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Dinkins or Disaster
It's difficult to imagine lesbian and gay New Yorkers having aclearer choice for mayor than David Dinkins or Rudolph Giuliani. It's
also difficult to imagine a moment in New York history more critical to
our well-being than now, as the AIDS crisis swells to full intensity andthe very survival of much of our world is at stake. Without question,
and with full confidence in the ability of government to make a difference, gays and lesbians should vote for David Dinkins next Tuesday.
Cynics might make the case for Dinkins simply by enumerating
the flaws of Giuliani. He is ignorant about AIDS issues. He is ignorant
about lesbian and gay issues. He dislikes and distrusts the gay cOmmunity. He supports none of the major items on our agenda. He's against
domestic partnership. He has no open gays or lesbians on his staff. He
would abolish the Mayor's Office for Lesbians and Gays. He represents
the conservative
status quo that traditionally opposes gay rights,
women's rights and compassion in SOCiety. lie has given every indication of being an entrenched, inflexible homophobe. He would be anightmare as mayor .
.But thankfully we have no need merely to vote against somebody.
This election we have someone to vote for.
With the possible exception of Ruth Messinger, there is no major
player in New York politics who has been so consistently in favor of
gay !Uld lesbian rights, over a longer period, with as much enthusiasm
and ~enuine empathy, and as effectively, as David Dinkins.
~As Manhattan Borough President he fought for our interests acrossa bfad spectrum of issues: AIDS funding, AIDS treatment, the lesbian
andtgay rights bill, bereavement leave, Community Center funding, antibias~legislation, lesbian and gay pride and history proclamations, abortioriJ rights, gay and lesbian education curriculum in the schools,
domestic partnership, and on and on and on. Perhaps most importantly,
for y,ears he has appointed an unpreceedented number of gays and lesb~
to important positions on his staff, including high visibility jobs
like budget director and press secretary, and has then listened to andlearhed from them. And he hasn't been afraid to spend money and twistar~ in an effort to get the gay agenda through. Unlike Mayor Koch,
whci sounded fme on gay issues until it was time to push for them or,
God forbid, pay for them, Dinkins has been willing to. put his power andhis money where his mouth is. He has been as effective an advocate forour rights and our issues as we could hope for in the real world.
Some readers have remained wary since Dinkins failed to mention
gays' or AIDS early in his primary night victory speech. They shouldn't
worry. Dinkins mentions gay and AIDS issues constantly, in forums andbefore audiences where such mention would be least expected, ormight even be expected to lose him votes .. His slip on primary night
was a human mistake from a human candidate. He has not repeated it
since. And everything he has done since has reaffirmed that he's willingto go the extra mile to do the right thing for gays.'
As the polls have tightened, the power and importance of the lesbian and gay vote has increased. Without our wholehearted support it
now seems that Dinkins could lose the election. We would be the certain losers as well. He has stood up for gay liberation in an uncompromising way, and in so doing has earned our complete confidence andour support. We urge you to vote for him next Tuesday. T

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Charter Chatt.r
Concerning your editorial In last week's Issue
regarding charter revision. It
Is FAIRPAC'sposition that the
proposed City Charter Is amarked Improvement overthe current state of affairs.
and certainly better than thealternative. which you failed
to mention In your editorial. If
the proposed
charter Is
defeated. a new system ofcity government
will beImposed by the court: theFederal Court. OutWeek. ofall people. certainly knowsthat the Federal Courts are
not now. nor have they everbeen. friends of the lesbian
and gay community. .
The new Equal Opportu-

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nlty Q'ld Fair Hiring Section of
the proposed charter specifically uses the phrase "sexual
orientation" In directing city
agencies to comply with the
Human Rights Code. towhich the gay rights bill Is an
amendment. In other words.
the gay rights bill. for which
the community fought sohard for so many years. Is
now written Into the proposed charter. ThisIs a significant gain for our community.
Voting no on the charter would therefore not only
accomplish no useful purpose; It would put us In theunfriendly hands of a federal
court and remove the gay
rights bill from the charter.
We believe It Is far more

November5.1989

useful to lobby the new
mayor for representation on
the committee which willoversee City Council redistricting. If the proposed charter Is approved.
Thatlobbying effort (In which theentire community should
Join) stands a much greater
chance of success If the new
mayor Is David Dinkins (towhom FAIRPAC has given$2.000) rather than his
Republican opponent.
Candida Scott Piel
Executive Director
FAIRPAC
Manhattan

Goon Giuliani
Last Issue. OutWeek
published a truly naive letterfrom Anthony Salerno. aboard member of FAIRPAC.
urging gays and lesbians tovote for Rudy Giuliani. In his
letter. he claimed he was

privy to a conversation In
which Giuliani promised toprotect our rights.
We had an opportunity
to learn what Rudy and hisbackers think of us lost Monday. Six members of ACT UP
Interrupted a Liberal Party dinner to remind the audienceof Rudy's positions on AIDS
and lesbian and gay rights.
In an outrageous displayof hatred. his supporters
attacked
the protesters.
yelled "faggots:
kickedthem. threw water on them.
a1d pushed them down stairs
once they were outside thehall. Roger Alles. Glullanl's
media wlz. went so far as toput a choke hold on one ofthe protesters In order toremove him from the room.
Condoning all this. Giuliani stood smiling at the
podium. and proceeded tocompare the demonstrators

with a Mafia murderer.
I'm angry-I'm
angry
with Giuliani for his support ofblatant violence and homophobia right before his eyes.
I'm also angry with gay"leaders" who tell us if weplay by the rules the established powers will give us
what we need. This attitude
is killing my friends and isholding us all down.

simultaneously excluding asignificant portion of the gay
community, namely lesbians,
and its prevailing stance on
importantissues such as
reproductive rights.
Desi Del Valle
Brooklyn

Just Say Blow
I know you have every
freedom to advertise whatever and for whomever you
wish-but the negative anticocaine ad repeated ad nauseum reminds me of Nancy
Reagan. If you "public-service" about Xtacy (sic),I'llshit.
Anonymous John
Manhattan
Where's the Obits?

David Dinkins has arecord of helping our ocmmunity. He pushed AIDSfunding,
supported gay and lesbianrights and initiated a bereavement leave policy in his office.
He has been our friend and I
hope we have the intelligence to make the difference for him in this election.
David Gross
Manhattan
strange Bedfellows
In response to Anthony
Salerno's enthusiasm
forRudolph Giuliani, I would justlike to remind Mr. Salernothat Rudy has not been so"educable and open-minded" to the demands thatmuch of the gay community(women In particular) has
madefor freedomofchoice. I speak, specifically,
about abortion and Mr. Giuliani's firm position against awoman's right to choose.
I would ask Mr. Salerno
not to assume the role ofspokesperson for the gay
community by using suchpronouns as "we" ("He (Giuliani) is also educable andopen-mindedtothedemands we have") while

Why don't you carry
more obituaries in OutWeek'?
With so many tragic deathsin our community you'd think
there would be many moreobits each week. In San
Francisco, the Bay Area
Reporter has sometimes as
many as 20 notices, andeven though it's tragic, it
servessome useful purposes.
First,it lets people know
about the deaths of more distant friends and acquaintances, or of people you've
lost touch with. Sometimes in
New York I don't hear about
someone until a year or two
afterwards, thereby missing amemorial service or just achCl"lceto mourn CI"l old friend.
Secondly, the obits in the
Bay Area Reporter, usuallywith small photos, drive homethe message to t.he wholecommunity of what AIDS isreally doing to us. It probably
radicalizes people in a waythat would never happen
otherwise. OutWeek does
have one or two obits each
week, usually of someone
famous or successful. I hope
you're not censoring the rest.
James Ludke
Brooklyn
From the beginning ourpolicy has been to encourage people to send obituaries to OutWeek. We arecommitted to printing every

one we get, with photo if it's
supplied. We have never
and would never "censor"
anyone's notice - the very
idea is antithetical to what
OutWeek is all cDout. We do,
however. reserve the right to
edt a notice for clarity, styleand length. We agree withthe main points in your letter.
Obituaries
strengthenasense of community and areuseful and necessary. It's a
puzzle why we receive so
few obituaries, and why theones we do receive tend to
be of famous individuals. We
wish this were not the case,and we again urge readers
to consider submitting obituaries to us. Thanks for yourletter. - the Editors

Ok, Not the Last Word, Ok?
On Sarah Pettit's "TheLast Word on Sandra andMadonna:Okay, I won't laugh at
your theory that what Sandra and Madonna did on
Letterman was "unabashedcloset breaking"(I think
that's an excellent way of
putting it), if you won't laughwhen I say I think the lesbiancommunity can never havetoo many heroines. I canthink of worse things thesetwo could spend television'stime doing.
Yes, as you point out.
neither Sandy or Madonna
are saying anything outrightabout themselves, but who
really cares? The point isthere exist two very vocal,
powerful (and I might add,
lovely) women giving lesbians some mainstream visibility. And not only are they
having a little (or a lot) of fun
in the process, but so are we.
So why should we stop"going on and on about
Sandra and Madonna?"I
don't think the (bad) girls
from Cubby
Hole whoparaded beneath the S&M
placards
were"living
through the glowing 1V tube
and the j.o. G.o.???) slicknessof the video" at all. They
were out on Fifth Avenue,

proud and vocal, just like therest of us-not
at homeglued to MTV.

Your point is well takenthat we should use some ofthatenergywe spend
admiring Madonna and Sandra loving ourselves, but I
think you'll find that sisterhood is not so forgiving,
unfortunately, of small flaws
as we'd like to hop. Thus,
there's Deb Parker's crowd
and then there are those
who go to the Duchess.
So what's wrong with alittle "youthful excitement?" I
say absolutely
nothing.
Please OutWeek, don't let
this be the last we hear of
Sandy and Madonna. We
have the rest of the Wd.(~dleft to make us feel invisibl~:
Desi Del Valle~'
Brooklyn

Patchouli Papa
I' read, with great interest, Rex Wockner's "Disabled
Lesbians Demandmore
Accessibility" (OutWeek, no.
19). He reports that, the"working draft prepared bySara Karon and Catherine
Oddette which appeared In
the Boston-based Dykes, Disabilities and Stuff calls forevents (In the lesbian, gay
and "Ieftie" communities) tobe advertised
as "scentfree." Further,it envisions"sniffers" posted at the entrances
to ensure that all who enterare in compliance.
This brought back afond memoryof being
turned away at the door of
the Mineshaft In late 1984

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because the guy at the door
smelled patchouli oil residue
on my clothes (Men wearing
colognewere
likewiseturned away).
How encouraging thatthe views and actions ofhyper macho,
polltlcallyIncorrect ·Ieather queens ultimately coincide with thoseof certain politically-correct
lesbian feminists.
No one's safe anywhere!
Jon David Nalley"
Brooklyn"a Leather faggot into
patchouli oil.

Sniff Spiff
Your article
about
women seeking to post "sniffers" at the doors of lesbian
events to keep out people
wearing scents was bizarre.
It's another example of theIquest for political correctness leading to outlandish,undemocratic
extremes. I
thought tolerance wa, what
we were all about, but I may
be simply naive. Anyway,
thanks to OufWeek for publishing stories like that. Your
type of Journalism Is morerefreshing: to point out theabsurditl'es
of both thehomophobic right and theabsurd gay left. Keep it up.
Geneen Myron
Manhattan

Puzzle Pal
Three cheers for the
OutWeek Crossword! I'm acrossword nut living in New
Jersey and I always -considered myself lucky for having
daily access to The New YorkTimes. After reading about
The Times' homophobic poli-

Morning Morons

Here's a suggestion fot"Nightmare of the Week:
Two disc-jockeys
at 93 KRock, Howard Stern andRobin Givens, playedJ.
a songentitledA ' '1~""Santa Claus ha, Got"...... /",.J,,/
AIDS' to the "Santa
Claus is Coming toTown" melody. Over
the
song
they
laughed and madeunbelievably offensive
statements
about people sickwith AIDS. It was very
upsetting and hard
to believe that persons with this kind of"air-power" can beallowed to spreadsuch evil in our society. I hope you willtake up my suggestion.
steven Roberts
BrooklynI(9; /IIt ~ A f1 ! ~I (j rJdJ 7!
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cy In OutWeek I began tofeel guilty about buying It
every day, but we crossword
nuts are addicts and I Just
couldn't help myself. Now
I've discovered
the OutWeek Crossword and I cantell you I've never seen sucha clever use of the medium.
It teaches us about gay andlesbian history and literature
and at the same time challenges and amuses. Hurrayfor Phil Greco. I hope hekeeps going forever. I may
be able to wean myself fromThe Times after all.
Chris Rondell
Fort Lee, NJ

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FIIVO/Alr;or HE/?

Here's anotherbravo for your first 18
issueS.I've read all of
them
with
great
pleasure. OutWeek
embodies the best of
the fresh, cute, smart,sexy, militant spirit of
the late-gay 80s.It's
vital that you succeed. NYC needsyou; so does the gay
world out there.

Two bones of contention, First, I dissent fromyour lavish praise of Newsday (Issue #4). Yes, Newsday
Is better than The Times on
gay issuesand a number ofother issuesof concern to usa, gay men ood lesbians. But
no, Newsday Is not a serious
paper hieing In a tabloid format. It Is a tabloid! The paper
is chock-full of sensational
headlines and so-called
human interest stories which
are in foct all based on violence or gossip. Where's the'4..,~ 'C•• ·.io'4..'~'~~J."~JI
hard ne'WS?
I decided to stop reading The Times after the fiasco
of
their
Koch
endorsement-hopingthat
Newsday would serve a, an
adequate substitute. I am
sorry to report that I'm backto The Times, only a few
weeks later. Why? Because
The Times has the mostcomprehensive
coverageof many issues both nationally and internationally, In
the entire U.S. Of course,
there's a bias, but I'm familiar with it and can extract
what I need. With Ne'WSday I
simply don't get enoughinformation.
My conclusion is that
activists can't rely on any

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Please include yourname and phone number
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mainstream paper. I read
The Guardian each week
for additional perspectives
on vital Issues (and various
gay papers, of course). But
Newsday Is a pretty low rank
on the list.
My second complant
concerns a personal ad I
have had running for severalweeks now. Someone inyour ad office committed
major violenceon thisad-namely,
punctuation!
Indulge me please with acorrect quote of the famous
final
scene
of James
Joyce's Ulysses,being Molly
Bloom's soliloque (sic):·Where I was a Flowerof the mountain yes when I
put the rose in my hair likethe Andalusian girls used orshall I wear a red yes andhow he kissed me under the
Moorish wall and I thoughwell as well him as anotherand then I asked him withmy eyes to ask again yes
and then he asked mewould I yes to say yes mymountain flower and first I
put my arms around him anddrew him down to me so hecould feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart wasgoing like mad and yes I said
yes I will yes"Now-anyone
who dismissed my ad as thework of an incompetent cango back and give it a secorid try!
David Birman
Manhattan
Tom Eubanks Replies:
My deepest apologies to Mr.
Joyce and Mr. Birman for
punctuating
Ms. Bloom's
final soliloquy.
And mydeepest, deepest apologies
my sophomore English Lit.
teacher, Mrs. Monroe, who
forcedus
to readUlysses".every
goddamnboring page of i1... well, I
never finished it. Perhaps if I
had, I wouldn't be working
as the Classified Sales Representative
for OutWeekmagazine.
P.S. What are you
doing Saturday night?

XEROXED
Fifth Rilt
Letters to the Editor
The New YorkObserver
Tothe Editor:
MichaelTomasky iswrong (The Observer, Oct2). I can't wait for Ed Koch
to move into 2 Fifth Avenue
where I live. I can continue
up close, and on a daily
basis, what I have been
doing since the AIDS epidemic began almost nine
years.ago-everything in mypower to make his life as
miserable as I possibly can.
Even though I know that nomatter how much I annoy
and pester the bastard, hislife will never be as miserable as he has made mine,and every other person inthis city and this world who
has been touched by AIDS.

There are three men
who are most to blame forletting this transmissible disease get so out of hand andrage into the state of plague
it now inhabits. Ronald Reagan, Abe Rosenthal and Ed
Koch. From the very beginning, each, in different ways,
had, and refused to use, thepower to speak out. to warn,
to place health emergencies in operation, to containthe damage early enoughso that we would not face
what we are facing now:
millions of cases, no hospitalbeds, a health care systemon the verge of collapse
and needless death after
death after death unto thehundreds of thousands sofar. Each knew what was
happening and each chose

not to do anything about it.
And Koch leaves an administration as blind to these
problems as In 1981, when
we first begged,
beseeched, pleaded with him
to pay attention.
Yes, I am going to
make his life miserable at 2
Fifth Avenue. In every single
way I possibly can. Two outof three building tenants
may have voted for him (asMr. Horowitz writes in yourletter column on October 2,
a statistic I don't believe; Mr.
Horowitz and I must know
differentneighbors)butsome 70 percent of the gay
votehelpeddefeathim-and
I am mightily
proud of that, and mightily
proud of the organization I
founded,ACT UP, that
played no small part inorchestrating this defeat-of
one of our own.
Larry Kramer
P.S. Ed, you are alsotoWell, children, the nightmare of the week is this:Once upon a time a big bad Giuliani wolf cast a spell on all the little gays
and lesbians. He bewitched them into thinking they shouldn't vote. He even tried
to strangle those who refused to fall under his evil spell. And so, on election day
many of them were confused and they stayed home. And because they did, thegood guy lost the election. And the big bad wolf won.
And then he ate up all the li.ttle lesbians and gays.

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moving
into one of thenoisiest areas and buildings in the city you areleavingus. Your apartment overlooks,
on oneside, 8th Street. which has
become a blaring, booming, raucous zoo during
your administration,and,on the other side, Washington Square Park, which
has becomea blaring,booming,raucousdrugcity during your administration. I shall torture you
during the daytime,andthese will keep you frompeaceful
sleep at night.
Bigelow's sells a not-bad
ear plug. But when thecars with their boom box
stereos come barrel-assing down Fifth Avenue,
right under your terrace,
at four in the morning,
there is no ear plug in theworld that can protectyou. Not good or restfulfor the stroke-evading.

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OUTYWEEKADL Contradiction
Abraham H. Foxman
National Director
Anti-Defamation League of
B'Nai B'Rith
Dear Mr. Foxman:
Ijust received your fundraising mailing enclosing a
copy of your organization's
special report, "Skinheads
Targetthe Schools: and yourleaflet, "What to Tell YourChild About Prejudice andDiscrimination." I find a curious contradiction between
the two documents.
The "Skinhead" reportcorrectly includes mention ofhomosexuals as a target ofskinhead violence, but theleaflet for parents seems
oblivious to the need to disp'el anti-gay bias among
schoolchildren.
Are youassuming that there is noneed for such education
among children? A recent
study by the New York state
Task Force on Bias-Related
Violence found that teenage

November 5, 1989

children hate gays more thanany other group, and thatbias;elated violence against
gays is basically a crime ofteenagers. So why does yourleaflet say: "Make it a firmrule that no person should be
excluded or teased on thebasis of race, ethnicity, or religion" without including sexual orientation, or sex, for thatmatter,since
violence
against women is also a
problem among schoolchildren? Anti-gay graffiti. jokes,
slurs, etc .. are epidemic
among the young, yet ADL
seems to think that the problem is not worth mentioning.
Yet at the same time you singout skinheads for condemnation for gay-bashing,andhave even joined in a lawsuitin the District of Columbia
against a skinhead gang.
Lesbian and gay youth exist
in our schools and are subject
to terrible harassment; this is
why New York City established the HONey Milk Schoolfor openly gay kids who
could not withstand theactive prejudice and violence against them in the
public schools.
I would suggest thatADL get in touch with the
New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project
and the Hetrick-Martin Institute for the Protection ofLesbian and Gay Youth, sothat you can begin tounderstand the magnitudeof the problem which needs
to be addressed.
One
would have thought thatafter all the meetings about
the problems with your television series, ADL would
have become more sensitive to this issue,but evidently such isnot the case.
I am puzzled and hopethat you can explain thisinconsistency to me.
Yours
Arthur S. Leonard
Professorof Law
Manhattan

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Gay City AIDS Advocates
Fired 'Without NoticeCommunity, in Furor, Charges Homophobia
by Andrew Miller

pie with HIY-related illness, said ofelections, and when the Human Rights
NEW YORK - The New York Taylor's and O'Connor's agency, "It's
Commissions' two gay commissioners,
City Human Rights Commission fired a the only place in the city bureaucracy
David Wertheimer, the executive
lesbian and demoted a gay man who
director of the Lesbian and Gay Antiwhere we can pick up the. phone andhead the AIDS Discrimination Division ask for help and know that it's going
Violence Project, and Marie Wilson,
on Tuesday, October 24, but thenexecutive director of the Ms. Foundato be taken care of."rescinded the job actions pending ation for Women, were out of town.
Citing the importance of out-oftwo-week investigation, after an outcry court settlements for people with AIDS Wilson flew back from Seattle tofrom the gay and AIDS communities.
attend the Tuesday morning meeting.
who are often concerned about privaDirector Keith O'Connor and his cy, Affoumado, who attended theOriginally, Taylor was offered to
deputy, Katy Taylor, are charging
negotiate through arbitration by Rusmeeting on Tuesday, added, "Katy andhigher-ups at the commission with
Keith know the issues, and they're supsell Pierce, general counsel for thehomophobia, sexism, and a
HRC. Thatoffer
wasdivisive management strategy
rescinded a day later after itthat has left many employees
a was accepted by Taylor,disgruntled.
Referringtoand she was fired without
Rolando Acosta, deputy comnotice or severance pay.
missioner for law enforcement
DeputyHuman
Rightsand O'Connor's
immediate
Commissioner Ben Tucker
superior, Taylor said, "He hasreportedly called Taylor ina personal vendetta against
to his office and extended
Keith and me, and it isn't
two weeks notice.
unconnected to us being gay
Keith O'Connor, whoand my being female."
has been with the commisNeither
Taylornorsion in various capacities for
O'Connor has been given reaover 19 years, was demoted
sons for the actions takenfrom director of the unit,
against them, and while theyand told he would beremain on salary, they have"informed" what his new
WRONGED BY HUMAN RIGHTS? Photo: Andrew Lichtensteinbeen stripped of all of theirduties would be. After TuesKaty Taylor and Keith O'Connor of the AJDS Discrimination Divisionduties and authority.
day'S meeting, the "disciOver 42 community
peopleportive of all people with AIDS, andplinary actions" against the two were
packed a commissioners'
meeting
the agencies that are trying to do the"placed on hold," and they were "reasOctober 24 at 8 am on less than 24 work, like our own. We refer patientssigned" until the matter is resolved
hours notice, taking over the agenda
to them all the time. No one ever falls
and demanding that the two be rein- through the cracks with them."
Job Tension Not New
stated and that an explanation be
Affoumado said she was upset at
O'Connor characterized Acosta asgiven for the commission's actions.
the prospect of new leadership at the"homophobic and AIDS-phobic, adding,
Acosta is immediately responsible for AIDS unit. "Why should they take apart"If we were doing work with race relathe firings, but he, in turn, reports to something that already works?" shetions and were successful as we are,asked. "The case loads are so enorCommissioner John Brandon, co-chair
they'd be putting crowns on our heads."
mous. We don't have time for such disof the board of the commissioners.
Aside from outright homophobia,
Rona Affoumado, the executive
ruptions. We need consistency."
sources cited a desire by the commisThe move came at a time when
director of the Community Healthsion to shift from the Division's focus
Project, a community-based
healthall of the city's politicians are preoccuon advocacy and mediation to one oncare facility that primarily serves peopied with the upcoming municipal
litigation. Former tensions between

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the two divisions have reportedly
existed for quite some time.
"I'm not willing to sacrifice principle or doing the right thing justbecause I work for the city, and a lotof people are,· Katy Taylor said.
"We've consistently taken risky positions and done a lot of high visibility
stuff. We've, opposed the city on certain very public battles, and taken
very unpopular positions against the
Corporation Counsel and the healthdepartment,· she added.
In fact, when the city wanted totest all potential employees for HIV in
exchange for passing antidiscrimination legislation protecting people with
AIDS, Taylor and O'Connor fought
their own employers, and won.

