212) 564-8038 forreservations.

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p_g __ e"'lflesh, but I certainly resonate with Paul'sconviction that the brokeness of my life
has much to do with this discord
between my mind and all my members.
Curiously, if I accept the bishop's"gift" of'Saint Paul, the depth and richnessof Paul's thought are stolen from me. The
moral insight of the apostle's most famous
sentence, "For I do not do the good I
want, but the evil I do not want is what I
do" (Romans 7:19), is diminished to a dispute between Paul and his peter. (Notethe weird sexism inherent in Spong's
attempt-GS I read it-to divest this sentence of its moral power.)Spong's further aIgll1llell1-that identifying Paul's sexual problem as homasexuality solves the riddle cf his self-hatred better
than any other possible.
eed
not be pursued. Paul certainly had a problem with himself-mtd with sex, and withwomen-but
its psychological origin
must, mercifully, remaitl obscure. Thank
God the argument's SO weak. I can still
appreciat:e--and hate--Paul, but we don't
have to put him on our list of forebears.'"

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THEATRE-AT-224-WAVERL Y-PLACE
presents HomollJlll" AdJ, a series 01
12 short plays, Including seven world
premlerell and three New York premlsree. They are: Robert Patrick's
Ludwig and Wagner, The Family Bar
and The Way We War; Daniel Curzon's
S&M. Ce/6britiH In Hell and One Man!!
OpinlolT,Carl Morse's Annunciation and
Fairy Fuck-In, or A Call to the States;
Robert Chesley's Somebody" Little
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We-fr at 8 pm, Sa at 7 and 10 pm, Su
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Through May 26.
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JlI8n Kordelol. Dlrect.d by Simon Fill. $7 cover/2 drink minimum. 59 Christopher SI. Mo al 8 pm. Reservallons: (212) 2555438. April 151hrough May 8.
Can'l allord Ihe AmFAR benelll? UBU·REPERTORYTHEATER
prelenll Copl'l Grand F'n.',. Dlrecled by Andre Ernotte •.
Tranllaled by Michael Feingold. Slarrlng Roberl Carrlcarl,
Delphi Harrlnglon, Jack Koenig, Keith McDermott, David
Puraley and Margo Skinner. The play -may lUll be Ihe IIrsl.arce wrmen about AIDS, a .arce whlch·mlxel palhol and wll,
lendeme .. and cNe",. n $20/$15 .or studenll and lenlors. 15
W. 281h SI. Tu-Sa al 8 pm, Sa and Su al 3 pm. Relervallonl:(212) 87H582.
I'd ao lee H full'or Ibe IllIe: STEVEMCGRAW'Spresents David
Drake's 111' NI,ht Lany Knmer KI... d
The performance II
Icheduled lor an On-Broadway openlna In Ihesummer of 1991.
The play, directed lIy Maryrole Wo_od,Ulel poelry and perlormance 10 explore Illuel railed by AIDS acllvllm. Tonlahl'l
showlna IIa bene.H .or Equity FlUblsAIDS.$10. 158 W.72nd SI.
April 8. 10:30 pm. Relervatlons: (212) 595-7400.
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Michael T.will be perlormfna. fl. 101 Ave. A. April 8. 10 pm.
(212) 47H184.

bCHAPTER III STUDIO presents KevinBrol.ky'. Th. MornIng Sun and Malt
Averln's Dorm on th. Fann, two oneact playe. Both plays are about twomen: The Morning Sun, which stars
John Plln. and Keno Rld.r, concems
a meeting a between a Hollywood actor
and a retarded boy. Down on the Farm,which stars Olnny A.hkln~.1
andMlchlll Gilpin, ill about the relationship between two male larmhands. $8
general adlmlealon/$4 students. 797
Sixth Ave., at 27th Street. Th-Sa at 8pm and Su at 3 pm. Reee, vatlons:(212) 727-8143. April 11-21.
THE WINGS THEATRE COMPANY presenlB Rom,n"a night in theorgy chamber 01 the teenage emperor
01 the Roman emplrs, Hellogabalus,"
written and directed by David Mlchl.1
GIIIIghar.
Featuring "a spectaculardrag wedding in the palace." 154
Christopher
st. Tu-Fr at 8 pm.
Beginning April 13, Sa at 7 and 10 pm
and Su at 3:30 and 7 pm. R888rvations:(212) 627-2961. Through April 28.

'p.t:Ut:/"bPS 122 presents Rlchlrd Elovlch','IImNn, f/" FrIImDUll", " QUllr.
Written and perlormed by Elovlch.
Directed by Ilamar Kubo". Tho solo
play is a 10vII story about activiem anddeath in the age 01 AIDS. It tells thestory 01 felix the Kat, a human cannonball shot out 01 Queens and Gurdie
Benjamin, a stand-Up spritzer who theorizee about everything: outlaw queernels In William S. Burroughs, aeelmlla-

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Family, heroin, Jewish law and the
Panopticon. $10 or $5 plus TOF.150 Rrst
Ave. Th-Su at 9:30 pm. Reservations:(212) 477-5288. Apilll-28.
TIlE DUPLEX prese$ Ca', B"lIn, starring Sybil Brunchlon, Bob Gutowsld, Jay
Ro •• r., Thom .. Sto.hr and Jellrey
Wallach. The Duplex. 59 Christopher St
Fr at 10 pm. Reservations: (212) 2555438. Through April 30.
6UPSTAIRS AT THE DUPLEX presents
Wicked Truh Producllons' B.dtlm.
Itorl", Join them for "more tales ofshattered, splintered, spit-upon love."
Written and performed by MarianGold.leln,
Scott King and Juon
Kordelo •. Directed by Simon Fill. $7
cover12 drink minimum. 59 Christopher
st Mo at 8 pm. Reservations: (212) 2555438. April 15 through May 6.
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6ART IN GENERAL presents Oul Loud:
Artl ... Engulled Agalnll War, a collaborative multi-media installation whichassembles contributed works from artislll
and writers in opposition to the Gulf
War.· Other artists's works are also featured in the show. 79 Walker st. (212)219-0473. April 13 through May 11.
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EIGHTY EIGHTS presenlll Rohn Seyllell,a .singer currently appearing in Les
Miserable" in a cabaret engagement tobenefit Broadway Cares and Equity Rghlll
AIDS. $15. 228 W. 10th St. Su at 10:30
pm. Reservations: (212) 924-0088.
THE GLINES present Evan Brldensllne ..
HI,h-""'n, .Qualf.~a comedy in which"David loves Greg,.Greg loves Sally, Sally
lovee Bruce and Bruce loves David."
Directed by Lillie Ironl. Starring John
Clrhlrt III, Suzanne Cryer, Dane Halland Malk Leydarl. $15. 39 Grove St, at
Bleecker. We-Fr at 8 pm, Sa at 6 and 9
pm and Su al7 pm. Reesrvations: (212)869-.3530. April 3 through June 9.
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THE CASTILLO CULTURAL CENTER represente Jamll Chapman'l Our Youn,
Black M.n A" O,ln, and Nobod,
to Caff, a look at some of thosemen whoe lives and deaths ars reflected
in drug-abuse, crime, police-brutality,
alcoholism, poverty and AIDS statistics.
$20. 500 Greenwich St, suite 201. Th-Sa
at 8 pm and Su al 3 pm. Reservations:(212) 941-5800. April 5 through Aug. 31.

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6UBU REPERTORY THEATER presents
Copl's Bralfll Rna/•. Directed by Andre
Ernolt•. Translated by Michael feingold.
Starring Robert Clrrlcart,
D.lphl. Hlrrlnglon,
Jlck
Koenig,Keith
McD.rmott, David Pursley and Mlrgo
Sklnn.r. The play "may just be the first
farce written about AIDS, a farce whichmixee pathos and wit, tenderness andcruelty:$20/$15 for studsnts andsenior •. 15 W. 28th St. Tu-Sa at 8 pm,
Sa and Su al3 pm. Reservations: (212)679-7562.
THE WPA THEATRE presents R.d 'eaff
on Bun,.t, a hew play by and starring
Chlrl .. Busch, creator of Vampire
Lesbians of Sodom and Psycho Beach
Party. Directed by Kennelh Elliott.
Starrring Ralph Buckley, Roy Cockrum,
Andy HlllldlY,
Julie Haillon, Mark70 OUTWEEK April 17. 1991

How could we nol plug Ihls? LAVENDER HEIGHTS Speaker
Series presenls Gabriel Rolello, edllor In chief of OutW"kmagazine (yes, Ihe one you're reading). $7. The Cornerstone
Cenler. 178 BenneH Ave., one block west of Broadway al1891hStreet. April 9. 8 pm. (212) 304-2471.
QUEERNATION gollhem all In one room, so go lalk 10 Ihem.
Yes, .ll's a Community Forum, Ihe second of lis kind, bringing
logelher MarJorie Hili, Sandra Lowe, Deborah Glick, Richard
Burns, Robert ConSidine, Frank de Leon and Leslie MaJor.
Topics Include: discussing Ihe problems Ihal keep us apart as acommunlly, Including racism, sexism, classlsm, able Ism andageism; working on building ~ lruly Inclusive community; andaddressing Issues Ihal affecl us all, Including health care,domesllc partnership leglslallon, hale crimes leglslallon and.elecllng openly lesbian and gay officeholders. 52 Duane SI.,81hfloor. April 1O.7 pm.
Ouchl Do Ihal agalnl GAYMALE SIM ACTIVISTSpresenl On Pins
and Needles: Playing With Piercing. This discussion of Ihelechnlques and mlndsel for safe and sallstylng piercing play
fealures masler plercer Jim Ward from GaunUel In San
Francisco. $4 members!$8 non-members. The Cenler. 208 W.
131h St. April 10. 8 pm. (212) 727-9878.
For Ihose of us wllhout TVs, CHANNEL89 presenls Rick X's The
Closet-Case Show. The two special eplsolfes, previewed lonlgbl
al11 pm, are "HOW10 Seduce a Preppie" and ·Paul and Jeff
Just Say No 10 Drunk Driving." Afterwards, II's regular Channel
89 fun and, al1 am, Lady Bunn~does her New Wave show. $3
before mldnlghl!$5Iifter. The ramld. 101 Ave.· A. April 10.
Doors open al1 0 pm. (212) 473- 184.
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SIIII no TV? SEXUAL ORGASM PRODUCTIONSpresenls Seize
Control of the Tal Mahal, a new video by Brenda and Glennda.
Premiere party and screening. Hoi boys, drag queens and music
by OJ Miss Ifnderslood. $3. The Chameleon. 505 E. 81h St.,between avenues A and B. April 11. 10 pm.
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This Is your lasl cha~ce ...THE NATIONAL LESBIAN CONFERENCEpresenls Info Sharing. This Is Ihe lasllnfosharlng 10 beheld before Ihe .conference, which Is April 24-28. Wheelchair
accessible. ASL Inlerpreled on previous request, The Cenler •.
208 W. 131hSI. April 11. 8 pm. Info: (71,) 230-3532.
·Conlributors was a woman" (OK, so U's a bad Joke). JUDITH'S
ROOM presenls Conlrlbulors, reading from Ihe book, Wom.en,
AIDS and A~/vlslm. 881 Washlnglon SI. April 11. 7 pm. (212)727-7330.
Geol'lle Washlnglon slepl here.;.and If he only knew whal wasgoing on now: THE GAY ACTIVIST ALLIANCE IN MORRISCOUNTY presenls Unlled '91, a stalewlde conference for les. blans and gay men. The Iheme of Ihe conference Is ·Flghllng
Our Ballles Away and ·al Home." The fealured speakers are
Miriam Ben-Shalom, nallonal chairperson for Gay, leSbian andBisexual Veterans of America; and members of Ihe Campaign 10
End Dlscrlmlnallon, Including Assemblyman D. Bennel Mazur,
sponsor of anll-dlscrlmlnallon
bill A-8M, and CEO co-chair
John N. Glsh, Jr. There will be 40 workshops held Ihroughoul
Ihe day on a variety of loplcs, and Ihe evening will close wllh aconcert by Suede..!a JaZZ/popvocalist. Conferencellckels are$20 In advance/t25 at Ihe door. Concert IIckels are $10 In
advance/$15 allhe door. Morrlslown Unitarian Fellowship •Normandy Helghls Road. Morristown, NJ. For Individual evenl
limes, calilhe GAAMCHlllpllne al (201) 285-1595. April 13.
A dlfferenl kind of beauly conlesl (for a dlfferenl kind of
beaUIT): MISS SALEEN PRODUCTIONS presenls Ihe fourthannua Miss New York CHy Pageanl for female Impersonalors.
The show Is a benefit for Ihe People Wllh AIDS Coalilion.
Starring, Jesse Volt, Miss NYC, 1990; Vanessa Diamond, Miss
NYC 1989; Electra St. Jill, Miss NYC 1988; and wllh special
guests. Bella and Empress Razor Sharp, along wllh a bevy oftalenled and beautiful conlestanls. Miss Saleen will belhe mi.
lress of ceremonies. $20 In advanceJ$25 allhe door. LImelight.
Sixth Avenue al 20lh Sireei. April 13. Doors open al 7 pm;
showllme Is al 8. Tlckellnfo: (212) 532-0290.

