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July 31, 1989

NEWS

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HEALTH
Living With AIDS (Barber)
Political Science (Harrington)

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THE ARTS
Film Do The Right Thing
Film The Long Weekend
Books Refusing To Be A Man
Music Gay Owned Record Labels

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CROSS YOUR HEART!
Rebecca's 24 hour bra, and other goings on atLove Machine and f!lsewhere, page 46.

DEPARTMENTS
Outspoken (Editorial)
Letters
Sotomayor
Nightmare of the Week
Dykes To Watch Out For (Bechdel)
Christian Joaquin Guerra
Sandor Katz
Look OutOut Of My Hands (Ball)
Gossip Watch (SignOrile)
Pop Shots (Conrad)Classifieds
Going Out Calendar (X)Best Bets For Dancing (X)Personals
Hot Shot
Crossword
Sports (Hamlin)

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BATTLE STATIONS
Victoria Starr drops in on the girls who fightfire with art
page 34

WRANGLING WITH WRANGLER
Jay Blotcher chats with the reluctant ex-pornstarabout the old, the new and Margaret
Whiting
page 38

IF I WERE...A DYKE? A FAG? A HET?
Andrew Miller and Liz Tracey ponder thegender ruck
page 44

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LOOKING FOR LUBE IN ALL
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Signorile's desperate search
ON THE COVER:
Jack Wrangler photographed by K. Stone

page 48

A GIRL TELLS BOYS THE FACTS
OF LIFE
Liz Tracey's guide to girls

page 49

Outspoken
Abortion and Us•

ow that abortion has become a front page issue
once again, thanks to the Supreme Court's unfortunate decision in the Webster case, it's time forgays and lesbians, and particularly gay men, torestate our committment to the rights of womento unrestricted accesss to safe, affordable abortion.
Some gay men question why abortion, which they thinkaffects primarily straight women, is a gay issue. The answer
is simple. Abortion is primarily about power, the power ofsociety to control what a person, in this case a pregnant
woman, can or cannot do with her own body. There is aclear, direct parallel between society's desire to exert control
over women through abortion restrictions and its desire tocriminalize gays and lesbians through sodomy laws and•legalized discrimination.
We should all recognize what our enemies have longknown: There is either a right to privacy or there isn't. If
society accepts the fundamental freedoms that a right to privacy implies, then it is obligated to accept both the right toabortion and the rights of gay men and lesbians. If there isno such privacy right, society has no such obligations.
It's no accident that those who seek to restrict abortion
are also at the front lines of the anti-gay movement, for bothconservative goals are basically the same: to roll back thegains of the sexual revolution, throwing women back into
the kitchens and back alleys and gays back into the closet.
Anti-abortionists are essentially anti-sex, and there is astrong flavor of punishment and retribution in their ideology.
They believe that sensual pleasure is a crime, the punishment for which should be enforced pregnancy, or prison, orAIDS. Their ideology has caused cent13ries of silent suffering
for gay men, lesbians and all women. It still causes suffering
today.
Some thought that the abortion issue was settled fore.ver
by Roe v. Wade. The reality is that the issues of both abortion and lesbian and gay rights will never be settled. There
will always be those who fear sex, who hate women andtheir bodies, who, in their repression, wish to oppress others. We will always have to fight. What we must learn to do
is fight together. Lesbians have been prescient in recognizing
their stake in fighting AIDS. They understand the basic interconnectedness of AIDS, lesbian rights and their struggles as. women. Gay men should be no less intelligent. Abortion is
as important a gay man's issue as any we have before us
today.
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Letters To The Editor
BALOONING ISSUE
A reply to Naphtali Offen:
In the OutWeek of July 17, yourletter expressed your outrage at therelease of balloons at this pastmonth's AIDS Vigil (Letters, Issue 4,
July 17, 1989). You assume that theVigil is organized by Heritage of Pride,
the group who organizes New York
City'S annual gay and lesbian pride
weekend, a group who has alreadycalled off a release of 10,000 balloons
in memory of those we have lost to
AIDS in recognition of its potential
harm to the environment. You areamazed that, having taken this action,
we would go ahead and release balloons at the Vigil. Yes, that would be
amaZing. Of course, with a little fact
checking you would have found that
Heritage of Pride is not the organizerof the annual AIDS Vigil. In fact, theVigil has always been organized by
the Christopher
Street Festival
Committee. Heritage of Pride is proudto help by marshalling on Christopher
Street, but we can take no credit fororganizing the memorial.

In their defense, the release of
balloons at the Vigil was not plannedby its organizers. It was a spontaneous
action by the people standing on thestreet that night, remembering thosethey have lost to AIDS. No matter how
concerned one might be for the creatures we share the planet With, youmust be moved by the sight of somuch hope in the face of so muchtragedy.
With Pride,
Janice Thorn
Co-coordinator Heritage of Pride
Manhattan•

thought it was my magazine. It is no
surprise to pick up the NY Post andfind racism, sexism and homophobiaslapping me in the face with every
turn of a page, I've become callous tothat. But there is no heartache like theone I feel when I am slapped by "myown people." I am pissed! I will notturn the other cheek and I will not besilent! I will be in your faces! Believe't'•
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I am the one your mother warned
you about.
Nedra Johnson
Brooklyn

OutRaged
I don't know who it was thatthought captioning a photo of Salsa
Soul Sisters "Salsa Soul Sisters sashay
south, pride with a beat" was a good
idea, but to that person and to anyone
else responsible for printing that:
FUCKYOU!
I am sick of your racist politics. Is
Out Week for lesbians and gays or for
white lesbians and white gays? Ibought your magaZine because I

OutWeekwelcomes letters from its
readers. Please mail all correspondence to:Letters to the Editor
OutWeek Magazine
77 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10010

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INITIALS
When I lived in Manhattan (Imoved to Michigan in December,1988) I could not abide The Nativeand preferred to rely on Boston's Cay
Community News and Philadelphia's
P.G.N for reliable information. It's to
the P. C.N that lowe my knowledgeof your distribution of autWeek at the
N.Y.C. Gay Pride Parade, the first one
I've missed. I was in Lansing,Michigan, the state capital, for theMichigan Parade.
Incidentally, I will be 76-years-old,in October of this year.
Fraternally yours,
Zach B. Pierson
Flint, MI

PRO-LIFE LOOPHOLES

are presumably the very foundation of
the opposition to abortion.
Finally, many of us are interested
in looking at the "findings" that"prove" that life begins at conception,and that an egg has become a humanbeing the instant sperm makes contact.
Until such time as these questions
are answered to the satisfaction of all,I demand as an American that mygovernment and the religious right itentertains keep their moral yardsticks
to themselves, and not attempt to usethem to beat my mother, my sisters,
nieces, aunts, cousins, neighbors,
friends and co-workers.
I do notintend to allow the women I love to
be made criminal because their bodies
function properly, as do their minds.
Sincerely,
Christopher Corbett-Fiacco
Boston, MA

whose three names I've forgotten.
Eureka! Ann Guidici Feltner
appears in your July 17th issue after a
two-year absence!
Her article lucidly explains the
tragic downfall of the Native, whichstarted out to be a ·good newspaper.
Also, it confirms for us non-scientists
the non-scientific nonsense the Native
publishes. Little wonder that now I'll
drop the Native and Christopher Street.
Why not reprint her article by thethousands as free hand-outs in all thefamiliar haunts, for the news deservesto get around fast.
,
Althoughnot crazy
about
OutWeek as a catchy title, I intuitively
feel yours will be the success so manyof us have waited for. Don't let thisnew subscriber down!
Allen Windsor
Manhattan

I would appreciate an opportunity to throw my voice into the•
H.I.V.itriot
FETTNER FAN
cacophony of outrage on both sides
I am continually dumbfounded
My original interest in the New'Ofthe abortion rights issue by suggestby the ignorance and stupidity of theYork Native was its weekly chart of theing that many Americans would be
grateful if the anti-ehoice side, prefer- number of AIDS cases and its first-rate gay community, MY COMMUNITY,
ably the clergy, could explain a few articles on the subject by a journalist which you exemplified in your phoneinconsistencies in their stance. Firstly, I 'II
if abortion is the murder of an innocent baby, how can it be acceptable inany circumstance? After all, none of us
had any control over our conception.
Secondly, we don't completely understand the incest clause. If the incestthat produced the pregnancy were anact of rape, the point is moot. But if
the incest were an act of consensualsex between relatives, why would an
abortion be acceptable in this situationand not another? Is it because we
don't care to deal with the procreative
outcome of what we consider to be amorally offensive act? Again, is it the
baby's fault, and if not, why punish
the child? Thirdly, I have never understood the life endangerment loophole.
..,.:.•,.;< .'If the commitment and trust in God is
so great that one is certain beyond
doubt that it is His will that abortion ismurder and must be stopped, how
can one interfere with God's will bymurdering children He allows to beThis week's nightmare, Phyllis HShrillH Schlafly, earns the coveted honor forconceived through acts of love which
helping to force San Francisco's landmark domestic partnership law into
manifest a physical celebration of His
temporary limbo and onto the November ballot. The grizzled grump thus jQins
creation of the human race? It seems
the ranks of memorable homophobes such as Anita Bryant, Adolph Hitler andto me that condoning abortion in such
Adolph Coors, and exposes her suppos'edly pro-life agenda as really anti-life,
circumstances is an outright denial ofanti-love and anti-family. Thanks for clearing that up for us, Phyl.
the commitment, faith and trust that':.

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call to me last night. How many people are going to have to choke todeath on this HIV bullshit before
somebody wakes up to what's happening? For 40 years our government
did to 400 black men in the Tuskegee
Syphilis Experiment
what they're
doing to us today. There is no doubtthat we are the NIGGERS of the
1980s, who haven't the guts to standup for our own civil rights nor thebrains to see this shit we eat. Ourfriends and lovers are DYING of thisfucking disease and you won't run
the information in Syphilis as AIDS
because the Native ran it once before?
What are you saving it for? A year or
two perhaps when nobody remembers its previous publishing? Whatabout all the people who will die
between now and then? I personally
dedicatethem to you, asshole,because I've tried to get this information to those who need it, but theidiots in charge of publication, LIKE
YOU, are too worried, "Boo-Hoo, I
won't make money on this!" "Boo-

Hoo, it doesn't fit my current publishing agenda!" Well, the next timesomeone you know dies of AIDS, justremember this, you fucking shit-forbrains-scumbag,
DEAD PEOPLEDONT BUY OUlWEElJ
In remembrance of Tuskegee,
Robert Ben Mitchell
Miami, FL
News EdUor Andrew MiUer Replies:
Mr.
Mitchell's
unsolicitedmanuscript was rejected politely in aphone conversation during which I
explained that because his book wasrecently serialized, in its entirety, in
The Native, it did not make muchsense for us to run it right now.
The above letter betrays the petulance of a frustrated, self-promoting,attention-seeking writer; rather thanthe desperation of (yet another) AIDS
soothsayer
out to save the queer
nation.
I'm sure that many of our readers, Black and white, will be surprised
to learn that Black people "hadn't theguts to stand up for [their} own civilrights, nor the brains to see the shit
[they) eat" during the entire durationof the Tuskegee syphilis experiment.
That distortion of history, its accompanying racist language, and its author;
have no place in our publication.
There are many places in our
magaZine where AIDS is discussed,
including a regular column dealing
with alternative
AIDS causes andtreatments, written by Bob Lederer; Mr.
Mitchell's own literary agent.
Mr. Mitchel/'s attitude does a huge
disservice to his research and ideas byfurther casting them in the shadow ofvolatile, confrontational personalities.
Such associations have, for too long,
kept the majority of the gay and AIDS
communities from considering important information about the relationship of syphilis to AIDS.
Mr. Mitchell does not have amonopoly on that information. If hewants to get his book published anywhere,
he should get his head outfrom up his ass
and his mouth out if the gutter.
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Breakfast Meeting Brings No Surprises
by Mark Chesnut
NEW YORK-Over 40 demonstrators,
most of them from ACT UP, were
waiting for Rudolph Giuliani when hestepped out of his limousine for abreakfast meeting with members of
the lesbian and gay community on
Thursday morning, July 13. Giuliani's
appearance at the meeting, which is amonthly event, was arranged by Virginia Apuzzo, formerly Governor
Cuomo's liaison to the lesbian andgay community, and now deputy
director of the state Consumer Protection Board. As the Republican mayoral candidate made his way past thecrowd into Company restaurant on
Third Avenue, he was greeted withcalls of "shame" and "biggot" from thedemonstrators.
The protestors, like many in thelesbian and gay community, wereenraged over "Giuliani's opposition to
Mayor Koch's proposed executive
order granting bereavement leave tosame sex couples in city e~ployment.
Giuliani has also said he did not support the legal redefinition of family toinclude lesbians and gays.
Ira Manhoff, an organizer of theprotest outside the restaurant, said
that the lesbian and gay community
would not put up with politicians
who "gay bash in public and then gobehind closed doors and make nice.
We want him to see our anger andwe want to let him know it's real andhe's gonna have to deal with it," hesaid. Manhoff also claimed that "whatwas attempted
here today was aback room meeting with Giuliani
where our so-called leaders weregoing to smooth things out for us.
Manhoff said that members of ACT
UP had been denied access to break. fast forums in the past, and that there
may be some form of protest against

the forum taken by ACT UP in the
future.
Giuliani made his statements
regarding bereavement and gay families after accepting the invitation to
the forum. "We had no idea that thatwas his position on family," Apuzzo
told OutWeek. "We certainly didn't
think that he was going to posture
himself as the community's
best
friend, but we did feel that it was
important to get out of the Republican
candidate an opinion on a spectrumof issues that are critical for this community." Apuzzo felt that regardless of
his views, the gay and lesbian com~'munity should demand that headdress those issues.
Inside the small restaurant, Giuliani referred to what he said were
"unfair characterizations" of him, andsaid he was offended deeply at being
called a "gay basher." "I'm not astereotype," he told those assembled.
"I have great sympathy and great
understanding for everyone, particularly people who have been treatedunfairly.",
He stated that one of the city'spriorities should be updating the"antiquated" health care system anddealing more effectively with the
AIDS crisis, although he provided no
specific plans. He also said he sup-

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THE BREAKFAST SNUBACT UP greets Giuliani.

Photo: lL Litt,

ported a statewide hate-crimes antibias bill. Giuliani then took questions
from the other invitees.
"Do you regard homosexuality as
not a preference, not a choice, but natural and normal as a variation on the
spectrum of human sexual orientation?" asked Ann Northrop of ACf UP.
Giuliani answered yes, but stressedthat he was-not making a judgment on
any lifestyle. Giuliani, who once studied for the priesthood, said he saw nocontradiction between that view andhis views on the definition of a family.
"My background and my tradition ends
up giving me certain views on theworld, and a certain way of looking atlife. Therefore, I have difficulty withbroadening that concept."
Giuliani was also asked why he
did not march in this year's gay pride
parade, with the other mayoral candidates. "The reasons I didn't march inthe parade is because of some of thedisplays that I've seen in the past in
front of Saint Patrick's Cathedral...that
I consider unseemly .." When pressed,
Giuliani mentioned only Sister Boom
Boom, a member of the cross-dress-

ing Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,
based in San Francisco. This was met
by guffaws and moans from throughout the room, as Sister Boom Boom
has never been to New York City or
appeared in New York's parade. Contacted in San Francisco, the man who
formerly was Sister Boom Boom told
OutWeek that he had "given up his
habits" four years ago, partiallybecause it was "too easy a scapegoat
for the right wing."
Giuliani stated several times during the morning that he is against any
kind of discrimination. After one such
affirmation, David Wertheimer of the
Lesbian and Gay Anti-Violence Project
asked, "Would [you] therefore support"
the right of lesbian and gay couples
to marry under the law?""No," replied Giuliani firmly, "I
don't support the extension of the law
to that degree. I don't see that as discrimination." Giuliani went on to say,
"I don't think it would be wise for thestate of New York to extend the categories of marriage to include gay andlesbian marriages ...because of the tradition of thousands and thousands of

BLAMING SISTER BOOM BOOM
Candidate Giuliani at Virginia Apuzzo" breakfast forum.

