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On Missing Miss Saigon•,

Both New York's Lesbian and Gay Community SeIVicesCenter and theLambda Legal Defense Fund have long been in the forefront of progressive
comrriunity activism Thus it's unfortunate that both groups planned major
fund-raisers around the controversial Broadway musical Miss .saigon, over
the objections of Asian-American lesbian and gay o~tions.
Miss .saigon almost missed Broadway last year when Actor's Equity
protested the casting of a white actor in the lead role. The controversy
abated only when the show's producer threatened to cancel the entire
mega·production if the star were not allowed to appear. Many Asian
Americans were, and still are, furious that their objections were set aside
for financial reasons.
Despite the emotions aroused by that episode, both Lambda and theCenter inexplicably chose Miss .saigon as a fund-raising vehicle. When thisbecame widely known, lesbian and gay Asian-American groups objected.
They made public a charge, mostly obscured during the original debate, thatthe musical is inherently racist and sexist in its depiction of Asian-American
women. And they called upon Lambda and the Center to cancel their benefits
or stand• accused of insensitivity to the issues and interests of queer Asians.
The Center has halted ticket sales pending a final decision Sadly, Lambda, citing the financial bwdens of cancellation, is going ahead with its benefit
Supporters of Lambda's decision' challenge the Asian-Americangroups' charge that the show is racist, question the groups' timing, dispute the supposed tyranny of a PC "dictatorship of the oppressed,"
which seeks to dictate community policies, and ask why a compromiseshort of complete cancellation is unacceptable. They lament that lesbian
and gay Asian Americans should target a worthy organization while somany genuine enemies abound. And they darkly hint that conservative,
white financial backers have threatened
to withdraw monetary support,
to Lambda if they cave in to the Asian Americans' "extremist" demands.
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Yet it would take a thick pair of moral blinders for community
groups like Lambda to question the genuine hurt felt by Asian Americans,or to value money, even lots of money, over the goodwill of such a huge
and traditionally oppressed portion of our queer family. Accusations of a
"PC dictatorship" are absurd in light of Asian Americans' traditional powerlessness and invisibility within the queer world. If anything, hints of awhite backlash only prove that if a dictatorship exists, it's hardly Asian
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negative consequences for a long time to come.
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There are some "missing
links" in your coverage aboutthe Hispanic AIDS Forum andACT UP/NY's Latina/o Caucus.
It saddens me to see a community-based organization
attacked in a non-constructive
way. Where was the dialog inthis situation? The histrionics
which the Caucus engaged inwhen they finally were able tomllet with a few members of
HAF's board allowed theboard's members (only fiveout of 19 members were present) to focus on personalities
and drama instead of issues.
One of the major participants in these events was a
recently dismissed employee,
Joe Franco, who created yet
another distraction from the
Caucus' very real and justified
issues with HAF.
Last November, I had anexperience attending a roundtable discussion for HIV prevention strategies among gay
Latino men sponsored by HAF,
which made clear to me thatthe;organization had some serious problems in serving thecommunity. The HAF leader forthe day began the event byidentifying himself as a PWA
and requesting that each person present identify themselves
as HIV-positive or HIV-negative,
straight or gay, IVDU and by
their racial background. In spiteof some participants' reservations about this approach, it did
create some openness andinformality within the group.
However, what followed
more than destroyed any positive mood that had just been
established. The HAF leader
essentially held the audience
hostage all day with an endlessmonologue about his~personal
history and experiences. Thisdiatribe was peppered withinsensitive epithets, including
in particular the repeated useof the word "bitch." One of thewomen present finally asked
him not to continue using that
word, to which he replied,"How come you don't mind

behave like this could effectively and sensitively represent theneeds of the Latina/o community, bearing in mind the additional irony that he, Joe Franco,
cannot even speak Spanish.
I question if the tactics
used against HAF by the Caucus have been constructive andeffective in addressing the

StONEWAll R/OtS

BY ANDREANATALIE

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As staff members who
have been employed by the
Hispanic AIDS Forum foralmost two years, we takeoffense to the article "Latino
AIDS Group Comes Under
Angry ACT UP Fire," [n·o. 89,
March 13], and even more to
the irresponsible and misinformed editorial which was
written in the same issue.
The Latina/o AIDS activistsof ACT UP, have been distributing flyers they call the "Naked
Truth About HAF," which havepersonally and viciously attacked the HAF board, present
staff and the executive director,
Miguelina Maldonado. We know
the truth and we know that theirversion of the "Naked Truth
About HAP' is a big lie..
The charges lodged
which state that HAF has nopolicy stances regarding different issues on AIDS, is ludicrous! Latina/o AIDS activist's
attacks, which seem to get soquickly printed in OutWeek,
are full of holes. Has ACT UP
al ready forgotten that HAF
marched with them to support
needle exchange; do theyknow that we support ADAPTand their policies and will continue to? Where were the Latinato AIDS activist and theirself-appointed leaders when
the CDC reported the July
1990 mortality figures on
women with AIDS? HAF and
the Committee for Hispanic
Families and Children were theonly two Hispanic organizations protesting the exclusionof Latinas as an ethnic category (32 percent of female AIDS
cases) from the report. Is
HAF's policy not clear on
issues concerning gay men?
We were the first Latino AIDS••

the American Kennel Club
using that word," which left
the audience stunned. At thatpoint it was 4 pm and we
demanded that we get on withan actual strategy discussion,
which was, after all, what wewere led to believe the day wasgoing to be about.
As we filed out later, I
found myself wondering how
someone who would speak andproblems. I challenge both the
Caucus and the full membership of the board of HAF tomeet immediately to work on aplan of action together which
addresses the continuing daily
decimation of the Latina/o community from AIDS. Get over it
people!
Fight the realenemy-AIDS
not each other.
Carlos Cordero
Manhattan

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organization to establish an
outreach program to men who
have sex with men-in spiteof the entrenched homophobia
in our community. What about
lesbians? HAPs women's project is very sensitive and recognizes Latina lesbian issues.
What about the composition of HAF's board? The Latina/o AIDS activists of ACT UP
charge that the board lacks asingle openly gay or HIV-positive member. Bullshit! We
know gay members of HAF's,We knew enough toboard-andso do Latina/obe:queasy a~ut
AIDS activists. We also know
,f!'llre,ma9jfZine eV.JI
members of the board who are,b.f95it"urlched.
HIV-positive.
However, as
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AIDS-service professionals, wefeatul'8Cladsof a Chirespect thei r right to confiden""".",'l'8vo.Qtionary~w,, , tiality! Just like we know that~"rl!led '- "a " Latina/o AIDS activists also:r . ..'
respect their members' right
IiHle I'8d book" butnot
to be publicly HIV-positive.
no.: pl'8fel'S "a little
And why is it that Latina/o~~Jjpsti~~~\ Gag•.
AIDS activists fail to ever men,"hIislnontl1~however,',"',tion that some front-line HAFdoth boil ovel!. In a
staff members are openly gay"befo .... n~ftel'"andHIV-positive like Luis E.
',. ve' ,.-'1 .:.I1"~'e·'11ma:,",'OlI
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and kd lang go~del!
who's recovering from chemi,t"'"bl~she.:,bl'Usha..., ' cat dependency? We'll tell you}wilidMi!4;;,'
why-Because it will clearlyma{cariMvi\nd. Thefi;"
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show they are a bunch of liars!
afteHffects al'8 l'8al
And why is it that Out. Cl'88py, an~;,A"ureadrijits:"E;l(eft",o'uri;':1~, Week refused to print statements made by Luis E. Nievesarl;i;rthlntl'i,.' Rosa
and Felipe Hernandez
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We'll tell you why-Because it·aCIVice.~St;n~jt'sama~
would also clearly show thating V#hataliHle
Latina/o AIDS activists are a.",
makeup doe$."Thebunch of liars! Our statements'it,•Of the facts would have put too
observant.l!~adel!may
al;&':tiot~:ttiat .~make~ many holes in Latina/o AIDS
activists' arguments. Who isup'1~
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As computer-genel!atresponsible reporting, which is
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the only reason we chose to~onders if, it'sbit.Of•speak to them. And they mostouting Ol!a coming,
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what'sbeing
organization which exclusively criticize
advocates on the behalf of done the hard part is beginthe process as HAFdid.
Latinos. That's right. Latina/o ning•
Felipe Hernandez
AIDS activists, whether you
Luis E. Nieves-Rosa
like it or not HAF is still the
Martin Peraza
only Latino AIDS organization
HAF/Manhattan
providing services in New York
City. All you do is try to stop
Say what you will about thepeople from doing their jobs.
And how about Latina/o editorial. Janis Astor and Duncan Osborne's reporting was
AI DS activists' newly selffair and accurate. It presented
appointed leader and former
HAFemployee who can't speak many of Hernandez' andSpanish, refused to learn while Nieves-Rosa's arguments andhe was employed here and quoted liberally from others
only "recently" became aware who represent both ACT UP-News Ed.
that he was Latino? He openly and HAF.
criticizes HAF's Entre Hombres
THE REST IS
Project's Safety Net Parties,
SILENCE
which he never once attended.
I have been reading with
He even refused to attend one
interest-and discussing withof the gatherings.
vigor-much of what has been
As far as Mr. Rotello's
argument and "concern" about written in your pages and elsethe location of HAF's offices, where about The Silence of the
we're here to inform you that Lambs. On a gray Monday
we have secured office space afternoon in March, I decidedin Jackson Heights and are to see for myself what all thenegotiating in the South Bronx. fuss was about.
As the movie progressed, I
Unfortunately, those Latina/o
AIDS activists who were for- beganto feel that perhapsthosemer employees of HAF,earning charging the film with homosalaries from AIDS funds,
phobia were overstating thenever did the jobs they agreed case and giving in to a touch ofparanoid hysteria. Then theto do.
Who then is really per- film's killer was lying bleeding
forming "genocidal negligence on the screen, and a I/oicerimg
out from the audience: "Faggot!
and betrayal" to the Latino,
community? Where were the Faggot! Kill him !",.
Lati nato AIDS activists five
Enough said.
years ago when HAF was
Michael Adams
Manhattan
founded in 1985, before AIDS
became so "trendy"? Where
I'd like to respond to yourwere they when HAF was
actively recruiting members? column regarding Jodie Foster,
The tragedy of AIDS in the Lati- and specificallyto Heidi
no community cannot be Dorow's comment which was
blamed on one person or one . quoted ["Gossip Watch," no.
organization. We never said we 87, Feb. 27): Ms. Dorow, I'd
could do everything, and we like to suggest that you not get •recognize that there are large your Birkenstocks and Woolunmet needs in services, but rich socks in such a twist over
we stand proudly by what we the issue of Jodie Foster's sexhave done. We challenge Lati- uality and her "responsibility"
na/o AIDS activists to accept to the "gay community:'
How dare some gays andtheir responsibility and unitewith the Latinos who are lesbians demand that thosealready fighting AIDS among whom we merely perceive to
Hispanics. It's easy to be an be gay come out?
activist, scream at everyone,
Perhaps if I were Ms.

•Foster I would respond to Ms. , gays are like that. Would a gay
Dorow with the following:
person think that every hetEvery time Heidi Dorow fucks erosexual male is like the perher girlfriend in her Park Slope sona of Andrew Dice Clay? I
hovel, Ifeel so angry. I mean, hope not. And the few Neanher virtual anonymity and rela- derthals who would bash gays
tive poverty enables her to dry do not need Silence of thehump with abandon on the Lambs as an incentjve. Therebox spring on the floor with- have been many 'straightout h;)singextraordinary power killers in the movies,' but
and status.
nobody thinks, "Let'~ bash
Get over it Signorile,
those horrible heterosexuals"
Dorow, .etc.
(outside of Signorile, anyway).
You may call me a selfInc,identally, if a journalist
loathing vitriolic lesbian. I am, has never asked Jodie Foster if
however,_a proud self-accept- she is a lesbian, how does Siging lesbian.
norile know she is? Does he
Jill Melamed think she "looks like a lesManhattan
bian?" She could be homosexP.S. OutWeek is a $1.95 run- ual, hete rosexual, asexual,on sentence as far as I'm bisexual or just confused-andconcerned.
why should she declare an allegiance to a label with which
I share your anger about she may not feel comfortable?
The Silence of the Lambs. This Sexual matters are often moreis one more example of complex than you'd lead us tostraight, white men pushing
believe. And who's,to say that
their crimes against womenClarice Starling-a
stroogwhom l/ley say they love and willed, intelligent heroine isothers. Still, I wish you would not a lesbian?
get as passionate about the film
Finally, on the subject of,as one \1lore example of the outing: It is obvious that agruesome-killing-of-womenwriter for OutWeek has nothfor-"entertainmenf' genre. If we ing to lose by being out. In
are tortured and killed for being fact, he gains by it! It's easy
lesbians, the law calls it a for Signorile to out others who"hate" crime. Otherwise, it is stand to have their careers
just one more woman "enter- damaged while he continues totaining" a man!
get a paycheck. Maybe Jodie
Marilyn Murphy
Foster thinks that continuing
St. Augustine, Fla. her work is more important;than the ten million or twenty<',j The Silence of the Lambs
million dollars she's reputedly
debate goes on. Personally, I banked away. And, let's face it,think Michelangelo Signorile
to some people, careers are
dpth protest too much.
more important than their sex
Silence is a damned good
lives; so, who is Signorile tomovie, and ,most people who prioritize for them?
have seen it realize that theMichelangelo, lighten up.
focus of the movie is on the Stick to real problems. Geta life.
interaction between Clarice
Kevin Hall
Starling ,and Hannibal Lecter,
Brooklyn
and the suspense of the hunt.
Jamie Gumb (I had to think'I was sickened
byhard to remember the name) Michelangelo Signorile's Feb.
is a secondary character. Even 20 [no. ,86] column. As someif on.e assumes that the char- one who has worked onacter is a gay stereotype, only national magazines, I am sura complete lunkhead would
prised that Mr. Signorile
leave the theater thinking all hasn't heard about checking,

his facts. Having seen The
Silence of the Lambs, it's clear
to me that Buffalo Bill is no
gay man, rather he is depicted
as a transsexual
wannabe/psychopath. And, in theevent that you'd like to discount my opinion on the basisof my lesbianism and my zip
code, my parents who saw thefilm in the Midwest were of
the same mind.
Frankly, I think Mr. Signorile missed the boat entirely.
What makes the movie notable
is not the villain but the heroine. Clarice Starling is that alltoo-rarephenomenon-aheroine who succeeds on thestrength of her intelligence,
willingness to be vulnerable
and sheer tenacity.
To hold Jodie Foster
responsible for your imagined
injustices is not only morally
reprehensible, it's shoddy
journalism.
Wendy Edelstein
Berkeley, Calif.
PRIVATE LIVES

I have never met a moreparanoid, narrow-minded andself-indulgent group of people
than the writers in your publication.
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No need to mention therepetitious, smarmy,' nasty,
rude and unpleasant ramblings of Mr. Signorile,
because he seems to rebut all
critiques with an I-am-rightyou-are-an-asshole answer.
How you slant every news
happening and film and music
review to only a gay perspective amazes me. If you gave
the weather forecast I assume
it would also be gay-oriented,
to the point of being so onesided it would miss the point.
If some gay population
desires to not advertise theirgayness first, or at all, then I
feel you should respect thatand stop this outing, which isanother word for trashing. The
celebrities you mention haveevery right to their private
lives, as do we all, no matter

what Mr. Signorile might think. .
Wish you guys would
lighten up and be a little bit
broad-minded. All the world is .
not out to get you if you're
gay, and most gays come fr,oma straight world and, like any
minority, must, and should
learn to get along with others.
"Dykes to Watch Out For"
has a wonderful attitude, it intelligently presents lesbians as
humorous human beings and is
an assetto your magazine.
But "Gossip Watch", "Outon the Town" and "Diary of a
Mad Queen" play right into thenegative stereotypes you allseem so upset about.
I'm afraid an open-minded, intelligent straight man
who happened to read thispublication would find it veryanti-gay and ugly; such selfhate and distrust.
Stand back a little andsee what your readers and thegay community really needfrom you. There is enoughsleaze out there that it doesn't
need promoting in your pages.
I've read many of these issues(they are fr~e, after all) andjust when I finish a fairly intelligent and interesting article, I
find I'turn the page to findslander, smut and fag-bashingof the worst kind.
If the B'Nai B'rith published a Jewish-slanted magazine so vindictive toward nonJews and so angry about having been born a Jew, everyone
wo uld be appalled. Show
some self respect and a morepositive approach.
Your attitude reminds meof the '60s college rebellions,when the way to change society was to spraypaint anddestroy campuses and publicbuildings. Destroying a person's career is not helpful to
your cause.
Peter Goldfarb
Mount Vernon, Wash.
SILENCING THE
RAMS

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world of all "homo-sickos."word on "how much" andThis movie feeds their"what kind" of homophobia isjustification for gay-bashing(both physical and psycholog- acceptable, I can only suggestical) if they or you, Monica, he read my review again,
more closely. If he believes
realize it or not.
Please ask Monica to sit that any claim to such a final
down and listen to Michelan- word is offensive he should
gelo Signorile (bless his em- read his own letter again,
pathetic shit-slinging heart), more closely. Like the antiso perhaps she can grasp that porn feminists of the early'80s Mr. Ebel reads his repreregardless of the packaging,
any homophobia is too much.
sentation literally; as pornogIf we go to see, thisraphy "caused" rape, so Bufmovie, even to assuage our falo Bill wil/"cause" gay-bashcuriosity, we are still support- ing. Such an argument
ing the box office. The rhetoric refuses to take into accountthe far more complex underis enhancing the popularityand financial success of this standings of representation
film. How can our protest be that feminists have been
felt if reviews from "our own" debating for years. This isdevalue the controversy and perhaps what is most offensive about Mr. Ebel: His
support the sickness?
Warren Ebel explicit anti-feminism~ I would, Manhattan say. even sexism. From his
unfounded and arrogant
MonicaOorenkampre-MOr]ica Dore[1kamp decided
to give her evaluation of how
much or wnat kind of ,homophobia is "acceptable" in awell-made Hollywood thriller[no. 86, March 6]. Does thisnegate the controversy,
Monica?
She finds the "homosexuality never1neless seems
almost incon$equential in-as
well as to the fihn ...it was difficult for me (and for my gay
male fri~nd) to get worked up."
Have yoU ever heard of
subliminal bOlTlbardment?
Monica, homophobic,
gay-bashing All]erica does notuse a guage to determine theirtolerance of whatthey consider to be a threatening sickness
they "lust destroy. In the
mythologica! c:;ontext, agent,
Starling's ~attle with the psychological siCkness and threatof Buffalo Bill is only ametaphor for what the cru,•

familiarity (common enoughamong gay and straight men
when addressing women) to
his narrow-minded misreading of my review, Mr. Ebel
practices a "subliminal bombardment" of his own; a kindof psychological gay- (andwoman-) bashing that challenges, "Be what 'we' -define
as 'correct,' or be straight. " I
will do neither.
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I was offended by the' titleof your article, "Bisexual: Deluded Closet Cases or the Vanguard of the Movement" [no.
84, Feb. 6]. How would you
react if you opened any,periodical with any pretense of tolerating alternativesexuality and saw
an article entitled "Homosexuals: Mentally III or Just Plain
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defined it as pathologicaland/or morally deviant. Implicit in this article's title, however,and through much of the article itself, is the assumptionthat the 'gay community has
the right to define not only thenature of bisexuality, butwhether it even exists as a
gen ui ne 'sexual preference.
Interestingly, the stereotypes
gays assign to bisexuals seemto echo the same charges ofpathology and immorality thatstraights"once leveled at gays("She's just mixed up." "He
doesn't have the courage tocome olit as gay.") Once again,a minority will have to reclaim
the right to define itself fromthe majority, but this time froma majority whose past could
and should have dictated moresensitivity and intelligence.
Particularly fascinating tome were the comments from"queer academic theorist" Eve
Kosofsky, a "heterosexua"ymarried woman who has 'areal strong identification withgay male. politics and identities' and who calls herself'queer."';Kosofsky claims thatthe gay and lesbian movement isn't interested in drawing the line between being gay
and bisexual, yet as a gay
wanna-b.e(!), she's scarcely
speaking from a standpoint of
academic objectivity. Indeed,most gays aren't interested in
drawing that line when it
comes toJinancial support for
their institutions or volunteer
efforts for their organizations
or even social contacts, provided and here's the catchbisexuals never mention thatthey are attracted to or haverelationships with the opposite
sex, or openly identify as
bisexual. There's an expression for what bisexuals experience under these circumstances: it's called being closeted (remember closets?). Let
Ms. Kosofsky identify her sexuality with the less tortuous
and almost certainly accurate

be the character Isabe"e in .
"Born in Flames?") Pleaseforgive if my commentary cameoff as too much of a personal .
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attack. Even though I may notalways agree with you, I mostoften find your writing incisive,well-informed and sagacious.
But why are you wasting you
talents on a toilet paper roll?
Let's put Sandra to bed now
and talk about the very real
sober dyke and fag-baiting
going on here, which hasturned into blatant, unwarranted prejudice. I want to hear itfrom your lips, Sarah, as
Noe"e Hanrahan's editor. On
behalf of OutWeek, and within
the editorial and criticaldemands of your position, do
you truly support this amateur's ridiculous implication
1::::':::::::;::::::::::::::::::::::>::::':::::::-":-"::::::;~~~::::_uthat there are no activists
among sober gays, that we are
It's n~t easy to take on those scary men
in dresses who run the Catholic church ina" submissive, apathetiC, shutdown? Sedated indeed. Hanrathis town. God knows, the list of former
mayors and City Co.uncil members who were
han must have been sufferinga bout of narcoloepsy whenloath to lock horns with the Ancient Order ofshe read my letter since her
Hibernians and other front organizations is
response held no reference toabout as long as Martin Luther's theses.
So it is with a sense of both awe andthe issues contained therein.
pride that we honor this week's
dyke hero,
Sarah, I:m appealing to,Anne Maguire, of the nascent Irish Lesbians
your sense of fair play.'Give us
the skinny, once and for all, on
and Gays, who, along with colleague Paul
OutWeek's position regarding
O'Dwyer, Human Rights Commission memgays in 12-step programs. A"
ber Andy Humm and others, fought hard forgays suffer from a lack of valiour Irish brothers' and sisters' right to marchdown Fifth Avenue behind the. bagpipers,
dation in the world. For thegay press to also deny us
ranks of blue-eyed cops and the statue of St.
Patrick himseH.
what little we can find, basedon the simple fact that we are
Columbus Day, anyone?
clean and sober would be an
unforgiva~<le and shaming
term, "bisexual," in her con- allow our movement to be atrocity. If your views support
tacts with the gay movement, contingent on the gay com- Noe"e's, 1'" place my bet on aand I sincerely doubt she will munity's permission. I'll leave healthy portion of your readershjp knowing where to take it
return the same analysis.
the editors with this thought:
I don't mean to discount We're here, I won't argue the from there. If it does not, thenthe author's clear efforts to semantics of whether we're it seems a p1ublic apology
offer a balanced discussion;"queer," and you just damlled would' be appropriate andappreciated. Otherwise, somethe bisexual community wel- wen better get used to it.
Margaret A. Roodpeople might begin to suspect
come!!, and appreciates conWashington, DC that this rag is riddled withstructive dialogue between ourcounter-intelligence moles. Let
movements. Bisexuals are nolonger content, tmwever, to be PUT SANDRA TO BED us not forget what happened
Touche on the blatant dis- ' to the Black Panthers.
made invisible by the gay
tortion of positions, Sarah.
movement, and we won't
Adele B.
allow our movement to be the (Could your reference to a
Manhattan
gay movement, and we won't "reluctant, drugged-out queer" Sarah Pettit respo/fds: I am

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shares. as wide a..
, 'Variety of opinions on 12step programs as it does onanything. As the arts editor(although Vickie Starr, ourmusic editor; did oversee thepiece in question), I am
committed tokeeping dialogue open, presenting adiversity, of angles andencouraging my writers to
speak their minds ..Personally (but who cares?), M has
helped many of my friends.
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WAKE·UP CALL
It is-appalling to me thatyou choose a group of clean'and sober gays to unleash
your misguided anger. I havebeen an out-of-the-closet lip. , stick dyke for 16 very painful
and fabulous years. My forma·tive "baby lesbian" years werespent in Miami with some of,the most bea4tiful Cuban prag

queens I've ever seen. (LaEsquelita Watch out!). Mostof that, time was spent guzzling gallons of booze, milesof lines of cocaine, and buckets of qualudes and anythingelse that came along, to end
up stark raving mad in the
East Village shooting mountains of heroin.
Wake up queers! Drugs
and alcohol kill.. AA and NA
gave me a life to give tomyself, and that life allows
me to be in gay and women's
political issues.
Get a grip, OutWeek.
Decide on who the enemy is,
and I'll go after them withyou. Do not splinter the gay
community.
Ivonne, La Cubana.
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AA EQUALS ACTION
Please tell Noelle Hanrahan that mad-dyke an;;lr-chism doesn't work and is anenormous waste of energy .
The most lasting changes
happen from within, that
includes societal, and always
works, though slowly.
For so long gay men andlesbians were afraid to try tochange society, that once theprocess began we were like a
hot pressure-cooker, with aloose lidl We must trust that
our steady, persistent actions
will work. We must believethat the Bill of Rights does
include the lesbian and gay
population of this country
and that the Constitution
does provide the means to
get those rights, recognized. If
we fail to' believe this thenwe've fail·ed as .a nation. I
don't think we've failed-justscored low.
, As to her slurs on the
A.A. program: Yes, Virginia,
there are people who twist the,,slogans and steps s,o as tokeep from taking responsibility
for their lives. For the majority,and if you read AA literature,
you find it is a program ofaction. One of the oft quotedlines is, "Half measures availed
us nothing." Does that soundlike an invitation to take a"submitting", attitude?, .,,'The idea is to takeall•possible actions, to.tum overthe ultimate results to G.O.D.
(some call this good orderly
direction). This diffuses a lotof spoiled-,brat ang,er whenthings don't go our Vja·<j.
I suggest Ms. Hanrahan
speak to your repgrter, Mr.
Osborne, since he wrote a
thorougharticle on AA
recently for OutWeek.
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Hanra•
han, is that while your friends
might be procrastinating by
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on their way to permanent insanity or death if it weren't for A.A.
Get over it-you'll
live
longer.
Thank you, OutWeek, foryour gutsy magazine.
Glen Charles Pritchard
Manhattan
THREE QUESTIONS
I write this in response to
Noelle Hanrahan's comments
to Adele B.'s [no. 89, March
13] letter defending AA and theissue of sObriety.
I have but three questions
to ask our six-pack-a-month,
wicked-woman-of-the-week:
1. How do you know that
we're not taking part in issues
prevalent to our rights andfreedoms as gay Americans?
2. Would you prefer to see
lesbians and gays attending
ACT UP and Anti-War demonstrations (which we do inmasses), or puking up ourlunch and nodding out?
3. Won't you please include in the next issue, a list of
all the political organizations
you are a member of, alongwith a brief summary of all thewonderful things you havedone to insure our peace andfreedom?
Stop sober-bashing ... lt's
making you look really ridiculous!
Stevie A.
Manhattan
STRONG. FIERCE AND
SOBER,No one tells me What tothink. No one tells me what todo. I have a life. I am angry. I
abhor sexism, racism, lesbophobia, homophobia, classism, thedamned patriarchy. I fight them.
My power is mine. I am strong. I
am fierce. I am sober. Alive. I do
not accept divisive generalizations. I no longer drink so muchthat I want to blow my head off.
I know where my anger andenergy are best directed. Noelle
Hanrahan, do you?
Sober queers are present.
We are alive in spite of all theodds against us. We make up alarge .percentage
of outactivists. We get things done,
believe me.
Yvette R.
Manhattan

Gabriel Rotello responds: All
OutWeek writers are given theopportunity to respond to letters critical of their work.
Noelle Hanrahan's response toa critical letter, a response
which has in turn elicited theabove criticism, was written inthat vein. However, such
responses should in no way beconstrued as speaking for theeditorial position of this magtazine, as some letter writers
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• In the same issue, an article on Gov. Mario Cuomo's newplan to guarantee health· insurance for people with AIDS
incorrectly identified Larry Gutenburgj the board president. of the People With AIDS Coalition.

it is handing out Miss Saigon town, and while I no longer
tickets with every $300 pledge. reside there I share the honor
With a $5 million cut in state with my sisters and b~others infunding, 13 is desperate for our Madison of being able to proinfluential money. So much so vide a location for the powerfulthat pledge announcers speak work. I look forward to, viewingof 13's chief goal as "visibility
the piece in Greenwich Village
MISS 13
for all people ...we don't mean ,on my next trip east.
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We would like to thankto exclude anyone." (Sound'
Finally I have to comment
you for your article "Gay Asians familiar Lambda and the Cen- on LarrY Kramer's speech atter?) So call that 800 number Vito' Russo's service,. as
Dispute Use of Miss .saigon"[no. 87, Feb. 27]. Lambda
on yourscnieri flOWand pledge reprinted in OutWeek [no. 86,
Legal Defense an~ Education
not to support 13 until they-get Feb. 20J. Larry, thanks for theFund and the NY Lesbian and their shit together.
guts for saying what needs to
Yukari Yanagino be said, regardless of who you
Gay Community Services CenTerre Thaemlitz piss off. The text moved'me toter are consciously doing a disManhattan tears, which unfortunately is noservice to all Asian and PacificIslanders and the lesbian and.
easy t~sk nowadays. While I
MILWAUKEE,'
can't agree with .everything, by
gay community as a whole i.n
SERENADE
stating 'it, plain, you 'reaffirmed
their capitalization off a musicalrenowned wor.ldwide for its. I've been a subs9rib~r lmd what ,I·agre.ed,with, and maderacism and sexism. Surely
faithful reader for about a y~ar.·h1e requestion ~nd,rethink what
Lambda and the Center cannot Let me thank you for your fine : stateme'nts ,14isa:greed with.
Tbe speeyh willplss many peoexpect us to think they were efforts ..you have beenthe,firstconsistent source I have found ,pie off,butthenmaybe theyblind to the fact that Miss
Saigon is a "good investment" for in-depth news and articles ,,' :"vill startthinkin,g and acting
because its notoriety alone has . of interest for us queer folk in .ag~in', jus~a~,Ihave.
'Mike Vaughncaused it to have, the largest the Midwest.
You manage",
pre-sale of tickets in Broadway nicely to balance your New.
"'1i1waukee,Wis.
history. A plea of white-organ i- York City base with a national
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All letter~, to the ediand for organizations to admit- the work being done on sot
tormust include aby queer
tedly be aware of such probmany fronts
lems and still refuse to take _activists in NYC; while I can- ',1 name, address and. ,daytime phone, 'alreparative actions because they not participate directly, yourwould be inconvenient is an reporting educates, s.timuthoughnames mayeven greater outrage.lates
and ultimately drives mybe withheld
at the, And now it seems we have politics at home.
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author's
request.
Outanother reason to continue boySecondly, I read in you
Weekreservesthecotting WNET (NY PBS channel publication (and local press). ofright to edit letters13), another "liberal" institution the return to NYC'of George
that the lesbian and gay com- Segars work "Gay Li.beration"forclarity and space,•munity has appropriately criti- from Madis9~' Wisp .where the·considerations.
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NEW YORK-The controversy raging around the St. Patrick's Day parade,,came'to a head as OutWeek"went topress last week, when a deal was cut
which promised that the Irish Lesbianand Gay Organization, or ILGO, would
march alongside
Mayor David Dinkins,,
at his own invitation.
]ourria1ists swarmed into City Hallon the Thursday prior to the parade to~.

