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10HEALTH
Political Science' (Harrington)
AIDS Treatment News (Smyth). THE ARTS
Film Parenthood
Film Lockup

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GEARING UP FOR THE GAMES

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Feat-ures
Performance Penny Arcade
Books A Visitation of Spirits
Books PeNerts by Official Order

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DEPARTMENTS
Outspoken (Editorial)'Letters
Sotomayor
Freak of the Week
XeroxedDykes to Watch Out For (Bechdel)
Ray Navarro
Out of Control (Day)
Look OutOut Of My Hands (Ball)
Gossip Watch (Signori/e)Social Terrorism (Conrad)
Community DirectoryClassifieds
Personals
Going Out Calendar (X)Best Bets (X)Sports (Ham/in)
Crossword (Greco)
Hot Shot (Conrad)

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THE CANDID CANDIDATES
Sandor Katz TalksTo Dave Taylor and Tom
Duane
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GAY GAMES III
Jim Marks Takes A Look At Vancouver A
Year Before The Action Begins
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GIRL WATCHING
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LODGEMona Feigenbaum Searches For Sisterfire
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On The Cover:
Tom Duane and Dave Taylor
photographed by Michael Datoli

LETTERSTO

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EDITORPEN PAL
No one is rooting more
for the success of OutWeek
than I. New York desperately
needs a responsible lesbian
and gay weekly that Is
respected and gives value
to our community.
During the early 1980s
the Native was truly informative and inspiring with articles
by the fearless and inimitable Larry Kramer, and Drs.
Lawrence Mass and Dan
William,among
others.
Unfortunately
in recentyears,theNativehas
become a divisive and negative force with its nasty personal attacks on anyone
who dares disagree with its
theories about the causes of
AIDS and the value of AlT.
I consider it a political

act to buy OutWeek every
week and urge my friends to
do so. I also explain to newsdealers they would makemany r:nore impulse purchase sales if they displayed
OutWeek more prominently.
Now after all that praise
I have a criticism of OutWeek. Why do you publish
only a handful of "Letters to
the Editor' in each issue?
San Francisco's Bay Area
Reporter had nineteen letters in a recent issue. An
expandedletters section
can be exciting and fun andprovide a stimulating community forum for differencesof opinion both serious andfrivolous.
Hal Bramson
Manhattan

by Daniel Sotomayer

Whdh<ron

IT'S THE
RJGHTBEERNOW!

CUT THE COORS
I couldn't agree morewith your cartoon about
Coors beer. Despite theirefforts to brighten up theirimage, Coors still provides
vast amounts of money tofundamentalist and conservative causes, most of themanti-gay.
I find their occasional
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reallyrevolting.
I amastounded to see lesbian/gay papers taking theirads-like
this full page
spread in the August 1989
issue of Sappho' 5 /5/e, a
metro lesbian paper.
WheneverI'm in asupermarket, I always flip
open a few tops on Coorssix-packs, rendering them
unsalable and sending asmall message to Coors that
we're not so easily bought.
So it's especially disturbing toopen a gay paper and see
Coors' full page propaganda, like everything is OK.
Wake up, folks. The
Coors boycott isstill on.
C.M. Jones
Manhattan

UNION SUPPORTAs a member of a labor
union, a trustee of a Union
Local and a delegate to aDistrict Council I wrote to thepresident of the AFL/CIO

and asked that the AFL/CIO
support the Lesbian and Gay
Civil Rights Bill,also known as
the Civil Rights Amendment
Act of 1989 (HR 655) and (547).
To my surprise the
AFL/CIO responded
that
they would indeed support
HR655 and 547.
I believethat thatmakes the AFL/CIO thelargest group in the country
to support the Lesbian and
Gay Civil RightsAct,
Jim Noel
San Diego
GUO GLITCH
I am happy to see a
new lesbian and gay magazine serving the New York
Community and wish you
every success.
I enjoyed your article on
New5day by Chris Bull in theissue of July 31st. However,Allen Roskoff, while a member of Gay and Lesbian
Independent
Democrats,
does not speak publicly forthe organization
and any
views expressed by him are
his own, Thank you for thisopportunity for clarification.
John Magisano,
Acting President
Gay & Lesbian Independent Democrats
Manhattan

amount of national interest
and research into the connection between these two
diseases as there is with HIV
and AIDS. However, it has
been incredibly frustrating tofind most gays (even thosewith AIDS) having little interest in investigating causes
and solutions to AIDS otherthan those we are spoon-fed
by our government. Why weshould trust a governmentthat has promoted
ourrepression from its inception
is beyond me. While I am
not, as Mr, Miller implied, aracist. I believe that we arerepressed by the same bigoted mentality which once
repressed Blacks (and stilldoes): socialized ignorance
and hatred. Thus, my use of
the word "nigger' was in reference to our being where
the Black community once
was. I apologize to anyone

who may have been insulted by my use of this emotion-laden word. I have theutmost respect and admiration for the advancements
and accomplishments
theBlack community has madein the past decades, and I
hope our community will one
day soon emulate their success.
As for Mr. Miller describing me as being volatile andconfrontational. I take thoselabels to be compliments.
We are faced with the mostdevastating attack against
our community since Adolf
Hitler's murderous reign. If
silence equals death, then I
gladly expressmy love for life
with my volatility. I do, however, apologize for directing
my confrontational attitudeat OutWeek magazine.
I
have, as Mr. Miller said, donea disservice to our communi-ty by attacking the very people I need and want to workwith. I appreciate OutWeek's
willingness to publish my previous letter, which has mademe aware of my error in writing it. and,hopefully,
returned to me a sense of
humility which I prefer tooperate with. As author of
the manuscript "Syphilis as
AIDS,' and founder of the
Gay and Lesbian Community Center and Gay and Lesbian Community Hotline ofgreater Miami. I have invested a lot of love and energy
into our community. Alongthe way I have had successand made mistakes. I havelearned from my past mistakes, as I hove learned fromthe mistake I made in writing
my previous letter to Out-

Week.
Robert Ben Mitchell
Miami

VIVE OufWeek
Welcome to your new
publication. I've been reading the Native for a whileand I'm happy there's a
new paper, I'm the only goy
journalist (French-speaking)in Quebec followingthewhole debate on AIDS.
Long life to you andVive la Liberation Gaie
G. Paller
QuebecSORRY I WROTE
I appreciate Mr. Miller's
accuracy in describing me
as a frustrated writer. I hove
been researching syphilis
and AIDS for two years, andhove found enough information to justify the same

This week's winner is disco-evangelist Donna (I Can't Apologize For
What I Never Said) Summer, who now says that (even though we all knowwhat she said) she didn't really say it and she can't apologize for what she
now says she never said, and by the way, praise Jesus, Fine. We can't playrecords we never buy. Or dance to songs we never listen to.

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MEMORYeyes of the law, considered
O~ ? ~ecent visit to t~ teo be a felony, visitors are
Oscar Mld~ Memorial Bo~, prohibitedfrom bringing
Shop Il!)bs~rved an advel' condoms for the inmates.
tisemeJ1ltI\r the 2nd yeQI Bringing condoms becomes
annivelS~ of the Nationq rhe moral equivalentof
Gay aOdL~sbian March QlI bringing weapons in that it is~.(I$gen as aiding and abetting
em inmate in an illegal act.
Complicating
thesituation is something of a
cat-and-dog fight between
New York City's Department
of Health (DOH) and theDepartment of Corrections([DOC), both of whom share.
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rresponsibility for the distribu"",jt(ion program.
Washl~OO), Not so! 1987.1:
So, although it is all but
anythl09, ~as the 59con/J $hut down by an unimaginagay ~~ I~sbian march a,, tlive delivery system andWashlr1Qt~. The first marCI bureaucratic
bickering,
was onDcIi"'ober 14, 1979,
there is a rudimentary conF,Wenc'~hdom-distribution program on
MiT'l~ttan[{?ikersIsland. And that makes
New York one of only five
~IKEI~RS
RULES
cities in the United States
In~1S~rticle concernirj.Jwhich has even acknowlconddfl d.lllstribution in tt-/! edged the existence of conSa~ Frmcl,t'isco jail systerr s~nsual sexual activity in theKeith e1a!l'i1<
mentions th~'jclli system and has attempt"New 'Ilrk~ikers Island facli ed measures to prevent thety ...alloJV(s)I condoms to tJI9pread of AIDS. But, as with
distrib~ed Q inside jail.' Wd so many of the other departyes an~no. ,ments under the current city
THlJ
cO~ndom-distributi~' government, these attempts
progr~ ~n Rikers Islar/: ore too little, too late.
begandun~hg the summer
Until the system-which
1987, tilt ""Vas limited to tl\i insists c;>n calling itself correc"speciWI.~using
for homt t~onal but is, in fact, more~exua~, ~ facility for g(!)p~nitive in nature-recogInmateJi~ochoose not I:nlzes responsible
sexualbe in ,ne'lral population.l: behavior as a very positive
was orb!Ia;~t month, accort "corrective' step forward foring ~oD~p'hartment of CdJan inmate, full acceptancerectloiS ~Assistant Con of a condom-distribution
missiooer S!iSteven ThomQ, program will never becometha! QOn~oms be carT\!reality. Until the fear, ignoavallatie fO\r all inmates,r(lnce and prejudice on the'Men - the distributi~' part of both the correctional
progrdill "\.as restricted 1 staff and the inmates can begay in~ote\s, the number Ii overcome through educaconddlls ~ivenout cons' tion and counseling whichtuted 'til ha;'andful. now a~ would allow for the expresthen: ~o~\y that all inmatli sion and exploration of feelcan O~OI~t-.)condoms-ar: ings about sex, in general,bear ~ rnl~ind that 18,Ot and AIDS, in particular, full
peopl'JP~ss through Rik" util~ation of a cond.om-distriIsland rle
month-the d butlon program Will be an
tributioJlO%ounts to "ten.l: impossible goal.
a dilY,r)1maybe: In ad/. In the meant.ime, thetlon, b6.c~,~useengagingJ incldenc~ of AI~S ,Increases
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does outside, the jail system.
Kay Glidden
Manhattan
OISCO OEBATEI am concerned about
your page regarding the"Best Bets' for dancing specifying which clubs cater
more toward a male orfemale clientele.
In issuenO.6 on page 62
you quite fairly give equal
space for those designatedclubs offering male andfemale dancing, Evidently
somebody wasn't content
with this arrangement,In

issue no. 7 your "Best Bets'for dancing on page 70 has
the same two listsbut only aslight change. One list has
dancing for both men andwomen and your other list
blatantly states "women
preferred' or in other words"women only-if you don't
mind.'
Disenfranchising yourmale readers perpetuates
the problem of sexism. You
should present your material
without such references.
Richard A. Berglund
Murray Hill

XeroxedHORSE TALE?
Senator Jesse Helms
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Senator Helms,
The recent uproar over
the National Endowment for
the Arts funding of the Mapplethorpe exhibit compels
me to write to you.
Although I will leave
judgement as to whether or
not this is "art' to the experts
such as yourself OncidentalIy, I too have a lovely oil
reproduction of an old gentleman saying grace-oneof my fondest pieces-andso very inspirational), I do
believe I may be of someassistance in helping you tounderstand one of the photos.
Mylatehusband
Leonard and I learned arather invigorating little trickfrom my former hairdresser,a charming although somewhat chatty young man
who frequently enjoyed borrowing my favorite black
pumps (we wore the samesize). He was also particularly fond of my good support
hose, but I had to set a limit
somewhere. Yes, he wasone of those "perverts: condemned, no doubt, to burn
eternally in Hell for hiswickedsexual deviance,
However, one evening
when, much to Leonard's
chagrin, I invited him upstairs
for a creme de menthe, heproceeded to teach us quite
an unusual game,
one
which
LeonardandI
enjoyed for many years
after, and one I wholeheartedly recommend to you andMrs. Helms.
The
game,
which
Leonard liked to call "horseyporsey: involves inserting(ever so slowly) a wellgreased bull whip handle
into your partner's anus, thenromping around the room
trying to pull each other's"tails.' What fun we had thatfirst night (althoughthecreme de menthe, which I
may have had just a teensy
bit too much of. certainly
enhanced the festivities) whinnying and ciomping, up
and down,round
andround! And believe it or not,Senator, the sensation isabsolutely breathtaking!
Well. You can imagine
my surprise at seeing Mr.
Mapplethorpe's
now infa-mous photo. "He know ourhorsey-porsey game too: I
exclaimed to Leonard, forgetting for a moment that
he had passed away many
years earlier,

Whether or not thesephotos are works of art, Senator Helms, I will leave to
your expert opinion, But certainly this isnot pornography.
It is merely an enjoyable
fanily game, and one that I
hopewill bringmany
evenings of enjoyment toyou and your lovely wife.
Keep up the fine work,and please do give my very
best to the President.
Very TrulyYours,
Mrs. Priscilla Pettyjohn

KRAMER VI. GMHC
Board of Directors
Gay Men's Health Crisis,Inc.
Ladies & Gentlemen:
On June 26th, I made awritten presentation to theBoard, imploring you to
immediately hire two fulltime employees to help joinwith other AIDS advocacy
groups in the fight foremoston our immediate
agenda-making
the parallel
track release of experimental drug treatments that the
government is now proposing as fast a reality as
humanly possible.
I was gratified to hearin short order from your president. Joy Tomchin, that acommitment
was quickly
made to do so, and that Tim
Sweeney,
yourformerdeputy director of policy
and now acting executive
director, would commence

locating candidates rightaway.
In speaking
to Mr.
Sweeney, I somehow surmised that the leading
candidatefor one of thepositions was Jeff Levi. formerly the executive directorof the National Gay andLesbian Task Force and historically one of the mostoutspoken opponents of therelease of such treatments. I
begged Mr. Sweeney, notonce but twice, as I thenfervently begged Ms. Tomchin, not three times but
four, not to make such an
unwise selection.
Not only was myadvice not followed, but noone at GMHC had the courtesy to network or consult
with ACT UP, with Project
Inform, with AmFAR, withany of the other community
representatives or organizations that have been leading the fight in this area, andwith whom, presumably,
your representative would
hove to cooperate.
On this very day that
Mr. Levi's appointment has
been made publicly known,
I have received,at lastcount, twelve phone callsfrom these organizations
and from community leaders asking if GMHC has goneout of its collective mind,
When I have confessed that
I have responsibility for youregregious error-in that had
I not made my imprecations
for help to you in the firstplace, you would havedone nothing at all, and Mr,
Levi would have continued
on in his much-deserved
retirementfrom public
life-my own sanity was also
called into question. Evidently my still-held belief
that GMHC can, whenbeseeched, occasionally
put a foot in the right place,even in the arena of actual
political
fighting,
is notshared by many others on
the front line of this battle.
I would like to ask eachand every one of you-: Ms,

Tomchin, Judge Failla. Ms,
Tisch, Mr. Watters. Mr. Spector, Mr. See, Mr. Bloom, Mr.
Pepper, Ms. Grande LeVine,
Ms. Weeks, Ms. Peabody. Mr.
Johnston, Mr. Sweeney, Ms.
Barsin,Mr. SoreL Mr. Grant-:
have you all gone out ofyour fucking minds?
In hiring Mr. Levi. you
hove chosen one of the gay
community's most recklesszealots in his condemnationof the early release ofexperimental drugs! And yet
it is the speedier release ofjust these drugs that you arehiring him to effect. Are you
insane?
In hiring Mr. Levi. you
have done the equivalentof hiring Jesse Helms to lookout for the interests ofRobert Mappelthorpe.
Ofhiring an antisemite to lobby
for the interests of the Jews.
Of hiring a pro-lifer to whip
up votes for those fervently'
believing in pro-choice.
In hiring Mr. Levi. you
have employed someone
whom Dr. Barry Gingell, yourmuch beloved
andmissed - Medical Director,
personally considered offthe-walland blatantly
destructive to progress on
this issue Barry fought for to
his last dying minute.
In hiring Mr. Levi. you
have made yourselfalaughing stock.
And you do so at atime when your own organization is in a disarray thatgrows more tragically farcical with each moment. How
sixteen grown men andwomen
can take ninemonths to find a new executive director defies comprehension-even
if there
were no epidemic raging inthe streets and killing us soswiftly. How sixteen grown
men and women can allow
the organization they arepledged to supervise deteriorate to the point it now
has-wherein staff morale isat an all-time low and people are resigning left andright-also is impossible tocomprehend.
Does yourincompetenceknow nobounds? By next January,
when we are told the new
executive director will atlast. mirabile dictu. be inplace, there will be no
employees left for him/her
to direct.
And, judging from thishideous decision of Mr,
Sweeney's,. I can only tremble over what additional
egregious mistakes await us
during these coming monthsof his "acting'executive
directorship.
But to the more immediate problem, that of Mr.
Levi. with whom you are at
this moment bonded in idiocy, I can only conclude byonce again begging you(though I should know by
now that begging you is as
stupid as you are) to swallow your undeserved pride
and return him to retirement. He knows nothing
about treatment issues; hehas said all the wrong things
about them all too publicly
in the past, in so doing earning the obviously unabatedanger of those of us who
do; and by the copies of thisletter sent to those enumerated below may it be
known that not only does
Mr. Levi have no right tospeak in behalf of the gay
community and enjoys precious little confidence in it,
this particular member ofthe gay community thinksthat Mr. Sweeney and theBoard of Gay Men's Health
Crisis (Joy Tomchin, President) are-one
and all of
you-outof your fucking
pea-brained minds,
Larry Kramer