Photo: IL. Littyears."As he continued to speak about
fair treatment for gays and lesbians,
many challenged his inconsistencies,"If you don't support the [Braschi]
court decision, you don't support gay
marriage, you don't support a liberalization of the definition of the family,
then how do you propose to solve
the problem of surviving partners of
persons with AIDS who lose theapartments that they have lived in fora good part of their life?" asked one
person. (The Braschi decision allowed
the surviving lover of a man who diedfrom AIDS to remain in their rent-controlled apartment.)
Giuliani replied,"I support
the ... tenant's rights decision thatapplies to everyone ...that gives thoserights to people who live together
whether they are gay, lesbian, elderly
people ...and that is a way of solving
the problem without extending necessarily the definition of marriage orfamily relationships in just one category." .
When asked about extending
health care services to include life
partners, Giuliani had no definite
answer. "I'd have to take a look atthat ...as to whether or not as a legal
matter that was justifiable."
Giuliani is clearly not in favor ofequal benefits for lesbian andgay life,
partners, and he expressed his doubts
again about "opening the door to awhole range of expenditures at a timein which we need money. Unless wecreate more revenue and we makesome discrimination, and I mean that
now in a legal sense." He then qUickly changed his wording, "I should say
make some distinction." He proposeda case-by-casebasis for deciding
bereavement leave in the workplace,with a department head having theultimate authority. This, according toGiuliani, would reduce the costs heforesees with a broader application ofthis policy.
One of the final comments wasmade by Tom Stoddard, executive
director of Lambda Legal Defense and
Education Fund: "You can't say on the
one hand you oppose discrimination,and on the other hand say, well, if it's
going 10 cost something, I guess dis'Y
crimination is okay."

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eleasesthe drug months, or even years,
before it is actually approved as atreatment.
The idea behind the program isthat people with life-threaten'ing illnesses don't have time to wait. If the
drug proves effective (and if initialtests look promising) countless lives
might be saved.

ru"Announces "Compassionate
Use"of Anti-Viral ddI

THE DISTRIBUTION DEBATE
While AIDS activists applaUded the
NEW YORK-After weeks of intensive
decision, they said Bristol Myers has
negotiations
between the Bristol
so far failed to take the idea one step
Myers Company and members of ACT
further and collect data on the peoUP/New York, the drug giant last
ple taking ddI who are not enrolled
in one of the organized clinical trials. This is known astesting a drug on the "parallel
track." It is preferred by ACT
UP and other AIDS advocatesbecause it allows researchers
to learn far more about thedrug, and in far less time.
"The parall el track tests a
drug in the community ... in
the real world where thedrug eventually will be used,"
explained Jim Eigo of ACT
UP, "It is humane, efficientand badly needed, now.""Bristol Myers would not,give us more details on how
the drug will be distributed,"
AIDS activist Mark Harrington
told OutWeek. "All we know at
this point is that compassionate use of ddI will begin the
A MAJOR VICTORY FORTHE MOVEMENT
first week in September,"
ACT-UP'sPeter Staley
which is when the clinical trials for efficacy begin. "We arewidely distributed this drug will be."week said it was willing to increase
pleased with the deciSion, although
Bristol Myers will begin testing
access to a new anti-viral drug, even
ACT UP wants to apply the parallel
before the drug is proven effective in the experimental drug in the U.S. andtrack with ddI, rather than just comCanada this September in clinical triclinical trials.
passionate use."als partially sponsored by the two
The news was received with
Bristol Myers spokesperson
governments. The tests will be conoptimism among AIDS activists, who
Susan Yarin told Out Week that theducted on a limited number of people
say the new drug, ddI (dideoxyinocompany was still deciding how tosine) could be as effective, and per- who meet the rigid requirements set
distribute the drug. "We don't have
haps less toxic, than AZf. That drug is down by clinical drug trials.
any labels yet, we don't know
But Bristol Myers wants tocurrently the only FDA-approved
whether to call it compassionate
product being used to directly fight expand access to the drug to includeuse, parallel track or what," sheHIV, the virus thought by many to those not enrolled in any clinical trial.
said. "We are just now 'winding. cause AIDS. Other AIDS drugs, like Drug companies call this the "comdown tests for safety, Once that data
aerosolized pentamidine, are JJsed to passionate use" system because itis reviewed and accepted by thetreat the opportunistic infections asso- gives thousands of people access to . FDA, then we can decide how to

by David Kirby ,ciated with AIDS.
"This is a major victory for the
AIDS activist movement," said Peter
Staley of ACT UP/New
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A PRODUCT OF NEGOTIATIONSHarrington said Bristol Myers' decision came after a series of meetings
between company executives andACf UP members. "We met with themin June, and told them we wanted ddI
distributed broadly after Phase II (efficacy) trials began. That same day,
Anthony Fauci (Director of the
National Institute for Allergy and
Infectious
Diseases,or NIAID)
announced his support for the parallel
track idea."
ACf UP met with the company-and Fauci-a second time andthen, after a third meeting on July 10,
Bristol Myers announced on July 13
that it would "make ddI available to
AIDS patients for whom treatment
under an emergency or compassionate drug program would be appropriate," according
to a statement
released by the company.
There was speCUlation in the
AIDS community over the suddenchange of heart by Bristol Myers,which had previously seemed reluctant to release unproven drugs into
the community-at-large. The decisioncame just four days after a historicsummit meeting at Columbia University between AIDS activists, government
healthofficials
andpharmaceutical company spokespersons. Although inVited, Bristol Myers
did not attend the conference.
But did the well-publicized conference-which dealt with community-based
testing of new AIDS
drugs have an effect on Bristol
Myers?
"I don't think so," Harringtonsaid. "I think it was more a result of
the large AIDS demonstrations held inToronto," 'on July 13, the same daythat ~ristol Myers announced its deci•
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."' That demonstration was organized by AIDS Action Now, a Canadian group similar to ACf UP..
·Yarin. insisted there was "no outside influence- over Bristol Myers'
decision, or its timing. "We hadalready' discussed wider distribution
among ourselves. It has been our
intent for some time," she said.

There are still reservations about Bristol Myers' intentions. Many activists
pointedout that the company
promised to distribute the drug only"for whom ddI is critical," but did not
define the term,"We believe that people whowant and need to take the drug
should be allowed access," Harrington said. "It should be made available to those who can't take AZT,
for those who live too far from an
AZT program but still need an antiviral."
One answer, activists say, is to
distribute ddI through so-called community-based clinical trials, and thus
expand access to the drug. Dr. Joseph
Sonnabend, who helped found theCommunity Research Initiative, a New
York group that conducts communitybased trials, told Out Week that hehoped ddI would be made available
on the parallel track.
"There are currently some community-based trials of ddI underway. We
hope this can be expanded," he said.
Sonnabend said there were noplans yet in New York to distributeddI on a compassionate use or parallel track baSis, noting that "this is
all very recent stuff." But he said
CRI and other groups "certainly arewilling" to begin widespread testingof the drug.
Bristol Myers said the drug
will come in a powder form, andmust be mixed with a buffer andthen taken with liquid. The buffer
prevents
stomachacids frombreaking down the drug. "But thismeans whole new ways of taking
a substance.
We wonderhowmuch education and outreach will
be done," Harrington said.
"We need to know how ddr
will be distributed. Will there beaccess for poor people? For those incity hospitals and those without primary care? People need to know
ddr is ava.iIable, and they will needto know how to take it," he said,
In safety tests, ddI has caused
only mild side effects, and appears
to lower the levels of HIV and raise
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Candidates Display High-Level Knowledge
At GMHC Eventby David Kirby
NEW YORK - New Yorkers concerned about the AIDS crisis can takesome comfort in knowing that at least
three of the mayoral candidates havea good, working knowledge of theepidemic - something that became
evident at a forum on AIDS held July
18 at New York University.
The
MayoralForum
on
AIDS/HIV, sponsored by the Gay
Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) andattended by some 500 people, putsome challenging questions to thethree candidates - the only mayoral
contenders to show up.
Manhattan Borough President
David N. Dinkins, City Comptroller

Harrison J. Goldin, and former
Metropolitan Transportation Association chief Richard Ravitch were there.
Mayor Edward Koch and Republicans
Rudolph Giuliani and Ronald Lauder
did not attend.
Dinkins was the first to arrive, andsat next to two empty chairs for the
first half hour, fielding questions alone
until Goldin arrived. Ravitch came inover an hour late. The staggered
entrances made it impossible to ask all
three candidates the same questions,but it soon became apparent that all
three could be concise and articulate
in most of their responses.
A four-member panel grilled thecandidates on AIDS education, dis-

crimination, clean needle exchange
programs, housing and HIV testing.
Questions were furnished to the candidates in advance, proViding for better informed, if less spontaneousanswers. In fact, Dinkins at times readhis responses directly from notes prepared by his staff.
Goldin came with notes, butrarely used them. He spoke forcefully
and looked directly at the panel andaudience. He seemed well-versed inmany AIDS issues, although not all
his ideas met with approval from theaudience. Ravitch often took a technocrat's view of the AIDS crisis,
speaking more about numbers than .,the human impact of the disease.
The panelists were: Dr. Ana
Dumois, executive director of theCommunity Family Planning Council;
Community Research Initiative board
member Louis Grant; Debra FraserHowe, executive director of the Black
Leadership Conference on AIDS; andBruce Vladeck, executive director of
the United Hospital Fund. The
evening was moderated by Richard
Dunne, GMHC's executive director ....

CRISIS

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with the community is needed."

The following is a summary ofsome of the issues discussed at theforum.

AIDS Education and Condom
Promotion.
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DINKINS: Said he supports AIDS education in the public schools "from
grade one through twelve." He said
his office has already started a program proViding counseling to school
children whose parents have died of
AIDS. He also said that he supports
public education efforts to promotecondom use. "Public education must
be explicit, and it must be culturally
and linguistically appropriate to thecommunities at risk," he stated.

Discrimination
GOLDIN: Supports the 1989 Federal
Disability
Act currently
beforeCongress, which would prohibit discrimnination against people with disabilities, induing the HIV positive.
"The Mayor of New York must be amoral leader. He must have a dearand unambiguous voice in national
policy," Goldin said. "New York is theepicenter of this disease. It is appropriate for the mayor to be a national
leader in this movement."

GOLDIN:
Opposesthe needle
exchange program, but said he was"one of those people of goodwill"
who supports
the distributionofbleach kits. "Bleach kits must be distributed widely and massively. They
will save large numbers of lives," hesaid. Goldin also called for a< newtreatment-on-demand
program for
New York, propOsing to spend some$26.5 million to fund it. "We canafford to do it. We can't afford notto," he said.

RAVITCH Oust arrived): "The mayor
must be an educator. He must teachthem that there is no threat or danger
to housing PWAs in the neighborhood."

Mandatory Reporting of HIV
Test Resuts
RAVITCH:OPpOses mandatory repOrting of HIV test results to health officials "until and unless there are lawsthat prohibit discrimination - lawswith teeth in them."

Scatter-Site Housing
DINKINS: Approves of housing people with AIDS (PWAs) in availablecity-owned apartments throughout thecity, but said that the local community
must always be consulted in advance.
GOLDIN: "The city doesn't have toadvertise who is living in these units,"
he said, "but advance consultation

DINKINS: "I have stated many times
before: No mandatory reporting. Period."
GOLDIN: Also opposed. "We want topromote public health, not scare people. Who would take the HIV test if
there was mandatory repOrting?"
T-David Kirby

DINKINS: Also suppOrts the Disability
Act. Said he would meet with the mayors of the "half dozen cities that now
have 60 to 70 percent of the caseloads. New York's mayor ought to havethe capacity to gather the other mayors, and take them to Washington for Iv:",1
some heavy-duty lobbying," he said.'·""·

Clean Needle Distribution
DINKINS: Has opposed the distribution of free needles to IV-drug users(IVDUs) since the inception of theidea. "To me, free needles is the same
as free drugs. I can't accept that weshould surrender on this issue," hesaid. Dinkins also opposes the distribution of bleach kits, which IVDUs
use to clean their works before sharing them. "What I want is to get people off drugs. I know there arepeople of goodwill who have a differ- I·)·)ent view. But I think we should
spend our energies on treatment, on
demand," he said.

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a friend of Nocera's, testified that
Nocera was forced to fight with Sutton and Caperson after they accosted
a female friend of theirs. He claimed
cCGoodthat Nocera joined the melee only
after Sutton, Caperson, and "five orwith a beer bottle by another assailant,
by Sarah Schulman
six other guys" threw Kostikas up
and punched in the face by Nocera.
NEW YORK - A 19-year-old highagainst a car and began beating him
Although customers and neighbors
school dropout from Bergen County,
New Jersey, was found guilty of parwhen he tried to protect his femalecame to his aid, another of the group,
ticipating in a gang assault on William Frank Walsh, allegedly hit him acrossfriend from their advan~s. Nocera's
Sutton, a gay man who is the coattorney, Lamont Traynor, argued thatthe forehead with an ax handle, causowner of The First Bite, a restaurant
Nocera was a "good samaritan" whoing a deep gash from which Sutton
began to bleed profusely.
at 259 West Fourth Street, in Greenonly interceded to protect his friend.
wich Village. David Nocera, theAccording to David Wertheimer,
The teenagers got back into theirteenager,
was convictedof third
executive director of the Gay and Lescars and returned to New Jersey,
degree assault and harassment onbian Anti-Violence
Project, theJuly 14 by Judge JoAnn Ferdinand
attack is typical of most attacks onin Manhattan Criminal Court.
gay men occurring in New York
Sutton and a companion, Ross
City, because it involved a gang ofCaperson, were attacked on Octoyoung men from out of state, travelber 29, 1988, after sharing a midling with young women,
andnight meal at Sutton's restaurant,
engaging in violent acts in front ofthem.
.where he is the chef. Sutton was hit
over the head by a beer bottle byAccording to Katie Doran, theanother assailant and punched inliaison to the lesbian and gay comthe face by Nocera.
munity from the Manhattan District
Nocera is presently serving a
Attorney's Office, of the 400 cases
three-year felony probation in New
reported to the Anti-Violence ProJersey for three counts of conspiraject last year, only 54 entered thecy to sell marijuana.
legal system. "The persistence ofReacting to the gUilty verdict,the victims in this case," said
Sutton told OutWeek, "I am happierWertheimer,"is exemplary
andtoday than whoever won the $24: should be saluted.".'t.'I1M$,'~~~y'
million lottery:~'ZlJi:Jt
An anti-bias bill which died in, .m~ _.;:::s~:~;:;:::'d'. 1aAccording to testimony givenp',dflliijj\ committee
uClng t h'IS ye ar's 1egIs
by. Sutton and othersat the~1I&}?~~til!1
tive session in Albany would have.,""M'fl1"""(,, mandated that any assault case
Nocera's trial, Sutton and Caperson
observed two carloads of teenaged PRAISING ~HE PE~SISTENCE OF!HE, VICTIMS involving bias based on race, sexugender or religion automaticallyboys and girls ~cross the street. Ten Gay.& Lesbla~ AntI-Violence Projectsaltiy,.
be charged one degree higher than
to 12 people emerged from the cars DaVId WertheImer.
Photo: Lee Snider simple assault. Because of theand began swinging beer bottles,
yelling anti-gay epithets and urinatabsence of such legislation, No.cera
according to testimony. Sutton was
ing in the street. Sutton asked his
was charged and convicted of a lesser
taken to Saint Vincent's Hospital, wherebusiness partner to call the police, but
misdemeanor. Had the bias bill been,
. she was told that due to the change
he received 21 stitches to the head andpassed, Nocera would have automatiof shift at the Sixth Precinct, no radio
was treated for additional injuries to his . cally faced a more serious punishment.
car was available, according to Sutton.
The difference between Sutton'sarms, legs and shoulders.
At that point Sutton and CaperNine days later, Nocera wasbehavior at the trial and that ofson left the restaurant, while the parttraced through his license plate numNocera was quite distinct. Sutton
ner locked the door behind them. The
ber to his home in Palisades Park,
testified somberly, speaking very serigang began to yank on the locked
New Jersey. He was positively identiously. Nocera and a friend continually
door handles, yelling, "kill the fags,"
fied by Sutton in a police line up.
grinned· and chuckled.
,and "kill the homos," according to Walsh was subsequently arrested andIn a phone interview after thetestimony. Sutton said that when hecharged with fe.\ony assault. His casetrial, Sutton told OutWeek that after
intervened, he was told by Nocera to comes to trial July 25. Caperson's head had been cut, one"mind your own faggot business,"
In court ·on July 14, George
teenager said, "Don't touch him, you
Sutton was then hit over the head
Kostikas, an 18-year-old student, andmight get AIDS."..