,~hear the mayor announce the deat:"New York ought not to be seen as acity that discriminates against lesbians
and gays," he said.
Paul O'Dwyer, a spokesperson for
ILGO, said that the agreement tomarch without the group's banner was"very much a compromise, but under•

exploratorium, the leather
bazaar (pictured here) ,and an erotic art show,
others attended hQw7'to .
panels On whips and cats
and kinky barbering prac-, 'tices, while still othersexchanged' ideas., at:fprums on the image of
SIM in the media, domestic violence, romance and 'love, role-playing and setting lirnits for sex play. I
The who's who roster of panelists included
community luminaries the
likes of Matt FOreman,Jan
Carl Park, Peii Jude Radlfcic, David Nimmons, Mr.
Leather/New Yot1<Justin-ALL DRESSED UP, NO PLACE TO GO
Charbonneau and Broadway
Cares' Rodger McFarlane,
NEW YORK-Hundreds and hundreds of masters and who gave the keynote address at a gala banquet later that night,
their slaves, butches and their girls, men and women who after which leathermen and -women danced the night fNlay.
"I admire many of you individually for the near1yfearless
simply like leather in bed and a gaggle of gay and lesbianpoliticos j~mmed into the Lesbian and Gay Community Ser- personal examples you set every day in this repressed, oppressive, intolerant sorry-excuse-for-a-civilization
we live in;:"vices 'Center on Saturday, March 9, for an all-day tenthMcfarlane said.
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anniversary celebration for Gay Male S/M Activists.
- Andrew Miller
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And parade organizers compared the
pcxentialgay presence to the KuKlux Klan
at a Martin Luther King Day celebration.
Prior to the mayor's announcement, City Council President Andrew
Stein and Comptroller Elizabeth Holtzman had sworn to forsake marching in
the parade if gays were kept out.
Tune in to next week's Out Week
for complete coverage of the parade,and the politics swirling around it.
- Avril McDonald

B',RS' CLUBFORSDRUGSED BY COPS
ORlANDO, F1a.-8tate law enforcement officials, reportedly acting on complaints, from people with AIDS, haveraided an Orlando buyer's club andseized a large quantity of AZf. And the
club's Latino director claims that he is
the target of a racist vendetta by healthofficials and white gay men and lesbians.
, Agents of the Florida Departmentof Law Enforcement raided the offices
pf TransAid, which sells unapproved
AIDS drugs to people with AIDS, andthe home of the club's director, Alfredo
Martinez-Garcia,
on March 8. The
agents, acting on ,a search warrant,"seized medieal equipment, records andan amQunt of AZT that, according to
one report, was equal to a 12-to-15month supply.
,!The raid was the culmination of am.onths-long investigation that began
when people with AIDS complained to
local- health officials that services they
had received from TransAid had madethem, ill. Officers were seeking evidence related to charges of dispensing'
medicine without a license, practicing
medicine without a license and possession aQd distribution of a controlled
substance. Martinez-Garcia was notarrested, and no charges have beenbrought against him.
"Clearly, this is an attempt to chillthe (ights of my client and prevent himfrom using the available supply of
AZT," said Gabriel Kaimowitz, theattorney" representing Martinez-Garcia.
"The lesson is, you go through•approved channels."
Kaimowitz claims Martinez-Garcia,isthe victim of a conservative environment
and the target of the gay community in
Orlando. "Martinez-Garcia is the bane of
the local gay community," said Kaimowitz.
"The white-runorganizations
dislike me ;very much," commented Martinez-Gaicfu",who
said that his organiza,tion ser.v.es predominantly people ofcolor and, sex workers. He concededthat he has distributed AZf and, on one
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buyers' clubs and health officials told
OutWeek that distributing unused AZT
was a common practice, both nationally and in F1orida.
"My concerns were beyond buyers'
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Calvert told Out Week that hereceived a number of complaints
about TransAid over a two-year period
and acted only when he had fivesigned complaints from people with
AIDS. Clients of the department ofhealth claimed that they became ill
after receiving services from TransAid.
·"1 would love to see [MartinezGarcia] continue to do outreach and,education, and I would love to see
him go out of the medication business,"said Calvert.
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Calvert's department informed
the Florida Departmentof Law
Enforcement, which began an investi'gation. The enforcement.
agency,. alleges an, undercover police officer
obtained AZT from TransAid, as well
as a diagnosis from Martinez-Garcia.
The enforcement agency also claims
to have received numerous complaints, that Martinez-Garcia was giv-,ing out morphine.
And members of the gay and lesbian community in Orlando were supportive of the police action and madeit clear that there is tremendous animosity between Martinez-Garcia andhis gay peers.
"We're happy to see Alfredo introuble," said Linda Gutwright, directorof Orlando's Gay and Lesbian Community Center. According to Cartwright,
Martinez-Garcia was recently removed
from the center's board of directors, andthe board voted to bar him from thecenter. Speaking of the raid, Cartwrightsaid, "It's not the legality that concerns
us: Alfredo was hurting people.""Basically, we maintain the position that non-professionals should notdispense drugs," said Chuck Hummer,
director of the Hope & H~lp Center, an
AIDS service organization in Orlando.
Hummer, a gay Latino with HIY disease, characterized Martin,ez-Garcia's
relations with the gay and lesbian com-munity as "very poor," adding: "[Martinez-Garcia] does more harm than
good. He outs people. That's not right.". -Duncan Osborne/New YorkAUDRELORDESDAA~ OVERMISS SAIGONNEWYORK-Audre Lorde, the poetlaureate of the lesbian community, has
refused to accept the prestigious lambda
Liberty Award in honor of her politicalcontributions to the gay community
because of that organization's asspciation
with the controversial Broadway show,
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NEW YORK-At the Astraea Foundation's fabulous, reception on International Women's Day at the AIR Gallery in
SoHo, 175 lesbians gathered to mingle and celebrate thelaunching of the Lesbian Writers Fund.
"I read. I write. I publish. And I'm a lesbian," said Joan
Drury, the Fund's founding donor. "Creating a lesbian writing
award is a natural extension of all my passions."
More than $160,000 will be disbursed in 1991 in grants fromthe Lesbian Writers Fund, marking what is probably the largest
expenditure ever made in support of developing lesbian writers.

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The event was emceed by Jewelle Gomez (above left)
and featured readings by established lesbian writers andpoets, including Cheryl Clarke (above right), Marilyn Hacker
and Mariana Romo-Carmona.
Stephanie Roth, coordinator of the Fund, called theevent very successful and noted that by publicizing the Fund,
Astraea hopes to attract additional donors. "We would like tobuild the fund, make it larger than it is, so that we can giveout more grants in the future," Roth remarked.
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thaI
munity and others could persuade
GAPIMNY, has spearheaded opposition,
Asians are part of the gay comm:ilQity,
Lambda's board of directors to change
told Outweek "They did not take a ~ral or that women and men,' straight, andwhite also, find the piay offensive." .
position on this, and they sat on it until it
its mind and sever its connections with
Chan stressed that ALOEC and GAPIMwas ,too late to act. Nobody took thethe play, when it met last week to
NY are not out to sabotage Lambda or
responsibility to inform the board in time."
review its earlier decision to continue
the Center, but simply want them toChan ,believes
that the board neverwith• the fund-raiser.
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arrived at ,a ,c0nsensus that the play is
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The drama may go west if Miss
Lorde said that she could not consider
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Satgorts gay producer, Cameron MackinLambda Legal Defense Fund's recognition
the ~of the problem.
tosh, decides to take it to Los Angeles.
"1bey' are passing the buck to theof her "unless the organiz.:ttion can
the bold and necessary step of severing its
ticket-holders, who can decide whether
Already, the rumblings of discontent canbe heard in Lambda's LA office, whereconnections to, and support of, the play,
to keep their ticket or sell it back.
in which case I would be pleased toaccept Lambda's award."
She continued:"For Lambda toassociate itself with a benefit performance of Miss Saigon, a play aboundingin racist and sexist stereotypes, perfonned by non-Asian actors, is a sadly
divisive error. At best, it demonstrates agross insensitivity to the real-life situa~:r1..
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people of color, to determine our own
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send concerning their relationships with,.
people of color.
Board m'ember Carol Buell, an
attorney with the all-women firm of
Weiss, Buell and Bell, told OutWeek thatthe "board considered all the factors anddidn~t all agree but, as an institutional
decision, decided that it was too late, forprocedural reasons.""There were other factors involved,"
she continued. 'The possible layoff of persqnel and the resultant cutbacks of someof our programs. We would be unable toput forth our programs and do what we
feel is audal. It's not just a question ofdollars and cents."
Buell said that the Board acknowledges that it made a mistake: "Had we ':known then what we know now, we
would most certainly not go through with
it. And I doubt vel)' much if it would ever
happen again. But there were things here.
that were irreconcilable."
The two gay Asian organizations
that are protesting Lambda and the 'Lesbian and Gay Community Services CenHours: Sunday
Thursday, Kitchen open Noon till Midnight.
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Friday & Saturday: Noo,n till 1:00 am
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excuse. June Chan, a spokesperson for
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NEW YOHK~Hundreds ·of gay an'dlesbian aeti.vists
demonstrated in each of the city'S five bofoughslast week, publicized 'anti-lesbian incident last summer and one of the, protesting the frightening rise in anti-queer violence and , targets of the Brooklyn segment of the demonstration, provided activists with hundreds of sandwiches to tide them'
recent incidents of police brutality.
The actions, which began in.the morning on March.9 on over during the long day of actions. Despite this gesture of, Staten Island and concluded that evening in the Bronx, were conciliation, police surro.unded the diner in a protective formation when the protesters marched down Seventh Avenue
organized by the Anti-Violence Project and drew support
from the Mayor's Office for the Lesbian and Gay Cqmmunity past the establishment.
Area lesbians had boycotted the New Purity after theand the city Human Rights Commission. The protesters werebashing, as word filtered out that the diner's staff had refusedtransported from demo
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to assist the lesbians who were being attacked on the premisIn ea~h borough, local lesbian and gay organizations
assisted in coordinating,the protests, and victims of vio- es, but after lasf week's friendly gesture, some locals arelence, including the family of Julio Rivera, who was brutally thinking about patronizing the popular establishment again.
-Ellen B. Neipris and Nina Reyes
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have to explore their sexuality.
Lesbian life varies dramaticallythroughout
the continent,delegates reported.
The conference
was organized by the Thai lesbianorganization Anjaree, whose members said that Thai lesbians arewelcome in some of the many gay
men's bars there.
Japanese lesbians reported thatthey now have their own newsletter.
Indian lesbians complained about thelack of' support from feminists. Conferees ,;were conflicted on the question of whether non-Asian womenshould be permitted to join the Asian
Lesbian Network.
Several Asian lesbians living outside Asia said that white women's
racism is such a powerful factor fortheip that they did not want whitewolhen, to participate
even if they
live' in~Asia. But Asian women living
iri Asia said that sexism-not
racism-is their major battle.
Women attended the conferente(rom 'Australia,
England,
India,
Indonesia,
Japan, Malaysia, the,Netherlands, the Philippines, Singapore, Ta.wan ~nd the United States .
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I boys,'and-girls with girlS? For only"two rubles, Tema provides its readers·with
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I ' sponges, and...ttied,to scrub the homophobia off the b,uilding. Several days I'I da~erl the same'p'~o~estors,mem!>er:s.of,OutRage, surro4nded t,h~ Bow Street I
I golice s~tiqn, which ju~t happens"to,b~ where Oscar Wilde. was Charged with I'I indecency in 1895. Ten'couples went inside and "confessed" their "crimes:" , I"'1 Clause 25 will increase' punishmElnts for the ,crimes of procuring others to I
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an:g ,exch~nging names and phone numQers,
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sion to make condoms available to highschool students without parental consent
According to Frances Kunreuther" executive director of the Hetrick-Martin Institute, an organization serving the needsof lesbian' and gay youth, the i?oard,
made "the right moral decision to makesure young people are alive to be, educated." Stressing the importance of
accepting the chancellor's proposal "asis," Kunreuther added, "It's part of acomprehensive plan that will help prevent HIV infection among adolescents.»
But in a statement issued throughhis press secretary, Gerald McLaughlin,
Sen. Marchi stated, "Proposals like [Fernandez's] may be well intended but
only encourage our young people toadopt barnyard-animal standaI:ds,"
McLaughlin told OutWeek that theRepublican senator believes that, the distribution of condoms "would help promote promiscuity" and therefore did notwant taxpayers' dollars to be spent on"what he regards as a spurious concept."
The Republican senator announcedplans on March 7 to introduce a bill thatwould deprive public schools of almost$3 billion in state aid if officials allow
condom distribution to become part ofthe city's educational program.
And more pressure has be~n created by five New York City la~kers
who have initiated a measure)<) jailany .school of~cial distributi~$:'ciiitraceptlves to a mlOor.
,'" "I think it's a lot' of gra~dSianding!" accused Kunreuther, blasting hoili
measures. Stressing the "vulnerabilityof young people," she added that attitudes like Marchi's and the others'c<;>uldyield "incredibly dire con,s,equences" for our youth.
',.'"It's a difficult issue for adults toadmit that young people are sexuallyactive," she continued.
Mclaughlin had once admitted
that Marchi's measure was unlikely topass in the Democratic-led Assembly.
However, two days later, as OutWeek
went to press, he reported that Democratic State Assemblyman Edward 9riffith of Brooklyn will sponsor Marchi'sbill. A spokesperson from Griffith's
office confirmed the sponsorship.
Kunreuther remains hopeful on one
issue, stating that "nobody thinks people
giving out condoms are aiminals."-Janis Astor del Valle.

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The discriminatory treatment started
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The treatment abated for a while
after RQm~i reported the matter to a 'superior. But it allegedly resumed andeven increased when Romei was out
sick for four days with viral infections.
"She made hints to one of the secretaries that it was because I was gay. She
said, 'You seem to be more susceptible
to infections,' and hinted that I might
have AIDS," alleged RomeL However,
his supervisor, Renata Carlin, neveractually asked him if he had AIDS.
Romei alleges that Carlin defamed
him personally and professionally, that
he was not only passed up for promotion because of her poor recommenda-

tion but was even demoted and given
a less responsible job and that his
career was more or less ruined.
Since leaving Shell, he has been
unable to find a comparable job and has
moved to Florida, where he is working
for a resort as a front-desk manager.
"It is fair to say that I've gone
down in the world," he told OUtWeek.
"My salary is nothing compared withwhat it used to be."Romei is suing Shell under thestate's Human Rights Law for harassment, discrimination and slander.
Shell tried to stymie the case,arguing that it should be dismissed
because the law required that litigants

prove that they were discriminatedagainst because of an actual disability
and could not base a claim on themere perception of one.
But Justice Cohen ruled that a 1983
amendment to the Executive l-aw, was"intended to expand its reach S<t that
protection can be provided to employees who are discriminated against by
their employers based on a c(:mdition
regarded by the employer as an impairment even if the employee does not, infact, have such a disability."
Romei's lawyer, Margaret Wmter, asole practitioner in Manhattan, said
that "this clarifies the law. This is thefirst case the squarely holds that you,,

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Ilene Block, of Slope Activities for Lesbians, pictured here plotting her next shot.
Block and other SAL gals can be found most Wednesday nights at Brownstone Billiards, shooting pool for
free ,and watching the women who have gathered to take advantage of the pool hall's weekly ladies' night.
. Other wholsesome SAL doings include kd lang nights, Dial-a-Date parties and poker games at ''The Clubhouse," their own version of Ralph and Norton's Raccoon Lodge.
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A previous case, Bell Restauran-teurs Ltd. v. City of New York Commission on Human Rights, reached thesame conclusion,
but it was obiter
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Torah, the interdenominational
New
York synagogue serving gay and lesbianJews, is gearing up to search for a rabbi,
having done without one since the con-

AIDS, that alone would be a full-time
job," Rosen said, noting that the AIDS
aisis has increased the need for funerals
and memorial services.
Rosen said that the search for a
rabbi will be especially tough because
the synagogue respects some conservative aspects of Jewish theology.
"The. is our gayness," hesaid, pointing' out that a rabbi would be
the synagogue's link to the mainstream
Jewish community--and a gay and lesbian
voice in Jewish concerns. "It will be good•for us in the gay commuhity--Qild, as a .
synagogue, to have &:nneoneout there."
Same-sex
commitment
ceremonies the synagogue's version of gay
wedd.ings-constitute one issue the new
rabbi will have to address. Rosen
recently told the Jewish Week that"weddings are between a man and awoman." He told Out Week that he
was afraid the statement may havebeen taken out of context by some.
"I thought
it would make itmuch more palatable
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Mel Rosen, Temple Beth Simchat
Torah chair, told Out Week that the
cO,ngregation's ever-increasing
needs•
convinced
his organizationthat itneeded to consider fmding a spiritualleader. The synagogue
is currently
analyzing the tasks for which it thinks
a. rabbi should be responsible and will
start its search this month.
In the early '70s, shortly after thesynagogue was formed, the congregation
decided that it didn't need a full-time
rabbi and instead started a communitywide effort to lead services and establish,
religious policies. But since then, iJS•
membership has grown considerably.
"We've become a major organization," Rosen said, adding that the congregation now includes more than 1,100
members, making it the largest gay andlesbian synagogue in the country.
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After a successful run
in Dallas, the show was tohave traveled to Houston
by ANDREW MILLER
for a Gay and Lesbianwith reporting by
Pride Week performance.
Duncan Osborne
That's when Tams-Witand Nina Reyes
mark, the company thatowns the rights to the show, shut it down, claiming that
producer Donald Shea was in violation of the contract for
casting Reno as a man. Shea is suing.
And you thought that Miss Saigon had casting problems.
YOUR ARMS ARE TOO SHORT TO
BOX WITH GODDESS: This week's Dorothy

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anchorwoman Ginger Casey <==of San Francisco.
L'""""""",.,.",'",In its coverage of the"Lesbian/Gay-Bashin'g in theMedia" panel at the 7th Annual Assembly for Unitarian Universalists for Lesbian Gay
Concerns Convocation, the'Bay Area Reporter mistakenly
implied that Casey is a lesbian, when in fact she was the
only straight woman on thepanel. BAR also reported thatthe moderator
described
GINGER CASEY
Casey as a "rrews goddess.""Not only am I not a Unitarian, I am not a lesbian either,"Casey admitted in a letter to the editor. "It is difficult enoughfor a straight woman to get a date in this town, though withall due respect to Woody Allen, you have now doubled mychances of going out on a Saturday night. Their reference tome as a 'news goddess,' however, was not only accurate,
but long overdue."
ALL ABOUT ED: San

Francisco Mayor Art Agnos has
nominated a gay man to be thecity comptroller. According to
the Bay Area Reporter, Ed Harrington, who is expected to win
approval from the Board ofSupervisors, will become thefirst gay person ever to holdthe high-level post.

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Harrington, the mustachioed 41-year-old director of
finance for the city's Public Utilities Commission, noted,"Every time a city check gets printed, a gay person's name[will be] on that check."•

CRACKER-SMACKER:Speaking of comptrollers and,.

gay people, New York City's own Liz Holtzman was at the LeST
bian and Gay Community Servjces Center on Tuesday,March 12,
speaking at the Center-sponsored Second Tuesdayseries.
Remember how Cracker Barrel, a Southeastern restaurant chain, recently decided to can all of their gay employees, causing such a stir?
,:'Well, it turns out that New York City's pension fundowns nearly 89,000 in Cracker Barrel stock worth about$3.3 million, and Ms. Holtzman ain't pleased.
She announced on Tuesday that her office has dashed
off a memo to Cracker Barrel CEO Dan. W. Evans, suggesting that discrimination against lesbians and gay men is definitely not cool. Stay tuned ...
MEET ME IN ATLANTA: The national office'for
the National Lesbian Conference is reporting a "steady humof activity," as it gears up for the final push before the April
24-28 gathering in Atlanta.
.
Urvashi Vaid, Angela Bowen, Barbara McDonald andJoyce Hunter will be speaking, Theresa Trull, Alix Dobkin,
Lea Delaria and the Two-Spirited Thunder People Native
American Dance Troupe will be performing, and hundreds
and hundreds of lesbians will be converging on Atlanta. ,;And aside from the heat generated when women wholove women get together, there may be a little external pontroversy, too: Organizers have barred transsexual lesbians
from attending workshOps and panels, and male journalists
from covering the conference.
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Steffan is suing the Department of Defense, which
ousted him from the US Naval Academy after learning that
he is gay.
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"The most I would allow is what relates to this plaintiff,
not every homo that may be walking the face of the earth at
this time," Judge Gasch reportedly ruled in a pre-trial hearing.
"On what basis do you contest? That he's a homo andknows other homos? Is that it?" the judge reportedly inquired
from his bench in the Washington courtroom a short time later.
GET WELL SOON: Indefatigable AIDS and antiviolence activist and Pink Panther Gerri Wells and OutWeeKs
AIDS Editor, Paul Rykoff Coleman, are both under the weather and in the grips of New York City's health-care system.
Mayor David Dinkins was so concerned about Wells' welfare
that he called her to tell her to hurry up and get well. Rim
Shots' sentiments, exactly, and ditto for Coleman.

•people who read that paper," hesaid. "It's the biggest Jewish weekly
in the country."
The synagogue currently allows
commitment
ceremonies to be performed in its sanctuary. Although the
ceremonies
honor love between two,
men'or two women, Rosen said, the rites•
cannot be called weddings because they
do not conform to strict Jewish rules.
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program,which will be aired byanother local public TV station, hascome bouncing off the satellites.
The announcement
concludes
nearly a decade's negotiations and willoffer the community its f1rst-ever queercentral regular program in New York.
Meanwhile, Mayor David Dinkins
pulled the rug out from under the feetof Channel 13's gay and lesbian boycotters. "Channel 13 does a better job
in covering these important issues thanmost other TV stations," the mayor stated. "While strong efforts should be'made to increase the media's presentation of lesbian and gay issues to thegeneral public, I do not believe a boycott of WNET's fund-raising drive is theright course of action at this time.". ' Beginning in October, WNYCiChan, nel 31 will air a monthly gay and lesbian
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Leather ;)ex:by Marc J. Reiss
close ~iend's
A past
tnp to,Inferno,and therecentweekendlong celebration of
the tenth anniversary of Gay Male
S/M Activists, has
mademe think
about the way men
in the leather community have sex.
Inferno is a four-day S!M camp fortrue-believers only. To be admitted, youmust be recommended by a member oran associate of the Chicago Hellflfe Oub.
It's held once a year in September in asmall Midwestern town, and now that theMineshaft and many similar places areclosed, it may be one of the last bastions
on earth where one can safely participate
in traditional S/M constrained only by
one's own limits.
There are certain aspects to traditional S/M sex that seem almost quaintnow: tough men uSing other tough men
as their slaves; suffering; punishment forbeing "bad"; eating out of a dog's dish;begging for sex; admitting one's unworthiness; being humiliated-thatsort ofthing. It seems so ...'7Os. Gay liberation.
Do your own thing. Let's play the roles
we've always fantasized playing. I'll be
the Dungeon Master, you be the subject
captured for my pleasure, ad infmitum,
the evening limited only by the willing'ness of the participants and the extent of
the wardrobes. And the preoccupation,with precision and "skill" (ropes tied justso, makes and models of equipment)that became th~ focus of the experience,
often to the detriment of sexual pleasure.
I'll admit that I occasionally fmd thistype of scene fun, especially to thedegree· thai it allows one. to dress up. I
have always been fond of accessories.
But more and more, I've noticed achange in the way I, and some of my'friends, have been playing.
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In light of all the time and effort I've
spent to reach a place in my mind andin society where I feel good about who I
am, what I am and what I like, I findthat it is no longer satisfying to let another man throw it all out the window in aneffort to dominate or degrade me. Nor
do I want to dominate or degrade someone whom I've found worthy and desirable to be with. So lately, when I've had
S/M sex, it has been less centered

There are certain aspects
to traditional SIM sex thatseem almost quaint now:
tough men using other
tough men as their slaves;eating out of a dog's dish.
It seems so ...'70s.

around roles, and more around the'physicality and stimulation of pain/pleasure the work in giving it and the pleasure in receiving it. And it's been more
comfortably integrated with sex andaffection. It isn't something to do insteadofsex and affection.
Pain, like pleasure, is in the mind of
the beholder. I don't consider any sensation to my body to be pain until the sensation is painful- That is, until it stops
being pleasurable and changes to pain.
Do I like pain? Well, not exactly. I likeevetything that leads up to pain. Where
you and I might draw the line and saythat this action is pleasure, but that action
is pain, is going to be a matter of individual taste, of course. But the point is, there
are activities that are associated with"pain" which can in fact be pleasurable.

And they are hard work. Ask any
top. But to me, there is nothing more satisfying than having a top pouring his
masculinity
into making
me feelgood-especia1ly to the point where he ~works up a real sweat. Yet he still must ~maintain that necess:uy control so as not ~to go past the point-of-no-retum (right ~..
up to it, maybe, even a nudge to push it ~a bit further and further-but not past it). ;f
Many S/M tops will tell you that that's
part of the beauty of their side of theexperience--theability to make a man
feel as if he's in heaven and the ability toexperience his own sense of infinite,complete control. It's a nice match.
So there we have our S and our M:
One partner experiencing the pleasure ofcontrol in a world out of control, theother experiencing
the pleasureofrelease in a world where you must constantly be on your guard. And that's it.
Everything else is just the context inwhich the participants give themSelves
permission to have these exPetlepces.
Because many people, even someiwho
are out in the scene, don't feet· comfortable with the idea of doing thesethings whipping, bondage, intensity of
sensation leading to pain-unlessthere's•somereason to do them: themaster/slave context or the coach/jockcontext or the cop/punish-me
context.
It's not enough that it just feels good.
But lately, I have found that thecontext is becoming less and less necessary, and more people are willing to .
have S/M sex just because it does feelgood. That's a big change from constant, ly negotiating from one context to another. (All those nights at the old Ramrod or
the Spike, spending hours to set up theright conditions! "Excuse me, do you like•cops and robbers, or are you only into
military scenes?") Instead, this means an
acceptance of ourselves as the people weare, without the need of any context, free
to have these experiences because welike them and to have S/M sex with the

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, people whom we like.
Let me give you a few examples. I
have a friend I see
whom I'll call Richard.
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Richard is a vice president of a major corporation educated, cultured, channingand with a sharp, dry sense of humor.
He's pleasing to be with. He also likes totie me up and whip me. I like it, too.
Sometimes he gets all dressed up inleather, not in order to play a role of any
kind, but because we both think it looks
hot. But the truth is, we've had equally,
intense, satisfying sex after stripping out
of our polo shirts and shorts. I don't haveto beg for anything. He doesn't change

his voice and start talking strangely to me.
When it's over, there's no awkwardness
about becoming "equals" again, because
we are always equals--just opposites.
Then there's this friend whom I'll
call Gary. Gary is a real gentleman, andhis demeanor never changes no matter
what position I may be in; or what we're
doing. Gary is not into leather at all. We
go .from our street clothes to noclothes except for my blindfold andbonds. There's a relaxed feeling between
us that precludes the need for any external situation say, master/slave to be
included in our scene. We just enjoyeach other. He knows thathe .
,can do almost anything hewants to me. And 'I know he'll
do almost anything I want him .
to. Again, equals.
I've sometimes played with,a couple whom I'll call Jeff andScott. They're both in their 205.
Jeff is a trained dancer; Scottworks in construction.
Jeffdoesn't seem to care if he's top
or bottom-it just depends on
his mood. Scott lets Jeff picksides, and then we respondaccordingly. There is a respect
and a good naturedness
between these two that isrefreshing to see. There's also
trust and a willingness to push
limits which has nothing to dowith anything other than adesire to explore their sexuality.
No orders being barked, nogroveling. Just sensation, for the
fun of it, and affection for thelove of it.
That's the new S/M: Twopeople experimenting with one
another's limits--the limit of theability to control and the limit of
the ability to let go. No reasons.
No games. Nothing to pretend.
Just doing what each otherwants to do because they likeeach other and they like sex
with each other. No mental
domination or submission.
For some people, this will
be impossible. They can't allow
themselves the pleasure of "forbidden" sensation without acontext. And of course, somepeople really like the role-playing (where would uniform
nights be without them?) which
can encourage enormously satisfying fantasies.
But there is a growing number ofpeople who are having S!M sex without
the roles that have traditionally gone with
it.· It's done as a healthy expression ofsex, affection and physicality-without
the risk of an exchange of bodily fluid.s---and without any of the psychological baggage that keeps some people
from feeling good about themselves andtheir bodies, no matter what their secretdesires are. T
Marc J Reiss, a native of Los Angeles,
has wrlIteI1 for the gay press for 12years.
He lives tn Chelsea with Sneakers, his cat.

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abQut
white WQmen's politics and the CQncept Qf PQliticallycorrect behaviQr.
There is a big
difference between
what the mainstream media calls
political correctness
in regard to. natiQnal and local politics
and the academy, and what large' sectiQns Qf Qur lesbian-feminist 'cQmmunity
live and require as individual PC behaviQr and belief. It is the latter-nQt the former-which fiightens me.
An example Qf the fQrmer is theinsistence that literaty, histQrical and theQretical wQrk by peQple Qf cQiQr be
included in the corpus Qf academic discourse. It has become a PC positiQn, notbecause white WQmen thQught it up Qne
day, but because people Qf colQr havebeen demanding it for years.
An example Qf the latter is the ideathat since some WQmen believe that S!Mis a bad thing and have solid theoreticaland personal reasons to. back them up,theydetenninethat S/M is always, andfor everyqne, a bad thing. The personal
becQmes ~the politically CQrrect notiQn Qf
popular cQntrQl in a way that takes away
anQther WQman's ability to. makeinfQnned personal decisiQns.
At a time when the concept Qf political CQrrectness is being publicly attacked
by the rich white boys, I believe that it is'important fQr us to. do. some seriQUSinternal discourse Qn what it means to. be PC,
because we are using PC rules to. makedecisiQns abQut individual WQrth andvalue solely Qn the basis Qf someone's
PC behaviQr.
. ,The concept was Qriginally designed
as an attempt at fQnning a CQnsensus
arQllnd thQse political issues that markthe reality Qf Qur lives, but there seems to.
.be a design flaw. There is no. built-in

Ltruthmeans Qf processing what to. do. when
there is no. consensus. And we cannQt
affQrd to. be uncritical about Qurselves
and what we say that we believe in. If
the right is attacking us, wrapping Qurselves in the cloak Qf Qur Qwn sanctity
will Qnly feed into. their attacks.
At the Michigan WQmen'sMusic,
Festival, WQmen react viQlently to. theI•

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very presence' Qf S/M WQmen and findFestival staffs attempts at cQmprQmise
unacceptable. In NQrthhamptQn, Mass.,
there are hQuses that require residents tohave Qnly female animals ,and where
men are nQt allQwed even to. visit. In
Philadelphia, WQmen gave me a hardtime when a few Qf us started a multiracial lesbian and gay living collective.
We thought we were prQving that people
Qf difference can live tQgether withQut,

power games, but many WQmen Qnly
noticed the gay part and autQmaticallyassumed that we had switched Qur allegiance to. men.
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In New YQrk,there are women who. ~won't spend time with Christians and ~WQmen who. WQn't spend time with :::;
witches and WQmen who. WQn't spend ~time with anyone nQt a member Qf their ~social club and WQmen who. want some If
man to. try to. bash them just so they canbeat the crap Qut Qf him and WQmen
who. WQn't see a MQnika Treut film
because they "heard" it was abusive. 'The WQmen's cQmmunity has lQng
been a bastiQn Qf political CQrrectness
and mQre recently, in some sub..rommunities, Qf PQlitical incQrrectness. And
these variQus cQmmunities rarely talkwith Qne anQther. Women mQve to. a
new cQmmunity an~ float in and Qut Qf
Qrganizations and fiiendships until theyfind the Qne mQst like themselves. Our
belief systems are either already icleoticalto. Qr adapted to. the group we ;harig ",,'lith.
If their friends WQn't shQP at Judith's
Room because they sell On Our BaCks Qr
Bad Attitude, then they won't either. iTheissue is nQt if they would ever actually
buy the magazines but simply the magazine's availability. 1hjs seems to. me to. be
the worst fQnn Qf localized imperialism.
We have learned to cQnsciQusly
value Qther wQmen's experience, Qn
both societal and persQnal levels, butsome Qf us are beginning to. use issues Qfpolitical importance to. cQntrol the lives Qf .
individual WQmen around us. Maybe we
don't feel safe sharing a space with S/M, WQmen because Qf personal Qr politicalissues, but we blQW it up into. not wanting S/M WQmen even near us.' Thiserodes fairly quickly into. expressing thatwe dQn't feel safe when RJ doesn't hangup her coat.
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The idea Qf safety, from a social andhistorical perspective, is very important inboth feminist and WQmanist theory. But
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expressing anger, it has gonefrom being a notion of politicalcorrectness to an arm of popular control. There is nothing
wrong with saying, "It pisses
me off when you don't hang
up your coat," or "when you
come home drunk," or "whenyou dress like a cop." But when
we don't, we are enabled byour own rules of correct behavior to control the womenaround us, rather than actually
addressing the real issue.
And whatever happened
to coalitions? There are a few
around New York, but organizations and cliques generally
consist of women who alreadythink the same way. Women
who are all the same in identity and purpose and degree of
PC-ness. We're human: It's easier to hang with women who
are like us. Besides, we rationalize, we learn about other
women's experience from thebooks and magazines we read.
There are groups ofwomen to whom I am notacceptable, because they havealready created the rules of
acceptability for their particular sub-culture and have expanded theirnotion of politically correct to include
personal belief and behavior. Some
reject me because I am in seminary("But God is a male construct, andtherefore you must still be male-identified"). Others reject me because I thinkt1~atsometimes it is fun to get tied up("Oh, you must be re-Iiving some sexual~use"). Still others reject me because I
refuse to wear the attire of anarchist
resistance, or because I refuse to wear
corpprate drag, or because I refuse to
go to bars with quota systems ("But if,•
we show them our buying power,
they'll change").
Some reject me
because I smoke and drink, others
because I won't even be in the sameroom with drugs, others because I am
out and won't go back in just to meetsomeone'smother, and still others
because I won't shun someone else
who is not able to take that stand.
All of these examples are, in fact,issues that we should interpret individually in light of the historical experience of
women, and our own personal experience. They are neither issues we can

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decide for all women in all contexts nor
issues we can simply label as good orbad, right or wrong. Individual morality
cannot be policed by popular consensus.
It is important that we state our opinion,even argue about it, but we cannot
assign value to persons themselves on
the basis of their actions. And that isexactly what we do.
Dialogue, if it happens, is generally
around an immediate issue in our larger
community. We run around putting out

fifes rather than taking the matches .
away from the children. I heard little dialogue around Mtss Saigon
until it became an important issue
when two of our community otganizations decided to use it as a yehide to raise funds. And I have notnoticed any white women saying inprint simply: "If Asian lesbians andgays say that it is offensive to theircommunity, then it is. Period."
Instead,the discussion
revolves around whether we perceive it as racist, and if malice
was intended. But that's irrelevant. Dialogue months ago could
have avoided this entirely. How
many white women who can spota white dyke in a crowded subway would know how to spot an
Asian lesbian? Hardly any, myself
included. After all, why talk? Why
familiarize ourselves with culturalcontexts? We already know what
we know, and we know that weare right. .
We rarely dialogue in time,and so when the fire starts, wefight or dismiss, and locate ourbeliefs safely in our own experience, from which we make our
proclamations. Our experience isimportant, but we should not beable to use it to control the womenaround us, of whom we ought to besupportive, with the excuse that we are. busy keeping our personal space safe. 'Political correctness is just that:
Political stands and beliefs. The personal is political only as long as it is personal first.T
Cynthia Nichols-Beal is a writerand masters of divinity candidate atUnion Theological Seminary in Morningside Heights.