MASS APPEAL
Letters to the Editor
The New YorkTimes
Dear Editor,
I was disturbed andsaddened to discover Elizabeth M. Whelan's assault on
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Hoax Alleged

in S.F. Anti-Gay Attack
MCC Pastor Lynn Griffis Resigns & Leaves City in Emerging Scandal

MYSTERY ATTACK

Photo: Barbara J. Maggiani

MCC Minister Lynn Griffis

by Keith Clark
SAN FRANCISCO-Lynn Griffis, theassistant pastor at the Metropolitan
Community Church (MCC) in Sah
Francisco who made national news inlate July following reports of a kidnapping and second brutal assault,-came unwillingly to the attention of
the press again here in early August
as rumors began surfacing that elements of her reported second assault
were inconsistent with police evidence in the case,
Recent questions have also been_.'•

At lhe~mepress conference, MCC Rever~nd Jim
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raised suggesting Griffis may have
faked a reported first assault on her,and may have been responsible for arash of death threats against her andother MCC clergy.
On Friday, August 4, MCC pastor
Jim Mitulski and San Francisco Police
Chief Frank Jordan held a hastilyscheduled press conference to confirm that indeed there were conflicts
over Griffis' original police statement
and physical evidence gathered in thecase, and that Griffis' resignation from
MCC had been accepted.
On July 27 Griffis reported topolice that she had been forced atknife-point into an automobile inbroad daylight and brutally assaulted
by two men whom she described as"skinheads." According to Griffis'
report at the time, the two men had
threatened to "finish the job nexttime" after cutting her breasts with aknife and beating her.
"They specifically stated that San
Francisco is not our city anymore,·
Griffis said at a press conference here
July 30, "and that they would kill us
all one by one; that the government-if
you can call it a government-is spending too much moneyon a disease that we brought on our-August 21, 1989

credentials as a student minister. "She would havebe fired," Mitulski said.
Griffis reportedly stands by her version of the
but told police she wanted investigators to dose theirinto the two reported assaults. In a telephone inte_ _"from her family's home in Cozad, Nebraska, Gri(fis'1s .
reportedly told the San Francisco Sentinel, "The poJice$ay
I'm lying. I say, prove it," She reportedly added, "I( thiS
gcx:s to court a Jot of people are going to be hurt" JQuriltj
ists'from other papers, including the San Francisco 'E.x41iiiit.·
er, which sent two reporters to Cozad, were unable tocontact GriffIS,either by phone or in person.
-Keltbaark0selves,"
On July 12 Griffis had reported aprevious anti-gay assault. She said she
had been hit in the face with a shovel
by an assailant at her home where
someone had scrawled "Die With Your
Fags" on a wall in her garage. Griffis
received eight stitches in her face.
The brutality of the two attacks,
their apparent anti-gay nature as 'Griffis detailed them, and an alleged longdistance death threat Griffis said she
received while she was in Minneapolis recovering after the first attack,caused Police Chief Jordan to give thecase top priority status and to call in
the FBI. Mayor Art Agnos increased a$S,OOOreward connected with the firstreported assault to $10,000 after Griffis reported the second assault. Outraged over the reported
secondassault, some 2S0-300 angry people
marched from the largely gay Castro
to the Haight-Ashbury district where
Griffis lived in a demonstration calledby ACT UP/SF to protest anti-lesbian/gay violence here,

FACING THE PRESS

Photo: Rink Foto

PoliclI Chill' F,ank Jordan, MCC Ministll' Jim Mitulski and CUAVs Mlllinda Pa,as
Applrent Inaccuracies
MCC's Mitulski said. Griffis
resigned from the church August 3
only two hours after the church boardof directors had placed her on admin-

istrative leave over apparent inaccuracies in her original report of theassault to police. "The church has a lotof compassion for Lynn," Mitulski said.
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MCC's Mltulskf'have refused' t~'Comment, claiming th~ycould not discU~s the matter while a formal investigation
SAN FRANCISCO-Communlty reactionS to the Griffis case was still going on because it might "compromise GriffIS'
have rang~ from suggestions that the FBI has purposefully
due process rights." The. question for some l'S0ple here
br<>!;'gh~ ~~!{Us's~ory ~tQ~~?~t~,o!?<;£to discredit he~, ~n. has beco~e: Does hol~~g ;pres.!!.~nfert~i;,~'1
and the aU~ged assaultsF~~i£9t1~lS.m ()f MCC's failure t? pubhcly que~p?n Qot only Gqffts'{verslOn,9f,tl:i¢,;i~econd
detect w~~ they now adrntt are senous problems for their assault but alSo whether eIther assault actually tooK place,former assistant pastor, to theories that Griffis' story is without diSclosing any hard evidence, also cOmpromise herbeing ,publicly disparaged with her own approval as a due process rigllts?
"smoke screen" to lure the a~eged assailants"into somehow
Police h;lVe declined to comment altog~dlerlfMitul~k~,
revealingthemseIves.
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....'however, said tpe Augu~t 4.Pf~ con(erencr,whe{<:,{:inJoo3i"I just dorft believe someone theY're bow claiming is a sistencies" in Gf'iffJS' originaJ stOry. abOut the secdrla as,saulf
pathological liar and obyiously a seriously mentallywere first publicly revealed ·was necessary becau~ thederanged person could get theology degrees from two information [about the '!nconsi~«fucies'Jwas leakirig.out:
schools, work under weekly' supervision at the church
But gushing rather than leaking might be a better word
[MCCl for a rear and a~lf and then fake two serious
for how rumors were flowing here reportedly as early as.,assaults :;ith~t someone,~w~~realong the way notic., August I-three days before}t:q~ police I'.ress~;sonference
ing Sl:lC:i'S' nuts," said T. Da:vid Smith, who described himself ....and two days before Gtlff'is41erself was co~rq.nted byas "just an ordinary faggot living in the Castro," Thus far, police and community leaaers with ..tl:ie incons~t~cies inneither the police, the FBI ....
nor the MCChave revealed any her story.'
hard evide,nce discrediting Griffis' stories or proving that
According to one staff member who did not want toshe has lied.'.'? .....•.'
be identified, the San Franciscofen~inel wasge.~~g p¥neSmith,>Hkeothers ~.~;cOmmunityher~,.
haVe raised calls as early ~ .•..
J~.esday, .t\p~~~l!about .~prg~~~Hv,ritq
questions about MCC's rapld'about-face ?n QrUflS'credibil- the Griffis~e"kndthatthe.~Htce ofliak~:iy,.as ari'it
ity based ,so far on ·physical evidence" and uPersonal infor- unnamed offtcee in the police dbpartment. Sentitiefnews
mation- which police, Mitulski and other MCC staff refuse editor Daniel WllIson was unahilable for comment on theto make public.
report and police officials declined comment.
Wheri*asJeed about the .informatiOOillnd evidence that
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ation, we want to know what the truth
is. Right now we don't know the truth,
but we know it's different from thestories that were originally reported."
At the August 4 press conference atpolice headquarters here, Mitulski, Jordan, Melinda Paras of Community United Against Violence (CUAV),and newly
appointed police commissioner Gwenn
Craig reported on a meeting held the
day before with Griffis. At that meeting
police say they confronted GriffIs with"inconsistencies" in her story.
"When we brought up what wethought was conflicting evidence andthat clarifIcation needed to be made,her story was changed," said police
chief Jordan. "She has [now] statedthat she has been sexually assaulted."
Chief Jordan declined to makeany detailed comments about Griffis'
new version of the assault while it isstill under investigation. However,one person who has been involved inthis on-going and now confUSingassault case said Griffis stands by her
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San Francisco police are now
checking Griffis' second account of
the incident. "We have some doubts,"
chief Jordan said of Griffis' second
statement about the assault. "At thistime we have no reason to believe[the first assault report] is not valid,
but that will be re-evaluated too,"
Jordan also said the FBI will play
only a small role in the police investigation. FBI spokespersons
heredeclined all comment on the case at
this time.
No Witnesses
Despite widely distributed fliersin Griffis' neighborhood calling for
witnesses to the second attack, andthe $10,000 reward for information
offered by Mayor Agnos in the
alleged mid-day assault on the former
MCC clergywoman, police sources
said that no witnesses have comeforward. Police have also conducted
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extensive interviews of residents inthe area of the alleged assault.
According to police officials, it is"extremely unusual" for no one tohave seen or heard anything under
the circumstances Griffis had outlined
to them about the alleged attack.
In addition,
police forensic
experts said the damage to Griffis'
clothing and the wounds to herbreasts didn't match the first account
Griffis gave of the assault, and police
solirces said they have concluded
Giffis' wounds were in fact self-inflicted. With Griffis' new version of theassault, however, police say they will
have to re-examine all the physicalevidence in the case.
Chief Jordan said the department
would probably have its re-evaluationof the evidence in the case completed
by August 9.
Impact on Anti-Gay Violence
Civil rights attorney John Wahlsaid he was concerned about the
impact the doubt being cast on Griffis' story would have on anti-gay vioI lence in San Francisco. A recent
National Gay and Lesbian Task Forcesurvey reported that San Francisco
has the highest incidence of anti-lesbian and 'gay violence in the nation.
"What worries me about this press
conference," Wahl said, "is that people will now think that they can
attack our people because nobody's
going to believe the victim." Wahl andother community
leadershere
announced the formation shortly after
the reported second assault on Griffisof the, Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
Institute, which will teach self-defense
methods,
includingthe use of
firearms.
But Chief Jordan said anti-lesbian/gay attacks continue to be a highpriority in the police department.
"The message has to be loud andclear that hate-related,prejudicial
crimes will be prosecuted to the full
extent of the law."
Jordan also made it clear, however, that if the police report concludes
that Griffis made up the second attack,she could herself be prosecuted.
MCC's Mitulski, during his Sundaynight sermon August 6, told the churchcongregation that he now suspectedccontinued on page 70

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News

Koch Grants PartnershipBenefits to Les/Gay Couples
Paid Bereavement Leave
for City Emp'loyees Establishedby Mark Chesnut
NEW YORK - Mayor Edward Kochissued his 123rd executive order on
Monday, August 7th, granting paidbereavement leave to gay, lesbian andunmarried heterosexual city employees when their domestic partners or
their' partners' close family members
die. The move made good a promise
made by Koch several weeks ago,

"Over time society changes. So
must the government which serves it,»
Koch stated. "Practices or policies thatmight have seemed unacceptable toour grandparents or unusual to ourparents seem equitable, indeed necessary to our generation," he continued
in his announcementof the order,
which will take effect immediately,

No Small Victory·UNACCEPTABLE TO OURGRANDPARENTS·?
Mayor Edward Koch
According to the Mayor's Office,the order will apply to "domestic partnerships which have been establishedbetween two people, both of whomare 18 or older, who have lived
together for at least one year," Those
employees qualifying must registerwith the city's Department of Personnel. Applications are expected to beavailable by the middle of August.
Qualified registrants will be eligible
for four-day leaves if their partners'
parents or children, or their partners
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Tom Stoddard, executive directorof Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, called the move "a symbolic change of massive proportions,· Hecommented that it is "no small victory" for gay and lesbian relationships
to be officially recognized by the government of the City of New York,
which is the largest single employer
in New York City.
Stoddard was not completely satisfied, however, with the one-year
waiting period required after registration, or the limited benefits the order
granted,And many community
actiVists, while praising the executive
order, echoed Stoddard's reservations.
Some expressed disappointment withthe absence of health insurance andother benefits of major economic consequence from the order.
Koch has said previously that
health insurance benefits are the'domain of the city's unions and thecollective bargaining process, not the
mayor's office. And according to Stoddard, the possibility of including
health benefits in domestic partnership packages will depend greatly on
the outcome of a current court case,
Gay Teachers' Associations vs. New
York City Board of Education, in

which gay teachers are suing theBoard for health insurance benefits
for their lovers.
Candidates Line Up
While it is not known how manyof the city's 330,000 municipal
employees will register for the benefits, Lambda has collected data fromseven other cities with similar benefit
packages. The survey found that registrationin those cities ranges
between .5% and 2% of the city's total
workforce, according to Stoddard.
All of the Democratic mayoral
candidates have expressed support
for the executive order. Manhattan
Borough President David Dinkins andCity Comptroller Harrison Goldin
pointed out that they had alreadyinstituted similar policies in their own
offices.
Republican mayoral front-runner
Rudolph Giuliani, who originallyattacked Koch's proposal, indicatedconcern for the financial consequences of the order, and said the heneeds more time to study the issue,
Only Ronald Lauder, the trailing
Republican candidate for mayor, hassaid he would rescind the executive
order if elected. "I think that Koch's
executive order undermines one ofsociety's most essential institutions:marriage," he told The Daily News.
Madison, Wisconsin and Takoma
Park, Maryland already recognize
domestic partners for some city benefits, as do five California cities: Los
Angeles, San Francisco, Berkeley,West Hollywood and Santa Cruz.
Berkeley, West Hollywood and Santa
Cruz are the only three which extend
health care benefits to domestic partners. In addition, a domestic partnership benefits program is currently
before Seattle's city council.
...
Keith Clark contributed

to this article,

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City Condom Ads In Limbo
Straight Media Shun Rubber Up Campaign
IIby Keith Miller and Andrew Miller
NEW YORK - Two months after the
New York City Department of Healthlaunched its newest AIDS prevention
media campaign, few of the print ads
have appeared anywhere outside of
the gay and lesbian media and thecity-owned ad spaces in subways andbuses. And Health Department officials cannot accurately say when or
where the radio and television advertisements depicting
gay men arescheduled to appear.
The "Rubber Up For' Safety" campaign, announced by Health Commissioner Stephen Joseph on June 14,
utilizes print ads with pictures of condoms. It also includes two sets ofradio and television ads: one featuring
Joseph urging men who have sex
with other men, "no matter how infrequently," to always use condoms, andthe other depicting a gay man recall-IIing a "romantic dinner," during whichsafer sex is discussed,
The print ads, in both English andSpanish, quickly' appeared on subway
platforms, and in Christopher Street,
The Native, and Out Week. According
to Ann Sternberg of the Medium andMaterials Area of the Department of
Health, the print ads have not yet
appeared in any other magazines ornewspapers, but are "scheduled toappear" in such diverse publications
as EI Diano, Peridesta, Vocero, Youth
Connections, The Amsterdam Newsand The Bronx Press Review. Sternberg
did not know when the ads would be
appearing in those publications.
According to Sam Friedman, ahealth department
spokesperson,"there are other major magaZines on
the burner." Friedman declined tomention specific publications. "This isa touchy issue and we don't want toscare them away with publicity,"Friedman said.
Diversity of Formats
Sternberg said of the radio spot
featuring Stephen Joseph, "The radio
spread is good." She added, "Some stations are also running 'Romantic Dinner: The spot is running on rap, rockand talk stations - across the board.
What we lack in volume of stations wemake up in diversity of formats."
Friedman could not provide thecall letters of a single radio station
currently running either of the ads,
But according
to Sternberg,
the"romantic dinner" ad was picked up
by WINS, WFUV, and WVOx. A WINS
official confirmed that the ad had run
in the past, but said that it was in fact
no longer being aired, The official
offered no explanation for why it had
been pulled.

August 21, 1989

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Never Received Ads
Tom Kavanagh, the traffic manager at WFUV, said that he had neverreceived the ads from the departmentof health. He said that the station
would have no de facto objections torunning such ads, but added, "We
might tone it down a bit. We would
promote safe sex and condoms, without getting into specific relationships."
WFlN is the radio station of Fordham
University, which is affiliated with the
Catholic Church.
WVOX, an AM station with atalk-radio
format based in New
Rochelle, confirmed that it is currently
running the "romantic dinner" ad.
An informal survey of half.adozen major local radio stations yielded none which were running the ads.
Some were unaware of their existence, while others said that they had
decided not to run them.