Hamilton,
Judith Hanlin,
Arnie
Kolodn.r. 519 W. 23rd st Tu-Th at 8 pm
and Su at 7:30 pm-$22. Fr and Sa at 8pm and Su al3 pm-$26. Reservations:(212) 206-0523.
TIlE.LESBIAN HERSTORYARCHIVESand
THE CENTER present K.. pln' On:
Imagll 01 Alrlcan-Amerlcan Lllblln •.
Opening Feb. 28. Wheelchair acceesible.
The Center. 208 W. 13th st Hours: daily,
4-6 pm. For more info, contact theArchives at (212) 874-7232.
55 GROVE STREET presents Cam
Brainard and Bob Koh.rr' •. Brlt:ldat:•..
StII"O, perfonners who both appeared inParting Glances, their original comedy
material includes two jocks who learn theycan vog ue, reti red Solid Gold 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 in West Hollywood;
videos serve as transitions between live
routines. $8 plus a 2-drink miniumum. 55
Grove Sl, west of Seventh Avenue. Fr at 8
pm. (212) 366-5438.
CHERRY LANE THEATREpresents David
Slavenl' Th. Sum of U" by the writsr ofBreaker Morant starring Nail Mallin andRobert lansing, direc1edby KINIn Dowling,
about a father who tries to help with his
son's gay relationships while he looks for a
new wife. $27.50-$37.50. 38 Commerce st
Tu-fr at 8 pm, Sa at 7 and 10 pm, Su at 3
and 7:30 pm. (212) 564-8038.
MEN WITH WIGS, INC., presents 11'11
Min'. World: Lad!e. Sing Ihe BlulI, a
fun-filled, gender-bender fantasy, fromthe Cotton to Motown. Men, with wigs,
examine incandescent images of theblues' queens and their descendants.
$10. The Producers Club. 358 W. 44thSt, 2nd floor, suite 7. Fridays at 11 pm.
(212) 971-9021.

MONDAY, APRIL 8
UNITY '94 Club Fund-Ral .. rs Commlltee Meeting. Unity '94 is the theme of
the 1994 Gay Games IV. The Dugout.
Chrislopher Street al Weehawken Street
6:30 pm. Info: Wolfgang Bu.ch at (212)989-4605.
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER
Membership CommlH .. Mlltlng. 7:30
pm. Call Chris at (212) 601-0806 forlocation.
GAY ACTIVIST ALLIANCE IN MORRISCOUNTYpresents Womyn .. Netwolk andMen's Rap Group at 7:30 pm, before their
General Meeting at 8:30 pm. Tonighl'.
topic: "Drugs, Trials and Treabnent· Wrtha epeakIlrfrom the New Jersey CommWlity
Research Initiative. Morristown Unitarian
Fellowship. 21 Normandy Heights Rd.
Morristown, NJ. Info: GAAMC Gay
Helpline: (201) 285-1595.
ACT UP General Maetlng: Cooper Union.
Fourth Avenue at 7th Street. 7:30 pm.
Info: (212) 564-AlDS.
UBU·REPERTORY THEATER presents
Copl'l BrandRnal., the last work of theFrench-Argentinian
playwright, whowrote the play from his hospital bed.
Copl died of an AIDS-related illness in•1987. The play is described as "a farcethat triumphs over disease and despair."This evening's performance Is a benefit
for AmFAR, which will receive one-half ofthe proceeds. $350. 15 W. 28th St 8 pm.
Reservations: (212) 679-7540.
STEVE MCGRAWS presents David
Dl'lke'l Th, NI,,,, uny Kramer KIII,t!
M,. The performance Is scheduled for an
Off-Broadway opening in the summer of1991. The play, directed by MaryrolB
Wood, usss poetry and performance toexplore i88ues raised by AIDS activism.
Tonlghfs showing Is a benefit for Equity
Flghte AIOS. $10. 158 W. 72nd St 10:30
pm. Reservations: (212) 595-7400.

BISEXUAL WOMEN'S SUPPORT GROUP
Dllcn.lon
and Workshop. Tonight's
topic: "Coming Out" Women only. $3.
The Center. 208 W. 13th St 6:30-8 pm.
(212) 459-4784.

speaking
on "The Inventionof
Heterosexuality" In celebration of Worid
Week. Refreshments served. Rutgers
Law School. 15 Washington St., room
113. Newark. NJ. 4 pm.

SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS presents Pool Night. Featuring free pool,ping pong, billiards, air hockey and shootIng hoops at Brownstone Billiard. Seventh
Ave. at Aatbush. Afterwards,. rslax at theRoolt at 9 pm. Seventh Avenue at 8thStreet. The evening begins at 7 pm.
Please call 24 hours In advance to confinn all SAL activities: (718) 965-7578.

THE NATIONAL LESBIAN CONFERENCE
presents InfoSharlng. This Is the last
Infosharing to be held before the conference, which Is April 24-28. Wheelchair
accessible. ASL Interpreted on previous
request The Center. 208 W. 13th St 6
pm. Info: (718) 230-3532.

TUESDAY, APRIL 9

QUEER NATION presente a Community
Forum. This forum, the second of Its
kind, brings together Marjorie Hili,
Sandl'l Lowe, Dlborah Glick, Richard
Buma, Roblrt Considine, Fra. dl Leonand Lillie Major. Topics Include: discU88ing the problems that ksep us apartas a community, including racism, sexIsm, cla88lsm, ablelsm and ageism;
working on building a truly Inclusive
community; and addre88lng iesues that
affect us all, Including health care,domestic partnership legislation, hatecrimes legislation and electing openly
lesbian- and gay officeholders. 52 Duane
St, 6th floor. 7 pm.

LONG ISLAND GAY MEN'S GROUP pre88nts a GUilt Splaklr. For· complete
details on this bl-monthly discussion
group, contact UGMG at (516) 694-2407.

A DIFFERENT LIGHT presents Paul
Raae", readIng from his book, The Salt
Point 548 Hudson St 8 pm. Info: (212)989-4850.

GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS presente aHI.,th Slmlnar: InlUl'lncl InfonnaDon.
129 W. 201h St., third floor. 7 pm. For
more Infonnation, call the GMHC hollineat (212) 807-6655. TOO (212) 645-7470
for the hearing Impaired.

THE LESBIAN AND GAY TEACHERS
ASSOCIATION PI.nnlng Milling. The
Center. 208 W. 13th St 8 pm. Info: (718)258-4102 or (718) 626-4699.

CELLBLOCK '28 presente the NIW Yorl!
Strap and Paddle Anoclallon
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.
Doors open 8 pm. (212) 733-3144.
THE PYRAMID presents MIChael T.'I
NIW Yorl! Nlghtl. Promising alternative·
music and "a mix of everything." OJs Bad
Taste and Eritch. $1. 101 Ave. A. 10 pm.
(212) 473-7184.

THE NI NTH STREET CENTER presents
QUllr QUllllonl,
Queer An.wlrl,
aseries of rap groups whose focus Is
definIng homosexuality for the 1990s.
Tonlghfs facilitator: Rich Kamencik. 319
E. 9th St., basement. 8-10 pm. (212)228-5153.
LAVENDER HEIGHTS Speaker Series preeente Gabrlll Rotello, editor in chief of
OutW/I8k magazine (yes, the one you'rereading). $7. The Cornerstone Center.
178 Bennett Ave., one block west of
Broadway at 189th Street. 8 pm. (212)304-2471.
LESBIANS AND GAY MEN OF NEWBRUNSWICK present New Jersey
Lesbian and Gay Coaltlon President Dr.
LIon GIllman. Gellman will shars "someof the excillng advances which have been
made In our state wIth lesbian and gay
rights." Friends Meeting House. 109
Nichol Ave. New Brunswick, NJ. 8 pm.
(908) 247-0515.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10
BRONX LESBIANS UNITED IN SISTERHOOD Glnll'll M.eUnl. Tonlghfs topic:"Self-Awareness and the Coming-Out
Process. " Thers will be an Invited speakerfrom Identity House to join In this discU8slon. Refreshmente served. One Fordham
Plaza, suite 800. Bronx. 6:30-8 pm. Info:
Miriam at (212) 409-2692 in Spanish,and Usa at (212) 829-9817 in English.

CHANNEL 69 presents Rick X'. Th,
C/o"t·C." .h,l.,. The two special
episodes, previewed tonight at 11 pm,
ars "How to Seduce a Preppie" and "Pauland Jeff Just Say No to Drunk Driving."
Afterwards, Ifs regular Channsl 69 fun
and, at 1 am, Lady Blnny does her New
Wave show. $3 before mldnlghtl$5 after.
The Pyramid. 101 Ave. A. Doors open at
10 pm. (212) 473-7184.

THURSDAY, APRIL 11
RUTGERS LAW SCHOOL LESBIAN AND
GAY STUDENT CAUCUS and GALA OF
RUTGERS present Jonalhan Ned Katz,

FRONTRUNNERSINEW YORK present a
Benaflt at Private Eyes for ths Gay PrideRace. There'll be a raffle (tickete Bold at
the benefit), live OJ and cash bar. The
club will be Frontrunners' exclusivlily
from &-10 pm; thersafter, they'll-share:lf
with regular patrone. $10. 12 W. 21st St

JUDITH'S ROOM presente Conlrlbulo ... ,reading from the book, Women, AIDS
and Activisim. 681 Washington St 7 pm.
(212) 727-7330.

GAY MALE SIM ACTIVISTS present On
Pin. and Needl .. : Playing WithPI.rclnl. This dlscu88lon of the techniques and mindset for safe and satisfyIng piercing play features master plercer
Jim Ward from Gauntlet in San
Francisco. $4 memberel$6 non-members. The Center. 208 W. 13th St 8 pm.
(212) 727-9878.

THE EAGLE presents MOYIe Night: Wilt!
• t Heart. "Winner of the 1990 Cannes
RIm Festival for Best Picture, this film Is
a bizarre, seductive and rowdy retelling ofThtl Wizard of Oz." The Eagle. 142
Eleventh Ave., at 21st Street. 11 pm.
(212) 691-8451.

LOST PEER SUPPORT SERVICES presente an Open Hou'l for lesbiane, gaS'men, bisexual men and women and theirfriends who ars Interested in finding out
more about their services. LPSS is a newprogram to provide counseling arid support to the lesbian, gay and bisexual
community of Greater Westchester. The
Loft. 255 Grove St. White Plains, NY.
7:30 pm. Info: Lorraine Martire at (91"4)241-9553.
. •THE COMPTROLLEROFTHE CITY OFNEWYORK presente a Small Bu.'n ... Forumlor the L •• blan and GlY CC!mmunlly.
Comptroller Elizabeth Holtzman will be thehOlt Co-tponeore include Aaaemblywoman
Deborah Glick, the Lesbian and Gay
Community Services Center and the Greater
Gotham Bueinese Council. Ths Center. 208
W. 13th St 6:30-8:30 pm. Info: Tom Duane. at (212) 669-3089.

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GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS presents
Men Mlltlng
Men. No registration
required. The Center. 208 W. 13th st.
&-10:30 pm. (212) 807-6664.

NATIONAL
ORGANIZATIONI'OF
WOMEN-LESBIAN RIGHTS TASK FORCE
Glnsl'll Mlltlng. Tod's. 2 Georges Rd.
New Brunswick, NJ. 7:30 pm. Please
RSVP at (609) 393-0156. Tod's: (201)545-8990.
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BODY POSITIVE friday Night Social, for
all HIV-positlve Individuals and theirfriends. Fre. Middle Collegiate Church. 50
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS pre- . E. 7th St., off Second Ave. 8-10 pm.
(212) 721-1346.
sents Woody AllIn Night. Come see a
couple of vldeos·ln Park Slope. 7 pm.
SATURDAY, APRIL 13
Please call 24 hours in advance to confinn all SAL activities: (718) 965-7578.
THE GAY ACTIVIST ALLIANCE IN MORRIS COUNTY presents Unltld '91, a
ORGANIZATION FOR GAY AWARENESS
statewide conference for lesbians andpresente a Hoioeaull Memorial Service.
gay men. The theme of the confersnce Is
The evenl ng begl ns with a march to the"Rghting Our Battles Away and at Home."
First Presbyterian and Trinity Church. The
The
featured speakers are Mlrlain Ben·
service is at 8 pm, and featurs David
Shalom, national chairperson for Gay,
Beaty, OGA's president, as a speaker, andLesbian and Bisexual Veterans ofJulie Lee, a lesbian activist and Holocaust
AmerIca; and members of the Campaign
survivor, as a candle lighter. Meet In
to End Discrimination,
incl-uding
Grove Park, on the north side of South
Assemblyman D. Blnnel Mazur, sponsor
Orange Avenue, east of SHU. 7 pm. Info:of anti-discrimination bill A-634, and CEO(201) 743-5322.
co-chair John N. GI.h, Jr. There will be
40 workshops held throughout the day
GAY MEN OF THE BRONX present
on a variety of topics, and the evening
RolIsrlkating.
Featuring a live OJ. $3
will close with a concert by Su.d., aentry plus $1 for skate rental. 8 pm tojazz/pop vocalist Conference ticksts are
midnight For complete details, contact$20 in advancel$25 at the door. Concert
Jimmy at (212) 365-6239.
tickets are $10 In advance/$15 atthe
door. Morristown Unitarian Fellowship:SEXUAL ORGASM PRODUCTIONS preNormand Heighte Road. Morristown, N.J.
sente "Iz, Control th. T'J M.h." a
new video by Br.nda and GI.nndl.
For individual event times, call thePremiers party and screening. Hot boys,
GAAMC Helpline at (201) 285-1595.
drag queens and music by OJ Mi88
INTEGRAL YOGA INSTITUE presents
Understood. $3. The Chameleon. 505 E.
Hatha Yoga Cia ••. Hatha Yoga refers to
6th St, between avenues A and B. 10 pm.
the physical postures, deep relaxation
and breathing practices which revitalize
FRIDAY, APRIL 12
and strengthen the body and calmtlte
mind. This class is especially for those
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER prewho are HIV-positive. IYI. 227 W. ~3thsent a Y·MACTColllclou.n ••• ·Ral.,ng
St 12-1:30 pm. (212) 929-0586.
S".'on at 6 pm. Tonighfs topic: "Our
Reflections on Parsnllng." Then, at 8, it's
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS pre;.
a MACT c-R Slnlon. The topic: "CockeentB Hack..... Hla .... and Hoopa at 2 pm.
Size and Penis Power: Bigger Isn't
Join SAL for goof Indoor sporte at a brand
Necesearily Better." The Center. 208 W.
new place in Chelsea. Games Incl ude bat·13th St Info: (212) 222-9794.
ting cages, computerized and minIature
golf, basketball, ping pong and Orbltron.
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS prsThen, at 7:30, it's 40·Plu. PoDuck andsente Manhattan Night. Rrst, at 7:30 pm,
Game Night, SAL's monthly get-together
it's Under-3D Dining Out. SAL says,
for fun; food and games. Rnally, at 8, Join
"Make friends at the Cowgirl Hall of
SAL for Club Night, Part Two, as·they
Fame." Afterwards, maybe a movie, or
spread the word In Manhattan andclubbing. Then, at 8 pm, it's Club Night,
Brooklyn for next week's big party. Please
Part One. Just what It sounds like. Pleasecall 24 houra in advance to confinn all SAL
call 24 hours In advance to confirm allactivities: (718) 965-7578.
SAL activities: (718) 965-7578.