Jersey Gay Basher Convicted

Defense Lawyer Calls Him

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•NEW YORK- About 25 people assembled at Parks Commissioner Henry Stern's residence at 540 East 84th Street to protest
his decision to tear down tents erected by homeless people living in Tompkins Square Park. At 6 p.m. on July 12th, demonstrators were greeted by rows of police officers, outnunibering them nearly four to one, who completely blocked off access to
Stern's townhouse.
The demonstration, which was led by a group of Lower East Side anarchist activists, ended in a march to Gracie Mansion, during which many of the participants began running wildly thr~ugh the streets of the Upper East Side, flanked by police
officers struggling to keep up with them, to the bemusement of local residents. There were no arrests.
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u.s. Rebuffs Lover's Search Attempts
by Keith Clark
OAKLAND,
California-David
George, a noted San Francisco classical violist, was reported missing July
6 following his mysteriOUSdisappearance May 13 while on a round-theworld vacation. George, who isprincipal violist with the Oakland
Symphony
and the Midsummer
Mozart Orchestra, is widely recog.,nized in Bay area classical music cirdes. He also performs with the San
Francisco String Quartet.
George's lover, William Bombria,
said the musician telephoned himfrom the Thai resort island of Ko
Samui in the Gulf of Thailand off the
Malay Peninsula on May 13. According to his travel plans, George wasscheduled to leave Thailand May 19
by air for Athens, and was to havethen traveled to Corfu, Venice and on
to Vienna on June 7. Friends whom
he was to visit in the Austrian capital
told Bombria that they never heard
from George.
From Vienna, he was supposed
to have traveled by train to Amsterdam for a return flight home via
Vancouver. George was not aboard
his return flight July 5 when Bombria
went to meet it.
After calls to the friends in Vienna, George's brother who lives in
Vancouver, and the musician's parents
in Wisconsin, Bombria went to the. Oakland police and reported hislover missing.
The . American
EmbassyinBangkok told Bombria only that they
have no record of any U.S. citizens in
hospitals or in jails during the period ofGeorge's stay in the country. Similarly,
the State Department in Washington,
D.C. gave Bombria the "cold shoulder"when he contacted them, and informed
him that despite their II-year relationship, Bombria had "no interest in the

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GULF OFTHAILAND

KO SAMUI"

disappearance" of George because he is
not a blood relative. A State Department official told Bombria he should
contact George's family and have them
deal with the matter.
"I'm feeling very, very hurt andangered," Bombria told Out Week. "Ifthey're not any good at their job, thenI wish they'd refer me to someone
who is going to help. I don't want todeal with a bunch of clerks who arejust going to file things," he said.
According to Bombria, Marlee•

Anderson of the State Department did
say that U.S. Embassy records in
Bangkok indicated George's passport
had not been used to leave Thailand.
The George family in Gleason, Wis.consin, has also been in touch with
the State Department.
EdwardGeorge, David's father, describedAnderson's attitude as "brusque." Hesaid, "We realize the State Department
and embassy in Thailand don't havethe resources tq conduct private
investigations for missing persons."
Oakland police officer Gary Foppiano, who is handling the missing
person Case, said his office had beenin contact several times by phont.'"
with police in Bangkok, but has had
no success in getting help locating
George. "The Bangkok desk officer
we spoke with last told us the police
there don't even file reports," said
Foppiano. "Tracking someone down
who might be in jail there is almost
impossible. "Thai Air, the airline George wasscheduled to take from Bangkok toAthens, could not determine fromtheir records whether the missing
musician had indeed boarded theplane.
Francis Jones, press officer for
the State Department's bureau of consular affairs, said U.S. embassies andconsular officers in foreign countries"handle thousands of such requests tolocate missing Americans overseas"
every year. She also said trying to
track down such missing sons was "abig part of our consular work."
Neither the family nor Bombria at
this time is planning a trip to Thailand, in part because none of them
speak the language
and partly
because, as Edward George put it,"we just wouldn't know where to start
looking for a missing person in acountry like Thailand."•'.

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Warning Sticker Legislation Introduced in Pennsylvania
words "parental advisory."
by Cliff O'Neill"1 believe such lyrics are of speHARRISBURG, Pennsylvania.-A
billcial concern in today's environment,
mandating the stickering of musicalwhich poses unprecedented threats torecordings containing lyrics "descripthe health and well-being of adolestive of, advocating or encouraging
cents, including pregnancy, drug use,
SUicide, sodomy, incest, bestiality,
AIDS (and other sexually transmitted
sadomasochism,
adultery or otherdiseases), accidents and suicide,"
forms of sexual activity in a violent
wrote Gamble in a May 30 letter procontext" was introduced
into themoting the bill. The legislation (RB.
Pennsylvania State Legislature June1689) was introduced with the sup13, and is awaiting action in thatbody's Judiciary Committee.
The bill, the second of its
kind in the U.S., was introducedby conservative Rep. Ron Gamble (R-Oakdale) in response towhat he called the "increasingly
explicit" nature of rock music
lyrics in recent years. A similarbill, introduced into the Missouri
legislature last year, died in committee, but is expected to bereintroduced in this year's session, according to sources inGamble's office. The Pennsylvania bill is scheduled for hearings
in August or September.
Also covered in the Pennsylvania bill are records, cassettetapes and compact discs containing lyrics "advocating or encouraging murder, morbid violenceor the use of illegal drugs or
alcohol" Retailers selling such @lttJK%drecordings without the requisite
stickers would be charged with athird degree misdemeanor.
Under the proposal the PRINCE, THE WHO, AND PERRY COMO, TOO.
stickers would have to be print- Pennsylvania Rep. Ron Gamble
ed in black ink on a fluorescentyellow background with letters no less port of 47 House co-sponsors.
To promote his bill, Gamble isthan half an inch high. The label
circulating a 21-page memo featuring
would read: "Warning: May containlyrics descriptive of or advocating one the lyrics of a number of rap andor more of the following:" followed by "heavy metal" rock bands which are
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tion. Also included in the extensive
memo are lyrics from rock artists
Prince, Elton John, the Who andFleetwood Mac, which are said to
encourage sexual activity, homosexuality, incest and adultery. The materials were reportedly
provided toGamble's office by right-wing "family
issues" activist David Barton, a Texas
researcher involved in the pro-labeling movement.
William Sloane, a Gamble
spokesperson,stated that the
State
House
memberisapproaching record companies
urging them to support the billin order to protect the state's
record retailers from litigation.
"As an example, the state ofCalifornia requires that automobiles comply with certain emission standards;
and if carcompanies want to sell cars inthe state of California, the manufacturers have to comply tothose standards," stated Wilson.
"With a market the size of Pennsylvania, we expect [record companies] would comply. And
perhaps, if other states follow
our lead, we could do thisnationwide. "Asked if the bill would also
cover songs by non-rock acts,
Wilson quipped, "Well, I suppose
if Perry Como sang songs likethat they would be covered too."
Noting that such pop standards as Whitney Houston's
number one "Saving All My LoveFor You" (a torch song sung by awoman to her married lover), andAtlantic Starr's "Secret Lovers" (a ballad about two married, adulterous
lovers) would fall under the bill'sbroad outlines, Pennsylvania American~Civil Liberties Union spokesperson
Sue Frietshe considered what othersongs would mandate stickering.
"Whitney Houston nothing,)) she
exclaimed. "We're talking Cole Porter.
We're talking three quarters of all thesongs that have ever been recorded Hell,I think the Marines' hymn is covered"
Declaring that the ACLU will be
actively lobbying against the bill, Frietshe predicted that, should it pass,record retailers would most likely err
on the side of caution and sticker all
records. She also doubted that thelarge sticker would even fit on cassette tape cases.

Also coming out against the bill,
Hilary Rosen, Washington lobbyist for
the Recording Industry Association of·America (RIAA), stated, "It's very broadand very difficult to enforce. Clearly,
we oppose [the bill], but I'm not sure
how seriously its being taken." In coming weeks RIAAwill be examining thebill and developing a stance on it.
Frietsche compared the bill toanother proposal facing the state legiSlature which would order all retailstores selling videos or books dealing
with sexual activity to post large
parental warnings outside their doors.
Comparing the bill to recent efforts

by Congress to ban funding of "objectionable" art, National Gay and Lesbian
Task Force Public Information Director
Urvashi Vaid railed at the First Amendment implications of the bill and what
she called its implicit homophobia.
"I think its ludicrous andu,frightening that a legislator could proposethat same sex relationships in a song
lyric is somehow dangerous," stated
Vaid. "I think that's very troublesome.
Are we going to reach a point...where
library books about homosexuality
have to have special disclaimer
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A similar proposal made in Santa
Clara county last year was rejected
outright by sheriff Robert Winter.
The California penal code makes
sex between inmates a felony andmakes anyone who "aids or abets"
inmate sex while in custody liable toprosecution as well. It was this potential legal problem that
Sheriff Hennessey sought,
to clarify without muchsuccess,
In 1987 Hennessey
asked State Attorney General John Van de Kamp fora legalopiniononwhether he and the Sheriff's staff could be prosecuted under state law. Van,de Kamp told the sheriff
last year that the decision
to prosecute would restwith San Francisco District
Attorney Arlo Smith. After
three months of considering Hennessey's question,
Smith in mid-July informed
the Sheriff that he couldn't
give a legal opinion on thequestion that would cover
CONDOM OUTLAW
all possible
situations.
San Francisco Sheriff Michael Hennessey
Instead, Smith suggested
Hennessey go to the Legislature and
The condom distribution proseek amending or clarifying legislagram began July 14, making San Frantion, which the Sheriff's office considcisco the first county jail system in
ers unlikely to happen without further
California to unde~!ake suchapro.lengthy delays.
gram and only one' of a handful of
Earlier in July the San Francisco
correctional institutions in the nation
civil grand jury investigating the issue,
to do so. Although such programs arecalled sexual activity in prisons "acommon in most European nations asreality" and urged the public officials
well as in Australia, only two states,
to make safe sex education and conVermont and Mississippi, permit
doms available to inmates.
inmate safe sex education programs
The inmate AIDS education and- ~nd condorn}9ist('ibµtion. ,10 ad9ttion,
New -Y0ik;I11'k~tS"'I;f~rid'f.~dj'ity~.~l(id condoi'll program wili be under the
direction of the city's health departthe Philadelphia prison system ailow
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condoms to be distributed inside jails.
SAN FRANCISCQ-After more than ayear of trying to get a defipitive legal
opinion about distributing condoms
to inmates at the county jail, San Francisco Sheriff Michael Hennessey has
decided to go ahead with the program despite the legal ambiguities
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LOS ANGELES Municipal employee
union leaders are negotiating with Los
Angeles city administration officals
here over an innovative extended
family leave benefits package thatwould allow some city employees up
to four months of unpaid time off tocare for newborn or newly adopted
ch ildren, or to care for severely ill
family members or domestic partners.
The city benefits package will, during
the course of union contract negotiations over the next few years, eventually be offered to various unions
representing the more than 45,000 Los
Angeles city employees.
Assistant city administrative officer
Tom Sisson, whose employee relations
office represents the city in negotiations with unions, said the American
Federation of State County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and otherlocal municipal unions were examining the city's benefits package forupcoming contracts. The Los Angeles
city council in mid-July approved theextended leave benefits proposal.
AFSCME local 3090 president Betty
Ballard said, "We are completely insupport of extended leave benefits fordomestic partners." Ballard added, "I
don't know of any of the local city
employee unions (in Los Angeles)
who are opposed to the domestic partners extended leave benefits."
The innovative program would
allow both men and women to takeup to four months time off from theirjobs to care for a newborn infant or to
be with a newly adopted child. It also
would allow city employees to get thesame extended unpaid leave to care•

for a sick family member or domestic
partners if domestic partner affidavits
are on file with the city government.
Although the program offers
unpaid leave only after an employee
has used up all available vacation andpersonal time off, the city would continue to pay health insurance benefits
during the period. To insure confidentiality, information on employees'
domestic partnerships would not be
available to supervisors or department
heads. The city's employee benefits
section, where the affidavits would be
kept on file, would process requests
for extended leave instead of supervisors. In the past, requests for any
extended leave has been entirely at thediscretion of managers and supervisors.
Officials at the League of California Cities said the Los Angeles benefits program is the first in the nation
to .offer such extended leave. Sheri
Erlewine of the League said, "This is athing more and more cities are looking at to keep high-caliber, quality
employees in city government."
Thomas Coleman, principal consultant for the Los Angeles City Task
Force on Family diversity, said, "Several unions are in the process of
meeting with [city] management representatives about upcoming contracts
that involve issues concerning domestic partners' benefits, including theextended leave." But Coleman addedthat the recent change in city policy
was "only a benefits package subject
to the collective bargaining process"and not a regulation the city was forcing on employees.
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by Victoria A. Brownworth
The abortion-restricting ruling of theU,S. Supreme Court in the case of
Missouri v. Reproductive Health Services is one of the most obvious legacies of the presidencyof Ronald

NEWS ANALYSIS
Reagan. This decision-followingonthe heels of rulings limiting affirmative action and other protections for
women and minorities points directly to the influence of the Reagan Justices on the laws of the nation.
That influence is being felt mostdirectiy by gay men and lesbians,
women and people of color. The

Court has placed very severe limits on
abortion access with this ruling, justas it placed the responsibility
forproving discrimination on those being
discriminated against.
The Bush Administration
hasapplauded
the Court's decision in
Webster, and President George Bush
has also reiterated his support for aconstitutional
amendment banning
abortion.
By appointing relatively young,ultra-conservative
justices to theSupreme Court, Reagan insured thathiS!conservative agenda will be perpetuated long after his presidency.
Led by Reagan's appointee for Chief
Justice, William Rehnquist, the Court's
most conservative member, this bench

is dominated by conservatives. Rehnquist is well-liked by his fellow justices and has been able to form a
conservative bloc with the help of the
Reagan appointments.
Anthony Kennedy
is one ofthese. He is the Court's youngest
member. His first term with the Court
has proved him to be a staunch backer of Rehnquist and the Reagan agenda.
Antonin Scalia is the second
youngest member of the Court and its
strongest proponent of state's rights,
of which the Missouri decision is acase in point. He believes in the total
rescinding of Roe and has also proved
himself a strong opponent of minority
rights.
Byron White is a Kennedy
appointee who was initially moderate,
but who has developed one of thestrongest conservative votes on the
Court. He votes 89 percent of the timewith Rehnquist and, with Rehnquist,
was the only other vote against Roe in
the original case in 1972. White was

