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For a Special Counsel
The current epidemic of police violence against peacefullesbian, gay and AIDS demonstrators reveals a wide gap between
the lofty promises of the Dinkins administration and grimmer
realities in the street. These incidents, especially one on Feb. 11
in which·ACf UP members protesting police brutality were themselves physically attacked by police, resulting in serious injuries
to a demonstrator, are unacceptable occurrences under anadministration putportedly representing the disenfranchised andoppressed. These obscenities cry out for strong and immediate
action by the mayor and the police commissioner, including theappointment of a special counsel, if we are ever to believe that
this administration is essentially different from those of the past.
.• Police and their apologists claim that the current difficulties
stem from a decision by activists to stop giving police advance
information about the times and locations of demonstrations. They
claim that the termination of the tacit activist-police arrangement
somehow releases the police from responsibility to behave professionally. We fmd such claims insulting, patronizing and absurd.
In fact, it was the police who originally abused activists' provision of advance notification, when the department used that
information to block and obstruct protest sites. In any case, theConstitution does not restrict the right of assembly to those who
agree to cooperate, in advance, with the authorities.
The real problem is that chronic homophobia within thepolice force has never been adequately addressed. Harassmentof the Gay Officers' Action
League has been winked at, incidents•
are ignored in which officers verbally abuse queer demonstrators, police are slow to respond to anti-gay attacks or to arrest
the victims rather than the perpetratorSj and so on. Such abuses'
are hardly confined to New York: Boston, San Francisco, Washington, DC, and many other cities experience similar problems.
It's time in New York for the police commissioner and themayor to speak out forcefully against entrenched homophobia
in the department and to announce actions to clean up the. mess. Procedures need to be adopted to insure that police folIowa uniform and professional code of conduct at every demo,
regardless of what officer is in charge, so that the avoidance ofviolence is not at the whim of bigoted or untrained individual
officers. The current police policy-thatthey will guarantee
police professionalism only when activists work with them inadvance of every demo is inadequate, unacceptable andfrankly outrageous.
Ultimately, the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the Feb. 11 police attack on demonstrators will serve as thelitmus test of the mayor's seriousness in confronting this problem. We 'join with the Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project,among others, in strongly urging the mayor to name such acounsel immediately, and we urge our readers to write or call the
mayor at (212) 566-5700 and let him know that we're impatiently
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LIE OF THE LAMBS
Bravo, Signorile,forsounding
the alarm on
Silence of the Lambs [no. 86,
Feb. 20]. I haven't seen themovie and have no intentionof doing so. The silence ofVito Russo's voice from thetepid debates that areattempting to confront thismonstrosity
could not belouder, but thank God, ourhero will be spared the suffering of this crowning defeat ofevery principle he believed inand fought so hard for.
Thanks a lot, Hollywood. The
exquisite timing of this, yourtribute to Vito's memory, has
not gone unnoticed.
In 1980, I attended andcovered the Chicago trial ofserial killer John Wayne
Gacy. In my research, I
uncovered what I suspected.
Although there have been a
few homosexual and bisexual
serial killers in history, thereal relationship-theonethat needs to be brought
before the public but almost
never is- between serial
killers and homosexuality isthat of predator to prey.
When I interviewed Cook
County Coroner and forensic
pathologist, Dr. Robert Stein,. who testified in the Gacy
trial, he told me that he had
never heard of a murdercommitted by a transvestite
or a transsexual. (So muchfor Dressed to Kill and a hundred such films before andsince.) "But we've seen plenty of effeminate homosexuals
who, like women, become
known as easy prey." That's
the reality, the truth, that the
public should be grappling
with, not with the fear, as•

perpetuated yet again in yet
another Hollywood
junkfilm-that your gay neighbor
is a latent psychotic killer!!!
Last week, a friend whoworks for the Anti-Violence
Project told me that anti-gay
and -lesbian violence reports
were down, perhaps because·it's midwinter. In the coming

obsessed with outing theworld? In issue no. 83 [Jan.
30], he heavily criticizes
Jonathan Van Meter for notasking Jodie Foster outrightif she is a lesbian in his interview with her for The New
York Times Magazine. Oh,
please. We consider ourselves a liberal-minded com-

STONEWA/./. RIOTS

BY ANDREANATALIE

I'm all for people coming
out:--1especially celebritiesbut if and when we .want to. I
guess the right to privacy is
one of those unalienable [sic]rights that's become quitealienable even in the homosexual community.
If JonathanVan Meter had
askedJodie outright, she would
have said no, thereby sending avery clear message to Hollywood, and many of the rest of
us in America who know about
her well-known lesbianism,that
she's afraid and willing to denyher sexuality.That's a sad message. It would also say to otherless famous artists-if Jodie
Foster won't risk coming out,
how the hell can I?
Simone Bernard
Manhattan
Michelangelo Signorile responds in "Gossip Watch,"page 58.

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weeks, let's watch-not this -munity while supporting one
fucking stupid fil m, already a of the more fascist ,pasblockbuster success, about times outing. I also used toqueer mass murderers-but
think outing would empower
for the mass murders of queers the community, and I'm surethe film is likely to cause.
on occasion it has. But it can
Lawrence
Mass
also
destroy careers. I'm also•
Manhattan in the arts and have seen it
happen more than once, And
VAN METER READER
no, Jodie Foster is not too
Why is Mi,chelangelo
big for public knowledge of
Signorile
so fanaticallyher sexuality to hurt her.

ALL BULLSHIT ON THE
MIDEASTERN FRONT
During the war in Vietnam, the US military was
faced with a big problem.
Countless soldiers broke military rules in one way or
another, primarily by using
drugs or loudly saying thatthe war was wrong. The
inevitablebureaucratic
response was disciplinary
action leading up to a dishonorable discharge, but
only after the soldiers hadcompleted their tours ofduty. Guys generally would
be informed of the charges
against them as they werepreparing to leave the country. Those who got out ofVietnam without all of theirlimbs intact fared no better•••than anyone else. A lot of port our troops over in the Gulf. 83, Jan. 30] was a wonderfulpeople learned about disciTo not do so means I don't care idea. Bravo to the person orplinary actions while they what happens to them. And persons who thought of that.
we re in the hospital. Any believe you me, I do care. I The only problem with theperson who no longer was of have relatives, friends and content of that issue was the
any use to the war machine neighbors over there, or content of that issue,
was just thrown to the preparing to go. I can underInstead of reading andwolves.
stand the frustrationand learning about the contribuThe same masters of anguish many people feel. But I tions made by homosexuals
war who gave us death and do not support these anti-war involved in the war in one
destruction in Vietnam have demonstrations, no matter how form or another, we are once
now created the same in the noble they may seem. It is a again forced to read the rantMiddle East. They have not message to our troops that we ings and ravings of fingerchanged their rules. They will don't care what happens to pointing slobs who write nothdo whatever is necessary to them. And I want them back ing more than personal-opinkeep the war alive. The need home safely. But I also want to ion columns.
for bodies to feed into the be sure that Saddam Hussein
There are gays in thisdoesn't come out of this look- country who are proud Ameri- .
meat grinder is (temporarily)
more important than the ing saintly and letting him still cans and are proud to be partneed to keep gays and les- think God directed him to of a society that will have them.
bians out of the military,bomb Israel. There is no one
There are those who live
When the current war is over, more dangerous than some- normal, happy lives as homothe generals will revert to one who says God told them sexuals in everyday modern
their homophobic instincts.
to do something.
American society because
You can bet your ass that
I still wonder, ~very time I they are part of the American
there will be another witchread or hear about these anti- public. They're not a freak
hunt. Go back and listen to war rallies, Where were these society who want to be differPat Bond in Word Is Out, if people five months ago when ent from everybody else. You
you want to know how the Saddam Hussein invaded
can get what you want by askmilitary deals with lesbians
Kuwait, his soldiers murdering ing for it, not by demanding it.
and gays after the war is women and children, raping
The proud gays in thisover.
young girls, tossing babies country will no longer read.
The US military treats all out of incubators, leaving
your disgusting, Enquirer-type
people like shit, and lesbians them to die?
of writing anymore.
and gays are treated doubly
And where were these
Drop dead, OutWeek!
so. It is the nature of the beast protesters in November when Your [sic] a disgrace to yourto act this way. Anyone who witnesses came to the UN community ..
thinks that the military is with tales of doctors tortured,James Adams
going to adopt a rational
nurses raped, hospitals
Manhattan
approach, simply has no stripped of medical supplies
grasp of reality.
and babies and young children
SHOW AND NO TELL
Raymond Thompson being brought to hospitals
I realize that all queers
South Bound Brook, NJ with gunshot wounds in their react differently to oppreschests and genitals?
sive and homophobic situaWHERE WERE WE?
Where were these people tions, but I am very disapI have refrained fromin 1989 when this man pOinted by the minimal
writing for many weeks now, launched chemical attacks
amount of coverage that Outwhen ACT UP and others
Week gave the Queer Nation •against his own people,
called for guns for protection, Kurds, to punish them for action at the Arsenio Hall
when your self-centeredwanting independence? Where Show on Dec. 14, 1990.
zealot Signorile rants like will these people be if thisSeveral Queer Nationals
Saddam Hussein-but
after man is not stopped and he disrupted the taping of thereading Andrew Miller's The launches' terrorist attacks on show by asking Hall why heGulf in Our Memories and our own cities, which he has didn't book more openly gay
your cover story by Nina swom to do?
guests and telling him that.
Lew Smith his use of gay jokes leads toReyes [no. 83, Jan. 30]. I
Dillon, SC prejudice and queer-bashinghave to write.
I do not like war, but I(pretty heroic on national TV).
BANZAI!!
selVed in World War II and, by
What followed was a"Gays In The Gulf" [no. seven-minute angry tirade by
Korea,was a gay activist. I sup-,Hall in which he referred to theactivists as "gay trash." Hesaid that we should get our"own show" because this was"his show." He wondered why
Dan Quayle wasn't there
protesting since he also makes
jokes about the vice president.
Only when he does gay jokes,
does he get "idiots protesting."(He said he wasn't prejudiced
against gays because he wasBlack.)
Every gay should viewthe tape not only to hear thehate in Hall's voice, but to see
the three standing ovations
that he received from his
queer-hating audience.
The nationat press madeHall out to be a take-charge
hero that put the radicals intheir place.
I was hoping that OutWeek
would expose Hall (who knew of
the action in advance) as thehateful queer-basherhe is.
Jerry Jaeger
Los Angeles, Calif.
IN DEFENSE OF
QUEER NATION

Ron Simmons'smug
commentary in issue no. 85[Feb. 13], "The Queer Nation
Isn't Queer," strikes me as
being yet one more instanceof Queer Nation-bashing
without the least regard toproviding factual information.
Much like Ronnie Billini's letter in issue no. 75 [Dec. 5],"Everybody's
Homegirl,"
malicious innuendo has beenpresented as fact in order topresent Queer Nation as anelite cadre of powerful whitemales, resulting in a disservice to any women or peopleof color who would be otherwise interested in joining
our organization.
Before responding to Mr.
Simmons' poorly reasoned
article, I will state a few basic
facts about Queer Nation: 1)
The group exists solely toincrease the visibility of alilesbian and gay people and tofight the homophobia whichpains to cry out "exclusion"
while sitting safely in theirivory or ebony towers.
Mr, Simmons compares_i I Queer Nation to the early Gay
Liberation Front, a semi-anarcnistic movement born in thespirit of a new-found feelingof liberation. He then sug~gests that the GLF was only
able to exist because of theradical political climate of thetime, which was started byother social movements thatwere also fighting the oppressive US power structure. In
summing up his view (by way
of deriding ACT UP as an adequate role-model), he statesthat since there are no otherspecial-interest groups today
engaging in mass demonstratiOri, Queer Nation is incapable of having sufficientWe've always known that Hollywood
incentive to see "the imporjust can't tolerate freaks like us, eventance of having an inclusiveth~ugh that whole sleazy town is owned
political agenda that goesand run-lock,
stock and barrel-by
beyond gay rights."
queers. But at least we found solace inCorrect me if I'm wrong,
those enlightened,liberal,straight
Mr. Simmons, but aren't lesdirectors
who always told us howbian and gay rights a valid
wonderful we are, right? Well, guess again.
enough issue to fight for theseThis week's ghoulish award goes todays, regardless of whoever
Jonathan Demme, who sold us down the
mayor may not also be "fightmucky river with The Silence of theing the oppressive US power
Lambs. The film's depiction of a queer
structure?" Unlike the readytransvestite serial killer, who skins andmade, feel-good era, whichkills women, will give Jesse Helms agave birth to the GLF,the Queerwhole new project to work on this year.
Nation movement came about
Hmmm. Maybe there should be a gay
in an age where early political
I serial killer who goes after homoPhobes•
gains were fast being reversed
by a new atmosphere of statesanctioned intolerance of all
affects us all. There is no strength and motivation
minorities, but especiallypolitical or ethnic agenda
under the Queer Nation ideol- queers. If inhuman Supreme
other than being all-inclusive. ogy, In'reality, the originalCourt rulings and 100,0002) The word "queer" was "founders" were a diverse
AIDS deaths are not enough toadopted to ne{Jate exclusiongroup of lesbian, Africanspark a revolution, then how
along racial and gender specif- American and not-so-young
can you possibly expect anyic lines and provides us with a people. Today, there .is a one else to fight for their causname based on the concept of strong leadership of women es? The tactics of ACT UP and
equality. 3) Queer Nation is working
Queer Nation are setting an
through"Dyke
not lin omnipotent structure. It Action Mobilization," "Outexample for everyone seeking
is a completely decentralized reach Committee" and "Truth social reform to follow, andumbrella group of women and in Advertising," to name but while we do try very hard tomen working "together on a few working groups. Still, seek out, and work with, therelated projects.
many diverse segments of ourthere seems to be a vocal
community, it is attitudes like
Based on these facts
faction of disenfranchisedalone, people of many ethnic people, like Mr. Simmons and yours which only hinder.
Your use of the disgustingbackgrounds
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word "nigger" was a cheap
shot to infer that your own
brothers and sisters are incapable of deciding where to
put their own priorities
because you do not agreewith them. You have uncon. sciously quoted a Queer
National out of context so as
to make him appe'ar racist
and sexist while your own
agenda is so self-centeredthat you would encourage all
Black people to avoid coalition-building with an important group just because it
meets in a marginally "white"neighborhood.
As for Ms. Billini's comments that Queer Nation had
called for the resignation of Dr.
Marjorie Hill and that "queersof color could never organizeand show their presence as
quickly as white queers," all I
can say is that neither of thosestatements ever came out ofQueer Nation, and the reason
you were at the meeting with
Dr. Hill was because I personally called your group to invite
you to our first coalition-building forum which Dr. Hill eagerly worked on with us and later
proclaimed a huge success(despite the childish antics of afew people who do not understand that an invitation is anoffering, not a challenge).
Whereelse in recent history,
have you seen one activist
group host so many otherdiverse groups in such an open
and dynamic setting?
Queer Nation exists in thesame arena of dedication andanger that all other activist
groups do with one importantdistinction: It is ali-encompassing beyond the specific agendas of race, gender, religion ordisease that characterize mostorganizations. The very nameis an invitation for one and all

because queer-hating knows
no color or gender boundaries,
and we know that an attack on
one of us is an attack on all of
us. The time has long passed
to either shit or get off the pot.
I encourage Mr, Simmons and
Ms. Bellini to open their eyes alittle wider and to take the leadin uniting, not dividing, thequeer movement.
Dave Reck
Manhattan
While the queer movement is aligned with othermovements for liberation as apolitical reality, and should consciously and actively be so as apractical necessity,I am strongly
offended by Ron Simmons' [no.
85, Feb. 13] implication that thestruggle for gay liberation, period, is not in and of itself, apart~from any other consideration,
valid and justified.
Every single fucking day,I am called names, stared at,spat upon. People drive by
and throw things at me, I am
chased, I am physically threatened,As a gay, white, effeminate
man, I am hated, discriminatedagainst and oppressed.
It is hard enough just getting to work every day without
Mr. Simmons telling me thatmy fight for justice andrespect for myself and my gay
brothers is not justified unless
it is validated by association
with other, implicitly morelegitimate, struggles.
Well, get off my back,brotherl I, just as I am-as agay, white, effeminate mandeserve and demand to betreated as a human being.
Richard Davis
San Francisco
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Kris Kovick
San Francisco

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its efforts.
David Stein
Manhattan
PREMATURE CON·
DEMNATION?

Febl27] attacking this show as
being racist and sexist, without
having seen it, are wrong.
While Asians and women areabused in the show, the show
is about this abuse which isnever glorified and is always
presented as ugly and horrific.
To describe a problem is not to
extol it e.g., Uncle Tom's
Cabin is about the abuses ofslavery, and, Harriet Beecher
Stowe was not accused ofinsensitivity to Blacks. Anyone
who has heard "The American
Dream," the big show-stopper,
knows that this show is anything but racist or sexist.
I hope Lambda and theCenter have great successwith their theater parties toMiss Saigon. Everyone I
know who has seen the show
admired the sensitivity andpolitics of the show because
it decries racism and sexism.

Having seen Miss Saigon
in London last montf) and having high sensitivit{toprobRe:MichelangeloSignorile's lems of discrimination, I think"GossipWatch" [no. 85, Feb.13] that the writers of the letters
I'm not at all surprised to [no. 86, Feb. 20 and no. 87,
hear that Benji died of AIDS, .
They claim that homosexuality
doesn't occur in nature, butthat bisexual, cross-dressing
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have written prematurely.
When they see the show,
they will know that Cameron
Mackintosh and his colleagues have not forsaken
or ignored the Asian andPacific Islands communities. They have presented an·
unusually graphic picture ofthese problems with sympathy and understanding.
Herbert I. Cohen, MD
Manhattan
WHAT THE WORLDNEEDS NOW
I'm. writing to you in
response to the small clip inyour "Lip Service" column[no. 86, Feb. 20] regarding
the Todd Rundgren lyrics serenading, with anal intentions,that icon of ignorant buckminded intensity, Jesse
Helms.'.
First off, I would like tosay that I get it and, politicalcorrectness aside, think
there is room in the world
for an occasional unleash. ing of this brand of brash
male bravado but also feelcompelled to point out theoff note that renders thesewords sour.
Attacking an enemy of
the Queer Nation is great,
but Mr. Rundgren's topheavy versification aligns
itself with the majority ofstraight media that continually presents being fucked if
ybu're a male as a form ofpU(lishment or violation. I
don't know a queer person
indeed who would not agree
that it would really benefit
Jesse Helms immensely if hewere to become more intimately in touch with his
prostate, and in this aspect, I
commend Mr. Rundgren forbeing the first to publicly$ONYA LOCKS iHE. DOOR BEF'oRE. DOING.,....,.\ \.,.

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NATTIf. PUiS ON THE EMERGENC.Y BRAkE"THE NASTY WIT'" HE.R. &aSS,~}teach-you-a-Iesson attitude
is incredibly contradictory.
I digress, but being
fucked by someone who
knows what they are doingis such a treat. It is also aposition of extreme power.
Maybe later on in his song,
Toddy writes about a transformed Jesse fucking him
back, and the changes it
has wrought upon him. Dhwell, to hell with everyone
who thinks all anyone else
needs is one good fuck;
they may need several(given and ~eceived), withbuckets of contemplative
foreplay. What they don't
need is destructive violence
disguised as sexuality.
. Brian Griffin
Queensvolunteer his aid. Strong
heartfelt
emotionsarealways to be encouraged,
but in ending what was
printed of his lyrical phraseby calling Jesse "stupid,""ugly" and "white," one wonders (no matter the truth tothese words) what such negativity has tp do with anincredibly good fuck.
. It reminds me of every
show or film I've seen inwhich an attempt is madeto intimidate a character
who is teetering on theedge of being sent to prisonby making references to
how the big boys will love
his ass once he is sent up
the river. There is an unsaid
assumptionthat suchactions are naturally horrible
deeds, and one could say
they are when properly titledas rape. This whole world's
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Pat Parker and James Bald, win were born and died in thesame years. It's bad enoughyou do your token issue on
African Americans for Black
History Month [no, 85, Feb.
13] (when are the Asian andPacific Islander, the Latina/o,the Native American, theArab, the Indian, etc., token
issues?), but you fuck up theinformation in the one article.
Out Week, get your shit
together.
And can someone please
explain to me what is happening at the Lesbian and Gay
Community Services Center?
AVP has a community forum
one evening, and the Center
paints the room that morning.
If Rona Affoumado from CHP
hadn't found out about thechemicals used in the facade
restoration (which were potentially dangerous to bothimmune compromised individuals and people with allergies),
who knows what my healthwould be like now? They are
selling tickets for Miss Saigon.
And somehow during thecourse of the Center Auction,
the words "lesbian and gay"seem to have disappeared.
Hello? It seems the lights areon, and nobody's home.
Robert Vazquez
Manhattan
ANTI-ADVOCATEBASHINGI have a couple of comments about your magazine I
would like to share with you.
First, I think you have a great
magazine that has filled alarge niche in the gay press.
Although I may not always
agree with your sometimes"radical" opinions, I findyour ideas stimulating andthought-provoking. Anythingthat causes me to stop andrethink my own ideals isgood.
I do have two complaints, however. I hope that,.

•you will at least consider
them. One is ideological, andthe other procedural. I thinkthat you should cut back on
your ranting and raving about
the Advocate. For one thing, it
simply does not make yourmaga'zineappear credible. But
more importantly,' I think thegay and lesbian community
needs to stop fighting eachother. There is so much hatedirected against us, we can't
afford to fight each other.
On a lighter note, I reallyenjoy the "Tuning In" section;
however, not all of your readers, myself included, live in
New York. Some of the channels listed (A & E, Fox, CBS,
ABC, NBC, etc.) do exist elsewhere, even out here in theheart of Bubaville. Unfortunately, OutWeek arrives, if I
am lucky, on the last couple
days of the week you list. Is it
possi~le that you could list
these one more week inadvance, as a cou rtesy tothose of us not fortunate
enough to live in New York?
Anyway, thank you foryour time, and keep up thegood work.
John Hintz
Amarillo, Tex.
RECUSE BLUES
Twice in 1990, a serious
injustice has been done to
New York City Criminal Court
Judge Marcy Kahn, an avowed
lesbian appointed to the bench
by former Mayor Ed Koch, in
1985.
It is time that the attorney for the ACT UP protest¢'rs came forward withthe truth regarding Judge
Kahn's recusal, regardingthese protesters.
When that matter was
before Judge Kahn, the Manhattan DA sent down one of
his chief honchos to supervise the prosecution of the
ACT UP demonstrators.
It
was this supervisor
whorequested that the judge "dis-rrections• Because of a production error in the last issue, T,L.
Litt'sphotos on pages 14 and 18 were uncredited, as
was Ben Thornberry's photo on page 24.
• Because of an editing error in the same issue, thepolice department was not given the opportunity torespond to two separate allegations of brutality in thelead news story. A follow-up story appears in this issue.
• The arts editor would like to clarify any confusion she
may have communicated last week in a "Lip Service"item about the Astraea Foundation's Lesbian Writers'
Fund. All interested, previously published writers mustobtain an application first. Unsolicited manuscripts are
not being accepted. For more info, call Stephanie Roth at(212) 529-8021.

• Due to a number of oversights, parts of the interview with Two Nice Girls were misleading. Pam Barger actually looks like Demi Moore (not Debbie Moore),and the Virginia Woolf quotation is actually quoted on
the girls' album. We also suspect that Meg Hentges was
not reading "a book on the beach," but in fact thebook On the Beach, but since they are on tour, this
could not be confirmed.
,• While the news editor was out sick last week with the•
flu bug from hell, the news section was ably ghost-edited by staff reporter Nina Reyes, with an assist from contributing reporter Duncan Osborne.

qualify" herself. The judge
asked for the opinio.n of the
defense counsel, who stoodmute. Since the defense
attorney stood mute, Judge
Kahn assumed that thedefense shared the motion by
the prosecution,and sheagreed.
Therefore, what has beenreported as truth, twice in thepages of OutWeek, is not true.
Judge Kahn did not, as reported, "Beg off claiming conflict-of interest."
Rather, she simply, complied with a motion by Mr.
Morganthau's office, which
was, by implication, supportedby the defense.
It is not surprising that
Mr. Morganthau would pursue
such tactics against Judge
Kahn. He has incessantly publicly attacked her for dismiss-ing misdemeanor complaints
and accused her of making his
assistants look unprepared. .
It is my fervent hope thatthe defense attorney for ACT
UP will come forward to corroborate the truth.
.
Christopher Lynn
Manhattan
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name, address anddaytime phone, although names may be
withheld at the author's
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'lIE\~ EVIDENCE OF THINGS SEEN-Marlon Riggs accepts the James Baldwin Black Dui/l Award,,.by:-'Carrie
Wofford. :;:"\.' ,'.. LOS ANGELES-"It'sbeen phe~omenal, absolutely phenomenal. And
horribly exhausting." One participant's,,;ords
spoke,. for most participants. The
fqhrth 'annual National Black Gay andLesbian Leadership Conference, "ComeOut! Come Home!" brought together
nearly 700 Black lesbians and gay men
from around the country and abroad.

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The conference, organized eachyear by the Black Gay and Lesbian
Leadership Forum, featured three daylong "institutes"
one on AIDS, one
on women and a third "leadershiproundtable" for politicos in addition
to two days packed with workshops,
discussions,plenary speeches,art,banquets and dances.
The mood was definitely celebratOlY

and intense, with lots of laughing, hugging and connecting. The number of participants was almost double last year's,
and they often filled the conference site at
the Downtown Hyatt Regency.
,
Highlights included speeches anddiscussions
with Keith St. John,
Albany's ftrst openly gay, Black electedalderman, and Marjorie Hill, New York
Mayor David Dinkins' liaison to the gay•

,and lesbian community; an honoring offilmmaker Marlon Riggs (see sidebar,
next page); and a cultural festival the
week before (see sidebar, this page).
Audre Lorde was scheduled to be
keynote speaker but suffered a relapseof the cancer she battles; conference
founder and forum co-chair Phil! Wilson led participants in "senaing energy" to Lorde in her St. Croix home.
The conference was packed. During
one single time slot, 2oo lesbians attended an erotic session called "Body to
Body," while a handful of men moved in
an African dance workshop to chants of"Bless the generations to come, that we
may carry the torch." Meanwhile, a.
James Baldwin video engrossed theattention of others; people milled in frontof sales booths of Mrican art; and St.
John and Hill joined Phill Wilson in"Making Our Voices Heard," in a discussion of their responsibilities as officials to
educate straight Blacks as well as whitelesbians and gay men.
"Their first impression is to find
you threatening," St. John warned participants. Down the hall, men andwomen joined to assess Black feminism, questioning traditional female
support of the Black male, and how tocreate space for strong Black lesbians

First US Black Gay Cultural FestLOS ANGELES-"Together
WeCan," the first cultural festival exclusively for African-American lesbians
and gay men, premiered here Feb.
9-12, Organized by the Los Angeles
African-American
Gay and Lesbian
Cultural Alliance, the festival featured
an original modern-dance
piece,
Children of the Night, by Stephen
Semien; an original play, Saxophone
Me Baby, by young playwright Angela
Counts, and directed·by Gregory
Eugene Travis; as well as poetry
readings and experimental documentary films by Marlon Riggs (Affirmatio,!s, Tongues Untied), Sylvia Rhue
(Women in Love) and Greta Schiller
and Andrea Weiss (Tiny and Ruby:
Hell Oivin' Women).
"We have to learn the business ofin the Black power movement.
Many conference-goers praised theparticipatory atmosphere of each session and the abundance of time to meeteach other.
The AIDS Institute started the five-producing and promoting ourselves,"
festival coordinator Lamond Ayers tolda crowd gathered to meet the artists.
"[Funders]thought there wasn't
enough material out there, [that] i.t
wasn't good enough," Ayers reported.
Dancer/choreographer Stephen
Semien recounted the importance to him
as a young dancerof receivingencouragement from James Baldwinand Alvin Ailey.
"People on this panel were in theaudience a few years ago. You can do it
too," Angela Counts encouraged.
Artists dialogued with their audience about their inspirations, about theirroots and about self-representation.
The festival was held at Crossroads, an LA African-American Arts
Academy.

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day confab on Thursday with sessions
on outreach to street youth, eroticizing
safer sex, treatment updates and technical assistance for service providers. "Itwas very insightful, very empowering,"
desaibed Duncan Teague, who coordi-

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Atlanta. "It was very much in tune
wi~ the fact that women and peopleof-color communities and especially
African Americans-havespecificissues we need to address. n'Thursday
concludedwith amemorial service, during which
Rev. Carl Bean and the Voices ofUnity Gospel Choir from the BlackGay Unity Fellowship of Los Angeles led those gathered in songs andtribute to Madame Edna Brown, Ken
McCune and Roger Pamplin-former
conference co-chairs and organizers
who have died in the p"Ast year.
Phill Wilson and others stood toshare poetry and song in front of
AIDS Quilt panels from Black andWhite Men Together.

Friday's Women's Institute was
widely hailed for fostering empowerment and strategizing among lesbians. One result was the formalized
plan to create a Black lesbian herstory archives.
Maria Cora of Oakland, a youth
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Phill Wilson told an audience of 300
The newest work, Anthem, portrays
Black lesbians and gay men at the Feb.
"Amerika," relying on Langston Hughes
17 honoring of filmmaker
Marlonpoem, "I too Sing America." Of Riggs'
Riggs and the world premiere offilms, Anthem is the one most like
Riggs' newest film, Anthem. "He is not.
Tongues Untied: Fast-paced words andaware of who he is and how important
images flash on the screen-images of
he is to liS. I'm reminded of howi'n']Portant it is to share [appreciation]
cock rings, the US flag, theSilence=Death icon and a pink triangle
with each other."'Ri,ggs was honored with the Black
superimposed on a map of Africa in ANC
colors. Men kiss and embrace; one
Quill Award in memory of James Balddances to hip-hop music in front ofgraf- 'win~during last week's Black Gay andfitL The words of Black gay poets Essex
Lesbian Leadership Conference. "I'wanted to [present Anthem] here. I
Hemphill, Donald Woods, Colin Robin{f? .'?~!(~(
son, Reggie Jackson and Steve Langley[didn't] want to do it at the Kennedy
accompany the image: "Pervert the lanCenter. or American Film Institute. [MyMARLON RIGGS
community]
has been why I do theguage/Reinvent etymology....Everytime we,work ... .1 try to answer this great, desperkiss, we confirm the new world coming ....ln
Amerika, place your ring on my cock where it
ate need for voices," he said.
, The 34-year-old Riggs has received an Emmy Award belongs....Paradeit, flaunt it like a man....lnitiation: No immunifor his documentary on racist images, Ethnic Notions, ty in this procession of dying....Revolutions."
and gained instant success with Tongues Untied, his
Riggs expressed hope that the eight-minute video will be
exploration of Black gay male sensuality and experience shown in clubs to "reach the children...so...they can get a little. 'through poetry and images. Riggs said that Tongues was bit of affirmation of who they are.".
"a discovery, a reclamation of myself. I'd been seduced
The evening's retrospectiveof Riggs' works<by a culture and ideology that takes us away from what it included selections from Tongues Untied, Affirmations(which focuses on Gay Men of African Descent .particimeans to be Black and gay,"
In one year, Tongues,the film Riggs had intended "for pation in a Harlem African-American Pride marCh) andfamily, for us," traveled to the Soviet Union, Scandinavia, Changing Images: Mirrors of Life, Molds of Reality,
New Zealand, Canada and Germany and was bought by the juxtaposed with pieces from his documentaries on theBBC. '~It taught me [that] when you speak from the heart, first Black schoolteacher in Oakland (Visions Toward
people 'understand, ev.enwhen you speak in ways that are Tomorrow: Ida Louise Jackson) and on the Blues
Renaissance there (Long Train Running: The Story oftroublesome.",
Riggs' works are often troublesome to potential funders the Oakland Blues).
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ence," commented 30-year-old DavidJohnson of Boston. "It's like being
with family." Conference co-chair
Michelle Walker echoed the feeling offamily: "Today, as I share my joy, as
we 'cpme out, come home' my mother, along with thousands of othermothers and fathers of lesbians andgay men, proudly share our joy,becaus~: weare their daughters andsons. And that is truly the only factthat matters."
The few complaints articulatedcame from a drag queen who lament- 'ed the lack of formal inclusion ,of dragqueens, from a member of the National Coalition of Black Lesbians andGays who objected to the lack ofpolitical strategizing and from two•panelists who experienced confusion
over time slots.
Donations to offset the debt of theconference and for next year's confer-.
ence in Oakland can be made to theBlack Gay and Lesbian Leadership
Forum in Lo5 Angeles.T••,
SEEN AND HEARD-Maljorie Hill at the
NMaking Our Voices Heard" workshop
need to talk about among ourselves," Cora appreciated the healthsessions, too. "We face difficulties inbreaking through obstacles. Black
women tend to take care of everyone else first."
At a session on internalized
oppression, women shared painful
experiences, like being triple-carded at
gay dubs in New York City, as well as
how to move toward loving being Black
lesbians. "It was so good-nobody
wanted to end it, so we agreed to meetagain during caucus time," Cora
recalled.
The conference' concluded witha "leadershiproundtable"
wheren~arly 200 participants debated aBlack gay and lesbian agenda. The(oundtable was initiated and sponsored last year by the National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays andresulted in meetings held in September between straight Black civil 'rights organizations and Black lesbians and gays.
"I've been to every [year's conference]," Fioyd Dunn of Detroit's National Association of People with AIDS
affIliate, Project Survival, said. "This issomething I plan every year ....Livingwith AIDS, it's the kind of thing I definitely need. "Forty-fiveyear old WlIldy Sky of San
Diego agreed: "It feels very validating.""Just being here-aroundBlack
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SAN FRANCISCO-On St. Valentine's Day, this city became the first in•
North America to implement voterapproved domestic partnership legislation. And by the end of the day, morethan 250 couples-includingsix•
straight ones-had
registered theirrelationships with City Hall. San Franciscans voted in Proposition K, which
recognizes same-sex relationships, lastNovember.
Under sunny skies and the::.
proud, watchful eye of Harvey Milk's
ghost, the gay and lesbian community embarked on a daylong celebration of gay love, queer pride andlow-key pageantry. Couples beganarriving at City Hall well before 9 am,
and the festivities continued until
after dusk.
Couples could register with thecounty ,clerk's offtce at any point du,ing the day, pay their $35 and receive.their offtcial Certificate of Domestic
Partners. To qualify, neither partner
can be legally married; both must be
over.' 18; and one partner must live or,, work in the city. However, couples living anywhere can obtain partnershipstatus from the city of San Francisco
by using a notary public in theirhometown.
Although there was much carousing as couples emerged from City Hall
proudly holding their certificates, theofftcial celebration didn't begin until.mid-afternoon. Then, on the steps ofCity Hall, couples, their supporters,
queer activists, politicians, tourists,
reporters and the simply curious assembl&! for the "Afftrmationof Partnership
Ceremony"' sponsored by.local gay religious and spiritual organizations.
More than 50 couples, one byone, descended the sweeping City Hall
stairs from the counselor's chambers.