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PROVINCETOWN POSITIVE MA COAUliON pressnts Ilnglll
Tlal for PWAs,
PWARCs, HIV-positive men and womenand their friends. A chance to meet andmingle in a eafe atmosphere of fun. St
Mary of the Harbor in the East End.
3:30-6:30.
DIXON PLACE preeents Reno, workshopping brand-new material. Reno Is a wellknown comedian who has "shocked audience." everywhere, from PS 122 to
uptown comedy cl ubs. $6 or TOF. 37 E.
ht St., between First and Second
avenues. 8 pm. (212) 673-6752.
THE NINTH STREET CENTER presents
QUllr QUltionl,
Queer Anlwerl, aseries of rap groups whose focus Is definIng homo.exuality
for the 1990s.
Tonight's facilitator. Bob Rnk. 319 E. 9thSt, basement 8-10 pm. (212) 228-5153.

NATIONAL LESBIAN CONFERENCE pre8ent. Antl·Racllt,
Antl-Opprullon
Training. NLF organizers urgee all attendees to participate. Wheelchair accessible. ASL interpreted. Childcare available
upon prior request $3-$6 room fee. The
Center. 208 W. 13th St. 1-5 pm. Info:
Carol at (212) 655-8205.
JUDITH'S ROOM presents their Second
Anniversary Celebration. 681 Washington St 2-6 pm. (212) 727-7330.
LATINO GAY MEN OF NEW YORK discu88
The Need to Crelte Fr .. andlecure
Iplclilor
Latino Gay Men. For Latino
gay men only. 169 Bond St., #2.
Brooklyn. 2 pm. (212) 932-3133.
MEN OFALL COLORSTOGETHERBoard 01
Dll"I!1toll Melling. The ~ntsr. 208 W. 13th
St. 2~:30
pm. l!lIo: James at (212) 9958063 or aJris at (212) 601-0806.

Fourth Avenue at 7th Street 7:30 pm.
Info: (212) 564-AIDS.
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"IN OUR OWN WRITE Wrltlr'l WOlbhop
for lesbian and gay writsrs. Workshops
are held on thefiret and third Mondays 01
the month. Please bring work. The
Center. 208 W. 13th St 8-10 pm. (212)620-7310.
SOUTHERNERS presents a Potluck,
Cook-Off and Tal.nt Ihow. Diners will
select prize winners for the best fooditems in several categories. To maintain abalanced meal, Southemers suggests thefollowing divisions of menu byeveryone's last name: A-E bring vegetables orsalads;·F-J bring potatoes, starches orbreads; K-{) bring deserts; and P-Z bringentrees. Iced tea and soda provided.
Entertainment by Sourtherners members
to be featured. $8 nonmembere1$5 members. The Center. 208 W. 13th St. 8 pm.
Info: (212) 674-8073.

Twentysomething I. a social group for
lesbians and gay men in thelr20s andearly 308. $3. The ~ntsr. 208 W. 13th St.
Info: Scott Hummell at (212) 242-4881.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17
GAY MEN OF THE BRONX Glneral
Mlltlng
and Orientation.
HostosCommunity College. Grand Concourse,
Building A, room 227. 7-9 pm. Info:
Jimmy at (212) 365-6239, Charles at(212) 378-34397 (Spanish) or Ed at(212) 792-8078.
CONGREGATIONBETH SIMCAAT TORAH
presents a Jewllh Womln'l
ROlh
Chod8lh/New Moon Cellbratlon. Congregation Beth Simchat Torah is New
York's lesbian and gay synagogue. 57
Bethune St 7:30 pm. (212) 929-9498.

SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS preMISS SALEEN PRODUCTIONS presents
sents Pool Night. Featuring free pool,the fourth annual Mill New York City
MOSAICBOOKS presents Two New
ping pong, billiards, air hockey and shootPagllnt for female impersonators. The
Bookl, featuring Eileen Myles reading
TUESDAY, APRIL 16
ing hoops at Brownstone Billiard. Seventh
show Is a benefit for the People With
from Not Me, and Deborah Rebollar. Ave. at Aatbush. Afterwards, relax at the
AIDS Coalition. Starring, JIIII von, Mise .. Pintonelli reading from Ego Monkey. 167
BRONX AIDS EDUCATORS NETWORK
Roolt at 9 pm. Seventh Avenue at 8th
NYC, 1990; Vln_1 Diamond, Mi88 NYC
Avenue B at 10th Street. 4 pm. (212)Glneral Mlltlng.
Lincoln Hospital.
Street. The evening begins at 7 pm.
1989; Electra It. Jill, Miss NYC 1988;
475-8623.
Conference room 3. 234 E. 149th st.
Please call 24 hours in advance to conand with special guests Belli andBronx. 9:30-11 :30 am. Info: Janetfinn all SAL activities: (718) 965-7578.
Empre. Rizor lharp, along with a bevy
LESBIAN AND GAY FOLKS SUPPORTING Goldberg at (212) 293-2658 or Rosalineof talented and beautiful conte.tants.
POLITICALPRISONERS presents
Morales at (212) 295-5605.
A DIFFERENT LIGHT presents Eve
MI. IIllIn will be the mistress of cereLublanl
and Gay MIn: II POlitical
SedgwiCk, reading from her book, Themonies. $20 In advancel$25 at the door.
Actlvllm a Crime Punllhabll by Death?
PROFESSIONALS IN FILM AND VIDEO
Epistemology of the Closet 548 Hudson
Limsllght. Sixth Avsnus at 20th Street.
Dlscu88lon of the case of Muml Abu
present a Backltagl Tour 01 Radio City
St 8 pm. Info: (212) 989-4850.
Doors open at 7 pm; .howtlme I. at 8.
Jamal, a Philadelphia Black activist-jourMUllc Hall. $7 members and gueslBl$10
TIcket Info: (212) 532-0290.
nall.t facing imminent execution, and its
non-members. Sixth Avenue at 50th
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS presents
relevance to the lesbian and gay rights
Street 6 pm. Reservations: (212) 245Eroticizing lallr III. No registration
AMOS ENOGALLERYpresents Hllmll LIN.
and AIDS movements. Speaker. Dhoruba
1182.
required. Ths Center. 208 W. 13th St.
by Michael Biello and Dan Martin.
bin Wahad, a fonner Black Panther jailed
8-10: 30 pm. (212) 807-6664.
This speciall "gallery version" will feature
19 years In an FBI frameup. Videos
JUDITH'S ROOM presents Marilyn
original music, performance vignette.,
about both ca.es will be featured. $5.
Nellon-Wanllk,
reading with Sophie
CELLBLOCK 28 presents the Imoke Imi
masks and props and slides of erotic colCharas. 605 E. 9th St, between avenues
Cabot Black, winner 01the 1990 Judith'.
stroke, a party sponsored by Hot Ash. 28
lages. $5 suggested donation. 594
B and C. Info: (212) 243-0202.
Room Emerging Talent Competition. 681
Ninth Ave., between 13th and 14th
Broadway. 8 pm. Info: (212) 226-5342.
Washington St 7 pm. (212) 727~7330.
streets. Doors open 8 pm. (212) 733PEOPLEWITH AIDS COALITION presents
3144.
WEBO PERFORMANCE GALLERY prea lunday Evening Wsakly Social for gay
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS presents a
8ents Killer Ipoken Word Icsnl: rantmen and lesbians who are HIV-positive or
Hsalth Seminar: Benelltl Inlormatlon
ORGANIZATION FOR GAY AWARENESS
Ing, Improv, motion and instant poetry
have AIDS, and their friends. MAC Living
and Nutrltlona! IIIU8l. 129 W. 20th St.,
presents Queer Nation. Representatives'hosted by Mlnhew Courtney. With KIn
room. 6:30-9:30 pm. (212) 532-0568.
third and sixth floors. 7 pm. For morefrom ON will speak about their "dedicaDimaggio, DaYld Hubennan, Mr. Impall,
information, call the GMHC hotline attion to fighting homophobia, homohaIIndra Koponen and Mike Tyler. $4. 317
CUCINA DELLA FONTANA presents John
(212) 807-6655. TOO (212) 645-7470 for
tred, quesr invisibility and all oppressions
E. Houston., east of Avenue B. 9 pm.
Chllm'l AchlllfU, in a benefit pefonnancethe hearing impaired.
any queer may face." St. George's. for the New York City Le.bian and Gay
Church. The corner of Ridgewood and
THE WOMEN'S CAUCUS OF ACT
Anti-Violence, Project The two-act drama • THE COALITION FOR LESBIAN AND GAY Woodland roads. Maplewood, NJ. 8:30
UP/CENTRAL JERSEY and MORE THAN
is described as "inspired by mythology
RIGHTS General Meeting. The Center.
pm. (201) 743-5322.
YOU CAN COUNT present a Party lor
but especially relevant these days." It will
208 W. 13th St 8 pm. (212) 627-1398.
Women to bsnefit the women'. caucue.
be read and infonnally staged by a caet of
THE KITCHEN preeents Dlamanda Galli'
No alcohol. Live OJ. $5.YWCA. 51
professional perfonners. $8 cover/2-drink
THE NINTH STREET CENTER present.
in excerpts from Plague Maaa (1984 to
L1vlng.ton Ave. New Brunewick, NJ. 10
minimum. 368 Bleecker St. 8 pm.
QUllr QUlltionl,
Queer Anlwlrl,athe End of Epidemic). Selections include
pm. Info and directions: (908) 247-9404.
Reservations: (212) 242-0636.
.eries of rap groups whose focus is"There Are No More TIckets to ths
defining homosexuality for the 1990s.
Funeral.' $15 nonmembers/$10 memSUNDAY, APRIL 14
MONDAY, APRIL 15
Tonight's topic: "TIred of the Bars andbers. 512 W. 19th St. 8:30 pm.
Street Cruising." 319 E. 9th St., baseReservations: (212) 255-5743. [See al80
. SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS preLESBIANS WORKING IN AIDS PROJECT ment 8-10 pm. (212) 228-5153.
April 19, 21 and 23]
8snt8 a Blk,Worklhop
and Picnic inpresents a lupport and Advocacy Group
Central Park. ASAL Gal will bring tool.
for lesbians working in AI OS ag~ncies.
WOMEN ENTREPENUERS IN BUSINESSTHE EAGLE presents Movll Night:
and patchss to help you get your bike
GMHC. 129 W. 20th St 6-8 pm.
and INNOVATIVE WOMEN present An
AruhnDphDblll: "A young doctor (Jeffrsady lor spring and summer. Meet at
Evening With Judy Dlugacz, entrepeneur
Daniel.) and his family move into a
818t Street and Cenral Park West withGAY ACTIVIST ALLIANCE IN MORRIS
and founder of Olivia Records, the oldest
sleepy little community nsstled In thefood to share. For info on this event only,
COUNTY presents Womyn'l Network andand most visible lesbian-owned and California hills overlooking the Pacificcall (718)788-9346. Thsn, at 1 pm, SAL
Mln'l Rap Group at 7:30 pm, before
operatsd business. Dlugacz will be disOcean. But what this typical family
vieite the Botlnicil
Glrdenl or thetheir General Meeting at 8:30 pm.
cussing her newest company, Olivia
doesn't realize is that they aren't the only
Brooklyn Art MUllum. It's your choice ofTonight's topic: "Coming Out Horrors
Cruises, the first cruise company for lesnewcomers to the neighborhood ..... The
Indoor or outdoor fun in Brooklyn. Then,and Thrill •. " GAAMC members will disbian •. $5: The Center. 208 W. 13th St
Eagle. 142 Eleventh Ave., at 21st Street
at 3 pm, SAt: presents a Brown-Bag
close some of their better and wor.e
8:15 pm. Info: (718) 237-2399 or (212)
11 pm. (212) 691-8451.
linch. A "zip: get-together. If you live in
580-9624.
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moments. 21 Normandy Heights Rd.
zip code 11238 (or even if you don't),Morristown,
NJ. Info: GAAMC Gay
Join SAL in Prospect Heights. Please call
Helpline: (201) 285-1595.
TWENTYSOMETHING Iteerlng Commit24 hours In advance to confirm all SAL .
tee Meeting. Nominations for cifficers
actlvltie.: (718) 965-7578.
ACT UP Genlral Meeting. Cooper Union.
clo88. Election and installation of officers.