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always use latex condoms.
Because once is all it takes to transmit the AIOS virus.
So protect yourself ... and your partner. For more information, call:

AIDS Hotline 718 485-8111.
HOMBRE A HOMBRE

Only After 11 PM-No matter how infrequently.WCBS-TV has agreed to run the
television ad with Dr. Joseph, but has Chabrowe, the advertising firm that
Nevertheless, Friedman remains
not yet done so. According to Martin created the commercials, "It's up to thehopeful. "We don't expect an acrossBlair, director of press relations at media to show how committed they
the-board acceptance. This is ourWCBS, "Dr. Joseph is seen as a are to preventing the AIDSepidemic,"
continued on pag8 70
respectablespokesperson
for theissue - he fits our requirements." I
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The spot will run only after 11 p.m.
The ads depicting a gay man has
been deemed unacceptable, but Blairwould not discuss the criteria bywhich they were judged.
"That would put us in a positionof making sales, and we're talking
about donated time," Blair said.
"Every wire service in the country
wanted to know why we turned
by Jim Whelan
City Council. The Commission prodown the "romantic dinner' spot. We NEW YORK-When the district lines
poses to enlarge the present 35-memdon't discuss our policies with anyof the City of New York are redrawn
ber City Council to a legislative bodyone."
to create an enlarged City Council, theof 51 seats. This means the district
But the decision of WCBS-TV is existence of gay and lesbian neighlines throughout the metropolis will
not unique among other radio andborhoods may be ignored altogether.
be redrawn to create smaller, more
television stations, despite efforts by
Eric Lane, chief counsel for theaccurately representational districts.
the health department to promote theCharter
Revision
Commission,
When the revision Commission
ads, including sending sales reps out appeared at a meeting called by FAIR- held public hearings on the redistrictto the various staions. Sternberg told PAC, the gay and lesbian politicaling of New York, FAIRPAC lobbied
autWeek, "We do everything we can, action committee, to explain how thethe commissioners to "keep intact
On this campaign we're moving slow- revised proposals will affect the comneighborhoods and communities withly and cautiously because it is sensi- munity.
established ties of common interest
tive material."
The Revision Commission is calland association, whether historical,"This is something that networks
ing for the abolition of the current
racial, economic, ethnic, religious or
and affiliates just don't want to talkBoard of Estimate, and the redistribubased upon sexual orientation."
about on the air," said Terrytion of its powers among the boroughBut in its final proposal the CharChabrowe, president of Cappiello andpreSidents, the Mayor and an enlarged
ter Revision Commission chose not toCharter Commission

Snubs Gays

Nixes Sexual Orientation for Redistricting Plan

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add the phrase "based on sexual orientation," instead amending that partof the section to read "or other."At the July 27th meeting, which
was held at the Community Center onWest 13th Street, Lane stated that the
representation of neighborhoods characterized by the sexual orientation of
its residents would be sufficiently protected as "other." Noting the presenceof conservative Catholics on the Commission, he also said that both he andcommission chair Frederick A.O.
Schwartz firmly believed that sectionof the proposals
would not beapproved by the full commission if the I.
words "sexual orientation" were left in.
FAIRPAC had identified
theUpper West Side, Greenwich Village,
Chelsea, Jackson Heights in Queens
and Park Slope in Brooklyn as lesbian
and gay neighborhoods because thezip codes of these areas frequently
show up on the mailing lists of gay
and lesbians organizations,
The response among those present, especially FAIRPAC members,
was one of frustration. "It just seems
as though we came up short," said
Julie Greene, who lobbied the commission for the inclusion of the words"sexual orientation,"
Mark D'Alessio, another FAIRPAC
board member, said using the word"other" instead of "sexual orientation"
harkens back to the notion of "thelove that dare not speak its name."
Nevertheless, Candida Scott Piel,executive Director of FAIRPAC, said
her organization would support therevised proposals. "The community
must realize it's better than it was
before, and if it goes back to square
one with a different administration,
and Rudy Giuliani ends up appointing
a new Revision Commission, the end
result could be less that it is now,"
she said, anticipating a Giuliani victory in the fall's mayoral race.
The Charter Revision Commission
was created just over a year ago torevise the structure of the municipal
government. That task has become
particularly urgent since last Marchwhen the United States Supreme
Court declared the Board of Estimate
unconstitutional for violating the principle of one person,
one vote,embodied in the Voting Rights Act. ..

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News

ACT UP Demands
AIDS Drug Release
Chicago Demo Hinges On Media Manipulation
by Rex Wockner
CHICAGO-Sometimes
a guy just
can't get arrested no matter what hedoes. Even if he chains himself to thedoors of a major big-city hospital.
Even if channels 5, 7, 9 and 26 arevideotaping his every move.
If otfrials of <1lbgo's Rush-Prest>yterian-St. Luke's Hospital were bothered

not going to storm in with bolt cutters.
"Well, to be perfectly honest
about it," replied ACT UP's Fred
Eggan, "probably when you do."
The Chicago Police did finallymake an appearance. But after a huddle, the officers left, writing a parking
ticket on the way.
But ACT UP's immediate goal

WHO DO YOU HAVE TO FUCK TO GET ARRESTED AROUND HERE?
ACT UP/ChicBgo protests FOSCBTnetrules
Photo: Rex Wockner
August 1 when six members of ACf
UP/Chicago locked themselves together
and then to both sides of the hospitalentrance, they didn't show it.
Seventy minutes into the protest,
administrators
invited the media
inside for interviews. As reporters finished, one official quipped, "They cansleep here if they want." ACT UP
wasn't up to a camfrOut and left after
three hours of chanting, shouting andinterviews with the press.
"When are you going to take oft?"a reporter for WMAQ-TV asked, after
it became apparent that police were

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had been accomplished. At 6 pm,
Chicagoans heard allegations on fivechannels that the experimental AIDS
drug Foscarnet is being withheld frompersons with AIDS (PWAs) by its
manufacturer, Astra Pharmaceuticals,
Not only did viewers see activists
chanting and hollering, but they
heard Rush-Presbyterian's Dr. Harold
Kessler agree that the company
should release the drug for so-called"compassionate use."
At present, Foscarnet is available
only in rigidly constructed clinical trials, one of which is under Kessler's

supervisionin Chicago. ACT UP
demanded that Kessler call Astra andinsist that the drug be more widely
available. Kessler said he had alreadyspoken with the company and didn't
know why they continued to withhold the substance.
"But I can tell you why," said
one ACf UP member. "Astra is afraidthat if Foscarnet is available then they
won't have any people for their trials." Drugs must be studied extensively and then approved by the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration before
they can be sold.
Foscarnet is an experimental
treatment for cytomegalovirus (CMV)
retinitis, which causes blindness in,
PWAs. At present, the only approved
CMV retinitis treatment is DHPG-asubstance so toxic that most PWAs
cannot take it without suspending
their use of AZT, which is the only
approved substance for fighting HIV
itself. (HIV is believed to be the causeof AIDS.) DHPG also suppresses bonemarrow, and has caused life-threatening anemia in some PWAs.
Although Foscarnet also causes
many side effects, it can be taken
simultaneously with AZf and, so far,has not created any life-threatening
conditions of its own.
In recent weeks, several crucial
government officials have publicly
agreed with AIDS activists on a number of controversial
drug release
issues. Most significantly, Dr, Anthony
Fauci of the National Institutes ofAllergies and Infectious Diseases inJune embraced ACf UP!New York's
idea of "parallel track" drug release,
wherein substances go through official trials and are available to others
who are sick at the same time. But
the program has not as yet been put
into effect with any particular drug,
nor has it been generally accepted asa regular procedure by drug companies or the NIH.
Three calls to Astra corporate
headquartersin Westboro, Massachusetts failed to reach anyone who
could discuss the company's policies,and company spokespersons did notcall back.
...

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make up 15 to 20 percent of
the population of New YorkCity.
It is an outrage that we still
have no openly Lesbian or Gay
elected officials in City Hall.
We deserve more than zero
percent representation."-Dave

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Drag War in Indianapolis
by Rex Wockner

THE LADIES IN QUESTION

Indianapolis drag queens

I

INDIANAPOLIS-Transsexuals
anddrag queens here are at war with four
local gay bars that recently banned
men who wear make-up or dress inwomen's clothing. Two bars that formerly catered to female impersonators
recently closed, forcing the men tofind other places to socialize.
In the most recent episode in theescalating conflict, 31-year-old Roberta A1yson, a pre-operative transsexual,
was charged with fleeing an officer
and resisting arrest after she repeatedly attempted to enter Our Place, Indianapolis' most popular gay bar.
When the show bars went out ofbusiness, Our Place and two other"masculine" -oriented establishments-Photo: New Works NewsThe Varsity and Jimmy's - instituteda reqUirement that a bar patron's
I appearance match his/her driver's
license photo. A fourth bar, the Levisoriented 501 Tavern, later began banning drag queens as well.
At a July 16 meeting between bar
owners, gay/lesbian organizations, theIndiana Crossdressers Society (IXE),
homa City native who lived in Los the Indiana State Excise Police, theAngeles until his diagnosis with AIDS Indianapolis Police Department andseveral years ago.
the Indiana Civil Liberties Union"We're just trying to come to(ICLU), Excise officials told bar owngrips with the issues here. Because
ers that the only requirement
for
we don't have a lot of cases, people
entrance to a bar in Indiana is that thefeel they don't need to be as militant.
customer be at least 21 years old.
There isn't the sense of urgency that
Bar owners reiterated their desire
one lives with every day in L.A. or
to exclude crossdressers in order to, as
New York," Shears said, "But we are
one businessman put it, "preserve thetrying to impart that sense of urgency
established masculine atmosphere of theto the rest of the community."bar." Some owners added that crossAt the top of STAT!'s agenda,
dressers drive away regular customers.
according to Shears, is local residents'
According to The New Workslack of access to clinical trials forNews, an Indianapolis gay newspaper,
AIDS drugs, and Oklahoma's policy of Gregory McDaniel of Indianapolis
mandatory name-reporting of people
GAYTV interrupted the owners' arguinfected with HIV, the virus thoughtments to say that "what I'm hearing
by many to cause AIDS.
~
now is exactly what I heard 20 years
ago when auempts were being madeFor more information, write toto keep Blacks out of Riverside Park
STAT!, Box 60886, Oklahoma City,and other public places."OK, 73146-0886.
New Works' publisher Stan Berg- filed from New York agreed, reportedly calling the bar

ACTUp, OK?

New AIDS Activist Group Forms in Oklahoma City
by Andrew Miller
OKLAHOMA CITY - The world of
AIDS activists has approXimately 40
new members. Claiming that they are"inspired by ACf UP/NY and GUTS,
the Gay Urban Truth Squad of Dallas,
Texas," Oklahoma City's own STAT!
was oom at that city's gay and lesbian
pride parade last June. The name istaken from the Latin word for "immediately," which is often heard over hospital intercoms when paging doctors andnurses to emergency situations.
The group, which meets every
other week, had planned its first zap
to coincide with President George
Bush's appearance here at the National Convention of the Fraternal Orderof Police last week, but Bush cancelled his appearance to attend to thehostage crisis unfolding in the Middle
East, thwarting the group's plans.
Clay Shears, acting spokesperson
for the fledgling group, is an Okla-

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owners' "discrim ination". morally andsocially reprehensible.
ICLU gayllesbian task force head
Marla Stevens is supporting the crossdressers in their battle against thebars, and has called Alyson's recent
arrest "an act of civil disobedience.
At press time, a final avenue oflegal attack had not been worked out,
but the crossdressers are consideringfiling complaints with the Alcoholic
Beverage Commission, Excise officials
and the Indiana Human Rights Commission. There has also been discussion of an lXE picket of the four bars
accused of discrimination.
In the meantime, three lXE members have had their driver's licenses
reissued with photographs that show
their feminine identities, according to
IXE spokeswoman Sharon Allen.
"The heartbreak of the situation,"
Allen said, "is that even though manyof us are heterosexual, politically weare aligned with the gay community.
Our goals are the same-dignity
forall people, We have similar social
problems and there's very little to begained by warfare against one community by the other.
Allen said heterosexual transsexuals prefer to socialize in gay bars
because gay men are less likely than
non-gay men to become violent"when they grab someone's crotch
and find out it's not empty."
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CORRECTmNS

InlaSt week's letter from Jjan
Carl Park and Lee Hudson, which
discussed the mayor's history vis a
vis domestic partnership, the following sentence was inadvertantly omlted: "A year prior to the Braschi case,
the Mayor lobbied tl.le then Senate
MajorityLeader, Warren Anderson, to
expand the definition of immediatefamily to include domestic partners 'in lease succession rights fOrrent stabilized apartments,"
Due to a mechanical error, thebyline for the article "100,000 and
Gounting ... • in last week's issue
was omitted The article was written by Larry Kramer,

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gun and the early feelingsof support from the sidelines disappeared
andwere replaced by something more sinister. As I
lookedat the staring
crowd I thought, "We areyour nightmare." And as itturned out, we were.
Most of the early hostility was focused on "thesign." Carried by a memberof ACT UP, the sign read"legalize butt-fucking" on
one side and "legalize c1itlicking" on the other.
Though I personally found
it funny in an in-your-facekind of way (at least it waseven-handed) I understood
why some people found it
offensive. It was crude anddeliberately confrontational. But could it really "setgay and straight relations
back 40 years," as waslater claimed by Provincetown Police Chief James J.
START SPREADING THE NEWS
Photo: Ben Thornberry
Meads?
Walter Armstrong (I.J and friend make it in New York, New Yorklast month.
The
Provincetownby Ron Goldberg
screamed "betrayal" to anyone who
community struck back during the folwould listen. What had happened tolowing week. The organizers of the"betray- 1: to lead astray; 2: to their nice, quiet respectful gays?
march have been publicly denounced
deliver to an enemy of treachery; 3: toIndeed, this year's parade wasand vilified and, in the best small
fail or desert esp, in time of need; 4: led by 20 dykes on bikes (fhe Movtown fashion, they are being ostraa: to reveal unintentionally b: show,
ing Violations), followed by a grandcized and isolated from the rest of theindicate c: to disclose in violation of marshall on rollerskates (New York's
community. The priest under whose
confidence, "own Rollerena) and almost 1,000
auspices the parade was organized- Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary
marchers. People carried signs as wellhas been "suspended." The chief of
as candles, and chants of "Say it
police, whose authority was briefly
I was in Provincetown recently toand symbolically challenged by theparticipate in its annual Lesbian andmarchers, is threatening to institute a
Gay Pride Parade. Past parades con"code of ethics" for all future parades
sisted of several hundred lesbians andand events. He has also issued warngay men walking quietly down Com- loud-gay
and proud"echoedings about a possible violent backlash
mercial Street carrying candles, More throughthe narrow
streetsofto the sign and has publicly said,of a vigil than a parade. The Chief of Provincetown. The response along"You want a gay pride parade next
Police, the Town Selectmen and no
the parade route was loud and enthuyear-go
to Boston." Community
doubt, most of Provincetown expectsiastic. People cheered and applaudsponsors are dropping out of othered this year to be more of the same,ed and joined in the chanting, But as
gay-identified
events such as an
But it wasn't. And when the parade
we moved into "straighter" waters aupcoming auction to benefit Provinceturned out to be a loud, raucous
noticeable change occurred. Someone
town PWAs and, of course, there is amarch down Commerical Street, they
shot one of the marchers with a BB
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August21, 1989 OUTTWEEK

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community over the possible loss ofthe tourist dollar.
This backlash is about more thanjust one "vulgar" sign. As in any community, there is a tacit agreement
between citizens, a code of conduct,
which helps regulate public behavior.
The march was seen as a willfulbreach of this agreement. Whether it
was the sign, the chants, the kiss-ins,
the passing out of condoms or justthe sheer number of participants, thecommunity felt betrayed and taken
advantage of.
The townspeople
feel thatthey've been very good about lesbians and gays. They've lived up to
their side of the bargain but now
things have gone too far. They don't
have to stand for this. And thisbetrays the liberal lie of Provincetown's "delicate balance" (as one resident put it) between communities: it
is a balance that exists between
unequal partners, The understanding
between the straight and gay communities is based not on true acceptancebut rather mutual convenience.

