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Gays And Madison Avenue
A current article in the advertising magazine Adweek is entitled: "There's Still One Niche Market Auvertisers Ignore". TIle gistof the article is that the advertising industry continues to violate
sound business sense by shunning the gay and lesbian press.
The article, which unfortunately ignored lesbian demographies, cited studies showing that gay males' average household income is $55,430 compared to the national average of$32,144. It stated that we drink more name brand alcohol, travel
more by air, charge more with credit cards and spend more on
discretionary consumer goods than almost any other group.
Yet, the article went on, "In ,spite of a readership withhealthy spending patterns and brand loyalty, gay publications
have not had much luck convincing Madison Avenue to see gays
as a niche market."
The author was not shy in blaming homophobia as the reason why advertisers don't support the gay press. "What mostadvertisers are afraid to admit," Adweek wrote, "is that gay magazines are not exactly the environment with which they want tobe associated." Citing an extreme example---that the Trojan company refuses to advertise in magazines like Out Week or the'Advocate-Adweek
said that it's "particularly absurd that in thisage of 'condom sense,' condom eompanies don't want to target
gays."
It's not only absurd, it's extremely damaging as well. The
gay press in all its diversity is the glue that holds mueh of oureommunity together. It provides the spaee where issues areraised and debated, organizations and people gain valuable
exposure, ideas get communicated, news gets disseminated, artsand creative endeavors get noted and reviewed. In a society that
ignores or oppresses gay and lesbian aetivities, the gay press isvital in shaping our lives.
Yet without the support of mainstream advertisers, the gay
press hangs by a precarious thread. The current threat to phone
sex revenues underscores how vulnerable our publications are,how easily the presses could stop rolling.
This is not the ease with any other Significant minority press.
Publications for Blacks, women and others are erammed withmainstream ads, despite the faet that their demographic profiles
are often ·Iess affluent than ours.
Gays must realize that the produets, services and businesses
that draw millions of-dollars from the gay and lesbian community each year have an obligation to recycle at least a tiny fractionof that money back into the community those businesses benefit
from. Part of that should be in the form of contributions to ourcauses; part should surely be advertisements in the gay press,
ads which would ber:J.efitthe businesses as much as our community. If the situation is not remedied soon, we should begin to. think of ways to flex our economic muscle in ways that advertisers won't be able to ignore ....

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Talk of the Town
As I'm SU'eyou know, yoUr
'SecretLife of Malcolm
Forbes" cover story (no. 38,
Ma. 18) was the absolute talkof the town last week. At
work, In bars and on the telephone, this nasty debate·over your ethics only ended
when your next cover story:'Gay Murder and Covenant
House: The Secret Rles: hit
the stands so that everyone(or at least everyone In my
uncharacteristicallyhomosexual accounting
office)could talk about that Instead.
But, getting back to theForbes debate, I have now
heard every angle, every
reason for and against what
you did. And, though reluctant about this sort of thing
previously, I've decided It
was right and good.
Perhaps we must drag them allout of that damned closetl
It doesn't really matter
whether Forbes, for our own
tastes, was a good rolemodel or not. He was apowerful person, and It must
be reported to the public
thot such Individuals canalsobehomosexual,
whether we think they aregood representationsofhomosexuals or not. I also
can't give a hoot about
whether or not the public
wants to learn that Forbes
was gay. They hove to hear
It. And we must tell them.
You are a strong andpowerful voice, OutWeek,
and we need you.
VIctor Patton
Manhattan

famous lesbians and gays forteenagers (and us aiD to look
up to; and they aren't selfhating, ego-tripping capitalIst fools who spend more on
their own birthday parties
than It costs to buy a lifetime
supply of Nl.
For example, Sgt. MIriam
Ben-Shalom, who has battied the Army for the rights of'
all gay and lesbian people,
and has done It openly,
proudly and with dignity. In
the same Issue where you
canonize Forbes, you print,' ...one of the organizers of
the rally said that as a boy
he saw Ben-Shalom on the
television news, and she was
the first gay person besides
himself he knew about.
'I
always looked up to her... Inan age when there are few
heroes, she's my hero,'" Asmuch as I am opposed tothe military-Industrial complex, here Is a woman I canbe proud to say Is a hero of
the lesbian and gay community. I can Imagine arguingwith her about the role ofgays In a violent, patriarchal
system like the Army withoutlier saying, 'Not so loud.
Someone might hear."
Forbes would Just try to
buy my silence for $100.
His own silence cost us a
lot more.
. Richard Jackman
Manhattan

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THESE

Who Wants To Know?
. Congratulations
toMichelangelo Slgnorlle for hisarticle 'The Other Side of
Malcolm."
Ever since I'dheard 'ninors" that Mdcolm
Forbes was gay (about ten
minutes after I mov9d to New
York In 1983), I'dwondered, 'Who's he got to beafraid of?" He had more .
money, power and friends
than Justabout alYone, ~yet he felt he had to stay In
the closet. One stili doesn't
know whether to be angry
with him for denying gays!-{"v

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Marching To A Different Model
You've got to be kidding.
Malcolm Forbes as a rolemodel for lesbian and gay
youth? While you're at It,
how about Roy Cohn? If alyone could afford ·to comeout, It was Forbes. But fortu- .
nately for us, there are a few{v£JtYrHINr,
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for 01.1' own? An Idol for oaf
and lesbian youth? Excuse
me while I upchuckmyfor 01.1' youth, a.y more tI1a'l
It does other sllmebuckets
like Roy Cohn or J. Edgar
Hoover. There ae plenty of

11IlCh.
'brave, honorci:>le, honest 1esWhat was so wImIng a'ld
bians and gay men for our
wonderflJ about ttG self1)l'Oyouth to look l4' to--not justclaimed "capitalist
tool',

a'ld lesbians a very powerfijrole model, or sad that, foreverything
he had, he. denied himself an authentic
life. Michelangelo's
articlemakes both these points
cIea1y a'ld cogently. And he
Is absolutely correct In saying'these fac1$ must be recorded, ,that people must know.

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O~EK

Whether they will want toknow Is a clfferent matter.
Michael Paller
Manhattan

CapItalist Fool
"WInning and wOnderfulpeoplelike(Malcolm)
Forbes'? "Our soul mate'and Inspiration? Claim him

April4,l990

who was actually not just atool but a big capitalist himself? That he Inhertted 101$of
money just by being born,then proceeded to expald
his riches by exploiting 101$of
workers In the many enterpriseS he owned? That hespent Incredible
sums ofmoney on self-promotion
and conspicuous consumption Ike the fcmous Tangiers
birthday pa1y, while millons
In this COISItry go hu'lgry a'ld
homeless ald AIDS reseach,
despite his oh-so-generous
donaHons,la'lglAshes?
This man was a leading
proponent and beneficiaryof a syste~apltallsmthat Is built on, thrives on,
depends on racism. I don't
call that wonderful.
Heannuc::jy celebrated the successes of the 500 bIgge$t U.s.
companies,
every one ofthem, to varying exten1$, aunion buster, every one ofthem antl-gay and sexist. I
don't 1100 that winning.
That he was oaf does not
qualify him as a role modelfighters against AIDS, lesbian/gay
oppression andraclsm-but for some reason
the media, which ae owned
by people like Malcolm
Forbes, don't spotlight them.
Iwonder why.

Shelley EHInger
ManhattCl'\
Monkey Business
Thanks so much for yourarticle a'ld ecltorlal on Malcolm Forbes. However, theycaused me to get Involved
In,several heated argumen1$

ttisweek.
It seems that some people stili think that we sho~all engage In a conspiracyof silence when It comes tothe private lives of famous
peopl&'-but
only If they're
gayl Anything else about
famouspe'ople,even
tragedies and things whiCh
can really damage
or,destroy
careers
If theybEtcome known, like alcoholism, drug abuse, spouseor child abuse, etc.-ali
these things can and do
get written about famous
people
all
the
time.
Nobody bats an eye. ·But
say that a mous person Is
gay and whaml people
start screaming
prlvacyl
confld~ntlalltyl
What doesthat mean? That It's WOISe
to be gay than to be achild-abusing
alcoholic?
Apparently. And believe Itor not, a lot of gay people
seem to think so, too.
Anotherone of myfavorite nonsense argumen1$
Is that OufWeek shouldn't
have brought Malcolm out
because Malcolm didn't
want people to know he wasgay.
I love that one. It
makes the supposition that,for exanple, Joan Crawford
did want people to know
she abused her children, orthat Roseanne Barr does
want people to know allabout her nightmarish private life. The fact Is thatfamous people make a veryclear trade-off: they trade
their privacy for fame, fortune and celebrity.
Oncethey do, anything about
them Is fair game-dlvorce,
private tragedy, Infidelity,
anything-except,
apparently, homosexuality. And In
any of those·other things, It.
does not matter If they wantto keep those secrets secretor not. If they're famous,essentially they have nosecrets. Unless they're gay,
In which case you In thepress are just supposed to
shut upl
I wish I could say that I'm
amused by the hypocrisy offriends who have whole
scenes of dialogue
fromMommy Dearestmemorized,
but who then squeal withhorror that Malcolm "didn't

want his private life madehumiliate
his family andPara-gone
public: You go figure.
destroy the memories they
I am shocked-yes,
The other line that getsmight have had of him?
shocked and appalled thatme Is: "I ju'st don't care
I am out of the closet.
you would allow your magawhether he was gay or not. I zine to sink to such a low
Goodfor me.
So Is
don't think the public wants
Michelangelo.
Good forlevellI am referring, of
to know:course, to the article on "The him. Reading his weeldy colRight, Mary. Don't lookumn-feaCllng those vituperSecret Gay Ufe of Malcolm
now, but biographies are theative vilifications of people,
Forbes' -the sleazJestpiecehottest ticket In publishing.
of tabloid trash disguised as who simply don't wanfme"The public'
can't
get
journalism
I have everworld to know who they
enough of every teensy,
encountered.
sleep wJth-well, It's just evil.
weensy detail of the private
The man Is dead, and no Frankly, there are people I
lives of everybody
who'samount of rationalization, don't want the world tofamous.
Who they slept
can justify the ghoulishknow I slept with either.
with, why, when, where,
delight Michelangelo took In
Not every homosexual
how. A whole Industry Is picking apart his bones.
has to be a flag-waving,based on this.
As each and every one
marching, card-carrying fagBut now I'm supposed toof us knows, the decision to
got. Maybe my view Is antibelieve that In the case ofcome out of the closet orquated-but!
find all thisgays, WE'RE JUST NOT
not Is a painful and private
Uz/Malcolm/Pat-bOshlng disINTERESTEDAT ALL? Givetasteful and stYIll. 'one. Fora man In Malcolm'sme the proverbial break.
position, It Is a particularly
But back to the article.
Those three little monkeys
difficult decisiOn, and, If he
After reading It and reweren't Interested either,chose to remain' In the closreading It, I am stili dubious,
were they?
et-thatwas his choice.
as to his reasons for writing It.
Keep up the great work.
Who are you to desecrate
If It was written to expose
Pat Barry, everything he built his life"the truth' -why, then, does
Brooklynaround?
Who are you to
he list blow by blow (literally)

April 4, 1990

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every sexual encounter Malespecially ones who divecolm ever had, yet give theInto Slime with such shamepartners pseudonyms? Isn't
lessgusto.
that a little hypocritical?
'
James St. James
Who's hiding nqw?
Manhattan
Michelangelo
said tome In conversation that the
Al1he Outrage That's Rt to PItIt
gay community needs moreThanks for your illuminatheroes.
What good, he
Ing expose on Malcolm
wondered,
did Malcolm's
Forbesl Thanks for being
homosexuall1y do, If nobody
relentlessly angry, outraged
knew about It? What good,and Impassioned
every
though, does It do to dragweeki
someone from the closet,
Keep It going.
kicking and screaming If
Barbara Seycla
they don't want to? Worse,
Manhattan
how can you drag a corpse
throughthe mud In the
Common Knowledge
name of heroism?
What did Bing Crosby,
Michelangelo also assured Maurice Chevalier, Nelsonme that the artIde would be
Rockefeller, Joan Crawford,
tastefUly done. I might not be
Dwight Eisenhower, Marllyn
a paragon of good teme, but
Monroe, Ricky Nelson, Alfred
when has discussing someHitchcock, Errol Flynn andone's masturbatory habits
Lyndon Johnson all have In
been considered temeful?
common? All of them wereReally, In the future, It"exposed" for some nasty
might be wise to exercise asecret Immediately upon or
little restraint on your writers, shortly after their deaths.

nos(Hitchcock was a peeplng
tom, LBJ stole an election,
Bing beat his kids, DwIght hada mistress,etc., etc., etc.,).
Yet not one of thosesometimes seedy, sometimes
tragic revelations was greeted by anything resembling
the howls of protest thatgreeted your Malcolm story.
I don't recall anyone eversaying, "Why did the press
have to prlnt that?· or "We
should respect the fact thatthey didn't want their secretknown' or "What did. they
do to the press that theyshould be exposed?'
Yet
that's aUI did hear after YOll'
Malcolm story. And mostly

from feHow gays.
The rivers of self-loathlng
run deeper than I thought. I
hope you keep fishing In
those troubled waters.
Congratulations for havIngguts.
Charles Lovell

Rye,NY

Forbes'Raw
Your recent
articledecrying the hypocrisy of
Malcolm Forbes' closeted
life was flawed by a deep
hypocrisy of Its own: with
only one exception, all of
your sources of Information
about the "real'
Forbeswere Identified
only bypseudonymous first names.
What are your sources(andOutWeek) afraid
and/orashamedof?
Where Is the pride andpower In such a weakkneed stance?
If we are to convince therest of the population about
our Inherent leglttmacy andrightful place In the world(I.e., the truth), then we'regoing to have to provide
something more than themere hearsay of a few Bobs
and Freds (not their real
names).
John Bartkus

ManhattCl'l01(.GlMME

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April 4, 1990

Besides, Malcolm wasn't
mean to~.
Why were you
so mean to him?
Lahoma Van Zandt
Manhattan

Hell's Angel?
I won't allow myself tobecome a "ma/co/mtentover
apparent"homofofbes.la.- Let's face It, Malcolm Forbes was one hell ofa biker,
Lorry Gutenburg
Manhattan

FOIbes Foibles.9ne who agrees withyour condemnationof amuch tcxHong predominantsocial atmosphere which has
forced many (most?) gay
men and lesbians to remain
In the closet. should stili beappalled at your suggestionthat Malcolm Forbes was a"wonderful, wtmlng personwho would have been one
such "paragon- and "Idolhad he been more open
about his sexuality ("Outspoken-, no. 38, Mar. 18).
To be sure, he was "winning- In the sense that he,had the prenatal foresight tochoose rich parents .. thenparlayed Inherited millions
Into more mlnlons.;.but, how?
By choosing sides, as your,

Mean To MalcOlm
Ya'U, what IS your obsession with forcing people outof the closet? What someone does with their dick orpussy In private Is their own
business, If Malcolm had
wanted us to know what hedid In bed, he would havetold us. If I were a famous
closeted person, I just mightrun deeper after that artlde.
This thirst for labeling andcategorlzlng people on thebasis of sex Is presumptuous,
narrow-minded, divisive anddangerous. Are you reallyfTytng to help us, or are you
just seilingmagazines?

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accompanytng arttcle notes,
with "some of the decode's
mostnotorious
homophobes- and by promoting"an even more reactionaryline- In his magazine.
You almost completely
Ignore Forbes' political
agenda, which he tried tomake all the more palatableby the very P.R. which madehim so "lovable- and "winnlng-: and you barely note
that, In status and by deed,
Forbes did not merely reinforce society's homophobia,
but ,alsoIn the name of "freeenterprise- aggressively supported a wholly corrupt andnon-productlve war materials 1ndus1ry (socialism for therich did not make him
uncomfortable),as hefought against expanding, medical care for the poor(or anyone else) and against. related social programs, andopposed virtually every otherpolitical and social aim that

OutWeelc has so forcefullyargued' for. This was not a
person to Idolize.
Robert cammer
Manhattan, Ulmus Mess
It's fast becoming apparent that a new litmus test ofliberation has emerged. It
has to do with "outing- (hatethat word, can't we think ofa better one?) and how folks
react to It.
Here's how It works.
AlmosteveryoneIs
against It at first. After all, wewere all taught that privacy
Is paramount,and that'sthat. So when the subject
comes up, almost everyone
In the room Isagainst forcing
famous people out.
But there's usually one
person In the room who's In
favor of It, and a fight
begins. If that one person Is
even remotely articulate, heor she musters the arguments

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In favor, and soon all sorts of folks arewavering. The arguments In favor, after
all, have all the logic on their side.
Those against are supported by emotion at best, Inertia at worst.
'
So people begin to waver, and soon
minds begin to change. I love this pr0cess. It's the same consciousness raisIng process I've seen and lived, several
times before.
In the end, those who are Internally liberated have switched sides
and are In favor of forced exit of thepowerful from the closet. Those who
aren't are left with the vague,uneasiness that somehow they've
missed the magic bus, and are
defending a position that's essentially reactionary.
I was one such creature. I must soythat without yoU' magazine, It woUd havetaken me a lot longer to see the Ight.
My hope Is that with more articles
like the one on Forbes, we'll hasten the
day when there won't ever need to besuch articles again, because there
won't be such people.
Gall Clayburgh, Manhattan

Club Conversion

HltherelI just wanted to soy that this magazine Is really excellent. In spite of thefact that I co-promote several gay
events around town, I normally only
read gay magazines randomly. OutWeek, however, Is different. and I think It
has a much broader appeal even for anOnijay audience. I think the articles
are Innovative, well-researched, andmany of them are real fun to read.
Somehow OufWeek can convince anybody, from any walk of life, that theIssuesIt deals with are definitely Important for them, too.
I became a regular reader...
RudolfManhattan
Don't Shoot Me, I'm Just
the Features Editor'
It Is sad to report that Michael 51gno-

rile has gone off the deep end and aswith all rabid dogs, he should be takenout behind the shed and shot.
His column should be retitled 'Personal Vendetta" for Its persistent uglyattacks on anyone that refuses to bemeasured by his narrowly defined personal litmus test of activist politics. Not
only this, but now he has the ego todalm that he Is a true mover In the New
YorkCity publishing world by suggestingthat writers try to 'appease" him.
Hisattacks on liz Smith and Jon Von
Meter seemed petty at best and also
smacked of sour grapes. When In disagreement with someone's motives,
Michael whips out the favortte curse of'self-hatlng" to blast hisvictims. As Bob
Paris stated In his Interview last month,,'we didn't come out to be activists;
we're just living our lives proudly: Lover
Rod Jackson adds, • ...and we're left
behind with 'you're self-hatlng, greedy,out for money'".
For someone who espouses his'soclal value", you should realize that
we all do our bit for the crisis. Whether
It be give money, help friends, march
beside you or try to patiently reach
Ignorant frlends and family, we all deal
with AIDS.
I fhi)k your approach Is sanctrnonlous
and dangerous. It drives people away
Instead of nuturfng what Mr. Pals collect•...the most diverse minority In the entire
worid." Do not try to bully us Into yourview of what good and evil Is, you'resounding as bad asSenatorHelms.
John Nadeau
Brooklyn
Signor/Ie responds: There's a big dIfference between not wanting to be a,
card-wavIng, screamIng actIvIst andklss/ng up to the people-who are kllllng
you. I don't say everyone must beforced to JoIn ACT UP,but doIng a TV
show wIth Roger Alles and sIngIng thepraises of the Buckleys, as In the caseof SmIth, and klss/ng up to SmIth In thecleverly dIsguIsed way that Van Meterdoes, are equally reprehensIble.
Get Funny

It Is no joke that the vast majority ofAmerlcanl! remain completely Ignorantof Canada. It Istruly surprising,however, to see how low you will sink to ponder to this mentality ("How to Make a
Canadian Queer Scream", no. 35, Feb.
25). Maybe your magazine was takenover by an upstart group of isolationist. closet Republicans when no one waslooking; perhaps you should check up'on this.
The worst offense of all Is that theartide just Isn't funny. SatIre Is a difficult
art; could you not locate a professional
writer to undertake the strenuoustask of

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propagatingstereotyped

national

dlch9s?
As a Canadianreader of yourparochial little magazine, I am consistently underwhelmed by your lack ofunderstanding of Issues that may be
Important outside your immediate geographic area, Indeed, the only Incen:-.
five left to buy your magazine Is Bradley
Ball's -Out Of My Hands: which consistently Includes more Canadian content
than even our own news media sees fit
to use. Obviously your columnist,
undoubtedly an American citizen, hasa better understanding of 1he Canadian national character than 1he Canadian author of your unfortunate satiric
artIde. Mr. Ball's column notwithstandIng, unless there Is some Improvement
In 1he writing, editing and world view In
your magazine, I will soon be buying
Chatelaine Instead of OutWeek.
Do you want to know how to reallymake a Canadian queer scream? It's
simple-try
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GIve Me 1hat 0IcI1lme Sexuality
A quote for 1he week.
By a participant at the March 12
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on Jorjet Harper's recent article In OutWeek on -Lesbians Who Sleep With
Men (no. 33, Feb. 11):°1 don't know about you, but I wasraised In the Midwest... where women
sleep with women and men sleep withmen.·
Mary Garvey
ChIcagoPyramid Confusion
I wolJd like to thank liz and Sydney
for SO -kindly· mentioning me In their
coIlJ'Tln rOut on 1he Town: no. 38, Mar.
18). Yes, It Is true that I am continuing tohost the Pyramid Club's Gay Sunday
NIghts. I have done so for 1he past five
years, and I started out there before
that as a go-go dancer. The Pyramid
Club has always been (and continues
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Unfortunately, In all the confusion, and hubris arising from 1he managerial
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Ne\vsGay Rights in Pittsburgh
by Rex Wackner
PIlTSBURGH-The
city council
passed a gay rights ordinance here
March 20 by a 6-2-1 vote.,
Accordingto activists,theamendment
to the city code willprotect
lesbiansand gays fromdiscrimination in employment, housing
and public accommodations.
Similar laws are on the books in
Philadelphia and Harrisburg and in
more than 60 cities nationwide.
The battle was led by the
Pittsburgh Fairness Campaign, which
worked to unseat oppostion council
members in the 1989 election after thecouncil failed to pass the measure in
1988.
The election ultimately saw thedefeat of three of the bill's four
opponents and the re-election of threeof its four supporters.
During the election campaign, the'activist group CRY OUT! staged aseries of demonstrations
againstcouncil members and Mayor Sophie
Masloff, who, they charged, hadlobbied against the bill in closed-door
meetings while supporting it in public.
As a result of the pressure, Masloff
finally signed an executive order a year'
ago banning employment discrimination
against gays in city jobs. She haspromised to sign the new ordinance as

well.
In the final month of this year's
push, controversy
swelled aroundcouncil member Duane Darkins, whoabstained frolll voting March 20.'
Darkins, who is Black, said he
was unable to support the measure,because only one of the 70 gay-rights
supporters who testified before thecouncil was Black.
He said that indicates that the gay
community is racist.
Accordingto Jeff Howells,
managing 'editor of the Pittsburgh gay, , newspaper Out, activists explained to
Darkins that the racial ratio was more
the result of homop~obia in the Black

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community than racism in the gay
community, but Darkins remained firmin his conviction.
The ordinance push was helped thisyear by the decision of the Pittsburgh

Roman Catholic Diocese to stay out ofthe public debate, activists believe. , In
1988, Catholic opposition was seen as amajor factor in the defeat of the gay
rights bill.
-flied from Chicago

N. C City Nixes
Gay Rights Again
by Kathy Hoke
GREENSBORO,N.C.~itting silently
and squirming ever so slighdy, the five
Greensboro City Council members who
voted to chop out the words "sexual
preference" from city personnel policy
last Christmas refused this month tochange their minds.
The 5-4 vote against renewing
protection for gay,and lesbian employees
hardly surprised members of the Guilford
Alliance for Gay and Lesbian Equality,
who realized five days before the March
1council meeting that the possible swing
vote of new council member Richard
Grobar was not going to come through.
"He told us to stop calling him," said
Mamie Thompson, spokesperson fur the
Alliance.~e knew we had lost."
But in the half hour di&:ussion before
the March 1 vote, oouncil members heard
Alliance leaders and several oon-gay allies
urge protection for gay and lesbian citY
employees.

Poliel Admit Bies
Thompson, in a last attempt toconvince opponents ,that homophobia
exists in GreensborQ, told the council forthe first time that the city police
department routinely gives job appliqlpts
lie detector tests in which they are asked
the questions, "Have you ever had aho~alrelationship?" and "Have you
ever -had homosexual feelings?". The
questions were reported, she said, 'by anassistant police chief during confidential
hearings in 1988 before a subcommittee ofthe city Human Relations Commission
investigating anti-gay violence, harassment
and disaimination
Utter, Police Olief SylvesterDaughtxy
admitted the department refuses to hirepeople who say they are "practicing
homosexuals," but said applicants are notasked about their sexual orientation
during lie detector tests. The state aime-against-nature law
outlaws virtually all sexual acts excePt
intercourse in the "missionary position"
between a married couple. Thompson
reminded council members that the law
makes felons out of most city employees,
who would have to be dismissed if thelaw were enforced fairly.
But the testimony won no newconverts to human rights. Mayor Pro
Tem Carolyn Allen, who r.eceived
substantial support from Greensboro
gay men and lesbians
in lastNovember's elections, proposed thefollowing sentence be added to city
,personnel policy. "Sexual orientation,
defmed as homosexual, heterosexual orbisexual, is a non-job-related characteristic." Supporting her motion w~recouncil members Earl Jones, Alma
Adams and P. David Brown.
Voting against,it were Grobar, Mayor
Vic Nussbaum and councilmembers
William J. 'Burckley, Robert Mays Jr. and
Tom Phillips. They were the same five

who voted Dec. 28, without warning, toreverse anti-bias protection added to thepersonnel policy last October by theprevious council.
Current policy bans discriminationon the basis of "any nori-job-relatedcharacteristic," including race, sex, age,religion, ethnic origin and handicapping
condition.
With m<?re than two years of
struggle for legal protection' ending in
defeat, everyone who wOIked for humanrights in Greensboro was disappointed.
"We're clearly angry about it," said
Kevin Drewery, cofounder of OUT!
Greensboro, a tiny six-month-old groupadvocating direct action in fighting for
gay rights.
Drewery, who says his group has
just one other official member, predictedthat OUT! Greensboro eventually will
become aligned with the AIDS Coalition
to Unleash Power. In October 1989 andagain last February, OUT! Greensboroorganized demonstrations at city hall insupport of the gay protection in the

personnel policy.
"We're tired of taking it," Drewery
said. "I don't believe in sitting quietly
when we get crapped on. It's time we
get upset."
Both Thompson and Drewery agree
that new arena for action is the 1991
municipal elections. "We cannot doanything more with those nine peopleon city council," Thompson said. "Ournext job is to work hard on the 1991
election.".

Support from Meilia, r.,ainstream
Meanwhile, local news media arecovering gay issues fairly, and theGreensboro News & Record has written
editorials in support of the antidiscrimination clause. Significant support
has come from several community
groups, including the board of the Leagueof Women Voters of Guilford County, andtwo Lutheran ministers who spoke insupport of the policy change.
Sol Jacobs, a retired delicatessens.. NORTH CAROUNA on page 30

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ACf UP member Mark Chaney said
HARC has "effectively
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The newsletter listed by name thefour HARC board members, who"displayed weasel-like behavior" inopposing the endorsement.
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News

Hetero Hire at Gay Group
Prompts Outcry
by Masha Gessen
NEW YORK-The national gay andlesbian organization with perhaps thelowest profile has become the epicenterof a controversy that may affect not only
the future of the group, but the moodand makeup of the lesbian and gay
movement nationwide.
As OutWeek went to press, the staff
and volunteers of the Fund for Human
Dignity had taken the extraordinary stepof publicly denouncing its own board of
directors' choice of a heterosexual man
for the job of executive director of theagency.
"We... strongly
objectto theappointment of a white, heterosexual
male as the leader of an importantnational "gay and lesbian organization,"
read the statement, which, according todevelopment director Paula Presley, was'approved Unanimously by the staff andvolunteers. "We feel that the board's
decision is an insult to every gay man
and lesbian. This appointment is amanifestation of homophobia and selfhatred. And we are appalled."
For her part, board ccrChair Ann
Wilson was appalled by what she called'"complete insubordination" of the Fund
staff whose statement was not authorized
by the board. "We consider this libel anddefamation," exclaimed Wilson. She
refused to say, however, what, if any,
misinformation was contain~ in the staff
statement.
Wilson reluctantly conftrmed that
Robert Brading, 40, an employee of the
National Conference of Qu-istians andJews, had been offered the job of the
Fund's executive director. But, according
to Wilson, Brading had not yet given
notice at his current job. Brading was on
vacation in the Grand Canyon, and could
not be contacted at press time.
"Sexual orientation is not a factor in
the search," mairitained Wilson, who also
argued that New York's ban on sexual-

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orientation discrimination prohibits theconsideration of sexual orientation during
a hiring process.
Employees of the organization
counteredthat in the case of anorganization that states on its letterheadthat it is dedicated to "educating the
public about the lives of lesbians and gaymen" the sexual orientation of a potential
executive director has a direct impact on
the applicant's ability to do the job. The
city ordinance prevents employers fromusing sexual orientation as a criterion for
chOOSing among applicants who are
equally qualified,"This particular individual has nofamiliarity with gay and lesbian issues,"
asserted Presley. "Who is going to teachhim? Is it going to be our responsibility?
Is it going to be my responsibility?" '"Yes, we try for empathy andsensitivity" responded Wuson, "but wealso need the most qualified person forthe job." She pointed out that otherorganizations with roots in the gay andlesbian community have chosen straightleaders as well: "'There's precedent, in
terms of organizations in New Jersey,
California
andColorado-AIDS

organizations, which are even morepolitical and activist than an education
organization, that are led by straightpeople."The 15-year-old Fund for Human
Dignity is an educational foundation that
became an independent organization in1985 when it split from the National Gay
and Lesbian Task Force. It offers threeprograms:
a national crisis line, aresearch
center which distributes
educational
publications
and the"Positive Images" campaign, a print
advertising drive begun in partnershipwith the Gay and Lesbian Alliance
Against Defamation. The group employs
seven people in its educational programs,
and nine in its fundraising ann.
No Qualified Gays?
According to the staff statement, theboard has disclosed that it ·could find noqualified gay or lesbian person to fill the
position of executive director." Wtlson
refused to confirm or deny the accuracyof this statement, saying that "if it wasever made, it was in a private meetingwith the staff. ns.. HElERO HIRE on pilI. 61

Cops Nab Editor

ofNAMBLA
Bulletinby Duncan Osborne
NEW YORK-Chris
Farrell, amemberof the North American
Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA)
and editor of the NAMBLA Bulletin, wasarrested by officers of the Manhattan
South Public Morals Division of the
New York City Police Department on
March 19th at his place of employment
for allegedly having sex with four...

news photographers at Farrell's arrest,
the fact that the arrest occurred atFarrell's workplace and the information
thepolicesuppliedto news
organizations concerning Farrell's role
iri NAMBLA.
"Publie Morals Division?," said
Dobbs. "What era are we living in?
There eertainly was consent if money
was exchanged."David Barr, a staff attorney with
the Lambda Legal Defense
andEducation Fund, did not preclude
the possibility
that a relationshipcould develop
and be healthy

teenaged boys from Brooklyn.
According to police officer Fred
Weiner of the Deputy Commissioner's
Office of Public Information, Farrell,
32, has been charged with one countof sodomy in the first degree, 18
counts of sodomy in the third degree
and nine counts of endangering thewelfare of a child. The police claim
Farrell began his relations with theyouths, ages 13 to 16, in July of 1989.
Farrell is alleged to have paid them toengage in oral sex. The arrest isreportedly the result of a six-monthlong investigation.
Bill Andriette, spokesperson for
NAMBLA, stated that Farrell wasarrested for acts that appear to be'eonsensual.
"Sex between men and boys is the
one remaining area in' society whereconsent and healthy sex are treated ina blindly,
moralistic
way," said
Andriette.
NAMBLA is a politicalandeducational group that supports boys
and men who have an interest inintergenerational
relationships.
NAMBLA has a membershipofapproximately 500.
Bill Dobbs, an activist lawyer inthe lesbian 'and gay community, called
thearrest"a highly
political
prosecution." He referred to it as partof a "witeh hunt" intended to wipe out I'
a "sexual diSSident group."
Dobbs.offered as evidence the' presenee ofbetween a man and a boy, but heexpressed concern about a minor's
ability
to consent
to sex and,particularly; to eonsent to sex withan adult. "My assumption would bethat more often than ~ot it iscoercive, and with an exchange ofmoney it is inherently coercive," Barr
said.
At press tinie, Farrell, a resident ofQueens, was being held at the Queens
House of Detention
in protective
custody, and represented by a courtassigned Legal Aid attorney. His bailhad been set at $75,000. T