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Tuning In: A TV/Radio Guide for OutWeek Readers
Information must be received by Monday to be included in the following week's issue. Send items to
OutWeekListings,159W. 25thSt, NY,NY 10001.
Compiled by Dale Peck.
ME (Arts & Em, 555 Fifth Ave, 10th A, NYC 10017;661-45001
eCTV (Rick X. Box 790, NYC 101081
GIS (Gay Broadcasting System, Butch Peaston, 1787th Ave, Ste. A-3, NYC 10011;
243-15701.
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GUI (Gay and Le,sblan Inde~~ndent Broadcasters. (2121473-1689.)
GMHC (Gay Mens Health CriSIS,Jean Car1omusto,129W20 St, NYC 10011;8077517) (Robin Byrd Prod., Box 305, NYC l00zl; 9118-29731
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WAle-TV (77 W63 St, NYC 10023;456-77771
WBAI-FM (505 8th Ave, 19th A, NYC 10018;279-07071
WCI8-TV(51 W52St St, NYC 10019:975-4321)
WNIe-TV (30 Rockefeller Plaze, NYC 10112;664-44441
WNET-TV (356 W 58 St, NYC 10019;560-3000)
WNYW-TV (Fox, 1211AV/AM, NYC 10036;556-24001
WPIX·TV(22O E42 ST, NYC 10017;949-1100)

MONDAY, APRIL 8
6:00 AM WIND· TV Broadcast New YoricScheduled topic: using acupuncturetotreatdrug
addicts. CH 11.
1:30 PM WUSB 90.1 FM The Word 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,
8:30 PM Manhattan Cable The Brenda and Glennda Show·Kiss-ln in the
Queen City.· Dykes and fags suck face at Buffalo's City Hall. CH 17
9:00 PM GBS Outin the 00's: community news, discussion, interviews. BQ
Cable, CH 56 (1:001
9:00 PM GCN Gay USA CH C/16 (:3011•.30 PM TNN Crook and Cha,seScheduled: Jodie Foster. Meryl Streep andCarrie Fisher.
11:30 PM Tomorrow/Tonight live: entertainment; Manhattan and Paragon
Cable, CH D/17 (1:001
Midnight CCTV The Closet Case Show. KlOSel KlipS; Manhattan /Paragon
Cable, CH C/16 (:301of Damon and Pythias in 400 BC. Oh, those Greeksl.,zine; 99.5 FM (:301
12:30 PM MAX A Chorus line The screen adaptation of Douglas Bennett's
Broadway musical, starring Michael Douglas.
1:30 PM WBAI-FM Ail Afternoon Outing: local news and infonnation about
the gay and lesbian community with lany Gutanburg; 99.5 FM (:301 .
8:00PM BRV South Bank ShowA profile of producer Cameron
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8:30 PM M 8:30 PM WNBC- TV Different World WhOOPI Goldberg plays aprofessor whose student reveals that she has AIDS. CH 4.
10:00 PM GCN Be Our Guest entertainment for and aboutthelesbiarVgllY..
community; Manhattan Cable, CH D/17 (:301.',,'
10:30 PM GMHC living ~tth
AIDS: health and polrocs; Manhattan Cable, CH
VfJ5 (:301.'
11:00 PM GCN Gay U.SA.: news and entertainment from around the COUIItry; Manhattan Cable, CH VfJ5 (1:001-,.. , ;\';
Midnight GCN Men in Film$. male erotica,interviews with adult filmsters;v
Manhattan Cable, CH VfJ5 (:301., :/12:30 AM RB PROD Men For MelT. Robin Byrd presen1S gay male porn~stars; Manhattan Cable, CH Vl35 (:301 'FRIDAY, APRIL 12
7:00 AM WCBS- TV This Morning Scheduled: Broadway's anti-Asian play,
Miss Saigon. CH 2.
1a:.i AM TBS GiantBizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean,,
together. Poor Uz-always caught in the middle.
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1:00 PM WFOX- TV All in the Family·Archie knows a homosexual when he,,sees one, right? Wrong: Don't ask.me, CH 5,
2:30 PM WBAI-FM Rompiendo el Silencio: todos los viernes, Gonzalo
Aburto con temas Y noticias para la comunidad latina gay y lesbiana;
99.5 FM (:151
7:00 PM WBAI-FM AIDS In Focus, Michael Alcalay, produc 1:00 AM RB ,e.
PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male a~d female strippers; Manhattan,
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TUESDAY, APRIL 9
10:00 AM WABC- TV Sally Jessy Raphael Schgeduled guests from Orlando,Ra.: Male exotic dancers.
Noon WFOX- TV Three $ Company From TV Guide: ·Spyin;g Jack with a girland convinced he's straight, Furley evicts him: Just a little homophobia
in action, folks. CH 5.
8:00 PM HBO First Love, Fatal Love From TV Guidfl. "The true story of Kim
Frey, a college woman who contracted the AIDS virus. Frey introduces
the drama:
10:00 PM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and female strippers;
Manhattan Cable, CH VfJ5 (1:001
11:00 PM WIND-TV Cheers "Sam's regulars are reluct8ntto hang out at abar that's promising 10 become a gay hangout.· it looks like Cheers is
updating Three's Company. CH 11.
11:00 PM GBS Out in the 00's: news, infonnation and interviews;
Manhattan/Paragon Cable, CH C/16 (1:001' .••1:00 PM WBAI-FM This Way Out; the international gayllesbian news maga-, ,'::,

12:25 AM Glen or Glenda? Or is that Glennda? Or Brenda and Glennda?,-i"[
Starring Bela lugosi. CH 21.
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12:30 AM WNBC- TV David Lsttennan Sandra. Bernhard is 1I1escheduled,~
guest CH 4.
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8:30 AM WBAI-FM Any Saturdaywith David Rothenberg; live call-in; 99.5
FM (2:001,
7:00 PM GCN Gay U.SA: news and entertainment from around the COI!!itJy,
Bo, Unity, ArN Cable, CH 56 (1:001(For Manhattan Cable, S88 THURSDAy)
11:00 PM Gayntmale porn; Manhattan Cable"CH VfJ5 .";,1:30 AM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male & female strippers;"
Manhattan Cable, CH VfJ5 11:001,

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10

variety of issues, including sex, drugs and their future plans. CH 5.
Midnight RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and female strippers, live
call-in show; Manhattan Cable, CH VfJ5

THURSDAY, APRIL 11
12:35 AM TNT Damon and Pythias A movie about the legendary friendship'I,I.. , ;.:,

7'.30 PM WBAI-FM The Gay Show Alternates with Outlooks. 99.5FM (1:001, •10:30 PM RB PROD Men For Merr. Robin Byrd presen1S gay male porno " . ""stars; Manhattan Cable, CH Vl35 (:301

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7:00 AM MAX Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte Batie D avis and Olivia deHaviland do their thing.
9:00 AM WIND-TV Best Talk Scheduled: New York City's housing crisis. CH
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advises Virgos: 'You certainly seem to be in the thick of it. ,,-,"':
However, after months of agonizing over emotional tie$, this . ;,;,week's planetary aspects signify that at least you know for,'"certain where your affections lie and what action must be .
taken over a joint financial a"angement' But don't you wish
I., ,'.. ,you'd lobbied for domestic partnership legislation last·yeat;
instead of going to Mars? Not much TV to watch this week, so
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MondayMeat on Friday (Xtlusive pe.rformances at 1:3Cr
am. OJ Nobody's Pussy. '$5.r.Py~amid. 101(
Avenue A. (212) 473-7184.
' ••"• Millennium(Ladies Night.) 1770'New·Y9rk .
Ave. (Rome 110) Huntington; LI. (516)'351-

Privata Eyes (Marc Berkley's Kool Komrads;
strippers; downtown crowd, students, pro" cfessionals.2-4-1
drinks till midnight .$7) 12
W 21 St (212), i'JJ.'J6-nn

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• *Club Edelweiss (TVs, TSs, gays, bi's, singles, couples; Tuesdays are especially for
lesbians, but everyone is welcome.) 167 W.
29th St (212) 868-6989.
Danciteria(Coining soon: Chip Duckett's gay
Tuesdays. Keep your eyes on this space for
opening.) 29 E. 29th St• Grand Central (Women's night tonight Mixed:We~"Su.) 210 Merrick Rd. Rockville Centre,
LI. (516) 536-4800.
Jack Officer's Club (Cruising, Br:uising, Drinking
and 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.) 515 W 18 St (212) 645-5156.

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Thursday
The Bink (Upstairs it's Sperm Bank for Fags,
with hostess Hapi Phace, DJsCraig
Spencer and Victor Anonymous? Downstairs, Egg Bank for Dykes features guest
DJs and hot and sleazy Gir1 Action. $101$7)
225 E. Houston St., at Essex Street (212)74 OUTWEEK

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Qlieens. Info: (718) ~71~1; Club: (718) 8999031.
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The Bank ( Controversy. OJ Patrick Butts. Dragqueens, drinking, dancing' and 'scandal.
$15/$10/$7.) 225 E. Houston St., at Essex
Street (212) 505-5033.
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Barefoot Boogie (A party for adults :and kids.
2nd and 4th Saturdays of the month. Smokeand alcohol-free. April131~themed"Island
Night· 8:30 pm to 12;30 am ..$!i/kids free.) 434 .
Sixth Ave., 4th floor! betWeen Ninth andTenth avenlles. (212) 857~5152.
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Center (2nd & 4th Sat. 9 pm tol am, $8. OJ Peter, Arden.) 208 W. 13th St (212) 620-7310.
• Center (·Women & Frien~.s" Every first
Saturday. Next is April 6•.DJ Gini DeSantis. 9 .
pm.to 1 am.) 208 W 13 St (212) 620-7210.
• Clit .Club (Jocel.yo
andJillie ,..~.
expandtotbPth,"'"-,'1"-'•
weekeh~ ni.ghts,) Jbe~yramiil>101·AVe.'A.
(212)406-1114.
Club West End (Michael Fesco'sSaturdays;
midnight - 9 am) 547 W. 21st St
Columbia Dances (Third Saturday dances withOJ Karin Ward. 10 P!ll to 3 am.. #5.) Columbia
University
Earl' Hall, 116th' Stre.et it
Broadway.'(21-2) 629-1989.
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419419 N. Highway, Southampton, LI. (516) 2835001.
Love Zane (dancing & perfonners) 70 Beach Sf, .J(
Staten Island. (718) 442-5692. .
r.Girl Saturdays (Shescape presents Satu'(dayNights for Women. With go-go girls and aguest OJ. $8 before 10:301$10after.) 2Of?,O. 20
W. 20th St., between
Fifth and Sixth
avenues. (212) 645-6479. .
Me .. (OJ Aldo Hernondez, every Saturday; gogo boys, videos; opens 10 pm; $5) 432 W 14,

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W.28th" ',*Channel 69 (Drag Extravaganza, with Linda
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, g07g0 boys and a
60-foot ceiling. $10/$7 witli invite.) 51 W.
26th St (212) 576-1890.
• Excalibur (Ladies Night $1 \:Irinks.) Located, at th'e corner of 10th Street andJefferson
behindf'(fotball stadium. Hoboken, NJ. (201)795-1161.
,*Limelight (Disco 2000, with Michael Alig andLarry Tee, Do!,rS'open at 10 pm. $10.) Sixth
Avenue at 20th Street (212) 807-7850.
-4-Limelight (Queer U. DJs Andy Anderson andKeoki, $5/$10) Sixth Avenue at 20th Street(212) 807"7850.
• Cadillac Bar (Gini DeSantis presents Pure.
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Party Production Dances for Women. Freebuffet from 6~8 pm. Renee Cooke, bartender. $5.) 16 W. 22nd St., between Fifthand Sixth avenues.
• Private Eyes (Shescape Afterwork Party from, 5-10 pm. 2-4-1 drinks before 7. $5 before 7
pm/$7 after.) 12 W. 21st St Shescape: (212)645-6479, Private Eyes: (212) 2rJ!r7772.
Private Eyes (YMVA Night Students, professional and women. Door often 'benefits agay/lesbian organization. $1.) 12 W. 21st St(212) 2rJ!r 7772.
Silver Lining (2-4-1 drinks.) 175 Cherry Lane.
Roral Park, LI. (516) 354-9641.
Stutz (2-4-1 drinks.) 202 Westchester
Ave.
White Plains, NY. (914) 761-3100.