On the other end of this balancing act sits the gay establishment, as
represented
by the Provincetown
Business Guild, As year-round citizens
of Provincetown, they've put a lot oftime and MONEY into making it asafe and friendly haven for gay people. They have worked very hard topresent a positive picture of lesbians
and gay men and have secured forthemselves a prominent place in thelarger Provincetown Community. But
these women and men have worked
so hard to impress the establishedcommunity that they feel they must
strike out against anyone who does
not fit into their narrow vision of agood homosexual. Their credibility inthe community depends upon it.
Fearing that they will be judged
by their neighbors because of theactions of other gays, they then apologize for the "excesses" of the community explaining that there are "goodgays" and "bad gays." It is true that ourenemies often characterize the entire
gay community by seeing only one
aspect of it, but we must not inflictthese limitations upon ourselves. We
cannot allow our sense of self-worth
as individuals and as lesbians and gay
men to be held hostage to concepts of
uniform goodness or badness. We
must demand of the straight community that which it automatically grants
itself, the right to be diverse. Even if
they hate his guts, I have yet to hear ofany straight person who felt it necessary to apologize to us because Jesse
Helms is a heterosexual.
By denying the validity of protest
and anger (and joy and pride, goddamit) and dividing the community
along "us vs, them" lines, these "goodgays" unknowingly betray us into thehands of those who would continue
to oppress us.
Tellingly, it is "the sign" that continues to draw the wrath of the Business Guild, while it remains silent on
the BB gun attack, It is as if the fagbashings and other incidents of homophobic violence that go on every
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the Guild or the larger ProvincelOwn
community advocates or condones
these attacks, but their complacency isinfuriating, Why are they more concerned with smoothing the ruffled sensibilities of the Town Selectmen thanprotecting the gay community against
homophobic violence?
The bottom line is dollars. Whenreal estate broker Paula Schultz said
that she didn't want ·you punks ruining this for us" she was not talking
about a sense of gay pride. Provincetown works very hard to maintain agood press image. Simply put, issuesof fag-bashlngs and gay protests are
not good for business. Not necessarily
in terms of gay business, (where else
can we go?) but in terms of straightfamily dollars. What is ironic is thatthe overreaction of the community to
the events of July 23 have propelledthese very same issues into the press
and have tarnished Provincetown's
image more than any sign or demonstration possibly could,
So just who has really betrayed
whom?
...

Obituaries
David McIntosh, Creatorof Center Garden, Dies
The Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center mourns the loss of volunteer David McIntosh, creator of theCenter Garden. David died on June 14,
1989, from complications due to AIDS.
A horticulturaIist, playwright, andpoet, David approached the Center inearly 1988 with the idea of converting
our ill-used courtyard into an open
garden. The garden he created is now
the most popular spot in the Centerfor socialiZing,
politicking
andschmoozing,
When not creating beautiful gardens, David spent much of his time
writing, He produced eight plays during his tenure as Writer-in-Residence
at The Play Group in KnoXville Tennessee, including: 22 RPM, The Terrific Two, Church, Smoke On The
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Political Science

The Golden Gate Mythby Mark Harrington
SAN FRANQSCO-Wben I grew up here
the summers used to be foggy and cold
The greenhouse effect is changing all that
Summer 1~ in San Francisro is hot andg10rbus (nd muggy1)--dle kind of weather your friends eJtPect you to ropy when
you go on vacatbn. Wah all that, it's hardto feel a sense of crisis
when you walk around.
But the newspapers rmde
me feel depressingly athome: the rmyor (Agoo;,nd Koch) evicting homeless people from the Gvic
Center, AIDS caseloads
skyrocketing, hospitals
coIIaµ;ing,crack violencein the emergency rooms,
rminstrearn gays rmd at
AIDS activists for "going

Scott rested in his Chelsea sublet.
Things got worse. He had no job,money or insurance. New York City isa bad place to get sick, Scott moved
back in with his dim, vaguely comprehending parents in Massachusetts
and came down with penumocystis,
I quit my Monday night draWing
class and joined ACf .up, .Scott sur-

too far."

My first stop was
my friend Scott Johnson. I met him in August 1987 at the Harmonic Convergence,
Our lives were supposed to pivot aroundthat cosmic node, remember? Mine did.
Scott
was
going
through his last month of fun before
he was conscripted by the war inside
his body, That fall he was waylaid bysudden, transient flus and neurological f1ickerings. That winter, he collapsed into my arms at the World, andpassed out. I held him upright until
he came to. We went outside and sat
on a stoop on East Second Street talking about what was going on. We
didn't use the A-word.

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vived two bouts of PCP, nauseatedfrom the IV-pentamidine they used
to treat it. In retrospect, he says thecare he got at Beth Israel Hospital in
Boston was the best he's had. Last
August, his ex-lover, who'd justgraduated from law school, droveout to take him back to San
Francisco,
It took Scott months to be processed by the staggering AIDS-caresystem in San Francisco. He wasn't
sick enough to see a doctor. He wasbounced around from clinic to social
worker to psychiatrist, never getting
monitored or treated for his various
immunological complaints.
Finally, he came down with MAl(mycobacterium avium-intracellulare,a tuberculosis related infection of theblood and gut,
marked by fevers
and wasting) andhad to be hospitalized,
Treatments for MAl are
primitive - doctors usually contrive a mixture offour to six anti-TB
drugs, some ofwhich aren't active against MAl,others having undesirable side effects of their own.
It was only when
he got this additional opportunistic infection, andsurvived anotherhospitalization,that the S,F. healthcare system wasable to admit him to a regular AIDS
outpatient clinic where he has his
blood monitored weekly and can actually see a doctor,
Then he got CMV (cytomegalovirus) in his eye. Untreated, it canlead to blindness. They had to drill ahole in his chest to implant thecatheter for his intravenous DHPG
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AIDS Treatment News

Peptide T
by David SmythP

eptide T first gained notoriety
in late 1986 and early 1987
when researchersat theKarolinska Institute in Stockholm reported in the Lancet improvements inlymphocyte counts, psoriasis and neuropsychiatric functions in four patients
who had been given the drug on acompassionate basis (Wetterberg andothers, 1987). Since that time the drug
has undergone further tests in Sweden
and the United States with scientists
reporting some positive results.
Although there was considerable
evidence from the earliest laboratory
tests that peptide T is nontoxic, thedrug has been bogged down for nearly two years in a small phase I toxicity trial in the U.S. Indeed, phase II efficacy studies have been delayed inpart because of the drug's lack of toxicity. The questionable logic behind
this policy dictates that phase II studies cannot begin until a maximum tolerated dose is discovered in phase I.
Researchers had ample warning thismight be the case, because they could
not find an LDSOdose (a dose potent
enough to kill half the animals towhich it is administered) in studies
conducted before human trials began.
An applicationby the drug's
sponsors for phase II studies of peptide T in the National Institute of
Health's extensive testing system wasdenied in late July, 1989. And BristolMyers Co. in May, 1989 withdrew
from a federal license to market andmanufacture the drug.
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the brain biochemistry section at the
National Institute of Mental Health.
The mechanism of action of the drug
is different from most antivirals in thatit does not act directly on HIV or infected cells. Rather it is intended toblock the virus from entering cells(Pert and others, 1986).
Eight amino acids which constitute part of the viral envelope called
gp120 are thought by some scientists
to be the key by which HIV gains
entry through the CD4 receptor.
Indeed, a common metaphor bywhich the drug's action is explained isthe lock and key.
Pert theorized that if HIV could
enter the CD4 receptor, it must mimica chemical produced by the body thatused the same receptor (Pert, 1987).
She found a sequence of eight aminoacids in a hormone called vasointestinal peptide (VIP) that duplicated asection of gp 120 and designed peptide T as a way of plugging all the
body's CD4 "locks" with artificial"keys." The drug's lack of toxicity isthought to derive from its similarity toa chemical produced by the body.
But the controversy
swirlingaround the drug centers on its efficacy, not its toxicity. And the fact thatthe drug is plodding through a slowmoving toxicity study has done little
to help resolve the issue in a timely
fashion.
Six months after Pert and others
asserted in the Lancet that peptide T
helpedSwedish AIDS patients,
William Haseltine, Ph.D., of the DanaFarber Cancer Institute in Boston reported that he and several other researchers found peptide T did notinhibit the virus in test tube experiments. Furthermore, the viral enve-

lope was constantly changing, thus
the sequence of amino acids in peptide T could !lot possibly duplicate a
sectionof the viral envelope(Sodroski and others, 1987),
Two years later, Joseph Sodroski,
M.D., one of the drug's critics, asserts,"There is no scientific basis for concluding that peptide T will performthe (blocking) function. The first workthat said the peptide T region is not
the region on gp 120 that interacts
with the receptor was from our lab(Kowalski and others, 1987) and Larry
Lasky's (Lasky and others, 1987)
group at Genetech, which pointed
more to the carboxyl terminus on
gp120. Subsequently, Hans Wigsell(Nygren and other, 1988) at the
Karolinska Institute has cleaved gp
120 and they have a fragment that hascleaved off peptide T -related sequences completely and that stillbinds to CD4."
The drug's sponsors replied that
Haseltine, Sodroski and others had
used high concentrations of virus in
their experiments (Ruff and others,
1987), and that no one knew what
concentrations were actually present
in the bodies of AIDS patients.
Frederick Goodwin, M.D., thendirector of NIMH, called a meeting
where the opposing researchers could
arrive at a consensus about the drug's
mechanism of action. However, noagreement
was reached (Barnes,
1987). Nevertheless the Food andDrug Administration, which had arepresentative at the meeting, granted
permission to begin testing the drugin people, half a year after the application was filed.
At about this time, a researcher atconti nued on page 66

Ray Navarro

Commentary

IIOe-colonizing" the AIDS CrisisO

ne of the most importantlessons that AIDS activists
can learn from pre-existingsocial movements, such as the Puerto
Rican independentistas, is the powerof coalition building. Seasoned activists will again demonstrate theircommitment to battling U.S. imperialism at a march/rally scheduled to takeplace on Saturday, AUgust 12. The target here is the United Nations, whowill, for the 16th year in a row, be discussing a potential end to
the dependent status of
the island nation. The
platform of the demonstration organizers is not
specifically
AIDS, butpart of their agenda forrealistic political self-determination presupposes
battling the social conditions under which theepidemic is perpetuated,
The five main points
that the demonstrators
will bring to the U.N. include the following:1) The transfer of all powers to
the peoples of Puerto Rico as recognized by international law.
2) The release from prison of all
Puerto Rican prisoners of war and political prisoners and a stop to all actsof repression against the Independista
movement. Repatriation to Puerto
Rico of all those individuals who areexiled or forced into hiding,3) Withdrawal of all U.S. federal
troops, armed -forces and police fromthe island of Puerto Rico.
4) Only Puerto Ricans living inside or outside the island will decide
the fate of Puerto Rico.
5) Full economic reparations necessary for the transition from dependent to independent national status.

El Comite de Afirmacion Nacional, which is the primary organizerof the demonstration, is comprised ofvarious elements within the Puerto
Rican community, including lesbians
and gay men. In fact, the organizationof this particular action can be primarily attributed to the efforts of gay organizers within El Comite, according
to Jose Samtini, who is also a memberof the Lesbian and Gay Coalition for
Puerto Rico's Self-determination. The

tricky element in an organizing effort
such as this seems to be how to effectively rally broad-based community
support for a public demonstration
while at the same time educating
folks about the deeper social dimensions of what seem to be two unrelated issues: AIDS and Puerto Rican national identity. Yet, in fact, the issues
cohere, as activists re-affirm thelessons of the long-term effects of underdevelopment upon populations ona large scale.
Over 60% of the Puerto Rican
population live in conditions of extreme poverty. Puerto Rico, with a relatively small population, has the thirdlargest number of AIDS cases within
Latin America. Furthermore, wide-

spread chemical abuse has perpetuated the transmission 'of HIY. But here
we must continue to expand our definitions of risk factors such as "chemical abuse". In the case of Puerto
Rican women, the illegal testing ofbirth control methods (forced sterilization) by U.S. drug companies certainly
constitutes a form of illicit drug usethat continues to endanger all women(as well as the fetuses of those whoare pregnant).
Official endorSing groups of thisaction include the Puerto Rican Socialist Party (PSP), the National liberation Movement(MLN), and the
Comite de Mujeres Puertoriquenas (Committeeof Puerto Rican Women).
In the shadow of the increasingly international
scale of the AIDS epidemic, forging links withmilitant and politicallysophisticatedsocialmovements, such as the
Independistas
seems
crucial at this stage ofthe struggle. Nationalism, a term too often
given a negative connotation, has the power toinspire and catalyze whole populations toward self-affirmation throughdeveloping coherent political platforms that historically continue to berecognized by the international community. In the case of this particulardemo, strong leadership promises toeffectively critique the apologies of
U.N. bureaucrats who would otherwise remain unchallenged in their justification of the economic exploitationand of the Puerto Rican people by the
U.S., as evidenced by the "development" of AIDS there. As far as lesbians and gays are concerned,itwould seem that alliances could be
acheived here that will advance theself-determination of the Lesbian and
Gay Nation.
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Commentary by Susie Day
An Open Letter to OUr President

Dear Mr. President,
I am a lesbian. You are one ofthose "he-men." Yet both of us share
a common humanity, do we not? Bothof us feel the warmth of the sun, hear
the singing of birds. Both of us areliving Americans whose
culture has popularized
Silly Putty, Oliver North,strip mining and teenslasher movies. Given
these facts, Mr. President,
who's to say what is "natural" or "unnatural"? Can'ta lesbian have a few
words with her President?
Frankly, Mr. President, I'm worried. I don't
think you've been living
up to your full human potential. Gay people cantell these things, Mr, President. Many's the time abunch of us gays will besitting around, acting sensitive, when the subject of"Our President" will comeup, "Gee," someone will
say, "the Chief Executive
Officer is probablyakinder, gentler person,
deep down, but he seems

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so-so
uptight. Is
that what you feel,too, Violet?""R;ght on, Pan,y.

~;::;~~l:o~~~~~:~
has done to our
world
leaders.
U
Ooooh, look at thatsunset!" "Heterosexism hurts everyone, Violet. Can I havea hug?"
They're right, Mr. President. Your
potential is being stifled in a repressive sex-role stereotype of your own
making. And, although as a unique
indiVidual, you are responsible forcreating your own reality, as our
President, you are also responsible forcreating a great deal of our reality. So
it is with a certain insistence that I

say, "Loosen up, Mr. President!"
Gay people have a special kindof loosening up; an act of self-affirmation we call "coming out." So I waswondering, Mr. President: Why don't
you "come out"? Come out of Central
America. Come out of the Caribbean;out of the Eastern Mediterranean. Yes,
while you're at it, why don't you try
coming out of the arms race?
Believe me, Mr. President,Iknow it won't be easy. People will
nudge one another and titter as you
stroll by. They will whisper that you
are less than a man; that you can't getyour "rockets up." Gangs of teenage
youths will try to rough you up. Someof your own FBI men might plant
President-sized crotch less panties inyour sock drawer for other agents to"discover." But try to understand, Mr.

President: this is the toll that sex-role
stereotyping has taken on the humanspirit. Be brave, Mr. President.
Be brave and honest. Hasn't thismacho mentality poisoned your own
relationships,
not only with the"other" sex, but also with other countries? Think a minute. You see countries in terms of "good" or "bad,"
don't you? "Good" countries are forsettling down and raising your children in, aren't they? But you only feellike a Man when you're messing
around on the side with a "bad"country.
Oh,
you
know
the
type-countries
that "get around,"that will take foreign aid from justanybody, They think they're something special, you know-better thanyou, They make you crazy, don't
they? You've just got to have them.
Afterwards, you realize that you
never really wanted tOj that you're
still just as empty and frustrated as before. You only did what you did forfear of what the other Superpowers
would say if you didn't "intervene."But now, it's too late. You've got tokeep up the charadej keep sendingthat military aid, those corporate advisors, and industrial equipment. "After
all," you figure, "that's all they reallywant, isn't it?"
It's hell, all right. But, tell thetruth, Mr. President--don't you yearn
to break free of all this silly role-playing? Oh, Mr, President, let your sissy
come out to play! Learn to feel, honey,
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Will Gays
Really Fly
in New York
Politics?