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Photo: Ben Thornberry
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also the author of the vitriolic Hardwick decision that stipulated the illegality of sodomy, and left lesbians
and gay men with no constitutionalright to privacy.
Sandra Day O'Connor, Reagan's
first appointee, has become increasingly less conservative since her 1981
appointment, when she voted in 87
percent of the decisions with Rehnquist. O'Connor has begun to fill theplace left by former Justice Lewis
Powell, Jr., who retired in 1987. Powell was a conservative with certain liberal concerns who became known as
the Court's swing voter. O'Connor has
provided the deciding vote in a seriesof key decisions, including Missouri,
where she voted with the majority but
dissented on several key points in theopinion,The liberal bloc is comprised of
Justices William Brennan, Thurgood
Marshall-the
Court's only Blackmember-Harry Blackmun and John
Paul Stephens. .
Blackmun, a Nixon appointee,
has gone from conservative to. liberalin his nearly two decades on the
Court. Blackmun is also the Court's
most outspoken member, frequently
standing out on the steps of theSupreme Court after a particularly
conservative decision to decry thatvote. He is the author of Roe and thedramatic dissent in Hardwick, inwhich he claimed that the Court's
decision invalidated Roe's stand on
privacy. He has maintained that
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COl1l1nelltary•••e marched down thegreat Fifth Avenue on the20th anniversary of theStonewall Riots, singing to the conga
beat:"jUnatt~a la marchaes por tus derechos!
jUnate a la marchaes por tus derechos!"
And when we got tired, wechanged our beat to the old classic
chant:"2, 4, 6, 8
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From the sidelines the spectators
cheered, and a few jeered, as wemarched proudly by-mujeres y hombres homosexuales carrying the flagsof their native patrias: Puerto Rico,
Cuba, Republica Dominicana, Mexico,
Guatemala, Colombia, Nicaragua, EISalvador, Venezuela y muchas mas.
• A bittersweet experience, indeed!
While we rejoiced in celebrating ourliberation as a homosexual community, we, Latino gay and lesbian folks,
mown our continued oppression andmarginalization by that very same homosexual community.
It's the classic, "Some of my bestfriends are Hispanics. Oops, it's politically correct to say Latinos. Ya know,
I've even had a Latino trick or two.
Honeeeey, Latino boys have· big,
uncut beer can dicks. I love Latinoboys, really!" Really?
Really? Just like the way slave
masters loved their house Negroesouor
rapists love their victims or abusing
husbands love their wives Really!
I am a Latino gay man-born inCuba. My culture, and the folkways of
my Afro-Cuban heritage, mean many,
many things to me. It is the food I
love to eat-los mangos, el marney, losplatanos y la yuca; thepulsating rumba beatof our music; the language I speak withtongue and hands;
the isdigenous reli,.gions I profess, it is
how I speak, andwrite, and dress, andIik'i~'::<,
7~'"touch, and dance, and.,JJr'+~1c.dK(
walk, and talk, and• ,diY")P';""
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culture is
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Sadly, more Often
than not, the differences in our cultures.
are not celebrated,
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nor acknowledged, nor supported by
my Anglo-American gay brothers. No,
as a matter of fact, for some of theethnocentrists it is a downright threat.
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It is disconcerting for them and results
in an upturned nose, tightly crossed
legs, pursed lips which open ever soslightly to emit, "Mary, who do you
think you are? Speak English! After all,you are in America!"
Hey! Can you hear the overturefrom West Side Story all over again?
Listen closely, "I love to be in
America, life is so sweet in America,
cash is so green in America" ...oops,
got carried away! See, I don't go forthat melting pot the'ory at all. As amatter of fact, the only pot I like isthe one filled with Ma's arroz con frijoles. For me, the melting pot theory
means only one thing-assimilation.
And assimilation is a "dirty four-lettered word." We have noticed whathas
happened
to
all
other
ethnic/racial groups who preceded us
to this country. They lost their language, they lost their culture, andthey lost their folkways and developed an affinity for apple pie, motherhood, and baseball. Latinos havelost so much throughout history, firstto the conqUistadores from La Madre
Patria-Spain, then to the eurocentrist
Roman Catholic Church, and recently
to the YanqUi capitalists. We cannot
afford to assimilate! To lose more
would mean that we'd lose all.
AnglO-American gay men haveformed, for the most part, the gay culture as we know it today. "Gay" thenseems to connote a certain set of values: economic status, profeSSionalism,
political savoir-faire, perhaps, a ghettoization, youthfulness, and, yes, evena "look.;' A look which celebrates
being-asa friend says in a deep
tenoredvoice-"amanly man."
SUCcinctly:the three sides of the gaylavender triangle are white, male andmiddle class, jQue nice!
No, not nice at all! So many of us
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we, the "invisible ones," the ones withfew political connections, and with little
money. The flamboyant ones-thefierce drag queens. Sometimes we'recalled "the cha-cha queens."
So many of us feel that the only I,
way we get recognized by the dominant grou p is by being "a Latin
lover" cute, mustached, uncut andIhung. Even worse, though, is when.
we get recognized
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ciassism, sexism, machismo, homophobia and good 01' Tio Sam's colonialism.
As men who are Latino and gay,
we've been placed in a unique sort ofplace. Right dab in the middle AnglO-American gay culture to theright (no pun intended!), our Latino
culture to the left. Push and pullpush and pull. A tug of war to theright, then we're too Anglo-gay identified and not Latino enough. Tug of
war to the left, too Latino for words
and not gay enough"She obviously
isn't one of us!" It seems that in order
to be accepted and recognized as gay
men, we must assimilate and enculturate, not only to mainstream AngloAmerican culture, but also into "mainstream" Anglo-American gay culture.
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egal definitions of family are
finally moving in the direction of the diverse reality.
Mayor Koch says he is issuing an executive order providing bereavement
leave for the domestic partners of city
employees. That and the court decision granting lease succession rights
to domestic partners are the first legal
recognition here in New York.
Ed Koch jumped on the bandwagon after the court's succession rights
decision. It is ironic that he'll be theone "ordering" city agencies to provide
bereavement leave (the only benefit
being extended for now) because hehas been the major obstacle to legal
recognition of domestic partnershiphere' for several years.
Bereavement
leave consists ofthree days off with pay to mourn thedeath of a family member. In practice,openly lesbian and gay city employees working in agencies where they
have been comfortably "out" 'have
been able to take standard bereavement leave with pay. Their agencies
simply covered for them, reportingthem present, or out sick, or on personal days or, in some other fashion,
doctoring their records. This has beenstandard practice in many agencies,
commonly known and condoned.
In addition, the city's Commission
on Human Rights has intervened onbehalf of the city employees on several occasions.
According to Keith
O'Connor, an openly gay staff member
there
and headof the AIDS
Discrimination Unit, "We just said, 'Aslong as there's an executive order saying gay people are equivalenttostraight people, you have to extend
those benefits to gay people' and theysaid, 'Well we don't agree with it, but
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to endorse the idea of legally recognizing domestic partners, in 1986, wasManhattan Borough President andmayoral candidate David Dinkins,
City Comptroller
Harrison J.
Goldin, another candidate for mayor,
has actively attempted to pursue theissue. In July 1987, an open lesbian
employed in the Comptroller's office,Jennifer Brown, lost her lover. She
took her bereavement days, and instead of fudging her record, theComptroller's
office submitted theleave paperwork in routine fashion.
The Department of Personnel (a mayoral agency) rejected the claim, demanding proof that the deceased met
eligibility criteria; in other words,
proof that she was a relation througheither blood or marriage,.
The Comptroller then referred thematter to the city's Law Department.
According to Wayne Steinman of theComptroller's office, the initial Law
Department review supported the extension of bereavement leave to domestic partners, in accordance withthe city's Gay Human Rights Law andthe executive order banning discrimination on the basis of sexual orienta-tion by city agencies. A second review
by more senior attorneys concurred,
but because of the potentially controversial nature of the ruling, it was sent
to Deputy Mayor Stanley Brezenoff.
Brezenoff determined that the issue
was too hot and rejected the advice of
the Law Department to revise the city
bereavement leave policy.
Ever since, the Mayor's deceitful
position has been that the city could
not unilaterally alter benefits eligibility
criteria, and that the unions stood in
the way of domestic partnership. Just
last month, Koch was quoted in the
Village Voice as saying: "As reqUiredby state law, benefits with economic
consequencessuch as health insurance coverage for spouses and dependents or bereavement leave have beenmatters reserved for collective bargaining." In pointing the finger, Koch neglected to mention that the Metropolitan
Labor Committee, representing the major
city employee unions, has supported extending spousal benefits to domestic
partners, and has brought the issue tocollective bargaining, According toDesma Holcomb of the AmalgamatedClothing and Textile Workers Union andthe Lesbian and Gay Labor Network,"His negotiators keep saying no."As a practical matter, the only reason unions might oppose extending
benefits to domestic partners is if they
are asked to give something else up in
exchange. This would be a typicallydivisive Koch tactic.
The most vocal opposition to domestic partner benefits has come from
Republican and "Liberal" mayoral candidate Rudolph Giuliani. He is a
Reagan Republican, period, He would
probably prefer us to be dead, or atleast invisible and silent.
Domestic partnership could mean
a lot for lesbians and gay men. I recently met an American who lives inHolland with his Dutch boyfriend.
Gabe and his lover registered as partners in their town; Gabe was granted
permanent resident status (citizenship,after five years), and he received
working papers and health benefits.
This makes sense. We must disabuse
ourselves of the idea that domestic
partnership is a radical demand. It issimply legal recognition of reality.
Bereavement leave and lease succession are just the first small steps, tobe sure. Almost every area of law depends upon legal definitions of family: employment
benefits, property
rights, hospital.andjail visitationrights, custody rights in case of incapacity, immigration,
child custody,
adoption, taxation. Now that the narrow legal definitionof family has
begun to widen, new court challenges
and legislative initiatives along withreactionary backlash-are
inevitable.
Village and Chelsea city council
candidate Tom Duane, a gay man,has put forward a proposal to extend
all employee benefits to "members of
non-traditional families." A group of
Manhattan
councilmembers
has
begun drafting a resolution calling fora task force "to look into just how far
the city can go," according to John St.
Croix, council
member
Carolyn
Maloney'S gay chief of staff.
In reality, the city will go no further than we push it. The Human
Rights Commission seems earnest in
pursuing equal legal recognition for
lesbianand gay relationships.
Consider this an open call: if you
have a partner and feel you are being
denied any benefit or privilege accorded to married couples, call the
Commission
on Human Rights at(212) 566-5050. (Also drop me a note
c/o OutWeek, please.) You don't needa lawyer, just a desire to pursue ourrights and a willingness to test thelimits.
"Where will it all stop?" the concerned editorialists gawk. Certainly
not until our relationships
in theirmany-splendoredforms are recognized as every bit as valid as anyone's.
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Living with AIDS

by Charles Barber"The queer, the beautiful, the gentle and the wondering will all godown before a race of healthy baboons with football letters on theirsweaters."-John Home Bums, The Gallery (1947)

aving AIDS is all so drearily
familiar. The really sinister
thing about it is how
we're pushed back into so manyclosets most of us escaped longago-back to a time many of us
can remember all too well. "I'vebeen here before," is a thoughtthat crosses my mind with alarming frequency, and I wonder:
What does AIDS remind me ofso vividly? The closet. And thenit comes to me: We're supposedto feel like this.
It's a truism by now that, "If
AIDS hadn't happened,
theywould've had to invent it." Afterall, it was always meant to be
this way: Somehow, some way,
we would be handed back, ourfreedom stripped, neatly bundled in IV tubes; back to therealm of the medical, the legal,
the psychological, the statistical.
Back to the realm of the scruti- ~nized. (There, after all, we can be obsessively studied yet powerless.)
A hospital room or a sick room isa kind of closet, too. There's the sameanguish of the double life (in this caseas we bounce back and forth between
illness and well ness). There's the
furtive activity in which secretivenessbecomes preferred, if not essential. As
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were queer, so now we are told weare terminal, based on the same bigoted generalizations. Surprise! The football hero who told us in seventh
grade that we were queer because wecrossed our legs the wrong way has
grown up to be the researcher who
tells us we're dying because of ourobstinacy in refusing to go off drug X
to get into a trial of drug Y. And thestrength to find an identity. I have along memory of this instinct-I think
we all do. Surviving is not only (forme) a matter of fighting illness but
more importantly a battle to resist outside constructions of the self.
At times I seem to find myself
warming up to AIDS after all, there
is something so familiar about it. Then
an inner voice nags at me: "You'rebuying the AIDS package, lock stockand barrel," it says in an accusing
tone. I listen carefully to others who
are diagnosed and wonder if they're
accepting it so evenly. Is AIDS attractive? Does it fit some earlier self-image
in ourselves?
Some of the people withAIDS I've known have beenmonsters: the meanest, rudest,
most hateful jerks imaginable.
I'm often that way, too. But I
can forgive them (and myselO
everything but acquiescence; itsmells of collaboration. In theface of complaints, I want toshout: "No No Stop You Can
Make It Keep Fighting Don't~ Give In!"~
Instead, I nod sympathetically, shake my head, and make\~~little clucking noises to demon~\\), strate how well I know ...
Il.
"Katherine-on
ne meurt
pas," one never dies, wrote D.H.
Lawrence to his friend Katherine, Mansfield as she struggled with:, T.B.: "I almost want it to be re\\'iI~fJexive-on
ne se meurt pas:
Point! Be damned and blasted everything, and let the bloody world come toits end. But one does not die. jamo:isl"
What a smart letter, what a goodfriend! How much more important
than the endless, well-intentioned
Kubler-Rossisms and Louise Hayismsthat are fired off in our directions. I
have a fantasy in which sick people
everywhere throw their "self-help"
death and dying textbooks out thewindow and instead sit on an outside step, crumpling up the pagesy.

doors of these closets are liable to be
thrown open at any time by the sameunwelcome monitors, irrevocably exposing us and confirming their own
theories.
I know this because, after three
years of diagnOSiS, although I may
have little interest anymore in surviving medically, I do have an instinct,
an old instinct, to survive homophobia
and bigotry-evento triumph overthem. If the anguish of living a double
life returns, so, fortunately, does theand playing basketballwith thenearest garbage can.
Three years this month I've been
diagnosed: a "long-term survivor." Inother words, the fact that I am alive at
all is more mysterious now than thefact that I could easily be, at the ageof 32, ill, dying or dead.
Perhaps, then, it's not surprisingthat health and life have become forme the mysterious, the perplexing,
Illness (four hospitalizations in thelast year) are all too drearily familiar
to be extraordinary.
What amazes me, although it's
inescapably banal to say so, are themoments of what used to be called"life" that I am still occasionally granted, the sublime periods in between
opportunistic infections when I can,for example, throw my bathing suit ina car and drive off somewhere to
swim outdoors, or hike to a picnic orstand in a long line for a movie in thewarm summer rain.
To the non-diagnosed, such moments have the profundityof aHallmark card or a John Denver
lyric. Unavoidably,
the struggle
against a terminal illness comes withsome painfully silly cliches. Suffering
is by definition banal, since everyone
does it in pretty much the same way,
so maybe it's not the quality of suffering that matters, or the quality ofmercy, but the qual ity of banal ity?
Do I have the courage to be banal,
since, ultimately, it's the ordinary that
becomes mysterious and magical.
Another triumphantsurvivor,
E.M. Forster, wrote in 1937 in his journal: "Listening in the late dusk togramophone records I did not know;
smoking; the quarter moon shone as
the light faded, and brought out sections of my books; motors coming
down the Felday Road shone throughthe window and flung the tulip tree
and pane shadows on the wallpaper
near the fireplace. When the music
stopped I felt something had arrived
in the room: the sense of a world thatasks to be noticed rather than exptained was again upon me ..."~GAY LATINOS continued from page 26

backward or non-existent position.
Humm.
And it's not the tug of war that is
the only problem. Ya see, our culture
defines homosexuality as something totally different from the current North
American modeL For us, relations between men are very closely related togender roles. Who is the "wife" andwho is the "husband," who is the activo and who is the pasivo. Many of us,
even some of us living here in theUSA, prescribe to the gender role differentiations. We perceive ourselves,
and are perceived by others, as men
who are women. Just look at the number of women-identified-men (a.k.a.
drag queens) in the Latino gay communities. Or you can read it in our literature (e.g, Manuel Puig's Beso de la
Mujer Arana). As a dear friend andcolleague, Ernesto de la Vega, of the
Brooklyn AIDS Task Force, says, "We
are the third sex!" While AngloAmerican gay culture enjoys parity between partners, in Latin America andthe Latino urban ghettos in the USA,
this parity is foreign to many homosexual men. When we fling open the
doors of our closets our society tells.usthat we have become women. Womenin our culture are the "servants" of theirfamily. Then we too, become the "servants" in our relationships. Latinas are
the strong cohesive elements within
the family. Because we have learned
well from our madres, hermanas, tias,
and abuelas we, too, become strong
cohesive elements within our families
and love relationships.
So while y'all have been celebrating 20 years of gay liberation, Latino
gay men have been trying to figureout just which "liberation" we needfirst. I often ask myself, do we, as
Latino gay men, need the gay liberation movement? Will it be the impetus
for change? Or will it be more liberating for us if we look to the feminist
movement and learn from, and identify with, and be empowered by ourThird World sistas? Will we accomplish through the feminist movementthat which the Stonewall Riots accomplished that hot June night, 20 years
ago? It is not that we are ranking oppressions-for
as Cherrie Moraga
writes, "to do so would result in ourisolation, rather than our radicalization." Yet, maybe that's what happened with the Anglo-American gay
movement. Oppressed white male homosexuals didn't identify with oppresseed women, oppressed Third
World people of color, oppressedpoor and marginalized people, andthe movement and vis-a-vis, the community, grew insular. Maybe it's naiveof me to assume that Anglo-American
gay men would self-identify as oppressed and marginaliZed men just by
their experience of being homosexual.
Or maybe the movement has been toobusy figuring out what the next stepwould be after Stonewall-you know,
not an easy step, at all. Then the devastation of the AIDS pandemic hit.
Am I excusing the reluctance orrefusal to examine the "isms" thathave eaten away at the fiber of ourgay society? Nope, not at all. As you
say in English, somehow we've lostsight of the forest looking for the tree.
The past 20 years have been filledwith struggle-we'vebeen fighting
hard for gay liberation ...and against
AIDS. Now we must begin to end thisgay diaspora which oppresses andisolates men and women because of
the color of their skin, their language,
their country of origin, their culture
and their folkways, their immigration
status, their economic and educational
background, their gender ...we have tostart searching right inside of ourselves.
Ultimately, it will lead now, as it
did 20 years ago, to liberation-holistic liberation, if you please-for all of
us: Latinos, Anglos, African-North
Americans, Asians, Native Americans,
Women, Men...
iUnate a la marchaes por tus derechos!
jUnate a la marchaes por tus derechos!