AdvOClcy Before litigation
According to Taylor, 89 percent of
the division's
cases are handled
through advocacy and mediation, andthere is a community organizing perspective underlying all of the work forthe division. Acosta is reportedly morebureaucratically oriented, preferring todeal with cases through mediation.
Ope source close to the commission, who spoke on condition ofanonymity, said, "If an ambulance
won't pick people up because they
have AIDS, you don't file a formal
complaint and litigate for three years,
you deal with it as fast as you can tosolve the problem.·
The move towards litigation
comes out of a more general complaint that O'Connor and Taylor, who
are gay and have solid ties to the gay
community, make too many waves intheir advocacy work, and have thecommunity support to back them up.
"They're trying to move prominent
members of the gay community out of
the administration, and replace themwith less outspoken, weaker connections to the community,· the source said.
According to O'Connor, he andTaylor have never received a negative
job evaluation, or a warning about
their work performance from theirsuperiors. Taylor recently negotiated a
one half million dollar AIDS-relatedcompassion ad campaign for which
she arranged all the work to be done
for free. The two were also responsible for compiling the Lesbian and Gay

Documentation
Project that was
instrumental in persuading the City
Council to pass the gay and lesbianrights bill in 1986.
"If the two top in the best functioning division in the commission
were fired, the implication is that
there is gross misconduct,·
said
another source close to the AIDS unit,
noting that no conduct charges had
ever been levelled.
Taylor, in turn, charges Acostawith ineptitude. "You don't need any
examples of mismanagement, you justneed to look at how this situation was
handled,· she said.
Acosta, Brandon, Pierce and Tucker all deferred comment to commission
spokesperson
Lonnie Soury, whocalled the decision to reconsider "apositive move.· Soury could not say
what charges were behind the decision
to fire Taylor and demote O'Connor,
but his tone was obviously conciliatory.
"There's probably truth on bothsides of the issue,· he said. It's a difficult and unfortunate
situation foreveryone, and we all hope it can be
resolved
amicably.·
He deniedcharges of homophobia.

Review Pinel Created
As a result of Wednesday'S meet-ing a panel of five commissioners
were appointed to review the case.
Taylor and O'Connor are scheduled tomeet with them on Monday, October
20. Their decision will be made within two weeks, although the final decision rests with Brandon.
Commissioner Marie Wilson, whois the executive director of the Ms.
Foundation for Women, and a member of the review panel, told OutWeek that she is ·very optimistic
about the panel, because it's com~posed of very active and involved
commissioners. We're going to do areal thorough review of the facts.
The other members of the review
panel, all Human Rights Commissioners appointed
by Mayor Edward
Koch, are Burt Neuborne, a professor
at New York University Law School,
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ACT UP Alleges Assault by

Top Giuliani Aide
DA Stymies Attempt to File Charges
by Ben Currie
NEW YORK-Membersof ACT
UP ran into some legal snags thisweek in their attempt to file criminal
charges against Republican/Liberalmayoral candidate Rudolph Giuliani's
infamous right-wing media advisor
Roger Ailes.
The assault and harassment
charges stem from a violent incident
which took place at last Monday'S
Liberal Party Dinner, where a groupof six ACT UP protesters were reportedly set upon by "an angry mob ofGiuliani supporters.
On Thursday, accompanied by
ACT UP lawyer Stuart Weinstein,
threemembersof ACT UP
appeared
before a criminal court
judge, requesting a summons forcing Ailes to appear in court toanswer the charges.
W

The judge, however, declined toissue the summons, referring the matter to the District Attorney's office.
Later, without counsel, the ACT
UPers spoke for two hours with Assistant District Attorney Owen Carragher,
who told them it would be at least
three weeks before he could act on
the matter.
The ACT UP members wereconcerned that a delay in proceeding on the case would allow Ailes toleave the jurisdiction, but several
lawyers interviewed
by OutWeek
said that the D.A:s time frame was
not unusual and did not represent
delay tactics.
ACT UP members said they
intend to proceed with filing thecharges against Ailes though there isno telling when, if ever, Ailes will
actually be· forced to appear in court.

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Photo: Bill Bytsura
to OutWeek's B,n Curri, .t W,dnes-

The tumult began soon after ACT
UPers snuck into the main ballroomof the Sheraton Center Hotel andbegan the chant "Racist, sexist, antigay ...Rudy for mayor...no way.w
During the ensuing scuffle,
eyewitnesses
and news accounts
allege, Mr. Ailes grabbed ACT UP
memberKevin Otterson
frombehind, gripping
him in a tightstranglehold.
Ottersonfurther
alleges that Ailes used his free
hand to choke off his air supply
and that he was only able to breath
freely when Ailes let go five or ten
seconds later.
Examined Tuesday by a doctor at St. Vincent's hospital,hewas diagnosed with "post concussive syndrome
and muscle trauma to theneck.
AlthoughOtterson has yet to undergo recommended
neurologicaltests, hetold OutWeek that his doctor
expects him to fully recover.
The intention to file the criminal
charges was announced at a press
conference Wednesday, where ACT
UP members demanded that Giuliani
publicly apologize for the violence
and name-calling and force his campaign workers who were involved tocome forward.
Contradicting ACT UPers' claims
and an account in last Tuesday's
Daily News, Carl Grillo, the Executive
Director of the New York State liberal Party, vehemently denied that thescene was a violent one and that Mr.
Ailes was prominently involved.
"That young man was never
anywhere near Mr. Ailes,w he said ofOtterson, quickly blaming the publicity over the matter on pure partisanship. "This is a cheap political stuntby supporters of David Dinkins,» hesaid. Asked if he thought the Dinkins
campaign was behind the incident,
he immediately demurred, sayingthat he was sure it was Dinkins supporters acting "independently."
But Kevin Otterson and his ACf
UP compatriots tell a wholly different
story.
According to them, as soon as
their chant went up, at least 30 Giuliani supporters
descendeduponthem yelling anti-gay epithets andpushing and shoving them from theballroom.
Ira Manhoff recalls hearing one
angry man yell "You filthy faggots,· ashe was shoved abruptly from thepacked room of Liberal Party regulars
and Giuliani supporters.
As soon as the group had beencorralled into the hallway outside theballroom, one eyewitness claims, Ailes
appeared and began shouting "No
Cameras, No Cameras,· as it became
evident that the violence was escalating.
Meanwhile, Otterson, who had
previously been ejected, was making
his way back towards the doors to theballroom. It was then, according toseveral witnesses, that Ailes ran up
behind him, snatched him around theneck, and began moving him towards
the top of the long staircase at theend of the hall.
"He choked me just long enoughfor me to realize I couldn't breath,·
Otterson says.
Asked if the man who grabbed
him said anything to him, Otterson
responded that Ailes said into his ear,"You little motherfucker.·
Manhoff says he saw Ailes pushing Otterson towards the top of thestaircase "as if he was going to pushhim down the stairs." "That's when I
got frightened and started to grab on
his [Ailes's) arm,· he said.
Otterson says he has no doubts
the man who attacked him was Ailes.
He identified Ailes a day later from a
photograph in Newsday.
Repeated attempts to elicit formal responses to the incident fromthe Dinkins and Giuliani campaigns
were unsuccessful as of press time.
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firm
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"Yes. I'm a lesbian. It's part of what motivates me
to be a revolutionary. "Lesbian Political Prisoners
by Susie Day"Gay People have no stake in asystem that is racist and sexist andthat impoverishes some sectors of thissociety in orderto enrich others ... I
don't think that we will ever be liberated under this system. We may havea few more rights, but we'll never win
our liberation as human beings without some kind of real revolutionarychanges."
Shortly after she began to makethese realizationsin the late 60s,
Laura Whitehorn
was a Chicago
housewife. She came out as a lesbianat about the same time that the Blackliberation struggle and the anti-Vietnam War movement had convinced
her that nothing short of revolution
would guarantee human equality.
And, for over 20 years, Whitehorn
was an activist in women's communities and Black and Puerto Rican
movements. In 1985 she was arrested
for weapons possession.
In her statement to the court,
Whitehorn declared that she lived by"revolutionary and human principles."Those words, said the judge, werereason enough to hold her indefinitely in preventive detention, under the
Bail Reform Act of 1984. Four and ahalf years later, Whitehorn, at 44,
remains in prison without bail. She
has yet to be tried on the charges forwhich she was arrested. During her
years of Incarceration, she has beenplaced in 11 different jails and prisons, allegedly for security reasons.
After she was moved to the Federal
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California, Whitehorn was reunited
with her friend, Linda Evans.
Evans, the daughter of an industrial contractor and a schoolteacher,
had lived all her life in the Midwest,
and had come to Chicago in the late
60s to enter college. She met LauraWhitehorn in the SDS, and has been alesbian activist ever since. Twenty
years later, she smiles and declares:"Yes. I'm a lesbian. I'm proud of it....
It's part of what motivates me to be arevolutionary. "Linda Evans has spent her life asa community organizer. She organizedso well against
racism in lesbian, Chicano
and
Black
communities,
in fact, that the Ku Klux Klan put her
on its death list. Evans bought four
handguns to protect herself. She wasarrested in 1985 for weapons possession, and sentenced by the state ofLouisiana to 40 years in prison formaking false statements to purchasethese guns. At the age of 42, Linda
Evans is serving a reduced sentenceof 35 years. "The thing that's interesting about the Louisiana case," she.says, "is that it's the same jurisdiction
where the Ku Klux Klan tried tomount an invasion of Dominica, aBlack island in the Caribbean in 1981Don Black had ten other men with
him; he had almost a million dollars
in cash; they had a bOat full of illegal
weapons, machine guns and stuff. ...
And he received a total sentence of
three years and was out in 24
months."Laura Whitehorn and Linda Evans.are two of an estimated 200 progressive and leftist political prisoners In
the United States. Held indefinitely
without bail, convicted on exaggerat-

ed, if not false, charges, sentenced tomany more years in prison than rightwing defendants, these prisoners areinvisible to the general public. Their
numbers include a range of activists,from New Afrikan and Puerto Rican
nationalists who identify as "prisonersof war" and support armed struggle,
to sanctuary workers and anti-nuclear
protestors,
who have received as
many as 18 years in prison for theirnonviolent opposition to government
policies. The gay and lesbian movement, increasingly radicalized by government indifference to the AIDS
crisis, is becoming moreawareofthese prisoners. In doing
so, lesbians· and gay men havebegun to ask: What makes these people so threatening to our government?
What does it mean to us and our
movement that these prisoners exist?
Whitehorn and Evans are now in
the Detention Facility in Washington,
D.C They await trial there with fourother politicalprisoners-Susan
Rosenberg, Marilyn Buck, Alan Berkman and Tim Blunk-for
the 1983
bombing of the U.S. Capitol Building
and three other government sites inthe D.C. area. The bombings, protesting the invasion of Grenada and otheracts of U.S. foreign aggression, damaged property but injured no one.
The defendants-who
face up to 45
years in prison, if convicted-express
support for the bombings, but maintain that they did not carry them out.
The government, moreover, admits
that it does not know who committed
the bombings and that it has neither
evidence or witnesses to prove thatany of the accused were directly
involved.

FIGHTING INVISIBILITY

Yet the Resistance Conspiracy
trial, as the defendants call it, promises to be one of the most politicallyvindictive
eventsin decades.
Although the trial will probably nottake place until early 1990, the government has already installed a bulletproof plexiglass wall to separate
defendants from the rest of the courtroom. Special video monitors havealso been positioned to observe spectators and the defense table, but not
the prosecution.
These courtroom
security
measures-which
legalexperts say will intimidate spectatorsand make an impartial jury trial
impossible-arevirtually unprecedented in U.S. judicial history. They
were noticeably absent when Oliver
North was tried last spring, in thesame courthouse.
North, who admitted having
helped engineer the illegal drug andweapons sales that killed thousands ofCentral Americans, was never held in
any form of preventive detention, andwas not sentenced to any term inprison. "So the whole case is political," concludes Nkechi Taifa, attorney
for Laura Whitehorn, adding "Thewhole pre-trial detention is political.
And the government should not beallowed to use the criminal justice system to suppress political opposition:
The indictment,
if successful
against these defendants, may help set
precedents in suppressing politicalactivism. Because the government has
no direct evidence to convict the six, it
has charged them with aiding andabetting, and with conspiracy to "influence, change and protest policies andpractices of the U.S. government...through the use of violent and illegalmeans: These are ingeniously broad
charges,' which could, in the future, bebrought against an increasing numberof protestors, whose dissent is labelled"violent" or "illegal" by the government. And though it may not be used
immediately against actions like sit-ins
and blockades, it could well discourage them from happening. ''1bey wantto make sure that they can determine
the boundaries of our activity at every
point," says Linda Evans.
Conspiracy and aiding and abetting charges are traditionally easy toprove. Once a jury is convinced that

defendants hold thensame political sympathies, convictions
can be obtained
through mere circumstantial
evidence. The prosecution in this casewill use the defendants' own political
writings and personal
letters-at
Lt
exempt here fromFirst Amendment
protection-to
establish that thesix have all known
each
other
and
oppose government
policies.
A jurymight, therefore,
have no trouble
finding a "conspiracy," given such evidence as Evans' andWhitehorn's lifelong
friendship and thefact that both were
underground at thetime of their arrests.
"Linda and I have
known each otherlonger than anyone
else in this case,'
Laura Whitehorn
says. "I'm proud of
that. And so, someof our proudest his- -REAL REVOWTIONARY CHANGES·
tory is what they're Laura Whitehorn
Photo: JEB (Joan E. Biren) © 1988
going to bring against us."
torture and kill people. And I just feelGoing underground,leaving
like it's the height of self-deception tofriends and lovers perhaps forever,think that we can draw lines about
was a difficult decision for Whitehorn
what we will and will not do to stopand Evans. But as their activism grew,that kind ofthing:including Whitehorn's support work
Their years of support not only
for the Black Panther Party, so didfor the rights of lesbians and gays, but
FBI surveillance. When Panther leader
also for Black and Puerto Rican
Fred Hampton was murdered, Whitenationalist gro:ups, made them phehorn thought very hard about what
nomenally threatening to the govemMalcolm X had said before he wasmenL Eventually, Whitehorn andkilled. ''I'll never forget the picture ofEvans decided, they could be freer tothe Chicago police carrying [Hampdo their politicalwork if they
ton's) body out on a stretcher anddropped out of the public movement.
grinning .... And it was proven that not
Observes Linda Evans, "If we reallya single shot had been fired fromwant to change the power structure, I
inside the apartment. It was a comthink there's going to have to be aplete assassination of thiS man .... We
revolutionary movement in this counall pretend that it doesn't happen
try. But, in order to build it, we havehere. But they do things that actually
to build the capability that's not com-

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TI"We comeout of a sector of
the anti-imperialist movement thatwas dominatedby women andlesbians,"
says
Laura Whitehorn,"and I think thegovernmentisvery well awareof that. And that's
why one of thethings that we'veseen in the last,
few years was
the developmentof the Lexington
High
Security
Unit, to deal withwomen politicalprisoners."
The Lexington High Security
Unit was opened
in 1986 and with"WE HAVE TO AGHT BACKin
monthslind. Ev.n.
Photo: JEB (Joan E. Biren) © 1988 became infamous
for its isolation
pletely infiltrated and controlled by and sensory deprivation measures
the government,
the FBI.. That
used to subdue women whom theapplies not only to the AIDS moveBureau of Prisons deemed "assaulment, but to all the solidarity movetive" or "escape prone." Yet thements.u It's just not enough to believe
women assigned to the Unit-politicalthat we're going to be able to win
prisoners Susan Rosenberg, Silvia
change through the legislatures."
Baraldini and Puerto Rican "prisoner
Although they have lived in dif- of war" Alejandrina Torres-had
ferent parts of the country, Evans andnever been convicted of injuring orWhitehorn always rem,ained close,
assaulting another person. Nor had
always supported one another in a any of them presented behavioral
variety of political work. So, while
problems while in prison. Finally, in
Linda Evans was living in a women's
1988, after an international campaign
commune in Arkansas, fighting develthat included the efforts of Puerto
opers who were clearing the land with Rican groups, women's communities,
Agent Orange, Laura Whitehorn was
church organizations and Amnesty
in Boston, taking over the Harvard
International, the Lexington HSU was
Building with a group of anti-imperialclosed by court decree as a violation
ist women-an
action that led to the of the prisoners' First Amendment
founding of the Boston/Cambridge
right to political freedom.
Women's School. And while WhiteThe closing of Lexington ishorn was helping to defend Blackknown to many activists. What is not
homes during the anti-busing violence
yet known is the fact that the governin Boston in the mid-70s, Evans wasment appealed the closing, and onteaching women to print in a press
September 8, 1989, won its appeal.
collective in Texas. While Evans was
Implications for every political prisonstruggling against the Texas Neo-Nazis er in this country are devastating,and the Klan, Whitehorn was organiz"Now," says Linda Evans, "the Bureau
ing the Madame Binh Graphics Collec- of Prisons has absolute license to put
tive in New York City.
us in any conditions that it wants to,

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based solely on our past political affIliations and beliefs."
Although the government may
not reopen the Lexington HSU, it has
begun to create conditions in the
Shawnee Unit for women in Marianna,
Florida, that duplicate if not intensify,
those of Lexington. Already, continues
Evans, "They have installed television
sets in the cells, which means they
can lock us down and say that we're
having social interaction via television,
instead of via human beings.""Lock down" is a form of solitaryconfinement familiar to political prisoners. People in lock down are cagedin tiny, often parasite-infested cells for
23 hours each day. They are allowed
out, in handcuffs and leg shackles, for
one hour to shower and make phone
calls. If Evans, Whitehorn,
Susan
Rosenberg and Marilyn Buck are convicted of the D.C. bombings, say
defense attorneys, they will undoubtedly be sent to Marianna. Their codefendants Alan Berkman and Tim
Blunk will be sent to the Marion
Prison for men in Illinois, which isunder permanent lock down.
Tough new "anti-crime" campaigns are making an open secret ofthe fact that U.S. prisons are used todispose of unwanted sectors of society. In April 1989, the Justice Department reported that there was a totalof 627,402 men and women in U.S.
prisons. This is the largest prison population of any country in the world
and, in less than five years, it isexpected to rise to well over one million. Most U.S. prisoners are peopleof color, who, outside prison, represent "minority" populations. The rateof Black imprisonment alone is twicethat of South Africa. "What I see inthis jail," says Laura Whitehorn, "andin every jail I've been in, is genocide
against Black people, and I think it'sworse than it ever was."Given our society'S dependence
on prisons, it is in the interest of thesocial "order" to strip prisoners of any
form of self-respect. Women are continually under threat of sexual attackby male guards, and frequently rapedwith speculums or hands by prison
officials in search of "contraband."Male prisoners are often beaten when
they refuse to obey an order. Prison-ers of both sexes are routinely subjected to humiliating-and
unnecessary- strip searches. "Sexuality is notpossible in prison," says Laura Whitehorn. "Sex is, but sexuality as a creative form of human expressionforget it. Certainly not under these
conditions. "Yet in filthy, overcrowded u.s.
prisons, lesbian and gay prisoners still
attempt to love each other. They must
literally risk their lives to have sexual
relationships, since prisons have categorically refused to give out condoms
or materials on safer sex. "They canbust you at any point,' says Linda
Evans. "Because sex is illegal inprison. And so you can be punishedfor having loving relationships, eventhough that clearly is one of the mostrehabilitative things that can happen
to someone.'
Obviously, the primary purposeof u.s. prisons is not rehabilitation.
While heterosexual prisoners in thegeneral population
may at times
receive conjugal visits from theirspouses, gay prisoners cannot evenafford to acknowledge that they havelovers on the outside. Recently, reportWhitehorn and Evans, a male priSoner's lover of three and a half years wasstricken from the visiting list after

authorities discovered that the prisoner was gay.
Suspectedofbeing gay or of IV
drug use, prisoners in some states
are tested against
their will for HIV,the virus associated with AIDS,
although treatment
is rarely available.
Once discovered
to carry it, they
are subjected toenormous abuse
and contempt
Whitehorn and Evans knew thatthey were taking a great risk in coming out as lesbians in prison. They
realized they would open themselves
up to the same kind of danger andhumiliation that gay people face dailyon the street; only in prison, the danger
would
be constantandinescapable. But coming out, theydecided, was something they could
do to continue to resist And being
open about their sexuality at times
connects
them solidly with thewomen around them. "I'm not saying
this is Sisterhood City," remarks Laura

Photo: Diane Nelson/PClVWhitehorn, "but I find that there's
something about talking to women
about why I'm a lesbian, which has a
lot to do with my own feelings oflove for women and affirming thatlove, that come back positively:
Their defense attorneys see the"conspiracy' as the governments', nottheir clients'. If everythinggoes
according to government plans, theysay, Laura Whitehorn, Linda Evansand their codefendants
will die inprison. They will be known, if they
are known at all by the general public, as "terrorists,' with a bizarre taste
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Gay Santa Croz Hit Hard
By Quake
Bay Area Digs Out; Gay Groups Lead Relief Effort,--

ON THE STREET WHERE YOU UVESF'S Marina District. Santa Cruz was damaged much more extensively

by Lazaro HernandezWith each aftershock comes thereminder of the possibility of one
powerful enough to do further damage. Trying to put memories of thelargest quake since 1906 behind them,
the lesbian and gay communities of
the Bay Area face many challenges intheir struggle to return to normalcy.
A plea for help has gone out

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from Santa Cruz, one of the hardest
hit cities due to its proximity to theearthquake'S epicenter. The estimatedcitywide damage of $83 million has
effected major setbacks to businesses,organizations and publications that
support and service and gay and lesbian community"Things are really a mess here,·
said Wendy Chapkis, a writer and local

Photo: DarieneIPhoto Graphics
feminist. "A lot of businesses havebeen shut down, so many people areout of work. It is estimated that 6,000
people in the county are homeless.
Last Friday the only gay bar that was
open was just packed with people. I
heard stories of people sleeping on afriend's floor. A lot of people are
putting together new lives.·
The Lesbian and Gay Film Festi-

The adverval was underway when the earthtising revenues
quake struck. "That, of course, has
are expected tobeen cancelled,· Chapkis said. "It was
dwindleforintended as a major fundraiser for thebothMatrixSanta Cruz AIDS Project. But how canand the lavenwe ask for financial support from the
der Reader, a
local businesses when most are shutquarterlygaydown, at least temporarily.
andlesbian"The gay and lesbian community
journal.
"The
got together to contact friends from
Readerhas
around the country under the Lesbian
beenaroundand Gay Action Alliance. We particularly need financial help.·
for three years
under the ausAccording to)o Kenny, executive
pices of thedirector of the Santa Cruz AIDS ProLesbian
andject, the one-story building which. Photo: Rink"~
Gay
Action YES ON S...NEXT WEEK
houses the organization only suffered
From dom"tic partnelShip to quake relief in 15.econd.
Alliance,·minor cracks. "It shook us all up, but
Kenny said. "It
we suffered no major damage,· she
impact the gay and lesbian communirelies a lot on advertising. Now that
added. "We have some individualty as directly and devastatingly.as inclients that have been displaced. The . the businesses have been hurt, they
Santa Cruz. The stories coming' fromwon't be advertising for a while.·
biggest impact for us has been organithese communities are of quick andAlmost all of Santa Cruz's downzationally. We basically need financial
effective use of service organizations,
support for our day to day needs. We town business district is in ruins. 250
with no mention of major damage tobusinesses are shut and 2,000 people
would also appreciate receiving congay and lesbian businesses.
doms, office supplies and such items are out of work.
One of the agencies being lauded
The situation in San Francisco
to offset our costs.
for its efforts in the aftermath of theand nearby cities is not nearly as"We need to raise $10,000 before
SH SANTA CRUZon page 45
the end of the year to meet our budget,.
grim. The pockets of damage did not
Kenny said "We are hoping that people
from outside can lend us a hand..
SCAP offers both client services
and community education. The client
services are free and include trained
buddies, a Pets are Wonderful support
program, legal referral and information, individual counseling and support groups for clients, their partners
and family members. Community education services include a speaker's
bureau, a gay and bisexual street outreach program to promote safer sex,
and providing bleach and condoms to
intravenous drug users.
The earthquake dealt a devastating blow to Santa Cruz area publication. "Ai the local women's monthly
paper Matrix, the office with thecomputers, files, etc., is under rubble,· Chapkis said. "Unless we getsome help, the paper will have problems bouncing back. Matrix has beenaround for many years but last year it
stopped publishing. They had juststarted publishing again, two issues
had come our before the earthquake.
They had done a lot of work fundraising for computers and office spaceand now this."November 5. 1989

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FEE RE FO FAUCI
Photo: lL Litt
L to R: Mark Hartington, Larry Kramer, Simon Watney, Suzanne Philips, Peggy Hamburg (special assistant to) Anthony Fauci.