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Tom Duane and Dave Taylor
Talk About the Lesbian and Gay Vote,
the Hetero Vote and Kissing in Public
by Sandor Katz
New York City elects 35 City
Council members, 25 State Senators,
60 State Assembly members,
15
Congressional Representatives, five
Borough Presidents, a City Council
President, a Comptroller, and a Mayor.
Not a single one is or ever has been
openly gay or lesbian.
Somehow, although we have built
some political clout, at least enoughfor candidates to court our votes, wehaven't managed to elect a single
open lesbian or gay public official.
This year two gay men are running for seats on the New York City
Council: Tom Duane is challenging
20-year incumbent Carol Greitzer in
Cheisea and the Village, and Dave
Taylor is vying in an eight person race
to succeed Ruth Messinger in her
Upper West Side and Clinton district.
In 1985, openly gay David
Rothenberg came close to election to
the City Council. He lost to Greitzer
by a 54-46 margin. "Prior to David
Rothenberg, expectations were notthat we would necessarily have gay or
lesbian council members," observes
Rothenberg's
campaign manager,David
Fleischer.
He
thinksRothenberg's near success raised our

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expectations, as well as the electoral
organizing capacity of our community,
and that lesbian and gay representation on the council is imminent. "If it's
not Tom or Dave, then next time."
It is no accident that the twohighest officials in the United States
who are openly gay-Congressmen
Barney Frank and Gerry Studds--bothcame out while in office. While bothmen have been reelected since coming
out, it's probable they wouldn't havebeen elected initially as open gays.
Although electing "our own"
won't end homophobia or cure AIDS,
it will mean visibility. It will also meanaccess. And it will mean that chummy
legislative fraternizing and back room
dealmaking will be forced to include
us. Those things could translate into
tangible results, "Think what a big difference it would have made for the
AIDS crisis if David Rothenberg had
been in there," says Dave Taylor, pondering Rothenberg's loss to Greitzer
four years ago. "It would have made ahuge, huge difference."
Openly gay and lesbian candidates walk a tightrope. They are motivated (at least in part, one hopes) by
the quest for lesbian and gay visibility

and empowerment. To have any credibility in our community, they must be
strong and vocal advocates for ourinterest[.. But they must also prove,
particularly to non-gay voters but to
Os as well, that they are not "singleissue" candidates.
Homophobia makes some people
consider gays a "special interest" andwonder whether we are capable of representing the "general public." Astraight Upper West Sider I know posed
the question like this: "Is he a gay candidate or a candidate who is gay?"
Candidates must devise ways to be
loud and proud and still avoid being
perceived as single-issue candidates,
Tom Duaneisparticularly sophisticatTAYLOR:
ed at raising issues ofimportance to lesbians
and gays in a broader
context. The healthcare crisis facing all
New Yorkers frames
his discussion of AIDS
policy. He speaks oflease succession rights for domestic
partners with an explicit recognitionof its importance not only to lesbians
and gays, but to seniors as well. He
argues for stiff penalties for bias-related crimes against women, against
people of color, against lesbians andgays. "When you look at each andevery issue that I represent, it's very
tough to break out my being gay fromother people in the community." He isI

l~'''&
Photo: Michael Datoli

THE CANDID CANDIDATESDavlI Taylor and Tom DUMII

a consciously multi-issue candidate,always stressing interconnections.
According to Duane's campaign
manager, Lisa Parrish, "One of the"I would very much like to beable to go to City Hall to getsworn in holding my lover's handfor all the city to see:'strategies is to hit really hard on all
the other issues and in fact there arepeople at times who say 'Gee, his literature doesn't say very much about
his being gay.' And that's largely
because we think that if anyone on
the street knows anything about Tom
Duane, they know he's gay."
Duane is no newcomer to electioneering.
He was electedaDemocratic Party District Leader in

Dave Taylor is a longtime organizer, dating back to the war on
poverty in the south in the sixties, but"running for office has never been mypriority and I never really gave itmuch thought."
Taylor works as a drug rehabilitation counselor and belongs to the
Hospital Workers Union, District 1199.
He is President of Gay and Lesbian

August21, 1989 OUTTWEEK

33

want to look at
how you makeeffective changes
in City Hall, you
don't make themby going to committee meetings,
and you don't
make them bypoliticians talking
to politiciansACTING UP
that's all very fine.
.
and you do thatDave Tay/or st CIty Hall AIDS protest WIth Joyce Hunter (/.J, b t
'
t t
·
f'
/
Ie
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• I'
u you ve go 0
dIfector socIa wor. servIces, netflck-Martm nstltute,
k
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..
.
.
now
ow to
and Sukl Ports, dlfector of the FamIly Hea/th ProJect.
mus teder lorces an
Independent Democrats, and is widely
power bases and bring them to City
credited with building it into a viable
Hall to put the pressure on to makeand progressive political organization.
those kinds of changes, and that's
Referring to these credentials, his cam- what I'm good at."paign manager, Rachel Breen,
says, "He is in an incredibly
PARRISH"unique position to bring"
together the coalition to realIy fight AIDS on a united
front." Taylor was part of thesuccessful
effort to stop
Westway, and his face isIS.
familiar around City Hall forhis persistent lobbying forincreased funding for AIDS services.
His unassuming manner makes
When Taylor describes his vision
him appear an unlikely candidate. Butof the council job, he downplays the then, the race he's in is an unusual
behind-the-scenes access in favor of race, with eight contenders, seven of
the platform it offers, "If you reallythem straight. One other candidate,Ronnie Eldridge, has attracted considerable support among lesbian and gay
voters. But Taylor remains confident. "I
see momentum happening. I think wehave tremendous support, especiallyin the activist community."°council much more dramatically inorder to obtain representationofdiverse minority communities.
Not only the size of districts butwhere their boundaries are drawn
determine who is likely to be elected,
In a move intended to promote minority representation in the City Council,
the Charter Revision Commission is
proposing that ''To the extent practicable, district lines shall keep intact
neighborhoods and communities withestablished ties of common interest and. t'h th h' t . I. I
assocla lon, weer
ISonca, raCla,
.
th'
I"
oth"
economIC, e OIC,re Iglous orer.
"Oth"er IS. a eup h'emlsm for Iesbians and gays, but the Charter
Revision Commission dare not speak
our name. FAIRPAC has lobbied for
explicit inclusion of sexual orientation,
to no avail. .Dave
Taylorobserves,"There are probably
three areas in this citywhere we can run
and win: the Upper
West
Side,
the
Village/Chelsea
area
and
Park
Slope."
Given the Charter
Revision Commission's failure to recognize our communities as worthy ofkeeping together, we need to guard
against our communities being divided in the redistricting process which
will follow the 1990 census.

"The problem with the
girls is they're all too
smart f or t h-"

One major obstacle to lesbian
and gay electoral empowermentin
New York City is the size of districts.
Each Council district, for instance, iscomprised of more than 200,000 people, the size of many cities. This size,
and the diversity within each district,favors the election of the lowest common denominator and generally disempowers lesbians and gays.
The City's Charter Revision
Commission is proposing to expand
the number of seats on the council
from 35 to 51. Tom Duane showed up
at a recent public meeting on Charter
Revision and spoke compellingly of
the need to expand the size of the34

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SIGN OF THE TIMESTom Duane at demo last month organized by the Reproductive Rights
Coalition
Photo: Ellen B. Neipris

All of this is not to suggest thatany candidate could win with the lesbian and gay vote alone. This is one
thing that every lesbian and gay candidate, past and present, here andelsewhere, seems to agree on. "If you
are running as an open gay or lesbian
and that's your platform, you will not
win," warns Rochester City Councilor
Tim Mains, the only open gay holding
elected office in New York State. "Youreally have to have a broad base ofissues." Coalitions are the name of thegame, as they were for our icon
Harvey Milk, who was elected by lesbians and gays in coalition with San
Francisco labor unions.
The flip side of this is that candidates cannot assume the full supportof the lesbian and gay community. For
instance, the Stonewall Democratic
Club is opposing both Duane andTaylor (and supporting Koch's reelection, it should be noted). Four years
ago, the New York Native ran weekly
attacks on David Rothenberg,
In a twisted blame-the-victim scenario, California Assembly candidate
Roberta Achtenberg was criticized in a
San Francisco gay paper, Coming Up!, formaking sexual orientation such a big
issue. "As if we had control over that,"notes her press secretary Debra Chasnoff,
Both Duane and Taylor reportthat overt homophobia has been limited on the campaign trail. Duane, dis-

ON THE TAYLOR TRAIL

Taylor campaign manager RachelBreensays Duane. "Not only do I kiss lesbians and gay men, but I kiss non-gay
women and I kiss non-gay men,". The visibility of candidacy canmagnify the power of small gestures.
Dave Taylor and his lover marchedhand in hand on Gay Pride Day, as
they have for 14 years. But because
they were under a banner proclaiming
Taylor's candidacy, he says dozens ofpeople came up to thank them. Hisvision for January 1, 1990: "I would
very much like to be able to go toCity Hall to get sworn in holding mylover's hand for all the city to see." ...

THREE FOR THE ROAD

Duane campaign manager Usa
Parrish with volunteers Michael
Dixon and Preston Marshallplaying his thick skin and pragmatism,
notes, "The people who say faggot orthings like that are never registered
Democrats," More annoying to him
has been Lynn Samuels, a radio talkshow host on WABC-AM who hasrepeatedly
tried to cast him as a
misogynist, asking "Why do you gay
men keep running against a nice,straight, decent, liberal woman?"Presumably then a lesbian would be
more acceptable; what of lesbian candidates? Tom Duane and Lisa Parrish
toss around a few ·names. Says Parrish:"The problem with the girls is they're
all too smart for this."More than overt homophobia andname-calling, the candidates encounter
ignorance. Dave Taylor was working
the crowd after a recent candidates
forum. "One man said to me, 'Are you
married?' I said, 'No, I'm not. I'm gay,and I'd like to introduce you to my life
partner, Cliff Landers. We've been
together 14 years: He was kind of taken
aback, but he said, 'I thank you forbeing so straightforward about this....
Public displays of affection are an
issue for some candidates. Four years
ago, David Rothenberg's
rule ofthumb was no kissing men in public.
His campaign
manager,David
Fleischer, explains it as a matter of
personal style. "He didn't kiss muchbefore or after, either." Not so for
Duane or Taylor. "I kiss everybody,"

August 21, 1989

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Gay Games III

n Vancouver, British Columbia,
1170 Bute Street is a nondescript
two story building. Amid a secondfloor warren of offices, Mary
Brookes sat at a desk one afternoon last
March, answering phone calls and occasionally smoking a cigarette. Although the computer and supplies scattered about could havebelonged to any start-up business, there were
telltale signs that this was different. Therewas, for instance, a poster featuring beautiful
black and white photos of a nude woman, A
world map was pinned to another wall.
There were wall boards and paint stacked ina corner, awaiting a move to a larger space.
And everywhere
there were signs ofCelebration 90, the official name for Gay
Games III.
If in March the office was relatively
quiet, that's already beginning to change.
This June, the organization hired seven fulltime staff people to help Brookes with theincreasingly complex tasks of finding housing, organizing transportation, and promoting,marketing and coordinating the week-longcelebration of gay and lesbian physical andcultural prowess. Come August 4-11, 1990,
1170 Bute Street will be the center of the gay

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success of the first event, with almost 3500

! men and women participating in seventeen

sports. A few months later, Waddell died of
AIDS. He had, however, alerted the world tothe existence of gay athletiCS, not just in thelesbian and gay community, but outside it,particularly in an adulatory posthumous Sports
Illustrated profile.
Gay Games II was an intensely exciting
experience. Everyone who has been able to"come out" describes the subsequent feelingas a release of energy, and so part of theexcitement must have come from being out'" and open with thousands of other gays andlesbians, day and night. It was a constant revelation of the truth of the popular slogan: We
are everywhere. At Gay Games II I met a firefighter from Denver, a letter carrier from
Columbus Ohio. The winner of one distancerace was from a small farming town in Iowa;
Photo:
Jim
Marks
the
winner of the women's high jum~ w~s
TESTING THE UMITS
from West Germany. I talked to a Caltfornla
Power Lifter Shawn Wardinsky at Gay Games /I
grandmother who'd had the time of her lifeand lesbian universe, as over 10,000 gay and lesbian ath- winning a bowling gold medal.
letes, artists, writers, performers and spectators converge on
That those thousands were also athletes, their bodies
the city,
trained to meet physical demands, helped account for the
Gay Games III will be both a celebration and a test of intensity. The powerlifting competition, for instance, was all
how successfully a major lesbian and gay organization can about the explosive release of energy within the most discioutlive-alas,
literally-its founder. The first Gay Games plined limits. The lifters paced like caged leopards, thenwere the brainchild of Dr. Tom Waddell, a San Francisco approached the weight bar pawing and breathing deeply,
phYSician. The tall, charismatic, deeply committed Waddell like creatures who could smell freedom only inches away.
competed in the 1968 Olympic Games decathlon. Out of Portland's Shawn Wardinsky raised the weight to over 300
that experience and his own
pounds. Twice she failed to executesense of self identity grew a
the squat lift cleanly. The third time
vision of gay people participatshe moved down and back up in
ing in a sporting event without
one sure motion, and was rewarded
the homophobia and emphasisby the three white lights signaling aon "winning" that dominates
clean lift, and a gymnasium of men
much athletics.
and women filling the space with
By 1982, Waddell was tourapplause and cries of delight.
ing the country promoting what
Finally, it was not just the deterhe was then calling the Gaymination, but the sheer sense of
Olympic Games, to be held inphysical pleasure that filled the week
San Francisco in August of thatwith excitement. The games celeyear. He was also discovering
brated the pursuit of excellence,
the homophobia of the orgawith the emphasis
on pursuit.
nized sports world, in the form
Waddell's philosophy emphasizedof a law suit by the U.S.
participation for all, and all felt welOlympic Committee to bar
come. Maybe that athlete from New
Waddell from using the word
Zealand did place 40th in the 100"Olympics" in his competition.
meter dash; who would want to be
The U.S.O.C. won the lawdeprived of the sight of those curly
suit, the name was shortened,
locks, those muscular tattooed arms,
but the Gay Games went on asthat skin the color of molten gold?
planned, bringing 1300 men
The highpoint of the fun was surely
and women to San Francisco
the physique contest. Actually, thefrom around the world. Gay
contest was held in the morning
Games II in 1986, also in San
before a few devout observers; thePhoto: Jim Marks evening "contest" was pure show toFrancisco, nearly tripled the SWEATING IT OUT
Womens Triathelon, Gay Games /I

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Sports of Gay Games III
Basketball
Bowling
Volleyball
SoccerTriathlon
CyclingWrestling
Powerlifting
Billiards
RacquetballTennis
Golf,

Water Polo
Swimming
DivingTrack and Field
Softball.Marathonintroduce the winners to the huge auditorium full of men
and women clapping and shouting and whistling approvalof the smoothly oiled hunks of man and woman flesh onstage. Against the backdrop of the AIDS epidemic so ravaging San Francisco, it was a healing balm to be able to celebrate gays and lesbians as superbly physical people.
This is the legacy that Gay Games III must meet andcontinue, in a different city and country, without a founderon hand to set the guidelines. The organizers are fully convinced that in numbers alone, Gay Games III will outpace
Gay Games II. They've expanded the number of sports to 26(plus a demonstration ice hockey contest). A huge cultural

Pi

PhysiqueTouqh Football
Squ~sh
Badminton'
Martial Arts
Eq4estEi~m ,festival-featuring a performance by 18 massed gay and lesbian bands in Vancouver Symphony Hall, a book fair, a literary festival, 1,000 voice chorus, a theatrical premiere and an
evening of women's music comedy and performance-may
actually rival the athletic competition in size.
In a sense, Gay Games III has begun. Registration forcompetitors began over the July 4th weekend in Seattle, andremains open until May 31, 1990. Right now, as Brookes
and the staff in the offices on Bute St. struggle to meetdeadlines, ootain grants, finalize competition venues, worry
about meeting a $1.25 million budget (and keep a board of
directors happy), it's not, Brookes says, "the most inspiring

IN THE SWIM OF THINGS

Photo:Jim Marks

Men's Triathelon. Gay Games II
August 21, 1989

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Gay Gamesl~fb

thing, going through all the
drudgery," Celebration '90 has
fought one battle, when thepresident of the University of
British Columbia said that hewould not allow his facilities
to be l'sed for a ·politicalevent. It's also had the pleasure of seeing the regents of
the Universityof British
Columbia order the UBC
president to reverse his stand.
It's a good reminder that in'gay sports, not all victories
OCcuron the fields of play.
Personally, Brookes says
she's learned that it is possible for gay men and women
to work
together.
The
English-born Brookes also
looks forward to the educational effect Gay Games will
have on her adopted hometown. "Even in the totalchaos," she says, "it's still fun
because you can see the end HIGH KICKING BOYS
result."Y
New York Ramblers vs. San Francisco Spikes, Gay Games /I

Has anyone ever gon~ t9 Vancouver and returned
unravishSd by the city's ~6~r,~~uty?
Set on a peninsula,~yis surroun~.py,)y~~~ringed by spectacul~r~pow~,Jed mountalos;:'!11!!nMitlg;: the" Pacific c~rrent.l,tt:1~c1W
IjOys mild wiriters.An'a,tliJnaant 'rainfall (natives say it is'$""""
dry in the summer) nour~~es an abundant vegetation. In
spring, it's no rarity to see hUge rhododendron heavy wqh
blossoms on any street comer. Flower shops occupy not
only·, every street C()rner.but the middle of the block, too.
When invited to dinner, blj!ltfa bouquet for your host.
Vancouver isspedaeularly dean and prosperous. Highrise apartment blQcks, ~tb,~k from the street and eachaing, biking, tennis, superbY,istas (and cruisy hikingtralls)."
Atthough natives claim 100,000 gay men ancjlesbians
among Vancouver's
million residents, rts lesbi~ig,~ $~"community seems relatiy.ely small. Centered around+~+oog~!ysix. block area along Davie Street from Bute to Granville; thecommunity supports a single, somewhat eccentrit and politicalmonthly newspaper, Angles, that averages around 24 pages
and a modest one rolumn personals section. Penny and Doll's(1167 Davie), just around the corner from the Gay Cerlter .
(1170 Bute). is undoubtedly the community's meetingspot-look for its trademark convertible with drag queen mannequins above the goor. Angles lists 12 clubs and pubs.
,Expect them to be .~ed to overflowing C}ndtI1en~p1elJ~X!
'August On a WeekEi(1djrlMarch, Celebrities (1b22H?-vi~),th8'
town's largest disco,' had a long line extending down'1h~,bk:x:kby 11 p.m.
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you probably think that this storefront art
giliery is somewhere east of Avenue B.
But guess again. bucko, The East Village
doesn't have I monopoly on this pseudoreligious-artsy-yet-non-gentrifying-notjust-for shock-value shit. you know.
The Angel Gallery is located up on
Amsterdam Avenue. just across from theCathedral of St. John the Divine. For thoseof you who never cross Fourteenth Street.
that's in Morningside Heights. just a few

blocks north of Manhattan Valley. which
was recently described in The New YorkTimes as -an open drug supermarket.- But
it seems that more family-oriented materials are for sale at this place.
Gallery owner Yanni Posnakoff could
not b~ reached for comment or explanation; he's probably on vacation with everyone's therapist (it is August). But judging
from the clippings he proudly displays on
the door. the guy's gotten all the press heneeds.