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Fed's AIDS Commission: The Crisis Is. Not Overby Cliff O'Neill"I,

WASHINGTON-An independent
panel commissioned one year ago toassess the AIDS research programs of
the National Institutes of Health, orNIH, unveiled its long-awaited report
before a House oversight committee
on March 7, calling for increased funding and substantial restructuring of thefederal AIDS research effort.
Formed at the behest of the NIH's
AIDS program director, Dr. Anthony
Fauci, the 15-member independent
panel of the Institute of Medicine iscomprised of a wide array of AIDS specialists and members of the AIDS activist
community with no formal connection
to the federal research effort.
Speaking
before the Human
Resources and Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee of the Committee on
Governmental Operations, three panelists
from the broad-based committee testified
that AIDS research funding should be
increased by 25 percent over present levels, expansions which, they insisted,should not be taken out of federal funds
for other disease research.
Yet, while ~ling for increased AIDS
research funds, the panel's chair suggested that more money alone will not solve
the problem of AIDS.
''We do not know enough to solve
the epidemic," said William H. Danforth,chancellor of Washington University in St.
Louis, "even if we had all the money in
the US budget at our disposal."Among the panel's proposals are
calls for a significant restructuring of how,the NIH conducts its AIDS research, andwhat drugs and procedures the HealthCare Financing Administration, or HCFA,
will subsidize.
• The panel calls on the HCFA toallow Medicare and Medicaid programs to
pay for.experimental AIDS.treatments andprocedures that have passed trials for safety but have not yet proven their efficacy.
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which research efforts will be funded, toyear plan to identify AIDS research priallow for greater streamlining of research,orities and set up a process by which all
about trial results and
AIDS research programs are constantly . openness
increased accountability for the trials thatreevaluated, the panel recommended.
are approved. The panel also argued• The commission also urged thatthe director of the NIH be given an
against consolidatin~ all federal tJDS
programs in one office, insisting that,annual discretionary fund of at least
unlike cancer and heart disease, AIDS
$20 million and expanded authority to
crosses a wide ~y of biomedical, ecotransfer federal research funds to thenomic and political boundaries.
most promising AIDS initiatives.
"It isn't that another wheel needs• Greater financial investments
to be invented," said panelist Melvinshould be made in nursing, as well as
M. Grunbach, professor of pediatrics atin behavioral, opportunistic-infection,
HIV-vaccine and basic biomedical
the University of California at San Franresearch and in administrative support
cisco, "it needs to be strengthened,at the NIH, the report further suggested.
amplified ...and given some clout."
Testifying after the report's unveil• The panel also said that specificsteps should be taken to avoid the feding, Fauci told the congressional comeral government duplicating researchmittee that many of the panel's suggesprograms already being conducted bytions are already being implemented
pharmaceutical companies.
and that others were being reviewed• Behavioral research should beby the NIH.
broadly incorporated into the NIH's AIDS
But despite optimistic statements
research miX, the report further suggestfrom panel chair Danforth, one panelist
cautioned that much remains to be done.
ed, which should include a long-stymied
study into American sexual behavior, held
"I'd hate to see the message go out
up by conservative forces in Congress.
that the AIDS crisis is being handled, It isnot," said ACf UP!New York'slim Eigo.
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demands on the AIDS Clinical Trials"Not only is the AIDS crisis not over~t's
Group, the NIH body which determines
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WASHINGTON-A group of key
members of the House and Senate on
Feb. 28 reintroduced a comprehensive
bill outlining a broad agenda on women's
health issues, including breast and cervical cancer and AIDS,and requested a federal investigation into the exclusion of
women from federal drug trials.
Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski ofMaryland and Democratic Reps. Pat

Schroeder of Colorado and Olympia
Snowe of Maine introduced to the Houseand Senate the omnibus Women's Health
Equity Act, a combination of 22 separate
women's health bills that include provisions addressing
w.omen's healthresearch, selVicesand disease prevention.
"We are laying the foundation for
health care in the 21st century," said
Mikulski, "and it has to be more than amix of 14th-century
attitudes and•care services to women in need.»
The multi-faceted proposal, similar
to another measure introduced to thelast Congress, is expected to movethrough the legislative process not as awhole but as individual pieces which
could come up as free-standing bills oras amendments to other legislation. Moving on parts of the comprehensive measure last year, Congress passed bills relating to breast and cervical cancer andextending Medicare coverage to mam•mogram screemngs.

only extrapolate the effect of drugs on
women from trials done almost exclusively on men.
Currently there is a written policy
within the NIH calling for the inclusion of
women in trials. A proposal calling for asimilar policy within the Alcohol, Drug
Abuse and Mental Health Administration,
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Office, or GAO, to conduct a studycto determine whether women are,being excluded from Food and Drug(.Administration trials. The three had previously reqUe6ted a similar GAO inves'tigation into the trials of the National, Institutes of Health, or Nlli.
Aside from the proposals in thebill pertaining to women with AIDS,
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the lesbian community
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at greater risk for breast and cervicalcancer, and the incidence of such cancers is higher among lesbians thanamong their heterosexual counterparts.
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confererice calledby the New York
City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence
Project and the, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force todiscuss the critical issue of anti-lesbian
and anti-gay viOlence, Abrams stated that"hate crimes directed against gay and lesbian men and women appear to be thefastest-growing fOIm of bias-related crimein this nation." Longtime gay and lesbianactivists are already declaring support for~rarri.s''bid for the Senate. The ftrst pres. idtint·,arid founder of the Gay Activists
Alliance,]imOwles, who was also the,ftrst "president and founder of the Gay
and Lesbian Independent Democrats andis curreqtly an aide to state Senate Minority Leader Fred Ohtenstein, has alreadyendorsed, Abrams. Andy Humm, a',humanrights, commissioner"and! spokesperson for the coalition for lesbian, and gay rights" is aboard the Abrams'
bandwagon, And' Anti-Violence Project" Executive Director Matt Foreman has also
given;Abrams his persona! endorsement.
Abramshas earned the support of les..
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Ryan was named "Bigot of the Month."
Once in a while, it would be good forthe newer activiststo check the facts withthe veterans instead of rewriting history.

Eldridge Sparkles
Sad news for all New Yorkers comescourtesy of City Council Speaker Peter
Vallone. Vallone's Council Committee
appointments are in, and Council member Sal Albanese of Brooklyn is no longer
chair, or even a member, of the Youth

Once ilJ,'a wh~lt:,
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veterans instead off" Rewriting History
A leaflet, promoting the Anti-Violence ,Project's March 9 five-boroughmarch had one glaring factual error. The, leaflet urged people to come join "the.first gay/lesbian demo in the history of, the Bronx!" In fact, the ftrst gay/lesbian" demo and march in the history of theBronx was in 1971 or 1972, when several
dozen activists descended to protest
Bronx Council member Michael DeMarco's vocal opposition to the gay rights
bill. Lew
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were among the rowdy demonstrators,
and after the 1978 vote in the Council,
another demo took place in the Bronx, when Bronx Council member Aileen~'30OUTWEEK March 27. 1991

rewrftillg history. 'Committee, and Council member Ronnie
Eldridge has been knocked off the General Welfare Committee. It's also a sad day
for consumers as the otiose Carol Greitzer
has maintained her position as chair of
the Consumer Affairs Committee.
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It's believed that Eldridge was
bumped from the General Welfare Committee not only as punishment for her
disagreement with Vallone over thepolice plan but also for a more generaland much greater offense to the Council
speaker. You see, Eldridge does what she
was elected to do: She speaks up for her
constituents, voices her opinion andsticks by her principles. And Vallone (aswell as many of the other Council members) hates that.

Ronnie Eldridge is a star. She isvibrant, articulate and passionate. She isa crusader and is extremely dedicatedto progressive
principles.
Eldridge
belongs on the General Welfare Committee. It deals with the very issues that
dominate her life, issues such as lesbian
and gay right::?,foster care, chil9 careand welfare refoIm.
In an Eldridge news release dated
March 7, she makes some rather powerful and truthful observations about theCouncil. She voices her embarrassment at
the leadership's actions and says that thekind of politics displayed in the Council
1xxIe poorly for the city. Its dullness, shesays, comes from an insistence on conformity that threatens to overwhelm her
and the very principles of democracy onwhich our movement is based. Eldridge
says that the Council dings to the tradition of political dubhouses and that its
leader, Vallone, clearly indicates that
there is no room for debate or disagreement. She says: "I am 60 years old. I
have been a special assistant to MayorJohn Lindsay, and then First Deputy City
Administrator. I have been. a closecol'league of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and amember of Gov. Cuomo's cabinet andsenior staff. Do they seriously"expect me
to wait until I am 70 years old to express
an opinion?"
Eldridge tells it like it is. New Yorkers are lucky to have her on the Council.
In the Council elections coming up thisfall, we should elect 50 more Council
members like her. It is my hope;:that,
eventually Eldridge will seek pigher
office so she can provide even greater
leadership to a city mired in mediocrity. .
The present composition of theGeneral Welfare Committee 1xxIes poorly
for the passage of the domestic partnership bill, which must go through thecommittee before a full Council vote. In
terms of support, the "chair of the committee, Brooklyn's Sam Horwitz, is undecided and Bronx Council member Jose
Rivera is a question mark (neither is everlikely to be an advocate). Deftnite nos
are Morton Povman and Walter Ward(straight out of Night of the Living Dead),.,•both from Queens, and our archfoe
Noach Dear from Brooklyn. The one yes
vote on the committee comes from Miriam, Friedlander of Manhattan's Lower
Fast Side. It is Eldridge who is the moverand shaker, and her voice on the committee will be missed.
There is now a vacancy on the committee, and reportedly Vallone wants tofill it with whoever gets elected to the
Queens seat vacated by Arthur Katzman.
This is asinine. Eldridge was removed so
the space can be filled by a freshpersonfrom Queens! Please note that Queens
will then have three members on thecommittee, and Manhattan will have justone. Scandalous!
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Kenneth Fisher in Brooklyn's recent City
Council election.
Why strange?
Because FISher was the only candidate in an eight-person race who was not
outfront on gay issues. You'd think that
Rogowsky would have shown his commitment to the community he's supposed
to represent by not supporting Fisher,who, among other things, said that hedefinitely won't sponsor the domestic
partnership bill. When, do you suppose,
does Rogowsky put his community first?
Obviously not at election time.
FISher, by the way, won. If anything
positive comes out of this, it will be for
Rogowsky now to convince FISher to get'with the program on lesbian and gay
issues. He could start by putting pressure,on His Honor, Borough President Golden, to deal with Brooklyn's lesbian andgay community.
Golden's latest slap at the community is:his refusal to reply to an invitation to
speak before Lambda Independent'
Democrats, or LID, Brooklyn's lesbian
and gay political club. While at City Hall,
I asked Golden why he hadn't replied,and he told me that he has no intentionof speaking in front of UD.
LID members, as you can imagine,,are furious with Golden, and they're
thinking of going public with theiranger. The organization is having its
annual awards dinner at the Grand
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It's hard to describe Ross fully because
I entered his life only a few years ago, after
he had already been diagnosed. I never knew
him when he was well. But irrespective :of
AIDS, Ross' verve, humor, brains and wiles,
were all there during the time we werefriends, and they are the cornerstones ofeveryone's memories of him.
I had the pleasure of minding Ross'
home for several months in 1990 while heand his lover, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, took asojourn in California. Indeed, Ross'apartment, in an unswanky Polish section ofToronto, embodied his wide-ranging culturalsense. It was a feast for the senses, whatwith its kitschy/classy furniture, red boudoir
walls, an original print of Piss Chris~ a bookshelf full of volumes of poetry, cuisine andgay history, a lime-green-and-blue bedroom
and, of course, a Bang & Olufsen stereo. All'Hyd

those who saw his apartment felt that they
had connected with Ross in some holographic way, even if they ultimately never
met him. It's a testament to Ross' memorythat everyone who visited his apartment
moumed his loss, whether their link to Ross
was strong or tenuous.
Like so many Canadians, Ross lived in•Commentary,•

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Russo said in 1981. "It's how they have been visible that hasremained offensive." Ten years later, it's the same sad story.
The thriller The Silence of the Lambs presents one of thecreepiest characters to grace the silver screen. "Buffalo Bill," thecrazed killer pursued by an FBI trainee (Jodie Foster), murders
young women and cuts off their skin, which he then sews together
to make a suit for himself. Apparently those acts were not enough toestablish his villainy, so the fimmakers strongly imply that he's gay.
Director Johathan Demme claims that the character is notgay-just terribly confused about his sexuality. However, Silence
depicts the killer as having stereotypical characteristics attributed to
gay men: He wears makeup and wigs, has a nipple ring and evenkeeps a .poodle named Precious. At one point, he is described ashaving killed a male lover: Does Demme really believe audiences will
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ating anti-gay bias, they could have omitted these references orplainly stated in the film that the character is not gay. Even bett~r,
they could have provided balance by portraying a lesbian or g~good gaVguy. That's the approach Hollywood usually takes to offSjlt
negative images of other minorities (even when adapting moviEts
based on books).
As the film stands, there is neither balance nor insight-justanother Crazed Homosexual Killer to add to the already overcrowded Hollywood Hall of Shame.
Write to Jonathan Demme, Director, TheSilence of the Lambs,
c/o Orion Pictures Corp., 1325 Avenue of the Americas, New York,NY 10019. Also write or send copies to Eric Pleskow, the president
and CEOof Orion, at the same address.
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varied parts of the country. Born in Calgary,Alberta, in 1959, he moved with his family toNorman Wells, Northwest Territories, in1971. Spending his youth in the sparsely
populated North was a source of Ross'
unerringly apt judgment of character, his
generosity, his openness; the harsh andbeautiful Northern landscape also instilled in
him a sometimes-alarmingly strong zest forlife. Ross would later journey southward,
stopping along the way in Edmonton, Vancouver, and Montreal, until he reached hisreal love, New York, in 1980.
:There, Ross' activities of attending
school and working part-time were put into
persp,ective by falling in love with Felix, whomatched Ross' devotion with his own. To saythat Felix and Ross were close would scarcely
do them justice. Their lives would become
intertwined like the strands of a helix.
But in 1983, Ross made the difficult
decision to leave New York to study biochemistry and English at the University of Toronto,
a combination only Ross could pull off. In his
spare time, Ross weight-trained (with excellent results) and began working at
Scaramouche, a fine restaurant in Toronto, awine steward. He ultimately accumulated
enough university credits to graduate but figured that he needn't bother with the fonnality.
Trouble began in the spring of 1988,
when Ross was forced to leave Scaramouche
because of his worsening health.
Though having AIDS slowed him down,
it did not stop him. Ross was a consistentworker at all levels in AIDS Action Now, theToronto activist group. As a member of thesteering committee, he sat through meeting
after meeting; as an infuriated ",erson with
AIDS, he participated in some of AIDS Action
Now's better demonstrations. Willi ever forget the look of power, rage and triumph onrils face back in 1988 as he joined 300
activists in stonning the stage of the V InternatioAal Conference on AIDS in Montreal?
, 'But that kind of passion was common- ,place for Ross, whose demise leaves acolossal void in the lives of his many friends,
his three sisters and his mother. All of us
now face life without the Ross who we could
always count on to be himself. And ourhearts extend to Felix, the most important
person in Ross' life: Be strong and press on
for both of you.
Ross, we know you're better off now,wherever you are, but we sure wish that we
could have found a way to keep you with us.
We miss you.
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WeJeel guilty about it. We pretend that we don't have it when
we do. We aren't sure if we should go and get it. We don't
know how to deal with it when we do have it. This is the subject at hand But not from the perspective of lesbians without
money. This is about lesbians with money.
There are few more enduring stereotypes in the world thanthat of the downwardly mobile lesbian. This fX>rtraitexists
alongside such ancient ~gynist assumptions as: All lesbians
are fat, ugly, "masculine" man-haters whQ,wear nothing but flanI\e1 shirts and hiking boots. At this historical moment, however,such hideous distortions seem more like jokes than an accurate.reflection of who we are. Thus the flannel-shirted butch dyke inboots can now be seen as an irreverent construction of lesbiansexual desire and fX>weralong with a panoply of ever-expand,ing self-definitions and erotic styles and not simply as an odiouslesbo-phobic stereotype. At the other end of the spectrum, however, the myth of the always-impecunious lesbian, toiling away
at low-end nonprofit jobs or trading material success for movement work, is still omnipresent.
With the impact of identity fX>liticson the vernacular of thise>community,
it is not uncommon to hearsomeone speak of theQ),~ comfX>site "white gay man" as though .he were always financial~ ly solvent, if not downright wealthy. Similarly, people speak of== lesbians with caveats like "Needs sliding scale" or "Women....,~ make less money than men," the translation of which simply~ means that lesbians, by defmition, are somehow always poor.
It is true that the average full-time female worker with fouror more years of higher education makes approximately $27,000
per annum as compared with the $40,000 of her male counter-part. We can assume that lesbians of a srnilar station fall into
this statistic. These numbers, however, do not take into consideration such factors as race or sexual identity on the job. Like
Beebo Brinker, the famous heroine of Ann Bannon's '50s lesbian
pulp novels, who worked as an elevator operator because it
allowed her to wear pants, we cannot possibly know how many
women are in low-egd-wage
professions simply because they,
can be who they are instead of living in the closet. And we cannot tell if lesbians earn less per capita than their straight sisters.
We can say that early feminist critiques of capitalism and patriarchy have contributed in many ways to both the best and theworst aspects of how lesbians deal with money within the lesbian community.
The women I have sfX>kenwith here are heiresses,
entrepreneurs, activists, philanthropists and recluses. All of them
are white. Some are very involved in women's and lesbian
issues, others are not. Many women spoke only on the condition that their names not be used (in these cases, I have used
only a fIrStname, which I have changed).
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There is more than one closet for "lesbians 'Of wealth," asthey call themselves. A woman may be out' as a lesbian andcloseted about her money or she may be out as a woman withmoney but closeted as a lesbian. Very few women I sfX>kewith
are out both as lesbians and as women with wealth. But what
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in the lesbian co~unity
and, like anything that has to do withmoney, is as delicate here as anywhere in American culture. But
it is a aucial component of our desire to~be visible both to each.,,other .; and to the world.
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National Lesbian Action Foundation ' I called'"o,:',':-:x:;:,::::,.,:.:,;:,.'_':.:::"\:\:;;'::' ';"'::':::-:-;:, :':',: . :,\(/}:·;:P;i.~tip,;Itwas perfect timing." Manied for 14 years and theDrury grew up comfortably but not ostenta:;·pnfi.ouslYmth~Minneapolis are-d.After her divorce, she walked
away with half of the business she and her husband owned,
which afforded her substantial fmancial independence. After her
parents' death, however, she was left with an even more substantial inheritance. "It wasn't old money or anything," Drury
explains. "My father had made a lot of money, kind of a Horatio
Alger--type story, and he and my mother had saved and saved
for years.""
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endowment is $3 million to $4 million, and it expects to give out$300,000 to $400,000 per year to women's projects, haIfof
which, in the ftrst year, are lesbian-focused.
"There is a whole fteld of philanthropy that includes
women," states Drury, whose voice is lively and friendly. "Traditionally, women have given a lot less because often they haveless to give, but also it seems to be because women are moreafraid of losing what they do have. Men make money and losemoney, and that's all part of the game for them, they're comfortable with it, but women are raised, to be dependent on men,
including their accountants. So that even if they've inherited it(moneyl, they are afraid of losing it, they sometimes have no (actual control over it, they are afraid to use it. As for lesbians withmoney, we don't see that as much, but there are lesbians withmoney. One of the things I have found is that women DesbiansJ
are ashamed or embarrassed that they have it, they wony about
things like: If someone knows I have money, will they want it, or
will they sue me, or will they use me as a friend? I refuse to be
intimidated by that stuff. It's not hard after a while to detennine if
someone is your friend just because you have money."
Leonie Walker, like Joan Drury, is also not easily intimidated by her privilege. Raised i~ New York City and now aresident of Northern California, Leonie Walker's father was agenerous and successful businessman. Both her parents camefrom wealthy families, and all six children were set up withtrust funds. At 21, Walker came into her trust, and when her•

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With sleek dark hair and paleskin, Sylvie is the quintessential upper-class European
woman. Her clothes areunderstated, elegant andexpensive, and her attitude
toward money is simple: She
has enough so that she$25,000 or more in deal.in~ with both thed~sn't have t~ wony about it.
personal and the fmanaaIlSSUes
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involved in managing their own wealth.
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What I have been trying to do since I leftthat seems remotely patriarNew York is to get women with wealthchal. Making money is a maleto take some responsibility, roll up theiroriented preoccupation, andshirt sleeves, get into it and do somehaving money is macho, butthing with their lives," she explains.
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During that time Walker also served on the board of the
problems around wealth-I mean, these seem like real AmeriLesbian and Gay Community Services Center. Her current efforts
can-type conflicts." While she does sense a separation in the Iesare on behalf of the Equity Institute in Amherst, Mas5acliusetts, abian community between the haves and the have-nots, Sylvie
not-for-profit consultant agency that provides technical assispoints out that for her this separation is artificial. "There are only
tance to organizations and institutions worldwide on all theso many places we can go in New York, so we do have to inter"isms," including antisemitism, homophobia, ableism, racism
act," she notes. "I see more separation based on the different
and ageism. Walker's particular interest is class. This may seemcliques that exist in the dyke community."
obvious, given her own financial resources and background, but
To Sylvie, the difficulty in being a rich dyke is locatedin fact the lesbian community has rarely had rich dykes leading
somewhere in a netherworld between lesbian existence andworkshops on c1assism or the necessary redistribution of wealth.
one's family background. Being wealthy and being gay is a<'
"I think it's hard for us to make,.ourselves the first priority,
particular kind of marginalization: "When you are wealthy, youare brought up within a certain context with its own codes andpolitically," she explains, "and I think that [deliberate] downward
conventions, and then you are in the lesbian society, which
mobility is part of us not seeing ourselves as able to get what wereally want or deserve. I mean, it's as though there were a legacy
also has its own set of rules, and you are really in a weirdof downward mobility in this community, though I do think it's
position because you are kind of in between both of them."changing somewhat." Walker believes that class is the central
Although she does not now engage in any philanthropic activi- ties, Sylvie, unlike many of the older women I spoke with; haslinchpin of most oppressions experienced by marginalized peano problem giving mon,ey to lesbian-only causes. "Obviously,"
pIe in this culture, but she also acknowledges that being out canaffect a woman's potential opportunities, both professionally and., .. sheJ:~~9?8ly,"I will support,~W~~E9~t.i§..ip.•~sjnter"caIl y. Unlike some women with ' .inh ente
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are all the same issues to me---these are not just homosexualissues but front-line organizations that are saving our lives."
Nell is also disturbed by the persistent stereotype of thedownwardly mobile lesbian: "1bat's a negative stereotype that
doesn't have to do with reality. What you have is fear and isolation and lack of communication [within the lesbian community],
and this just mirrors what's in the larger movement" She thinksthat part of this has to do with the fact that women who are in
the closet can't see how political issues relate to their lives. This
inhibits both philanthropic activity within the lesbian community
and increases our invisibility in society at large, She admits thatat this point in her life, she is more willing to give her money
away than her time. "If people gave $500 or $1,000 away a year,
jt could really make a difference to this community. But I don't
know how you reach these people. Hopefully, somelxxly whodoesn't have her consciousness raised today will tomorrow, andthat is how we will get some change."
Nell's hopeful feminism is emblematic of the approach thatmany of the older women with whom I've spoken have taken
in dealing with their money, She has found, like other lesbiansof wealth, that the path to enlightenment (in terms of class privilege) can only be managed within the context of feminist,
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period of renunciation-{)f both their families and their
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allows them considerable personal and political power'They all
feel as though their lesbianism and their privilege demanded aparticular kind of transformation. This is not, however, a groupof decadent, dessicated party girls who spend their clays in bed
on Sutton Place watching the Financial News Network. Many
are, if not politically active, sometimes quite politically correct intheir language and interpretation of the world. They arenolxxly's fool about where they come from and what theyknow. But what about women whose fmancial resources cameabout as a result of their careers? What is the difference between
being a woman with inherited wealth and being a woman who
has made her money on her owrll
Joy Tomchin, current president of the board of GMHC andof her own companY,Vanguard Irivestors, Ltd., a real estate concern, grew up in a working-class family in New York. Though
her father made a littlemore moneyonce she was in highschool, Tomchin is now able to support her parents. She sees adefmite difference between women with inherited wealth andwomen who have made their oWn money. "It ~ms harder in away for lesbians with inherited money to feel as though they
have eiltitlement to that money or true ownership over it. It's
always this enormous burden that they have to go through todeal with it."Sitting in a wood-paneled den in her three--story apartment
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and her lover have put into theirapartment and tells me joyfully thatthey never plan to move again .
like other women I spoke with,Tomchin has also dealt with issues
of isolation and embarrassment
about her fmancial resources.
''When I first started to make a
lot of money, I was embarassed
about it-l didn't really know how
to deal with it within the lesbiancommunity. I was relatively young
and also ve'Y lucky. I remember
moving from my tenement apartment on East 11th Street into a spacious duplex on 18th Street, andwhen I made that move, I wasembarrassed to take people there.
Some friends of mine were actuallykind of angry with me! You see, I
had never talked about my making money, I never reallyowned up to it, and when they saw the apartment, they weretaken aback. It was like: :Joy! How could you do this? This isreally fucked up!' See, I wasn't sure if that was supposed tomean that I wasn't supposed to spend it on myself, or enjoy it,or what, but I was embarrassed."
At that time Tomchin wasn't politically involved, although
as she began to make money, she started to give it away. This issomething she had learned from her parents, who were activein the Jewish community. But Tomchin's original donations to
gay and lesbian organizations were always anonymous. "I started sending money to NGLTF, but anonymously because I still
couldn't deal with iL.After a few years I started using my name,, and then I started to get all these calls because people would
say: 'Who is this woman who keeps sending us these unsolicited checks?' And that was OK because then I kind of started tobe part of the circuit a little bit, but I was still real shy about allof it." Only when she began to work with GMHC did Tomchinfeel as though she was really involved. But being a lesbian
doing AIDS work has had its own diIf1culties, especially regarding fund-raising. Tomchin is undaunted, however, and realistic
in her approach. "If we bring something to lesbians that reallymeans a lot to them, if you really got them emotionally ....Well,there are a lot of women out there. We could definitely getmoney. I see lesbians working in so many communities, and I
think the most important thing is to give I mean, I don't care
where just give something.",

Tomchin thinks that she sees
some changes in the lesbian community regarding money. "I hope
women realize how politicallypowerful money is in this society,and how powerful we are when
we are out, when we are in higher
positions, when we can take careof ourselves and our community."
After OUrinterview, I think tomyself that in fact most lesbians
know the power of money only too
well in this culture, although werarely know it from a position ofownership. Tomchin addressed thiswhen she observed that lesbians
who want money and power in thiscountry usually attain their ambitions at the expense of theirlesbianism. "It's great to be up there
somewhere and then come out tothe:'!world, but how are you supposed to get up there in the ftrst
place if being a lesbian holds you
back?" she asked rhetorically. "Howcan we have both of these things?"
Perhaps feelings of isolation and embarrassment have contributed to the general lack of irreverence toward the lesbiancorrununity that I found in the sample of women I interviewed.
While most of the dylres, I know moan and groan about,woman,enteredspaces" and traded Mary Daly for Susie Brightor street activism years ago, the women in this small, often hermetic subculture are very serious about their political convictions and commitments.
When I began my research for this article, I was told on
more than one occasion that for every rich dyke who is doing
something there are five or ten who are not. For every lesbian
who would speak with me, there were ten or 20 who are silent
or inaccessible. When I started this project, I had imagined a
glittering underworld of wealthy lesbians whose lives were special and extraordinary, who could spend all day shopping or- staring out airplane windows en route to glamorous rendezvous
with their lovers in Paris. It was basically an "I-won-the-superlotto" fantasy. What I found instead was a small but fierce groupof dykes, all shapes, sizes and ages, most of them deeply committed to making the world a better, more humane, mOre lesbian place. Their individual names are mostly unknown in the
East Village political and artistic circles where I live my life. Only
one person was recognizable as a lesbian of any stature in thecorrununity. It seems to me a shame that those of us who arestruggling to make our way have no idea most of the time that
there are women who are financially privileged and queer andsometimes political. We need each other. Not just in terms of

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where we live.
As Joan Drury told me, "Money is the last taboo in thissociety, but let me tell you, if I'mout there about having money,
then that will help others to get to that place. It isn't going tohappen if lesbians don't get out there. And once you think you
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Kathy Acey at the Astraea Foundation, Iva Kaufman of the Ms. Foundation
for Women, Carol Mollner of the National Network of Women's Funds, Carole Johnson at the Equity Institute, VIvian Shapiro and all the other women
who spoke with me. Thanks also to Nina Reyes for editorial assistance andSarah Pettit for her support.

Marla Maggenti is a contributing writer of Out Week magazine and a graduate film student at New Yom University. "

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lesbian organizations and projects.