NIAID's Fauci Attends

ACTUPForumby Jon Nalley
NEW YORK-Making history yetagain, ACf UP/New York began a
new era in AIDS activist/government
relations when its request to meetwith a high federal AIDS official on
the group's own turf was accepted.
Called "a working confrontation,"by moderator Richard Elovich, ACf
UP's Treatment and Data Committee(T&D) welcomed National Institute ofAllergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci to the Lesbianand Gay Community Services Centeron October 19.
Run according to an agenda set
by T&D, the audience was allowed to
ask Fauci a battery of questions relat-

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ing to HIV disease progression andtreatment, community-based drug trials and allegations of homophobia in
relation to Community Research Initiative funding.
Fauci is concernedwith theplateauing of AIDS funding in thewake of Gramm-Rudman initiatives tolower the federal deficit. "It will certainly take a chunk out of AIDS [funding)... and I'm getting a lot of toughquestions" on the amount of resources
going to AIDS versus the magnitude of
the problem. He warned that the proposed broadening of research may
face rough fiscal going.
.
Fauci agreed with activists about
the need to "talk about the spectrumof HIV disease" as opposed to the current Centers for Disease Control definitions of AIDS and ARC Yet David
Barr of Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund pointed out the difficultyof changing those definitions due toissues of resource allocation for funding and disability determination.

Women And AIDS
Several questions
related to
women and AIDS, When Fauci statedthat major differences in opportunistic
infections between men and women
were scientifically unlikely, a memberof ACT UP's Women's Caucus disagreed. She contended that manys.. FAUCI on pig. 29

NewsPaying for Apples and Oranges

Bush's Abortion Veto and
the AIDS Budget
by Cliff O'Neill
WASHINGTON-Abortion is oneof the hottest political questions facing the nation today, and recent
developments on the issue in Washington have just thrown the nation's
prcx:hoice lawmakers into a game of"chicken- with the White House.
Both sides of the debate arelocked in fierce battle using voter
polls, parliamentary procedure andpreserved fetuses as weapons. At thecenter of the current federal skirmish

NEWS ANALYSISAt this point, Congress has several
options. Both chambers could confer
and agree to back down from their
now-bolstered pro-choice stand in order
to appease the president, and pass thebill without the abortion provisions.
What is more likely is that thepolitical game will intensify, andCongress will seek to force Bush's
hand into signing the bill in someform, abortion funding and all.
The most realistic scenarios arethat Congress will either attach theentire legislation to another bill, thatthe president would be unable toveto, or drop it into a stopgap fund-ing measure which Bush would haveto sign by Nov. 15, when the current
stopgap measure runs out, or risk
bringing major portions of the government to a screeching halt.
In· the meanwhile, new funding
levels for the nation's fight against
AIDS are left in the lurch until the bill,or the stopgap funding mechanism, issigned into law.
One provision of the bill being
held up by the White House's abortion fight with Congress is a $30 million appropriation from the Senate toprovide treatment
drugs to lows.. VETO OD .... _ 31

NEW YORK
are three funding bills, two of which
TRAPPEDUNDERGROUND
have
directbearingonthelesbian/gay and AIDS communities.
And until the dust settles on the abortion battleground, several new AIDS
funding programs will have to wait.
On October 21, President George
Bush made good on his threat to veto
the massive Labor, Health and Human
Services appropriations bill because it
contained
Medicaid funds which
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approves of abortions in all three t.
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Days later, on Oct. 25, the US.
Wednesday, November 1 • Eric Gordon· Mark the MusicHouse summoned up its broadest
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majority yet on abortion rights by votwith
ing 231-191 to pass the bill over theRandall Kenan· A Visitation of Spirits
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Pentagon Blasts Its Own
Report On Homosexuality
Paper Urged Military to End Ban on Lesbians, Gay Men
by Cliff O'Neill
WASHINGTON-After
heatedpressurefrom gay and lesbianactivists and members of Congress, aten-month old unclassified report has
surfaced which urges the Departmentof Defense to eliminate its ban on
lesbians and gay men in the military.
The report, which had been suppressed, was commissioned by thePentagon and, in memos made public at the same time, was roundly
criticizedby the Department
ofDefense as wasteful, inappropriate
and excessive.
In Pentagon memos obtained by
Out Week,
DeputyUndersecretaryof
Defense Craig Alderman, Jr. disparaged thereport, calling it "technically flawed.· Statingthat the report was. intended
only to reexamine
personnel
security risks in the military, he argued that it
was a waste of government resources, overstepped its mandate andopened the department
in charge to widespread criticism.
"We...believe you missed the target,· Alderman wrote in one January
memo. "Moreover, you exceeded yourauthority by extending the research
effort beyond the personnel security
arena, and into another area entirely,
namely suitability for military service."
The report, titled, "Nonconforming 'Sexual Orientations and Military
Suitability,· was commissioned by the
Department of Defense in the wakeof the 1987 Walker spy incident, andwas to examine the limited issue of
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risks. Written by the Defense Department's Personnel Security Researchand Education Center CPERSEREC),the report has been sent back to its
authors to be redone.
PERSEREC'sDr. Theodore Sarbin,
one of the report's two authors, hasstated that while he is now working
on a "sanitized" report which will belimited to the security personnel
issue, it will reach the same conclusion as in the initial report, thathomosexuals pose no greater security
risk than heterosexuals.
Reps. Gerry E. Studds CD-MA)and Pat Schroeder CD-CO) met withdeputy undersecretary
Aldermanand report co-author Sarbin on Oct.
18 to discuss the report and accompanying Pentagon memos which
had been obtained over the Pentagon's objections.
Studds told OutWeek that, at theonset of the meeting, he made Alderman aware that he had independently
obtained a copy of the report so as
Alderman would not "put his foot in
his mouth" during the meeting.
"I think it is a superb piece ofwork from an academic and scholarly
point of view," Studds stated. "Itclearly and calmly and rationallyaddresses a question which needs
addressing both from the perspectiveof gay men and lesbians who would
appreciate the right to serve theircountry if they choose, and from theperspective of their country whichvery much needs their services.... For
onewonderfully
embarrassing
moment, the Pentagon was caught
with its prejudices down."
Studds, one of two openly gay
members of Congress, began pressuring the Pentagon to make a copy of
the report available six months ago
after staffers at the Lambda Legal
Defense and Education Fund first becameaware of the report's
existence. While conducting research on
the case of Joseph
Steffan, a gay man
who claims he wasforced to resign fromthe us. Naval Academy after he acknowledged he was gay,
Lambda came acrossthe cover page of thereport, but was denied
a copy of the entire document.
"Thanks to the efforts of Congressman's Studds' office, it is now
patently obvious that the military's
policy of discrimination is the productof prejudice, pure and simple," statedLambda staff attorney Sandra Lowein a prepared statement.
Gay and lesbian lobbyists, who
had been aware of Studds' effort tounearth the report, were not surprisedby the Pentagon's reaction.
But Peri Jude Radecic, lobbyist
for the National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force, was "stunned" by the compre-

hensiveness of the 66-page document.
"This report reads like a primer for[NGLTF's] Creating Change Conference," she said. "It essentially supports what we've been saying all
along: that homosexuality does notaffect job performance and that the
military should rescind its [anti-gay]policy. The Task Force couldn't havewritten it better. No wonder theyburied it."In one section, the report speaks
specifically to the issue of homophobia, stating, "The unreasoned resistance to learning about or interactingwith homosexuals has led to the formulation of the concept of homophobia. Some men experience uneasy
feelings when in close proximity toother men who are identified ashomosexuals. It is as if such a nearness could pollute one's identity.·
The report also examines judicial
trends, discusses the latest available
scientific data on homosexuality anddenounces the religious condemnations of homosexuality as being similar to the historical biblical arguments
against allowing Blacks and women
into the military. It concluded that the
military would do best to pull backfrom their stance that homosexuality
is "incompatible with military service"
before it is forced to do so by the
courts or by Congress.
Although the PERSEREC report
was to have been an objective analysis of the issue of homosexuality as
it pertains to personnel
security,
Pentagon memos obtained by OutWeek suggest that early in thereport's compilation, the Pentagon
sought to purge the report of at least
some aspectsof which it had
become aware.
One memo from PERSEREC
director Carlson K. Eoyang to undersecretary A1dennan, dated January 30,
1989, which outlined the chronologyof the report's compilation, cast more
light on the p'entagon's direction of
the research team.
The memo stated that on October 26, 1987, the undersecretary's
office expressed concern that thereport was "somewhat off the target"
and advised against "comparisons ofhomosexual [sic.] and heterosexuals
with regard to job perfonnance" andthe use of any information from the"American Psychological Association,or adherents to its general approachconcerning homosexuality.". The American Psychological
Association maintains that homosexuality is merely a variant of human sexual behavior and not a sickness.
The memo· later reveals that thereport's authors then worried thatthey were being asked to reach a"predeterminedconclusion." They
were assured that they were not, butwete told by Alderman that all "materials should bear on the subject,· thatbeing, "homosexuals' trustworthiness,reliability or vulnerability to blackmail.""The underlying purpose for asking the question should not be invalidated because the results turn out tobe problematic from a policy perspective,· stated the memo in defense of
the report. "Although we recognized
the inconsistencies between the implications of the study and current DOD
policy, the draft report was forwarded
to [the office of the Secretary of
Defense] for review and comment, inthe hope that a frank and quiet examination of the issues could be conducted within our immediate chain ofcommand.· Eoyang also assured theundersecretary that he would maintain the "tightest controls" on theavailability of copies of the report.
Studds stated that the Pentagon
never officially made the report available to him, other members ofCongress or even one reporter utilizing the provisions of the Freedom ofInformation
Act, but instead hereceived the report from an unknown
source in the Department of Defense.
"Apparently
we have somevery helpful sources in this department that provide us with these little treats," Studds added. "Godknows what else we haven't seen
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The lovethat dare
not speak
CHICAGO-The
full 7th Circuit
Court of Appeals denied on Oct. 11 a
motion to hear the case of Sgt. Miriam
Ben-Shalom, a lesbian soldier who ischallegning the military's ban on lesbians and gay men. A new motion
has been filed with the U.S. Supreme
Court.
Ben-Shalom has charged that the
Army's efforts to dismiss her violate
her First Amendment rights to freespeech, by penalizing her for her declaration that she is a lesbian. On Aug.
7, however, a three judge panel of the
7th Circuit Court rejected that argument, ruling that, by her declaration,
Ben-Shalom identified herself as partof a group which engaged in "criminal" activity.

MIRIAM BEN-SHALOM
Photo: Tracy Bairn/Outlines"If I had lied through my teeth I
would still be in [the army)," BenShalom said. "Because I refused to lie,
and because I have since defended
gay and lesbian civil liberties, I am
barred from serving. If that isn't a violation of free speech, I don't knowwhat is,· she added.
Department of Defense adminis-

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trative policy declares that homosexuals are ·unfir for military service, andthat homosexuality is "imcompatible
with military service.·
The Pentagon recently released a
study conducted by its own Defense
Personnel Security Research and Education Center entitled "Nonconforming Sexual Orientation and Military
Suitability,· which condemns the military's discriminatory policies against
gays. The report was first repressed,
and is now being rejected,
byDefense Department officials.
In a further ironic twist, BenShalom was recently nominated "Soldier of the Year" of the 84th Divisionby her battalion, and her superior
officers have put her name in for a
promotion.
- Cliff O'NeJll and Andrew Miller

SurgeonSpecific
WAHINGTON-The White Houseannounced Oct. 17 that it has chosen
Antonia Novello, a Latina pediatrician
from the National Institutes of Health,as the nation's first woman to holdthe role of Surgeon General.
Novello, currently the deputy
director of the National Institute ofChild Health and Human Development (NICHHD), gained her greatest
notice for her work on developing a
1988 report on pediatric AIDS for the
Department of Health and Human
Services.
"The [pediatric AIDS) report she
was chiefly responsible foru.is a landmark report in addressing
thoseissues," stated Bill Bailey, AIDS lobbyist for the American Psychological
Association. "It shows an extraordinary level of sensitivity that the gay
and lesbian community in its concerns around AIDS can take great
deal of comfort from:Novello has gained points withAIDS activists for her support of acontroversial federal survey into thesexual practices of Americans, intend-

ed to gauge the spread of HIV. But
she also shares George Bush's opposition to abortion in nearly all cases.
Novello's appointment, which is
expected to be· approved quickly,
without controversy, will fill the officevacated by C. Everett Koop, a Reagan
appointee who surprised AIDS advocates with sensible, gay-sensitive
stances on AIDS.
-Cliff O'NeJll

Pride yes,
Coors noVANCOUVER-The International
Association of Lesbian/Gay Pride
Coordinators OALGPC)held its annual
conference here over the Columbus
Day weekend in Vancouver, British
Columbia and announced a slogan for
1990, "Look to the Future,· which will
be used by most of the member cities
to promote their activities, many ofwhich will take place in June 1990.
In the open session of the general membership IALGPC also affirmed
its ongoing commitment to the boycott of Coors products, while encouraging the ongoing dialogue between
Coors and the community,
andresolved to support abortion rights.
IALGPC also announcedthatplanning is underway for a majorinternational Lesbian/Gay Pride march
to be held in New York on Sunday,
June 26, 1994 to coincide with the25th anniversary of the Stonewall
riots.
For anyone wanting to organize a"Look to the Future" Pride event, theAssociation has established a new
information service. By calling (612)336-4111, IALGPC will connect you
with members across the U.S. andCanada who have expertise in planning marches, parades, festivals andrallies. Existing and forming groups
are invited to call the helpline forassistance and to request the free
newsletter and how-to sheets issued
by IALGPC.
IALGPC was founded in 1982 toOut Takes
strengthen and support Pride organizations across the country in theirefforts to plan Lesbian/Gay Pride celebrations. In 1985, the group became
internationalwith representations
from Canada, West Germany and theNetherlands, and currently has about
thirty member organizations. The next
conference will be held in Minneapolis/St. Paul in October 1990.
-Keith Mlller

Pettit, 23, was formerly an assistant editor at st. Martin's Press in New
York. She holds a B.A. in comparative
literature from Yale University, where
she was the coordinator of the Gay
and Lesbian Cooperative, and wasroughs Well come Company's large
exhibit at the American Public Health
Association's (APHA) 117th annual
meeting Oct. 24 in Chicago, tossing
vials of "blood" on the panels,
brochures and TV monitors and plas-

Sex·quake
WASHINGTON-A House ethics
panel Is currently
investigating
charges that several House members,
possbily including Rep. Barney Frank(D-MA), used the "members only·
House gymnasium for sexual encounters, Tbe Washington Times revealed
Oct. 20.
The conservative
newspaper
which broke the story of Frank's hiring prostitute and pimp Steven Gobie
as a private aide did not specificallycharge that Frank was among theHouse members, but did state thatFrank had brought "a number ofyoung men" into the gym in the past,and that he regularly had sex with
Gobie in the gym, including one
encounter on a locker belonging to. then-Vice President George Bush.
In a story with inch-high headlines upstaging the paper's coverageof the San Francisco earthquake,
Goble is quoted as saying, "Barney
had always wanted to do it on Bush's
locker" and he persuaded me to go
along with him. 'This kind of stuff
happens all the time,' he said."Frank's offICewas qUick to releasea terse, two-sentence statement refuting the allegations.
- Cliff O'Neill

PettitWeek
NEW YORK-Sarah Pettit joined
the staff of Out Week magazine on
October 23 in the newly-created position of arts editor, publisher Kendall
Morrison apnounced last week.

-,"Photo: Ellen R Neipris,-/

SARAH PETTIT
instrumental in persuading Yale toadd sexual orientation to the university's non-discrimination policy.
Born in Amsterdam, Pettit has
lived in Paris, Frankfurt, London,
Exeter, New Hampshire, Brooklyn
and currently lives in the West Village.
"My heart and soul are behind
supporting a gay paper for this city,which so desperately needs one rightnow,· Pettit said, "and OutWeek iswhere it's at.·
Pettit has been a regular contributor to Out Week since its inception,authoring articles on Operation Rescue, writer Pat Califja and lesbian
marriage, among others. She has also
published previously in the Advocate
and the Native.
-Andrew Miller

Burroughs
bashing
CHICAGO-Ten
members of
ACf UP/Chicago attacked the Bur-tering the display with stickers reading "AIDS PROFITEER·
Wellcome has exclusive U.S.
rights to produce the drug AZT,
which is the only approved substancefor fighting HIV, the virus scientists
believe causes AIDS. Despite a recent
20 percent price reduction, AZT still
costs eacb recipient about $6,500 per
year, making it the most expensive
pharmaceutical in history.
In a hand-out distributed during
the rowdy "zap," ACf UP called upon
the APHA "to pass a resOlutlon condemning AIDS profiteering by pharmaceutical companies, in 'particular
Burroughs Wellcome ... and LyphoMed.· Chicago-based LyphoMed produces the anti-pneumonia AIDS drug
pentamidine and, armed with a government monopoly, has raised its
price 400 percent since the mid-80s.
LyphoMed did. not have a booth at
the APHA gathering.
Convention-goers who observed
the ten-minute zap were overwhelmingly supportive of ACf UP's actions,cheering the group on and commenting to each other that the protesters'
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allegations were true.
A lone exception was E.]. Daigle,
production manager for Helena Laboratories in Beaumont, Texas, who,
mistaking this reporter for one of theprotesters said: "Are you a part ofthis? This is disgusting. You knowwhat AIDS stands for? AIDS-Infected
Dick-Suckers. Daigle's partner, Helena's Bruce
Coryell, added that if activists "reallywant to take the profit away fromBurroughs Wellcome, they should
practice a lqt of celibacy.Bailus Walker, Jr., past president
and spokesperson for the APHA, sa,id
his group was Unot in agreement withthe form of [ACT UP's) protest," butfelt the zap was "consistent with
APHA policy. Medical services, drugs,
surgical procedures,"
Walker said,"should be available at a price thateveryone can afford."
According to Walker, the APHA's
10,000 delegates would "seriously
consider any resolution to condemn
profiteering. That's what the APHA is
all about," he said.
Burroughs Wellcome officials at
the site had no comment on the zap.
The 20 percent reduction in the priceof AZT on Sept. 18 was widelybelieved to be a response to protests
by ACT UP/New York at the New
York Stock Exchange and at Wellcome corporate
headquartersin
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, although company officials denied
the connection.
-Rex Woc:kner

Back alleys= dUDlpsters

CHICAGO-Responding
to anational day of actions called for by
ACT NOW, a nationwide AIDS activist
network, ACT UP/Chicago and theEmergency Clinic Defense Coalition(ECDC) sponsored a demonstration
held Friday, October 6, 1989 in downtown Chicago to support gay and lesbian rights and reproductiv:e freedom.

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Photo: Steve Dalber
Using street theater as the centerpiece of the action, the demonstrators
reportedly chanted "back alleys arefor dumpsters, closets are for clothes!",
They then paraded a "freedom bed"
containing lesbian, gay and straightcouples making love as they lampooned the reactions of Senator Jesse
Helms, "ardent anti-choice, anti-gay"state legislator Penny Pullen, Pro-Life
Action League head Joseph Scheidler,
the Pope and the Supreme Court.
The purpose of the dramatic display was to decry the interference ofright-wing legislators in the lives of all
people, and to connect issues ofreproduction,
sexuality and AIDS,
according to ACT UP/Chicago members. "There are legal parallels
between AIDS and abortion rights,
particularly with the Hardwick andWebster Supreme Court decisions
which affect sexual and reproductive
privacy,"
said Carol Jonas,aspokeswoman for both ACT UP and
ECDC, in a telephone conversation
with OutWeek. "And our other parallel
demands include free and universal
health care and an end to racism andsexism."After the performance, participants marched downtown handingout condoms with messages attachedsuch as "put this on the penis of yourchoice" and "a fashion accessory that
goes great with nothing."-Keith Mlller

HRCF
wants you
NEW YORK-" All Part of the
Family" is the theme for the eighth
annual fund-raising dinner being heldby the Human Rights Campaign Fundon Sunday evening, November 5th in
the Grand Ballroom of the WaldorfAstoria, Park Avenue at 50th Street, todemonstratethat gay men andwomen, their life partners, friends,
loved ones and immediate family are
essential members of their own familyand "the American family." In keepingwith this belief, supporters are being
encouraged to attend with as manymembers of their family as possible.
Opening remarks at the dinner
will be made by Democratic Mayoral
Candidate David Dinkins. Honoreesof the evening will be recipients ofthis year's HumanitarianAwardsincluding Elie Wiesel and Parents andFriends of Lesbians and Gays (P-Flag)jVivian Shapiro, a major force behindthe establishment of the annual dinners, will also be honored.
Tickets to this year's black-tie
event are $250 and may be acquiredby contacting NexWave Management,
630 Ninth Avenue, Room 1408, New
York, NY 10036, or by calling (212)582-8714.
-Keith Mlller

FAUCI flo .. ,age Z2

HIV-positive women are reported
seriously ill or dying form such conditions as TB, encephalitis, yeast infections, cervical cancer and pelvic
inflammatory disease without everreceiving an AIDS diagnosis. The
NIAID director felt that perinatal andheterosexualtransmission
studieswould clarify the situation. However,
Fauci did acknowledge the importance of socioeconomic
factors interms of women with HIV disease.
Dr. Suzanne Philips also reported
such factors in her work in public hospitals with patients largely from lowerincome and minority communites.
"At first my AIDS patients diedvery quckly from PCP [pneumocystis
carinii pneumonia]."
Now, given
aerosolized pentamidine to prevent
PCP, she reports seeing increased levels of lymphoma, MAl and nervous
system disorders, and wondered why
research on treatment for MAl wasn't
receiving a higher priority. Frustrated
by "throwing drugs at" this wasting
condition,
Fauci felt that basic
research would have to be done on
the microorganism causing MAl.
T&D's Mark Harrington countered that known Iiposome-encapsulated agents did indeed show efficacy
in preventing MAl, and that a low priority had been given to its testing.
Fauci assured",those in the room that
research into opportunistic infections
would be given a higher priority.
Because the funding cycle is up,
NIAID has increased
leverage toencourage investigators to work in
the area, Fauci added.