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Martin Smith and Dennis Bush wait to get hitched, while Kataka Gara and Susan Dam, celebrate outside City Hall.
As their names were read, the couples
paused at the top of the stairs underthe building's magnificent rotunda,
kissed and-to wild applause walk
down together hand-in-hand.
There were men wearing identical"Mr. Right" T-shirts, full leather, tuxes
and biker shorts, and others holding
teddy bears. There were women carrying everything from flowers to theirbabies. There were even a few straightcouples who seemed perfectly happy
to be participating in this celebrationof queer love.
Harry Britt, an openly gay supervisor and the sponsor of the legislationthat made the events possible, declared
the day "an important moment in thehistory of the American family" andurged all gay people to register theirrelationships with City Hall. "We are notfree to be families until we bring ourselves down there and let the world see
us in all our glory."
Tom Ammiano, the gay presidentof the San Francisco school board,and Donna Hitchens, the first openly
queer Superior Court judge, also
spoke. Also present were Roberta
Achtenberg
and Carole Migden,
newly elected lesbian supervisors,and several other members of theCity Council, which is comprised of
11 members, three of whom are gay.
From there, the celebration moved
across the street, where couples attended a reception sponsored by the Lesbian Agenda for Action, complete withbanquet, cake and commemorative portrait studio set up just for the occasion.
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it was the romantic stories of the actual
couples that were, for many, most
touching.
BarbaraTannenbaum
andEleanore Brooks, together for eight
years, hoped that their renewed commitment would mean, according toTannenbaum, "at the least, healthcare and other benefits, at the most,
total acceptance by church, state andmy father."
And William Harrison Grove andRoderick Duncan Geddes, together
for 22 years, when asked what thepartnershipcertificate
meant ,tothem, smiled and said proudly ...
"Recognition at last." Several couples
also mentionedthat they hoped
domestic partnershiplegislation
would lead to legalization of same•sex marriages.
Although legalization of queer
marriage is by no means imminent,. the law may have more legal teeth
than anyone imagined while it was
still pre-election Proposition K. The
Domestic Partnership Declaration
boldly states: "This may do things you
hadn't counted on ....A domestic partnership creates legal rights andduties ....If your partner can't get foodor shelter for him- or herself, she or
he can make you get them. She or hecould get a court order."The agreement also urges couples
to be careful about potential medical
crises. "If you convince your employer
to cover your partner, you will be
responsible for any medical bills the.insurance doesn't pay." The pre-partnership advice also urges partners to" create wills and durable power-ofattorney forms and states that partners. have no legal claim to property boughtby the other.
The guidelines are somewhat
more vague about the actualities ofwhat it means to live as domestic partners, Although most people assume
that it means cohabitation, the wording of the actual document states that"it is OK if one or both of you has aseparate place somewhere eIse....You
don't have to split basic living expenses to be partners.»
For Kataka Gara, 23, and Susan
Darm, 37, this meant that they could
reaffirm their relationship publicly,
although they hold separate apart-ments and are non-monogamous.
Together for slightly more than a
year, it was nevertheless importantto both that they be among the firstto register.
Said Gara, "I wanted to show
the city and the world that we doexist." She added that although thepartnershipagreement is just "apiec~ •of paper," it has alreadybrought them a lot closer, "It was achance to justify our love."
Her partner agreed, sayisngthat although she shuns traditional
marriage, the concept of becoming
domestic partners with Kataka wasdifferent. "The concept of 'happily
ever after' is such bullshit," says
Darm, "but a commitment
tosomeone while you're with them isdifferent. "By the third day of registration, a
total of 274 couples had registered, a,count lower than expected ..None had,as yet, filed to end a new partnership.
Couples wishing to do so must file a"Notice for Ending a f' .:>mesticPartner"
ship" and wait six months before
becoming domestic partners withsomeone else.
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was first passed by the city's Board ofSupervisors in another form in 1981,
but it was vetoed by then, May~r
Dianne Feinstein. Two years' ago, theidea was revived by Supervisor Britt
with its legislative guts essentiallygone, but a low voter turnout and astrong conservative backlash 'narrowly defeated it. In last November's
elections, after the community ral.lied around the issue and 10,000
new gay and lesbian voters wereregistered,
Proposition
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passed by a 54.1 pt"rcent to 45.8
percent margin, or H),844 votes. T 'Romancing the Clone
NEW.YORK-Although domestic want is legiSlation which has the force
partnership legislation in New York of law. This is a major first step on the'City remains elusive, advocates and route to getting a domestic partnercity agencies are seeking to imple- ship law passed."ment interim proposals that will
Despite its being an interim meademonstrate the need for a partner- sure, advocates are adamant about· .
ship registry.
the executive order's importance.
Nearly a year ago, Nan H!lnter, Hunter told OutWeek: "The idea ofthen the director of the Lesbian and partnerships, including lesbian and"Gay Rights Project of the Am(!rican " gay partnerships, has enormous symCivil liberties Union, sought to have bolic weight. It's important not to,
Mayor David Dinkins expandthe city's underestimatethat."current domestic partnership registry
Dennis deLeon, head of New
to include all city'residents. Ultimately, York City's Human Rights Commis- ,legal advocateswould like to see a law sion; Marjorie Hill, director of the.
here similar to the one that took effect Mayor's Office for the Lesbian andlast week in San Francisco.
GaY'Community; and the city's corpo, At present, the registry, created ration counsel, Victor Kovner, recently
by executive order under former
asked Mayor Dinkins to grant "approMayor Ed Koch, can be used, only by priate approval" to establish a citycity employees and grants the single wide registry for domestic partners at 'benefit of bereavement leave. In the the Human Rights Commission. Theview of the ACLU, Dinkins has the request to Dinkins does not seek anlegal authority to expand the registry executive order.
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According to deLeon, HRC's reg- ,see as one step toward passing legis- istry- would allow partners, both city ,lation in the City Council.
and private sector, to document their"We don't want Mayor Dinkins to relationships, and would lay the'think this is all we want him to do," groundwork for a two-year HRCstudy
said Bill Rubinstein, the current direc- that will document the need for
tor of the ACLU's Lesbian and Gay domestic partnership legislation.
Rights Project. "Ultimately, what we-Duncan Osborn.e

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distinction of being the first state in the
US to acquit a lesbian in a stabbing caseunder the "battered spouse" defense.
State legtslatures are slowly debating
the legalization of homosexuality, and a
few far-sighted municipalities are beginning to see the validity of same-sex marriage. But in the meantime, whether theyrealized it or not, six men and six
women in Idaho have pushed the recognition of gay couples one step further by
accepting the idea, that Priscilla Forbes
was Lynn Zarek's spouse.
"It's certainly unfortunate that the firstopportunity to recognize spousal relationships between two women came througha battering case," said Ann Dunkin,spokesperson for Your Family, Friends andNeighbors, a gay activist group in Boise.
"But it is also laudable that the courts,
chose to recognize t:his--it's a great stepfor civil rights in Idaho and elsewhere."
Using expert psychological testimony that the dimunitive Priscilla Forbes
was under the mental and physical domination of her taller lover, the four-footten-inch clerical worker pleaded selfdefense in the Aug. 12 stabbing and wasfound not guilty.
But for the 27-year-old Zarek, the,verdict was another low blow.
"It felt like the carpet slid out from.under me," said Zarek, who feels that she
was stabbed once by Forbes and stabbed
again by the system "I know it's important for gay rights, but I'm still angry."
The first time a battered spousedefense was used was in a 1989 lesbianmurder case in Florida. But the Boise
acquittal marked the ftrst time a jury was
willing to accept it as legitimate grounds
for self-defense
a remarkable occurrence in this rigidly conservative state.
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"EVerybody bought into the spouse
theory," said Zarek, who is still surprisedat the verdict in what was supposed to
be a cut-and-dry case.
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A STAB AT GAY RIGHTS?
Lynn Zarekin the courts that eventually should be recognized in the statehouse, it also pointed
up many issues in the gay community thatare not often highlighted, including: thedenial of abuse within the gay community;
the volatile emotions often generated
when one partner wants to date and theother wants to be monogamous; and theeffect of drugs and alcohol on relationships, The case also shows how different
gay relationships may be from heterosexual ones. And finally, it shows what canhappen when the more sordid side of gay
life becomes public knowledge.
Zarek downplays the level of abuse
that, over time, led to a three-day stay inthe hospital, exploratory surgery, morethan $6,000 in medical bills and $3,000 inlost wages. But she does admit that the, relationship was rocky.
"There were some physical confrontations," said Zarek. "It was a lovehate relationship, and when it was bad, it
was really bad. "Although the violence level may
have been high, the couple was together
for more than three years. Toward theend-whenmonogamy
became anissue the arguments grew more heated
and frequent.
Zarek claims that although they
were hardly fighting that night, the relationship had become so much worse that
Zarek was knifed in the back, causing afour-inch-long, four-inch-deep wound.
Zarek said that the issue ofmonogamy was the final straw--that
Forbes worried abQut the other women
Zarek would be seeing.
"I guess it's a normal response towonder whom I'm going out with, but it
doesn't help," said Zarek.
The evening of the incident, thelevel of jealousy had risen so high that
Forbes ha~ asked Zarek to leave and put
some belongings in a duffle bag.
"She had my things packed already,"said Zarek.
But abuse and monogamy weren't
the only sparks that finally set the relationship ablaze. Zarek admits that drugs andalcohol played a Iarge part in the scenario.
"I had partied the night prior and had .
some beer earlier in the day," admits Zarek.
According to court testimony, Forbes,had a history of alcohol abuse and hadgone out to buy drugS that evening,
Even after Zarek came within millimeters of losing major organs
andher life-she
still was emotionallyattached to Forbes.
Rather than running or fighting backwhen Zarek realized that she was hurt,
she showed Forbes the woundeventhough she claims Forbes was still holding the knife and could have killed her,"I thought she didn't realize what she
had done," said Zarek. "I didn't even realize I'd been stabbed, But then I looked in
the mirror-you
could see my insides.
Blood was dripping allover the place."
When Forbes saw the damage, she
dropped the knife, helped Zarek staunch
the bleeding, then called the police.
Forbes wasn't a suspect at first-Md
Zarek wasn't willing to tell the police
who had done it. Forbes wasn't arrested
until one of Zarek's mends finally let thecat out of the bag.
The incident also proved what canhappen when news of an alternative
lifestyle makes it to the mainstream
media in a town that takes a prurientinterest in sex scandals. Intimate details of
their personal life were splashed acrossthe front page of the local newspaper.
The combination of drugs, sex and violence were salacious fodder that generated immense publicity.
According to Zarek, Forbes was
fired from her job and evicted from herapartment as a result of the incident. 'Zarek hasn't fared much better.
She still has a job, but she worries
about her reputation in a community sohomophobic that even gays are hardpressed to support each other if they
become an embarrassment.
No homosexuals arrested in the past
year have received any support from thegay community at large-neither
theolder man arrested for sex with ateenage boy nor the four men arrested incars outside the gay bar here.
Portrayed as a batterer by the mainmedia, Zarek fears that membersof the gay community also will think that
she's a bruiser.
"I have a reputation for being very
outgoing," said Zarek. "But I'm a big person, and I'm afraid people will wonder if
I really beat up women. "But for Zarek, who is now in counseling, it's not a matter of black or white
where her feelings--or the incident-dre
concerned.
"I'm not glad she got acquitted,
because I alma;t died," said Zarek. "And I
don't think well ever be mends again. But
to this day, I feel sony for her-!'ve wanted to go to her and give her a big hug."
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Hennelly, a former franciscan friar, sustained,
allegedly while in thehands of the police.
Hennelly, who spent
six days in the hospitalfollowing his releasefrom police custody,
spoke briefly and withevident anxiety about
being shoved, kicked,
and bludgeoned repeatedly with a billy-clubby the police.
Activists pointed outthat the charges against
Hennelly-disorderly
conduct, resisting arrest
and assault-were particularly outrageous in lightof the fact that Hennelly
was acting as a marshal
at the demonstration.
"What happened tome was unforgiveable,~':11IEY BEAT ME, AND I KEPTBEGGING FOR MERCr -Chris Hennelly, with Dr. Suzanne Phillips.

by Nina Reyes
NEW YORK-The gay man whosays he was beaten in police custody
after being arrested at an ACT UP
demonstration two weeks ago may suffer
the after-effectsof the beating indefinitely, a physician said last week. Ironically,
the demo was called to protest an earlier
incident of alleged police brutality involving the arrest of a differentgay man.
And at a press conference last
week, anti-violence activists called forthe suspension of the Midtown North
Precinct's Depty. Insp. Carl Jonasch
and a f~1I investigation into police
behavior at the Feb. 11 demonstration.
Three individuals, two of them marshals, were arrested at the action.
"It is clear to me that the police
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charge was ordered to pick off a~darrest a few demonstrators to intimidate
the group and to punish the demonstrators for exercising their rights," Matt
Foreman, director of the New York City
Anti-Violence Project, stated in a letter
to Mayor David Dinkins that calls for aninvestigation and the immediate suspension of Jonasch, "This charge camewithout warning of any kind, and without provocation on the part of thedemonstrators, and even though thedemonstrators were separated from thepolice by a line of marshals."
Foreman also called for a complete review of procedure used by thepolice during all demonstrations.
The activists' allegations of police
brutality were graphically substantiatedbut I will for~e becaus~ I
don't want thIS to contmue on," Hennelly stated at last week'spress conference. "They beat me, andI kept begging for mercy!"
Sgt. Peter Berry, a spokesperson for
the New York City Police Department,
would not comment on the activists'
specific allegations. "There have been
complaints filed with the Civilian Com-.
plaint Review Board, and they are currently under investigation," he said.
However, gay and lesbian membersof the Mayor'sPolice Council on Lesbianand Gay Issues said that three activists
on the council,
frustratedbystonewalling from police representatives,
walked out of an emergency meeting of
the group. Foreman said that the ranking
officers present at the meeting "had theirminds made up" and were "detennined•to protect Jonasch and the other officers
involved."
Dr. Suzanne Phillips, a physician
and a member of ACf UP, noted that
Hennelly has lost his senses of smell
and taste and is experiencing
impaired hearing, probably all due toa severe concussion that was causedby at least eight blows to the head.
Furthermore, Hennelly is disoriented,
cannot walk without assistance, and isexhibiting classic post-traumatic stresssymptoms that may persist indefinitely, Phillips said.
"Ibis is the sort of thing that boxers
get afterthey've been punched in the head
one too many times," Phillips explained.
Foreman said that a multimillion
dollar lawsuit would be filed against
the cops on behalf of Hennelly, who
has been told not to return to work forat least one month.
However, another demonstrator
arrested at the Feb. 11 protest, Jamie
Leo, who was issued at summons andreleased that evening (whereas theother two demonstrators taken into
custody were put through the system),said that his arresting officers treated
him with "great respect.""They continually asked me if I
needed anything," Leo, who was marshaling at the protest, told Out Week.
Leo said that the officer who signed
his summons told Leo to call him atonce if the judge hearing Leo's case
did not dismiss the charges immediately. "That's not to say that I didn't get
billy-clubbed during the brawl," Leoadded, "but once it was one-to-one,[the police were] very human and very
re~peC1fiJI."
The Feb. 11 demonstration at the
Midtown North Precinct was called toprotest the alleged police beating of
Scott Sensenig, who was arrested on
Feb. 5 along with two other activists,
who were charged with spray-painting
on the sidewalk outside John Cardinal
O'Connor's
residence
behind St.
Patrick's Cathedral.
Assemblywoman Deborah Glick,
Manhattan Borough President Ruth
Messinger, City Council President
Andrew Stein, and City Council member Ronnie Eldridge all joined AIDS
and queer activists in expressing conI
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be presented on the evening of March
25. His nomination is the ftIm's only
showing at the Oscars.
In accepting the award conferredon him by the foreign press in Hollywood, Davison kept his remarks to
AIDS."I think of the people who are living through this on a day-to-day basis,"he said. "They are the real heroes.»
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point at the end of its acronym and i~ loose on the streets of
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Sunday nights at 6 pm at the Lesbian and Gay Community
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middle-aged caretaker of his HIVinfected lover. Challenging the glittery
star-packed
audience,
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can devote as much intelligence,
effort. ..and will to the fight against
AIDS as we do to the war against
each other."His only thanks went to his wifeand to Samuel Goldwyn Films for"the courage to distribute a film thatwas obviously
not commercial."
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TORONTO-After more than 75
rejections, the co-producer of the Red
Hot & Blue record album to benefit
AIDS research flIlaily secured a corporate sponsor during a ·ceremony tomark the Canadian telecast of theuncensored music videos from Red
Hot & Blue. Up until now, no corporation had agreed to lend its name, logo
or, most importantly, its bucks, to thelavishly produced pop-music tribute toCole Porter.
John Carlin received a check for$10,000 (Canadian)from Hollywood/Powerline, a Canadian manufa'cturer of jeans and sportswear.
Karen Levine, president of Powerline, said that the donation madeperfect sense to her, after hearing
the album and reading of French
designer
Jean-Paul
Gaultier's
involvement with Red Hot & Blue.
"It's been given a lot of publicity in the fashion magazines, n Levine
said, "and a lot of fashion designers
are falling from this disease.".
ThoughLevine knows the
donation will have good publicrelations
effects,
she said her
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SAN FRANCISCO-This
city'sthree gay supervisors, in their first.,joint effort, have co-sponsored a resolution which would declare San
Francisco a sanctuary for queers.
Newly installed lesbian Supervisors
Carole Migden and Roberta Achtenburg, together with Supervisor Harry
Britt, introduced the legislation on
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profanity. Or maybe that's when the gentleman from West
DEPARTMENT: The Virginia developed his sensitivity to dirty words.
portals of St. Patrick's-CatheAs the influential president pro-tempore of the Senate,dral were doused with blood- Byrd played a vocal role in last year's debate over funding
red paint last week by a band for the National Endowment for the Arts.
of unknown maraudets travelling down Rfth Avenue in a
EASTER ON WEST 43RD STREET: The
two-door gray,Oldsmobile,
New Yorlc Times AIDS beat has risen from the dead.
leading to a frenzy of more- last year, the paper's metro editor, John Damton, nixed,or-less open speculation in the beat, banishing its indefatigable AIDS reporter, Bruce
the, mainstream media that' lambert, to cover municipal labor unions. But then, just,by ANDREW MILLER
those meddlesome AIDS
before Damton was kicked upstairs, he revived the beat and
wHIt ,.".".,,,.,, by CI'" ".IIem
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working it full time.
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Meanwhile, lambert and housing beat reporter Alanf have a list of gripes with the Catholic church, St. Patrick's
Finder were told to swap jobs. But Finder may become
Cathedral, John Cardinal O'Connor and Christ Himself
Mayor David Dinkins next press secretary, replacing thelonger than your arm. But while rumors that the sacreligious
ever-bow-tied former Timesman Albert Scardino, who. vandalism's perpetrators were of a queer persuasion imme- reportedly made trouble at City Hall once too often. The
diately began
Circulating in ACT UP circles, no one rushed move may not be lambert's last, either.
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And Josh Barbanel, who had ostensibly incorporated"A gray sedan?" commented one source in ACT UP. "It AIDS into his own beat covering the Health and Hospitals
doesn't really sound like us."
Corporation, has been writing almost exclusively aboutmunicipal finance issues. This has left the HHC virtually,
THE SACRED, THE 'pROFANE: Senator uncovered in the paper of record for nearly six months,
Robert Byrd Was so shocked by the existence of "a long list of which Rim Shots hears has people in the administration
obSCenitiesand profanities" in a copy of the 1988 Third College confused and unhappy.
,Edition of the Webster's New World Dictionary he'd been pawAnd you OutWeek reporters thought you had it rough.
ing through that he took about an hour of the US Senate'stime
to complain.
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CLIMB EVERY MOUNTAIN: Activists in"The use of these words outside a men's locker room Albuquerque summoned the media 10,000 feet above sea
or a naval loading dock would label their user as either level in what was billed as "the highest queer event" in hisuncouth and foul-mouthed or an incorrigible, illiterate boor," tory. A vigil protesting the recent murders of two gay men
read part of the two-page transcript of Byrd's rant in the was held on Sandia Crest to coincide with debate in theCongressional Record, which, at an estimated $480 per state house on an amendment to the state's civil rights
page, cost taxpayers nearly $1000. "In any event," added law, which would prohibit discrimination on the basis of
the West Virginia D~mocrat, "nobody needs them defined."sexual orientation.
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because we need to make the statemeqt of persecution of lesbians andga,y men."
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against .gay men and lesbians from'aqoss the country. "This is a teaching
device," Achtenburg added. "It is there
to illustrate the various forms of discrimination sexual minorities face.".
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San Francisco "shall not aid in thedeportation of non-citizens who are
currently in an established relationshipor domestic partnership when based on
sexual orientation."
It also calls on the city to not
aid any agency "in locating or extraditingindividuals
threatened withprosecution or for having married a'non-citizen in order to preserve theintegrity of the non-citizen's samesex relationship."
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Supervisors Carole Migden, Harry Britt and Roberta Achtenburg
the loss of life." .Examples of exclusion, from military services and prosecution
by the military for sexual acts between, consenting adults of the same sex aredetailed. Immigration and naturalization rights which discriminate against
gay men and lesbians are also defmedin the resolution.
The
document notes that 25 states•'.and the Districtof Columbia now have•laws which criminalize sexual acts
betweenconsenting adults; ~We are,
Criminals by defmition in many parts ofAmerica," said Britt. "So, we are a wellorganized criminal political force, andthere is no reason we should have tobe criminals anymore."
If passed, San Francisco would
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adults, both in and out of the military.
In addition, the city would not help
the military arrest individuals wanted
for gay-related charges and would not
help the military collect money (scholarship funds, for example), in any
action initiated primarily because aperson is gay.
If the resolution passes, Britt said
that he wants to find a way to telltourists that San Francisco is not justa beautiful city "but also has a strong
recognitionof homophobia,
andother forms of violations of humandignity, and is committed to their
eradication. ""One way to do that," he said, "iswith a sign or. billboard." More than a
few in the city are waiting some inanticipation, some, no doubt, in horrorfor a sign on the Golden Gate Bridge
procIaiming, "San Francisco: A Sanctuary
for Queers."-AIJen WhiteERERCONVICTED IN

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ACTUPERNEW YORK-Last week, nearly
two years after Steven Zabel was
brutally murdered in his own apartment, his killer, Andrew McMillan,
was convictedof second-degree
murder and two counts of firstdegree robbery.
McMillan's co-defendant,
Jose
Laureano, will go on trial on March 11,
and McMillan will be sentenced on
March 5. McMillan faces a maximum
sentence of 25 years to life for his rolein the slaying.
"It was a horrendous act of violence,"'stated Bill Dobbs, an attorney and
Acr UP member who worked to put
pressure on the police to fully investigate
the murder and arrest the perpetrators.
. Zabel was a member of Acr UP and a, dogged video joumal& whose woIk frequently appeared on the gay cable 1V .
show Out in the m.
"It took a long time, but I am gla9that justice was done," added Matt
Foreman, director of the Anti-Violence
Project. AVP, working with ACT UP,
sought witnesses to the crime. 'Both defendants were .acquainted
with Zabel and were staying in Zabel's
apartment, according to testimony at
McMillan's trial.
The two defendants apparently
murdered him by slashing his throat,so they could steal $8,000 worth ofvideo equipment he had recently purchased.
Bill Bahlman, who was one oftwo people who discovered Zabel's
body in early March 1989, commented
simply, "[Zabel's] loss is a tremendous
loss to the documentation of our com-"munity's work.".

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Imowledge of the VA study were specu.
asymptomatic people with ffiV infection.
thousands of other men, started taking
Yet Franco, a spokesperson for ACf
Iating whether the finding would provide
AZf more than two and a half years ago,enough leverage to challenge the federal
UP/NY's Latina/o AIDS activists, andat , a time when he was infected with theother representatives of the HIV-infected
human immunodeficiency virus but had
research establishment's contlnued testing
conununity, still believe that the drug isno symptoms of AIDS.
of AZf and related agents to the virtual
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an important part of an overall treatment
When Franco began AZf, the antiviBut this was not a consideration,
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regimen especially when, they say, pe0The main question before the committee
were infected
but asymptomatic,ple of color who don't get treatment die'although physicians were prescribing it
was whether AZT's product-labeling
faster than white gay men. Their concern
with the belief that early intervention
should be changed to warn people ofis access to health care, "This study clearwould slow thecolor that under cerprogression
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show thatpeople of color, specifically•Blacks and Hispanics, may do less wellwith AZf than whites who also start the
drug early.
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Iy implicates the whole federal-government research establishment in tenns of,what they're doing with Blacks, Hispanics and women," Franco said. "What is
the IDA and NIH going to do with pe0ple of rolor as it relates to AZJ?"

Assessing the Issue
The IDA Antiviral Drugs Advisory
Conunittee held a public meeting here on
Feb. 14 to assess this issue. Days before

In fact, the trial was never designed
to study racial differences; a comparison

between Black/Hispanic
and whitegroups came after the study ended,
about a month ago,
The study is unpublished, and,data
presented by Dr. John Hamilton of theVeterans Administration and Duke University were sketchy. The four-year trial
involved 338 people with ffiV infection
who were given either a placebo or,

1,500 mg of AZf per day if their T4cell counts were 500 mm of blood.
Those in the placebo group were
switched to AZT if their T cells
dropped to 200. Only one-third of thecore group, 118 subjects, were people of color. The "Black/Hispanic"
designation was given by the investigators. Hamilton stressed that thefinding, which suggested a limited
early benefit for people of color, wasstatistically only "marginally significant." For example, there was no dif-::
ferencein diseaseprogression
between whites and people of color
who started therapy later.

Activist Criticism
But the study has angered
spokespersons from gay and minority
groups. Belinda Rochelle, a health lobbyist with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, told OutWeek that thefact that the Black/Hispanic group hada large percentage of N-drug users
and a small number of subjects, andthat deaths were also due to non-AIDS
factors, such as heart attacks and sui.cide, gave the study no credibility.
Like other Black spokespersons, shesaid that access to health care was themiin .issue. "There's no alternative,"
she said, adding that the VA study
results only complicate access efforts.
"It would discourage people of color
from early-intervention programs."
Ron Johnson of New York: City's"Minority Task Force on AIDS said thatthe inconclusive results were "upsetting," a continuing example of the ppvemment's "sloppy" AIDS research poli<'des. "They're playing with people's
liVes," he said. 1'he message ~ Blackand Hispanic groups is unclear. Until
they do a credible study, they're justplaying with us, throwing out confusing and conflicting bits of infonnation"

The Madison Avenue Push
Dr. Wayne Greaves, an infectiousdisease specialist from Howard University Hospital in WashingtoQ, DC,
put a radical spin on the VA study's
significance during a presentation
before the committee. Greaves, theonly Black speaker, questioned thevalidity of comparing the VAdata withtwo previous AZf studies (known as
ACfG no. 016 and no. 019) that were
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Feel, About Lesbian
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becausewhat I' .....
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plex feelings about,looking at women and the kinds Qf
images of lesbian sexuality currently invogue in my downtown-New York,
let's-fuck, MadQnna-wannabe community. I purposely use the wQrd "feminist" because that catch-all identitY still
implies to me that I love and value
women and generally despise the way
men and our dominant cultureview and treat WQmen.In other wQrds,
sexismis a critical part of why I am the,kind of lesbian I am.
But I cQntinue to feel uncomfortable when I ftnd myself seemingly mirroring the sexist behavior that I blast in~ I!
men, I've not yet fully accepted thecurrent feminist argument that my
QbjectiflcatiQnQf a woman is so differ:ilent from a man's because Qf my status
as a 'woman within the patriarchy,
because the power relations between
WQmenare those of relative equals.
Let me say at the start ,that I'm lessinterested in the "good-vs:-bad" moral
angle Qn this questiQn than I am inbetter understanding
why we arechQosing ,certain kinds of images andlanguage to represent Qur desires andour seXuality. What does this say about
how we feel about ourselves and our
Nnerican lesbian subculture, at thispOint in our histQry, vis-a-vis gay men, and maipstream society?
,'What I know to be true fQr myself
is that I feel that I'm being encouraged
to look and talk sexually about WQmen(it{ bars, tbro.ugh porn and videos, insexualized language, etc.) from a positionthat Qften is powerful because it isI.,

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detached, aggressive, viQlent, cQmpetitive and lets me focus on my desire
and my pleasure, whether as a voyeur
Qr a seductress. It's a lot like thestereotypical way straight men look at
WQmenand gay men look and act witheach other.
I'm also being Qffered a chance to'identify with the woman who has
spread her legs for me, the public, or
whQ's made herself otherwise vulnerable. Here, the fantasy is the other sideof power-giving it up, with the attendant desire for victimization, even fQr
total annihilation. But there's no. lovein this vision Qf lesbian sex, no. caring:It's a depersonalized gaze, with no.
identity attached to the go-go. dancer
Qr the stripper at the Pyramid Club, or
the cut-out breasts and labias popularizing club fliers. The question I ftnd
myself asking is: As I gain a certain
freedom by breaking dQwn my own
fears or social taboos about sex, what
may I (we) be losing?
·As lesbian culture becomes mQre
sexualized in these ways, and it
becQmes easier for us to pursue andenjoy sex without love and to visually
divQrce women from their bodies, are
we becoming harder-in the sense ofbeing less interested in intimacy, in
committed relationships? Is this an
aspect of gay male culture we are
mimicking? What about misQgyny inthese images, in our idealization of ourgenitals? Gay male culture, with all its
many positive sides, can also manifest
attitudes of woman-hating, racism and 'an interest in fashion that may be amask for consumerism, snobbery andconformity. What about the basic feminist goal Qf breaking down stereotypes
about women's bodies? Can we Qnly
see ourselves as erotic tits and asses?
Has it come to a point where we
ignore each other if we aren't wearing
Doc Martens or requisite black? And if
so, is our freedom precisely this deliv-

ery frQm polite behaviQr, a satisfying,
no-guilt, post-punk "fuck you and fuckme too."Finally, to what extent does our
Qbvious need, at this point in time, tobe and feel viQlent, aggressive or
super-passive with each other mirror
the level of violence and lack of power
we may feel about what's aroundus-be
it the fury, pain and loss
asso.ciated with AIDS, the prevalenceof homophobia, the rise Qf gay-bashing, date rape and racism? Let's not forget militarism, either. If sex remains
our Qnly real bastiQn of personal
power outside Qf institutions and thelaw, then it makes sense that it has
become so much Qf our focus. But inour commitment to desire and transcending sex, are we at risk, as antipornography feminists warned in 1973,
of reducing our sexuality to its mostalienated and violent expressions? And
if we don't believe that limited concept, do. we have options? Can we
imagine a fuller, mQre erotic lesbiansexuality that is feminist?
The issue of gender and its relation to sexuality is hardly new ornews to. the feminist mQvement. The
current downtown dyke scene isdirectly mired in the still-unresolved
debate between radical feminists overthe'relationshipof sexual violence,
pornography and S!M to. the gQals of
women's liberation.
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For my part, I've never been apurist-politicallyQr otherwise--andI've always viewed repressiQn as theantithesis of liberatiQn. But my concerns abQut sexual violence against
women, lesbians and gay men remainstrong. Pro-sexer Alice Echols said in1982 that "cultural feminists neverseemed to consider that the apparent
growth in violence against womenmight demonstrate the effectiveness ofthe feminist movement in challenging
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by AileD Roskoff
ill the New
York
City
Board of Education
approve Chancellor';Joseph Fernandez's
progressive
HIV /
AIDS
education
plan,
which
includes making condoms available to r-.
Ihigh school students? As of this writing
the votes for the plan are not there.
While the mayor purports 'to be a supporter of the plan, one of his two Board
appointees-Westina
Matthews-is'Qemanding that it be watered down
before she will vote for it. The votewill take place on Feb. 27:·We are one
vote short.
Matthews says that she wants parents .to be able to "opt out" of the condom-availability
program. Even the?p~entsof the plan acknowledge that
this' idea is stupid and useless, It,I
wouldn't be manaatory for a student to
nk-eive a condom, sq there's really noth'ing to opt out. of. And if some students
are banned by their parents from obtaining condoms, what's to stop them from
Sending friends in to pick some up?
•••· ;\; Matthews is purposefully delaying
implementationof the chancellor's
program and has enlisted the support ofMayor David Dinkin's health commissioner, Woodrow Myers,~for her hare· brained "parental opt-out" scheme-an
amendment to the plan that is being
opPosed unanimously by the State AIDS
. AdvisOry Council and the 'Citizens Committee on AIDS, as well as every maJor, AIDS service organization in the city.
The chancellor is showing politicaland moral courage by sticking by hisp~plan that was qeveloped by theleading experts on adolescents and AIDSin New York City. If Matthews wants to
weaken the plan, she is going to have to
publicly move to amend it. It's time for" the mayor to show his leadership. HeI• 's!1ould tell his appointee that she represents him while serving on the board,and that he wants to save student lives,
Dinkins recently proved his willingness to take a political risk by traveling toIsrael. Indeed, while many of the City's
Jews have praised him for the trip, his
priorities have been questioned by some
African-American leaders. It's now time
for the mayor to risk antagonizing religious bigots like Olrdinal O'Connor andBishop Daily of Brooklyn and stand up
for the youth of New York. The word isthat Dinkins is mad at Fernandezbecause the chancellor publicly foughtbudget cuts at the Board. That should notstop Dinkins from being very public in
his support for the HIV education plan.