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News

1Wo Lesbians Vie
for S.RCouncil Seats-AN EMBARRASSMENT OF RICHESphotos: Rink
San Frtmcisco City Supemsor ClllldidatBs Carole Migden (ItIft) and /Iobe1tB At:hIBnbtitg

by James Waller
SAN FRANCISCO-Two
prominent members of San Francisco's
lesbian community will be among theeon tenders in the Board of City
Supervisors election to be held thiscoming November. Roberta Aehtenberg, an attorney and the director 6f
the San Francisco-based
National
Center for Lesbian Rights, and Carol
Migden, a public-health educator witha long involvementin California
Democratic Party politics, will join
what is expected to be a large field ofcandidates vying for the five seats on
the ll-member board that are up forelection this year.
Migden and Achtenberg, also a
Democrat, are the first openly lesbian
women ever to run for election to theboard. The San Francisco Board of City
Supervisors
gained a degree ofprominence unusual for a municipal
council in 1978, when Harvey Milk
became its first openly gay member and the first openly gay man to be

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April 4. 1990

seats that will have to be filled bynonincumbents.
An Embll1'lllmlnt of Rich..
In telephoneinterviews
withOut Week, neither Achtenberg
nor
Migden expressed
concernoverspeculation that campaign resources
and possibly votes may be split by theentry of two lesbian candidates into
the race.
"I, think that's a wrongful assumption," said Migden. "Certainly there's
some divisionof resources,
but
Roberta and I are going to run campaigns that are noncombative."
Achtenberg said that the fact that
two lesbians have declared theircandidacy is evidence of the politicalmaturityof San Francisco's
gay
community. "We have to learn to deal
with this' new situation," she said. "It'san embarrassment of riches," addingthat the situation in which voters canchoose among several lesbian and gay
candidates is going to occur more andmore often in the future.
"Most people in the lesbian andgay community are endorsing us both.
As long as we both conduct ourselves
well, we're both in a good position totake seats on the Board of Supervisors-if
not this time, then next,"
Achtenberg said.

elected to public office in the UnitedStates.
At the time of Milk's election,
supervisors were chosen by district.
Sinee then, however, San Francisco hasreverted to city-wide eleetion of 'Strong Put Showings,supervisors, and all candidates in the
Although neither is a seasoned
November election will compete with
politician,both Achtenberg
andone another on an at-large basis.
Migden have had some experience in'SourcesfamiliarwithSan
campaigning for public office. In 1988,
Francisco' 'politics
reportthat
Aehtenberg ran for, the California State
ineumbents running for re-election to
Assembly seat' that had been vacatedthe board have a strong edge over
by Art Agnos' when he became Mayor
nonincumbents competing for thoseof San Francisco. Migden in 1982 viedseats.
for a seat on the San Francisco
What makes this year's race
Community College Board. Thoughparticularly interesting is that at least
they lost these races, both made strong
one seat---and possibly two or three showings.
will likely be vacant and therefore up
Migden's credentials include thefor grabs in November. 'Two members
directorships of two Bay Area lesbianof the current board, Richard Hongisto
and gay social service agencies: thePacific Center in Berkeley
andand Wendy Neider, have announced
their intention to seek the office of citY' Operation Concern in San Francisco.
She also holds leadership positions
assessor in an election to be held inwithin the California Democratic Party
June: The outcome of that election will
and is a member of the Democratic
help determine, the number of board

National Committee.
Kim Corsaro, who as publisher ofthe gay-oriented San Francisco Bay
Times is an experienced observer ofCalifornia politics, credits Migden withhaving played an essential role in thepolitical
resurrectionof former
California governor Jerry Brown. Last
year Migden ran Brown's successful
intra-party
campaign
forthechairmanship of the state Democratic
Party organization.
But, Corsaro said, Achtenberg has
the advantage
of greater namerecognition
among San Francisco
voters. Achtenberg herself pointed thisout, saying that she is the only one oftheannounced
nonincumbent
candidates to have achieved as muchas 25 percent name-recognition in a
recent poll.
Achtenberg's
achievements
includehavingeditedSexualOrientation and the Law, which since
its initial publicationin 1985 hasserved as a handbook for attorneys
involved in litigating cases involving
lesbian and gay rights.
Since her unsuccessful bid for thestate assembly, Achtenberg has chaired
a Mayor Agnos-appointed task force on
revitalizing the status of women in San
Francisco and has headed another task
force, also commissioned by the mayor,
on family policy. Its report, which isdue in mid-April, will, according to
Achtenberg,
"deal
with
issuessurrounding the diversity of kinds offamilies that exist in San Francisco.
"We've tried to recognize thatfunctioning families are an asset, andthat it's the role of government tosupport them," Aehtenberg said. "We
defme family very broadly, looking at
the family from a functional point ofview." The task force report will
present recommendations on domestic partnershiplegislation,
among
other matters.
Health Care, Family, Leadership
Both Achtenberg and Migden are
involved in longstanding
domestic
partnerships.
Achtenberg has beenwith her lover, San Francisco municipal
court judge Mary C. Morgan, for eight
years and is the adoptive parent of
Morgan's son. Migden has been with
her lover for about five years.,. Both candidates' views concerning

the important
issues facing San
Franciscoare coloredby theirbackground.
Migden,whose
experience in public health includes
current membership on the California
health commission, gave health-related
issues top priority:"AIDS, homelessness, health care,drug abuse prevention- to methey're all related," she said. "I know
how to get health-care programs towork, and as someone deeply involvedin Oemocratic politics I have theknow-how
to lobby for. needed
programs."

Migden added that she wants toaddress the health problems of the Bay
Area lesbian community, including, shesaid, growini incidence of chronic
fatigue syndrome and cancer.
Although her platform is in many
respects
similarto
Migden's,
Achtenberg lays the stress on quality oflife and family issues such as increase<;!
day-care options and a proposal thatwould allow city workers to take"family care leave" when a family
member (broadly defined) becomes
seriously ill.
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:\ e\"sMandela Answers
Gay Lib Question"

Simon Nkoli Responds
anti-apartheid forces we have in thisregard,drawingno distinctions
whatsoever concerning anti-apartheid
organizations. Whether we are goingto succeed in bringing about thatunited front depends on the respoll;5e,of the organizations involved. But all I'
can assure you is that we will leave nostone unturned in our effort to unite
the oppressed people of our country."
It was the second time Mandela
has been asked about gay and lesbian
issues. In late February, gay South
African activist Alfred Siphiwe Machela
confronted Mandela during a visit to
the gay-community-based
Township
AIDS project in Soweto.
Machela asked Mandela if he wasaware 'thatgay
andlesbiancampaigners had aggressively worked
for his release from prison.
Mandela responded: "You have to
Se. MANDBA on ..... 311

State Pol Looks to
Crack Down on
Church Protests-A lITTLE BIT INDIRECT
Nt.11
Photo: Rex Wockner'_nby Nina Reyes"Basically the bills were filed inreaction to ACI' UP's order to enhance the protection of
by Rix Wockner
demonstration
last December at St. various religious institutionS across theAfrican National Congress Deputy
Patrick's Cathedral, a conservative state state, and to guard against people using
President and spiritual leader Nelson
senator from Poughkeepsie has filed two them as a forum for protest," stated Joe
Maridela answered a question from apieces of legislation that phrase outrage
Conway, a press aide for Sen. Rolison.
gay journalist March 13 in Stockholm ' at the protesters' tactics in legislative"We really don't think it is proper toduring a joint new conference withterms that apparently appeal to many of conflict with people's right to worship
Swedish Prime Minister Ingvar Qu-1sson.
the state's other lawmakers. Gay, lesbian freely."
Journalist Bill Shiller, who works
and civil-liberties activists, however, areConway also stres:;ed, however, thatwith Radio Sweden shortwave andtaking a wait-and-see attitude toward theRolison is a "strong believer" in the rightwith the gay newspaper
Reporter,legislation.
to protest.
stood during
the packed, press
Sen. Jay P. Rolison, a conservative"We really want to make dear that
Republican, filed the legislation in late "these laws are not targeted towards any
conference and asked:"I understand that in South Africa a
January, stating publidy at that time that specified group whatsoever," he said,
number of lesbian and gay organizations
existing law apparently does not deter
although he acknowledged that Rolison's
have also been fighting for your, release.
demonstrations such as the one that took
impetus caine "largely in response to theplace at St. Patrick's Cathedral. The first
What is the role of these groups? Whatinsensitivity shown by protesters" at St
bill Rolison proposed would makerights will they have in a new South
Patrick's Cathedral.
deming or destroying religious objects
Africa under your leadership and the"Our basic position on this is thatvalued at less that $1,500 or defacing a regardless of the cause one espouses,"leadership of the ANC? Will they be freehouse of religion a more serious felony. , .Conway concluded, "no one has theor continue to be persecuted?"
The second bill would increase theright to impede people's constitutional
Mandela rf;!sponded: "We havemaximum penalty for disruption of a right to freedom of religion."~dy
indicated that we are presently
religious service to one year in jail.
But while electoral and legal activists
ad9ressing the issues of uniting all

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agree that the bills seem to infringe on
LICENSED REAL ESlAJE BROKeR
the first amendment
guarantee ofseparation of church and state, aeommitment to watching the bills closely
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is as far as any of these groups are
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currently willing to go.
FinanCing"We're going to track the bills,"
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Jennifer Rich, director of the New YorkState Lesbian and Gay Lobby, offered,although she expressed doubt thatlobbying could stop the bill were it tobegin moving through the Senate process.
Pam Katz, ~ssistant legislative
director for the New York Civil Libenies
Union, stated that her organization, too,intends to monitor Rolison's bills.
Because the bills' origin ean clearly be
traced back to the St. Patrick's
demonstration,she
added,
theRepublican-controlled Senate may be
predisposed to view them favorably.
"The Senate is ususally not particularly
sympathetic to gay rights groups as abody," she warned.
Ironically, while the December 10
demonstration has been widely perceived
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con doms to prevent the spread of AIDS,
and its anti-abortion stance. The protest,
during which more than 100 people werearrested, drew nearly 5,000 demonstrators.
Hearing about the Rolison bills forthe first time when he was contacted foreomment, Lambda Legal Defense and
Education Fund lawyer David Barr said'
angrily, "If I have a dispute with mychurch, as long as I am not causing
physical harm to anybody, it's my
FUNKY
business.
It's my dispute with mychurch." Barr also said that if the bills do
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sponsored bypass, his ofganization will challenge their
ARTISTIC
legality in court.
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Ne"vsDo Gay Men Have AnotherMicrobe to Watch Out For?
Researchers say KS is not always AIDS
They cited as evidence the fact that gay men with AIDS
get KS at a rate much higher than other individuals withPresuppositions about AIDS were thrown for a loop in
AIDS-21 percent of gay men versus five percent of N drug
January following the publication of data on ffiV-negative
users and one percent of hemophiliacs.
gay men in New York who have Kaposi's sarcoma, long
Secondly, since the advent of gay safe sex, KS has
considered a primary opportunistic infection that follows
declined among gay
infection with "the AIDS virus."men. In the beginning
At the same time, researchers at the U.S. Centers for Diseaseof the AIDS epidemic,
Control in Atlanta published a report in the British joumal The
half of all gay PWAs
Ulncet revealing that KS is much more common among gay men
had KS, but now only 15 percent do. The CDC researcherswith AIDS than among any other persons with AIDS.
believe safe sex has slowed transmission of the KS agent.
Both findings are being construed as evidence that KS
A third piece of the puzzle: ~who acquired HIV fromis caused by an unknown sexually transmitted agent that isbisexual men have KS at a rate four-times higher than women
widespread in the U.S. gay community but not in other
who acquired HN from straight men-further
evidence,communities affected by AIDS.
researchers say, that KS is infecting men who have sex with men.
The upshot is that some gay men who were diagnosed
Finally, KS afflicts only three percent of PWAs inwith AIDS because they
Kansas, but 31 percent
of PWAs in New
have KS might not actually
York-evidence that the KS agent is,more prevalent
have AIDS at all. And on
in specific geographic areas.
the other hand, thousands,
In the meantime, the New York University
perhaps millions, of people
Medical Center's Dr. Alvin Friedman-Kien reported to
who are HIV-negative may
The Ulncet that six of his gay KS patients test ffiVbe at some risk for sexuallynegative with the most sophisticated procedures.
transmitted cancer.
Friedman-Kien speculates that ffiV and the KS
HIV skeptics, who doagent entered the U.S. gay population at about the
not believe HIV is thesame time, with some men being exposed only toeause of AIDS, haveone or the other.
jumped on the findings to bolster their belief that the
The hypothesis makes sense to CDC deputy director forgovenunent goofed six years ago in pronouncing HIV the cause
science, Dr.' Harold Jaffe, one of the authors of The Lancetof AIDS.
article. EpidemiolOgicaldata, he said, "build a pretty convincing
Other observers, including such staid figures as Randy
argument that there is a transmissible factor" causing KS.
Shilts, author of the AIDS history And The Band Played On,
The CDC's Thomas Peterman, another co-author of thesay that, at the least, the fmdings seem to dramatically alterreport, agrees, but downplays the Significance of the new
the AIDS ballgame, now well into the middle innings.
fmdings.
"I can't believe everybody's being so blase about this,""The relationship of KS to HIV infection is not changed by
Shilts said in an interview. "If I were a government official
this," Petennan said. "Allopportunistic infections that you see inand this information surfaced, I'd call an emergency
people with HIV infection are caused by other organisms.
conference of top AIDS people ...and try to figure out what
[Some journalists and others] are thinking this suggests ffiV
this means. This is a whole new curve ball. Why isdoesn't cause AIDS. If that were the case, there would be a big
everybody yawning at a new disease [KS]that kills people?" . alann. But this is just more evidence that KS is caused by aninfectious condition and, in a way, it's sort of so what?"
The FindingsPeterman,said recent research suggests that about three
In their Lancet article, CDC researehers said "Kaposi's
percent of gay men with KS are ffiV-negative "and for a few
sarcoma in persons with AIDS may be caused by an as-yetpeople who have KS, this may be important to realize."
unidentified infectious agent transmitted mainly by sexual
But Peterman speculat~d that most HIV-negative
contact."
individuals who are infected with the KS agent will not

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News Analysis

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develop KS because, he believes, theKS agent requires a damaged Immune
system before it can cause much harm.
Meanwhile,
chief U;S. AIDS
researcher Robert Gallo, who has longstruggled to explain how HIV causes
AIDS (and KS), added his authority to
the findings Feb. 22 in a lecture at
Fordham University in the Bronx.
"Kaposi's
sarcomaoccurscommonly in association with HIV
infection, with or without the immune
deficiency,"
he said. "It is morecommon in homosexuals.
Recentevidence says that aggressive Kaposi's
sarcoma can also appear in the samerisk group in, the absence of detectable
HIV. But the fact is, with HIV, it isdramatically increased."
Considering only these remarks,
Gallo seems more concerned thanPeterman about the threat to HIVnegatives, and those with healthy
immune systems. Gallo was not available
for further comment prior to deadline.
HIVSklpdcs
Predictably, the news of a nonrelationshipbetween KS and HIV
fueled the fires of those who say Galloand other researchers
have neverproved that HIV causes AIDS at all.
One such skeptic, People WithAIDS Coalition founder Michael Callen,
asked: "Why isn't it as likely that mv
is just an opportunistic,
reactivatedvirus that is the result of AIDS rather
than ,the cause of AIDS?
. "We need a seroprevaience studyof HIV infection, using .[the newest
testing procedures] on housewives in
Des Moines and grandmothers in New
Jersey," Callen urged. "I'm convinced
there is little doubt that we would find
mv [that is not causing disease among
these people).
There has beenpremature closure on the question of
the role of HIV in making people
sick."
Most AIDS researchers
do notagree. But they do believe that a small
percentage of people wh~ were said tohave AIDS now do not have AIDS but
merely a form of possibly benign skincancer.
Along with Shilts, some AIDS
observers are wondering why thatwasn't a bigger story, both in the
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NewAlParty
NEW YORK-Rev.
AI Sharpton
confronted his homophobic past andspoke about AIDS and the Black
community at a press eonferenee atwhich he announced his support for the
New York gubernatorial campaign of the
New Alliance party's Lenora Fulani. The
press conference was attended by Fu1ani,
Sharpton, NAP founder Fred Newman,
Tawana Brawley and Moses Stewart,
The father of Yusuf Hawkins, aBlack youth slain in a racial incident in
the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn lastAugust. Sharpton is currently on trial in
New York for allegedly stealing $250,000
from a youth organization.
Fu1ani ran for president in 1988 andwas the first Black woman to appear as
an independent on ballots in all 50 states
and the District of Columbia. She claims
to have received two percent of the gay
and lesbian vote.
During the press conference,
Sharpton was asked how he could
square his support for the pro-gay NAP
with his previous history of homophobia,
particularly his publie use of words like"faggot" .
"I had always thought of 'faggot' as
more a cultural term in the Black
community than a homophobic tenn," hereplied, "but I've learned that we have to
be more sensitive."'.
Qaiming that his association with
Fulani and Newman was sensitizing him
to gay and lesbian concerns, Sharpton
added, "I did feel homophobic" in thepast, and "it takes some maturing" to getover those feelings.
"I strongly support ACT UP," hevolunteered. "They should be saluted
and supported. They have, more thanany other force in our city, shaken up thesystem."Claiming that Black movements,
including his own, have not done
enough to focus attention on the AIDS
erisis, Sharpton said, "Black activist
leaders have not been open about AIDS.
At some point there should be a,collusion of efforts between ACf UP and
our movement. Together we eould shakethe state." But he cautioned that first "I

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April 4, 1990

have to finish my linguistics course" tofurther sensitize himself to gay andlesbian iSsues.
Referring to gay and Black problems

with the press, Sharpton said, "Asprogressive forces, we have the same
enemies. If gay and Black activists agreed
that we had a problem with the New

Yom Post, we could shut the POst down.
It doesn't mean we'd have to go home

together afterwards."
Referring to his current trial,
Sharpton
added,"Look, I'm notpersonally gay, but I might be going tojail. Who !mows what I might do?"--Gabriel RoteIIostraight'
lIlodel sues

Lippiatt does not have a Chicago
telephone listing and could not bereached for further comment.
---Rex Wocknet'

NGRAlegal
director
resigns
SAN FRANOSCO-Oavid Bryan has

resigned as Legal Director at National
Gay Rights Advocates, after serving, forless than two months. Bryan, who Was
formerly Legal Director of the Texas
Human Rights Foundation, joined NGRA
late in January as successor to Leonard
Graff, who had become acting Executive
Director of the organization when Jean
O'leary resigned that position early in
December.
O'Leary's resignation came amidst acavalcade of accusations and allegations
ranging from financial improprieties to

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cover without his
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Thirty-year-<>ldNorman lippiatt med
suit in Cook County Cin:uit Court Man:h6, saying he was "outraged" andconcerned that the incident would
adversely affect his career.
"I have nothing against gays, but I'mstrictly hetero myself," Lippiatt told the
OJtcago Sun-7fmes:
Photos of Lippiatt have reportedly
appeared in such publications as sports
OIustrated and Gentlemen's Quarterly.
His lawyer, William Gomolinski, said the
Ha Shots photo was bootlegged from aboating magazine. It shows Lippiatt clad
only in blue jeans and leaning against awall.
In placing the photo on its cover,
Hot Sbots also indicated that Lippiattwould greet readers at a gay roller
skating party at the Gold Coast Skating

Rink.
"He's waiting for you at Port
Lauderdale's Famous Tuesday Night Gay
Skate!"a cut-line read.
The Iawsuit names both Hot sbois
and the rink, according to the Coo\t
County circuit court clerk.
"
Hot Sbots publisher Jason Bell said
the photo was published a year or two
ago and was provided by the skating
rink. But the rink denies providing thephoto.
"We haven't
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the verbal abuse of staff menibers.
According to Graff, Bryan deddedthat "there was not a good fit" with theorganization, and preferred to return toTexas, where he has applied forreappointment to his former position,
which had not yet been filled. Bryan
could not be reached for cormnent.
His resignation means that NGRA isonce again without any full-time legal
staff. Graff, who returned to private
practice in December, has been covering
the NGRAcaseload with the assistance ofvolunteers. Former staff attorneys Ben
Schatz and Cynthia Goldstein wereforced to resign last fall by the NGRA
Board, during a highly-publicized purgeof the group's employees under Q'Leary.
At the time of Bryan's resignation,
NGRA was interviewing applicants to fill
the two staff attorney positions. Now it isadding a legal director search to its
agenda.
--k1hur S. Leonard

Cop fingeredin violenceat ACT UP
deDlo
NEW YORK-After deciding late lastyear to reopen a dosed investigation into
alleged poliee violenee at an ACf UP
demonstration, the Civilian Complaint
Review Board (Cam) of the NY Police
Department has recommended
that
disciplinary action be taken against one
officer for allegedly abusing two ACf UP
members.
The Wall Street demonstration in
March 1988 resulted in 111 arrests. ACf
UP' protesters complained of widespread

police misconduct and abuse, and in
May 1988 the New York City Gay andLesbian Anti-Violence Project (AVP)filed
a complaint with the CCRB on behalf of
13 demonstrators. That complaint was
dismissed last September on the grounds
that the alleged inddents could not be
substantiated.
Following strenuous objections fromthe AVP and from CCRB member Dan
Johnston, matters came to a head at a
raucous meeting of the Mayor's Police
Council in December. The cam thenagreed to reopen the investigation. Its
investigators interviewed two additional
witnesses, and re-interviewed
nine
people who had previously given
statements.
The cam then recommended thatdisciplinary charges be proferred against
Sgt. James Wagner. The investigation
eoncurred with the allegation that Wagner
punehed Stephen Gendin and threw
Marion Banzhaf against the steps of abus, as well as pulling her hair. However,allegations contained in the originalcomplaint of misconduct by four othernamed officers and seven unidentified
offieers remained unsubstafltiated by thecam.
-John Voelcker

Secondskinheadsentenced
WASHINGTON-The skinhead who
bragged about his "hatred for gays" andsaid he'd have had no remorse if
Georgetown Waiter Rodney Johnson had
died after he Was brutally anacked by a gang
was sentenced to 12 to 36 years in prison.
Mark Hyder said he was sony, but
shuffled his feet, stammered and replied
he wanted to seem "macho" when D.C.
Sµperior Court Judge Robert M. Scottasked why he had made those remarks
to both the press and a probation officer. ', Judge Scott on Mareh 12 gave
Hyder, 18, of Southerland, Va., ten to 30
years for assault with intent to kill while
armed and a conserutive two to six years
for armed robbery.
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activists praised the punishinent, saying
they are glad the ugly criminal case isover. And many criticized mainstream
media for ignoring or delaying coverageof the sentencing hearings.
"It'sappropriate\yCOlIlfIX!l1SUl'ewil:hthe aime's viciousness," saki Paula BteIbrid<,
legal diroo:a eX Iambda I.egal Defense and
Education Fund. "They left a gay man
nearly dead and have ruined his life."
Judge Scott sentenced Hyder as an'
adult after carefully studying a u.s. YouthAct review which gives juveniles special
consideration. A month earlier, he gave
Hyder's partner, David McGill, 19, of Dale
City, Va., the same prison term for theattempted murder, but 3 to 4 more years
for the robbery charge because of his
prior assault, ironically, on anotherskinhead.
A jury unanimously convicted thepair after a spree of mercenary anti-gay
attacks 18 months ago near Dupont
Circle, a popular cruising spot for gay
men, which homophobes call "the fruit
loop." They were arrested by trailing D.C.
police who found bloody Louisville
Slugger baseball bats in their car.
A third gang member, Riehard"Craig" Grimes, 18, of Ridge, Md., is stillsought as a fugitive.
The attack on Johnson, one of theworst incidents of anti-gay violence here,
occurred in a school parking lot next to P
Street Beach along Rock Creek. About
eight youths armed with bats looking to"bash some fags" for rent money
eonfronted him after Grimes suggested
they go "fuck up some faggots" for cash
and credit cards, cooperating femalegang members testified at the trial.
The assault "weighs heavily" on
Johnson, so he skipped both hearings
due to extreme stress, Linda Delaney,
Johnson's attorney, said.
~ohn Zeh

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Medical Center has abandoned
its"private rooms only" policy for people
with AIDS and HIV-positive patients,
after eomplaints from patients were
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()ut Takes
Legal Defense and Education Fund andorder that had restricted a gay father's
the Gay Men's Health Crisis, in meetings
right to visit his children to times whenwith Medical Center administrators.
"no unrelated adult" was present. In
In a letter to Thomas B. Stoddard,
lifting the restriction, the court stated that
executive director of Lambda, NYU Deanthe "unusual provision was obviously
Martin S. Begun said he has appointed a
imposed on account of [the father's]
team of health care professionals tohomosexuallifestyie. "
implement the new policy. Stoddard said
In ruling to restrict so severely thethat the isolation policy had caused
visitation rights of Michael Walsh, thepeople to be left in the emergency room
father in the case, the lower court hadfor up to ten days.
obviously intended to keep Walsh's two
John Deats, a spokesman for NYU,
children away from his gay lover, withtold OutWeek that PWAs had orginallywhom he lives. The court's ruling tobeen assigned to private rooms in orderdeny Walsh ordinary, liberal visitation
to protect them from picking up
privileges came despite testimony byinfections from other patients.
Walsh's ex-wife in which she had
But Carisa Cunningham, a spokesconceded that he was a good and loving
woman for GMHc, said, "Oearly, PWAs left
father.
eight to ten days in the emergency room
In a joint friend-of-the-court brief,
were being exposed to many rrore germ;
Lambda Legal Defense and Education
than in a semi-private room." Cunningham
Fund and the San Francisco-based
told butw~ that NYlYs fuilure to quiddy
National Center for Lesbian Rights UlBed
assign in-patient beds to PWAs had led to
Iowa's Supreme Court to treat Walsh likenwrerous romplaints from µttienIs.
any other parent entitled under Iowa law
Sources close to the situation said
to liberal visitation unless specific hannthat NYU may have originallyto the child is proven.
implemented the isolation policy in orderAccording to Evan Wolfson, a
to limit the number of AIDS patients
Lambda staff attorney who helped
treated at its facility.
prepare the brief, the Iowa decision
According to Deats, none of those
represents "a trend toward recognizing
complaints have led to findings thatthat sexual orientation in and of itself"what NYU did was less than what was
ought not to re' a factor in custody andmedically appropriate."
visitation cases.
But Cunningham said that the New"But," Wolfson said, "it's still very
York City Commission on Human Rights much a state-to-state matter." Wolfson
is currently investigating a complaint
listed several states - South Carolina,
against NYU on behalf of Ron james,
Alaska, California and New Jersey - as
who developed pneumonia while hehaving good records in the protection of
was made to wait in the' Center's, the rights of lesbian and gay parents, but
emergency room for ten days. He diedhe admitted that some states lag far
several days after he was finallybehind.
transfered. The eomplaint was filed withFor example,· the Missouri Court ofAppeals ruled last December to award
the city by James' lover. :- R. Sugden
custody of a 13-year-old girl and' aneight-year-old boy to their father insteadof their mother because of the mother's
lesbian activities. The ruling contradicted the expressed wishes of the ,children.
Lambda Le~ Defense is currently
involved in what will probably begroundbreaking visitation cases in ~ew
York and California. In both cases alesbian co-parent is suing her former
lover - the biological mother - for the
The Iowa Supreme Court in lateright to visit a child whom the two had
February overturned a lower eourt's

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April 4, 1990

parented together before separating.

.-James WaDer

Outlines
burglarized
CHICAGO-The office of Chicago'Outltnes, a monthly news magazine forthe gay and lesbian community, wascl~aned out by burglars early themorning of March 18.
According to publisher Tracy Bairn,
the thieves made off with three
Macintosh computers, a stretch screen fordesktop publishing, a laser printer, a fax
machine, a television, a stereo and otherelectronie items. Outltnes was insured
and has begun replacing the computers.
The most significant loss was
information stored on the hard-disks ofthe computer5-5uch as lists of bars andcommunity organizations, advertising
copy, graphics and other material thatappears in each issue of the newspaper.
The hard-disks also contained highly
customized software programs for bothdesktop publishing and business recordkeeping.
At press time, computer
experts were rushing to recreate thebasic programs. Many~business records
and graphic creations, however, arepermanently lost.
The burglary appeared to be thework of professional thieves who staged
the break-in between 4:00 and 7:30 am,
accessing the newspaper's third-floor
offices through a baek stairwell. A
crowbar was apparently used to pry
through the office's heavy metal door.
There is no indication that theburglary Was motivated by either anti-gay
prejudice or business rivalry.
An
expensive stat camera that is too iaIge tosteal was not damaged, and important
information stored in me cabinets was
not disturbed.
Bairn promised that both Outlines
and Nightlines
would appear asscheduled March 28.
"We're just go1ng to do it," she said.
"This could have happened two days
later, and we still would have been able
to make it."