- Andrew Miller

Photography

by: n. Litt

Who says the Hollywood marketingmachine isn't targeting gay male dollars?
The ads for right-wing
poster boy
Sylvester Stallone's new film Lock Up (seereview. pg, 52) look like they're pushing I
rough trade phone sex line: I faceless.
tank-topped muscle-bound torso. wrists
bound by handcuffs. All that's .missing is
the phone number (550-JAIL. maybe?).

This is one prison film whose ad campaign seems more inspired by Stroke thanThe Great Escape. In the most telling twistof all. the film is playing It the Bijou theater-that once hot 'n heavy East Village
male sex flick emporium-whichhas
been newly mainstreamed. No word yeton whether old patrons are disappointed
to find Stallone instead of Stryker.
-Karl

Soehnlein

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BY

Dear Readers:
You never know what burning
issue will touch the hearts and nervesof people. In a recent column I statedthat Jane Fonda should have won the
1977 Academy Award for Best Actressfor her performance in Julia and you
would not believe the resulting controversy. Here are just a few samples
from the thousands of impassioned
letters that poured in:"Everybody knows that it wasAnne Bancroft who truly deservedthat Oscar. Never before or since inthe history of cinema has there been
anything comparable to her stunning
Anna Karenina ballet sequence in The
Turning Point."-Herbert R.
"That whole Oscar race was
rigged.
How come both Anne
Bancroft and Shirley MacLaine were
nominated in the Best Actress category while the infinitely superior
Vanessa Redgrave was reduced toBest Supporting Actress for her costarring role in Julia?" -Natasba R.
"You're slightly mistaken: Jane
Fonda should have won the Oscar in

UT

OF

MV
HANDS
BRADLEY
BALL
1969 for They Shoot Horses Don't
They."-Horace M.

had to wait
first. ""Well, who died and made you
the Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences? Diane Keaton deserved
to win just for the tremendous influence she had on contemporary fashion. I didn't see any Lillian Hellman
Look sweeping the country after Julia.
BeSides, Jane Fonda already won an
Oscar for her haircut in Klute."-SydneyG.

"Diane Keaton, don't forget, wasbeing doubly rewarded for Looking
For Mr. Goodbar (also 1977) which
could have been the story of my life
except that I'm a guy and I never got
stabbed although one of my tricks
borrowed my copy of Play It As It
Lays and I never saw it or him again.""Jane Fonda was lucky to have ajob, let alone an Oscar nomination,
after her acts of treason in the
Vietnam War. And taking
Ms.
Redgrave's behavior at the Academy
Awards into account, it would havebeen better to have given that Best
Supporting Actress award to Tuesday
Weld. At least she wasn't subsidizing
any terrorists."-lynne R.

overheard by an OutWeek staffer at Red Zone last week:"I love your style and your outrageousness.
As you become more famous don't lose your wit,
your edge. Don't sell out."-name-droppingarchaeologist
Iris Love, long-time friendand companion of Gossip Watch-bashed Daily News columnist Liz
Smith (and, we hear, new chum of Band-Aid heiress Bashia
Johnson) to fiercely-out-of-the-closet
Vii/age Voice columnist
Michael Musto,

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1984 for her-Dawn S.

-BAB.

"Is Jane Fonda any relation to
Bridget Fonda who was so excellent
in The Shag?"-Troy H.
''The real crime in 1977 was the
Academy's failure to acknowledge
Liza Minnelli's work in New York,New York-not even a nomination!
That show; and not Woody Allen'sself-absorbed home movie, is what
inspired me to move to Manhattan,"-MartinS.

"If Anne Bancroft and Shirley
MacLaine hadn't cancelledout
eachother's
votes
then
Ms.
MacLaine would have been given
the tribute due her. I mean, Janealready had one Oscar and Shirley

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until

"Marsha Mason had the hardest
job of anybody nominated that year.
Jane Fonda had to playa writer, Anne
Bancroft and Shirley MacLaine had toplay ballerinas and Diane Keaton had
to play Diane Keaton, but Marsha
Mason had to play an actress. She
deserved that Oscar for couragealone,"-Neil S.
NObody but Anne Bancroft could
have performed that Anna Karenina
ballet in The Turning Point I gasped
the first time I saw it and I gasped
again when she lost the Academy
Award!"-Bob F.
And that, as I say, dear readers, isa random sampling of my mail on thisstill hotly-debated subject. Me, I standby my belief that Jane Fonda wasrobbed. After all, Julia could havebeen my life story just as much as it
could have been Lillian Hellman's, TBuckley and of course Barbara andGeorge Bush. He goes on to tell us
about another hot party on the social
agenda. "Malcolm Forbes' 70th looms
on August 18. Come that dawn, some
800 guests will trip off to Forbes'

By Michelangelo SignorlleJ

ust when you thought it wassafe ... He's Back! No, not
Freddy Kruger. We're talking
about an even more frightening creature; the kind who keeps the bladesof the Trumps' buzz-saws spinning right for your neck. Yes, it's Billy(Goldberg) Norwich in Nightmare on
Park Avenue, Part V. The Daily News
society columnist is back from vacationing in one of those nauseating,waspy beach towns to tell us more
and more about the ruling class who
oppress us, suffocate us and kill us.
But why should Norwich worry? He's
sold out to rich kids who take him on
their yachts and out to their estates,
Like Saul Steinberg's
in Quogue,
where wife Gayfryd threw, according
to NorWich, the one-million-dollar"party of the decade." According toJames Revson (Newsday), "it was held
in a building on the Steinberg's
Quogue estate that was built to replicate a 17th-Century Flemish home,
The entire structure was then encasedin an air-conditioned tent. The houseof white stucco walls and wood
beams was lit by hundreds of candles,
wall sconces and a brass chandelier as
big as a king-sized bed." But before
you puke, take note of Liz Smith's(Daily News) comments: "I returned[from vacation] to spend a smartly chic
weekend in Arnold Scaasi's beautiful
Long Island house and hobnob withfinancial royalty at the Saul Steinberg
birthday party. So within 24 hours, I
traded my ragged shorts for a Mary
McFadden; it was quite a shocking
change." Now puke. I'll wait.
Norwich, back only three days,
couldn't resist already mentioning Pat

WILLI".

NORWICH
Palais Mendoub in salty Tangier,
Morocco." This of course is the same
Malcolm Forbes we spottedonChristopher Street resting next to his
motorcycle along with his young, hot,
hunky cyclemate, both sucking on ice

cream cones. Norwich and Liz Smith,of course, always makes sure to carefully let us know that Malcolm is "dating" Elizabeth Taylor. They know all
too well about keeping those skeletons in check. And yet I find contemptible
the malaise and collaboration of all of these columnists
which leads me to make this personal
plea:
Dearest columnists,
You and yours are dying
too, and yet you keep whirling,spinning, flying with the white,rich, homophobic men who keep
us all down and throw you a
few crumbs. You refuse even to
creatively use your space as atool to initiate changej to attack
the oppressors and celebrate theheroes. Instead you live in aworld as archaic and false as
the photos that grace yourcolumns. Get over yourselves!
(finger snap).

Things to do after a bitter break up when you
still have to run into that fucking
ex-lover everywhere you gO:• Remember: You rule. You are in control. You are "much better off" this way.
"Glam" your way through all events: smile a lot, at everyone; when you
see him or her, rush up to the person standing or sitting directly next to the
ex-lover - no matter who it is - give a kiss and say, "I haven't seen you in
so long. I've been so out-of-touch .•• Buy a fabulous pair of shoes. Great footwear is the best revenge.
• Sleep with all of those people who wanted to sleep with you throughout therelationship, but whom you turned down because you were "involved"(especially sleep with the ones whom your ex-lover was either jealous of or
had a crush on).
• Walk around, loudly humming - and occassionally breaking out into an acapella rendition of - Jody Watley'S "I'm Looking For a New Love."• In party conversation stress and repeat INCESSANTLY words like, next,
new, nouvelle, start, begin, commence and the ultimate phrase "forging
ahead." Also try to use (ALWAYS with a smile) words like over, finished,
done, gone, and that wonderful line, "Who needs that shit!"• Remember:
You are happy! Tingling! Glowing with exuberance! Free ofanxiety! Don't let anyone know that deep down your stomach juices havejust overflowed and dissolved your liver when she or he (or, worse yet, the"new lover") walks into the room.

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Social Terrorism

BOA BLOWER
The Llldy Bunny lind Tom Rubnitz lit Love MlIChine. DIANA VREELAND IN HELL
Hof'lI lit &d Zone

Photos by Erich Conrad

HARING PAIRING
Keith Haring and Lisa Coope, at M.K.

MATT DILLON IN HELL
Hazel in the Times Squa,e men's 100m

DON'T EVER CHANGE
Derrick at Mars

THE NOSE BLOWS
Lincoln Plllsg10ve ger:. IIIISlIllIt Red Zone

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ALL WRAPPED UP
Ninja at Love Machine

THEY CAME FROM PLANET CLAIROL?
Aliens at Lo". MlIChi".

HOUSE OF HEIMUCH MANEUVER
Leslie Va/ez and Da"id at Boy Ba,

I'M HAPI. WATCH ME GROW
Hapi PhllC. at Py'llmid

WHAT WAS IN lltOSE UTTLE SUGAR CUBES?
Doug Wah at the Wah Wah HutAugust 21, 1989 OUTTWEEK
ARENT YOU BAD? YOU USE DIAL
The inc,ediblelll,'Y
Tat Lo". MachineGirlwatchingattheRaccoon
Lodge
-.I
, .

Photo: T.L. Littby Mona Feigenbaum
Because the Upper West Side is a virtual ghost town
when it comes to girl-appropriate entertainment, my friend
and I have recently taken to frequenting neighborhood
straight watering holes. And our favorite is definitely The
Raccoon Lodge on the corner of 83rd and Amsterdam.
Some of you readers might be asking yourself: "Whygo there ...that place is just so young and so uncool...?"Exactly. If you can't be at a place where the girls areapproachable, why not go to a place where there are girls
you'd only think about in your sluttiest dreams. Kids, wakeup. The babes at the Raccoon Lodge are there to meetyoung junior analysts from Dean Witter...and they dress thepart. They want to be one of the guys Oots of pool playing
and talk about puts and calls), while at the same time
charming the dudes with their feminine wiles. Best of all,they wear short skirts!
The Raccoon Lodge reminds us of a lesbian bar in Anytown U.S.A. If the MBAs weren't hanging out, you could
swear there's a dyke in a flannel shirt waiting to chalk up,
The place is decorated a la college bar in that 1980s "wemade-the-place-look-sleazy" design. The juke box is loadedwith songs from our childhood, and there are about 10 varieties of beer to choose from, including about five on tap.
Make sure you order from the female bartender-she alone
is worth the trip. (Don't forget to tip her well!)Beers are about $250. There is bar food, but we don't

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recommend it (but if you are hungry, the "cheezy nachos"probably won't kill you).
The problem with straight bars, though, is that us girls
are often approached by the opposite sex, Not to worry.
The boys are very young and laughable here. Be open andup front with them. Tell them you are a lesbian and thatyou work at Carvel. They'll never believe you anyway andthey might possibly leave you alone.
But the girls...well. On a recent visit, there was a junioraccountant dressed in a short black skirt and pin-stripedjacket. My friend and I decided that our fantasy would be toinvite her home, tie her up and then just look at her for awhile. Along with a regular contingent of young professional girls, there is usually a small cadre of big~haired girls withblue eyeshadow (think Private Eyes). We also recently spotted some sisterfire, so I get the feeling that others havecaught onto the place too (it does have a pool table). We
usually hang out by the juke box as it provides us with anexcellent view of all the action and on occasion gives us areason to talk to the girls. ("What song are you playing?"; "Ilove that song."; "Wanna slow dance?")
Next door to the "Lodge" is a lovely cappucino shop,
which is open late and is the perfect before or after spot.
All along Amsterdam there are all types of straight bars
(including one called Mogambo Bay) that we don't darewalk into. Frankly, we've been too busy sliding off thebarstools at The Raccoon Lodge.
TXEROXEDcolltinued fro .. page 9
AIDS activists and minorities
in the pages of The New
York Times ("The Offensive
Tactics of AIDS Ideologues:
Op Ed page, 8/8/89), Thereis much to dissect andexpose in her statements.
but I wish to focus on one ofthem, because it is such a
straightforward example of
how prejudice of the kindthat informs so much ofwhat Ms. Whelan is saying is- aggravated by ignorance.
Ms. Whelan states thefollowing about the Fifth
International Conference on
AIDS that was held in Montreal in June, "The meeting
opened with the presentation of an AIDS manifesto
demanding
'full
legal
recognition of lesbian andgay relationships.'
Whilesidestepping the legitimacyof this issue, I think such
recognition is not an essential part of an AIDS prevention program. It will serve
only to alienate
furtherthose who are alreadysqueamish about alternative sexual life styles,'Ms, Whelan is very
wrong. As explained under
the subheading "Homosexuality, Civil Uberties and thePreventive
Medicineof
AIDS' in the risk-reduction
section of Medical Answers
About AIDS, the guide I've
been preparing
for Gay
Men's Health Crisis since
1983 and that has been recommended by Jane Brody
in The New York Times, such
recognition should be an
essential part of any AIDS
prevention program. As stated in this guide, the rationale is simple enough: "Thecultural sanctioning of pairbonding among homosexuals can be expected to help
containrisk behaviors
among homosexuals in thesame way that cultural
sanctioning of pair bonding
among
heterosexuals
unquestionably
helps tocontain the identical risk
behaviors among hetero-sexuals, Therefore, protection of the basic civil libertiesof all homosexual persons,which would include affirmative recognition of samesex relationships, should bean essential consideration in
the long-range preventive
medicine of AIDS and othersexually transmitted
diseases.'
YourTruly,
Lawrence Mass, MoO,
Co-founder, Gay Men's
Health Crisis
Manhattan

SAFER SEX GUIDELINES
1.

.

2.

WRONG BEERNOW
Ms. Jean Sidebottom, Publisher/Editor
Sappho' 5 Isle
Dear Ms. Sidebottom:
There's a beer stain on
page 7 of your August '89
issue. Your readers need toknow that. despite the factthat you have chosen to
accept money from Coors.
the boycott against Coorscontinues.
Coors supports rightwing, reactionary,racist.
homophobic
and fundamentalist organizations. It'snot "the right beer now: as
the ad states. It's the beer ofthe right.
While Coors continues
its cynicalcampaign,
spreading its blood moneyaround the lesbian and gay
community to try to buy oursilence, some publications
are holding out,
"Whether on tap, in acan or bottle' -don't
buy
Coors!
Sincerely,
Eva Yaa Asantewaa

MAIL YOUR LEITERS TO
OutWeek
77 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10010
Please indude yourtelephone number.

USE A,COND9M WHEr-t FUC~.IN..~;~,
Avoid oil-based lubricants s.uch,.s'~ibaby oil, Vaseline, Criscoetc.,astn"'iii
can cause condoms to break. Instead!
,J'se water-based lubes li..~e KY. Tti~.:rolder a condom, the less'reliabler:~1A'
find candoms whose manuf'Bcturel
dates are less than.three months ..lol""~/

USEA CONDOM DURING ORAL Stl
If"YQu,doo't,avQid placing theheadr
your partner's cock in your mouth.
HIV-infe'cted cum ar precum can'?
enter your bloodstream through Cl,It
tears
or lIlcers
in yqurmouth.Y1¥.

3. USE DENTAL DAMS DURING ORAlVAGI~~.L SEX. HIV is prese.nt in sO.
amounts'in vaginal secretions, urin
menstrual blood and infection-relate
vaginal discharge.