The Equity Institute, Inc.
48 North Pleasant St.
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Amherst, MA 01002(413) 256-0271
After April 3, 1991, it's:
6400 Hollis St., Suite 15
Emeryville, CA 94608(415) 658-4577'
Contact: Carole Johnson, Dev.elopment Director l:
Provides workshops nationwide with cOUlls~lors' "1
trained in issues of racism, classism, sexism and allother oppressive "isms." One of the few,.
organizations in the country that assists wealthy ,women (and men) in coming together to fonn new,activist alliances with working-class and workin.g ,poor people. Also runs programs across the country
that deal with class and money issues specific'allytargeted to gay men and lesbians.
The Funding Exchange
666 Broadway, Suite 500
New York, NY 10012(212) 529-5300 'Contact: Charlie Fernandez
A foundation dedicated to funding grass~roots,:
organizations that address social and political issues. 'The newly created OUT Fund is devoted to gay 'and
lesbian liberation organization and projects.
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supposedly
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everybody's
favorite leftist weeklywhich
had spentthewhole time correctly condemning
the big, bad
United States for abuses ofpower-began
dropping
its own bombs on little, 01'
OutWeek.and several gay activists. This isa tale of ugly paternalism and insidious
hypocrisy, a narrative of self-delusion,mass deception and egos which frighteningly loom ever-larger by the minute.
This is the story of the Vt/lage Voice.
It all began with a debate about afilm. But it has since dredged up longstanding issues regarding the Voices
complacent predictability, its pander- ,ing self-indulgenceand its desire to
maintain a stranglehold on the wholewide world of lefty arts criticism.
Now, the last thing we all want to talkabout again is tbat movie. But I promise:
We're not going to discuss the film somuch as we're going to take a look back at
the events leading up to how the Voice got
itself into another sloppy mess, from which
it then attempted to extricate itself in themoo disingenuous way.
Months ago, sources say, top editors of the Voice saw The Silence of theLambs and decided that it wasn't homophobic. Never mind that several gay
writers and film-industry people hadcharged that the movie was anti-gay,urging editors to proceed with caution.
It was, after all, a Jonathan Den1IDe mm,
and he is a favorite director of Voice•critics, who wanted to champion themm, since it had, they claimed, a strong
feminist edge, and-perhaps
moreimportantly for their commercial interests-because
it was going to become ahuge blockbuster. A mega-hit mm withgood feminist politics and a hip director,
it was, for sure, MAINSTREAM, MAIN'STREAM, MAINSTREAM. (Lest we forget, former Voice film editor Howard, Feinstein was fired last year because hewasn't "mainstream" enough, as reported by New York Newsday.)
No, The Silence of the Lambs was
something that the Voice just couldn't
refuse to hype. The homophobia? Well, it
wasn't ,that' bad. I mean, it could be construed as such by some, but others wouldn't think so. It's debatable-that magical and wonderful

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word that makes everything OK.
. It was back then, when the Voice
first pushed the film, that it should haveacknowledged that homophobia might
possibly be a problem in an otherwise
unusually interesting film. But it didn't.
Instead, the paper stupidly got behind aproblematic project, put its head in thesand and waited for the explosion.
Why? Because the ftlm is made by astraight, white, liberal man who is, more-

By C_Carrover, the "pet" director of many Voice
editors and critics, and they didn't want
to be the ones to blow the whistle. Manyof them were so blinded by his fabulous
hipness that the movie's considerable
flaws eluded them. And besides, they figured, even if there was any dissent, it
might never reach the media.
But-boy, oh, boy-it did.
Several weeks before the movie's
opening, GLAAD/LA planted a story in
the LA Times in which they condemned
the film's depiction of a queer serial-·
killer as anti-gay. Out Week picked up
the story. Within days, the controversy
was burning up the wire services.
1bat same week, Jodie Foster was
outed by Star, which quoted my references to her lesbianism in my criticism of
the mm's homophobia. By the time themovie opened, mainstream
dailies across the country had
dutifully attended to thisdebacle. "Gay Groups Deay
Killer's Portrayal," blared theheadline in l1lA Today, next
to a rave review of the film.
"Boycott Urged on Film;
Stereotyping
Is Alleged,"reported the Miami Herald(I, by the by, never U1ged a boycott-that
was GlAAD's doing).
The gay press nationwide
also
filed its opinions that week. "Can thefilmmakers really have thought that it
wouldn't matter that non-gay viewers
could be trusted to see [the killed as asick person whose sexual orientation
has no bearing on his illness?" mused
Steve Warren in Miami's Tbe Weekly
News. "Aside from the killer queer,
which rankles my PC side, this is an
exciting film with a particularly satisfying, unexpected ending."
Sally Irwin of the Seattle Gay Newswas more to the point: "It's an intelligent, even brilliant genre-topperthat
thrills to gender violations just as shitty, openly bigoted movies do.»
And Warren Sonbert at San Francisco's Bay Area Reporter wrote, in his
review, that he "would have to admitthat this is an excellent, if morally r~rehensible, film," which was placed ~J:>ovea sidebar story headlined "The. p'~cho
Gay Killer Hall of Fame" arIci al.bqgside
a commentary piece that pointed out allof the mm's anti-queer fare.
.
And where was the,Well,
nowhere really. I mean, by this time theestablished gay media watchdog group,
GLAAD, had condemned the film, andthe mainstream media was vigorously
covering the exploding controversy. The
gay press was calling it what it is anentertaining thriller, deeply flawed withhomo problems-andthe issue waseven addressed by film reviewers like
Jan Stuart in Newsday and, amazingly, .
David Denby in New York.
But all the Voice had to offer by the, time the film opened, in the midst of thisraging media debate, was a review by J.
Hoberman, which mentioned an "offensive" portrayal in the film, and an interview
with director Jonathan Derome, in which'
Amy Taubin gratuitously inquired after the-eI alII 0 I· lori- I
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Voice aitics had by this time done puff
pieces on the film for other publications.
Gary Indiana had intelViewed Jonathan
Demme for Interview, more or I~glossing over the homophobia, and C Carr had
completely ignored the issue in her
Mirabella interview with Jodie Foster.
The Voice found itself in a similar
situation when it was pushing the rap
group Public Enemy last year. With all
their good intentionsof backing aBlack group, they overlooked certain
problemsand HYPED,HYPED,HYPED. Soon enough, charges of antisemitism and misogyny were being
hurled at the rappers. And the Voice,once again, found itself caught with its
pants down for not having addressed
these issues earlier. Along the samelines, the Voice has built up director
David Lynch (including a ridiculous
puff piece on laura Dern and Wild at
Heart), whose work many perceive as
misogynist and who, by virtue of his
scripts, also clearly has a problem with "homosexuals (although we've yet tosee this addressed in the Voice).
But back to slaughtering Lambs.
The Voice, which prides itself on being
representativeof so many different
groups, should have been leading thedebate. Why did we not see a discussion lh the Voice until several weeks
after almost every mainstream newspaper in: America addressed the issue?
Asleep at the wheel, film editor Lisa
Kennedy, in a transparent attempt atdamage-<:ontrol, had quickly put together a panel of writers to discuss the film's
problems. She simply had no choice:
The controversy was being aired every"'{~ere else. (She must have been pissed
off too: As this whole thing was coming
to a head, she was trying to get out of
town-off to the Berlin Film Festival.)
Originally, Kennedy had asked OutWeeMs Arts Editor Sarah Pettit to partidpate, 'but, perhaps eager to get out of
town, Kennedy never followed through.
lany Kramer, one of nine writers who
did give a short analysis of the movie
and it's sexuality problems,
urged
Kennedy to have me partidpate in theforum, especially if people would be~refuting my criticisms. After all, OutWeek
speaks to tens of thousands of gay pe0ple; the Voice has hundreds of thousandss" " GOSSIP ""A'TCH_. _

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dies of AIDS at age 23"-JdIld only fivedays after the premiere of the secondballet Edward Stierle choreographed forthe company. In her Times review,which appeared the day before his
death, Anna KisseIgoff wrote of thepremiere: "His is a stunning talent delving unabashedly into images of emotional turbulence a ceaseless outpouring ofpassions that both disturb and thrill."
So why didn't she say that his passion and emotional turbulence no doubt
came, at least in part, from living with
HM This fact was never mentioned inher entire review, though Stierle himself
spoke of it openly: He tested positive in1988 and later went public with his
diagnosis. The LA Times did a hugestory last week on his courage in finishing the work, and the choreographer
even released himself from the hospital
to be at Lincoln Center for the premiere.
The Post covered Stierle's deathwith a large photo and a touching tribute on the inside cover. Clive Barnes
described members of the audiencegaspingand sobbing
whentheannouncement was made following theperformance, and he wrote, "It is hard
not to weep for such talent snuffed out
so young." The Times, which had
gushed over his work five days earlier,crammed a small obituary on their regular page. The second-to-Iast paragraphnoted that Stierle had known of his ffiV
status since 1988. They quoted him saying that his work was "a lot about what
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the funds, studies of high-risk behavior andthe elimination of systemic redundancies.
Though the Times quoted ACT
UP/NY's Jim Eigo, a member of thepanel, it took Newsday to tell us where
a number of the new proposals camefrom. They quoted Committee Chair
William Danforµt (the senator's brother): "A consensus has developed inside
10M and NIH in favor of many of ACf
UP's proposals." These proposals, Eigo
said,
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as
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Critiques critiques often levied in an
atmosphere of confrontation."If this is what you get with vinegar,
why spend more for honey, honey?

• • •We like Paper, the often-overlooked' and self-proclaimed "New York's

only guide with style." Their March issue
is themed "Goin' latin" and offers a guideto, and cultural slice of, Manhattan latin(but that name was already taken andcan be found in your local adult-video
section). Usually, they make a real effort
to cover what's cool in the city, without
the self-conscious weight of the Voice or
the blind eye of New York. This month,they interview Jennie', whomade Paris Is Burning, and Dennis
Dermody takes the media and Hollywood to task for dismissing gay-themed
movies and for sensationalizing anything
gay that does make it to the screen.
Also this month, columnist Joe
Dolce signs off (he's moving to Details)
in a moving piece on writing about AIDS
and gay life in New York. A friend once
told him to "write about what you careabout." And so, he tried to reflect thepersonal and pOlitical changes going on

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counting"Straight Pride" week at the University of Massachusettes"backfired

when gay rights proponents outnumbered conservatives attheir own event." This fun time, complete with blue-square buttons and an••anti-abortion rally, was brought to you by your friends at, among others,
the Republican Club and Young Americans for Freedom _ . _ I still can't•

figure out what those fierce Irish queers did to get on the cover of the Post,
but keep it up ... The Advocate took on Hollywood homophobia in aroundup of things we already know: The few who are out say that it hasn't
hurt. (HOW could they?) Those who are closeted say that they would beruined. No company discriminates

on the record. Closeted gays discrimi-nate more than straights, and everyone would really like to make an AIDS
movie, but the right script hasn't come along ... I leave you with an Advo-cate quote from an anonymous gay producer who says that he would
never cast a queer in a straight role, "I just think there's something in somehomos.exual actors that belies a certain weakness or something that's not
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around him. As one of the few voices
outside the gay press who has consistently written about the experience, I'msure that Dolce has heard it all from editors and readers who don't get it.
Everyone who writes about AIDS
and activism has heard it all. Editors
want to "do" AIDS, but they don't wantstories about watchingpeople die,about the disease moving in on ayounger population, or about how thepolemic is unfortunately
the reality.
They say: "Write about AIDS, but try not
to get rhetorical. You are too close to it."
But, this is the story, and though
we've read it many times over the years,
we who are living it don't need anothet
angle. It rings true every time, and theimpact is not diminished. Big stories on
charity benefits and new art-collectives(in the Voice and the Times) and oldones (Gran Fury in the LA Times) are
interesting and worth doing. But they
allow the reader to remove themselves
one more step from what is really goingon. Life and, death continues to change
for more and more people. Hopefully,
Dolce will continue writing what hecares about for Conde Nast.

• • •The cops got caught brutally beating a traffic offender in LA last week.
When Newsday did a story on/New
York activists who say that it happens
here as well, they picked straight incidents in 1987 and 1988 instead
of
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Patrick Buchanan said that Rodney
Glenn King "got a lesson in driver's
ed he will not soon forget. ...Unfortunately for the LAPD, an amateur photographer caught the proceedings, andthe videotape made national 1V again
and again."
Buchanan predicts that "few will join
the anguished protests" because "the real
racism in America" is not "embedded" inwhites but on the other side. He maintains .
that in light of the high number of "Blackon white" assaults in the United States,
many "white folks would not get exercised
about Rodney's beating ...because theyknow that if they were at risk, he [the victim,] wouldn't wony too much about them;but tha;e cops might"
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reported that reaction to the beatinghas "swelled into a national outpouring of outrage."T'-~SI!R

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told anyone before,
Every once in a while, I'll betalking to someone in a restaurant
or nightclub, when all of a sudden
I'll just blank out. Things get all
fuzzy, words stop making any
sense, and I forget the entire
English language. And I'm not so
multi-lingual as to have other languages to fall back on.
No, I'm just momentarily
struck dumb. It isn't frightening.
On the c0ntrary, I ~ort of enjoy
these little vacations when I can sit
and listen to the rhythm andsounds people make without thefear of having to understand them,like listening to "Jabberwocky"
over and over again.
This isn't new-it's been happening as long as I can remember.
In fact, I've been told that I didn't
even learn to talk until I was almost-:....
3 years old. I just couldn't seem tocorrelate sounds to meaning. Then
one day, I started speaking in full-blown sentences. I would sit
alone in my room and utter enigmatic things-thingsa child
shouldn't say-like "Darling, bring me my cloche, I feel a draft,"or "Quick! I need more lip rouge, don't you think?" Then I
would laugh and laugh and laugh.
I scared the hell out of my parents.
All of this could well be related to the time my sisterpushed me down the stairs, Or the time she locked me in themeat freezer.
But I think that I picked it up from my stepmother,
Bunny-a breathtakingly vague and elegant woman and one ofSouth Florida's great ladies who lunch: the original Frosted flake.
When my father found her, I've been told, she was a 19-yearold cracker with pigtails and braces. Perfect for a twice<livorced,
middle-aged man with a penchant for playing Pygmalion.
And Bunny, as if to the manner born, acquired the convenient ability to throw a blanket over anything as unpleasant as atruck-c4iving father and ornery ex-husband, and almost no educational background to sPeak of. That is how you become agreat lady of South Florida, you see.
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to float serenely from luncheon
to luncheon,
store to store,
unaffected by our worlds, her
mind wrapped safely in Saran
Wrap, to keep
the good
thoughts
fresh and the badthoughts from entering.
It works to great advantage,
this vagueness, especially if oneof your sons is a drag queen who
is constantly parading an assortment of drug addicts, prostitutes
and runaways through yournewly renovated living room.
You can just nibble at your salad
and talk in a distracted manner
about the poor ventilation or achipped nail. "Do as you like,dear, as long as you don't frighten the horses."~.X
I remember that she, ~ould,.,.i.".' . ..... pass the school,
gasstatiQn or.'ii. store that she was headed for ,humming a little song. She would
just drive on and on until God or something else reminded herof her destination. And I'm sure that if you were to try and talkto her, then she would smile and nod and grunt agreeably and
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Of course she had a drinking problem, though, that, too,
was never discussed. Every once in a while, she'd be put away
somewhere-"off visiting Grandpa"-and when she came home,
she would regale us all with stories we weren't really expected
to believe. They just made us all feel a little better.
She carried a bottle of llsterine in her purse and gulped it
down at red lights. She said that swallowing it "just cleaned out .
her whole system," but children ought to stick to Scope. Lateron, I realized, of course, that it was white wine in thebottle but when I was growing up, everything she did, evendrinking Listerine, seemed so incredibly adult, so sophisticated. I
wanted to be just like her.
Of course, it's possible that I chose the wrong parent figure
to emulate. I think my father would agree. But as I sit in somerestaurant or nightclub and let the blessed fog envelope me, andlife stops making sense for just a few
moments, I can smile and nod andthank Bunny for this wonderful gift. 'Y• lies••c •• = ....- ....

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are you lisin at the start. There's a big new debate-Geraldo,
tening?-wracking
the New York lesbian community, and it's
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beneath the furniture and will freeze there in terror, quivering in
the dark for hours or days until someone fmds her. She yowls
for food, gets it, forgets right away that the food is in front of
her and yowls again. Madame X, who does not suffer fools
gladly be they man or beast, contends that even if she liked
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tolerate are the ones in
the musical. Of course,
Madame X opposes mostlesbian icons just for thehell of it, but she has awell-reasoned
rationale
for her hatred of all things
feline: Cats, especially city
cats, .are disgusting furry
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are troublesome
andexpensive(all that
Kountry Kitchen Kitten
Kibble adds up). True,cats are not sparklingconversationalists. True,
cat-ownershipis themost hackneyed symbolof lesbian identity sincethose short haircuts withthe little tail down theback. But cats will crawl
into bed at the slightest
command, and they're
coveredin fur. Not'talk at them. Cats are inherently selfIsh, greedy and malevolent.
They are evil incarnate and covered in fur. One could admirethem for that, as there is something to be said for total uselessness.
, But all Madame X sees is that lesbians don't even like catsfor their perversity: They like them because they're, you know,
cµte. Madame X is convinced that if ·cats could vote, they'dvote Republican.
, Anne has a cat, Lucille, who was
fqund as a tiny kitten in a Chinatown
dumpster. Insultingly, she wasn't evenin the recycling pile. After her rescue,
she never let Anne out of her sight,
tracking her intrepidly from room toroom and waiting by the door when
she left. Love and affection, according
to Anne. Hunger, according to Madame.
X. Lucille would even squirm under the'covers at night. Who could resist suchloyalty? Madame X, that's who.
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Lucille's harrowing childhood had
scrambled her brains. Had she been
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many girls can say that.
The key to a happy friendship is the ability to compromise,though. So although they fallon opposite sides of this ideologi, cal divide, Anne and Madame X have negotiated a settlement.
Madame X stopped trying "to see if cats can fly," and in return,Anne allows her to have a little harmless fun. Madame X enjoys
making up elaborate cat tortures, designed to provide the mostentertainment at the cheapest cost:
Hear Lucille hiss! Watch Lucille run
for shelter! Admire Lucille corneredin the bathroom! Laugh wickedly as
Lucille falls in the bathtub!
After an evening of arguing
about cats, the only thing we canagree on is the prospect of returning
to Lucille's birthplace, Chinatown,
while Lucille whimpers with loneliness back at Anne's apartment. We
have a little Ho Fun Wet Noodle, we
visit the Dancing Chicken, we buy
some Made-in-Taiwan plastic objects,
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under one roof? A great deal of what
one might anticipate and yet an evenlarger amount of what one might not.
The OUT/LOOK Foundation, underwhose auspices OUT/LOOK quarterly is
produced, has for the second year hosted OutWrite, a gay and lesbian writers'
conference at San Francisco's Cathedral
Hill hoteL.
It is a conference of considerable
scope and ambition and thus able ,toenjoy, and must sustain, a variety of suc"cesses and failures. With upwards of 50
formally scheduled panels and workshops planned over a two-day period,and numerous readings and performances complementing that hectic program, OutWrite is now clearly the largest
gathering of its sort for gays and lesbians
in and around the writing world. Anyone
wandering the catpeted halls of the hotel
might easily have glimpsed writers
Dorothy Allison and Blanche Boyd chatting' poet Cheryl Clarke having a sandwich, playwright Robert Patrick holding
court, the executive director of the
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
cruising girls with ACf UP/New York's
legal counsel. This wasalsci, however, an
opportunity to learn the faces and namesof many lesser-known artists now pushing their way to prominence.
SO OUTWEEK March 27.1991

In marked contrast
to last year's conference,
OutWrite got off to arather uneasy beginning
at Friday evening's opening plenary session. Playwright Edward Albee,
one of four honored
speakers
invitedtolaunch the weekend,
elicited a strong response
from some conferencegoers with his provocative remarks. Audience
members hissed, and one
man was heard to shout,"Why not invite Buckleynext year?"
Albee, whose address followed remarks
by Paula Gunn Alien,
John Rechy and Kate
Millett, challenged theefficacy of writing "only»,
on gay subjects." SeekBRUISIN'-PlaywrightEdwardAlbeeing to draw on the distioning had never obstructed the purtinctions implicit in what it t;n.ight,,
suit of his ambitions.
mean to be gay and to be a writer
Albee's plenary speech sparked
as opposed to"gay writer," theheated debate among many OutWrite
playwright exclaimed, "Down with'attendees,
the most
ghettoization!" He also
concrete manifestation
sought to explicate howof this being a letteras a white gay man hefrom the Ad-Hoc Cauinhabited three separate
cus of Lesbians and"minorities,"and heGaysof
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,Descent to members of OutWrite'splanning committee. It details various
recommendations
and objectionsmany of these elaborate on the perception that "la~ year SDiane Bogus andEssex Hemphill made significant contributions to the spirit of the conference.
This year many of us feel a diminishedpresence of such figures as they in primary forums" and contains a direct
response to Albee's address: "!t is truethat in a world where people of color
are in a majority, and in which women
outnumber and outlive men, Albee isindeed a minority. But what he failed
to acknowledge, and what we recognize, is that he occupies a position ofprivilege," The caucus did, however,emphasize that they were "grateful that
[Albee's] remarks generated a discussion between people of color who otherwise might not have come together,at this conference."
The majority of panels and workshops were conducted on Saturday and
Sunday and ranged from the theoretical("The Ethics of Editing") to the practical("Dues and Don'ts of Getting Published"), not forgetting the margins("The Other's Other: Writing as a Sexual
Minority Within a Sexual Minority") or
the modest ("Dykes and Dicks to Watch
Out For: A Panel Discussion With FourVery Glamorous Cartoonists").
Although OutWrite's stated objecSCHMOOZlN'-Conferencing

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tive on gender parity generally seems tohave been w,ell maintained throughout,a perception persisted that the concernsof African-American writers, so much inevidence at last year's conference, hadbeen supplanted by a focus on Latino/aand Chicano/a issues. As one conference-goer expressed, "There's a reallyhuge Chicana/Chicano, Latino/Latinagroup here, and, you'd be a fool not to-

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OUT/LOOK publisher Jeffrey Escoffier, who emphasized the value of"the endless and deep task of dialogue"
at Friday evening's plenary, remained
positive about the conference's overall
achievements, understanding that some growing
pains were inevitable:"I think it went very
well this year. The panels had much morediversity and range
than last year's panels,
and, while it didn't
have the same celebratory tone that we hadlast year, 1 think many
more differences surfaced this year. We also
continued talking seriously about the important issues facing gay
and lesbian writers." Oras conference participant Robert Garcia
remarked:"Overall,..''.' anytime queers get,,
together to talk to eachother, it's magical. We
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••HELEN REDDY_Michael's Pub. 211 East 55th St. Through March 30.

by Noelle Hanrahan
Helen Reddy, the invincible Australian expatriate, indelibly etched hervoice and name on the consciousness ofanyone hip enough to know about FM
in the '70s and square enough to bebeholden to AM in the '80s. Today a'transcontinental whirlwind schedule has, her playing for the King and Queen of
Sweden in a UNICEF benefit one night
and conventioneers in Horida the next,, followed by an extended American tour
with Mel Tonne, a fateful pairing brought
about when Maureen McGovern (of"The Morning After" fame) had to dropout Yet under all the layers of show-biz

glitz, Helen Reddy is a sharp, welldefined woman of contrasts. More than apolished old-school entertainer whose
campy, retro '70s lounge act makes
schmaltz an art, Helen Reddy is a freethinker, an outsider and a rebel. She issomeone who mentions Robin Morgan(feminist theorist and editor of the new
Ms. magazine), the ecological impact of
CD packaging and the aucial position ofPalestine in the Gulf crisis, all in thesame conversation.
It is incongruous. Her work shows
only a faint trace of what must be herdaily consciousnes5-JJ.S liberal/radical,
ecologist, feminist, in other words, as"other"--and that is in the anomaly "I
Am Woman," which is, interestingly
enough, the only one of her top-40 hits
that she actually wrote.
Her first hit single was "I Don't
Know How to Love Him" from theAndrew Lloyd Webber musical Jesus
Christ Superstar. "I Am Woman" climbed
to number one in 1972 and became therite of passage for a generation of young
women emerging in the second wave of
feminism. Reddy's success continued
unabated through the '70s with songs
like "Angie Baby," "Leave Me Alone(Ruby Red Dress)" and "Delta Dawn,"
among others.
In her silver anniversary year in
America, Reddy has come a long way
since her days doing odd jobs in New
York and Chicago while chasing the elusive record-company contract. Building
her career on persistence and talent,
Reddy is dedicated to the craft of performing. Without a recording contract
since 1982, she has decided now to press
her own record on Helen Reddy, Inc.,not willing to be shuffled off to the K-tel
golden oldies bin. The album, Feel So
Young, includes jazzified versions of "I
Am Woman," "Angie Baby" and "Youand Me Against the World," along withfresh and able interpretations of otherwork. But it is still only a souvenir package of the nightclub act, nothing moreand nothing less. For as Reddy explains:"People know me as a recording artist
because that's what thetve
been
exposed to. But I am, first and foremost,a live perfonner."·'Noelle Hanrahan: What inspired
you to write a song like '1 Am Woman"?
There doesn't seem to be anything else
like that in your material of the periodthat made such a personal statement.
Helen Reddy: Well, my first deal
with Capitol was to make one single,
two sides, and one of those sides was "I
Don't Know How to Love Him." When it
started moving up the charts, the record
company went into a kind of panic,
because they didn't have an album tofollow it. So they were very keen to rush
me into the studio, and they wanted me
to record what was on the top-ten at thetime you know, like, a recognizable
title. But I said: "Uh-uh. I've waited ,allthese years to record an album, and I'm
simply not going to be dictated to. I
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At that time I had
been involved in thewomen's movement fornine or ten months, andI'd been through a lot of
struggles in my life at that point So I had
in my mind all the images of the weak,
helpless women, and I thought about all
the women in my family, and all thewomen were strong as hell. The lines "Iam strongII am invincible/l am woman"kept going over and over in my head,
and I wasn't even too sure that I knew
what "invincible" meant, but I figured thatwas the "divine inspiration" part of it.
NH: How did you get it on thealbum? Did you have to fight for it?
HR: Not particularly. I used to open
my show with it, and during the opening
song people are too busy looking at
you: Are you fat? Are you thin? Are you
young? Are you old? What are you wearing? They're not really listening to the
lyrics. No one paid too much attentioq toit, and it got no airplay whatsoever. Theinteresting thing was that fan mail singled it out So more than a year later,when the women's movement had
become very hot in the media, Paramount wanted to rush out a quickie fIlm
to capitalize on it It was a little comedy
called Stand Up and Be Counted, which
actually wasn't bad. They pulled a lot ofmaterial from Robin Morgan's Sisterhood
Is Powerful, and they wanted to use "I
Am Woman" as the theme, and I said,"Fine." To coincide with the fIlm coming
out, it was suggested that I put the songout as a single. So I wrote a third verse,
and we re-recorded it with a different
arrangement, and that was the version
that,. became a hit
NH: You also seem to have an enormous gay male following. Why do you
thfuk that is?
HR: Well, I've been doing a gay
cruise every year, which, is one of thehighlights of my year, to tell you the truth.
It's actually a company called RSVP thatorganizes it, and it's just so relaxing.
Everybody's loose, and nobody's trying toprove that they're anybody they'reno~.
It's just a lot of fun, I mean, if you can juSt
see me in the bar at two AM singing"Stout-Hearted Men" with all the guys.
(She laughs.) What can I say?
NH: You've also done quite a few
AIDS benefits in your career. How did
you first become aware of the crisis, andhow did it affect you?
HR: I've long ago
lost count of the numberof people I've knownwith AIDS. I think mypersonal involvement
began [with a guy from] La Cage Aux
Folies, a female-impersonator club in IA
There
a guy there who used to dome, and,·we became friends--he'd comeup to Veg<lSand watch me do my show.
I showed him how I did my makeup,
and we just became friends. He wasstricken in the very early days. That was
my flfSt involvement, but after he went,it ~aslike an escaIator, like a bail rolling
down a hill.
One just does what one can, andyou know, I am also very involved inraising money and support for women's
causes, particularly shelters for batteredand abused women and their children,was-and for rape victims.
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NH: That's great, because those are
not popular causes.
HR: No, they're not We have more .
shelters for dog'> in this country than we
do for women. That pretty much lets you. the scheme' ofknow where we stand mthings, doesn't it?And of course, with thedrug problem, spouse abuse has become
an enormous problem, and it's a problem
which cuts across the lines. It goes on a
lot in gay relationships, too.
NH: Well, we have a very violent
country.
HR: Yes, we do. Yes, we certainly
do ....
Helen Reddy's new CD comes inenvironmentallysound packaging
that uses 90 percent less plastic and70 percent less paper. It is available
through mail-order only, by calling 1800-933-Reddy.

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ACOUSTIC MUSIC PROJECT (Alias Records).

by Madame X
Not that I care much for folk music,
mind you. People like Suzanne Vega andPhranc have given it a bad name, and I
always thought folkies were barely
above WOlll1Sin the food chain. Sometimes, though, there's a band that reaches out and touches my little barbed-wire
heart. And sometimes, there are lots ofthem, and I give in to panic.
Bedlam Rovers left Washington,
DC, for San Francisco a few years ago
and have recently put out a pretty
good album. Their earnestness can bea tad annoying-for
instance, when
they plead for a reform of inunigration
laws on "No One's Iliegal"-but fortunately they easily compensate withfrantic gigs, some kind of polka and agifted fiddle player. "Angel From Montgomery" is a slow, sinuous song that is
endearing, while "Tear Gas y Coke"vaguely recalls the Mekons, the absolute blueprint for political rock/punk/folk/whatever .
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in the water? From San Francisco alsocomes Acoustic Music Project, one of
the most consistent compilations I've
heard in quite a while. Started two

years ago to support and promote theebullient San Francisco acoustic scene,
Acoustic Music Project also set out toraise money for Project Open Hand, anassociation serving meals to people
with AIDS. With half the songs record, ed live, the CD/cassette testifies that for'once a benefit-minded event can avoid
the preachy bullshit and go straight tothe heart Red Hot and Blue did it, andAcoustic Music Project repeats it on asmaller scale, but with as big a heart.
To the best of my knowledge, there
aren't any gay artists on this compilation, and that's tOObad, but it's the only
flaw that comes to my mind. As it is, it's
nice to see some old favorites andsome newcomers blend so well.
Penelope Houston used to singwith the great punk band the Avengers
and turned acoustic in the mid-'8Os. Hersong "On Borrowed Time" gently pulses with accordion and mandolin and is
the kind of song I play to shut up my
punk-minded friends when they start
bitching about folk. Among the otherhalf-familiar names are American Music
Club, led by Mark Eitzel, Alex Chilton(who flew from Memphis and perfOlll1S
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1. "I Wanna Give You Devotion" by Nomad
2. "Get Up and Dance" by Afrika Bambaataa
3. "You Got the Love" by the Source (featuring Candl Staton)
4. "Lost in Music" by Stereo MCS
5. "Luv Dancin'" (Remix) by Underground Solution
6. "Anthem" by N·.Joi
7. "It's a Shame" by Monle Love
B. "Take Me Away" by .Jaymondi
9. "Being Boring" (Original Mix-Import)

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10. "Touch Me" by Cathy Dennis•"Guantanamerika"),
the Sneetches andJonathan Segel, a violinist who playedwith Camper van Beethoven and Eugene
Chadbourne. Of the lesser-known names(at least on this coast), the Movie Stars
and Sonya Hunter particularly shine. 'Last but not least, Barbara Manning
performs "Don't Rewind" on Acoustic
Music Project, and once again she confums her reputation as cult genius of thelast few years. No one else around iscapable of writing heart-wrenching
songs as she does. At once candid andworn by experience, she writes sad but
not whiny songs, folk that, rocks androck that thinks and feels. Manning is asongwritercursed by bad luck andwrecked relationships,
but she's notafraid to show her anger along with hersadness, and she fights to make the bestof it. She doesn't have time for selfpity-Joni
Mitchell, or even Lucinda
WIlliams, she ain't.
Manning appeared at the Knitting
Factory on Feb. 23, opening for Yo la
Tengo, who should have had the sense
to let her headline. Alone with her guitar,
the singer, visibly nerve-wrackedbystage fright, managed to play almost an
hour's worth of songs taken from both
her solo album and the one she put out
with the band World of Pooh. San Francisco--based Heyday Records are fmallyreissuing Barbara Manning's first (andout-of-print) album on CD, along with
six new songs. If you think that the new
Two Nice Girls record is too' "cute,":give,
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,by Joe E. Jeffreys
Qunegie 'Recital Hall will witness anhistoric event on March 24, On this date,'famed diva Madame Dagmar Onassis,
supposed daughter of Aristotle Onassis
and Maria Callas, will grace the stage. As
the controversy around her long-lost sister, Christina, is once again exploitedwith the Pl;lblication of All the Pain That
Money Can Buy, Madame Onassis everso graciously made time in her busy
schedule to grant OutWeek her first-everexclusive interview. From her Chelsea
apartment, luxuriously appointed andtastefully accessorized with flowers fromadmirers, she candidly addresses issues
related to her career, her family and herself, never skirting the cul-<ie-sac conundrum surrounding her relationship to Mr.
John Kelly.
Joe E. Jeffreys: Madame Onassis,
would you be so kind as to tell our readers how you came into this world and/or
this country?
Madame Dagmar Onassis: Well, I
don't really know, but I am told by certain people that I,am the daughter ofMaria Callas and Aristotle Onassis. I was•,

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told that at one point my mother became
pregnant, and Onassis said, "If you havethat child, I will never talk to you again." .
So she went in for the abortion, but thedoctors realized that they would beaborting a genius, so they decided tosave the fetus and raise it. I believe it was
raised somewhere in Anatollia, which isSouthern Turkey. I am told that that iswhat I am. But since I can't be sure, I
stick with the idea that I am just a concept and a vessel for expression.
JJ: Do you remember arriving in
New York City?

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restaging of Nijinsky's ballet jeux-fJ.S thetennis ball. lbat's what got me here.
]]: You will soon be singing at
Carnegie Redtal Hall. Could you tell us
about your gowns for the evening?
DO: One will be designed by GaryLisz, who is a costume designer who hasdone a lot of work for New York City
Ballet and has worked with Robert
LaFosse a lot He's a dear, old friend. I'mhoping to have two gowns-we have to
see what's in the tilly-because there isan intermission, and I just caiJ.'tcome out
after intermission in the same thing. The
hall is very light wood tones in whites
and creams and golds with medium-blue
Rebecca Harkness curtains. So I think I'mgoing to go into the realm of reds andburgundies and maybe even brocades ormaybe the right purple.
D: W111 you be wearing any spectacular jewels?
, DO: It depends on what I can get
my hands on. I've been trying to find mymother's jewels, but I think that they arelocked up in the Callas Foundation storerooms. I know that there is an emeraldcollar from one of her premieres and adiamond brooch. I'd be content withpaste copies.
]]: As to the repertoire
for theevening, what will you be singing?
DO: We'll be spanning the centuries.
We'll be starting with Canallie and Monteverdi, going on to Bellini, venturing
into the German repertoire with Schumann and Mahler and perhaps ending
up with some songs by Kurt Weill.
,,D: I understand that sometimes you
d.o an impersonation of Joni Mitchell.
JoW will not be included in this concert? .
DO: There might be a Joni song as
an encore I was thinking that a cappella .war song she does on the CloudS."
album might be appropriate. But thenagain, the war might be over by thatpoint I hope so.
]]: Why is it that you-Madame
Dagmar Onassis--':impersonate
Joni
Mitchell?
DO: Because for years I would He in
my bed in my parents' house in JerSey
City, and my only respite from the life I
was living there at that point, other thanmasturbation, was Joni Mitchell records
on the floor next to my bed.
D: You said Aristotle is your father.
Can you tell us what Jackie is up to? Willshe be in attendance at the redtal?
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DO: Well, my mother used to callJackie "the gold digger." But I havefonder feelings toward Jackie. I am personal friends with her nephew, and heused to tell her about a performance that
I had done years ago called "Death inDallas." So Hugh used to tell her about
my pieces" and she said, "Oh, it soundsvet)' interesting." lbat was her response.
But Joni almost came to the Cat dub onenight, and I thought I would die. Her
manager called to fmd out what it was: Is
it a joke? You know: What is it? So myknees were shaking beneath my skirt. 'JJ: If John-John were to decide togive up this whole law thing, are there
any tips that you-being in the entertainment profession---could give him toward
his acting career?
DO: I could think of another bar
exam which would be interesting for him
to pass.
]]: As this is an interview for
Out Week: Before
Michelangelo Signorileplots
aphone zap on yourmanager,
could
you tell us if you

are a lesbian?
DO: I have had some lesbian experiences in my past, and I have always, surprised the objects of my desire they.arealways a bit shocked. Usually they,
think we are sisters and my behemothside comes through in those moments. It
has never really worked out. I've
remained true to my love of men.
D: Speaking of men, could you tell
us why you are always connected
with-butnever seen with---'cl gentleman by the name of Mr. John K~lly?
DO: Oh, him. We can't coexist
because we would cancel each otherout.
D: Is he your beard?
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DO: Is he my beard? He's my raisond'etre, my creator, my Svengali. He ispotentially my nemesis. He exhumes me
whenever he feels the need because I
serve him.
D: Yet you are never seen aroundtown together.
DO: No, onlyin the same place
but never at thesame time. You
may see one of us
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.D: Have you ever seen any of Mr.
Kelly's work?
DO: I've read reviews,.D: Is there any professional competition between the two of you?
00: There's a constant struggle fordominance. I could have eclipsed his
career by just being out there in terms of
the public, yet the public sees people
like me in a very black-and-white way,
and we are only sometimes accepted
only as a joke and not taken seriously,
and I decided that I would give over mycareer and let him take precedence
because he's a man-he's
also achameleon, and he sings in a high voicethat might be more surprising for people
to, see, a newer thing for people to see,and therefore might catch those people
off guard and allow him to get his message across without the dominance of theaudience's pre-existing idea.
.D: Pardon my further indiscretion,
but are you self-conscious about yourhairy chest? Can it be noticed peaking
out from your gowns?
DO: Well, you know, being of
Greek blood ....Well, there are some pictures of my mother with a moustache.
Boy, she had wise Parisian ways .
.D: How do you feel about performing at Carnegie Recital Hall, whose halls
the likes of Jim Bailey, Francis Renault,
Craig Russell and F10rence Foster Jenkins
have graced?
00: My goal. is to sing the music aswell as I can sing it. That's coupled with
the image that I put across. My ultimatego-a}is to move people. Of course, I do
go in for certain theatrics, and I am functioning on that edge of absurdity andtranscendent beauty, but that's where I
like to be.
.D: Any upcoming projects?
DO: Well, if this works out, we'll
tum it into a yearly event. This is the firsttime that I've been around in a longtime, John has told me that he's missed
me, and that now is the time. He values
me because I put him back on a certain
track of taking himself a little lessseriously and having fun with performing and just the excitement of beinga drag queen, ....