Florida
considersforcedtesting
TAllAHASSE, Horida-The Horida
Senate is considering a bill that would
pennit forced AIDStesting of any person
who "significantly'exposes"
police,emergency or health workers to blood orbodily fluids. The proposed legislation,
which was initiated by the Metr~Dade(County) Police Benevolent Association,is one of three bi11s currently before theFlorida legislature that would authorize
mandatory AIDS testing and endanger
the privacy of some HIV-positive
individuals.
One of the other proposed
measures would require alleged sex
offenders to be tested for HIV infection at
the time they are charged. The third
proposal, which is backed by the Horida
Sheriffs' Association, would require thatthe state's Department of Corrections turnover data on prisoners who have tested
HIV-positive to sheriff's departments
throughout the state.
All three proposals are being battled
by the Florida AIDS Legal Defense and
Education Fund, a lobbying groupheadquartered in Tallahassee. The fund's
president, Jeff Peters, told OUtWeek thatany of the measures, if approved, would
inflame AIDS hysteria and significantly
set back the progress made in recent
years toward protecting the civil rights of
HIV-infected Horidians.
Peters believes
that the billsponsored by the Sheriffs' Association isa lightly diSguised attempt to pennit thequarantining of HIV-infected inmates in
Florida's
correctional
institutions.
Although Peters claims that the prpposed
measures have little or no support in
Florida's House of Representatives, hefears that politicians', election-year"posturing" on issues of law enforcement
and public health may give the bills
some chance of success.
Peters' group is urging people fromaround the country to write to Florida
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Answering the Lavenderestionby Ivy Young
The 1990 census should be arriving
at households throughout the country asI
i youread this.
This year, for the
first time ever, thedecennial surveyof the entire u.s.
population
includes a "lavender question" thatwill have a direct
impact on someof the issues
NGLTFS IVY YOUNG affecting lesbians
and gay men.
The Census Bureau has added thecategory "unmarried partner" to therelationship section of the questionnaire. Expanding the selection choicebeyond"roommate/partner"or"roomer/boarder", the new category is,according to some sources, the bureau's
attempt to get an accurate count of thenumber of heterosexual couples living
together without "benefit of marriage. "By simple deduction, how.ever,census officials will also· be able to·determine the number of same-sex
eouples living together in committed
relationships. The Census Bureau has
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will be published along with the statistics
on heterosexual urunanied partners.
For those of us working in thelesbian and gay families arena, that
information could prove vital to thesuccess of our efforts in the future, as
legislative agendas are set, private
industry initiatives launched; and social
priorities determined.
The counting of gay and lesbian
couples is an issue that should be ofparticular interest to New Yorkers,
where domestic partner ordinanees arebeing promoted in both the statelegislature and the' New York City
Couneil.
The Census Bureau has beenroundly criticized for its failure to alert
affected groups that the question evenexists, or, 'for that matter, what
"unmanied partner" actually means. The
census has defmed "unmarried partner"as those who share a household "formore personal reasons."
There has been no outreach effort,
no community education, no diseussion
with lesbian and gay activists inparticular, about how best to ensurethat the question is understood andanswered accurately.
The, Census Bureau does not
pereeive, or more likely, does not care,that for lesbian and gay couples,answering the survey honestly involves
more than a simple check off. The issueof government intrusion and privacy is acrueial one for many lesbians and gay
men; yet census officials have made noeffort to counterthe fear andapprehensionthat could lead to aserious undercount of ~-couples.
Unknown
to many gays andlesbians is the fact that strict provisions
are in place for protecting census·confidentiality.
Title 13 of the u.s. Code prevents
any agency, including the Immigration
and Naturalization Service, the Internal
Revenue Service, the FBI, OA, courts,
military and welfare agencies, fromaccessing information about you.
Rumors of a boycott have beendisproven by action in the opposite'direction. In Southern California, "WeCount," an ad hoc committeeofgay/lesbian activists, has launched amassive outreachand education
program. In Chicago, IMPACf, the gay
and lesbian political action committee,
is promoting gay census participation.
In San Francisco, State Representative
Milton Marks has planned a press
conference on gays in the census.
From New York's landmark
Braschi decision to the San Francisco
Board of Supervisors'
unanimouspassage of domestic partner legislation,'recognition and support of lesbian andgay relationships is growing.
Some lesbian and gay activists,have predicted that as few as ten
percent of those couples affeeted bythe "unmarried partner" question will
respond honestly. But, a recent polleonducted by the Washington Bladefound that of the couples responding,
75 percent said they would answer thequestion truthfully.
Granted, the Blade survey wasconducted in a major metropolitan
area with a long history of gay activism
and visibility. Similar results may not
emerge from some small town or
hamlet. Then again, they might. One
staffer here at the National Gay andLesbian Task. Forc~, j~st back from a
conference
I~ Wichita, reports t~ecensus question was the hot tOpIC
among gay and lesbian Kansans.
Will there be an undercount of
gay and lesbian couples? Probably,
just as there is with every otherminority co~stituency in the UnitedStates. And there is still no way forsingle lesbians and gay ~en to standup and be counted. But should thatstop us from being visible, fromhaving our loving unions institutionally recognized and codified? I
don't think so.
Our job, once the census iscompleted, is to make sure the bureau
is prepared to adjust its statistics tocompensate for undercounting.
Wealso must beat back any attempts by
Sen. Jesse Helms. or Rep. WilliamDannemeyer to instruct the Census
Bureau not to tabulate same-sex data.
Our responsibility
now is toprovide for our community
what
CensusBureauofficials
did
not-informationand education. Ourcommunity must be persuaded to put
aside the fear of being exposed andanswer the census honestly. We havenothing to lose by being truthful.
, The struggle
to haveourrelationships
andour families
recognized and protected will assume
much greater urgency in the decade tocome. Accurate statistics gatheredfrom the 1990 census cOl~ldprovide us
with a small but important weapon to
help wage that struggle.
Whether we choose to answer ornot, we will be living with the results ofthe census for ten years. If we choose
to deliberately absent ourselves fromthis process, if we elect to "disappear,"
what advantage do we gain?
We believe-given
the eh9ice
between visibility and obscurity,
between the "lavender question" andthe closet~thechoice for gay andlesbian equality and recognition is
obvious.
The autbor .is tbe director of tbe
Families Project at tbe National Gay
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IlANDELA from pe.. I.
understand that I have been imp.risoned
for a long time. I have heard about
many organizations and their support. I
will personally see to it that the rights
of all people shall be discussed. "Key gay rights campaigner Simon
Nkoli, speaking from Johannesburg bytelephone, March 15, called Mandela's
Stockholm remarks "absOlutely great,
great news .... We can quote what he said
about no stone untumed," Nkoli said.
Pressed for further analysis, NImli
acknowledged that the answer was "alittle bit indirect, not really to the issue,
but certainly not to our disadvantage."
Nkoli added that activists with theBlack-community-based
Gay and
Lesbian Organization of Witwatersrand
recently participated as invited delegatesto a major ANC conference. T
SF COUNCIL from ... 11. n
But, beyond
specificissues,Achtenberg
said that a crisis ofleadershipon the Board of City
Supervisors is the crucial problem
facing San Francisco's voters.
"It sounds trite, but it's reallytrue," she said. "The Board ofSupervisors
is notorious
for its
bickering. We don't have a lot of 'ideological division, yet people are
pitted against one another because of alack of leadership."High Visibility
Achtenberg emphasizedthat alesbianon the Board ,of City
Supervisors would automatically hold aposition of national importance - andwould shoulder a responsibility
tolesbians and gay mean far outside San
Francisco's borders. "It's that visible a
position. We have a variety of lesbian
and gay leaders, but we're talking
about a very small number of people
who are in such positions of power;"
she said.
Harry Britt, current president of
the board, is gay. Britt, who does not
face re-election
this year, hasannounced that he will retire in 1992.
Migden kicked off her campaign
in January 24 and held her fll'St fundraising event, which she described as"very
successful,"
last
week.
Achtenberg
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at the Douglas Elementary School in
San Francisco's Castro district, where
she lives. She chose that site for its
symbolic value: many Castro residents
have recently pushed to have theschool's name changed to the Harvey
Milk School.
Among other candidates
who
have so far declared their intention to
run for the board is a gay man, Jim
Mangia, who has been put forward by
the New Alliance Party. -ftled fromNew York. T
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HIV testing or interfere with theconfidentiality under which AIDS testingis perfonned. Letters should be sent toRep. David Flagg, chairman of theFlorida House AIDS Task Force, and to
Rep. Elaine Gordon and Sen. Jeanne
Malchon, who chair the health care
committees of the Florida House and
Senate. The address is the same for all
three: The Ql.pitol,Tallahassee, FL 323991300.
--;James Waller T
NORTH CAROUNA from PIlI. 13
owner
who
leads
Citizensfor
Responsible Government, said he has
been impressed by Alliance presentations
before city council. "Anyone with any
reasonable amount of intelligence would
have gone with their side," Jacobs said
The group will support Alliancemembers in efforts to defeat council
members who voted against gay civilrights. "They can take the lead," Jacobs
said. "We will follow." T
ACT UP/KC from Pllil. 13

HARC provides direct services to
PWAs, including a food bank that
distributed more than $75,000 in foodin the past year.
In an interview, HARC board,
member Dick Solowicz, who opposes
endorsing the gay-rights campaign, said
the 4-4 board decision was based on
HARC's desire to be seen as an AIDS
organization, not gay organization.
"Because
we are funded bydonations and by the generosity ofpe'opleandeompanies
andcorporations, we in no way want tojeopardize the sourees of funding thatcome to us," Solowicz said.
"If some people are uncomfortablesupporting a gay organization but notauncomfortablesupporting an AIDS
organization, we're going to protectthat.... We leave politics to politicalactivists. "The vote against endorsing the gay
campaign came at HARC's February
meeting.' Solowicz refused to disclose
how board members voted, but charged
that the breakdown printed in the ACT
UP newsletter was wrong. HARC'sboard meetings are closed to the public.
Solowicz chastised ACT UP formaking the vote a public issue,
predictingthat the conflict will
ultimately hurt HARC's clients.
"The work we have done has been
so very well accepted, and for an
organization that I consider somewhat
militant to try to destroy those efforts. ..canonly hurt the entire community we try toserve," Solowicz said.
"If ACI' UP wants to change its nameto GACT UP-Gay AIDS Coalition to
Unleash Power---dlat's fine. But if they're
ACI' UP, they ought to address AIDS."
Chaney responded by charging
that some members of the HARC board"are afraid of opening their own closet
doors. It's easier to focus on so-called
innocent victims," he said. "It lessens
HARC's chances of making a big splash
in the community."
Kansas City's Human Rights
Ordinance Project is working to add the 'words "sexual orientation: to the city's
Human Rights Ordinance, which would
criminalize discrimination against gay
men and lesbians. Activists have also
proposed that HIV disease be added tothe ordinance's definition of "handicap."
Campaigners are still seeking asponsor to introduce the revisions into
the 12-member city council.
"We're in the beginning phases inthis community," Chaney said "It's likebaby steps.",-flIedfrom O:Jfcago T

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()bituaries
WWiam T. Ericsson
William T. Ericsson died on
Saturday, February 24th after a long andbrave resistance to the HIV virus. At 32,
it was the only battle he ever lost. After
growing up in New Jersey and Indiana,
Bill came to New York and got his firstjob at Dean &:1 Delucca
andworked in their
Soho and East
Hampton Stores.
, In 1980 hebegan his careerat Robert Hadley
AssOCiates, a company specializing
in, the placementof personnel
inthe legal field.
Gradually
assuming major responsibilities there, Bill
remained with the fll'm until his death.
In addition to his professional success,he was a very talented photographer
whose work was shown at both the
Kleinart Gallery and at'the Catskill
Center for Photography in Woodstock,
New York. He also created the
projections
for the Soho Rep
production of Subject to Fits as well as
Fldelto at the Charlotte Opera. Funeralservices were conducted at Saint Ann &:Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in
Brooklyn, which is a place of beauty
that welcomed him in both life anddeath. He leaves his life companion,
Richard Colavito and many loving
friends. Contributions in his memory
can be made to God's love, We
Deliver.
-David F. Segal

Mark Oates ,Aug. 1, 1958-Nov. 17, 1989
Mark Oates, husband/father/actor/
playwright, died of AIDS on November
17, 1989. From the early 1980s, Mark wasan active member of the downtown art
world. Hf: was involved in thedevelopment of several performanceclubs including Club 57, Interferon and
the Pyramid, which he oo-founded, andappeared in countless productions atvenues such as LaMaMa, the Saint, theKit<;hen and BBC, in works by Kestutis
Nakas, Kevin Malony, John Epperson andWilliam Shakespeare, among others. He
will be remembered, for his legendary
production of Psycho III, the Mustcal
which starred John Kelly and introduced
Mark (Hapi Phaee) Phfredd and Stephen(Taboo) Tasjhen to the stage.
Mark served on tqe Artistic Board

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of T.W.E.E.D.
(Theatre
Works:
Emerging/Experimental Directions) for
five years, producing works by Edgar
Oliver, Iris Rose, Watchface, Michael
Nee, and appearing in John Epperson's Ballet of the Dolls and Dial M
for Model. Mark continued to perform
during his illness and last appeared in
the T.W.E.E.D. New Works Festival at
the Ohio Theatre in May 1989. His
uniqueperformancestyle,
acombinationof 60s TV sit-com
zaninessand classicalDelsartegesticulation, will be fondly remembered, his uncanny ability to recognize and promote emerging talent
sorely missed. Mark is survived by hiswife Anne and their three-year-old
son, Wade Michael. There will be amemorial service on Sunday; March
25 at 4:00 pm at the Middle Collegiate Church Social Hall, 50 East
7th Street in New York City.
~evin
Malonyapartment
in Marlnevlew Plaza In
Hoboken.
That
weddingwas
sympathetically featured In the local
paper, the Hoboken RIIpot1er.
David Combs was cremated. He
wished his ashes to be held and m1xed
with those of his 11femate, Randy Wicker,
and then scattered together.
A "Quilt-panel Memorial ~willbe held this spring. Donations can bemade in his name to the PWACoalition's
Giving Fund, 31 W. 26th St., New York,NY 10010.
--Bandy Wkker

Ronald Wiseman,
Legal Advocate

for PWAs

Ronald Wiseman, the Assistant
Director'of Legal Services for the Gay
Men's Health Crisis, died of AIDS-relatedcauses on March 13, 1990. He was 46
years old.
Since he started working at GMHC
in July of 1987, Mr. WISefJWl counseled
or represented hundreds of clients withAIDS or ARC on
David Combs
legal matters from
1952-1990
discrimination
towills. He specialDavid Combs died February 17th ofized In landlordAIDS while at home surrounded by his,tenant matters, andloved ones. David owned and operated
during his tenure,
Uplift Lighting, an art deco lighting shop
J no GMHC clienton Hudson Street in Greenwich Village,
was ever evicted.
along with his lifemate Randy Wicker.
"Ron was a
Combs, who had been ill for a long
caring and comtime, chose to deal with his illness
mitted advocate forwithout medical assistance until lastk, •people with AIDS,'
summer. In September, his and Wicker's
Photo: Peter Schaaf said David Hansell,ordeal of waiting in NYU Medical
GMHC'slegal
Center's Emergency Services Director.
"He made a big
Room corridors fordifference in the lives of so many
six days before
people. We will all miss him as a friend
finally succeeding
and a colleague.·in obtainingaWiseman received his B.A. fromroom, was the
Miami University of Ohio and his J.D.
sujectofanfrom the Ohio State University College ofOutweek article,
uw. Hewasam~offueAIDSPro
·Emergency RoomBono Panel of the Bar Association forGames,' October 6,
Human Rights of Greater New York, the1989.
New York County uwyer's' Association
As a result ofand the Lesbian and Gay Communitythat experience, aServices Center.
,,,legalcomplaint
Wiseman's varied career included
was filed witha stint in professional baseball, playing
NYC's AIDS Discrimination Unit of theoutfield for an Ohio farm team, as
Human Rigpts COmnlission challenging'well as involvement in the theater as
NYlJ's ·private rooms only· policy foran actor and a playwright in New
HIV-positive pati~nts.
. York. He performed off-off Broadway,
Beeause of a barrage of otherwhere three of his plays were, also
eomplaints and pressure from GMHC's produced.
Ombudsman Offiee and the lambda
Mr. Wiseman is survived by his'Legal Defense Fund, NYU Medical Center
parents, John and Jane Wiseman, his
has ehanged its policies.
sister Ann and brother Bill of Ohio, his
On January 18th, Combs and Wicker brofuer, David of North Carolina and his
were wed' by Rev. Robert Williams, anfriends.
openly-gay Episcopalian priest. in their

many

.

,Todd Fleischer, 31
Todd Robert Fleischer died ofcomplications from AIDS-related Kaposi's
Sarcoma, at 6:00 pm on March 14, atCabrini Medical Center. He was 31 years
old, and had been diagnosed for twoand-one-half years.
Todd and I had been lovers on and off
and on for over a year. Todd was mercurialand cynical, Irreverent and snide. But hewas also witty, and had an unc:anrtysenseof irony. He was
exceptionally bright,
politically astute andenjoyednothing
more than a goodargument.
Todd
made· me aazy, andI loved him morethan I can say.
Following his
diagnosis,
Todd
volunteered at, andwas later employed
Todd A.Iach.r, 11ft.
by, the Co~u~ity---L H d I
Research Initiative
dD
(CRI)
as
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manager. There, he was co-investigatoron a study of DHEA, and served as theprinciple investigator for CRI's Databank
Project, which he had envisioned as asystematic compilation of data concerning
community-based, alternative treatments
for AIDS. Todd was also among those
representing CRI at the Fifth International
Conference on AIDSin Montreal.
Todd graduated -summa cum laude
from Hunter College in 1988, with adegree in psychology, and was Phi Beta
Kappa. He had intended to pursue a
career in clinical psychology.
In the early 80s, Todd worked
regularly as a waiter in the theater
district, while he studied dance. He also
worked occasionally as a stage manager
and at various video production jobs.
Todd lived in New York City's Hell's
Kitchen for many years, in a tenementbuilding he and his fellow tenants
purchased from the city. Todd was askilled carpenter and craftsman, and hadrenovated his apartment himself.
Todd is survived by his parents,
Constance Leigh and Roy Fleischer, andhis sister, Jill Fleischer Hochberg, and by
many, many friends. Contributions may
be made in Todd's name to the People
With AIDS Health Group, 31 West 20thStreet, NYC lOOI0.-Derek Hodel

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Living with AIDS

Chemotherapy and AIDS
by Gene FedorkoAecurring nightmare we haveat HEAL (Health, Education
AIDS Liaison) is that the
war against AIDS in the
United States is going to resemble, inthe end, the model of the war against
cancer. That is, after years and years of
research and billions and billions ofdollars spent on research, scientists aregoing to present us with a chemotherapeutic "solution" to the AIDS problem,
and whip up their public relations support systems to cajole us into think thatsomething significant is really being
done about AIDS.
Chemotherapy in the cancer arena
is sadly ineffective. In Scientific American (Nov. 1985), John Cairns, professor of microbiology, School of Public
Health, Harvard University, states, "TheNational Cancer Institute estimates that
there are more than 200,000 patients in
theU.S. eachyear
reeeivingchemotherapy ...For a dangerous andtechnolOgically ~acting form of treatment, these are dangerous figures. The
number of people who are being
cured can hardly amount to more thana few pereent of those who are treated. Whether any of the common caneers ean be cured by chemotherapy
has yet to be established." (Keep inmind that "cure" is defined iri government researeh statistics as anyone who
has survived for up to five years after
chemotherapy.
In other words, if aperson receives chemotherapy
anddies after five years and one day, that
person is still kept in the statistical dataas one who was "cured.") Professor
Cairns eontinues, "All told, adjuvant
treatments now avert a few thousand(two or three percent) deaths."
In a paper published in the New
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eer," John C. Bailor III (also a professor
at Harvat\i School of Public Health,and former editor of the Journal of the
Nattonal Cancer Institute) and Elaine
M. Smith write, "The main conclusion
we draw is that after 35 years, the intense efforts to improving treatments[for cancer] must be judged a qualified
failure ... We are losing the war against
caneer."True, there are some remissions,and lives are extended in some cases.
But quality of life issues must be addressed. Some patients who have reeeived chemotherapy are severely debilitated by the ~perienee, and a great
many of them die from iatrongenic
eauses (doctor- or medicine-induced
death or disease), rather than from thecancer itself. But for all the billions
spent, and all the hype we hear aboutcures (after the statistics are adjusted totheir five-year limit, and significantly,
lung cancer statisties are not mixed inwith other forms of cancer statisticS,
they are isolated from overall curedata), the war against cancer has beena pretty dismal one, in terms of any
great victories and/or cure ratios.
More than idle speculation, this indeed is the developing direction of
AIDS research. For example, more than70 percent of PWAs in federally-administered clinical trials are receiving AZT.
And although now, after inte~ pres,sure from the AIDS activist movement,these programs are broadening slightly
to include a few other drugs such as
delI and dd4, these drugs, like AZT, aretoxic chemotherapeuticanti-HIV
agents. By no coincidence, these drugs
are also highly profitable and produced
by very powerful pharmaceutical corporations.
,
We cannot accept this kind of failure in the battle against AIDS. We eannot accept a situation as being a solution where only two or three percentsof deaths are averted. We eannot· accept a situation whereby medical andgovernmental orthodoxy dictate to us
what few toxic therapies are available,
robbing us of patient empow~rment

and freedom of choice. We must press
for more emphasis on less toxic treatments. There is a bias against less toxic
treatments in orthodox research eircles.
(I will ~plore this bias at length in a
future column.)
Other similarities abound in the
war against cancer and the war against
AIDS. For one thing, a lot of the cast of
characters is the same: Dr. SamuelBroder, Myron Essex, Pere Mansell,William Haseltine, Robert Gallo, toname but a few. Seores of others fromprivate and government research centers have crossed over into the AIDS
research arena, which is a gravy trainof grants and funding.
Philosophically, there is a magicbullet approach to the war against
AIDS. The focus of the AIDS, Clinical
Trial, Groups (ACfGs) under the direction of Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in Washington
D.C. is that HIV causes AIDS, and mostresearch to date on treatment for HIV
has focused on toxic nucleoside analogues (anti-HIV drugs), such as AZT,delI and dd4.
This research has been painfully
slow, and may even be flawed becauseof the database eenter's inability to adequately process or interpret all thedata collected. As Larry Kramer, cofounder of ACf UP said, "There is agood chance that everything NIAID
and the ACfGs have told us about all
the treatments they are shoving into
our bodies may be based on useless orflawed data. This means there is agood chance that after nine years of an
epidemic, they know absolutely zilch
about anything, (After all the billionsof dollars the ACfG system has cost,
all we have is a little news about
AZT.)"
At conferences I have been towith AIDS educators, doctors are talking about pharmaeeutical "cocktails,"
whereby people with AIDS are treatedwith two or three toxic chemotherapeutic agents, such as AZT and delI. At
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Perfidious Albany
by Mark Harrington

been missed.
Prevention education. New YorkState officials have been reluctant toprovide HIV prevention information tone quarter of America's peothe communities most' at risk. The
ple with AIDS live in New
Catholic Church still holds. extensive
York State. Hundredsofsway over statewide AIDS education,
thousands of lives are in jeopardy beand thousands of people will be infectcause Governor Mario Cuomo knows 'ed because the state failed to provide
virtually nothing of AIDS, and defersthem with accurate prevention inforhealth care policy decisions to statemation.
.
health commissioner David AxelrOd, a. Prisoners. A Catholic corrections
bloodless technocrat whose career iscommissioner refuses to provide conbuilt upon cost-control measures whichdoms in prisons; his deputy recently
have brought New York State's healthtestified that condoms would be dancare system to the brink of collapse.
gerous because A) there is no consensual sex in NYS prisons; 'B) condoms
eould be ftlled with sand or excrement; and used as weapons!3 AIDS is the, leading cause of death in NYS prisons.
, Seventeen percent of men in prison
are HIV positive, as are 24 percent of
women in state prisons.
Homeless teenagers too are' victimized by moralistic Catholic institutions,
including Covenant House, which re, fuses to provide condoms and safe sex
information to its New York clients,
many of whom are at risk for HIY fromunsafe sex (demanded by customers of,- sex workers) and drug use.
,
Drug use. 250,000 New Yorkers£ use intravenous drugs. 450,000 use
cocaine or crack. The state provides
J only 45,000 drug treatment
slots, enough to treat less than one tenth of
PROMISES, PROMISES
Photo: T.L. LittNYS dfug users. Most of those slots
GOII.mol Matio Cuomo
are for methadone maintenanee, which
is not effective for eocaine or crack adAIDS incidence.
By Deeember
diction, and which has many unpleas1989, 27,456 New Yorkers had been
ant side effects. With the demise ofreported with AIDS, and 17,729 had
NYC's ·recent pilot needle exchange
died. Both numbers underestimate theprogram, there are not effective protrue extent of the carnage.
AIDS
grams in the 'state for preventing HIV
deaths among IY-drug uSers, for examtransmission among, drug users ..
ple, are 130 percent higher than
Funding. In fiscal year 1989, Newrecorded1; most IVDUs do not get auYork state spent only $52 million nontopsies and many deaths are recorded
Medicaid dollars on AIDS. Masas "drug related." Pediatric AIDS cases
sachusetts spends three times as muchare undercounted
by up to 300
per AIDS case as New York; California
percent2 and are at least nine months
spends 66 percent more per AIDS
behind-meaningthat of the 613 pedicase.4 Lower spending on AIDS is diatric cases reported up to December
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cess to health care and AIDS 'treatments: although New York has twice
the reported AIDS incidence of California, more than twice as many Californians are receiving ddI on expanded
access.5
AIDS treatments. Even when New
York does offer coverage for AIDS
treatments-as
its AIDS Drug Assis, tance Program (ADAP) does for people
with no insurance or inadequate insuraqce-it does nothing to advertise this.
Therefore, only well-connected PWAs
can hope to obtainfree AZT,
aerosolized pentamidine, DHPG, alphainterferon, fluconazole, acyclovir, fansidar, ketoconazole,
clotrimazole,
Bactrim, Dapsone, leucovorin, etc.
The number for ADAP is 1-800-5422437. Only 5,000 of New York's pe0ple with lilY have used ADAP's services because of inadequate outreach.
Hosptta/ beds. NYS lost thousandsof hospital beds in the early and mid
19805 because of Dr. Axelrod's insistence on cutting health care expenses.
Now the cost is overflowing emergency rooms, hospital, beds filled byhomeless people with nowhere else togo, and health care triage for all New
Yorkers.
Housing.
In 1989, Governor
Cuomo promised to build 1,100 housing units for PWAs; only 75 were built.
The state has proposed a $5 million
capital construction program to build
housing for PWAs, but its plan is tofund expensive ($700,000 per bed)
medical housing facilities which mightprovide units for less than 10 PWAs!
ACf UP's Housing Caueus proposes analternatiye which will hous~ mOre
PWAs in more humane circumstances:increasing the current $450 cap onmonthly rent for PWAs who haveapartments, liftng the $3 million ceilingon overall rent 'assistance, and providing a $50 million capital program
which would renovate existing stock,for PWA hOUSing. ACT UP's Eric
Sawyer estimates that up to 85 percent
of PWAs can live with greater independence in scatter-site apartments or single-room occupancy hotels than in the
expensive, restricted skilled-nursing facilities proposed by the state. The
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rew Magazine is trying touse Keith Haring's death to
get new subscribers.
While artist Keith Haring wasalive, he helped countless AIDS, gay
and generally progressive organizations raise thousands ofdollars by donating designs to them. Amongthe organizations his artwork benefited are ACT
UP, Heritage of Pride andthe National Organization
for Women.
Now a commercial
enterprise, Screw magazine, is trying to cash inon his death. The following is a deseription ofa reeent subscription ad
the magazine has pub- 'lished on its own behalf.
The headline on thead screams "Swateh Me
Die" and features two
Haring figures involvedin what looks like anal
sex. The smaller print'
begins: "This is for real,folks, it's no red Haring-Keith's dead, and all
the merehandising in theworld' won't bring him
back. ' It states that Haring's, elegy should be:"Holy bleep! This sketch I bought off
Keith for the price of a tube of
Whoopee. Lube-it must be worth a
bleeping fortune." To make the transition from pot shots at a dead man to, buying subscriptions, the ad states that

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Keith Haring's death "opens up yet another eoveted place on our subseription roster. So subseribe, already."
There's more in the same vein.
To the extent that Screw magazine
wants to be outrageously sexual in an
era in which Helms would like to shut
down every porn magazine, we support
it. But this ad has nothing to do with
sex and everything to do with exploiting a dead man. It is a Simple-minded,
incredibly nasty, eommercial attempt toprofiteer off the death of a man who
was extremely popular and generous.
We suggest you write to AI Goldstein, the man behind the Screw magazine empire, which includes the latenight porn show Midnight Blue, andpoint out this difference to him. Write:
AI Goldstein, Milky Way Productions,
P.O. Box 432, Old Chelsea Statiqn,
New York, NY 10113. Or call him at(212) 989-8001.
The New York Times, for the second time in a month, has misreported
the sexual orientation of someone who

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died a violent death.
On March 15th, both New York
Newsday and the Times wrote extensive stories about a woman, Loretta
Rivera, who .was killed by a stray bullet
as she walked to her Brooklyn ,home.

Newsday reported that Rivera had
worked in a dental dinic, and had
hoped to save enough money to buy a
Manhattan apartment large enol!gh toshare with her girlfriend, Liz Melendez,
as soon as Melendez was released
from prison. Melendez was convictedof selling drugs in 1988 and was, imprisoned for violating her probation.
In a letter to Melendez, according to
Newsday, Rivera wrote: "We have our
future.
It's on hold 'til you comehome. But, Baby, it will be worth it."Rivera had a photograph of her
and Melendez in her breast pocket
when she died. Newsday reported that
Vivian Castro, a friend of Rivera's,
eommented that Rivera always "kept it
in her shirt pocket, because she wanted Liz to be forever close to her heart."
The New York Times told the story alittle differently, stating, "In [Rivera's] left
breast pocket, just below the bullet
wound, was a -photograph of her withher boyfriend, who was imprisoned in
December on a drug charge." TheTimes attributed a slightly
different quote to Castro
as well: "She said she
wanted them together
close to her heart."
At the time this column was written, theTimes was refusing to
run a correction. Whenpressed,-one representative of the paper statedthat the "wishes of thefamily" would have to
be considered. If that isindeed the case, wehave two questions forthe paper: 1) Does the"family" include, in theeyes of the Times, Liz
Melendez?, and 2) are
we supposed to believethat the Times has a general policy of misreport- .
ing facts on the basis of
the wishes of people involved with a given
story? We doubt it. At aminimum, this notion isa major breach of journalistic integrity. The implications' forgeneral coverage of the gay and lesbiilO community are Sickening.
We've seen similar misreporting
before from the Times, and recently atthat. Just last month, when reportingon the Zappalorti murder on Staten Island, the Times was the only paper inthe city to quote the father of the slain
man denying that his son was gay.
Two other papers, including the Dally
News, ran grammatically similar quotes
in which the father acknowledged that
his son was gay. When pressed, theTimes stood by their reporter's versionof Zappalorti's quote, and refused torun a correctiqn.
What we have here is either incredibly sloppy journalism, or a pattern of appalUng editorial bias. To put 'it bluntly, it seems that the Times is unwilling to believe that nice, Italian families on Staten Island, or nice Hispanic
families in Brooklyn, can have gay
people in them.
The Times needs to hear from youthat the public has noticed this trendof misreporting the deaths of gay men
and, women. And that lesbians andgay men refuse to be rendered invisible by the Times' unwillingness to report on, or locate, the facts.
Write to Metropolitan
EditorJohn Darnton, c/o The New YorkTimes, 229 West 43rd Street, New
York, NY 10036. Or call the Times at(212) 556-1234 ....

for women ..." The list goes on and on.
New York state's response to the
AIDS epidemic amounts to a campaign
of genocide by silence, ignorance andindifference. The solution depends onchallenging Cuomo's broken promises
and exposing his lies. See you in Albany on March 28....

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1 Stonebumer, R.S. et al., Sctence,

11.11.88.
2 David Z. Kirschenbaum, personal communication, 3.19.90
3 Daniel Wolfe, personal communication, 3.19.90.
4 HlV/AIDS Survetllance Report,
Nov. 1989, CDC; AIDS Policy Center Intergovernmental Health I'olicy Project;
George Washington University, 8.89
5 David Barr, personal eommunication, 3.19.90
UVlNG WITH AIDS from page 34aone conference,
doctor suggested
that in the very near future people
with AIDS will first' be put on AZT,
which is toxic to the bone marrow,then on ,delI, whiCh is toxic to the central nervous system, but will give thebone marrow a rest, then back on AZf,
after the delI gets to be too much forthe central nervous system, and so on,
ad nauseam.
An important difference so far bePOIJTICAl. SCIENCE from page 36
tween the AIDS and the caneer commuHousing Caucus will meet with state
nities is that the AIDS community isofficials on April 6.
more organized, more militant andCommunity-based organizations.
many of us are alarmed at the grotesque
Government neglect led to the estabinadequacies of the health-care systemlishmentof many underfunded,and the research structures in our counover.worked community-based organizations working in communities affect- try. We have come up with a lot of very
ed by AIDS. Other than NYC's Gay creative alternatives to orthodox research policies, for ~ple,CommuniMen's Health Crisis, most of these
CBOs are strapped for funds, staff and ty Research Initiatives (CRIs), parallel
space. Keith Cylar of NYC's Minority tracking, intensely SCrutinizingthe inadequacies of government research efforts,
Task Force on AIDS says CBOs need"Money, spac,e, technical assistance, . peering into the inner workings ofcase management and the ability to NlAID and the ACfGs, continuously exposing the conflict-of-interest relationrefer clients directly to community
ships between the FDA and the industry
health clinics.
I can't get primary
health care for my clients because I it is supposed to regulate, and exposing
the efforts by insurance companies to
don't 4ave a formalized relationshipwith a hospital, or to a clinic that pro- limit or curtail coverage for people withvides outpatient care. We don't have HIV, to name a few.
We must all work together tothe resources to put enough of an emmake desperately-neededchanges inphasis on the substance-abusing popusystem.
A toxic
lation, prisoners, the previously inear- our researchchemotherapeutic "solution" that has
cerated and HIV~infected people who
only a 'minuscule"cure" ratio ean
don't meet the CDC AIDS definition.
never be acceptable to the AIDS comWe need money for emergency services, transportation tokens, child care munity ....

Maybe you don't likeusing condoms. But if
you're going to have sex, alatex condom with a spermicide is your best protecti~n against the AIDS
VIrUS.