AZT, PCP, ddl
The recent death, from PCP, of apatient in a ddl trial- because thephysiciandidn't feel it was his
responsibility to inform the patient of
PCP prophylaxis-wasbrought toFauci's attention. He called such an
incident inexcusable.
The NIAID
director told the group that he had
subsequently sent a memo altering
protocols to include aerosolized pentamidine prophylaxis.
"I don't think AZf alone is goingto hold people,· Fauci mentioned. Heagreed with activists that there was anover-representationin research of

nucleoside analogs such as AZT andddi. While these drugs block replication of HIV, Fauci said that wouldn't
be enough and that research would
have to be done on reconstituting theimmune system-possibly
by transplanting fetal cells.
In addition
to naming two
activists to the AIDS Clinical Drug
Development Committee-an
actionwhich
has reportedly
angeredreseachers--Fauci
also promised totake another look at the raw data on
peptide-T. If the NIAID director disagrees with that agent's medium designation, he'll raise it to a higher
priority. Awaiting approval by the
Secreatry of Health and Human Services and the president, T&D's Jim
Eigo was one of the people named
to the aforementioned
committee,
which meets three or four times per
year, and decides which drugs NIAID
will test.
Attempting
to apprisetheactivists of his situation, Fauci told
them that he was "not a politicain,"but had to "work in a situation where
politics and science overlap.· He
bemoaned the American public's notseeing AIDS as its problem and asserted that the AIDS pie was too small.
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Stonewall for a New Gene'ration
by Gerard Koskovich
hen I arrived at thestark gray Federal
Building for ACf UP
San Francisco's contribution
tothenational day of AIDS protest on October 6, I anticipated nothing more thana predictable late afternoon rally anda routine march across town. Instead,by the end of the evening, I had
joined hundreds of demonstrators andbystanders in defying a two-hour longpolice riot and military-style occupation in the largely gay Castro St.

Wneighborhood.
Mixed with calls of "Cops out of
the Castro" and "This is our street,"chants of protest made the historicalprecedents clear that Friday night.
"Stonewall was a riot," we shouted,
drawing courage from the example ofthe defiant street queens in Sheridan
Square in 1969. "Dan White was a
cop,· we raged, recalling a judicial
slap on the wrist for a homophobic
assassin and the resulting White Night
Riots in San Francisco in 1979.
The events of October 6 started
out mildly enough. After speeches,
street theater and the burning of
miniature
flags,
demonstrators

wrapped the gr:>nite columns of theFederal Building in yards of red plastic tape to symbolize governmental
stalling on the AIDS crisis. Federal
marshalls protecting the structure
made a half-hearted effort to remove
the tape, but I saw no attempt to
restrain the protestors.
Around 5 pm. we moved onto
the sidewalk for a march to the Castro
via City Hall and the U.S. Mint. Withinminutes, the San Francisco Police
Department (SFPD) had mounted ashow of force unprecedented for an
ACT UP demonstration: Officers invehicles and on foot lined up to prevent us from claiming a lane in the

Photo: Marc Geller

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~street; when traffic lights turned red,motorcycle cops charged the crowd toforce a halt until the light changed.
Less than two blocks from theFederal Building, the first arrest took
place: Moving to the curb, I watched
two officers strong-arm an alreadyshackled
marcher
Into a paddy
wagon. (I later learned that this wasBill Haskell, ACf UP'Ii police liaison,
who had approached the officers on
the street to Identify himself and ask
about the crowd control tactics wewere witnessing; they had thrown
him face down on the pavement andhandcuffed him).
The harassment continued along
the 30-block route, yet the crowd
remained orderly. To. SFPD announcements of ·Obey the traffic laws,protestors responded with chants of"First Amendment under attack! What
do we do? ACf UP! Fight Back!- Half
way to Castro St., organizers briefly
halted the march; an ACf UP representative restated the AIDS related
goals of the event and urged us tofocus our anger and press on despite
the actions of the police.
Around 7 pm, as we approached
the end of the march, word passed
through the crowd that we would takeover the intersection of Market andCastro Streets. A traqitional finale for
ACf UP San Francisco marches; thisact of non-violent civil disobedience
usually includes short speeches andchants, after which the crowd disperses without incident. The standard
SFPO response: a few officers on footdiverting traffIC to protect public safetyat minimum effort and expense.
A quarter-block back from thehead of the march, I could see theflashing lights of massed SFPD vehicles on Market St. Arriving at CastroSt., I found that several dozen officers
on foot and In vehicles had turned
the marchers away from Market.
Instead, we were surging left onto theCastro strip, filling the street for several yards and preventing the police
from moving into the area.
As one group of approxiJllately 50
protestors sat down and linked arms
on Castro near Market, 20 others took
advantage of the blockade to stage adie-in on the open lane in front of chichi stores and eateries. Adding sten-cilled slogans and spray paint in neoncolors over the chill ked outlines ofbodies, the participants created a "permanent AIDS quilt- on the street-lessthan two blocks from the headquartersof the Names Project.
While approximately 500 people
chanted and jeered from both sides ofCastro St., the police moved In toarrest the protestors sitting on theasphalt. Finished with this activity,
the officers turned their attention on
the crowd, which was growing In
numbers as Friday night passersby
stopped to observe--and protest-themassive police presence in the heartof the gay community.
After a loudhailer order to clear
the street, motorcycle and riot police
advanced down the center of Castro
St. Lines of tactical unit officers pushedforward with batons held across theirchests, attempting to force people
onto the sidewalks. Standing at thefront of the crowd on the west side ofCastro, I could see no escape route;people behind me packed the sidewalk to the shopfronts
or werepenned in by further police lines at
the rear.
The police soon charged inearnest. I saw one officer advancewith his baton in a jabbing position, atechniquethat the San Francisco
Police Commission banned after anofficer using it nearly killed Farmworkers Union co-founder Delores
HeUrta last year. Others pushed withthe sides of their batons, knocking thefront of the crowd off balance. I fell
against the person to my left, scraping
my ear, then regained my footing.
After a partial withdrawal and asecond effort to clear the area, thepolice announced
that the entire
blOck of Castro from Market to 18th
St., Including the sidewalks, had been
declared an illegal assembly area. The
crowd held its ground, milling Intothe street and repeatedly chanting"Cops go home" and "Racist, sexist,
anti-gay, SFPD go away. - A group of
officers reacted driving their motorcycles through the center of the crowd.
In the confusion, I lost sight of
the friends I had been standing withand made my way to the opposite
side of Castro St. From that vantage, I
watched an officer break ranks,
approach a man stanc;Jing peacefullyin the street and beat him over theshoulder. Shortly thereafter, I saw asecond officer pin a bystander against
a news box, then club him to thepavement. Other cops joined in, oneof them so eager to land a blow that
he carelessly clubbed a fellow officer.
Minutes later, I heard someone
calling out my name and spotted Alex
Chee, one of the friends I had
marched with, leaning from an ambulance moving slowly through thepolice lines. "I'm going to the hospitalwith Mike,· he shouted. With a sinking feeling, I pushed to the back winS.. SAN FRANCISCO JOURNAL on p. 55

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Extending Leases and LivesO

Sunday, Octobe, 15th,
AIDS activist and longterm survivor John Bohne
died. His death was sudden, and cameas a shock to those who had seen him
at a meeting of ACf UP's Treatment
and Data Committee that Wednesday,
and to those who had seen him Friday, when we went to an appointment at Gay Men's Health Crisis..
Something else happened tohim that Friday: he received a "Notice to Quit," the first step in aneviction action, on his apartment. A
good friend of his, Mike Frisch,
who took John to the hospital on
Saturday night, says John was very
troubled by the threat of eviction
and thinks that it just might havebeen whlt broke John's spirit.
John had lived in the Manhattan Valley apartment for more than
three years with his lover, Bill McCann, until Bill died in May, 1988.
The lease to the apartment was inBill's name.
.
How the hell is someone
who is fighting a virus inside his
body in order to stay alive, andfighting the FDA bureaucracy foraccess to drugs in order to fightthe virus, supposed to muster theenergy to fight his landlord in
housing court?
In July we all celebrated theBraschi decision, in which the New
York State Court of Appeals said gay
couples could legally be consideredfamilies. Specifically, the case involveda couple who had been living together in an apartment for ten years. The
man in· whose name the lease washeld died of AIDS, and the landlord
attempted to evict the survivor. The
court decision granted him succession
rights to the lease, and stated that "the" term family...should not be rigidly restricted to those people who have for-34nour..-WEEK

November 5, 1989

malized their relationship by obtaining, for instance, a marriage certificate
or an adoption order.
Then why was John Bohne's
landlord able to refuse to renew hislease and try to evict him?
One reason is that the Braschi
decision has yet to be translated into
specific enforceable regulations. Nearly four months after the decision, itIIand has refused any protection for
lesbians and gays, even in the context
of bias-related violence. So it really isa foregone conclusion that legislative
efforts to bring the law into accordance with the Braschi decision willbe thwarted.
Our advocates seem somewhat
more hopeful. Lesbian and gay and tenant groups ~ve been lobbying DHCR
to issue administrative regulations.
According to attorney William Rubinstein of the American Civil Liberties
Union (ACLU),who won the Braschi
case, that victory "gave us great impetus and power at the bargaining
table. Another attorney involved in
the talks, Evan ~Ifson of the lambda Legal Defense and Education
Fund, reports that "They [DHCR)
have agreed in principle to protect
the family in a comprehensive andrealistic way, including lesbian andgay families." But, says Rubinstein,"We would have liked to have seensomething happen by now."
Time is of the essence. It is
AIDS which made the whole issueof succession rights so pressingly
important to our community, andAIDS which makes so many of thevery .people who stand to be protected by these regulations so vulnerable. The last thing anyone living with AIDS needs is a legal
battle to keep his or her home.
As the people fighting for
housing for homeless PWAs havebeen stressing, a home is a precondition for survival: what use is medicalcare without a stable and nurturingliving environment?
This week it was John Bohne,
and presumably others in similar
straits, who received eviction threats.
John Bohne was dead less than 48
hours later. Who will it be next week?
Will it take four more months forthe principle affirmed by Braschi to
be given force in state regulations? ~II

has not been implemented. What's
happening?
It depends on who you ask. Tom
Viola, a spokesperson for the state's
Division of Housing and Community
Renewal (DHCR), says "We are seeking a legisrative solution. If that isthwarted, then we'll go administratively." The problem with that is that theRepublican-controlled
State Senate
has for years refused to extend lease
protections to non-married partners,

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Viral and Cytokine
Cofactors for AIDSby Mark Harrington

Recent work with a specialized DNA
probe called PCR (polymerase chain
reaction) indicates that HIV infects
more T4 cells than previously believed 0/10,000 in asymptomatic persons, and up to 1/100 in people withAIDS) but does not necessarily killthem. 2) H/V infection of bone marrow stem cells which, once infected,
do not mature properly into T4 cells
and other crucial blood cells. This
could help explain the anemia, neutropenia (white blood cell deficiency)
and platelet losses found in AIDS. 3)
Autoimmune phenomena. The bodychurns out millions of antibodies inan effort to eradicate HIV infection.

factor (1NF) is produced by stimulated macrophages in response to an
immune challenge. Originally it was
found to kill cancer cells, hence its
wenty percent of the men
name. But TNF has a far broader.
who were seropositive inspectrum of activity. In mice, TNF induces wasting (cachexia), hence its
1978 in the San Francisco
other name, cachectin. It also causes
Men's Hepatitis B Cohort are still
asymptomatic. This means HIV cananemia.
TNF levels are five to ten times
remain latent for at least 12 years.
The virus can remain dormant inside
higher in people with AIDS than inpeople with asymptomatic HIV infeccell's-DNA, residing quietly withouttion. TNF is released in response to/ killing the cell or displaying any signof activity. What, then, activates HIV
many immune challenges. Lab work
to start replicating, killing cells anddone by Fauci and his colleagues has
destroying the immune system?·demonstrated that HIV upregulates
On October 19, Dr. Anthony S.
TNF production, and that TNF, inI
Iturn, stimulates
Fauci, who runs
most federallyproductionofsponsored AIDS
more HIV. Thus,
drug
trialsHIV can act as
through the Naits own opportional Institute oftunist. FurtherAllergy and Infecmore, as Fauci
tious
Diseases
et al.
have(NIAID), whichshown,
otherhe heads,
metviral infections
with ACT UP's
like CMV andTreatment & Data
Epstein-Barr
Committee
inVirus (EBV) also
New York. Reupregulate TNF
cent work conproduction.
ducted in Dr. Fauci's lab has provided
Thus, a person co-infected with CMVSome antibodies are targeted against
new evidence about the pathogenesis
and HIV may progress faster than
HIV infected cells; others inappropriof AIDS. More specifically, this work
ately attack the body's own tissue.
someone infected only with HIV.
may help explain how HIV infection Thus the immune system attacks itThis was proved true in a study ofprogresses from a latent, asymptomathemophiliacs published earlier thisself. 4) Release of cytokines which,ic stage to a clinical, symptomatic
year in The Lancet. HIV infected
in turn, accelerate the process of inone. Cell proteins (cytokines) stimu- fection.
hemophiliacs who also had CMV prolated by HIV and other viruses seem
gressed faster than those who did not
Cytokines are active proteins proto increase the rate of HIV replication.
have CMV. A study published at
duced by cells. They include blood
Montreal by Michael Lange andAt his meeting with T&D, Dr. growth factors like EPO (erythropoFauci suggested at least four mechaJoseph Sonnabend of St. Luke's/Roosietin) and GM-CSF (granulocyteevelt Hospital in New York confirmed
nisms by which HIV attacks the im- macrophage colony stimulating facthat TNF levels were higher in themune system: 1) Direct killing of T4 tor), which induce the production ofcells. While common in the test tube,
presence of CMV.
red and white blood cells, respectiveIf TNF levels could be controlled,
this seems to be less common in life. ly. Another cytokine, tumor necrosisTa

At his meeting with ACT UP,
Dr. Fauci suggested at least
four mechanisms by which
HIV attacks the immune
system. He provided ACT UP
with new evidence about thepathogenesis of AIDS.

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perhaps the course of HIV infection
could be arrested. The problem isthat TNF, at lower levels, is needed
for normal immune function.
The
simple introduction of TNF antibodies
would neutralize all1NF activity, andmight thus do more harm than good.
A better course would be to find away to selectively inhibit 1NF release
only in virally-infected cells. Research
about how to do this is underway.
In the meantime, researchers
from Stanford have found that an antibronchitis
drug, n-acetylcysteine(NAC), inhibits 1NF production in thepresence of HIV proteins in the test
tube. (See John James' article in last
week's Outweek). NAC is available In
Britain and Italy, and is pending approval in the u.s. Since this drug has
already been used for other purposes,
without demonstrable toxicity, Phase
1/11trials in people with HIV wastingor anemia should begin immediately~
Another approach to lowering
the amount of TNF in the blood
would be by controlling CMV and
EBV early in HIV infection. Acyclovir,
used in high doses, might be onemeans of doing this. Acyclovir is approved, non-toxic and extraordinarily
expensive.
Dr. Craig Metroka's uncontrolled study published in Montreal showed that high-dose Acyclovir(2400-4800 mglday) prevented CMV
infections in people with AIDS. A
large study of high-dose acyclovir (ora dose-comparison study) might provide answers to the urgent questionof whether it does, in fact, prevent
CMV and slow down HIV infection.
F.inally, an oral form of DHPG (ganciclovir) ,has been developed. Preliminary studies are underway to determine of this form (1000 mg threetimes a day) is as effective and perhaps less toxic than the current intravenous form. ~

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Dinkins and the
Lesbian and Gay
Community
by Gabriel Rotello
Photo: lL litt

avid Dinkins was basking in
the limelight at a crowded
fund-raiser recently. The prosperous guests being pumped for contributions were business people, civic
leaders, religious leaders and entertainment people. A boisterous executive,
who may have had one drink too many,
began Iqudly telling a "fag" joke of thatparticularly offensive kind that combines
nasty, virulent homophobia with AIDS.
When he hit the punchline several in thecrowd roared in laughter. Across theroom Dinkins stood stone faced until
the chortling subsided and then said in aloud voice, "That's the most offensive,
inappropriate kind of thing ;:. person
could say. You should be ashamed ofyourself." To the dismay of many in theroom, he launched into an impromptu
lecture on the social effects of AIDS.
Those who had laughed loudly at thejoke were not happy· at being embarrassed by their candidate. But they got
the message anyway: no fag-baiting
around David.
In an elementary school auditorium
in a poor section of the Bronx, Dinkins
was speaking to the assembled children
about the perils of drugs. But he abruptly switched subjects and began talking
about the hate-crimes bill stalled in the
Albany legislature, a bill that includes
gays and lesbians in its protections. He
carefully explained that it was wrong forpeople to hurt other people because of
their race, religion or creed, or becauseof their ·sexual orientation." Then, as
some teachers and school administratorsstood by in shock, he asked, "Does anyone here know what sexual orientationmeans? Does anyone know what a lesbian is? A gay man?" And as the thirdand fourth graders giggled or tentatively
raised their hands, he delivered anotherimpromptu, speech about lesbians andgays, this time to ten-year-olds.
Yet despite these and many otherexamples of Dinkins' genuine empathy
for gays and lesbians, there were someproblems between the candidate andour community early in the fall campaign. Starting on primary night, when
Dinkins thanked his supporters in a prepared speech that included virtually
every minority group in the city but
omitted gays and lesbians (he did eventually mention gays in ad lib remarks atthe very end of the night), many felt thatyou get elected that's important. And
his campaign had down played ourissues, ignored gay leaders and the gay there I think Dinkins will run the best
press, and hesitated to agree to the most administration for lesbians and gays inbasic commitments. While virtually all the city's history.·
Kathleen Conkey, a lesbian who
gay observers hastened to add that they
once served as Dinkins' press secretary
supported Dinkins and intend to votefor him, ma~y were openly upset at ih the Manhattan borough president'S
office, agreed. "It's just general camwhat they perceived as either a poorly
paign inertia," she said a few days
conceived strategy to downplay support
for our community, or a campaign in before Dinkins' recent announcement.
"There's always so much going on in aturmoil which simply didn't have time
campaign that unfortunately crisis stuff
for the dykes and fags.
Then, only two and a half weeks
gets taken care of first.•
That "crisis stuff,· as probably
before the election, and in the midst of apotentially devastating controversy about . everyone knows by now, was a laundrya stock transaction which threatened to list of dismaying revelations about Dinkins' financial integrity, questions thatswamp his campaign, Dinkins surprisedsome say have produced a "bunker
observers by coming out strongly andspecifically on crucial gay issues. Gay mentality" at his campaign headquarters.
leaders, who had been openly expressing As one mini-scandal would get satisfacdisquiet only days before, were particular- torily explained, another would pop up,
ly pleased because Dinkins, in a cam- leaving the candidate and his staff little
paign routinely criticized by other groups time to deal with substantive issues. Yetfor ignoring specifics, wassingling out gays for
unusually specific attentions.
Prior to the announcements,
Andy
Humm of the Coalition
for Lesbian and Gay
Rights had struck a typical wary balance amonggay leaders. "There's noquestion that Dinkins ismiles ahead of Giuliani,and that I'm going tovote for him," Humm
had said, "But I think it's
Photo: ll. Littself-hating for us to say BIDDING A FOND FAREWELL TO KOCH
it's OK for a candidate to VitDRussD and Pet., Staley
ignore us." Referring to Dinkins'
lesbian and gay observers, who wereembrace of Cardinal O'Connor, Humm
beginning to despair that their agenda
contended, ''To be mayor of all the city would ever be addressed before thedoesn't mean you have to reject yourelectiOn, were in for a s}Jl'prise. On thefriends and embrace bigots. And if you very day of Dinkins'. marathon press
campaign on nothing, what do you
conference on his stock transactions, hewin?"called a meeting with his lesbian and
The question of whether Dinkins
gay staff and announced 'a\¢iuefully
had been following a deliberate strategy articulated policy on gays. The potentialof ignoring us was hotly disputed. Tom flash-point that many feared would
Duane, the gay candidate who recently
ignite an inferno of protest was the canbattled Carol Greitzer for her West Side didate's stand on preserving or abolishCity Council seat, thought not. "During a ing the Mayor's Office for the Lesbian
campaign a lot of people get to feel and
Gay . Community.
Dinkins
neglected," he said. "For example, I for- announced that he would preserve thegot to mention GUD when I announced
office, and gay politicos from. Pelham
my candidacy on the sfeps of City Hall, Bay to Tottenville sighed in relief.
even though they were a major part ofEstablished first as a liaison andmy base. These are very human things
then earlier this year as a permanentthat happen. It's what happens whenpart of the city bureaucracy, the LesbianNovember 5, 1989

OUT~WEEKand Gay Office is seen as, perhaps, themost tangible symbol of the community's coming of age In New York politics.
In a city that hasn't yet elected a single
gay c,ouncilperson, It's the most power-,.