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and Chau!lcy present Satyricon.FeatL!~ng"'
Matthew Kasten's beauties and,Bold'Soal"
Sisters.DJ Johnny Dynell. $12.) 229
St (212)563-9292.
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Private Eyes (YMVA Night. AttractS students-andprofessionals.)
12 W. 21St St (212l2067772.
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Stingray's (New club, new sound system. Free
.before 10 pm. $7 after.) 641 W, 51st St,'(212)505-5033.
Blacglame -(Celebrating gay men and women ofcolor. Bi-montly.) Pyramid. 101 Ave. A. (212)473-7184.
'*Copacabana (Susanne Bartsch. uist Th of themonth. Iffy door) 10 E. 60th St., at Fifth
Avenue. (212) 755-6010.
Excalibur ($1 drinks.) Located at the corner of, 10th Street andJefferson
behind footballstadium. Hoboken, NJ. (201) 795-1161.
Hatfiald's (2-4-1 drinks, female impersonators.)
126-10 Queens Blvd. Kew Gardens, Queens.
(718) 261-8484.
M,ore Men (Tony, Keith and Dominic present OJ
Tommy Richardson, go-go boys, videos, billiards. $101$7 with invite.) 239 Eleventh Ave.
(212) 5788-3283.
Stingray's(New club, new sound system,
everythingelse is a surprise. No covertonight) 641 W. 51st St (212) 664-8668.
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in the upstairs lounge. -$10/$7 W. invite.) 17
Irving Place ot 15th Street
The Bank (Alternative Music Night, hosted by
Lee Chappell,David Leigh and Michael T. OJ
Rolph Duncan. Mixed crowd. $101$7.) 225 E.
Houston St; at Essex Street (212) 505-5033• Clit Club (Jocelyn & Julie present Clit ClubWest With go-go gir1s and lesbo videos. $1
drinks between 8 and 9 pm. Doors open at 8pm. $5) 432 W 14th St (212) 406-1114.
Columbia Dances (Rrst Friday dances. 10 pm to2 am.) Columbia University Earl Hall. 116th
Streetst Broadway. Da~me phone: (212)854-3574.
• Hatfield's (Women's night.) 126-10 Queens
Blvd. Kew Gardens, Queens. (718) 261-8484.
Mea Culpa (For men, with dancing, video andlive entertainment. $7/$10.) 47 W. 20th St.
(212) 807-7840.

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present New York's hottest,go·go boys, OJ
Tommy Richardson. $15.) 229 W. 28th St .
(212) 563-9292.
-4-Roxy (Locomotion. Gay boys, men; straightwomen, some lesbians.) 515 W~ 18th St,
between Tenth and Eleventh aven!les,(212)645-5156.
.Silver Lining 175 Cherry Lane. Roral Park. U,(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\elseis a surprise, $8.)
641 W.51stSt.(212)~) 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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) Building (Dallas' The Men's Room. Students, professionals.
Go·go boys and 60foot ceilings,) 51 W. 28th St (212) 57&.1890.
IZy Nanny', (Sunday evening Tea Dance.
Free before 9 pm!$5 after.) 21 Seventh Ave,
South. (212) 366-6312.
UCII (DJs Crajg 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.
11y', (OJ Moaning Usa spins the records for
dancing dykes. Doors open at 8 pm, $3.) 46
Bedford St. (212) 929-9322.
Inlter (Sunday Tea Dance at 4 pm; dancing
also on other nights from 10 pm) 80 Grove St
at Sheridan Sq.; 924-3557.
rel1lllel (Michael Fesco presents Sunday Tea
Dance. Open bar 5-7 pm. Complimentaryhors d' at 7. Go-go bOys. $6.) 229 W. 28th St.
(212) 563-9292.
Silfe Sundey, (Kool Komrads' party at the. Cadillac Bar; go-go boys, $2 shots, $5 beer
bias from !HI pm.) 15 W. 21st St. (212) 6457220.
.SOB,(Leticia Montalvo presents The Lu~t
House. First Sunday of the month only.
Grand opening April 7, with OJ Marlow. $5.)
204 Varick St., at Houston. (212) 243-4940.
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Chelsea
Barbary Coast, 64 Seventh Ave. (14th St) 875-0385
The Break, 232 Eighth Ave, (22nd St) 827-0072
Cellblock 28, 28 Ninth Ave., 733-3144 (M-W)
Chelsea Transfer, 131 Eighth Ave. (bet 18th and17th) 929-7183
Eagle's Nast, 142 Seventh Ave. (21st St) 691-6451
Privete Eyes, 12 W. 21st St (bet Fifth and Sixth
avanues)206-7770
Rawhide, 212 8ghth Ave., 121stSt.), unrlstad
Spike, 120 Seventh Ave.,243-_
The Vault. 28 Ninth Ave" 733-3144(F. 7-11 pm. .
women) 255-6758

West Village
Badlands, Christopher and WeSt streets, 741-9238
Boots 8& Saddle, 78 Christopher St., 929-!1684
Crazy Nanny's 21 Seventh Ave. S.,366-6312(women)D.T.'s Fat Cat 281 W. 12th St,243-!Kl41
Pandora's Box, 70 Grove St. (Seventh Ave,) 2421408 (women)
Dugout, 185 Christopher St., 242-9113
Eighty-Eights, 228 W. 10th St.,924-OIBIThe Hangout (J's) 879 Hudson St.,242·9272
Julius, 159 W. 10th St.,929-9872
Keller's, 384 Wast SVChristopher, 243-1907. Kelly's Village Wast. 48 Bedford St., 929-9322
Marie's Crisis. 59 Grove St., 243-9323
The Monster, 80 Grove St.(Seventh Ave.) 924-3558
New Jimmy's 53 Christopher St., 483-0950
Ninth Circle, 139W. 10th St, 243-9204
Sneakers, 392 West St., 242-91131
Two Potato, 145 Christopher St, 242-9340
Ty's, 114 Christopher St.,.741-9641
Uncle Charlie's, 58 Greenwich Ave., 58787

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Altar, 161 W. Broadway. 571-72n.

West Side
Candle Bar,319 Amarstardam Ave., 874-9155
Cats, 730 Eighth Ave" 221-7559
Don't Tell Mama,343 W. 48th St,757-0788
Gents, 360 W, 42nd St., (Ninth Ave.)987-0659
Sally's Hideaway, 264 W. 43rd St.,221-9152

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Every Night (or almost)• Bedrock (Lesbian club, closed Mo and Tu.)
121 Woodfield Rd. West Hempstead,lI. (516)486-95161\oCIub Edelwei .. (Tuesdays are for lesbians,
but it·s open to all Tu-Su.) 167 W ..29th St.
(212) 861H989.
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41. (Opens 6 pm.) 419 N. Highway (Rte 27).
Southampton, LI. (516) 283-5001.
Gl1Ind Central 210 Merrick Rd. Rockville Centre,
1I. (516) 536-4800.
Meglc Touch (Anglo/Latin/Asian) 73-13 37th Rd.
Jackson Heights, Queens. (718) 429-8605. .
MOllIter 80 Grove St., at Sheridan Square. (212)4th

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Spectrum. (Look under daily listings for individualparties and themes. Coors seIVed.) 802
84th St., at Eighth avenue. Bay Ridge,
Brooldyn. (718) 238-8213 •• Tod', (Night club and restaurant,
Mostlywomen, but men are OK.) 2 Georges Rd,
New Brunswick, NJ. (201) 545-8990.

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Blanche, 47-2 Boundary Ave., Farmingdale, 694691M;
Grand Central, 210 Merrick Rd., Rockville Centre,

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After Five Plus, 5 Front St, 852-0139
Spectrum, 80264th St, (Eighth Ave.), 745-9611
Sweet Sensations, 6322 20th St' 435-2580

536-4800
Pal Joey's, 2457 Jerusalem Ave., North Bellmore,
785-9301,,
Silver Uning, 175 Cherry Lane, New Hyde Park.

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354-9641
Station House Pub,
3547 MerrickRd.. Seaford. 786-9IDI,

Breadstix; 1,13-24 Queens Blvd., Forest Hills,

Bunkhouse, 192 N. Main St, Sayvilre, 567-2865
Cherry's, Bayview Walk. Cherry Grove, Fire ,Island,597-6820
Club Swamp, Disco/Annex Restaurant, Montauk
Hwy, Wainscott, 537-3332.
Ice Palace, Cherry Grove Beach Club, Fire Island,

661-9580

Long Island

Brooklyn283-5001

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Playroom,590 Nepperhan Ave" Yonkers, 965-6900
Stutz, 202 Westchester Ave., White Plains,761-3100

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Sand castle, 86 Mills Ave., 447-9365
Carea code 914)

The Bar, 68 2nd Ave., (4th St.) 674-9714
Cave Canem ..(Fr and Sa dinners, Su brunches) 24
First Ave" 529-9665 (women)
Pyramid,
101 Ave, A, 420-1590-,.
Tunnel Bar, 116 1st Ave., (7th St) 777-9xrJ.

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B:i1g/Jr:(s,320 E. 59th.St, 688-8534.
Bran'dYs Piano Bar, 235·E. 84th.St., 65IJ., 1944 ",G.H. Club, 353 E. 53rd St.,223-9752
Johnny's Pub, 123 E. 41th St.,355-8714
NY Confidential, 306 E. 49th St.,308-8390 'Rounds, 303 E. 53rd St.,593-08!I7 .
Slluthllakaota, 4053rd Ave., (29th St) 684-8376·
Star Sapphire, 400 E. 59th St.,688-4710
The ToWnhouse, 236 E. 58th St, 754-4649•
Twenty-Nine Palms,.129 Laxington Ave., 686-8299h·_ '-,.

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Kiss, 161 Farmardie Dr., Lake Rpnkonkoma, 467-9273
Club 6111, 6111 Sunrise Highway, W. Babylon,
Millennium, 1770 New York Ave., Huntingdon,
351-1402
Starz,836 Grand Blvd., Deer Park. 242-3857
Thunders, 894 Jericho Turnpike, Smithtown, 864-1410

New Jersey
Carea 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,697-9780,•

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VIIIunIMr~(718)89&2500(voice) (718)89&-2985(TDD)

ACI'''\AIDS c..Iilion III

UnlAlh PuMrt
488A Hudson Street, Suite G4
NYC 10014 (212) 584-2437 A
diverse, non-partisan group ofindividuals united in anger andcommitted to direct action toend 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 homelesl PWAs (Bailey House andapartments). Non-judgemental
pastoral care for PWAs andloved ones, Volunteer opportunities. (212)481-1270, 24 West
30th St, NYC 10001
AlDEf/APlN-NY(A.ian Le.bian.
of the E.. t
Coalt/Alian
Pacific Lelbian
Network-NewYork) We are apolitical, social and supportive
network of Asian Pacific lesbians. Planning meetings on the
1st Sunday and social eventson tha last Friday of eachmonth. Call (212)517-5598 formore infonnation.
AIIBICAN GAYIWIIIAN A1IIEISISAGA. Inc/701 7th Avenue, Suite
WI/New York, New York 10038
A non-profit. educational organization dedicated to preserving
separation between state andchurch and upholding the civilrights of Lesbian and Gay Atheists. Meetings the firsts Sunday
Ccmnunity Cen1IIr, 1 til 3 P.rot Diala Gay Atheillti (718)889-1737, 24
hours.
ARCS (Al1IS-IIabad
ConmIIity Sani_)
for Dutchess, Orange, Putnam,
Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster andW .. tch .. ter counties. AIDS
aducation, client services, crisis
intervention,
support groups,
case management,
buddy andhospital visitor program. 214
Central Ave., White Plains, NY
10808 (914)99:H808 838 Broadway, Newburgh, NY 12250 (914)582-5005 AIDSline (814)113CIIII7ASIANS lit fIIIENDS. NEWYORK
A not-for-profit
organization
which promotes friendshipe with
Alian/PacificIslander, AsianAmerican, and non-Alian gay
men through aocial, cultural, educational, and service activities
and programs. Call our HotUne:

212.f74-5084, or writa til: P.O. Box0828, NY,NY10183«123.

All (MJSTIIEJIrMENTIESOURCES.IICJ

Publishes a quarterly Directory ofclinical trials of experimental
AIDSIHIV trsatments in NY/NJ,
and Ph~adelphia, and has educational materialr/seninara
for trial
participants. ATR also advocates
for improvements in the trial system. 259 W. 30th St, 9th fl. NYC,
10001. (212)288-4198. Publications
free/doniition raqueated.
BAR ASSOCIAnON fOR
IIIMAN lIGHTS
Lawyers Referral Service forthe Lesbian and Gay Community
Full Range of.legal Servic81(212) 459-4873 Free Walk-in
Legal Clinic. Tuelday 8-8 pm.
Lesbian lit Gay Community
Centro Ground Roor
BIDS (BISEXUALDOMNANCE&SUBIIISSION GIIOUPI
Share S/M experienc81
andfantssias with others 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 Networ1<.
BISEXUAL INFORMAnON lit
COUNSEUNGS~~IN~
A professionaly
staffed, nonprofit organization for bisexuals, their familias and partners,
facing problems of a psychological or medical kind. We also
work with those in doubt about
their sexuality. Confidentiality isprotected by law. For infonnation phone: (212)498-9500

BISElCIJAl. PRIJEDISCUSSION GROUP
Topical diacusaiona on isauas ofinterest to the community in acongenial
atmosphere,
followed by an infonnal dinner ata friendly local restaurant.
Every Sunday, 3:00- 4:30pm at
the Community Canter 208 W. 13
Street, NYC. Part of the New
York Area Bisexual Networ1<.

BIWAYS NEWYORKMonthly social avents for the
Bisexual community and friends.
Call NYABNfor detsa. of upcoming events. (212)459-4784
BI'AC (BISEXUAl. POUIICAI.
ACnON COMMIT1IE)
Political action on illu88 ofimportance til the Bisexual /I.Mbian/Gay community. Monthly
meetinw potluck held 8:00pm on
fourth Thuraday of the month atmembera hornas. Call NYABN for
this month's location. ((212)45&4784

BISEXUAL YOU1H
Infonnalsocial lit support groupfor Bisexual kidf/youth. Monthly
maeting/potluck
lunch held
1:00pm on fourth Sunday of themonth at mambers homes. Call
NYABN for this month" location.
This group is part of the New YorkArea Bisaxual Network.

