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THIERRY MUGLER PAUL SMITH JEAN PAUL GAULTIER

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Rim Shots~
22, San Francisco Journa 1.. 26

AIDS This Week
Political Science,

DEPARTMENTS

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LeHers...........•............
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Stonewall Riots
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Blurt Out
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Nightmare of the Week .... 8
Sotomayor, .~•................
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Jennifer Camper .••.....•. 10
Insider Trading ...........• 28
Notes From Home .....•... 30- Milestones
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Look Out44
Out on the Town
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Gossip Watch
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Going
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Community Directory' .•..• 62
B'ar Guide ....•••••.•....•••• 64
Classifieds
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Personals
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Crossword
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Bradley Ball is on vacation.

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FILM: Lesbian Experimental
Film Karl Soehnlein speaks to Su
Friedrich, Jennifer Montgomery
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TELEVISION: Twin Peaks
Misogyny
climbsto newheights, and Anne Rubenstein
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MUSIC: Consumer Guide,,

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BOOKS: Dec,ade Dance.James Conradfinr,llly•

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BOOKS:Shock Treatment
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Maggentt,on KarenFinley's Literary aspirati.ons ••• 54

POETRY: Sons and Lovers
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Nina Reyes reports on the pledge boycott•.... ,"'Ibo1nas HarrisandMartha Gevertake us behind the~ofpublic 7Y.

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passed, months filled with more meetings, community fomms,'For many lesbians and gay men, Channel 13 bas" some-times seemed like a friendly oasis in the hostile desert oT lV. , letter-writing campaigns and more. But 13 still says no, evenWher~ -else might ,one see a sensitive dacµmentary about les- louder and more, authoritatively than ever: "non-negotiably,,, ,bian mothers,
intelligent treatment of AIDS issues or a quali- ' unconditionally no."Now, in an extraordinary move, GLAAD 'and Queerty origirial proouction like Longtime Companion?
But if 13 seems'. good, it1s'only because the 'rest' of the Nation, two very different groups, have tactically united Qn
1V universe is' so unrelievedly pad, On mainstream lVtlesthis issue and formed a joiilt committee to call a community- .
bians and gays are either invisible or portrayed as sexual
wide 'pledge boycott 'of donations to Channel 13. They havefreaks. Thus, the meager bones occasionally, tossed our way been joined by groups as diverse as Gay and Lesbian Inde.. ,~.
'\,by 13"make some of us almost grateful>· , ";iw"';i\"~'
Almost but not' quite. Because unlike ",",..MIt, ,any, other' station, 13 has a mandate to ,: serve ,those very-muioritie5 whith other sta-'tions ignore. And if one presupposes that ';' TOT'A'J
l~bians am} gays are a legitimate' minority",:·'.i,·13,'scommitmentJo us'suddenly is revealed· '
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virtually always conceived, produced,'•
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sexuals. There 'are ,no ,openly lesbian.or,,
gay commentatorson)3 (as Jhere are .',BlackS,.womeri, "Asians; etC,), .no: gay' prq- ,grain
hosts, little .or no visibliry on homo-. ',,. phobic shows .like MacNeiVLehrer, and nogay public-affairs programs at all. There,are

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name to the list.
GLAAD has maintained a. 13 Project ami~ at convincing the
We urge. our readers to withhold their money from 13'
station to increase its culuicil,'political :;Uid'artistic coverage' of until that station agrees to produce a multicuftural lesbian
our'enormously diverse co~unity,~eir, countless meetings and gay weekly program. Du~iqg, Pledge Drives such,~~ thewith 13 executives, their letter-writing campaigns and phone- : current one running from December 1-9, we urge you to'. ins, their careful documenµtion of.1:S'l;egregious failings hive'
let 13 know ~at they aren't getting your money, and' Why. .
yielded some occasional resUltS,b.ut·):hirigs,at the station have
•We 'particularly urge tbis of our readers who have,remainedmuch the same.: ,',.. .':':
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and gay multicultuiaI publit~airs program: a show by gaYs, for give" in this case you can do as much gooo by not giving;'. gays and ab9Ut gays. A number of highly successful, ;lward-v.:m- and letting the station. know why.
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activists and donors, progressives and conservatives, people ofBut 13 said no, Again and again and again., Eventually all colors and all persuasions in a long overdue project,others in the' community, including :this' magazine;t:aised the '9~mandiilg ~t which other groups long ag9deman,ded:fair~
specter of a community-wide "pledgeboyc()tt" to deprive, the ' ness in public media.
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station of lesbian and gay membership dollars if they persist"We can do. it, and we can win,
ed in depriv~ng us of visibility. Since then, months have
Don:t give another nickel to 13 un~ilwe do.
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brothers were dying, the"new clone" was remarkably
si.lent. In 1985, AIDS was,after all, an "old clone" disease. It was "their" disease,
and we, of course, were
New Clone
Old Clones
younger and smarter andHouse music
Disco divas
going to live forever ...until we
Wigstock"
Invasion of the Pines
started to get sick in everDavid Leavitt
Gordon Merrick
increaSing numbers ourThe Advocate(only for the personals) selves. AIDS mobilized the'OutWeekHas lesbian friends
Will not go near a woman at all"new clone," not when thelime Cafe
IJulius'threat was' knockil,1g, but, Boxer shorts
Bikini briefs'Nhe'n It was already Inside
Politically correct
Politically unawarethe house.
Loves MadonnaLoves Bette Mldler'
I resent the Implication
Noble Works (greeting cards), RockShotst~at gay politiCS were some, Keith Haring
Tom of Rnland
how meaningless before, Mark Morris .'PeterAllengroups like ACT UP and au~er
Caren Wheeler
Gloria Gaynor
Nation came into being. While
Charivari Workshop
toft '
It is fun to imagine, that thisAIDS crisis
Marie's CrisiS
activism is some brainstorm, ,"Fiercel""Fabulousl"
tha't has never been done·
Chip Duckett
Steve Cohn
before, I am amazed how far
Charles Bush
ChartesPierce
some will contort to pat them-,
Heritage of Prlde'March
The White and/or Black Party, '.. Michael Musto' Liz Smith·
Tony Shafrazl
Gallery Poster Originals
Body Shop
Cllnlque for Men, Qart Simpson
Krystal carrington
Roxy,
The Saint at large•
ChelseaGym 'ChelseaGym
WBAI-FMWRKS-FMBrooklyn Academy of Music
The Adonis
Tower Records 'Decadance, Avsda Aromatherapy
Amyl Nitrate, Jeff Stry~er' AI Parker
Thanks again for making uslaughl
Richard Hunter
Michael Tresser•
Jal1]esLynch\
Manhattan•,
We LOVED Michelangelo SignoriIe's article "New Clone VB.
Old Clone" [no. 72, Nov, 28]. In fact, we loved it so l1luch, we
wanted to help out and add on to the already-humorousbut truthfullist. We are sure these will not bethe only additions.

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lo's statement that it Is the That was "their" realm over In"old clone" who Is "aggres- the Wast Village. It would
sively apolitical," the reveree seem the desire to separate
was Initially true: Those who 'from the "old clone" washung out In BoyBar and Pyra- much deeper than Mlchelanmid In the mld-'80s (from gelo believes.
where the "new clone" actually
Throughout the '80s,
emerged) were quite adamant when gay men were scream'about not being Involved In Ing and pleading that their

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selves on the backJohn Maresca
Manhattan
Michelangelo Signorlle responds: You are absolutely
correct that the new clone'look was first worn by thethen-complacent BoyBar andPyramid crowd; however, theactivists'soon adopted
it-and many in that East
. Village crowd later actuallybecame activists themselves.
But the pOint you make is on
tlirget, as Is your second
point about AIDS first being.an old clone disease. However, to say that I Implied that
activism in the gay commu'nity began with the newclone is quite a reductive
lreading of the piece. I spoke
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lIamonologueIs a narrative,not
RACIIT OR
a dramatic,devlca.",lndaedIt Is, INI.NIITIV.'
undramatic. I'm trying hard to
In the Nov. 21 Issue [no.
Imaginethe moody Dane wIth-, 71] of OutW"k, Paul Rykoff
out "To be or not to be" or "0 Coleman notes In his 'Queer
what a rogu'e 'and peasant NatlonlNAP article that memslave." From where I stand, a bere of Queer Nation admit tomonologue represents, t~e r~clsm within the group. I
opportunity for a character to believe th~se sentiments are
revealto us what they are loath also felt by some members of
to reveal to anyone else-so
ACTUP.
Dad's revelatlc)ns about theIn their queat to beparting of Granand her actl188 "politically correct," I feel(?) friend are a privatethlng,to these two groups are mLich
be communicated to the audl- too eager to take on the term
eneaas dearfriend, as lover.as of being "raclata. II ACT UP
areall the monologuee.
and, Queer Nation, think
I suppose It's a Wasteof about Itl Would you calltime to point out that Dad someone "apic" or "nigger"?
does get to make his choice- ,Would you burn a crall on
and chooses his son-but I someone's lawn? Would you
guess the thing that disturbs not vote for someone' beme most Is that I had as- cause of the color of theirsumed a writer In a gay/ skin? That's being racist.
queer/cheerful (delete whlch- There Is no one In ACTUP orever is not politically correct) Queer Nation that I would
magazine would have under- equate to Davi~ Dukes.
stood more ,keenly than anyWhen you don't translate,
one else that Dad's stroke In something Into, Spanish or
the final scene is a metaphor ask Majority Action's opinion
for AIDS. The play was written on something that 'affects
as a distressed response to ' them, or when you don't
the loss of one of my closest include minorities In groupfriends to the fell disease, but photographs, your only guilt
rather than g'oing the stereci- is of being Insensitive .. Let's
typical route of having Jeff get not change the meaning ofsick, I deliberateiy inverted the this word; let's keep it in Its 'metaphor, so that it is the proper context,
young, healthy, homosexualDavid LofJ6Z
son who has,to look after the
Manhattan
Incapacitatedparent.
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The director believed,and ,QET INVOLVED ,NOWI
I concurred, that the metaphor
Is ther.e nothing worse
was so obvious it would be ',than a lazy, conservative,
hitting the audience over the opinionated faggot who sitshead to include the,lInes I and does nothing yet dares
wrote for Dad:question the tactics of,say,"Years ago, In my darker Queer Nation or ACT UP?
moments, I used to imagine it The more I run acrolls thesewould be the other way round, pa~hetlc wa.ates of life, thethat he'd end up catching that arigrler I get. These are also
terrible disease,and I'd be the the same people who feel If
one nursing him to his grave., they give a few sorry-ass
But not this, Anything but this." dollars to their favorite
Obviously, we were homo cause, they are doing
wrong. Obviously, Mr. Paller their part. Wrong, shit for'does need hitting over the bralnsJ These days money
head.
justdo88 not cut It. Get off
David StBvsns your tl red butts and join a
Topanga, CA group; any groupJ It Is time
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What I would like to know
• The title of Kate Bomstein's show'ls Htdden: A Gender and not Htdden: Agenda
18, Where do all you proud
as It appeared In Issue no. 75 because of a production error .• Bob Lederer's column
people go after Gay Pride"PWAs and Vitamin C· In Issue no. 74 contained an e1TOI' conceminS the NDi'sI response
to a'Week? Are you all so content
1985 request for clinical trials on Vitamin C for ~.
The request was not, by Dr. RoPert
with your lives that you see noCathcart but by the Unus Pauling InstItute (and based on Cathcart's worIQ, The NDi did In
need to get Involved? Do you, fact respond, statlns that such trials would not be c:onsJdered until laboratory !Studies proved
feel equal to straight America?
Vitamin C's anti-HIV effect-desplte
Cathcart's clinical experience which already'showed
Need I remind you who anddramatic benefits In PWAs, • Because of an editing error, the address of the Castillewhat we are up against these ' CUltural Center was mlsstated In Issue no, 73. It Is at SOOGreenwich St.
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days AIDS, Jesse "the Maggot'" Helms, racism, sexism,
censorship, the church, bash'Inga, "your right to love who
you want, stc. Tell me you can 'hug, hold hande and kiss In
public without fear, and I'll tell
you that you are a fucking
low-life liar. We will never be
equal If we don't start speak\, Ing,upl,\
As for all you conservative
dirtbags who remind me that
'We haveto work,with [straights]
not against them," I tell you,my life on this earth is too
short. I don't have time to wait
around while straight America
decides whether I'm an equal. . .,• Call ToU-Free fora Consultation at No Out-of-Pocket
J demand my rightsl What
Expense with a Male or Female Physidan. Board "about you? It is time to get
Certified Surgeons, Internists and Gastroenterologists:.,.
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involved nowl·•Wesuccessfully
treat
all
rectalproblems
hemorrhOids,
Michael Allen
fissures, warts - in Qur modern offices. Evening ard. !,Manhattan

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Aft,er seeing the Burroughs Wellcome ad in thisweek's issue (no. 74, Nov. 28),
I am unable to express mydismay in words.
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You have not earned thereputation ,for rigorous stan. da'rds of reporting and analysis that allow you to lie so
dangerously close to the mostpOwerful and worrisome
member of the AIDS establishment. While Paul Rykoff
Coleman (no. 73, Nov. 21),
known for his pharmaceuticalexpertise and background,slaps BW on the hand forpoor ethics, he barely touches
on the more Important Issueof whether AZT Is a blessing
or a conspiracy. His article on
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I.He .,:three love,lYre ki~s.I've never,I,,:!~!n_~_I_I!'~i,t_~.a.'"get some I
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..1timous'I" ""'o:r"anyth.ing.'~So ''ted La Daltrey, ,blather8'd overly
to the coveted, 1."I,;"i,;COiffedwho'leadtitle of Queenof, 3 singer':Roger'Dalt~ Nighbnares,' 1"I" "trey"upon hearing
ruling over the I'
th.,t his fellow
Kingdom,of,I batl'cl member'Ho ....ophoblao 1" .Pete· f'owns.end
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America that he",days, metlcuwa;s' bisexual.
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almost think your BW adalready has strings! "Over theyears," Coleman declares,"researChers discovered thatthe sooner an HIV-pos,itive,
asymptomatic patient gets
AIr, the better the chance of
prolonging Ufe," Even themost. uninformed of us, even
Gina Kalata, knows that many
AZT claims have been foundto be based on something
less tHan s,cience.Like theground-breaking "extrapolated" study 'of 4,000~plus gay,men where over 1,000 men in
the protocol were lostl Like
the more longitudinal studies
in Britian, which show wehave nothing to shout about
after, .all .. Like the original
study that became unblinded
immediately, with people taking a whole mixture of drugs'
not allowed by the "study."And, according to AIDS Editor
Coleman, "We now know that
almost all HIV-positive persons eventuallydevelopsymptoms,"..dependiQg, I,suppose, on that San Francisco
cohort, of 84 hepatitis-vaccine
guinea pig,s, who almost all
had several kinds of VD andhalf of whom were fist,.fucking', rimming dorug-abusers.A
different New York cohort; asmost mainstream new.s stories'f8ih~dto mention, showeda rathersmall, unconvincing
progresSion to symptoms,
very different
from thedoomed 85 (and believe me, if
you had, an entire nation
watching you for ten years,
waiting for you to drop dead,your T-cells~would fall, too).
I am not going to reciteJohn Lauritsen's entire Poison by Prescription,
but I
recommend that people whoare anxious to give good PR
to BW first read this AZT
commentary
ASAP evendespite the fact that Lauritsen writes for Chuck Ortleb,
who is obsessed with dolphins, pigs and Republicans.
Lauritsen's horrifying sce/