DISEMPOWERING HOMOSEXUALSI RudDlphGiuliani·

Photo: lLlitt

ful advocacy office for lesbian and gay
concerns in city government. Althoughsome AIDS activists may agree with
Larry Kramer that, "The office is such a
joke I'd rather see it discontinue~," mostgay leaders disagree. Support for the'office is sp widespread that every candidate running for mayor in the primary
had automatically affirmed he would
maintain it-everyone
but Giuliani and. Dinkins. Giuliani stated point blank that
he would abolish the office. Dinkins
said he was studying the question andwould announce his decision during theelection. It was that decision, and awidespread fear that i! would be a decision to abolish, that had gay and lesbian
Dinkins supporters grinding their teeth
in anxiety.
Dinkins' ambivalence
about theoffice stemmed from a long-held convic-

CROWD PlfASERS
Ruth Mellinger and Dinkins It last summer's
Gay Pride Parade
Photo: Tom McKitterick/lmpact Visuals
tion that minority communities shouldbe "main-streamed" into the ranks of an
administration instead of being "ghettoized" into special offices. When he

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Dinkins refused to make that commlttwas elected Manhattan borough president he announced that there would be ment. Many were particularly upset atno special office for gays. Conkey recalls rumors, floated perhaps by joseph himself, that Joseph was lobbying Dinkins tothat she and other lesbians and gays
keep his job under the new administraworking with Dinkins were ·outraged.·tion. Activists were not pacified by DinkBut, she says, ·Withln months I completely changed my mind. I saw what he ins' staffers insistence that the candidate,
was getting at. He had stressed that he as a broad matter of policy, refused towould hire a lot of gay people and hey, announce the firing of any current commissioners under any circumstances.
he hired a lot of gay people.·
Suddenly, however, advisors close
But virtually all gay leaders hoped
to Dinkins have begun quietly indicating
Dinkins would overcome his reluctanceand continue the' office if elected mayor. that joseph will Indeed be leaving if
Dinkins gets elected. The diplomaticAmong them, none was more passionate
than the woman who created the office phrase is that, while Dinkins won't commit to specific appointments, he will
and occupies it in the Koch administration, Lee Hudson. She categorically . only appoint "commissioners who share
his philosophy.· When it's pointed out
rejected the notion that a "large number
of appointed gays is the equivalent to that joseph's ·philosophy· differs fromin numerous
key ways,having an office that fights for gays, ini- Dinkins'
tiates programs and cuts through red reporters are told to draw their own
tape.· Claiming that "we have lots of conclusions. When told of this new formula, Peter Staley of ACf UP called it
gays in the Koch administration,· she
insists that they're no substitute for a the fulfillment of ·one of the happiest
moments of the campaign, the assumpLesbian and Gay Office. For one reason"it's hard for people with problems to tion that we're not only saying goodbye
find them.· For another, there are many to Koch, but bidding a fond farewell to
gay and lesbian projects "that require a joseph as well.· Suddenly joseph has
lot of work on the inside. We have to ceased to exist as a target of AIDS
activism, and his recent initiatives concoordinate
numerous agencies andcerning HIV contact tracing which Stadepartments to make things like theley calls "a last 'fuck you' to the AIDS
1994 Gay Games happen, These arecommunity,· are going unchallenged
things the community needs, and they
under the assumption that they will be
have to be somebody's project, somerapidly undone by the Dinkins Adminisbody who can speak with the voice andauthority of the mayor. No lesbian or tration.
gay commissioner with other responsijust what Dinkins will be able to doabout AIDS, given the enormity of thebilities will ever be able to do that."
By agreeing to preserve the office, problem in New York, remains an open
Dinkins has gone against his own long- question. Many expect a financial crunch
held beliefs~ One activist called that an to hit the city over the next few years.
"an impressive example of how far This could make additional funding for
Dinkins will go" to befriend lesbians and AIDS programs almost impossible, justgays. Even the most skeptical observers
as the health crisis peaks. Yet many
were heartened by the decision.
expect that despite budgetary constraints, the city's response to AIDS will
Anotherpotential
flashpoint
between Dinkins and the community
improve substantially under Dinkins.
was the fate of Health Commissioner
Larry Kramer, never accused of painting
Steven joseph. There is possibly no sin- too rosy a picture of the future of AIDS,
gle person in city government moresays, "I'm giving Dinkins the benefit ofreviled and detested by the AIDS com- the doubt. He understands AIDS issues
munity than joseph. Criticized as being
thoroughly. Let's elect him first before
an extraordinarily
inept, insensitive,
we start complaining." Vito Russo, anarrogant appointee, many say he cost
author and well-known PWA, believes
Koch critical support in the gay commuthat Dinkins has an intuitive understandnity during the primary. While it's genering of minority health problems that willally assumed that all commissioners
help him as he struggles with AIDS poliresign at the start of a new administracy issues. "One of the things thattion, activists had assumed that anyone
impressed me most is that he stops byfriendly to gay interests would automatithe PWA CO:ilition Living Room unancally commit to dumping joseph. But nounced, with no fanfare at all,· saysj

Russo. But he warns that "Dinkins
should not get a free ride from the community. Too many people are justassuming he'll be great. They may be infor a disappointment later on."Now that Dinkins has taken specificstands on lesbian and gay issues, many
initial concerns about him seem to beevaporating. He has come out strongly
for anti-bias legislation.
He finallyendorsed the Multi-Cultural Education
CUrriculum, a widely touted proposalthat requires the city to place specificeducation about minorities, including
gays and lesbians, in the school curriculum. His policy of granting bereavement
leave to gays and lesbians is alreadywell-known, his Manhattan boroughpresident's office having been the first in
the city establish it. He has endorsed theresolution creating a task force to examine domestic partnershiplegislation,although he still opposes outright gay
marriage, which many predict will
become a major issue in the 90s. And
he's seen as extremely strong on prochoice issues. His long history of
appointing women, including many
open lesbians, to major positions on his
staff has convinced
many in thewomen's community that Dinkins wiIIbe the be~ mayor possible during thepivotal choice struggles many expect in
the 1990s.
While Dinkins is currently being
applauded for having come to the rescue of gay issues despite a gruelingcampaign, his Republican rival Rudolph
Giuliani is widely considered to be, inthe words of gay District Leader Phil
Reed, a "fucking disaster for the community." Giuliani's one major attempt toreach out to gays during the primary, abreakfast meeting organized by Virginia
Apuzzo, turned into a bitter joke as thecandidate repeatedly displayed a monumental insensitivity to and ignorance ofgay issues. Apuzzo now contends that
"Giuliani has never demonstrated a scintilla of concern" for gays. "I think there
are some gays, no, I should say 'homosexuals' in our community who may
vote for Giuliani," she says, "but that's
only because there are some bigots inevery community, even ours."
Gay legal expert Arthur Leonard
calls Giuliani a "rigid and inflexible"
political amature who lacks the "openmindedness to be fair to gays. "He says
he can't conceiveof gay families
because he was raised an old-fashioned
M

Catholic," Leonard says, referring to Giuliani's opposition to domestic partnership. "But look at Dinkins. He surely
wasn't raised to believe in gay families
either. But he has the flexibility and fairness to change."
Giuliani has hired "negative campaign" wizard Roger Ailes to create ads
for his campaign, the same Ailes who is
working on infamous
New jersey
homophobe jim Courter's
gubernatorial bid. The
fact that Giuliani issharing staff with theregion'S biggest queer
baiter is seen as indicilive of the kind ofmayor Giuliani would
be for gays. He displays an almost totallack of knowledge ofAIDS
andhealthissues, is embarassed
and uncomfortablearound open gays andhas none on his staff.
He has said that he'dabolish the Mayor's
Office for Lesbians
and Gays. He wasfirmly anti-abortion
until the polls showedthat he could never beelected with that position. Now he's wavering. Most gay leaders
feel that
Giulianiwould completely disempower. open homosexuals in New York.

in his campaign, have marked a turning
point for many gays. They're now moving to embrace Dinkins not merely as analternative to Giul'iani, but as a genuine
hope of the community. Candida Scott
Piel of FAIRPACsays that "We're opting
for four years of a humane dialogue witha man who has a· record of commitment"
to lesbians and gays.

t-NO SUBSTITUTE FOR A LESBIAN AND GAY OFFICELee Hudson
Photo: Lee Snider.But others warn about tough times
ahead. Apuzzo speaks fOf ·many wheno that leaves Dinkins.
After years of doing battle she says, "We all have to remember thatwith supposedly pro-gay Ed he won't be able to walk on water. He's
Koch on AIDS issues, many . a human being taking on the second
gays have a built-in suspicion about the toughest job in the country. In addition
to being held accountable by the comsincerity of any New York politican.
Dinkins' delay in directly addressing gay munity, he's got to be given support. He
issues, while it was typical of .a cam- won't be able to wave a wand and solve
our problems.» And Larry Kramer speaks
paign that has generally
shunnedfor others when he warns that althoughspecifics, was perhaps more than usually troubling to gay observers. After all, he supports Mr. Dinkins now, the difficulty of AIDS issues will make for a very
they've been seriously shunned before.
brief honeymoon with the activist comHis sudden
attenJion
to andhim inendorsement of key issues crucial to the munity. "We'll all support
lesbian and gay agenda, coming as they November," Kramer cautions, "But comedid during an extremely difficult moment january, Mr. Dinkins best beware." ...

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QUEERVISIONIn England, Finding Gay and Lesbian. TV is as
Easy as Pushing a Buffon on Your Remote Control

by Catherine Saalfield
What happens when a gay and lesbian community spends
beers or sodas out of the fridge, settle back in your comfy livyears asking for regular television coverage of its issues
ing room chair and tune into Channel Four on Tuesday nights
instead of occasional "special documentaries" which tend to at 11 pm. Then you will see Out On Tuesday, Britain's firstanthropologize or mock the subject matter? If you are asking regular lesbian and gay television series.
this question in the United States, you might just have to start
The series is co-produced by Clare Beaven and Susan
protesting, elect a mayor, create a coalition (call it NYCCRM), Ardill. Beaven and the series editor, Mandy Merck, were inraise money for an alternative network, or program your queer
town last week for the How Do I Look? conference being held
media on public access and other cable channels. If you are primarily at Anthology Film Archives. Most of the first Out On
asking this question in Britain, look no further, just get those
Tuesday series played there, and we paid five dollars a head

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to sit in a movie theater and watch 1V. The women were also
here to gather U.S. footage of, about and for queers, for theirsecond series. Meanwhile, I got a chance to speak with themin depth about how the series came to be, what content andform it embraces, the British response, possible U.S. venues
and their plans for next year.
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Originally, the progressive Channel Four-whichhas acommitment in its charter to cater to audiences not generally
represented on 1V-recognized the gap in their market and sentout a call for tapes. Ardill and Beaven formulated a series treat, ment in their application as a deliberate device to get the commission. They took over the job of the channel programmers by
packaging the entire allotment of eight hours. When theyreceived the commission, they named their production company"Abseil" in recognition of the women who had lowered themselves with ropes (the word abseil is a verb used in England tomean "lowering oneself on a rope") into the House of Lords toprotest dause 28. (Qause 28 bans any federal funding of educational materials that "promote homosexuality." More on thislater.) The image of a woman descending on a rope accompanies the closing credits in every show of the series. Merck was
hired as the series editor and joined with Fulcrum--a production
company which provided the "track record" and the budget toguarantee delivery of the series to Channel Four.
Most of the shows (six of eight) are in magazine format,
covering such subjects as: fostering children, disco's gay roots,
interracial relationships, lesbian detective novels and immigration policies for gay and lesbian couples. Not unaware of thecheap, studio-based, patronizing and often dull look whichpervades talking-heads style 1V, the group settled on a selfreflexive, youth 1V form of address. Beaven favors the "topicality" of this fast-paced approach in any case. She admits, "I
had an equally allergic reaction to the kind of right-on, worthy
independent film type, seriQus ten hour long documentaries
which used to be on right-on subjects." By avoiding the"tabloid superficiality" and condescending quality of the kids
programs, Abseil presents a less detached, more passionate
political address, which, in its very form, can be quite reactive
to current events.
In addition to Abseil's six parts, Channel Four commissioned three segments independently. Looking For Langston, aluscious 40 minute film, meditates on the role and experienceof the Black gay artist during the Harlem Renaissance andtoday (see OutWeek #15). Directed by Isaac Julien, and produced by Sankofa (an independent Black workshop), this film
now faces legal injunction from the Langston Hughes Estateon the deceptive and opportunistic grounds of copyright
infringement. Stuart Marshall's Desire is an investigation in the
lives of gay men and lesbians in Nazi Germany. The third
independent commission in this series is Melanie Chait's shorter piece about South Africa, which asks, "What happens tosexual liberation in a state of emergency?" Having followed theroutines of two gay anti-apartheid activists, Chait reports on
the emergence of coalitions in the fight for non-racialism anddemocracy in South Africa.
How do all these seemingly disparate programs work
together? Merck says, "The whole question of authorship wasdown played in favor of a coherent series identity so that people would know then to watch it." Similar to a public access

1V collective in New York called Paper Tiger Te/evi.sion, Out
On Tuesday calculated ways to make people remember when .
the show is on. Wednesday nights, Paper Tiger 1V always
starts with, "It's 8:30, do you know where your brains are?"
Out On Tuesday plays, of course, on Tues<Iays. Although it Is
programmed late at night, the series was immediately attacked
by right wing bigots who called on the government to revise
the Obscene Publications Ac~. British 1V operates independently of that Act, but the whole system of regulation withincommercial parameters could be overthrown by the government in the next few years. Clause 28, which governs local
government and education authorities against presenting gay
men and lesbians in anything but the most brutally degrading
light, could ultimately have an effect on 1V and broadcasting.
While it is still possible, Clause 28 is a featured topic on
the very first show of Out On Tuesday. The producers decided
to see if one could actually "promote homosexuality," and thus
approached the world-reknowned, if detestable, Saatchi and
Saatchi advertising agency: Since agencies love to display theirwares and benefit from mock campaigns as teaching exercises,
S & S agreed to script a number of "homo-promo" newspapers
ads as well as one for 1V. Abseil's directors kept their distanceduring the "creative process." What emerged was a hilarious,
but somewhat ignorant and negative, commercial with, as
Merck says, "the naffest looking actresses in the world." Beav.
en thinks she would have modelled the show around how andwhy, "they came up with this garbage when they come up
with great homoerotic ads for perfume, and so on."Although one may not advertise political causes on 1V in

Britain, S & S's ad was included in the show about the makingof the ads. That's another difference between U.S. and Britain.
They are more blatant about what they can show and what
they can't. H~re a naive deception prevails that, ·since anything can play on 1V, you don't need special allocations for
special interests." Lucky for us, the U.S. often pops up in thefirst series, and not only in the "video postcards" from aroundthe world. The U.S. figures prominently in the shows aboutqueer~ on 1V, what it's like to "play gay" in films, the roots of

ABOVE LEFT:Out On Tuesday co-producer Ciaire Beaven and series editor

Mandy Merck.

All photos: Il. LittNovember 5, 1989

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disco and lesbian detective novels. "The whole thing about theu.s. happened because we knew we wanted a good proportion of show biz in the series," says Beaven, "and when you
mention film and TV, you've got to go to Hollywood." Once in
California, she offers, "you tend to justify your being there bycovering another story, so we decided the lesbian detective
one ought to be done there because two of the major lesbian
detective writers live in San Francisco. On the way back westopped in New York because Harvey Fierstein's there, andVito Russo ....It worked like that"In the second ten-part series, the onginal "broad strokes"
will be narrowed down. Moving away from "global" issues,
like "cinema," they will cover very specific topics like, "white.flannel literary adaptions of historical dramas which promote
notions of Englishness and how that connects to gaynesS andupperclassness and aristocracy." Instead of "video postcards"
this time, the series will have a number of profiles. One ofthese, and one of the few U.S. bits, will be about lesbianauthor and Out Week contributor Sarah Schulman. The producer:; see her work as "recalibrating the show about lesbian
detective novels. After Dolores is much more serious aboutobsession and despair and poverty/, says Merck.
Also, the second series will carry more independent commissions. Stuart Marshall is doing a second hour, focusing OR
gays in World War II and the forces. Pratibha Parmar, who. researched and helped in production during the first series(especially on fostering and immigration), is producing a special about an Indian lesbian named Suniti Namjoshi. Melanie
Chait, who brought out the first piece about South Africa, isproducing two reports: gays in Poland, and gays in the Soviet
Union. A film co-op called CLIO is producing a show aboutolder lesbians, and finally, there will be another piece on perhaps the most-broadcasted queer issue of the year: lesbian andgay parenting.
Aside from individual portraits, however, Merck claims
that the U.S. influences gay producers in Britain in other ways.
"A great deal of dominant culture comes from the U.S. and we
also have to be cognizant of new developments in gay politics. Britain is, in that sense, somewhat parenthetical to devel-

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opments in America." Although she cites the Gay Liberation
Front (GLF) as a British import, she also recognizes that, ·We
are vanguardist because we have a lively and viable, socialistlyunderstood women's movement." One that, she claims, "isquite aware of class, poverty and oppression as absolutely
fundamental to the conditions of most women." But, she adds,"We didn't have ACf UP until ACf UP was borrowed fromNew York." For gays in Europe in general, Merck says, "TheU.S. presents an example of the worst and the best of everything, the biggest, the most powerful, the most awful, people
sleeping rough in the streets because there are no provisions
for homeless people with AIDS, which is not the case in
Britain. But on the other hand, you have the most vigorous
response to that."
Our reaction in the States to Britain may be along thosesame lines. Britain is vanguardist in the sense of having a very
good public television system ("or perhaps a good one in danger"). Where could we see this series if we missed it at How
Do I LooJi How could we make our own, and broadcast it on
network television? Out On Tuesday usually stirs the mixed
feelings of inspiration and frustration in beleaguered U.S.
queers. Notably, PBS is negotiating with Channel Four now
about programming the bulk of the series in the U.S. next
June. Because of the legal controversy. over Looking forLangston, and because the disco show "as copyright costs
over the top, those two will most likely be the only ones missing when the series finally appears here.
But isn't it amazing that U.S. TV has such an uncomplicated approach to importing material from elsewhere, rather than
airing locally produced work? Partly, the high production values of Out On Tuesday should be credited in the acceptanceof the series. However, Ted Koppel recently featured
Nicaraguan and Polish (low production value) video in a
Nightline show about the handy-cam revo!ption and nowhere
was Paper Tiger Television, Out in the 80s, Deep Dish Tv,
GMHC's Living with AIDS show or any other locally originatedmaterial present in the show. That's not about camera focus or
the quality of broadcast signal, but about depoliticizing material by delocalizing it I guess the grass really is greener. ~ .

SANTA CRUZ from page 21

quake is Project Open Hand.
"Project Open Hand is a nonprofit organization that provides two
meals a day to people with ARC and
AIDS,· said Jaenne Alexander, public
relations director for the organization.
"We serve them a hot evening dinnerand a nutritious bagged lunch. We
have 750 clients, that means 1,500
meals a day.""When the earthquake hit, we
extended our services to all the service agencies in the Bay Area. We
were the only agency with a functioning kitchen. We had full power. We
provided meals to the Red Cross, theSalvation Army, police stations, firehouses, senior centers, Glide Memorial
Church and even through BART (BayArea Rapid Transit) to 12 Red Cross
centers in Oakland and Berkeley.
"We estimate that we served
50,000 meals to these various organizations, including our regular clients,"
Alexander said. "The work load is
reduced now and we are winding
down. We are still serving somesenior citizens and the Department of
Public Works.·
The city's "Yes on S· campaign toinsure passage of the domestic partnership issue on election day redirected its efforts for a week in order toprovide earthquake relief.
And the Shanti Project, a San Francisco organization which provides volunteer- based practical and emotional
support services to people with AIDS,
was also quick to react to the catastrophe.
·We began immediate free telephone counseling for anyone in thearea who needed support to copewith the fear, anxiety or emotional
distress caused by the earthquake,'said Holly Smith, Shanti's director of
media and special projects. "We also
created, and are offering, evening
support groups for all people in the
Bay Area.
·We discovered that wheelchairbound clients who had major furniture fall over were inhibited themost,· Smith said. "We sent people tohelp them clean and straighten up.
Some people were too ill to move.
They needed supplies and water
brought in. Some were fearful that
their oxygen tank might run out. We

got it for them and medications too.·
Smith said she encourages people to send financial contributions to
the AIDS Service Provider Associationof the Bay Area. "ASPABA is a networking group and they have been incontact with the organizations,· Smith
told OutWeek. They know which
agency is in most need at any given
point. Whoever is in most need will
get help because the contributions
will be routed to San Mateo, Santa
Cruz or to where it is most needed.'
The San Francisco AIDS Foundation, the largest AIDS organization in
the city, was closed for three days after
the quake while engineers checked forstructural damage. After being declaredstable, it opened for services.
"It's been quite amazing to see
how quickly the federal government
has acted to offer aid, as compared tothe slow response over the laSt nine
years to the AIDS crisis,' said Steve
Petrow, a Foundation spokesperson.
"From the federal government weneed funds, leadership and organization. We have seen it with the earthquake and we haven't seen it with the
AIDS crisis. We need AIDS to be treated as the disaster it is:Where to send it
The following non-profit organizations are accepting contributions
earmarked
for earthquake
reliefefforts.
Lesbian and Gay Action Alliance
P.O. Box 7293
Santa Cruz, CA 95061

POUllCAL PRISONERS from page 19

for violence. And those on the outside will judiciously avoid any semblance of extremes in their politicalspeech or activity.
But all this may not prove to beso easy for the government. Already,activists have begun to learn about thecase and respond. And 80 percent of
this response, say Evans and Whitehorn, comes from lesbians and gay
men. An open letter asking the government to drop the charges against theResistance
Conspiracy
six hasappeared in several gay and progressive publications; so far, 12 ACf UP
chapters across the country havesigned it, as well as hundreds of individual lesbians and gays. People in thecommunity have also begun writing tothese prisoners. Linda Evans speculates
on the reason for this involvement:"I think some of that is because
the gay and lesbian movement isextremely under attack, because of
the problems that our community
has with AIDS and because of therise in violence __.and of the increasing sexism in our society in general.
And I think that that means lesbians
and gay people have recognized
that, being under attack, we have tofight back: T

Santa Cruz AIDS Project1606 Soquel Avenue
Santa Cruz, CA 95062
Project Open Hand
2720 17th St.
San Francisco, CA 94110
Shanti Project525 Howard St.
San Francisco, CA 94105
AIDS Service Provider Association of
the Bay Area
10 United Nations Plz, Suite 200
San Francisco, CA 94102
San Francisco AIDS Foundation
P.O. Box 6182
San Francisco, CA 94101-filed from New York

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BY

Dear Brad:

One night about two weeks ago
my roommate Todd came in andannounced that he'd experienced a"sudden and complete loss of faith.and hope." I was on the phone at thetime with this guy, Frank, who I'minterested in and we were trying todecide on a movie so I wasn't in themood for one of Todd's creepy jokes
and I told him so. He sighed (not too
obvious, huh?) and flopped down in
the easy chair and just stared, at me
until I hung up. I asked him what
happened this time and Todd said that
nothing had happened and that was
the point because nothing was evergoing to happen, that life was simply
a series of bleak disappointinents that
resolved, to the extent they ever reallyresolved, into fatalistic resignation
without any countervailing episodesof genuine happiness. I had to wonder what he expected since he works
in television but I vias in a hurry and·really didn't want to get into all thatFrank and I never did decide on amovie and we ended up renting Beaches
and watched most of it back at his place.
When I got home the next morning,
Todd was still sprawled out in the easy
chair like he hadn't moved since I left. I 'asked if he planned to go to work thatday and he just sighed again and muttered "what's the point?" I told him he'd
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looked at me with those dull, blank eyes.
I had sort of hoped that thiswould pass but for two weeks now
he's been sitting in that chair all nightand day staring at this print of The
Shriek that he put on the wall over
my objections when he first moved
in. He hasn't changed his clothes orshaved and I wasn't sure if he waseating or not until I noticed that jar of
cocktail onions in the refrigerator wasgone. All things considered, I don't
mind too much as long as he's quiet
I mean, when my previous roommate
got involved in that ACf UP thing hekept the telephone tied up for threemonths with supposedly urgent calls
and had these ferocious people coming in and out of the apartment all thetime drinking Rolling Rock and talking loudly about an agenda.
But Frank came by here theother night and he got really spookedby Todd and left in record time. Look,
I understand as well as anybody elsethat we all get a little depressed fromtime to time and I'll even admit that
Todd's life looks pretty pathetic fromalmost any angle but I have to draw
the line when he starts scaring off mydates. Is there some way I can get
him to snap out of this and start acting like a human being again?
AnnoyedDear Annoyed:
You think that's bad? I had aroommate who was a student at F.I.T.
and many's the night I came home tofind all of the floor space taken up
with one of his pattern drafting projects. I tried to be patient, acknowledging that this was important to his
education, but the fact is he neverreally got the hang of it-though he
did come up with one, shall we say,interesting design that used every
known form of dart. Sometimes he'dgo on these compulsive cleaning
raids, scouring the bathroom with
undiluted ammonia until all of theoxygen had been destroyed. Oh, andthere was that Sunday morning, during his short-lived nutrition phasewhen he woke me up at 8 a.m. to eat
oatmeal! I could go on but the point
I'm trying to make here is that we
had to learn to get along with eachother by making compromises. For
instance, I agreed to eat the oatmeal
if he'd agree to move out of theapartment the instant he graduated
and we got on spendidly after that
(notwithstandinga minor disagreement about the security deposit).
Now he lives in another city about
six hundred miles away from here
and I haven't seen him in several
years but you can be assured that if
we ever do speak to each other again
we'll both enjoy a hearty chuckle or
two over those little incidents that,frankly, used to drive us up the wall.
So you see, I bet your story can havea happy ending too.
One more thing: althoughIhaven't had time to check this out
with my experts (owing to some stringent deadl ine pressures from management), I'm almost certain that cocktail
onions don't contain the minimum
recommended daily allowance of vitamins and minerals (I guess I got
something out of that nutrition phase,myself). Perhaps if Todd were eating
a little better he might not feel so out
of sorts. It's worth suggesting .~TI