BWS-BRONXlESBIMs
UNIIED IN SIS1EIIIIOOD'Social, political and support
networking group for lesbiansin the Bronx. Regular meatings
3rd Fri at 208 W. 13 Strest, from
8:30-8pm. and the 2nd Wed at
One Fordham Plaza, Sta.800,
Bx. Call Usa at (212829-9817 or
Miriem 217/409-2692 (Spanish).

·CO_UNIIYRESEARCH 1IIl1A11VE
CRI testa experimental drugs andtreatments
for AIDS and HIV
related iIInas88a. Monthly treatment and l88IIarch group for HIV+
individuals.
Treatment
andr_archnewsletter, forums andpublic seminara. Call Alice Spesra
or Ken Fomall ro at (212)481-1050
for info and maning list
CONGREGATION BEIH
SM:HATTORAH
NY's Gay and Lesbian Synagogue
Services Friday at 8:30pm 57
Bethune Street For info. calt (212)929-9498.

CONCliEGAnONB'NAI JESllUIIUNMonthly Spritual Gatherings and
BODY POSRIVE
free catered feativeluncheons forIf you or your lover hIS tasted
HIV+, we offer support groupe, . en People WI1h AIDS, their lovera
and families. Program includes
seminars, public forums, refermusic and discussion led by ourencelibrlry,raferrall, socii I
Rabbis: Call (212)7If1-7fIIl
activities
and up-to-datenational monthly, "THE BODY
POSITIVF ($2!i{year). (212)721DIGMTY
1348. 2095 Broadway, Suite 308,
BIG APPLE
NY,I0023
A conwnunity of Lasbian and Gay
Catholics. Activilias include Uturgies and socials every Sat, 8:00
BROOIILYN'SWIllIAN AND GAY
pm, at the Center, 208 W. 13
POIJTICAL CUJB lAIIIIDA
Street,. NYC.CaI (212181&-1309.
IIDB'BIDENT DEMOCRATS
Ll.D. endors .. and works for
DIGNItY NEW YORK
candidat .. in local, state andLeabian and gay Catholics andnational elections, lobbiaa for legfriends AIDS Ministry, Spiritualislation, and conduCIII ccmnll1ity
Development The Cathedral Prooutraach through met faira andject Worahip Servicas lit Socialmeetings on spacial tllpics. Join
SII1.Ev ... 7:3lpm-St John's Epi&us. 338 Ninth St., Suite 135 Brookcopel Church 218Weat 11th S1raat
lyn, NY11215 (718)985-8482'OW~2179.
CIIa.E OfMOHE UGIIT·
BJGE Educa1ion ina Di_1ad
Spiritual support and lIlaring ina
Gay EnvinInmanl
gay/l8Ibian affirmative group.
Fort1!e physically disabled LesWest-Park Prasbyterian Churchbian and Gay Convnurity. P.O.Box
185 West 98th Street Wed: wor305 Village Station, New York, NY
ahip se.rvice 8:30 pm, program
10014
7:30. Maraha (2121 304-4373 Charlie (212)891-7118.
RlGNT RUNNBISA IIIlning clubforlesbisn and gay~IEAIJII
athletes of all abilities. Fun Runs
PROJECr
of 1·8 miles hald every Sat at
208 West 13111Street, NYC, NewYork 10011 For Appointments
lOam and Weds. at7pmin Cantral
and Infonnation (212)875-3558
Park and every Tues. at 7pm in(llYNoice)I'ROVIDING CARING,
Prospect Park. For information:
SENSITIVE AND_LOW COST
call (212)724-9700.
HEALTH CARE SERVICES TO
THE LESBIAN AND GAY COM.THE GAY AFRICAN
MUNIlY.
AMERICANS OF
WESTCHESTER(Tha G.AA.)COMMUNIIY IEAIJII
is a community based support
PRO.ECr's HfAIJIIrRIIMAgroup formed in Westchester
TIONIN RIll TEENSCounty. Various activities are
Do you have queation. aboutplanned for the coming months.
your health? Your Body? Com.Call 914-37&0727 for mora info.
ing 0 ut? Safer Sex? Feel likeyou have no one to talk to? Not
GAYrAnt81'S RIIIUM
any morel Now you can call theA aupport organization for gay
HOTI-lINE.212-255-1517The
father's, their lovera, and othera in
Teen HOTT-UNE for Healthl Callchild-nurturingsituations.
Monday to Thursday, 7pm toMonthly meetings include a
9pln. At other times, leave a
poduck supper, support groups on
m8l88ge and we'll call you
varied specialized tIIpics, speakers, and socializing.Meatings: lat
backl
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Friday each month, 7pm, at The
Center, 208 W. 13111St, Wast of
7th Ave. Contribution: $8. Bring amain courae for 4 peopla (or pay a$5 food charge.) For infonnation
call: 212-919-7541 or212-28&-3238, GLAAD-Gay lit a..bi8llAlr_
Againlt o.r.n.tion
80 Varick Street, NYC 10013 (212)
96&-1700 GLAAD combats homophobia in the media and elsewhere by promoting visibility of
the lesbian and gay communityand organizing
grassroots
response to anti-gay bigotry. Do
you have 30 minutes a month tofight homophobia?Jointhe
GlAAD PhoneTraelCaIl (212~9881700for infonna1ion.

GLB
Gay and Lesbian Independent
Broadcasters invites you to tune
into OunOOKS on WBAI-NY, 99.S
FM every other Sunday, 7:30- '8:30pm and join us every Tuasday
at 7:30pm til 9:00pm to become amember of GLIB. No experienceneeded. 505 Eighth Avenue, NY,
NY 10018 Attn: Outlooks or call(212)473-1889. Ask for GUB.
GAYlit WIllIAN HEAIJH
CONCERNS
An office of the NYC Dept. of
Health, providas linkages betwn
NYC Health lit Human Svcs, andthe Lesbian lit Gay community,
focusing in All health concerns;
resource information for healthservices
consumers
andprovidera. 125 Worth Street, Box
87, New York, NY 10013. For info
call (212)!iII8-49IE.
GAYMALE SJM ACTMSTS
Dedicated til safa end rasponsible SlM since 1981. Open meetings w/programs on S/M techniques,lifestyle issuas, politicaland social concerns. Also special
events, speakers buraau, workshops, demos, affinity groups,
newsletllr, mora; GMSMA - Dept.
O,496A Hudson Street, Suite 023,NYC 10014.(212)72HI118.
GMAD (GAYMEN OFARIICANDESCENT)
80 Varick Street, NYC 10013 Ii sup-port group of Gay Men Of African
Descent dedicated til consciou&nas&-raising and the developmentof the Lesbian and Gay Community. GMAD is inclusive of African,
African-American, Can"bbean and
Hispanic/Latino
men of color.
Meetings ara held, weeklY, on fridays. For infonnation, call 719802-(1182.

GAYMEN'S HEAIIH
CIUSIS HonJNE
FOR INFORMATION ON SAFERSEXAND HIV-RElATED HEALTHSERVICES, AND FOR INFORMATION ON ONE-TIME, WALK-IN••AIDS COUNSELING SERVICES·'211-1117'-& 21Z-445-747D TOO\f!Ir ........ ring Impel") Mon.Fri. 10:30 a.m.ID 8 pm. lWOto 31Q.'~------

GII1H & MII1H
CUll OFNEWYORKSocial club for heavy, chubby
gay men a their admirers.
Monthly soc'ials et the ·Center",weekly bar nights Thursdays at,tha ·Chelsea Transfer", monthly.F.iltApple Review, bi-monthly
F.A.R.penpals. For more infor..matiGn ·call Ernie at 814-899-7735
or write: GaM/NY, Dept 0, P.O.
Box 10;Pelham, NY1080l.

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HEAl.
(1INIIh fdUClllian AIDS UIIi_)
Weekly info. and supporfgroup,for treatments for AIDS which,do not compromise the immune
system further, including alter'native and holistic approaches.
Wed 8pm. 208 W. 13th St.
(212)674-HOPE.
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Organizers of New York's Lesbian' and Gay Pride events: theMarch, the Rally and the Danceon the Pier. Call (212)891-1774
for meeting schedule or more
information. 208 West 13thStreet, NUIY 10011.
IN

lNSIIMEfor I,asbian and gay youth. Couns'ling, drop-in center (M-F, 38'pm), rap groups, Harvey Milk
High School, AIDS and safer
sex information, referrals, pro. fessional education. (212) 833,882!!(voice) (212) 833-8828 m
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GAYS & lESBIANS
Educationalse·rvice.;political
action, ,counseling and social
activitias in Spanish and English
by and for the Latino Lasbian and
Gay Community.General meatings
8:00 pm,4th Thursday of every
monIh at,.2111West 13t1iStreet CaU.,'
201'8-7824 orwri18 H.U.GL, P.O.
Box 228 Canal Street S1ation,New
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IIENmY HOUSE
Now in our 20th year, we provide. peer c,ounseling, therapy referrala and groups for the lesbian,,gay and bisexual community.
Call us at (212) 243-8181. Visit us
at 544 8th Ave., between 14thj5th Streets, Manhattan.
ImIINAnONALGAY&
lESBIAN HUMAN RIGHI'S
COIIMSSION
work. to focus the spotlight of··world opinion on, the oppres"ion of gays and leabisns
throughout the world. Currendy
organizing an Inti symposium:cin Gay and .Lesbian i88ues tobe held in Moscow and Lenin- ,grad in July 1981, in additon to·many other exciting projects.
·,For more info write IGLHRC,
2978 Folsom Steet, SF CA 94110,
or call (415)847-l1453.

INSTmITE RJR IIIMANIDENIITY rc.
New York's non-profit lesbian
and gay psychotherapy center.
Ucensad psychologists, psychiatrists, and clinical social wor1ters. Sliding scale fees. Insurance accepted.
Individual,
couple, and family therapy. Variety of Men's and women'sgroups forming continuously. 118
W. 72nd Street 212-789-9432

ifIEGRnY}NY
lesbian and Gay Episcopalians
and friends. Eucharist and program every Thursday, 7:30pm. St
Luke's Church, Hudson and
Chriatopher Sta. INFO: P.O. Bcix
5202, NYNY10185(718)~

IM,llDA~DEHNSEAND IDUCIIJION RI,.
Precedent-setting
litigation
nationwide for lesbians, gay
men and people with AIDS.
Membership ($40 and up) inc.
newsletter and invitations to
special events. Volunteer nighton Thursdays. Intake calls: 24pm Mon thru Fri (212) 995-8!i85.
LAVA-(lBIIIANS

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Call for slidea for l.eabian Artists'
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urions woiking on dOf1188licpart·nership benefits and AIDSissues.
For more information call(212)923-8890.

Come playwith usl For information: MTG, Suite K83, 498-A
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LESBIANS AM) GAYS
OFRAlBUSH
Brooklyn's social organization
for both gay men and lesbians. P.O. Box 108, Midwood
Station Brooklyn, NY 11230 •(718) 859-9437
lESBIAN HBlSfORY ARCIIVa!
P.O. Box 1258 New York, NewYork 10118212/874-7232Since
1974, the Archives has inspired,shaped and reflected lesbian
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LONG ISlAND ACI'-tI'
Meets Tuesdays at 8pm at 181
Post Iwa. in Westbury, NY.Support
us for change on Long Island.
Mailing address: PO Box 514,
Wealbury, NY11m 518-33B-4882.
LSM~ANDGAY
AlKl.TEDIJCm'ORS
Meet with other lesbians andgays who worlt in adult education as teachers, administrators,
counselors, tutors, etc., to discuss issuea such as coming out
to staff and students, materials
and curriculum, ~orkshop andconference.participation.
We
meet the first Friday of every'
month at 8:00 pm at the lesbian
and gay Community Center 208
West 13th Straet. Call Bryna
Diamond at (212) 932-7902(days) for information.
ntE lESBIAN AM) GAY
BIG APPl£ CORPS
Get your instrument out of thecloset and come play with us.
Symphonic, Marching, Jazz,
Dixieland, Rock, Rute Ensembles and Woodwinds. 123 West44th St Suite 12L New York, NY
l0038(212)889-29Zt
lESBIAN & GAY ,COIIMHTYSERVICES CENIBl
208 West 13th Street New Yorlt,
NY 10011 (212) 820-7310 9am11pm everyday. A place forcommunity organizing and networking, social services, cultural programs, and social
events sponsored by the Centerand more than 150 community
organizations.
lESBIAN AND GAYlABOR NElWOIII
An organization of Leabial18 andGays who ara active in their labor

is a support and informationgroup for lesbians and bisexual
women intaraatBd in fantasy, roleplaying. bindage, discipline, SIM,
fatiahea, altemaIB gender indantities, costumes and 10forth. Membership is available only to
wOlilen 18ysars and older. Aclual
experience is not required but
genuine interest and an open
mind are. For information pleasewrite: P.O. Box 993, Murray Hill
Station, New York,NY10158

MARANA1HA:IIIVERSIDERS RlRLESBlAN/GAY CONCERNSMonthly 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)

lIEN OF AI1COLORSTOGEIHBINY
A multi-rscial group of gay men
againat racism. Meetings every
Friday night at 7:45 at the Lesbianand Gay Community Services
Center,208 W. 13th Street. For
mora info. call: (212) 2~or(212)222-9794.
METROPOUTAN TENNISGROUP(MTG)
Our 200 member lesbian andgay tennis club includes players from beginning to tournament level. Monthly tennill partin. Winter indoor league.