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Making New Queer Theater
MENAGERIE. Produced by and starring Avalanche Theater. The Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center. 208 W. 13th St. March 23
and 30 at 8 pm and March 24 and 31 at 4 pm and 7 pm. (212) 620-7310.
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by Victoria A. Brownworth

The Philadelphia queer theater
troupe, Avalanche, is making its Manhattan debut with two weekends of theater.
Avalanche, which is the nation's only
multi-racial queer theater troupe, will
present Menagerie, "a collection ofqueer stories, vignettes of gay and les,bian life," according to the troupe's
John Kelly is Madame Dagmar
founder, Tommi Avicolli.
Onassis. Joe E. Jeffreys, asidefrom being a
regular OutWeek perfonnance-art pistolAvicolli, a Philadelphia poet andwhipper, is an up-and-comine pansy wit/;J _ editor of the Philadelphia Gay News,,,., ~-.,".
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a vengeance.
, Writes rtlariy of Avalanche's perfonnance\-,",pieces and is also one of their perform-.
ers. He founded the troupe in July 1987.
"It evolved out of a lot' of other theater
work I was doing with Philadelphia performance artists," says Avicolli, who had
worked with Laetus, another gay theatergroup in Philadelphia, but "they wanted
a corporate structure, hierarchy and very
traditional theater. They were also
focused on white gay men. I wanted
women and people of all colors in myvision of theater. That's how Avalanche
was born."grumpy,paranoid,
self-absorbed'
fonnances, which deal with such issues as"names," while others are sweatshop
AIDS, sex, religion and equal rights forlaborers full of rebellion, scrappiness andqueers, women and people of color, often
unfulfilled dreams of revenge against .
make audiences
uncomfortable.
"Intheir bosses. Everything we see takes
Menagerie, " Avicolli notes, "we have a celplace on the floor of a mythical Sev~nth
ebration of two women making love, aAvenue sweatshop, although we arepriest who throws down the chalice intreated to "atmosphere" and physicalanger at the Church during an ACT UP
context through intermittent film clips ofdemo iIi'st. Patrick's Cathedral, a piece on
racism iIj queer classified ads, a supermarthe on-stage characters walking around
Manhattan or falling through the sky after
ket computer that outs corporate CEOs, apiece on lesbian pregnancy. These are
King Kong has hurIed them from the topof a skyscraper. This extra element
issues that make people think. A lot of our
makes The Proper Fit a kind of "sensurstuff is humorous, and a lot of it is very
angry. But it all does what I think theaterround" black-box experience with lots ofshould do-be theater for revolution."loud soundtrack, moving pictures and an
Avicolli thinks that the gay theater
out-of-control ensemble cast.
As usual, the cast is hilarious, if a bitthat has made it to Broadway and thephysically inexpert at times. This is notmainstream
isn't what queer theater
the first show I have seen at WOW Cafeshould be about. "Where are the stories
about lesbians, Asians, Mrican Ameriwhere the sound of scraped knees andbonked foreheads punctuate the darkcans, Latinos, interracial couples? Plays
ness between scenes. Aside from thelike The Normal Heart and Torch Songto straights
Trilogy are acceptable
technical imperfections that are the risk
because they're about white men whoof any show containing this much libididon't touch each other. What's the chalnal energy and punch, the cast gleefully
lenge)nthat? Avalanche isn't about
spins from one song or monologue tobeing nice ~o straight people or acceptthe next with nary a nod at the glaring
narrative rips and runs of the "text."
ing our own racist and sexist ideas. It's
Dominique Dibbell deserves espeabout being inclucial mention, if not for her almost elfm
sive of the entire
and yet compelling physical presence,queer community,
then because she delivers some of theempowering us and.most bizarre lines without a hint of irony.
telling the real sto, She nearly blinds some of her fellow perries of our lives."....
. formers with her strangely self-contained, ~e. Gail Freund does, however, vie for'the spotlight with her deadpan delivery
and world-weary whining. Wearing ashiny white wig and a very outer-space
THE PROPER FIT. Conceived by Susan Young with Gail Freund.
variation on the Chanel suit (white with
Starring Maureen Angelos, Desi de-Valle, Dominique DibbeU,Gail Freund,black trim), she moves through the show
Kate Stafford, Angela Wilson, Susan Young. Film by Amy Meadow.
with a kind of solid throwaway authority
WOW Cafe. S9 E. 4th St. (212) 460-8067. March 21-23, 28-30 at 8 pm.
that is perfectly suited to the off-balance,
humor of this play. Angela Wtlson skillfully contains some of the wild energy
by Maria Maggenti.
plucking an unsuspecting
passengerthat her part demands by using her voice. Those wacky and wild women of
from an airplane, a woman as a greaseand body to rein in the over-the-top
WOW are at it again in their latest romp
ball nightclub owner introducing a new
quality of her lines.
,,
through the lush subterranean landscapelip-synching sensation in a magenta
All the actors in this play are funnyof female existence. The Proper Fit is asequined mini-dress who curses her
and energetic. They move against theshow that manages to encompass origiboss in Spanish on stage and a star turnchaos of the show with aplomb andnal Super 8 film footage, a West Sideby Barbara Stanwyck.
. push camp to its most heady limits.
Story musical number reworked'to
It is hard to say what the "story" isDrag-queen divas beware. The Properin The Proper Fit, as there isn't a convenaccommodate the particular insanity 'Of
Fit is a fashion
women in the garment industry ("Deartional narrative formshow rivaling any
one .can follow.
Officer Krupke" is now "Dear President
Instead, there areHouse Ball anyCupcake") and a character spinningthese garment-indusaround on roller skates during a monowhere, and its real·
try workers
somelogue as surreal as it is glib. Oh, andgirl participants are
are'wanna-be designthere is also a woman dressed up as adefinitely not "oneers slaving away for
cockroach, a woman in King Kong garb
size fits all."....
Avalanche is one of the first queet
theater troupes to focus on a multi-gender/multi-racial interpretation of theater.
Robin Barr, an African-American lesbianin the group, claims that it's her bestexperience of theater: "In other troupes
it's always a question of all-male, allwhite roles being altered to fit those of
us who aren't white or male. Avalanchegoes beyond nontraditional roles in theater-this
isn't simply nontraditional
casting, but a real dedication to placing
minorities in positive minority roles. As
a Black woman, I have always been relegated to roles deemed fit for Black
women: slut, strong Mama or somewalk-on that has nothing to do with theshow. In Avalanche, I'm offered a real
voice, my work isn't censored, and I'm
not 'typed.''' .
Barr notes that theater roles are "still
written for white women, and women ofcolor are robbed of appreciation of theclassics or degraded by representations
that are stereotypes. And if you're a lesbian, then there are no roles whatsoever
for you." Avicolli hopes that Avalanche ischanging all that. "My philosophy of theater is that it should challenge people,
be on the edge ofsocial change, raise
hell. It should not
make people
feel
comfortable."
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LOVE FOR SALE FREE CONDOMS INSIDE. A collaboration between Gran Fury and PONY.
New Museum of Contemporary Art. 583 Broadway. (212) 219-1222.
by LindaYablonskayataining-results.
city bus shelters pictures beauty conNew Museum
spokesperson
testants under type that reads "Women
One of a New Yorker's mostRobert Blanchon reports that the instiDon't Get AIDS/They Just Die Fromessential pleasures is window-shoptution has give out 7,750 condoms soIt"~ reference to the Centers for Disping, and, happily, the vitririe of the
moment is a pro-active
one.' The installation
Love for Sale-Free Condoms Inside is the resultof a unique collaboration
between, Gran Fury, an
AIDS-activist collective,
and PONY, or Prostitutes
of·New
York;· a-. sex~..
workers advocacy group.
Placed in the New
Museum's window on:
Broadway, the work confronts passersby withthe world's first "LoveO-Meter"-ahot-pink
wheel-of-fortune
complete with phallus· andbreast-spokes, spermoid
bulb illuminations andinscriptions detailing "A
Day in the Life of a Pro,"
Though the sex-formoney business ·remains
brisk, popular mythology
continues
to picture
prostitutes as '''agents ofdeath," carriers of the
HIV virus. The truth,
Gran Fury and PONY
say, in a joint statement==:::;
IFYOUWANTlO BUY MYWARfS-77Je Gran FUrY/PONY installation....ithat accompanies'
theI-'ease Control's exclusion of the opporfar (about 500 per day). (1be mint-fla- E
work, is that sex work is an esteemabletunistic infections most common tovored ones are especially popular.) £.
occupation and that its professionals
The Museum has also placed on the
HlV-positive women from its defmition
fonn a "vanguard of responsible sexualof an AIDS diagnosis.
street outside the window a blank,
practice," An' LED sign at the base of
Equally sensitive to its own combook in which window-shoppers can
the window publicizes their call for the
position as predominantly gay, white
write their responses.
decriminalization of prostitution with
The range of remarks includes: theand male, Gran Fury has for some timepolitically helpful hints like "Prostitutes
poignant ("I felt ashamed ... .1 used tobeen seeking a way to share their
don't spread AIDS; amateurs do," andbe a john. Shame going away. Display
access to public forums with other con"Keep your church out of my crotch."helped"), the colloquial ("Way to go! I
cerned organizations. Because gays
The New Museum window is not
am a sex feen [sic], and I
the <,:>nly,
evidence of Gran Fury's sinand lesbians are discriminatbelieve in safe[r]-sex"), thegle-issue campaign to provoke an end
ed against in ways strikingly
to the AIDS crisis. The Kissing Doesn'tbored ("Yawn!"), the criticalsimilar to those of sex workKill poster rides subways and buses in
ers, the collaboration with("When will your commercialNew York, Chicago, San Francisco and 'PONY was a natural one,ism ever stop!") and the jokey
Los Angeles. Another poster decorating("More sex, less art. I want towith effective even enter-sa ou. 'WEEK March 27... _ ..

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see something really dirty!") Two of theit" no one will,"',,',books have been stolen.
: Last summer, in Chicago, the Kf.ss~"Tornado," the nom de guerre oftng Doesn't Ktllcampaign generated
one PONY member, reports that twosuch a great furprtha.t the mayor asked
passing policemen spotted the Love forhis transit· authority to put up lessSale 'installation, parked their car (aexplicit ads. In Venice, according tostandard Plymouth Gran Fury-from
Gran Fury's, Michael Noeslein, thewhich the collective derives its name)group was condemned as "blaspheand came into the museum during themous" by-the archbishop there, while
opening "grinning from ear to ear andthe BiennaIe director tried to censor thesaying it was one of the best things
work--only to see the text of a piece
they'd seen ...:They came in to congratcriticizing the Catholic church's position
ulate us."on condoms and clean needles quoted
By and large, Gran Fury's workat length in the Italian press. "So our" has been met with a warm reception.. ' ideas.weredisseminated all
the further," ,.
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,Since 1987, when it came into exis·
Noeslein says, laughing.
,'tence with another New Museum
Gran Fury's future plans c~l for a
installation called Let the Record Show,
collaboration with five community. this group of a, dozen ACf UP memc
based service organizafions,onia .series
bers has achieved celebrity-like status 'of billbOards. Even with wide support,
in the art world, where enthusiasm foradequate funding is' still difficult-to. itS efforts has led to support for a win-, come by; partly beQluse of recent, state~, dow at the Whitney Museum and an" btidgeE 'cuts, and partly ~ecause theinvitation to participate in the 1990, 'AIDS crisis reaches so deeply into, a, Venice Biennale,'grab-bagof poltticaIly'hot social ills like"I think people are desperate to, homophobia,' raciSm.homelessness andget some kind of representation. of the " , addictiort>"That's why,"M~Alpih'says,, reality of AIDS," Loring McAlpin of"it's,gotten so out of control. If inl981,
Gran Fury says. "Especially if itor 'even in 1983, the ,govemment had"'includes the reality of our sexuality.' I
taken the'AlDS criSis seriously; it could.. think the art wotld recognizes it's 'have been'dramatic~lly different right'important work, and if they don't fund
now ....a very different picture."
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cancome up with lots of reasons 'Why,ilie;,Academy Awards really are interest-'
ing. Quality work is not necessarily
among them, but who expects the sublimf::from an event initiated as a ploy tobring a little class to '20s Hollywood?
Recent events may suggest a trend
toward earning Oscars on-screen-Jodie
Foster and Daniel Day Lewis proved two
years running that the Oscar of meritdoes exist-but the real fun, traditionally,,is the forum the Awards provide foe.
human behavior at its most extreme:
Calling attention to yourself, however
desperately, is the law of the land. Last
year's big winner? Hostess Jane Fonda,
who had 30 seconds of solo airtime andstill managed to plug her videos,
For nonbelievers, the Oscars areperhaps even less attractive as a refiec,,;'

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the Oscars are
perfzaps even lessattractive as areflection of,cont~mporaryinterests andmores. Run.through thisyear's Best
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get a crash courSe in how far women
have not come: ,There isn't a contented
face beyond that of happy hooker Julia
Roberts in Pretty Woman. Good as the'performances all are, the rest are womenon the verge of a breakdown: a psychopath (Kathy Bates in- Misery), a platinum vagina dentata (AnjelicaHuston in
Tbe Grifters), a drug burn·out (Meryl
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the ,1965 roundup, minl,lS only thegood:":gfrl-as~oormat (Elizabeth Hartman in A
Patch of BlUe, and blind yet). There was
the girl for sale (Julie Christie in Daritn.g),'the victim of over-the-top obsession(Samantha Eggar in Tbe Collector), theaddict (Simone Signoret in Ship of Fools)
and the professional virgin (Julie Andrews
in 1be Sound of MUSIc).
Christie carried the day. Her perfor-,jMrs. Bridge).
Oscar has, however, been known tohit on real news, and nevermore so than with the BestA-ctres.sAward presented 25
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including the New York Film Critics dtation, and she managed to give a favored
Hollywood image-thebrilliant, newdiscovery-a
decidedly '60s cast. The
new girl was no nice girl. As Darlings
title character, Christie played an ambitious actress/model named Diana Scott
who reaches the top of the heap as the,bottom haIf of the beast withtwo backs. True to the times,
she ends up paying a highprice for turning the tables
on chauvinism,
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an~ loved ones of gay and lesbian cops. Write
Mangels at 2167 SW Yamhill, Suite 6, Portland,O~ 97205, or call (503) 228-6935.
FAYE RAYE ... From New Haven, thedty of elms, comes a little bit of brilliance that
can't go unmentioned. The story of a "good dyke gone mad,"Hothead Paisan: Homocidal Lesbian Terrorist is the baby ofartist Diane DiMassa and the latest in a wild proliferation of'zines. Besides, who can argue with a publication whose
copyright page reads, "All rights reserved. Please don't fuckwith our shit without permission. Ya want something, ask! 'Kapeesh?!" Hothead is available from with-it bookshops,
Inland Books or from its publisher, Giant Ass Publishing(another fine reason to support iO, at PO Box 214, New
Haven, cr 06502.
'd by Andrew Miller, Sarab Pettit

GAY, STRAIGHT, BLACK, WHITE,SAME STRUGGLE, SAME FIGHT ... lf
you're in the mood for a really scary movie
but don't want to sit through The Silence of
the Lambs again, trek over to Film Forum
before March 26 for James Ridgeway, Anne
Bohlen and Kevin Rafferty's Blood in theFace, a short documentary on one small segment of ,the American Nazi Party.
An excellent reality-check for those on the left who haven't
ventured above 14th Street in ten ,years and an eloquent
reminder of why we're all in this to~er,
Ridgeway's subjects
discuss miscegenation and other "race..,crimes," deliver candidlines like "1'4 like to gas the queers most of all," speak n~gically about Hitler and stand in w-heat ~elds modeliQg swastikas.
Eerily, they seem to hate Jerry Falwell (a "small-c christian")and Ronald Reagan even more than we do. Don't miss it.
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but tragic because there never was asmoother blend of actress ·and character.
The parallels between Diana's freewheeling, anything-at-least-once attitude
and Christie's own off-screen image werea '60s prototype in the making: Before
Darling got her an Oscar and the coverof Life, Christie was the woman who perpetually apartment-hopped among her
friends. She attended the Oscar ceremony in gold lame evening pajamas and big
hoop earrings; back when "corrimune"
was still a verb, her date was a bedmate
who was not her husband. (The following year she pulled a fast one on Edith
Head and gave the Oscar telecast its firstminiskirt, much to Head's horror.) The
double whammy, Christie aQd Darling,
hit people where they lived: Within six
months of seeing Darling, a woman I
know, the most Westchester of gals, wasliving in London with a rock singer.
Darling, in fact, is all but atremble
with nascent liberation. Directed by John
Schlesinger and written by FrederickRaphael (who also went home with
Oscar), the film is a savage satire of contemporary British anomie. It goes so far
as to have Christie read the most sacredof odes to Jolly aide, the "scepter'd isle"
speech from Richard n, as the prelude toscoring a little career advance and cash
offa smarmy politico. The central characters are all blissfully dislocated and the
periphery is even emptier: After smiling
down an unruly dinner guest, Diana's
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who gives her hair "volume, you know,
and that's what I lik~:"They move against
a backdrop of unilateral shallowness andglaring fIXation; a series of man-in-thestreet interviews by Diana's joumalistlfirst
victim, Dirk Bogarde, include a teenage
Briton and a middl~ged businessman
who see Britain's worst modem problem
as, respectively, trafficand homosexuals.
From there, Darling swi!:chesto full
'69s demolition mode, tickling tabooswith drunken-sailor
relish. Diana isinspired to throw a housewanning partyby the sight of "the two most golgOOus
Negroes you ever saw running up thestairs." Shortly after an arrangoo miscarriage, she crosses the English countrysideby train wearing a trenchcoat over, anightgown. When questionable businesstakes Diana to Paris, Schlesinger makes
an excursion of his own into Fellini land
via a night out among PariSian high-decadents. (And wasn't the sweetest touch of
the '~ the idea that decadence is mental?) The revels involve a furry man in alace corset, an angular woman in a man's
hat and Diana's description of her escort,
Laurence Harvey: "a pimp in a royalwhorehouse." Garden-variety homosexuality is, in fact, the only speciality act
Darling presents without comment.
Diana's photographer friend Malcolm iscontemporary fUm's first uncomplicatedhomosexual. The only character with aworking grasp on life, he is more than
comfortable with his sexuality: He alone
equates sex with pleasure, thanks to a
hunky Italian waiter.
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too, and shortly afterward makes her ,only direct observation on anything: "I
could live without sex. I don't really like
it very much." Darling is uncompromising in its judgmentof Diana's all-encom•
passing calculation: She gains the fameand wealth she desires, but the cost iscomplete emotional isolation. Christie,
however, takes Diana into the open
spaces beyond judgment thr<~ugh thesheer energy and emotio~ O$ednessof her perfonnances: The,e -is 'no discernible technique, at work, only sustained, simmering spontaneity. The builtin contradictions are as clear as Christie's
dusky voice in opposition to all thatblond hair. (Raphael gives Christie's particular comic gifts plenty of latitude, andno actress has ever gotten more laughs
out of emotional myopia: "Quellelargesse! I'm impressed!") A woman without a shred of self-knowledge, Diana is
all appetite and no scruples, the kind of
person who steals parking spaces.
Thanks to Christie's instinctive frankness--it's as fearless a perfonnance as
e:xists---5he is also one of the screen's
great sexual iconoclasts, an antiheroine who made potency a feminine' prerogative. She crasWands.but goes out swinging-withgood reason. In Darling,
Christie is centerstage in every scene. She
got third billing, after her male co-stars.

The 63rd Annual Academy Awards
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by Robert Hilferty
On my terrorist-free Pan Am flight
to Berlin, I sat next to Nonnan, a hip
dude from Virginia, whose longish hairand thin frame were fitting attributes forthe lead of "Cosmic Slop." I listened toneither the· need nor the insight. They
just reproouce their self-perpetuating,anemic world~viewsin the most insipid,
ways. And, this fact becomes mostapparent in the cinema. After seeing
competition fJ.!ms like Tbe Grifters and,One thing is certain: Our marginality has
given us the privilege of vision andinsight. At its best, gay work controverts,
subverts and inverts the whole history ofrepresentation, providing bold picturesof forbidden desire, while offering a cri-

STICKING TO rr-John GreysonsThe Making of -Monsters-

his sample tape. Nonnan's band wasn't
bad at all, except for lyrics like "realmen hang to the right" or "in the 50-yardline I made her squeal"-youknow,run-of-the-mill sexist and phallocentriccrap. I was shocked to learn that when
he isn,'t playing electric guitar, he'sordering
submarine
parts for the
Defense Department. So much for antiestablishment hard rock.
It seems that white straight men
have nothing to say. Their privileged status had undermined the potential for any
meaningful artistic expression. They have

Tbe Silence of the lamPs in Berlin, I'mconvinced that even the most talented
straight male fJ.!rrunakersare in a crisis.
So it is not surprising that the mostinteresting and innovative work is coming from gays and other minorities, who
not only have something new to show,
but al.so are more daring with form.
Although I can't pretend tohave seen all 500 films
shown at the Berlin Film
Festival (not including theretrospective),
I have a,hunch that this is the case.

tique of those forms, cultural and narrative, which have contained that desire.
. Gay films traditionally have found awarm home at the Berlin Film Festival.
Gay programers come to this festival fromallover the world to find new work. (Forthis reason, I was disturbed and disheartened to find that Marlboro and PhilipMonis ads were on the backcovers of every festival publication; "cigarette girls," stationed in every theater,
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outby Terri L Jewell
Old women say
those like youcome once so often,
have a certain lookwhen the water breaks,
spills haphazard
down your Monuna's legs.
You were 2 months lateand healthy as hell
with black men smilingat your first wild steps.
Tht;y were toward melong before we actually touched,
your words rushing
through a $2.95 binder,~ blue, missed link
I could surely handle
above the sorenessof longing into the wind:
Lefty and shrewd
with dubious intentions,
you have mastered
your ambidexterity
on my,lame attempts•
to sleep past twilight,
fly eggs over easy.

Terri L.Jewell writes: "I am a 36-yearold eccentric but lovable dyke who is co-editing Sister Blood-Creativeby Black Lesbians. liT

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of attend~kind of corporate
rape. And gays smoked the tainted fags.
Jim Hubbard, who presented the New
York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival tribute, made a public complaint. Later, ACf
UP/Berlin got together a bunch of dragqueensto , had out condoms
andanti-Jesse Helms material alongside the
Marlboro girls.)
A film that impressed me very muchand won the Teddy Award for best gay
short was Relax by Christopher Newby.
Shot in black-and-white, except for thecolor "blood-stream" sequences, Relax is
an oneiric meditation on waiting for an
HN·test' result. The pfotaganist grows
impatient with his best friend's reassuring
platitudes that he is "OK" and, in his private moments, scrubs his genitals frantically, checks for swollen lymph nodes,
eats entire boxes of cookies and imagines&2 OUTWEEKMarch 27. '1 ••documen-tary about the Black and Latino. gay'1

his own suicide. He picks up a cute biker
in an alley but cannot relax during sex.
Only when the sex is verbal or when oil
is squirted on his chest, is he comfortableand ecstatic. Stunning with its riveting
images and intravenal sounds, the film
subtly relates different kinds of waiting:waiting to get picked up, waiting for love,waiting for a test result, waiting to getsick, waiting to die.
Claw Your Eye by James Carman isa surrealistic whirlwind of shadows and 'silhouettes, a disturbing enigma about
the nature of vision, This short preceded
The Grifters and, although Significantly
shorter, is infinitely better.
The two films which won Teddy
Awards for best gay features, fiction
and documentary, were the Sundance
duo, Todd Hayn.es' Poison and Jennie
livingston's Paris Is Burning. The lattersubculture that gave birth to the phenomenon of Vogue Balls. Livingston
reveals the "realness" of her subjects,
on and off the Vogueing
runway.
Hayn.es' Poison is an innovative andproblematicwork, a Genet-inspired
cinematic puzzle, which demands anddeserves intelligent criticism.
John Greyson's
Tbe Making of"Monsters" is a clever and entertaining
short about a serious matter. On June
21, 1985, five teenagers beat to death ~homosexual man in Toronto. "Monsters"
is a mock documentary about the making of a fUm musical about this fatal gaybashing and employsa wealth of
Brechtian devices to explore its subject
In fact, Brecht himself appears in the
fUm as a Cheshire Cat-like catfish, incessantly giving unsolicited advice to thedirector of the film, a Soviet realist
turned bourgeois Greg Lukacs. (Kurt
Weill appears later in the fish tank as
Brecht's boyfriend.)"Monsters" is full of gay rewrites ofBrecht-Weill songs, such as "Mack theKnife," and includes a hilarious dance'
sequence with boys in jockstraps playing
hockey. The film culminates in an imitation rock video: a Black lesbian surrounded by burning tires sings brazenly
about bashing back. This ftltnis sure to
be a hit in New York.
'
Ngozi Onwur~h, a Bhlck womanfrom England, made the r'emarkably
enchanting short film 1be Body Beautiful. Here the filmmaker explores therelationship between her beautiful black
body and her mother's mastectomized,
aging white body. A painful and poetic
experience, the fUm's images ripped int~
my own body with visceral serenity.
Tbe Cynical Body by Heinz
Emigholz is a somewhat-nonsensical but
anarchic treat for the eyes. Deranged
and oblique angles are the norm, withwacky architecture to match (a Gaudi in"Barcelona and a neo-Gothic structure
outside of Paris) ...and occasionally, boys
fucking on rocks.
Pre- and post·fucking
scenes are
the bulk of Ron Peck's historically interesting yet cinematicallycomatoseNighthawks (1979) about a gay EngJish
schoolteacher. The best part is when theteacher comes out to his students in
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retlection on the making of the earlier film,
since Anita, Dances ofVtee. Pe~er Adair's
which includes a discussion of why the
Absolutely Positive interviews, are movfilmmaker left the mOre queer and militanting, yet this "quilty" film has no bite andscenes on the cutting-room floor. A fUrther
contains a few perverse interjections by,
coming out, Strip attempts to bury thethe ftImmaker ("It's more glorious to surcorpse of internalized homophobia.
vive a fatal disease than it is to die from•
Personal ftIms were well represent-,a manageable one").
ed in the New York experimental proThe Berlin Film Festival is a Scene.
gram. Marguerite Paris' 1970 Gay Pride
Films are an eXcuse for people to makeMarches is a silent poem of the endlessconnections. Everyone 'is on the make.
struggle for dignity. Also silent, andParty-going is de rigueur. There wasmore militant, is Jim Hubbard's docueven one at the Apollo Sauna! At one
mentation of the more recent AIDSparty, I bumped into Ch.antal Akerman,
haunted Pride marches, Elegy in the
who told me that she wants to make a
Streets. Hubbard's exquisitely coloredfilm about the jewish Dhispora. "Theimages unite the personal with the politgay jewish Diaspora?" I asked. At
ical, as he includes pictures of his deadanother gay shindig, Isaac Julian (looklover and ACT UP footage. jer,ty
ing for Langston) tQld me that he justTartaglia raises hell with his personal
finisheda "conventional" film called...
and political statement, Final Solutions,
Young Soul RelJt?/s.It's about two Blackan unrelenting analysis of AIDS in a conboys, ope gay and one straight. Sound
sumerist culture. His Remembrance is aconventional to' you? Isherwood would
comic masterpiece, as he relates his gay
be thrilled.T
identity to Bette Davis' screen persona. ,Tania Cypriano's Viva Eu is a candid and-rH1S""EEK.. r 0 •••:2 9loving portrait of a Kaposi's sarcomaridden friend in Brazil who eventully
Included in the comprehensive bill
succumbed to the disease after sevenare two proposals from Republican Rep.
years of survival.
Connie Morella of Maryland addressing
Forbidden Love by Vladislav Kvasthe special needs of women with AIDS.
nicka is a fascinating documentary about"Aq:ording to the Centers for Dishomosexuality
in Czechoslovakia.
ease Control, women now comprise the
Although discrimination makes life miserfastest-growing group of persons withable for gay Czechs, the ftImmaker interAlDS iri this country," said Morella in a
views couples who fondle each otherletter asking for congressional
support for.
while lounging in their underwear. I look
her measure. "I have introduced legisla,forward to many more gay ftIms fromtion to remedy the neglect of the growing. Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. 'AIDS epidemic among women. The two, Smaller • films of interest include, bills would encourage research on I-llV in
Monika Treut's My Father Is Coming,
women and would improve access to.about a frustrated German actress living
health services for women with AIDS,in_"in the East Village. Her father visits onlyth IS country.
to discover that his daughter is a waitThe ftrst proposal, the Women andress and has become a lesbian. Annie
AIDS Research initiative, would authorize
Sprinkle dazzles us with her charming
an additional $10 million within the NIH
vulgarity. No Skin Off My Ass by Bruceand the ADAMHA for research into the
La Bruce is the kind of ftIm you see attransmission, development and treatment
midnight""7"its grainy black-and-whiteof I-llV in women. The measure would
vente style recalls Warhol's Trash. loosealso authorize $6 million to create thely based on Robert Altman's That Cold
Community Based Clinical Research IniDay in the Park with a happy ending,tiative, which would seek to expand clinNo Skin is about a hairdresser obsessedical trials to women and provide support
with a cute skinhead. The skinhead's sisservices such as child care and transter is a lesbian ftImmaker who manages
portation for women participating into get her brother to undress for every
medical trials.
scene.' The semi-funny deadpan lines
Morella's other proposal in the bill,
actually work. Rosa von Praunheim's ' the Women artd AIDS Outreach and PreAffengeil is an affable portra~t of that
vention Act, would authorize $10 million
geriatric wonder, Lotti Huber, a Gennan
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and other public-health programs.
Included in the mammoth bill is aprovision from Democratic Rep. Mary
, Rose Okar of Ohio allowing for an additional $25 million to be earmarked forbreast -cancer research and another proposal from Democratic Rep. Patsy Minkof Hawaii authorizing an annual $30 million to be targeted for basic research intodeveloping an early-detection test forovarian cancer. T,

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IIld /esbi;m are \'ita participants In 1he life at
New York Ci1y," eays 1he clasa description.
"Daapite this, many belieYethat 1he popular
media and mainstream arts communities
either fail to rep~ or actually misrepresent gay and lesbian concem8.· Given inthree seaaions which focus on 1he arts, 1hemedia and politics, reepecIiv8y, the c/asasa
will be led by Arts Editor Sarah Plltlt,
Features Editor MIchIIangeIQ SlglIII'Ill andNews Editor Andrew Miller. $15 for thecourse, $8 for a single eeaaion.The filet S8&sion is April 25. For more info, contact 1he
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THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIALRESEARCH presenteGay and L.. blan
Wrillng:
From, World War II to
Stonewlli.
Instructor: Joseph Cady.
"The years after World War II witnesseda significant body of gay and lesbian literature that has tended to become over8hadowed by the more open homosexual.expre8sion of the post-Stonewall
years of the 70s and '80s. But the relative bur8t in gay and lesbian writingfrom the mld-l940s through the 1960s
contributed to the change in culturalabnosphers that helped make possible
the contemporary gay and lesbian liberation movement and is an integral partof the background of the present gay
and lesbian situation.
Among theauthors we may consdler are: Tennessee Williams, Car80n McCullers, Allen
Gin8berg, Sylvia Town8end Warner,
James Baldwin and Janet Aanner: The
81x8eseions begin on April 4. $130. For
more info, contact Jim O'Connor at the
New School at (212) 741-8778.
THE ANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT offers a
Support Group for gay men and (esblans
who are, now or haw been involved in abu8[ve relationship8. The 12-week group8,\\t1lch start in MaJdl, haw profeaaionallsllers 'and are completely confidential. Info:(212) 807..Q197.
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Also 8ee the dally listings for showingsof one or two days.
BAD NEIGHBORS preeents Mldllllni
01II1II'1 .""., BlDrI,. Hllb, a humorous
play about the afterlife. Directed by Deb
Margolin. The play tells the stories of
those who were not able to "fully
inhabir their lives and are now forced torelive their experiences, detail by excruciating detail, in a group 8ituation. In
particular, the play focuses on Francine,a young woman who was never able toface her sexuality. $10. Feb. 21 through
Man:h 21. Cooper Square Theatre. 50 E.
Seventh St Info: (212) 989-n788.
STAGE WORKS presents

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25th St., 7th floor, New York, NY 10001. Next,
deadline: Monday, March 17, for issue #92,
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PS 122 pre8ents Connecting Lives,
documentsfrom the AIDS crisi8.
Photographs by Karen Crumley, Tomas
Gaspar, Steve Hart, Tom Mcqovern,
Jane R08ett, Scott Thode and Charle8
Wemple. Curated by Nan Goldin and
AI/en Frame. Opening Feb. 28 at 6 pm.
PS 122. 150 Fir8t Ave. Gal/ery hours:
Th-Su, 12- 6 pm. (212) 228-4249.
Through March 24.
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JUDY'S RESTAURANT AND CABARET
presents Evan Malthews, performing a
blend of popular tunes, jazz, blue8 andtheater music. $8 cover/$10 minimum.
49 W. 44th St Wednesday8 at 9 and 11
pm. Reservations: (212) 764-8930.
March &-27.