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all over again."
A number of New York politicalleaders on both sides of the issue turned
out for the Feb. 6 public hearing on theplan at BOE headquarters. As Yogi Berta
once said, "It was deja vu all over again."
The opponents were virtually the exact
same set of miscreants who opposed us
throughout the 70s and '80s at the public
hearings on the gay and lesbian rights
bill: archdiocesan lawyer John Hale, who
is trying to get the Hetrick-Martin Institute's AIDS educators indicted for "corrupting minors"; Rabbi William Handler(who once publicly acCused my old boss
Harrison Jay Goldin, the former
comptroller, of having sex with me under
his deskO; Robert Peters, the storefront
fundamentalist minister from the Council
for Community Consciousness a right-

wing front group; Rabbi Joseph Freedman, who used to wear surgical masks at
all public hearings on AIDS issues; andPaul Morrissey, the creep who wasarrested for slashing the banner of the
Gay Veterans Association in a Veterans
Day parade several years ago.
Ultra-right City Council member
Noach Dear sent a statement in opposition, but psycho Health Committee
Chair Joe Lisa, who voted for the gay
rights bill in '86 only to try to change his
vote two nours later, was there to condemn condoms and to promote his mad
obsession with getting everybody tested
for mv and reported to the authorities.
Staten Island did little to improve its
image as a haven for reactionaries withthe testimony of its borough president,
Guy Molinari, who trashed the goodwork of the Hetrick-Martin Institute andderided the chancellor's
proposal.
Queens Assemblywoman Cynthia Jenkins' illogical opposition to the plan was
beyond the fringe. She tried to make it a
racial issue, failing to compr~hend that
condoms would save the lives of minority students t()()-Q point that Janet Cyril,
an African-American community-oollege
official, drove home.
City Council President Andrew
Stein, an all-but-declared candidate vs.
Dinkins in '93, Ie(! off the testimony forour side. But while he opposed parental
consent, he said that he could see acompromise for parents, to "opt out."
The mayor, on the other hand, stayed
away from the hearing entirely. Manhattan Beep Ruth Messinger weighed in on
behalf of the plan, as did Council members Ronnie Eldridge and Miriam Friedlander and our new openly lesbian
Assemblywoman Deborah Glick, whoreminded the Board that Romeo andJuliet were only 13. Statements of support were read from Manhattan Dem0cratic County Leader and Assemblyman
Herman "Denny" Farrell,. Congressman
Ted Weiss, state Sen. Fred Ohrensteinand Council member Bob Dryfoos.
Note, please, that the Council member from Greenwich Vtllage, apathetic
Carol Greitzer, did not make an appearance or send a statement, and when afriend called Greitzer's constituency
office, a staff member wasn't even sure if
Greitzer had an opinion on the condom
plan. The new Republican Assemblyman
from Manhattan's East Side, John Ravitz,
said that he would support the plan only
if more counseling and more community
involvement were a part of it-things
that could hold it up indefinitely whilemore teenagers become infected.
Which brings us back to themayor. On the one hand, his own
Human Rights Commission testified infavor of the plan; on the other, hewould not testify himself. On the one
hand, his health department just cameout with an innovative poster campaign
to encourage youths to use condoms;
on the other, he won't campaign for
the rights of youths to obtain condoms
in schools. Advocates for young people
are furious that the mayor lias madethis fight so difficult, that he has failed
to play a leadership role even within
his own administration on this issue.
There is still time for David Dinkins to redeem himself on this one. All
he has to do is pull together the many
people in his administration concernedwith the issue including Board me~ber Westina Matthew5---QI1d work withthem to build a consensus in support'of the chancellor's plan. If he does any
less, he will be giving comfort to theright-wing zanies and failing the children of the City of New York.
•• Much credit goes to Andy
Humm, director of education at the Het"rick-Martin Institute, for the incredible
lobbying and organizing he did on the~ condom issue. Humm is one of ourcommunity's most valuable resources.·
ACT UP's Youth Education Life Line
committee (YELL) must also be commended for its work in bringing bothstudents and their advocates out to thehearing. YELL's Cam Sanders read astatement the committee obtained from
Madonna, and YELL's Oliver Schoen
coordinated much of the student testimony throughout the day and was avaluable resource to our supporters.
Both are real troopers.
• The special City Council race in
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poet, author and AIDS activist, died atliome,of.. .. AIDS or'! Feb. 12.
Alan seemed to live a million different lives: Some people knew him in,a penthouse in Miami, others in thelibrary of Columbia University, still others inthe ACT UP workspace., He
would dress in Armani or Ivy League
prep or queer radical: Alan seemed to
fit In anywhere and with anyone.
On Sundays, friends would dropby Alan's apartment-or
salon, assome of us called it-and find a gathering of ten or more people, some gay,
but most straight, having absolutely
nothing--other than Alan-in common
with each other, but it always worked
because Alan put people together as
he constructed his poetry: perfectly. If•

you questioned him on his motives, hewhitewash. He had AIDS, and hewould give you this shit-eating grin as if
wanted everyone to know about it. He
to say, ~Just shut up, I know what I'minsisted that the New Yorlc Times obitudoing," and he always did. He always
ary report Mdiedof AIDS," a final stategot what he wanted, and if you doubted . ment for MAIlthe news that's fit to print,"
him on some unbelievableconbecause he knew he could bringJhis
quest-andall his conquests weredisease home to people who never
unbelievable
within a few minutes
thought that they knew a person withsome indisputable evidence would
AIDS but they knew Alan.
waltz by.
Marie, Alan's mother, and Dino
Up until the day he died, Alan was
and Joe, his friends, were with him
co-directing his play PositiveINegative,
when he died. Columbia University
which will be staged at Columbia later
flew flags at half-mast and immedithis month. He held casting calls fromately put up notices about his memohis hospital bed and gave direction to
rial service. Madeleine
L'Engle,his actors while the portable pump on
author of A Wrinkle in Time, read ahis exposed stomach infused lipids into
prayer at the service, and the dean
the Hickman catheter. Alan had nothingplans tQ name a scholarship for him.
to hide. If the actors couldn't handle it,
Alan
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loved
the
Alan felt that they shouldn't botherhoopla-he would have expected it,
doing a play about AIDS.
and he certainly deserved it.
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Commentary..

Homophobia Alive and Well on Lany King Live•by Henry Yeager•••"The homosexual lifestyle is dangerousto your health. Ifs
a major behaviorthat puts a person at risk."This statement was made by Cathy Kay, a guest on a
recent Larry King Live show devoted to homosexualityand gay
rights. Kay's qualifications for discussing the subject were that
she's a registerednurse and a member of an organizationcalled
California Health-CareAdvocates. Also appearing on the show
was a QueerNation representativefrom NewYork.
Not too long into the broadcast, it became clear that Ms.
Kay was not appearing on the program to advocatehealth-care
for anybody but rather to promote intolerance, hatred and fearof gays and lesbians. Keyto Kay's litany of misinformation washer cJaimthat people choose their individual sexual orientation..and that homosexuality is a "behavior disorder" caused by a"breakdown in the family." These statements contradict stan.. dard medical and mental-health guidelines and endanger lives'..
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by reinforcing bigotry. They are reprehensible,especially coming from a health-careworker.
King apparently belongs to the school of broadcastingthat
proposes that pro-gay opinions are so controversial that theymust be "balanced" with "Helms'/Hitler's view." This attitude issymptomatic of a media that generally views the gay rights
movement as less credible than other large movements forsocial change, such as those of women and Blacks. To protest
this double standard as well as King's elevation of Kay to"expert" status, write to: Larry King Live, 111 Massachusetts
Ave., WaShington, DC 20001; or call CNN,where larry King's
show airs, at (202) 898-7900.

GLAAD Tidings is a program of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance
Against Defamation. For more information about the material
in this week's column, or about GLAAD, call (212) 966-1700.

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knows where to look. Start with aslum-but not just any urban skid row .
Look for good architecture, something
eccentric yet tasteful, with a place togather, like a beach, but which everyone
else seems to loathe. South Beach at the
tip of Miami Beach was that sandy Cinderella. And for the past ten years, gay
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Boston, downtown Philadelphia, West Hollywood and Melrose.
"Miami is still a frontier town-it's developing and, in many respects,
actually thriving," says real-estate attorney Jeffrey Reichenbacher. "It is by
no means a homogeneous community. It's multi-ethnic, with a strong presence of highly educated and sophisticated residents.' And it's a city withouta past. Because it's so diverse-it lends itself to minoryty groups that havehistories of discrimination."-~"'''The type of people attracted to the area, from the start, were the mavericks," says Louis Canales, the man responsible for promoting South Beach totrendy international magazines. "Because American society is the way it is, mostgays are mavericks.· So a large percentage of the pioneers were gay. They
weren't here because they were gay, but because of the vision that they sharedwith all kinds of people. Mainstream gays had no interest in South Beach."
The Deco District~ square mile of landmark architecture that is South
Beach-had fallen into a depression in the 70s, when the Caribbean became
the popular tropical destination and all but killed off tourism in Miami Beach.
The area had lost its allure to Americans. In 1980, the Mariel Boatlift brought
thousands of Cuban refugees, many of whom were widely described as "dan_gerous criminals" released from Castro's prisons (more than a few were actually political prisoners). Some refugees terrorized the elderly in the low-rent
district South Beach hit rock bottom.
A few y~ later, the first investment buildings were bought and renovated. But as is often the case, those withthe vision don't always get rich.
Banks foreclosed on many of this first wave because renters could not befound. Qime was high, and the neighborhood was crowded with buildings
any investor could have picked up for the asking.
No other person was as pivotal in recovering South Beach as designer
Leonard Horowitz, whose eccentric planning ideas called attention to thearchitecture. As co-founder of the Miami Beach Design PreselVation League,
Horowitz set out repainting the deeo structures with a palette of tropical pastels then considered outrageous. Many of his projects were endowed throughfoundation grants.
,"This was the era of beige with brown trim. It covered America but wasparticularly horrible on these beautiful buildings that were originally whitewith pastel trim," says Ulura Cerwinski, author of the ubiquitous Tropical
Deco and Miami: Hot and Cool. "Leonard painted over the beige with pinks,
turquoises and lavenders and succeeded in making people look at something
they hadn't noticed for 20 years.",
One of his early projects was Friedman's Bakery (now Watergun, aclOthing boutique), which was featured on the cover of Progressive Architecture in November 1982 and became the very definition of Miami's art deco.
The rest, as they say, is history. 1V producers caught a glimpse of South
Beach ii fa Horowitz, and Miami VICewas born. Reruns in 65 countries forever established an enamored international audience of kooky tropical deco.
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When Horowitz died of AIDS in 1989, a portion of 11th Street off Ocean
Drive was named in his memory.
"Once a critical mass of dilapidated buildings are being cared for, therisk factor disappears," says Miami's premier architectural photographer,
Steven Brooke. "In this case, that aitical mass was merely having enoughstores, hotels and buildings looking like they were restored. It's a case of'visual psychological.' Paint was a sign of interest and investment, and thatbrought the second wave in. Whether or not they ?lere collapsing on theinside was moot.""There might be something subliminal going on between gay people
and this architecture," obSCIVesMichael Carver ofVmtage Properties (andalso OutWeeFts general counsel). "There's something whimsical and totally
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Another factor that contributed to the slow rumble of gentrification was the chance that Miami might become a casino
town. A state referendum to pennit gambling had failed to passin 1978, but interest grew in the years leading up to a second
vote in 1986. South Beach had its share of limos auising thearea anticipating a real-estate bonanza. Although the referendum
failed again, the market had been feverishly stimulated, though
it remained undervalued.
The fIrSt prominent gay influx began to trickle in around
1985, as gentrification in the Northeast was beginning to drive
small-time speculators to South Beach. Previously, there had

been no nightclub scene catering to gays, but gradually regular
events appeared ~ otherwise straight establishments in the formof a Sunday tea dance at 1235 and Private Affairs, a gay night at
dub Ovo (now Warsaw).
In November 1986, the Strand opened and became the
Algonquin South, and it has forever remained the ultimate
mixed crowd. Never has restaurant lighting made a crowd so
attractive. New York gays and celebrities never failed to show inlarge parties for long dinners. It was the place where one decided to make the move south.
"I remember going to the opening of the Strand, and people
were floored that I would drive over the MacArthur Causeway toa restaurant on Washington Avenue,"
recalls Reichenbacher, who lives in
Miami. "Before the Strand, there wasnothing. The preservationists' cause wasnoble but had no effect in drawing pe0ple from Miami, except for the annual artdeco festival. The Strand brought both
cash and clout to the Beach. They tested
the waters for all that has followed"
Henry Auvil opened his clothingboutique, Hero, in 1987. "dub Nu
opened the very week I moved here," herecalls. "Night life in those days was hard
to find, and when we did; we had topretend we were having a good time."
Not until the stock market crashedin 1987 did Northeastern gays begin
looking for new dpportunities en masse.
In December 1987, a South Beach rag,
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David Vance's beefcake covers and fashion spreads, along with Danny Garcia'ssocial column, created a sexy and stylish
image of South Beach society.
"The gay presence on the Beach isgreat," says Esther PercaI of Wunbish
Realty. "It's making us,much more c0smopolitan than we've been for many
years. Here we've got people from allover the world, from all walks oflife it's fabulous ....PeopIe on South!(JfI./"
Beach are respectful of what we all have •contributed to the revitaIization. If you
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don't like mingling with the gay community, then don't come here. You either
appreciate it and come, or you don't
belong here. Go to Palm Beach."
By 1988, gays had become a visible
population in Miami Beach. At that time,•
many artists, designers and photographers had established a demimonde.
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money is spent in local restaurants, hotels
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along Ocean Drive as models strike a poselong after the film runs out. It has driven
some to Jligermetster.
Until the summer of 1989, no gay nightclub on South Beach had really thrived Gays
took the bulk of their business to clubs in
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like no club south of the Paradise Garage, By
2 am, all the right shirts are removed and clusters of Extasy-wasted musc1eboys dance thenight away, The ethnic mix of Hispanics andAnglos is something never before accomplished in this othetWise mixed-up town, atleast not with such ferocity.
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Nearby gay populations in Ft. lauderdale and Key West had been streaming into
.South Beach for weekend fun, but now they're moving here. For many, it was likefinding intelligent signs of life in the state. All things ronsidered, Miami has become
America's most desirable destination. "Miami Beach is absolutely the primo mecca,"says Bob Kunst of Cure AIDS Now. "As far as I'm concerned, I'd raise all...of thebridges and require a visa to get in.""I figure 80 percent of the residents of the Helen Mar [art-deco condo] are gay
men from New York who come down on 'the weekends," notes writer Elinor Burkett .
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was like, Why pretend?"" Despite the recent burst of new residents, South Beach remains cheap by any standard but its past. "South Beach will inevitably lose some of its exoticism as it gentrifies,"says Michael Quver. "But the flip side is that the vast majority of the buildings were built

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as seasonal housing, so the quarters are'small. Ultimately, that isn't appropriate housing for families. So if there's a condominium
process with these apartments, it will attract
singles, and that means gay people:"The future will <;ontinue to bring morediversity, which is what the Beach is all.
about," says Esther Perca1. 'The French,
GenTIans and latins all bring something .
, When my New York friends come down, allthey want to do is go to Cuban restaurants .
They love the latin influence that we took
for granted for so many years:"Now it's the 'in' place to go. Like, 'Puerto Sagua [Collins Avenue and 7thStreetl, which was our Sunday hangout. It
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Urban (by defmition of its density), the district sits on a stunning
expanse of beachfront and is built up with a
mad mix of art-deco and moderne architecturethat is both amusing and genuine .
A microcosm of America, greater Miami has
dealt remarkably well with endless migrations,swa110wingup wave after wave passively. As
naive and anxious as an adolescent, it is the real
Tomoriowland, monorails and all.
New Yorkers can lay claim to a long history of dominating Miami, but it is no longer
exclusively their colony, like the Hamptons orFire Island. Miami has its own personality,
heavily influenced by Cubans, Colombians,
Haitians and Venezuelans. Hispanics havereset the time zone as well as the style tone.
Not as it was in the "old country," and certainly nothing ever before seen here, this is la
dolce vita, Miami-style. As the new saying
goes, iLo que la hamburguesa americana ba
becho para los cubanos! ("What the American
hamburger has done for the Cuban boys!"). A
passion transfusion has lit the flame.
Miami society is obsessed with splintering
ethnic groups into class and caste, yet in all
the confusion, such "social studies" rarely
amount to discernible prejudice. Ethnic-cultural rules are in a constant state of flux. Everyneighbor is somehow foreign even to thepoint where some Cuban Americans are theold-timers and their children the all-Americans. Gays are just one more layer in this
Venice and equally relaxed speaking theirown language.
Greater Miami itself has long attracted gays.
Coconut Grove's gay residents date back to
grand-daddy James Deering, who built the palatial Vtzcaya in 1916. (A glimpse of the annual
White Party held on his estate would raise him ,from the grave.) Recently, older suburbs with
Mediterranean-style houses have been bought up
in quqntity by gays, especially in the Morningside, Belle Meade and Roads sections. But thetrend in Miami Beach has nothing to do with ;,suburban life. Its heterogeneity, in fact, is its
appeal to gays.
The energy found on South Beach is asynthesis, something new, and it has as muchto do with a global malaise of "there's got to
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announced my publisher. "'There's just one problem-we don't
know any lesbians down there."
So it happened that I fenagled a weekend trip to the beachin the dead of a dreary New York winter: I would offer my services as a scout, and Maria, OutWrek's art director, would comealong for "creative direction." It would be a working weekend,
we promised. We'd find the lesbians if it killed us .
As eager as I was to feel sun and sand, I had my-doubts
about finding lesbians in South Florida. General statistics told us that they were
there, yet on a previous trip to this retiree and refugee mecca, that glimpse oflife we knew as "the sisterhood" had eluded us. But to tell the story properly, I
must really start in Naples, a small but luxurious beachfront town on the gulf
side of the Floridian peninsula.
Last September, my girlfriend and I were invited to vacation in Naples withan old college friend whose parents had a winter home there sitting empty. Bothof us were looking fOIWardto a quiet, relaxing retreat, alternating tanning andeating with drinking and napping. But our friend, who was going through a separation from her husband, was also in the process of coming out. So naturally,
we felt obliged to spend some time teaching her the art of auising women.
We learned soon enough that Naples was a challenge for even the m051:seasoned dyke, as the only sign of Sapphic life seemed to be the young blond who
tried to pick me up in the bathroom of the town's busiest (and straightest) teen
hangout~e
type of bar where rich college kids party when visiting their parents on winter break. So we borrowed a car, grabbed some tapes and headed
Miami-bound through Alligator Alley.
"'There are a lot of modeling agencies in Miami Beach because the weather
is so predictable. The photographers love it,» explains Steve, a gay man in his
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self-consciously tucked portfolios under .tPeir arms. We were just down
the street from the News Cafe, where four months earlier my friend Mary
had developed a serious crush on our waitress during a similar afternoon
brunch (her heart was broken the next morning when we ran into thewoman and her stud of a boyfriend, sipping coffee and sharing Cuban
toast in the corner of a local breakfast joint).
Unless you are there on business or visitingr~l~tives (or, of course,
live there), Miami Beach is Miami. The beach is clean~d wide, theshops hip and trendy, and the Euro-style beachfront cafes are perfectly
designed for people-watching. This is where the beautiful people are,but lesbians beware the cute girls only smile at you because theircheek muscles are permanently. flexed that way. To fmd the real dyke
scene one must hop back in the car, and for New Yorkers this can begin
to get traumatic.
Luckily, Maria and I hit the jackpot on this last trip by meeting twocute young lesbians on the very first night-no more heading down the
highway in the wrong direction. (During our autumn trip, we were so
desperate to fmd the one lesbian bar listed in the local gay directory~
place called Cherry Grove--dlat we were halfway to Fort lauderdale on 195 before we realized that we were supposed to be going south. An hourlater, we finally found, nestled under a highway overpass on the edge ofthe downtown area, a tiny building the size of the Cubby Hole. Insidewere three women playing darts, the MIV Music Awards on the lV.) This
trip, we managed to find the source-the "party dykes" as it wer~dthey agreed to spend Friday night showing us around.
There were rumors of a lesbian-owned health spa that becamea party spot "after hours," but we didn)t seem to be in the right
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be at a place called Cheers. The boys, 'meanwhile, wishedus, well as they headed off to Warsaw, Miami's equivalent of
the Roxy.
We kept our fmgers crossed as we rooe across town, passjng gas stations, shopping malls, drive-through restaurants andmore gas stations. It was 11:30 pm, and the city outside ofMiami Beach seemed deserted. Suddenly, we happened upon a
shopping plaza whose parking lot was jam-packed with cars.
"Wow, there's a ton of people here tonight," mused our guide.
LUcky us.
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from Tel Aviv to Havana. I still don't get the joke, but I can certainly say that the young, predominantly Jewish and Cuban (andsometimes Jewish-Cuban) girls who packed the dance floor atCheers that night were a sight to behold. In fact, when Nellie(our new friend) had described the bar as being a crossbetween Private Eyes and the dit dub, I had imagined something rather lame. What we got was a good dose of glamour
and sleaze. Things could not be better.
As it turns out, "glamour" and "sleaze" are probably thetwo words that describe Miami best-not like New York,
where you have glamour (the Plaza Hotel), and you havesleaze (the meat-packing district), where glamour and sleaze
do not go hand-in-hand. Where else could you fmd a gay bar
being shut down for operating as a drug bazaar, only to fmd
it open and packed for the next two weeks with a sign on
the door reading "No Drugs, Free Booze," while the owners
get the paperwork straightened out? (As with other Miami

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about it: When it comes to fmding lesbians in Miami, Cheers
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orbit, The former Miss Oklahoma should havebeen content pitching Rorida citrus andsirlging"The Battle Hymn of the Republic" at .auto Conventions but instead sunk her homophobic
fangs into an issue she never imagined· would
bite back.
In 1977, Dade County Commissioner Ruth
Shack proposed a gay rights amendment guaranteeing
equal opportunity in housing and employment throughout
Miami. This VeIY same Ruth was the wife of Dick Shack,Anita's manager. Only the year before, Bryant had appealed
to voters in radio spots for Shack. Anita's Baptist church got
wind of the amendment and demanded an explanation for
her Shack endorsement. On the day of the commission'svote, Anita and her mob showed up with Scriptures in.
hand. Anita preached; the commission listened. Then they
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of hysteria that succeeded in elevating pedophilia to a topic
of dinner conversation and put all cologne-wearing men
under suspicion.
"The ordinance is not needed. It threatens yourhome, attacks free entetprise, is a peril to the nation. It isan open invitation to recruit your children," she ranted. "If•

Singer sewing Machine and Bryant, who had been about to' ,homosexuals are a legitimate minority group, then so are nailget her very own 1V variety show. Her appearances became
biters, fat people, short people. The laws of the land havesecurity threats as she was met at every stop by protesters
always been to protect the nonnal, not the abnormal. It is notarmed with cream pies. Now in her third marriage, Anita lives
a qirthright to be a homosexual. A lot of them are under thein Daytona Beach and has reportedly revived her career withmisconception they've been homosexual all their lives. A
trailer-park openings and flea-market appearances.
'homosexual is not born, they are [sicl made.""Anita could be the best thing that ever happened to gays,"
Liberal Miamians were plentiful in those days. Democratic
predicted Miami activist Jack Campbell in 1m. "The issue isclubs, feminists and local gay leaders mobilized, but from thereally out in the open now. There's no turning back," But thestart there were conflicting strategies. Advisors, troOP.5andfloodgates had long since been opened, and lesbians and gay ,money poured into the Coalition for Human RightS,.The Nationmen were coming out with a vengeance. Gays had lost the bat~al Gay and Lesbian Task Force and San Francisco actiVists
helped manage the coalition's "human rights" pitch. In the othertie but won the war. T
gay camp was Miami Victory Campaign, which fearlessly
addressed the issue of gay rights sparing no
details. Founder Bob Kunst's strategy was
based on nationwide news clippings thatshowed that the issue cut through traditionalliberai-conservative oppositions. Some of
Kunst's strongest support came from otherwise arch-<:onservative politi<;ians and comll!unities, and he threw these arguments inAIµta's face. Kunst effectively mastered thesound bite and kept Anita on the offensive.
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picked 'Bryant apart and declared, "A gay
can't change any more than a heterosexual
can Change. n Johnny Carson's monologues
were drenched with Anita jokes. Poet Rod
McKuen decreed, "I intend to call uponevery comedian friend I know to have somany jokes go forth about her throughout
the land that she will be a laughingstock
such as this country has never seen before. n
But all this Anita-bashing brought
many current homophobes into the spotlight. Jesse Helms, Jerry Falwell and Ronald••
Reagan were all there for the moment.
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by a two-to-one margin. Other cities began
to repeal their gay rights provisions. The
timing disastrously foiled then-US Rep. Ed
Koch's bill CHR2998, 1977), which sought"•
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Not every religious leader endorsed
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the repeal. An official of the National Council of alUrches charged that Bryant's "antithe best of south beach.
homosexuaiity campaign misrepresented•
certain Christian positions and stereotyped
homosexuaIs." In fact, homosexuality
became the new hot potato for churches.
Unlike Donna Summer, who has
wormed her way back into gay nightclubs, Anita's career was ruined. A nationVINTAGE
al boycott of Florida orange juice, espePROPERTIES
cially successful in bars, cost Anita her
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much different than anything before here. Replacing the retirees are a group ofyoung, urban-thinking and-living refugees 'from all over the country (andworld)-at a pace which surprises even those who promote the transfonnation. Coincidentally, many even most-of the new residents are gay males,with estimates running as high as 60 percent , to 75 percent. Therefore, the-'demographics of the city are changing rapidly, but the political power.baseremains unchanged-andunresponsive to-the transformation of the community if 'serves. In fact, if anything, it is hostile toward th~ new residents. Considering this situation, it makes sense to look at the possibility of separating South Beach from the Iafger
municipality of Miami Beach as its identity grows more distant.
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There are really two cities uncomfortably coexisting with each other on the islandthat is called Miami Beach. There is one city~iami
Beach-north of 22nd Street, still
inhabited by the old power base, and another city south of it-SOuth Beach (the Art
Deco District, which we prefer to call Old Miami Beach)-our new community inhabitedby the new residents, but still jealously controlled by the old guar~ type of municipal
colonialism. These cities have very little in common, and as Old Miami Beach struggles toassert its naturaIIy evolving identity, it comes into increasing conflict with the power structure dominating City Hall, which has long had particular plans for what should be, and willbe, unless strong measures are taken to ensure that their plans are foiled.
The problem is, the city hasn't changed its long-held plan for South Beach. They willdevelop it. Having just finished ~pending $100 million to upgrade the old convention centerand now trying to build a couple of huge hotels to complement the package, they will
make it into an area flooded with conventioneers. They will control it Where you may see
a two-story hotel on the ocean that has charm, human scale and beauty, they see a 4O-story
tower that increases the city's tax base and generates more money. Not to mention all theinsider deals and money that will be made to raise this or that new building .

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Essentially, they want to create a huge tourist cooununity,
development but familiar example of the dry's treatment of its
building on Miami Beach's tourism successes of decades past.
dtizens. In the last year, homophobic violence has reared its
They want millions of tourists to come, deposit their multimilugly head for the first time on South Beach, with a totally inadlions of tourist dollars and leave. And one especially beneficial
equate response from the dty.
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side-effect of catering to tourists, if you happen to be a part ofAnother type of harassment perpetrated by the dty on all
the power structure, is that they don't vote.
South Beach residents, gay or straight, is the outright discourageWhat the new residents in the area want, even if they
ment of new busipess here, particularly those designed to cater
have not yet begun to express it formally, is a basically resito a residential community. One successful merchant recently
dential community that happens to be visited by several milremarked that opening a business on South Beach was tenlion people each year. They also want-and desperately
times as difficult as opening one in Manhattan-having doneneed-to be politically empowered in order to control what
both, he would know.
happens in their own community. The existing power strucTop off all of these problems with the fact that the dty f!Pvture can never be responsive to South Beach. They do notemment is corrupt enough to make Chicago seem like a small.. understand it, are not a part of it and do not care to be. Theirgoals, ambitions and desires for the community are substantially different from•those of the new developing community-and always will remain so. In fact,
the situation is getting worse.
Don't Pack It, Get It In
Recently, the new police chief,
Merle's Closet!
Phillip Huber, has gained national attention by pushing the City Commission to
New and Nearly New Men's'
pass a regulation which allows the police
and Women's Fashions
department to notify an employer when a
Etcetera.
suspect has been arrested on a drug-related offense--arrested, not convicted. This
Merle's Closet
is, of course, completely unconstitutional
but certainly in line with the dry's desire
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with which they plan to make huge profits, no matter what the cost to thecommunity. They do not care what happens in South Beach, because
they all go home after work to the neighborhoods north of 22nd Street.
Graft and payoffs are rampant at all levels of the government, with eventhe mayor coming under investigation this past year. The city is, in fact,completely out of touch with South Beach and is bent on destroying any
further development of it as a community.
We would not wish for them to change their plans or care about
South Beach--they are incapable of doing so. The city is rotten, throughand through. What we want is our own government, our own municipality, our own community: one which is responsive to the needs andambitions of South Beach; one which is controlled and run by its residents; one which fosters, to the best of its ability, a healthy environment
for anyone who has the drive and the capital to open a business andprosper; and one which provides a safe place for all of its citizens to live.
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Society of Dramdtists, has owned restaurants and nightclubs in South
Beach and is currently editor of Antenna, a biWeekly publlcatkm based in
Old Miami Beacb.
Dean Edward Smith, a native of North carolina, holds a degree inarchitecture.from North carolina State University. A former resident of
New Yo'* and t'tro-time resident of South Beach, he is currently associate
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The Park Central Hotel at 640 Ocean Dr. is another fully renovated hotel on Ocean Drive, the main street for night life. The
The Essex House Hotel is in the heart of the Art
hotel is owned by Tony Goldman of Greene Street Cafe in SoHo.
Deco District. The hotel is a fine example of art
Built in 1937, the hotel has 8) rooms and room service until midmoderne, which blends futurism and expressionism
night. Lucky's Cafe (in the lobby) affords you a view of the street
into what is considered a unique American style. The
hotel is located at 1001 Collins Ave; phone: (305)scene and the goings-on at Zoli South Modeling Agency (on the534-2700. It has Continental breakfast, turn-down sermezzanine level). Rates are $100 for an ocean-front and $8) for
vice, feather-down pillows, cable 1V and a standard
an ocean-view. The phone number is (305) 534-7520.
that is state-of-the-art deluxe. Rates range from $98 to
Hank Harvat and his lover opened the Normandy South$128 per night for two. Suites are also available:
guest house two years ago (the twin of their guest hoUse in
Provincetown). This large modern home has five guest rooms
pe~te suites, $178; grande suites, $198.
The Ritz Plaza is at 1701 Collins Ave.; phone: (305) 534-3500
and is in the tradition of charming guest houses in Key West andor (800) 522-6400. The rate for a standard double is $95 and, for
Provincetown. There is a large Jacuzzi but no pool. The home isin a residential area that is away from the hustle and bustle ofan ocean view, $155. The Ritz Plaza was built in 1940 as a 12South Beach night life, but only a 15-minute stroll to the largest
story, 133-room art-deco hotel. It fronts the beach with a large,
gay beach. Hank was eager to inform me of the house rules: nopool and full first-class hotel facilities, including 24-hour fQOIIlsmoking, men only, clothing optional. You take it from there!
service. The full renovation in 1990 was so beautifully done thatRates are $59 for a single and $69 for a double.
1I1IIIII the Miami Design Preservation League selected the hotel for the
11'111' location of their annual fund-raiser, the Moon Over Miami Ball, in
Eating Out,,11 January. Being directly on the ocean is a great advantage, andthe location is only seven or eight blocks from moot restaurants
South Beach has a selection of over 100 restaurants, featuring a wide variety of American, Continental, Cuban, Italian,and cluoo, which means a short walk to night life,
Japanese and Thai foods. Generally, even the priciest places are
The Wmter Haven Hotel is at 1400 Ocean Dr.; phone: (305)less expensive than their Northeastern or west Coast counter531-5571 or (800) 395-BEACH. Situated on Ocean Drive, Winter,
Haven is part of the street life of South Beach. It has a newparts. At the top of the list is Osteria Del Teatro at 1443 Washsushi restaurant in the lobby and a bar that serves drinks on theington Ave.; phone: (305) 538-7850. While you enjoy a: delicious
Northern Italian rpea1, you can also be at the crossroads of late
POr9l of this charming, small low-rise hotel. The hotel is fullynight's moot interesting street scene, with Warsaw down therenovated and features a free Continental breakfast in the lobby.
The low rate for a standard double ($65) or an ocean-front doublock, ESP across the street and the Cameo Theater next-door.
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If you are at the beach, the most interesting spot is theNews Cafe at 800 Ocean Dr. It has various magazines andnewspapers and caters to a Euro-model crowd. The food ismostly cold plates, salads and sandwiches, with the average
sandwich costing about $5. It is open 24 hours on Friday andSaturday and is a wondetful place to people-watch.. - If.
the News.Cafe is too crowded, try the Palace at 1200 Oceanpr. for asimilar experience.
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set-Alabama license plates and pictures of Elvis on the walland home-style Southern cuisine: For a sandwich, try the BBQ
at $4.50 or fried oyster at $5.50. Two great entrees are thecrabcakes with two vegetables at $9.95, or the fried catfish withhushpuppies for $9.95. Lulu's is open till 1:30 am on the weekend for the late diner.
One cannot leave South Beach or Miami without experiencing local Cuban fare. The food at Puerto Sagua is inexpensive and delicious. The atmosphere is a mixture of South
Beach locals and working-class Latins. For lunch, a favorite isa Cuban sandwich ($2.75)--grilled Cuban.bread, ham, pork,
cheese and butter. Also for lunch, try one Cuban tarnal andtwo croquettes with fries ($3.75), For a larger meal, try, picadillo a la criolla spiced ground beef and condiments
and comes with rice, black beans and fried plantains ($3.95).
For dessert, flan with coconut is a Cuban favorite ($2.75). Top
it all off with a Cuban coffee (known locally as "the poor
man's speed").
The Strand at 671 Washington Ave. is a South Beach institution; phone: (305) 532-2340. Even with the many new restau•rants, this one continues to be a local favorite. The p<l5Sibilities
range from a chicken sandwich ($6) or their famous meatloaf
with mashed potatoes ($6.75) to a more elaborate dinner, suchas grilled dolphin-Don't
wony: It isn't F1ipperl-($17.5O) and acaesar salad ($4.50). The Strand bar is a good place to watch forcelebrities visiting the beach.
For a familiar ethnic twist, the place to go is Ruen Thai at
947 Washington Ave.; phone (305) 534-1504. This restaurant has
excellent Thai food and is moderately priced. Our favorites are,chicken .with coconut soup ($3.50) or chicken gaiyang ($5.95)
for an appetizer. For an entree the basil duck is delicious,,($12.95). For dessert try one of the house specialties, a Thai
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One Friday of the month, Susanne Bartsch has a party here,
as she does at the Copa Cabana in New York.
&!ipse, at 1969 71st St in Miami Beach, is a 15-minute taxi
ride from South Beach. You must go there if you are still ready'to party at 6 am. This small after-hours bar is where South
Beach converges for an often-bizarre end to the evening. We
have experienced fashion shows and dancing Dominican
midgets in the early morning hours. Open from 3 am to 9 am,
the cover chaIge is $5, and there is a deejay who plays a varietyof Euro-import high-energy music. There is limo service from
Warsaw. Look for the limousine outside the Warsaw entrance.
The newest club to hit the scene is Downtown, at 965
SW 7th St., in downtown Miami. Although it is in Miami, it isserious competition to Warsaw and well worth the short taxi
ride. Downtown is the closest equivalent in South Florida to a
New York disco, with a VIP room and various bar levels withviews of the dance floor. It is by far the largest disco in thearea. It is open only on Saturday from 10 pm until everyone
leaves. The deejay is usually from New York, and the cover is$8. There are always extraordinary go-go boys that work up afrenzy at about 3 am.