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•Political Science• •IraIn Inby Mark Harrington
n 1976, I met a breast surgeon
whose life ambition was to write
a book, called Mastectomy. Shortand balding, he had married mymother'S childhood best friend. They
lived up and east, and displayed
Warhol's Marilyn over their hearth as
an artifact of cultural arrival.
This doctor was, I thought eventhen, the unpleasant r,elicof a period when patientsweren't
supposedtoquestion their doctors,
and when often crude
and brutal treatments
were sanctioned as "inthe patient's best interest," no matter what she
actually wished.
This man was a cardcarrying
memberof
SWAMP (straight white
academic male professionals), and an ardent proponent of "radical" mastectomy, in which
the breast with cancer, the underlying
muscle and nearby lymph tissue are all
removed. But the 1970s saw the development of alternative treatments forbreast cancer: total mastectomy (inwhich the breast, but not underlying
muscle and lymph is removed) andsegmental mastectomy (a.k.a. lumpsectomy), in which only the cancerous tissue itself is excised, leaving the breast
as complete as possible.
When new treatments competewith traditional ones, doctors are often
reluctant to change. The switch fromradical to total to segmental mastectomy was accompanied by significant
debate, not only on the part of thebreast surgeons, but by the womenthemselves.
In this, women withbreast cancer prefigured people withAIDS in the 1980s, who often challenge their doctors' judgment.
In April 1976, the National Surgical
Adjuvant Project for Breast and Bowel
Cancers (NSABP) began a clinical trial
to compare total mastectomy vs.
lumpectomy and radiation vs. lumpectomy alone. The multicenter trial was
supposed to enroll 2,500 subjects andthe doctors in the study by far, citedby 73 percent of those who responded, was concern that enrolling theirpatients in a randomized cI inical trial
would jeopardize the doctor-patient
relationship. Participating in a trial inwhich the patient is randomly assigned to alternative treatments challenges the traditional assumption that
doctors know what's best. This assumption was already in question by
the women's movement which powerfully reasserted women's rights to control their own bodies. The fact that all
the investigators were male only aggravated the problem.
This study was written up by Kathryn
Taylor, PhD, and othersin the New England
Journal of Medicine on
May 24, 1984. Many of
the issues it raises are
acutely relevant during
the AIDS epidemic. In
the case of AIDS, it may
have been easier forsome doctors to admitthat they didn't always
know what was best for
their patients, but horror
stories transpired when doctors insisted on choosing treatments for theirpatients without explaining them.
Other worries of the breast surgeons in the study have recurred during the AIDS crisis: Nine surgeons complained that patients' preferences had
been so influenced by the media that
random assignment was a difficult task;
15 surgeons believed that their rapport
with patients might be jeopardized byenrollment in the trial; of the 48 surgeons who predicted a problem withthe physician-patient relationship, none
entered all their patients in the trial.
The conflict between doctors'roles as clinicians for their patients,
and as researchers in the trial also
emerged in the survey. Some doctors
said they preferred to rely on their

Women with breast
cancer prefigured people with AIDS whochallenged theirdoctor's judgment ..

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take about three years. But after 44
months, only 519 patients had enrolled-16 percent of the target figure.
In 1980, the NSABP surveyed the
94 principal investigators (PIs) in thetrial to see why enrollment was so
slow. All the PIs were male. Major differences emerged between threegroups of doctors: the 27 percent who
enrolled all eligible patients in the
study, the 38 percent who enrolled
some, and the 35 percent who enrolled
none, Eighteen percent of the doctors
believed that total mastectomy wasbetter than lumpectomy, and refused
to enroll their patients in a trial which
there was a chance of getting either.
Thirty-nine percent of the doctors had
trouble telling the patient he didn't
know which operation was better.
Yet the most troubling issue forcontinued on page 77

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Shakespeare Books 81st & Broadway SW
Papyrus 114th S1. & Broadway
St. Mark's Bookstore 12 S1. Mark's Place
Wendell's Bookstore. 8th Ave. & 12th St.
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IF YOU DONT SEE rr, ASK FOR IT.
IF THEY DONT HA VE rr, BUG THE SHITOUT OF THEM.

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•

•

The Stations Collective Arms Itself
on the Front Lines of Creativity
by Victoria Starr•"It's the kind of thing where
you don't know you're starving
until you've tasted bread."-Hadley Mays, The Stations Collective

STEAM LOCOMOTIVE:
Photo:T. L. Litt
Storme Webber reciting like a train at Divas and Desire, a Stations recital andperformance at The Lesbian and Gay Commuinity Center last month.

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he Black woman's voice.
, It is,perhaps, the oldest humansound on the face of theearth. Yet with the exception of an
occasional muffled cry of despair, it isa voice that today is seldom heard. It
was long ago silenced, like so manyother voices of difference, potential
weapons against the great white patriarchy. Voices which, if not silenced,
could shatter the myth that behind
every white man lies the Truth.
What's most amaZing is how
infrequently we recognize our own
absence from the culture and heritagethat we often call our own. The powers-that-be run a very tight ship, andwith little or no exposure to alternative views and lifestyles, most of us
know no better. We live, complacently, in psychic isolation. But then one
day, when we least expect it, a bravesoul comes along and shines a light in,another direction. And if the metaphor
fits, The Stations Collective is stockpiling floodlights, 'cause girlfriend, time
is running out.
The Stations Collective is a groupof women who combine poetry, theater, dance and music to recant a different version of the story of life. It's astory of reality, sometimes sad, sometimes trivial and often times outrageously funny, Most of all it iscelebratory, as it exists to create a,shared ideas, Art was an integral parttime and space for all of us to see thewas alone. And that was a veryof your everyday living. It wasn't thecommon thread of human existence. It painful, rude awakening which develartist over here, and everybody else
is a journey out of isolation, and a les- oped a need in me.
over there. Everybody was creating
HadleyMays: Before I got
son in human bonding. It is an awak•
together. I think that what we are
involved with Stations, I, too, wasenmg.
doing is to continue that
What follows
aretradition. In doing thatthoughts shared by somegrevv Up feeling I vvas
we create an atmosphereof the collective's memin which peoplecanbers: Dorathy Randall
ugly, I vvas unintelligent, I
identify with the writings
Grey, Maritza Matias,
vvas crazy. Novv I vvant toandthecharacters,
Hadley Mays, Pamela
whether they're lesbian
Sneed, Donna Freeman
validate other vvomen, thator straight, young or old.
Tweed
and
StormeIt's making art responsithey are not crazy, that
Webber.
ble to the people that it's
they're not alone."being presented to, andVictoria Starr: How
that's a big part of what
would you define theidentity of The Stations Collective?
very isolated. I grew up that way in a we're about. We're not taking "Mary,
Had a Little Lamb" and trying to see
Pamela Sneed: There is not one
lot of ways.
DRG: When you think about it, how we can jazz it up for the theater.
whole group identity in terms of race,
This is real stuff, because we're comin terms of class, in terms of sexualeach one of us comes from a culture
ing from a place where people had tothat was built on shared concepts andpreference. What is the basic unifying
element of Stations is creativity, andpeople's commitment to creativity.
Dorathy Randall Gray: Especiallywomen of color, and our commitment
to our own creativity.
Storme Webber: And our commitment to providing
a space for us
where we may present our work freeof exploitation, because that is a very
real problem, even among our own.

"I•

As we talked, the obvious pointthat first came to mind was how radical it was for all of these women tocome together and speak out throughtheir art. The second thing that cameto mind was how traditional what they
were doing really was. After all, radio
and television have only been aroundfor less than a century, before whichpoetry, singing, dancing and storytelling were age-old traditions in eventhe poorest of communities. Common
tradition, in fact, for all but the mostelite. But what a toll this last century
has taken on our traditions.
PS: When I first entered The
Stations Collective I came from an
extremely isolated place. I had always
done work as an individual artist, I
had presented, I had read poetry, but
always creating on my own. I had
never known about collaboration. So,
for me, Stations was like this huge discovery. The biggest thing was learningthat I was so isolated. I didn't know I

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Photo:T. L. LittA Capella Blues Belting:•Guest performer Sun Sound in Divas and Desire.

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Music-making at Divas and Desire.
struggle to exist, but in that struggle
there was some joy, some sharing,some art, and some life.
It was many years into adulthood
before I began to appreciate the subtle ways in which my own female
voice has been silenced, or at least(since I'm white), manipulated. In thismost "advanced" of societies, the artof oppression has been refined to thepoint that it often goes unnoticed. No
occupied territories here (police brutality aside), just a steady barrage of
media images telling us how weshould look, how we should think,and how we should feel. And when
we don't see ourselves in the electronic mirror, we assume the lack is ourown. We feel frustrated and ashamed.
SW: My mother was a lesbian36

who came out in
1958. I was a•••
mlOoflty
10 myfamily, because
I'm the onlyBlack person in
my family, but I
grew up in a gay
sub-culture.
In
those days manygays could not
get jobs, so mymother did what
she had to do to
raIse us.
I was inspired when I
first came to New
York by Saphire,
who, to me, took
the elements in
her life that pe0ple would tend
to look down on,
like the shame I
felt when I was
old enough torealize what society thought of
where I camefrom, and she
took those things
and turned theminto something
beautiful.
The
Photo: n. Litt way she mademe feel is theway I want my work to make others
feel. Nobody has a right to make you
feel ashamed of where you comefrom.
PS: I grew up feeling like a very
ugly little Black girl. I was ugly, I was
unintelligent, and all these things, andI always felt like I was crazy. Because
I thought in certain ways, did certain
things, dared to be different in mycommunity, because I was a lesbian,or whatever. Now I want my presence
to validate other women, that they are
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In the course of our discussion, a
lot came up about what it meant towork in a supportive environment
conducive to creating. And while thisis a major goal of Stations, it is ironicthat the setting in which Stations wasconceived was far from this ideal.

The original program entitled
Stations was actually the idea of a faculty member at Hunter College. Whatshe had in mind was to gather a collection of some of her favorite poems,
and the women who had createdthem, and to present a multi-media
showcase of the poems. Funding wasreceived from assorted Hunter factions, and the event was set into
motion. But pulling the project together proved a challenge for everyone
involved, as the forces of society
reared their ugly heads and everybody
fell into their traditional roles .
PS: From a creative standpoint,
there were a lot of constraints placed
upon us, and I think it's important to\define what those constraints were. In
terms of the way Stations was original-~'ly set up, there was this one white
woman who was in control of allthese extremely powerful women of i.
color, and before we 'knew it, we all
began to feel the pressure that she
was under as a director, trying to pull .
this thing together. But there's some- I~
thing that needs to be said about theway this thing was structured, because
it is the age-old story, and it's a position that all of us have been in all of
our lives. All of a sudden we lookedat each other and said, "Goddamn,
there is so much power here, why do
we have this woman in this particular
position?"
It's extremely importantforwomen, and especially women ofcolor, to have control over our own
work. And in a predominantly Blackand Latina collective, you cannot havea white person in control. It's psychological.
.
DRG: This woman held the purse
strings, and she made the decisions.
Who would be paid, whether or notthere would be costumes, whether or
not there would be special mikes, andall that It was a very controlling atmosphere.
PS: The other point that is important concerns our own perceptions. It
was incredibly difficult for us tobelieve that we could do somethingfor .Ql,l'rselves.This is not only in termsof Stations, but in terms of our whole
lives. It is a tremendous battle for us
to take on all this responsibility for..-;
our work, because it was completely
convenient to have this white dictator
to point a finger at. For us to takecontrol is a struggle because it doesn'tallow us any illusions. We can't saythat because this woman is Black, or
because she's Latina, that she'll autoI matically understand, and that she's, gonna treat us all fair, you know what
I'm saying? I mean, we are reallystruggling to work together and stay
together.
DRG: When we felt like saying"Fuck it, I'm going home. If I have tolick another stamp, if I go to another, meeting, if I give up another weeki end, if I see this woman over here
and she comes in with attitude one
more time, I'm leaving." There's beentimes when I felt like if I have to seeanother one of these women of any
I color at all, I wanted to go home for a, month, and all of us have gotten tothat point. But it's like family, andyou're gonna fall out, and you're
i gonna fight, but what keeps you there, is that there's somethinglargerbetween you.

I

would like my work to be a weapon insome woman's hand. I want people tosquirm in their chairs. I want my work
to be a tongue in people's ears.
...

Lesbian/ Gay Community Center, andwill feature some of the nation ~ mostimportant poets reading from Parkers
work.

The Stations Collectivewill be hosting a tribute to Pat Parker, a Black lesbian poet who recently died, to takeplace Friday, September 15th at the

For booking information, or to
get involved in any way with The
Stations Collective, call (718) 6386415.

In closing I asked the women toa bit about the inspiration thatdrives this labor of love, and to talkabout their long-term hopes.

I talkMaritza Matias: Dance came into
my life as a healing tool, and I used it
to express whatever it was that I was
experiencing as a teenager. I feel that it
is very important for me, as a Latina, tobe on stage, in front of people.
Because as Latina women, somewherein our tradition we are taught to bevery quiet, very passive, Verbally, individually, in the way we live our lives.
; So even if I have jUst one simple move,!like my arm going across in the air, it's
I being seen, and that's important. It is
important to show other Latinas that
I we belong out there, and the fact that
I I'm there represents a choice.
Donna Freedman Tweed: I plan to
go on to medical school, so my work isalso going to be healing. I want to giveback to the person that power to heal
themselves, so that they don't have torely on outside help. That if they monitor their bodies, and their environments, that they have the power within
I themselves to heal themselves.
SW: In terms of my own work, I•

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f you're on the near side ofage 30, the name Jack Wrangler may draw a blank. So
kiddies, turn down the volume on
your well-worn copy of Like A Prayer
and gather 'round for a quick history
lesson. For those on the far side of 30,
the porn-star Jack Wrangler is linked
with a scrapbook of memories. Whensex was something you did without
gUidelines. When Saturday evenings at
The Saint were spent in a poppers
cloud that wafted you into Sunday
afternoon.
In the middle of all this hedonism
was Jack Wrangler, the clean-cut, blondboy-next-door type who happened tolike sucking off other boys next door
in flicks like Hotbouse and Navy Blue.
Mischievous, muscled and endearing in
the way he met each preposterous
porn film plot with wide-eyed irony.
Inspiring in his approach to four-onthe-floor gymnastics. Wrangler was
durable and memorable in an industry
now clogged by faceless California
twinkies. Even when he made theunexpected jump to straight porn, hebrought the boyish energy and overacting to his The Devil in Miss jones II andjack and jill II.