PNwntion Plllllnun.)

Providesaafer
sex and AIDS
education information to gay
and bisexual Men of Color;
coordinatas a networlt of peersupport groups for gay andbisexual Men of Color in all 5
boroughs of New York City 303
Ninth Ave, New York, NY
l000lor call (212)23&-1798.
NRlONALGAY AM) LESBIANTASKRJRCE
is the national grassroots political organization for leabians andgay men. Membershipis$:Wyaar. Issue-orientad projects
address violence, sodomy laws,
AIDS, gay rights ordinances,
famlliea, media, atc. through lobbying, education, organizing anddirect action. NGLTF 1517 U
Street NW, Washington, DC
20009. (202)332-8U!.

NBNYORKADVERTISING AND
NElWORKNYACN 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.IIMMESSupport and discuaaion group for
lesbians who self identify as
Femme and are primarily
attracted to butch women: For
membership information call Usa(212)829-9817.
N.'! WOIE'lS SOFIBAU.GlllD,For experienced, serious Softball Players, Coaches and Managers. We play mod/fast pitch
weekends in Manhattan andQueens. Try-outs begin Feb. 11
thru April- or until filled. (212)255-1379 Janet

NINTH SlIEEI' CENTBI
Since 1973, a community dedicated to demonstrating that ahomosexual lifestyle is a rational, deairable choice for individuals dissatisfied
with therewards of conventional living.
Psychologically - focussed rap
groups, Tues., Sat, 8 to 10 pm.
peer counselling avanable. 319 E.
9 Street, New York,NY10003,forinfo call (2121228-5153.

NORrH AMERICAN MANIIIOY
LOVE ASSOClAnON (NAMBlA)
Dedicated to sexual freedom
and eapecially interested in gay
intergenerational relationships.
Monthly Bulletin and regular
chapter meetings on the first
Saturday of each month. Yearly
membership .ia $20; write NAMBLA. PO Box 174, Midtown Station, New York, NY 10018 or call(212)807-8578 for information.
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NOII'IHBlN LIGHTSAIJBIfWMS
Improving Quality of ute for People with AIDS/HIV. THE AIDSMASTERYWORKSHOP:Exploring
the posailxlitiea of a powarfuiand
craativelifa in the face of AIDS.
CaU(212)~
NYC GAY .. LESBIAN
ANn-VlOl£NCE PROJECf
Counseling, advocacy, and information for survivors of anti-gay
and anti-lesbian violence, sexualassault, domestic violence, andother types of victimization. All
servicea free and confidential.24
hourhotline (212) 807-0197
OF
LESBIAN AND GAYS
Let P/FLAG help you and yourfamily deal with the upheaval ofyour coming out. Our meetings
ara free: monthly on the 4th Sunday, at 3:00 pm, in Duane Church,
201 Wast 13th. Info? call Jeanne,
212..c83-0629

PEOIUWIDI AIDSCOAUJlON(212) 532-029O{1-8OD-828-3280{
Hotline (212) 532-0588Monday
thru Friday lDam-6prn Meal programs, support groups, educational and referral services for
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PEOIUWIDI AIDSHEAIJH GROUP
Underground buyar's club importing not-yet-approved madications
and nutritional supplements. 31
West 28th St 4th Roor (212) 5320280

PNCPANTHBI PATRII.

Community street patrol in Eastand Weat Village dedicated todeterring violent crime against
gays and lesbians. For info andme.eting time for West VIllage,call 212-475-4383. for East Vii·lage Patrol info, call 212·2488588.70 A Greenwich Ave., Box107, NYC10011
PROFESSIONAlSIN fUNI/IDEO
338 Canal Street, 8th Roor, NYC
10013212-645-3351
OI&RNIOlON
Queer Nation is a multi-cultural
diract action group dedicated ID
fighting homophobia, queer
invisibility, and all forms of
oppression that any queers
might face. Anyone can suggest
an action and should come tomeetings preparad to organize
and implement it aN, Box 1524,
Cooper Stetion, New York, NY
10003. Call 212-483-7208 formeeting info.
SAGE: -{Soniar Action in• Gay EmiI1lllllllllll
Social Service Agency. providing care, activities, a educstional servicea for gay & lasbian
senior citizens. Alao servea oyer
180 homebound seniors a older
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SE111U1f4GAYS,lBBlANSAMI BISEXUALSFor all of us interaatad in reaching out to each other in
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explore and expand
upon the Setl1fJane Roberta ·Philosoph.,- al it realllli
to our lives, personally, sexually and politicslly. Call AI(212) 97&-5104.
SUNDANCE OUTDOORADVENTURE soam
A non-profit club offering Outdoor activitiel for &Very
H"on including hiking, biking, skiing, water activiti ..
and other outdoor activities for the Gay/lesbian community. For infonnation or complimentary Newsletter
call (212) 598-4728.
TASK RlRCEANNOUNCEMENr
The legal Action Center locallld at 153 Waverly Place,
NY,NY 10014, hal begun two new programs. All their
8ervices are free. The HIV/AIDSLegal Service Projectprovides free legal Mrvices 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 IIIchnical assistance to public and privalll agenciel about legal and policy issues on HIV/AIDS anddrug abuH. They provide training, individual con8ulllltions, and model policy guidelines, among other items. If
you have any further queations, please contact Ms.
Catherine O'Neil at (212)243-1313. Th. AI.oci.tion '"Nun •• in AIDS C.r. (ANAC) just received Chapter
Charter for the local Grealllr New York Chaplllr. They
have monthly meetings with speakers and networicing
opportunities. Their next meeting is scheduled for January 9, 1991, 8-8 pm. at th. AIDS Institute, 5 Penn Plaza,
4th floor, NY,NY.If you have any further que8tions,please contact Janet Vaccariello at (2121340-8724
TIlE OUTREACHUSING COMRINALHEAUNG(rOUat)Community volunlllers providing a weekly buffet IUpper for the Brooklyn AIDS community. TOUCH meeta
Monday evel. 5pm to 8:30pm- at downtown Brooklyn
Friends Meeting House (110 Schennerhom St. near
Boerum Place). limited transportation
may bearranged. Info: (718)622-2756. TOUCHwelcomes contributions of funds, food and volunteers.
ULSTER COIfiIY GAY AND LESBIAN AWANCE
Meelll first and third Monday of each month at 7:30 pm
at the Unitarian Church on Sawkiff Road in Kinglton.
For Infonnation, call 91W28-3203
UNnv"
NEEDS YOU to become a part of itl Organizers for Gay
Gamel IV. to be held in New York in 1994. Olympicstyle 8pOrts and cultural event is largest in world.
Thama is INCLUSION,everyone is needed. SUPPORTTHE GAMES by volunteering, joining or making a dona·tion. Call 212-732-3812 or write UNflY '94, PO Box 202,
NY, NY10038.

WHAMI...w.n.n'.1IHIIh Actian And MoIIiliZlltion.
A direct action group commitad to demanding, Hcuring and defending absolute reproductive freedom andquality health care for all women. We meet every Wed.
at 6:30pm at 105, E 22nd Street, 4th floor. 212-713!i886Mailing address: WHAMI, PO Box 733, NYC10009
WOMENS ALTEIINATIVE COMIIIJN nv CIMBI IWACC)
A non'profit, Lelbian community center serving
Queens, Nassau and Suffolk Counties. Thurs. night
weekly dilcussion groupl. 8:30 pm, for other activities
please contact ua at 51&-483-2050.
.
WRES'lUNG RIB GAYS ILESBIANS
Watch the men of the knights wrestling club inaction
every Sunday at 7:30 PM at the GAYCENTER.The cluballo conduct training classes on allllmalll Saturdays
afternoon (lIt 8t 3rd Saturday.for men 2nd 8t 4th Saturdaya for women) for morelnfonnation pleale call:71&-839-5141

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generational.
fashion thing. Yet thewhalebone corset (fashionable in itsday). impaired respiration and digestion and was ultimately abandoned as .
a health hazard."
OK. Now. compare this to Btmbox. a queer fanzine hurled out from
Toronto (one of· whose publishers.
Johnny Noxzema. describes outing as"glorious") and causing a commotion
everywhere.
especially with its current. fourth issue which has a lot tosay: "Fact: All victims of gay-bashing
DESERVE what they get. All victims ofqueer-bashing are unfortunate cases·of
mistaken identity." The publishers ofof this radical rag indict a "generationof misogynist capitalist swine clones
and half-baked
numbskull. granola
feminists over 30." all of whom are"directly responsible
for segregatedbars. sexism. racism. classism. separatism. mass complecency and a complex network of selfish. over-educated. self-appointed
rich people
overseeing a vast fake-democratic leSbian and gay multi-national bureaucracy that dictates how we think.
c1fess. act and fuck."
Their most grabbing feature is the"ining list. a.k.a. People We'd Like toBash Over the Head With a Lead
Pipe." which includes the entire staffof the Advocate (with all of theirnames actually listed.) autWeek is listed in a separate box called: "Walkingon Thin Ice."
Btmboxs perhaps not-so-tonguein-cheek goal for their queer revolution? "To exclusively concentrate on
the absolute destructionof lesbian
and gay culture ....We will not tolerate
any form of lesbian and gay philosophy. We will not tolerate their obselete thought-processes ....We will not
tolerate their voluntary assimilation
into heterosexual
culture .... We will
not tolerate
their trivializationofracism. We will not· tolerate theirwarped. shallow. twisted concept offeminism .... Furthermore.
if we seelesbians and gays being assaulted on
the streets. we will not intervene-ewe will join in ....Effective immediately. Bimbox is at war against lesbians
and gays."
1 think we're in for a fascinating
decade. folks."

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ship from the Daily News guild andmarks the Georgetown University gay
and lesbian student organization's struggle for recognition from the university as
a formative legal and political trial.
The recent brouhaha over the St.
Patrick's Day parade was also an exampleof how the iSsue of breaking down baniers seems to lurk around every comer in
her life. A lesbian with working-class Irish
roots. she shocked her family when -shetook a cold-water flat in the city that was
precisely the sort of tenement her IrishAmerican parents and grandparents
scrimped and saved for years to leavebehind McGovern has not often encountered opportunities to wrestle with who
she is as a lesbian with her family andwho she is as an Irish Catholic with her
community. "It's always been very painful
for me to try to reconcile those twothing5." she says wistfully.
The events leading up to the St.
Patrick's Day parade offered McGoverna unique opportunity to engage in thattussle. She desaibes the controversy as
acutely personal, noting that the hatefilled faces of the people who lined theparade route looked uncannily like her
extended family members. And she
vividly recounts the thrill of recognition
she experienced in talking candidly withother Irish queers. "It was very painful.
because I'll never forget those faces." sheexplains. "But it was really liberating.
because once you give up on that, you
can start all over."That is just the sort of opportunity
to face reality squarely. with even <>dds.
that McGovern attempts to provide forher clients. by easing their way throughthe system with her legal degree and theaccesS that that affords. In fact. McGovern says. that she can force the system tovalidate the problems her clients experience at all is one of the most rewarding
aspects of her job. "It's really wonderfult~ see the clients feel empowered bythat." she remarks.
Alternatively. the sense of helplessness she feels when she can't mike thesystem work fast enough to keep her
clients from dying with IDV-related complications causes her immense frustration. "1 find it completely heartbreaking."
she discloses. "1 find [I. am] completely
unable to deal with the fact that my 23year-old clients are dying."••__ ,. McGOVERN

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colleges with phys-ed departritents andorganizations
like the International
Dance Exercise Association, or IDEA,
certify trainers.
FISter is convinced that government
certification isn't too far away.
"Within the field, it's a free-for-all,·he explained. "Anybody can do anything. But it's all going to be regulated
because the government is watching
how fast the field is expanding.·
FISter feels that there will be certain
benefits to regulation, both for trainers
and their clients.
"Certification will ally trainers withthe health-care industty, which is natural,~he said. "We take as much care of
the body as massagists and physical therapists, and that would be recognized.
And for clients, once we're licensed,
people could use insurance money to
pay for us."
A final thing you should look for ina POtential trainer is compatability. Union
Sguarir Gym's Harding put it this way: "Ifyo\! d9n't get along well with your trainer, it's not going to work. A certain camaraderie
part of the motivation.·
,
. is
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Whether your goal is to learn how
to ~ork 9ut, improved workout efficiericY, injury-avoidance or increased
1potivation, pel'S()nal trainers can be ahuge help. Just remember that not
everyone who offers the service is qualified, so shop around, look for recommendations and references, and don't
be shy about asking lots of questions.
Anyone who's truly qualified will beglad to ~erthem. ...
,,

1rainers who assisted in preparing
ihis article, and who are available for
consultation, are: Terry Fister at theChelsea Gym, (212) 255-115O;]oy Harding at the Union Squarf! Gym, (212)52~4029, Charles Buster (212) 3155097; Serge Pertco at Body By Serge,(212) 255-1150; anti.]ulie Rosenberg,(212) 734-7511.

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movements do happen; they've happened in history, but they are not inclu. sive. By definition, they are exclusive. It
is unfortunate that the most vocal proponents of the queer movement haveallowed their class privilege to shape
their goals, all but ignoring t!te common
ground they might otherwise share withqueers of color.
Does the queer movement want to
be inclusive or simply to have broad
support for its Class-oriented agenda?