Beaches
There are two gay beaches to choose from: 21st Street,
which has been a gay beach since the mid-'60s, and themore-popular 12th Street, on Ocean Drive. At 12th Street,
you'll feel you are at a combination Fire IslandlIbiza beach i"·party. Gays from all comers of the world end up soaking ,µp'
the sun here, with the renovated art-deco hotels on Oc,~an ,Drive as the backdrop. Topless bathing is seen at bOth" .,i; .
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be a visually dazzling tour. Most of the bicycle rental shops arevery similar in price and store hours. Try Cycles on the BeaCh 'at 713 5th St.; phone (305) 673-2055. The hours are 10 am to 'sunset, and the rates are $3 per hour or $15 per day. Anotherbike shop is Gary's Megacycle at 1260 Washington Ave.;'phone: (305) 534-3306. The rates are $5 per half-day and $10 . ,per day, The shop is open from 9:30 am to 7 pm during the' .
week. On Saturday, the hours are 9 am to 6 pm (closed on:' 'Sunday). A bicycle shop that also rents surfboards is Waves" . ",and Wheels at 1125 5th St.; phone: (305) 532-0858. The hours
are 10 am to 6 pm every day.
,canfind something happening. Torpedo, located at 634 Collins Ave.;
phone: (305) 538-2500, is the place to be ot:J.Tuesday night and on Sunday for tea dance. There are go-go boys on those two•
Pumping Up'days. On Thursday, it is two-for-one with Michael T at the deejay booth. There is never a cover, and the hours are 5 pm to 3
Of course, no travel guide to a gay destination would be' ,am every day of the week.
complete without a recommended gym. Our recommendation "A few blocks north is Warsaw at 1450 Collins Ave.;is the Gym at 834-36 Lincoln Rd.; phone: (305) 532-4966. This
phone: (305) 531-4555. Warsaw is open Wednesday throughvery spartan facility has free weights only. It consists of one
Sunday from 9:30 pm to 5 am. The two hot nights are Frilarge. room with bath facilities (no sauna, steam), but it is rer:".. , .- ,day, with a $5 cover after midnight, and Saturday, at $7 after
talnly adequate for a varied and vigorous workout. The cost IS
midnight (no cover before midnight). After 2 am, the dance$10 per visit or $25 for, an entire week. The Gym is open Monfloor is covered with the hottest shirtless men in South Floriday through Friday, 7 am to 11 pm; Saturday, 10 am to 7 pm;
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I wore. I was sUre thatach morning as I wipe the sleep from my eyes,some effeminate action
don the costume that alleges my safety andwould alert the world topropel myself ooto the stoop, I know with the
my homosexuality.
Isurety of the laws of gravity that my footsteps
spent so much energy
fall in a world not created in my image. It is notin self-observationthatin the newspapers, in store windows, nor is it•little was left for class00 the television screen. Too often, it is not in
the-eyes of my sisters who fear my crack, nor is ,work and still less tochallenge the institutionit present in the' countenance of my brothers
who fear the face that mirrors our anger. At
alized racism I found,
there., I needed heroes, 'day's end, having done their bidding, I rush
men 'and women I
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WIthout a degree; theMy desk and typing table anchor thecloset door tightly shut.
northeast comer of my one-room apartment. There are days
·that I cling to both objects as if for sap.ity. On the walls surSeveral',y:ars,passed before I realized'rounding me are pictures of powerful people, mentorS if youthat my burdenofwill. Among them are: Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, John Edgar
Wideman, Essex Hemphill, Lamont Steptoe, Judy Grahn,
shame could be asource of strength. It
Tommi Avicolli, Charles Fuller, Toni Morrison and Barbara
was imperative for my
Smith. These writers, of local and international fame, are con'neeted by their desire to create images by which they could
survival that I.did notattend to, or beheve, thesUrvivegays and lesbians, as Blacks and as poor people.
images that were pre-,'Their presence in my writing space Despeaks, what anotherWriter,Samuel Delany, calls "the possibility of possibilities."
sented of Black people
or gay people. Perhapsi
But it has not. ~~ays been ~ way, 1 ~ve not always
that was the beginning
I known of the possIbilIties. In the wmter of 79, III grad school,in· the ~terlands of Iowa, I thought I was the first Black gayof my passage from pasman to have ever lived. I knew not how to live my life as a sivism to activism that I
needed to create myman who desired emotional, physical and spiritual fulfillment,from other men. I lived a guarded existence: I watched how I ,reality, .that I needed. tocreate unages by which, Crossed my legs, held my dgarettes, the brightness of the colors

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.":/".-.:',~ making. Style, at best, is
an attitude, a reaction to
oppression,
a way ofbeing perceived as lessoppressed, a way of feeling attractive when weare deemed unattractive,
The most beleagueredgroups women, peopleof color, gays and thepoor-attend
mo.st
intently to Style and fashion. But is it.impolt\Ot toknow who tailored thesuit Malcom X wore
when he was killed? For•a people who fashioned.
beautiful gowns and topcoats from gunnysack,it's nothing-nothingatall-that
we can worksome leather, fur or gold .
The lives we lead arericher than Gucci or
Waterford, our bodies
more fit than Fila or Adi-,das, our survival more
real than Coca-Cola.
As African Americans,wedo -not
bequeath dazzling fulan-,cial portfolios. We pa~ ..
from generation to gep-,eration our tenacity, So I
ask you: What is it that',
we are passing along toour cousin from North, •Carolina, the boy qownth~ block, our nephew'
who is a year old or'our •sons who may follow usin this life? What is itthat we leave thembeyond this shadowplay: the search for acandle-lit romance in apoorly lit bar, the rhythm
and the beat, the furtive
sex in the back street?
What is it that we passalong to them, or dothey, too, need to start ~from scratch? ..
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Courant. From the forthcoming
anthology,• Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men, edited
I, and other Black gay men to follo:w,could live this life.
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are all sequels to thecolumns before that andthe columns before that.
(Or maybe it's always like
that, and I just don't seemto really notice.)
Welcometo TheSilence of Jodie Foster: Part V.
This week a women writes to
OutWeek [Letters, page 5] complaining
about my rants regarding writer
Jonathan Van Meter's failure to ask
Jodie Foster about her lesbianism in
his New York Times Magazine story.
The letter writer, Simone Bernard,
identifies herself as someone who is"in the arts," invokes that "right to privacy" argument and says that my
behavior is "fascist" and that it "candestroy
careers."
AccordingtoBernard, "Jodie Foster is not too big
for public knowledge of her sexuality
to hurt her," and "if Jonathan Van
Meter had asked Jodie outright, shewould have said no, thereby sending aclear message ...that she's afraid, andwilling to deny her sexuality." That,
Bernard says, would be a sad message, and "it would also say to otherless famous artists, If Jodie Foster
won't risk coming out, How the hellcan I?"
Simone, Simone, Simone. It ishomophobia~nd
straight peoplewho ruin careers, not us. Therefore,
how the hell are we to battle homophobia if most of us stay in the closet
and if thoSe of us who are out help the, rest of the queer nation stay in? I
strongly doubt that Jodie Foster's career
will be ruined by her lesbianism being
made public, but even if that were thecase, how do we condone protecting a
few privileged, multimillionaires (andhelping those people make moremoney) while thousands of poor, gay
teens are committing suicide and/or
being bludgeoned to death on thestreets directly due to the invisibility
that the more privileged queers who
can risk coming Oul-deny them?
Not long ago, my colleague
MichaelGoff discussed the Bill of•
Rights and its implications of "civic
virtue," and how, though we all
have inalienable rights, there arecertain inherent duties that come58 OUTWEEK March 8, 1_1"-,-.

with those rights, including a responsibility to the community. This is not Leftie babble it's the stuff that our good
01' forefathers had in mind. I'm'''not saying that George Washington believedthat closeted, rich fUm stars should beforced out, but he certainly was push,ing this "civic virtue" thing himself. And

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got to protect us
froln the ills of
our OMfn history.
Maybe greed isthe probleln. But
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killing people."--Jodie

Foster•so, according to that logic, we ask,
When does Jodie Foster have a civic
responsibility to her community? Aftermaking $10 million? Or is it $20 million?
I mean, even if-by some stretch of theimagination-her
career were ruined,
she's made enough money so, far that
she could live in a more lavish way forthe rest of her life than most Americans and most queers could ever
dream of. Does she not, then, have a
responsibility to try to help people,
especially people who are of her own
oppressed group? And don't we have a
responsibility to urge her to do so?
Being gay is not a "privacy"
issue unless you do believe that weare all harboring somedark, dirty secret-andhow
do youknow,
Simone, that Jodie Foster
would have said no to Van
Meter. If she is truly as
moral and decent as shewants us to believe, then I
don't think that she couldlie. In the current issue ofPremiere, discussing the myriad problems in this country, Foster says,"Somebody has to protect us from theills of our own history, from the ramifications of the absence of humanitarian"ism. Maybe greed is the problem ...,but
the consequences are hurting people."
Insightful thinking, perhaps,
BUT WHY,OOESNT SHE APPLYIT TO HERSELF?
ISN'T HER "GREED" A PROBLEM
mAT IS "HURTINGPEOPLE"?
I thought that "outing" meant reporting that someone is gay without consent.
But you, Simone, seem to be extendingthat concept and saying that a reporter's
asking someone if she or he is gay isconsidered "outing." Next thing weknow, you'll be saying that we shouldn't
even talk about someone as gay. Hey,
maybe we shouldn't even think about
someone as gay. Fascism indeed.
, Simone, I think we'd further thismovement quicker if you, and all otherstruggling, unknown actorS, urged
Jodie Foster to come out, rather thanurging me to stop what I'm doing.
Jodie's coming out would make it somuch easier for all of yo~, Recently, in
response to (among other things) ourincessant tantrums, David Geffen cameout. I'm sure that this one single act,
on some level, liberated all of Hollywood's business community, Certainly
every queer agent, producer and executive in the film and record industries
breathed a sigh of relief because thebiggest, richest businessperson
intown~done of the , wealthiest men
in America-had just publicly said that
it was cool to suck dick, And if he says
it's OK to publicly state his orientation,
NO ONE CAN DO ANYTIIING BUTACCEPTIT. He's now the top man,
But let's get back to Jodie, and,more specifically, The Silence of theLamlJs and director Jonathan Demme.
New information leads me to believethat Demme knew exactly what
he was doing when he decided
to depict the serial killer in theil I 10111 ilOlrill

film as a deranged cross-dressing faggot. He realized that by pushing certain buttons-by feeding into people's
desires to see a queer killer-he'd get
the most impact. He'd just have to doit and still be able to say that the killer
wasn't queer.
I've obtained an original script of
the film, which was adapted by Ted
Tally from the Thomas Harris novel. In
the original script of The Silence of theLambs, there is no reference to any malelover of the killer-unlikein the fmal
film version (and don't believe anyone
who tries to tell you that there is not amention of the male lover in thismovie). Furthermore, the killer is originally identified as a gay-basbe1"--fIDd not
as gay himself. But Demme would laterchange the script and describe one of
the murder victirIlS--'a transvestite as
the killer's male lover. He would also
remove the reference to the killer beinga gay-basher. And he would add queer
affectations to him.
The original script does notinclude the killer wearing a nipple ring,an item stereotypicaIly characteristic ofgay men. That was Demme's touch,according to sources. In fact, in theThomas Harris novel, the killer does notwear a woman's wig. Nor does hedress in drag. These are all added forcinematic effect-and all by Demme.
I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ANY
MORE GARBAGEFROM QUEER APOLOGISTS. DEMME'S ATIEMPT WAS TO
TITrrl.ATE VIEWERS AND ULTIMATELYFEED UPON 1HEIR HOMOPHOBIAAND STIll COME our OF IT TElliNG
ALL OF THE INTELLEcruALS THAT,
OF COURSE, TIlE GUY ISN'T GAY.All
of these queer commentators who keep
trying to tell you that the killer is not
gay are deluding themselves and, honestly,don't
get the point: Demme isusing sexual "deviance" as a characteristic of a serial killer. Ultimately, it reallydoesn't matter what the intricacies ofthat deviance are. AMERICA ASSOCIATES US WITH SEXUAL DEVIANCEESPECIALLY IF IT INVOLVES WIGS,NIPPLERINGS, EFFEMINATEMEN AND
POODLES NAMED "PRECIOUS." Anyuse of a drag queen-straight,
gay,whatever-in a negative light is an antigay depiction.
But a serial killer without those"demented" characteristics might nothave made the movie a hit. The trick,in the context of the work, is to stimiJiate people's homophobia in orderto entertain them, and then try toconvince them that it isn't meant tobe homophobic. Of 'course, that is, inreality, an impossibility. And doing
so-playing
with our lives in thatway-is reprehensible. But that's how"liberals" always operate. (Conserva.,'•

tives, on the other hand, are not in
denial about their homophobia. They
recognize it and celebrate it openly.)
And all the sell-out queers, theestablished reviewers, the people whomust absolutely suck up to these ass,
holes, will continually validate thiskind of crap.
Meanwhile, the bashing goes on ....

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rt directors call it beautiful, butpublishers are running scared. It's
the new Benetton ad, with two pagesof condoms unfurled in their united
colors. New York magazine reported
that Self, MademotseUe, Cosmopolitan and Essence turned down the ad.
Spin, the fiercest, most underrated magaround, was the' only one to accept it.

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publisher, told'us that "for the good of
the magazine and the good of Benneton," he went on his "gut feeling"illil

and rejected the ad. It's not easy for a
publisher to tum down two pages ofadvertising, especially if its a big-timeadvertiser. So, this gut feeling musthave been pretty strong. It's not as if
Mademoiselle never writes about sex
or other unseemly things. They're notin La-La Land. Last year's most-memorable cover line was, "Crack: Girls Like
You on Drugs Like That?"
Kinsler just doesn't have much faithin his audience. He says that he understood the ad but thought that his readers
might not. He said that Mademoiselles
stories on safer sex have "a full context.
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Why are these magazines so
uncomfortable with latex? Benetton's
photo does more to demystify safer sex
than a 3,OOO-wordstory ever could. It's
brilliant. Words aren't necessary. Condoms are not a 'sinister weapon todestroy the morals of American youth.
Hopefully, Benetton will try another ad they're currently running in European magazines: A Black woman and awhite woman from navel to thigh, hippressing hip, in sexy lace underwd.r.
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United colors of dyke nation? Spin bx.
the by, is as good as its ads. Their AIDS
column this month is about Midwestern
gay and straight college students who, have tested HN-posit;ve, and they get
it right. Students talk about what it's
like to be gay on campus, and how a
HIV-positive test-result changes yourlife. Spin even gets political about thestigma, and a university's responsibility
to educate students. ~n a recent study,
one in 500 college students tested HNpositive at 19 US universities.
There are few magazines with regular AIDScolumns, and Spins is the best.
They get the treatment news, the politics
and the social side of the epidemicoften before anyone else. It's reason

enough to buy the magazine, In fact, get
a subscription. Last fall, in the issue
Spike Lee guest-edited, they revealed
that some drug dealers in Harlem include
AZf with every bag they sell, and that it
seIls for $10 a pop on the streets. This
we don't hear elsewhere. Spin also was
one of the first to question the AZf orgy.
Paper and Men's Fitness also have
responsible AIDS columns, but I havemore to say on the latter.
Men ~ Fitness has always been acloset-fag mag, trying for some guise ofheterosexuality, often seen sharing a
coffee table with the International
Male catalogue. Their pages are filledwith model-perfect, scrub-faced boys invarious states of undress. The workouts
are sensual and often to be done with"your partner." Every article, no matterthe subject, is occasion for anothermoody shoot of beautiful boys. Even
sex articles often refer to ''your partner"
instead of the female pronoun, and theyoccasionally refer to gay relationships.
But something weird is happening,
and it probably has something to do withthe mixed mail they're getting. In the
February issue, one reader complains
about the "unifonnly heterosexual slant,"
while another writes that he's embarrassed to read the magazine in public: "I

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Times Watch Edition: . , . However you feel about The Silence of•

the Lambs, people are talking about it. If B'nai B'rith had commented
on a film, it would have been mentioned in the review, if not a story of
its own. It must be that OutWeek, USA Today, New York, LA Times, theVoice, Paper and countless others who did the story don't have a very
good news judgment ... A letter to the editor said that St. Paul was not
a repressed homosexual, as suggested by Bishop Spong, but rather an
epileptic, Maybe we're all wrong .. , The front-page article by Jane
Gross on growing up in a gay home was amazing, as was the editorial
supporting condom-distribution in school.

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don't want to look at other guyS in theirunderwear. I'm a guy, not a fag."
Which is it? Men ~ Fitness seems to
be doing a test this winter to see if wereally are a good market. For the firsttime, last month they put a man and ~woman on the cover. Inside, the fash~
ion was for women' (sexy things to
buy your girlfriend), the sports were
contact, and the sex article was on
monogamy (mainly between men andwomen). Of course, there were stillbodies working out, camp photos ofmuscle boys doing the grocery shopping and an article on cosmetic
surgery. But this is not the queer magazine they put out a few months ago
which featured two moody boys visiting Michelangelo's David.
This March, everything is different.
Two boys have their hands on eachother on the cover. (It's OK-they're
only brothers. What were you thinking?) Articles include the testosterone
levels for different professions, the sexiest body parts of Rob Lowe, Tom
Cruise and Kirk Camerofl---Qccording
to teenage girls. There's a warning on
narcissism and a great article on "Fearof Sex," which covers gay relationships
and AIDS. The fashion is faggy again,
and accompanying an article on intimacy between men, our two cover-boys
wrestle, and hug and kiss on the beach.
Is this the same magazine?
So, my advice:. Hang out in the
butch section of your illagazine store .
Cruise Men ~ Fitness rc;aders, buy theissue, enjoy the boys and let the publisher, Joe Weider, know that you prefer March to February. In February's"Love" issue, Weider (who, I understand, works in an office filled withstatues of male torsos) writes, "A man's
ability to relate to significant others [is]one of the mainstays of his life," andmen have to understand "sexual politics" among other "dynamics" to function best in those relationships.
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If he truly believes this, he should
bring Men's Fitness out of the closet
and really deal with sexual politics inthe same affirmative, supportive tonethat ftlls most of his magazine. I daresay that letting us know that he wants
our business would help his bottom
line as well. Even before we saw thatworkout photo of a big guy in asling ostensibly working his shoulders-it was pretty obvious anyway. T
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bastion of good and/or common ser/Se,ina
mass of btl/tons. Was this a gradual pro-'
cess that you simply neglected to noticeand that has now completed its insidiouscourse, or did it truly happen in the courseof one nighl-while you slept, the universe
found bats in its belfry-andyou ask
yourself, "My God, what have I done?"
Maybe you hayen'1 ever felt like this, but
Liz and Sydney have had a whole two
weeks to ask these questions; and theanswer lies (and lies and lies) therei:n.

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LIZ: Going to the gym? Getting inshape for Muscles on Wheels,lcomment with a ten-foot pole, and it may
remain just a fantasy for you. I heard thatat least 30 minutes of film had to be edit',',', ",iired out just: to get an MPAA rating.
'.',' ""·\C;i:·!;I1z: I'm sure they'll put it back in for·'}'.if; the home-video version. And then they
if!,! sell the damn thing for a hlUldred bucks.
Sydney: As she said on Nightltne,"Yeah, well, lucky me."i,1.1I1z: Anothe~ line we probably will,," never hear: "Unztp your pants, and showme your dick. "Sydney: Did she say it to a boy or a
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gtr.
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bers. I guess they're trying to make us POUNDING THE BEAT: FASHION PATROL
B. Sure releases a song about phone sex
believe that Rollerdisco is another fitness
called "Channel J," they dismantle it
fad like aerobics.
Sydney: I just finished reading MickF1eetwood's5 book,I1z: Yeah, well, you took enough aerobics classes to speak
and he inadvertently outs Stevie Nicks-stop laughing, Liz.
to that. There's something unsettling about Hunks on Wheels.
Liz: I wouldn't laugh at Stevie. I wouldn't want to wake up
Sydney: Like no cute little aerobics instructor and an openwith wolfbane in my underwear or anything. How did he manbar. My gym had a juice bar-for good reason, I'm Sure. I'm a bit age to out her by mistake, though?
frightened by drunk hunks on wheels.
Sydney: Well, he didn't say she was a lesbian, but...in short,
Mick Aeetwood married ,Stevie'S girlfriend, Sara, so she didn't
I1z: Well, Locomotion2 just celebrated their first anniversary
talk to him for a year. Then she wrote a song about their
without great physical damage.
Sydney: Although they promised us Joan Rivers, thebreakup called "Sara," and when she checked into the Betty
anniversary show ended up being "Teenage Enema Nurses" with
Ford dinic, she used the name Sara, one of the many names
the Fashion PatroI.3 Now, I was too grossed out to hang
she was using during that time.
arolUld, but I later heard that during the show, the table colLiz: How many names was she using? I think somebody
should out her as being as flaky as a pie aust. Be careful, Stevie,
lapsed, and the club kid playing the patient had chocolate syrup
someday you may whirl right off the stage into the abyss,runnmg all over his back.
Sydney: Well, actually she did whirl right off the stage once,
Liz: Man.r that reminds me of this party at Pyramid-dragThat was right before she checked into Betty Ford I guess you
queen-shaving-cream-wrestling, or something equally painful.
Sydney: Oh, wasn't that in the Loony Bin? All I have to say
could say that was an abyss.
I1z: I rest my case. Speaking of the abyss,is this: Finally somebody has the nerve to call'what's Michael AUg up to these days?
a party what it really is.
Sydney: Gee, funny you asked, but he isLiz: Well, it is downstairs
frompromotin~this thing on Saturday nights called
Meat-which is exactly what it sounds like.
Shampoo . And I think he still promotes that
And Clit Club is pretty accurate. I can't
Groove lbing7 party on the same night.
speak for Tiny City yet-I can't even say it
liz: Wait, Groove Thing is Keoki andwithout blushing.
Larry Tee's party. But isn't I.any the deejay atSydney: Oh, please. You didn't even
Locomotion?
wince when that unnamable source, who
Sydney: 1bis is a recession, and I guessshall remain anonymous,
told us about
even club people have to take two jobs to'Truth or Dare,',4make ends meet,
Uz: Yes, well, some of us can discuss
Liz: Yes, but it takes a special sort of permasturbation without hiding in a comer. Of
son to revel in the excess of the '005 two years
COurse, the thought of watching Madonna
too late, and that person is Sebastiao.]r. Maybe
actually doing it on a 20-foot screen is pretty
awe-inspiring.
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first encounter with
sex alfresco: As a spirited but
naive 21-year-old, he was visiting New York from Boston
in June 1961. The summer, "" fi\'flti!IlJ'. th . '::'i, , '" j, :':. ,. ",.." 'Sun da y had been spent III e /:' }:0k"" '"./i"•$.
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lusty replicas of homo erectus,
Later, the anthropology lesson
continued. A pair of robust
men were walking into Central, Park,andspunkyMatthew followed, even as
they headed farther into thebrush, over the bridge by theboating lake. "The place wassimply swarming with hundreds of gay men," he recalls.
"I'd never seen anything likeit." Men were on every bench,tanning on the lawn and making mad love, behind thetrees. "My gµt reaction was,'Truly,this is ParadiseFound.''' Matthew had foundthe celebrated Ramble.
Matthew moved to New
York's Upper West Side in November 1962 and became "a devoted practitioner of Rambling." He trampled the underbrush weekly, exercising special caution after dusk. Nighttime marauders were haunting the area withbaseball bats.
Sean, a bright-eyed, gap-toothed manboy, first wandered into the Ramble nine years
ago. By 1987, he became a regular, chatting
up familiar faces between nipple-biting andround-robin jerk-offs. "I always enjoy justmeeting somebody
on the spur of theiI
moment and just doing it," Sean explains witha shrug. Most of the time, Sean would take his,-,,'l ";:.:
playmate' home. Any ugly post-coital scenes?
"I've been lucky," he says. "I don't consider
myself a good judge of character."
But he knows what he likes. Several times
he's broµght home Latinos who say that they
have girlfriends. Some are wearing wedding
bands. "That's kinda hot, in away," he muses.

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home from Shabbat, watching the
rush-hour crowd. .
Matthew recounts memories
with 'relis~ike
the one of the athletic stud, swinging from a tree limb
while a partner fellated his enormous
member, or the one of the large man
bicycling naked at dawn, chunks offlesh hanging over the handlebars,
Consider that aisp Sunday morningin the autumn of 1990: Matthew was,taking his morning constitutional. He
espied the sexy blond British star ofa current Broadway musical, behinda tree, on his knees, servicing amighty Black man.
" Call, the top brass at Central., PiU"kfor information, and they hedge
about the 36-acre woodland area.
~d!Dini~trator Betsy Rogers is notavaU~ble, but her perky secretary
describes the Ramble ,as "a well-used
area," Amy' Hines, vice president of
the Central Park Cof1$.e1Vancy,points
mit gingerly, "Most people are awareof a particular group that has made""..
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ago, wild rose bushes and vegetation were planted on thepeninsula. Slatted"wooden fences were erected to protect them,but people took to' pushing them down in theheat of passion.
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America:S Most Wanied (which sounds
like it might be-andactually, often
is about straight, young, white males
who are still single), and in the pages ofPeople magazine (whose devotion tosuch stories, is causing Us to replace it as
the must-read gossip weekly). Anyone
who sees or reads such distancing
media-sensation accounts is familiar withthe heavy dose of pop psychoanalysis
provided by the "experts" (usually policemen and doctors) and the "Oh-but-he•
was-such-a-nice-boy" testimony of neighbors and relatives that together pretend
to' explair} a lot. Very little really is everunderstood, of course, but as cases accumulate, some things ~o become evident:
Most serial killers are straight men, forexample, and many exclusively choose
women as,·their victims.
Buffalo Bill, the serial killer pursued
in Tbe Silence of the Lambs, the latest
Hollywood representation of this American phenomenon, at once does and does
not fit the "nonn." Named for the fact,that he skins his victims (always after
they are dead), Buffalo Bill (fed Levine)
does murder only women. He is, however, gay instead of straight. And thus themovie is being boycotted and protested
by some gay and lesbian activists as well'
as by the Los Angeles chapter of GLAAD,
who filed their public complaint after
AIDS Project Los Angeles sponsored abenefit screening of the film there. Noting that there are so few representationsof gays and lesbians in the movies anyway, and that this is a particularly
destructive one (Bill's marginalized sexuality provokes his actions as much as
anything else seems to), gays and lesbians are loudly critiquing it. This
uncomfortable (for us) situation is further
complicated because the character who
must track down and kill Bill is played
by Jodie Foster, the most recent female
outing victim; so the story becomes that
one of our own (sold out to the establishment in the fonn of the FBI'-Or Hollywood) hunts down another of our own(the outlaw). Not a very intriguing story,
one would imagine.
Perhaps the greatest difficulty withThe Silence of the Lambs, though, is that it
is intriguing. When I went to see themovie, I was aware of the controversy
surrounding it; I went, in fact, alreadybiased, shamefully passing the "homophobic shit" warning scrawled on theposter outside the theater. But prepared
for the worst, I kept waiting for it, andthe movie never completely delivered.
With a desire to play with, and thus
subvert, conventions of the thriller andslasher genres, Silence's director,
Jonathan Demme, inexplicably does
resort to that most conventional of conventions, the psychopathic killer who
wears his pathology on his sleeve. In
order for the rest of the world (thekiller's victims, the police and the general public who are audience
to such representations) toappear "normal," the killer
must (physically) appear
other than that: We must beable to see his difference

from us in order to be reassured that heis not we. So in making Buffalo Bill not
only a transvestite (as he is in theThomas Harris novel on which the film
is based) but also a homosexmll (whichin the novel, he is not), the film implicitly assumes a straights-only audience.
All of this is problematic. But whatmakes it even more so is the fact thathomosexuality nevertheless seems almost•
inconsequential in as well as to thefilm. There is a single line that refers to amale lover Bill has had, and a single
scene of him dressing up, presumably asa woman, though I was strµck by how
much he looked like David' Lee Roth.
Overall, it was difficuldor me (and for
my gay male friend who saw the film.'with me) to get worked up. Bill;s character is by no means the main one and,because such a stereotype, probably theleast interesting. We are told (indirectly)that he's gay, but he doesn't seem particularly so, because he doesn't seem particularly anything.
Perhaps it would be more understandable to get worked up over theimages of half-skinned women's bodies
that we are subjected to several times
in the film. But Demme handles thesequite well. Also a convention of thegenre, such graphic depictions areoften dwelled on too long, or slowly
built up to through a series of establishing shots and ominous music that
increases their shock effect.
Demme does neither. At
times, he prepares the viewer for such scenes only tomove on to something else,
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we are again
the next time.
One such scene occurs when darice
Starling (Jodie Foster), a student at the
FBI academy who has become involvedin the Buffalo Bill case, has to examine
one of the victims' bodies. Twice in thissegment we expect to be-but aren'tshown the victim, and so when we finally do see her, it is not as an object of horror. The segment is a crucial one in theftIm as it positions Starling explicitly iQ
the role of FBI agent-leaming
to overcome fear, to be detached-andalmostimmediately undermines that position ,asher fear becomes that of the victim, separating her from the male officials in theroom almost as much as she is separated
from the male killer she pursues.
And the tensions Starling's character.
(or, more accurately, Foster's portrayal ofStarling) creates successfully disrupt theconventions of the genre throughout theftIm. But even so, hers is not the mostcompelling character. Dr. Hannibal Leeter, (Anthony Hopkins), an eerily brilliant
psychiatrist whose unfortunate taste for

TAKE NO PRISONBI~Claricehuman flesh has put him behind bars, is a
psychopath of the best Hollywood type
(cool and calculating, with hints of madness only in his eyes). Lecter is interviewed by Starling as part of her work on
the Buffalo Bill case; he agrees to giveinformation only if she lets him into her
mind, something she has been explicitly
warneO not to do.
Their scenes together are, to mymind, thehest in a recent Hollywood
ftIm, despite the troubling simplicity ofStarling's tales of her dead father. Leeter
gets most of the really good lines, butwith Hopkins and Foster delivering them,the quality hardly matter. I can think of noactress other than Foster who could even
begin to relate the story from Starling's
childhood(from which the title is.
taken)--never mind do it convincingly. In
general, Hopkins has better material towork with-including
many funnylines and uses it to make Lecter both
extraordinarily frightening and, uncomfortably, extremely likeable.
These strong characterizations, coupled with the even, stronger perfor,,'

mances of Foster and Hopkins, overwhelm Buffalo Bill until he seems little
more than a plot device. And although
the effect of this for me was to reduce
the possibility of offense at his b~ing
gay, it could easily have increased it.
Where Buffalo Bill's transvestism puts
him in something of a Hollywood tradition (from Psycho to Dressed to Ktll),
however offensive that tradition may be,
his homosexuality seems completely
superfluous and so completely unnecessary-andtherefore potentially more
offensive. But then most of the character
seems superfluous and-beyond
thefact that he's a psychopath-forgettable.
What you do come away from this ftIm
remembering is Foster, who-in a Hollywood where the dearth of good
women's roles is a common complaint
among actresses consistently chooses
the right roles and makes them stronger
than they might be in someone else's
hands, and Hopkins, whose Leeter produces a lingering fear and discomfort
that stays with you long after you've left
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BELLE REPRIEVE. Devised and performed by Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw, Bette Bourne and Precious Pearl. Direct·
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Lois Weaver thinks of it as an"unnatural act." Peggy Shaw says that it's"magical." Bette Bourne prefers to Call it
a "cultural exchange." Laka Daisicalleaves it at "gob-smacked."
Each of the aforementioned is apt,
yet having to agree on a single moniker
to avoid confusion, Belle Reprieve wassettled on.
A collaboration between the London-based Bloolips Company and New
York's Split Britches Company, Belle
Reprieve is an inspired play. Inspired bywhat, you may ask? Why, by Mr. Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named
Desire, From the South herself (VIrginia,
to be precise), Lois Weaver, the show's
director, admits to being "stuck on Ten-nessee Williams-when
he died, I
thought I was Tennessee Williams for awhile. I started carrying around a glass ofbourbon, dreaming of fading flowers."
Having known each other since1978, Bloolips and Split Britches weresitting around partaking of tea one New
York afternoon when the idea of a collaboration arose. Weaver's Williams fixation emerged (she had previously
directed Tennessee Waltz for the WOW
Cafe), and between cucumber sandwiches and scones, A Streetcar Named
Desire was settled upon as a starting
point. Agreeing to meet again in Spainin May for rehearsaIs, the process was
begun. Lois Weaver dissociates herself

from this notion of genesis, claimingthat everyone "really just wanted a vacation in Spain."
The collaboration is, in and of itself,
unique. It is not often that two gay theater companies join forces to work
toward a common goal, and the fact that
Bloolips is seen as a gay male company,
while Split Britches works primarily for alesbian audience, makes bringing the twocompanies together, as Shaw states, "aproducer's dream come true. We haveour audience, Bloolips has theirs." (Somemay want to know if the two companies
working together fonn a third and newgroup, SplitIips.)
The two groups claim to have gone