The pick 0' the' picks: 8elle Reprieve. Lucky for u. the
SPLIT BRITCHESIBLOOLIPSteam-up I. extending therun of It. highly acclaimed
Interpretationof A
Streetcar Named De.lre. Thl. I. really nO,t to be
ml •• ed. One Dream. 232 We.t Broadway.
Th-Mo at 8,,
pm. Sa at 7 and 10:15 pm. (212) 274·1450. Through
Man:h 31.
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Need a cra.h cour.e In gay male theater? THEATRE.
AT·224·WAVERLY·PLACE
pre.ent. Homo.exual Act •• a•• rle. of 12 .hort play •• Including .even world pre.
mlere. and three New York premiere •• They are:Robert Patrick'. ludwIg and Wagner. TIle Family .ar,
and The Way We War; Daniel Curzon'.
SAM.
Celebrltle.
In He" and One Man'. OpInion; Carl
Mor.. •• AnnuncIatIon and FaIry Fuck,'n, or A.Ca" to
the Stater, Robert Ch•• ley·. Somebody'. Llttl. Boy;
Victor Bumbalo·. ShoW; BII Wright'. Mother Father
Lover Man; and Rlcb Rubin'. That AI Paclno look. $20.
We-Fr at 8 pm" Sa at 7 and 10 pm, Su at 3 and 7 pm.
Ticket.: (212) 564-8038. Through May 26.
Another program not to be mJ•• ed: THE ADOLESCENT
THEATRENETWORKIn c_peratlon with the ADOLESCENT AIDS NETWORK OF NEW YO"K pr •• ent. It.
Annual Adole.cent Theatre Fe.tlval. The three.day
program Include •• on Monday, the STAR Theatre,
Family Life Theatre and Dandelion Productions; on
Tue.day. Teatro Vida, the Greater Brown.vllle YouthCouncil. ,SPARK Player.,
Reflection.;and, on'Wedne.day. The Group. All thalt, and It'. free. too.
Bruno Walter Auditorium
at Lincoln Center. 111,
Am.terdam Ave•• at 66th Street. Man:h 18-20. 4-5:30
pm each day. For re.ervation., contact Ken Hornbeckat (212) 7.... 3315.
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PS 122 pre8ents Penny Arcade's La
Mlurlll ...Thl MI• .", an emotionallycharged look at growing up Italian in
America, which uses, among otherthings, footage of a filmed ongoingargument between Penny Arcade andher immigrant mother. PS 122. 150
First Ave. Thursdays through Sundays
at 9:30 pm. Re8ervation8: (212) 4775288. Through March 31.
SPLIT BRITCHES and BLOOLIPS present BIll' R,prIIVI. What if Stanley
Kowalski were a lesbian in drag and
Blanche DuBoi8 were a drag queen?
8e/le Reprieve addre8ses all thl8 andmore in a hilariou8 send-up of A
Streetcar Named Desire. One Dream.
, 232 West Broadway. Th-Mo at 8 pm.
Sa at 7 and 10:15 pm. Re8ervations:274-1450. Through March 31.
MOSAIC BOOKS pre8ente Prlnny AlavI.
The photographer'8 work, mostly nudes,
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(212) 475-8623. Through April 6.
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PS 122 present8 Mabou Mines' Tb,
Brlb,. a poetic mU8icai work inprogre8s which trac8l! a day in the lifeof Gill Clout Written by Terry O'Reilly.
Directed by Ruth Maleczech. Music byJohn Zorn. Performed by O'Reilly andBlack-Eyed SU8an. $6. PS 122. 150
First Ave. March 13, 20, 27 and April 24
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present8 H"m""xual Actl, a series of
12 short plays, including seven world
premieres and three New York premieres.
They are: Robert Patrick'8 Ludwig andWag/1/lr, The Family Barand The Way We
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Annunciation' and Fairy Fuck-In, or A Callto the States; Robert Cheeley'e
Somebody's Little Boy; Victor Bumbaro'e
ShoW; Bil Wright'e Mother Father Lover
Man; and Rich Rubin's That AI Pacino
Look. $20. We-fr at 8 pm, Sa at 7 and 10
pm, Su at 3 and 7 pm. Tickets: (212) 5648038, Through May 26.
.6THE NEW YORK OPEN CENtER presents Susan Bennett's Shap8.hllt,f'I, an
exhibition of painters. The New York Open
Center. 83 Spring St Mo, Th, Fr from 1-5
pm. (212) 219-2527. Through April 3.
.6THE PUERTO RICAN TRAVELING THEATREpresents Alberto Adellach's Sabina
and Lucrecia. The play is about "twowomen fugitives from an asylum whoseviews of reality clash with one another ina eeries of oddball sequences which ultimately end ina serious resolution.The play
was inspired by a true incident which wasreported in the Argentinian newspapers.·
With Cordelia GORzal.. , Marilyn Romero
and Nancy Walsh. Director: Alba Oms.
Design: Edward Glanfranc .. co. Lighting:
Rick BuUer. Costumes: Mary Marsicano.
$10/$12/$15. The Puerto Rican Traveling
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schedule: We-fr at 8 pm. Spanish schedule: Sa-Su at 2:30 pm and 8 pm.
Reservations: (212) 354·1293. ThroughApril 21.
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THE LESBIAN HERSTORYARCHIVESand
THE CENTER present Keepln' On:
Imag .. of African-American Lesbians.
Opening Feb. 28. Wheelchair accessible,
The Center. 208 W. 13th St. Hours: daily,
4-6 pm. For more info, contact theArchives at (212) 874-7232 ..
55 GROVE STRE~T presents Cam
Brainard and Bob Koherr's Brlt:ldat:. &StUt:t:II, performers who both appeared inParting Glances. their original comedy
material includes two jocks who learn
they can vogue, retired Solid Gold
Dancers, Amish rappers who put the"men back in Mennonite," an early Simon& Gar1unkel, and the Rocky Mountain
Butt Boys who open at a gay rodeo inWest Hollywood; videos serve as transitions between live routines; at 55 Grove
St (west of 7th Ave South); $8 + 2-drink
minimum; FRI at 8 pm; 366-5438
CHERRY LANE THEATREpresents David
Stevens' 11/, Sum IIf V" by the writer ofBreaker Moran~ starring Nell Massln andRichard Venture, directed by Kevin
Dowling, about a father who tries to help
with his son's gay relationships while helooks for a new wife; 38 Commerce St;$27.50-$32.50; TUE-FRIat 8 pm, SATat at
7 & 10 Pill, SUN at 3 & 7:30 pm; 989-2020
MEN WITH WIGS, INC., presents It's a
Man's World: Ladl .. Sing the Blu .. , a
fun-filled, gender-bender fantasy, fromthe Cotton to Motown. Men, with wigs,
examine incandescent images of the&&

OUTWEEK March 27, 1991

Two on Wednesday: FIrst, A DIFFERENTLIGHT pre.. nts
Bo Hu.ton, reading from his book, Remember Me, thefollow· up to last year'. highly acclaimed Horse. 548
Hudson St. March 20. 8 pm. Info: (212) 9894850.

blues' queene an'd their descendant •.
SID. The Producers Club. 358 W. 44thSt, 2nd floor, suite 7. Fridays at 11 pm.
(212) 971-9021.

MONDAY, MARCH 18•

Then, over at the Center, THE COALTION FOR LES·
BIAN AND'GAY RIGHTS presents Le.blanActlvl.ts
Take on the 90s. Featuring Ruth Berman and Connie
Kurtz, spokespersons for CLCR, NOW-New York Statelesbian Right. Task Force, and 'The Answ,er Is LovingCounselling Center; Candice Boyd ot African.American
Wlmmln United for Societal Change; Rachel Kaufmanof NOW.NYC's Lesbian Rights Rights Committee:
Luvenla Pinson of the National Lesbian Conference;•and Gerri Wells of ACT UP, the Pink Panthers andQueer Nation. 'The Center. 208 W. 13th St. March 20. 8
pm. (212) 627.1398.
THE CENTER presents Lesbian Movie Night, in cele.
bratlon of Women's History Month. Tonight's vidoes:
Emergence by Pratibha Parmar, Dry Kisses Only byJane Cottls and Kaucyila Brooke and How to Kill Her
by Eal Troyano and Ana Marlo Slmc.. $6. The Center.
208 W. 13th St. March 22. 8 pm. (212) 620-7310.
... and a cast of thousands: LAMAMA'S LAGALLERIA
presents Jamie Leo's Performance Reading #9, with acast that includes 'Christopher Amato, Jay Blotcher,
Rose Bowen, Ellin Crane, Mary Grace Farley, Cortland
Jessup, Tom Ledke, David Litke,Bina Sharif, Marsena
Sorensen, Sebastian Stuart, James ,Wagner, John
Weir, Mary Lou Wittmer, Walter 'Zimmerman and David
Buckingham as the video documentarlst.
$4, If you
can. LaMama's LaGallerla., 6 E. oj st St. March 23. 8 pm.
(212) 420-8032.
Things are happening up In the Bronx. This week, they
host the first Bronx Gay and Lesbian Dance spon·sored by a coalition of Bronx·based and people.ofcolor gay and lesbian organizations Including Lambda
Club (Lesbian and Gay Students 'at Lehman), BLUS
(Bronx Lesbians United In Sisterhood), GMOB (Gay
Men of the'Bronx), Fordham Lesbians and Gays and
LaGUF (Lesbian and Gay United, Force of Hostos
Community College). Tonight's theme: "A Spring
Affair."$8 In advance/$10
at the door. Lehman
College Student Life Building. March 23. 8 pm to 1
am. Info: Lisa Winters at (212) 829·9817 and Charles
Rice at (212) 378·3497.
DIXON PLACE presents an AIDS Benefit. Dixon Place
sponsors these monthly benefits for people withAIDS and their caregivers. So far, money has been'raised for the Brooklyn AIDS Ta.sk Force, God's LoveWe Deliver,
GMHC Emergency
Fund, the PWA
Coalition-Community
Research Initiative,
ADAPT,ACT UP and many other organizations. Tonight's per·formance raises money for the Upper Room AIDS
Ministry. Performances by Divlana and Dr. Laurie
Weeks. $8. March 24. 8 pm. Dixon Place. 37 E. 1stSt., between First and Second avenues. (212) 673·
6752.
Finally, sneak a peek into next week: THE CENTER
presents Homo Love Song, "an orIginal concert oflove, passion and light," performed by composer Dan
Martin and lyricist/performance ,artist Michael Biello.
Featuring Martin's live piano and vocals and Biello's
slides and performance art Vignettes. $7. The Center.
208 W. 13th St. March 26. 8 pm. (212) 62()·7310.

THE ADOLESCENT THEATRE NETWORKin cooperation with the ADOLESCENTAIDS NETWORKOF NEW YORK presents
its Annual Adol .. cent Theatre Festival.
The three day program includes, on
Monday, the STAR Theatre, Family Life
Thsatre and Dandelion Productions; on
Tuesday, Teatro Vida, the Greater
Brownsville Youth Council, SPARK
Players, Reflections; and, on Wednesday,
THE Group. Free. Bruno Walter
Auditorium at Lincoln Center. 111
Amsterdam Ave., at 66th Street. 4-5:30
pm each day. For reservations, contact
Ken Hornbeck at (212) 794-3315. [SeeMarch 19 and 20.1
THE NEW YORK BAR ASSOCIATION presents Doctors and Other Medical
Workers With HIV: A Polley Review.
Representatives of hospitals, patient
rights an dpublic health sectors will discuss how the issue of a medical worker's
HIV status should be handled. Speakers:
Michael Greco, MD, JD, Chief, Dividsionof Allergy and Clinical Immunologyl
Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology at
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center;, Kathryn C. Meyer, Senior Vice President,
Legal Affairs, Beth Israel Medical Center;
David Rogers, MD, Walsh McDermottProfessor of Medicine, Cornell Medical
School and Vice-Chairman, National
Commission on AIDS; Lani Sanjeck,
Associate Executive Director, New YorkStateWide Senior Actoin Council, NewYork City Patient's Riglits Ho~ine; Harvey
F. Wachsman, MD, JD:Co-sponsored by
the Ad Hoc Committee on AIDS. NYC Bar
Association. 42 W. 44tH·St. 7 pm.
SAGE presents Adult Survivors of Sexual
Abu.e, an experiential therapy group for
women ages 21 and up to support therecover process and free you from thepain and silence of sexual abuse.
Psychotherapists: Joyce Z. Meyers, CSW
and Robbye Stuart-Russell,
MA. TheCenter. 208 W. 13th St 7-8:30 pm. (212)741-2247.
GAY ACTIVIST ALLIANCE OF MORRISCOUNTYpresents Womyn's Netwo!t andMen's Rap Group at 7:30 pm, before
their General Mullng
at 8:30 pm.
Tonight's topic· 'Play Safe Batteries
Not Included." Sex educator Steve Brown
from Planned Parenthood of BergenCounty facilitates a workshop on safe sex
fun and games. Morristown Unitarian. Fellowship. 21 Normandy Heights Rd.
Morristown,
NJ. Info: GAAMC G'ay
Helpline: (201) 285-1595.
ACT UP General Meatlng. Cooper Union,
Fourth Avenue at 7th Street. 7:30 pm.
Info: 564-AJDS.

,FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS OF LESBIANS AND GAY MEN General Meellng.
Tonight's lopic: "Stigma and Slereotyping,' from Scanzoni and Mollenkott's Is
the Homosexual My Neighbor, and an
essay of Walter Wink's regarding whatth!l Bible says about homosexuality.
South Presbyterian,Church. 343
Broadway. Dobbs Ferry, NY 8-10 pm.
(914) 693-0473.
IN OUR OWN WRITE Wrllar's Workshop
for lesbian and gay writers. Workshops
are held on the first and third Mondays ofthe month. Please bring work. The
Center. 208 W. 13th St 8-10 pm. (212)620-7310.
THE INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN AND GAYASSOCIATION Canlar Liaison Commlt- •laa Maallng. Topics: upcoming worldconf,erence in Guadalajara, Mexico; continuing United Nations efforts; meetingwith Amnesty International regarding
their "mandate" being changed to include
oppression of lesbians ;and gay men;
ILGA fund· raiser in April. The Center. 208
W. 13th St 8 pm.
SOUTHERNERS presents a Polluck
Olnnar. If you attend, please bring foodaccording to the following categories:
Last names beginning with A~E, bringdeserts and appetizers; NbrinQ entrees;
K-D bring vegetables or salads;'and P-Z
bring potatoes, starches or breads.
Southern~rs will provide iced tea andsoda. $5 members/$8 non-members. The
Center. 208 W. 13th St8 pm. (212) 6748073.

TUESDAY,

MARCH 19

THE BRONX AIDS EDUCATORS NETWORK Ganaral Maellng.
Lincoln
Hospital, conference room 3. 234 E.
149th St Bronx. 9:30-11 am. Inlo: Janet
Goldberg at (212) 293-2658 or Rosaline
Moralse at (212) 295-5605.
,

THE ADOLESCENT THEATRE NETWORKin cooperation with the ADOLESCENTAID'S NETWORK OF NEW YORK presents
its Annual Adolescenl Theatre Fellival.
The,three day program includes, on
Monday, the STAR Theatre, Family Life
Theatre and Dandelion Productions; onTue,sday, Teatro Vida, the Gre~ter
Brownsville
Youth Council, SPARK
Players, Reflections; and, on Wednesday,
THE Group. Free. Bruno Walter
Auditorium
at Lincoln Center. 111
Amsterdam Ave" at 66th Street 4-5:30
pm each day. For reservations, contact
Ken Hornbeck at (212) 794-3315. [SeeMarch 18 and 20.].

GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS presents a
Haalth Seminar: Benellll Inlormallon
and Nulrillonal Iisuel. 129 W. 20th St,
third and sixlh floors. 7 pm. For more
information, call the GMHC holline at(212) 807-6655. TOD (212) 645-7470 for
the hearing impaired.

'

TWENlYSOMETHING Steering Comml'Ie. Meeting at 6:30 pm. Scheduled: dis·cussion and approval of Twentysomething charter, nominations for officers.
Info: Scott at (212) 242-4881. Also
tonight, it's a Rap Group, addressing"Homophobia: Internal and External:$3.The Center. 208 W. 13th St8:30 pm.
Info: Perry at (212) 242-3038.
THE COALITION FOR LESBIAN AND GAYRIGHTS General Mealln,~ The Center.
208 W. 13th St8 pm. (212) 627~1398.
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER
Nawlletter Editing. 225 W. 34th St.,
#1500. 8 pm. Call Lidell before attending:(212) 736-5295.
STEVE MCGRAW'S SUPPER CLUB presents Jamie O. Roy and Frlendl, an
evening of cabaretfeaturing Ms. De'Roy
and Doug Bernstein, Oenl. Markal andthe cast 01 Showing Off, Ellen Folay;
Carolina Rhea; Jonathan Solomon;
Sillier and A.h; and K.T. Sullivan. $15
coverl$8 minimum. Steve McGraw's. 158
W. 72nd St. 8 pm. Reservations: (212)595-7400.
THE NINTH STREET CENTER presents
Quear Quesllonl, Quaer Anlwarl, aseries of rap groups whoaii focus is defining homosexuality for the 1990&. Tonighfs
facilitator: Nick Cirabisi. 319 E. 9th St.,
basement 8-10 pm. (212) 228-5153.
CELLBLOCK 28 presents an Erollc Art
Show by Ira. His works has previously
been seen on Cellblock flyers, at A
Different Light bookstore and in Inches.
Cellblock 28. 28 Ninth Ave., between 13th
, and 14th streets. Doors open 8 pm. (212)733-3144.

W,MARCH20,
BRONX AIDS SERVICES offers a Support
Group lor HIY,Pollllve Women. Shareyour concerns, ideas and feelings. Freeand confidential. The morning program isin Spanish, the afternoon program is in
English. One Fordham Plaza, 8th floor.
Bronx. 10-11 am and 1:30-2:30 pm.
•
Info: Edith Gutierrez at (212) 933-2400 or
lsa Martinez at (212) 295-5605.
THE NEW YORK CllY DEPARTMENT OFHEALTH presents a Women'. HI.tory
Month Sympo.'um on "Violence in theLives of Women: Panelists include: Dr.
Kenneth Ong, deputy commissioner for
disease intervention, NYC DOH; Chezia
Carroway, coordinator, NYC Task Force
Aga:inat S'exual Assault; Beth Richie,
Hunter College Community Health
Education Program; Naomi lichtenstein,
director, client services, "lesbian and Gay
Anti-Violence Project; Barbara Chang, cocoordinator, New York Asian Women's
Center. Brenda Jones, administrative
director, Center for Anti-Violence
Education; and Ellen Zaltzberg, director,
Health Care Provider Training and••Lesbian Health Programs, Office of Gay
and Lesbian Health Concerns. 125 Worth
St. Second floor auditorium. 3-6 pm.
(212) 566-4995.
THE ADOLESCENT THEATRE NETWORKin cooperation with the ADOLESCENTAIDS NETWORKOF NEW YORK presents
its Annual AdDIBlc.nt Thealre Fellivai.
The three day program includes, on
Monday, the STAR Theatre, Family Life
Theatre and Dandelion Productions; on
Tuesday, Teatro Vida, the Greater
Brownsville Youth Council, SPARK
Players, Reflections; and, on Wednesday,
THE Group. Free. Bruno Walter
Auditorium
at Lincoln Center. 111
Amsterdam Ave., at 66th Street 4-5:30
pm each day. For reservations, contact
Ken Hornbeck at (212) 794-3315. [SeeMarch 18 and 19.]
THE GAY AND LESBIAN ANTI-VIOLENCEPROJECTPeer Counllllng for survivorsof bias assault, domestic violence andsexual assault. Held every Wednesday
and Thursday from 6-8 pm. The Center.
208 W.l3th St (212) 807-0197.
THE NEW YORK ADVERTISING AND
COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK General
Meellng. Tonight's guest Larry Kramer,
activist and author. $5 members/$8 no,nmembers. First drink free. The Center.
208 W. 13th St Networking at 6:30 pm,
prog ram at 8 pm.
SOUTHERNERS Steering Commltt ..
MeeUng. Everyone'swelcome at this 1I1II!rting gay men and lesbians from the South.
7 PT. Call lor location: (212) 674-8073.
GAY MEN OF THE BRONX General
Meellng and Orlenlallon:
HostosCommunity College. Grand Co,ncourse"
Building A, room 227. 7-9 pm. Info:
Chris at (212) 601-0806.
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS presente Pool, Night. Featuring free pool,ping pong, billiards, air hockey andshooting hoops at Brownstone Billiard.
Seventh Ave. at Flatbush. Afterwards,
instead of the Roost, celebrate the firstday of spring at Haag.n Oau at 8:30
pm. 109 Seventh Ave., at President
Street. The evening begins at 7 pm.
Please call 24 hours in advance to confirm all SAL activities: (718) 965-7578.
A DIFFERENTLIGHT presents 80 Hullon,,
reading from his book, Remember M1. 548
Hudson St 8 pm. Info: (212) 989-4850.
THE COALTION FOR LESBIAN AND GAYRIGHTS presents Lesbian Actlvl.t. Takeon the 90•. Featuring Ruth B.nnan andConnl. Kurtz. spokespersons for CLGR,
NOW-New York State Lesbian Rights
Task Force, and The Answer Is LovingCounselling Center; Candice Boyd ofAfrican-American Wimmin United forSocietal Change; Rachll Kaufman of
NOW-NYC's Lesbian Rights Rights

Committee: Luvenla Pinion of the
National Lesbian Con,ference; and Gerrl
W.II., of ACT Up, the Pink Panthers andaueer Nation. The Center. 208 W. 13th
St 8 pm. (212) 627-1398.

.

GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS presents
Erollclzlng Saler Sex. No registration
required. The Center. 208 W. 13th St.
8-10:30 pm.
ORGANIZATION FOR GAY AWARENESS
General Meellng. Tonight's guest isGerrl Well. of the Pink Panther Patrol,lsading a discussion of the Panther's andanti-lesbian and anti_gay violence. St.
George's Church. Ridgewood andWoodland roads. Maplewood, NJ. 8:30
pm. (201) 743-5322.
CHANNEL 69 presente Merchandl ••Mart, a flea market extravaganza.
Admission includes the show, Gay Home
Shopping Club, disco and go-go dancers.
$3 before midnight/$5
after. The
Pyramid. 101 Ave A. Merchandise mart
begins at 11 pm, and the show is at 1
am, (212) 473-7184.

THURSDAY, MARCH 21
BRONX AIDS EDUCATORS NETWORK
General Me,lIng. Meetings are the third
Tuesday of every month. Lincoln Hospial
Conference Room 3. 234 E. 149th St The
Bronx. 9:30-11 am. Info: Janet Goldberg
at (212) 293-2658 or Rosaline Morales at(212) 295-5603.
BRONX AIDS SERVICES offers a Support
Group for HIY·Po.lllve Women. This isan ongoing, closed group. Individual consultations are requlr6d before admittance.
Free. 349 E. 149th St, room 609. Bronx.
11 am to 12:30 pm. Info: Donna Berschat (212) 585-5001.
THE GAY AND LESBIAN ANTI-VIOLENCEPROJECTPeer Coun.. llng for survivorsof bias assault, domestic violence andsexual assault. Held every Wednesday
and Thursday from 6-8 pm. The Center.
208 W. 13th St (212) 807-0197.
JUDITH'S ROOM presents Michele
Wallace, reading from her books,
Invisibility Blue, and Black Macho andthe Myth pf the Superwoman. Judith's
Room. 681 Washington SI. 7 pm. (212)727-7330.
'
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS pre"sent Generic Game Night. Bring yourfavorite board and card games to the
Clubhouse. Bring snacks and soda, too,
but no alcohol. 7:30 pm. Please call 24hours in advance to confirm all SAL
activities: (718) 965-7578.
TOO'S WOMEN'S CLUB AND CAFE presents Tod'. Oallng Game. Call for application and complete details. Tod's. 2
Georges Rd. New Brunswick, NJ. (201)545-8990.
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THE PYRAMID presents a Spring Fling
Benellt Party lor the Pink Panthers. $5.
The Pyramid. 101 Ave. A. 9'pm.

FRIDAY, MARCH 22
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER presetns Y-MACT 3D·and-Under Caucus
Conscloulness-Ralslng
Se .. lon at 6
pm. Tonight's topic: "Sharing Our Health
Concerns." Then, at 8 pm, it's the
Women Acllvlltl Colleehousa, feauturing readings by lesbians of color on thesubject of activism in the women's community. Both events happen at the Center.
208 W. 13th Sl6 pm. (212) 222-9794.
CONGREGATION BETH SIMCHAT TORAH
presents a Jewish Feminist Friday Night
Shabbat Service, followed by Oneg
Shabbat. Congregation Beth Simchat
Torah is New York's lesbian and gay synagogue. 57 Bethune St. 6:30 pm. (212)929-9498.
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS present a Poker Party at Pat's Place. For
beginners and sharks alike. 7:30 pm.
Please call 24 hours in advance to confirm all SAL activities: (718) 965-7578.
THE ANSWER IS LOVING preeents Women
Tailing Wcmen'l Talc "What are !hey gmna
say...if I do...do what?" From their flyer. "I
dml give a.or do I? Wrrt do I?' $10. 1964 E.
35th Sl Brooklyn. 7:4S-10 pm. Info: Ruth
Berman m Conrie Kurtz at (718) 998-2300.
THE CENTER presents Lesbian MovieNight, in celebration of Women's History
Month. Tonight's vidoes: Emergence by
Pratibha Parmar, Dry Kisses Only by Jane
Cottis and Kaucyila Brooke and How toKill Her by Eal Troyano
and Ana Mario•
Simo. $6. The Center. 208 W. 13th st. 8
pm. (212) 620-7310.

SATURDAY, MARCH 23
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI AIOS MINISTRY
presents A Day 01 Recollactlon, for all persons infected as well as affected by HIV and
AID&-PWAs, care-partners, caregivers,
family members and lovers. The will
include a presentation with both sharing
and support, and will conclude with aliturgy celebration. People from all denominations welcome. Lunch provided. The
Church of St. Francis. 135 W. 31st St.
10:30 am to 4 pm. (212) 695-1500.
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS visit
the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens latespring flower show at 1 pm. Then, at
2:30, SAL hosts a (Just Barely) Spring
Picnic. If it's too cold for a sit-downsocial on Eleanor's Hill, SAL plans a hikeinstead. Then, at 7:30, it's an Under-3D
Party. Bring tapes, snacks, beverages
and games. Please call 24' hours inadvance to confirm all SAL activities:(718) 965-7578.
INTEGRAL YOGA INSTITUE presents
Hatha Yoga Class. Hatha Yoga refers to&&

OUTWEEKthe physical postures, deep relaxation
and breathing practices which revitalize
and strengthen the body and calm themind. This class is especially for those
who are HIV-positive. IYI. 227 W. 13th
Sl 12-1 :30 pm. (212) 929-0586.
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER
feminists Caucus General Milling at 6
pm. 169 Manhattan Ave.
LAMAMA'S LAGALLERIA presents Jamie
Leo's Petformance Reading 19, with acast that includes Christopher Amato,
Jay Blotcher, Rose Bowen, Ellin Crane,
Mary Grace Farley, Cortland Jessup,
Tom Ledke, David Litke, Blna Sharif,
Marsena Sorensen, Sebastian Stuart,
James Wagner, John Weir, Mary Lou
Wittmer, Walter Zimmerman and David
Buckingham as the video documentarisl$4, if you can. LaMama's LaGalieria 6 E.
1st Sl8 pm. (212)420-8032.
STICK WITH IT PRODUCTIONS presents
Funny Gay Main. Call lor time andadmission price. Sticky Mike's Frog Bar.
8 Great Jones Sl, at Lalayette St. (212)533-70OQ.
It's the first Bronl Gay and LesbianDanee sponsored by a coalition of Bronxbased and people-of-color gay and lesbian organizations including Lambda
Club (Lesbian and Gay Students at
Lehman), BLUeS (Bronx Lesbians Unitedin Sisterhood), GMOB (Gay Men of theBronx), Fordham Lesbians and Gays and
LaGUF (Lesbian and Gay United Force of
Hostos Community College). Tonight's
theme: 'A Spring Affair.'$8 inadvancel$10 at the door. Lehman College
Student Ufe Building. 8 pm to 1 am. Info:
Lisa Winters at (212) 829-9817 andCharlees Rice at (212) 378-3497.
THE CENTER DANCE COMMITIEE presents a Prom Party. "Relive your prom
the way it was meant to be. You may becrowned Prom King or Queen. Dance tothe sounds of the '60s with OJ Brian
Cronen: 21 and over only. $10/$8 withthis listing. The Center. 208 W. 13th Sl 9
pm to 1 am.
THEATER NADA presents Shelly Mars in
A Day in Hollywood, a Night of Sodom,'being an evening of commentary on maleimpersonation, AIDS, dyke-drama and alittle S/M.· $8. Theater Nada (formerly
Theater Funambules). 167 Ludlow SLID
pm. (212) 420-1466. [See March 16.)

sent Bring a Friend, Make a Friend
Sunday Brunch. Food is potluck. CallIvan for time, place and other details.
(718) 692-2129.

Psychotherapists: Joyce Z. Meyers, CSW
and Robbye Stuart-Russell,
MA. TheCenter. 208 W. 13th St 7-8:30 pm. (212)741-2247.

SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS present Services Swap Night. "Got a skill orservice you'd like to share with otherresumes? Maybe you can get that door
fixed in exchange for typing someone's
resume: 7 pm. Please call 24 hours inadvance to confirm all SAL activities:(718) 965-7578.

GAY ACTIVIST ALLIANCE IN MORRISCOUNTY presents Womyn" Network andMen's Rap G"1UP at 7:30 pm, before their
General Mlltlng at 8:30 pm. Tonight's
topic: "Sex and Spirituality." Dr. Virginia
Ramey Mollenkotl, professor of English at
William Paterson College and member ofthe board of directors 01 ths Center for
Sexuality and Religion, is the guest.
Morristown Unitarian Fellowship. 21
Normandy Heights Rd. Morristown, NJ.
Info: GAAMCGay Helpline: (201) 285-1595.

PEOPLEWITH AIDS COALITION presents
a Sunday Evening Weekly Social for gay
men and lesbians who are HIV-p08itive or
have AIDS, and their friends. MAC Uving
room. 6:30-9:30 pm. (212) 889-2334.
THE RAPP THEATER CENTER presents A
Valentin, From carol. Lombard, by Larry
Myers, in a benefit to raise money to fightAIDS. The play is a series of vignettes,
many dsaling with gay and lesbian themes.
$10 donation suggested. PWAs, Center
employees and GMHC staff admitted free.
Rapp Theater Center. 220 E. Fourth St.,between aavenues A and B. 7 pm.
DIXON PLACE presents an AIDS Benelll
Dixon Place sponsors these monthly benefits for people with AIDS and their caregivers. So far, money has been raised for
the Brooklyn AIDS Task Force, God's
Love We Deliver, GMHC Emergency Fund,the PWA Coalition-Community Research
Initiative, ADAPT, ACT UP and manyother organizations. Tonight's performance raises money for the Upper Room
AIDS Ministry. Performances by Diviana
and Dr. Laurie Weeks. $8. 8 pm. Dixon
Place. 37 E. 1st St., between First andSecond avenues. (212) 673-6752.

MONDAY, MARCH 25
THE NEW YORK ADVERTISING AND
COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK presents
Share-a- Thon 3. Offering or seeking asummer share? Owners, renters and lookers meet to benefit the Lesbian and Gay
Anti-Violence Projecl Share seekers: $15.
Share offerers: $25 first person, $15 each
additional. Rrst drink free. Ths Center. 208
W. 13th Sl 6-9 pm. Info: the Network's
24-hour holline at (212) 517-0771.
GAY MEN OF THE BRONX and BRONXLESBIANS UNITED IN SISTERHOOD present a Public Fonsm on domestic partnership legislation. 1 Fordham Plaza, suite
800.7-9 pm. Info: Chris at 601-0806.