For those who have survived thebaths and the death of disco (plus thepassing of countless friends), it is curiously comforting to see Jack Wrangler
at the age of 43, even if he no longer
shucks his clothes at a moment's
notice. No bubbleheaded
sex toy,
Wrangler returned to stage production
when spontaneous celluloid orgies
became a tiresome. His irreverent
autobiography Wbat's A Nice Boy Like
You Doing gave his career a second
wind and introduced horny housewives (via the talk show circuit) to the
man that much of gay America
drooled over for years.
This month, Wrangler surfaces inSoul Suroivor, a comedy about love,
death and acceptance in the Age of
AIDS. It is the opening week of theshow and Wrangler is on the phone in
the East 58th Street apartment heshares with chanteuse Margaret Whiting. He is chatting in the slick, jauntyslang of a theater mogul about a favorable advance review. It is late afternoon and Wrangler is relaxing in aplaid shirt, white dungarees and white
socks. When not filmed from thecrotch upwards in majestic lust-ovision, Wrangler stands a modest fiveseven. The upper torso remains solid.
His golden hair shows streaks of grayand there is a maturity to the oncewild-eyed face. A Jack Wrangler doll,
dressed in dungarees, boots and sporting a formidable basket, sits on thesofa. On the wall is a poster of theyounger Jack, a luscious barechested
boy, standing poolside in a cocky posethat dares as much as it seduces. All
that, Wrangler says, was a carefully
crafted image.
"When I started doing films andbecame a pUblic sexual thing, I
thought it would help me get overbeing shy and meeting people, insecure and kicking pebbles." He lights
the first in a series of Marlboro 100s
with a fancy brass lighter. "I got over
my insecurity as a performer, but not
in my personal life. I'm still very shy. If

Photo: M.D. MinichielloSURVIVING SOUL:

Wrangler with Stacey Lane (Ieh) and James Lane (top) in Soul Survivor.
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that gave his porn films a quality previously unseen: Humor.

w"WHOEVER S~EIS, THArS NEW YORK

Wrangler's inspiration and roommate, Margaret Whiting.
I'm attracted to someone, I don't knowwhat to Say. I don't know how to deal
with it." Which means that on the oddnight that Wrangler shows up at Ty's,
the celebrated icon of porn finds himself going home alone.
Soul Suroivor may change that, as
well as introdUcing Wrangler to a newgay generation whose only heros are
Pee-Wee Herman and Madonna. Soul
Survivor is sometimes tender andsometimes a frantic farce. It deals withlove among the ruins of the epidemic.
Jerry (Jim Lamb) watched his lover
Brian (Wrangler) die 17 months ago of
AIDS, and has been unable to open
his heart since then except to theoccasional trick. Along comes sweetand sincere Mark (Stacy Shane) andJerry puts aside guilt and decides true
love can have a second go-around.
But Brian returns from beyond to
thwart the union and lay claim to hislover once again - or at least lay him
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Soul Suroivor can be corny, evenmawkish,in its approach
to aheartrending issue, but.it presents thesituation in a goodhearted way thatsoothes many a troubled conscience.
Wrangler explains the focus of theshow. "It's all right to get on with it andtake the relationship that you had as awonderful moment in your life andcherish that. But there's more to life
than that, and as long as you're on thisearth, you have to take the next step,
Otherwise, you're never going to grow;you might as well be as dead as Brian."Wrangler is the late Brian, an
incorrigible leather queen and stud, apure product of the heady 70s club
scene in Los Angeles where a gay man
was measured qy the number ofnotches in his belt. Brian has a fieldday. He races about the stage, teasing
Jerry and Mark and wreaking havocwith the twitch of a finger. Wrangler
mugs mercilessly, displaying the same
exaggerated emotions and ironic looks

om wasn't exactly a conscious career choice forJack Stillman, the son ofa well-known Hollywood
producer at Paramount. During theearly 70s, he was working on the
Chicago dinner theater circuit, directing
full-figured girls Betty Hutton, Yvonne
DeCarlo and Jane Russell. "It became
an awful grind," he recalls. "Just facingthat roast beef night after night."
When his star attraction, veterancharacter actor Andy Devine, died at
the end of a run, Stillman was left
without a show to take on the road. So
he headed back to the West Coast to
ply his own trade as an actor in a nonequity show called Special Friends.
Stillman could not use his real name in
the non-equity show. Wearing a Wrangler workshirt, he hit upon an alias
that stuck. The show was scheduled
for a bruief run, but it took off unexpectedly and Wrangler won a local acting award. He also garneredareputation; because of a scene in theshow where he strips, the centerfold
offers starting coming in. Wrangler,coming off a bad relationship, craved
the new-found adulation.
"It was a Walter Mitty thing. I
thought, 'Wouldn't it be nice if people
thought I was stud of the earth when I
knew I wasn't?' He explodes into a spluttering laughter, his face screwing up.
Wrangler admits that he was closing the door on legitimate work when
he began appearing in gay porn· films.
But he is philosophicalabout theswitch. "I wasn't being offered The
Brady Bunch at the time," he reasons.
The L.A. starmaker scene was, andremains, staunchly homophobic. "Whatyou do in your private life is perfectly
all right in L.A. But don't even say theword 'gay' in television and film; people who run those industries don't evenwant to hear from that."
So Jack Wrangler, a shrewdly merchandised superstud porn star, wasborn. And Jack Stillman jumped into afuck-by-day, fly-by-night existence ofstrip show appearances and eight millimeter wet dreams. But shy Jack still
felt disconnectedfrom the wholenovel called Sell-Out. His partner in thisBackstage. One night, he was unwindexperience. "I felt like an outsider, like
project is a celebrity of the inside trader
ing with his manager
when hea sham. I felt I wasn't a hunk, justworld, a meek man named R. Foster
glanced across the room at a woman,masquerading as a hunk. 1 didn't think
Winans, who spent time in a white-colspeaking in a husky and raucous
I was any good at it.
lar prison after leaking market tips fromvoice, surrounded
by a coterie of"So with all that self-doubt, at thehis column at The Wall Street Journal.
men. All Wrangler could see was theend of the day, I just came home and
The result of his stint in prison was aback of her head. He turned to his
got in the shower and stumbled out tobestseller called Trading Secrets. The
manager and said, "Whoever she is,dinner. I didn't socialize
much,novel concerns a man who wrote athat's New York."
because of my own insecurities, notforgotten novel about his memories ofWhen he discovered that the lively
because I didn't like the people."a childhood frienQ with polio. The
lady holding court was Margaret Whit"My Dad once told me, 'Just
novel is discovered and published toing, Wrangler had to introduce himself.
always know what your next chessacclaim, and the chain of big-money
After all, Jack's father, Robert Stillman,
move is going to be; if you're ahead•
deals and broken promises begins .
had worked at Paramount with Richardof the game, you'll be
all right." Wran"I get a kick out of watching peoWhiting, Meg's dad. Moreover, the Stillgler takes another cigarette and shakes
ple do numbers on one another. Ifmans had called upon the Whitings,
his head. "1 never did know my next
you're born into that world, it doesn't
who were their neighbors in Beverly
move, but Uucked out."
come as a shock to you." .
Hills many year~ ago.
In more ways than one. The field
Since Whiting will be out of theWhiting greeted Wrangler like aof gay porn has been hit hard by AIDS.
city the month of August, Wrangler
long-lost friend and asked him what heWrangler nervously rationalizes why
wants to stay busy (when Whiting perwas doing in town. Her nervous tablehe's still healthy: "As far as I can figure,forms in New York, he sometimes
mates explained the nature of WranI was never anally-oriented, either one
produces her cabaret act). Anothergler's star stature, but Whiting wasway or another. It certainly happened
project is a book on famed composer
undaunted.
Later that week, laden
in several of my films, but it wasn't my
Johnny Mercer. "I hate to face a blankdown with Saks Fifth Avenue bags after
interest sexually. I was very frontal. But
page," he says. But if peothe tallies are not in yet; youple still remember Wranstill don't know. Up to this··Whatever things I do, I do. I try not gler for a creative orgy
point I've been negative. But
scene filmed during thethat doesn't mean three years to do things 'that hurt Margaret or
mid-70s, he shrugs indown the line .. .I mean, howembarrass her professionally:'
response. "If you do somecan you know?"thing
somewhat
outBut Wrangler also credits
landish, people remember that morea shopping jaunt, Margaret Whiting
his well-being
and health to thethan anything else and that's all right
took in a matinee performance at The
woman who lured him from the pomwith me."Jewel Theater. After his performance,star life of drugs and sex back in theAnd' all the fuss about him being
Wrangler acknowledged his special
late 70s. That was singer Margaret
a former porn star, Wrllngler says heguest to the audience. The well-loved
Whiting, a legend in musical circles
can't understand. Nor does he sense
diva received a standing ovation.
since her debut in the 405 with the hit
when somebody is looking directly at
Seemingly mismatched, they built
song "Moonlight in Vermont." Exuberhis crotch instead of his face on first
their relationship from there. "Oneant and bawdy, Whiting is an unlikely
meeting. ''I'm not looking for trouble.
time I asked her to marry me,"Wranbut ideal foil to Jack's impish, impulI try to take people on face value as I
gler says. "She said yes and we neversive behavior. "Anybody who knows
assume they take me.
discussed it again." (They've neverMargaret and I say they understand the"When I meet people, I do nottied the knot.)relationship completely," Wrangler
think, 'How are they reacting to Jack
Wrangler's sexuality is not ansays. How they met, the gay film stud
Wrangler?' I'm not thinking about
issue, but it was Whiting who urged
and the diva, is pure,Manhattan magic.
myself; I'm thinking about how I'm
Wrangler to leave the porn business.
During the mid-70s, cabaret perreacting to them, or whether I'm mak"Whatever things I do, I do. I try notformers, actors and rabid Broadway
ing a good impression."
to do things that hurt Margaret orfans would meet every night at Ted
The old porn films are kept in aembarrass her profeSSionally. We trust
Hook's Backstage, a celebrated afterchest
behind the sofa in the den.
one
anotherinourlives."
hours boite on West 46th Street. Jack
Wrangler hardly looks at them, except
There is no need to retread glory
had come to New York to peddle hiswhen friends come over and make adays of the past, Wrangler has written
studly image, wowing them three
request. And when he sees young
the book for a new musical, Alias
shows a day at The Jewel Theater
Jack, the cinematic stud, caught in a
Jimmy Valentine, based on a short
downtown with a fantasy monologuefour-way fuck with a group of hunks,
story by O. Henry. The piece is being
and a simulated
jerk-offscene
he just can't get off on it. "I look at myshown to possible backers after a sucbetween X-rated films. Like otherfilms and think, Jesus, how did anycessful workshop run. In addition, hemembers of the acting profession,
one ever get turned on to THAT?" 'Y,
is trying his hand at collaborating on a
Wrangler would finish his evenings at

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BY BRADLEY BALL
Dear Brad,
This friend of mine (he says he's
straight) bought a compact disc player
in June and I thought, thank God,
he's finally caught up with the times,
but in fact it's just been
one nightmare
after
another. For instance, I
called to tell him that the
Capitol reissue of Follies
was now available andhe said that he alreadyhad the album and if heneeded to hear Victoria
Malloryand Justine
Johnson sing "One MoreKiss· he'd just listen to
the Sondbeim Tributealbum. Then I discovered that not
only is he not replacing his oldrecords with discs, he's even purchased some new records because hesaid they were less expensive. I've
tried and tried to explain to him that
he's missing the point completely but
he says he's not going to spend extra
money on something he only plans tolisten to a couple of times. Now he's

even gone and bought a new record
rack! What can I do?
-BLUE IN TIlE FACE

Dear Blue,
Precious little. Befriending astraight man is the moral eqUivalentof banging one's head against a brickeven get him drunk ... once, maybe
twice, but he's still a straight man andthat's an immutable genetic flaw. For
your peace of mind, if this friendshipis worth it, you'll just have to lower
your expectations. You may continue
to help him select the right tie when
he's to be seen with you in public but
you are not, however, obliged to lend
a shoulder when thosealbums start skipping.

Befriending a straight
man is the moral
equivalent of banging
one's head against abrick wall ...

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wall and invariably results in frustrating situations exactly like the one
you've outlined here (though onenecessarily has to wonder what yourfriend is doing with the Sondheim
Tribute album in the first place).
Look, you can hector him about thevalue of replacing those scratchy old
albums, you can give him better
sweaters for his birthday, you canDear Brad,
What kind of ahoax is this Free Trade I .
Agreement with Canada?
I just went to Vancouver,and believe me, that
trade was anything but
free. In fact, when thisguy, Darrell, saw that I
was carrying Americanmoney, he suddenly started ordering
top shelf vodka. Maybe this magaZine
ought to run an expose or something
to warn other unsuspecting tourists
like myself.
-FLEECED

Dear Fleeced,
I'm sorry you had an unpleasantexperience in Vancouver. I, myself,have had some perfectly splendid
adventuresin that "Jewel by the
Pacific," including one memorable
shipboard Dominion Day Party in1986 when the cast was muchyounger and we all of us truly
believed, while fireworks briefly colored the sky above the fairgrounds,
we could remain that happy for the
rest of our lives. That, sadly, was not
to be the case and we were subsequently pulled apart by shifting political and personal centrifugal forces
until we arrived at that afternoon in
Victoria, barely a year later, whennothing much remained to be said ordone.
At any rate, the Free Trade
Agreement to which you refer is abilateral economic treaty which does
not specifically apply to social transacti.ons. Take heart, though, because
if Free Trade accomplishes its true
goal of annexing Canada as the 51st
State, then we will share a common
currency and people like Darrell will
be cadging drinks from Hong Kong
investors.
Tby Michelangelo Signorile

stranger to cosmetology herself.
Anyway, now here's George
Wayne, whom I've fluttered about
many a nightclub With, saying that
Kelly's his new best friend. It only
reminds me of the time I went toBrazil with Stephen Saban of Details,
and other columnists. Saban became
highly upset when Michael Musto(Village Voice) and I took off with thetwin boy chauffeurs. The next night
he got drunk and tried to get the boys
up to his room. But it didn't work.
He came back to New York and wrote

nteresting
Note Which Has
Nothing To Do With The Rest ofThis Column So Help Me God:
Back in the days when gossip
columnisl$ would refer to a group ofgay men at a party as a bouquet ofpansies, the word used to describe awoman who married a famous gay
man in order to "protect" his career
was a beard.

....

"I met Kelly Klein for the firsttime and realized that I was wrong
about her all along. She is now on
the fabulous list."
So says George Wayne in his "In
The Raw" column in Paper. Is he for
REAL? What fabulous list? The list of
fabulous NIGHTMARES? This is thewoman who married Calvin - yes, heof the Fire Island home and the parties with lots of hot boys - andinstant! y became a socialite (but still
couldn't dress), Not too long ago, theusually bashful and timid societycolumnist William Norwich (New York
Daily News) mustered up some spunk
for a moment and wrote of how
Calvin and Kelly live in separate apartments. He did more than just suggestthat their marriage was arranged.
(After all, with AIDS came a sudden
desire among the rich and famous to"cosmeticize" - and I don't mean
wearing make-up.)
Anyway, Liz Smith (New York
Daily News), a dear old friend of
Calvin's, came to his side at the timeand gave Billy Norwich a vicious lashing in her column the next day. Liz
had written of how Kelly and Calvinwere such a nice couple and how
nasty it was that Norwich tried to suggest what he did. Liz, of course, is noa column that depicted Musto and I as
crazed homosexuals and depicted
himself in a posed photo looking up a'
woman's ass (but this is all anothercolumn).
....
In an item headlined"The
Oddball World of James Mason," some"I

homophobe at Page Six (New York
Post) writes of how James Mason was"accused of being bisexual" - as if
it's something to be guilty oLWonder
if Suzy's (New York Post) editors realized that a photo of the highly unnatractive socialite Marylou Whitney wascaptioned "Gone To The Dogs" (Suzywas writing about how Whitney wasattendingtheSaratoga
DogShow)? ..Liz Smith has an interestingnote (and a first) at the end of her column these days: "Liz Smith is on
vacation. This column is a collaboration with St. Clair Pugh and Denis
Ferrara." Not even to get into theissue of whether or not Liz is sitting
on a beach with a cordless phone
talking to these two guys, I'd like toknow why the men's photos are not at
the top of the page too. It could looksort of like Mount Rushmore ...Michael
Musto's blind (as in unidentified) discussion of activants - AIDS activists
who are fashionable and fabulous andlove publicity (in addition to beingcommitted ...but, of course) - seems
to have focused on at least one
OutWeek contributing writer and two
people who've been profiled on our
Look Out pages. But, we'll never tell.
Note to Liz Smith: It's now day
20. Where's my fucking letter?
...