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are foregrounded:,'
Bourne's"culturalpeers. Weaver states: "It is hard to find
While Weavet
exchange" refers not .
peers who have been doing gay theater
does not object' to
only to British vs.
as long as we have. We were a match."
the term "deconAmerican,
male, vs.
Shaw notes that the two groups "share a
structivist"todeo
ccimmon value base" grounded in a comscribe, this approach ("I would use it
female, gay vs. lesbian, tap-dancers vs.
mitment to gay theater on a collective,
because I don't know what it means"),
non-tap-dancers, but also to the personbasis. Under pressure, Shaw does admit
al vs. the plot. "We finally had to give
Laka Daisitalposits the tenn "demolish."to maintaining a preconceived notion of
Yet this: falls' short also. How can one
up plot. We coulcln:t fmd it," he notes.
"we knew we were boys and girls." It iseasily deS<:ribelife-sized tap-dancing ChiAll other dichotomies were also eventuthe balance of boys and girls all involved
nese lanterns? Weaver as Stella deliverally lost as the new play emerged,in the collaborative process that Shawing a speech about Cassandra while
becoming one fluid motion with a life
calls an "unnatural act"-bothSplitsmeared with whipped cream from theand mind of its own.
Britchesand Bloolips have worked withprevious scene, ultimately breaking into
Tennessee Williams, queer that he,boys and girls before but never duringa_Marilyn Monroe rift? Shaw as Stanley
was, has never had it so good. This.'the collaborative process.
going through Bette as Blanche's trunk
Split Britches and Bloolips companies',
The resultant play clearly indicateslike a rape? Precious Pearl as Mitch
current production of Belle Reprieve
the influence of the two companies. It isscreaming, "Bite me! Suck me!" as Stanthrows paint at the canvas of his Streeta gender melee of an already-genderley over a mosquito bite? "Deconstruccar Named Desire and draws the bull'sconfused play. Peggy Shaw portrays aeye on it later. Rumor has it that Belletivist"? "Transformational magic"? Laka
Stanley with pumped-up biceps that put
Dais-ical comes closest when she says
Reprieve may be extended to another
Marlon Brando's to shame. Lois Weaver
theater in New York before moving tothat the audience leaves "gob-smacked."presents a languorous
Stella. Bette
Belle
Boston. Don't, however, wait. Call La
The key to understanding
Bourne vamps his way through a
Reprieve is a fluid, nonlinear approach
Mama for your tickets now. Ail unnatuBlanche DuBois that Vivien Leigh should
As Weaver posits,to Streetcar.
ral act of magical cultural exchange thatgive a damn about. Precious Pearl pol"Impersonations
break down whenwill leave you gob-smacked
doesn'tishes Mitch into a beautiful fairy. Of thethey go throughcustoms."(The
come along often ....
multilayered characterizations, Weaver
notes: "We all do personal theater. So we
don't just pretend to play Stanley. We
play Peggy as Stanley or Bette as,
Bl:utche. So you're going to get just as
much of Peggy's story as of Stanley's
ASSASS~S.MuSic and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Book by John Weid·
story ....We take on the roles and go one
man. Playwrights Horizons.
beyond."Shaw phrases this Brechtian,
performance stance as "our job to comby Michael Paller,kill American presidents (four attempts
ment to the world, to take the images
While the traditional American'were- successful). The notion they hit
and throw them back." This approachmusical has always been about gain (theupon is that each was an outsider, a loser.
also allows the companies to bring thehero gets the girl, the job, the money, theWhile most Americans sing about thewhatever), Stephen Sondheim is invarichlµ'acters out of their 1947 stasis aI).d
land of'the free and the home of theinto" today.
ably,seduced by loss. His characters lose
brave, the assassins have "An'other<_Belle Reprieve exhibits a moment-to-: youth, opportunity, spouses. They mis- National Anthem": "It says, 'Bullshit,' it
moment reality not based in cognitive, place dreams and spend the better partsays, 'Sorry,' it says, 'Never.'" Their piothought. Belle Reprieve is less~· play , of an evening musing over what mightneering role model, John Wtlkes BoothinSpired by Williams' A Streetcar Named
have been, trying to regain what's been
(played by a dashing, if not entirely sinisDesire than an inspired version of it.
ter, Victor Garber), insists to his fellow
lost or deciding that they're better off
While all major plot-points remain intact,assassins that killing a president will give
without it. So in a perVerse way, it seems
the situations
and charactersareright that Sondheim and his collaborator,
them a chance to get what they've 1O$t or
employed as fodder for personal associa-"
never had. Booth can avenge the vanJohn Weidman, should write a musicaltion. This gives the play, as Weaver
quished South, Leon CzolgO'>z(who shotcalled .AsSa$SinS about citaclysmic nationstates, its, "transformational magic-one
President McKinley) can bring attention
al loss (it clOSed recently after a limited
moment a thing can suddenly [be] transto the plight of the workers, John Hinckrun). It's diffi:CUlt to tell exactly what theyfonn{ed] into another. The fact that thatley can win Jodie Foster's love. And soand director Jerry Zaks wanted toon. But'Sondheim and Weidman are notcap happen is political, That's my mostachieve, so assessing their success ismaking a plea for political and economic'political thought: that we are not stuck inequally problematic, but AssassinS 95
have-nots, as some critics have claimed.
this situation. That's the message of theminutes coniain~ some very memorable
Their misfits epitomize a metaphysical.play." A filmic approach, it allows for
moments and many fine performances.
lack--{ln emptiness at the core of theirmore leeway in interpretation of, and, Weidman and Sondheim tried hard
beings for which no amount of success,to find a unifying bond between the nine
.play with, the myths created by Vivien
American-style, can compensate.
men and women who have attempted toLeigh and Madon Brando. Images and~~ ,ractice"

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Extrapolate this idea, and you could
conceivably draw a picture of America's
spiritual condition. Shrink it, and you end
up with short v~udeville scenes, funnierthan they are revealing. The encounter
between Squeaky Fromme (Annie Golden) and Sara Jane Moore (Debra Monk),
for example, was alternately hilarious
and frightening. These two very twisted
paths never met-and
watching themempty their pistols into a cardboard visage of Colonel Sanders does little toenlighten their connection. In the piece's
wildest leap into fantasy, Gerald Ford
(William Parry) aids the two women in
retrieving the bullets they'd scatteredacross the stage.

seeker"). Awaiting execution, Guiteau,
The bumbling president and inept
who had expected to be appointed
killers were app.opriately
matchedthoughout, but scenes like these, despite
ambassador to France for writing a wildly rhapsodic, if obscure, campaign biogSondheim's ingenious lyrics, didn't stick.
Nor did the ones in which the assassins
raphy of Garfield, composed a poem
called "I Am Going to the Lordy."
gathered in a sort of last~hance saloon
Sondheim set it to music, combining it
and talked like characters in a sketchrather than like human beings. Indeed, . with "Look on the Bright Side" (ademented "Everything's Coming Up
most of the characters remained colorful
Roses"); and Hadary's perfonnance, as
ciphers.
he daintily kick-stepped up the gallows
This was not due, however, to thestairs, was strange and powerful, as was
performances, which were uniformly"The Gun Song," in which Booth, Guiexcellent. Actor Jonathan Hadary brought
teau, Moore and Czolgosz (Terrence
all his great charm to the deranged
Charles Guiteau, who killed JamesMann) celebrated the ease with which
one person can change the world ("AllGarfield (and thereby won history-book
immortality as "a disappointed officeSee ASSASSINS on paee 92

WORK-IN-PROGRESS-LAPD~ Core (John Malpede, fifth from left)••eealer lor a
A Visit With Los Angeles Poverty Project•I,

by Patrick Moore. . Last winter, walking through the
shelters and soup kitchens of Washington,
DC, with John MaIi:>ede,'1 finally saw avision of art which could concretely affectsociety. Malpede founded Los Angeles
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homeless performers who travel fromcity to city making perfonnances with thelocal homeless population. There is atrue awe which jolts a spectator witnessing people transformed by art, listened
to for the fltSt time, telling their stories
and feeling worth something. The group

was recently a part of Peter Sellar's'revamping of the Los Angeles Festival
and is presently engaged in another season of travel.
LAPD has been particularly adept at
hooking together issues which add tothe housing aisis or are aggravated by it.

In Washington, DC, the group did its
first piece focusing specifically on the
problemsof homeless
PWAs. The
vicious behavior exhibited toward PWAs
in shelters had created an intense fear inmany of the people with whom LAPD
tried to speak.
Malpede, who worked for many
years as a performance artist in New
York, has traveled nationwide
with
LAPD, but the group has appeared only
briefly in New York as P¥t of Creative
Time's performances at El Museo delBanio. One has to wonder about the priorities of the New York arts community
when a group which has answers about
helping the homeless an<;lmaking great
art· at the same time is ignored in thisbastion of consumer culture. The mostimportant part of LAPD's activities is thatit has been successful in starting newgroups in many host cities, groups which
continue' their work once LAPD leaves.
Far from the gleaming white galleries of
SoHo and the trendy performance
spaces of the East Village, a group ofdisheveled perfonners on Los Angeles'
skid row is making some of the mostimportant art in America.

Patrick Moore: When and how did
LAPD start?
Johii. Malpede: LAPD started in1985 when I' got a grant from the California Arts Council to do performanceworkshops here yvith the homeless. As
part of the ,research, I went down ,towelfare bearings at 'the County Board ofSupervisors and met some lawyers, whowere activists working out of ;Inner City
Law", and I- started hanging out with,them. They were connected with the
cdtpolic Worker, so I started, working ata soup kitchen. That gave me a sort of
instant credibility, and I was keeping my
artiSt, persona very low-profile becauseof the image people have of artists
kind of selfish.
I happened to be out here rightbefore the OlympiCS, and there was a big
push to get the homeless out of the sightof the tourists. There were threats to set
up these internment camps in the desert-which
was never really going tohappen, but it had the effect of people
saying, "}.think I'll get out of here." Iwrote a performance that was ostensibly
about two guys who had been given bus
tickets to travel the country and give
updates about the Olympics from the.
homeless standpoint.
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on welfare. Some are on Social Security
PM: So that was a scripted piece?
Insurance because they can't work for
JM: Yeah, it was a monologue-I
mental or physical reasons, and that's
was doing monologues at the time. I
appropriate for some of our people. Just
went back to New York, but I kept comgetting SSI for people is a very hard proing back here. Los Angeles is the homecess bureaucratically, and a lot of times
less capital of America. I was here for apeople who should be getting it don't
few months during 1985 when theywant to or don't know about it. So thewere organizing Tent City across fromgroup, and its connection with other
City Hall andJhe LATimes Building, so I
,social workers and lawyers, creates supworked on,' that.' Inner City Law offeredport so people can get SSLThat's actuallyme a job working as a street advocate
a really major achievement. A lot of peohelping people with welfare stuff andple have moved off of skid row entirewhen a grant came through four or five
ly-not everybody has.
months later to do a project with the
The profile of our group opanges ahomeless, I gave fliers for the workshop
lot. Right now there are a lot of young
to my clients, and a lot of people
people involved, so it's a hopeful period
showed up ... .It was like permission had
where you have people mainstream.
been granted all of a sudden. People
These people can have art careers ofshowed up with huge manuscripts,
their own.
plays, novels, and everyone wanted to
PM: Was it by chance that you wantread at once because no one had evered to do work about the homeless?
paid attention to what the homeless said.
JM: I've always been interested in it,
PM: Did you go into your workfrom when I moved to New York andwith a clear plan of making perforwas living in the East Village in the earlymances .in which the homeless were
70s. I was interested in Dorothy Day andallowed to speak: and feel good about
the Catbolic Worhir and all that. lben Ithemselves?
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started do~g street theater, working with
JM: No, it all happened by accicl~tBread and J>uP.~t l'Ibeaterl. I later drifted
I was happy that working in a group
into the general downtown scene; which
was something that turned out to be
was less politi~. One thing that's imporreally helpful for people. In the begin"ning, there were a lot of people who . tant is that working with the homeless isa real hands-or:t'situation, not a bunch
came with fully done works and theof abstt:act concepts. I wanted 'genuineother homeless people didn't necessarily
human "contact and to feel like I waswant to get involved with that. There
doing something that made a, difference.
was a "~polenegotiatingprocess
I 'wanted to put myself in a front-line
involved. I had done, a lot of improvisapO'sition where I could find out more
tiqnal stuff, so ...we eventually evolved [athan I could from other people,more
process] by taking the not-being-able-tothan I could find out from, reading books," work~together thing and standing it on
or watGh~ng television~ .In the '60s, 'I'd.its head,
been active in the anti-war movement," "·PM: 'Not to denigrate the work, ofand the Dig rhetorical stuff didn't. make'.LAPD but, for me, SOpletimes. the process
much sense or have a lot of;credibility, so
is as' moving as the.final work itself. How
I was interested in something that was
do you fed about ~r•very hands-on and not about big ideas'" JM: Well, I feel that the process isthat were already predetermined.
. what makes the work important ulti. PM: When LAPD was in Washingmately. But I think it's good work, or weton, DC, one of the places you worked
wouldn't be doing it. It's so easy to put
was in the Community for Creative Nonuli into different bags-group therapy or
Violence, Mitch Snyder's shelter. I go~,the'~work-:and ~us. I think that'impression that you guys had a dislike
we walk a: rea! tightrope. I don't like tofor that organized way of dealing withfeel likeit's just a process thing.
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housing ·issues.
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PM: Have the' people who work
JM: I didn't go to that particularconsistently with LAPD gone on to findplace, but the otherhomes? ,LAPD peor.le who.JM: Five years
went there, who areago, everybody was
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Brooklyn College Opera Theater, Feb. 2; LA SONNAMBULA by Vincenzo Bellin~ Opera Orchestra of New York,
Carnegie Hall, Feb. 10; ORPHEUS UNO EURYDIKE by Christoph Willibald Gluck, Komische Oper Berlin, Brook·
Iyn Academy of Music, Feb. 11.
by Bruce-Michael Gelbert
Operaphiles
have, of late, had
opportunities to applaud the heroics ofthe brave soul who rescues a lost love,•to consider the familiar fairy tale with a
new twist and to empathize with theprotagonist who could use an early liber,
ation movement.
The Metropolitan
Opera recently revived
Fidelio, sole opera by
Ludwig van Beethoven(whom we claim as agay forebearon thebasis of passionate letters he wrote to his
nephew, Carl Obermayer). The work's
fearless heroine is Leonore, who, disguised as the lad Fidelio, penetrates
prison walls to free spouse Florestan, apolitical prisoner placed there by thetyrant Don Pizarro. All principals here
were new to their roles and made companydebuts in this firstMet
Ftdeltosince

Connell invested all facets of Leonore's
aria "AbscheuJtchert" with profound feel-ing, appeared pained by the prisoners'
plight, proved formidable as she confronted Pizlaro with her pistol drawn andwas overwhelmed with emotion when
she threw off F1orestan's chains. Connell
achieved an apt (and rare) blend offorceful dramatic tone with cleanly
sculpted, almost-Mozartian line. The former mezzo-soprano was undaunted by
1986-87.
florid passages and pressed only by theBringing
dignityhigh notes that conclude the aria and'and intensity to her porpunctuate second-act ensembles.
trayal, soprano Elizabeth
If Gary Lakes' hearty instrument
hardly conveyed F1orestan's years of privation, his robust tenor undeniably. filled',. out the musical phrases. Howev~r, he;,too, was challenged by the uppermost•
notes of his demanding part. A Pizzaro.accompanied by goose-stepping follow, ers, debutant Hartmut Welker displayed
glimmers of resonance and appealing
baritone timbre buried, alas, beneath"Bayreuth bark" and sagging pitch.
Warmth, enthusiasm and resignation,equally, made up Kurt M()ll's sonorous
Rocco, the jailer just foUowmg orders as
he digc; F1orestari's grave: 'In male costume as Rocco's assistant,
Leonoreattracts
the attentiori
ofMarzelline, the jailer's daughter. The latter
prefers sensitive Fidelio to the turnkey,
Jacquino, who would claim her-as
bride as if she were property. In a long
overdue Met debut, Helen Donath contributed fresh and dulcet soprano soundas a Marzelline who firmly dismissed theinsistent Jacquino and ardently demonstrated devotion to Fidelio. Earlier stagings showed choristers making much
homophobic merriment of Marzelline's
distress on learning that the object of her,love is a woman. The current reaction ,was mercifully muted, per the dictates ofi
openly gay director Bruce Donnell.
Worthy efforts were forthcomingfrom Donald Kaash as Jacquino, reflOed,
baritone Andreas Schmidt (in his debut),

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and James Courtney as prisoners.
Kudos to the chorus for ringing paeans
to freedom. An overture in which jarring bluster abutted welcome lyricism
set the tone for conductor Christof Perick's reading of the score. Boris Aronson's blistered, jagged settings, new in1970, and Gil Wechsler's lighting aided
in creating a suitably grim claustrophobic atmosphere.

content. Rapunzel and Mother Gothel
have a sensuous love scene, but the
prince interrupts when Rapunzel has"outgrown" her relationship with the sorceress. Rumpelstiltskin is played as Truman Capote, wheedling and "persistent
as a Jehovah's Witness." The fairies in
Sleeping Beauty's stOly are all men, some'gratuitously fey and limp-wristed. There
are, rather less problematically, lesbian
overtones in the Snow White section as
stepmother and, later, -daughter make•••love to their female mirror, There's a male
The Brooklyn College Opera. Theater's offering during the week of Fidelia
dance duet in another tale, but the listener must contend with negative generalizawas Transformations, with text by Anne
tions about women and a line about a
Sexton and score by Conrad Susa,"cooked" witch "turned red as the Jap
whose music has been sung by the New[sid flag."York City Gay Men's Chorus.
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Sexton's' poems are her own
Tours de force were proffered bysopranos
Maria Fattore and Lucyreworkings of fairy tales and are retold
Schaufer and strong support by Michaelby asylum inmates in a padded cell. The
Eberhard, a promising baritone,
and Lilversions are wry and often pointed buf,
show variable political awareness. Susa's .. iana Aracil, Michael Orzechowski,
eclectic settings, which date from 1973,
Michael Couch, Jeffrey Sweetland andcomprise homages to jazz, latin dance,
Steven Kleitz. The admirable chamber
liturgical, late Romantic classical and '40s
orchestra was led by Richard Barrett.
popular music.
Staging was by Dona D. Vaughn and set
In Transformations, Hansel anddesign by Richard Ginsberg.
Gretel develop a taste for human flesh,•••
and Sleeping Beauty is an incest survivor
Soon after Transformations, thewith a drug problem. A haughty princess
Opera Orchestra of New York, a groupis described with a musical quote fromlong popular with the gay audience, preTurandot. Thorazine and electroshock
sented Vmcenzo Bellini's La Sonnambula
are identified as elements of modem
in concert at Carnegie Hall. The opera
witchcraft, and society is castigated for
was last given at the Met in 1972, withcallousness toward the mentally ill.
Renata Scotto, who succeeded Joan
Then there's the lesbian and gay
Sutherland, star of the perfonnances there

in the '60s.
The setting is a Swiss village earlylast century. The eponymous somnambulist is Amina, who sleepwalks into Count
Rodolfo's room. Amina's fiance, Elvino,
thinks "the worst," while rival Lisa chortles. Needless to say, no Freudian analysis is made and no feminists proclaim
Amina's right to wirid up where shepleases. Rodolf6 attempts to elucidate theskeptics, who scoff until Amina appears,
sleepwalking across a rickety bridge and..proving her "innocence."
June Anderson limned Amina's
entrance in gleaming tone, skillfully
negotiating intricate embellishments in acomplete "Sovra iJ sen." Her fInal aria had
glittering moments as well, includinginterpolated high E-flats, but was undermined by erratic pitch and slides fromnote to note. Raul Gimenez sang Elvino's
music in a light, ingratiating tenor, secure
to at least top B-tlat. Paul Plishka was a
sturdy, bel canto Rodolfo. The .Qthers
were Lynda Keith, an arch Lisa, who
retained the florid and often-omitted "De'/teti augurf'; Eugenie Grunewald, as
Teresa, Amina's foster mother, vehement
in defense of her daughter; young baritone William Walker; and Gregory Cross.
Compliments to Concert C110raleof New
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guessed it. More on Madonna, Madonna,- Madonna. Some extremely naughty people(who shall remain nameless) have seen avery sneaky preview of Troth or Dare, thesoon-to-be-released, latest chip in the chefd'oeuvre of la bella Ciccone. Boring? I don't
think so. When Miramax lets the fIlm loose
in May, it could possibly look a sight different, but oursources report all manner of madness. We get footage of: the
New York's Lesbian and Gay Pride Parade, complete withprideful Blond Ambition tour dancers; backstage tensions

between selfsame dancers and their straightcolleagues (moderatedby Madonna);
Madonna remembering
being "fingerfucked" by her childhood
girlfriend;
Madonna playing Truth or Dare with hergang (you have to see it to believe it); allsorts of twisted, cringe-making scenes
involving family members and friends(including Sandra and Warren). Anyway, we won't spoil all
the surprises. We will confirm a few rumors she's very
short, very bossy and too fabulous.
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by John Wasser
Jeff-Hamar is a smart guy. Whileother singers shuttle around town
exposing patchwork-like acts, Hamar
has consistently chosen a different
route, fashioning a uniquely themed
show every time he hits a cabaret stage.
In last year's Carried Away, Hamar andhis collaborators,
accompanist Alex
Rybeck and director Sara Louise Lazarus,celebrated the lyrics of Betty Comden
and Adolf Green in a captivating andilluminatingshow. Critics label72 ou. 'WEEK March 8, 191U

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Michael Feinstein."
So what's a fella to
do for an encore?
If you're Jeff
Harnar, you returnto 1959 (the year of
your birth). His newshow, Jeff HamarSings
the 1959
Broadway Songbook, melds bothfamiliar and obscuresongs into a finely
tuned act, and the
tradition-boundworld of the Broadway song has rarely
sounded better. If
the year was 1939
rather than 1991,
Hamar and Judy Garland would be staging
a show on the MGM backlot-instead,he's holding court in the Algonquin's
Oak Room, where he's bound to amass
a legion of new fans.
The show is laden with numbersthat have long been popular standards("76 Trombones," "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" and "Everything's Coming Up
Roses"), but Hamar
also excels at ditties only a bespectacled Lincoln Cen-

ter researcher knows, songs like "Shy,""I Wish It Were So" and "Have Some
Madeira, M'Dear:
And Hamar never takes any lyric
for granted. Like Mandy Patinkin,
whose reverence for Stephen Sondheim
has been well documented,
Hamar
speaks (and sings) openly about his
affection for lyricists Johnny Mercer,
Oscar Hammerstein and Sheldon Harnick. In a "Politics Medley" centeredaround the musical Fiorello (lyrics by
Sheldon Hamick, music by]eny Bock),
Hamar humorously espounds on theoften too-close relationship between
politics and craft. It is a sparkling
moment which makes one both laughand ponder the consequences.
Hamar possesses a deeply luscious baritone that contrasts with his
impish boy-next-door demeanor. No
matter. While totally not mellifluous
Johnny Matthis,· Hamar's well-oiled
vocals can make a song like "On theStreet Where You Live" soar. Problems•arise when a song demands more than
the singer's pipes can handle. (Theinspirational "Climb Ev'ry Mountain"
loses some of its emotional impact
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fear spiralingfrom you,fear spiraling from you,that gun's got
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We do not do
this anymore,
but I still
think about it
when I'm
jerking off,
I was kingof promiscuity,

LSD,
crystal meth,and fist-fucking
with 40 guys
for 14 hours,
it's worse
than I thought
and now,
everyoneI ever madelove to,every single
one,is dead,and may they beresting
in greatequanimity
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John Giorno is tbe autbor of several volumes of poetry, including
Cancer in My Left Ball (Sometbing Else Press), Shit Piss Blood
Pus & Brains (The Patnted Bride Quarterly Press) and tbe
forthcoming You Got to
Bum to Shine. He is the
director of tbe AIDS
Treatment Project and of
Giomo Poetry Systems, anonprofit record andvideo label~•Conference only registraton is $20·
at the ,door. Info: GMSMA at (212)727-9878.
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ADVANCE LISTINGSTHE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIALRESEARCH presents The State 01
the City: A Gay and Lesbian
Perspective, given in conjunction
with OutWsek magazine. "Gay men
and lesbians are vital participantsin the lile of New York City," says
the class description. "Despite
this, many believe that the popular
media and mainstream arts communities either fail to represent or
actually misrepresent gay and lesbian concerns." Given in three sessions which focus on the arts, themedia and politics, respectively,
the classes will be led by Arts
Editor Sarah PettH, Features Editor
Michelangelo Signorile and News
Editor Andrew Miller. $15 for thecourse, $8 for a single session.
The first session is April 25. For
more info, contact the New Schoolat (212) 741-5600.
THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIALRESEARCH presents Gay andlesbian WrHlng: From World War
II to Stonewall. Instructor: Joseph
Cady. "The years after World War
II witnessed a significant body of
gay and lesbian literature that has
tended to become overshadowedby the more open homosexual
expression of the post-Stonewall
years of the '70s and '80s. But therelative burst in gay and lesbian
writing from the mid-1940s
through the 1960s contributed tothe change in cultural atmospherethat helped make possible the contemporary gay and lesbian liberation movement and is an integral
part of the background of the present gay and lesbian situation.
Among the authors we may consdler are: Tennessee Williams,
Carson McCullers, Allen Ginsberg,
Sylvia Townsend Warner, James
Baldwin and Janet Flanner." Thesix sessions begin on April 4.
$130. For more info, contact the
New School at (212) 741-5600.
GAY MALE S/M ACTIVISTS presents A Decade 01 SIM Pride on
March 8 and 9. Look forward to an
opening reception hosted by
Heritage of Pride, an all-day
national conference with 15 workshops and panel discussions on
S/M teChnique, leather lifestyle andpolitical issues. Also: the Steel
Bondage Museum, an art show
and sale of the best of S/M art andan S/M-Ieather vendor area. At the10th anniversary banquet, there'll
be food, a keynote address by
Broadway
Cares' Executive
Director Rodger McFarlane andentertainment by leather comedienne Lynn Lavner. Advance registration: $60. $75 after Feb. 15.

THE ANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT.
offers a Support Group for gay
men and lesbians who are now or
have been involved in abusive relationships. The 12-week groups,
which start in March, have professional leaders and are completely
confidential. Info: (212) 807-0197.

Send announcements

and listings to: 159 W.

25th St., 7th floor, New York, NY 10001. Next
deadline: Monday, Feb. 25, for issue #89,
which hits the stands on Monday, March 4.

Heyl OUTMUS,IC,a new organization of lesbian and gay composers, lyricists and musical perlormers, Is having Its First
Public Meeting and Perlonnance. Tbe night will combine music
and politics, as gay and lesbian musicians working In modes as
varied as classical and rap show off their stuH, and the group
discusses plans lor a music lest Ivai In June and lor an ongoing
coffeehouse to highlight the talents 01 our community's writers
and perlonners. $3 donation. The Center. 208 W. 13th St. 8 pm.
Inlo: (212) 533-0598.
IN OUR OWN WRITE presents yet another Irreslstable soiree 01
Top-Notch Readings. On the bill this time are Cheryl Clarke,
Samuel Delaney and Paula Martlnac. Drop by the Lesbian
Herstory opening Ilrst (between 8 and 8 pm), and have a bangup evening. $3 donation, please. Tbe Cllnter. 208 W. 13th St.,
third Iloor. 7:30 pm. Inlo: (212) 820-7310.
For more queer, and otherwise IHerary, words, THE PORTABLE
LOWER EAST SIDE has Its own night 01 readings locuslng on
small presses and literary Journals. Larry Mitchell, author 01
My L1le and a Mole, will be among the leatured readers. $1
membel'S/$8 non-members. Tbe Kitchen. 512 W. 19th St. 8:30
pm. (212) 255-5793.
Rnally, II you're really Into readings, MOSAIC BOOKS presents
Other Countries, a Black gay wrHer's collectlQ. Tbey'll be read·Ing both poetry and prose. Mosaic Books. 187 Avenue B at 10thStreet. 7 pm. Inlo: (212) 475-8823.
PS 122 presents Connecting Lives: Documents From the AIDS
Crisis, This elhibHlon leatures photographs by Karen Crumley,
Tomas Gaspar, Steve Hart, Tom McGovern, Jane Rosett, Scott
Tbode and Charles Wemple. Curated by Nan Goldin and Allen
Frame. Opening Feb. 28 at 8 pm. PS 122. 150 First Ave. Gallery
hours: Tlt-Su, 12- 8 pm. (212) 228-4249. Tbrough March 24.
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Also see the daily listings forshowings of one or two days.
DON'T TELL MAMA presents Th.
SDngs tb. Girls Sang, a musicalrevue conceived by David Perkins
and directed by Mark Cole.
Musical director: Matthew Ward.
Their flyer says: "Did you everwonder why the female charactersalways get the best songs in
Broadway musicals? Did youcome to New York hoping in yourheart of hearts you would be castas Nellie Forbush in South Pacificand sing, ''I'm in Love With a
Wonderful Guy," only to end up in
the male chorus singing "There is
Nothing Like a Dame"?" Theiranswer: a revue in which fourmen-JeyMontreal,
Allin
Palmer, David Perkins and Robert
Harryman sing Broadway showtunes all origi nally written forfemale characters. $10, with a two
drink minimum. Don't Tell Mama.
343 W. 46th St. Feb. 24 at 10 pm
and March 2 at 8 pm.
Reservations: (212) 757-0788
after 4 pm.
PS 122 presents Carnaval, a newwork by Cannellta Troplcana and
Uzi Parnes, with music' by
Fernando Rivas. Join Carmelita
Tropicana and an all-female cast as
they return to Havana In 1939 and
get involved in a plot too intricate
to reveal here, involving Jewish
refugees, German spies, Cuban
singers and brothel keepers. $10
or TDF plus $5. Feb. 22-24 andFeb. 28 through March 3 at 8 pm.
PS 122. 150 First Ave.
Reservations: (212) 477-5288.
PS 122 presents the Otrablnda
Complny's Green Eyes Are Fin.,a dance/theaater peice written anddirected by Roger Babb, choreographed by Rocky Bornstein,with music composed and performed by "Blue" Gene Tyranny.
Starring Mary Schultz andJennller Rohn. Green Eyes Are
FIne is a comedy that revolves
around a series 01 telephone con·versatlons between two women
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•,ach"9th~rs'i~eslres-not·to
ml!ntlon theJr·,ldentities. The actors aremanipulated onstage by the director
and choreogr,apher, and .the play
Itself." is a continuationofOtrlbanda's dealing with the ways in
w:~lch wepef.ceive
people and
Q~j~C~s. $10, or TDF plus $5. Feb..
21;"24 and Feb. 28 through March 3
at 8 pm. PS 122. 150 First Ave.
ReservatiolJs: (212) 477-5288.
TliE,COURTYARD PLAYHOUSE pre~ms John Glines' ChickenDellgbl,
directed by Charles Catanese. $15.
nie Courtyard Playhouse. 39 Grove
St. W-F at 8 pm, Sa at 6 and 9 pm
and Su at 7 pm. Reservations: (212)869-3530. Through March 3..
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M./e Figure, a farce about two,'I!
gayrnen and thl!ir s,exual fantasies,
written by John Crabtree. Director:
J'ohn Wall. Cast: Marlin Outzen,
Rllb Parker, Jimmy O'Neill. $15.
Courtyard Playhouse. 39 Grove St.
at· Bleecker Street. Wednesday
through Friday evenings at 8 pm,
Saturdays at 6 and 9 pm, Sundays
at7 pm. Reservations: (212) 8693530. Through March 3.
LIVING THE DREAM, INC., presents
Of'':. Young BI.ck Men Ars Dying.nd Nobody Sf1f1msto Cars, anoriginal musical play by James
Chap,man. The play is "a compassIonate look at some of those men
whose lives and (untimely) deaths
are reflected in the familiar statistics
of drug abuse, crime, police brutalitY, alcoholism, fJoverty and AIDS.
$15. The Castillo Cultural Center.
500 Greenwich St., '201, between
SRrlng and .Canal streets. Feb. 1, 2,
7-1Q, 14-17, 21~24, 28 and March
1-3. Ih-Sa, 8 pm and Sundays at 3
pm. Reservations: (212) 941-5800.
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NEIGHBORS
presents
Madeleine Olnek's Thrse Stories.NI,h, a humorous play about theafterl~. Directed by Deb Margolin.
The pl~y tells the stories of those
who ,were not able to "fully inhabit"
their lives and are now forced torelive their experiences, detail by
excruciating detail, in a group situation. In particular, the play focuseson Francine, a young woman who
was never able to face her sexuality.
$10. Feb. 21 through March 21.
Cooper Square Theatre. 50 E.
Seventh St. Info: (212) 989-0788.
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L1vel, documents from the AIDS
crisis. ,Photographs
by KarenCrumley, Tomas Gaspar, Steve Hart,
Tom McGovern, Jane Rosett, Scott
Thode and Charles Wemple. Curated
by Nan Goldin and Alien Frame.
Opening Feb. 28 at 6 pm. PS 122.