SUNDAY, MARCH 24
LESBIAN FEMINIST LIBERATION presents Asian Lesbians Pall and Present,
featuring a slide presentation by June
Chan from Allan Lesbians 01 the East
Coast. $4 donation includes refreshments. The Center. 208 W. 13th Sl 3 pm.
Info: (212) 627-1398.
LESBIANS AND GAYS OF FLATBUSH pre-March 27, 1991

MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER
Financial Affairs Planning Meeting. 169
Manhattan Ave., 14B, at 108th Street. 7
pm. (212) 932-3138.
SAGE presents Adult Survivors of Selual
Abuse, an experiential therapy group for
women ages 21 and up to support therecover proce88 and free you from thepain and silence of sexual abuse.

ACT UP General Meeting. Cooper Union.
Fourth Avenue at 7th Street. 7:30 pm.
Info: 564-AIDS.
CELLBLOCK 28 presents the N.w York
Strap and Paddle Alloclatlon
Party.
"For all of you who like to bend over andtake it like a man.' Cellblock 28. 28 Ninth
Ave., betwsen 13th and 14th streets.
Doors open 8 pm. (212) 733-3144.

TUESDAY, MARCH 26
LONG ISLAND GAY MEN'S GROUP presents an Op.n Forum. For complete
details on this bl-monthly discussion
group, contact L1GMGat (516) 694-2407.
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS presents a
Health S.mlnar: Medical Tr.atment •.
129 W. 20th Sl, third and sixth floors. 7
pm. For more information, call the GMHC
holline at (212) 807-6655. TOO (212)645-7470 lor the hearing impaired.
-,,

THE LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY
MEDIATIONSERVIGE'
presentea,
Edlcatlonal Forum discussing mediation, its benefits, and h9w the Mediation
Service works. There will be a video, simulated mediation and a question-andanswer period. The Center. 208 W. 13th
Sl 7 pm. (212) 713-3089.
,

BRONX LESBIANS UNITED IN SISTERHOOD and GAY MEN OF THE BRONX present a Forum on the domestic partnership bill. Invited speakers include
Fernando Ferrer, Bronx borough pr88ident; Carolyn Maloney, council member
and chief sponsor of the legislation; andliz Holtzman, comptroller 01 New YOlk
City. One Fordham Plaza, suite 800. 7-9
pm. Info: Ron Jacobowitz at (212) 5198746 or Lisa Winters at (212) 829-9817.
LESBIANS AND GAY MEN OF NEWBRUNSWICK presents Stephen Beck,executive director of GLAAD, discussing
discussing ways to end bias in the media
against gay men and lesbians. Friends
Meeting House. 109 Nichol Ave. New
Brunswick, NJ. 8 pm. (908) 247-0515,

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zine; 99.5 FM (:30)
WCBS-TV (51W 52 St St, NYC 10019;975-4321)
1:30 PM WBAI-FM An Afternoon Outing: local news and information about
WNBC- TV (30 Rockefeller Plaza, NYC 10112;664-4444)
the gay and lesbian community with Lany Gutenburg; 99.5 FM (:30)
WNET·TV (356 W 58 St, NYC 10019;560-3000)
4:30 PM SHO Ripper A boy and his Delphinidae swoon under Miami.
WNYW·TV(Fox,1211 AV/AM, NYC 10036;556-2400)
5:00 PM WFOX- TV Dif'rent Strokes 'Pedophilia is the subject of this
WPIX- TV (220 E 42 ST,NYC 10017;949-1100)
episode in which a bicycle-shop owner befriends Arnold andDudley-for a price." As if enough homophobia weren't being produced
MONDAY, MARCH 18
on loday's shows, Fox brings it out in reruns. Parttwo of this piece of
1:30 PM WUSB 90.1 FM The Word Is Out Marc Gunning hosts a weekly lestrash concludes tomorrow. CH 5.
bian, gay and bisexual variety show.
10:00 PM GCN Be Our Guest entertainment for and about the lesbian/gay
2:00 PM WUSB 90.1 FM L8vender Wimmin News, songs and music procommunity; Manhattan Cable, CH 0/17 (:30)
duced by women for women.
111-.30
PM GMHC Living With AIDS: health and politics; Manhattan Cable, CH
2:30 PM WUSB 90.1 FM This Way Out More queer news.
V(J5 (:30)
8:00 PM HBO The Josephine Baker Story Though TV Guide promises 'sex11:00 PM GCN Gay U.S.A.: news and entertainrnent from around the counual situations; all they'll fess up 10 is that this movie is about "tyhe turbutry; Manhattan Cable, CH V(J5 (1:00)
lent life of the expatriate cabaret star."~Midnight WNET·TV Camille Greta Garbo heads the cast CH 13.
8:30 PM Manhattan Cable The Brenda and Glennda Show CH 17
Midnight GCN Men in Films: male erotica, interviews with adult filmstars;
9:00 PM GBS Out in. the 90's: community news, discussion, interviews. BQ
Manhattan Cable, CH V(J5 (:30)
Cable, CH 56 (1:00)
12:30 AM RB PROD Men For Melt Robin Byrd presents gay male porno
11:30 PM Tomorrow(Tonight livET.entertainment; Manhattan and Paragonstars; Manhattan Cable, CH V(J5 (:30)
Cable, CH 0/17 (1:00)
Midnight CCTV The Closet Case Show. Kloset Klips; Manhattan IParagon
FRIDAY, MARCH 22
Cable, CH C/16 (:30
2:30 PM WBAI-FM Rompiendo el Si/encil1.lodos los viernes, Gonzalo,
Aburto con temas y noticias para la comunidad latina gay y lesbiana;
TUESDAY, MARCH 19
99.5 FM (:15)
1:30 AM USA Hollywood Insider Jodie Foster is still making rounds.
5:00 PM WFOX- TV Oif'rent Strokes Part two of two. See Thursday for
2:30 AM WIND-TV Goin' Cocont$ Donnie and Marie Osmond play themdescription. CH 5.
selves in a 'comedy-mystery set in Honolulu." CH 7.
7:00 PM WBAI-FM AIDS lri Focus, Michael Alcalay, produc 1:00 AM RB
2:00 PM SHO Torch Song TrilogyHarvey Fierstein, et al. Repeated at 3 am
PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and female strippers; Manhattan
this morning.
Cable, CH V(J5 (1:00)
5:45 PM MAX Mommie DearestWe still love you, Joan, even if you're own
11:00 PM Night Court'Dan's old buddy comes to lown flaunting a look thatdaughter doesn't And we wouldn't dream offucking with you.
Dan just can't accept'lf I remember right, the 100k' is transvestism, and8:00 PM WCBS- TV TheWizard of OzThe movie that The Wizwas based on.
it's Dan who comes out looking the fool. CH 61.
: Has something 10 do Kansas, red shoes, broomsticks and serious green
11:30 PM MAX Cleo/Leo A movie about a male chauvinist who is 'mysterimakeup. CH 2.
,
ouslytransformed into a woman." Could be really bad, or it could be,8:00 PM American Gigolo Well, if you're not a Judy queen, there's always
good.
Richard Gere. CH 61.
10:00 PM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and female strippers;
SATURDAY, MARCH 23, Manhattan Cable, CH V(J5 (1:00)
8:30 AM WBAI-FM Any Saturday with David Rothenberg; live call-in; 99.5
1~:OOPM DIS Bee Gees TV Guide calls this a ·documentary."
FM (2:00)
11:00 PM GBS Out in the 90's: news, information arid interviews;
7:00 PM GCN Gay U.S.A.: news and entertainment from around the country;
Manhattan/Paragon Cable, CH C/16 (1:00)
Ba. Unity, ACV Cable, CH 56 (1:00) (For Manhattan Cable, see THURSDAy)
11:00 PM Gay Tv.-male porn; Manhattan Cable, CH V(J5WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20
1:30AM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male & female strippers;
6:30 AM MAX Nobody's PerfectAn amusing (or confusing?) premise: A
Manhattan Cable, CH V(J5 (1:00)
boy dresses in drag to win the heart of his dream girl.
Noon SHO Cry-Baby Johnny Depp isn't Di.vine, but he is divine. Repeated
SUNDAY, MARCH 24
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7:30 PM WBAI-FM The Gay Show Bob Storm, Larry Gutenburg, Allan Ross
4:00 PM LlF Women of Valor "Army nurses are' brutalized in POW camps
and Marle Becker host (tentatively): Dick Dadey, executive director of
during Japan's 1942 occupation of the Phillipines." The movie sounds
the Empire State Pride Agenda; Sam Ciccone and Peter Guardino of
horrible, but it stars Susan Sarandon, who's always been a friend to our
GOAl.; and Olin Martin and Michael Biello, creators of Homo Love Song.
Altemateswith Outlooks. 99.5 FM (1:00).
community, and Kristy McNichol, who's always been. •6:30 PM MAX Nuns on the Run The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence they're111".30
PM RB PROD Men For MeTT.Robin Byrd presents gay male porno
not, but hey, this is Hollywood, not San Francisco.
stars; Manhattan Cable, CH V(J5 (:30)
Midnight RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and female strippers, live
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Monday,126-10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens, Queens;718{261·8484
Mea Culpa (For men, with video and live enter·tainment. $7/$10.)47 W. 20th St (212)807-,

Private Eyes (Marc Berkley's Kool Komrads;
strippers; downtown crowd, students, pro-'fessionals.2-4-1 drinks till midnight .$7)12
W 21 St (212) 206-7172.
Pyramid ( Ivory presents 'Genlle on My Mind:
Opening March 4. No cover, no hassles, no
kidding.) 101 Avenue A. (212)473-7184.

7840.

Tuesday• Clit Club (Drink specials till midnight Lesbianerotic videos and slides. $3 before midnight/$5 after.) Pyramid. 101 Avenue A. (212)473-7184.
• *Club Edelweiss (TIs, TSs, gays, bi's, singles, couples'; Tuesdays are especially for
lesbians, but everyone is welcome.) 167 W.
29th St (212)868-6989.
Danceteria (Coming soon: Chip Duckett's gay
Tuesdays. Keep your eyes on this space for
opening.) 29 E. 29th St• Grand Central (Women's nighttonight Mixed
We-Su.) 210 Merrick Rd. Rockville Centre,
L1.(516)536-4800.
Jack Officer's Club (Cruising, Bruising, Drinking
and Carousing. Audio, Video and Manual
Manipulation by OJ Craig. $3)505 E. 6th St,
between avenues A and B.
.Koxy (John Blair's 'Muscle on Wheels.' Gayrollerskating. Doors open at8 pm. Varied
cover.) 515 W 18 St (212)645-5156.

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Wednesday•*Channel69 (Drag Extravaganza, with Linda
Simpson. Go-go stars, OJ Dany Johnson.
Sexy, upbeat, East Village fag and dyke
crowd. $5.) Pyramid. 101 Avenue A. (212)473-7184.
The Building (Dallas' The Boys' Room. House
music, downtown crowd, go-go boys and a
50-foot ceiling. $101$7with invite.) 51 W.
26th St (212)576-1890.
• Excalibur (Ladies Night $1 drinks.) Locatedat the corner of 10th Street andJefferson
behind football stadium. Hoboken, NJ. (201)795-1161.
*Limelight (Disco 2000, with Michael;Alig andLarry Tee. Do.ors open at 10 pm. $10.) Sixth
Avenue at 20th Street (212)807-7850.
*Umelight (Queer U. DJs Andy Anderson andKeo,ki. $5/$10) Sixth Avenue at 20th Street(212)807-7850.
• Cadillac Bar (Gini DeSantis presents Pure
Party Production Dances for Women. Freebuffet from !HI pm. Renee Cooke, bartender. $5.)16 W. 22nd St, between Fifthand Sixth avenues.
• Private Eyes (Shescape Afterwork P~rty from
5-10 pm. 2-4-1 drinks before 7. $5 before 7
pm1$7 after.) 12 W. 21st St Shescape: (212)645-6479. Private Eyes: (212)206-7772.
Private Eyes (YMVA Night. Students, professional and women. Door often benefrts agay/lesbian organization. $7.)12 W. 21st St(212)206-7172.
Silver Uning (2-4-1 drinks.) 175 Cherry Lane.
Floral Park, L1.(516)354-9641.
Stutz (2-4: 1 drinks.) 202 Westchester Ave.
White Plains, NY. (914)761-3100.

ThursdaybThe Bank ( Upstairs it's Sperm Bank for Fags,
with hostess Hapi Phace, DJs Craig
Spencer and Victor Anonymous? Down-

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Meet on Friday (Xclusive perfonnances at 1:30
am. OJ Nobody's Pussy. $5.) Pyramid. 101
Aven!le A. (212)473-7184 .
• Millennium (Ladies' Nightll770 NY Ave (Rte110), Huntington, L1;516/351·1402
Private Eyes (YMVA Night; students, professionals, men) 12 W 21 St. 206-7772
Stingray's (New club, new sound system. Free
before 10 pm. $7 after.) 641 W. 51st St. (212)664-8668• Visions (women's party) 56-01 Queens Blvd,
Woodside, Queens; info 718/846-7131, club
718{899·9031

Saturday
J!'>The Bank ( Controversy. OJ Patrick Butts. Dragqueens, drinking, dancing and scandal.
$15/$10/$7.)225 E. Houston St, at Essex
JlD[newinfo).[women)Street. (212)505-5033.
Barefoot Boogia (2nd & 4th SAT; adults/kids,~[attracts TVs)
smoke & alcohol free; 8:30 pm • 12:30 am, $4;
next is Dec 8)434 6th Ave (btwn 9/10 Sts),
4th Aoor; 832·6759
Cantar (2nd & 4th Sat, 9 pm to 1 am, $8. OJ Peter
Arden.) 208 W 13 St; 620-7310• Canter ("Women & Friends.' Every first
Saturday. Next is April 6. OJ Gini DeSantis. 9
stairs, Egg Bank for Dykes features guest
pm to 1 am.) 208 W 13 St. (212)620-7210.
DJs and hot and sleazy Girl Action. $101$7)• Clit Club (Jocelyn and Julie expand to both
225 E. Houston St, at Essex Street (212)
weekend nights. Look for opening night on
505-5033.
March 16.) The Pyramid. 101 Ave. A. (212)Blacglama (Celebrating gay men and women of
406-1114.
color. Bi-mon1Jy; next is Feb. 28.) Pyramid.
Club West End (Michael Fesco's Saturdays;
101 Ave. A. (212)473-7184.
midnight - 9 am) 547 W 21 St*Copacabana (Susanne Bartsch. Last Th of theColumbia Dances (SamE BuT DifferenT. Third
month. Iffy door) 10 E. 60th St, at Fifth
Saturday dances. OJ Karin Ward, 10 pm - 3
Avenue. (21~)755-5010.
am; $5) Earl Hall, 116 St/B'way; 629-1989
Excalibur ($1 drinks.) Located at the corner of*ControYersy (Drinking, dancing and :scandal
10th Street andJefferson behind footballwith your host laHoma Van ZandtDJ's
stadium. Hoboken, NJ. (201)795-1161.
Patrick Butts and Tennessee.'$5.) Pyramid.
Hatfield's (2-4-1 drinks, female impersonators.)
101 Avenue A. (212) 473-7184.
126-10 Queens Blvd. Kew Gardens, Queens.
419419 N. Highway, Southampton;ll; 5161283(718) 261-8484.
5001
More Men (Tony, Keith and Dominic present OJ
Lova Zone (dancing & perfonners)70 Beach St,
Tommy Richardson, go-go boys, videos, bilStaten Island; 718/442-5692
liards. $10/$7 with invite.) 239 Eleventh'
House Housa Girls (All new. $7.) Speed Limit 55.
. . Ave.(212) 633-0701.
154 W. 26th St (212)505-0232.
*Roxy (Dugwah presents Disco Interruptus.Live.Girl Saturdays/Cheap Thrills (Shescape andperfonnances. $10)515 W 181h St 645-5156.
Girlgate host OJ Dany Johnson. Go-go girls,
Stingray's (New club, new sound system,billiards. $5 before 11.) Irving Plaza. Irving
everything else is a surprise. No cover
Place at 15th Street. (212)645-6479.
tonight) 641 W. 51st St (212)664-8668.
Maat (OJ Aldo Hernandez, every Saturday; gogo boys, videos; opens 10 pm; $5)432 W 14
FridaySt.
ABC (Chip Duckett's ABC Fridays, OJ Merritt;*Roxy (Locomotion; gay boys, guys, men; non-'ballroom, balcony, boogying; $101$7 w.
gay women, some lesbians; mix depends on
invite; opened Nov. 16)17 Irving Place at 15
party) 515 W 18 St (btwn 10/11 Aves); 645St
5156
bThe Bank (Alternative Music Night, hosted by ,• Silver Uning (women's Sat) 175 Cherry Lane,
Lee Chappell, David Leigh and Michael T. OJ
Aoral Park, L1;516/354-9641,
Ralph Duncan. Mixed crowd. $101$7.)225 E.
Sound Factory (mostly gay; serious House/Club
Houston St, at Essex Street (212)505-5033
dancing, no alcohol, opens 11 pm) 530 W 27
• Clit Club (Jocelyn & Julie, Every Friday Party;
St (lOth/11th Aves); 643-0728
go-go girls, lesbo videos; opens 8 pm, bilStingray's (Brand new club, brand new soundliards & $1 drinks between 8 and 9 pm; $5)
system, everything else is a surprise. $8.)
432 W 14 St; 406-1114
641 W. 51st St. (212)664-8668
Columbia Dances (1st Friday of every month,
Earl Hall, 10 pm-2 am.) 116th St &SundayBroadway; 854-3574 days
Tha Building (Dallas' The Men's Room, stu• Hatfield's (women's nights are TUE & FRI)

dents, professionals, men; go-go boys & 60ft ceiling) 51 W26St;576-1890*FUCKI (DJs Craig and Victor spin industrial,house, bass, soul and twirly disco.
Downstairs, the Lesbian Luv Lounge with OJ
Lori E. Seid and guest DJs. $5.) Pyramid. 101
Avenue A. (212) 473-7184.
Kelly's (OJ Moaning Lisa spins the records for
dancing dykes. Doors open at 8 pm. $3.) 46
Bedford St (212) 929-9322.
Monster (Sunday Tea Dance at 4 pm; dancing
also on other nights from 10 pm) 80 Grove St
at Sheridan Sq.; 924-3557
More (James St. James, Bella Bolski present)
239 Eleventh Ave. 633-0701.
Safe Sundays (Kool Komrads' party atthe
Cadillac Bar; go-go boys, $2 shots, $5 beer
bias from 5-8 pm.) 15 W. 21st St (212) 6457220
20/20 (Michael Fesco's Tea Dance, opens 4 pm;$6; free Mimosas & BMs from 4-6, buffet at7:30) 20 W 20 St; 727-8841.
The World (Christina Vista and Junior Vazquez
present an after-hours party. Doors open at
midnight.) 254 E. 2nd St., at Avenue C.

Every Night (or almost)• Bedrock (lesbian club, closed MON & TUE)
121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI;. 516/486-9516*Club Edelweiss ('TVs, TSs, gays, bi's, singles,
couples all welcome'; TUE for lesbians, but
open to all TUE-SUN night) 167 W 29; 8686989
419 (nightly Gay House Party, opens 6 pm) 419
N. Highway (Rte 27), Southampton, LI;
516/283-5001
Grand Central (closed Mon, 2-4-1 drinks
Thursday) 210 Merrick Road, Rockville, Centre, LI; 516/536-4800
Magic Touch (ethnic mix: Anglo/Latin/Asian) 731337th Rd, Jackson Heights, Queens;718/429-8605
Monster (West Village) 80 Grove St at Sheridan
Sq.; 924-3557• Pandora's Box (formerly the Duchess)
Sheridan Square & 7th Avenue. (212) 2421408.
The Pyramid (Look under daily listings for indilIidual parties and themes. Also check Going• Out for special events.) 101 Ave. A. (212).,473-7184.
Spectrum (good mix of gay men & lesbians;
closed Mon- Tue, WED free, THU free & 2-4-1,drinks, FRI male/female strippers, SAT, recording stars, SUN variety show & freeadmission 9-10 pm; Coors served) 802 64th St, @ 8th Ave, Bay Ridge, Bklyn; 718/238-8213 .
• Tod's (Night club and restaurant Mostly
women, but men are OK.) 2 Georges Rd.
New Brunswick, NJ. (201) 545-8990 .
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Chelsea
Barbary C~lIst, 64 Seventh Ave. (14th St.) 675-0385
The Break;'232 Eighth Ave. (22nd St.) 627-0072
Cellblock 28, 28 Ninth Ave., 733-3144(M-W)
Chelsea Transfer, 131 Eighth Ave. (bet 16th and17th) 929-7183
Eagle's Nest, 142 Eleventh Ave. (21st St) 691-8451
Private Eyes, 12W. 21st St. (bet Fifth and Sixth
Avenues) 206-7770
Rawhide, 212 Eighth Ave., (21st St.), unlisted
Spike, 120 Eleventh Ave., 243-9688
The Vault, 28 Ninth Ave., 733-3144 (F,7-11 pm,
women) 255'6758

West Village
Badlands, Christopher and West streets, 741-9236
Boots & Saddle, 76 Christopher St, 929-9684
Crazy Nanny's 21 Seventh Ave. South 366312(women)D.l's Fat Cat 281 W. 12th St, 243-9041
Pandorals Box, 70 Grove St (Seventh Ave.) 2421408 (women)
Dugout, 185 Christopher St., 242-9113 (formerly the
Ramrod).

Eighty-Eights, 228 W. 10th St, 924·0088
The Hangput (J's) 679 Hudson St, 242-9272
Julius, 159W. 10th St., 929-9672
Keller's,384 West SVChristopher, 243-1907
Kelly's Village West, 46 Bedford St, 929-9322
Marie's Crisis, 59 Grove St, (Seventh Ave.) 2439323
The Monster, 80 Grove St (Seventh Ave.) 924-3558
New Jimmy's 53 Christopher St, 463-0950
Ninth Circle, 139W. 10th St, 243-9204
Sneakers, 392 West St., 242-9830
Two Potato, 145 Christopher St., 242-9340
Ty's, 114 Christopher St., 741-9641
Uncle Charlie's, 56 Greenwich Ave., 255-8787

West Side
Candle Bar, 309 Amersterdam Ave., 874-9155
Cat's, 730 Eighth Ave., 221-7559
Don't Tell Mama, 343 W. 46th St., 757-0788
Gents, 360 W. 42nd St, {Ninth Ave.)967-0659
Sally's Hideaway, 264 W. 43rd St, 221-9152
Town & Country, Ninth Ave. at 45th St,307-1503
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Trix, 246 W. 48th St., (bet B'way and Eighth ve.)

664-8331
The Works, 428 Columbus Ave. (at 81st), 799-7365'

East Side
Bogart's,320 E. 59th St., 688-8534
Brandy's Piano Bar, 235 E. 84th St., 650-1944
G.H. Club, 353 E. 53rd St.,223-9752
Johnny's Pub, 123 E. 47th St.,355-8714
NY Confidential, 306 E.49th St.,308-8390
Rounds, 303 E. 53rd St.,593-0807
South Dakaota, 405 3rd Ave., (29th St.) 684-8376
Star Sapphire, 400 E. 59th St.,688-4710
The Townhouse, 236 E. 58th St., 754-4649
Twenty-Nine Palms, 129 Lexington Ave., 686-8299

East Village
The Bar, 68 2nd Ave., (4th St.) 674-9714
101 Avenue A, (formerly the Pyramid), 101 Avenue
A,420-1590
Tunnel Bar, 1161stAve., (7th St.) 777-9'1ZJ.

BrOOklyn(area code 718)
After Five Plus, 5 Front St., 852-0139
Spectrum, 80264th St., (Eighth Ave.), 745-9611
Sweet Sensations, 6322 20th St., 435-2580

Queens(area code 718)
Breadstix, 113-24 Queens Blvd., Forest Hills,
236-0300

Friend's Tavern, 78-11 Roosevelt Ave., Jackson
Heights,397-7256
Hatfield's, 126-10 Queens Blvd.,Kew Gardens,
261-8484
Hideaway, 87-36 Parsons Blvd., Jamaica,657-4885
Love Boat, n-02 Broadway, Elmhurst. 29-8670
Magic Touch, 73-13 37th Rd., Jackson Heights,
42H605

Staten Island(area code 718)
Sand castle, 86 Mills Ave., 447-9365

Suffolk

597-6600
Kiss, 161 Farmardie Dr., Lake Ronkonkoma, 467-9273
Club 608, 608 Sunrise Highway, W. Babylon,

Westchester(area code 914)
Playroom, 590 Nepperhan Ave., Yonkers, 965-6900
Stutz, 202 Westchester Ave., White Plains,761-3100

Long Island

Long Islandarea code 516)
419,419 North Highway (Rt. 27), Southampton,
283-5001
Bunkhouse, 192 N. Main St., Sayville, 567·2865
Cherry's, Bayview Walk, Cherry Grove, Fire Island,597-6820
Club Swamp, Disco/Annex Restaurant, Montauk
Hwy, Wainscott, 537-3332
Ice Palace, Cherry Grove Beach Club, Fire Island,

Nassau(area code 516)
Bedrock, 121 Woodfield Rd., West Hempstead,
486-9516 (women)
Blanche, 47-2 Boundary Ave., Farmingdale, 6946906
Grand Central, 210 Merrick Rd., Rockville Centre,
536-4800
Pal Joey's, 2457 Jerusalem Ave., North Bellmore,
785-9301
Silver Lining, 175 Cherry Lane, New Hyde Park,354-9641
Station House Pub, 3547 Merrick Rd., Seaford, 785-98m

661-9580
Millennium, lnO New York Ave., Huntingdon,
351-1402
Starz,836 Grand Blvd., Deer Park, 242-3857
Thunders, 894 Jericho Turnpike, Smithtown, 864-1410

New Jersey(area code 201)
Charlie's West. 536 Main St, E. Orange, 678-5002
Feather's, 71 Kinderkamack Rd., River Edge,
342-6410
Friendly's Bar, 6310 Park Ave., West New York,854-9895
Excalibur, 10th and Jefferson, Hoboken, 795-1023
Nite Lite, 509 22nd St, Union City,863-9515
Vibrations, 165 Cedar Lane, Teaneck, 836-5518
Yacht Club, 366 Berksire Valley Rd., Jefferson,697-9780

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Cooper Square between Astorand St Marks Place's.
AIDS RESOURCE CEN1BI (ARC)
Supportive housing for homeless PWAs (Bailey House anda pa rtmentsl. Non-j udgemental
pastoral care for PWAs andloved ones. Volunteer opportunities. (212) 481-1270, 24 West
30th St, NYC 10001

AlDEClAPLN-NY(Asi.n Lesbi.nsof the East
Coast/Asi.n
Pacific L•• bianNetwork-New
Yorkl We a re apolitical, social and supportive
network of Asian Pacific lesbians. Planning meetings on the
1st Sunday and social eventson the last Friday of eachmonth. Call (2121 517-5598 formore information.

AMERICAN GAYILESBIAN AntBSTS
AGA. IncJ701 7th Avenue, Suite
9W/New York, New York 10036
A non-profit, educational organization dedicated to preserving
separation
between state andchurch and upholding the civilrights ,of Lesbian and Gay Atheists. Meetings the firsts Sunday
Community Centor, 1 to 3 P.M. Diala GIlYAtheists (718)899-1737, 24
hours.
" ARCS (AlDS-1IeI1II8d
Community Services)for Dutchess, Orange, Putnam,
Rockl.and, Sullivan, Ulster andWe,stchester
counties.
AIDS
education, client services, crisis
intervention,
support groups,
case management,
buddy andhospital visitor program. 214
Central Ave., White Plains, NY
10606 (9141 993-0606 838 Broadway, Newburgh, NY 12250 (914)582-5005 AIDSlin. (9141993·
0607
ASIANS & FRIENDS- NEW YORK
A not-for-profit
organization
which promotes friendships with
Asian/PacificIslander, AsianAmerican, and non-Asian gay
men through social, cultural, educational, and service activities
and programs. Call our Hotline:

212-674-5084, or write to: P.O. Box6628, NY,NY101~
AlB (AIlS TREATMENTRESOURCES. WC.I
Publishes a quarterly Directory ofclinical trials of experimental
AIDS/HIV treatments in NY/NJ,
and Philadelphia, and has educational materia lsi seminars for trial
participants. AlR also advocates
for improvements in the trial system. 259 W. 30th St, 9th fl., NYC,
10001. (212) 268-4196. Publications
free/donation requested.

BAR ASSOCIATION FOR
IllMAN RIGHTS
Lawyers Referral Service forthe Lesbian and Gay Community
Full Range of Legal Services(2121459-4873"ree Walk-in
Legal Clinic. Tuesday 6-8 pm,
Lesbian & Gay Community
Centro Ground Roor
BIDS (BISEXUAL DO'-NANCE &SUBIoISSION GROUp)
Share S/M experiences
andfantasies with others in a positive, non-judgemental
atmosphere. First Sunday of themonth, 4:45pm at the Community Center 208 W. 13 Street,
NYC. This group is part of the
New York Area Bisexual Network.
BISEXUAL INFORMATION &COUNSEUNGSE~~INC.
A profelfsionaly staffed, nonprofit organization for bisexuals, their families and partners,
facing problems of a psychological or medical kind. We also
work with those in doubt a bouttheir sexuality. Confidentiality isprotected by law. For information phone: (2121496-9500
BISEXUALPRIDEDISCUSSION GROUP
Topical discussions on issues ofinterest to the community in acongenial
atmosphere,
followed by an informal dinner ata friendly local restaurant
Every Sunday, 3:00- 4:30pm at
the Community Center 208 W. 13
Street, NYC. Part of the New
York Area Bisexual Network.
BIWAYS NEW YORKMonthly social events for the
Bisexual community and friends.
Call NYABN for ~!ltails of upcoming 8Yents. (212145H7B4BISEXUAl. YOUTH
Informal social & support groupfor Bisexual kids/youth. Monthly
rneeting/potluck
lunch held
l:oopm'cin fourth Sunday of themilnth- . at inembers homes. Call
, NYABN for this month's location.
This group is pa rt of the New YorkArea Bisexual Network.
'.

BUJS-8RONX LESBIANS
UNnEDINS~OOD
Social, political and support
networking group for womenand their friends. Regula r social
events and meetings on the first
and third Fridays of every
month. At The Community Center, 208 W. 13 Street, from 6:308pm. For more info call Lisa at(2121829-9817.
BOOY POSITIVE
If you or your lover has tested
HIV+, we offer support groups,
seminars, public forums, reference library, referrals, social
activities
andup-to-datenational monthly, 'THE BODY,.POSITIVE" (S2!¥'year). (2121 nl1348. 2095 Broadway, Suite 306,
NY, 10023
BROOKLYN'SLESBIAN AND GAY
POUT1CALaJlB lAMBDA<•CONGREGATION BETHSIMCHATTORAH
NY's Gay and Lesbian Synagogue
Services Friday at 8:3Qpm 57
Bethune Street For info. call: (2121
929-9498.

CONGREGATION
B'NAI JESHURUN
Monthly Spritual Gatherings andfroo catereM9stive luncheons for
8/1 People Wrth AIDS, their lovers
and families. Program includes
music and discussion led by our
Rabbis. Call (212) 7Pi1-7fnJ
DIGNITY
BIG APPLE
A community of Lesbian and Gay
Catholics. Activities include Uturgies and socials every Sat, 8:00
pm, at the Center, 208 W. 13
Street, NYC.Call (212) 813-1309.

WDEPENDENT DEMOCRATS
Ll.D. endorses and works forcandidates
in local, state andnational elections, lobbies for legislation, and conduc1s community
outreach through street fairs andmeetings on special topics. Join
us. 336 Ninth St, Suite 135 Brooklyn, NY 11215 (718)961H1482

DIGNnY NEW YORK
Lesbian and gay Catholics andfriends AIDS Ministry, Spiritual
D8Yelopment The Cathedral Project Worship, Services & SocialSun. Eves. 7:3Opm-St John's Episcopal Church 218 West 11th Street@Waver1y-675-2179

CllCU Of MORE UGHT
Spiritual support and sharing in agay/lesbian affirmative group.
West-Pa~ Presbyterian Church
165 West 86th StreetWed: worship service 8:30 pm, program
7:30. Marsha (212131J4..4373Charlie (2121891-7118.

mGE Education in a Disabled
Gay Envinlml8nt
Forthe physically disabled Lesbian and Gay Community. P.O. Box
305 Village Station, New York, NY
10014

COMMUNnYlBlJIIPROJECT
208 West 13th Street, NYC, NewYork 10011 For Appointments andInformation(2121 675-3559(TTYNoiceIPROVIDING CARING,SENSITIVE AND LDW COST
HEAlTH CARE SERVICES TO THE
LESBIAN AND GAYCOMMUNITYCOMMUNITY IEA1J1I
PROJECT'. HEAUH WFORMATlON UNE FOR mNS
Do you have questions about
your health? Your Body? ComBFAC (BISEXUAL POunCAL
ing Out? Safer Sex? Feel like
ACTION co-.trm£1
Political action on issues of - you have no one to talk to? Not
any morel Now you can call theimportance to the Bisexual /LesHOTT-LiNE. 212-255-1517The
bian/Gay community. Monthly
Teen HOTT-LiNE for Healthl Callmeeting! potluck held 8:00pm on
Monday to Thursday, 7pm tofourth Thursday of the month at
9pm. At other times, leave amembers homes. Call NYABN for
messageand we'll call you
this month·s location. ((2121459backl
4784
"

,
CO-.tUNnYRESEARat INITIATIVE
CRltasts experimentel drugs andtreatments
for AIDS and HIV
related illnesses. Monthly treatment and research group for HIV+
individuals.
Treatment
andresearch newsletter, forums andpublic seminars. Call Alice Spears
or Ken Fomamro at (2121481-11!iO
for info and ma~ing list.