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Upon recently fuoVing'to
the Village an,ddesiring a flu
Shot, Iconsulted the ,GaY81-,
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The'duo listed' on G'reenWich
Street said ,the costof $135,
included a complete' physi~,that I couldn't get the 8ho\
until my. medical historY WIS,
established. ; Somehow, J
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AZT was for the near-dead. ' finally hits the magic number
so the doctor and patient canThen, it was for the sick.
:rhen, it was for the immuno- cash in on that insurance
suppressed. Now, it's for th~ and get addi,cted to yethealthy who score below 500 another toxic drug~ And Outon the T-cell test. All we Week, with its y,oung, indusneed now i,s a campaign that trious readers, is just thewill get healthy faggots (for magazine BWneeds to be in.
kindling) into the hands of After you finish Poison by
doctors who can keep testing Prescription, may I suggestttheir T-cells until the day Anima/. Farm.
Rick X
comes When, after a bout of
flu, a bad romance or several
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The rise in anti-gay and out against lesbian- and gay- Katy Doran, theanti-lesbian violence, gay-bash- , bashing in many different set- liaison to theing, similar in natu~ to attacks tings to many different audi- lesbian and gay
against Asian Americans,ences-from the altars of St. community.
African Americans, the home- John the Divine to St. Patrick's
I have e~- ,less and other ethnic or religious Cathedral, from a citywide tele- couraged les, groups, has risen at,an alarming vised news broadcast to a bians and gay
rate in this city. The NYC Anti- press conference for the les- men to jOin
Bias Unit reports a 107 percent bian and gay media and it is their local auxincrease in anti-lesbian and anti- my commitment to you that I iliary police
gay attacks. I know that these will continue to do so in both and respect thestatistics are not news to straight and gay settings.
work of Vanes- P!'Iayor Dinkins at the Zappalorti memOrialservice,you-as gay men and lesbians,
In an effort to reduce anti;. sa Ferro, theyou face harassment, threats, lesbian and anti-gay violence, I NYPD liaison to the lesbian
on gay-bashing~ I think that theviolence every day. I'm writing have initiated the following
and gay community, for her initiatives I have outlined above
to tell you that these statistics programs:
tireless senSitivity-training of speak loud and clear. .'are not news to me either-as
I will continue t~is year toI have,launched a "Unity" new recruits.
an African American, I've faced campaign des'igned to imI have established a say lobby for the Passage of ..theharassment, threats'and vio- prove racial, religiou~ and "No-2-Bias" hotline through the bias-related violence bill. In
lence but as surely as I am intergroup harmony that is NYC Human Rights CommisMay of this year, prior to thefamiliar with the numbers cited inclusive of the lesbian and gay sion, which can receive reports defeat of the bill, I addressed an
above, I also know the faces' community. Corporations and of anti-gay and anti-lesbian bias audience at the Cathedral -of St.
behind the figures. 'John the Divine. ,Inmy' speech I
organizations that wish to pro- attacks in 140 languages.
In January of this year, mote this campaign must
I have appointed a new said, "Writeto your state Sena,
Jimmy Zappalorti was mur- include the lesbian and gay Police Council on Lesbian and tor to urge passage of the,biasd~red by two men simply, community before they will Gay Issues that reconvened on related violence bi'll that
because he was gay. As I gazed receive my support.
Oct. 17, 1990. That first meet- includes protection for gays
in shock at the horrifying TV
I have added my support ing addressed, head-on, face- and lesbians, Remind
them,images of James Zappalorti's ,of the NYPD's "We Are Looking to-face, the Julio Rivera· mur- those who killed James Zaplifeless body, I wondered how For the Rnest" lesbian and gay der and the Purity Diner inci- palorti because he was gay are
many other viewers took a deep 'police-officer recruitment cam- dent The council also formed , just as culpable and just as
breath and whispered, "There paign. The workforce of lesbian working groups to study the despicable as those who killed
but for fortune go I?" As I read and gay police officers contin- NYPD Police Academy curMichael Griffith because he wasnews reports of hate crimes, I ues to grow through such riculum regarding anti-gay and African American, those who
think to myself, Yesterday, it efforts, and with the peer sup- anti-lesbian violence and sen- assaulted Victor Aamon bewas an African American;
sitivity to the lesbian and 'gay cause he was,Lati"o:an~ thoseport of GOAL (Gay Officers
tomorrow, will it be a Catholic Action League), the lavender community.
who killed Israel RQsen be-,priest? And I resolve that unless comQ1unily will be represented
On Oct. 10, 1990, I an- cause he was a Hasidic, Jew."
in blue.
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I believe we yah stop gaynounced the "Safe Streets!
I have established a Safe City: An Omnibus Crimimil bas~ing. When the bigots
As I looked into the eyesof Jimmy Zappalorti mother, I $5,000 "Lefs Stop the Violence Justice Program ,for the CitY of resort to yiolence, We can concould not help but think, as a Fund" community-patrol grant New York." The $1.8 billion
tain them and ·condemn themfather and grandfather, what it program, Inave personallyprogram will bring 9,603 new with !>urunity. ,,<hen ,a few
must be like to lose'a child to sent an application to the Pink police to the streets of our city, shout out words of !late, we
so horrendous an act. As I left Panthers and applaud their
expand educational and coun- can drown them out with acts
the Zappalorti's memorial ser- courageous work, It is through ciling opportunities to youth, of hope. And when instigators
vice, I was deeply moved to such joint community-police
prol,[ide safety services to seek to turn us against eachcommit my administration to efforts that we Can take back senior citizens, increase com- other, we can respond by turnconfront hate-motivated crime, our streets.
munity-based patrol grants, in ing to each other-and com-,Some have said that I
I have appointed openly addition to a number of crimi- ing together to fight our comhave not done enough to con- lesbian and gay judges who are , nal justice and probation pro- mon foes. As you walk thefront gay-bashing; surely with now serving in both the family grams. We wilt soon see new streets of New York with theeach insult hurled, with each courts and the criminal court officers not only in gay neigh- Pink Panthers, I will walk theborhoods but throughout the halls of Albany to overcome•
fist clench~d, more needs to be systems.
done-but allow me to outline
I continue to support the city-officers 'sensitized to gay bigotry, and I stand before theand lesbian issues serving the citizens of this" city and con- 'some of the steps I have taken Manhattan district attorney's
demn anti-gay and anti-lesbian
gay and lesbian community.
to confront this growing epi- lesbian and gay recruitment
My critics have been quick violence. Together, we will win.
demic of hate. In my ten program for new assistant dis-Mayor David il Dinkins
months in office, I have spoken trict attorneys, conducted by to accuse me of being "silent"

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NEW ;YORK-The city's budget
office has issued a prohibitively lligh
cost-assessment for the domestic partnership legislation currently periding before
the City Council.
And while the legislation's sponsors
are not backing off' from the bill, its m~timillion-dollar price tag may well ensurethat the legislation goes absolutely
nowhere.
The fiscal analysis of the domestic
partpership legislation, released just one
day after the bill was introduced, predicts
that full implementation would add $65.2
million to the $1.1 billion price tag for thecity's fiscal year 1991 health care benefits.
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The figure also gave weight to amemoraildumattached to the legislationby the legal divisiqn of the City Council
that predicts the domestic partnershipbUl, if enacted, could ,"impose an enormous fmancial burden on the city." ,However, supporters of the legislation maintain that the cost analysis develo~ by the Office of Management andBudget is artificially.inflated,
According to OMB staffer John
. Grzelewski, who drafted the memo, the, ,$65.2 million figur~isbased on the estimate that 50 .percent of eligible city
workers would sign up their partners, for city-funded health care coverage.
, Actuarial analystS, Grzelewski ~dded,
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But the figure is also based on aseries of assumptions that some of thebill's b3.ckers dispute.
For example, the cost estimates wereincreased 25 percent "as there exists a
signficant potential for fraud for catas-trophic cases."
And the memo adds on $205 million
to cover the costs of single employees
who might enter into domestic partner~
ships simply to take advantage of the
new health care option. 'Grzelewski also assumed that aneven lUgher percentage of retirees would
sign up, and that all opters ''will tend tobe higher users of health care," driving
costs up further.
In Berkley, Calif., where domestic
partnership benefits are similar to thosep~posed h~, approximately 6.8 percentof the city workforce has enrolled. But
according to Berkeley's risk manager,
opters have utilized those:benefits lessoften than other munidpal workers.
Other dties that have adopted similar legislation have experienced no comparable astronomical increase in healthcare costs. And in West Hollywood, thecosts of providing municipal workers
with health insurance, because of juggling the city was forced to do to provide benefits to domestic partners, actually were reduced.
"I've been looking at other cities,
and I think my price tag is very reasonable," Grzelewsi told OutWeek. His critics disagree.
"Other cities have granted healthbenefits to domestic partners with little
fiscal impact," pointed out Manhattan
Borough 'President Ruth Messinger.
"History has not borne out the argument that domestic
partnership bills come,with huge price tags," added -COmptroller
Elizabeth Holtzman. "I'm sure we cancome up with a way to treat all employees fairly and equally without making a
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Family Diversity Coalition, which drafted'the bill currently before the City Council,"and by allowing OMB to have the mostsubstantive comment on the legislation,
the Dinkins administration has done itself
a grave injustice." ,The domestic partnership biJl would
proVide nontraditional couples who live
together and share responsibility for,OOsic
living expenses the opportunity to enjoy
legal protection and economic privileges
currently available only to married couples, Chief among those economic benefits is the option for ,city employees to ,extend health care coverage to theirdomestic partners.
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A separate proposal, proffered by
the Lesbian and Gay Rights Project of theAmerican Civil LiQerties Union, would
broaden a Koch-era executive order thatallows city employees to record domestic
partners. Under that proposal, authored ', 'by former project director Nan Hunterand submitted
to Huma~ Rights
Commissioner Dennis deI.eon in April, allcitizens would be able to register domestic partners through the Human Rights
Commission.
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Although a spokesman for deLeon
hasclisclosed the commissioner's intention to foiward the proPosal to the mayor
with a positive recommendation, that
action has not yet heeD completed
And while the bill currently has ten
council sponsors, there are not yet enoughvotes to guarantee passage of the bill.
In particular, the absence of support
from City Council President Andrew Stein
has riled activists.
The mayor's silence on the bill,
given his vocal support for such legislation during his mayoral campaign, hasalso irritated its supporters.
Both deLeon and Marjorie Hill, themayor's liaison to the lesbian and gay
community, appeared at the press conference announcing the bill's introduction
on Nov: 20. ,.
"Ihe commissioner is supporting thebill, not necessarily as it is right now, but
in concept," disclosed HRC spokesperson
Lonnie Soury.
Hill, in contr~st, did not equivocate. "I fullYI support it," she said,
acknowledging that the city's dire financial situation contributed to the mayor's
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NEW YORK-The organize:s of a leadership confer.' ence for lesbian and gay
Afl;i~an AnieTicans are suinga nationalmagazineforis Blacks over its alleged refusal
t9 run an , ~d announcing theconference.
"Gay and lesbian African
Americanswill not, be sent to,the back of.the bus by those
who used to sit 'there," said
Deborah Johnson, ,spokesperson for the Black Gay andLesbian Leadership Forum.
In October, the Forum
TRUTH'N'ADVERTISING-Lowe,
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page ad publicizing the Forum's Fourth
AnnualBlack Gay and lesbian
Leadership Conference, scheduled for
mid-February
in Los Angeles. After, accepting the 'ad and Forum's check in
excess of $6,000, Essence declined to run
the ad, reportedly claiming that "conservative advertisers might not approve."
Conference or~are suing Essence
under New York City's human rights
ordinance, alleging discrimination on thebasis of sexual orientation.
Sandra Lowe, a staff attorney atLambda Legal Defense who is handling Forum's case stated, "Fear of
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areStHngstatepublic,health officials, dairningthat recently,
adopted "health regulations governing
care for 'people with AIDS are inadequate, dra-wnillegally and in 'Violationof
the US Cqnstitution.
"Ten' years into 'the epidemic and200,000 cases of AlPS later, you would
think the point would be obvious," said
David Barr, assistant dirc:;ctorof policy at
the Gay Men's ~ealth Crisis. "It is theprofessi'Qn<il ~nd ethical duty of every
health care facilj.tyand'worker to provide,',: AIDS ediJcation.", Bad made his comments at a Nov.
27 press ;c0i1ference held to announce a. lawsuit bdngbrought
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allowedthe Roman
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residential health carefacilities for P,WAs, thestandards of care govem~
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weremade less rigorous so as
not. to violate church,teaching on sexuality andreproduction.
The suit is part of along-running battle overstandards of care thathas pitted AIDS activists
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York state provide on-site information on•-Stephen Holden, The New York Times
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control and abortion to their clients. In,
direction makes David Stevens~ beautifully written play
July, faced with a staggering demand for .
shimmer with fundamental truth:' -Gloria Cole,upi
AIDS beds, the state allowed theArchdiocese to begin opening the six
facilities, which will provide 368 AIDS
beds, but exempted the church from providing counseling services.
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Virginia Shubert, an attorney with
the Coalition for the Homeless, alleges:Ithat the regulation was made illegally.
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When the original standards wereillannounced in March, the Archdiocese
met privately with state health officials, ,:;;:•
but the plaintiffs claim that the public has~
not been given sufficient opportunity to:comment, a vio~ation of the New York0,state Administrative Procedures Act. ', 5•Michael Isbell, an attorney from the':3
Lambda Legal Defense and Education~•
Fun4, a1le~, that public health offi~s~have "capitulated to narrow sectatian
0,interests" in writing standards that cong
sider churcµ' teaching. According tp .. 0
Isbell, ,tho~ standards violate, the First~
Amendment, which prohibits the estab-,en,•lishment of religion.
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ari ACT UP
spokesperson, alleged that standards ofiii>
care violate New York state's public>•health law by depriving people withAIDS of the i:ight to be fully aware of0
choices and to informed decisions. ACf~
UP is also seeking to have PWAs on the-(•govemirig boards of all AIDS facilities,
though this is not a remedy sought
under the suit.
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have claimed since the standards were•approved in July, that the standards of;ccare are inadequate
and, in someB '.
instances, dangerous to the health of,~
PWAs. The standards require PWAs to
travel for counseling, which can be bur••densome, especially because PWAs atthese residential health care facilities arelikely to be quite ill. With the Archdiocese
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Lambda, NGRA has no official position
on gay marriage, reflecting an ambiva- 'lence ,among gay legal eagles about
whether gay marriage rights are evenworth fighting for.
"I find it incredible that people can ,think that marriage is a banner of gay
liberation," commented Paula Ettelbrick,
Lambda's legal director, who specializes
in family-relationshipissues, "I don't
think marriage is a very progressive. strategy. It is merely opening up a privileged category to a few more people."
Ettelbrickfavors domestic partnership,laws that embrace more nontraditionalfamily units.
But Dean, an attorney in private
practice who will be representing himself
and his loverin court, thinks that mar,riageis OK, and the time is now.
"It's always a good time to fight foryour rights," he said in a phone interview
from New York, where he appeared on
the CBS morning news program.
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And if they lose? ''We'll show that
we've eXhuasted our judicial remedies,
and will have ~omake our case throughthe legislative process," he said.
Meanwhile, at the Cook County
Marriage License Bureau in Chicago,same-sex couples spent three hours
demanding-that clerks issue them marriage licenses, according to Outlines
News Service. The clerks said no, but
activists attracted reporters from nearly
every news outlet in the city. No lawsuits
have been filed. .
Dean, 27, a Long Island native, andGill, 23, formerly of Queens, have been
living together in Dupont Circle for nearlyfour years,''We're getting married anyway, marriage license or not," Dean said, mentionIng a planned holy union ceremony,"The bottom line is that Pat add I loveeach othet", he dec1ared,"I wish that they had held back and•Worked with the rest of us in pursuit of anatlona,l strategy, because bad law does 'not advance our interests," Stoddard
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FBI director wb;o is suspected of being ahomosexual has gone to Congress to try: to destroy our greatest
civil rights lead~r by'
portraying him~s a, homosexual."So,.goes African-American syndicated,colu.Qlnist
Carl Rowan's reminis,."., ".
cence about ';revelations made to him by
the late Btooklyn Congressman John
Rooney :!hatthe FBI, undet the directionof J. Edgar Hqover, ~ade secret tapes
portraying a gay relationship between
civil r~ghts heroes Martin Luther Kingand lWph Abe~thy.
Rowan's new memoir, Breaking
Barrif!rs" reportedly describes a 1964
meeting between Rowan and Rooney,
the lawmaker who chaired the powerful
subCommittee that oversaw the FBI.
Thaes when Rooney, a friend of Hoover,told Rowan about ,the existence of tapes
contammg son:te pretty racy conversation, 'according to Richard Prince, aBlack co)umnist with the Rochester,Ttmes-unton, who obtained a draft copyof the tome.
, On, one· of the tapes, according to
RooneY, King said to Abernathy; "Comeon over here, you big Black motherfuck~r, and .let mesµck your dick,"
Rowan wrote in his book. ' 'It is known'
the per, that King was,sistent, target of an extensive FBI investigation that sought to undermine his
leadership standing, ~d it is likely that,
Hoover would have seen allegations of•homosexuality asa means to discredit
the civil tjghts hero,,
Ironically, a tell-all autobiography
by Abernathy published last year stirred
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One Man's View
his wife Coretta the night before he was"killed. Hoover is widely believed to ',As a jou malist, publisher Alan Bellhave been ,~closeted gay man.
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had,some reservations about printing.
Since
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material about Dr. King that was likely
allegations, thatto cause a stir.in his magazine; BLK.' ,King plagiarized
Bell pOinfed out that although ,parts of his docseveral dozen sets of galleySare'in cirtoral thesis have left many King adrilirculation, only one columnist has Choers of all races sensitive about evensen to write about it. "H~s everybody
those criticisms of the fallen leader
else interpreted it differently thanbeyond the scope .of the FBI.
Prince has, or is everybody just,And even Rowan reportedly has
afraid?" he wondered in a telephonesome doubt about the existence of suchinterview from his Los Angeles office.
tapes. According to Prince, the two sur"The whole thing may be a fab- .
viving members of Rooney's subcomric;:ation,
anyway," he added.
mittee said that they had never heard"Certainly, it's not beyond theallegations that King was gay.
resources of our federal agencies to"There's no evidence that anything
make up things that they want to be
actually took place," pointed out Prince
taken as truth."• •in a phone interview from his RochesterAndreaction
to
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news
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office. "No oq,e knows what the tone of
likely to be anything but apathetic. "It
the remarks were, whether it was said
would be nice to know someone asas a joke, or who was speaking."
respected as Dr. King would have had
He added, "Even after all of those
gay relationships, if thafs the case. But
allegations of womanizing, not one woI fear that people might use something
man has come forward after all this time."
Under court order, the 'FBI
turnedlike this iria negativecontext.",
its secret tapes of King over to theReaction from his gay readerNational Archives in 1977, where theyship was mote difficult to guess. "Dr.
will remain sealed until the year 2027,, King is so revered in the Black comaccording to Outlines News Service.
munity that anything that could be
The book is not due out until midtaken as negative put forward by
December, and Rowan isn't, talking
white folks will receive an immediate,beforehand. But a spokesperson for hisbacklash," he continued.
publish~, Little, Brown, and Co., said, "I"Most African Americans, will .
hope that this does create a bit of a stir,
see this as one more attempt by the
because that will create iilterest.»
man to demolish one more of our
Meanwhile, excerpts are set toheros. Considering the source, I
appear in Vogue and Ebony. BLK, a
think that will probably be the pernational magazine for the Black lesbian
ception by Black lesbians and gay
and gay community, published a news
men as well," he told OutWeek.
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NEW YORK-The gay society of the
New York Police Department has given