Use them every time,from start to finish,according to the manufacturers' directions., Because,no one has ever been curedof AIDS. More than 40,000
Americans have alreadydied from it.
And even if you don't
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About a month ago, a bunch of us editOI'S were sitting around talking-as
wepainfully do every Monday in an attempt tocome up with story ideas. You know. Typical editor stuff.
We began a particular discussion: Pushing back labels-feminism,separatism,
activism, sexism, class ism, racism-we
attempted
to peer beneath and uncoverwhere lesbians are in 1990-not necessarily
in a strictly political sense, but where they
are emotionally, sexually, personally.
As with most things, this exchange unfortunately led to still more labels. At a magazine, where COVel"lines, headlines, subheads,
photo
captions
and pull quotes
al'eparamount, that is bound to happen. Someone randomly came up with the term "Modern Lesbian" as a working title. But then it
stuck-simply
because the five contributors
whom we assigned to write on the subject
took to the term itself, either by embracing it
or by attacking it.
In her piece, "Sister to Brother: Women ofColor on Coming Together with Men," Eva
Yaa Asantewaa points out that "a piece on 'theModern Lesbian' struck a nerve in most of thesisters I intervicwed ..:Ifs typical that [a man]would be interested in these things,' a young.
African-American lesbian told me." (It should
be pointed out that the Oil/Week board of editors-which
decided upon this topic-ismade up of men and women.) Madam X, in"Her Royal Hypeness," initiates an aU-out
assault on "the Modern Lesbian," or rather,
the use of the term as a stel'eotyping tactic,
declaring, "I refuse to fit into a new category"(although some label mongers might argue
that this kind of individualism is, in itself, aquality of the "Modern Lesbian").
"Wandering Through Herland" is Maria
Maggenti's personal journey, grappling withfeminism, AIDS activism and working withgay men, and the resulting conflicts thatarise. Patsy Lynch, in "Lesbian Ladies," visitsa support grou p for femme lesbians in
Washington D.C., one of many which havelately sprung up across the country. And in"Desperately Seeking c.c.," Jill Adams takes
us on a zany, emotionalroller coasterride-anight out, cruising the scene andlooking for Ms. Right.

-Micbelangelo

Signorilem_,

Wandering
through
Herlandby Maria Maggenti
The cover of the Newsweek magazine
article says "The Future of Gay America"
and the picture is of two white men holding hands. I scramble madly through theglos,sypages to try and find the paragraphsthat mention lesbians. Oh gee, there weare! In a sidebar- white, "married," lesbian
couples with children in Columbus, Ohio
mumbling something about their semi-closeted existence and their conventionallyconstructed relationships.
The wodd
Newsweek notices is not the world of On
OUr Backs, Pat Califia, Girls Bars and outand-proud dykes with a long, complicatedand varied history of existence. It says "The
Future of Gay AmeriCll,"but once again, weare somehow shadoWy, unknowable, invisible, unthinkable. There is one quote froma young woman who makes the statementthat she represents that growing element of
the lesbian eommunity who wear make up
and feminine clothes and call themselves"lipstick lesbians or girlie girls.· I think tomyself that this crass distillation of the
struggles that exist in our communities
about who we are as leSbians are not sosimple as who wears lipstick to be beauti-

fuI .nd who """'"
I Ihlnk tothat Newsweek magazine has missed"··"the boat on lesbians and then I wonder, well, what boat should they havebeen on .anyWay?
I do know that things are dlfferent
now. But it Is all liquid, waves breaking over and over again In my faee. I
try to come up with things "lesbian"and I feel as though I am in the backof a cab staring out the window. The
driver is going really fast down the
East River Drive at dusk and I know I
am ,looking at Manhattan but all I get
are the shapes, some colors; people
are speaking in different languages.
This Is my home but I can't tell where
my house is.

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I remember chiding men in ACf
UP over and over when they said GAY
this or GAY that and women would
have to Interjeet, "do you mean GAY
AND LESBIANor GAYMEN?"and there
would be a moment of collective mental shuffling, as though the axis of theearth had just been tilted to an extreme
angle. Sheepishly there would be a reOl'ga- one arm extended to waro off gay male sexnization of the sentence and an attempt at ism and another arm extended to keep away
clarity and sooner or later those men with lesbian parochialism; the kind that says "besome seniority never made that faux pas this way, womon, or else.· The men areagain. In that hothouse called AIDS friendly and seem to take me for who I am,
aetivism, where I spent two and a half the 'women are suspidous, judgmental, critisteamy years screaming, getting my butt cal. But the men don't seem to understandkicked, and lOving gay men for the first what I'm talking about half the time. Whattime, I experienced things that lesblancfemi- , do you think I am anyway, some straight-girlnism had not prepared me for and I discov- fag hag? And the women understand what
ered'that without that feminism I neverI'm talking about but hate my ego, my
could have lasted so long in a community clothes, my swaying butt when' I walk. This
made up of so' many men. Feminism did Island, where I stand -myself, it is a somenot teach me about that delidous, outra- times lonely and surreal place to be.
geous, queer decadenee indulged in by gay• • • •
men' as a' survival strategy. So I danced
So feminism is dead, or it has changed
about in my leather jacket and helped gay- or it is still meaningful to some of us but
boy friends zip up the backs of their goofy its political currency in the world is weak,
dresses as We marched off to close down its radical heart exdsed, its plodding midthe stock exChange. But feminism gave me dle class moderation now an acceptablea political disdpline that was sometimes way of life. Feminism has been absorbed
more useful than drag. Feminism kept me by the same generation that so proudly
from thinking that "Robert's Rules of Order" claims to, reject it and instead of women's
are a true forn1 of human communication liberation I hear "long live the queer
that white racism can be eliminated by say- nation'" Then there are these "girl. bars"
ing "people of colOr"all the time. Feminism, with big breasted women wearing strap-on
and lesbian-feminism in particular, created a dildoes bending over so I can see theirworld where only a desert had existed
crotches as they dance to mean, loudbefore and though I had long since given music. Standjng next to' me are twoup romanticizing "the life,· I felt proud of it women, a couple. They are wearing button
anyWaY·' down shirts and Silence-Death buttons on
their knapsacks. They share an apartment
As I look back on it now I see the diffi- . in Park Slope, own a cat, they've been incult place I was in--«lmost as though I waseouple counseling, they move in a world
standing on an island and there are the: other of women like themselves and try not to
let people smoke In the house. One oftoo. Andare our brothers. Gee, guess what?
Theythere
are them grins at me as the go-go girl does a'''ndJns -~ lbe =fnbnd I hove slow grind down on her knees teasing her. ., . .

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nipples with her rose red fingernails, stickhow you talk, who's who in the gay
ing her round ass in the air. "Well, this suremale universe, how you can fuckis a long way from women's
readingsafely man-to-man, get it? What dogroups, isn't it?" she laughs. I imagine thatyou really know about us? What kindshe and I have the same books on ourof effort have you made? (In mybookshelves, the ones that get a printing of .head, I ean hear the voices chanting:
1,500 but somehow it seems like everyone , manhater, separatist.) We part easily,
you know has read them. Then I am
as true friends do when there is a dlsreminded of a former lesbian roommate, aagreement, and later that week he
few years younger than I, whose acquaincalls to ask to borrow some of mytance with things feminist' elicited little but
books. Boys.
a kind of glazed-overincomprehension.
• • • •
"Boys, girls, girls, boys," her like seemed toNewsweek didn't miss the boat itsay, "as long as we're all queer and proud
missed a whole flotilla. There we are
what's the big deal?" ("But we need to be 'paddling along, a whole million bilfor us," I would say in my head, "womenlion of us: lesbians, dykes, lezzies,
as women, lesbians as lesbians, no o~ebulldaggers, girlie girls, It is my bodyelse cares about us except us. How can wethat remembers what my mind forbe proud if we can't even see each othergets-all those soft lips, those roughhalf the time? The boys are always in thefingers and swaying hips, a tongue
foreground. Oh, there we are, I spy, a couon my thigh and easily holding hands
ple of dykes in the scenery over that guy's
in places where no one expects toshoulder. ")see two lesbians being lovers. I think• • • •
about how I want to be as out at LinI read things about lesbians and by lescoln Center as I am at the Duchess. I
bians in a vain attempt to know something
remember being ealled a ciassist,about us. I cruise women on the street andimperialistic, bourgeois pig when I
wear a pink triangle on my coat lapel whenmentioned that i loved opera to a
I ride the subway. No one ever seems towoman in a women's studies class. I,
return my meaningful stares except gay
try to put ~ords to those exquisite throbmen who smile broadly and straight malebing moments of women dancing close toperverts who interrupt my line of vision, I me at Carmelita's
on a Friday night. A
snort out loud about reproductive rights disbroadbacked woman with rippling muscles
missing any discussion that doesn't include
raises her arms up and the hair in her
lesbian sexual freedom and fight with dykes
armpits is glistening with sweat. Her eyes
who say that AIDS isn't "our" issue. If it
are closed, she is feeling it, she ahnost looks
says "women" I am skeptical-dotheylike a boy, but those hips, those legs. She ismean lesbians too or does that mean lesexquisitely beautiful. Maybe I have had too
bians only? And why do we still say womenmany beers or it is that girl's hands runningwhen we mean lesbians? The new code is up and down my ass, but at that moment I"girls." When I see the word girls it usually
think being a lesbian is the most glorious~eans lesbians. I laugh about the screaming
thing in the world. I forget about Newsweek,
fights I would have with male strangers
about how invisible we are, about all thewho called me a girl when I was 20 years
old. Now I give them the finger, smile andsay, "Iezzie, you asshole."
A bunch of us, faggots and dykes, arehanging out at my house drinking Rolling
Rock and telling stories, Somehow or another my girlfriend and I begin laughing hysterically about the eovers of lesbian novels
from Naaid Press. How ugly and unappealing they are to a potential buyer, god,
where is the art direction, how does thewriter feel about those graphicS, jeez!?
When 'one of the men joins in, we turn andsay, ,"listen, we ean laugh at ourselves but
you ean't." My male friend has that lookthat I have seen on gay men's faees
before-akind of fearful, shameful andindignant look that says, "Hey, I'm a sister
too!" It's like this: I can say whatever I want
about my mother but you can't, get it? It's
like this: we bust our asses learning all~bout you and your lives, what you read,fights we h,ave with each other, about how
we are and how we should be.

• • • •My feet are burning. I remember all
those women who walked out on me,
calmly returned the keys to my apartment
while drinking a beer at my kitchen tabl~;
how they left because they wanted to fucka new girl. They weren't sure about getting
so close, they just didn't want to be in a
relationship anymore, My chest is on fire.
There is my best friend in bed with her
new lover a thousand miles away listening
to me cry over and over about how this is
it, I am going straight now, at least I could
boss a man around and' not feel so badwhen he left me, and my best friend listensand listens. My hands tingle. It is the firsttime we've touched and her skin is cooland silky, like taffeta. I wonder if I willknow her long enough to memorize herfaee, My face is hot. We are the only lesbian AIDS activists in the place and weboth smoke. We declare eternal love andfriendship on the spot. My eyes are wet. It
is Gay and Lesbian Pride Day and god,
there are so many women .here and theylook so sexy and everyone is sweating andholding hands. I think I will burst.
There we· all are moving swiftly forward.
We all seem to be going in different directions. But no one paddles baekwards. EVerything that'rises, I say to myself, everything thatrises, I sing to myself, everything ~t rises
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matching shirt and skirt. "During J;Ilyfresh- nice comfortable t-shirt with the logo "Girlman year at the University of Michigan, I Scout gone bad" on the front/'I thought
became involved with a woman's group and about all those meetings that I had attendcame out as a lesbian. Yes I wore jeans, ed as a young and oh-so-innocent dyke,
flannel shirts, the whole dyke drag. The where the clothes seem to refleet the curIdea of wearlng a dress was quite repulsive rent trend of the communitY. Most of
to me. This lasted until 1 broke up with my those women were eoncerned about crelover and became disillusioned with the atiqg a society where women would becommunity that 1 lived in, and left. 1 tried to free to express themselves without the
influence of men. 1 found myself being
be straight."
Her "straight" phase was also short- challenged for maintaining the then dislived. Preferring women, but disliking
tasteful notion that men eould be our"dykes," Yockey opted for celibacy. She friends. Funny how far the world has
The flyer was Mary Kay pink. "Lesbian went back to wearing dresses and found come, 1 thought. 1 am interviewing aLadies Society" it read next to an illustration that she enjoyed it. "I had been reading woman who insists that she is theof, a Victorian Woman dressed in a bonnet articles about what makes a woman
spokesperson for the "feminine lesbian."
anc;lumbrella. It was enough to make me , straight or gay: Clothing seemed to be
Yockey says that about 20 percent of,clutch my flannel shirt protectively and important. 1 thought it rather silly for the Lesbian Ladies Society are Black, withwipe the sweat off my blue jeans. With someone to tell me how I should dress to , the rest equally divided between whites,some trepidation 1picked up the phone and be a real woman. 1 am a real woman and Latinos and other ethnic groups. They range
dialed the number listed on the flyer.
a lesbian. 1 will decide how 1 dress and in age between 20 and 60, and have blue orCynthia Yockey answered the phone behave."pink collar jobs. She thinks that most proand agreed to meet with me. Being a vicWhen Yockey moved to Washington in fessional lesbians are either too involved in
tim of fashion inertia, I finally found the 1983, she again encountered attire phobia. their careers to have a social life, or are in"right outfit" and left for the interview. Ms.
"There seems to be a 'dress eode' which is fact masculine-oriented dykes who only
Y~key could be called Washington, D.C.'s rigidly followed. Because 1 wear feminine wear dresses out of necessity.
Jeane D'Arc of dress-wearing dykes. The attire, I was disowned, even persecuted, by
If Ms. Yockey's current book propos36-year-old is a tireless crusader against the this community. I'd rather be alone than tol- al is suceessful, the dress-wearing lesbianstigma that, she feels, is attached to les- erate this abuse."
movement will soon have its own manibians who wear skirts. True to form, she
The follOwing year Yockey met her festo. She hopes that dress-wearing cells
was wearing a peach tux shirt, gray skirt, lover, and together they made one more will spring up around the "lesbian nation"
pumps and just a hint of make up. The lip- attempt at sharing lesbian fellowship. Again, and indeed across the world. After all,stick was a sedate puce.
her dress got in the way.
she says, there are a lot of lesbians who
It is Yockey's opinion that sueh "femiYockey decided to form a group whieh enjoy being a girl. These women, now
nine" women are experiencing discrimina- would meet her needs.
isolated and lonely, are hungry to learn, tion by the larger lesbian community, which
She put notices in the weekly gay new- about the movement. Ms. Yockey will
regards wearing make up and acting .like paper" and was surprised by the response. bring them the good news. She is a"ladies" as mocking "real" lesbians. Ms. "I expected ten to 15 women. We had over woman with a mission.
Yockey says that these "ladies" know who 50 calls. We held meetings at my house. I
they are.
tried to have discussion topiCS,but 1 foundSuch is the power of fashion that even women were more interested in socializing."
the ladylike Ms. Yockey onee spumed the As the group has grown, Yockey incorporated it and now charges a membership fee
and dues.
She also has rules and regulations
which, she says, have caused misunderstandings and controversy. Rule number
one: women must wear a dress' or skirt tomeetings. Rule number two: only biologicalfemales are permitted to attend. "In theearly years, we allowed transsexuals, but
the other women felt uncomfortable. 1
decided that only 'real' women could jOin."
Who would have thought that a dress
could cause so much controversy? Yockey
claims that since starting her group, she hasreceived hate ,callsand,threatening letters. "I
think there are some lesbians who are reallymasculine in their orientation. Those lesbians feel that they are the spokeswomenfor the entire community. For feffiinine lesbians, this is an avenue we Cannot .follow,
and therefore do not!"Hearing Ms. Yockey make this statement, 1 found myself clutching my shirt, aLesbian Ladies[or where did all
the femmes go?]by Patsy Lynch

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Sister to Brother
Women of Color on Coming Together with Men
by Eva Vaa Asantewaa
What becomes a lesbian' of <;olor most?
Dorothy Randall Gray:
they walk into a room full of women. Our
Independence. So much so that my eOitor's
A member of the Stations Collective. gay brothers are just beginning to get thatconcept of a piece on "The Modern LesAdmits to liking magenta lipstick and purple feeling of bonding, the kind ot pride they felt
bian" struck a nerve in most of the sisters I , eyeliner.
when they walked in the Harlem Day Parade
interviewed-and'in me as well. Have we"Gays and lesbians of color are more
where they knew the Black community
dispensed with the rules for how to be "corpredisposed to coming together, less sepanlight be hostile. In African-American histo!)',rect" in our physical appearance, in our sexratist, more open-spirited~nd willing-.towomen held the community together while
ual expression, in our working relationships
share. In recent years, I've seen moremen were finding their strength. Since Blackand friendships with men? With the excepevents-the Pilt Parker memoria1 reading, thegay males have not yet resolved what cantion of one woman
who cheerfully
Kwanza eelebrations--jnvolving
gay' men
make them strong, they admire
well asdescribed a dressing style that could encomand women of eolor. There have always
resent) our strength. Wherever' outreach has
pass flannel shirts, sundresses and an occabeen men at perfonnances of Stations.
happened, it's because lesbians have madesional tux, everyone
laughed
off the"Of course, not eve!), gay male of color
the effort to say, 'come on in, brothers'.·
fashion-magazine topics. "It's typical that [a welcomes women's participation with open
Coral Inza:'
man! would be interested in those things," aanns. Sometimes, there's a disrespect not
Hails from the Bronx. Says lesbians
young African-American lesbian told me.
based on sexuality or color but 'style. 'Why
have more clothing alternatives thanInstead, they eagerly embraced the question
do lesbians dress doWn and look plain?' I
straight women. She likes to take advantage
about meaningful interactions with men.
don't know of any derogato!)' tenn that lesof that but hates to shop.
Has any lesbian worth the name limitbians have' for gay men, but "mcnnaid" is"Among other things I'ye done in theed herself to anyone's idea of how she
the tenn gay men have for us. 1bat shows
community, I've joined the coalition to getshould look or behave (or how she should
some' underlying hostility. On the otherpeople of Color on the board of the Lesbian
answer an interviewer)? The lesbian clone ishand, when they see a lesbian with a lot ofand Gay Community Center, and I work
an lIIusion; a figment of her own and aflair and dynamism, they say, ,'We waht towith gay men of color in that effort. I find it
homophobe's fevered imagination; a tempobe with you. In fact, we want to be you!'enriching. What we cannot do alone, werary aberration. Let's be done with her. Each
"Lesbians, who have the lowest rates ofcan do collectively even if the issues within
lesbian a self-made woman; each a uniqueHIV-positive status and AIDS-related illnessour spectruJl) differ.
tr~ureto be discovered! 11lis is the spicees, have committed to fighting AIDS in great"I appreciate
gay men's directness.
of lesbian life.
, numbers. I haven't seen any corresponding
They ,can be adamant, but I'd rather have
For sisters of color, this is especially
activism on the part of gay men in the fightthat. Sometimes with women, I feel I'mtrue, and it may be one of the reasons there
for abortion and the right for a woman todoing dental work. ''seems to be a desire to share this healthy
control her own body.
"Working with lesbians of color has
sense of identity with our gay brothers.
"There's a feeling lesbians get whenreinforced my identity and the direction of
In the white lesbian and gay community, there's an awarenessthat the battle
against AIDS has drawn eoncerned men andwomen together. For Latina and AfricanAmerican lesbians and gay men, the homophobia within our native communities andthe racislJl within the overall lesbian andgay community can create additional points
around which to dialogue and act as a unit.
But, we're not always talking about the negative as a starting place, Poet Dorothy Randall Gray speaks of the basic connection
between lesbians and gay men of African
heritage as "an extension of Afrocentric
beliefs, truths that are stronger than our $eXuality," an affinnation of our common culture. There, is, she says, "a need to bond,with our male counterpart, based on a sharing of experienees. "I gathered some other spontaneous
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my life. Being around women who are
poweiful in themselves helps me get thework done, and you know it can get tiring-this upstream battle to assert who weare. Working with gay men of color offersa balance as both sides work through theirdisagreements and differences.·
Dionne Freeney:
DireCts the Youth En,rlchment Services
program at New York's Lesbian and Gay
Community Ser:vlces Center. Has been amember of Lavender Light Black and People of All Colors Choir for the past ninemonths.
"Women and men should work
together, but there are times when it's
appropriate to be apart because you needthat space. 1 definitely think male energy
is different from female energy.
"There's a 90:10 ratio, male to female,in the YES program, but that's very muehin the nature of the Center. We have a lotof male images [in the artwork exhibited
throughout the Center]. A lot of womencome in and don't feel comfortable.
"Men will always have privilege nomatter who they are, and that crosses
color lines. They've got more bueks, more
power, and more men are out.
"Lavender Light is a democracy. We
all work together and have close friendships, male and female, all colors. We
share responsibility and power.·
Mariana Romo-Cannona:
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"I didn't start working with gay men
until very recently because there wasn't afonnat in whieh I felt it was propitious towork together. I did have Black gay malefriends who were more comfortable todeal with than white gay men. With Latino
gay men, things didn't click beeause ofissues of class or hierarchical structure. I
didn't feel eomfortable being represented
by them.
"Sinee then, a steering eommittee of
lesbians and gay men of eolor wasformed from a town meeting held at theCommunity
Center.
Other
LatinogroupS-Boricua Gay and Lesbian Forumand HUGL-have emerged. Latino gays
and lesbians marched together in the
Puerto Rican Day parade and, for the firsttime, appeared on a television program
together. Working with men has been satisfactory. They have been reeeptive andnot at all overpowering.
"Sometimes men have attended Las
Buenas Amigas' events, and some women
have felt uncomfortable. Others feel comfortable. Since it is hard to get space just for ourselves, we find that we do have to prioritize.
But we will do some events with the men.
'Specific friendships with individual
men can work out, but, when you work ingroups, you find the sexism of Latino culture. It's easier to deal with-anddismis~eassumptions of white men. But
Latino gay brothers are our own people. We
have an investment in the success of thesec.oalitions.

"What's positive is how we approach
the straight Latino community-which isthreatened by us. Seeing, a lesbian on atalk show, they try to order her world.
'She doesn't look like a lesbian. She might
be straight' We can use the opportunity toshow them a viable alternative of how
men and women can be together."Candiee Boyee:
Member of the board of African AmerIcan Wlmmln United for Societal Change(formerly Salsa-Soul Sisters).
"There is a division between lesbians
and gay men beeause of sexism. In Atlanta[at the reeent National Black Gay and lesbian Leadership Conference!, gay men
admitted that they were raised as men andhad certain sexist attitudes about women.
Now, they are trying to reach out to us.
They need the help of women who haveexperienee in coming together in coalition.
"I haven't yet seen that the men'sgroups have reciprocated to the women'sgroups' invitations. 'Salsa' has recently
begun inviting men to facilitate one of its
weekly workshops, one per month. Aboutfive men showed up for the first one. 1
attended a meeting of Gay Men of Afrikan
Descent It's been difficult to get women to
go to their meetings.
"AIDS is definitely what has brought
lesbians and gay men together, but we also
have a enemy at the Center-white men.
That's what brings us into a common
frame. We have to stiek together when they
discriminate against us.
Personally, I havegood connections withgay men of col~r. Being
far away from home [atthe Atlanta conference!,
we had to support eachother, and we brought 'back some of that goodenergy."Clearly, our sharedhistoryof multiple
oppressions makes any
effort to stand together'complicated., For thatmatter, is it any different
when the combination iswoman to woman or
man to man? Reachingout to others seems tocall first for reaching
into ourselves-and liking and respecting what
we find there. It is not a
simple task but one
which my sisters ofcolor seem to welcome
as we move into a new
decade of struggle, creativity and love.

Desperately
Seeking C. C.
by Jill Adams
I'm quite sure that it all began at the ageof seven. That's when I learned that by diyhumping my Snoopy stuffed animal, I could
make my vagina tingle and throb, I don't
think this can be construed as bestiality, yet I
still felt, by soci~ty's standards, my behavior
was impure and perverse. As time passed, I
grew tired of my secret lov~ affair with
Snoopy. I was eager to engage in the act, withsomeone a little less submissive. Someone
less predictable, someone human, perhaps.
So much for flashbaeks. We're now in
the 90s, and darlings, I have arrived I don't
know who to thank, genetics or my environment, or Snoopy for that matter, but with noaid from any therapist, I've eome to understand that I'm perfectly gay. Yes, as inhappy, yes as in homosexual. I'm real proudof my diversion, but to be totally honest,
hooking up with Miss Right ain't easy. See,she does exist. In fact, I've met her twice.
Miss Right, that is. Only the problem is, I
didn't pursue her enthusiastically enough.
Of course, I realized this after the fact. The
point is, I'll never be fulfilled unless I findher agaifl. But how? I know only her first
name. There's only one solution. No! Not
another night at the meat market. That's
right punky! Come on, no time to waste,
let's go! I could use a little moral support.'

Boy it's crowded tOnight Tight space. I
guess you have no choice but to rub by
every body you pass. By no means am I
complaining. Aetually it feels kind of good,
especially when they're facing you. Try not
to stare , but would you give a look, overby the jukebox. A couple of horny diesel
dykes, lustfully grinding and performing
cunnilingus over each others jeans. I didn't
know they have live entertainment here. So
uninhibited. Get down witch-ya bad selves
ladies. You know, any minute, Miss Thing isgonna get real excessive, strap it on, andgive us a real performance.
Oh, I could
watch this shit for days. Robin Byrd, eat
your heart out girlfriend.
Hey look, over there in the showcase.
It's a blowup of our gal pal Sandra BurnHeart, 'my secret celebrity desire. Very feminine, in a classic Billy Idol pose. Corner ofher lip turned up, and her hand in a fist,
real tough like. I heard she comes around,every so often. Sure, I've met her before,
only I haven't had the good fortune ofturning her out. Leaves her case still open
to the jury, huh?
God, would you look at all thesebroads clutching on to each other for dearlife. So territorial. Please ladies, loosen up,
don't be so insecure. I'm not interested inyour possessive exclUSivity. Monogamy is
not my bag.
Oh, there's a classic couple over there
for you ,at the end of the bar. Role playingthat is so eontrived and unnatural, that I
may just regugitate, at the sight of it. The
characters in ~ performance are referred
to as "Butch and Femme." I am the provider
in this relationship, therefore I look, dress
and aet like Mike Tyson. Now I ask you, isthis necessary? Norman Rockwell must be
turning in his grave from this portrait. Nice
going ladies, set us back a couple hUndredyears, why don't ya. Go on, keep legitamizing the stereotypes. That's it, I'm out ofhere... Come on, give it just a few more
hours, it's early, she still might show. Be
optimistic.
OOOOWl Who the hell is that? She isgorgeous. What's she doing here? That's terrible, I'm sorry, I take that back. Would you
check out that tired lookin' babe, trying to
make the moves on her. Give her some air,jeez. I walk over to where they're talking, tocateh some of the cqnversation.
Well, I
might have guessed She's got a boyfriend
Uh huh. It's her night out with the girls. Uhhuh. This is her first tirile in a gay bar. Uhhuh. First time this week maybe. She, myfriends, is what is known in the community
as 'THE EXPERIMENTOR,'
so beware.
You've just got to know the kind They ~tdrunk ...they lure you to seduce them you
follow through as proficient as ever they
get off... don't want to know the first thing
about reciprocating ... you both go to sleep ...
you wake up and your first instinct is to"reach out and touch"... and theirs is to get
dressed and go. Now that's cold How canpeople be so selfish? I'm leaving. No! Just awhile longer. She said that she comes here
almost every Saturday night. OK. A little
while longer. God I hope she comes.
Hello, hello! Look at those two drip-,'
ping hot Latinas dancing! The one with thedimples keeps batting her eyelashes at me,
Mmmmmmm ... I could do the two of them,but if I were' only able to get my mind off
this woman.
Where could she be toriight? Oh no!

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Maybe she reunited with her ex-lover fromthe past 15 years. She said the relationshipwas on the rocks, but with the coming of
the new year, and with all the' memories
and reflecting that one does during the Holiday, maybe they found 'a renewe9 love.
Please god, tell me it's not true?
Out of nowhere, this Jacket and Tie
number practically assalts me at the bar.
Ultra assertive. I was distracted by all the
buttons on her lapel. Pro-choice, Silence
Equals Death, Gloria Steinem for President.
1 eould tell that she was real political, and I
was already feeling pretty tired. 1 made up
my mind that 1 was going to be genuine,
but complacent.
1 was in no mood foradversity. Contrary to my prejudgment, thiscross-<lresser turns out to be wicked cerebral. Stimulating even. So we continued totalk until ....
Oh Jesus, there she is. Oh shit, it's dark
and I'm near-sighted, but 1 think that's her.
Heaven help me, my heart just leaped outof my chest and up into my throat, 1 can't
breathe. Mellow out, calm down, relax.
You're overreaetlng.
She's just a person.
Yeah, the coolest, sexiest, most wonderfulperson of my dreams. Look no further baby,
I'm right over here. Take me in your anns,
enlighten
my mind, envelop my heart,
enrich my soul...
Now, you have got to believe me
when I say that this never happens to me.
Nor am 1 being overdramatic, for the sakeof an Interesting story. This is a feeling that
I had only dreamed about experiencing
ever since.
1 had Endless Love starring
Brooke Shields.
Oh no, here she eomes, what shall 1
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can't believe I'm calculating what it is I'mgoing to say. This isn't me, 1 usually don'tcare, but only the best for Miss
Right. How about something original? I
can't think, my mind is a blank. Would you
stop intellectualizing this already. Get youself in check. Just be your smooth suave
self. O.K. here goes ...
Oh shit, piss and corruption!
Allworked up and it's not her? For Christ's
Sake! Not even close! Make a note to see
the optometrist on Monday. Ain't that abiteh.
So mueh for optimism. It doesn't look
like she's showing. And 1 just realized that
I've been conversing with this macro-biotic,
lookin' bohemian babe all the time I've
been anticipating the confrontation of thiswoman. Why is she totally unaware of this?
Because she's a classic New Yorker. She's
been talking about herself, to herself. All I
can think about, is how badly I would liketo take this one home, and Jolen the shitout of her.
I'm so overjoyed that I came. Anothereventful night out. Got to go. "I love you
all, don't ever change." Get me out of here.
Could I be any lonelier? Is it possible?
Oh, air, finally. Toxic In quality, but air
nonetheless. I must find this woman. She
must know how I feel, how desperately In
love 1 am. But what if she rejects me? Don't
take it personally, get a refeml. Hal Ha! Oh
it hurts. How the hell am I going to findher, when all I know is her first name. Whatwould my mentor and guiding light, Madonna, do In a situation like this? The personalsl
The Modern lesbian Way to get things
done ... Of, Course!
DESPERATELYSEEKING C.C.
Please find me because I love you.