4. NEVER SHARE WORKS. Thi's inclu(fneedles, syringe·s, droppers, spoons,}}ijii
cottons or cookers. If you must reus~¥..
works, clean them after each use'with bleach, or in an emergency witn
rubbing alcohol or vodka, by drawin~,'Jtjj
the solution into the needle three'"times 'and then drawing clean water'
into.the n,eedle three times.

5.

AVOID FISTING, RIMMING/OR .
SHARING UNC_EANED SEX TOYS.

6. AVOID ALCOHOL, POPPERSOROTHER DRUGS. Many people areunabl~ to maintain safer se~practices after .getting high.
't

7.

DON'T HESITATETO: Fuck with acondom,have oral sex with acondom.'Play with, but don't share't:
clean sex toys, vibrators and diidoes'<~F;;
Enjoy massage, hugging,(
masturbation(alone, with a partner or
ina group), and role-playing.
.:tl~!;~
Remember, sex is good, and gay s~~\;~
is great. Don't avoid sex, just avoid
the virus. Learn to eroticize safer·, and you can, protect others, !emai~l(safe and have fun. Y/"'~1i~~?C,'

Film

Panned Parenthoodby Peter BowenInthe advertisementfor RonHoward's
new
comedyParenthood, beneath the title
and the photo of Steve Martin-dangling the bodies of two kids as if they
were small farm animals--reads
thecaption: "It could happen to you."
Besides the fact that "it" probably
won't happen to me, even if I wanted"it" to happen, parenthood, like thelegal recognition of family, remains for
far too many gay and lesbian people
who actually seek to become parents
more a bureaucratic and legal nightmare than the happily inevitable condition suggested by the title. We are,as too many courts and politicians
have sought to explain, either "incompetent" or simply less capable parents
than our heterosexualpeers. And
while parenthood for gays and lesbians is often off limits, for many
women (especially women from disenfranchised communities) the continued erosion of reproductive rights andpublic funding for abortions makes
parenthood less a friendly promisethan a judicial threat.
The film version of Parenthood,
however, includes none of these problems. On a recent Arsenio Hall Show,AU IN THE FAMILY: RACISM, SEXISM, HOMOPHOBIAThe CBst of Parenthood

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Ron Howard, the fictionalized television son (Opie) and nostalgic teenager (Ritchie), described how he wanted
to portray that seemingly universal
experience of parenthood. of course,such an impulse does indeed seem
universal these days. With the explosion of baby films (Baby Boom, Shes
Having a Baby, For Keeps) and thesuccess of family television (thirtysomething, Married with Children),parenting has become in Hollywood
terms a "hot commodity,? a subject
whose potential "baby-boom" market
and whose safe patriarchal politics
guarantee truly ideal viewing for theentire family. Since, however, Rudy
Guiliani in New York and Phyllis
Schlafly in San Francisco have recently
questioned the status of gay and lesbian families, we might well wonderhow a family is constructed,
The family in question,
the
Buckmans, live in a generic, stationwagon town, suburbia, where one's life
revolves around pizza parlors, birthday
parties and vomiting children. Of
course, not all is fun and little league
games, for what cements the bonds offamilial affection is that quintessential(white) middle-<:lass malaise and insecurity-thefear in this case that one
will finally be unable to withstand theunending pressures of parenthood.
Even Frank (Jason Robards), the older
insensitive and irresponsible patriarchof the family, confesses to his eldest
son Gil (Steve Martin), now a father
with worries of his own, that thepainful anxieties of parenthood neverdisappear, no matter how old you andyour children become.
Now his four children, who cometo represent in the film different typesof parenthood, must suffer on theirown, Gil, who had vowed to become
the father he never had, feels that hislife has turned into the failure henever imagined. While he is denied apartnership at work because he fails
to spend his entire life at the office,Gil fears that at the same time his failure to spend enough time with hisson, Kevin (Jasen Fisher), is the causeof the boy's high-strung emotional
condition. Interestingly, Gil's sister
Helen (Dianne Wiest), as the working
single mother of a brooding, secretive
adolescent and of a spirited young
woman who hides her boyfriend
under her bed before running off andmarrying him, is continually presented
as the caring, forgiving mother, andnever as a working woman whose
identity might be as much determinedby her career as by her parenthood.
The other sister, Susan (Harley
Kozak), is married to Nathan (RickMoranis), an ambitious nerd who
delivers pep talks on SAT scores andprescribes Kafka as light reading to histhree year-old daughter, Patty Qvyann
Schwan), And finally there is Larry(Tom Hulce), Frank's youngest andfavorite son,
While Gil figures as the main character, it is Larry, as Gil's alter ego andas a parental prodigal son, whose sudden appearance and departure seem tostructure the film. Walking into a family

dinner by surprise, his sudden appearance is as much welcomed by Frank asfeared by Gil. As Gil warns a startled
Nathan, "Keep Patty away from him.
He'll suck the intelligence right out ofher." Right behind him, however, tottIes in Cool (Alex BurraH), his black
son who was left behind by his motherand whom Larry will also abandon by
the end of the film. Besides the implicit
racism by which the film renders Cool's
abandonment by his mother (a black
Vegas show girl and former star of"Elvis on Ice") as comical, the film's vilification of Larry, the one character
who seems uncomfortable within thisdrama of patriarchal responsibilities,
serves as a reminder of the punishment·1

incurred for not fulfilling one's heterosexual destiny.
In the end, Larry is expelled fromthe home. Helen, the one single mother, is re-married and impregnated.
And everyone ends up with a new
baby. Parodying the convention in
comedy where the featured lovers are
finally assigned to equally impossible
and unavoidable marriages, the lastscene gathers nearly all the charactersin a hospital waiting room to display
their new infants in a rather stunning
display of their procreative power. We
understand in the end that their future
will not be perfect, but it will be, if
simply by their reproductive capabilities, continued,...

DANGUNG FARM ANIMALS?
Steve Martin balancing the tots
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Film

Workingthl] Chain Gang
Lock up. Directed by John Flynn.
>pistributed by Tri-Star Pictures.,ping them all. A dinner invitation was
the least Reagan could do; Hitler surely did the same for Goebbels.
Lock Up, the first post-Reagan
Karl Soehnlein
vehicle for Stallone, begs the question,"Will our guy Sly be kinder and gentler?" The film is a sort of "Mr. Stallone
Goes to Jail," a Capra-esque fantasy of
one man battling a corrupt system.
ne of the least forgettable
Stallone plays Frank Leone, who's
images of the Reagan era is been jailed for "taking care of' somea photo of Sylvester Stallone punks who killed an old couple in his
seated between Ron and Nancy at an neighborhood,punks who weren't
official White House dinner. Stallone's
punished because they were "connectposition as unofficial minister of pro- . ed to the cops." As the film opens,
paganda was sealed. He had, after all, Leone is out on a weekend leave fromdone more to promote American right his minimum-security jail cell--dusting
wing ideology on the cultural plane
off the family photographs in his deadthan almost anyone-fighting
thefather'S auto body shop, playing foot.1 Russians. the Vietnamese and various
ball with the local kids, and snuggling
Middle-Eastern terrorists-andwhipwith his honey-haired girlfriend, who

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signs her letters to him "Miss" Melissa
Lowell.
Leone's nightmare begins soonafter he gets a "midnight transfer" toGateway, a hellish maximum security
prison. It turns out the warden-a sinister Nazi with the Dickensian nameof Drumgoole (played with ice-blue
predictability by Donald Sutherland)-has arranged the move to even up apast score. Leone copes in his newenvironment by using determination
and restraint. You can just see the way
he restrains himself when the guards
make "Mama" jokes, or taunt him
about Miss Melissa. Nothing motivates
Stallone's character like the patriarchal
impulse to protect what's bis. It's ultimately the threats to his girlfriend
which cause him to break down his
resolve-and lead, in the film's wadshooting climax, to another escape attempt.
With guards in shiny
black boots gleefully torturing inmates, the film
takes the prison-as-concentration-camp metaphor
seriously: one scene evensimulates a gas chamber,as a bikini-clad Stallone
almost passes out while
being de-loused
in ashower. However, the realfascism is to be found in
the film's style. Relying
heavily on ultra-hetero
bonding sequences (likefIXing up a run-down '65
Mustang), and machospectacle turf wars (slowmotion football games,
super-human fist fights),
Stallone pursues his protect-or-destroy
agenda,continued on pageli6

Performance

Pennywise

ANGRY PUNCH:
Penny Arcade'true Stories-;-a performan~~. by
Penny Arcade. Thurs - Sunoay,
9:30p.m"P..§. 122, 150' First
Avenue. Through August 22. 212-477-5288

by Jonn WasserUtilizing more wigs than theGabor sisters, Penny Arcade
putters around P.S. 122's barestage and gradually introduces us toher cast of characters. The ninetyminute performance piece entitledTrue Stories is an ode to the dispossessed, a semi-surreal voyage into thelives of people Barbara Bush would
hesitate to put on a White House invi-

tation list. It is another step toward
Penny Arcade's (a,ka, Susana Ventura)
constant search for her artistic voice.
Penny Arcade possesses an ample,
fleshy physique which serves her welland lends a slightly off-center look to
her characters.
She is thoroughly
relaxed strolling around the stage,changing costumes before our eyes. It's
the only constant in an evening devoted to changing morals and the extremities of life. Penny Arcade harbors an
unexpressed social anger which seeps
into her characters' lives.
Her most polished eccentric is
Lucy from Soho, an acerbic elderly
lady reminiscent of Estelle Geddy's
pot-shot character on television's The
Golden Girls. Sporting an undistinguished-looking gray wig, the seventythree-year-old Lucy shifts forward inher chair and spews forth venom. For
years, Little Italy has been her natural

habitat, but in the world
according to Lucy, gentrifi'f
cation has stolen the
area's graceful charm, The
artist relates the myriad ofchanges complete withpointed gestures and aharsh staccato voice. The
evening's funniest moment
comes when she angrily
tells the tale of the former
paper bag factory, now
transformed
into a chic
emporium, aptly called If.
It is not only Lucy's
finely drawn characteristic
determination which provides True Stories with its
angry punch, but it is to
Penny Arcade's detrimentthat Lucy is so vividly
alive; her other roles palein comparison. In addition,
traces of Lucy seemed toPoke their head into othercharacters' business, distracting the audience, anddiminishing the final outcome.
Of course Lucy does not live
everywbere. A woman named Andrea
Whips periodically returns throughout
the evening, A disciple of the legendary Tallulah Bankhead, blondmaned Whips wears a three-cornered
hat and speaks in a low breathy voice-a sort-of cross between Bette Davisand Jackie Kennedy Onassis. Whips isthe revolutionary camp follower incarnate comparing homosexuals to romosexuals. ("We have nothing to fear
from homosexuals. They stay at home.
It is the romosexuals who roam thecity ...") According to Whips, the government has gained control of the art
world and women's bodies. The next
thing we'll see is Jesse Helms petitioning to whitewash Michelangelo's
paintings from the Sistine Chapel.
Although the first hour is largely
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BooksA Spirited First Visit
lsiptio.q. of Spirits by
all Kenan. Grove Press 1989.
~ge~$16.95,¥~

by Maria Maggenti

ing story and when they speak, their
voices literally rise up off the page.
The fourth voice in this chorus is
Horace's older cousin, the Rev. James
Greene, the good" son, who has
seemed to fulfill all of his family's
wishes and yet remains haunted bymemories and unfulfilled dreams.
The story expands and contracts
with each voice though it is the fateof the beautiful and bright Horace

H

orace
Cross is a sixteenyear-old Black boy who is
exquisitely smart, desperately tormented and encumbered withthe knowledge that somehow, someway, he is not right for this world. His
ascent into self-discovery and his
descent into voluptuous, raging madness create the drama and wonder ofthis first novel, A Visitation of spirits,by 26-year-old newcomer Randall
Kenan.
Set in the lush and complicatedsOciety of a small North Carolina
town, A Visitation of Spirits is a surprisingly dense and elaborate debut
novel that is reminiscent of Toni Cade
Bambara's The Salt Eaters; sophisticated, daring language coupled with apassionate and deeply reverential
view of contemporary Southern Black
culture engaged in perpetual struggle.
This is a bildungsroman, a literarycoming-of-age story that favors internal twilight magic over the individualin- social-and-political-context
approach. Kenan's fictional town ofTim's Creek encompasses one proud
Black family as they cope with anever-expanding universe. Zeke andRuth are the oldest surviving members of the Cross clan and they watch
their extended family with stern but
loving approval. They are part of thequartet that weave this painful, glow-

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SUBTLE MIND

Photo: Kate Simon

Randall Kenanthat propels the narrative forward.
Horace's demons are so vivid and sofrightening that his long evening oftransformation (an evening that runs
the entire book) enters the surreal
more than once. Yet, the story regains
its footing in the down-to-earth
prayers of Aunt Ruth, the sleepy ruminations of Zeke, or the rather plaintive memories of cousin James. It
doesn't take long for the gay reader
to know why Horace is so possessed.

The ghouls and chimeras that torment
him are simply the reification of his
guilt, his sense of failure, his bewilderment,
his "dark,
forbidden
dreams," his "temptation"--of course.
Horace is gay.
Horace's homosexuality is devastatingly internalized. Horace nevertells anyone in his family what's"wrong." He tries to, once, and isrebuffed. He retreats instead into sorcery, necromancy, the hope of a corporeal and spiritual transformationthat will end his torment and freehim. "It was faith, not facts he needed; magiC, not math; salvation, notscience. Belief would save him, notonly belief but belief in belief. Like
Daniel, like Isaac, like the woman at
the well."And yet, Horace has had an
introduction
to homosexual ity
through his childhood friend Gideon
that is tender, lusty and confident.
Gideon's proud sense of himself as a"queen" serves as a painful counterpoint to Horace's debilitating homophobia. In fact, there are a number ofother Black gay men that show up in
the story who are also notable for
their dignified self-loving ways, but
who do not provide the vision of liberation that Horace finds acceptable.
What is acceptable
to the young
Horace will seem nightmarish to mostgay and lesbian readers, but Kenanpossesses a skillful and subtle mind.
There are no simple politically correct
answers in these pages. There is good
and there is evil and no one reallywins. But one thing missing in all theinternal drama is an angry, vengefulsoul. One can only hope that this isjust the beginning of what should bea long and complex tale from thisyoung Black author, who speaks in avoice rarely heard on the American
literary landscape.
...

BooksLast Train to Frisco
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Homosexuals by the Urtited States
Navyby Lawrence R. Murphy" Harrington Park Press 340 pages

by Gabriel RoteUoInthe Newport, Rhode Island
naval base in 1919, the US Navy
decided to investigate an outbreak of "cocaine and cocksucking"among naval personnel.
Inexperienced young naval investigators,
many in their teens, were ordered togo out to gay cruising areas, getpicked up by "fairies" and allow theircocks to be "sucked until emission" ifnecessary in order to obtain evidence
against "vice." The subsequent trials,
first of the entrapped gays, then of themilitary investigatorsthemselves,
resulted in the most Widely publicizedgay scandal in US history. The affair
almost destroyed the career of theman in overall charge of the inquiry,
Assistant Secretaryof the Navy
Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
This is the remarkable story told
in Perverts By OffiCial Order,
Lawrence R, Murphy's meticulously
researched account of one of the mostsignificant episodes of gay repressionin American history. The "perverts" of
his title are not the gays of Newport,
but the young investigators who were
the focus of the scandal.
Newport at the close of WWI wasa bustling naval depot as well as asocial center of high SOciety. It also
had developed an active gay society,with drag shows, cruiSing areas, a
cocaine drug subculture, a distinctive
lingo and a widely recognized focal
point at the local YMCA.There young
sailors were rather openly approached
by older men who rented upstairs

rooms for their sexual liaisons.
Into this early gay paradise stumbled one Evin Arnold, an intensely
homophobic naval investigator. He
assembled a team of 20 naval "operators," who were all "good-looking
young men from the ages of 19 to 24."
Arnold later explained that he couldn't
have used more experiencec,i investigators because ·once a man passed 30
and lost his good looks [gays] usually
will not.. .bother them." Arnold's
young sailors were ordered to "obtainevidence pertaining to cocksuckers
and rectum receivers" by practicing
entrapment. Such was, and in somecases still is, standard operating procedure for obtaining evidence against
gays. In this case, however, the operators were ordered to "go the limit,"
and herein lay the crux of whatbecame a huge national scandal.
The first trials convicted and sentenced numerous gays to years inprison. The prosecution was unhappy,
however, that a prominent Episcopal
chaplain,Rev. Samuel Kent, wasacquitted. When he was tried a second time, the details of the operators'
techniques became apparent. One
young operator, for example, said
under oath, "My instructions were to
be with Mr. Kent as much as possible,
and to let him play with my penis andto allow it until I had an emission."
Numerous
other instanceswereunveiled in which these young, apparently straight sailors, had had their"morals corrupted" by being forced to"submit their persons to unnaturalacts," usually by being fellated.
A social uproar ensued. Both the
Episcopal Church and the Providence
Journal, an influential paper, pursued
those it felt were responsibleforordering young men into such situations. The main person responsible
was Assistant Secretary of the Navyand the highest higher-up who had
direct knowledge and control over the

NEWPORT DRAG aUffN circa 7979.
anti-gay probe, namely FOR. A naval
trial of Arnold and the other investigators was followed by a Senate committee investigation which primarily
targeted Roosevelt, who was now running for Vice-President.
In a sense, the fact that FOR was
running for national office worked tohis advantage in evading responsibility
for the scandal. Charges against him
were considered by many people to be
merely politiCS, part of the rough andtumble of an election, not to be taken
seriously. Although the Senate committee condemned and censured him,
Roosevelt escaped from being doggedby the scandal, which went from front
page news across the nation to obscucontinued on page 68

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Outweek Box 1009

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GWF,28,BARBARIAN
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under 5'2" who likes
rock,
NYC, Bugs
Bunny and Metaphysics. I like to leadbut I don't like to push.
Foto
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chunky, moustache,seeks buddy (20-45)
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Outweek Box 1019

PLAYMATESWANTED
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Outweek Box 1020

DEFINITION
Progressive
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returned, if requested.