the Committee of Police Societies, an,

Coel! Organizationof Catholic Police,
women and the International Police
Association, applied ,and were accepted
for ,membership in COPS within the last
six months. A le,tter sent on Nov, 17 to,~ COPS' new ,pfeslc:Ient, Ulian Braxton, who
was elected iD October, has not been
replied to, .
GOAL's executive board is due tomeet with various
headsof the NYPD next week, to appraise, them of their ,position. The ex~tive
director of GOAL, Sam Ciccone, said:"We want to wait until after thisbefo~ doing anything. But if within a"couple of weeks they say no, we are
gOing to have to fake some steps." 'Ciccone would not specify
what action GOAL would take but., did say that the NYPD would be In
conflict with its credo of nondiscrim• ination if it supported an organization that dlscriminates, "NYPD providesservices
to COPS thatenhances its functioriing. This could
open up all sorts of problems if
COPS tums Us dow.µ," he said,
COP's attorney, Art Strier, said
that GOAL could expect a response
to its letter of Nov. 17 sometime In- mid-December. A vote on GOAL's
request for admission will be taken
at COPS's Jan~
meeting, 'Meanwhile, reports'ln New York'Newsday that fwe member organizationsof COPS threatened to withdraw if GOAL
is excluded have been denied by thepresidents of those groups, The Shomrln
Society of JeWish police officers, which
was reported to have supported GOAL,
has In fact voted against GOAL's membership. The president of Shomrin said that It
was a vel)' sensitive ~e anQ "basically amatter of endorsement,"I, The Viking Society of Scandanavian
officers, which also reportedly threatened
to withdraw from COPS in support of
GOAL, has ,not taken a vote on the issue,
said its president, Kenneth Hansen, "We
haven't even spoken with anyone from
GOAL," he added,.
The President of the Guardian. Society of Black police
officers, Richard,,,umbrella organization of the departtnents':hopor, ethnic and religious groups, aI two-week
ultimatum to respond to its
request for aclmlssion before taking steps,to force the Societies' hand
The Gay Officers Ac;:tlonLeague isthe only, one of 22 fraternal groups within
the NYPD not to be affiliated with COPS
and has spent the last year requesting
admittance. Its correspondence
with
COPS has been Ignored, or, alternatively,. action on its application has been post. poned. GOAL was told that its application could not be considered during thesummer as COPS' executive board was In
recess for three months,•'But according to Donald Jirak,
deputy executive director of GOAL,and alieutenant
at the 13th Precinct In Murray•
Hill, two other organizations, the Regina
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GOAL's application for membership in
COPS but denied that it threatened towithdraw In protest.
lilian Braxton, who' is also head of
the Policewortten's Endowment Association, which was said to have backed
GOAL, told OutWeek that no one threatened to pull out of COPS. "No vote has
been taken yet, and the information thathas been reported is erroneous," she saidit
COPS was formed In 1985, replacing
Brotherhood-In-Action, which was disbanded after it refused to admit the gay
officers' group. Its membership consists ofthe presidents and vice presidents of 21
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gay and lesbian elected and appointed
officials and their activist colleagues fromthe US, Canada and Germany gathered at
City Hall here for their 6th Annual
International Conference. Compared to 'the just 13 officials In 1985, "it reallyshows. the emerging power of the lesbian'and gay community," according to David
Scondras, openly -gay elected City
Councillor of Boston and co-organizer ofthis year's conference,
The newly elected openly lesbianstate assemblywoman in Maine, Dale
McCormick, spoke for many of thoseinterviewed when she said; "The networking .., and the personal support ..,[were] the best part."
With most of the time put aside for"caucusing," the conference was designed
for discussion by the 40 elected officials
and 60 appointed officials. Peg Conway,
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that she had never met the people who
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after Maggie Thatcher, stunned the world ,byresigning after winning the
firSt round of vote-of-con"fidence balloting, theboard of dire.ctors at
GMHC completed its own
parliilmer'ltary wrangling,
after which President Joy
Tomchin seems to havequit her job without losing
the election.
. by ANDREW MILLER
According to a press.
statement, Tomchin was, reelected for a third term "but at her request will selVe only six
months." In the interests of smooth sailing, her successor, current
Second Vice President Jeff Soref, has already been selected to fill:out the one-year term.
Seem odd? Well,' it is. A faithful "Rim Shots" sGurce close to
the board cut through the PR fog. After numerous tie votes and afour:hour meeting, the 18 board members compromised:
Tomchin and Soref each got half. A unique solution unavailable tothe Iron Lady.
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borough president, has hired a lesbian
and gay community liaison: G;uy Maffei,
executive director of the AIDS Center of .
Queens COunty. Perhaps the Beep will 'now join her colleagues Fernando Ferrer(the Bronx) and Ruth Messinger(Manhattan) in endorsing the domestic
partnership legislation now before the city
council. ...

AIDS FOR A DAY: While Dec. 1 mar1<edWorfd AIDS Day and
A Day Without Art, Nov. 29 was Women and AIDS Day in
Manhatlan, thanks to Borough President Ruth MesSinger. She wasjoined at a press conference by eight women "infected with, andaffected by, AIDS" to highlight the plight of one of the fastest-growing populations affected by the epidemic.
Quick on the draw with those community-based proclamations,• our best friend in city government had also declared Community: Health Project Day at a fund-raiser for the gay community clinic ten• days e8r1ier.
:'• TIMES CHANGE: Under pressure from the NYC Human• 'Rights Commission, the paper of record has begun to permit any: person who places a paid obituary to state the cause of death.
''US HOOSIERS, WE EAT": But when rotund special guest • Previously, only funeral homes or an immediate family member
NYC Health Commissioner Woodrow Myers arrived at GMHC's : could provide.such information, often leaving friends and lovers ofjacket-and-tie President's Luncheon on Wed., Nov. 28, he was • out-and-proud people with AIDS in the lurch.
greeted at the entrance to the HalVard Club by a faithful cadre qf : _ While The New York Times began calling us "gay" some time
AIDS activists before he could make it to the table.
• ago, the lovers of lesbians and gay men are still referred to in code
ACT UP members, long-standing critics of the former Indiana • throughout the paper. Some things never change ....
'health chiefs record on AIDS and his handling of this city's crisis, :'also had some choice words for GMHC.
' • I CAME, I SAW, IRAQ: Openly gaY, lawmakers Barney 'Fran~, Just the day before, reps from each group stood side-by-side . :' and Gerry Studds of Massachusetts ,~re among the gaggle ofat a press conference announcing a joint lawsuit against the • Democratic congressmen and -women suing President George
state's health commissioner, David Axelrod, for his involvement : Bush in an attempt to insure that the conflict in the Persian Gulfin securing state funds for anti-gay AIDS hospices run by the • escalates only with Congressional approval.
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And GMI:lC spokesperson Geoffrey Knox said rumors that the : Justice is asking the City University of New York, of which it is aagency lirst in the fight against AIDS has invited US Secretary of • branch, to kick ROTC off its campus once and for all. The Senate,
Health and Human Services Dr. Louis Sullivan to be guest of honor : prompted by the college's, Lambda Club, objects to ROTC's disat an upcoming reception for donors are without basis.
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nativeBOb Axe!t<;>nhas called this city of 9,000"n.6me" 'for the past three years. Lately,
though, thiS city of churches and fastfood restaUrants has been less than gracious since the 28-year-old gay man,decided to 0per1 an AIDS Clinic.When it, begins offerihg medic~l treatment on
Dec. 4, the clinic, ASKInc., will become,the f6urth rurai AIDS clinic in the nation ', and Ala~'s
second.
Controversy over the clinic-AIDS'through Support and Knowl.edge/erup,te'd
Qn Nov',.7 when Oxford
Mayor
Leon
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public meeting that he should go elsewhere. Ironically, the meeting's purpose was for 'Axelton and his staff to
educate the city's police, frre and rescue' wo.:kers·abQut HIV infection. But
not much educating' got done. The
mayor told Axelton: ,"I'm not going to, promise',you that we'll be friendly.
, Usually,we'refriendly to' people inthis town." .,- Smith wasn't the onlY' hostile
Oxford denizen at the nieetiµg. Some
resj~ents who live near the clinic, justa few doors down from' City Hall and, around the comer from the police sm, tion, said, that they 'feared homosexuals roaming" their neighborhoods' andpreyiPg on their children. Others said
,that they were afra,id garbage from theclinic would infect them,", ' As of ,February, the Centers for
Disease Control tracked 2,800 cases of
AIDS in towns With fewer than 100,000
people. Epidemielogists and healthcare workers are concerned about therate 'of increase in rural areas, In'Ge~~gia, rural, AIDS cases :,ire increasing at eight tiril~s the rate of ur~ancases, according to Dr. Barbara Hanna,
an infectious disease specialist andvolunteer at the Oxford clinic.
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cases. But the Alabama Department of
And Oxford's gay community, still hidPublic Health estiIpates that there areden, is struggling to accept the notion
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To date, over 2,000 Alabamans
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HIV. Axelton is among them. He
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were no AIDS services available in
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areas. Facing AIDS,
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nursing school because I couldn't
deal with death and dying,"
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Clearly, the myth of innocent
country life untouched by whatmany rural residents see as tp,es'<;ourges of cities-homosexuals,
and drugs is being shattered by
AIDS. Most people with AIDS in
Alabama are wl¥te, male and gay.
Alarmingly,fhese
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Oxford among' them---':lack theknowledge and ,facilities to combat
the disease. S6me say that it would
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Although members of the rescue
treatment and to test for HIV antibQ!1- squad say that' they treat those with,ies, some want him gone. "[People
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the,with AIDS] are going to shop at our ' police are openly hostile. They resent
malls, they're going to eat at our
Axelton's refusal to give the departrestaurants," says one Oxford police
ment a list of his clients. They refuse to
officer. "Red Lobster-I wonder how
accept what Hanna told them at thetQ;ey're going to feel knowing they'reNov. 7 meeting, that they are in congoing to be serving these people." 'tact with people with AIDS every day.
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Carolyn Thornton, whose elderly aunt
let-us know who' we need to be scaredand uncle live next-door to the clinic,of and who we don't,'! one police offisay:sihat the facility is needed. Still,
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They don't care who they infect."approve ofAxelton's work, she distinAxelton counters, ,"Where are all
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Tuesday, Nov,
'17, 1990, was a..,..
~ night of rememberC!! ing, a night ~f celebratlon; Hun-dreds~ marched,as theyd! have ever year since II'1978,fromSan, Francisco's , Castro district to CIty Hall, to remember Harvey Milkand Ge<?rge Moscone,'
It was not only a night to remember
San FranciSco's flJ'St'openly gay superv.isor
and a mayor who was a friend to the community. It was also a time to 'celebrate what
Is being called the "Lavender Sweep,' Inlast month~ elections, two lesbians, Cafole
Migden and Roberta Achtenberg, were
, elected to the Board of Supervisors; Tom
Am-miano, a gay man, was elected to theboard of education; and adomestic Parttlers Initiative