Her Royal
Hypenessby Madam X
My main Interest In life, beside nagging
people about going to see Tremors, is"alternative" musi<;. Hey, guess what, thatshould make me a ... (drum roll) a Modern
Lesbian!
But (0, cruel world), I also wear adecidedly uncool blue parka and I hardly
ever go to the East Village, so 1 don't think 1
live up to the label...
Ok, but the last time I went to the
Cubby Hole, I was In the exdtlng company
of a petite blond bombshell and a hot creature In a black chiffon shirt, and we played
the Ramones on the juke-box, so there.
But 1 don't even have a single piece of
black lingerie. Dam, what am I? I'm a lesbian
dammlt, and lesbians need labels like theyneed support groups (and the accompanying
therapistslleeches of course). But let's set tothe aux of the matter, seriously. Sort of.
This whole Idea of the new breed of"Modem Lesbians· Is bugging me a lot.
Because of I2Stes (and maybe my ha!rcut), I
often get dumped In this category, and boy
do I resent It (phone call from OUtWeek:"We're doing something about the Modem
Lesbian. We thought about you.· I don't
know if I'm supposed to be flattered or not)I've learned at least one thing froin myreadings (which are not limited, as somesay, to album covers): the concept of lesbianism, fairly recent as a construct-let's
say mid-nineteenth
century-has
been
renewed so many times that there was awhole new bunch of "modern" lesblana
every 20 years. Between the two world
wars, the modem lesbian was the woman
who may have Identified as a "third sexer"
if she had read the sexologists. She may
have worn men's suits if she could afford to
do so ecOnomically and culturally, or may
have gOne once or twice to one of the clubs
catering to women who shared her I2Stes.
In the 1950s, In America, the modem Ie&blan may have been the bulldagger, whowalked the walk and talked the ta1k, or the
feinme, who wore bouf1ant hairdos and wasn't
as passive as we'd like to think she was.
In the 19705, dreaded decade if thereever was one (although I wouldn't mind a
Captain &: Tenille revival, but that's ,my own
personal vice), being a committed lesbian,was being anti-style, period Style was out,
as a tool used by the patriarchy to oppress'
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But today this anti-style has progressedamong hetero women: Wearing no make-up
and having short hair, being generally
androgynous aren't any more a sure way toindicate lesbians especially in urban areas.
On the other hand, the "lesbian community"
is more he~genous
than ever: rural separatists, trendy urban ACf UP dykes (lasttime I had tom jearlS was when I got caught
in a subway turnstile), Park Siopers who
exorcise (exercise?) their libido at the
women's' martial arts
school and then rush to
the ,fascist food co-op("Yes, there's anothermeeting you have toattend, don't contradictus, you rlvlslonlst"),and Susie Bright, In a
category all by herself.
The Modern Lesbian, who's all that atonce, can cook nouvelle cuiSine and read
Foucault at the sa,metime, plays a mean
racket ball before shegoes to a meeting,wears make-up andjeans, and says It loud:"I'm hlp and I'm
proud"
Frankly,
thiswhole hype looks suspldous to me, dreamed
up and advertised bothby some guys who are
happy to find (at longlast!) lesbians dressed
well enough so .they

won't be embarrassed in their fact, her options seem to be limited to two
company, and by lesbians who choices, according to the Modem Gay &:are finally making enoughLesbian Press (of which this very magazine
money to embrace a lifestyleis a prime example): the urban tomboy
popularized years ago by the and the ultra-feminine seductress. After
same people they used to going through the 70s lesbians are now
despise. The nightclubber guy as supposed to catch up and be whateverrole model, well I'd say...
they want to be, wear whatever they want
I heard the Modem Lesbian to wear~.g.
make-up isn't an object ofhas a solid background in femi- contempt anymore. I, for one, am deeply
nist theory, she knows her ances- relieved about this, if only for purely selftory (ancestresses?), is politically ish and aesthetic reasons. On the other
involved (in ACf UP preferably). hand, I hate seeing dykes blindiy e~bracRead: the Modern Lesbian is a ing values that were not built for them but
middle class woman who could against them. I hate it when; on my biafford an education. Nothingannual visit to the Cubby Hole, I watch all
new there. What's new is that these monstrously eute women dancing
this educated woman is "mod- the night away on tepid disco that perpetern," and we know what that uates an image of women as sex kittens
means: Better. Better than the hoi . (and by the way, do you find it right thatpolloi who works her ass off in the video jukebox there has notorious
the Bronx? (Oh yes, the Modern homophobes Sam Kinison and Guns 'n'
Lesbian fucks the boroughs.)
Roses on it'?).
I heard the Modem Lesbian
I truly loathe the ~Osworld of superfiunderstands that working with ciality, consumerism imd return to tradimen Is necessary. Alright, yes it is, no doubt tional ideas. That's why I have very mixed
about it But now, I want to see Modern feelings about this verY white, very 'mldGay Men who put women's issueS on their dle-class, very "educated" Idea of the Modagenda, and who; keeping in mind that ern lesbian that's supposed to represent
breast cancer is a' plague for women,
all of us.
demand a global health system refonn, to
So to get back to my initial pOint,
give but one example. I think we-gave a lot made a long time ago, In a far, far awayin this deal, and what did we gel'?
galaxy, I refuse to fit in a new category, dicI heard the Modern Lesbian is now
tated by someone else, to tell me what tomore stylish (this whole issue involves a , act like. Say ,It again, I'm bland and I'm
lot of war painting, what does it mean?) In proudiTLOOKOUT

Photo: Michael Wakefield

Including images of gay and lesbian activists, the large wall mural on Charles Street at the West Side Highway
seems to vindicate OutWeek's recent M.alcolmForbes cover story.

-M.s.

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Photo: Michael Wakefield

DISNEY StIOCKEIb ,MINNIE AND MICKEY'S MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE
While He Was Tinkering Tinkerbell, She Was Dancing In Little Girls' Dreams.

-Sarllt Pettit

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Dear The Experts:
In response
to your query,althoughI never aetually dated
Bradley Ball, I did happen to be in
the same restaurant where he washaving dinner with some disreputablelooking Establishment
types onenight. At least I'm pretty sure it washim. In real life he looks considerably older than his photograph.
Anyway, right there in public for thewhole world to see, he took out thisfistful of pills and capsules-antidepressants, no doubt-and
washedthem down with a clear liquid-gin,
no doubt. I was, of course, shockedby such a brazen exhibition of substanee abuse, but everyone else acted
like it was the most natural thing in
the world. No wonder our eommunity's in such bad shape. Thank God
you people are working to expose
this menace. I hope I can do my partwith this letter, but please don't use
my real name.
-Saw It With My Own Eyes
Dear The Experts:-In response
to your query,although I never aetually dated
Bradley Ball, a friend of mine met him
once at this party where everybody
was getting strung out on gin andanti-depressants. Apparently BradleyBall invited a whole bunch of peoplebaek to his place to watch this "hot"tape, and my friend thought it might
be like the Rob Lowe video or something, so he went along. It turned out
to be some old movie about Jane
Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave eating
caviar, just about the most boring shit
you ean imagine. But Bradley Ballwas so caught up in the whole thing,acting out the parts and all, he nevereven noticed that my friend swiped
his table lighter and snuck out. Pretty
sick, eh? I figured you'd think so.
Please send my "TIlE EXPERTS" tote
bag to the post offiee box below, but
don't print my real name, because myfriend would kill me if he found out I
was the one who told about thelighter.
-Beard It With My Own Ears
'Dear The Experts:

In response
to your query,although I never aetually dated
Bradley Ball, it certainly wasn't for hislack of trying. We were introduced bya former mutual friend at a fundraiser,and he fell instantly in love with me.
All night long, whenever I turned
around, he always seemed to be lurking nearby like some shark eircling its
prey. At one point, he slithered up
and said he was leaving and asked if I

wanted his drink tickets! It was soembarrassing, I didn't know where to
look. Then a few nights later, I went
downstairs at Tower Records, andthere he was-pretending to examine'a compaet
dise of Die Sieben
Todsanden. I got out before he spotted me, but the very next day, I ran
into him on the street Just a few
blocks from my apartment. I'd hadenough of this harassment, so I told
him gently but firmly that I could
never in a billion years feel the sameway for him as he did for me, even if
he were the last man on earth, sowould he do us both a great big favor
and leave me the fuck alone. He
walked away looking hurt and confused, but I guess that did the trick,because I never saw him again. Later,
I heard he'd taken the rejection badly
and was usually seen mixing antidepressants with gin, and that's probably too bad, but hell, I have to leadmy own life. Please don', print myreal name; I couldn't stand it if thisnightmare started up allover again.
--I With My Merciful Arrow
Dear The Experts:

In response to your query, I
think I dated Bradley Ball a few years
ago. I don't remember too well,because I was heavy into gin andanti-depressantsat the time, but I do
have a distinct recolleetion of thisdark 'and evil presenee in my life,
goading me against my own free will
into horrible
and unthinkableactions-just like you described. Can I
get the "The Experts" 10 oz. eoffee
mug?
-Jim (not my real name)
Got an ugly Uttle story about thetraitor Bradley Ball? Send it to us,
and you may be eltgible to receive ourattractive "The Experts" merchandise,which will demonstrate your solidarity
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So, after Stars revelations,the, Enqutm'printed its phony story, Cl1er got
on Enlettatnment Tonight and denied herdaughter's homosexuality, <ller's publidst
at PMK set <llas up with a "beard" to become to terms with your daughter's
lesbianism-at
least not in public.
What you should be doing is nurturing her and taking a strong standagainst homophobes;
WHAT YOU
SHOUlD BE DOING IS HOLDING A
PRESS CONFERENCETO AtmOUNCECHASTIlY'S LESBIANISMAND HOWNORMALIT IS.
"We're trying to develop an imageof this band," says Geffen publicist
Lisa Barbaris. "This has nothing to dowith her sexual preference. If it is true[that she is a lesbian] then I wish she'd
actually take a stand because it would
make my life a lot easier."
She's right. It would probably
make everyone's
life a lot easierincluding Chastity's and lots of queers.
But it's hard to believe that a publicist
at Geffen-where the president of thecompany is a goddamnedclosetcase!-would
urge its performers toher boyfriend for the sake of photogra.. phers and <llas went back into the c105et-but only as far as one could go after
being so wrenched out
Now Page Six (New York Post)
had a story last week which again
opens that silly closet door. It's all
By Michelangelo Signorlle
about how Chas and the woman
everyone says is her lover, Heidi
A reader once wrote a letter to 'Shink (who is a member of her band),the editor: here asking if this is really clashed with a photographer who was
the same column every week except
trying to get a photo of th~m. Geffenwith the UPPER CASEletters switehed
Records' direetor of publicity, Lisa
around a bit. (Cute.)
Barbaris, kept trying to get between
I'm actually starting to believe it the women outside the Cat Club last
myself.(Frightening.)
week. When the photographer
got
It's just that, as with anything, we some shots anyway, Cher's lawyer,
go round and round and fall back on Fred Davis, ehased him down thethe same people-thesamevictims and the same victimizers. I guess that's where
we get the term 'The Usual
Suspects.'
Anyway (this is thesegue),
this thing with
Chastity Bono is getting
eompletely out of hand. It'sa sad circus of events that
could really mean a huge,resounding crash is imminent for the child of Cher.
come out.
First, let's flesh out the facts. As street and confiscated the film.
TIllS IS FUCKING RIDICULOUS!
Besides, it's extra-difficult
for
I'm sure everyone remembers, Star
magazine, a few months ago, said that If Chastity would just come out and Chastity because her mom;spublicist
be proud and SMILE FOR TIlE CAM- at PMK is constandy trying to portray
Chastity is a lesbian, something people
in the queer community knew for quite ERAS WITH HER LOVER BY HER her as hetero. And, as if these problems aren't enough, there is someone
some time. Though the story was, for SIDE she'd deem everyone powerless.
Star, quite sensitive in the way it was It wouldn't be a big deal anymore and else close to Chastity who is using her
therefore it would all just die down.
for her fame. I have it from an excelreported, its motivations were homoBut, at this rate, every time she's with lent source (a gay man who 'was thephobic: Star was rev,ealing Chastity's
her lover, the media will go wild,"beard" of another famous lesbian)homosexuality
because they weresneaking photos' and speculating.
that one person whom Chastity thinks
pissed ,off at Cher, whose ex-boyfriend
But it's not that easy for Chas.
loves her is actually milking her for
Rob Camiletti, had once allegedly beatanything obtainable. This person is an
up one of their photographers who just First she's got that phoney motherinsecure, self-loathing queer who only
got too close, Of course, if Chas were who I've come to realize is a monster
wants to be well-known and makeout, she would not be a victim to such doing so much damage to her own
child. This is supposed to be radicallots of money. This person, I'm told, islow, vengeful tactics.
Cher-the girl from the 60s and 70s, the one who sold the "Chastity is a
But she wasn't out. And nobody
wanted her to be. Not her mother, not the uncompromising woman who had Lesbian" story to the Star.
so many gay friends, the defiant creaAnd, though Chastity should be
her mother's' publicist, not her record
ture who wore exactly the outfits that told what's going so that she can stop
company
and not the National
the establishment didn't want her to this parasite and onee and for all take
Enquirer: which is Star's competition
control of her life from everyone; I,
and would do anything to have a bet- wear to the Academy Awards ceremony. SHAME,ON YOU! Cher, you are a hope she il;ldeed can handle the shock
ter scoop-even
if that means reporthomophobe
who obviously can'tof it when and if she finds out. T
ing that ChastiW is actually straight.
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Oul on Ihe Town
liz: Lesbian week in New York City,
September 1-9, 1990. You would think
f!NerY week should be lesbian 'Nee!<, but as
it is, we can't even get an hour on cable.
So with this announcement, our overheatedlittle minds set to work finding ideas on
how to celebrate our unique position in thissociety, and the cultural heritage we inherit;
remembering, of course, that there is more
to being a lesbian than a bad haircut
Sydney: Not all lesbians have bad

Photo: EllenB. Neipris
haircuts, thank you. Since Liz and I are
actually separate people, each with ourown opinions, we did not always agree ona particular event. Therefore, we each pro~ed
alternative events in the case of adispute.
1. The Statue of Liberty is a lesbianl A
reclaiming ceremony complete with incantations to the goddess, a healing circle andcrystal exhibition will kick off lesbian week
in NYC. (Please call the Lesbian Switchboard for feny departure information.)
2. Make-up and Make-overs. Butch
women will have the expertise of former
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Wilh Liz and Sydney
Outweek cover girl, Urvashl Vald.
Sydney: While fern women will betreated to a multi-media presentation by
Patricia Field representatives, and lesbians
for a day, Sister Codle Ravioli (make-up)
and MIss perfidla (hair).
3. Robin Byrd, in a bold move, presents "Women for Women" with lesbian
luminaries Susie Bright, Shelley Mars,
Whitney Houston, Taylor' Dayne (oops,
the last two are straight, I forgot) andactivist bald nightclub personality Pamela
Sneed, each performing a strip tease act.
Uz: Pat Callfta hosts a party with theLesbian Sex Mafia CItthe Vault. (What moreis there to sat?)
4. A benefit concert for the Womenand AIDS Resource Network starring
frivolous female groups with threesingers-Expose, Seduction, Company B,
Pajama Party and BananararM. And forthe butchier side of the lesbian continuum,
more serious performers like Sinead
O'Connor, Phranc, McLyte and Salt n
Pepa.
5. Fun, Friends and Activities. A singles' cruise around Manhattan for all lesbians currently enrolled in support groups,
12-step programs and ·women who love
too much" groups. Note: those in couples
therapy will be admitted on a ·wait andsee if they break up" basis.
"
6. Outlaw party. In an outlaw party,
an entire crowd crashes a pre-determinedplace, much to the surprise and most times
dismay of the staff and patrons. For lesbianweek, we recommend the 7th Ave. stationin ParkSlope and the PussycatLounge on
53rd st. The Brooklyn party would include
an open juice bar and tempeh and brownrice treats. The PussYcatLounge speaks foritself. Please note: Adequate motorcycle
parking is available adjacent to the lounge:
7. Fashion shows. A fashion show
will be held at Wetlands. Models will display the latest in natural fiber and environmentally safe fashions. M alternative show
exhibiting sex wear and uniforms from
Underground Leathersat the Spike.

8. Lesbian co-parents at the Centerj
dykes bring your tykes. A workshop formommies and mommies (and mommies tobe). For those lesbians not interested inhaving children, but continuing to be achild, a special wor1<shopon how to find asugarmommy will be sponsored by the
LesbiCln Bankers Association. A cocktail
reception will follow.
9. Look-alike contest. There will be
only three categories for this contest. The
first category will be to find a Taura
Satana look alike. Tura Santana is theRuss, Meyers ·starlet" from Faster Pussycat Ki/~ Kill. Taking into consideration thefact that few lesbians either 1) know who
Tura Santana is or 2) look like Tura Santanaj the category will be changed to a
Louise Brooks look-alike contest. A
Tracy Chapman or k.d. Lang look-alikesoiree will round out the categories. The
latter two will be limited to the first 100
who enter. Sign up earlyj first cOine, firstserved.
'10. Uz: Take Back the Night March.
The final event of lesbian week will be amarch through the west side of Manhattan
to protest violent crimes against lesbians.
Sydney: Forthe less politically minded, a Take Back the Nightlife ·pub crawl·
will .be held. Of course, the inevitablemelee will occur'Nhen those on the marchstorm the bars yelling, ·Out of the bars andinto the streetS.·* * * *The new issue of Project .x; the magazine which dares to tell the truth about
the seamy side of nightlife, and, in fact, isthe seamy side of nightlife, is out. We
would like to take issue with one tiny but
disturbing question in an otherwise fun 'magazine: ·How many times have you
tried to pick up a boy and found he's justan ugly lesbian?· We know (or at leasthope) that this is a misprint and the corrected question is: ·How many times
have you tried to pick up a cute boy andfound he's a cute lesbian?" T

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(ilCiudad de Nueva York, Edward L Koch, Alcalde Stephen C, Joseph. M.D .. M,P,H.. Comisionado. Departamento de Salud,Television
Coalition, to shut down the production, and more threats
from Rev. Donald Wildwon to turn his 400,000-plµs
American Family Association mailing list against potential
advertisers if the show airs. Hints by the homophobiC Coors
Fund of sponsorship for the project, followed by retractions
once the proposal is known. A flurry of newspaper articles
and 1V talk shows, each expressing degrees of curiosity andshock about the project. And fmally, shadowy ta1ks about
the show being picked up by a national cable network.
Through all of this dubious publicity, Gadberry has
heroically fought on to present a show whose heroic
premise (to give a "realistic portrayal" of lesbians and gays)
may ultimately prove ridiculous. The one-hour pilot, produced with only $9,000 and skeleton erew, details the
exploits of gay and stniight citizens from a Southern
Californian communitythat looks remarkably
likeGadberry's own Orange County. (The show's religious
fanatic, Arthur Dimsdale, for example, seems modeled
after Orange County's own Lou Sheldon, and one of theplot lines follows the actual public retraction of a gay
rights bill in Irvine.) However odd it might appear to
TUFFDYKES?
employthe format of soap opera-agenre which has
Two ladies from the casttraditionally depended on emphatically cardboard eharacters to produce its hysterical effects-in order to reveal the"reality" of gay life, it is less the vehicle than the tenor ofthis "opera" that makes Gadberry's claims about "positiverole models" hard to listen to.
. It is not Simply that the show is bad (bad acting, bad
production, bad writing), but that it operates on bad faith.
Reversing the, assimilation politics of a book like Kirk andMadsen's After tbe Ball, which advocated a public relations,campaign that excluded the representation of any "fringe"
groups, Passions seeks to win over its straight audience
Secret Passions. '",Directed by Steve \Vd~t PWducedi'by gay
by creating unabashedly negative gay charaGters. In the
DaVidGadbeny. Premiere spot and series,to.~ airCd on thepilot, there are two gay male couples and one lesbian relaGay Cable Network.;Oieck listing>;,',on'tionship. As for the men, one involves a self-hating stud,
Neal, who fmishes having sex with his obsessive "boyfriend"
by Peter Bowen(done, of course" with underwear on) by stealing moneyfrom his wallet and noting the lovely sentiment, "Why do all
fags have to be such kiss-asses?" The other "love-making"scene involves, a powerful and corrupt real estate investor
ELLY SOAP IS GAy SHOCKER," screams the who engages his masseuse to give him more than the fullheadline from the British seandal sheet, '!be body rub-down. While the lesbians fareslighdy better, theirSun, about David Gadberry's planned lesbian
scene appears to be shot in different parts of town.
and gay cable soap opera, Secret Passions. The series will
What is, of course, missing from these "realistie" scenes
show, as the Sun tells us (their emphasis, not mine), "men and from the show,so far is any mention of AIDS.While hopKISSING and cuddling each other in bed after sex and ing to quietly bring up the subject six or eight shows down thegays trying to,ADOPT a child," as well as actual "LESBIAN line, Gadbeny doesn't want "to reinforce the idea that AIDS islove scenes" and "gays DYING from AIDS." As typically a gay disease." Perhaps not, but AIDS is real issue for lesbians
British as the Suns reporting is, it is ultimately not that dif- and gays, and the show's failure to even show condoms during
ferent from much of the press that has surrounded the the sex scenes indicates' the degree to which the show denies
coming out of Secret Passions. Indeed, the planned les- its own reality. (The majority of the cast turns out in fact to bebian/gay soap opera has itself beeome a soap opera.
'straight, and, according to Gadbeny himself, many were "a litImagine this: A California gay playwright who turns to tle squeamish" doing the sex scenes.)
producing a gay soap opera after, as Gadberry tells us,
While attempting to portray openly lesbian and gay char~Bobby and I broke up." Threats by a local Orange County acters, the show nevertheless operates under the assumption
evangelicai preaeher, Lou Sheldon, of the Traditional Values
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Television

Dish ItUp
by Karl Soehnlein'touturn on the 1V and findexcerpts from the International
Women's Day Video Festival. Oran analysis of u.s. govemement propaganda being broadeast into Cuba. Or
footage of ACI' UP protesting inside St.
Patrick's Cathedral-shotby AIDS
activists themselves. Yes, you are watching television. No, it's not ABC, NBC,
·BEAM ME UP, NOW.·-DIVA-lVs ·S.t the Woods on Fir.CBS or even CNN. You've stumbled
cable companies to show the,proupon Deep Dish 1V, the first national rates. "It's really at the discretion of thegrams," explains Saalfield. Short qf setpublic access satellite network, and what . program coordinator at that partieularting up regional offices around thestation." In order to insure better
you're seeing is typical Deep Dish fare.
country- which isn't financially feasischeduling, Johnson, with the help of"It's media for social change,"ble-4his effort may be the network's
explains Lorna Johnson, Deep Dish volunteers, does extensive outreach,best chanee to reach the greatest numlVsProgram Coordinator, and one of fostering contacts across the U.S.--netber of viewerS.
only two paid staff members at the working, in the true sense of the word.
This season promises to be a
,network. "We really hope to use our The biggest stumbling block is often
provocative one. Ten programs are being
the cable companies. Aecess stations
programs to do something about
screened on the repercussions of white
these issues." The issues she's talking who don't have their own satellite
supremacists' attempts to use public accessabout range from AIDS to apartheid, dishes are at the mercy of the larger
to get their particular, rres>age a~.
The
from housing to homophobia, from cable stations, who control which proseries was prompted by a situation ingrams get "downlinked."
reproductive rights to racism.
Kansas Oty, Missouri, where the city counOnly once has this dynamic proved
What makes Deep Dish unique iscil shut down the public access station
to be a problem and, unfortunately, but
its structure.
Independent
video
after the KKK tried to use it to pi'omote
works on specific issues are solicited not surprisingly, the issue was homotheir agenda. It's a complex issue, as
Accordingto Catherinefrom around the country and then phobia.
J<>I:lnoon
sees it. "They'resilencingthe Klan
programmed into it 16-week season. Saalfield, an independent video producbut at the sune time they're silencingtheir
Deep Dish then buys satellite time er who work~ with the Paper Tiger
community when they take away public
and beams the programs to cable Collective and DIVAlV, the radical gay
access." Among the contributors to thiscompanies. These companies, in turn, content of John Greyson's videotape
series is AIDS activist Ira Manhoff, who's
tape the shows to be shown on local Angry Initiatives, Defiant Strategies
Showdown in Atlanta was shot .during apublic aeeess stations--.<:hannels set "freaked out" the cable companies, andconfrontation
between white supremadsts
many
didn't
show
it.
They
used
the
conaside for community efforts. It's a relandAIDS
a<livists
at the 1988Deroocraticvenient
excuse
that
they
never
taped
it
atively inexpensive way for alternative
Convention in Atlanta.
during its satellite transmission.
media to reach large audienees.
AIDS activism plays a prominent 'Beeause Deep Dish is basically
The disadvantage of this strategy
role
in this season's offerings. DIVA
is th~t stations aren't paying for the powerless in such situations, Saalfield is
1V,
ACT
UP's video team, has put
workingwithJohnsonandotherstodoprograms, so there are no guarantees
together at:! extraordinaryhour 6fthat they will get shown. ''We ask them more local outreach to eommunities.
their most reeent work. Be A DNA!
to program one hour a week in ''We're trying to figure out a way to get
includes footage from the Target City
sequenee. but they can program them as much' info out to corrununity centers
so
that
they
can
put
pressureonthe
S88 DISH on pag8 ti6
however they want to," Johnson elabo-

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Theater

FEEUNG UKE A WOMAN, LOOKING UKE A MAN-OR
Mary-Louise Parker and Alec Baldwin

WAS a..

Soul, Two Souls
by Jim Provenzano

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or just the body? Craig Lucas's Prelude
to a Kiss, described as a eomic fairy
tale of love and misplaeed spirits, is a
study on the nature of truly knowing aperson, especially a loved one. Lucas
gives us a set of fallible and believablecharacters, while Norman Rene's subtle directorial touches keep the slightly
unbelievable plot on traek.
After meeting Rita (Mary-Louise
Parker) at a party, Peter (Alec Baldwin)
realizes that "the spell was caSt." He is
in love. A rush of romantic seenes,

segued by smooth sound mixes of Soul
II Soul, Toni Childs and mellow jazz
instrumentals, makes their immooiate
attraction somewhat believable.
aerore they make love, as Baldwin
disrobes, (fear not, that wonderfully
darkhaired chest is displayed a goodbit), he talks directly to the audience in
one of his character's frequent and engaging monologues. But Rita is despondent and obsessed about world ~tothe point of insomnia. Nevertheless,they develop a pleasant relationship ofsimilar favorites (Freud, schnitzels, Molson beer). Several times Peter asks Rita
if she wants to get married. "Sure," shereplies blithely, as if it were inevitable.
Six weeks later the knot is tied.
After the ceremony, everyone
applauds softly "...as if we'd made agood putt." The wedding is calm andordinary until a strange old man(Bernard Hughes) arrives and asks tokiss the bride. After he does, little
character slips occur and Rita gets a bit
spacey,becoming
an off~kilter
Stepford wife.
On their honeymoon to Jamaica,
while sunning on beach chairs, thenewlyweds argue. Rita pleads that they
just "enjoy life," while Peter tries toremind her of the political causes andother world problems she a~oned,
as she did her career, immediately after
their marriage. Although a bartender,
she can't even remember the recipe
for a Long Island Iced Tea. Peter
responds, "Excuse me honey, but I'm
freaking out." "I'm sorry I can't bewhat you want me to be," Rita retorts,"Maybe what you saw was nevet: here
at all."On returning from vacation, Peter
shares his worries with his best friend
Tayior, played with a sexy relaxed flair
by John Dossett. Tayior sluffs It off. By
Act One's end, we wonder where theplay will go. Will she grow into a
Bush monster, while he wallows inleftist socially conscious insomnia?
Rita has, it tums out, been delivered into another body through themishap of a fractured double wish. ThatPeter eontinues to faithfully love Rita forherself, ignoring that someone else isinside her body, results in some curious
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A Bitter Aftertaste

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by David B. Feinberg,

I

hated the Jag in Bo"owed Time.
That goddamned Jag kept poppingup throughout Paul Monette's memoir of his friend Roger. When Roger was
sick, when Paul had to make a midnightprescription run to the ~gstore, Paulwould hop into that omnipresent Jagand speed out of the driveway with theforce of 17 bluepalled ejaculations.
Eventually I was drawn into the overpowering tragedy of Roger's illneSs anddeath from AIDS, yet all the way I wasfighting it, that part of me thai loathes
materialism and ostentation and is only
capable of living beneath my means.
The Jag waS always breaking down; thefigurative maid was always
stealing the imaginary silverware. It's so hard to getgood help these days. It'seven harder to empathizewith the very rich.
Afterlife is the logicalsuccessor to 'Bo"owed
Time: life after the deathof a lover. Paul Monette
switches to fiction for thisblack comedy aoout three
AIDS widowers, all West
Hollywood
successes:
Steven Shaw, owner of a
travel agency; Lorenzo"Dell" Delgado Espinoza,
owner of a gardenirig serviee; and Sonny Cevathas,,t!. a New .Agegolddigger andowoer of a body of death.
The, three met a year ago
in the hospital where theirlovers died. All three are
antibody positive.
The humor is biting:when Steven Shaw cuts!
himself making a salad,
bleeding on it, Dell Espinoza remarks,"You'll have to give me the recipe. HIV
salad. Looks scrumptious.".
Afterlife is a neeessary book andI'm glad that Monette wrote it. We
need stories to live by, fiction to help
us cope. The three ·protagonists
respond differently to AIDS. Sonny
can't deal ,with AIDS: he avoids it,
retreating into New Age platitudes. He
deserts his roommate when Dirk gets
ill. He ignores the lesion under hisarm. To Monette's eredit, Sonny
doesn't come across as a vacuous onedimensional stereotype.
Dell is overcome with anger. He
turns into an urban terrorist, phoningin oomb threats to Mother Evangeline's
church, telling the Department of Water
and Power that he had poisoned thewater supply with contaminated blood.
His extreme activism pushes him overthe edge into melodramatic tragedy.
Steven Shaw is at the center ofthe novel. Sonny crashes at his house;
Dell hides out from the law there.
Steven meets Mark Inman, a hardboiled Hollywood executive as distantfrom his feelings as Alpha Centauri.
It's the age-old subplot: fag meets fag;
fag loses fag; fag gets fag.
Afterlife is a very gay book,
chock full of vivid, explicit sex.
Monette touches on many facets oflife in the era of AIDS: the hysteria offinding a bruise and fearing it could
be KS;,the camaraderie of a diverse
HIV support group; the difficulties ofThanksgiving dinners for extended
gay families; religious fanatics; and ahorrible death from AIDS. The coy ,bitchy humor works for me, as in thisseene from a support group meeting:"Look, I'll be honest, " said Andy. "Icame here to get laid." The dumb laughthat erupted here was more like juniorhigh, ~mewhere behind the boy's gym.
"No, I'm serious. I thought this was
gOing to be like a dating pool. "A bouffant queen with a murder- ,ous manicure, very Joan Crawford,
stroked an eyebrow. "We call it a
cesspool now, darling.""I don't want to be with a guy
who's not positive, ".continued Andy,
ignoring the bitchy intrnsion. "But he's
gotta want to beat it as much as I do. ""Oh, you can beat it just as goodyourself," drawled Miss Crawford" butno one laughed.
Yet there's something altogether
too sliek about Paul Monette's writing:the sheen is too polished, the artificial
veneer too smooth. He tries too hardand it shows. Every paragraph has its
ration of three forced metaphors. In
his snappy rubberband prose, therawness is missing, emotions buried
under gloss. Monette is eoy: AZT isnever referred to by name, only as
blue-and-white capsules. This bothered me the same way as when Susan
Sontag never µlentions AIDS by namein her story "The Way We Love Now":
AIDS was the disease that dare not
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BooksConferring Opinions
by Sarah Pettit·8orne of us have devoted many years of ourlives to developing an audience to give ourpeople something tangible to hope for, to help
them identify as gay enough to want to read about themselves. Hope is what entices people to read, to see themselves refleeted aecurately and respectfully, to imagine
participating in the world of culture and activity that reflects
them as they actually are, that tells their story in the streamof all story."-Judy Grahn, Keynote Speaker,

With the zea,l and expectation of pilgrims on their annu-

ODD GIRLS OUT
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al trek to'Mecca, 1,000 gays and lesbians converged on San

Francisco for the ·our write '90" conference. Held over the
weekend of March 3rd and 4th, it' ushered into existence...."," "".....
,.~....
L ....

what will undoubtedly become the event of choice for gay
and lesbian writers everywhere.
'
It is no coincidence that a decade that has seen the outgrowth of numerous gay and lesbian "institutions" (theLambda Literary Awards, gay and lesbian studies centers, thePublishing Triangle and a handful of vital and growing publications to name a few) should culminate with such a massive, powerful and, ultimately, enormously stratified meetingof peoples. "Ouf write," sponsored by the OUf/LOOKFoundation a k a the Our/LOOK Quarterly, did little to solve,
solidify or arrange the many issues fiu;:ingour community of
gay and lesbian writers, yet it allowed for an invaluableassemblage of opinions and agendas. In a time when persistent and real threats continue against our writers and institutions, whethet: these threats are born in the sweaty palms of
the Helms/NEA art poliee or in the not-yet enlightened
DANGUNfl PART (ICIPLEJ- Poet Bryan Monte is emrecesses of our own comqlUnities' racism, sexism, classism
braced by p....nllmmaker James Broughton Photo: ~ Rink
and idiocy, it cannot but help to have a moment for collective re-evaluation and recharging.
The scene was, admittedly, somewhat surreal. One Califiaj from Harold Norse to &sex Hemphill, from Dorothy
must first picture San Francisco, a city of puzzling dimen- Allison to Sarah Schulman, from Sam Steward to Jewelle
Gomez. It was a bookwonn's wet dream. ,One also mensions, and then envision a huge, earpeted, chandeliered
downtown hotel packed to the gills with nearly every lumi- tally noted who was not there and regretted theit' absence.
As with all large conferences, it was a near impossibUinary in the gay and lesbian world of letters. Imagine a
See CONFERENCE on pelle.
crowd that contained everyone from Ann Bannon to Pat