By Michelangelo Signorlle
How utterly dreary it was last
week when James Revson (Newsday)
wrote a column aU about the murderous Buckleys (Bill and Pat) and thecriticism they've received from me andMichael Musto (Village Voice). He
reprinted some of what Musto (whofirst started on these two over a yearago) and I had separately written
about the highly hypocritical duo:
how right wing' Bill Buckley spends
his dayswriting
homophobic,
AIDSphobic columns for The National
Review, The Daily News and hundredsof other newspapers across the country, while Pat-always calling herself
Mrs. William F. Buckley-runs aroundorganizing AIDS benefits in her constant and successful attempt at good
public relations. (I have often wondered what goes on in their bedroom
at night. I've imagined Pat and Bill sitting up in bed; he's reading Mein
Kampf while she's reading Tbe Daily
News, getting her fix, looking for her
name in the society columns.
She
comes across her husband's politicalcolumn, in which he writes, "AIDS is aself-inflicted punishment brought on
by sex-crazed gay men themselves."
She pouts, turns to her husband andsays: "Oh, shit, Bill! You've written
another nasty thing. Now I'll have tode.' another benefiU" She picks up thephone and dials: "Hello; Peggy
Fleming, it's Pat Buckley. Let's dosome sort of high-visibility ice-skating
benefit together. You know ...the kindof thing that'll get us both lots ofpress ...GreaU")
Anyway, Revson begins his column noting that Pat Buckley is "introuble,· and that her husband's latest
homophobic
tirade "couldn't havecome at a worse time," since she is
now co-chairing (with Peggy Fleming)"Skating for Life,· a benefit for the
Design Industries Foundation For AIDS(DIFFA). He then talks about how
Musto and I have been documenting
the duo's hypocrisy and conflict in ourcolumns. But soon, Revson is vigorously defending Mrs. Buckley, talking
about how wonderful she is (as Musto
points out, this is "akin to saying,'Hitler may be a monster, but Eva
Braun sure looked fabulous the othernight,' and 'Eva's okay. She just held apress conference to announce that shehelped an old Jew cross the street'").
Revson speaks as if benefit dollar figures is the only important issue
swirling around this crisis. So, as Pat
raises more dollars and gets the name
"Buckley· associated with goodness,her husband keeps up his slaughteringways, influencing the Right and thelawmakers to strip oppressed communitieseven further of our basic civil

Plain and simple, Buckleyabhors us, including
William Norwich, Liz
Smith and Jim Revson.
rights; to discriminate against people
suffering from a disease; to keep us
from having the right to do with ourbodies-whether
its a butt fuck or an
abortion-what
we please; to inhibit
our freedom of speech and to evenprevent us from creating art! Without
protected legislation arid the ability tolive·a life without/ear, who needs tois
drop-in-the-bucket blood money?
Revson, in fact, missed the markcompletely,
since it was not Pat
Buckley whom my attacks directly targeted, but rather gossip columniS15especially lesbian and gay ones-who
keep feeding into the Buckley propoganda machine. And it's obvious
Revson himself is being very careful
about
offendingthe Almighty
Buckleys, lest he not get invited totheir next party. He says that Bill
Buckley is "misguided, misinformed
and mistaken." This is the most carefully-worded drek I've heard in years.
And it's a lie! Buckley is not at aU
minsinformed or misguided. He has
aU of the most up-to-date information
on AIDS at his fingertips. We're nottalking about some fifth grader here.
Buckley knows exactly what he's
doing. He has an agenda, and you'dbetter believe it includes passive (oreven active) genocide. Plain and simple, he abhors us (including William
Norwich, Liz Smith and Jim Revs.on).
Revson teUs us that Pat Buckley"obviously doesn't share [her husband'sl views.·
And yet, she gave
Revson no comment when .he asked
her what she thought of her husband's
remarks. So, what makes her viewsso "obvious?" Just because she does
benefits? Coors beer also does AIDS
benefits in order to gloss over the factthat the company and its owners aremonstrous homophobes. And I don't
accept the fact that Mrs. Buckley had
nothing to say about her husband's
remarks. NO COMMENT. How could
a woman who is chairing an AIDS
benefit have nothing to say about theremarks of someone who is attacking
people with AIDS? Revson has a surefire, totally-sexist answer: "She...is in
no position to publicly criticize him.·
Why is a woman "in no position" todisagree with her husband?
How
could Revson assume that wives
shouldn't "disobey" ·their. husbands orshouldn't 'speak against them? Oh,maybe they're just old-fashioned, oldmoney; the kind of family where theman makes the opinions, the woman
stays quiet. This would be following
protocol. But see, I don't have time
for this garbage. MY FREINDS ARE
DYING. I can't sit around while
white, rich, privileged, heterosexual
Pat Buckley plays out some sick,
oppressive game with her husband in
1989 in the middle of an epidemic.
But maybe Jim Revson has that time.
Or does he? Do any of us?
Revson told me he doesn't reallythink William F. Buckley and his kindof ranting really has that much of aneffect on the public's or our lawmakers' thinking anyway. This from aman who himself put his body on theline and was arrested in ACT UP's City
Hall demo last March. JIM, DON'T
YOU REALIZE THAT THE REASONYOU HAD TO BE DRAGGED ACROSSA STREET,HAND-CUFFED, BOOKED,FINGER-PRINTED AND HELD IN A
CELL WAS DIRECTLY BECAUSE OF
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Social Terrorism

pbotos by Erich ConradT,

DEBBIE REYNOLDS WRAp
UI •• t Love M.chlne

LOOK MOM, NO TEETH
Sue Nicely at Love Machine

YOU OVER THERE, COME HERE
Kurt at Kevin McHugh's Bowery party

NOSE JOB?
Haoul Montaug & Michael Schmidt at
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STUNTMAN TOM EUBANKS RECREATESHIS MOST FAMOUS STUNTON ARTIST MARTINE-BEARDCLEANER
Kevin McHugh's Bowery party

THE LOVELY...THE LEG~NDARY •••Myra Field .t Kevin McHugh's party

WHERE DID SHE GET THOSE PUMPSJo}o at the Bowery

FINE FEATHEREDFRIEND
Big Bird at the World

THE WORLD OF HETEROSEXUALSIS A SICK AND BORING UFE
Johnny Dixon at the Wah Wah Hutt~

RESPONDING TO RICHARD
HEAlEY'S MATING CAll I
Larry Tee at Love Machine
MAfINGCAU

THE WEE HOURS OF WOOINGRichard Healy at MK

The McHugh twins on the Bowery

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Film

Diverse Visions
by Karl SoehnleinItnhe world of independent film,
Apparatus Productions is unique.
Started three years ago toaddress the lack of organizations
existing purely to help filmmakers
make films, Apparatus has served asboth a specific means of production
and a general inspiration for a wave
of first-time directors across the coun-try. The most recent works producedby this fledgling organization premiere this week. The three films
being screened are a testament not
only to the diverse visions of theirrespective directors but also to theskill and savvy of their producers,
Apparatus founders Barry Ellsworth,
Todd Haynes and Christine Vachon.
BrookeDammkoehler's
La
Divina begins with a shot above theclouds, the symbolic point of view,
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fictional, Garbo-esque screen goddess. La Divina is a fans-eye view ofthe lush beauty and tormented psyche of its subject. From her roots as abarbershop soap-girl through her rise
to fame on the silver screen and ultimately her abandonmentof it all,Divina is an heroic figurine-painted
as both a misunderstoodartistic
genius and a vain, fragile doll. The
film portrays the offscreen melodrama of the star's life as well as "recreating" scenes from her "fiIms"blurring the line between the actressand the roles she played, between
illusion and reality.
This narrative ambiguity borders
on the frustrating as the film turns its
swirling focus to Divina's love life.
Shown often
in the company
ofanequally stunning woman,she seems to
be living as alesbian, telling
pestering
reporters that
she's a "bachelor" and will
never marry.
Toward
the
end,
she
dumps
her
companion
and gives in toa male co-star,a relationshipshown earlier
to be fabricated by thepress.
The
implications
are unc1earare we meant
to see Divina's
self-destructed
love life as anactress's victimization by
the studio sys-

Michelle Sullivan in La Divina
tern, or as a calculated choice madeby an ambitious star? Leaving its contradictions intact, La Divina remains a
provocative
film as it fluctuates
betweendefendingthe womanbeneath the legend, and adding fuelto the oppressive bonfire of stardom. .
A variation on a similar themt;,
Tbe Twentieth Anniversary Reunion
Concert of BIG CHARACTER POSTER(yes, that's the title) also uses a documentary technique to tell the story of
a fictional entity, in this case theChinese rock group Big Character
Poster. However, where La Divina
employs the breathy look of a 30s
melodrama, BCP is strictly March ofTime Newsreel. Through the allknowing voice of an American malenarrator, we are told the story of thisgroup's ups and downs as determinedby the changing political climate of
China over the last 20 years. The
film's tone is tongue-in-cheek humor(the group's original name was the
Tienanmen Squaresj its sleazy manager is named Double Chin), .but its ultimate goal is satire-bothof theyo-yo-like pattern of Chinese politics
and the similarly absurd United States,relationship to it all. Directed by Alvin u'timately. a beating, for telling what
his father is certain is a lie. This simple
Eng and Melissa Cahill, and madestory ·is a concise metaphor for thatwith a mostly Asian-American castand crew, Big Character Poster is a moment of knowledge when children
skeptical and endearing
look by see and understand more than they
are supposed to, and the adult denial
young people at their foreign roots.
and backlash which follows. The film
The third film b.eing showntakes the series from the realistic to exacts its own justicej however, when
the fantastic. Director Mary Hestand's
Davey catches his father in a lie andHe Was Once turns inside out the TV turns the tables ori him.
He Was Once is ultimately more
exploitsof Davey and Goliath(remember the little c\aymation boy than just a revenge-of-the-nerd fantaand his dog?) and the "upstanding"sy. Through two black-and-whitefamily morality it spews forth. The
dream sequences, Hestand supplies
film is visually brilliant, with sets thather film with a dark subco{lscious. She
are part cartoon, part kitsch and partgathers up the 'repressed trauma ofadolesq:nce and brings it to the sur~
Tbe Cabinet of Dr. Ca~igari: cheerfully colored, cardboard
cut-out
face, empowering her "child" characbuildings mask a dark world where . ters with a mqral strength that they areinnocence is squashed in the hands
usually denied. Without ever gettingof aduJ't authority. Likewise, cosheavy-handed, He Was Once chillingly
tumes and props are oversized andexposes family power dynamics, andspecific (Dad sports a portrait of offers an alternative "happy ending."
Jesus on his belt buckle). Most telling
Sbowtimes. Saturday, Nov. 4th, twoof all, in this twisted -family tale theshows. 8 pm and 10 pm. Sunday, Nw.
adults are played by children and the 5th, two shows. 8pm and 10 pm. Friday,
children tby adults.
Nov. 10th, 10 pm. Saturday, Nov. 11th,
The basic plot: young Davey sees
10 pm. Sunday, Nau. 12th, two shou;s. 5 .
a bear on the street and tells his fami- pm and 9.30 pm. Monday, Nov. 13th,ly, only to be met with disbelief, andtwo sJiows, 7pm and 9.30 pm. ..,.

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Film

Wedding Bell Blues
by Peter Bowen

W

hile "the course oftrue love never did
run smooth," in mostHollywood films, it nevertheless usually runs into. marriage. And here,
Nancy Savoca's pseudo-realistic debut
film not only chronicles the marriage
of a low.er-middle-class Italian couple
living in the Bronx, but it was also
conceived of and final\y ..
producedby Savoca~itA..
and her co-writer andhusband, Richard Guay.
But unlike most films inwhich a rocky adven'\ture finally brings someunwilling and unlikely
couple to the altar, True
Love has less to do withromancethanwithsocially enforced organization by which heterosexual coupling islegit,imized in this culture. Starting with avideotape screening of
the featured couple's

almost-ethnographic
style whichframes the film directs our attention to
the cultural context that determines
the film's matrimonial
outcome.
Following a cinematic tradition of
local realism in which cultural stereotypes are rendered with painstaking
detail, True Love suggests that knowing the "Italianness" of the couple, as'well as the couple's family andfriends, is essential to understanding
the strange ritual of marriage whichbinds the community, as well as thecouple, together.
Rather than complicate the representation of a lower-middle-class
Italian community by depicting possible contradictions within the social
structure-say,for example,
byincluding the possibility of a lesbianor gay person-thefilm prefers tosafely distanceits. audience
by
(

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r

e.ngagement par~y, the THE FETISHIZATION OF MARRIAGE
film moves
like a.
.
.
' t thh thKelly Clnnante and Annabella Selorra In True LOllec h ec kl IS
rougefinancial obligations and emotionaldelighting in the odd and obvious rithurdles which a couple trample downuals which precede'the marriage. The
on their way to the honeymoon hotel.
soon-to-be wife, Donna, concentrates
Yet while the marriage of Donnaon color coordination (Will the blue
(Annabella Sciorra) and Mike (Ronmashed potatoes match the pastel
Eluard, who,--by coincidence?-isblue tuxedos
and bridesmaid's
currently starring in the theatrical pro- uniforms?) and on coordinating theirduction of Tony and Tina's Wedding)features (What will their apartment
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after his bachelor's party?). On themale side, the jocular jock Mike
prefers to shrink his groom (andgroomed) responsibilities by dashing
off to Atlantic City in a drunken stateand by planning to spend his wedding night hanging out with the boys
at a local bar watching, of all things,
The Honeymooners.
At points the film seems ready, if
not to change the stern course of"true love,· then at least to muddy thewaters. For example, Donna's friend,].C. (Star JasPer), whose alcoholic parents show another side to married
life, actually rejects a marriage proposal in favor of living on her own
with a 12-year-old child. And while
the boys band together under a certain misogynistic logic-"He doesn't
want to be with no girls; he is goingto marry a girl"-the women in one
scene vent theiranger and anxiety
at a local park byhurling empty beerbottlesattheunprotectedstonecock of an immense
statue.
Yet try as• they don't,the'couplefear witheach new financial,obligation(triplerings, Jesus headornaments for ush. ers,
priestrehearsals, flowers,
apartments) that theimpending wedding
leaves no way out.
Such a complaint,
however,against marriage-as well as a filmic
fascination with it-is only for the
benefit of the privileged. For unless
you're in Denmark, no lesbian or gay
couple need ever squabble over thecolor of mashed potatoes at theirwedding reception. While obviously
there are many, committed, long-term
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Film

Ars longa, vita brevis
by Marla Maggenti
he AIDS crisis grimly moves
into its ninth year and there. is nothing but an exasperated sigh from the UnitedStates government
and a·what me worry?" shrug from the
medical-industrial
complex. Meanwhile, people with AIDS continue tomake an indelible mark on the cultural landscape. In a way, it is almost
miraculous--the most reviled, misrepresented and misunderstood of a society actually become expressions ofthat which is the most exquisite, themost complex and the most genuineof the human experience. However,
the mainstream media establishment
has not been a reliable source for the
pictures being created by those of us
in the AIDS community, and thus,
alternative venues and experimental
artistic forms are often surprising anddeeply resonant places for us to see
something that looks like us. Film
especially serves as both a mirror anda window reflecting those things wealready know and revealing those
things, we are often afraid to look at.
AIDS, a disease of the body and the
body politic, a disease which is supposed to intensify nothing but ourhistoric fear and loathing about ourphysical selves, is a peculiarly challenging subject for the filmmaker andbit by bit filmmakers seem to be rising to that challenge, though notalways in predictable ways.
Tania Cypriano's film VIVA EU!
(Long Live Met) is a bold and complex
short film exemplifying why film is so
enduring a medium for the tnost difficult and the most subtle of emotions.

T

Described as a "dramatized documentary, " VIVA EU! attempts to examine
the life of Wilton Braga, a Brazilian
gay man with AIDS who, at the timeof the film, had been living with AIDS
for almost eight years. Braga was oneof the first people in Brazil diagnosed
with AIDS and in the opening
sequence he rutninates on this fact
while nursing what seems like only
one in a long series of drinks at a
local bar. Cypriano and Braga engage
in a dialogue that allows Braga morethan the usual coy acceptance of acamera in his face as do so many"talking head" documentary subjects.
He poses, prances and does a "secondtake" when he spills his drink on thebar. The "audience" seems comprisedof those ·of us watching the film,
Cypriano, who is holding the cameraand even Braga himself who, withgreat aplomb, generally acts like thestar in his own movie.
Cypriano departs from traditional
documentary in that instead of theusual this-is-what-happened-to-thisperson narrative that is a staple indocumentary film, she uses the camera subjectively to create not only asense of Braga's realities but his fantasies as well. Thus we are not always
sure if what we are seeing is "true" or
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Art

Plugging, Porking, Poking
men can be nothing less than the"Song of Survival."
Veins of this same loud affirmation of gay male sexuality are to befound both figuratively and literally inAndy Warhol's 1978 ·Sex Parts."
These six screen prints-starkinmedium as well as in their graphic
depiction of anal sexual desire-arenotable for lines and shadows which
by Jon Nalley
call to mind the very movement andrhythm of ·plugging," ·porking" or·poking."
naugurating Wessel O'Connor
Cindy Sherman's untitled collage
Gallery's new space, To Probe &photo betrays the very worst of North
To Pusb: Artists for Provocation
American culture. The flotsam and jetshould be viewed more as a harbinger
sam of this discarding society comeof 1990s social and political ferment
together in a crescendo of debris. As
than an exhibition. Representing nott!dcan be seen easily on any street
artist and Gran Fury AIDS activist
curb-notto mention Sherman's
Donald Moffett, Wessel O'Connor has
work---throwaways include people. In
not shied away from controversy.
her ensemble of images, the tackiness and tragedy of our society
is sorely evident. This is particularly so in the societal role andstatus accorded women-in a terrain of few options
whore
screams out louder than madonna in this exploration. Yet, thelipstick-smeared face of the sex
dolls represents more than refuse.
It shouts bloody murder to rapeand violation in a society built on
brutality and exploitation. Suchviolation can be seen in terms ofsexism alone, although a generalview would be more to the point.
Sherman has hit on something,
and that is the realization that the
party's over. Gains made over the
space of U.S. history-andnotjust the 30s New Deal and the
60s tumult-are
to be violated
HYMN OF HATRED, SONG OF SURVIVAL
Photo: IL Litt and lost forever if a stand is not
Donald Moffett
taken. Artistic freedom is only
one example.
presents the viewer with. a wonderfulIndeed, Probe & Push has brought"We Get Exploded Because Theyly aggressive and offensive explotogether ten artists not known for
Have Money and God in Theirration of sexuality and lust---two closeshrinking in the face of controversy.
male torsos, defiant and beautiful in Pockets," testifies again to the imporOn the contrary, several have prosubmission only to themselves! The tant role of color. The starkness of thevoked bitter debates in official andred and black in Barbara Kruger's
representation of this affirmation andcreative circles-focusing
worldwide
sexual expression by lesbians and gay explosive work on paper captures theattention to basic principles of "freedom of expression."
Donald Moffett'S 1989 cibatransparency, "Hymn of Hatred, Song ofSurvival," is refreshing in its unselfconscious homoeroticism. In unambiguous blue and black, Moffett has
powerfully laid the threat to lesbian
and gay existence
posed by the"Hymn of Hatred" at the feet of theviewer. Representing the nightmare
potential in the political and religious
rights' strategy of denial for the lesbian and gay community, "Hymn" isan indictment of this assault which
San Antonio-born Moffett calls "flatout murderous in a time when information and education can literally
save lives."
Yet Moffett's work goes muchfurther than defensive bemoaning ofsuch ominous scenarios. Rather, it

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excitement of 80s downtown culturalactivism. Incorporating activist graphic, this is an apt and thoughtful exploration of patriarchal oppression's
inherent connections-whetherinmanifestations of capital or religion.
Ambivalence toward a Romance
Catholic upbringing is very much apart of Andres Serrano's life andwork as, indeed it was for Robert
Mapplethorpe.
Thus the irony ofProbe & Push's placing their workside by side in this exhibit. Serrano's
Cibachrome print "Red River Y" isindicative of his work's versatility
and power. In Mappelthorpe's untitled mixed media construction withlamp from 1970, one peeks into
organized religion's very deepest anddarkest corners. Can the coveredeyes of Jesus in the botanica figurine
and in the painting
covered toopaqueness speak to its silence andinaccessibility? Definitely, this construction-in
its deep colors, heavy
wood, devotional
candles,andincluded religious artifacts such as a
medallion and bottle of holy anointing oil-explore
the very meaning ofritual and its place in society.

A

lmost
leading to anothergreat Chicago fire, Dread
Scott's·What
is theProper Way to Display a U.S. Flag?" isincluded in Probe & Push. In spite ofCongress' new law on flag desecration, one still must walk upon the flag
to write one's impressions-unless
you have a steady and strong hand.
Mike Bildo's urinal sculpture "NotDuchamp," is based on an earlier
work by Marcel Duchamp which
stunned the art community at the1917 Arsenal show. This exhibition
actually provides a "take-home" inFelix Gonzalez-Torres' untitled ink on
paper. With a tad of Times newsprint
spit on 23" X 29" sheets, GonzalesTorres speaks volumes on the very
decadence of America's resource priorities and allocation.
Power in substance comes to thefore in Larry Johnson'S two untitled1988 C prints about John-John and
Bobby. Text dichotomized into different shades and colors about 19-year-

WE GET EXPLODED BECAUSE THEY'VE GOT MONEY AND GOD IN THEIR POCKETS
Barbara Kruger
Phot~:lL Littold John-John ("built like a brick shithouse, nipples round and rare as
Kennedy half dollars") and 22-yearold "lovable day tripper and night
stalking goon" Bobby couples life in
the mall-cultured Empire with loudassertions of gay identity which compare and contrast favorably withthose of Moffett and Warhol. With references to John-John's "masturbatory
frenzy" and "ejaculating
cock,"
Johnson's work is the very reality
with which the ideology of "Hymn ofHatred, Song of Survival" must deal.
Johnson'S work is most telling

about the coming storm. It is exactly
this America-theland of shopping
malls, tract .colonials and parking
lots-which is going to have to wakeup or kill us by their very complacency. This 30-year-old Cal Arts alumfrom L.A., in his typical medium, hasbrilliantly captured the deep cleavages of our society. In this as-of-now
privileged art world milieu, Push &Probe brings together the nascent discussion and expression and emerging
patterns of a coming decade which
will make the turmoil and energy of
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Crimes of Humanity
by Jamie LeoAfter
the initial shock of seeing Sue Coe's
exquisite and horrifying new show Porkcpolis at
S1. Etienne, I left feeling an affinity for AIDS
activists' broader concerns with rights and needless suffering.