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for an all-gay group, What did she dobefore? Well, for six years, she was the leaddrum major. for the Universityof California\
marching band,"
A marked contrast to the festive mood
was the presence of hundreds of candles.
Many who had walked In this march every
year were InIt1allyshocked at the seeminglack of respect for the dead,.
Iri fact, the joyous atmosphere was thehighest forM of praise for Milk andMoscone, slain 12 years ago to the day by
the bullers fiI:ed by colleague and adversary,SupelVisor Dan White, It was also significant
because It strongly signalled the arriva1 of a
new generation of gay men and lesbians,
The world of Harvey Milk was,theworld of "the gay community." The worldof 1990 is very definitely "queer."
Harvey Milk often spoke of a 16-year-

was passed,
The emphasis on celebration changed the character of this year's event:The ma'fch began with thesound of whistles and'shouting,
Instead of a somber,single drummer tapping
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Francisco Lesbian !lI1d Gay~rching Band stirred thecrowd with the strains of~Callfomia,
Here I Come.',,
When the march arrived at
City Hall, the band greeted
the arriving participants
with "If My Friends Could
See Me Now."•,For Brianne Connell,
it was her night to ri1ake a.personal dec1aratio~ ofcomiOg out as she' directed
the band. It was her very ,,fltSt time as the drum major Graffito in the Castro, 1990.~,,
old from Altoona, Pa. "The only thing he
has to look forward to is hope," Milk said In
1978, "And you have to give him hop~:hope for a better world, hope for a better
tomorrow, hope for a better place to cometo If the pressures at,home are too great,hope that It will ~ all right"
That young man from Altoona, who,
was 16 them, would now be 28 y~rs old.
Today he may be a gay activist He may be
a person like Jonathan Katz,
Katz lived In Washington, DC, until ayear ago. Now 32, he remembers how helearned of Milk'Il death. "I saw a piece ofgraffiti In Dupont Circle," Katz recalled; "It
said: 'Harvey Milk still lives. Dan White
will die." That was the beginning of mypoliticallzatlon, ",Tuesday night, Katz was one of the•people from Queer Nation caayIng the banner at the frontof the,march. The banner had
recently been returned l'by police after an c!
overzealous
security it
guard snatched It at a :!
crulse-In-klss-In
In a ~ ,suburban shopping center near Stanford University In Palo Alto,
This march defined
the changing of roles forour community leaders,
One of those Is Milk
prot~g~'Cleve
Jones.
, Each year, since 1978,
Jones has organized andled this march. Standingat the lead, he used abullhorn to direct thepartidpants as they'took•

over Market Street.

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knew Milk, the bullhorn was a symbol ofFranciscans Against Prop 6. The group wasformed by Milk to successfully fight'thehis ~activism.
,Brigs's Initiative, a statewide anti-gay ballot
As the' march began to move down
proposition. At the time, the cops were theMarket Street, Jones handed the bullhorn, to
Ben QuIson, That gesture indicat,ecia transprimary enemy of the gay community.
fer of power as significaqt as
the November
elections.
Carlson, 27, works in San
Francisco at Mobilization
Against AIDS, writes a column
summarizing the events of the, local GLAAD chapter and is an 'active member of Queer
Nation. '"I turned it around andaimed it at my head like at,
gun so I could hear the,march echoing inside, like aseashell. I held it up in front ..
of City Hall imagining Milk's ~, ghost speaking through it to- the crowd,· he said, Next '.
year, Carlson may be the ._______ '",organizer of this march and it Remembering Ha1Vay Milk, SF City Hall, 1990.
will- be he, a member of'.
,Queer Nation" cany-ing the bullhorn.
Last Tuesday night, Craig stepped up
For more than a decade, Hany Britt
to the microphone as Commissioner Craig",has been the lone elected spokesperson for
one of the five-member
Policegay men and lesbians in City Hall, In
Commission that overSees the cops. This
January, that changes with the arrival of
African-American lesbian from Atlanta
Migden and Achtenberg, The power and
now uses her power on that commission
the voice of the gay community-will now
to fight for her community. She was heckbe shared in the halls 'of city government
led because, in 1990, the crowd demands, Migden spoke to the future as she'that she one of us account for theaddressed the crowd at City Hall. She Saidriotous behavior of the police at an ACTthat the arrival of the two means "fabulous
UP rally on Oct. 6, 1990.
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thin8' for women." The community agenda
The march was also a time for people
will continue to expand.
Britt continues
to hold office,though he now takes on the role ofstatesman" This, in itself, is significant.
Our community has produced very few'
who can be looked upon as venerated
leaders, Britt is,as he was Tuesday night,
the link to the real world of Harvey Milk.
It is he who bridges the Milk legacy to
the world of today,' ',Milk was the first openly gay elected Ii
official in San Francisco. At about 10:30
that fateful morning, Dan,White entered
the office of then-Mayor Moscone.
Following an argument with the pro-gay
mayor, White shot him sev:eral times, He
then went across the hall to Milk's office,where Harvey, too, was murdered. With
their deaths, it seemed the hope of a community had also been snuffed out by thebullets fired by White, a former San
Francisco police officer,
In 1978, Gwenn Craig chaired San Ha1Vey and constituents at 1978 Castro St Fair••
to reach out and graB a piece of our history; which has been captured by Rob
Epstein, who won an Oscar for '!be 7Ymes,of Harvey Milk, In that film, a young gay
school-teacher remembers those years. As
he stepped to the pOdiulll
Tuesday, that school-teacher, Tom
Ammiano, spoke as the highest
vote getter in the recent election lfor members of the city's board of . C!
education.
ile written words of authc
Randy Shilts in his book, The
Ma}w of Castro Street, gave us apennanent journal of our history,
too. In 1918, ~e was the only
person chronicling our story forthe mainstream press. One of R!Y
most vivid memories of thatweek was Shilts sitting in a box
seat in ,the San Francisco Opera
House describing MUk's funeralfor the live cameras of the city
PBS station, KQED.
As Shilts and -Epsteinmarched to City Hall, they reminded us thata history of our community continues todevelop. Our historians have increased,
and our visibility is, as Harvey MUk had
cfreamed, everywhere,
As the evening came to an end, theburning candles were placed on a nearby
statue of Abraham IJncoln. I remember thenight in 1978 when I sat across from City
Hall and watched what seemed like millions of candles burning, not only
on the.
statue, but throughout the entire area,
This week I looked out over the
Civic Center and saw not only the can~\ I dles but also our future. I saw a new,, younger generation of vibrant, enthusiastic and questioning queers. Theymarch not behind the banners of traditional gay political clubs, Instead; they
carry high the banners of groups like
Queer Nation, the ,Gay Asian Pacific
Alliance and Act up, ', Yes, it was a night to remember, but
it was also a night to celebrate, And what
better way than to dance our way out of
the Civic Center, as we did, to the strainsof Madonna's "Vogue.' That sign in
Dupont Circle is probably long gone,
though the relevancy of the message continues: "Harvey MUksti1llives,·...
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exfrom Manhattan and Abe Gerges from
were;Brooklyn. Gerges will be leaving the~shocked that Gov.
Council next, month and will be~
Mario,
Cuomo
replaced on the General Welfare Com~
received only 53
mittee at the whim of the Council
percentof themajority leader. The chair of the com~,vote in a nondemittee, Sam Horwitz from Brooklyn, is
undecided,and Councilman Jose~ , sCnptfield in his
if ' ,re-election race, ,... ~ "'....,.
I Rivera from the Bronx is a question
BUt if you look at
mark. Defmite "nons are Walter Ward
what he did (or didn't) do in thegay . (straight out of Night of the living,,,,
community,itmay tell the stoty.
:, A reader sent me a copy of the•"Lesbians and Gays for Cuomo" .litera-·
fure. It lists co-chairs,
regional
co-chairs,
and regional contacts. The names look,gr:eat on paper, but there was'no campaign. The literature was mailed'to very
Inside Albany
select gay political ,lisis.' There was no
distribution in 'the bars or discos or in
Sheridan Square, no ads in the gay
I.' press, People who accept responsibility
should do more than just see to it that 'their names and those of their friends
appear on literature unless, of course,
the entire exercise is 'a sham. This.kindof mirior job does not do our community proud, If you look at the campaign
in the gay community as an example, it
may explain the governor's poor showDead) from Queens and our archfoe•
ing in "the election. Someone in the
Noach Dear from Brooklyn.
governor's office is asleep at the wheel.
At a Gay and Lesbian Independent
The domestic partnership bill was
Democrats meeting on Nov, 14, it was
introduced in the City Council on Nov.
stated by Family Diversity Coalition's,20. The legislation has ten Council
co-chair Liz Schalet that there would besponsors, the comptroller and the borno chief sponsor per se of the legisla'ough presidents of Manhattan and thetion-sponsors would, be listed alphaBronx: It's a rough road ahead-first
betically, Thus South Brooklyn Council. hearings are needed, then a vote by
man Steve DiBrienza would be the first
the General Welfare Committee and, if
namelisted and would have the privi,
if passes there, then a vote by the fullleges of a chief sponsor. But on Nov.
20, when the bill was introduced, it. Council. If it fails in committee, we can
was announced that Councilwoman
move for a diScharge. For those who
Carolyn Maloney was the chief sponfollowed the gay rights bill through its
sor. When !lSked, Schalet said that Mal. career, it will be deja vu.
.
oney insisted on it. So much for com" The General Welfare Committee
munity input and self-determination.
'consists of seven people, and only two
Council President Andrew Steinof them are sponsors Ronnie Eldridge
olitical

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Peg Breen was much
more credible as co-hostof 'than asmouthpiece for Peter
Vallone. I wonder if she
has trouble sleeping
at night.' ,',removed his name from the bill andsent no representative to the press conference looks like Stein will be running for mayor as the candidate who
appeals to the most conservative elements of the electorate, Mayor Dinkins
sent two representatives to the press
conference, including his human rights
commissioner Dennis DeLeon. The
mayor supports the concept of domestic
partnership but not necessarily the bill
now before the 'Council. At issue is hisneed to study the dollars'involved. Nevertheless, one cannot put a price tag onhuman rights, Either one believes inequality or not. Are our relationships as ,valid as those of married heterosexual
couples? If one believes ~, then support of this bill is mandatory. 'The speaker, Peter Vallone, is theone we have to get to on this bill. His
legal office issued a memorlµldum tothe bill's sponsors that "weigh heavily
against tht: legislation'S pass~ge."
These considerations are 1) state preemption and 2) economic impact. Val•lone mouthpiece Peg Breen says: "Thestate has done so much legislation inthis area, it would be unconstitutional
for us to consider it. We cannot change
or modify state law."
We all know that this bill doesnothing to change or mooify state law.
,The legislation would only be endowjng domestic partners with a right not
to be discriminated against on the basisof their marital status, and then only .
with respect to tht:ir deaIiOgs with thecity as employer, provider of services
or operator of programs. This is totallyallowable: The Council is not attempting to "endow" domestic partners withany of the federal or state legal rights
granted to married persons. Peg Breen,was much more credible as co-host of
Inside Albany than as mouthpiece forPeter Vallone, I wonder if she has•••

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was driving in Beverly Hills in late~o~r,when I looked up and saw
Christmas
decorations ., strung
across 'the.
,street between light poles, It was
unnerving because it ,:w-asso unexpected, TniditionalIy,
I have preparedmyself emotionally for about 30 daysof intense bombardment that begins
after Thanksgiving. This year, with talkof a I'ecession and, potential conflict in
the Middle ~,retailers want an even,gr~ater . . opportut),jty
to hawk, their.
, ware~;"which is why Santa and his
sleigh of reindeer and gatherings. ofquistmas
qroUersincongruously
spanned Santa Monica Boulevard on asmoggy 8O-degree October afternoon.
. As I thought about the winter holidays that are celebrated in this country,
I reali,zed how conSistently th~y arebased on oppressive values. Having aholiday to celebrate Christopher Columbus is as appropriate as designating a
day to f}Qnor Wrongway Corrigan, thepilot;:who ended I,1pin Europe by mistake. , As Native Americans. who werealready here, would attest, "Columbus
did not discover the Americas!" And if
Europeans were ignorant of the North
American continent's existence, mistakenly calling Native Ameneans "Indians"
is n~ emctly wprth,y of celebration.
Veteran's Day has become anotherexcuse for' establishing a three-day
weekend. Like the May Day celebrationsthat have traditionally been heldin Red Square in Moscow, this holiday
is an excuse for pr-opaganda 90, behalf'of war. With troops ,presently in the
Middle East to "liberate Kuwait"
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arethe controL of Saddam Hussein (andcoincidentallyto protect Americanaccess to oil resources), President Bushappeals to the natural sympathy
evoked by the memory of those whodied in wars, without recalling theim~rmIisfic impulseS that placed themiit jeopardy in the ~ place.
, Thanksgiving basically celebrates
the beginning'of the decimation of,
Native, American people and the theft<;>f~eir land., The Pilgrims repaid the~\,.Having a,holiday tocelebrate Christopher,

Columbus is as ap,
propriate'as designating',

a day to honor,Wrongway Corrigan, the,pilot who ended up in
Europe by mistake.
,kindness of the "Indians" by stealing ,their land, using their supplies, healing
remedies and agricultural techniques tosurvive the' winter and then giving
thanks to "God" .for their endurance.
While even most. Christians are
hard-pressed to remember the religious
origins of the Christmas holiday, thedeluge of Christmas carols and seculardecorations totally ignore the possibilityof non-Christian observances that arealso part of the, December calendar.
J<;!wishpeople, fOT ex.lI.mp1.e,observe'Chanukah, the FeStival of Lights. Thisholiday celebrates the resistances ofJews in the Temple, where ~e lamps
did not go out despite a shortage of oil.

The miracle is commemorated by thelighting of candles in a special holder,!mown as a "menorah."
Many African Americans observe
Kwanzaa, a seven-day festival using'the Seven Princj.ples and modeled on
harvest celebrations in Africa. The
Seven Principles are Umoja, (unity),
KujichaguJia (self-determination),
Ujima (collective work and responsibility), Ujamaa (cooperative economics),
Nia (purpose), Kuumba (creativity) andlmani' (faith). Each family creates analtar on a straw mat with red, blackand green candles and fruits where
they gather and discuss one principle
each night. .Gifts appropriate for the
specific principle are exchanged:
Many of the symbols associatedwith Christmas were appropriated' fromthe pagan winter-solstice rituals, where
holly, ivy and mistletoe were as common as wit~hes 'gathered around thefire. Like Halloween, when childr.en
dress in witch, costumes but fail tohonor their contributions to the originsof the holiday. the winter solstice is no,longer an important annual marker on
the calendar. Instead, the persecutionof witches and the ignorance of theircraft continue in this country.,
In a time when so many oppressive forces continue to operate withthe full knowledge and support of theso-called Moral Majority, I am hardpressed to find a reason to celebrate.
The recent electoral results around this'country affirm that issues of concern togay men and lesbians, people of color,
environmentalists and others are being
sacrificed so that tax increases will notaffect those, who already possess a disproportionate share of the resources.
~ere in C;tlif'Qrnia,another Republican
was elected to the governor's office,and voter referenda that would protect
the environment or provide additional
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ay passed away this morning." AIdo's

Rvoice sounded flat and drained It was,and scientists got to see for themselves
the industrial-strength force of ACf UP
doing its job. Almost invariably,' theactivists asked the best questions. It was a
bizarre anthropological spectacle.