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Performance

All Talking! All Singing'!
All Dancing! All Dead!
Charles Pierce and the Legendary
Ladies of Hollywood
Pierce does, however, split linguistic hairs, be they human or acrylie,244-3905.
Opens March 7:7.
h,.,'_,,:.v.
,.
._,
when attempting to label and separate
his unique brand of performance. He
by Joe E. Jeffreys
does not consider himself a dragqueen nor a female impersonator. Female impressionist or star impressionist are his phrases of choice. He exharles Pierce has a problem.
plained to the New York Post, "You
Reviews of his one-[wo]man
can call me an impersonator, an imshow recurrently read like pressionist, a mimic or a comic in adoctoral dissertations. "The reviewers
dress. But not a .drag queen! A dragsee something on stage that I don't
queen is someone who dresses up
see ...they read things into what they and goes to a ball. I am an entertainsee, more than they are.
Theer." Further teasing the issue with Anscholartainment
critical approachthony Slide, "Female impersonator or
springs from Pierce's costuming
Femme Imp, if you prefer, to me apchoice and the critics' need to intellec- plies to those men who dress up in
tualize such display. They are blinded gowns, makeup and wigs as their 'feby the sequin's glare. .
male persona' rather than impersonatWriting in Plays and Players,
ing a celebrity." Pierce also distin~Charles Marowitz posits an explanaguishes his work from the phototion, "the spectacle of a man behaving realistic impersonations of Jim Bailey's
like a woman for the amusement of a Judy Garland or Jimmy James' Marilyn
largely male audience indulging male Monroe. Pierce always cuts throughadorations of female personalities is ;m his impressions allowing the audienceenigma that goes beyond the hoopto clearly see him underneath. His
and-haw of ordinary drama criticism." Eleanor Roosevelt tosses off a one-linThe hooping and hawing critics have er the lady herself would never havesemioticized and decoded Pierce's per- said "Franklin, if you can have a misformance with such impenetrable lines tress, so can I."
as "Pierces's performance is precisely
Regardless of what you call it orabout subtexts---Qbout the sources and how you perceive it, make no mistakeprocesses of ~guised sexuality."that Pierce has been high heeling it
Yet Charles Pierce does not sub- for quite some time. John F. Karr ofscribe to Charles Pei~ce. Charles
the Bay Area Reporter.writes that in
Pierce' never skirts the main text of the years since Pierce began performwhat it is that he does, "I am a stand- ing "I've had time' to finish highup comic in a dress with my jokes
sehool, college and several careers,and doing my ladies." Pierce's notions
loose my hair, lose a deeade, andare more La Cagean, "I Am What I look up to find a whole crowd ofAm," than Laeanian. Pierce deftly
fresh young pups just finishing colpierces Pierce and Peirce.
lege, just loosing their hair, and justcharl~ Pierce. The Ballrooxri. 253'

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begging to take my job,"
Pieree's nightclub and eabaret<;areer began in 1954. While an actor
at the Passadena Playhouse, he wasimpressed by several night club acts.
The young Pierce was so overwhelmed by the work of Arthur Blake
that he wrote him a lengthy monologue entitled The Return of Norma
Desmond. In the pieee, Pierce has
Desmond sent to prison and utter theline, "My prison suit was designed byEdith, Head, my ball and chain by
Cartier. n His aplomb for the one-liner
was 'surfacing. Though Blake liked
the work, he felt it too long to beincorporated into his show. Pierce
struck out on his own with it ~d met,with success.
The next five yearS found Pierce
performing in Miami Beach. At thetime, crossdressing
was illegal in
Florida.
Pierce was undaunted.
Working in basic pantomime black, heemployed a box of props to suggest
his characters. In 1963 he began towork in a complete drag and his act
crystallized into the form seen today.
Nearly 40 years later, Pierce's
resume is longer than any featherboa. His act has been seen thoughout
the United States at such venues as
Carnegie Hall, Davies Symphony Halland San Diego's Symphony Hall. In
1976 he appeared
at London's
Fortune Theatre. On television he has
guest starred on Designing Women,
Laverne and Shirley, Fame and innumerable talk shows. His 1982 performance at the Dorothy Chandler Music
Center was broadcast on the Playboy
Channel. He even boasts a line ofgreeting cards prominently featuringhis characters.
Most reeently heappeared as Bertha Vanbation in themm version of Torch Song Trilogy.
Pierce has been graciously abdieating from the stage since 1982. "Ohtell me! There was the first farewell,
the second farewell, and a third
farewell and finally a retirement." He
had hoped that after the release of
Torch Song, movie and T.V. offers
would cease his Sarah Bernhardtesque string of goodbyes. Such has
not been the case. "I thought maybe
I'll just sit baek now and won't pack asuitcase, won't do Bette Davis andjust see what would hap- I
pen with a movie or T.V.
career. Thank you, no.
There are too many actors
out there. I went to a reading for Mr. Belvedere. Theirpart was a salesman in alingerie shop. Well there
were 15 guys there who all
looked like lingerie salesman."
Back to the boards,
though readily admitting to
be "very tired of travelingaround the country withsuitcases, a lot of props
and ,wardrobe."
Thecarousel of legendary isspinning again ready toillicit shrieks and screamsof laughter from its riders
more likely to wake thedead than invoke them.
"My characters keep
dying," Pieree told the
Daily News. With the deathof Bette Davis, the show is
100 percent all dead.
Davis is Pierce's trademark. No performance
would be complete without her. Though Davis herself never saw Pieree's
impression, she did admit,
to The New York Times of
having learned from theimitators. "You know, I've
learned from the iinitators.
I really have. I was nevereonscious
I moved myelbow like that until I saw
someonedoing
me."
Pierce bounees off thisnotion incorporating a newwhen Pierce arrives in New York..
The new show wiIl also introduee (surprise!) more new material to
the Pierce _repertory.
Tallulah
Bankhead will stagger onto the Pierce
stage for the first time. Pierce has frequently done voeal impressions ofBankhead but never realized her as afull character. The show also promises
to exhume Mae West, and what Pierce
ealls the Turban Ladies-Maria
Montez, Montezuma
and Gloria
Swanson. Bear in mind, though; "It's
not a drag show-it
moves rightalong." Tsong by Billy Barnes into his act entitied Doin' the Bette Davis.
As Pierce explains it, he as Bettesings the song explaining how it isthat she is to be done. "You've gotta
smoke like Bette. You've gotta walklike Bette. You've gotta talk like
Bette. You've gotta act like Bette.
You've gotta twitch like Bette. You've
gotta cry like Bette." After each
instructive phrase a demonstration isprovided bolstering the edificatory
nature of the song. The number has
proved a show stopperin SanFrancisco and, promises as much-I'

SHE'S GOTBErn DAVIS EYES-Charles

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Music··You can feel it,
it's Electric!"·
by WiUiam Chafin and Victoria Starr

S

ummer is rapidly approaching, calling for a hearty
stock of music to move to. So whether you're
bicycling with your walkman, playing frisbee on
the beach, or simply tooling around town blasting musicfrom your rolled-down car windows, be sure to put thesealbums at the top of your list.

Carousel/Marcia

GriffithslMango

You'd naturally expect one of the three mothers of reggae to evoke images of sun, sand and some fine weed.
Griffiths, who along with Judy Mowatt and Rita Marleybacked Bob Marley for many years as the I-Threes, hasbeen performing and recording, both as a solo artist andwith others, since the early 1960s. On Carousel Griffiths
references her long career, rolling soul, motown, rock andreggae into a fine blend of pure Pop.
'The designated Single on the album is "Electric
Boogie", a Bunny Waller tune first recorded by Griffiths in
1983, and the club mix of which inspired the "Electric
Slide," a line dance that had Washington D.C. grooving formost of last year (no, that wasn't the Bus Stop the kids
were doing last night!). But danceable songs are bountiful
on thiS LP, with the tide track, "Carousel," being one of thebest. Its high-driving sica beat (the same beat that got
Marley and friends their first recording contract with Island,Records back in 1961) pumps this song along, while
Griffiths' upper registers, ,the keyboards and the backing
vocal~vocals
reminiscent of African choral arrangements--«re light enough to keep you flying. Better yet,throw on ~Sugar Shack," which, on the heels of the B-52's"Love Shack" will be more- than ample to keep the fuokin'
fun alive.__
Tbe.m~lod1..~ even sillier than the B's, and theimagery more homey, with hannonica-induced train'horns;
and Griffith's singing echoed by a track that sounds like itcame straight from Green Acres.
North American musical tradition shows its influence on"'The One Who Really Loves You," whose intro could easilybefor a remake of "Locomotion." It's a remarkabletribute to Motown; the lyrics, the vocals, the bridge, every
aspect of the song pointS to the girl group era, and the sound(Aretha Franklin, Patti laBelle) that shaped female vocalists 'for decades to come. Then there's the rock element in the rot"All over the World", and while it'sslighdy incongruous, it
serves Griffiths' message loud arid clear: "Some may rock,some may rolVMe say reggae; them say soul/ln America
they're rockin, and in Russia toolDown in Tokyo, round andround they go/Allover the' world people are dancing." Amarvelous way to herald the coming of spring.
-lIS

miStakenSalt and Tobasco, Dance Music Styles FromCuba, the Carribbean and Brazil/Mango

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I'm so glad David Byrne discovered Latin Music. Just
like I'm glad that Paul Simon discovered African music,
and Christopher Columbus discovered America. "But,"
replied Chuek D., "how could Columbus discover America
when he had a brother here waiting for him when hearrived?"Actually I'm glad that Mango, an offshoot of Island

~

Records, Is here to bring us all
sions,
right! ... During theof the world's music. Not a'Hallelujah' sessions we werehyped-up package, complete
giving him two a day." Rewith gimmick, fashion and amixed here, it's a catchy
mm contract, but the real stuff,
houselfockldance tune on theas smooth or quirky as it natuslow tempo side, filled withrally evolves. Risks are taken at
Beatlesesque flourish~s andMango, but the end result is
Gregorian chant refrains.
always the finest music around.
Things heat up on the
So why don't we hear Mango
twisted B-side with "Raverecords on the airwaves?
On." This psychodelic-AcidCheers to Nevin Patrick for
House funk includes guitar
this sizzling compilation. Whether
lines appropriated from the
you're a "world music" novice
O'Jays, desultory whistling,(the term "~orld music" conbuzzing bees, refrains oftinues to baffle me), or actually"you"re a walking miracle,"grew up with the local s.alseros
and, if you listen very carefuland soca masters, this album isIy, near the end you'll hear
sure to hit a nerve, spanningthe boys yell "Penis! Penis!"time, style and location into one
Yery drug related, these songs
hot sweat. DJs from coast to
are fun whatever your state ofcoast-south
to north, thatmind. And since, Elektra is set
is-will recognize a classic whento releasea, seven-track
they see one as they add yet one
expanded version of Madmore copy of Third World's
chester, Happy Mondays will
"Now That We Found Love" tosoon be easy to find here in
their collections. And the dance
the U.S.A.
'
floor divas will be reminded ofPeter Murphy, the exdisco's Latin side as they swirl tolead singer of Bauhaus, keeps
Kid Creole's "Musica Americana,"
growing artistically. His roots,
and the Gibson Brothers' "Cuba."
HE'S VERY DEEPfirmly planted in the dark and
For the more astute follower
PI
wormy soil of, goth-rock,of Afro-Carribbean music, theeter Murphy so os out
nourish artistic endeavors
most enticing part of this collection is the appearance of Los
which get stronger with every. solo project. Deep (Beggar's
van Van, a Cuban band that has made quite a splash in Banquet), his third solo effort, is a superb, if moody, rock
Miami recently. While the group has actually been around for album built around acoustic guitars, synthesizers and a
20 years, and are the most popular lYcmdin Cuba, politically powerful percussion supplied by his band, The Hundred
motivated trade embargos have prevented the type of cultural Men. This is MUlphy's most accessible work yet, despite, interchange that brought Salsa to this country in the first the faet that every song is riddled with enigmatic referplace. Now their is rumor of a new wave of CulYcmmusic onenees to his own personal demons. In "Deep Ocean Sea,"
it's way, and if Los Van Van is any indication, there's going tofor example, we get "Your head's a supernova/And you
be lots to shake our hips to in the coming year.
would like/Anything to stop/fhe pain from your finger
With a dash of Soca from Arrow ("Hot, Hot, Hot,"
screaming/Thereyou stand naked in the sunIWithout"Groove"), and the lesser known but equally pleasing
leather, whose pain you think you need." The twisting andsounds of Yomo Toro, Jorge Ben, LBW and Nanashifting continues with songs like "Cuts you up," "Seven
Vasconcelos and the Bushdancers, Salt and Tobasco will' Veils" and the ballad "Marlene Deitrich's Favorite Poem."
keep you on the dance floor thirsting for more.
' -VS
Electronicis the collaborative team of Bernard
Sumner (New Order), Neil Tennant (Pet Shop Boys) andJohnny Marr, formerly of The Smiths. Their terrific new
If these last two disks seem a little too high-spirited,
dance-pop hit, Getttng Away Wtth It is available in a few
there's always the Brits to bring you back to urbanity, where
different re-mixed versions, but the original is still themuscles pump sleek to the industrial mind warp of sound ...
best. Musically, the' mesh of Pet Shop Boys and New
If you know anything about Happy Mondays, thisOrder reads very danceble, with a touch of elegance(yet another) band' from Manchester, then you know they
supplied by Marr's understated and underused guitar.
are Ecstasy boys, and it shows in their music. On
The lyrics are sung by Bernard, whlle the refrain of "1
Madchester Rave On (Factory, UK) there are two superior
love you more than .you love me~ becomes a duet withdance songs, beginning with "Hallelujah," originally proNeil. Are they singing to each other? Also included on
duced by Martin Hannett. As lead singer Shaun Ryder
the 12" is "Lueky Bag, Miami Edit," a happening instiu~
reported in a recent interview in The Face, "Mind, he likes
mental bonus cut.
-weworking with us 'cause we give him lots of 'E' during ses-

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speak its name.
Secondary characters are less welldrawn. A Black woman included forproper demographics at the support
group speaks dialeet like "I got me
chirren" that is jarring in context. It's
unfortunate that Dell, the protagonist of
Mexican origin, is the stereotypical gardener and the "hot-blooded" activist. A
television star is mockingly presented as
an imbecile of crass wealth (although hiswife has an appealing vulnerability andrefreshing warmth). Mark and Steven aresnooo when it comes to material possessions. Even Sonny, ostensibly spiritual,mocks a prospective sugar daddy for hislack of taste in furnishings.
The story was lively and complex,
quirky and interesting. Loose ends fell
into place at the end, although someconclusions were too sitcom neat. And,I admit I have a bias against an author
who lists novelizations of Nosferatu,
Predatorand other sereenplays
beneath novels, poems and nonfiction.
Maybe Afterlife was too Hollywood
slick for me. "Mark, even with ten days
beard and nothing pending, tore at thewheel of his big boy's Jeep, negotiating
traffic like a killer deal."
I'm sure that many readers will disagree with my reactions. Many will be'caught up in the drama and events;
many will identify with the charactersmore than I was able to. A well-known
editor believes that writing about the
AIDScrisis should not be judged by traditional literary standards: it is enoughto testify, to remember, to moum andto inspire to action. I applaud Monette's
intentions and his honesty, and I consider Afterlife a form of activism.'But inthe end, I just couldn't warm up to
Monette's prose style. T
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plot twists and a most tender scene
betweenHughesand Baldwin.
Although this is a story of a man andwoman's love for each other, the gay
undercurrent is apparent. Several background characters are portrayed as gay,and the theme of changing relationships
applies easily to couples of any sex.
The plot reversals are complex,
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body change movies (All of Me, Big
reporting, DIVA's efforts are crucial toeducating audiences about the politietc.). In the wrong hands sueh a concal ramifications of the AIDS erisis,
eept could be cloying and cute, but by
Also worth noting on this season's
underplaying and simplicity (Rene's
program are highlights from thedirection as well as lucid perfonnancesInternational
Women's Day Video
by Baldwin, Hughes and Parker), what
Festival, including Laura Buckley's highcould be a movie-like, campy scene
ly recommended pro-<:hoicetape, Hearbecomes' a tender analogy of a long
Our VOice; Ends & Means, which docuterm gay or straight relationship.
ments a recent conference on U.S. antilighting designer Debra J. Kletter
eommunist efforts; and Anatomy of an(who has worked on four other Lucas
FJectrontc Invastan, which investigates
projects) creates a depth and variety of
U.S. propaganda which is illegallymoods, from authentically garish club
broadcast onto Cuban airwaves.
settings to warm candlelit dinners. Loy
Eventually Deep Dish will get to a
Arcenas' seenic, design incorporates
52-week schedule. It's a lofty, but not
swift set changes amidst textured layunrealistic goal. If realized, this country
ers of faux stone, marble and tree
would find itself with a year-roundroots that trail up a large picture frame,alternative media network. As for now,the contents of which change withJohnson is less grand when speaking
each setting. Arcenas captures one ofabout what Deep Dish can accomplish,
Lucas' larger themes: Perception of"We're trying to bring issues to thepersonality is an evershifting landscape, perhaps so transient that deflO- forefront locally and nationally-wherever change can be made."ing a soul may be impossible.
Each half-hour show can be seen
A sense of ensemble creativity
Friday night at 8:30 pm on Channel
surrounds this production. This isC (16) and the following Wednesday
Lueas's third play to be produeed at
at lOam on Channel D (17) on both
Circle Rep. Director Rene also directManhattan and Paragon Cable. T
ed the film of Lucas' screenplay
Longtime Companion, about ten years I---------------lin the lives of gay men and how AIDS
SOAP from pagl 56
affects their lives. Prelude actorsthat their passio~
the show's nameMary-Louise Parker and John Dossett
indicates---are so "secret" that their repappear in the award winning ftim, set
resentation must be carefully, \!ven
to premiere in New York in May.
covertly, produced. What then is the
Rumor has it that Prelude will bepoint of all this? To show straight audiheading for a Broadway run, where it
ences that lesbians and gays are as
was originally intended. But the intimacy"bad" as they thought? Or perhaps evenof Circle Rep's production shouldn't be,
more insidious, to convince straightmissed. Lucas deals warmly with love
audienees that lesbians and gays haveand provides a magical, sexy tale of relafeelings, relationships, jobs and families?
tionship problems and resolutions. T,
That the "felly Soap" will remain, as the
London Sun so eloquently put it, a "Gay
DISHfrompagl57
Shocker"? The producers have opened
Hall demonstration in March of 1989
up a phone line (1-900-568-8181)where
and Gay Pride Month last year. Like aviewers can air complaints, as well as
Prayer is an in-depth look at ACf UP
make suggestions for future shows. I
and WHAM's recent protest at St.
hope they listen. T
Patriek~s Cathedral. This tape reviews
the Catholic Church's positions on
CONFERENCE from pag~61
homosexuality, AIDS al!d abortion,ty to select which panels to attend.
analyzes network coverage of the
The best strategy seemed to be
demonstration, and features footage
choosing a broad range of subjects,
inside of the chureh, including thefrom poetry to self eensorship to
infamous "wafer-crumbling" episode,graphic artists and writers, all thewhen one aetivist protested church'while praying that one had notpolicy by dropping the Eucharist on
missedtoomuchelsewhere.
the floor. An alternative to the domiThankfully, the conference opened
nant media's misinformed
AIDS
with one large panel for the keynoteaddresses by Judy Grahn and Allen
Ginsberg and included two large
forums, one on "AIDS and the
Responsibility of the Writer" and oneon "Gay and Lesbian Literature in theMarketplace." Grahn's speeeh wasnothing short of brilliant,' while theforums allowed for a broad and varied assignment of voices, highlighted
by an intensely moving talk by Essex
Hemphill in the former and an interesting range of opinion in the latter.
As could be predicted, the issue ofrace and diversity remained an open
and inadequately addressed ,subject.
Though variously treated, ,Hemphill
may best have summed up the felt frustration in his talk on "coming home."
One eould not, however, help
being taken aback by the surging feeling of openness and tolerance that pervaded the two days. There was aconstant emphasis on "coming out," andnot merely in reference to sexuality; atthe panel on self censorship, a range ofwriters talked about coming out arounda host of issues and the need for toleranee within our community as well as
in the world beyond Most remarkable
was the clarity, precision and accuracyof expression in this group of mostly fiction and pbetIy writers.
Numerous participants spoke offeeling spent and exhausted by theconference's end. "our write '90" wasan energetic stab into the future andout of the past that we must hope willcontinue. T

HETERO HIRE from pegl 14
According to Wilson, the job wasadvertised in 1be New York TImes, 1be
Washington Post and 1be Boston Globe,
but not ip any gay and lesbian
publications.
The ads attracted 35 'applicants, many of whom were straight,
recalled Wilson. Of the 35, she said,"three bubbled up."Among the three was Gary
Henderson, a gay man who has setVed
as acting executive director. of the Fundduring the search process. Henderson,
who is a former editor and publicrelations execUtive, said he was told that
he was "number two" on the board's list.
While Henderson was reluetant tocomment on the. board's choice, hestressed the importance of the negative"group reaction.",But Wilson asserted that the staff
statement was an action taken by threemaverick staff members, who did not
enjoy the support of the remaining 13
staff .and over 100 volunteer workers.
Wt1sbn contrasted this action with what
she described as the "unanimousdecision" of the board in favor of hiring
Brading. According to Wlison, Brading
not only got the votes of every director
who attended the most recent board
meeting, but also of all the othermemebers of the board, who werepolled prior to the meeting.
Board Not So Unanimous
At least one member of the board,
David Hagens of Los Angeles, was neverasked his opinion on Brading. Hagens,
who stepped down as a CO<hair of theboard last sununer, stated that he knew
nothing about Brading, and had neverseen the man's resume. Hagens added,
however, that he had been asked about
his views on placing a heterosexual at
the helm of the Fund, and had confessed
deep ambivalence on the question.
Hagens also expressed concern that
supporters of the Fund may withhold
future donations becauSe of Brading.
Michael Paller, an employee of theFund, was Virtually certain that theorganization would lose much of its
support because of the board's decision.
Paller was hired by the Fund to organize
a gay and lesbian writers' conference, forwhich, Paller said, Brading's appointment
constituted a major setback. "A numberof writers who have agreed to partidpate
may not participate," Paller warned.
"'Those I have spoken to are outraged ...
It's a matter of the role, the symbolic
significance of this."
Wilson, on the other hand, wasmore concerned with the symbolic

Significance of the staff statement.
Repeatedly calling the statement 1ibeIous
and defamatory, Wlison described it as"the same kind of bashing that we'reconstantly subjected to as lesbians andgay men. "'Wlison and some members, of thestaff acknowledged that some of thetensions evident in the present conflict
stemmed from the resignation of Sherrie
Cohen three months ago. Cohen, who
had served as the organization's
executive director for three years, ·wasasked to leave because of a "mismatChin terms
of management
andinterpersonal,
skills," according to
Wlison. While Wilson noted that "mostof the staff left with [Cohen], she said
, she. did not know exactly how many
people ~d quit But Throer described
himself as "one of the two oldtimers-people who have been here forover a year."
When the staff and volunteers
released their statement Oil Thesday, they
asked for a meeting with the board to
discuss Brading's offer. By the end' ofThursday, Wlison stated, the board had
not decided whether to grant the staff's
request. Hagens was negotiating withboth sides to arrange a meeting.
,Meanwhile., the Fund, personnel
were making phone calls to gay andlesbian leaders around the countIy, in aneffort to organize a letter-writing drive topressure the board to reconsider
Brading's job offer. Members of the staff
declined to make predi,ctions regarding
the future of the negotiations, saying thatthey were handling the situation "day byday." Turner, however, ruled out theoption of quitting. "Quitting is not in my
vocabulary," he declared. "Strikinimaybe-whatevermeans necessary tobring this organization to where it needs
to be." -Ftledjrom Boston T

If you're orally
inclined ...

USE DENTAL DAMS
April 4, 1990

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DANCING OUT
Monday,Private Eyes (Marc Berkley's Kool Komrads; male strippers) 12 W 21 St,
club 200-n72

Tuesday

Wednesday
Better Days 3161}J 49 St (819Aves); 245-8925
Private Eyes (Jeffrey Sanker & Dallas's Club Bad) 12 W 21 St, btwn
5tlV6th Aves; 206-7n2-Pyramid (Tennesse's House Nation) 10·1Avenue A, btwn 6th/7th Streets;
420-1590
Silver Uning (2-4-1 drinks, also open Tues-Sun, women SAT) 175 CherryLa., Roral Pk, LI; 516/354-9641
Stutz (2-4-1 drinks, also open daily) 202 Westchester Ave, White Plains;
9141761-3100
Twenty/Twenty (Marc Berkley's Kool Komrads, gay men after 10 pm) 20
W 20 St; club 727-8841

Thursday-BoyIJar (has a new wave drag show) 15112 St Marks Place, btwn
2ndl3rd Aves; 674-7959-Copacabana (last Thu. of the month has Susanne Bartsch party) 10 E 60
St, at Fifth Ave; 755-6010
Excalib ... ($1 drinks, also open Tues-Sun, women WED) comer IOth/Jef, farson behind football stadium, Hoboken, NJ; 201-795-1161
Grand Central (2-4-1 drinks, also open Wed-Sun) 210 Merrick Road,
Rockville Centre, LI; 5161536-4800
Hatfield's (2-4-1 drinks, female impersonators; also open nighUy, women on
ruE & FRI) 126-10 Queens Blvd, KewGardens, Queens; 718/261-8484*Quickl (Chip Duckett Thursdays) 6 Hubert St (on Hudson, 5 blocks
below Canal); 925-2442

Friday.

*8oyIJar 15112 St Marks PI., btwn 2ndl3rd Aves; 674-7959-Carmelita's (Chip Duckett's Boy+Boyj 150 E 14 St; club 673-9015
Columbia Dances (1st Friday of every month) 116th St & Bway; 854-3574days
Private Eyes (preppies and young professionals) 12 W 21 St, btwn 5t1V6th
Aves; 206-7n2*Quickl (Scott Currie + Panty Girdles party) 6 Hubert St (on Hudson, 5
blocks below Canal); 925-2442
1Wenty/J\Nenty (Marc Berkley's Professional Happy Hour, 2-4-1 drinks)
20 W 20 St, 4-8 pm; club 727-8841

Saturday
Barefoot Boogie (smoke & alcohol free) 434 6th Ave (btwn 9/10 Sts); 832-6759-BoyIJar 15 1/2 St Marks Place, btwn 2ndl3rd Aves; 674-7959 ,The Center Dances (2nd and 4th Saturdays) 208 W 13 St, btWn 7tW8th
Aves; 620-7310
Girth and Mirth Club at the Center (3rd Saturdays, heavy men & theiradmirers) 208 W 13 St; 6~7310
Columbia Dances (3rd Saturdays, Same But Different Dance, throughJune 16)116 & B'way, 10 pm - 3 al1l; info 629-1989.
Private Eyes (Jeffrey Sanker & Dallas's Club Bad) 12 W 21 St, btwn
5t1V6th Aves; 200-m2' ,Red Zone (upstairs, John Simone's Talent Show, call to confirm) 440 W
54 St, btwn 10/11 Aves; 582-2222'"Roxy (mixed gay/straight/TVs/clubkids) 515 W 18 St (btwn 10/11 Aves);
645-5156
Saint At Large (ad hoc parties at different locations); 674-8541
Sound Factory (mixed gay/straight, Acid House, no alcohol) 530 W 27 St(btwn 1OtWllth Aves); 643-0728

I'

Sunday,I

I.

Better Days 316 W 49 St (819Aves); 245-8925*Love Machi,", at Underground, 860 Bway, near 17th St; 254-4005*Quick (Chip Duckett's 1st Tuesday of the month, AIDS benefit) 6 Hubert
St (on Hudson, 5 blocks below Canal); 925-2442'

Better Days 316 W 49 St (819Aves); 245-8925, .ars(Chip Duckett's Mars Needs Men) Westside Highway and 13th St;,
691-6262.
-Pyramid ,(Hapi Phace's Backdoor Cabaret) 101 Avenue A, btwn 617

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Streets; 420-1590.
Twenty/Twenty (T-Dance, 4 pm - 2 am) 20 W 20 St (5/6 Aves); 727-8841
Woody's (Dean Johnson's original Rock & Roll Fag Bar, alternate Sundays, call first) 4th St at 2nd Ave; 982-3686

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

DANCING OUT for Women
Tuesday
Hatfield'sl~6-1O

Queens Blvd.; Kew Gardens; 718/261-8484

Wednesday
Bedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516{486-9516
Excalibur (Ladies Night, $1 drinks) comer 10th/Jefferson behind footballstadium, Hoboken, NJ; 201-795-1161
Twenty/Twenty (Shescape After Work, 5-10 pm) 20 W 20 St (btwn
5tW6th Aves); info 645-6479, club 727-8841

ThursdayBedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516{486-9516
Big Hunt Club (Her Planet, 8 pm - 2 am; begins 3129)804 Washington
4 blocks below 14 St; info 727-7616

FridaySt,,, Bedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516{486-9516 '-Carmel ita's (Chip Duckett's Girl+Gir~ 150 E 14 St; club 673-9015
Cheeks 2000 Long Beach Road,lsland Park, LI; 516{431-57oo
HatfHiId'sl26-10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens; 718/261-8484
Roxy (Shescape party) 515 W 18 St, btwn 1OtlVl1th Aves; info 645-6479,
club 645-5156
Visions 56-01 Queens Blvd, Woodside; info 7181846-7131,club 7181899-9031

SaturdayBedrock 12fWoodfieid Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516{486-9516 'The Center (Women & Friends 1st Saturdays, Feb. thru May) 208 W 13
St; 620-7310
Mars (last Saturdays, Her Planet; 3/24 this month) 13 St & West Side
Hwy,691-6262.
Silver Uning 175 Cherry Lane, Roral Park, LI; 516/354-9641
Starz 836 Grand Boulevard, Deer Park, LI; 516{242-3857
Twenty/Twenty (Shescape party) 20 West 20 Street (btwn 5t1V6th Aves);
info 645-6479, club 727-8841

Sunday"Bedrock 1~1 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516{486-9516
Cave Canem (Sandwich Sister Sundays) 241 st Ave at 1st St; 529-9665
Hot Rod (Our Parties/Ourselves, Tea Dance 2nd Sundays) 270 11th Ave(btwn 27/28 Sts), 5-10 pm; info 245-1786, club 244-1963
Mars (Girl Sunday, Tea Dance 1st Sundays) Westside Highway and 13th
St. 5-9 pm; 691-6262

Ev.ery Night (or almost)

Cubby Role (tiny dance floor) 438 Hudson St@ Morton St; 243-9079
Duchess II Sheridan Sq. & 7th Ave South; 242-1408.
Spectrum (closed Mon, & Tues; good gay/lesbian mix, see Every Night,
above, for details) 802 64th St, Bldyn.; 7181238-8213

prepared by Rick X
with additional information fromThe Gay & Leabian Switchboard of
NewYorX

AN EVENTS
Seod'caJendar Items to:lUck X. Going Out
Box 790
New York, NY 10108

Items must be rec:dftd by
Monday to be 10cluded in the foJ.
lowing week's issue.