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76 OUTWEEK March e, 1_'",,.ot all 01your entertainment choices han to be art related. For
a IIress-relelvlng
aHernallve, why not check out CELLBLOCK
28's Daddys, Tops and Bean Night. Bring your boy, slave or
cub lor some· hot ictlon, hot men and hot lantalles. n
Cellblock 28. 28 Ninth Ave., between 13th and 14th IIreetl.
Doon open 8 pm untl! 3 am. (212) 733-3144.
. Ii It's a a dominatrix (as opposed to a dominator) you're looking
for, JOCELYN AND JULIE oller you Clft Club East's Leather Love
Party. Wfth go-go dancen and lesbian erollc videos and slides.
Free leather collan to the lint 25 women to arrive. Drink speclallllil
midnight. Admlnlon $31111 mldnlghl/$5 aner. 101
Avenue A. Info: (212) 408-1114.
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End your week with a IIUle queer dancing: MEAT presents 'fWo
Queens, A King and a Drum Machine. Straight from Montreal(no pun intended), this all-queer band pel10nns Its hits "Queer
Nation" and "Homophobia." $5. 101 Avenue A. Doon'open at
10 pm; perlonnance at 1:30 am.lf you min them at tonight's
party, catch them tomorrow at CONTROVERSY. Same lime,
same place, same band.

150 First Ave. Gallery hours: TIl-Su,
12- 6 pm. (212) 228-4249. ThroughMarch 24.
/to THELESBIANHERSTORY
ARCHIVES and THE CENTER present Keepln'
On: Images 01
Alrlcan-Amerlcan
Lesbians.
Opening Feb. 28. Wheelchair accessible. The Center. 208 W. 13th St.
Hours: daily, H pm. For more info,
contact the Archives at (212) 8747232 ..

EL TEATRO RODANTE PUERTORRIQUENO inicia la 1991 temporada
con All en Miami Como en el
CI,lo. Escrito por el dramatrgo
Cubano Raul de Cardenas, elestreno mundial se trata del regreso
al hogar de un hijo grave menteenfermo, y el doloroso encuentro
entre dos generaciones con visiones
opuestas de la vida. [EI Teatro
Rodante Puertorriqueno kicks 011 its
1991 season with the world pre,mierof Asi sn Miami Como en sl Cislo.
Written by Cuban playwright Raulde Cardenas, the play depicts thereturn home of a gravely ill son andthe painful clash between two generations with opposing philosophiesof life.] $12 and $15. 304 W. 47th
St. Descuento para estudiants, mayores y grupos. En ingles: W&-fr at 8
pm. En espanol:
Sabados y
Domingos a las 2:30 y a las 8.
'55 GROVE STREET presents Cam
Brainard
and Bob Koherr's
BrlcklaCB & Stucco, performers
who both appeared In Parting
Glanc,s, their original comedy
material Includes two jocks wholearn they can vogue, retired SolidGold Dancers, Amish rappers who
put the umen back fn Mennonite,·an early Simon & Garfunkel, andthe Rocky Mountain Butt Boys who
open at a gay rodeo In West
Hollywood; videos serve as transitions between live routines; at 55
Grove St (west of 7th Ave South);$8 + 2-drink minimum; FRI at 8 pm;
366-5438
AMERICAN PLACE THEATER presents I Stand B,'ors You"'kid byJoyce Carol OatBl, about ten
women dealing with life In today's
America; with Elizabeth Alley,
Penny Templeton, Nancy Barrett,Annie McGreevey, Marguerite
Kuhn, Bronwen Booth; 111 W 46 St;$20; WED-SAT at 8 pm, also WED &SAT at 2 pm, SUN at 3 pm; 8403074
CHARLESLUDLAM THEATRE pre•sents Ludlam~s C.mlll" starringand directed by Everett Quinton,with Cheryl Reeves, Ken Scullin,
Georg Osterman, Eureka, Bobb
Reed, Jim Lamb, Carl Claybourne,
H.M. Kououkas,
Jean·Claude
Vaneux, Steven Pell, 1 Sheridan
Square; $25; ruE-FRI at 8 pm, SAT&SUN at 7 pm; 691-2271
CHERRY LANE THEATRE presents
David Stevens' TIl, Sum 01 Us, by
the writer of Breaker Morant; starring Tony Goldwyn and Richard
Venture, directed by Keyln Dowling,
about a father who tries to help withhis son's gal( relationships while helooks for a new wife; 38 Commerce
St; $27.50-$32.50;
TUE-FRI at 8pm, SAT at at 7 & 10 pm, SUN at 3
& 7:30 pm; 989-2020
LUCILLE LORTEL THEATER prethe WIlliam
sents F./I,ttoladd,
Finn/James Lapine musical. The

third in Finn's M.,,,ln Trllo,y,Falssttoland examines the Impact of
AIDS on a gay male couple, a lesbian couple, a heterosexual couple
and a j::hil.d. 121 Christopher SI.
$27.50-$35. Tu-f at 8 pm. Sa at 7
and 10 pm. Su at 3 pm. (212) 9248782.
RAPP THEATRE COMPANY revives
ThomasM. Dlsch'l Th' C.rdln.1,
D,tox'B, "a chilling look inside thehierarchy of the modern Catholic
Church exploring such issues as
AIDS, abortion, ties to organizedcrime and homosexuality"; directedby R. Jeffrey Cohen, starring
George McGrath as the Cardinal;
220 E 4 St; $10 (TDK ok); FRI &SAT at 10 &11:30 pm, SUN at 2 pm
(RT= 35 min.); 529-6160,
MEN WITH WIGS, INC., presents
II's a Man's World: Ladlel Sing theBluel, a fun-filled, gender-benderfantasy, from the Cotton to Motown.
Men, with wigs, examine Incandescent Images of the blues' queens
and their descendants. $10. The
Producers Club. 358 W. 44th SI.,
2nd floor, suite 7. Fridays at 11 pm.
(212) 971-9021.

MONDAY, FEB. 25
AIDS AND ADOLESCENTS NETWORK OF NEW YORK Substance
Abule Committee Meellng. Info:
Stuart Aronson at (212) 4817672.Also today: the Theater
CommHtee Meeting. Info: Cydelle
Berlin at (212) 241-7214. Both events
happen at FCNY. 121 Sixth Ave., at
Broome St, 6th floor. 3-5...,. - pm.
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS
presents SAL Mallina Night. "Yourchance to foel useful (and be thefirst to get the March calendar). If
you like folding, licking and stapling,
this Is the night for you. 6:30 pm.
Please call 24 hours in advance toconfi rm all SAL activities: (718)965-7578.
SAGE presents Adult Sunlvon of
Sexual Abuse, an experiential therapy group for women ages 21 andup to support the recovery process
and free you from the pain andsilenceofsexualabuse.
psychotherapiSts: Joyce Z. Meyers,
CSW and Robbye Stuart-Russell,
MA. The Center. 208 W. 13th SI.
7-6:30 pm. (212) 741-2247.
ACT UP General Meeting. Cooper
Union, Fourth Avenue at 7th Street.
7:30 pm. Info: 564-AIDS.
OUTMUSIC First Public Meeting.
Outmuslc Is a new organization oflesbian and gay composers, lyricists
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and lesbian musicians as well as a
discussion of plans for a music festivalln June and for an ongoing coffeehouse to highlight the talents ofour community's writers and performers. $3 donation. The Center.
208 W, 13th St. 8 pm, Info: (212)533-0598.
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filetwork and Men'l Rap Group at
7:30 pm, before their General
Meeting at 8:30 pm. Tonight's
meeting topic: Hollywood Throughthe Keyhole: Scandals, Sex and
SuiCides. Featuring Joe Fanning of
OGA. Morristown
Unitarian
Fellowship. 21 Normandy Heights
Rd. Morristown, NJ. Info: GAAMC
Gay Helpline: (201) 285-1595.
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER
Membel1hlp CommlHee Meellng.
7:30 pm. Call Chris at (212) 6010806 for location.

TUESDAY, FEB. 26
GAY MEN OF THE BRONX General
Meellng. 1 Fordham Plaza, 8thfloor. 6-8 pm. Info: Chris (212)0806 (English) or Robert (212) 8823404. Meetings are 2nd and 4th
Tuesdays; next is Feb. 26.
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THE NEW YORK ADVERTISING AND
COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK presents Proleilionall
In Film andVideo. Scheduled: Nick Curto, whowill discuss on-camera interviewing;
Elliot Sokolov, who will present
original music; Jon Schwenzer, whowill talk about satellite communications; and Mike Schaefer, who will
discuss field audio recording.
Attendees will also visit a mobile
video truck. $10. The Center. 208 W.
13ttl St. 6:30-9:30 pm. Reservations (718) 353-3006.
~SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS
presents Dining Oul: Aunl Suzle'l
at 6:30 pm. It's SAL's mostrequested dining spot: Woman:owned, Italian home cooking. 247
Fifth Ave., between Carroll. andGarfield streets. Then, at 8:30 pm,
It's TrIvial Punun Nighl, lor womenover 30, under 30, single or
Involved. Bring "Genus" or "Baby
Boomer" cards II you've got them.
Please call 24 hours In advance toconfirm all SAL activities: (718)965-7578.
MOSAIC BOOKS presents Olher
Countrlel, a Black gay writer's collective, reading poetry and prose.
Mosaic Books. 167 Avenue B at 10thStreet. 7 pm. Info: (212) 475-8623.
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS pre-

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Treatmentl. 129 W. 20th St., third
floor. 7 pm. For more information,
call the GMHC hotllne at (212) 8076655. TOD (212) 645-7470 for the
hearing Impaired.

and performances by Gall Jacklon
and Lavender Light: 11Ie Black andPeople 01 All CO,Iors Lesbian and
Gay GOlpel Choir. The Board of
Estimates Chambers. City Hall. 4-7, pm. RSVP to (212) 566-7385.

LONG ISLAND GAY MEN'S GROUP
prese'nts Guelt Vlllto,l:
P·FLAG
and LlGALY. Is yourlov8
life apower ~truggle? Comeflna oµt at
tills bl-weekly dlscusslori~group.For
complete details, contact LIGMG at(516) 694-2407,

THE GAY AND LESBIAN ANTI-VIO·
LENCE PROJECT Peer Counleillig
for survivors 01 bias assault,
domestic violence and sexualassault. Held every Wednesday andThursday from H pm. The Center.
208 W, 13th St. (212) 807-0197,

LESBIANS AND GAY MEN OF NEWBRUNSWICK
presents
SUlan
Rovello, a therapist Irom the Institute.for Personal Growth. The topic: Codependency. Presentation and discussion. Friends MeetIng House. 109
Nichol Ave. New BrunswiCk, NJ. 8
pm. (908) 247-0515,

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
presents Edmund Whne, lecturing
on "Jean Genet The Man Behind theMask. n $5. Celeste Bartos Forum .
NYPL. Rfth Avenue at 42nd Street, 6
pm. (212), 9»0855.
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Queer
AnlWel1, an ongoing series of rap
groups whose focus Is defining our
homosexuality
for the 1990s.
Tonight's topic: 'Polarity: In samesex relationships, opposites attract.'
319 E. 9th St. 8-10 pm. Info: (212)228-5153.
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Topi an~ Bearl Night. Bring yourboy, slave or cub for "hot action, hot
men and hot fantasies." Cellblock28. 28 Ninth Ave., between 13th and14th streets. Doors open 8 pm until
3 am.' (212) 733-3144.
JOCELYN AND JULIE present a cln
Club East leather love party. With
go-go dancers and lesbian erotic
videos and slides. Free leather ,collars to the first 25 women to arrive.
Drink specials
till midnight.
,Admission $3 till midnlghtJ$5 after.
101 Avenue A. Info: (212) 406-1114.

SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS
presents Pool Night. featuring freepool, ping pong, billiards, air hockey
and shooting hoops at Brownstone
Billiard. Seventh Ave. at Flatbush.
Then, Instead of The Roost thisweek, It's Dinner 811he Rex Cale at
9 pm. Seventh Avenue at 3rd Street.
The evening begins at 7:00 pm,
Please call 24 hours In advance toconfirm all SAL activities: (718)965-7578.

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THE PWA DEMOCRATIC CLtlB Flnt
Meeting. This I,s the first .Demo"cratlc party club of people wit Ii
AIDS, ARC, those who are,HIV P9SI·
tlve, and their friendS; It IsorganlZ8d
for the purpose of ending ttieAIDS
crisis, The Center, 208 W. 13th St. 8
pm. Info: (212) 929-5009, '",)j'."

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General Meeting. Meets the secondand fourth Wednesday of eachmonth. The Center. 208 W. 13th SI.
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Braa, reading f~om his book, Sex
Charpe. 548 Hudson St, 8. pm.lrifo:(212) 989-4850.·"~,,UPSTAIRS AT THE DUPLEXp,,\,sents Wicked Tralh Producll.n,''edtlme Slo(l". I quote: "Tales, ~fshattered, splintered, splt~"~:Q!1
love, A comedy. Tres funny. Tres
gay. Tres bitter. Laugh youi' fat,tired, lazy, queer ass off with t~its~
unique comedic actors, n Written
and performed by Marlan' ~OIdstelh,
Scott King and' Jastm Kordelo.s.
Directed by Simon Fill. $7 cov4!rplus a two·drlnk minimum. The
Duplex. 61 Christopher SI. 8 pin.
Reservations suggested: (212)' 2~. .
5438. [See Feb. 27]
THE EAGLE presents Movie Nllht:
Th.
Matthew' BrOderICk
stars as a naive young man ftom
Vermont who comes to New Yorl<tostudy fll m makl ng. The Eagle. 142
Seventh Ave., at 21st Street. 11 pin,691·8451. ''',,,,bm,n.

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Commmee Meellng. It's at Debby's
house, so call for directions. 7:30
pm. Info: GAAMC Gay Helpline:(201) 285-1595.

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WEDNESDAY,
FEB. 27 GMSMA and LSSSM Changed Ihe .
•World. Both GMSMA and LSM were , the Ce!iters:ollfreaCh' ptogram;ThistlmeOrientatlon~
takes 'ltsei'f'tb
founded In In 1980-81. ThiS forum
BRONX AIDS COMMUNITY SERStaten Island. Nurses Resldenc.
will look at how the existence of
VICE PROJECT presents Speakers
Medical Board Room. Seaview
these groups have changed the face•
BJ/reau Training III. Bronx AIDS
Hospital and Home. 460 Brlell" Ave.
of SIM in the last ten years, andServices, Inc. One Fordham Plaza,
7 pm. llIfo: (212) 620-7310.
rwhat challenges lay ahead in thesuite 800. The Bronx. 10-12 am.
next decade. $4 members/$6 non(212) 295-5605.
members. The Center. 208 W 13 St. OPEN CIRCLE gathers to Ctllbilll
lie God/dIII on lie Full MIlD, at the
8 pm. (21~ 727-9878.
THE MAYOR'S OFFICE FOR THE
Center, bring percussion InsbilmenlS;,LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY
208 W 13 St; 7·7:30 pm (begins
BODY POSITIVE presents Personalpresents an Alrlcan·Amerlcan
promptly; arr\veearly); $2 (OC, Box'
Fllllnces and HIV, a monthly orienHlllory Month Celebration. The
4538, Sunnyside, NY 11104) ,tation forum held on'the fourth
event Is co-sponsoredby the..
Wednesdayof each month.
, mayor's office and various organizaSLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS
tions within The Lesbian and Gay Scheduled: David Peterson, moderpresents an Under 30 PI"", A (let.
People of Color Steering Committee. ' ator; Fred de la Vega, CFP, MBA;
Richard W. Bandfleld, CLU, RFP; together for all lesbians under 30.
Keynote address given by Mayor
Make friends and make plans for
Richard F. Stern, CLU, ChFC. 10th
David N. Dlnklnl. Also featured:
March. Bring snacks, beverages andfloor auditorium, Cronin Building.
presentations by Hulbert H. James,
casseHes. It's a full moon tonight"
SI. Vincent's Hospital. 170 W. 12th
director 01 the Mayor's Office of
SI. 8-10 pm. Info: Body Positive at so occasional howling Is perm~,
African-American and Carrlbbean
7:30 pm. Please call 24 hours In(212) 721-1619 or the Financial
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25

6 AM WIND-TV Broadcast New York By the time you getlhis, you've probably missed this show, But if you do get it on time, don't miss today'sscheduled discussion of condoms in NYC public schools, CH 11.
9:00 AM WCBS-TV Geraldo The morning's camp factor. Scheduled areactors from '60s and '70s TV series, including Dawn Wells (Mary Annl of
Gilligan's Island, CH 2.
~ 1,:30,PM WUSB 90.1 FM The Word Is OutMarc Gunning hosts a weekly les, bian"gay and bisexual variety show featuring music, news, editorials,
comedy and guest interviews,
2:00 PM WUSB 90.1 FM Lavender Wimmin News, songs and music produced by women for women,
2:30 PM WUSB 90,1 FM This Way Out More queer news,
3:110 PM Llf Attitudes Scheduled: Mary lou Ratton. That she made it to thecover of Wheaties and Greg Louganis didn't is probably more a testa, mentto sexism than anything else.
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6:110 PM WFOX-TV Golden Girls "Awaiting the results of an HIVtest. Rose
has an agonizing 72 hours to kill-if the uncertainty doesn't kill her first ,, Thi~show is made by our friends, folks watch it CH 5".8:30 PM Manhattan Cable
The Brenda and Glennda Show, CH 17,
9:00 PM DIS The Seven Year Itch Vintage Marilyn. Repeated at 3 am,.9:00 PM GBS Out in It(e 90'~community news, discussion, interviews. BO,
Cable, CH 56 (1:001'~11ti115PM BRV The Importance of Being EamestA BBC production of Oscar
Wilde's Victorian frace. Repeated at 4:05 am on Tuesday morning.
11:30 PM Tomorro'(tl/TonightUve:.
, entertainment; Manhattan and Paragon
Cable, CH 0/17 (1:001,
Midnight CCTV The Closet Case Show. K10set K1ips; Manhattan IParagon
Cable, CH C/16 (:301

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26'
2:05 AM TBS .",e UttJe GirlWho LIves Down the Lane A 1977 Jodie Foster
vehicle, She wears lots of white, as I recall,
7:110 AM WCBS-TV This Moming If you missed her in the middle of the, night, you can catch her (Jodiel on this talk show, CH 2,

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7:110 AM WABC-TV Good ¥oming America Scheduled: ltd. lang. CH 7.
9:00 AM WCBS-TV Geraldo Scheduled topic: the modeling industry, CH 2.
9:00AM WABC-TV Regisand Kathie Lee ltd. lang stays on the air. Cli 7,1145PM TNT A Stolen life Bette Davis plays twin sisters-ilne good,one, bad-both loving the same man, Sounds potentially fun to me.
3:tIiI PM AM Girlfriends TV,Guide says it's "the story of a woman adjusting
to life alone: Then Why is it called GirlfriendSi
10:lI0 PM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and female strippers;
M/lnhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:001
11:110 PM GBS Out in the 90'~news, infonnation and interviews;
ManhattantParagon Cable, CH C/16 (1:001
11:30 PM ·WIND.-lV Arsenio.Hall Arsenio gets down with New Kids on the
Bloclt CH 9.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27
9:00 AM WCBS-TV Geraldo Scheduled topic: publicicizing infonnaton

about deceased celebrities. Uke Malcolm Forbes, for example? CH 2

9:00 AM WIND-TV Best Talk Scheduled topic: AIDS and romance, CH 11,
8:110 PM WIND-TV Int8mational Star Search The program that foisted Sam
Harris on the world goes international, It's something to watch duringcommercials, I guess. CH 11.
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call-in show; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28
1:30AM DIS How to Marry a Millionaire A triple treat Betty Grable, Lauren
Bacall and Marilyn Monroe,
10:lI0 AM WNBC-TV Sally Jessy Raphael Scheduled topic: secret infatuation. You know,like what teenage queers get CH 7.
10:30 ~ MAX Victor/Victoria Still here, still (somewhat) queer, still making
the cable rounds. Repeets Sunday at noon on SHOo
1:110 PM WBAI-FM This Way Out; the international gay/lesbian news magazine; 99.5 FM (:30)
1:30 PM WBAI-FM An Afternoon Outing. local news and infonnation about
the gay and lesbian community with Lany Gutenburg; 99.5 FM (:301
5:00 PM WFOX-TV Diff'rent Strokes Homophobia or sensitivity? Arnold
wants to take up ballet. but Willis thinks it will ruin his brother's rep. CH 5
9:00 PM A&E The Heiress Orlvia De Haviland stars opposite Montgomery Clift,
who only wants her for her money. Art imitating life? Repeated at 1 am,
10:lI0 PM GCN Be Our Guest entertainment for and aboutthe les,bian/gay
community; Manhattan Cable, CH 0/17 (:301'
10'.30 PM GMHC Living WtthAID5: health and politics; Manhattan Cable, CH
V/35 (:301
11:00 PM GCN Gay U.SA: news and entertainment from around the countJy; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:001
Midnight GCN Men in Film~ male erotica, interviews With adult filmstars;
Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:301.
12:30 AM RB PROD Men For Men ,Robin Byrd presents gay male pornostars; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:301

FRIDAY, MARCH 1
4:00 AM A&.E Sweet as YouAre A British movie about a teacher who 1eopardizes his marriag&-and his life when he has an affair with a student who's canying the AIDS virus." AlII can say is: Ugh I ..'~'2:30 PM WBAI-FM Rompiendo el Silencio: todl;ls los Viernes, Goiiialo
AbuItO con tamas y noticias para la comunidad latina gay y lesbiana;
99.5 FM (:151'".
7:110 PM WBAI-FM AIDS In Focus, Michael Alcala" produc 1:110 AM RB
PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and female strippers; Manhattan
Cable, CH V/35 (1:001

SATURDAY, MARCH 2
2:30 AM WIND-TV TheWorld According to Garp Robin Williams is straight
man to John Lithgow's transsexual, but Glenn Close steals all thescenes, CH 11.
8:30 AM WBAI-FM Any Saturday with David Rothenberg; live call-in; 99.5
FM (2.'IXl1
7:00 PM GCN Gay U,SA: news and entertainment from around the country;
Bo. Unity, ACV Cable, CH 56 (1:001(For Manhattan Cable, see THURSDAy)
11:110 PM Gay 7¥. male porn; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35
1:110 AM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male & female Strippers; Paragon
Cable, CH C/16 (1:001
1:30 AM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male & female strippers;
Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:001

SUNDAY, MARCH 3
7:30 PM WBAI-FM OutLoo/cs; with host Sue McConnell-Cali from GUB.
Alternates with The Gay ShoW; 99.5 FM (1:001.
10'.30 PM RB PROD Men For Men: Robin Byrd presents gay male pornostars; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:301
11:110 PM GBS W~y Dud Mark Chesnut and Michelle VanVoorhies introduce you to a tour of lesbian and gay Fort Lauderdale. Rich Volo is the
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advance to confirm all SAL activities: (718) 965-7578.
IN OUR OWN WRITE presents a
Reading, featuring Cheryl Clarke,
Samuel Delaney and Paula
Martlnac. $3 suggested donation.
The Center. 208 W. 13th St. 7:30
pm. Info: (212) 620-7310.

and Viva as they cavort, dressed
and undressed, about the set of aWestern town. Their actions mimeand expose the cliches of theWestern genre. The Angelika Film
Center. 611 Broadway. Midnight.
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THE ANSWER IS LOVING Women
Talking Women's Talk: What's
Wrong Wah This PldufB, "Reality,
truth, honesty, hurting, feelings,
denial, avoidance, ignoring and theprice we pay"; 1964 E 35 St, Bklyn;
7:45-10 pm; $10; Ruth Berman &Connie Kurtz, 718/998-2305
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER
present Women-Identified Men: A
Presentation 01Various Phllosphles.
The Center. 208 W.13th St. 6-9 pm.
Info: (212) 222-9794.
BRONX LESBIANS UNITED IN SISTERHOOD General Meeting. Topic:
Lesbian Herstory, with a special
focus on famous New York lesbians.
With a speaker from the Lesbian
Herstory Archives. The Center. 208
W. 13th St. 6:30-8 pm. Info: Miriamat (212) 409-2692 (Spanish) or Lisaat (212) 829-9817 (EngliSh).
DIXONP~CE presents Judnh Sloan.
"Warm and hilarious, she portrays
characters that rant, dream and confess." Sloan has appeared in comedy
clubs in New York, both uptown anddowntown. She appears with The
Maids. Dixon Place. $6 or TOE 37 E.
1st St., between First and Second
avenues.8 pm. (212) 673-6752.
BODY POSITIVE presents a Friday
Night Social for all HIV-positive
indiViduals and their friends. Free.
Middle Collegiate ChurCh. 50 E. 7thSt,; at Second Avenue. 8-10 pm.
Info: (212) 721-1346.
MEAT presents lWo Queens. A Kingand a Drum Machine. Straight from
Montreal (no pun Intended), this allqueer band perfonns its hits "Queer
Nation" and "Homophobia." $5. 101
AvenueA. Doors open at 10 pm;
performance at 1 :30 am. [SeeMarch 2.]
THE ANGELIKA FILM CENTER presents The Culture God 01 the19601: The Films 01 Andy Warhol.
The six-week series concludes withLonesome Cowboys, the last film
Warhol directed. In it, he gives lull
rein to the articulation of a campsensibility operating within the
melodramatic
imagination. We
Observe the casual, carnal improvlsatinos of actors Joe Dallesandro

THE LESBIAN AND GAY ~IG'APPLECORPS SYMPHONIC, BAND presents a Spring Concerte,lititied"Uptown Saturday Night." WestPark Church. 86th St and Amerstam
Avenue.
ARI FRIDKIS, CSW presents a
Workshop lor Gay Men: Gay
Sons/Straight
Fathers.
The
workshop "provides a supportive
group setting for gay men to cometogether to better understand andtalk about their unresolved feelings
about their fathers." $40 (reduced
fee available). 251 Central ParkWest. 10:pO am to 3:30 pm. (212)769-8796.
INTEGRAL YOGA INSTITUE presents Hatha Yoga Class. Hatha
Yoga refers to the p~ysical,postures, deep relaxation and breathingpractices whic,h revitalize andstrengthen the body and calm themind. This class is especially for
those who are HlV-positive. IYI. 227
W. 13th St. 12-1:30 pm. (212) 9290586.
THE PWA COALITION presents
Bewand the Ides of March, a socialfor HIV-positive gay men and lesbians and their friends: Offering
snacks, sleaze and music. Comeand find your destiny. Free. 222 W.
11th St.) at Seventh Avenue. 3-5:30
pm. Info: (212) 889-2334.
THE NINTH STREET CENTER presents Queer Questions, Queer
Answers,an ongoing series of rap
groups whose focus is defining our
homosexuality
for the 1990s.
Tonight's topic: Anger: When is it auseful response? 319 E. 9th St.
8-10 pm. lIito: (212) 228-5153.
DIXON P~CE presents Lin Kron.
The woman who brought you
Paradykes Alley at the WOW Cafe
presents some brand new material.
She appears with The Maids. Dixon
Place. $6 or TOF. 37 E. 1st St.,between Arst and Second avenues.
8 pm. (212) 673-6752.
CONTROVERSY presents Two
Queens, A King and a Drum
Machine. Straight from Montreal(no pun Intended), this all-queer
band performs its hits "Queer
Nation" and "Homophobia" $5. 101
Avenue A. Doors open at 10 pm;

perfonnance at 1:30 am
SEXUAL ORGASM PRODUCTIONS
presents A Look Back at the PostPunk Music 01 the Early '80s.
Drinking, dancing, hot boys, sexyqueens, videos and music by thelikes of Cindy Lauper, Lena Lovichand Nena Hagen. $3 with this listing/$5 without. 101 Avenue A. 10
pmt04am.

•MONDAY, MARCH 4
HiE NEWYORK ADVERTISINGAND
COMMUNICATIONSNETWORKpresents an Ali-Networking Evening: "Markellng. Join marketers of products and services, direct marketers,
arts and entertainment marketers, 'events and sports marketers, niarket researchrs and those in ,marketing communications.
Members$5/non-members $8. The Center.
208 W. 13th St. 6:30-9:30 pm.

THE ANGELIKA FILM CENTER presents The Culture God 01 the•1960s: The Films 01 Andy warhol.
The six-week series concludes with , SAGE presents Adult Survivors 01 "Sexual Abuse, an experiehtialtherLonesome Cowboys, the last film
apy group lor women ages 21 andWarhol directed. In it, he gives fullup to support the recovery process ,rein to the articulation of a camp
and free you from the pain, and "sensibility operating within the
melodramatic imagination. We silence of sexual abuse. PSychqtherapists: Joyce Z. Meyers, CSW
observe the casual, carnal improand Robbye Stuart-Russell, MA. The
visatinos of actors Joe Dallesandro
Center. 208 W. 13th St. 7-a:3O pm,
and Viva as they cavort, dressed,.
and undressed, about the set of a (212) 741-2247.
Western town. Their actions mime
ACT UP General Meeting. Cooperand expose the cliches of theUnion. Fourth Avenue at 7th Street.
Western genre. The Angelika Film
7:30 pm. Info: 564-AIDS.
Center. 611 Broadway. Midnight.
(212) 995-2000. [See March 1.]
IN OUR OWN WRITE Writer'sWorkshop for lesbian and gay writSUNDAY, MARCH 3
ers. Workshops are held on the lirst
and third Mondays of the month;
AMERICAN GAY AND LESBIAN
next is Feb. 18. Please b,r.lngwork.
ATHEISTS Monthly Meeting. AG~
The Center. 208 W. 13th St. 8-10
is a non-profit, educational organization dedicated to preserving sepa- pm. (212) 620-7310.
ration between state and church and
TUESDAY, MARCH 5, ,upholding the civil rights of lesbian
and gay atheists. The Center. 208 W.
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS pre13th St. 1-3 pm. Info: Dial-A-Gay
sents Arts Auction V. Featuring
Atheist at (718) 899-1737.
antiques, fi ne arts, contemporary art
and crafts and photography. In
LESBIAN FEMINIST LIBERATION
memory of Nathan Kolodner. $100.
presents Ensuring Our Lesbian
Sotheby. 1334 York Ave. PrevleYi
Future: Mind/Body/Spirit.
With
Deborah Feller,psychotherapist, and reception at 6 pm, auction at 8 pm.
(212) 807-6664.
Eva Yaa Asantewa, lesbian healthadvocate. The Center. 208 W. 13th
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS pr~Sl3 pm. Info: (212) 627-1398.
sents a Health Seminar: Benellts
THE PWA COALITION presents a Inflmnatlon. 129 W. 20th St., third
floor. 7 pm. For more information,
Sunday Evening Social for HIVpositive gay men and lesbians and caDthe GMHC holline at (212) 807·
6655. TOD (212) 645-7470 for thetheir friendS. Free.The PWAC Living
hearing impaired.
room. 222 W. 11th St., at Seventh
Avenue. 6:30-9:30 pm. Info: (212)PS 122 p'resents Field Forum:889-2334.
Dealing With Healing. Reid forums
are town meetings for the perfor- 'DJXON PLACE presents Julie
mance community. During theseBlackwomon
and Katherine
gatherings, the field tackes theArnoldi. Dixon Place's new poetry
issues of being an artist in New
and fiction series Is curated byYork, from the nuts and bolts of
Cathy Taylor, owner of mosaicfunding to aesthetiC concerns,
Books. Tonight's reading pairs twohealth and rehearsal space.
fiction writers: Julie Blackwomon,
Panelists Include: Susan Klein,
who has been published In Lesbian
Poetry, Lesbian Fiction and Home founder of the Klein Technique;
MarlJeanne
Llederbach,MS, ,Girls: A Black Feminl$t Anthology,
Sports Medicine; Richard Sacu, 'with Karherine Arnoldi, a recipient
psychotherapist; JOin Arnold, certl·
01 a New York Foundation of theArts grant. Dixon Place. $5 or TOE lied Alexander Technique Instructor;
and Alice Kaltman, social worker. ,37 E. 1st St., between First andFree. PS122. 150 Rrst Ave. !HI pm.
Second avenues. 7:30 pm. (212)(212) 477-5288.
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673-6752.
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MondayPrivate Eyes (Marc Berkley's Kool Komrads; strippers; downtown crowd, students, professionals. 2-4-1 drinks till midnight .S7) 12 W 21 St (212) 206-

7772.

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bpyramid (This Monday only: a benefit for WHAM I Then Ivory presents'Gentle on My Mind.' Opening March 4. No cover, no hassles, no kidding.)
101 Avenue A. (212) 473-7184.

1\Iesday

Big City Diner (·Subkulture; featuring dancing, food and bar. For men, but
women are welcome. $7/$5.) 43rd Stat 11th Ave. (212) 268-4572.
• Clit C,lub (Drink specials till midnight Lesbian erotic videos and slides. $3
before midnight/$5 after.) Pyramid., 101 Avenue A. (212)473-7184.
• ~Club Edelweiss·(TIs,
TSs, gays, bi's, singles, couples'; TUES especiallyfor lesbians; but open to all TUE-SUN night) 167 W 29; 868-6989
Danc".ria(Coming soon: Chip Ducket's gay Tuesdays. Keep your eyes on,
this space for opening.) 29 E. 29th St.Grand CC!ntral (Women's night tonight Mixed We-Su.) 210 Merrick Road,
Rockville Centre, LI; (516) 536-4800.
Kililllllnjara(Tracks Tuesdays.) 531 W. 19th St 627-2333.
. IRoxy (John Blair's 'Muscle on \lVheels.· Gay rollerskating. Doors openat8 pm.
Varied cover.) 515 W18 St; 645-5156.

Wednesday.