Friday morning, Nov. 9.< I was suppa;ed 10••••
be going down to Wdshington for the 1001
"The AC7t7' is a flexible, well-oiled
AIDS dink:aI TIiaI 'Group ineeting, but first I " machine running efficiently ... but thewent 10 ~itAIdo (mking the wrath of !.anyneeds of the Institute are different from,
Kramer, whose departure was one hour late , those of the AC7t7 investigators. We needdue to my detour) at the PS 122 Gallery,
the flexibility of a contract mechaniSm."~
Ray !)ad three. photos and an essay in-PeterGomatos, Associate Director,
the A"'9' of lDfms show. We put roses in a
Treatment Research Program, Division o~vase underneath the stark black-and-white
AIDS, NIAID
photos eX Ray's wheelchair, walker and cane,
Overnight, a crucifix had fallen from thePerhaps one reason the onslaught of
ART+ panel and Was lying IIat on its back.
activist observers failed to generate more
The discordance between our lives'friction was the distraction of the ACfG
as affected by ~S' aqd our AIDS work
investigators ,by NIAID'l! , ,restructuringseems only to grow, Certainly that week,plan. NIAID had hit them where it
as I left New York knowmg of two newhurts-inthe pocketbook.
Be~auselosses and returned to find that the countresearch monies are unlikely to increase
had grown to five, projected the abyss
Significantly, each of NIAID~snew plansbetweencollective activity and individual
threatens the autonomy of the ACfG sys'j.
.
losS in harsh relief.
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tem as run up to now. Here are the high,
The ATACConference
lights of the plan:'Last November;
flfst activiSts to
1. The Division of AIDS (DAIDS)
attend the 7th AIDS Clinical
TrialsGroup,
Initiative.
Starting ,next year, NIAID will\._-_.1-.
or, ACfO, meeting were welcomed like
begin awarding contracts (rather than the ,i'''skunks, at a. garden party. Skirmishes
ACTG,cooperative agreement) to applibetween ~and ACf UP continued ,at;cants who agree to undertake fast studies
the March meeting, culminated
at
the
of
either a) treatments in community use,.
,
May 21 ·Storm the NIH" demo and ultiregardless of scientific merit (examples
mately won NIAID's assent to unlimited
given included hyperthermia, oral interI
community obServers at ACfG meetings
feron and compound Q), or b) phasestarting in July. Thus, it was crucial to
one studies of promising new agents.
expand the pool of treatment activists this
The ,principal investigators of the ACfG
year attending from the handful of New
don't mind losing what they disparaging. Iy refer to as ·debunking
studies"York lµld Washington activists who wentin November, March and July. This was(although their studies of useless drugsmegoal
Activistsuch as dextran sulfate orAL-721 have.
,~,.of. the AIDS Treatment.
Copference, or ATAC,'organized in a joint
been helpful in changing patterns ofcollaboration, between ACf UP/NY andcommunity use, but their results were
not well publicized), but they are outDC. Over three hundred people attended
raged at the possibility of lOSing fIrst shotfrom around the country, including Los
at new phase-one
trials. They haveAngeles, , San Francisco, Boston,' Baltiapproximately one year to prove that
more; 'Philadelphia and Shreveport, andthey are capable of carrying out phase, of these over half stayed on throu,gh
one trials rapidly enough to satisfy themuCh of the ACfG. meeting, Activists got
community, industry and NIAID. 'to see: for themselves the sometimes mad,
2. The ACTG Recompetition.
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for the36 adult AIDS,,
Clinical Trials Units (ACIUs) come up forrecompetition. Sites will have to {'rovethat they can enroll a certain number ofsubjects. Thereafter, funding Will be tiedto performance.
Core grants will beawarded to fund staff and services, andincentive funds will be a~ded
to sites
enrolling the best and doing the, best
work. Investigators are panicky and irate.
The acting head for NIH is said to be
intrigued by this appro;tch, which, if itworks, may transform other NlH-fund,edfields as well. In an era when overall(biomedical funding is imperiled, it makes
senSe to tty to get a bigger bang for thesame amount of money.

3. Applied Research
Virology and PharmacologyfGrants,Labs. Theapplied research grants are intended tohelp certain sites (ACfG and non-ACfG)
fill in the gaps between basic and applied(clinical) research. Spinning off andregionalizing virology and phannacology
laboratory services means that each
ACIU won't have to perform ;ill lab studies, and standards can be improved. Nat,
urally, the ACfG virologists are opposing
this, and the plan may be modified.
In sununary, NIAID is Undertaking tofund competition for the ACfG. From our'standpoint, the most important missing
elements of the plan are:. 1) Who will
determine
what research is fundedthrough the DAIDS initiative? and 2) How
will these contracts be designed andawarded? Extensive community involvement is a prerequisite for success here.
On Monday, Nov. 12, ACT UP
unveiled i~s ·Countdown
18 Months" 'plan, a project designed to make the fIvemajor opportunistic infections, or DIs,
treatable and preventable by May 1992.
The next night, over 150 representatives
from the drug companies, FDA and NIH
attended a planning meeting sponsoredby ACf UP. The outgoing chair of the 01
Committee, John Mills, told me that theywould consider rewriting the mission
statement of the 01 committee in light of
the recommendations of ACf UP. Over
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• CP: A trial of Bactrim vs. ClindamycinlPrimaquine for moderate PCP(ACfG 108) and a trial of 566cso.
• CMV: A study of combination lowdose FOsCarnet and DHPG vs. alternation
for CMV retinitisj a comparison of oral
vs. IV DHPGj and a ~dy of DHPG for
maintenance therapy for CMV,colitis.
,• MAl: ,ACf(} 135, a treatment study of
four
oral
'drugs(ethambutol,
ciprofloxacin, clofazamine and rifampin)with or without IV Amikacin, is about tobegin, ACfG 157 and 158 lJCC two pilot,
studies of Clarithromycin for MAl treatment and prophylaxis, respectively.
,. Toxoplasmosis:
ACTG 154, a
US!French collaboration, will compare,
pyrimethamine with placebo for toxo
prophylaxis. ACfG 156 is a pilot study of
azitpromycin(with a rapid taper ofpyrimethamine) for toxo treatment.
~ Fungal infections:\ On previous Studies against cryptococcal meningitis, trea.t-·
ment failure was coinmon in the first two
weeks on' fluconazole
and later on
Amphotericin-B. Hence, they are planning a study of bigh-dose Amphotericin-B
plus 5-Flucytosine induction for CM, followed by randomization to fluconazole or" ,Shering compound SCH 42427 for maintenance therapy. They are also discussing
a concept sheet for steroids in acute CM.
Other studies being discussed
include BV-ara-U for herpes zoster (shingles), topical trifluorothymidine ()'FI') for
acycloyir-resistant herpes, c1arithromycin I(
for mycoplasma fermentans/incongnitus,
and ACfG 145, a comparison of penicillin
B with ceftrlaxone for neurosyphilis.
There were several rounds offarewell speeches to Qutgoing OI committee chair John Mills of UCSF. In his three
years at the helm, Mills took a virtually
monbund committee with only 20 people
in its ~,established 8 Pathogen Stµdy
Groups (PSGs) ,to divide up the various .
OIsjthe PSGs generated scores of concept sheet~, and their trials now haveover 2,600 participants. At the same time,
unrelenting (and still ongoing) pressure
from the community forced MAID to takeOls more seriously, and NIAID in turnforced the ACfG Executive, Committee to,allocate more resources to 01 research.
Future OI trials will be simpler and more
inclusivej recognizing that abnormal
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On Tuesday" Nov. 13, Oliver
Johnston died after living with AIDS for
three years. He was 39 years old.
,Oliver was many things to many
people: a loyal friend, a loving son andsibling, a supporter of his neighborhoodand his community. Forthose who knew
him, he will be sorely missed. But to thelesbian and gay community, he will be,rememb(lred as.a part-of ou~,history.
SiX months before ACT UP wasborn, a group of six gay men decided tomeet on a weekly basis to discuss theissues ~surrounding being gay in the ageof AIDS. Each session inevitably led to a'political discussion. It ,was an unav~id~
able part of our reality: AIDS was a political crisis. We decided to create a poster
to address this reality and, after much
haggling, came up with Silence = Death.
By the time ACT UP was planning its first
demonstration, Silence = Death posters
were being wheat-pasted all over the city.
During the third or fourth ACT UP
meeting, someone asked if anyone knew
anything .about the posters. Oliver and I
looked at each other. "Should we tellthem we did it?" I asked, not wanting to,compromise our agreed-on anonymity.
, O!ive,rquickly decided. that we should
and stood IJp to claim the poster onbeh~lf of the Silence = Death .Project.
That.wasc the beginning of our symbiosis
with ACT UP.
.'-I' Oliver helped
to forge the AlPS
activist community as we now know it.
Even while waging· his own struggles
with .the,disease, he was committed to,*,ending the AIDS crisis.
When we see or hear the call toarms Silence = Death, we will always
think of our friend and comrade Oliver.
there will be a memorial service"onWed., Dec. 12, from 5:30-7:30 pm, in theauditorium;ofthe Lesbian and Gay
Community Services Center; 208 W. 13th•
S1.,in Manhattan.
-Avram Finkelstein