People opposing the meat industry have many powerful facts: Big Mac, with precious few nutrients usable to its
consumer, costs around $lO/lb (hamburger would cost
$35/1b without tax subsidies). The single largest buyer ofmeat: the militaryj number two is McDonald's. If Americans
reduced their meat intake by ten percent, the 60 million
pecp/e who will staroe to death this year could befed. Ninety
percent of usable protein is wasted in cycling grain into
livestock. Fifty-five percent of diets with meat have pesticide
residues,
comparedto
11 percent
onvegetables/fruits/grain. For ranches, rain forests are leveled,forcing 24 species into extinction daily, with fewer than
one percent of their pharmaceutical potential examined.
Fifty-five percent of all u.s. antibiotics are fed
to livestock. From this statistical landscape Coe
portrays Iowa, Tucson Dawn, Detroit , and. NYC's meat market.
Her stockyards make unavoidable connections visually and ethically to Palestinian concentration camps, African "home"lands, AIDS
conditions and how greed has impacted corporate/government's reluctance to finance many
decent humane projects. Coe's new work portrays criminal industrialists (not unforgivably
pillaging earth and human resources by squan'h dering
trill ions of dollars into paranoiac
weaponry), but standing proudly atop a mass
grave of animal flesh, holding symmetricalbags of loot dripping blood. Instead of billionsof research dollars perverted for the genetic
mangling of livestock and poultry (described in
Future Genetics, Inc., Pig Improvement
Company), her work asks what marvels could
have been found if the food industry (andindeed celebrated chefs) had invested even afraction of the effort to develop recipes andtechnologies to tantalize the public with vegetable/soy -meats" Cunningly, the meat industry has made sure that for millions Beef Is For
Real People, looking upon soy/vegetableproducts as foolish, less credible, less virtuous
than an industry that must pay people outrageously high salaries to be henchmen andhenchwomenj
electrocuting,bludgeoning,
drugging, castrating and forcing inseminationon countless terrified animals and birds, movingly described in the numb faces of Coe's
blood-drenchedworkers (Pecking Order,
Scalding Tank).
With graphite skies resembling diner grills,
S.. PORKOPOUS on page 61

W.II Street M.king • Killing, Sue Coe

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November 5. 1989

©Sue CoeMusicStrange Places
by Victoria Starr

L

aurie Anderson has always
had her silly side. Like thetime she cartwheeled onto thestage of the Beacon Theater at a 1987
AIDS benefit and declared, "Now thatI'm 40 years old, I don't knowwhether I feel more likefour ten-year-olds,
or tenfour-year-olds." Or the linefrom Home of the Brave
where she asks, "Que es
mas macho, Iightbulb or~Ievator?· But I should have
known this could get deep
when, in an old videotaped
interview, she described
how as an art critic in college, she drove her editor
mad. "I used to critique:every artist by comparing
them to Picasso, saying'This artist, like Picasso,
uses the color purple.'
When he finally sent one of
my articles back arguingthat not every artist was like
Picasso, I rewrote the article. 'This artist, unlike
Picasso ..,'"As the mother of performance art as we know ittoday, it is only fitting that
Laurie Anderson be the one
to constantly redefine thegenre and its role. Her previous work has offered

and alienation.
There is no such confusion, however, with Anderson's new work,
exhibited in her performance Empty
Places, which opened the Brooklyn
Academy of Music's Next WaveFestival, and in Strange Angels, her
new release on Warner Brothers.
As I witnessed Empty Places, I
was immediately struck by the urgent

vis~al a~d aural stimulation ·YOU Will READ MY UPS·
which IS so full of "stuff".
that it has still not been bun, And,rson
fully digested. Reading like a Godard
simplicity of the piece. Gone were thefilm (and in fact appropriating his
spinning satellite disks, and the flashlines from time to time), her writinging video screens filled with Laurieand composing has captured the
doodles and computer-ease.
Gone
quintessence of postmodernism, andwere the ringing telephones, the men
one wonders sometimes if the bounty
with forks, the static. -Instead, oneof ideas whizzing past on stage arewoman, one synthesizer, three mikes.
truly meant to interrelate, or if theIt was as if she was saying, "You will
point is simply one of fragmentation
read my lips."

The video screens themselves, ofcourse, were still there. Only this timethey were filled with low-tech reality:
the flashing reds of traffic lights framing the too oft-seen wooden horses
which read "Police Line-Do
Not
Cross." Or anonymous legs and feet
shuffling past ona crowded street. Or
the cold starkness of barren streets inthe city night. These images, when
juxtaposed against Anderson's typically wry but
astute humor, gave analmost "can we talk" feeling to her monologues.
"There are some who
feel that politics and music
don't mix,· she opened,
then cracks a Sonny Bonojoke. "But as you see more
and more musicians get-··ting involved with politics,
you/II ·also notice that more
and more politicians are
becomingmusically
inclined." She then goeson to explain how Hitler,
Mussolini and Reagan have
all used particular vocal
patterns to evoke emotionsin their IIstiners. "When
Ronald Reagan has tomake a point, he gets very,
very close to the mike,very intimate, and he starts
singing to you. What he's
singing is, 'When' you wish
upon a star..,'".
As in previous work,
Laurie constantly points
out ·the eccentricities
ofeverydaylife. She isamused, for example, atthe routine in which ballpark audiences strain to cling to the melody of"The Star-Spangled Banner,·strangelittle song written about a fire. Even
more amusing is her recitation of the
lyrics to the B-side, "Yankee Doodle.""If you can understandthat,· she
quips, ·you can understand anything
SII EMPTY PLACES on pagl 61aNovember 5. 1989

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Performance\

Rhinestone Cowboy
quency of a minor when the relationship he had with a teenager became
known to the parents. He served afour-year sentence. Immediately after
being released, he tried to regain his
stride playing state fairs and the like,but he was run off the stage. He realized he'd gone through a change andfound a home in Manhattan.
"I had some eye-opening experiences while I was in Fayette Federal
Prison. I saw that men-loving-men
wasn't something to be ashamed of,"he says. After a pause, he raised his
hand for emphasis. "I'm not on nosoap box. It's not what I am, it's what
I like. Before that revelation, I spentyears in an alcohol and drug-induced
stupor."Since this penal colony re-birth,
Gacey has sung the glorious history"Steaming Off the Coast of VietNam,"about Gacey's personal experienceson those floating cities of men, a beehive of buddies and special friendships. Then there's the poignant story
e stands there, the pointedof his cousin, who has discovered
toes of his burgundy bootsthat by wearing his wife's pearls andtapping off the count for the
fancy-dress gown he can still "lightnext song. He still has the down-home,
up a room.· Meanwhile,the sonregular-Joe quality that folks compared
protests to his mother "it ain't fair/to the likes of Tom T. Hall and Merle
Daddy gets to go out/ with diamonds
Haggard. He has also kept the Signaturein his hair."fleurs-de-lis of green sequins on his suit
But it is not all sadness andand the rhinestone-studded guitar strap
grumbles as anyone who has heard
with his name, Gacey. It's New York's
his spirited rendition of "Boys! Boys!
only queer pederast cowboy, Gacey
Boys!," celebrating some of God's litFelts.
tle blessings, wi1I tell you. And, of"Hey! How ya doin'?" The towercourse, there's his most popular
ing man surveys the room as he greets
song, the show-stopping
stomp "0his audience from atop the make-shift
Could Get Me a Jane, But) I'd Rather
stage of two office desks. "You're.?Have Me a Dick." The last perforgood audience. Yes, you
mance, though, wasare. And you know,
school night, so hethat's something that nodidn't have his usual
one can take away frompick-up band, butyou." Out from under
the taperhythmhis black hat glows a
track was just fine.
shit-eatin' grin.
As his probation
He starts his openends, Gacey will be
ing son, "S&M Cowboy,"performingonwhere he extols theNovember 6th, for
manly pleasures of those
CowboyJohn's"rough riding Venus-inCountry Mondays atFurs.· It's a thin line
King Tut's Wah-Wah
between love and hate
Hut on Avenue A atin the West and there
7th Street. He's curexists a different set of
rently working on apriorities. "Just show' me
single of "Jane/Dick"
your spurs/ And I'll calland says he plans a
you 'sir// 'Cause that's
tour as soon as hewhere this cowboy isfinds a new back-up
at." Ever since he hadband. "I spend most.
ofmy free time drivtha~ misund~rstanding"I'D RATHER HAVE ME A DICK"
Photo: Mr. lOUIse ing the highways of
whIch got hIm sent up G
F Its
the river (which he docIcey e
our great land. You
uments in this touching ballad "Santa of "men-loving-men" throughout the can ~lways find a few 'long hairs' who
Smiled"), Gacey Felts has decided to back room bars of America. "Birth of think it's excitin' being on the road."take his no-holes-barredshow to a Nation" is a· song he learned over Asked the secret of his recent success,wherever he'll be accepted.
his Daddy's knee about Grandad's
he replies with a wink, "A van with a
In 1979, at the height of his
loss of his "special buddy· in thegood stereo system, a waterbed, a few
career, Gacey was arrested outside of trenches of the War to End All Wars. back issues' of Penthouse· and a six
Nashville for contributing to the delinOf more
recentwars
there'spack usually does the trick." ...

by Rick Sugden

H

60 . OUTTWEEK

November 5, 1989

EMPTY PlACES from paga 59

going on in the avant-garde today:
Unlike previous work, however,both Empty Places and Strange
Angels do more than simply tap reality on the shoulder and wave. Laurie
now places herself squarelyincharge. An example is the song
·Beautiful
Red Dress," where awoman in red shoes, a red dress and·bright red, drop dead lips" reviews
her condition. Calling it her "on-therag song," she sings, "They say
women shouldn't be president cause
we go crazy from time to time. Wellpush my buttons baby, here I come:
Mindful of the economics behind thisthought she adds, ·Well I could justgo on and on, but... hey ladies, we
can take it,... and if we can't we canfake it We can make it, and if we
can't, we can take it"
Beyond being upfront, Laurie's
work now seems more emotional, due
in part to the fact that she has becomea singer. Relying less on the voicealtering electronics she normally incorporates, Laurie's soft voice is also a
sharp contrast to the sobering images
TRUE LOVE frompagll 54

she displays on stage. And if emotional
is not a word that has ever been used
to describe her work before, it is withgreater surprise that we feel warmed
by this step closer to the artist
A new cohesiveness strengthens
Strange Angels and Empty Places, as if
the thousands of splinters of thoughtthat have previously kept us entertained to the point of overload are
now weaving together some larger
whole. But don't expect too muchmethod to Laurie's madness. For as
she explained in Elle this month, •...if
more women wrote history books-or
made history-we'd
discuss thehuman condition in terms of a certain
kind of biological insanity. To me it
would be extremely interesting torespect and celebrate that energy,
becauseit's very crazy. Women
understand that" T
While Empty Places has closed, theNext Wave Festival continues, featuring a number of other important
artists .For further
information:
Brooklyn Academy of Music, 718/
636-4100.
PORKOPOUS

from paga 58

lesbian and gay couples, there are
streams of greasy black printers' ink,
nonetheless no odd cultural rituals towatercolor and gouache in blacks andtransform them-at least in the eyes
grays, with only an occasional bloodof the I.R.S. and insurance compared (Wall Street-Making
a Killinlf) ,nies-into
an entirely new entity.
or a pink-fleshed pig (Auction), Coe's
While homosexuality might indeed
two-year chronicle of stockyards withseem an even stranger ritual in the . her sister Mandy, constitutes sobering
Bronx, marriage is what makes thisimages that shame, inform, and plead
lpeal ·tribe" strange.
compassion. Often her visual descripAlthough the film's fetishizations resemble 1920's protest draw. tion of marriage overlooks the posings of Theodor
Kittlesen
andsibilty of any' lesbians
or gaysRudolph Wilke's shell-shocked faces,
waiting in the aisles,
its nearless scrawled than Alfred Kubein but
anthropological fix on marriage ritas haunting as Kathe Kollwitz.
uals turns Italian-Americans into a
I've long respected Gary Snyder'sculture almost entirely displaced
analysis of Hitler, suggesting that thefrom the society that surrounds it
industrial age has, even more than the
As with other current films and cermany colonist empires, removed fromtain media
representationofour minds our daily participation in
Bensonhurst in which the ethnicity
crimes of denial and a hatred of truth.
of Italian-Americans is represented
From our indestructible styrofoam
as more a territory than as a tradicoffee cup to the ozone destructiontion, True Love renders this local
involved in xeroxing, implicit arecommunity at once strangely familCoe's global politics of famine, AIDS
iar and culturally foreign.
Underand other acts of carnage (in On thethe scrutinyof such an ethnoBeach a Roger Rabbit bubble gum
graphic gaze, perhaps it is not sowrapper rests under a sea lion suffobad remaining invisible. T
cating from six-pack plastic loops).

Tr

Coe insinuates that an "uber alles·arrogance
is at the center· ofAmerican food production/distribution, (Farmer Johns, Fast Food). I was
painfully reminded of AIDS information that fails to include the PWA's
suffering globally.
As frightened herds look to us
for help, (The Wait, Last Bit ofDaylight) in walls of cage-like stallswith snouts all straining for a breathin her dusty stockyards, Coe directs
us without anthropomorphizing andmore gently than we may perceive.
She quotes, "even the stupidest cow
knows fear.· Through Coe's fine craft
and jarring vision we rediscover ourpotential for decency; leaving shaken, and stronger. T
ARS LONGA from paga 55

not. For instance, there he is in a bar
drinking too much, charming us withhis pontifications. Then we pan acrossa series of his sculptures and costumedesigns. Then he is at a party dancing
and cavorting like any respectable
queen and there he is alone naked in
bed-a bed draped in mosquito netting-and he slips into a shiny silkybright pink caftan and waltzes throughthe streets. The usual documentaryquestions seem entirely irrelevant tothe spirit of this film. Instead,
Cypriano explici~ly avoids commonly
accepted facts for other facts-facts ofthe soul, facts of the naked body, facts
that try to express the essence of a lifethat is self-created against great odds.
Though only 18 minutes long,
there is a feeling in this piece th'at
one has been given almost the wholestory. The essence of the life ofWilton Braga, a gay Brazilian man
with AIDS, is what Cypriario achievesin this "dramatized" documentary. It
is a challenging and sometimes disturbing project that calls into question
not only the meaning and purpose of
documentary, but also the perceptions we may have about reality andfantasy in the lives of people with
AIDS. Cypriano accomplishes a great
deal in this brief but intense portrait- VIVA EU! becomes a testament
to much of what is possible in film
and also what is possible
andstr;ingely
miraculous
about thehuman spirit in wartime. T

November 5. 1989

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COMPANY RESTAURANT Halloween Party Extravaganza,celebrating the 50th anniversaryof The Wizard of Or, "the bar,lounge and dining room will be
be transformed into the Emerald
City and Magickal Land of Oz";live disco, costume contest, door
prizes; 365 3rd Ave (btwn 26/27
St); rsrvtn 532-5222
NEW YORK STRAP & PADDLEASSOCIATION SpankJng andPaddling Party, inviting you to"bend over and take it like aman"; at Cellblock 28, 28 NinthAve (below 14 St); info 733-3144
MARC BERKLEY's Salvatlonl at
Limelight is open tonight withfree admission to those wearing
costumes; entertainment by Boy
Bar Beauties, male and female gogo dancers, DJ Michael Wilson;
660 6th Ave (at 20 St); 807-7850

r//E.I"~'
HAllOWEENJEANNE FLEMING directs the
16th Annual Village Halloween
Parade which "assembles at 6
pm on Sullivan and Dominick Sts.
and 6th Avenue south of Spring
St; starts at 7 pm, moving northon 6th Ave to 14 St, east on 14 St
to Union Square"; the theme thisyear is "Endangered Species: The
Rain Forest" and a benefit party
for the Rainforest Alliance will beheld after the parade at Club Paradise, 15 Waverly (just west of
B'way), $15; parade is free andends by 10 pm; info 226-4676,
914/758-5519 (NOTE: organizers
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daily, noon to midnight, 212-777-1800

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14th Annual VllIage HalloweenBall, outside festivities begin at
6:30 pm, inside at 8 pm; withperformances by many bands,
the Bread and Puppet Theater,
the Ninth Street Theater, Phoebe
Legere, Eduardo Machado, Robert
Patrick; costume parade at 11pm, with judges including
Charles Busch and Councilmember Miriam Friedlander; $15
CEllBLOCK 28 A Night In Black
Leather, 289th Ave (btwn 13/14St), 8 pm - 3 am, $10, 733-3144
OU1WEEK MAGAZINE, 550TOOL, MARS and CHIP DUCKE1T present Trick or Treat
1989, featuring an OutDoor Halloween Carnival (whose proceeds
go to ACf UP) with MoonwaJks,
games of chance and skill, fortune-telling, kissing booth, COllon
candy, more; indoors promises"outrageously undressed go-goboys, dark and cruisy basement
fun, cheap drinks (beer $250,
liquor $350), dancing all night,"
DJ John Suliga; at Rapp Arts Center, 220 E 4 St; 9 pm; $5 withinvite/slightly more without
HAUNTED HOUSE OF flELD At
Mars, with DJs Paul Likins, David
Piccione, Len Whitney, Squidley,
Perfidia; performances by Sister
Codie Ravioli, Jah Easy, Asia
Love, Dog Love, FDR Drive, Jo Jo
and the Jockstraps; special Hair
Ball Competition; dress: Zombies
with Guns; 13 St & West Side
Highway; $10 at door; Mars 6916262
EAGLE BAR Halloween
Contestfor "masculine costumes," 1stprize is $100 US Bond; 142 11th
Ave at 21 St; 12:30 am; 691-8451

November5, 1989

IDENTITY HOUSE Women's
Conference:
Womell Lovlrlg
Womell, three weeks of 23 workshops exploring sexuality, identity, relationships and coming out,ends Nov. 11; today: Organizing
Our Legal Affairs with Linda
Maryanov; 7-8:30 pm; also Radical Diet with Mary Rose Dallal;
7-9 pm; 5446th Ave (btwn 14/15
St); $15 per workshop/$35 forthree/$7 per workshop from the
4th one on; 243-8181
CONGREGATION BE1H SIMCHAT TORAH Jewish Education
Courses; LOnight: Contemporary
Jewish Issues: Black-Jewish Relations at 7 pm, Hebrew Language
Reading Class at 7:30; at 57
Bethune St; info 929-9498
TIlE CENTER FOR CONSTI1UTIONAL RIGHTS Forum on Art
a The Public, asking "What is
public art? What is the difference
between art and interior decoration? Is there a lesbian/gay art?"
at and co-sponsored by the Center; with artists/activists from Art
Positive, New York Native art critic
David Hirsh, art historian Cassandra Langer, and artists Maria C.
Perez, Barbara Sandler, ScOIl
Thcker, Martin Wong; 208 W 13
St, 3rd Floor; 7:30 pm; $2; 6207310
GAY TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
Monthly Meeting, at the Center,
208 W 13 St; 8 pm
GAY & LESBIAN ALUANCEAGAINST DEFAMATION Monthly Me·etlng, at the Center, 208 W
13 St; 8 pm; 966-1700
AMEIDCANFOUNDATIONFOR
AIDS RESEARCH present David
Byrne Rei Momo, a benefit for
AmFAR's International Fund; atRoseland, 239 W 52 St; 8 pm;$50; 719-0033
EAGLE BAR Movie Night: Nightof the Demo1ls; 142 11th Ave (at21 St); 11 pm; 691-8451

IDEN111Y HOUSE Women's
Conference:
Wome1l Loving
Womell, today: Lesbian Identity
Formation,
Part IIwith Beverly
Goff; 7-8:30 pm; see 11/1
JUDIlH'S ROOM BOOKSTORE
presents Mary Galtskill readingfrom Bad Behavior;
681 Washington St (btwn W 10 & Charles
St); 7 pm; free, but seating is limited; 727-7330
GAY WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVE
presents Robin Morgan, feminist
playwright and poet, readingfrom Upstairs in the Garden: New
and Selected Poems and Tbe
Demon Lover: Tbe Sexuality ofTerrorism; at the Universalist
Church, Central Park West at 76
St; 8 pm; $5 (for women only,
meets every first Thursday)
WOW CAFE presents Parlor
by Bayla Travis, about"two of Freud's most alluring
female patients who fall in lovewith each other and live out theirlives in seclusion creating games
for themselves that occasionallytake a dangerous tum"; 59 E 4 St;
8 pm; $5; reservations 460-8067(also Friday and Saturday, $7)Games,

FI/'~'
IDEN111Y HOUSE Women's
Conference:
Wome1l Loving
Wome1l, today: Identity andSexual Attraction with Mary
Wallach and Kathy Gordon; 78:30 pm; also Raising Chlldren
In a lesbian Environment
with
Joan Pozonski and BerniceDambowic; 7-8:30 pm; see 11/1
GAY MEN OF AFRICANDESCENT Discussion:"Finding
Community
In Diversity,·
hosted by the Minority Task Force on
AIDS, to engage members in "ahealthy discussion of the various
images of GMAD"; at 92 St.
Nicholas Ave, "'IB (SE corner of
115 St), 749-2816; 7 pm (NOT the-.;
usua1 8 pm); GMAD info
7181802-0162, 71817~1548
TIlE ANSWER IS LOVING
Women TaIkfng Women's Talk:
MFearwell: What am I afraid of?
How do I deal with it or do I?
Does it govern me? Am I my
own worst enemy? The enemy
within"; led by Ruth Berman andConnie Kurtz; Sheepshead Bay,
Brooklyn; 7:45-10 pm; $8;
718/998-2305
MEN OF AlL COLORS TOGE'IHER Consciousness
RaIsing Session: "Prejudice + Power Racism: Does It Always Add
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personal experience to deal withquestions of power, privilege,
guilt, responsibility, viaimizationand self-hate; at the Center, 208 W
13 St; 7:45 pm; 222-9794, 245-6366
CENTERSHOWS presents Mecca,
a new-music ensemble performing works from Barber,
Copeland, Thompson and Diamond; at the Center, 208 W 13 St;
8 pm; $12; 620-7310
WOW CAFE presents Parlor
Games, see Thursday, 11/2
WNET-1V/13 Great Performances. the Uncoln Center
productionof Our TOWft, with
Spalding Gray, Eric Stoltz, andPenelope Ann Miller; 9-11 pm(repeats Monday, 11/6, 11:30 pm)
COLUMBIA GAY AND LFSBIANAlLIANCE First Friday Dance,with DJ and dandng upstairs,social lounge downstairs; at Earl
Hall, Columbia U., 116 & B'way(#1/#9 train); 10 pm - 2 am; 8543574

WOMEN ABOUT Cut-off Date
for Central Park ZOO trip, 8742104
IDENTIlY HOUSE Women's
Conference:
Wommr Lovl"gWommr, today: FriendshipIn
Our Life Part n with Alice M.
Tuohey, 11:30 am - 1:30 pm; also
lesbian Relationships-Boundaries and Merging, Part I (PartII on Nov. 11), with Arleen Banler and Madeline Price, 6-7:30
pm; see 11/1
SAGE ·Brunch at I.a Cascadacafe, for a "festive south-of-theborder-style meal"; 132 9th Ave

at 18 Sti noon or 2 pm seatingi$9i 741-2247
CENTERSHOWS presents Mary
Cleere Haran, cabaret star,
before her opening at the Algonquin; at the Center, 208 W 13
Sti 8 pm; $10; 620-7310
WOW CAFE presents Parlor
Games, see Thursday, 11/2
CONGREGATION BETII SIMCHAT TORAH Winter FUm Festival: Gmrtlm'lIn,'s Agremrtmrt,
at 57 Bethune St (near West St), 8
pm, $4 (includes free popcorn &soda),929-9498
LESBIANS UNI'ffiD and TIIECENTER Women's Dance, withDJ Karin WArd; 208 W 13 Sti 9
pm - 1 am; $8 generaV$6 members, seniors, students; 620-7310(Note: begins a new series ofmonthly dances and socials for
women and their friends)
SPECfRUM DISCO presents The
Village People, singing all theirclassics; 802 64th St, Bay Ridge,
Brooklyn (N train to 8th Avestop); opens at 9 pm; 71812388213

WOMEN ABOUT Cut-off Datefor Wittenberg
Mt. Hike, 8742104
DIOCESAN EPISCOPAL AIDSCOMMITI'EE AIDS: An Interfaith Service of Hope, for those
whose lives are touched by
AIDS, with the Rt. Rev. Richard
Grein, the new Episcopal Bishop
of New York, and playwright
Harvey Fierstein; at the Cathedralof Stjohn the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Ave at 112 Sti 3 pm(#1/#9 train to 110 St)
CENTERSHOWS presents An
Afternoon with Opera Ebony,
featuring guest soloists andexcerpts from works by Joplin,
Gounod, Weill, and spirituals; at
the Center, 208 W 13 St; 4 pm;$12; 620-7310
HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN
FUND Dinner Dance: "All Partof the FamUy' with pre-election
greetings from David Dinkins;
Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf
Astoria Hoteli 6 pm; $250; info582-8714

GAY PERFORMANCES COMPANY Staged Reading of an original plaYi at the Center, 208 W 13
Sti 7 pmi $3i 595-1445
WNET-1V/13 presents Channel
Crosslngs:A DelJlb i" tbe
Family, "set in New Zealand,
focusing on Andy and his returnfrom overseas diagnosed with
AIDS...the program deals with
Andy's final days and the growthand insight gained by family andfriends"i midnight - 1 am (Editor's
warning: Andy's agonizing deathmay be a bit rough for those who
are too close to this issue)

WOMEN ABOUT Cut-off datefor Beginner Swim Lessons at
YWCA,874-2104
DESIGN INDUSTRIES FOUNDATION FOR AIDS (DIFFA) SkatIng for Life Fundralser,
withcocktail reception, gala skating
performance, formal
dinner/dance; at the 69th Regimental Armory, Lexington Ave &26 St; $125-$1000; 477-1717
WNET-1V/13 Great Performances: the Uncoln Center
productionof Our Toum, with
Spalding Gray, Eric Stoltz, andPenelope Ann Miller; 11:30 pm(2 hours)

N·",OeV~~..,M.' 8 E",R..7

ELECfIONDAY
lliE WEST BANK CAFE DOWNSTAIRSTIiEATRE BAR presents
Ceriai" Doubts, by Richard Willett, concerning "two best friends
from college, Stephen and David,
and the emotional but also
humorous confrontation that
erupts between them when
Stephen announces that he is not
only gay but in love with David,
who is now a somewhat homophobic phys. I;d. teacher"; 407 W
42 St; 8:30 pm; $7; reservations
695-6909 (also plays tomorrow)
CENTER STAGE sees Tommy
Tune's Gra"d Hotel, with Liliane Montevecchi and Keene
Curtis; at the 46th Street Theatre;
8 pm; $6Oi 620-7310

admirersi 28 9th Ave (btwn 13/14
St)i 8 pm - 3 ami $10; 733-3144

NEW YORK CIlY DEPT. OF
rn Conference: The
Impact of AIDS on Women, forwomen's health and social service providers; strategies for prevention, education and carei
practical exchange of information; structured networking
opportunities; at New York
Academy of Medidne, 2 E 103 St;
free; 566-3624, 566-4995

HEAL

PUBUC HEALlli RESEARCH
INSn11.J'ffi Seminar. Understandings
In AIDS Therapy
and Prevention
with Dr.
Anthony Fauci; info 578-0809!