'IlOIInoa11l!l (Drag Extravaganza, vviIh Tabbool Go-go stars, OJ Dany Johnson. Sexy,
upbeat. East Village fag and dyke crowd. $5.) Pyramid. 101 Avenue A. (212) 4737184.
.lbe Building (Dallas' 71Ie Boys' Room; House music, downtown crowd, go-goboys an,d a 6O-foot ceiling; $101$7 with invite) 51 W 26 St; 576-1890• Excelibur (LBdies Night, $1 drinks) corner 10th/Jefferson behind footballstadium, Hoboken, NJ; 201-795-1161'~Limelight('Queer U.' DJs Andy Anderson and Keoki, $5{$10) Sixth Avenue
at 20 Street (212) 807-7850.
• Cadillac Bar (Gini DeSantis presents Pure P8rty Production Danclls for
Women, every Wed" $5, Free buffet 6-8 pm, Renee Cooke, Bartender.)(Enlfance on W. 22nd) 16W. 22 between 516• Privet. Eyes (Shescape Afterworic Party, 5-10 pm'; $5 before 7 pmJ$7 after;
2-4-1 drinks before 7) 12 W 21 St; info ~79,
club 206-7772
Private Eyes (YMVA Night; students, prof'ls, women; peJformers; S7; door
often benefits a gay/lesbian organization) liw 21 St; 200-7772
Silver Lining (2-4-1 drinks, also open Tues-Sun, women SAT) 175 Cherry
Lane, Aoral Pk, LI; 516/354-9641"(2-4-1
drinks, also oPen daily)2Il2WestchesterAve, \MltB Plains; 914/761-3100

Thursday

Big City Diner ('NQ Kids on the Block' for people 26 and over. 10 required. $6.)
153 Waverly PI., 6th floor. (212) 691-7515,
Blacglalllll!Celebrating
gay men and women of color. Bi-montly; next is Feb,
'28,) Pyramid. 101 Ave. A. (212)473-7184.
-.\-Copecebene (last Thu. of the month Susanne Bartsch party; iffy door) 10 E
60 St, at Fifth Ave; 755-6010
Excelibur ($1 drinks, also open Tues-Sun, women WED) corner 10th/Jefferson behind football stadium, Hoboken, NJ; 201-795-1161
Hadielers (2-4-1 drinks, female impersonators; also open nightly, women on TUE& FRI) 126-10 Queens Blvd, Kew Gardens, Queens; 71B/261~
Man! Mill (Tony, Keith and Dominic present OJ Tommy Richardson, go-go boys,
videos, ~illjards. $10!$7 with invite.) 239 Eleventh Ave.(212) 633-0701.
Mloxy (Disco IntB/Tuptus.Performancesby Natasha and Alisha. Special
decor by Katsuaki. Opening night party for Penny Arcade. Open bar
10:3G-l1:30. Late night lip sync compstiton, $10) 515 W 18; 645-5156
Stingray's (New club, new sound system, everything else is a surprise. No
cover tonight) 641 W. 51st St (212) 664-8668

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FridayIABC (Chip Duckett's ABC Fridays, OJ Menit!; ballroom, balcony, billiards,
boogying; $10!$7 w, invite; opened Nov. 16) 17 Irving Place at 15 St..
.: " .Uit Club (Jocelyn & Julie, Every Friday Parry, go-go girls,lesbo Wleos; opens 8 pm,
biRiards &$1 drinks
8and 9 pm; $5) 432 W 14 SI; G-1114......
Columbia Dances (1 st Friday of every month, Earl Hall, 10 pm-2 am.) 116th St& Broadway; 854-3574 days
• Hadiald's (women's nights are TUE & FRI) 126-10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens, Queens; 718{261~11Ie Limelight ('Mea Culpa: for men, with video and live entertainment•
S7j$10.) 47
20th St (212) 807-7840.

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FriUy (Xclusive peJformances at 1:31 am. OJ Nobody's Pussy. $5.)
Pyramid; 101 Avenue A. (212) 473-7184.
.MiIlennbn (LBdies' Nig~1770 NY Ave (Ale 110),Huntington. U511!(J51-1402
PrivMa Eyes (t'MVA N"1ght; studenls, professionals, men) 12 W 21 St 'JJ.FrTT72
Stingray's (New club, new sound system. Free before 10 pm. S7 after,) 641 W. '51st St (212) 664-8668'• Visions (woman's party) 56-01 Queens Blvd, Woodside, Queens; info
7181846-7131, club 718/899-9031

Saturday.

Barefoot Boogie (2nd & 4th SAT; ad~ds,
smoke & alcohol free; 8:3) pm -12:30
am, $4; next is Dec 8) 43461h Ava (blINn 9(10 SIs), 4th Roor; 832.e75!1
CenIar (2nd & 4th Sat, 9 pm to 1 am, $8. OJ PetBr Arden.) 2IJI W 13 SI; 620-7310• Center ('Women & Friends', Every first Saturday; next is March 2. 9 pm
to 1 am.) 208 W 13 St (212) 620-7210.
Club West End (Michael Fesco's Saturdays; midnight - 9 am) 547 W 21 St
Columbia Dances (SamE BuT DifferenT. Third Saturday dances~ OJ Karin
Ward, 10 pm - 3 am; $5) Earl Hall, 116 St/B'way; 629-1989~ControYersy (Drinking, dancing and scandal with your host laHoma Van
Zandt OJ's Patrick Butts and Tennessee. $5.) Pyramid. 101 Avenue A.
(212)473-7184.
419419 N. Highway, Southampton, LI; 516/283-5001
Lava Zone (dancing & performers) 70 Beach Sf. Staten Island; 718/442-5692
House House Girls (All new. S7.) Speed Umit 55.154 W. 2tlIh St (212) 5IJ5.0232.
.Irving Plaza (ShescapII and Girlgate's ·Girl Saturdays.' OJ Dany Johnson,
Go-go girls, billiards, $5 before 111$7 after.) Irving Place at 15th Street(212) 645-&\79.
Milt (OJ Aldo Hernandez, every 'Saturday; go-go boys, videos; opens 10 pm;$5)432W14St.
~Roxy (Locomotion; gay boys, guys, men; non-gay women, some lesbians;mix depends on party) 515 W 18 St (btwn 10/11 Aves); 645-5156.Silver Uning (women's Sat) 175 Cherry Lane, Aoral Pari<, LI;51&1354-9641
Sound Factory (mostly gay; serious House/Club dancing, no alcohol, opens
11 pm) 530 W 27 St (10th{11th Aves); 643-0728
Stingray'. (Brand new club, brand new sound system, everything else is a
surPrise. $8.) 641 W. 51st St (21?) 664-8668• Tilly City (Karen Diga presents an array of eccentric, voluptuous and 1itiIIizing
women. $5) 11le Box. 70 GrQV8St reel at Sheridan Square. (212) 242-1G1.
TIilecltTnnfar(KooI
Komrads' OUd party, vviIh hotman, music, videos. No coverand a free bllfet.)Tribeca Transfar.148Chamb9rs St (212)315-7572. 'Sunday."Building (Dallas' 71Ie Men's Room, students, professionals, men; go-goboys & 6O-ft ceiling) 51 W 26 St; 576-1890.
~fUCKI(DJs Craig and Victor spin industrial, house, bass, soui and twirly
disco. Downstairs, the Lesbian Luv Lounge with OJ Lori E. Said and guest
DJs. $5.) Pyramid. 101 Avenue A. (212)473-7184.
Kelly's (OJ Moaning Usa spins the recoJds for dancing dykes. Doors open at 8
. pm, $3.) 46 Bedford St (212) 929-9322. 'Monster (Sunday Tea Dance at 4 pm; dancing also on other nights from 10pm) 80 Grove St at Sheridan Sq.; 924-3557
Men (James St James, Bella Bolski present) 239 Eleventh Ave. 633-0701.
Safe Sundays (Kool Komrads' party at the Cadillac Bar; go-go boys, $2 shots,$5 beer bias from 5-8 pm.) 15 W. 21st St (212) 645-7220
2Il12O (Michael Fesco's Tea Dance, opens 4 pm; $6; free Mimosas & BMs
from ~, buffet at 7:30) 20 W 20 SI; 727-8841.lbe

levery Night (or almost)•• Bedrock (lesbian club, closed MON & TUE) 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516{486-9516~Club Edelweiss ("TVs, TSs, gays, bi's, singles, couples all welcome'; TUE
for lesbians, bUt open to all TUE-SUN night) 167 W 29; 868-6989.PIndora's Box (formerly the Duchess) Sheridan Square & 7th Pwe; 242-14111
419 (nightly Gay House Party, opens 6 pm) 419 N. Highway (Rte 27),
Southampton, LI; 516/283-5001
Grand Centrel (closed Mon, 2-4-1 drinks Thursday) 210 Merrick Road,'
Rockville Centre, LI; 5161536-4800
Magic Touch (ethnic mix: Anglo/La1in/Asian) 73-13 37th Rd, Jackson Heights,
Queens; 7111/429-8605
Monster (West Village) 80 Grove St at Sheridan Sq.; 924-3557
Spectrum (good mix of gay men & lesbians; closed Mon- Tue, WED free, THU
free & 2-4-1 drinks, FRI male/female strippers, SAT recording stars, SUNvariety show & free admission 9-10 pm; Coors servet/J 802 64th St@8th
Ave, Bay Ridge, Bklyn; 718/238-8213

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AIDS CENTER OF QUEENSCOUNlY SOCIAL SERVICESEDUCATIONoBUDDIESoCOUNSEUN~PPORTGROUPS
Yalu.-rOppoltUniti ..
(718) 89&-2!iOO(voice)(718) 88&-2885(TDD)

Acr UP IAI)S eo.Iition III
UnI..... Paww)
488A Hudaon Street, Suite G4
NYC 10014 (212) 584-2437 A
dival'1la, non-partisan group ofindividuala unitad in anger andcornmittad to direct a CIion to and
the AIDS criais.Gin, meetings
Man, nights 7:30, in The Great
Hall, Cooper Union, on Cooper
Square between Astor and Sl
Marb Place's.
AIDS RESOURCE CENIlR IAJIC)
Suppor1ive hauling for homeless
FYlAa (Ba~ey House and apertmants). Non-judgemental
pastoral care for PWAa, and loved
onu. Volunteer opportunities.
(212) 481-1270, 24 Wast 30th St.,NYC 10001

ALOECIAPlN-NY(A.ian U'.bian.
of the E•• t
Caaa\'AalIIII Pacific Lalbillll Natwwk~ York) We are a political, social and supportive
natwork of Aaian Pacific lesbians. Planning meetings on thelit Sunday and social events on
the last Friday of each month.
Call (212) 517-55911for more infor•
ma1lon.

AMERICAN GAYIlUBlAN A'DIBSrS
AGA. Inc/701 7th Avenue, Suite
9W/New York. New York 10038'" non-profit. educational organization dedicated to preserving
saparation between state and,~hurch end upholding the civilrights of Laabian and Gay Atheisla. Meetings the firsts Sunday
Community Center, 1 to 3 P.M.
Dial a Gay Atheis1B (718)899-1737,
24 houl'1l.

ARCS~11IIiId
CoImuIity Senri_)for Dutchess, Orange, Putnam,
Rockland, Sulliven, Ulster andWastchaatBr countiaa. AIDS edu·
cation, client services, crisis
intervention,
support groups,
clSe management,
buddy andhospital visitor program. 214 Cantral Ave., Vl/hits Plains, NY 10808(914) 993-0808 838 Broadway,
Newburgh, NY 12250 (9141 56250(!; AIDSIi,.
(114)""ASIANS a FRIENDS- NEW YORK
A not-for· profit organization
which promotaa friendships with
Asian/PacificIslander, Asian·
American, and non-Asian gay
men through social, cultural, edu-

cation ai, and servica activities
and programs. C~II our HotUne:
212-874-5084, orwrita to: P.O. Box8828, NY,NY 101113-8023.

R1I (AIDS lREATMEN1'RESOURCES,INC.)
Publishaa a bi-monthly Directoryof clinical trials of experimental
AIDSIHIV treatments in NY/NJ,
and has educational material"seminars for trial participants,
A11IaillO advocatas for improvements in the trial system. P.O. Box30234, NY, NY 1011-0102. (212)288-4198. Publications free/dona·tion raquaatBd.

BAR ASSOCIA11ON RIA
HUMAN liGHTS
Lawyara RefalTlll Service for theLaabien and Gay Community Full
Range of Legal Services (212)459-4873 me Walk-in Legal Clinic. Tuesday 8-8 pmLaabian & Gay
Community Canlr. Ground Roor

BIDS (BISEXUAL DOMINANCE.
SUBr.usIONGROUP!

Shara S/M 8xperiencea and fantasias with othera in a positive,
non-judgemental
atmosphere.
First Sunday of the month, 4:45pm
at the Community Centllr 20B W.
13 Street, NYC. This group is pertof the New York Area Bisexual
Ne1work.

BISEXUAL NUllMAnoNa

COUNSBJNG SBIVICE,.INC.
A profeasionaly staffed, non-prof.it organization for bisexuals, theirfamilies and partners, facing
problems of a peychological or
medical kind. We also work withthose in doubt aboutthair 88XUality. Confidentiality is protected bylaw. For infonnation phone: (212)496-9!iOO

BISEXUAL PRIDEDISCUSSION GROlli'
Topical discussions on issuea of
intarest to the community in acongenial atmosphere, follDWlld
by an infonnal dinner st a friendly
local raatBuranl Every Sunday,
3:00- 4:30pm at the Community
Center 208 W. 13 Street, NYC.
Part of the New York Area Bisexual Ne1work.
BlWAYS NlW YORKMonthly social events for the
Bisexual community and friends.
Call NYABNfordetsis of upCOll1ing even1B. (212) 4!i9-4784 'BlPAC (BISEXUAL POIJTICAL

AcnGN COMIiW11&l •Political aClion on isauea of importanceto the BisaxuaVLasbiarv'Gay
community. Monthly meeting/potluck held 8:00pm on fourth
Thursday of the month at mell1bers homaa. Call NYABN for thismonth's location. ((2121&4784" BIIDIW. yount, InfonnallOcial & support group
for,Bilexual kidrlyouth. Monthly
meeting/potluck
lunch held,:i:OOpin' on fourth Sunday of the'inonth at membel'1l homaa. Call
NY,ABN forthi. month's location.
Thi, group i. part of the New
York Area Bi88XUalNe1work.
BUJS.IJRONX LESBIANS... nm IN SIS1IIIIIOOD

Social, polilical and support networking group for women andtheir friends, Regular social
avan1l and meatings on the first
and third Fridays of avary month,
At The Community Canter, 208 W,
13 Street, from 8:3D-8pm. For
more info call Us. at (212) 8298817.
BOOY POSI11VE
If you or your lover has ta.ted
HIV+, we offer aupport groupe,
seminal'1l, public forums, reference library, referrals, social
aC1ivitiea and up-to-date national 'monthly, "THE BODY POSITIVF($2!i(yea r). (212) 721-1348. 2095
Broadway,_______ Suits 3011,NY,10023 B

ROOIIJN'S lESBIAN AND GAY
POUI1CALCWB IMIIDAraPEMllM'DIIIIOCIATS

Ll.D. endorses and works forcandidates in local, state andnational election., lobbie. forlegislation, and conducta community outreach through street
fairs and meetings on special
topics. Join us, 338 Ninth Sl,
Suite 135 Brooklyn, NY 11215(718)98H482
CllCif OF MORE UIIIT

Spiritual support andllharing in a
gay!lesbian aflinnative group.
Wast-Park Presbyterian Church
185 Wast 88It1 Straet Wed: worship service 8:30 pm, program
7:30. Mansha (212) 314-4373 Charfie (212) 891-7118.
COIMJMIY IEAIJH

PROJEc:1'
208 West 13111Street , NYC, NewYork 10011 For Appoin1m8n1landInformation(212) 875-3559(TTYNoice)pROVlDING CARING,SENSITIVE AND LOW COST
HEAL'DICARE SERVICES TO 'DIE
lfSBIAN AND GAYCOMMUNITY,COMMUNITY IEAIJH
I'IIO.ECra HfAIJH rRRMA-TION UNE RIll TEENS
Do you have quaations about
your health? Your Body? Coming
Out? Safer Sex? Feel like you
have no OI1eto talk to? Not any
morel Now you can call the
HOn-L1NE. 212-255-1517The
Taen HOn-UNE for Healthl Call
Monday to Thursday, 7pm to
9pm. At other timas,lalMla 1118&sagaandwe'li cal you backl

COIMINITY

RfJWCH

1NIT1A11VE

all taata experimen1ll drugs andtraatment.·for
AIDS and HIV
relatsd iIIn88l8S, Monthly trllltment and r8learch group for
HIV+ individuals. Treatment andresearch n_lattar,
forums andpublic IIminar •• Call Alice
Spaal'l or Ken Fornataro at (212)481.1050 for info and mai~ng list.

BmI
SlMCHAnoRAH
NY'. Gay and Le.bian Synagogue Servicea Friday at 8:30pm
S1 Bethune StreatFor info, call:(212) 929-9488.

CONGREGATION,

at The Centar, 108 W. 13th ,St,
West of 7th PHa. Contribution: ..
Bring a main course for 4 peopla(or pay a $5 food charge.) F;orinfonnation call: 212-117&-7541or
212-288-3238
GlMD-Caya LaaIIian Ali.AgainIt DIIInIIIion ,IKlV. rick Strait, NYC 10013 (212)888-1700 GlAAD comball h0mOphobia in the madia and ailewhere by promoting vilibility oftha laabi.n .nd gay communityand organizing
grn.roots
response to anti-gay bigotry. Do
you haw 30 minutlll a month tofight homophobie?Jointha
GLAADPhoneTreelCaR (212),8881700 for infonnation.

1J'NAI'.atUIUNMonthly Spritual Gatherings andfree catared farive luncheons for.1People With AIDS, their IIIV8I'1
and familiea. progrem includlll
mlllic and discussion led by our
Rabbis. Cal (212) m-7fIJJ

DIGNI1YBlGAPPIl
A community of Laabian and Gay

Catholics. Activitiea include Uturgiea and sociala !Nery Sal, 8:00
pm, at the Center, 208 W. 13
Street, NYC.Call(212) 81&-18,

DIGNIlY NlWYORK
lesbian and gay Catholic. andfriends AIDS Ministry, Spiritual~evelopment. The Cathadnsl Project Worship Servicea & SocialSun. Eve •. 7:30pm-St, John's
Episcopal Church 218 Wast 11th
StraetOW~~2179,

BJGE~ .. in a DiAlllad
Gay EINi... llElnt
For the phyaically disabled leabian and Gay Community. P.O.
Box 305 Village Station, New
York. NY 10014
RIONI" RUNNERS
A running club for lesbian andgay alhletea of all abilitiea. Fun
Runs pf HI milea held avary Sal
at lOam and Weds. at 7pm inCentral Park and IVery Tuea. at
7pm in Prospect Park. For infor·
mation: call (212) 724-9100.
'DIE GAYARIICAN AIEIIICANSOF
G.AA.)
is a community based support
group formed in Westchester
County. Various activities arepllnned for the coming rnontha.
Call 914-378-0727 for more info.
GAY fiUIIBrS RHUI
A support organization for gay
father's, their 1IIV81'11,
and others
in child-nurturingsituation •.
Monthly meetings include a
potluck supper, support groupa
on varied specialized
topics,spaakens, and socializing.Meetings: 1st Friday each month, 7pm,
M_rch .,

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Gay and Laabian Indapandant
Broadcaatera invillll you to tuna
into OUTLOOKS on WBAI-NY,
88.!i FM avary other SlI1day, 7:308:30pm and join us _ry TUIIdIyast 7:00pm to 9:00pm to be_member of GUB, No experienca
needed. 505 Eighth PHanua, NY,
NY 10018 Attn: Outlooks or 0111
(212) 245-838&-.sk for GUB.

GAya WIIIAN IIEAIJH

CONCERNS
An office of the NYC Dept. of
Health, providaa link.gea betwn
NYC H8I1th & HlI1IIn Svc., andthe Laabian A Gay community,
focusing in AlL hlllith coneame;r880urce infonnation for ha.llh..rvicII
con.umar.
andprovidara. 125 WorIh Straet. Box~,New York, NY 10013. For infocal(212)~GAYMALE 1M AC'IMSTI
Dedicated to llfa and raaponaible S/M linea 1881. Open m.ings w/programlon SIM
techniqU88,lifeItyIe ilIUM, poitical and social concarns, Allo
special8Wn1l, speskel'l burlIIu,
workshops,
demo.,
affinitygroups,naw.lattar,
mora.
GMSMA - Dept 0, 49IIA Hudlon
Straat, Slits D23 ,NYC 10014.1212)
727-8878.

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80 Va ri ck Street,'

NYC 10013 a
support group of Gay Men of
African Descent dedicatad toconsciousnesa-raiaing
and thedevelopment of the .... bi.n .nd
Gay Community. GMAn it inclusive of African, African-Amarican, Caribbe.n .nd Hispanic!
Latino man of color. Mlllling ....
held, weekly, on Fridays. For
infonnation, call 718-8I1'HI1I12.
GAYMEN"SIEAIJIICRISIS~FOR INFORMATION ON SAFERSEX AND HIV-IBATED HEAL'DI
SBMCES, AND FOR INFORMA.._..

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AIDS COUNSELING SERVICES%12-1117.-&212-&45-7470 TDD.. (far the Hllring ..... _1 Mon.Fri.llt3Oun.to9pm.l2:00to3:00
GIRTH. MIRTHClUB OFNlWYORK~ocial club for heavy, chubby
gay men & their admirers.
Monthly socials at the ·Center",weeldy bar nights Thursdays at
the 'Chelsea Transfer", monthly
Fat Apple Review, bi-monthly· FAR p&npel$.. ,For more information call Emie at
914-899-7735 or write: G&M/NY,
Dept 0, P.O. Box 10, Pelham, NY
10m.

.. lEAL>(1INIth Ed_lion AIDSliBi.nl, Weekly info. and support group, for trea1m8ntB for AIDS which do
not compnimise th'eimmune ~tam fl!rther, including altemative
Ind holiatic approaches. Wed
8pm. 2f18 W. 13th St (2121674HOPE.

HERll'AGE
OF PRIDE-INc.
,
Organizers Of New York's Lesbianand Gay Pri!!e 8Venta: 1I1eMatch,
1I1e RallY and the Dance on the
Pi.r.,Call (2121 891-1n4 for meet> ing .schedule,
or more information. 2f18 W8lIt 13th Street, NY. NY., 10011.
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INmMt

for !a.sbian and gay ybUth. Counselin'g, drop-in center (M-F, 38pml, rap groups, Harvey Milk
High School, AIDS and safer sex
information, refemls, profeaaional education.
(2121 $33-8920", (voi~1(2121 ~T1Yfor
deaf

IISPANIC UMTEDGAYS .1!SB1At4S,. Educational aervices, political, Iction, counseling ana social
activities in Spanish and English• by allil for the Latino Lesbian and
Gay Community. General meetings 8:00 pm 4th Tliursday of
every month at 208 West 13thStreet CaU 201:ei3-7824 or wri1B
H.1i.G.!.. P.O.Box22a Canal Strea!
Station, New York. NY 10019.

IDENJI1Y HOUSE
Now in ou(2OIh year, we provide
peer couriselil1g"therspy refer, rsls and groupe for 1I1elesbian,. gly and bisexual community.
e.1 III It (2121243-8181. VISit us· at 544 8th
between 14111, 15111Streets, Manhattan.
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INS1IIUIE RJR HUMANIDENIIIY INC.
, Naw York's non-profrt lesbian, Ind gay ~choth.rapy
center.
Ucanaad payllhoJogiatll, psychiatriItII, and cinlcal80cial workers.
Sliding scale feea. Insurance, acceplBdt Individu~l, couple, andfamily therspY. Variety of Men's
Ind women's groups forming
continuciu8ly. 118 W. 72nd Street
212-JS.8432

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and friends. Euch'arist and prQgrsm 8V8ry Thursday, 7:3Opn. St
Luke's Church, Hudson andChristopher Sts. INFO: P.O. Box
5Z02, NYNY 10185(7181720-3054

lAMBDAI£GALDmNSE
AND EDUCAJIIN RIND

Precedent-setting
litigation
nationwide for leabians, gay men
and people with AIDS. Membership ($40 and up)Jnc. newslettsr
and invitations to special 8V8nt8.
Volunteer night on Thursdays.
IntBke calls: 2-4pm Mon thru Fri(212199&8585·
IAVA-(lESBlANSABour
VlSUALART)
Call for s§des ,for Lesbian
Artists'•

Exhibition, Gay & Lasbian Community Center, NYC. For more
information, send SASE to : Miriam Fougere, 118 Fort Greene
Placa, Brooklyn, NY 11217.
LESBIAN AND GAY ADUIJ EDUCAJ'ORS

Meet with other lesbians andgays who work in adult education as teachers, administrators,
counselors, tutors, etc., to discuss issues such aa coming out
to staff and studentB, materials
alld curriculum, workshop andconference participation. We
meet the first Friaday of every
month at 8:00 pm st 1I1eLesbian
and gay Community Center 208
West 13th Street e.n Brvna Diamond at (2121 932-79112 (daysl for
information

THE LESBIAN AND GAY
BIG APPLE CORPS
Get your instrument out of thecloset and come play with us.
Symphonic, Marching. Jazz, Dixieland, Rock, Rute Ensemblea
and Woodwinds. 123 West 44th
St Suite 121.New York. NY lcm8
(2121_2922.
LESBIAN.

GAY

COIIWUNIIYSERVICES CENIBI
208 W8lIt 13th Street New York.

NY 10011 (2121820-7310 9amllpm everyday. A place for community organizing and networking, social services, cultursl
programs, and social events
sponsored by the Center andmore 1I1an 150 community organizations.

LESBIAN AND GAY
LABOR NmYORKAn organization of Lesbiana andGays who are aC1Wain their labor
unions wor1cing on domes1ic partnership benefits and AIDS
issues. For mora information cal(2121Q23-881n
LESBIAN AND GAY liGHTSPROJECTof 1I1eAmerican Civil liberti ••Union KNOW YOUR RIGHTSI
WE'RE EXPANDING THEM (2121
944-9800, ext. 545

Lnbian and Gay Episcopalians

LESBIANS AND GAYSOF RJII'BUSH
Brooklyn's social organization for

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Box 108, Midwood'Station Brooklyn, NY11230-(7181 85&-9437
LESBIAN HERSTORY ARCHIVES
P.O. Box 1258 New York, NewYork 10118212/874-7232Since.1974, 1I1eArchivea has inspired,shaped and reflected Lesbian
lives 8Verywhere. Calf to amnge
a visit or to volunteer for Thursdayworknigh1a.
IDNG ISlAND ACr-UP

Meets Tuesdays at 8pm at 181
Post Ave. in Westbury, NY.Support us for change on Long Island. 'Mailing address: PO Box 514,
Westbury, NY11590.51&-338-4882..
ISM

is a support and informationgroup for lesbians and bisexual
women interested in fantasy,, role-playing. bindage, discipline,
S/M, fetishes, altemate genderindentities, costumes and soforth. Membership is available
only to women 18 years andolder. Actual experience ia notrequired but genuine interest andan open mind are. For information ple88e write: P.O. Box 993,
Mumy HillStation, New York, NY
10158
MARANmIA; RIVERSIDERS
RIll LESIllANGAY CONCBINSMonthly program meeting on
second Sunday for gayllesbian
Christians and friends. Educational, political, and social activities scheduled,
12:30 p.m.
Riverside Church, 490 Riverside
Drive, Sunday worship 10:45 am_
For info.,call (2121222-5900 (ext.
2911 MAIWWHA IllVERSIDEIIS
FOR LESBIAN/LESBIAN/GAY
CONCERNS is a dues supportad
group within the Riverside
Church. We are unable to affrot'/OU standard rate of $400.00 per
yea r at this time, but will be
increasing our dues in 1I1e next
fiscal year to include more aMrtisingflmds.

MIll OFALlCOlDRSTOGETIIBI NY
A multi-rscial group of gay men
against rs cism. Meetings IVery
Friday night st 7:45 at 1I1eLesbianand Gay Community Services
Center,208 W. 13th Street For
more info. call: (212124S«!88 or(2121222-9794.
METROPOUfAN TENMSGROUP(lll'G)
Our 2lIOmember lesbian and gey
tamis club incfudes p1ayars frombeginning to tournament level.
Monthly tennis parties. Winterindoor league. Come play withusl For information: MTG, Suite
K83. 49&-AHudson St. New York,NYl002S. (7181852-8582.

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Provides .. tar sex and AIDS education information to gay andbisexual Men of Color; coordinatas a network of peer-aupport
groups for gey and bisexual Menof Color in all 5 boroughs of New

York City:m Nin1l1Ave, New York,
NY10001or call (2121239-1798.
NmONALGAY AND LESBIANTASKRlllCE
is 1I1enational grsssrootII political organization for lesbians andgay men. Membershipis
S31ryear. lssulHlrientad projects
address violence, sodomy laws,
AIDS, gay rights ordinancQs,
families, !I1adia, etc. 1I1rough ioj).
bying, education, organizing anddirect action. NGLTF 1517 U
Street NW, Washington,
DC
2OQ09. (2021332~

NEW YORKADVER11SM AND
COIIMINICA11ONS f£lWORKNYACN is the community's
largest gay and lesbian professional group, welcoming all incommunications-andtheirfriends. Monthly meetings, 3rd
Wed 8:30pm at the Community
Canter. Members' l18WIIettsr, jobholline, annual directory. Phone(2121 517-0380 for more info.
Mention OutWeek for one free
newslettsr.
N.Y.fBIMESSupport and diacussion group forleabians who self identify as
Femme and are primarily attracted to butch women. For membership information call Lisa (2121
82&-9817.
N.Y.WCMN'S SOfI"BAlLGIILD
For experienced, serious SoftbaO
Playalll, Coaches and Managers.
We play mod/fast pitch weekends in Menhattan and Queens.
TrrotJIB begin Feb. 111hru Aprilor until filled. (2121255-1379JanetNINI1f S1JII'£T CENIBI
Since 1973, a convnunity dedicated to demonstrating 1I1ata h0mosexual lifestyle is a rational,
desirable choice for individuals
dissatisfied with 1I1e rewarda of
conventional living. Psychologically - focu8led rap groups,
Tues., Sat.. 8to 10 pm. peer counselling available. 319 E. 9 Street,
New York, NY 10003, for info cal(212122&-5153.

NORTH AMERICAN ~OY
LOVE ASSOCIAnoN (NAMBIA)
Dedicated to sexual freedom
and especially intereted in gay
intergenerational relationshipe.
Monthly Bulletin and regular
chapter meetings on the first
Saturday of each mon1l1. Yearly
membership is $20; writs NAMBl.A. PO Box 174, Midtown Station, New York. NY 10018 or call
(2121807-8578 for information.

gay and anti-lesbian violence,
sexual assault, domestic violance, and othar types of victimization. All services free andconfidential24 hour holline (2121
807-0197
PAJIEN1'SJRIIENDS OFLESBIAN AND GAYS
Let P/FLAG help you and yourfamily deal with 1I1e upheaval of'/Our coming out Our meetings
are free: monthly on 1I1e4th Sunday, at 3:00 pm, in Duane Church,
201 W8lIt 13th. Info? call Jeanne,
212-483-0829

PEOPI1WITHAIDS
COAlJl1ON(2121 532-0290/1-800-828-3280/
Hotline (2121 532-0588Monday
1I1ruFriday lllanWlpm Meal programs, aupport groups, educational and referral services for
PWA's and PVIIArc's.
PEOIUWITH AIDSIIEAIl1I GROll'
Undergroundbuyer'sclub
importing not-vet-approved medications and nutritional supplemenIB. 31 West 281h St 4th Roor
(212153HJ280
PNCPANnIBI PIII1IOl
Community street patrol in Eastand West Village dedicated todeterring violent crime against
gays and lesbians. W8lIt Village
weekly meetings
at Tues.
evenings at Community Center.
Call for time and Info: 212-4754383. For East Village patrol info,
caU 212-248-8588.
PIIOIUSIONALS IN fUNVIDEO
338 Canal Street, 8th Roor, NYC

l0013212~1
QUEBI NA110N "The Lesbian and:' Gay direct
action group dedicitBd to fighting homophobia and Gay andLesbian inviaibility.,.Anyone cansuggeat an action and shouldcome to meetings prepared toorganize and implement it QN,
Box 1524, Cooper Station, New
York. NY 10003. Call 212..a&7208
for meeting info.

SAGE: -{Senior Adion ina Gay Emrirwl".nI)
Social Service Agency. providing
cara, activities, & educational
services for gay & lesbian seniorcitizens. Also serves over 180
homebound seniora & older
PWA'a .208 West 13th St NYC
10011, (2121741-2247
SEIHIAN GAYS,LESBIANS AM) IIISElIIWSNORIHBIN UGHTSAIJBINA1IVES
Improving Quaity of ura for People with AIDS/HIV. THE AIDSMASTERY WORKSHOP: Exploring the possibili1iaa of a powerfuland creative life in 1I1eface of
AIDS. Ca11(212125S-8554

For al of ua interested in reaching out to each other in exuberance to spontaneously explore
and expand upon 1I1eSe1!VJana
Roberta -Philosophy·
as it
realtes to our lives, pellIonally,sexually and politically. Call AI(21211f7&.5104

NYC GAY • LESBIANANTI-VIOlENCE PRo.ECI'Counseling,
advoci cy, andinformation for survivors of anti-

SUNlANCE 0U11I00II
ADVENnIIESOCIEIY

A non-profit club offering Outdoor activities for every season

including hiking, biking, skiing, water activities and O1her
oU1door aC1iviti98 for1l1e Gay/lesbian community. For information or complimentary Newsletter call 1212159&-4726.