"

RIONT RUNNERS
A running club for lesbianaild gay
athletes of all abilities. Fun Runsof 1:11 miles held every Sat. atlOam and Weds. at 7pm in Cantral
Park and every Tues. at 7pm in
Prospect Park. For information:
call (2121724-9700.
ntE GAY AFRICANAMERICANS OF
WESTCHESTER(The G.A.A.I
is a community based support
group formed in Westchester
County. Various activities areplanned for the coming months.
Call 914-376-0727 for more info.
GAY rAntER'S FORUM
A support organization for gay
father's, their lovers, and others inchild-nurturingsituations.
Monthly meetings
include apatfuck supper, support groups on
varied specialized topics, speakers, and socializing.Meetings: 1st

Friday ea ch month, 7pm, atThe
Center, 208 W. 13th St, West of
7th,Ave. Contribution: $8. Bring amain course for 4 people (or pay a$5 food charge.1 For information
call: 212-979-7541 or 212-283-3238& a..bian Alliance
GlAAD ~
Against Dafamation
80 Varick Street, NYC 10013 (2121

986-1700 GLAAD combats homophobia in the media and elsewhere by promoting visibility of
the lesbian and gay communityand organizing
grassroots
response to anti-gay bigotry. Do
you have 30 minutes a month tofight homophobia?Jointhe
GLMD PhoneTreelCall (212f.9861700for information.
GI.II
Gay and Lesbian Independent
Broadcasters invites you to tune
into OUTLOOKS on WBAI-NY, 99.5
FM every other Sunday, 7:308:30pm and join us 8YeryTuesday
at 7:00pm to 9:00pm to become a
iTlember of GLIB. No experienceneeded. 505 Eighth Avenue, NY,
NY 10018 Attn: Outlooks or call(212) 245-6366- ask for GLIB.
GAY & l£SB1AN HEAUHCONCERNS
An office of the NYC Dept. ofHe'alth, provides linkages betwn
NYC Health & Human Svcs, andthe Lesbian & Gay community,
focusing in All health concerns;
resource information for healthservices
consumers
andprovide rs. 125 Worth Street, Box
67, New York, NY 10013. For info
call (212) 56&-499!i
GAY MALE $1M ACTMSTS
Dedicated to safe and responsible S/M since 1981. Open meetings w/programs on S/M techniques, lifestyle issues, politicaland social concerns. Also special
events, speakers bureau, workshops, demos, affinity groups,
newsleusr, more. GMSMA - Dept
O,496A Hudson Street, Suite 023,NYC 10014.(2121727-SB78•.
GMAD (GAYMEN OF ARIICANDESCENT)
80 Varick Street. NYC10013 a support group of Gay Men of African
Descent dedicated to consciousness-raising and the developmentof the Lesbian and Gay Community. GMAD is inclusive of African,
African-American, Caribbean and
Hispanic/ Latino men of color.
Meetings are held, weekly, on fridays. For information, call 718802~162.

GAYMENS HEAIJ'HCRISISHOTUNEFOR INFORMATION ON SAFERSEX AND HIV-RELATEDHEALTHSERVICES, AND FOR INFORMATION ON ONE-TIME, WALK-IN

March 27,1_1,

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AIDS COUNSELING SERVICES
212-807.-s5 212-645-7470 TDD(For the Hearing ImpaiNd) Mon.Fri. 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. 12:00 to 3:00
GIR1H&MIRlH
ClUB OFNI:WYDRKSocial club for heavy, chubby'gay men & their admirers.
Monthly socials at the 'Center",weekly bar nights Thursdays at
the 'Chelsea Transfer', monthly
Fat Apple Review, bi-monthly
FAR. pen pals. For more information call Ernie at 914-699-7735
or write: G&M/NY, Dept 0, P.O.
Box 10, Pelham, NY 10803.

HEAL(1INI1h Education AIDS UailOn)
Weekly info. and support groupfor treatments for AIDS which
do not compromise the immune
system further, including alternative and holistic approaches.
Wed8pm.
208 W. 13th St.
(212j674-HOPE.
HERITAGEOF PRIDE. INC.
Organizers of New York's Lesbian and Gay Pride events: theMarch, the Rally and the Danceon the Pier. Call (212)691·1774
for meeting schedule or more
information.
208 West 13thStreet, NY, NY 10011.
HETRICK-MARTlN
INSTITUTE
for lesbian and gay youth. Counseling, drop-in center (M-F, 36pm), rap groups, Harvey Milk
High School, AIDS and safer
sex information, referrals, professional education. (212)6338920 (voice) (212) 633-8926 TTY
for deaf.
HISPANIC UNITEDGAYS & IE.SBIANS
Educational services, politicalaction, counseling and social
activities in Spanish and English
by and for the Latino Lasbian and
Gay Community. General meetings
8:00 pm 4th Thursday of every
month at 2111 West 13th Street Call
201-853-7824 orwrit8 H.U.GL, P.O.
Box 226 Canal Street Station, New
York, NY l00la

IDENTnY HOUSE
Now in our 20th year, we provide
peer counseling, thera py referrals and groups for the lesbian,gay and bisexual community.
Call us at (212)243-8181. Visit us
at 544 8th Ave., bet.ween 14th15th StreetS, Manhattan.
I\I1'EIINATIONAI.GAY&
IE.SBIAN HUMAN RIGHTSCOMMISSION
works to focus the spotlight ofworld opinion on the oppression of gays and lesbians
throughout the world. Currently
organizing an Inti symposium
on Gay and Lesbian issues tobe heM in Moscow and Lenin'
grad in July 1991, in additon to
many other exciting projects.
For more info write IGLHRC,
2978 Folsom Steet, SF CA 94110,
or call (415)647-0453.

74 OUTWEEKINSTITUTEFOR IIJMAN
IDENmY 1IIe.
New York's non-profit lesbian
and gay psychotherapy center.
Licensed psychologists, psychiatrists, and clinical social workers. Sliding scale fees. Insurance accepted.
Individual,
couple, and family therapy. Variety of Men's and women'sgroups forming continuously. 118
W. 72nd Street 212-79&-9432
MEGRlTYJNY
Lesbian and Gay Episcopalians
and friends. Eucharist and program 8Very Thursday, 7:30pm. St.
Luke's Church, Hudson andChristopher Sts. INFO: P.O. Box5202, NY NY 10185 (718) m-Di4
lAMBDAI£GAL DEfR4SE

AND BlUCATlON RIND
Precedent-setting
litigat~on
nationwide for lesbians, gay
men and people with AIDS.
Membership ($40 and up) inc.
newsletterand invitations to
special events. Volunteer nighton Thursdays. Intake calls: 24pm Mon thru Fri (212) 99S-8585.
LAVA-(WBIANS
ABour, V1SUAlARTI
Call for slides for Lesbian Artists'
Exhibition, Gay & 'lesbian Community Center, NYC. For more
information,
send SASE to :Miriam Fougere, 118 Fort Greene
Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217_
IE.SBIANAND GAY
ADIA.TBlUCATORS
Meet with other lesbians andgays who work, in adult education as teachers, administrators,
counselors, tutors, etc., to discuss issues such as coming out
to staff and students, materials
and curriculum, workshop and,conference
participation.
We
meet the first Friday of every
month at 8:00 pm at the Lesbian
and gay Community Center 208
West 13th Street. Call Bryna
Diamond at (212) 932-7902(days) for information
THE l£SB1AN AMI GAY
BIG APPl£ CORPS
Get your instrument out of thecloset and come play with us.
Symphonic, Marching, Jazz,
Dixieland, Rock, Flute Ensembles and Woodwinds. 123 West44th St Suite 12L New York, NY
10036 (212)889-2922.

LES81AN & GAY
COMMUNnYSERVICES CENTBI
208 West 13th Street New York,NY 10011 (212)620-7310 9am11 pm everyday.
A place forcommunity organizing and networking, social services, cultural programs,
and social
events sponsored ,by the Centerand more than 150 community
organizations.
•

IE.SBIANAND GAYlABOR PtElWORKAn organization of Lesbians andGays who are active in their labor

March 27. '199'1

unions working on dom8S1ic partnership banefi1s and AIDS issues.
For more informationcall(212)923-86!Kl.

LES81AN AlII) GAY
RIGHTSPROJECT
of the Am.ric.n Civil Lib.rti ••Union KNOW YOUR RIGHTS/
WE'RE EXPANDING THEM (212)944-9800, exl545

IE.SBIANS AMI GAYS
OFRAlBUSH
Brooklyn's social organization
for both gay men and lesbians_ P_O. Box 106, Midwood
Station Brooklyn, NY 11230·(718)859-9437

LES81AN HERSTORYARCIIVES
P.O. Box 1258 New York, NewYork 101162l2/874-7232Since
1974, the Archives has inspired,shaped and reflected Lesbian
lives everywhere.
Call toarrange a visit or to volunteer
for Thursday worknights.
LDNGISlAND ACT-tW
Meets Tuesdays at 8pm at 181
Post Ave. in Westbury; NY. Support
us for change on Long Island.
Mailing address: PO Box 514,
Westbury, NY 115!11.516-338-4662.

LSM
is a support and informationgroup for lesbians and bisexual
women intarestad in fantasy, roleplaying, bindage, discipline, SlM,
fetishes, altemata gender indentities, costumes and so forth. Membership is available only towomen 18 years and older. Actual
experience is not required but
genuine interest and an open
mind are. For information pleasewrite: P.O. Box 993, Murray Hill
Station, Now York, NY 10156
MARANATHA:RIVERSIDERSRlR
IE.SBIAN/GAYCONCERNSMonthly program meeting on
second Sunday for gay/lesbian
Christians and friends. Educational, political, and social
activities scheduled, 12:30 p.m.
Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Drive, Sunday worship
10:45 a.m .. For info.,call (212)222-5900 (ext. 290)
MEN OF All COLORSTOGEI1IBI NY
A multi-racial group of gay men
against racism. Meetings every
Friday night at 7:45 at the Lesbianand Gay Community Services
Center,20S W. 13th Street. For
more info. call: (212)245-6386 or(212)222-9194.
METRDPOUTAN TENNISGROUP(MTG)
Our 200 member lesbian andgay tennis club includes players from beginning to tournament level. Monthly tennis parties. Winter indoor league.
Come play with usl For information: MTG, Suite K63, 496-A
Hudson St., New York, NY
10025. (71S) 852-8562.

MOCA (Man of Color AIDS..,.".lIIion P"'IIrem.)
Provid81 safer sex and AIDS
education information to gay
and bisexual Men of Color;
coordinates a network of peersupport groups for gay andbisexual Men of Color in all 5
boroughs of New York City 303
Ninth Ave, New York, NY
l00010r call (212)239-1796.
NATIONAl.GAYAMlIE.SBIANTASKFORCE
is the national grassroots political organization for lesbians andgay men. Membershipis$3O{year.lssuQ-orientsd projects
address violence, sodomy laws,
AIDS, gay rights ordinances,families, media, etc. through lobbying, education, organizing anddirect action. NGLTF 1517 U
Street NW, Washington,DC2~(202)332-8483.

NBNYORKAD~NGAND
COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKNYACN is the community's
largest gay and lesbian professional group, w"lcoming all incommunications-andtheirfriends. Monthly meetings, 3rd
Wed 8:30pm at the Community
Center. Members' newsletter,job hotline, annual directory.
Phone (212) 517-0380 for more
info. Mention OutWeek for one
free newsletter.

riY.fBOES
Support and discussion group for
lesbians who self identify as
Femme and are primarily
attracted to butch women. For
membership information call Usa(212)829-9817.
N.y.WOMEN'S SOF1BAIlG~1D
For experienced, serious Softball Players, Coaches and Managers. We play mod/fast pitch
weekends
in Manhattan andQueens. Try-outs begin Feb. 11
thru April- or until filled. (212)255-1379 Janet,NINTH STlIEET CENTER
Since 1973, a community dedicated to demonstratingthat ahomosexuallifesty!e
is a rational, desirable choice for individuals disutisfied
with therewards of conventional living.
Psychologically - focussed rap
groups, Tues., Sat., 8 to 10 pm.
peer counselling ava~able. 319 E.
9 Street, New York, NY 10003, forinfo call (212) 228-5153.
NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY
LDVEASSOCIATION (NAMBtA)
Dedicated to sexual freedom
and especially intarested 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.
NORlHBlN UGHJSAIlBINATlVES
Improving Quality of Life for Peo-pie with AIDS/HIV. THE AIDS
MASlERY WORKSHOP: Exploring
the possibilitioa of a powerful andcreative life in the face of AIDS.
CaR (212)255-8554
NYC GAY& IE.SBIAN
ANn-VlOLENCE PROJECT
Counseling, adwcacy, and information for survivors of anti-gay
and anti-lesbian violence, sexualassault, domestic violence, andother types of victimization_ Allservi ces free and confidential.24
hour hotline (212) 807-0191

I'AIIENJs.BIENOS OF
IE.SBIANAND GAYS
Let P/FLAG help you and yourfamily deal with the upheaval, ofyour coming out Our meetings
are free: monthly on the 4th Sunday, at 3:00 pm, in Duane Church,
201 West 13th. Info? call Jeanne,
212-483-0629
PEOPl£wmtAiDS
COAUTION(212)532-0290/1-800-828-3280/
Hotline (212) 532·0588Monday
thru Friday lOam-Bpm Meal programs, support groups, educational and referral services for
PWA's and PWArc's,
PEOPLEwmt AIDS .
HEALTH GROUP
Underground buyer's club importing not-yat-appravad medications
and nutritional supplements. 31
West 28th St. 4th Aoor (212)li320280
PI\IK PANI1IER PATROl
Community street patrol in Eastand West Village dedicated todeterring violont crime against
gays and lesbians. For info andmeeting tim,! for-West Village,call 212-475-'4383. for East Village Patrol.info, i:~11,,212-2486586. 70 A Gre\ll1'wich Ave., Box107, NYC lOOn 'PROFESSIONALS IN FUNVlDEO
338 Canal Street, 8th Aoor, NYC
10013212-845-3351
0l&Il NATION
Queer Nation is a multi-cultural
direct action group dedicated tofighting hClihophobia, queer
invisibility, and all forms of
oppressionthat any queers
might face. Anyone can suggest
an action and should come tomeetings prepared to organize
and implement it QN, Box 1524,
Cooper Station, New York, NY
10003. Call 212-483-7208 formeeting info.
SAG£: ~SaniorAchnin• Gay Emili ... li.nIl
Social Service Agency. providing care, activities, & educational services for gay & lesbian
senior citizens. Also serves over
180 homebound seniors & older
PWA's .20S West 13th St. NYC
10011, (212)741-2247

SETHIAN GAYs.
IE.SBIANS AND BISEXUALSFor all of us interested in reaching out to each other in exubar-,to spontaneously explore and expand upon the'Jane Roberts ·Philosophy· as it realtes to ourpersonally, sexually and politically. Call AI (2121.104
SUNDANCE OUTDOORADVENTURE SOCIID
n-profit club offering Outdoor activities for every
on including hiking, biking, skiing, water activities
other outdoor activities for the Gay/lesbian com,ty. For information or complimentary Newsletter
2121598-4726.

TASK FURCE ANNOUNCEMENT'egal Action Center located at 153 Waverly Place,~y 10014, has begun two new programs. All theirices are free. The HIV/AIDS legal Service Project;des free legal services to people with HIV/AIDS.
r scope of service is widll, encompassing childand custody, discrimination, hou, housing, healthyth planning, confidentiality and employment. The
AIDS Agency Training and Assistance Project pro,5 technical assistanceto public and private agenabout legal and policy issues on HIV/AIDS and, abuse. They provide training, individual consulta" and model policy guidelines, among other items. If
you have any further questions, please contact Ms.
Catherine O'Neil at (2121243-1313. TIIa Association of
Nur .. s in AIDS Car. (ANACI just received Chapter
Charter for tha local Greater New York Chapter. They
have monthly meetings with spaakers and networldng
opportunities. Thair naxt maeling is scheduled for January 9, 1991, &-8pm. at tha AIDS InSliMa,5 Penn Plaza,
4th floor, NY,NY. If you have any further questions,pleasa contact Janet Vaccariello at (2121340-8724

THE OUTREACHUSING COMMUNALHEAUNG(TOUCHI
Community voluntaers providing a weekly buffet supper for the Brooklyn AIDS community. TOUCH maets
Monday eves. 5pm to 8:3Opm- at downtown Brooklyn
Friends Meeting House (110 Schermerhorn St. near
Boerum Placel. limitad transportation
may bearranged. Info: (718) 622-2756. TOUCH welcomes contributions of funds, food and volunteers.
ULSTERCOUffIY GAY AND If.SBIAN AWANCE,
Meeta first and third Monday of each month at 7:30 pm
at the Unitarian Church on Sawkill Road in Kingston.
For Information, call 914-82&-3203
UNfJY94

NEEDS YOUto become a part of itl Organizers for Gay
Games IV, to be held in New York in 1994. Olympicstyle sports and cultural event is largest,in world.
Theme is INCLUSION,everyone is needed. SUPPORTTHE GAMES by volunteering, joining or making a donation. Call 212-732-3612 or write UNITY'94, PO Boxl02,
NY,NY 10038.
, ,rntAMl-W_n's Huhh ActionAnI Mobilization.
A direct a ction group commited to demanding, secyring and defending absolute reproductive freedom and, quality health care for all women. We meet every Wed.
at 6:30pm at 105, E 22nd Street, 4th floor. 212-7135986Mailingaddress: WHAMI, PO Box 733, NYC10009,,N

W(lMENS Al.1BINATIVE COMMUN IlY. CENTER (WACCI,

A non-profit,lesbiancommunity center serving
Queens, Nassau and Suffolk Counties. Thurs. night
weekly discussion groups. 8:30 pm, for other activities
please contact us at 51&-483-2050.

WIIESlUNG FUR GAYS &l£SBIANS
Watch the men of the knights wrestling club inaclion
every Sunday at 7:30 PM at the GAYCENTER.The c,l.ub
also conduct training classes on alternate Saturdays
afternoon (lst & 3rd Saturdaysfor men 2nd & 4th Saturdays for woman) for morelnformation please call:
718-839-5141
UfBJNE

Th. National Lnbian and Gay Toll-frH S.rvice
1·800-UFE 681

GOSSIP
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of readers, most of whom are straight. It
would be unfair if I were lynched for the
sheer entertainment of all the· breeders(which I was), without at least letting
them read my opinion. But that is exactly
what K~edydecided
to do.
Of the ,nine writers,
all but
three-:-whether
they loved or hated
the movie-':"'pointed out that it was
homophobic. And those three were theonly Voice staffers on the panel. Twoof them used the wonderful art ofdeflection and chose not to address theissue (Gary Indiana spent all his tiqle
raving about the monster Signorile, and
Amy Taubin went off on some othei:tangent). Cindy Carr, however, whirled
herself into a dervish of denial andspun out all sorts of excuses about
how the killer wasn't really gay. And
Kennedy would later pull herself down
deeper on this one, coming up with aneven more ridiculous' rationalization
than Carr's for why the killer and oneof his I1'ialevictims weren't lovers.
(And yet, in a rigorous interview
with David Ehrenstein in the Advocate,
Jonathan Demme admits that the killer
and the transvestite
he killed wereindeed lovers. But I suppose that Carrand Kennedy know better than the
director himself.)
Of cour~, at thiS point, this story is
all about protecting egos and shoring up
the Voice's rep. It's also all about nailing
Signorile, OutWeek and those darned
activists. We'd crossed a line of some
sort, finally calling them on something
especially Indiana and Carr,
whose opportunism, revealed in theirpuffy interviews with the director andthe star I'd attacked. And suddenly they
all began coughing up lots of phlegm
and bile that they'd apparently been gagging on for the past two years.
After Indiana's original rampage,
there would be weeks -of further attacks.
Lisa Kennedy wrote that my position as a
"spokesperson" is "self·appointed," as if
she got elected senior editor-or maybe
the FaiIy Queen appointed her. Guy Trebay attacked me for outing Jooie Foster.
when he outed her himself, coyly referring to her as ''well, let's call her a famous
young actress who's much in the news."(Who were you talking about, Guy, Shelley Wmters?)
And Trebay gave a lot of shit to

the activists who have been busy pasting up posters downtown of Merv Griffin and Jodie Foster, labeled "Absolutely Queer." How schizoid. He recently
championed Queer Nation, in a Voicecover story, for the group's visibility
actions, including, among other things,
their outing people on street posters
and at events---and he eagerly used
the names of both kd lang and Greg
Louganis as examples.
And just last week, C. Carr belched
up the most reactionary,
reductiv.e,
regressive anti-outing piece I've so far
seen even among the right-wingers
who attacked us last year. Word has itthat the Voice fact-checkers themselves
were hooting with laughter as they
perused her copy.
Cindy, there are actually some rather
progressive anti-outing arguments goingaroundeven among my colleagues
Sarah Pettit and Andrew Miller here at
OutWeek--but your piece is really inane.
You sound like some sort of Biblethumper: "Outing must stop!" Oh, please.
Where the hell have you been for the
past couple of years? Nooding out in asooty comer of some dark perfonnancespace on the Lower East Side?
You whine on: "We have lost thousands to an epidemic which is far fromover. We live in a world of Helmses andDannemeyers. We are officially-illegal inmany states. We can't marry. We can't
join the military. And we're out picketing David Geffen? How can we go on!rivializing our oppression this way?"
As if your column has covered thefront line of activist politics. We know allabout oppression, Cindy. Read ourmag,azine some time. YOU, CINDY CARR,HAVEN'T WRITfEN SHIT, SlmNG IN
YOUR COMFY HOLE AT TIlE VOICEAND SPOUTING 1HAT IVORY-TOWER
DRIVEL. It's actually wonderful to see
you getting angry, riled up and excitedabout something. Now if we could only
direct you toward the proper monsters,
perhaps you could do some good.
Thankfully, no one has ever waited
around for the Voices pennission on acall-to-arms over the issues that are
killing us from homophobia
in themovies to AIDS. And after this wholedebacle, which writers there seem
obsessed with covering up, twistingthemselves into queerly shaped pretzels,
it's not likely many people ever will.
Clean up your act. Or shut up
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'''This is a broadcast station, so this isgoing to reach everyone," Scagliotti said,
noting that his team is currently working
to raise at least $200,000. With thatamount in hand, the flfSt six months ofIn the Life would be fully funded even
before the premier show was aired.
In the Life has been in the works
for more than a decade, its producer
disclosed. In 1980, Scagliotti proposed
the pcosram to Channel 13, whichshowetl a ,great deal of interest that
" ultimately dissipated.
Last year, with the resurgence ofactivist interest in gay and lesbian
programing, Scagliotti remembered In
the Life.

,"I looked into 1J1Y old file, dusted
it off, added contemporary .information
andit off to 13 and 31," he said.
Channel 31 responded affirmatively,
while WNET/Channel 13 rejected theprogram on the grounds that airing In
the Life would, for fairness' sake,require the station to give air time toevery other under-served community
as well.
One of the more gratifying
aspecis of the project, Scagliotti said, isthat WNYC has put their development
department to work on securing funding for the show.
David Sit, managing director for
television at WNYC, a small, publicly
funded local UHF station, commented:"We want to support John. The station ismaking a commitment-weare part ofthis endeavor. In a way, we're partners."
In regard to the boycott of
WNYc::::'s.sister station, Channel 13,
Scagliotti
expressed the hope that boy,cotters will reinforce their expressedcommitment to queer programing bypledging dollars withheld from Chan'"nel 13 to In the Life.
But having attained the goal ofproviding New York with its own regularly scheduled gay television program, Scagliotti.is reaching even farther., "By 1992, we hope to have amajor underwriterto· put it on thesatellite' for national broadcast," heacknowledged.
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WASHINGTON-The Federal Election Commission issued a preliminary
finding in mid-Februarythat ACT
UP/District of Columbia, ACf UP/San
Francisco, the Dallas Gay Alliance andthe Tarrant County rrexasl Gay Alliance
may have violated federal election law
when they worked to defeat Republican
Sen. Jesse Helms via boycotts of Miller
beer and Marlboro cigarettes.
The gay groups targeted the products last summer bealuse parent cotparation Philip Morris gave money to Helms
and a museum being built in his honor.
Activists hoped that publicity generated
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The FEC lawyers said that there is, "reason to believe" that the activist groups
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The complaint against the gaygroups was filed with the FEC last August
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Petrelis said, "This is the long arm ofHelms reaching out through the FEC tosilence gay and AIDS activists.",
Petrelis and ACT UP member nancy
Solomon were also named as defendants
in the complaint, but the FEC found noreason to believe that they violated election law as individuals.
ACT UPIDC's Emmett Underwood
says that he finds it ironic that "a small
group of activists on a shoestring budget
make an appeal for corporate accountability and are told that their free speech
violated federal law, but Philip Manis, thelargest food and tobacco company in theworld, can legally cuny favor with Jesse
Helms by helping to build a museum in
his name."
The boycotts of Miller beer and Marlboro cigarettes were recently expanded
by ACf UP/San Francisco to include
products of the RJ Reynolds company,

especially Camel and WlIlSton cigarettes
and Oreo cookies, which are manufactured by Reynolds subsidiary Nabisco.
ACT UP charges that Reynolds has
donated $750,000 to Helms and theHelms museum~sum substantiallyhigher than Morris' contributions, which
totaled around $200,000.
-Rex Wockner/ OJicago

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Francisco may file the fonn with the San
Francisco county clerk, however, andreceive the stylish registration certificate.
Still, your registration will most likely be a legal contract in your own city,
county, state, province or country.
About 300 gay and lesbiaii cOuples
registered their relationships at San. Francisco City Hall on Valentine's Day-the
day the new law took effect. '.•Although registration does not grant
couples the fringe benefits d'chas the right to be on a partner's work
health-insurance policy-it does create anumber of legal responsibilities.
According to the American Civil Liberties Union, registered partners acquire
the duty to assure that their partner has
food and shelter, and even some medical ,and insurance costs.
"If your partner can't get food or·
shelter for herself or himself," the AQ.U
continued, "she or he can make you getthem. She or he could get a court order,"the AQ.U wrote in information distributed to about-to-be regist~ed partners.
Attorney Matt Coles of the AQ.U of
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HOT DYKESEEKS SAME

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3889
LITTLE MISSZACHARY

If you havetaken the carout, please return it. Valentine's Day is fast
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OKSOI
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Outweek Box
3722
ONE DATE AT
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GWF, 29, Attractive, sincere,
funny, insightful,stable, attentive,
somewhat spiritual and politi·
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enough to takerisks? Send
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3804

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Outweek Box
4026
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The borough,that is. I've left
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movies dining
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theatre, books

hard worker but
love a good time
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looking for some·body else kinda
like that. Box7427, New York
10163
ASYMPOMATIC, HIV + 39
GWM, successful
hlth care professional, 6' nonsmoker, in greatcshape physically,
wants to meetsimilar non drugusing men of any
race to date. I
enjoy working
out, biking, travel,
the symphony,
opera, beach,theatre, cooking,good conversations, NYC, &Gay community
events. I'm very
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descriptive letter,phone # & if possible a recent
photo. to Outweek Box #4204
MONOGAMY,ANYONE?
GWM, early 40s,
successful pro.fessional, 5'9", br/ bl, moustache,hairy, healthy,
160 Ibs with agood sense ofhumor. Enjoys
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travel, good con·versation. Seeks
GWM, 25-38
who is intelligent,
warm hearted,
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sense of humor, asane but passionate attitude towards sex, and
who is also seeking a serious relationship write to
PO Box 99 NYC,
NY 10028
NASTVTOP
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really nasty top to, explore all the different ways you
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meet other gays
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fellow ardent andtrue to be myherb enjoy fullranQe of urban
activities love
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a protective' malestance and canadore a smart(aleck) funny guy
who will lean on
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GdlkEx·Marine,Blue eyes
salt/pepper
beard, 51, 5'7"
130# tight smoothbody, hairy legs
and ass, healthy,,' HIV+. I want a
hairY strong top
man to ride me ina permanent man,to man relation·
ship. mU'st be
HIV+ and hungry
for a totally erotic
and caring life
style. Obviously a, photo is neces- ,sar)', Rick, P.O.
Box 6044 Arling.ton, Virginia
22206
FAT IS WHERE
IT'S AT!
Heavy bisexualman, 38, is seeking to correspondwith heavy bisexual/gay men andbisexual/lesbian
women. Doesanyone share myconviction that an"abundant" bOdy.

is beautiful andthat being termed"obese" is an accolade ... Not amark of shame?
Let's be friends,
perhaps morel
Write: Bill, PO
Box 62 Little
Genesee, NY,
14754. Phone:
716-928-2692
GAY AND IN·. TERRACIALGJM
40, 5'10"1551bs,
cute, blue eyes
and wise desires
masculine Bi or
Gay Black man
sensitive andmature to
explore who weare. Foto/Phone
if possible to
P.O. Box 20,
NYC, NY 10012
GAY BLOND·SEEKS FUN
GWM25-35toenjoy life, hot
safe·sex &monogamous relationship.I'm ~O,
5'11",175#. NO
fats, fems, fakes.
Send photo/phone/letter & ~fantasy. Outweek
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CAREER;.
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Cute, .feminine,seeks same·2843. If you like I
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Estefan, 70s hits
+ Crayola green·
blue, Write me
Box 27 Manht,
NY 11030
GWM 305'10"
165 BRIBR
Hairy chest Italianborn speaks Ital +French looking forfriendly attractive
and masc. samefor friendship +fun Photo +Phone write toPaul P.O. Box 828
NYC NY 10023
GWM, 40, 190
LBS , 6'1'
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HOT SPANKING
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On rare bottom
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New York, NY
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HOT SPANKING
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On bare bottom
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6'3" 195# withstrong arms andmuscular legs 'age 35 will use
my hand, hairbrush or wooden
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Answer this adand only your ass,will be sorryl P.O.
Box 1467 Old
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New York, NY
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I HAVE GREATTASTE ...
and so do you.
That's why we'll~et along. Our
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ITALIAN OR
LATIN GUY
All American regular guy· 6' 175,30, blue eyes,

handsomestraight· acting,fun & horny
seeks good looking'Latin or Italian
boy to explore
NYC &'each
other. Your Photoand Phone ~etsmine. CIA /Adios. Outweek
Box #3994
LATIN
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25 Body builder
hung Big Nuts
Seeks Men 50 up
if you get off on
Strippers I Get off
Stripping Thisshow 4 u Send
letter & #What U
want to see.Outweek Box 3797
Outweek Box
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LEAN SEXYSANE CUTE!
160 Ibs Indianabred, not whitebread in bed I 40
and looking 32.
You could be 20,

let's see Photo
Outweek Box
3970
NEED AGENTLE PUSH
GWM 25 looking
for a man to help
me get my life inorder. I'm not aloser in search of
a daddy. I justwant to meetsomeone who
has the power tohelp me end myperpetual struggles. Even if only
advise and moral
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int gd Ikng,sin·
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Box 3737
NEW FRIENDS
WM, 35, 6'1",
185, handsome,masculine,
works out, and. sincere. Careeroriented business professionai, but hot &creative; humorous, probing,and supportive.
Seeks similarvery tall guy for
explosive action,
intense friendship,and/or caring, long-term
relationship. Call
Art,btwn 8pm12mid, at (212)675-7352.
NJ SINGLE
GWM, 36, 5'11",
175 has Christmas wish to behalf of a couple.
Seeking intell, roo
mantic,sincere,
attract, GWM toshare music,
films,books, cuddling, hugs, kisses, love, life. A
furry chest tosnu~3'e against
wou be nice. if
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descriptive
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St. George WM,
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GYM, film, bigquestions.Bright,
down-to·earth,, midwestern
GWM,31,
5'8",145, bl/br,
seeks attractive
unpretentious guy
of similar buifd
and age, intosome of theTALL
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yrs. Seeks a styleconscious 25-35
black male ofsimilar build whointerests include:

Movie, theater,
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companionship or
possible relation·
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response. To Outweek Box 3971
THiNKING SERIOUSLY?

GWM, 26, 5'11"
175Ibs, hatld,some, successful

health profession·ai, interest:
music, theater,
travels, dinningout, intelligent
discussions, goodbooks, is seeking
similar for honest
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telephone num·
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Outweek Box
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VERY
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politics, commitment, kinky sex,
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Down·to-earth
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dancer looking
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able to laugh, inshape body, romantic,spontaneous, sta. acting, no druas,
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GWM, 385'9"
150 br / br moustache and trim
beard, hairy, de·fined, muscularbuild, handsome,masc., intell., unpretentious. Enjoys movies theater photg., cooking bicyclinp
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intell., well-built w/ musc., arms &peds, sense of ,humor, enjoys thearts,mature, honest, affectionate,
non-cig. smoker.
Let's exchange
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Outweek Box
3623
WRESTLE

Ex·college jocklacks opponents
and floor space._
Slow and easy orrough andsweaty. Ring,mat, or mattress.
,Or do you jl:Jst
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Phofo, phone,and fantasy.to
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space with piano
to teach 8HRS/
Wk in exchange
for piano lessons
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