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KEEP ME
23 year old NYU student is looking to besponsored by wellbuilt, well-hung, wellfinanced Daddy inexchange for a hungry
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photo. Outweek Box
1014

ROCK AND ROLL
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rock, My
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Bar, Robin
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Looking for movie·anddinner dates, friends,
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Outweek Box 1018

"DRUMMER" MAN
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enjoys politics, activism, conversation,
walks, travel, movies,
much more. P.O. Box
173, NYC 10023.

SEEKING GREATTOP
Tall(6'4"), goodlooking
bottom seeking tall top
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Outweek Box 1045

CUTE YOUNG GWM
Attractive GWM 26,
5'11", 150, seeking
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Write to P.O. Box 171
Bloomfield, NJ 07003.

MIRA
Very hot, 43 year-old,
6'1", 170, BIIBI, studying Spanish seeks
Puerto Rican man toteach him some newwords.
Photo andphone please. P.O.
Box 1256, NYC, NY
10159.

LOOKS & BRAINSGWM, 30, 6'1",170.
Good-looking and intelligent.
Baseball,politics, arts, books,
pubs,
safe
sex.
Interested? P.O. Box
1521 Cooper Station,
NYC, NY 10276

WHITE MALE
COUPLE
seeks to expand social
horizons and meetother male couples.
We are 31 and 46,
enjoy movies, theatre,
museums, bridge, andfriendship.
Pleasewrite to us at P.O. Box
541 New York, NY
10034.

CIGARS!
Cigar-smoking
men
who love leather, uniforms, slm, write H.
Ash, P.O. Box 20147
LondonTerrace
Station, NYC 10011.

HIV POSITIVE
27, glasses, intellectual, tall, blondish
like stocky or darkmen (Jewish or Latin).
Turn ons: nipples,
black boots, hairylegs, good attitudes,
patience, sincerity.
Write with photo to:
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Station, NYC 10011.
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TEN GAY/BI MALES
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gregarious for monthly
meetings in midtown
hotel suite. Send noteand SASE: P.O. Box6653 FDR, NY, NY
10150

PREPPIE TOP
Boyish and charming,
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puppies, Upper West
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Send photo to: P.O.

Box 172, White Plains,
New York 10605.

BIWM, MUSCULAR
36, 5'6", 142, hot, hardmuscularbody,healthy, discreet seeks
beefy muscle buddy,
160-260 for safe time.
Box 783 Church Street
Station, New York, NY
10008. Prefer 25-55.

BI/FEMALE SOUGHT
for alliance w/ paraplegic single parent of
5 year-old. DWM, 30,
computergraphics
artist with a touch ofoffbeatmadnessseeks Bi/female compliment to live rentfree
inCarroll
Gardens,Bklyn
exchange for helping
hand. Replies: K.D.
King,
370
Court
Street,Suite
15,
Carroll Gardens, Bklyn
11231. Send photoand phone #.

UNCUT LOVER
wanted by steamy,
dreamy,creamyblonde 28, 6',150 Ibs.,
endowed. Jeff, P.O.
Box 8309, New York,NY 10116-8309. This
stud's for you.

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explore NY, hopefully romance. Write
P.O. Box 523, New
York, NY 10040.

WMPUSSY
Submissive
BiWM
slut, 38, 6', 205Ibs.,
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be used as a crossdressed bound pussy
and slut by dominant
people 1-1 or by duos,
trios, etc. Call Sandy,
212-978-3415, leavemessage.

FRIENDLY BUTCH
GWM, 28, Br/Gr, 5'8",
155, cleancut, muscular, very smart, HIV
positive but healthy,
seeks like-minded guy
with a good attitude. I
bicycle, work out, playjazz
piano,
likemovies, history, politics, cuddling. If you're
smart, in shape andlooking for someone
special write Jim withphoto/phone.
Outweek Box 1066.

GWM, 28, 145,
5'10", swimmer's body,
Capricorn, mystical
Jewish artist! activist.

BARK LIKE A DOG
GWM, 24 year-old BIB
wants a dog to walk.
If you like to get downon all fours to barkand eat from a personalized dog bowl, writeand send photo. I'lltreat you like the dogthat you are. Outweek
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manipulating his audience into an outraged frenzy: "Faster,
Italian Stallion, Kill, Kill!" He also, in the midst of it all,gives a strong nod to the Catholic ideal of suffering. At one
point he even goes through what seems like 40 days and40 nights of solitary confinement. He is given bread andwater and is kept without sleep for days on end. Wearing
only white boxer shorts, he's Jesus with pectorals, agonizing in the overexposed light under surveillance camera.
No fascist extravaganza would be complete without
glorifying the Body, and Lock Up provides excessively.
Director John Flynn places his hunky specimen in one
position of adoration after another. Stallone lifts, does
push-ups, flexes and sometimes just stands there, wet. The
images are informed by every homoerotic tradition fromTom of Finland to Calvin Klein Jeans ads, but none of thisqueer titillation should be taken for anything more thangay-baiting. Like the repressed homophobe he is, Stallone
never puts out. Understanding the power of denial, LockUp doesn't even include a token "watch your ass" line.
Homosexual interaction among prisoners is eliminatedcompletely. The only time even a kiss gets blown at Leoneis from one of the guards; the film's real villains, they get
to be the leering fags.
Even without Rambo's flag-waVing, Lock Up would
indeed make George Bush proud. With its approval ofwhite street justice, its adherence to patriarchal "values,"
and a finale which elevates the death penalty to newheights, this film ought to guarantee Sylvester Stallone
another invitation to dinner at the White House.
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Oncogen, a small Seattle-based company later acquired byBristol-Myers Co., devised her own in vitro tests of peptide
T and found the drug worked against low and moderate
viral concentrations, but not against high concentrations(Barnes, 1987). This work helped influence the pharmaceutical giant's decision to seek a license for peptide T from
NIMH, which has a patent pending on the compound.
Douglas Brenneman, M.D., of the Laboratory ofDevelopmental Neurobiology at the National Institute ofChild Health and Human Development has asserted in articles in Nature (Brenneman and others, 1988) and Drug
Development Research (Brenneman and others, 1988) that
gp120 is associated with neuronal cell death and that VIPand peptide T blocked the action of gp120 in the test tube.
In an interview, Dr. Sodroski said, "That work is of du·bious significance. It's not clear what neuronal cell death inthat system really means .. "The neuronal cells in that system are mouse cells. The problem is that gp120 does notbind to mouse CD4."~(The remainder of this article will be reprinted in next
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Arcade fills the remaining portion witha ramb lin gmonologue laden with everything from
"Jeopardy" takeoffs to her apparent
jealousy of Eric Bogosian's recent success. Clad in a black bra and a pieceof material resembling a spandex girdle, Penny Arcade speaks directly tothe audience, inviting us into her personal insecurity web, her word-ofmouth cult, P.S.122's booking policy
and an early comparison to Lenny
Bruce, It would have been morelethal if she had provided herself witha context, a character with which tointeract. As presented, the monologue
disturbs and jolts. That may have been
the intention but I found my mind
wandering incessantly.
The production notes list everything from a "Personal Assistant toPenny Arcade" to a Musical Director.
What the show strongly lacks is adirector, someone to structure theperformance, help the artist enunciate every word and place the evening

rity in a relatively short time.
From our vantage point the
Newport scandal has importance far
beyond its military or political ramifications. For one thing it "provides thefirst detailed documentary evidence inAmerica of a distinctive homosexual
community." For another, in casting a
spotlight on a major gay trial it illuminated society's attitudes about gays,
attitudes that would otherwise haveremained unarticulated. It's interesting,for example, that the Episcopal
Church was far more angry about theordering of sailors into gay situations
than it was concerned about damninggays themselves. "None of the Biblicalreferences used by contemporary conservative Christians to condemn gays
ever came up in the testimony" of the
New England clergy. Yet it's also truethat condemnation of gays was soroutine as to be taken for granted, andnowhere was it ever suggested that
there was anything normal about
practitioners of "unnatural vice."
The late Lawrence R. Murphy has

written an absorbing,readableaccount of this strange affair, an
account that is weirdly titillating in its
depiction of the sexual encounters
between straight sailors and gays, andwhat they thought of these encounters. The one disappointment is his
mention that some of the investigators
were themselves gay, a subject heabruptly raises and then drops without any explanation. In general, however, he has done a thorough job of
research that must not have been easy
given the obscurity of most of thestory's principals.
The forgotten victims of this forgotten scandal are the gay men of
Newport, who built a rare and braveghetto society in a hostile environment
and were harshly punished for daring
to be ahead of their time. Their gay
clubs and associations were disbanded
after the trials, and Newport ceased to
be a mecca for gays, As one Navalinvestigator testified in a later trial, "I
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had beentargeted for suchattacks.
"The
church has beenvery public here.
She hasn't beenvery public, so I
was surprised."
Mitulski also
said Griffis had left
San Francisco following her second"NOTVERYPUBUC.
accountof theLynn Griffis Ifter the first alleged attack, in a televised
attack to police
MCC service.
and her resignation
HOAX ALLEGED continued from page 12
from the church and that he had no
Griffis had also fabricated the firstidea where she was. When asked if
assault story which left her with facial he had any explanation for Griffis'
bruises and cuts to her eye, cheek and behavior, Mitulski said, "I can't undermouth that required eight stitches.
stand why this would happen. It's cerMitulski also said he had reason to I
believe Griffis' injuries in the first attack
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may have been self-inflicted, as police
fourth multi-media AIDS campaign,
now suspect in the second attack, andand considering our past experience,that she herself may have been behind
we are making great progress. Whata series of recent telephoned and writis seen as controversial this year willten death threats aimed at the MCCpasbe 'what's the big deal' next year,"
tor and Griffis.
Friedman said,"I've uncovered things that I can't
The health department's previous
discuss publicly," Mitulski said, "thatAIDS prevention campaigns werelead me to believe there's a strong posaimed at heterosexual women, IVsibility that Lynn is behind all of this."
drug users, and adolescents. The ads
Mitulski said the police were
for the latter campaign came under"very seriously" re-examining whether
attack by AIDS activists, who called
she was also responsible for the firstthem moralizing and criticized themattack as well as several death threatsfor promoting abstinence from sex.
aimed at Mitulski. "While they weren't
ready to certify [that Griffis was·Perfunctory Responsew
responsible), they felt strongly about"This is a perfunctory response toit," Mitulski said.
an emergency situation," said Ann
Mitulski also revealed that theNorthrop, an AIDS educator, ACf UP
MCC board of directors had offeredmember and former television proGriffIS the option of voluntary psychiducer. "What we need to create isatric hospitalization when she wasactual condom instruction. People
placed on administrative leave but said
don't know how to use them, nor willthat she had rejected the proposal.
they experiment during the actual sex
act. What we need is the mayor up
Not Very Public
there giving a demonstration,"she
MCC's Mitulski said Griffis had
said.
worked at the church since last year
"The media is clearly fearful ofafter receiving divinity degrees frombeing accused of promoting sex andLutheran Northwestern Seminary inhomosexuality, and they won't be put
St. Paul, Minnesota and the Pacificin that position. It's unfortunate that
School of Religion in Berkeley.
they don't have more coverage," Craig
Like some other gay leaders here,
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tainly not normal behavior."
Griffis' mother, Adele, said herdaughter had returned to stay "With relatives" in Nebraska but declined to say
where Griffis is or to comment further.
Despite a large stack of casefolders that CUAV's Melinda Paras
pointed at to illustrate the hardreality of anti-gay violence thatmany feel is at an epidemic level in
San Francisco, Alice B. Toklas Lesbian and Gay Democratic
Club
preSident Ron Braithwaite voiced
the larger fear that has come out of
the Griffis case,"There has been a real increase
in attacks against gays and lesbians
here," Braithwaite said. "But it looks
as if this [the Griffis casel is going tolessen the interest in gay and lesbian
attacks here. That is the really tragicpart of this."'YDavidson, executive director of the Gay
and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. GLAAD,the Gay Men's Health Crisis, the Minority Task Force on AIDS,
and many other community organizations were consulted during the planning and design of the ad campaign,"Rubber Up For Safety," which
has the backing of Mayor Edward
Koch, cost the city $46,000. There arethree version of the "romantic dinner"spot, two in English and one in Spanish. One English version uses a Black
actor, and the other a white actor.
The text for each is identical:"Dinner was perfect. Candlelight,
music. Later we had coffee by the fire
and talked long into the night. Finally
we kissed. Then he asked if I enjoyedsafer sex. I have never felt so goodabout saying yes." It ends with a shotof two wrapped condoms, and avoice-over narration: "When you havesex with another man, always use alatex condom to prevent transmissionof the AIDS virus."
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homophobes; at the homeof Julian Asion, 722-A
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food, drink, fun and games;
noon to 7 pm; $20 adults,$12 children 6-12, tots free;
tix at Oscar Wilde, Different
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EIGHTY-EIGHT'S presents
Mr. Ruby Rims, female
impersonator; 228 W 10 St;
8 pm; 924-0088

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Stanley, Program Coordinator of the NYC Office of
Gay and Lesbian Health
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women's health issues; at
St. Luke in the Fields, 497
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Front Runners
Front Runners New York (FRNY), is a lesbian and gay
organization of distance runners which has been in existence for nine years. Not just a New York organization, there
are a number of Front Runner groups around the country.
The oldest Front Runners organization, in San Francisco,will celebrate its 15th anniversary this year. In addition there
are 26 other cities which participate in Front Runners, including Toronto, Sydney, Australia, and Vancouver.
Lenore Beaky, current president of the New Yorkgroup, explained that people of all levels of running experience are welcome to join. "There is no need for a
person wishing to join Front Runners to be a professionalrunner," she said. "We welcome all levels of experience,"
Avoidance of injury is essential to any program ofrunning. To help members learn the techniques that keepthem safe and limber, FRNY offers classes in running tothree levels of student: baSiC, intermediate and advanced.
The classes focus on form, speed, endurance, strength,
strategy and good setting.
Gay Games III
Among the events that occupy the coming calendar
for FRNY, none is more exciting than Gay Games III, thehuge celebration of lesbian and gay athletics slated fornext August in Vancouver. FRNY, which expects to fieldas many as '100 runners, will be preparing for the games
in great detail. Preparation will begin in early spring andwill focus on starts-off-the-block and handing off batonsfor the relay races.
Another activity of FRNY is the Gay Pride Run, anannual event in Central Park. This year's Run was a

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tremendous
success, with
300 men and 164 women finishers. FRNY also participated in the Gay Pride Parade,and sponsored a booth on
Christopher Street containing
information and a variety ofrunning gear.
Benefits Planned
Among the planned
events coming up on FRNY's
calendar are the Asbury Park
10K Classic in New Jersey, tobe held on August 12, On the
26th of August, FRNY willhold a benefit run, the themeof which will be "The Heart
Photo: Pat Kuharicand Soul of Front Runners."
Among the groups which will
be helped are ACT UP,
Lambda Legal Defense, Team NY, Now NY, and the Gay
and Lesbian Community Center,On the 17th of September
FRNY will go to
Philadelphia to take part in the Philadelphia Distance
Run. In late August the Hispanic Half Marathon will takeplace, sponsored by the New York Road Runner's Club.
FRNY's Tenth Anniversary Gala Celebration will beheld this October. This gala event, the place and time ofwhich are yet to be determined, will feature a banquet
and special surprises for members.
Anyone interested in further information on Front
Runners should contact Lenore Beaky at 212n24-9700. ~GEARING UP FOR GAY GAMES III

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