ONGOING
MAYOR'S OFFICE FOR THE LESBIANAND GAY COMMUNITY Solicits 11Ifor.dOll o. J•• e End
to place on the1990 Pride Month Poster Calendar.
which will be widelydistributed
throughout NYC; for any gay/lesbian
events taking place in June; Lee Hudson or Jan Carl Park, 566-7385 (deadline extendedtill March 31)
TOWER PRESS "ride Gllide 90 DeadlI.e. was Mire. 23 for organization
listings, and is April 211for calendar ofJune events listings; to beg for an
extension. 966-7722 (these basic listings are provided free)
BIG APPLE SOFTBALL LEAGUE NY
announces SofdIall 'lIO, sponsored byCoors Ught, The Silver Bullet; practicesessions Tuesdays, High School of the
Humanities, 351 W 18 Sf. 7th Floor Gym;
7-10 pm; info 718/786-2467 (BASL, Box475, NYC 10150)
GAY FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS BROOKLYN Mellorlal
Day Weeke.d
Callporee. from Friday, May 25 thru
Monday, May 28; at Camp Wei-Met. in
the Catskills; with welcoming
party,
square dancing, hiking, rafting. disco,
hay rides, crafts, swimming, bar·b·que, canoeing, shuffleboard,
volleyball. VCR movies, more; $185-$205;
info 718/768-26.21 (rsvp & deposit byApril 11CONGREGATIONBETH SIMCHAT TORAH
announces Jewilll Education Courses
for $pri ... including feminist classes on
Biblical women, modern conversational
Hebrew, social dancing, Torah cantillation. Passover preparation. and holiday
books of the Bible (Esther, Ruth, Jonah);
March 6- June 18;info 929-9498
CONGREGATION, B'NAI JESHURUNAIDS OUTREACH PROGRAM April •PIISOVII' Seder for PWAs; '1S1 W 88 S1;
1 pm; 787-7600 (rsvp by April 1; open topersons of any or no religious affiliation)
HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FUND
April 1 Deadline for Paper. with a

For more information or referrala, torap, or to volunteer, call the GLSB
daily, noon to midnight, 212-777-1800

CA.LENDAR
Gay/Lesbian Polilleal Theme, for the
first annual competition in which thefirst-prize winner gets a free week·
end in Washington. DC. and ,a placeof honor at this year's annual HRCF
Gala event; mail to HRCF Call for
Papers. 1012 14th St, NW, Ste. 600,
Wash. DC 20005; include cover sheetwith name. address. phone, and nameof school and course (if any); info
202/628-4160
FOURTH LESBIAN AND GAY EXPERI·MENTAL FILM FESTIVAL Call for Supe,..
• a.d IS •• FU•• for a September
showing; send prints or video transfers(with return postage to get entry back)to NY LGEFF, c/o Jim Hubbard. 503
B'way, #503, NYC 10013; info 865·1499(entries accepted thru July I)Ave); THUR-SUN, 8 pm; $10; reserva-I
tionS/info ~88(thru APRIL 1)
THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY presents
Feature Film, Bob Morris's report by agay, Jewish, Long Island boy about hissojourn through Montana and Arizona;155 1st Ave (at 10 St); $5; 254-1109; THUSUN at 9 pm (thru APR 8)COOPER SQUARE THEATRE presents
Will/lUll Love'i NOSEJOB(She Hlld toModel); with Debra ·Women Dllhind
Bars" Granieri, Paul "Borcht Belt" Phin·ney, andWilfiam "Jasmine Allspice" Love
as Tara Felchberger; 50 E 7 S1; 10:30 pm;$8; Fridays. except APR 13 (thru MAY 11)

RIDICULOUS THEATRICAL COMPANY
revives alrles
Ludla .. •• DINRI", GottF,rblo"jet: II mll.ta1Wllrlr, which won
an Obie in 1977, a "magnum opus in the
DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY TELEVISION Call for Tapes for LDokollt: £e,- ,spirit of Wagner's Ring Cycle, but in far
less time"; directed by Everett Quinton
llill" lI"d GllY Video Fe,tlvlIl '90, for
October 9-11 showing; "by queers of for with a new score by Mark Bennet andcostumes by Susan Young; 1 Sheridan
queers or about queers or all of theabove"; all video-mastered modes OK.. Square; $25; tix 691-2271. theater 564no film to video; no entry fee, small hon- 8038. info 989-6524 (previews till APR 12
opening; runs thru MAY 20; TU-FR at 8,
oraria; 941·1298 (entries accepted thru
AUG 10)SAT-SUN at 7)
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY POSTCRYPTART GALLERY houses Readl", theUntil: AIDS IIIfo""atlo" In tile """,Ie
Eye, a decade·long look at media portrayal of AIDS, the commendable andthe destructive, curatad by The Artist's
House and friends; in St Paurs Chapel
basement. 116 & B'way (#1/#9 train);
TUE·FRI, 2-6 pm; FRI-SAT. 9 pm - midnight; free; 854-1953 (thru MARCH 311
INn CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY MIDTOWN 71Ie Indomitable Spirit. works
by 100 artists created in response to
the AIDS crisis; 1133 6th Ave (at 43 St);
TU·SUN, 11-6. except THU till 8; 7684680 (thru APR 7),
WHITE COLUMNS 20th Annlver.ary
BHefit ExIIlbltlol, with works 'by over
80 artists. including Andres Serrano;142-54 Christopher S1; WED-SUN, noon
,6 pm; 924-4212
NEW YORK CITY GAY MEN'S CHORUS
MuicilRevue:Anytll/n,
Cole. at the
Sanford Meisner Theatre. 164 11th Ave(22/23 Sts); $15 (except $25 Fridays,
which include a champagne reception
with the cast after the show); Ticket
Central 279-4200 (WED·SAT. 3/28-3131;
at 8 pm. except SAT at 7:30 & 10'.30)
BAD NEIGHBORS presents ,71Ie"'onlr.
a "Gothic tragedy" with "a dash of East
Village high camp"; at the Cooper
Square Theatre. 50 E 7 St (near 2nd

CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE presents Elizabeth Page'. Sparea bout two
women who want to have a baby
together but first need to find a "sparepart" in order to do it; 159 Bleecker S1;$22-$28; TUE-FRI at 8 pm. SAT at 7 & 10
pm, SUN at 3 & 7 pm; tix 254-6330. info
645-7744 (open run)",rt•.

THE NEW DUPLEX presents Funny Gay
Mlle.,
Jaffe
Cohen.
Danny
McWilliams. Bob Smith; 61 Christopher
S1; FRI and SAT at 10 pm; $10 + 2-drink
min.; reservations 255-5438 (open run)
Mollntain. til the N#oon. a movie about
explorers Sir Richard Burton and John
'Hanning Speke. their adventures in Africa
studying native eroticism, Speke's unspoken love for Burton. and problems with anasty homosexual publisher; shot in Kenya(NIIW Yo('IdWP.W movieline. m-2345)
The H,ndm,id·.
Tille. a movie with
Faye Dunaway. Natasha Richardson,
Robert Duvall. Aidan Quinn. and Elizabeth McGovern (as a rebellious lesbian). in an America taken over byfundamentalists(New York/WPLJ
movieline, m-2345),.,,,10".

labyrinth tJf
Almoaovar's
aventura loell involving a gay terrorist.
Spanish punkers. a nymphomaniac. her
frigid gynecologist father. and a bisexual prince; at the Bleecker Street Cine·
ma. west of laGuardia Place. 674-2S60(Redactor: esta pelicula se entlendemucho mejor cuando uno esta en
honda)"'lIcho Dllncer, a movie about the economics and politics of male prostitutionin Manila; at the Bleecker Street Cinema, west of laGuardia Place, 674-2560(thru MARCH 29)

MONDAY, MAR. 26
BAR ASSOCIATION
FOR HUMAN
RIGHTS OF GREATER NY FOIIrdI All ....
DI •• er. with Key-Note Speaker Mayor
Dlvld N. Dhlkllll; with public service
award's to Virgl.laA,.no,
A.drewH_;
public servant awards to J....
We.t. Ro.aly. Ric.ter; in the Pentop
Ballroom. New York Penta Hotel, 7thf!-.ve & 33 St; 7 pm; $35 students/$80
genera1/$125 sponsors; rsvp 877-6705,
press 302-5100
BLADES AGAINST AIDS Ice Skatl.g
Party. a benefit for AIDS research andGod'slove We Deliver,; price includes
skate rental, refreshments, and a performance by the Ice Theatre of New
York;.at Wollman Rink, Central Park,
enter north of 6th Ave; 7-10 pm; $35
advanceJ$40 at rink; 580-2204

TUESDAY, MAR. 21
CENTER YOUTH ENRICHMENT SERVICES announces Two New S.pport
Group. for Young Gayl/Le.bl ... , forlesbians under 22 (6:00-7:30 pm), gay
men under 22 (7:30-9 pm); beginningtonight and continuing every Tuesday;at the Center, 208 W 13 S1; pre-registerwith Dionne Freeney, ~7310'
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS HIV Heahll
Seminar: Medical Treatlllelltl; 129 W 20
Sf. 3rd Floor; 7 pm; free; 807-6655, TOD
645-7470 (this and every 4th TUES)GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS Wotbhop:
Keep H Up', to "reaffirm the importanceof safer sex. and feel confident aboutsaying yes. whether you're into casualsex or serious dating. and no matter
what your HIV status is"; at the Center,
208 W 13 St; 7·10:30 pm; registrationnecessary. 807-6655, TO0.645-7470
RIDICULOUS THEATRICAL COMPANY
revives CII....
LIId .... •• Dar RI", Gott

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A.C,o.c.
AIDS CENTER OF QUEENS COUNTYSOCiAl SERVICES - EDUCATION - BUDDIESCOUNSEUNG - SUPPORT GROUPS
Volunteer Opportunities(718) 896-25OO(voice)/718) 8~2985(TDD)
III Unleash Powllr)
496A Hudson Street, Suite G4 NYC 10014(212)989-1114
A diverae, non-partiAn group of individuala united inanger and committed III direct action to end the AIDS
crisia. Gen. meetings Mon. nighta 7:30,
at the Community Center 208 W.13th.

BISEXUAl. YOunt
Informalaocial & support group for Bisexual
kidalyouth. Monthly meetinwpoducklunc~ held
1:00pm on fourth Sunday of the month at membera
hom ... Call NY ABN for this month's location. This
group is part of tho New York Area Bisexual Network.
--,-,--.-----_.

FRONT RUNNElS
A running club for lelbian and gay athletea
of allabiliti ... Fun Runs of 1-8 m~ .. held every Sat at
IDem and Weds. at 7pm in Cantral Parkand every Tu ... at7pm in Prospect Park.
For information: call (212)724-9700.

BLUS-BRONX LESBIANS
UNIJED IN SISTERHOOD
Social, political and IUpport networking group for
women and their friendl. Regular aocialevenlS andmeetingl on the fim and third Fridays of every month.
At The Community Center, 208 W. 13 Street, from 8:3G8pm. For more info call Lisa at (212)829-9817.

THE RJND FOR IllMAN DIGNRYNational Gay and Lesbian Crisis Line'AIDS 800"-I-800-SOS-GAYS
Educational Resourca Canter; Positive lmag ..
Madia Center; NY Stata Arts Program'666 Bway Suite 410 NYC, NY 10012 (212)1i2&-11m

AL, \lP (AIDS Coalition

ALOEClAPlN-NY(Asian lesbians of the East Coasv
Asian Pacific lesbian Network·New York)We are a political, social and supportive network of
Asian Pacific lesbians, Planning meetings on theIst
Sunday and social events on the last Friday of eachmonth. Call (212)517-5598 for more information.
ARCS (AIDS-Ralated Community Sarvic .. )for Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan,
Ulster and Westchester counties. AIDS education,
cliant selVices, crisis intelVention, support groups,
case management, buddy and hospital visitor program,
214 Cenlral Iwa. 'Mi1II Plails, NY118l8(914)~
838 I;lroadway ,Newburgh, NY 12250(914)582-!miAlDSlina (114)-..07
ATR (AIDS TREATMENT REGISTRY,INC.)
Publishes a bi-monthly Directory of clinical trials of
experimental AIDS/HIV treatments in NY/NJ, and has
educational materialt/seminara
for trial participants.
Al1l also advocates for improvements in the trial system, P,O. Box 30234, NY, NY 1011-0102, (212) 28S-4IS6.
Publications free/donation requested.
BAR ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
lawyers Referral
Service for the lesbian and Gay Community
Full Range of legal SelVices (212) 459-4873
BAR ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTSFree Walk-in legal Clinic. Tuesday 6-8 pm
lesbian & Gay Community Centr., Ground, Roor
BIDS (BISEXUAL DOMINANCUSUBMISSION GROUP)
Share SIM experiences and fantasies with others ina positive, non-judgementelatmosphere.
Fim Sunday of tha month, 4:45pm at tha Community Center
208 W. 13 Street, NYC. This group is part of the New
York Area Bisexual Network,
BISEXUAL PRIDE DISCUSSION GROUP
Topical discussions on inues of inllil1l8t III the community in a congenial atmosphere, followed by In informal
dinner at a 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 s9cialevents
for the Bisexual communityand friemls. Call NYABN for detaila of upcoming
evants, (718)353-8245
BIPAC (BISEXUAL POunCAL
ACTION CO_1TTEEl
Political action on issues of importance to the Bisexual/lesbiarv'Gay
community. Monthly meetinwpoduck
held 8:00pm on fourth Thursday of the month at melO,bers homes. Call NYABN for this month·s location.
(718)353-8245

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April 4, 1990

THE GAY AFRICAN AMERICANS
BODY POSITIVE
If you or your lover has tested HIV+, we offer support
groups, seminara, public forums, reference library,referrals, social activities and up-to·date national
monthly, "THE BODY POSITIVE" (S1!i/year).
(212)833-1782.
2095 Broadway, Suite 308, NYC, NY 10023
CIRCLE OF MORE UGHT
Spiritual support and sharing in a gay/lesbian affirmative group. West-Park Presbyterian Church
185 West 88th Street
Wed: worship service 8:30 pm, program 7:30.
Maraha (212)304-4373
Charlie (212)891·7118.
COMMUNITY HWTH PROJECT
208 West 13th Streat, NYC, NawYork 10011
For Appointmants and Information(212) 67So3559 (TTYNoica)
PROVIDING CARING, SENSITIVE AND lOW-COST
HEAlTH CARE SERVICES TO THE LESBIAN AND GAYCOMMUNITYCOMMUNRY RESEARCH INIJIATlVE
PWA:s, PWARCs & thair physiciansteking
the initiative to seek promising intelVention against AIDS in a
rasp. manner. For mora info ortovolunteer
pleasacall (212)481-1050,
CONGREGATION BETH SIMCHAT TORAH
NY's Gay and lesbian Synagogue SaMces
Friday at 8:30pm
57 Bathune Street
For info. call: (212)929-9498.
DIGNRYIBIG APPLE
A community of lesbian and Gay Catholics. Activities
includa Liturgies and socials every Sat, 8:00 pm, at
the Center, 208 W. 13 Street, NYC.
Call (212)816-1309.
DIGNRY NEW YORK
lesbian and gay Catholic I and friends
AIDS Ministry, Spiritual Devalopment
Tha Cathadral Project
Worahip Services & Social-Sun. Eves. 7:3Opm-St
John's Episcopal <;hurch 218 West 11th Straet G
Waverly-67So2179
EDGE
Education in a Di.. blad Gay Enviro ..... nt
For the physically disabled lesbian and Gay
Community,(212) 989-1921 .
P.O. Box 305 Villaga Station, New York, NY 10014'
FEMME SUPPORT GROUP
For lesbians who self identify as Femme. For info andmeeting times call Lisa at (212) 829-9817. No men please.

OF WESTCHES1'ER(Tha G.A.A.)
is a community baaed support group formed in
Westcheal8r County. Various activities are planned
forthe coming months.
Pleasa call 914-376-0727 for more info.
GlAAI)

Gay & Le,bian Allianca Against Defamation
80 Varick $trest, NYC 10013 (212)988-1700
GlAAD combats homophobia in the media and eI....
where by promoting visibility of the lesbian and gay
community and organizin'g grassroots raaponae III
anti-gay bigotJy.
00 you have 30 minut .. a month
to fight homophobia?
Join the GlAAD PhonaTreel
Call (212)-988-1700 for information.
GAY. LESBIAN HEALTH CONCERNS
An office of the NYC Dapt of Health, provides linkages betwn NYC Health & Human SVCI, and theles,
bian & Gay community, focusing in All h\althconcams; resource information.for health services
consumers and prvvidera. 125 Worth Street, Box ffl,
New York, NY 10013. For info call (212) 5e6-4995.
GAY & LESBIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY
Sliding scale fael -In,urance
accepted.
Institute for Human Identity.
(212)79&-9432
GAY MALE SJM ACTMSTS
Dedicated to safe and responsible 81M lincal981.
Open maetings w/programs on SIM techniqu8I,
lifestyle iasuas, political and social concerns. Also
special events, speakara bureau, workshops, demos,
affinity groups, nawslatl8r, more. GMSMA -Dept 0,
498A Hud$on Street, Suita 023 ,NYC 10014.
(212)727-9878.
GMAD(GAY MEN OF AFRICAN DESCENT)
80 Varick Street, NYC 10013 a IUpport group of Gay
Man of African Descent dedicated to consciousnassraising and the developinent of the Lesbian and Gay
Community. GMAD is inclusive of African, African, American, Caribbean and Hispanic/latino
men ofcolor. Meatings are held, weekly, on Fridays. For
more information, call 716-802.0182.
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS HOTUNEFOR INFORMATION ON SAFER SEX AND HIV~ELATEO HEALTH SERVICES, AND FOR INFORMATION ON
ONE-TIME, WAlK-IN AIDS COUNSEUNG SERVICES
212-107 __~2145-7410 TDD (for the Haaring Imp8iNd)
Mon,-Fri. 10-.30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sat 12:00 to 3:00

CIIRH .I11I1II
CLUB OF NEW yo.
Social club for h.. VV.chubby "IY min a their admirIra. Monthly locial, It the "Cllltllr', _Idy bar
nigllm Thureda.,. at th. "Ch.l ... Tren"'r', monthly
nt Appl. Revi.w, bi-monthly F.A.R. panpalL For
information cd Emil at 814-418&-7735or wri1a:
GaMlNY, D.pt. D, P.O. Box 10, Pllham, NY 10103.

mor.

HEAl. I....... Ell_h. AIDS11&1_1
W .. 1dy info. and IUpport "roup for tr .. tm.nta for
AIDS which do not eompromil.th.
immune ayatIm
further, includin"altemalive
Ind holiltic approachlL
W.d 8pm. 208 W. 13th St (~12)e74-HOPE.

IIE11IICK-MAITIN INIT1TUTE
for II,bi.n and gay youth. CounMling. drop-in center IM-F, 3-epml. rep groupa, Harvey Mak HighSchool, AIDS Ind Ilflr a.x informltion.
ref.mll. proflaional,~ucltion.
12121 833-882OIvoicll
12121833-8928 T1Y for d .. f
HISPANIC INTED&AVS.
WIIIANS
Educltional .. Mc", poIiticallction. coulllllin"lnd
lOci" Ictiviti .. in SplniIh Ind Englilb by and forthe
Latino Leabiln Ind GlY Commu~
Gen.rel m.. tingl 8:00 pm 4th ThuredlY of .Vllry
month It 208 Wilt 13th Stnillt
Call 12121881-4181
or wri1a H.U.G.L, P.O. Box 228 Canll Stnilt Station.
Nllw York. NY 10018.
lAIBJAlD81AN HEISTOIIY AIICHIVES
P.O. Box 1258
New York. N.wYor1t 10118
217/m.7232
SincIl1874.th. Archiv .. hal in'pirld, Ih,pld andrefllcted Lelbian Iiv.. IVlrywhlre. Call to arr.nge avi. or to volunte,r for Thured.y worknigllm.

NYC GAY" WBIAN
ANTJ-VlOLENCE PROJECT
Coun.eling. advocacy,.and information for .urvivore
of .nti-g.y and .nti-leabi.n violence. aaxu.1 a .. ault,
domestic violence. and othertypea of victimization.
AllaervicH free and confidential.
24 hour hotlinll (2121807-0197

lDNIISLAND ACT-UP
P.O. Box 281, New Hyde P'rk. ~Y 11040
Support UI for ch.n"e on Long laI.nd.
(518)331-488215181887-5238 N.... u
15181828-5530 Suffolk

PEOPIl WITH AIDS COAUTION(2121532-028IV1-8IJO.828-3~HotlineI212)
532.0588
Mond.y thru Friday 10arn-8pm
Meal programs •• upport groupa.llducationalandreferralaervicea
for PWA'. and PWArc' •.

liEN OF All COLORS TOGElHER NY
A multi-r.ci.1 group of gay men .g.inat racism. Meeting. ev&ry Frid,y night .t 7:45.t the Leabian .nd Gay
Community SeMc., C.nter. 208 W. 13th Street For. more info. call: (212124S-8388 or 12121222-8784.

PEOPLE WITH AIDS tlEALTH GROUP
Underground buyer'. cl,ub importing not·yet-.pproved
medications .nd nutritional aupplements. 31 Wilt 28th
St 4th Roor (2121532-11280

IEIIIOPOUTAN TENNIS IROUptllTGI
Our 200 member I.. bi.n .nd gay tennis club includes
playere from beginning to toumament leve!. Monthly
tenniapartilL Wintar indoor Illgu •. Com. play with u.1
For infolmltion: Mm. Suite K83.488-A Hudson St. New
York. NY 10025. 17181852-8582.
IIDCA I..... of Color AmS Prnention Program.1
Providlllllfar.ax
and AIDS education information
to gay and bi.. xu.1 Man of Color; coordin.te •• networ1t of pe ..... upport group. for g.y and biaexual
M.n of Color in all 5 boroughs of New Yor1tCity.
303 Ninth Ave. New York. Ny 10001
or call 12121239-1798.

LEGAl. DEHNSE

AND EDUCATION RIND
Prec.d.nt- .. Uing liti"ltion nltionwide forI.. bi,na.gay men Ind pllOpil with AIDS. Member·ahip 1$35 and upl inc. n_letter
Ind invibltionlto
Iplcialevllnta.
Volunteir night on Thuredays, Intllke
CIlia: 2-4pm Mon thru Fri 1212188S-8585
LAVAIWIIIANS ABOUT VISUAL ART)
Call for lIid .. for L.. bian ArtiN' Exhibition. Gay a
Le.biln Community Centllr. NYC. For more informl,
tion. sand SASE to :Miriam Fougllre
118 Fort GI'Hnl Piaci
Brooldyn, NY 11217.
THE WBIAN AND &AY BlI APPLE CORPs
Get your inatrumont out ofthl cl_t Ind come playwith UL Symphonic, Marching. JIzz. Dixieland, Rock,Rute Enllll1lbl .. and Woodwinda.
123 Wilt 44th St Suitlll21 N.w York. NY 10038
12121"'2822.
1UB1AN.&AY
COMIMmY
SEIVICU CENTU
208 W .. t 13th Street New York. NY 10011
12121~7310
8ant-llpmllwryday.
, A plael for community organizin" and networking.
IOcill".MC".
cultural programl, and IOcial_nta
lponlOred bythl Canter and morelhan 150 community organizationL
IUBIAN AND &AY lABOR NETWORKAn organization of L.. biana and Gays who are activi
in their labor uniona worlcing on dom .. tic partnlrahip
benl!ita and AIDS i.. u... For more information call1212)823-8890.
WBIAN AND &AY RIGHfS PIOJECT
ofth.~_n~U~U._ICNOWYCMlIIIIIIS/....
ElCPANDINIlIIEII, 12121844-9800. .xt. 545
lD81ANS AND &AYS OF RAT8USH
Brooldyn'alOcial organizltion for both gay men Ind
I.. biana. P.O. Box 108. Midwood Station
Brooklyn; NY 11230 -11181858-8437

NMIONAL &AY AND WBIAN TASK FORCE
it thl nation.1 gr ... rootll politic.1 organization for
I.. bian, Ind gay min. Mllmberehip i. $3IVyelr.
IlIua-orilnted
projlctll .ddre .. viollnce •• odomy.l1WI. AlDS.glY rigllm ordinances. f.mmes. medi ••Itc.through lobbying, .~uc.tion, organizing and.
direct action.
:NGLTF 1517 U Stni.t NW. W.ahington. DC(2021332-8483.

20009:NEW YORK ADVERTISINGAND CO.... NICAnONS NEIWORKNYACN i.the community'sl.rgeat
gay and I.. bianprofeaionalgroup.
welcoming all incommunic.tiona-.nd
th.ir friends. Monthly meetinll'. 3rd W.d 8:30pm at th. Community Center. Memb.re' nlWlletter. job hotlin ••• nnu.1 directory. Phone
12121517-0380 for more info. Mention OutWeek foronl trll nlWlletter.
N.y. WOMEN'S SOFTBAll GUID
For'xperillncad,.. rioua Softball Playere. Coaches
Ind Man.gere. WI pllY mod/f.at pitch w.ekends in
Manhatten and au.. ",- Try-o!/lll begin nb. llthru
April- or until filled. 12121255-1379 J.net
NINTH STRE£T CENTU
Sincl1873, a community,d.dicatedto dlmonstr.ting- -thit a homo .. xu.llifeatyla i•• r.tion.l. de,sir.ble
choici for individuals di... ti.fied with the rewards ofconventionlllMng.
Paychologicilly - focus.ed rap
group •• TIi••.• Sat, 8to 10 pm. pelr coun.elling .v.ilIbl •. 318 E. 8 Str .. t, New York. NY 10003, for info call
12121228-5153.

0.,

SAGE: ISenior Acti.n in a
Envi.....ntl
Social Service Agency. providing c~re, activities, a
educational"Mcesfor gay" lesbian senior citizena.
Also serves over 180homebOund ..
older FWA'a.
208 Wilt 13th St NYC 10011. (2121741-2247

nions,.

SETHIAN GAYS,IlSBIANS AND BISEXUALSFor all of u. inter .. lIId in re.ching out to e.ch otherwith exublr.nc.
to 'pontllnloualy
explorl andexp.nd upon the Set!VJ.ne Rober1ll"philoaophy" as
it relate. to our livei. pereonally. 88xuslly snd politically. Call AI (212197&'5104.
THE OUTREACH 'USING COMMUNAL HEAUNG (TOUCH)
Communityvolunteere pl'Ollidinga _aIdy buffataupper
for the Brooklyn AIDS convmrity. TOUCH l1li8111 Monday
8VIIS. 5pm 10 ~rnat downtown Brooklyn Friarida
Meeting Houael110 Schennarhom St n.. r BOInm
Place~ lirrited transpor1lltion may be .rranged.lnfo: 17181
822-2758. TOUCHwelcomes contributions offunda. food'and volunteers.
ULSTER COUNTY GAY AND IlSBIAN AllIANCE
Meeta firat and third Monday of each month.t 7:30 pm .• tthe Unitarian Church on S.wkJ11 Road
in Kingston. For inform.tion. call (8141828-3203.
WHAMIIW_n'a.... Ith Action IIoIIilizationl
A non-partisan coalition committed to dlmlnding.
.. curing and defending absolute reproductive freedom and quality health c.re for all women. We melt
.very Wed. at 8:30 pm at the Vill.ge Independent
Democrata. 224 West Fourth Str .. t (off Sh.ridan Sq.l.
We are not .ffili.ted with VID.12121713-5988. Mining
addre .. : WHAMI. P.O. Box 733. NYC 10008
WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVECOMMUNITY CENTERIWACCI,
A non-profit, Lesbian community centllr .. rving
Queens. Nal8au and Suffolk counties.Thure night
weekly diacu.sion grps. 8:30pm. for other activiti ..
please contact u. at (5181483-2050.

NOII11t AMERICAN IlAN/BOY, LOVEASSOCIATION INAMBLAI
Dedicated to .. xual fr.. dom and •• peci.lly intereted
in gay intergen.rational
relation.hipa. Monthly Bul·letin Ind regullr chlpter ml.tin,,1 on thl firSt S.turd.y of .ach month. Yeany memberehip i, $20; write
NAMBlA. PO Box 174. Midtown Station. New York.
NY 10018 or call 12121807-8578 for information.
NORTHERN UGHTS~1MS
Improving Quality of Life for People with AIDSIHIV.
THE AIDS MASTERY WORKSHOP: Exploring the po ..
aibniti .. of a powarful.nd creativllife in1he f.ce of,,
AIDS. C.II (2121255-8554

April 4, 1990

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73

OUTWEEK BAR GUIDEWESTSIDE

The Pyramid, 101 Avenue A. 420-1590, Dancing /Drag shows.

Ty's, 114 Christopher,741-9641, Cruisy neighborhood bar.

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

Tunnel Bar, 116 1st Ave (7th St.!. n7-9232 W.
Village crowd in the E. Village.

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

Candle Bar, 309 Amsterdam Ave., 874-9155,
Friendly leather/westem bar.

~W~E::!S~T!-V~I!.::L~LA~G-=E

CHELSEA

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

Older men,

The Annex (to Cellblock28),673 Hudson St. (bet.
13th & 14th), 627-1140, J/O Club.

Barbary Coast, 64 7th Ave. (14th St.), 675-0385,
Friendly, neighborhood bar.

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

Badlands, Christopher & West St. , 741-9236,
Cruisy waterfront bar.

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

Sally's Hideaway, 264 W. 43 St., 221-9152

Boots & Saddle, 76 Christopher St., 929-9684,
Funky dive and juke joint.

_

Cellblock 28, 28 9th Ave, 733-3144, J/O club.

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

The Cubbyhole, 438 Hudson (Morton St), 2439079, Neighborhood bar for gay women &men.

Private Eyes, 12 W. 21st St. (bet. 5th & 6th), 206n70, Dancing, Video Club.

Town & Country, 9th Ave at 46th St., 307-1503
Trix, 246 W. 48 St. (bet. Bdwy & 8th Ave), 6648331, Cash and carry.
The Works, 428 Columbus Ave (at 81st!. 7997365, Cruisy west side crowd.

D.T.'s Fat Cat, 281 W. 12th St., 243-9041, Pianobar. Mixed M/F.

EASTSIDE

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

Rawhide, 212 8th Ave., (21 st St.). Leather /Levi's.

Brandy's Piano Bar, 235 E. 84th St., 650-1944,
Sing-along piano bar.

Duchess II, 70 GroveSt (7thAve.).242-1408,Women.

Spike, 120 11th Ave., 243-9688, Leather & Uniforms.

J's, 675 Hudson St., 242-9292, J/O club.

BROOKLYN f.m)

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

Julius, 159 W. 10th St., 929-9672, Serving Coors,
Coors Lite, & Coors Draft.

After Five Plus, 5 Front St., 852-0139

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

Keller's, 384 West St. (at Christopher), 243-1907,
Friendly neighborhood crowd.

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

Kelly's Village West, 46 Bedford St., 929-9322,
Piano bar.

QUEENS (718)

The Locker Room, 400 W. 14th St. (9th Ave), 4594299, J/O club.

Breadstix, 113-24 Queens Blvd., Forest Hills,
236-0300

Marie's Crisis, 59 Grove St. (7th Ave!. 243-9323,
Sing-along piano bar.

Hatfield's, 126-10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens,
261-8484

The Monster, 80 Grove St. (7th Ave.), 924-3558,
Piano bar & disco/dancing.

Hideaway, 87-36 ParsonsBlvd., Jamaica, 657-4585

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

FriendlySouth Dakota, 405 3rd Ave., 684-8376
Star Sapphire, 400 E. 59th St., 688-4710.

The Townhouse, 236 E. 58th St.
Twenty-Nine Palms, 129 Lexinton Ave., 686~8299

EAST VILLAGE

Ninth Circle, 139 W. 10th St, 243-9204, Younger
crowd.

The Bar, 68 2nd Ave. (at 4th St.!. 674-9714, East
Villagers and ACT UPers.

Ramrod, 185 Christopher St

Boy Bar, 15 St. Mark's PI., 674-7959, Dancing /Drag shows.
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Spectrum, 802 64th St. (at 8th Ave), 745-9611
Sweet Sensations, 6322 20th St., 435-2580

Love Boat, n-02 Broadway, Elmhurst, 429-8670
Magic Touch, 73-13 37th Rd, Jackson Hgts,4298605

STATEN ISLAND

Sneakers, 392 West St., 242-9830.
Two Potato, 145 Christopher St., 242-9340.