Within the framework of an inclusive queer revolution, the movement
must begin to repoiiticize its strategies toinclude people of color. And that means.confronting its cIass<onscious sensibility
that has only been sensitive to the needsof the middle class.
Until these actions are taken, many
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notice I looked like Marilyn."
Sydney: It could have been worse.
She could have done Dead Marilyn.'
Liz: Speaking of death, I'm sorry,but it's really hard for me to accept her
new relationship with Michael Jackson.
Sydney: Didn't he "date" Brooke
Shields?
Liz: Yeah, well, "daten,s a strong
word ...
Sydney: As comic Frank Maya
said at the Queer Oscars4: "How. do
you know a celebrity is gay? Just look
to see if they dated Brooke Shields."
Liz: You have to admit that thoseawards were a bit more reflective ofthe queer lives led in La-La land. For
Best Actor-Richard
Gere in Dances
With GerbIls. Best Actress-Jodie Foster.in The Silence ofJodie Foster.
Sydney: I was rooting for Chastity

Bono in Teenage Dyke Ninja Lesbians.
liz: I don't know. Debbie Reynolds in Closetland is pretty toughcompetition. She's had a long run inthat role.
Sydney: And the nominations for
the Best New Club ...
Liz: That's easy, there's only one
new club-all the rest are remakes.
Sydney: The Oscar goes to Parallel .
•Liz: You can think of it likethis - Friday nightS is an MGM musical, with showgirls, and Saturday6
looks like the entire cast of extras
from Spartacus decided to go dancing
in cut-off shorts.
Sydney: But I bet if you ask thebathroom attendants, they'll tell youthat it's just one big drama.
Liz: I think that door-people as
casting directors is just one step awayfrom club promoters
as "auteurs"-Godardrunning Roxy, maybe?
Sydney: Oh god, I'm scared thateveryone would fall asleep. Now that
reminds me of a story. A friend once
told me that she saw Julia Kristeva7
at Girl World.
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Best Cinematography?
FOOmOTES: 1. You'll Never Eat Lunch
in Tbis Town Again, a book which has
spurred numerous lawsuits and talk-show
appearances.

2. Kevin Costner's fIrSt role was to,playthe dead man in TbeBig Cbt/~ in flashback
scenes. They were all shot and then editedout, thus launching Jeff Goldblum, Kevin
Kline and William Hurt upon the world.
3. Jlmmy James, a female impersonatof,·•
plays Marilyn upon return ~om her grave,hence "Dead Marilyn "4. Benefit for the Community Health
Project, held at the Pyramid on Oscar night.
5. Satyricon, a night of "debaucherous,
satire" featuring the former BoyBar beauties.
6. A large, Saint-like gay crOWd
7. French film and literary critic. A
favorite of Sydney's.

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ACf UP members who held a sit-in at
Joseph's office, will preside over theneedle-exchange
trial as well. Those
defendants were convicted of trespassing after unsuccessfully employing anecessity defense. And Joseph was awitness at that trial as well.
While the trial proceeds, state legislators will be moving fOlWard with legislation that will de-aiminalize needle pos•sesslon.
"My concern is for the growing problem of AIDS among minorities and, particularly, among women and children," said
Demoaatic state Sen. Velmanette Montgomery, who represents the Brooklyn
conununities of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Fort
Greene, Prospect Heights, Clinton Hilland parts,of Park Slope.
The bill's co-sponsors include Manhattan Demoaat David Paterson, Bronx
Democrat Joseph Galiber, Bronx Democrat Efrain Gonzalez, Brooklyn Democrat Martin Markowitz and' Queens
Demoaat Alton Waldon.
Montgomery, who is Black, will also
be called as a witness for the defense
and will testify that given that needle
possession without a prescription is ille.. gal in New York state, the defendants
had no choice but to violate the law toprevent the spread of HIV.
Democratic Assemblywoman Deborah Glick, the lead sponsor for the
Assembly version of the bill, made acommitment to pursue. 'onof needles during her campaign.
"New York is one of 11 states that
requires a prescription for possession ofneedles," Glick, who represents much ofLower Manhattan, told OutWeek. "Considering the AIDS crisis, it is a lifesaving
measure to make it possible to obtainclean needles." Co-sponsors
in theAssembly are Queens Democrat Barbara
Clark and Manhattan
Democrat
Geraldine Daniels.
Currently only fIVe states have officially sanctioned needle-exchange programs, accordingto Rod Sorge,
spokesperson for the needle-exchange
defendants. These are Washington, Oregon,. Connecticut,
Hawaii and Colorado. The extent of unsanctioned needle-exchange programs, by their very
nature, is harder to ascertain. Advocatessuggest that their number is growing as
government fails to address the HIV

epidemic among IV-drug users.·
George Qatk, the project
for an unsanctioned needle distribution
program in San Francisco, Prevention
Point, told OutWa!k, "In this country we
don't offer the kinds of services that would
allow IV-drug ~to stay HIV-free."Prevention Point is considered byneedle advocates to be the largest needle program, official or otherwise, in the
United States. Clark estimates' that Prevention Point distributes 7,600 needles
each week at four separate sites around
San Francisco.
By contrast, ACf UP/NY's needleexchange group continues to distribute
an estimated 2,000 needles each week toan IV-drug user population that is significantly larger than San Francisco's.
ACf UP/NY's project is just over one
year old, having begun just after theJoseph program was closed by Mayor
Dinkins. Advocates complain the thehealth department offered nothing to
replace the needle-exchange program, andeven health department officials concedethat services for IV-drug users are sufferingin New York City.
"It would certainly be disingenuous
to say that we are going to be able toprovide the kind of meaningful treatment
on demand that the city needs," said
Peggy Hamburg, the health department's
deputy commissioner for family healthservices. -"But we are, for the first time,
now supporting drug-treatment
programs." Hambwg neverthe1es. asserts that
drug treatment is a high priority at thehealth department.
According to Hambwg, the Department of Health will spend $6 million thisfiscal year to treat pregnant women andadolescents. The health department will
also monitor treatment slots to make linkages between users seeking treatment
and treatment providers.
The new leadership on needle
exchange developing in Albany, andthe high-proftle trial of needle advocates beginning here, may again spark
discusSion of a municipally sanctioned
program.
And the health department's Kenneth Ong, deputy commissioner for
disease intelVention, offers what may
be a ray of hope for activists, saying,"As a scientist, I would like to thinkthat health policy is determined bywhat we find in fact and what ourdata shows."T

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In the midst of the carnage that the
AIDS epidemic has wrought, McGovern's
dedication to legal action against the
many-headed bureaucratic monsters that
AIDS has revealed is tremendously inspiring. But without continuous funding infusions, her ability to do her job will continue to be hindered "It's so fucking hard to
get funding that I don't think it will be a
$2 million project in two years," sheremarks, offering, with wry amusement,
another po6Sibility: "I think there are a lot:ofthat need to start to lookat the problems of the people I deal with."
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have made rooting out institutional prejudice their life's work, gay and lesbian
conununity-based organizations have notbeen particularly forthcoming with sustaining funds for the HIV Project.
"I'm still at the level where rm c0nvincing people that this is a worthy thing,"
she says of her efforts to raise money,
lamenting that deeply rooted societal prejudices agaimt the poor make piquing her
potential donors' interest infinitely harder.
Considering that McGovern, ~hograduated five years ago from Georgetown's law school, came into her area ofthe law to fight poverty, it is either a bitter irony or a cruel metaphor that the
project itself is so constantly and desperately in need of money. And, as McGovern might point out herself, it's also typical of the system. ...

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opponent the preferred rating for thegeneral election. Stem will face sometough questions at the GIlD meeting. If
he doesn't come up with some goodanswers, GUD will consider joining aboycott and asking all future candidates
not to appear before CU and not torequest their homophobic
stamp ofapproval. The meeting should prove
interesting. Come and join GIlD on April
10 at the Center.

Police Brutality
On the subject of police brutality:
One of my activist friends called me on
March 15, furious about that day's Newsday article on ACf UP's anti-police brutality demo held in Queens the night
before. My friend, Who had been at thedemo, said that there was certainly a lot
for a good writer to report on, like thefact that the police, having followed the
ACf UP bus all the way frOm the Com.
munity Center, flagged it over on the
highway and told the bus driver ¢at hewould be ticketed if he tried to take thebus on to the demo site. Talk about apolice state!
So the activists, totaling about 45(not 25 as reported in Newsday), disembarked the bus (still pulled over on the
highway) and marched through the cold'rain into the Flushing neighborhood
where the NYPD's Chief oftRobert J. Johnston lives. But did they getvery far? WeII, no, since there were nearly
300 .(a figure Newsday got right) police
officers there to meet them. Those officers successfully did everything within,and some things beyond, their legal
power to keep the demonstrators fromgetting anywhere near Johnston's home.
Now this demo was all about police
brutality, right? Those activists were out
there in the rain because police bash
Blacks, Latinos, Asians and gays (among
others).--and get away with it. In fact
one of the comrades of these demonstrators, Christopher Hennelly, is at home
suffering permanent neurological andpsychological damage because of exces
sive force at the hands of the police. Yet
Newsday reporter Curtis Rist suggeststhat ACf UP and Hennelly made it allup. Rist writes: "Hennelly, 28, claimed
that he was brutally beaten during an
ACf UP protest outside the Manhattan
North station house Feb. 11. Hennelly
says he was hospitalized for six days.

complied, revealing a bikini top and a. ..
back-shirt tattoo.
Once inside the compound, jackets
were removed; outfits came out; and:' ,where people had not opted for glamour,,.
there were message T~shirts in abundance, from "Queer Nation~ to "Nobody
Knows I'm HIV-Positive." Que~rs ahd
queens blO5SOmedthroughout the different theme-parks. Mothers rushed theirchildren to the side; men wrapped theirarms around the necks of the women
they were with.
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But there were no fights and no violent confrontations.
Snappy verbal
exchanges occurred in a few -indden~,usually around matters of c1othirig,. btit.
Bella Abzug Speaks
there were no goon squads and 'rio
gangs. At. one point, two boys\piSsed'by:
The Vtllage Independent Democrats
will be having their annual dinner on Fri- . with'shaved heads and jickets that:~d.'"Killing Is Our Business, Busine$5 'Is .
day, May 17, at the Tavem on the Green.
The Human Rights Award will be p~
Good"arQund a logo of a ~ , pierced
sented to openly gay New York City 'by a knife, but they paid no attention,
Human Rights Commissioner Dennis
entirely engaged QY each other. ~~,deleon, the Humanitarian Awards tochildren stared helplessly as the queer
labor leader Jan Pierce and lawyer Peter
parade we.nt by. The oply clues to Disneyland's homophobia were subµ'~·~dJohnson Sr. and the Public Service Award
to Commissioner of the City
fe<Iuired digging to un~6ver. Ggreg, inof Probation Catherine Abate. Bellamaking conversation
with a,monorail,
Abzug will be the keynote speaker.
driver, discovered that all Qf Disriey's
Among those already signed up as sponsecurity management had b~n- qtlled
sors and patrons are Andy Humm, Deboout for the day. Eric, servjng it up ·to therah Glick, Ethan Geto, Jim Owles, Artiestraights in fishnets ~d pumps, discovStrickler, John Magisano, Laura Morrison,ered from a friend who '..worked
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Bob Bailey, Tlffi Gay, Tom Duane, Rank
that there were chairs in· front of the
Oenunons and Alfred Borello. For further
bandstand for cthe first time in years, as' a. , or to become a sponsor, calldeterrent against any attempts· at ~(212) 741-3265.T
sex: dancing.
. 'It was, in fact, exactly as we had
DISNEYassured the cop outside. Frederick'$~ofCc:»ntlnLl_c:I f'rc:»~ pag_
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Hollywood the day before. Th~.waS nolife they have to pay money to fantasize
demonstration: This was simply the way
about, but their frustration with us that
we live and play. Looking our be~t,
day was compounded because we werelaughing, holding and kissing each dl;her,enjoying ourselves.
giggling at bad-hair moments aqd~n
We boarded the monorail in gIamourviolations. There were only our bodies,
free disguises, many w.eanng pins that
our outfits, our fun with each other and,read "Proud to Be an Ameriam." Still, thethe stickers on everyone's clothing, de<talgroup was met by 12 security men andversions of Eo's rainbow bolts.
women in suits at the ticket booth, after an
Everywhere we went, we were theagent on a red Honda scooter spotted us
happiest of the crowd that day in thein the parking lot. "Would you look atheart of the Happiest Place on Earth,,this," Dave Ford said, turning to the diswinning 3$ we went an<;l even ea,tingguised queers in the line. "We can't even
their bad food. As Kate, our Storybook
hide it when we try." Everyone made it
Tour boat captain, told us as she: recovthrough the door without a hitch, and it
ered from a joke about whales and deep
wasn't until later that we heard from athroats, "You guys are in the ruhning for .
my best l?oatever." We were trying
group of Santa Cruz dykes who had cometo. . "save them and go home at the saQle .
to meet up with us that a woman in theii
group had been asked to check her T-shirt
time. We were the frea,k puppets, and•that read "Nobody Knows fm Gay." She
Disney, the spider-queen. T···'
after the beating.""Oaimed '? "Says'? If he had doubts,
why didn't Rist call St VlOcent'Sto verify
Hennelly's hospital stay? But the real
kicker is the quote Rist ends the article
with: "'ACf UP has done a lot of wildthings in their day,' said one police officer as he pulled his overcoat tighter
against the rain and cold 'But bringing
us all here like this is the aueIest'" So
we should sympathize with the poor
police officers, who, it should be noted,
were brought there by the police department, not by ACf UP, and who collected
a ton of overtime for which we paid? I
think
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