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TASK FORCE ANNOUNIDENf
The legal Action Center located at 153Waverly Place, NY,
NY 10014,has begun two new programs. AlI1I1eir services
are free. The HIV/AIDS Legal Service Project provides freelegal services to people with HIV/AIDS. Their scope ofservice is wide, encompassing cHild care and custody,
discrimination, hou, housing, healthy heahh planning, confidentiality and employment The HIV/AIDS Agency Treining and Assistance Project provides tachnical assistanceto public and private agencies about legal and policy
issues on HIV/AIDS and drug abuse. They provide training,
individual' consultations, and model policy guidelines,
among O1her items. If you have any further questions,please contact Ms. Call1erine O'Ne~ at (2121243-1313.The
A1lOCialion of Nil ... in AIDS Care (ANACI just received,Chapter Charter for 1I1elocal Greater New Yort. Chaptar.
They have monthly meetings with speakers and networt.ing opportunities. Their next meeting is scheduled for January 9, 1991, 8-8 pm. at 1I1eAIDS Institute,5 Penn Plaza,
4Ih floor, NY,NY. If you have any further queS1ions, pleasecontact Janet Vaccariallo at (212130\0-8724

11IE otmIEACH USING COMMUNAL HEAUNG (TOUCHI
Community volunteers providing a weekly buffet supperfor 1I1eBrooklyn AIDS community. TOUCH mee18 Monday
eves. 5pm to 8:30pm- at downtown Brooklyn Friends
Meeting House (110 Schennerhorn St. near Boerum
Placel. Limited transportation may be arranged. Info: (7181
822-2758. TOUCH welcomes contributions CIt funds, foodand voluntaers. 'ULSTBI COUNIY GAY AND WBIAN AWANCE
Meats first and 1I1irdMonday of each month at 7:30 pm at
1I1eUnitarian Church on Sawkill Road in Kingston. For
Infonnation, call 914-82&-3203
WHAMI-W_n'1
Heal1l1Action And MobiliDlion.
A direct action group commitad to demanding, securing
and defending absolute reproductive freedom and quality
heahh ca re for all women. We meet &Very Wed. at 6:30pm
at 105, E 22nd Street, 4th floor. 212-713-5968Mailingaddress: WHAMI, PO Box 733, NYC 10009

WOMENS AIlBINA11VE COMMUN rrv CENTER lWACCI•

A non-profit, Lesbian community center serving Queans,
Nassau and Suffolk Counties. Thurs. night weekly discussion groups. 8:30 pm, for O1heractivities please contact us
at 51&-4lB-2I!iO.

WRESTUNG fOR GAYS IUESBIANS
Watch 1I1e men of 1I1e knigh18 wresUing club inaction
wery Sunday at 7:30 PM at 1I1eGAYCENTER.The club al80
conduct training classes on altarnata Sawrdays afternoon(1st Ii 3rd Saturdaysfor men 2nd Ii 4th Saturdays for
womenlfor morelnfonnation please call: 71&«19-5141

for men and women

to protect faint-hearted birdwatchers fromstumbling upon primal homosex rather
than the season's first cardinal.
This past summer, toward dusk,
Sean would' sit on a bench and chatwith other strollers. "The police were
hiding in tpe bushes," he,says. If someone exposed himself, he would bearrested. One night, a group of cops
who were driving by announced op theloudspeaker: "You fucking faggots! Stopsucking dick in the bushes, and get out.
The park is now closed." Sean received
a summons once for sex' in, a stairwell,
his preferred park spot. But the cop
never showed up in court so charges
were dismissed.
Capt. Joseph Montagnito commands
the boys in blue who supelVise the boysin the brush. He is a cagey man. ASkhim
about the presence of queer nature lovers
in the Ramble, and Montagnito responds,"The park is open to everybody, no matter what their sexual preference," Askagain, and he'll point out that birdwatchers also frequent the area. He seems interested in ornithology. "Birds that migrate
north and south go into the Ramble," hesays, Ask again, and he explains gr¥ffiythat there are "many meeting placeS" ,inthe park and as "many reasons" for meeting. Pressed further, he gets testy, saying:"The park is a recreational area. People
meet people in recreational areas ...justlike at dances."
1 call back, hoping that he'll provide
statistics for arrests for public lewdness. "Iknow what you're trying to make mesay," he says in measured tones. "TheRamble is well known throughout theworld as a place where gays can go tomeet other gays," But so is Greenwich
Village, he points out. He insists that most ,people use the park to create sparks
before retiring elsewhere. He offers a scenario: "If 1 meet you there, and we starttalking, and 1 invite you up to my room,
that's not against the law. If they should
happen to be caught exposing themselves
or fornicating in full view, that is,a violation of the law.""I prefer the bed to oak leaves,"
Matth~w says. He takes people home.
One weekend, he met a man in the Ramble, his 2-year-old daughter in tow. Backat the apartment, Matthew gave the little
girl an ice cream cone to pass the time.
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The Break, 232 Eighth Ave. (22nd St.)~,,/,- 627-0072, ;'•Cellblock 28, 28 Ninth Ave., 733-3144 (M-W),
Chelsea Transfer, 131 Eighth Ave. (bet 16th
arid 17th) 929-7183
E~gle's ,Nest, 1~2 Eleventh Ave. (21st St.),f '691-8:451'.
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iRawhide,
212 Eighth Ave., (21st St.), unlisted,.Spike;. . l20 Eleventh
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'The Vault, 28 Ninth Ave...133-3144 (F, 7-11
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Badlands, Christopher and West streets,i741-9236
Boots & Saddle, 76 Christopher St., 929-9684

Crazy Nanny's 21 Seventh Ave. South 3666312 (women)
D.T.'s Fat cat 281 W. 12th St., 243-9041
Pandora's Box, 70 Grove St. (Seventh Ave.)242-1408 (women)
Dugout, 185 Christopher St., 242-9113 (formerly the Ramrod).
Eighty-Eights, 228 W. 10th St., 924-0088
The Hangout (J's) 679 Hudson St., 242-9272
Julius, 159 W, 10th St., 929-9672
Keller's, 384 West St/Christopher, 243-1907
Kelly's Village West, 46 Bedford St, 929-9322
Marie's Crisis, 59 Grove St., (Seventh Ave.)
243-9323
The Monster, 80 Grove St. (Seventh Ave.)924-3558
New Jimmy's 53 Christopher St., 463-0950
Ninth Circle, 139 W.1Oth St., 243-9204
Sneakers, 392 West St., 242-9830
Two Potato, 145 Christopher St., 242-9340

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

Brooklyn (area code 718)
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candle Bar, 309 Amersterdam Ave., 874-9155
cat's; 730 Eighth Ave., 221-7559
Don't Tell Mama, 343 W. 46th St., 757-0788
Gents, 360 W. 42nd St., (Ninth Ave.)
967-0659
Sally's Hideaway, 264 W. 43rd St., 221-9152•
Town & Country, Ninth Ave. at 45th St"
307-1503
Trix, 246 W. 48th St., (bet B'way and Eighth
Ave.) 664-8331
The Works, 428 Columbus Ave. (at 81 st),799-7365'

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101 Avenue A, (formerly the Pyramid), 101
Avenue A, 420-1590
Tunnel Bar, 116 1st Ave., (7th St.) m-9232''(II. 11'/1 ,'Y
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Ty's, 114 Christopher St., 741-9641
Uncle Charlie's, 56 Greenwich Ave., 255-8787

After Five Plus, 5 Front St., 852-0139
Spectrum, 802 64th St., (Eighth,Ave.),
745-9611, Sweet Sensations, 6322 20th St., ~5-2580

Queens (area code 718)
Breadstix, 113-24 Queens Blvd., Forest
Hills, 236-0300
Friend's Tavern, 78-11 Roosevelt Ave.,'Jackson Heights, 397-7256
Hatfield's, 126-10 Queens Blvd., Kew
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,Hideaway, 87-36 Parsons Blvd., Jamaica,
657-4885(area code 201)

Love Boat, 77-02 Broadway, Elmhurst,
429-8670

Charlie's West, 536 Main St., E. Orange,
678-5002

Magic Touch, 73-13 37th Rd., Jackson
Heights, 429-8605 'Feather's, 77 Kinderkamack Rd., River, Edge,342-64tO

Vibrations, 165 Cedar Lane,. Teaneck,' i,:~}
836-5518.

Friendly;s.Bar, 6310 Park Ave., West New
York,~~-9895.. :Yacht Club, 366 Berksire Valley, Rd.,
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,'HERAPY•GAY SONS/STRAIGHT FATHERS
A workshop for gay men to explore
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you have to do is move your little finger"),A very chilling joy was the duetsung by Fromme and John Hinckley(Greg Germann), "Unworthy of Your
Love," in which they offer to murder
Jodie Foster and Charles Manson as a
gesture of their love. The song is a pastiche of '70s pop, ballads, a frightening
glimpse of insanity and, at the same time,
remarkably moving. As effective and theatrical a song as Sondheim has ever written, and very simply perfonned by Golden and Germann, it is in a class withPacific Overtures "'Someone in a Tree"for the way it acquires meanings beyond
its purpose in the show.
, In the fmal sCene, the assassins gather in the Dallas Book Depositoty to convinc~, Lee Harvey Oswald (Jace Alexander) that he should kill President
Kennedy instead of himself~nd
thefuzziness of AssassinS theme is exposed.
Oswald's, action, .his predecessors insist,
will atl9W them to "belong" and will evenempowerthem. How- this is so is
unclear-Qlld irrelevant. What lingers inthe, mind most are the bright, sharp•
images of the unpredictable violence and•loss that sporadically but effectively erupt.
in ,Msassins, not the thesis with wliich
Sondheim and Weidman try to tie every, thing tog$er.
, 'By no means Sondheim's
most
inspired, the score seemeci sometimes
merely a job he had to fInish. And Weidman's
clever bdok suffered sometimes,
from facileness. But Assassins contains
momeQts far more riveting than any othernew musical of the past year as well as
an above-the-New-York-average level of
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were shocked at the level of violence andthe chaos within the staff. They werefreaked out. Without housing in general,is the situation better than when I started--are there more or less people downtown? Who the hell knows? There was an
overwhelming number fIve years ago,
and there's an overwhelming number
now" But I think there are a lot more~and 'J:ktter-things in place. Even though
there aren't enough good programs,
there are a lot more than there were,
and they're much more intensive, more

about contact with people, not just eating an~ sleeping.
PM: Are those government programs?
JM: Vutuatly all good programs are
private, but they receive government

funding.
PM: With housing it's the same aswhat happens with AIDS: Only a few
groups get a lot of money, and noteveryone agrees how it would be best
spent. What do you feel would be thebest vvay to address the housing crisis?
JM: I don't know if I can give an
infonned answer to that. I'm personallyin favor of really small multi-service programs that have a lot of hands on contact. There's so much diversity in thehomeless population that what's appropriate for one person isn't for another.
Th~ are a lot of people for whom SSI
is a good answer. Supposedly, to get SSI
you are not able to work, but in ourgroups there are a lot of people whowork incredibly hard, which means wecreate a situation in which,' within theirlimits, they can contribute a lot and be
successful. Things could be set up a lot
more flexibly so that people wouldn't
have to fIt into our idea of what work is
like, and they could [realize] their potentiaL I advocate small, transitional living
units that would provide interaction withpeople, group processes and support
networks, drug programs and recreational prqgrams. A lot of it has to do withthe fact that some homeless people
come from dysfunctional families, sothey've never had a way of relating topeople.
PM: How was it, being a part of theLos Angeles Festival?
JM: It was really great. The whole
vision of the festival was great. The previous IA festivals were much more about"high culture." When I first moved out
here, it was just about the top of the
pyramid with nothing to support it--;ust
get your major cultural institutions, andthen that's it. Now the direction is to create a notion of working from the baseup, so that you have something that's a ,unique manifestation of LA rather than
New York's idea of what's important.
PM: Why is it th.at New York has
never been particularly responsive to
your work?
JM: Creative Time did bring us
there for El Museo del Barrio. Part of the
problem is the stigma of doing corrununity art, which is a code word for "bad"art, and New York is where they 'do"good" art.T

John Malpede and the Los Angeles
Poverty Department will be engaged at
Dade County Colkge/Wo!fton campus in
Miami through March 1. 1bey are traveling to Amsterdam and London in May.
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production of Christoph Willibald Gluck's
Orjeo ed Euridice, given in Eberhard'
Schmidt's German translation as Orpheus
und Eurydike, opened the third seasonof BAM Opera, Brooklyn Academy ofMusic's opera project. Like Fidelto's
Leonore, Orpheus defIes all odds-in thiscase, death itself-to rescue his mate.
The myth has resonance for gay listeners,•
not only because untimely loss of a lifepartner is tragically familiar in this age of
AIDS but also because Orpheus turned
to his own sex for love after Eutydike's
demise. (See Wayne Dynes on Orpheus
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Orpheus, with guitar in lieu of lyre,'
is a,writhing rock star, confronting his furies
in a dismal apartment and a hospital,
where he is confined and straitjacketed.
Countertenor
Jochen Kowalski, an
expressive,liquid-voiced
Orpheus,grieved graphically and proved wrenching in laments that beca!Ue son.gs .performed to his fans. Dagmar Schellenberger-Ernst
was the • impassioned
Eutydike, who addressed her spousefrom a 1V screen. Orpheus' guardianangel, Amor, was mimed by a small boy(Marcus F1ieher) and sung by Christiane
Ortet. Hans Schavernoch designed thesettings, mirrored walls and projections,of desolate streets and railroads, andEleonore Kleiber the costumes. Hartmut
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Ex Football Player
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By attractive, sensitive, considerate,
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Handsome/clean cut/great nude massage, also into wrestling &sensuous
situations John 212-741-3282

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ANDROGYNOUS, GWF, 'Z1
Healthy body &psyche, fascinated by "ishmael"from "fanny& alexander.
seeking similar
w/siinilar fascinations for romantic
fr~ndship or relationship. Must be
honest, able tocommunicate,&.'slightly academic. Send let~r, Outweek Box
3776. Photohelpful.
ARTSYBUT
NOTFLAKEY,yuppie but notsquare ... but definitely artisticlooking, so not,really yuppie, but
coulq pass at thecqurrtry club and
JtJSTLOVESMONEYI AMBITlOUSI But spiritual ...vegetar.• ian.~.kind,sweet,'sensitive.,,_. yO.ungish, pretty,
Iqng-haired,yetstrongllconoclastic
and abso,
lutely original.
Vf)ry smart (bothin the way you'ddescribea hand•bag and a
SQholar). All you
have to be iswildly clever, as
tomboy as theycome, over 30
and not too termiIlally cynical or
chicken to for'

CHINA
PATIERNATBLOOMIE'S
GF, 35, 5'6", 135,
BVgr, alcohoV
drug free SF
native! Manhattan dweller seeks
to end years ofserial monogamy. Softball,Diane Kurys
films, Ferron, gardening, politics
and cruising thepages of Elle andMirabella. Sweep
me off my feetand into adomestic partnership. Photo'
Phone gets mine.
OutweekBox
3771
D.K.-WE
WORKED
TOGETHER
ALL TOOBRIEFLYat that ridiculous
excuse for a publishing company.
I had a major
crush on you, but
couldn't quite fIgure you out. It
was always funtalking to you write back, willst
du? E.L.Outweek
Box 3315
HAPPILY MARRIED LESBIANCOUPLE
Seeks nice boy
for our newly
unattached bestfriend. He is 28,
trim, has sexydark eyes, and asweet smile. He
is into Art Deco,depression glass,historic photos,
great old movies,
brunch, friendship, & sex. H you
have someone
similar in mind,
maybe we can ,make a match,
Send not & photo(if available) to"Yentas," c/oSap, RM 8, Milbank 3009 Bway,
NYC 10027

bum even themost inflammables.5"6" 23y.o. GWF shortbrown hair-eyeglasses make myvision pierce yoursoul to depths
you never knew it
had. A photol
phone # will get
you the same-if
you have thecourage to see inyourself what I
can show you.
Outweek Box ,3719

I AM 14. MATURE
19YROLDSlim, attractive
black lesbian at
5'7" 120lbs
seeking a lesbian
or bisexual who
is white, hispanic
HELP! I'M
mixtureof
STARTING TO. orraces.
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LOOK AT MEN.
Any age under33, 5'3", br hair ,19 up to 30 forseeks sporty-fem
friendship or relawomen for relationship. Pleasetionship. Into .
respond, all will
humor honesty
be answeredromance andPhoto Optionall
treating you right.
Please send
Enjoy cozy
respond to Outevenings by aweek Box 3889
fir~lace. Take achance on someMY PUSSY IS
one nice. YourA SHRINE
photo will get
Followers of mymine. No drugs
new religious
non-smoker preorder practiceferrecl.Outweek
unspeakably
Box 3707
delectable rituals.
Devotional worHEY THERE
ship and human'I'm a nice, cute,sacrifice. I bve all
100% lesbian
G!;xfs children.
who needs to
OutweekBox
meet more fun
3769
dykes to hangout with. No
OK SO I SMOKE
specifications-justlike to have one& DRINK
These are not myhell of a goodworst habits. (Itime.Outweek
also bite my ,Box 3945•
nails, but lesHOT DYKE
bians should not
SEEKS SAME
have long nails
anyway) this-26
Baby I'm an
GWF is looking
irifemo-will you
for someone tobe my fuel? I canplay with on Tue& Wed (the worst
days off possible)
or after midnight(how did I get thisjob?) If you still
eat meat &cook
with butter drop
me a line we'll
see a movie or I'll
cook you dinner,
we'll do snow 'bongs on theroof. Outweek
Box 3722
ONE DATE
ATAllME
GWF, 29, Attractive, sincere,
funny, insightful,stable, attentive,
somewhat spiritual and politicallyaware seeksthe~ qualities inan "out" woman
who is emotionally articulate,sensually spiri. tual, dynamic yet
grounded, willingto listen and learn
and allow for apOssible relationship. Old enoughto.know better;yaung enough totake risks? Send
photo and letter
to: Outweek Box
3804

RENAISSANCE
WOMAN
seeks same in
SSF Bay Area.
41, les not bi.
Classics iIIustr.
Comics, Atlantic
mo. Zen-oriented
Christian.Oh yesSex maniac. Outweek Box 3718

32, COM- .
PUlER ARllSl
acMsg; attractive
athletic sensuous; advtsq student; enjoys
sports travel
museumsmovies dining
out; seeks GWF

30-40 attractive
athletic careeroriented educated humorous
out-going confident honest sincere affectionate
sensitive supportive and like cats,
No roles! headtrips, Outweek
Box 4026,

llREDOFQUEENS
The borough,that is. I've left all
my gir1frierids inLong Island City.
Just moved toPark Slope, looking for fuh andfantasy between
Fourth Avenue
and Prospect
Park West.
OutweekBox, 3770VENICE IN THE
SPRINGThe Bridge ofsighns ...\Vater
lapping the quaysof Murano ...
Sweet kisses inthe dark. Sensuous, exceptionally pretty, zaftig(dieting), much
published author,
femme, 40+,seeks accomplished, attractive, (preferably
vegetarian), soulmateltravelingcompanion. Photograph appreciated. Outweek'
Box 3824
VOLUPTUOUS
QUEER
Bisexual woman,
43, seeks persons interested inboth activism &SM. Open to
mutuaV Switch'
Top'Bottom.
Looking forfriends to playwith, hot exclusively, so I'm not•concerned that,.any 1 person,share all myinterests-someare: caning old
movies, groupplay, clinic escort,
large numbers oftiny, nasty
clothespins, public places. Leave
message at 4594811 or.write
POB 497, limes
Sq. 51n. NY
10108 Sorry, no
tobacco/perfume•

WARM, SENSI·
TlVE, HONEST,
androgynous, .
5'5",30, blonde,
blue eyed, virgo
wants to get toknow you. I liketo sit in a cafe
and sip cappuccinos, go to themovies or juststay home andcuddle by candle
light. Let's keep it
simple and slow.
Tell me about
yourself. Hon-esty,non-smoker,
sober and drug
free a must.
Send photo andIetter.Outweek
Box 3662

GOM, 42, 155,
5'6",
avg looks,
secure, 'withsense of humor,,in shape seeks
similar guys ~50, forfdshp &safe sex. Ukes
music, reading, &gym exes, quiet
eves at home.
No drugs, smokQrs, 1 nite. Hairy
Ii +, Let's talk.
OutweekBox
3699

18 YEAR OLD
GWM ,6'2" , 110#
dark blond hair,
blue eyes, some-what hairy. Seeks
18+ lover. Very
submissive andeager to please
you in any way
possible. Intoanything you like.
Write to S.U.,
Box 1729, Kingsland, GA 31548.
ARE YOU AYOUNG MALE
Latin or oriental
preferred but nota must who
would like a
European Man
early 60th th~nanswer this ad
quiet life style nodrugs P.O. Box
524 New York,NY 10268
ASPIRING
ACTOR
Hisp Male, 22,
5'8" 135, BL. BR
seeking to meet
WM in the movie
industry both in
New York and
Los Angeles Outweek Box 3729
BLOND OR
REDHEAD?
If U-R 18-35
clean shavenand smooth body
I want you' I am a
GWM 34, 5'10"
clean shavengood looking very
passionate andhairy serious only
and no phonesex. If you are
European it iseven more exciting (212) 5292305

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BLOND TOPMAN
6' 175, uncut, late
40' Body - Builder
and Runner digs
jocks,jockey
shorts, leather, Hi- Top sneakers,, etc. Looking forgood bottom men
into servicing.
Box 1077 Ansania51n. NYC

10023

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ntIS?
HabibJal top
seeks stronger,taller man to put
me in my place.
Me: 5'11", 160,
Br/Gr, stache,gym bod, 26.
You: 25-45, built,
tough yet mustache a plus. Not
tender. Leather amust. Photo!
phone to Outweek Box 3696
CATCH SEEKSA HEROGWM good looking smooth 155
5'11" dark hairgreen eyes Ivy
Ed. seeks manly
fellow ardent andtrue to be myhero enjoy fullrange of urban, activities love
dogs books
being a stalwart
stand up guy andtaking a protective male stanceand can adore asmart (aleck)funny guy who
will lean on yourshoulder andtreat you like aking I'm HIV neg
a photo letter toOutweekBox
3618
D.CJVA
SUBURBS

GdIk'EX-Manne,Blue eYes salt!

pepperl;leard,
51 , 57"'130#.
tight smooth ..
body, hairy legs
and ass, healthy
HIV+. I want ahairy strong tOp
man to ride me ina permanent
man to man relationShip. must be
HIV+ and hungry
for a totally erotic
and caring life
style. ObViously aphoto is necessary, Rick, P,O.
Box 6044 Arlington, Virginia
22206
DOMINANTTOP
Handsome
healthy jock 40,
6'2", 19D, bn/blue, hairy chest,musc, hung,>,

aggres, prof, funseeks intelligent
hot buddy withclean cut All
American gd Iks
to enjoy winter wi
tho Photo andphone a must for
reply I Outweek
Box#4009
GAY AND
INTER-RACIAL
GJM
40, 5'1 0"155lbs,
cute, blue eyes
and wise desires
masculine Bi or
Gay Black man
sensitive andmature to explore
who we are.
Foto/ Phone if
possible to P.O.
Box 20, NYC, NY
10012
GAY BLONDSEEKS FUN
GWM25-35to" enjoy life, hot
safe-sex &moncrgamous
relationship. I'm
30, 5'11", 175#.
NO fats, fems,
f~es. Send
photo! phonelletter & fantasy.
OutweekBox

3808
GWM305'10"
165BR/BR
Hairy chest Italian born speaks
Ital + Frenchlooking forfriendly attractive
and'masc. samefOr friendship +fun'Photo +Phone write toPaul P.O. Box
828 NYC NY
10023
GWM,40,1901bs, 6'1"
HEALTHY
Uncut, NYC Artist
type who is interesting, tolerant
and openminded. Seeks
encounter withslim young boy
19-26 withsmooth bottom
and likes to tease
Daddy in bed
with slutty behavior. a little bit fem

OK. PABTBox
20982, NYC
10129
HOPELESSROMANTIC?
Love to cuddle,
make love bycandlelight, takelong walks in thepark? I'm 22,
5'6", 150#, ltal- 'ian, attractive and
REAl. Try me
on, I might be thelover that fits.
Ph/Ph.Outweek
Box 3688
HOT SPANKING
GIVEN
On rare bottom
over the knee ofhandsome GWM
6'3" 195# 35 withstrong anns andmuscular legs will
use my hand,
hair brush or
wooden orleather paddlewhatever isneeded to getyour ass red hot
and squinningalso into GR andtoys answer thisad and only yourass will be sorry!
P.O. Box 1467
Old Chelsea Station, New York,NY 10011
I HAVE GREATTASTE. ..
and so do you.
That's why we'll
get along. Our
first date, you'll
say hoW muchyou'd like to kissme ...andof
course, we'l kiss,
etc. I'm a 23y.o,queer, just backin NY, great tightbody,fine face,
mind, humor.
Send a pictureand3reasons
why I should
respond. Out- ,week Box 3493
LATIN STRIP·'. PER
25 body builder
hung Big nuts
seek Men 50 up
If you get off on
Strippers I Get off
Stripping Thisshow 4uSend letter&#WhatU
want to see.Outweek Box
37970utweek
Box 3797
LEAN SEXYSANE CUTE!.
160 Ibs Indtana "bred, not white .,'bread in bedl 40
and looking 32.
You could be 20,
lefs see Photo
OutweekBox
3970
NEEDAGENTLEPUSH
GWM 25 looking
for a man to help
me get my life inorder. 1mnot aloser in search of
a daddy, I justwant to meetsomeone who
has the power tohelp me end myperpetual struggles. Even if only
advise and moral
support. 1mkind,
int gd Ikng,sin-

cere. Just needpush in rt diraction.Outweek
Box 3737
NEW FRIENDS
WM, 35, 6'1",
185, handsome,masculine, worl<sout, and sincere.
Career-oriented
business professional, but hot &creative; humorous,probing, andsupportive.
Seeks similarvery tall guy for
explosive action,
intense friendship,and/Ofcaring, Iong-tenn
relationship. Call
Art, btwn 8pm12mid, at (212)675-7352.
NJSINGLE
GWM, 36, 5'11",
175 has Christmas wish to be
haH of a couple.
Seeki~ intell,romantic,sincere,
attract, GWM toshare music,
films,books, cuddling, hugs,
kisses, love, life.
A furry chest to
snuggle against
would be nice. H
honesty, caring,monogamy are inyour vocabulary,
send descriptive
Itr/ptVph.Outweek
Box 3736

midwestem
GWM,31,
5'8",145, bllbr,seeks attractive '.
unpretentious
guy of similiar 'build and age, •into some of theabove for friendship, dating and "...? Send to Outweek Box 3790

S.!.GBMWANTED
St. George WM,
39, looks 39, inshape (but not
body beautiful)wants BMfor
friendly, regularsexual meetings(friends notlovers). Not looking for any special"type or age.
Send letter.Outweek Box 3680

Good looking,

SCIENCE,. SCI-FI
GYM, film, bi9
questions. Bngt'rt,
down-to-earth,

SINCERELYIntelligent, kinda
funny, kinda
works out,. Sincere 24- year old •Manhattanite '. seeks similarGMfor a drink andmaybe more.
Photo and phone
a must. I'm open
to meet someone
to spend time together without'killing each other.
OutweekBox
4112
SOLID GENTLEMAN 5'11"

47 HIV -185'

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secure educatedtravel~mature
gel Iks/lrsh Amrcn
quick wit smile/nil
smkr/drnkr sks
yngrFraGrp
gent of quality
objet dating
prhps more Outweek Box 4084
TALL ATTRACTlVEGBM
6'5", 225 Ibs, 30
yrs. Seeks a styleconscious 25-35
black male ofsimilar build whointerests include:
Movie, theater,
arts, books. For
companionshipor possible relationShip. Must
haveagood

sense of humor.
Photo / Phone
get prompt response. To

OutweekBox
3971
THINKINGSERIOUSLY?
GWM, 26, 5'11"

1751bs, handsome, successful
health professional, interest:
music, theater,
travels, dinningout, intelligent
discussions,
good books, isseeking similar "for honest rela- 'tionship. No
drugs. Pleasewrite about yourinterests andhobbies I Include
telephone number and photo(only if you want).
OutweekBox
4022
VERYAnRA~
TIVEMAN
Msclr, dk hair/eyes, smth skin,cln shvn 6Ft
170# sane n2
dark-haired men,
humor, movies,
gyms, reading,writing, walking,flea markets, sex,
politics, commitment, kinky sex,

long conversations, commitment, cooking,fixing broken
thin~, big dicks,
kiSSing, commitment, hugging,arguing,laugh••
lng, camping,computers andcommitment.
Reply 245 8th
Avenue, #174,
NY, NY 10011
VERY HANDSOME IRISH
GM, 5'11,150,
brlbl, 35, HIV-,smooth, swimmer's build, easygoing, masculine,
humorous, integrated, fair1y literate, sexual but
not promiscuous,
not into bars.
Seeks dark (Halian?), handsome,possibly toppish
GM, at peacewith himself, forsensual, intense
sex and more.
Photo a must;

discretion
aSsured. Box
3873
WANlSTOFALLIN LOVE
Down-to-earth
redhead ,actor
dancer looking
for someone toshare my life
with. Mysterious
eyes and an
unforgettablesmile are definite
requirements also a sens e of
who you are, fun,adventure,witty,
able to laugh, inshape body,romantic, sponta-

neous, sta. acting, no drugs,
NS. I'm 5'10"145
Ibs., 30 yrs. oldand want to datesomeone whowill be both abest friend and alover. Send photo& letter to Outweek Box 3684

BINATlON
handsome AIIAmerican guynext-door 39,
6'2",190, It
bn/bIue, ,dn shvn,
mase, S"109re,athletic. Enjoy
succ career inadvertising andsports, travel,
beach, arts, photog & cooking.
seeks bri ht,
sensitive ~II
Amer/Prep 25-40
with similar interests to create
winning combina-

tion.Photo andphone a must I
OutweekBox
3587
WRESTLE
Ex-college jocklacks opponents
and floor space.
Slow and easy orrough andsweaty. Ring,mat, or mattress.
Or do you justlike to watch?
Photo, phone,and fantasy to
OutweekBox
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instrumental in getting the drug initiallyapproved, and providing a case for earlyintervention. Representatives from Burroughs Wellcome' Co., which makes AZf,presented comparisons of the previous
studies that showed no racial differences.
Greaves questioned how these conclusions could be made when these earlier studies also had few people of color
enrolled in them. "A major issue for thoseof us caring for minority, and (in mycase) African-American, persons with
IllV infection is, whether there is any
external validity of the 016 and 019 fIndings to population groups (e.g., Blacks)
who were grossly underrepresented inthOse studies," he said.
Whµe the committee agreed thatrace itself was probably not an importanta factor as socio-economic' issues,
Greaves said that race and genetics,
along with lifestyle questions, could play
an important role in medical considerations. For example, some anti-hypertensive agents do not'work as well in Blacks
as in whites, These differences may bedifficult to discern in future trials, asBlacks are especially skeptical of being
partidpants in drug studies.
What if the VAfindings are verified?
"!he Madison Avenue push by the pharmaceutical company to broaden the indications for, and use of, [AZTJ may well 'backfire if these new findings withstandscientific scrutiny and can be replicated,"
Greaves said, "Not only will the pharmaceutical company-but the FDA-will beseen by many in the minority community
as being in collusion and not being truthful or sincere, but motivated purely by
the cold rhetoric of science and the greedof the maIketplace."
During an open discussion amongthe 11 committee members, Dr. Deborah
Cotton of the Harvard School of Public
Health questioned the ethics of a seriesof ads fun~d by Burroughs Wellcomethat have appeared in both gay and"newspapers .across the country. Some of the ads are directed toward
people of color, urging early testing for
HlV antibodies.
', Most committee members said thatthey would mention the VA study results
to their minority patients and let themdecide. Hamilton, the study's prindpal,

investigator, said that he'd also discuss
the study with his patients but remains
tentative. "I'm not sure when AZf should
be given for minorities," he said,
responding to a question.
Addressing the committee, ACf UP's
Mark Hanington asked what he shouldtell his Black:and Hispanic friends about
the findings. He invoked the chant popular during a large protest at the NIH last
May: "Ten years-A billion dollars! One
drug Big deal!" but with a modification:"If I were a person of color, I'd say, 'Ten
years-A billion dollars! No drug." ...
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the heretofore closeted and uncontested nature of rape, battery and incest,
rather than the success of the sexual
revolution in promoting these crimes."
That position, to me, seems to embody
the challenges I see facing the downtown lesbian community now.
With the gender lines blurring, I
would like to see women develop asexual language and vision that can also
be emotional, engaged, intimate a wayof looking at, and enjoying, another
woman that includes tenderness and apublic gaze that is not d~ona1izing.
Maybe gay men would be influenced
too, since they rarely give themselves or
the world the pleasure of seeing two
men being tender with each other orother views of gay male sexuality.
By the same token, there's thechallenge of our greater liberation as acommunity. While lesbians have been
extraordinary in battling AIDS, homophobia and racism within activist
groups like ACf UP and Queer Nation,
they are a minority.
Only recently
have lesbianactivists come to agree that issues
specific to lesbians and women arebeing neglected or overshadowed.
While we continue to examine how
we are developing our sexuality andour power, it's important to recognize what is happening to lesbians.
Today, there are fewer lesbian-only
clubs than in years past, and mixed
gay clubs have finally become popular, While I'm an advocate for an
incll1sive social scene, I'm also aware
that, as a community, we lack moneyana resources. For the moment, thePyramid Club, and other mixed
venues, are among the few places
lesbians can go to dance. We needmore spaces.
So as we look forward to theAnnie Sprinkle-lesbian sex revolutionof the decade and continue to demystify romantic love and deal with sex
in its real power terms, I hope that
we can also broaden our definition of
what's erotic. Seduction, after all, is agreat part mystery. While we lift thecovers off of our private taboos, let's
not forget that our minds, our hearts
and our emotions are as central to
our sexuality as our bodies. And
maybe then we'll make videos
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er has the endorsements of two anti-gay
Brooklyn Council members-Enoch
Williams and Priscilla Wooten. Andrew
Stein has endorsed Joan Millman, but asource says that he first got a commitment from Millman, Assemblywoman
Eileen Quganandstate Sen. Martin
Connor; that, they will support his 1993
mayoral bid against Dinkins and whoever else is in tJ:1erace. A quid pro quo?
So what else is new?

'. Sources say that Rosemary
Kuropat, an open lesbia,n,will be leaving
her role as chief of staff to Deputy Mayor
Sally Hernandez Pinero. It seems she's
found another role for herself dealing
with economic development abroad.
Things were not working out for Kuropat
in her role at City Hall. Although she hadraised funds for Ed Koch in his primary
bid against David Dinkins, she managed
to parlay herself as an intimate of thecurrent mayor. To some, it came off as
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