Harold Kooden; his 'mother, CatherineBlack; sisters, Cynthia Byno and Rebecca
Preminger; brothers, Robert and Keith
Ward; their dear spouses and children,
Richard, Stacey, and 'Bradley Byno;
Clifford and Zachary Preminger and,
Dorothy Ward; his loving extended family
also includes Harold's family; and his
manYIcherished friends in the US andabroad who cOmprise the family he built•
and deemed integral to his life.
.James' H. BlackA memorial celebration service will be
Born Ap~1 2, '1936, in Malone, NY, held on Sat., Jan. 12, 1991., fromJames died o.f AIDS on Thanksgiving
2:30-5:30 pm at The Society of Friends
Day, Nov. 22; He died peacefully, lucidly- Meeting House, 15 Rutherford PI. In lieu Of
and courageously/surroundedby hisflowers, please send donations to:' High
loved ones,irj'the home he established
PeaksHospice, PO Box 131, SaranacLake,'with his life~partner of almost ten years,
NY, 12983; Visiting Nurse'Service Hospice
Harold Kooden.
Care, 350 Fifth Ave., NY, NY 10118; orJames devoted most of his life toGod's Love We Deliver, PO Box 1776, Oldmusic and music education. For sevenChelseaStation, NY,NY 10113-0945.
years, he was assistant director ofJames: We becamea family united in
education of the Metropolitan Opera'
love. Life with you was a constant exploGuild; sang with the NYC Gay Men's
ration of new vistas. You had a vision of
Chorus, performing as a soloist inwhat could be, and you would take us
Alice Tully Hall, St. John the Divine andthere. The world was fuller, grander and
the Kennedy Center; performed as
more joyful for being with you. You are inbass so.loist with Pan Am's Chorus
my bones, in every bird song, in every,Angelorum in churches ,and basilicas
dance and in every flower. Everythroughout 't~e world; His family,, Thanksgiving will be a celebration of yourfriends and fellow chorus members'
life. I love and cherish you.
will miss his unique creativity in plan-Harold Koodenning parties, travels and events so thateach became a fantasy never to be for"Vito Russo
gotten. He never lost the ability to play
A memorial for Vito Russo will be
and generously,love.He
j9yfully ,and
held at 12:30 pm on Thurs., Dec. 20, at
the Great Hall of Cooper Union (7th St. atmagically moved us all to join nim in
Third Ave., New York). 'the grand party of life.
, Sur.vivors include his life-partner,
The public is invited to attend....
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conscience can endorse.
The Council sponsors are Steve
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Brooklyn, Julia Harrison from Q\leens
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For many of us, the holiday season is a time of immersion in family
and spiritual traditions that may ignore,
rather than celebrate, the daily realityof our liv~ as lesbians and gay men.
From ignoring holiday gatherings with, "in our community, such as a Gay
Men's Chorus holiday concert, to subtle family pressure not to bring a lover
along to family gatherings, it ,is,often
apparent that the "peace on earth andgoodwill" extends only to heterosexu- .
al, white, Christian men, I am hopefulthat the focus can shift from frantic
holiday spending and partying to a
year-round attitude of acceptance of
those who are different and a generosity of spirit that would make possible
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an apology and a policy cPange at themagazine that will ensure' no disaiminalion against gay men and lesbians dealing
with Essence in the .future.
:; ''We feel it is unfortunate that [theFomml believes that Essence has discriminatory practices, be(:aU5e we have dealt
with many articles and issues that face'
the gay and lesbian community," saidCarc)l Patterson, spokesperson,
forEssence. According to Patterson, Essence
will. run the, ad in the magazine's"
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15. Conference orga'nizers sought .toplace the ad in the January issue, whichcQ~
out on Dec. -15. Patterson would,
not comment on ,the Forum suit or theapparent change of heart at Essence.
", At a Nov. 27 press coriference held
on ,the steps of City Hall, Johnson andlowe were;! clearly unaware of the
chahgeof plans at Essence, though the, ,magazine claims to have" informed
higher-ups at Johnson's organization the,',previous day. Describing the Essence
move as "cynical," Lowe later told
Out Week that she had learned of themagazine's plans from reporters, and to
her knowledge no one at Forum had
been informed. She added that the Jan.
15 release date would not give potential
conference attendees sufficient time toplan to attend, and the Forum suit would
go forward;,
Organizers of the 1991 Fourth
Annual Black Gay and Lesbian leadership
Conference expect 1,000 conferees this ,year during the mid-February event 'in ~Angeles., The conference will include anarts festival, and workshops on topics
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day at the conference. "He was there allday, genuinely interested ...not just [being]a politician," Philadelphia's Conway
offered. Frank's sister, Anne Lewis, spokein his place, giving an update on his
health andptaising those gathered for theleadershIp they provide. 'The conference began in 1985 inwest Hollywood and has taken place inWashington, DC, Minneapolis; San Diego;
and Madison, WIS, In 1987, the 'officials
also developed a statement whicq was
adopted again this year. 'The statement offers a progressive
viewpoint on gay and 'lesbian activism,
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officials condemned racism in AIDS ,services: "W;ebelieve that the racist disregard
for disproportionate [HIVJinfection anddeath among p~ople of color is tantamount to homicide by willful neglect."
They commit themselves to passa~e oflocal, state and na,tioriallegislatioo outlawing disaimination against all-peoples; thedelivery of basic necessities to all people;
domestic:;partners legislation; school curricula which is not homophobic, racist or
sexist; equal rights for gay and lesbiall f0ster and adoptive parents; equality for
women; and a rejection of racism "in ourselves and in our community."At this weekend's conference, openly
gay Minneapolis City Councillor, Brian
Coyle, collected endorsements for a pr0posal to have another national march on
Washington fpr lesbian and gay civil rights
in 1992. Urvashi Vaid, director of the
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force,
said, "It needs to happen, but we need totalk about it,': given the proposal, for amarch for nation health care.
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he insular tranquility of Mister Roger's NeighBaker, president and chief executive officer of WNET,remarks terseborhood was shaken last week as a group of
ly in response to the announced protest, "We'repuzzled by this."lesbian and gay activists demanded queer visiPointing out that her organization has been negotiating
bility on public lV.
,with WNET over the course of three yeats, consistently pressing
Bearing umbrellas and tote bags emblathe station to boost coverage of lesbian and gay· issues,
zoned with the Channel 13 logo, the activists . GLAAO's Karin Schwartz retorts: "We're voting with our bucks
trooped down West 58th Street to thefor gay and lesbian .programing, I' don't know that we're going
WNET/ChanneJ. 13 building,' the New Yorkto achieve our ni.lmber-one goal," Schwartz continued, "but I
outpost 9f the Public Broadcasting Service, todo know that the pledge boycott provides the best avenue
protest the station's failure to reflect the existhrough which we can reach a position of power,"
tence of the gay and lesbian community. The
At issue, activists contend, is WNET's abysmal programing
action came Just two days before WNET's
broadcast specifically to appeal to the lesbian and gay commuscheduled pledge drive was to begin,'nity, According to an internal WNET document, Channel 13 proIt was, as Mister Rogers would say, "agraming targeted to lesbians and gay men constituted only onebeautiful ~y in the n~ighborhood."
tenth of 1 percent of the total hours aired between November,
The Nov, 28 demonstration, designed to1988 and November 1989, fewer hours in some cases, more
kick off a funding boycott of the public lV
than ten times fewer hours-than any other minority group,s~tion, was organized by an odd coalition of gay and lesbian"
However, while that percentage reflects the smallest, community-based groups, ranging from the street-level actionamount of directed programing among all groups reflected inoriented Queer Nation to those wi-zards of the poison-pen
the WNET study, the total programing hours devoted to African
reprimand at the Gay and Lesbian Alliance,Against DefamaAmericans, the, disabled, Asian Americans,
women, Latinos,,
tion, The conflagratlon'into which the Channel 13 totebags
Native Americans and a handful of other groups constituted only
' .and umbrellas were tossed served as a final warning to Chan4,6 percent of the total hours during that same time period.
nel13 that checkbook activism is not the only card that les"If there's a shot at media anywhere, this is our best chance,
bians and gay men can play against the station in this fight for
because it is mandated to provide media services to uhderserved. representation"'"communities," explains Ray Dries, a Queer Nation spokespersoh"It's our view that Channel 13 does more for the gay
for the boycott. "A boycott is something that is going to tarnish
community than all the other stations combined," William F. their image, and they're not going to like that."
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activist and a former CBS news producer, agrees, delving into
ludicrous, As one producer who has done business with 'the fmer points of successful1y embarrassing a public instituWNET reports, their attitude is that Pepsi-Cola fully funds
tion devoted to educating and culturing the American mind.
Tony Brown ~Jou"fl, and they'll be damned if they'll spec,"They don't move because they want to. They move beciuseulate in any program that comes any less commerCiallythey feel they have to,"anointed.' And corporations like Pepsi-Cola make up the,Considering that a portion of the station's finances depend
hard place on the other side of Channel 13's rock by making
on viewer contributions, and that significant public satisfaction
it cl~ that they will not' fund a program unless a network·,Iwith programing allows -the station to appeal to Albany for a
has made a public commitment to air the fibal product,huge annual allocation, if activists in the gay and lesbian comIn light of this economic underpinning to the station's
munity can raise a big stink about WNET's iniserable attention
opposition to a queer program, the fmancial impact of ato our affairs, the boycott may just be successful.
funding boycott should it be successful-would be considThe move to this strategic pinnacle came only after
erable. Additionally, as this boycott coincides with the fttst
WNET executives fmally pronounced that under no circumtidal wave of the recession, there may be no way for the.stances would the station consider airing a regularly schedWNET to differentiate between queer dollars that were withuled multicultural public-affairs program directed to lesbians
held in honor of the pledge boycott, and contributions thatand gay men.
weren't made simply because there's an atmospheric fever ofSince various independent producers and activists .have
impending fmancial hardship.
separately been talking with the station abou.t enhancing
Perhaps a more frustrating rejection WNET executives
WNET's paltry gay and lesbian programing with a program
have issued comes in the form of a promise that in two
such as the one. planned public-affairs programs, which will feature rotating, the boycott's, supporters are asking for, the flat
rejection from Channel 13 representatives came as a shock.
hosts entertaining
myriad issues, lesbians and gay
One WNET ~ecutive even disclosed that he was ideologically,
men-along with other groups trac;litionallymarginalized by
opposed to creating programs with culturally targeted audi- , the broadcast media-willbe ~qually represented. As'
ences, stating that he preferred to mainstream the issues and
WNET's openly gay Vice President and Director of theperspectives of minority'viewer constituencies into existing
Broadcast Center Harry Chancey, Jr., put it blithely in aand prospective programs,
polemic published in GLAAO's newsletter, "I subffiit
that in a tight economic climate, the opportunity lies
nlike consumer actions of thein puliing up a chair at the main banquet table, rather
past that lesbians and gay men
than demandinghave
participatedin, thea seat off to theplannedpledge boycott ofside."
Channel 13 has a specific endactivists
While on themark: Activists have called forone hand, thisthe introduction of a weekly multicultural
course of action
have called
queer public-affairs show. Another crucial
sounds like an
way in which this boycott differs from preundoingoffor a lNeekly
vious actions the lesbian and gay communiPlessy' ,t,I.Ferguty has joined is that the organizations thatson on the, airhave endorsed the boycott have sent repremulticultural
waves, activi:>ts
sentatives to a working group, which iscontend that it
empowered both to negotiate with Channel
manages ,simply
queer
public13 and to call off the boycott if and whento achieve inteWNET decides to consider the coalition's
grationwholly,affairs sholN.
grievances in good faith,,
within, segregaHowever, like antagonists of the past,tion, Sure it's aChannel 13 has flatly rejected the working
start, but until
group's demand for a weekly multicultural,
lesbians and gay
public-affairs program, disingenuously argumen break into
ing that if the Igay and lesbian community
the MacNetVLehrer Newshour, "separate but equal" as
was granted a weekly slot, in the interests
proffered by .channel 13 has that same old wink-winkof fairness, so would programS have to be allotted to every
air of begrudging, ~nd ultinlately unjust, accommodation,other underserved group in the broad spectrum of people•••
whose particular issues are currently ignored in favor of suchMore problematic in terms of organizing the boycott
shows as the daily JoY of Painting,even than Channel 13's fool's gold pledges is the fact that
proponents of the boycott seem to have failed to line up a
The fundamental component of this argument, of course,
broad cross-section of the community in support of theis an among-liberals sort of economic realism. However, conpledge.:c:Iriveaction: .
'sidering that, like the networks, the interest of sponsors comAt a meeting just days before the boycott was formallybined with the viewing preferences of the nation drives pubs __
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he only time lV viewers in New York City can be assured offinding lesbian 'and gay programs is on public lV during one
week in June, The centerpiece for' this past year's Gay Pric,ie
programing was a four-hour live satellite link-up between
WNET in New York and K;QEDin San Francisco, entitled Out! A
New Yom-San Francisco Town Meeting, The program, a first in
the history of public lV, was a bicoastal forum structured
arouhd three lesbiao and gay documentary videotapes: We Are
Famtly, Out tn Suburbia and Tongues Untied. ,, Following each tape, a diverse group of panelists and live
studio audiences ha4 an opportunity to discuss the work andrelated issues of concern to gay men and lesbians in both cities,
Halfway· through the broadcast, the San Francisco host, Ginger
Casey, used the adjectives "disturbing," "graphic," "explicit" and"troubling" to introduce Marlon Riggs' Tongues Untied, a semiautobiographical work that explores the, experience of being. Black, gay and male in America. When a member of the audience objected to Casey's introduction, she lamely attempted to justify suchframing by referring to FCC standards and what she perceived
the obligation
for public lV to protect its NEA funding. After nearly four hours of sitting
politely while heterosexual hosts mediated what was reputedly a gay ahd les~bian "town meeting," the panelists and audience became irate, As· poet Essex,

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Hemphill/said: "We're not concerg.ed with [thel FCC Jor .
NEA]. We're talking about fmallybringirig this question of,our sexuality to the table and dealing with
it in a way that's forthright and honest." Thepanelists and audience then proceeded te
bypasS the strai~t hosts and ,talk with each I
other.. They had made the show their own.
A show of our own is the demand currently voiced by the gay and lesbian community in New York, directed at our powerful local public 1V station, WNET lli!s been
in existence for more than 20 years with amandate both to serve underserved
audi,
ences and to be responsive to its ~onstituen- 'cy. Have they done it? WNET has yet to pro- ,duce a single program from an uncompromised gay and'lesbian perspective.
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,ESSEX HEMPHILLGE'n'ING
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program. I r~ized, that for the program to do
CASlEY ON OUTt A NEWYORK-5AN FRANCiSCO TOWNMEETING, AIRED EARLIER THiS :YEAR ,ON WNET IN NEW
something other than pay lip service tei lesL
YORK AND KQED IN SANFRANCISCO,
bian and gay concerns, at least one of. the•hosts should be lesbian or' gay. I campaigned•
for a lesbian or gay host, arguing that this is
isn'l,--.-recentlyexpanded to .inClude ,differences in sexual pref- , .'the only way to produce a truly current and prov.ocati:ve proerence--that' has become' it ,buzzword heard, everywhere ingram. My senior producer was intrigued and open to the idea,
cultural .institutions around ¢,e- country. A more accurate way
but Harry Chancey, Jr., the openly gay vice president andof describing the situation ~ould be "Pub1tc Money and Pub- 'director of Broadcast Center at Channel 13, vetoed it. His argument: The show was an extension of The Eleverith Hour (alic lV." The question then becomes: Has HTserved its
nightly public:affairs show), and since Robert lipsyte hosted
New York gay and lesbian public? Well, let's take a look.
Of course, there are the Gay Pride Week. shows, DocuThe Eleventh Hour (including several programs on gay and l~bian issues), there was no reason why he shouldn't host' thementaries like the Mariposa FjJni,Group's Word./s Out, Greta
local portion of this broadcast as well. ,. /Schiller,~obert Rosenb'erg and John Scagliotti's J3efore
But though the show, was produced under the auspices
Stonewall arid Robert EpStein and Richard Schmiechen's The
of The Eleventh Hour, it was not an Eleventh Hour program. It
Times of , Harvey
Milk are retrieved,. from the shelves' each
was a lesbian and gay lV special addressing our specific conyear, dµsted off and rebroadcast. More recently, the station, cerns. Just as Tongues untied is mediated by a Black gay man
has added' to this short list Phil Zwickler and Jane Lippman's
Rights and Reactions, Quentin Crisp's The Naked CivifSerand yet has broad appeal, aUF! should have been framed by
gay and lesbian perspectives. To gay and lesbian viewers, thevant, as well. as documentaries about the late artists Robert
Mapplethorpe and Keith ,Hanng.These are, wonderful, andtwo straig9t hosts sent a clear message: You will be allowed'
access to public lV, but your view5"will be contextualized
we can ,enjoy a rescreening; but I woulc:Jn't call this serving
and sanitized through a heterosexual prism. This not only
new York's gay and lesbian pu1'lic. What's happening theother 51,weeks?
'compromises gay men, and lesbians but also subverts ourstruggle to reclaim and shape our own identities and desires.
In the search for annual statistics bn the station's gay andlesbian programing, only one official WNET document has
The tension evident in the progriun fed the anger -toward
WNET already smoldering among gay men and lesbians andsurfaced, a. report circulated at the Coalition for Lesbian and
Gay Rights' Oct. 16 forum "Should Gays and Lesbians Boycott
fueled community protests against the station~
One such protest was formally suggested by Gabrielor Support Channel 13?" According to this report, between
November 1988 and November 1989 only nine of the staRotello in an OutWeek editorial in the July 11 issue. Unfortution's 8,500 broadqtst hours were devoted to gay and lesbian
nately, the editorial's title, "Queer Money and Public lV,"
programs (comparea to 95' hours for Blacks, 85 for Latinos
was a bit misleading, It implies that gay and lesbian money
and 62 for women).
'that Channel 13 receives through membership drives Of as, According to Chancey, however, this number is incoradditional contributions can be used as a lever to secure
rect, since it excludes what he called WNRET's "enormous
gay and lesbian programing. But lest we forget, WNET is aamount of AIDS programing" (which mayor may not havepublic-not a cornmercial-lV
station and theoreticafly, not•dealt with gay material), nor does it include The Eleventh
beholden to its sponsors.
" Hour. Chancey could not give a corrected number of eV~'spec~'
Because WNET is funded largely, by .government grants
ulate because, he conjectured, gay and lesbian content apPears(the national average for public lVstations is 47 percent),in programs where it isn't the main focus. But such obscurity ofthe station operates with responsibility to provide diverse
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lesbianand gay programing is exactlythe problem.
,. ,Before its cancellation last June, The Eleventh Hour
served as the main venue 'for local community coverage. In
its year-and-a-half life span, the show did a relatively good
job .n sensitively
addressing'gay
and lesbian issues,
The visible gay
and lesbian presence
frequently.included in FJeventh
Hour prograIljls
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product' of one
openly gay pro~
ducer and several
straight producers
with strong ties to
the gay and les'bian community.
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directly ,or indirectly involving
gay and lesbian
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for WNET's local
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publicaffairs show, they,,
WOME" LIKE US .S A ONEHOU.R DOCUMENTARY,BROADCAST ON CHANNEL
13 AND PRODUCED BY,
LONDON'S CHANNEL 4, ALL
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tion's ~otal'broadcast time, and the not-exact!y-prime-timeslot limits its audience.
Focus, a WNET viewer
Aside from Independent'might catch lesbian or gay documentaries aired sporadi- 'cally, although the station barely promotes them. For
example, the British Women Like Us and the Canadian .Ii
Woman in My Platoon both aired on Nov. 8, receiving
relatively high ratings despite little advertising. OccaSionally, one may also stumble across dramatic work likea segment of the series Degrassi Junior Higb or My

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Harry Chancey, Jr:, says that gay and lesbian program-ing on WNET has increased dramatically in the past two
years. "There's about one [gay and lesbian prograin] on
every month," he adds. Perhap,s it's not irrelevant that anincreasing number of gays and lesbians now work at the statidn. But, in the words of one WNET empl<;>yee,"[Channel
13's -record on] gay and lesbian progranllng has gone frombeing extremely bad to one which is progressing. But it isby no means good.",
Is that all? Fred Noriega, WNET's new director of public affairs, has 'publicly stated that a gay or lesbian hQst
would appear intermittently on one of the two local public-affairs talk shows that are ~lated to replace The Eleventh
Hour. Is this the answer to our dreams? No. Unless the les- B
c::bian or gay host has a regular slot, his or her show will be d:difficult to fmd or follow. In addition, these shows, unlike .g
The Eleventh HOUr, have very small budgets and therefore J5
will be unable to produce pretaped segment~. This means ~that current actiVitieswill only be relayed secondhand, by if
the studio guests, and little opportunity will be provided
for others in the local gay and lesbian communities to be
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from•
GLAAD,as well as various lesbian andgay publications, served as positive
reinforcement for the show but did
nothing to prevent its abrupt cancellation by the station.
The only other apparent venue
for gay and lesbian programing on
Channel 13 is the showcase for independent' ftlm and video, Independent, Focus. The 1990 series aired at 11 pm
on Sund;iy nights, from July to September. The work shownon Independent Focus is selected \:>ya panel of ftlmmakers
and curators. The 1990 panel, which included lesbian ftlm'·maker Su Friedrich (Da,mned If You Don't), chose six hours
of work made by gay men and lesbians 20 percent of theseries' total hours. The 1990 program included shorts such. as Peggy Ahwesh's' Martina's Playhouse and feature-length
ftlms·like Sheila Mclaughlin's She Must Be Seeing Things and
Gus Van Sant's Mala Noche. Unfortunately, Independent
Focus only accounts for 1 percent to 2 percent of the sta-recogni'se the expertiseof•independent,lesbian and gay,