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Pop Shots

Photos by Erich Conrad.",.

STlTCHIN' PARTY ANIMALS

A TlSH BY ANY OTHER NAME ...

The devastatingly lale Gingel Snap (I.) with MI. Fashion at Pylamid

Designels Malc Jacobs and Michael Schmidt at Boy Bal.;,

SAY AAAH. 00.

Red Hot Chili Pepper Flea (I.), doorperson Sue Sherman
and friend stick it out at Cave CanemNEW YORK ANQ BUST

Toni toning up at Sound Factory

STARS ANDTYPES FOREVER
A NEW WAY TO HAVE YOUR TEETH CLEANEDBlack Beauty (I.)and oral hygenist at Cave Canem

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Lucrecia at
Love Machine

POP. NO BISMOL

Iggy Pop fl.) with Rob Ro.d".rat

Call. Can.",

KIDS. DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME

Rebecca at LOll. Machin.

MADAM. KINDLY REMOVEYOUR HEAD•BAD GIRLS RULE

8eth at LOlleMachineTh•• /ectrifying Lucy at LOll. Machin.

TWO ad.s ARE BETIER THAN ONE

Details'Stephen
at Calle Can.m

Saban and OutWeek~ Gabriel Rot.llo

A CURRENT DESPAIR

Miss Olympia at
Pyramid

A,J

EC-STRA, EC-STRA. READ ALL AB OUT IT

Goldilocks at Sound Factory

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By Michelangelo Signorile

5:00 p.m.

was a Friday. Late afternoon. And I
was looking for lube.
Previously I'd always bought it insome West Village sex emporium, orelse my boyfriend would get it freerom work (GMHC). But now I was determined
the East
to find lube in mJ! neighborhood
if only to convince myself that lube
Village
was to be had there.
This is my true tale of desperation and humiliation.

I'm walking down Second Avenue between 12th and11th Streets. I run into David Myron from the Living WithAIDS Fund. I don't know him very well, so I allow forsome small talk before springing the question,"David, do you know where I can get some lube
around here?"He directs me to a beauty supply store on 10th Street
and also tells me about "the place with the skull in thefront on St. Mark's." Fine.
He warn's me that I won't find anything fancy. "Nocolors, or fruit flavors." All I want is ForePlay withnonoxynol-9. What could be simpler? It's what everyone
uses, right? They even endorsed it at the Women and
AIDS teach-in. (Maria and Heidi use it, for God's sake!)

5:10 p.m.
There's no lube, at least not that I can see, at the discountbeauty supply store on 10th Street. And I simply don't
have the gumption to ask the four heterosexual teenagers
working there if they have it. Besides, I figure, I'll just go
the "the place with the skull in front of it.",,

5: 20 p.m.

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I'm on St. Mark's but I can't find any place with a skull.
As I wander aimlessly, I run into Rollerena in front of
Dojo's. We embrace, kiss, say "hi.""Do you know where I can get some lube aroundhere?" I query.
"Some what?" says the puzzled roller-skating-discoqueen-turned-roller-skating-disco-activist.
"Lube,""What?
"Lube.""What?""You know. Lubrication." '"Oh, you mean GREASE!!!Ha! Are you and that love
doll still speak in' in tongues?""Yeah, listen, do you know where I could get the
lube?""Sure, go up to the corner, turn right, two blocks ....."''Thanks, Rolla."
I zip off, but when I get about 20 yards away, shecalls back to me.
"Darlin!" she screams, in front of about 100 people
eating on the sidewalk cafe. "Have a great time getting
your hole plugged!"
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by Liz Tracey* Yes, WE HAVESEX. Some of us more than others, If you
guys have been told that the penis is the center of the universe, then having two penises is like a galaxy unto itself.
So it's hard for two girls to get together and get over thefact that there's nary a penis between them, and they're still
having fun. But the post-Stonewall generation seems toknocking these little problems down at an alarming rate .
. '. Overheard at the Sunday Pride March, ACT UP contingent:¥> . ,-,A~",. BOYS<f',,'..

-(chanting):

Fags and dykes,

we like to, suck. We have gay pride up the butt!

, ,,I, GIRLS(to each other): Can we say that?
>, ONE HOT BOY: Do you like it?
-t has now been 20 years and some weeks since
Stonewall. My friends and I were between the agesof three and nine (give or take a few years for vanity) when the fags and dykes fought back. Most of us cameout ten or so years after that, and we have been a productof our politics, and our times.
I think we are a generation that doesn't take to thecloset easily, and have everyone before us to thank.
Perhaps we are the most privileged, and the most threatened. Just as New York looked like Wonderland, we weresitting in a GLYNY(Gay and Lesbian Youth of New York)
meeting in 1983, having our first safe sex workshop, I wastold that I didn't really need to be there, since women
weren't at risk. If only it had been so simple ...
But the boys in the room wanted us to stay, and so
did we. We were fascinated with each other, in a way thatbeing young and naively jaded could only produce. We
asked each other about sex in detail which I now blush
when thinking about. Sometimes, we had crushes on eachother, and once in a while, I found myself kissing someone
whose razor stubble tickled my face in a very unfeminineway,
I just want all you boys to know that I love you, I
think you're hot, and I think you still don't know enoughabout us girls. Just because you all start reading Sarah
Schulman doesn't mean you know the lesbian nation. It
helps though.
So here's a helpful hints guide for you men out there
who want to know and love us, but just can't seem to understand who we are, deep down in our souls (and othervarious organs).

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-::::.::', ONE HOlTER GIRL:Yeah...(she blushes):q; BOY: So say it! (he pauses
for a moment) Vh,"do girls really do that?
With this said, when we have watched the same fUm together and you think that scene of the two women kissing
was really erotic, don't be surprised when we are snoozing
from all the excitement. We can be as sleazy (and sensitive)
as you.
While making jokes about being "on the rag" date back centuries ...when you're on it, it's not that funny. Not that wewant you to censor yourselves, just be nicer to us whenthat time of the 23-31 cycle rolls around. Because until
you're doubled over from your womb trying to rip its way
out of your abdomen, and you're gushing ike Old Faithful,guys, you don't have a clue to the "thrill of being awoman."We rarely make more money than you do, so take ,us out
and buy us drinks.
The lesbian nation is DIVERSE, and we mean DIVERSE.
While some of us worship the ground Ferron walks on,others think that "Snowing in Brooklyn" is as pleasurable
as menstruation (see above). "I am a lesbian. But I hate
women's music. What is wrong with me?" This is anotherparticularly generational problem. We didn't grow up with
Holly, we staned with Madonna. And New Order, and theDead Kennedys ad nauseum infinitum, So when we're atyour house, don't feel compelled to bring your Chris
Williamson collection out, unless requested,
We have to take care of each other. That means nagging
phone calls only your mother would make, walking eachother home, and holding each other when that piece ofwork we met at Mars/Cubby Hole/that party last week
doesn't call, or write, and then snubs us at said location.
An army of lovers, ex-lovers and their best friends cannever be defeated. (But they can give attitude, girlfriend ..')

Nextweek: "Gesbians"oo.TheTruth at last'"

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INCITING THE PIZZA REBELUONGiancarlo Esposito as Buggin Out.

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The easiest way to find trouble is
to look for it.
Even before Spike Lee's Do the
Right Thing opened in New York theaters, some commentators took it uponthemselves to Warn America that thefilm, with its climax of racial conflictand lethal police brutality, could set
off a summer of violence. Consequently, Do the Right Thing has become aphenomenon. Lee, its producer-writerdirector-star, intends it to be more thana summer diversion. He wants tomove people to talk about racial polarization of our society and, more pointedly, Edward 1. Koch's New York as
we approach election lime.
Though angered by the charges
levelled at his film, Lee can barely
complain about the extent of the publicity generated by this controversy ...
publicity unprecedented for the workof an African-American filmmaker.
One issue of The Village Voice, forinstance, devoted eight articles to thefilm and its pivotal players. The New
York Times convened a panel andpublished its discussion of the film on
the front page of the Arts and Leisuresection. Lee's time, though forced, hassurely come. Many a white Americanor European filmmaker might envy
this scrawny young guy in his homeboy drag.
With all the ink and hot air
SWirlingaround Do the Right Thing, it
is ironic that the film is largely concerned with the positive or negative
power of language (not only words,
but music, images, gestures anddance). Words are loaded with powerand history, and yet we play withthem like toys. "I'm going to killsomebody today," says Sal (Danny
Aiello) in a cranky mood when we
first meet him. His casual words willecho down the length of the film.
Sal, a middle-aged Italian-American, owns a pizzeria in Brooklyn's
Bed-Stuy. You can tell that Sal has
been trying to do the right thing, as heunderstands
it, for many yearsworking hard to build his businessfrom scratch, proViding work and afuture for his two sons, proudly feeding the youngsters of a neighborhoodthat is not his own, hiring an African-

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American to be his delivery boy (Lee Dee), the flinty busybody who hides
her good heart. But they are stuck inplaying Mookie), and blocking Pino,
his bully of a son, from acting out his time, and the young have no time forhistory. The clash of cultures and genovertly racist attitudes. Sal sees himself
erations will bring tragedy to Bedas accepting,even nurturing,of
Stuy-with Sal's pizzeria as the focal
Blacks. He fails to see how attachedfrustrahe has become to what he can do for point of the neighborhood'stion. Clearly, there's a need for balBlacks-too
attached to his power
ance. Although Lee has been accusedand his property, the pizzeria, as theseat of that power.
In Aiello's
mature,wonderfully variegated performance,
Sal is a man
capable of genuine sensitivity but also crass, insensitive reaction.
You caneasily find h is buttons (allabout control), push them,and watch him forget that"the right th ing" has something to do with the valueof human life. In Lee'svision, Sal stands for theof advocating violence, I believe hetype of 'guy who feels he's beyond
racism and that it's easy to rid ourmerely draws us a garish picture of
the problem and asks us to work out
society of racism simply by people
working affably and quietly side by the solution.
side. That is, until a power struggle
The feeling of Lee's Bed-Stuy is
on music, alive withbrings up the fear hidden beneath his warm-floating
benevolence.
likeable people, sly humor, golden
Some of Lee's effects in Do the tones and bright colors in the blistering
Right Thing-dizzily
tilted camera
summer sun. Another irony of the flakangles, angry faces nearly filling thesurrounding the film is how some critics,'{w.ascreen, characters shout,,;ing breathless strings ofinsults
andethnicslurs-recall
the flashy
excesses of School Daze.
But there's little evidence
that Lee wants to do thesophisticated thing. "LiftEvery Voice and Sing"(a.k.a.
"The
Negro
National Anthem") tentatively opens the film,
soon routed by Public
Enemy's"FightthePower," anthemof a
new generation.
Rosie
Perez dances
to thismuscular rap, a womantransmuting anger into
ecstasy. Here's the energy, Lee says. The stability may be with oldtimers
like Da Mayor (Ossie
Davis), a grimy but wiseand caring drunk, and
FIGHTING THE POWER
MotherSister (Rubyquestioned
the realityof thissetting-not grim enough for an urban
ghetto. Lee presents the spiritualessence of a neighborhood, and we canchoose to see it or not. He then shows
how prejudice can make everyone---thejudge and the judged-completely shut
off to healthy communication. There's
an overwhelming sense of loss throughout the film, culminating in
unnecessary
death
and
destruction.
The pizzeria becomes abattleground. First, Buggin
Out (Giancarlo Epostito),
the neighborhood
radical,complains that the photos
on the wall (all famous Italian-American stars) don't
exactly represent the racialcompositionof Bed-Stuy,and he demands a change.
Then Radio Raheem (BillNunn) descends
as always, blasting
Public Enemy from his boom box.
He's the neighborhood scapegoat, a
glowering, silent hulk. Only Mookie
can get a smile and a conversation outof him. He has an amusing duel witha Latino with a boom box loaded with
Ruben Blades tunes. And twice, hegets a rise out of Sal. The second time,

An irony of the flaksurrounding the film is
hO\N some critics questioned the reality of thesetting not grimenough for an urban
ghetto.