IDENTIlY HOUSE Women's
Conference:
Wommr Lovi"gWommr, three weeks of 23
workshops exploring sexuality,
identity, relationships and coming out, ends Nov. 11i today:
Making Peace wIth Your Body
with Mary Rose Dallal; 7-9 pm;
544 6th Ave (btwn 14/15 St); $15
per workshop/$35 for three/$7
per workshop from the 4th one
on; 243-8181
CONGREGATION BE'IH SIMCHAT TORAH]ewlsh
Education Courses; tonight: Hebrew
Language Reading Class at 7:30;
PrinCiples oj Kasrutb at 7:30; at
57 Bethune St; info 929-9498
CONGREGATION BE'IH SIMCHAT TORAH Seminar: Why
Me? Copi"g with Grief, Loss
and Cbange, with Rabbi Pesach
Kraus, author and Director ofJewish Rabbinic Counseling at
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center; at 57 Bethune St, Westbeth Housing Complex; 8 pm
sharp; 929-9498
GAY MEN'S HEAI.lli CRISIS Men
Meeting Men Workshop,toenhance self-confidence andability to negotiate safer sex withpotential partners; at the Center,
208 W 13 St; 8-10 pm; free; nopreregistration, 807-6655 ('rDD
645-7470)
lliE WEST BANK CAFE DOWNSTAIRS TIiEATRE BAR presents
Certai" Doubts, see Tuesday,lln

CEllBLOCK 28 Hot Ash Party,
for cigar smokers and theirNovember5, 1989 OUT'f'WEEK

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COlll111unity Directory
To list your non-profit
organization in our community directory, call Tom
Eubanks at 212/685-5277.

DIGNITY NEW YORK
lesbian and gay Catholics and friends Aids
Ministry, Spiritual Development The Cathedral Project Worship Services & Social-Sun.
Eves. 7:3Opm-St John's Episcopal Church 218
West 11th Street@Waverly-675-2179

HEAL (Health Education AIDS Uaison)
Weekly info. and support group for treatments
for AIDS which do not compromise theimmune system further, including alternativeand holistic approaches.
Wed 8pm. 208 W. 13th St (212)674-HOPE.

A.C.Q.C.
AIDS CENTER OF QUEENS COUNTYSOCIAL SERVICES • EDUCATION· BUDDIESCOUNSELING· SUPPORT GROUPS
Volunteer Opportunities(718) 896-25OO(voice) (718) 896-2985(TDD)EDGE
For the physically disabled Lesbian and Gay
Community.
(212)989-1921
P.O.Box 305 Village Station, New York, NY
10014

HETRICK-MA"nN INSTITUTE
for lesbian and gay youth. Counseling, drop-in
center (M-F, 3-6pm), rap groups, Harvey Milk
High School, AIDS and safer sex information,referrals, professional education.
(212) 633-8920(voice)(212)633-8926 TTY for deaf

ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unl.I.1I Pow.r)496A Hudson Street. Suite G4 NYC 10014(212)989 -1114
A diverse, non-partisan group of individuals
united in anger and committed to direct action
to end the AIDS crisis. Gen. meetings Mon.
nights 7:30, the Community Center 208 W13th.
ARCS (AIDS-Related Community Services)for Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster and Westchester counties. AIDS
education, client services, crisis intervention,
support groups, case management. buddy and.
hospital visitor program.
214Cental Pw. \M1iIe PIai1s, m llB1i (9141!B34n1&38 Broadway .Newburgh.
122!il (9141$2-5005
AlDSIi.
(914)993_7

m

BAR ASSOClAnON FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
Lawyers Referral
Service for the Lesbian and Gay Community
Full Range of Legal Services (212)459-4873
BAR ASSOClAnON FOR HUMAN RIGHTSFree Walk-in Legal Clinic. Tuesday 6-8 pm
Lesbian & Gay Community Centr. Ground Roor
BODYPOSmVEIf you or your lover has tested HIV+, we offer
support groups, seminars, public forums, reference library, referrals, social activities andup-to- date national monthly, iHE BODY POSITIVE" ($I5/year).
(212)633-1782.
2095 Broadway, Suite 306. . NYC, NY 10023
CIRCLE OF MORE LIGHT
Spiritual support and sharing in a gay/lesbian
affirmative group.
West-Park Presbytarian Church
165 West 86th Street
Wed: worship service 6:30 p.m., program 7:30.
Marsha (212) :J)4-4373 Charlie (212)691-7118.
COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT
208 West 13th Street, NYC, New York 10011
For Appointments and Information (212)6753559 PROVIDING CARING, SENSITIVE AND
LOW COST HEALTH CARE SERVICES TO THE
LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITYCONGREGAnON BETH SIMCHATTORAH
NY's Gay and Lesbian Synagogue Services
Friday at 8:31pm
57 Bethune Street
For info. call: (212)929-9498.

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FBONT RUNNERS
A running club for lesbian and gay athletesof all abilities. Fun Runs of 1-6 miles held every
Sat at lOam and Weds. at 7pm in Central Parkand every Tues. at 7pm in Prospect Park.
For information: call (212)724-9700.
THE FUND FOR HUMAN DIGNITY
National Gay and Lesbian Crisis Une"AIDS 8DIT ... 1-800-S0S-GAYS
Educational Resource Center; Positive Images
Media Center; NY State Arts Program
6ffi B'way Suite 410 NYc, NY 10012 (212)529-1600
THE GAY AFBICAN AMERICANSOFWESTCHES11:R(T1IeG.A.A.)
is a community based support group formed in
Westchester County. Various activities areplanned for the coming months.
Please call 914-376-0727 for more info.
GlAAD
Gay & IAsbian Allianc. Against D.famation
SOVarick Street. NYC 10013 (212)966-1700
GLAAD combats homophobia in the media andelsewhere by promoting visibility of the lesbian
and gay community and organizing grassroots
response to anti-gay bigotry.
GAY & LESBIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY
Sliding sclle ft••
In.urue.
accepted.
I.stitute for H.... I. Identity.
(212)799-!M32
GAY MALE S/M ACTIVISTS
Dedicated to safe and responsible S/M since1981. Open meetings w/programs on S/M techniques,lifestyle issues, political and social
concerns. Also special events, speakers
bureau, workshops, demos, affinity groups,
newsletter, more. GMSMA -Dept 0, 4!11lAHudson Street, Suite D23 ,NYC 10014.
(212)727-9878.
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS HOTUNEFOR INFORMATION ON SAFER SEX AND HIVRELATED HEALTH SERVICES, AND FOR INFORMATION ON ONE-TIME, WALK-IN AIDSCOUNSELING SERVICES
212-IIIH655
212-i45-7478roD (For the Hearing Impaired)Mon.-Fri. 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sat 12:00 to 3:00

HISPANIC UNI11:D GAYS & LESBIANS
Educational services, political action, counselingand social activities in Spanish and English by
and for the Latino Lesbian and Gay Community.
General meetings 8:00 p.m. 4th Thursday of
every month at 208 West 13th Street
Call (212)691-4181
or write H.U.G.L, P.O.Box 226 Canal Street
Station, New York, NY 10019.
lAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSEAND EDUCAnON FUND
Precedent-setting litigation nationwide forlesbians, gay men and people with AIDS.
Membership ($35 and up) includes newsletterand invitations to special events. Volunteer
night on Thursdays. Intake calls: 2-4pm Mon
thru Fri(212)995-8585
lAVA (LESBIANS ABOUT VISUAL ART)
Call for slides for Lesbian Artists' Exhibition,
Gay & Lesbian Community Center, NYC. For
more information, send SASE to:
Miriam Fougere
118 Fort Greene PlaceBrooklyn, NY 11217.
THE LESBIAN AND GAY BIG APPLE CORPS
Get your instrument out of the closet and comeplay with us. Symphonic, Marching, Jazz. Dixieland, Rock, Rute Ensembles and Woodwinds.
123 West 44th St Suite 12L New York, NY
10036 (212)869-2922.
LESBIAN & GAY
COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER
208 West 13th Street New York, NY 10011(212)620-7310
9am-llpm everyday.
A place for community organizing and networking, social services, cultural programs,
and social events sponsored by the Center andmore than 150 community organizations.
LESBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS PROJECT
of the Am.rican Civil Ub.rti •• Union
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS/WE'RE EXPANDINGTHEM(212)944-9800, ext 545
LESBIANS ABOUT VISUAL ART (lAVA)
Call for slides for Lesbian Artist's Exibition, Gay
and Lesbian Community Center, NYC, for more
information send SASE to Miriam Fougere, 118
Ft Greene Place, Brooklyn, NY 1217.

I

LESBIANS AND GAYS OF FlATBUSH

NORlHERN UGHTS ALTERNATIVES

Brooklyn's social organization for both gay
men and lesbians.
P.O.Box 106, Midwood Station
Brooklyn, NY 11230· (718) 859-9437

Improving Quality of U(e for People with. AI DS/H IV.
THEAIDS MASTERY WORKSHOP: Exploring
the possibilities of a powerful and creative lifein the face of AIDS. Call Jack Godby(212) 337-8747

LONG ISlAND ACT-UP
P.O.Box 291, New Hyde Park, NY 11040
Support us for change on Long Island.
(516)338-4662 (516) 997-5238 Nassau(516) 928-5530 Suffolk

MEN OF AU. COLORS TOGETHER NY
A multi·racial group of gay men against
racism. MHtings every Friday night at 7:45 at
the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Cen·ter, 208 W. 13th·Street For m re info. call: (212)245·6366 or (212) 222-9794.

METlIOPOUTAN TENNIS GROUP(MTG)
Our 200 member lesbian and gay tennis club
includes players from beginning to tournamentlevel. Monthly tennis parties. Winter indoor
league. Come play with usl For information:
MTG, POB 2135, New York, NY 10025.
(212) ~2-0695.

NYC GAY & LfSBIANANTI-VlOLfNCE PROJECT
Counseling, advocacy, and information for survivors of anti·gay and anti·lesbian violence,
sexual assault, domestic violence, and othertypes of victimization. All services free andconfidential.
24 hour holline (212) 807·0197

PEOPLE WITH AIDS COAUTION(212) 532-0290 / Hotline (212) 532-0568
Mondaythru Friday lOam-6pm
Meal programs, support groups, educationaland referral services for F'WA's and F'WArc's.

PEOPLf WITH AIDS HEALTlt GROUP
Underground buyer's club importing not-yetapproved medications and nutritional supplements. 31 West 26th St 4th Aoor (212)532-0280

NATIONAL GAYAND LfSBIAN TASK FORCE
is the national grassroots political organization for lesbians and gay men. Membership is$3OIyear. Issue·oriented projects address violence, sodomy laws, AIDS, gay rights ordinances, families, media, etc. through lobbying,education, organizing and direct action.
NGLTF 1517 U Street NW, Washington, DC
20009. (202)332-6483.

NEW YORKADVERTISINGAND COMMUNICATIONS NElWORKNYACN is the community's largest gay and lesbian professional group, welcoming an in communicationsnadvertising,PR, marketing,media, graphic design, illustration, photography, copywriting, journalism, publishing, radio,
TV and filmnand their friends. Monthly meetings, 3rd Wed 6:30pm at the Community Center.
Members' newsletter, job holline, annual
directory. Phone (212) 517-()380 for more info.
Mention OutWeek for one free newsletter.

SAGE: (Senior ActiOlllll1 GIY ElIYlrollmlnt)
Social Service Agency providing care, activities, and educational services for gay 81les·bian senior citizens. Also serving over 160
homebound seniors and older F'WA's . 208
West 13th St NYC 10011 (212) 741-2247

ULSTER COUNTY GAYAND LfSBIANALLIANCE
Meets first and third Monday of each monthat 7:30 p.m. atthe Unitarian Church on Sawkill
Road in Kingston.
For information, call (914) 626·3203.

, NINTlt STREET CENTER
Since 1973, a community dedicated to demon·
strating that a homosexual lifestyle is a rational, desirable choica for individuals
dissatisfied with the rowards of convantional
living. Psychologically· focussed rap groups,
Tues., Sat, 8 to 10 pm. peer counselling available. 319 E. 9 Street. New York, NY 10003, forinfo call (212) 228·5153.

NORTlt AMERICAN MAN/BOY
LOVEASSOCIATION (NAMBlA)
Dedicated to sexual freedom and especiallyintereted in gay intergenerational relationships. Monthly Bulletin and regular chapter
meetings on the first Saturday of each month.
Yearly membership is $20; write NAMBLA. PO
Box 174, Midtown Station, New York, NY 10018
or call (212) 807-8578 for information.

208 West 13th s.treet
New York, N.Y. 10011
212/675.3559

SAN FRANCISCO JOURNAL from PIIll33
lice lines. "I'm going to the hospitalwith Mike,· he shouted. With a sinking feeling, I pushed to the back window: inside, I could see anotherfriend, Michael Barnette-a
19-yearold who was attending his first ACf
UP demonstration-strappedmotionless on a stretcher.
(Michael received several stitches
to close a gash across his eyebrow.
According to witnesses, an officer
identified as a captain in the SFPD
Tactical Unit and an event commander for the October 6 protest clubbed
Michael on the head as he stood on
the sidewalk on the west side of Castro St. From the opposite corner, I
had heard protestors chanting the officer's helmet number-1942-but
had not seen the beating).
Around 9 p.m., the police reformed into disciplined lines andcommenced sweeping most of thecrowd down Castro St. Left behindthe lines, I move onto 17th St., where
riot cops routed me from the doorway
of an all night diner. The entire neighborhood, they informed me, was now
an illegal assemblYi everyone in thearea was subject to arrest. Clutching a
notebook in which I had scrawled thehelmet numbers of offending officers,
I finally retreated homeward.
(According to witnesses, the police left the Castro around 10 p.m.,after it became clear that the crowds
would not abandon their neighborhood to a military occupation by theTactical Unit. Once, the police had
withdrawn, protesters ringed the Intersection of Castro and 18th, cheered
and dispersed peacefully).
Even before I reached my flat,
the symbolism of this night of defiance was becoming
dear. Like
Stonewall and White Night, we had
been put to the test and had stood
our ground. In the face of violence,
we had responded with tenacity, ingenuity and non-violence.
A newgeneration of lesbian, gay and bisexual peopl'e-theactivists in theirteens and twenties who comprisemuch of ACT UP's membershiphad p.xperienced its own historicturning point. ...

November 5, 1989

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OUTWEEK BAR GUIDEWEST SIDE

Bike Stop West230 W. 75th St.
874-9014
Candle Bar
309 Amsterdam Avenue.
874-9155
Cars
730 8th Ave.
221-7559

Johnny's Pub
123 E. 47th St.
355-8714

Badlands
Christopher & West St.
741-9236

Regent East
204 E. 58th St.
355-9465

Boots & Saddle
76 Christopher Street
929-9684

Rounds303 E. 53rd St.
593-0807

Cellblock 28
28 9th Ave
733-3144j/oSouth Dakota
405 3rd Ave.
684-8376

Don't Tell Mama
343 West 46th St.
757-0788
Piano Bar

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

Jason's
23 W. 73rd St.
874-8091

EAST VILLAGE

The Bar
68 2nd Ave. (at 4th St.)674-9714

Sally's Hideaway
264 W. 43rd St.
• 221-9152. Town and Country
9th Ave at 46th St.
307-1503

Boy Bar15 St. Mark's Place
674-7959
Dancing / Drag

Trix
246 W. 48th St.
(bet aroadway & 8th Ave.)
664-8331

The Pyramid
101 Avenue A
420-1590
Dancing / Drag

The Works
428 Columbus Ave (at 81st)
7f1j-7365
EAST SIDE

Brandy's Piano Bar
235 E..84th St.
650-1944
G.H. Club
353 E. 53rd St.
223-9752

Tunnel Bar
116 1st Ave (7th St.)
m-9232I

WEST VI LLAGE

The Annex (to Cellblock 28)
673 Hudson St.
(bet. 13th & 14th)
627-1140
j/o

The Cubbyhole
438 Hudson (Morton St)
243-9079
A Neighborhood bar for gay
worren & men.
D.T.'s Fat Cat
281 w. 12th St.
243-9041
Piano Bar. Mixed M!FDuchess II
70 Grove St (7th Ave.)242-1408
WorrenJ's ,675 Hudson St.
242-9292
j/oJulius159 W. 10th St.
929-9672
Serving Coors, Coors Lite, &Coors Draft.
Keller's
384 West St. (at Christopher)243-1907
Kelly's Village West46 Bedford St.
929-9322
Piano BarThe locker Room
400 W. 14th St. (9th Ave)459-4299
j/oMarie's Crisis
59 Grove St. (7th Ave)
243-9323
Piano Bar
The Monster
80 Grove St. (7th Ave.)924-3558
Piano Bar / Dancing
Nimbus 22
22 7th Ave. South
691-4826
Danching, pinball, pool,loungeNinth Circle
139 W. 10th St.
243-9204
Ramrod185 Christopher St.
Sneakers
392 West St.
242-9830
Two Potato
145 Christopher St.
242-9340
Ty's
114 Christopher St.
741-9641
Uncle Charlie's
56 Greenwich Ave.
255-8787
Video Bar

CHELSEAThe Cubbyhole

Barbary Coast
64 7th Ave. (14th St.)
675-0385

438 Hudson Street
at Morton(212) 243-9079

The Break
232 8th Ave. (22nd St.)
627-0072

A neighborhood bar forboth gay men & womenChelsea Transfer
131 8th Ave. (bet. 16th &17th)929-7183
Eagle's Nest
142 11th Ave (21st St.)691-8451
Leather / Levi's
Private Eyes
12 W. 21st St. (bet. 5th & 6th)
206-moDancing, Video ClubMEXICANRESTAURANT
First Avenue between 49th & 50th Streets
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TELEPHONES:
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BUCKLEY-WHO IS LEADING THE
RIGHT WING-ANDHIS KIND?
THAT IF IT WEREN'T FOR PEOPLE
LIKE HIM WE WOULD NOT HAVETO DO THIS STUFF? People are notborn homophobic. They're taught tobe that way, Jim.
And it's the hypocrisy of all of
your friends that only makes things
stay the same. An item on the People
Page in The Daily News last Friday
sums up all of the hideous contradiction which swirls around the monsters
who are oppressing us. The loaded

item is headlined: UZ GETS SALUI'E
ON AIDS DAY. And the I=Opyreads:"Elizabeth Taylor will be honored on
Dec.l-WorldAIDS Day-by
theAmericanFoundation
for AIDS
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NEW YORKMILDRED KINGMANHATE BROKERS?
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GUY NEXT DOORGWM, 32,5'11·,155,
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and the arts, and any
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similar GWM, 25-35,
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11368.

TWO ACTIVISTS
Hung, horny GWM
buddies. One Italian,
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Swede, 30,150 Ibs.,
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GWM SURVIVOR
44. Romantic bottomseeks lifetime top. Me:
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LESBIAN FEMINIST
29, in NYC 7 years;
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FAT AND SASSY
GWM, 37, 5'11·, 190
Ibs., interested
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for fun, sex and possi-

up as I pig out. Liveyourfat
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through me. Answer
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LOOKING FOR FUN
Lesbian Feminist looking for friend maybe
more to enjoy the lessserious things in life.
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to POB 300846, Midwood Station, Brooklyn, NY 11230.
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eyes. Professional.
Picture requested.
P.O. Box 875, Harrison, New York, 10528.
HEWM HEELS?
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Box 172, White Plains,
New York, 10605.
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I've ever seen Is in mymirror."w/plenty
toshare. Hdsm superstud 6', 185, young 44,
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the perfect big bro, top
pal, idol, protector, defender, rescuer, teacher, lover. Sks roMANtic
catch
20-39
who
would
enjoy
2
dreamhomes, exciting
showbiz life, lots of
cuddling, caring, extra
inches and more.
Now's your chancel
Photo required: POB
1164, NYC 10159.
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TRUEI
MACHO HOMBRE
Hand'some 29, 5'8·,
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service to a pounding
salsa beatl and morel
Photo and note a
mustl SS. Outweek
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Stable healthy older(SO)male ready to offer what he can to attr
younger TS ready tooffer what she can fora love-your eyes andeverything about you
relationship.
Write
Outweek Box 1597
HANDSOME GIM
6'1·, 170, 31 seekl areal man who II not Into gamel but who II
Into funl You Ihould
be under 50 and over
21, healthy, happy and.. cure. I like movlea,
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250150 CUPO, NY NY
10025.

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NYC 10017.

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Box 284 RCS NYC
10101.
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Attractive 38yr old
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10011.
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