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n order to propose effective strategies for increasing
and improving lesbian and gay representations on
public lV, it's important to understand the, relationship between local stations-WNET prominent
among them---against the background of the historyof the national public 1V system, And there' are'important' overlaps in this saga. 'Now a full-fledged' member of the mass-media establishment and frequent ideological battleground, public 1V as
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PBS is not a network along the lines of ABC or CBS. 'were only a small number of educational broadcasters circuInstead, the 340 public 'IV stations remain autonomous entilating programs among thelilselves through a loosely knit
ties, each governed by federal guidelines ~t for noncomfederation. In the early' years, soine 50' percent of the promercial telecasters; 'some are not part of PBS. Each one isgrams that appeared on these stations emanated from thesu ",.: ~;solicit and respond to the advice and evalua~
production facilities of NET, National Educational 'IV, a crea/ ti?n~~:~j~#Ununity boar~,comppsed of ~epresentatives ofture of the Ford foundation. Iii the late '60s, the production
diverse,S:ectors of the pubhc. Beaj.use the system was foundcenter NET was merged into. the station WNlIT, which subse-ed
uPon,
a commitment '," to local concerns, aothing.
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. . produced
quendy assuineda leading role' in the conglomerate of nonby, or ai(ed on, WNlIT is necessaiily granted airtime in, say,profit 'IV stations united under the PBS umbrella in 1970. 'Phoenix" Ariz" or Anchorage, Alaska. Lately, however, thePBS was one of the by-products, of the Public Telecommuanarth-y engenderedby the decentralized
structure ofnications Act of 1967. This law eChoed in many respects the. PBS invented to favor local and regional interests has
I,"recommendations published in a report by the qunegie Com" been identified as a major factor in the precarious financial
mission on Educational 'IV, which defined public 'IV as "allposition of the separate stations and the system as a whole,that is of human' interest and importance which is not at the
The most, recent threat comes,. from cable 1V and, commermoment
appropriate
or available
for support
bycial satellite services, which' have turned such public 'IV staadvertising...commttted to dive1s#y and to tbe differentiatedples as.
nature,,..
". and high-culture shows ,. into money-ffiaking,audience." The Commission's,,'.blueprint atgUed for substantial fed- 'era} funding of the system funnelled
through a quasi-govemmental Corporationfor Public Broadcasting, or(]>B. Congress subsequently autho, rized the'.
of a>B, suI>•
ject to congressional oversight butwith a ,board of directors selectedby the president.
Despite instances of overt
political meddling in CPB, espe,cially rampant during the Nixon, and Reagan administrations, thepublic TV sYstem has been sheltered' from direct political control
by PBS's and the station's arm'slength relationship to CPB. The
private entity PBS was given
responsibility for interconnecting,•"
the stations; its directors include
A LESBIAN
AND GAY PRIDEWEEK STAPLE. ON 13: THE LIFE AND,.,
TIMES OF HARVEY MILK.
. , ,representatives from CPB, the sta,,tion and the public.
As itmatured, PBS assumed the role of'the system's major program provider, collecting fees fromaudience-grabbing
vehicles.
,the stations and packaging the' kind of slick shows that
Since each station designs its own schedule, selectively
would allow them to compete with their commercial counpicking programs from the PBS, menu and airing theseterparts in return. For their part, the stations receive support
whenever they choose, coorcijaated promotion on a nationalfrom a variety of sources; CBP grants (thus, the federal govscale has been difficult. Following a directive by Congress toernment) .for maintaining their hardware-heavy,well-staffed
revamp this convoluted,meChanism-complicatedfurther byfacilities; state and local government grant for the same; PBS
the Q>B's control of federal funds earmarked for developing
for acquiring programs and making these available via satelandInaking programs-PBS, and CPB agreed last year to
lite-interconnection; regional program services that augment
consolidate production funding; former CPB production
the function of PBS; other stations, which cooperate in coexecutive Jennifer--l..awsoa was appointed PBS executive
production or co-sponsorship; corporate underwriters forvice president for national programing and promotion serlocally produced shows; and individual members. As
vices and will oversee the creation of a national prime-time, theneeds and ambitions of the larger stations expanded overschedule ,just like the networks.
the years, the hope of attracting more money from the latter
This attempt to enlarge PBS's Pbrtion of the 'IV-auditwo categories has led some public 'IV managers to tailor
ence pie addresses many of the problems faced by any protheir programs to suit corporate interests or the tastes ofducer-a station or an independent-who
receives PBS distheir largely white, upper-middle-class membership. But PBS
tribution. With the,new consolidation, programs mayactual,
is not supposed to be ruled by commercial concerns or the . ly be brought to the attention of millions of viewers acrossratings game.
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Wltb tbe cbange of season, our columnists found, tbemselves sorely lacking in tbe'winter coat department. Dressing in layers, tbey
trekked to Orcbard Street, the closest tbing to an open air bazaar on
tbe Lower East Stele (wbere deals are made and broken by tbe minute,on tbe street) in searcb of some "bype" clotbing.'•
Distracted from tbe coat stores, Liz picked up a befty black construction bootfrom a stdewalk display,
Uz: ThJs Is great. I wonder how much this costs.
Proprietress: Are you gonna buy something?
Liz: Uh, I don't know yet,'
Proprietress: No. Go away. I've got to clOse up, and I have a cold.
Liz (stunned): I'm sony you're not feeling well.
On to a ''variety''store...
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Sydney: Look-Raiders jackets! Oh, and this Is the only leather; jacket-it even has a hood.
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Salesrpan: Can I help you?
Sydney: I'm just looking, but how much for t¥s jacket?
Sales~n:For you? M~ss, you don't want that-the
women'scoats are on the other side.
Sydney: Yeah, and they're ugly too.
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Sydney: We're just looking.
Saleswoman: What are you looking for?
Liz: We'll know when we fmd it.
Saleswoman: You gotta talk to me I don't read minds. You
have, to tell me what you want.
Sydney: I can't take this pressure. Let's leave.
liz (to Saleswoman): Thank you.
What? You're not buying anything? You should, Saleswoman:'really think about a new leather jacket, you don't have to buy fromme, but that jacket of yours Is. tattered. 'Sydney: What are you, my mother?
SaleSwoman: No, but if your mother was here, she'd tell you to
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Liz: 10 bucks, I guess, ,, Son: I'll but it from you.
Liz: Um. ..I can't, I just got a bad haircut, and I
can't take the hat off,
Sydney (Outside tbe store): What? Are you
c:razy? We could have swapped the hat for a rog.
You need to, learn how to b!argaln effectively.
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Sydney: What does ABC really mean?
Liz: Look at the Invitations, It means different, things for boys and girls,"Sydney:
I 'still' don't get it, but...hey, where
did you go?
liz: I'm right here, Take your hand c:if my nose.
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maybe you should light a match.
Liz: No, that would roln the ambience. The darkness lends a certain mood to the evening.
Sydney: Yeah, anonymity. The music Is nice and loud, you'dalmost think you're at Sound Factory.
Liz: Except for the Radio Shack lighting.
Sydney: I think that multicolored diamond light Is cute. It, makes
me, want to hang a velvet poster, tum on a black light and listen to the
Velvet Underground,

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LarryTc:e2: I haven't seen this much paneling since 1 left Georgia...
Liz: ThJs Is weird. I feel a desperate need to polka.
SydIiey: I'm sure if you wait long enough Dfnah3 will play one.
They should have polka lessons at midnight.
Liz: What's that flag beh1nd her?
Sydney: Polish.
L"lahoma Van ZatJdt4: I haven't seen this much paneUng since I
left Georgia ...
Liz: Wow, this place Is versatile. They'll probably have the new
Polish president'S Victory Party here.
Sydney: And have a House Ball the next day. But instead of"Vogulng on Drogs," they'll have a category for "Polka on Vodka .."Liz: Or "Vogulng on Pierogi." God, I love this city.

At bome witb Liz and Sydney, where tbey aTe just awakening
from thetrdtsco nap...
Liz: Are you getting up" It's 1:15.I mean, it's late we can't go oot now.
Sydney: No, we have to go-this Is the opening of Uiny Tee'si
Mind Bender.
Liz: But It's too late, everyone's left by now.
Sydney: Stop p1'OCI3Slinatl!lg.
You always try and get oot ci these things.

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have stingy bathroom attendants here.
Sydney: Oh, new entertainme'nt. I guess they're adding to the"Southern trash" thlng-golng for more of a glamourlcelebrity-oriented look, And a,Uza Mfnelllimpersonatoris the perfect solution, ,NOTES:
1. Friday night parties at I1vlng Plaza, (Once a
dance hall and watering hole for Poilsh expatriates
only to later be patronized by downtown denlzens
like the B-52s and the late Sid Vicious.)
2. Promoter/deejay/performer
and all-aroundnight-life personality and, according to downtown
legend, moved to New York from Atianta in a van
with two drag queens.
3. Drag-queen deejay notorious for the contorted facial expressions that she makes while lipsynching to her records.
4. Drag-queen hostess of, among many things,
the Gay Dating Game Show, and one of the occupants of that legendary van from Atlanta. Y•,n the strange, little
could be understood in a difworld tbat,has beoome
ferent , way than 1 Intend- ,my comer of the Outed""My editors took a line.
Week offices, I sit andout of my column, and that's
stew amid piles of news cUpwhy It sounds different frompings, magazines and assortwhat I meant...I didn't mean
ed other pop rubbish which,to Imply that· He stammered
like living organisms, growon for some time. And, actubigger and bigger and threaten to swallow me up. Perhaps even more
ally, I became convinced that he really wasn't expressing any lesbofrightening are the waDs, coveted with Xerolred photos of, a purplephobic sentiments that he might be harboring but was really trying toskinned, green-haJred Pat Buckley along with her husband, WilUam F.
say something else (although, after listening to him go on in a few
Buddey, Jr., who has been ~onned !nto Adolph Hitler with a few
different directions for a while, I'm confused as to what he did mean,
strokes of a pen.
to say). But then Woody added: "I guess 1 never thought that aI'
Anything can happen here.
woman who wanted to· attract other women would put on a red
And It often does. Although-I
admit It-sometimes' I sort ofdress-:-I mean, most of the gals I've known over the years wore black,
make It happen myself. But other times It's !'eyond my control, andleather and went to Bonnie and Clyde's la dyke bar that closed down
mostly it has to do with the phone.,years agol. But, I don't want to stereotype anyone.·
Last, week, for instance, a strange call came from a trusty moleinside Newsday: "lPonner New York City Mayor) John Lindsay just did
I tipped my ear from the phone and hung up. The conversation
the weirdest thing.",
was completely pointless, and, besides, I had to get to an editOrial_"Where?" I inquired.
board meeting. But first I noticed that part .9£' that natural breeding"Here In the Newsday offices.·
process, that Occurs on my desk had birthed the Dally News tight
It 8ee!JIS there was a party at -NewsrJay one night last week to honor ' before my eyes
SWEAR, I D,IDN'T BUY rr MYSELF,I MEANrn) On.AssocIate l'UbJishet Steve Eisenberg on his proIlX)IIon out to the COIISt tothe cover was Madonna, in all of her gloJ)', basking in what was tobe eXecutive vice president eX lJIIlketin8 eX NewstJtrjs sibling pape!; thealso got a phone call about thisbecOme the scandalof the ~ek,'
Los Angeks nmes. The party had a ridiculously hetero baseball theme
early that moming from an angry, Madonna-lOving gay man).
("Everyone wore Yankees caps,· slssIed the c:a1ler) and was atIeIx$ed by
At first I thought, OK. It's totally homophobic of MIV not to ron- speakel'$-peOple who the video
abOut 200 of Newsdajs employees. ~us
f9l' thethe papers gave: It depicted "bisexuality,",~!'or iInd with Eisenberg, ~g editor TOllY
five..
·voyeuris~·"sadomasochism" and sex with "people of undetennlned
to-eeven-mlnute speeches heaping praise on their former colleague.
gender.· But then, after speaking with some moles 1 have at MIV, I
Then LIndsay, who has made some truly homophobic, if blzaJre
leamed that Madonna most certainly wanted this to happen:, The
statements (last year, he would attend dinner parties, mumbling, andvideo showli a bare-breasted
woman wearing only suspenders,ranting-sometlmes
to no one specifically about the' "gay problem"
which-forget about the queer stuff-was bound to get it axed. And,and how AIDS was "God's relribution on the gay community,· causingof course, Madonna happens to have hundredll of thousands of themany to think he'd lost his matbles) stood up. (When IJndsay wasvideos waiting to be sold in stores, each for under $10. How convemayor, EIsenberg was his chief of staff, and the two were close.) Undnient! Yet again, Madonna Is being a IIhrewd businessW01Jlllll andsay blurted out the entirety of his speech:
marketing the hot Helms-induced I.s.sues of the tilne--4rt censorship,"Twenty-five years ago, I was told that Steve EIsenberg was 'a
male homosexuality, lesbianism and SlM-and scoring big. ,communist, a faggot and a f1ag-bum~.' Now it's twenty-flve years later,
And lets be real for a moment: Could Madonna perhaps be
and he's still 'a communist, a faggot and a flag-bumer.'"' No one utteredbehaving ina homophobic manner simply by u.stng society's homoa word. IJndsay then stepped dc;Jwn, as e'YeJyone in the room stared inphobia to get something banned and thus capitalize on It? (Heaven
silence, stunned arid dumbfounded.
forbid! Not Her Holiness! Not our Most Revered OneD Well, you could
So my question Is: WHEN ARE 1HEY GOING TO CART nus
argue "yes· on that question, but actually Madonna Is just Simply
LOONEY TUNE AWAY TO mE FUNNY FARM?!?
being Madonna, the wonderful PR machine, marketing strategist and
And when will things in my little world ever becomenonnal? I
self-created product she's always been. And, really, because the video
mean, right after that fieaklsh phone call, I picked up one of thosewill sell millions, teens all across Ametica will see queer images, In
breeding pieces of debris. piling up around my desk. It was a two-day
fact, only Madonna could pull this off.
old copy of 7be New Yoti :nmas. On the fashion page, in the "Pattems"~, OK, I c:Jecided that once again Madonna should be anointed ascolumn (which was also faxed into my exlstenoe by a a lesbian thatour patron aalnt And Ylhen the video club Private Eyes called to ask Ifvery day), Woody Hochswender gurgled about the color red: "It seems
we wanted to see the tape (It.hadn't yet been released, but they had athat men and women faVO( different sbacIes of red, Men are partial to
coPY and were showing it to media people), arts editor Sarah Pettit andyellow-based reds, which are more orangey ....Women tend to be
I hIgh-lailed It over there. But, alas, when we showed up, an Irate club
attracted to sharper reds with a blue base, So when a woman puts on . owner was scolding the employee who'd Invited us and others, cIaimlns
her sexiest red dress, sbe Is often, unknawinBly, aUtactlng her own sex,that he'd be sued by Warner Bros, If they show It to us befoJ;'erelease,
not rµen. And this I1IIIY Cltptain much eX what's WIOIl8ln th!s world."
Shit, Yet agaui., I'd ventured into the hOrrible, cruel outside" 'OM, REAIl.Y? I nDNK NOT, HONEY.
only to be disappointed,
burned, shunned and sloughed off, I"rve already: gotten calls from quite a few fellows,· Hochswencame to realize the hOrrible troth: I like' It here In my strange, little
der told me when I rang him up, ,·1world-phonetrauma, breeding
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I by Jennifer Montgomery. Dec. 5 and 12 at 7 pm. LIVING INSIDE; ME AND RUBYFRUIT;
A NEW YEAR.
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by KarlSoehnlein, In the. experimental film world,
sisters are·doing it for themsel,;,es,Boldly
claiming their place among the traditionally straight male avant-garde,lesbian,fIlm- and video-makers areernerging as
some of the strongest visual artists of theday. Throughout the month of December, the newly reopened
Collective for Living Cinema 'will feature the latest from ,three lesbians at differerit
stages of their artistic development, Su Friedrich, Jen-,nifer Montgomery and Sadie Benning.
Su Friedrich, a veteran of theexperimental ftIm scen~, recently premiered Sink or Swim, an autobiographical look at a tumultuous father-daughter relationship. Though less explicitly
lesbian in content than, her previous
Damned If You Don't, the film has muchto say abOut women breaking free from lifetime ofmale dominance. "I was, really conscious of the factthat it was going to be it
revealing film," Friedricha•explairis, "but regardless of how vulner~
able it was going to make me, I had to'do it.»Personal films are often dismissed
as being too self-absorbed by audiences
accustomed to Hollywood spectacle, afact Friedrich is qUick to address: "It'sreally irritating that partly beCause I'm awomen and partly because of the kindof films I make, people tend to see thern
as 'therapy,' like I have to do thiS stuff to
get through these bad feelings. I thinkmost feature films are based a lot on thefilmmaker'sprivate
experiences, but
they're disguised. The extent to·which I
concern myself with structUre and filmic
issues belies that whole idea of therapy. »Tht; experimental film world has
never been particularly receptive' to lesbian expression, often ghettoizing or dismissing it. "After Damned If You Don't, I
suddenly became the 'lesbian filmrruiker'
in the eyes of a lot of experimental filmmakers, particularly in this old boys'
scene,» she relates. "1bere's this assumption that if you're speaking from the'point of view of a minority, what you're·saying does not have any bearingonr
their lives, and they can't learn anythingfrom it which is ridiculous. We spend
all our time looking at straight ftIms.»Friedrich's experiences have led to discussions with other women about startingI