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abhors so completely. Araki's characters have a cursory
liberal understanding of the reactionary 80s. Unfortunate...
ly, they are so overwhelmed by the prevailing politicalclimate that they never rise above their own inability tochallenge it.
Nowhere is this more apparent than around AIDS.
Michael-the film's lead character (a gay filmmaker, but,curiously, not an Asian-American)-is
panicked by the
I pity the child raised in Southern California during
the 1980s. Portrayed as being weaned on MfV, fueled by
epidemic. He fears losing his ex-lover Alex to the virus,
and released out onto Melrose Boulevard, an entire genbut no talk of safer sexual practices arises unbelievableeration seems to have been rendered jaded and inactive
considering that they've both come out in the age ofby the age of 25. At least the rich, white, educated ones. I
commonplace condom use. Later, Michael watches a 1V
report which broadcasts a statement from the factually
still held hope for the L.A. baby born on the margin, but
has dashed that too. Filmmaker Gregg Araki, himself
inaccurate Masters and Johnson AIDS book saying that it's
Asian-American and gay, might have offered a challengpossible to get AIDS from a toilet seat-to which Michael
responds, "I'd change the channel but I don't want to get
ing vision, one based on being doubly an outsider. Howup." (What, no remote control?) It's hard to care about aever, the film, which premieres Sunday, July 30, at thecharacter who refuses even the simplest remedy to his
Asian-American Film Festival (see box below), insteaddelivers a familiar tale of the Listless Generation.
fear-like getting off his ass.
The supporting characters fare better. Leah, a bleachThree friends, a gay man, a lesbian and a straightblonde, post-punk lesbian, is the film's only character
woman, reunite a few years after college to spend awith any clear sense of identity-firmly
anti-cock, she
weekend in La-La Land, each bringing along their signifirefers to Mr. Coffee as "the world's only indispensable
cant other. Setting itself up as an antithesis to the yuppie
man.· She also has the smarts to split from her morose
apologists of, offers little more than the status quo it
girlfriend Rachel, who's taken to
C~'''\:
saying things like, "I feel like\.,.:'
putting my head through a plateglass window."
Early on, Michael asks, "Where,would we be without our adolescent angst?" The answer: he'd besomewhere, , but caught in thisdepressing L.A. rut. I wished someone in this film would find a shredof possibility for the future. Perhaps
the best hope is for Leah and Alex,
who take off in a stolen car, theirrespective partners left behind to
wallow in self-pity without them.
Despite its often stunning cinematic quality and some hip,clever dialogue, the film never gets ..
past its own excessive malaise.
Araki seems to have benefitted
from years of film study, but not
The Asian-American FilmFes~ivalopens Thursday, July 27 with a benefit showing of the from years of . Most of the film is
Oscar-nominated Who Killed Vincent Chin? With a wide variety of work including features, simply a case of post-collegiate,short experimental films, animation and documentaries, the festival is one of the premiere artistic wanna-be's whining about
showcases for work by Asian-American filmmakers today. Highlights include Alex Law's: how "confused" and "lost" they
Painted Faces (photo) as well as new work by Wayne Wang, Alex Law and Jon (Der Elvis) are, and doing nothing about it. I
Moritsugu, and another chance to see Trinh T. Minh-Ha's Surname Viet Given Name Nam. kept wishing someone would justFor more information, call Asian CineVisionat 925-8685.
tell them to do the right thing. ...
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efore reading Stoltenberg's
Refusing to be a Man I'dbeen sorely tested by his
essay in the magazine Changing Men
where he complains about "hystericalanimosity" to his anti-Cause from thegay community. His anti-Cause issometimes called Dworkinism after
Women Against Pornography's Andrea
Dworkin (whom he cites 26 times inhissourcenotes),
However,
Stoltenberg seems to prefer a heavier,more lengthy name for his anti-Cause:
The Radical Feminist Anti-PornograI
phy Movement. He writes: "The definitive history of this influential movement has yet to be written," Presumably when it is, he, Stoltenberg, will
have earned himself a major place,since he is co-founder of Men Against
Pornography in New York City.
Stoltenberg says: "I don't thinkanyone needs convincing that the gay
community, taken as ,a whole, tends toview its naked political self-interest as
lying somewhere in bed with the likesof AI Goldstein ...to say nothing of various notables in organized crime."
In Stoltenberg'S speech at the
NYU Law School (4-4-87), which hetitled "You Can't Fight Homophobia
and Protect the Pornographers at theSame Time," hestepped from one
perfectly acceptable
position (as far as I'mconcerned) to anotheruntil he abruptly confused what he repeatedly called "sex discrimination" with commercial
availability of pornographic
imagery.
He's right, I believe, tosay that gay people must recognize their stake in the equal"
ity of the sexes. But he's loonytunes when he leaves thistheme and falsely equates gender equality with no tolerance forpornography. He sees evil in thetendency of gay porno-afficianados
to buy their magaZines in stores thatsell straight bondage materials, showing women gagged at the mercy ofmale ghouls. Well, I don't like thosemagaZines either. But censorship is not
the answer. It's the culture we've got
to change. My personal radical analysis
tells me that Mr. Stoltenberg has nopity for the poor and for the unattractive whose only sexual experiences
are with magaZines. But things just
don't work that way, John. Have you
missed the gay equivalents of bondage
mags? Do you think sadomasochismand bondage occur only in the malefemale coupling, with the male always
on top? Have you ever heard of
Monique Von Cleef, the sado-maso
Madam who fled New Jersey for The
Netherlands when her torture chambers were unearthed? Do you not
blame too much only men for enjoying
erotic photography-or
objectification,
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know nothing of On Our BaCks, thelesbian sexual entertainment magazine
with 48 pages of erotic fiction, features, photos and sex adVice? Then
why dump, John, as you so blatantly
do, all criticism at the feet of men?:, In
this fast-developing androgynous c:;ra,both men and women are turning
double gender paths into a one-l~nesuperhighway.
Weight-lifting andpornography both objectify segmentsof the body, male or female. Bothstress what I call anatomical
over/ocus, a localized appreciation thatzeros in on parts: the penis or thebreast, or the ass, or the pees, or the
biceps. When I worked as Screuls firstmanaging editor I vividly recall how areader mailed me a photo of nothing
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by Larry Flickyou switch on MTV any time of the
day or night, or open almost any rockoriented magaZine, you're going to see
enough gender-bending
to make your.
.....
head spin. The long-accepte'droles
that society
dictatedfor men andwomen have been shatteredin popmusic. Men invest tons of money inMaybelline eyeliners, and women are quite adept
at swaggering gUitar-hero pos~s.
Even the rock and rolf concept of sexuality goesagainst the grain. Despite the obvious dangers, sex inrock seems to carry an "anything goes with anyone"labeL Given this context, you might expect homosexuality to be easily accepted within the rock communitybut it's not.
,~,''This is still a highly closeted industry," says Marty
Blechman-andhe should know. As the president ofMegatone Records, Blechman is a rarity in the musicbusiness; an openly gay record executive. When hefounded Megatone in 1981~Blechman had to decide howmuch of his private life he was willing to make public.
"There actually wasn't a choice for me to make," hesays. "r couldn't live my life, or run my bUSiness, in thecloset."While such a decision has, in Blechman's opinion,
hurt his label in terms of getting mainstream radio airplay for his artists, being tough enough not to hide in
the shadows has provided a form of compensation thatsales and chart figures never could. Although Megatone
is not formally known as a "gay record company," it has
been the home of several premiere gay artists. The most-;.-.,;,-~me.,"'''':'j'_,,'I:, .

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famous of all would have to
be one of the label's earliest
stars, the late Sylvester.
"We met while I wasworking as a DJ at The City(in San Francisco)," Blechman
remembers. "Sylvester heard
the 'I Feel Love' mega mix
that Patrick (Cowley, keyboard/studio whiZ, and cofounder of Megatone) and I
had worked on. He loved it,
and hired Patrick to tour withhim as a keyboardist.·
The tour was a success,and Cowley and Blechmanfound
themselves
withenough cash to finance a
record.
"I encouraged Patrick to
use all of his gear to crankout Hi-NRG, because there
was a void," Blechman says.
"Our first production together was 'Menergy.'
We
couldn't give it away. Finally, some hippie-type record
company people paid us. $500 for it. 'Menergy' went
number one, and the rest is
history.".
It most certainly is. And, FINANCING THE DREAM
unfortunately, not all of it is Thelate, great Sylvester.
pleasant. Not long after Megatone had become established, Cowley deVeloped AIDS.
"As Megatone exploded, my partner and best friend
grew weaker," Blechman says. "He was never really able
to enjoy his success or money." Cowley died November
12, 1982.
time moves on, and Megatone
has, through the years, provento be a durable force in themusic industry. Besides thesmashing success of Sylvester,
the label has spawned gay
disco classics like "Right On
Target" by Paul Parker,"Homosexual ity" by Modern
Rocketry, and more recently, "Planet Nine," recorded by
Nick John, a producer/keyboardist
whom many have
I likened to the late Cowley. Some of these records havefound their way into mainstream clubs and radio.
But there's more to Megatone than pumping Hi-NRG.
i With housemusic currently all the rage, Blechman willsoon debut a new specialty label, called simply Megatone
House. "We Stand Together," an anthem by Nick John, isplanned for release shortly.
As courageous as Blechman has been in his decision
to place himself under the continual scrutiny of the

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homophobic record industry, he
is not alone. Judy Dlugacz has
toiled among the ranks of independent labels for 15 years
now. As the preSident of Olivia
Records, Dlugacz has given her
all to present music "by womenfor everyone."
Olivia Records puts out
folk music for people who
like the real thing, not glossy,
over-produced
facsimiles.
High on their priority list is
Chris Williamson, one of thelabel's best-selling artists. Hermusic has the capacity
tomove the heart and soulmuch in the way of Michelle
Shocked and Holly Near. It's
Williams' music which best
exemplifies
the very existence of Olivia Records .
. "Olivia was born out of thenecessity of getting music to thepeople,· says Wtlliams. "It's lessa,record company than a vessel withwonderful talent on it Our job asartists is to bring the ship in.n
Dlugacz formed the label
at the age of 21 with four partners, a $4,000 loan, and absolutely no experiencein the.music business.
She views
Olivia's longevity as a tribute to
the grass-roots support of other women seeking a home
for their music.
"We've received volumes of letters from women
acknowledging Olivia for giving them the courage to pursue their dreams in the music world, n Dlugacz says. "Wehave an enormous commitment to bring quality, soulful
music to women and men all over the world."
This year being the fifteenth anniversary of Olivia
Records, Dlugacz has planned a series of special events,.the most exciting being a year-long concert tour which
will take the company's roster of artists all over the country. The culmination of this project takes place at
Carnegie Hall this fall. But this tour shouldn't be perceived as a potential end of an era ...merely the continuation of one.
"I want Olivia to be for women recording artists what
Motown was for Black artists," Dlugacz offers. "Although
we are recognized within the industry for the inroads wehave created, we are still the David of David and
Goliath-we keep slinging. nThat statement marks the kinship between Megatone
and Olivia. These are two musically diverse record companies with a common denominator: creativity and pride
over productivity and money. And isn't that what music is
supposed to be all about?
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although he would like to step downfrom the Court because of age and"wanting to live my life,· he feels
compelled to stand behind Roe andcases like Hardwick that are predicated on it.
But three of the four liberal Justices are in failing health and arenearly twenty years older than theirconservative counterparts. This fact
alone may necessitate several retirements during the Bush presidency.

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While Reagan used the High
Court to further his agenda, Bush may
turn to the congressional mandate.
Angered by the Court's ruling thatflag-burning was a valid form of dissent, Bush began his campaign for aconstitutional amendment banningthe desecration of the American flag.
Two weeks after the flag ruling, Bushreiterated his support for a constitutional amendment banning abortion.
Bush has received strong bipartisan support for his flag-protection initiative, and legislators nationwide
have aligned with him on the abor-

constitutional amendment was with
the Equal Rights Amendment, or ERA,
even though over 70 percent of the
population favored its adoption. In
the case of abortion, as with the ERA,a majority of legislators oppose it.
There is little doubt Bush will get
his flag amendment adopted. If it
passes, it will be the first time since
Prohibition that Americans lose a rightthey previously had.
This history of the amendment
adoption procedure also shows thatthey tend to come in clusters. And thelegacy of constitutional alteration is
far more threatening to the nation
than even the legacy of Reagan's
Court.
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tion issue as well. And though polls
show that over 75 percent of Americans approve of abortion under somecircumstance, a majority of legislators
are anti-abortion rights.
The impact of Supreme Court
decisions is felt for years beyond thedecision itself. The legacy of the liberal Court of Earl Warren changed theshape of American politics and civilrights in the 1960s and 70s. The Reagan Court has moved to overturnsome of those decisions, and to
rescind a vast majority of civil liberties,
reversing the gains made by minorities
and women in the last 25 years.
But as threatening as the conservative wave of the Court may be, theimpact of constitutional manipulation
is far more destructive, because of its
permanence.
Once adopted, a constitutional
amendment can only be rescinded byanother constitutional
amendment(see sidebar). This has only happened
once in this century, in the case ofProhibition.
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the photo he wrote: "This is me." Hebrought home how impelling is thesocially-induced tendency to locate
personal reality below the belt. But I
also
recall a conversation with Dr. Vir,ginia Prince, editor of Transvestia,
when she told how George, by having
his dong lopped off, called himself
Georgina, hoping for a totally new
start. But George, said Dr. Prince wisely, was not located in his penis, andGeorgina, unfortunately still had-after
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an erotic atmosphere that is egalitafian
and instructive, one in which values
like dominance and submission fade
before the gusto of intense mutualpleasure and cooperation. This will
occur when society itself turns awayfrom values that have made headway
during the Reagan years. Let them put
competitive behavior, control, size,
repression, tight collars and shackles
behind, leaving America unfettered todevelop a humane sexuality that willautomatically reflect in the joyful erotic images it evokes and adores.
Pornography's face will change•

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pornography.
him for years. George-trying
toescape into the realm of so<alled feminine artifacts found out what my
grandmothertold me when I wasbarely a teen: "Wherever you go, there:you are."If Stoltenberg really wants to bean effective male feminist, he and his
cronies must drop what they foolishly
call their "civil rights case" against
pornography
and focus instead oftransmuting those negative values thatmake porno so offensive to them. It is
not erotic imagery Stoltenberg muststruggle against, but the underlying
value system that makes some erotic
imagery stand in the way of healthy
relationships, whether between opposite or same sexes. It's unlikely that atruly. free society can eliminate
pornography anyway. A "civil rights
approach" to eliminating it is worthyof Richard M. Nixon who once said, in
opposing his own Porno Commis'sion's findings, "Smut pollution is asurgent as the pollution of our environment." I disagreed with Nixon thenand I do now. But if Stoltenberg,
Steinem, Walker et at want to sidewith Nixon, what can I do? And what
can I do when they side with the
Right Wing in its crusade to eliminate
free erotic expression?
I can only ask politely that they
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when our social values change. Perhaps it will cease its frown, its pain, its
klutzy crudity. Stoltenberg forgets that
it was Al Goldstein who commissioned an uncensored gay column
treating homosexuality as natural in
the first issue of Screw (Nov. 1968).
That column, appearing in an otherwise rampantly heterosexual tabloid,
was first to offer gay coverage of theStonewall rebellion and its aftermath.
AI Goldstein eschews with body andbankroll-all censorship. He purposefully left sex-as-violence in the dust to
create a sex review that celebrated sex
as fun, and sex with satire, a bawdy
journal to encourage controversy andto allow for strong or silly rebuttals,
whatever the erotic logic. Some of thenastiest criticisms of Al Goldstein haveappeared in Screw itself. Yes, and hefinanced the creation of Gay, America's first gay weekly newspaper andBroadside
too, (edited by Mary
Phillips) an early feminist newspaper.
Before Stoltenberg can castigate
Goldstein (who self-identifies as a Vulgarian) and a threatening politicalalliance' he sees him as having withthe gay community, let him not forgetthat Goldstein first defended the absolute value of free expression by testing the First Amendment to its limits,fully conscious that it is in freedom topublish, not in censorship, that truth
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Sal takes a baseball bat to the radio,
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a good cue when he hears one,
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can through the pizzeria window, andthe crowd explodes.
Lee has taken a major task in
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Right Thing, and not all of his choices
work. For example, the scene in(Actually, he also paints the men withbroad, sometimes cartoonish, strokes.)
Mookie's lover and the mother of hischild (Rosie Perez as Tina) is a foulmouthed shrew who is fed up withhis disappearances. Lee also wants toshow her attraction to Mookie, her
caring for him, but these softer qualities get overshadowed by her shrill
obscenities. Mookie's beautiful sister,Jade, though an almost constant nag,
nags with love. Jade seems unimportant to the plot until the scenes where
Mookie suspects Sal's special treatment of her. "He just wants to play'hide-the-salami,m he complains, as heand Jade argue in front of graffiti that
reads ''Tawana was telling the truth!"
Shes Gotta Have It, School Dazeand now Do the Right Thing. It seems
that Spike Lee films will always beevents worth seeing, something toforce us to think and talk about knotty issues. If you think Spike Lee's Do
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Currently there are eight cities in the alliance, but members are trying to set teams up in as many new places as
possible.
Over the Columbus Day weekend Boston will playhost to this year's National Tournament which will consistof the San Diego Sparks, the Denver Rockies, the Phoenix
Rage, the Seattle Express, the LA Suns and the defending
champions, the San Francisco Spikes, as well as New
York's Ramblers.
At the last Gay Games in 1986, the Ramblers fieldeda team of 20. This was the first time that many of the thennewly formed teams had a chance to compete with eachother, as well as meet and network. The Ramblers won
the Silver Medal at those games, losing the top prize to
the San Francisco Spikes. This year's co-presidents of theclub, Abe Orpilla and Larry Vic, said
that the team is very,
eager to compete in Gay Games III to be held in
Vancouver in August 1990, and this time they hope totake home the gold.
One of the biggest challenges in maintaining a club
is raising the money needed to keep the enterprise going.
Money is needed primarily to buy and maintain equipment and uniforms. The Ramblers are currently seeking asponsor or sponsors to help them meet their goals. In return for the financial assistance the sponsor gets the endorsement of the club and a tax break in April.
Anyone interested in sponsoring this endeavor
should contact Bill Burke for more information at
212/645-0821. If you would like more information about
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THE RAMBLERS SOCCER CLUBIt all started innocently enough when a group of gay men
were kicking a soccer ball around the Rambles area ofCentral Park. Someone got the idea of making the outing
a regular event and forming a team to organize othergays who enjoyed playing competitive soccer. Now, nine
years later, the Ramblers Soccer Club is one of the top
teams in the Gay Soccer Alliance as well as a member ofthe straight United Nations League.
The Ramblers have roughiy 46 members, including
two trainers and 15 active players on the roster. Bill
Burke, a half-back for the Ramblers and a team member
since 1984, told me that he first stumbled on the club at
the Gay Pride Parade in 1984.· The league is competitive,· he said, "but there is an extremely high level ofcomradery that exists between the players."
Even though games are few at this time, the teammembers man~ge to stay in good shape through frequent
practice, which is held three times a week, and through astrong dedication to the sport.
The next scheduled game will take place in Hartford'against the Boston Strikers in September. One purpose ofplaying in Hartford is to let the people there see theleague in action in hopes of starting a Hartford team.

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