For advertisinginformation or rates,
call212/337-1200"_

Sandcastle, 86 Mills Ave., (718) 447-9365

WESTCHESTER tml_

Addie's Secret Garden, 359 Mamaroneck Ave.,
White Plains, 997-n68
Lads, 130 W. Post Road, White Plains, 683-5353
Playroom, 590 Nepperhan Ave., Yonkers, 9656900
Stutz, 202 Westchester Ave, White Plains, 7613100

LONG ISLAND-NASSAU

f!liL

Bedrock, 121 Woodfield Rd., West Hempstead,
486-9516

The Cubbyhole
438 Hudson Street
at Morton(212) 243-9079

Blanche, 47-2 Boundary Ave., Farmingdale, 6946906
Cheeks, 2000 Long Beach Rd,lsland Park, 4315700

A neighborhood

Different Strokes, 596 Merrick Rd., Baldwin, 8679635

bar forboth gay men & womenGrand Central, 210 Merrick Rd, Rockville Centre,
536-4800
Pal Joey's, 2457 Jerusalem Ave., North Bellmore,785-5031
Silver Lining, 175 Cherry Lane, New Hyde Park,354-9641

LONG ISLAND-SUFFOLK (516)
Bunkhouse, 192 N. Main St. Sayville, 567-9834
Club Swamp, Sizes, 8 E. Main St., Bay Shore,665-5175
Kiss, 161 Farmardie Dr., Lake Ronkonkoma, 4679273...

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ARE INC,~TheaterDinner

DimerJCocktaiIs
IntematioII8I CUisine
Live Entertai1ment
765 8thAvenue
NewYort<, N.Y.10036(212) 9560100

APARTMENT CLEANING
67-69 MORTON ST#4E
NEW YORK, NY 10014(212) 475-2955

Mr:s, 608 Sunrise Hwy., W. Babylon., 661-9580
Starz, 836 Grand Boulevard, Deer Park, 242-3857
Thunderl!, 894 W. Jericho Tpke., Smhhtown,
864-1410

NEW JERSEY fm.}'--ANTH
at PYRAMID_

101 Avenue A (420-1590)
Sunday, April 1, 1990, Midnight$5
dj: Angel(And do'n't forget
Tennessee's House Nation Everv Wednesdav!··

Buddy's, 751 Washington Ave, 'Belleville, 7510527
Charlie's West, 536 Main St., E. Orange, 6785002
The Den, 12-16 Hiram St, New Brunswick, 5457329
Feather's, 77 Kinderkamack Rd., River Edge, 3426410
Fraternity, 251 Broad Ave., Fairview, 943~1211
Friendly's Bar, 6310 Park Ave., West New York.
854-9895
Le Mannequin, 67 Orchard St, Elizabeth, 3539694
The Station, 308 Watchung Ave., Plainfield, 7554000
Excalibur, 10th & Jefferson, Hoboken, NJ, 7951023

DON'T BEPATRONIZINGUNLESS, OF COURSE, YOU'RE PATRONIZINGOUR ADVERTISERS. REMEMBER, LESBIAN AND
GAY BUSINESSES DEPEND ON YOURSUPPORT.
AND C'MON-TELL'EM YOU SAW IT IN

OUTWEEK"Drn 4. 199(]

APARTMENT SHAREDIPLOMATIC ROOMMATE
Young GM seeks very responsible'
roommate to share 1 bedroom nearTimes Square. Prefer GM who works
nights or travels, or does not spend
much time at home. Non-smoker.
_mo.
negotiable Vann (212)255-4053

TAX ,TIME IS
BUDGBTWISEBOOKKEEPING TIME
Limited Appointments AvaOable
Please call early. (118) 716-3847
10.. dllcounJ with ad

AIDS MINISTRYIN THE SPIRIT OF
FRANCIS OF ASSISI...serving
our brothers and sisters affected byiAlDS
S t Francis AIDS Ministry
135 W. 31st Street Manhattan 10001
695-1SOO

SAGE INVITES ,ALLWOMENTO THE 6TH ANNUAL ALMOST SPRINGDANCE,APRIL 1,1990, ATTHE REO~ONE, 440 WEST 54TH STREET,5:0010:00. $15.00 IN ADVANCE, $20.00AT
THE DOOR.SEND CHECKSTO SAGE,
DEPT.0, 208 WEST 13THSTREET,NYC,
10011. (212)741·2247.

ANSWERING SERVICES
NYC'S FINEST
CALI. FORWARDANSWERING SERVICEIS
GAY-OWNEDPROTOCOL(212)645-3535

APARTMENT CLEANINGEXPERT APARTMENT CLEANING-THE PROFESSIONALCLEANER-

Own bedroonVown bath In a very b8autifu12BR/2 bath apartment withextremely private terrace. GM seeks
reliable, professional person to share.
Safe neighborhood, transportation andshopping. Minutes to Manhattan. Cable
TV, $45OImo.and share util.
Astoria (718)204-0440.
79TH AND YORK-CLEAN AND QUIET
own bedroom in airy, cozy apt·roach·free bldg nr buses, 24 hr sprmkt. I'm BiF,
ACT-UPer, work at home on fantasyline,
do S/M with my friends. No
perfume/tobacco in apt (allergy).
Leave message w/best times:459-48".

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

ART BUYl.:.:::SELL=---_c-ART SOURCE UNUMITED-DON (212)929-6179.
WI buy, '111,tradl Ind llICItl .rtworb.
Copyright C 1989 Holy Name Province

ANNOUNCEMENTS.
Finallyl A Tea Dance with Tea.
Benefit Dance for ARNY*, a program ofdisease prevention for the AIDS Com·munity. Sun., April 1, 4-8 pm, Community
Center, 208 W. 13.All the Ayurvedic tea
you can drink - FREEl*Ayurveda
Resourc~s of New York,212-643-9071

A CLEANER CLEANINGWITH A MIDWEST FLAIR
DONEBYAGUYWITH BRIGHT REOHAIRWEEKLYAND BIWEEKLYLEGITONLYRATES$40.00AND UP
CALL PAUL 941-0603

CASTLE CARE, INC.

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

ARTISTS AVAILABLE: Keith Haring,
Robert Longo, Ross Bleckner, James
Rizzi,Andy Warhol, Martine, and many
more ... For information,
call Dan at 255-6680.

ASTROLOGY, DONNA
E.S.P'Psychic-Professor of SpiritualismReader and Advisor-Palm and Card
Readings
Atw

GAY MALES WANTED
Gay males wanted to participate inresearch to create a national public
service campaign. Fee will be paid for
1/2 hour interview. Confidentiality
assured. Call collect 919-544-54483PM
to 7PM M-F. Ask for Mike.

,..CMIWe(..

THIS MR. CLEAN
WILL 00 A TOP JOB
AND LEAVEYOUR HOUSESPIC & SPAN
FASTERTHAN A WHITE TORNADOI
727-2858 JIM,..,.."",~.,- .. ...,.
,..1

I CAN AND WIll. HELP YOU.
Reunite the SeparatedeRestore Lost
Nature-Unfold the Mystery ofthe Past.
Present and Future.
(212).. 1.
Sa Habla &p1lO1

SUBSCRIBE TO OUTWEEK - CALL 1-800-0UT-WEEK
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April 4, 1990

CLUBSFORESKIN LOVERSThe New.York City chapter of the Uncircumcised Society of America (NYCUSA) seeks new male members (with orwithout foreskin) to join its swellingranks. Call for more club information or
to make reservations for the new members party. (212) 777-4208.

DENTISTS{jAY MARRIAGEOUAUTY PERSONAL DENTISTRY
William De Bonis DDS.
Suite 704,
200 West 57 Street,
New York, NY 10019,
Office hours by appointment only call
212-333-2650.

EUROPEAN GWM STUDENT
27 seek~ a lesbian for friendship and amarriage of convenience. Would be
your willing accomplice: professionallyand socially. If interested, please write
Outweek Box 2291

ELECTROLYSISCHIROPRACTOR
Dr. Steven Swaya
166 East 35th St. (near 3rd Ave.)
212-683-4550
Do you have a pinched nerve?
Health through chiropractic
DR. CHARLES FRANCHINO
30 Fifth Avenue,
New York, NY 10011,
call for info (212) 673-4331.

. COMPUTERSTHE MALE STOP
A computer BBS.
Use your model)1.

(212) 721-4180 FREE!

CONDOSlCO-OPS
CO-OPS/CONDOS
Helping
Our Community
Buy and Sell Real Estate
Since 1980
Andrew Weiser (212) 721-4480
The Corcoran Group

Permanent Hair Removal
Men/Womene lwrS's'
All Methods'
Computer Aided • Sterile Conditions
By Physicians' Aid
14 Years Experience'
Sliding Scale Fee
Ucensed and Board Certified(718)937-3389

AFFORDABLE ELECTROLYSIS
Permanent Heir Removel New Airflow
Technique with I.B. ProbeCOMPLIMENTARY CONSULTATIONPROFESSIONALLY OPERATEDGREENWICH VILLAGEQUIET, PRIVATE OFFICE
Kenneth Hey
226 West 4th Street
New York, NY 10014
Lower Level, By Appointment Only.
(212) 727-1850
Certified Electrologist
Member I.G.P.E.

FITNESSFITNESS INSTRUCTOR
One-on-one, gym or homeFree Weights, Nautilus
Cardiovascular Conditioning
Diet MaintenanceCharles Buster 212-315-5097
Member ACSM and IDEAEATING AWARENESS TRAINING:
The answer to the puzzle about eating.
, Eliminate your weight/eating problem
forever. (212)929·0661

CONTRACTORSFOR SALE

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Your ph~to on at-shirt
Color laser reverse transfers
Pix returned with order$19.95 Mastercard Visa
Amherst Co'py, 37 East Pleasant Street,
Amherst, MA 01002.
State MED-LG-XL.

ACE Contractor & Craw
All io~'.,...11II I.".
Corp'.I'1 • Eloctric.1 • Sh•• trock·""","onll• Loll•• SIo...
(2UI 221·1522

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OU~WEEK

April 4,1990

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

GROUP MASSAGE
MEN'S MASSAGE GROUP
Get together with a group of men to
give and receive massages. Taught by
Terry Weisser, Ucensed Masseur andteacher at the Swedish Institute. Sundays, 7-10pm, $20.00,
call (212) 463-9152.

HEALTHCONDOMS STOP AIDS
SS? Participate in the National Condom
Study, a confidential mail survey fundedby the U.S. Public Health Servici. Callcollect 2031744-7474 M-!- 9am-3pm EST.

HELP WANTEDRECEPTIONIST POSmON AVAIlABLE
at non-profit lesbian/gay psychotherapy
center. Hours- evenings and Saturdays.
Institute for Human Identity.
Call Marlene or Henry, 212-799-9432.
DATA ENTRY
Gay Community Center.seek pit data
entry for 'evenings. Excellent typing req.
Donor Database expo helpful..Resumes
to Accting, Lesbian & Gay Community
Center, 208 W.13th St., NYC, NY10011.
OUTDOOR DISTRIBUTION
Several people needed to distribute flyers advertising phone sex lines. Flexiblehours. Call Mr.Davis at 935-3440
LEGAL SECRETARY
for small labor law firm in Penn Station
area. WordPerfect + dicta phone expo a
MUST. Typing, filing, tel. & gen'l officeduties. $26K-$28K, dep. on expo (212)268-1000. Ask for Bill.

HELP WANTED'HELP WANTED
FIrt>T IN THE FIGHTGAINST AID:0Me

DEPUTYEXECUTIVE
DIRECTORPROGRAM MANAGEMENT
Gay Men's Health Crisis, the first andlargest community based organization
created by the gay community inresponse to the AIDS epidemic, seeksa Deputy Executive Director for
Program Management.
Under the direct supervision of the
Executive Director,this function administratively oversees the activities of the
program team (Client Services, Legal
Services, Education, the Office of the
Ombudsman and the Volunteer Office)by defining and measuring objectives
and outcomes on a regular basis,
The v.ork 0/ the Deputy Executive Director for Program Management carries
responsibility for analysis and judgement in the planning and solution ofdiverse yet interrelated programs andprojects tncluding the grant applicationand monitoring process, In addition, thisposition exerts a very broad and lasting
impact on the current and future operations of the Agency,
We seek an individual with exceptional
mana~ement skills in the areas ofcoaching, supervision, planning, staff
and program direction and evaluation,
leadership and written/verbal commu·
nications in a team-oriented environment. Stron~ and diverse service
delivery expenence required, as well asa knowledge of AIDS issues and sensitivity to the gayllesbian community.
Women and minority candidates are
urged to apply, Excellent salary andcomprehensive benefits, For consideration. please send resume and cover
letter,indicating salary requirements to:
DENISE
HUMAN

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ORTEGA,RESOURCES,

20th Street,

DIRECTOR,GMHC 129

New York, NY

10011'()022.
An Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/HN

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

PHONE SEX MODERATORS
Must have friendly, out-going personality. Eight hour shifts. Gay owned compa!ly.Call Mr.Lyons at 935-3440

RECEPTIONIST/FILE CLEIlK
Busy private practice; must type withcomputer knowledge; full-time w/benefits after 90 days; good personality tohandle pressure, call Frank after 1pm
M-F. 212-787-7820.

OUTGOING SOCIAL PEOPLE 'needed to distribute flyers advertisingphone sex lines with gay bars. Must be
friendlyand personable. Fun work, flexible
hours. V Call Mr.Goldstein at 935-3440

CO-DIRECTOR

SAGE: Senior Action in a Gay Envir~nment. Inc. a non-profit organization, isAndrew Miller
seeking an individual who will have fullDU7WEEKMepzine
time financial responsibility for this social
159 West 25th Street"7th Floor
service agency caring for gay and lesbian
New York, NY 10001.
seniors in the NY metropolitan area. ThisNo phone calls.
person must have three years or more
EOEI Women and people of color
work experience in fund-raising strateencouraged to apply.
gies, public relations activities and preparation of grant proposals for foundations
HEALTH RESOURCE NURSE
and governmental agencies. This person
CLINICAL PARTNERS IS A GROUP OF must have previous experience in finanHEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS HELP- cial management and budget preparation
ING THOSE LIVING WITH HIV. WE PRO- for business and/or non-profit organizaVIDE EDUCATION ABOUT HIV 'INFEC- tions. SAGE, Inc. is an equal opportunity
TION, DESIGN PERSONALIZED PRO- employer.
GRAMS OF CARE, WORK WITH HEALTH Please direct all inquiries and resumes to:
CARE PROVIDERS TO FACILITATE HOS- Chair, Search Committee, SAGE, Inc., 208
PITAL DISCHARGES AND COORDINATE West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011.
HOME CARE. THE OPENING OF OUR Confidentiality respected.
HEALTH RESOURCE CENTER IN MANHAnAN HAS CREATED THE NEED FORDATA ENTRYA HEALTH RESOURCE NURSE. THE Gay Community Center.seek pit data
SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE POSSESSES entry for evenings. Excellent typing req.
STRONG INTERPERSONAL & COUN- Donor Database expo helpful..Resumes
SELING SKILLS AND CAN WORK INDE- to Accting, Lesbian & Gay Community
PENDENTLY WITHIN AN INNOVATIVE
Center, 208 W.l3th St., NYC, NY10011.
NURSING MODEL WHICH PARALLELSCHANGES WITHIN THE HEALTH CARESYSTEM. B BS SN REQUIRED-MSN
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TO: CHRISTOPHER LACHARITE, RN
of~kind
DIRECTOR, CLIENT SERVICES, CLINICAL PARTNERS, PO BOX 125 CATHE- Bernard Granville(212) 580-9724
DRAL STATION, BOSTON, MA 02116.

INSURANCE

PASTORAL SEARCHALCHOLISM PROGRAM ASSISTANT
Crisis intervention & addictions coimseling skills. Word-processing
essential. CAC training/experience
preferred.
Salary low/mid 20's. Resumes to Personnel, Lesbian & Gay Community Services Center, 208 West 13th Street, NYC
10011. Women and people of color
encouraged to apply.

HELP WANTED

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

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Includes most furnishings. No brokers.
(202)462-0709.

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Call Tony Czebatul(212)'460-9999
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Michael Rosenberg, M.A.. M.Ed.
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or 14, 159am-6pm. Cost $195. You are
iiwited to a day of Taoist Erotic massage on April 16, 9am-6pm. Learn togive and receive a 11/2hour transforHEAlJHY, SEXY SLOW•••
mative genital massage. Cost $60. For
brochure and registration, call Body
Electric at (415) 653-1594 or Bob Yohn at(212) 929-4019.

TANNING.. &ET 1l1li'
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Joseph Kramer and Annie Sprinkle will
host their popular Tantric Group Rebirth(clothed) on April 6 at8pm. Cost $20.
-Healing and Empowerment through Self
Erotic Massage- a clothed evening with
Joseph Kramer, Aprill0.8pm. $15. No
reservations necessary for either event.
Place: 135 West 14th. For brochure or
information, call Body Electric School(415) 653-1594 or Bob at (212) 929-4019.

SUMMER SHARESFIRE ISlAN,D PINES
on the beach.
One bedroom available for half or fullshare--$8,500 in 4 bedroom house, allamenities. To share with fun-loving,cool, professional guys.
Call evenings 664-7630 or 633-9430.

SUMMER SHARE WANTED
Two women seeking weekends 1/3 or
1/4 share in Pines or Cherry Grove.
Clean and sober household pref. We
are responsible and easy-going with,sense of humor.
Call 212-627-0415.

WATER ISlAND
FIRE ISlAND
Beautiful sunny bayfront house with
fireplace, very charming 3BR, 2 bath,full or half shares available.
(212) 242-5380

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WOMEN'S PERSONAlSYOUNG, ENER·GETIC BRITISH
NANNY
26 seeks other GF
for friendship activities with sense of
humour. Enjoys
sports, movies, theatre, bars & dancIng. Send photo +phone # If Interested In playing tour
guide. Outweek
Box 2305
GBF seekslong-lost,
beautiful, sweethearted, feminine
GF who's been
missing. She's 25+,
non-smkldrugs, ir-

resistible and readIng this ad. Respond wlnote andphone-photo opt.
Outweek Box 2306
liGHTHEARTEDlESBIANA sensitive romantic Irreverent bookthief Is looking for awoman comfortable
In her skin and sexuality with a feminist senSibility. Outrageous and articulate? Write to me at
Outweek Box 2104
BON APPETITEMy "first and only"
barely scratched thesurface. DeliciouslBF, professional,
full-figured, 26, ripe,
for Intelligent, single
lesbian (any race)with good ~t1t9
for fun and piping
hot sex. Outweek
Box 2171
PRETIY: GWF,
VERY FEMME
35, keen, honest,
secure, warm,
shapely, Looking tomeet an attractive,
warm, gentle,
femme-who's a mature, honest, gay
shapely woman.
Age 28·40. No bI's.
Love note-photo-

MfN'S PfRSONAlS
COUPLE SEEKSFRIENDS
Happlly- married
GWMs, 29 & 36, ,are looking for other couples forI
friendship (but NOTsex). We are bothwell-educated professionals who enjoy good conversation, museums, theatre, movies, par- 'lour games, &hanging out In
NYC. Our relationship Is solid, but
feel that friendshipwith other couples,can help keep It
strong. Interested?
,Then reply to POB
1654, Old Chelsea
St.,NYC 10011.
HOT ITALIAN
SAUSAGE,GWM, 33, 6'4",
190, friendly, amusIng, sincere top,HIV-, (size 13 shoe)seeking same toservice me throughtimes of need. No
drugs. Outweek
Box 2293

PEN-FRIEND- .
SHIPS
YOUNG GWM, IN
EAST GERMANY,
29 YRS.,SLIM,BLUE EYES,DARK BLOND
HAIR, HAS A WISH
TO FIND SOMEGAY FRIENDS IN
USA. CORRESPONDABOUTALL TOPICS IN
ENGLISH AND
GERMAN .WRITETO:
ANDREAS BOY
PALISADENSTR.P

phone-please. Outweek Box 2259
EXTRAORDINARYWOMANIYou oouIcI be ctlnklng
beer I¥ld eaIIng oatton candy this summer on Coney 1s8ld
Ytith one of the mostbeaullfullest:81s
you've 8\191' seen.
That Is, If you're nice,alIractIYe, conIIdent,
ec1K:aIied, neurotic,
posess some personaI style, Mel tW'8
looking for romantic
monogamy. Hell,maybe I'm the onel
(Anything Is possible)
Outweek Box 2254
HERE I GO AGAIN
GWF25 darkbrown hair browneyes looking for tall
A-18
PSF52
DDR-1017 BERLIN
EAST GERMANY

I

dark and handsome woman toshare good times.with. I enjoy music
movies concerts
dining out andmore. Please In·
ciude photo. Out·
week Box 2168

I BELIEVE
there's at least
one other cute,witty, bright lesblan out there
who's not In a IIfelong monogamous
relationship. I'm
26, political, athletlc?, cynical anddig movies, dlnner, dancing,pool, SEX (notnecessarily In thatorder). Let's dosomething fun.
Write Outweek
Box 2197
SIMPLE PLEA·
SURES, SEEKSANOTHER FOR A
LASTING,
MONOGAMOUS
RELATIONSHIP.
WRITE P.O. BOX
1798, NEW YORK,NY 10009.

DARK AND
BRIGHTDark, handsome,energetic, GWM,
41, 5'9", slim, professional. Seeks
trim, young "genius"
GWM (actually, justbery bright), 18-30,
with sense of humor, for cultural,Intellectual, and romantle adventures.
Commlttment orlented. POB 148,
Prince St.Statlon,
NY, NY 10012.

SPIT DIDN'T
KNOW WHETHIR
THE GUNWA
loaded or not. But heclmbed up Into thebed of the pIck-up
and cId what the
drunken teenagers
ordered, just In case.
No, buddy. You don't
need bullets. Outweek Box 2297

GWM,39,RE.
SPONSIBlE
AND CARING GUY
WHO ENJOYSYOUNG, FUN,
AND ON THE RUN
Soc/ally aware 27
y.o. needs llke-"~c',,~JA;~'~"'1'W''''':N'(0,OutWeek Box #-=-:--=-_
159 W. 25th St., 7th floor
New York NY 10001

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send me a letter,
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Box 2304,~~~~=P~E~R=S~,O~N=A=L~S~E~RV==IC=E=S~~~~~I
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Wh en you f"InaII'y ge t" serious...

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In NY (212) 580-9595 • Out of State (800) 622-MATE
minded guys fornights Inlwkends
out. I'm 5'S",'1401bs., smooth.
You're 1S-25, Intelligent and secure.
Send note and photo If you can spare
It to:Jon, Box 1365,
J. Hts., NY 11372.
POSTMODERNCLASSICISTGWM, 22, 6', brlbr,
out, Into film, artwell read (fromHomer to Derricla)likes long dinners,

music, and Freud,seeking Interesting
friend to enjoy NYC
and more- Your
Itr/phone gets mine.
Outweek Box 2302
GAY ASTRONAUTWANTED
Blast off on myrocket. Satum VIII
delivers plenty ofthrust to get you
safely Into orbit.
Occalslonal launchdelays but no leaky
O-rings. GWM,
30's, 5'S", 130#,

lES
Ha_ES

baalllshaP
TOW"-lVIIKO MUS.

NC.

BRlBR, str, appear.
You, under 40, slim,
cute + long hair +sense of humor
req. Optimal orbit
makes long-term
planetary expedltion possible. Current ph/ph. OutWeek Box#222S.
GREATEXPECTATIONSAm I asking for too
much? GBM, 40,"healthy" PWA
5'10" 150#, smart,quiet, conservative

No rubber. Expand(y)our llmitsl Beginners welcome. Photos get samel SS
245 8th Avenue No
272 NYC 10011.

but curious. Feelinga bit trapped recently. Needs
friends and romantic Involvement. I
have avg. looks
and like artIdeslgn,
old movies, popmusic, etc. Youmight be Blk, Hlsp.,
Oriental, 25 plus,
little. A man of qualIty, honest, gentle, ,but strong, andwise In ways I
might not be. Letterplus photo?' Outweek Box 2300

VGLGWM
Interested in a VGL
honest, warm, sensitive, muscular
GBM25-30 years
old, for a very serious relationship. 'I
am 29,5'101/2",
155 Ibs ..1love
watching Video
Soul on BET, Hip
Hop music, New
Jack Swing, rap,
R&B, Jazz, stereo
equipment, art,
photography, computers, movies,
plays, performances and healthE. VILLAGE STUDUNCUT,
GWM, 33, 6',170#,
BRlBR, built, cute,hung looking forloverboys/man-toys(age 20-40) for play
downtown. You:
bright, open-minded and ready to go.
Me: caring, responsible and (opencum-) closed, passionate. PH/PH.
Outweek Box 2307
HERE lAM
GWM 37 5'6" 142
Ibs. Br/Br moustache romantically
inclined and In
search of that special guy. I am considered very attractive, enjoy dining
out, theatre, dancIng, music and Intimate evenings. Am

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Tom, bi, 30, an athletic masseur willtrade legit massages and train fit
beginner. JIm, 35,
GWM, firm gentle
top rroscular andsensual seeks sUm
novice for pleasurecontrol. Submt to:
Tom or Jim, Box1487, NYC, 10009.
LOOKING FOR
SOULMATE?
GWM Intelligent Interesting mid-50's,
officer of large corporation, well built(work out 3x aweek) 6' 1701 HIV-,does AIDS volun-teer work, vaca-

tlons In Europe annually, seeks affectionate amusing
man with self-respect In great
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yourself. No fats or
ferns. 30 to 5O.0utweek Box 2257 'YOUNG MEXICANWANTED.
Divorced 36 yowhite male wants to
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P.O. Box 8172,
Long Island City,
NY 11101.
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works only if you're
urlder 30. Ph/ph toBox 4P2-SUNY,
Purchase, NY

105n-1400.
GWM, 54, 5'10",
185 LBS.
Brown halr/browneyes, moustache,handsome. My Interests are dancing,movies, theatre,and quiet evenings
at home. Would Hke
to meet GWM who
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similar Interests.
Prefer non-smoker,
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a member of his
own class or nalion." Actually I
could care lessabout class aslong as Its not theboy next door. Nat/ve Midwesterner
w/lvy Leaguel IntematJonal veneer
seeks the comfort
of strangerll. Dark
Irish, blue eyes,
subversive preppy
good looks, 33
years old, active
and successful as

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Gllrman). Letter,
ph/photo (If posslble). Outweek Box
2272

lng, Into fun,movies, romance,
ethnic food, theMets, seeks slgnlflcant other for ameaningful relationshlp. Artistic
creativity a +,sense of humor a
must. Reservations
for Easter brunch
are now open.
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4170, NY, NY
10185.

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I'm over the broken
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but not my broken
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165 Ibs. unconventlonal, athletic, psyehologlcal, laidback, attractive.
LOOking for sensltlve soul Into thearts, outdoors,
sharing Sundayllmes. Outweek
Box 2265

HAM ON WRY

Wann and witty wrIter, 28, 6'2", 180, tiredof glass bek'1g half·
e/llllY, seeks another out-golng guy wI a
sense of oomor,
sense of 00ventu'e& sense of self. If
you live on Chinese
take-out, laugh at
Woody Allen & cry at
Casablanca, thenthis oould be thestat of a beautiful
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slender smooth
sensual sensitive.
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old film and new
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uninhibited G/BIWM under 45.
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ASIAN?
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meeting AsIans or
Asian-Americans
for friendship(more?) (Chinese,Thai, Balinese, Indian??) ME: Veryyouthful 45, blond,5' 6 112", sUm, cute,frfendy, a good listener, Classical musician and teacher.
: YOU: younger,
nlce-looklng, manyInterests, conversationalist. US: Intelligent. Interested in
the arts, non-smokers, uncloseted, notlocked Into ethnicor sexual stereotypes. Nothing
heavy, Just socializIng. Outweek Box
2273
BODY & BRAINS
Smart, Inquisitive,
Ivy-eclucated design professional &athlete (freeweights, running,
swimming, skiing)seeks like-minded
Inclvldual of similar
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In what's In YOI.I'
head than In yourJeans. Write, LD,
Box 155, 298 FIfth
Avenue, NYC, NY
10001.
BIG BALLFETISH?
exceptionally large
pair of smooth low
hangers on muSQ.Ilar tall blond German 34--61/4"
around cock to besucked too. Into
getting serviced 0nly. MLD SUte 348
163 Amsterdam
NY, NY 10023.
HIV+SEEKS
SAME·out" GWM, 21,
who Is: down-toearth, fun, kind, attractive, fit and a
Romantlc,~sto
meet another similar GWM (~30)
for supportive relationship. You MUST
be smokeldrugfree, "out", honest
and genuinely Interested In ,·settllng
down" with a guy
who will be there
for you as a friend
or lover. I likestaches-but Isarequirement Photo
would be nice, but I
care more for a descriptive, detailed
letter about YOU.
Include phone t.
Outweek Box 2234

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I'VE GOT THE
FEVER ...
Spring, that Is andyou have the cure.
Tall GWM 31 prof.
romantic sensitive
handsm athltc
sprtual seks slmll8r
to share the Spring, and more. Ph/phBox 2975 Church
Street Station, New
York, NY 10007
HurrylBUSINESSMAN
HotWM, 33, 6'1",
185, vy hdsm,,masc + wks out.
, Seeks other tall yg
execs and profs-top
or btm-for reg explosive action 8nd
more. WrIte Chuck,
P.O. Box 304, VIllage StatIon, New
Yorl<, NY 10014.

GWM 35 SEEKSGORBIM
25-40 who likes tolaugh, dance, sharegood conversation,
movies, ballgames.
I'm looking forfriendship possleading to relationship. Sincere, honest, more Interested

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In meeting two
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metro NY. Send
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BLUE EYED TOP
Clean cut boy-nextdoor type, 30's,
nice guy seekssame fO( safe fun. If
you're a cute hotbottom; please answer with photo.
Outweek Box 2193

events, healthmedicine. Respondto POB 6221,.NYC,
10150 wlphotoshowing your face,
Itr. and phone #.
Photos w/SASE
promptly returned.
Lafs gQ for Itl

DADDY/SON
43 year old Dadneeds son. You 18-

SNAKE NEEDSCHARMER
Amusing, confident,
attractive, healthy
HIV+ GWM, 33,
6'1", 150, BRlGR
with hair on bodyand face seeksstrong-minded, experienced andworldly GWM (2747) for the 90's andbeyond. You should
be good-natured,
open-minded andcharming, withsome Interest, likemyself,ln travel
and the country.
Men too thin or too
heavy could only
become friends, notmates(sorry). Otherwise, aspires tokissing and cuddling at least. The
better you know
yoUrself, the better
your chances with
me. Photolle\ter toOutweek Box 2201

26, race/color not' Importanl' Me attr
5'6" 1501bs. blondblue versatile kind.
Photo and phone
get mine. Respondto Box 255-250
Mercer Street,
NYC, NY 10012.
VERY UNUSUAL
SWM, 25, Brlgr,
5'11", 1501bs.
Handsome, healthy,
Hiv+, wealthy andwise with a bigheart and a great
sense of humor.
Seeking a serious
alSo handsome,healthy HIV+ or
HIV-, wealthy andwise male to sharea relationshipbaSed on honesty,
understanding, andthe drive to makeour dreams tocome true. Lefs.
live up to life together. Send phone#, lafs talk first Serious replies only.
Outweek Box 2198
FUN/SMART/SUPERHUNG
friendly, profl WM,
in shape, French
pass., HIV neg,young 41, seeks attractive, built men
30-45 for friendship, hot sex, andmaybe much more.
Our relationship willfind its own levelbased on the chemIstry between us.
l'm,6'1",160#,
Grkltal and hollnterests Include music,plants, animals,tennis, current

AT YOURDISPOSALBIIW/M slave, 42,
obedient, subservient and eager
to please. Available
to dominant males
and couples. The
meaner the better.
P.D.S. P.O. Box 119
Murray Hill Station,
NY, NY 10156.
WANTED "A
REAL LOVER"
You-Irish, German,
Slav or Norcic male
17-31, under 5'10"
attractive healthy fit
smooth body andan Insatiable sexualappetite. Me-Latin
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