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As lesbians begin putting each to-girl desire in a scene from Rita Mae
Guerrilla Girls, "I think there's this idea
Brown's classic novel. "It was kind ofother onfUm, new issues of representathat somehow the experimental film,
tion are being raised. Montgomery has like my coming out to myself," sheworld is above the ldOd of petty, sexist,
explaihs. "I came out to a lot of people,
been exploring this firsthand: "I've
racist junk that's in Hollywood beCausebeen thinking a lot about the relations by showing them the tape, and it was a
we're well educated and 'artistic,' but all
lot ~ier because I hate having to justbetweenwomen
with a camerathat stuff does exist."'
between ,them, and the power of some- tell people. That's so boring."
Of course, lesbian viewership is not
Benning is the daughter of an experione talking to you from behind a cammonolithic, whiCh is a challenge of anothmental
filmmaker father, James Benning,era
andseducingyou
intosayingthingser sort for Friedrich. "When I madeto her. It's an erotic and cruel mixture and an artist mother, both of whom have
. DamnedIfYouDm~ Iwas really thinkingof subjugation and sharing that goes on been supportive and inspirational. "I'veof a lesbian audience. But ifs also very forbeen around a lot of art-growing. up. I've
between women when they start repremally weird, and 1 know through i5 years
jUst acquired my own way of expressing
senting each other and laying themof being around that the lesbian c0mmuniselves bare in front of the camera." Her myself." That may not be the eaSieSt thingty isn't any more open to formal experifor an openly queer teenager in Milwaufilms take these questions to their most~entation than the straig4t community,
Many of them just want a Hollywood ver- transgressive endpoint. "I think perver- kee, WIS., but Benning continues undaunted. Her current video project is called jolsion is something that needs to besion of their lives." But the lesbian commulies, and according to Benning, "it deals
reclaimed and used in a really 'dirtynity is also a continual source of encourwith my sexual experienres up until now."
positive' light, especially for women. "agement. "Women will cOme up to me
As for the future,.
ho hasSadie Benning's
experimental
and say, 'I loved Damned If You Dm't,
dropped out of high school for a while
videos break taboos by their very
particularly the sex scene, and I wish you
because the homop~obia she faced was
nature; as a 17-year-old out lesbian,
could do more because I haven't seen any"pretty traumatic"-wants to go to college
she smashes the invisibility of queer
other, film that's erotic in that way.'"
teenage sexuality by giving it a voice. for filmmaking. "I really want to end up'
Jennifer Montgomery hasn't been
Using the Fisher-Price PXL Vision cam- making films. They'll probably always beworking as long as Su Friedrich-Age
experimental, because I can't make myera, Benning creates 'work that's
12: Love With a Little I is only her secmind do something that it's 'not." 'Y'remarkably beautiful and expressive.
ond film-but
she too is grapplingwith her po.sition between the dual
margins of "lesbian" and "experimental." "I do think there is a connection'betweenmaking queer work andworking _in opposition to traditional
narratives," she explains. "I saw Vito
Russo speak: last year, and he articulated the way gays and lesbians have had'to insert themselves into straight narra".tive and the fact that we will always be
TWIN PEAKS. Written by Mark Frost and David Lynch. ABC.
subversive to narrative because weSaturdays at 10 pm EST.
have to approach it in disguise. To behonest and embracing of my sexuality
show's racism and homophobia,· while
involves making experimental work,by Anne Rubensteinhatred of women appears less in who the
I It's a bit late to write about Tw;nbecause I want to talk about things
Peaks, since hardly anyone watches it female characters are than in what hapthat are taboo in traditional narrative."pens to them. Twin peakS women are theLike Friedrich,
Montgomery's
now that it's on Saturday nights .. Some
subjects of unintended pregnancy, .ethipeople gave up on it much earlier thanwork is also shaking up the establishedcally questionable medical treatment,
that: That misogyny of the first episodeavant-garde.
Her first film, Homecounteracted the can-you-b.elieve-this-is- alcohol and drug abuse, abandonment,
Avenue, a personal story of being
seXual harassment, accidental mutilation,
really-on-1V attraction. Yet the solution to
raped as a teenager, received a particuattempted rape, rape, beating, fraud,
the mystery of Laura Palmer's murdeF, nolarly misogynistic review from estabarson,attempted
murder, kidnapping,matter how little we care about it by now,
lished filmmaker Warren Sonbert. "Heincest, torture and murder. Not a single
raises several issues worth thinking about.
didn't even believe I'd been raped,"
female character has escaped. No wonderNo question, 1Wtn peaks is misogyshe recalls. "I think [his] kind of attack
they all seem to end up dead, suicidal,
nist. Stereotypes--the noble Injun scout
would come out of being threatenedandth~ seductive,'by the increasing presence of women
inscrutable Asians; thein the expc:rimental fum field and thelisping department-store
way it's changing the landscape. In
more and more fUms, men are not pre- , menswear buyer and thesadistic lesbian brothel
sent or are playing roles that are not
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to the "good" men represented by thesheriff, the I:81 agent and the mill owner.
In Twtn Peaks, as in real life, thethreat to .women is posed by those closest to them, Women in this 1V series are
not beaten up by strangers; instead, theviolent men are boyfriends, husbands,
employers, members of the family.
Despite David Lynch and company's
attempts at surrealism, the greatest virtueof this 1V series is its demystificationof male violence. This realism is avirtue borrowed from horror films.
Movie~ suchHalloween and Friday
the 13th show how dangerous home·can be, especially for women: Like
Twin Peaks, they offer mystical expla, nations, for violence,
while alsoemphasizing that it is the men we trust
who embody the evil.
As sociologist Isabel Pinedo has, . pointe~ out, though, the women who
survive in, horror fllms are those who
do not deny the rea\jty of viol~nce'.
Sutv;ivors investigate; they learn what
the dange,r is and how to avoid it;
JUST LYNCH 'EM-Director David and his woman
they fight back when attacked. Unfortumitely, David Lynch did not approof domestic violence, 'but only if
options are these: The evening news,
priate this part of the standard horror
they don't fuck; and now Twin
which implies
that ~nly Black
film formula. In Twin Peaks, investiPeaks, which says .that yes, domestic
teenagers are violent; mysteries likegation is men's work. Women who try
violence exists, but no, there is nothPresumed Innocent or Reversal of
to figure it all out wind up likeing you can do about it. Maybe it's
Fortune, in which husbands
or
Audrey, kidnappedand drugged,
time to'walk out of the movie houslovers kill women because they
Women who are atta~ked-Jcllld this is
es and into karate classes. Time todeserve it;' horror films that show
the part that bothers me the mostmake our own damn movies. T
alert and feisty women as 'survivors
never seem to fight back, not evenunsuccessfully,"
A few weeks ago, we saw a long
scene in which a middle-aged man beathis healthy teenage niece to death. She
screamed and ran around, but she,
never ran out of the house or tried to A monthly consumer guide to new and unusual music.
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HEAVEN BUT FEELS UkE THE
ROAD TO HELL ...So mouths. super-place is that madhouse on 4th Street, tP¢ WOW
Cafe. This month, the kind thesp4ms-in-residence offer their annual winter' festival, includ~ing 19 programs of readings, performance:? and •a party. The list of talent is long and sparkly asa holiday garland Call (212) 873-1165 for ,infoor (212) 460-8067 for reservations.
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Michael's newly released "Freedom '90" video.
Were this Sapphic shuffle not arresting•enough, imagine our surprise at an entire
DECK THE HALLS ...withlots ofthree-minute-plus
segment (directed byMadonna's "Express Yourself" creator) in which Michael's
men. Or, what has 300 legs, 150 tongues and enough hot air
voicejiiinhabits various female forms (and this guy is not a to fill America's premiere concert hall? New York City Gay
queen?); All the gender play' is somewhat mitigated by an, 'Men's Chorus, ,of course. NYCGMC will help celebrate
odd little exchange between Ms. TiJrlington and Ev;mgelista. carnegie Hall's 100th birthday with two p,erformances of"Deck the Hall" under the direction of Gary Miller. The
It appears that the two ladies prick their digits drawing blood
evenings. will feature a tribute to the late Leo~d Bernstein,in a suggestive sort of "bond of sisterhood." Someont; should
along with a range of holiday-flavored works" all to beclue these gals in-it's OK to play, but play safe.
--accompanied by a, brass sextet. Tickets for the Dec. 18 and
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which, comes completewith a grooving•
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Fans of the now-defunct progressive
dance band Parachute Club will behappy to note that its lead singer, Lor~e
Segato, finally has her own solo
album out. Segato, a sort .of Canadian
institution, has come under criticism fromsome Toronto progressives lately for awaning political consciousness. Still, I'll
always remember her performances at'Toronto pl'CKhoice marches and PrideDay festivals, and as being the only
singer at the 1988 Michigan festival tocome out as a lesbian on-stage during
hex:,set. Unfortunately, Phoenix, likemany crossover albums by queer artists,
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fork in the road,/You can stand there and,however, enjoyable forclassic
that should
agonizelfill your agony's your heaviest
its own merits, being aload," and: "When you're learning to facemake all you lesbian,
well-produced
pop
vampiresdrooL It's
the path at your pace,/Every choice isalbum featuring Segato's, worth getting this cas- worth your while." It is this sort of wisdeep, sultry voice andsette just to hear thesedom, offered in combination with the simsome of the best background musicians in gals rock out on lyrics like "I don't like ple beauty of songs like "Southland'in thethe' business. These include Vicki Randle, kisses,! And I don't like tongues,!But,
Springtime," that will make you appreciate
fellow ex-P ,dub member Billy Bryans,baby, if you want to start ,me tothe sCope of these women's talerits. Yes,
up-and-comiQg singer Rebecca Jenkiris
come/J~
bite me." To order the Girls in there are those who object to the religious
and myoid school pal Micah Barnes.
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ics. Still, for those who seek out the spiriFire" and "Big Big World," "Beautiful andIndigo Girls (Epic)tual in a musical world so bereft of anyDangerous,"a song Segato dedicated toNomads·Indians Saints, the Indigo thing else as closely meaningful, the songS,
her lover at the Michigan fest, is a love Girls' third and most polished album, conof the Indigo Girls will always strike a resonant chord'
song that could only be written by one
tinues their traditional mix of soul-searchwoman for another. Distributionofing lyrics, strong solo vocals, engaging
Pboeni.x to the US from Canada has been harmonies and accomplished acoustic
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your record store ,to carry it, If that fails, Salier's compositions are lighter in to~e
(Olivia Records)
check the Ladys/ipper catalog, or beg a than Ray's spiritually searching ones, but
Although no longer still performing
Canadian mend to sencl it to you.
taken as a whole, the album is a well-balon the circuit, Meg Christian remains a
anced, inixture of the brooding and cel~ favorite in ,the world of "women's music."
GIRLS IN THE NOSE
bratory. The best songs on this album
One of the foundersof Olivia Records,,
Girls in the Nose
include "Keeper of My Heart," "Hand Me Olristian became one of the first recording(mail-order cassette only)
Downs" and that most wise ode toartists to fuse her love for women and her, life's
Before the group Two Nice Girls
choices, "Watershed," which reminds us: See MUSIC on page 55
became a lesbian household name, there
was Girls in the Nose, singer Gretchen
Phillips and drummer Pam Barger's first
band. While never reaching the kind ofnotoriety that Two Nice Girls have man- DECADE DANCE by Michael Lassell. A1ysonPublications. $7.95 pb.l44 pp.
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debut deserves to be· discovered by the
by James Co-:-rad"
But beyond this immp.diate comrock-loving dyke community. Lead singer
Upon finishing Decade Dance,
parison, there are further similarities in
Kay Tumq's sexy voice alternately coosMichael Lassell's first collection ofeach poet's mission, and obvious difthen soars to a resOunding scr~
as shepoems, you might be reminded of Liveferences in the methods. Sexton andknocks out lesbian-positive lyrics like "sheor Die, Anne Sexton's Pulitzer Prize- , Lassell are both witty (a rare an,d comknows how to make love to me" at thewinning Confessional classic written
mendable trait among contemporary
top of her lungs, band in full swing
nearly 25 years earlier. The simple
poets), and both have a talent forbehind her. In fact, this is by far the most \,. comparison is the fInal poem iIi bothwords with'dark and disturbing double'lesbian-oriented
rock album I've yetbooks: Lassell's "How,to Choose Life" meanings, Sexton confronts her own
encountered, full of references to dyke
and Sexton's"Live." Both poems
life-threatening
neurosis, and Lassell
sexuality, politics and culture. There's aemerge at the, end of their respective
fights AIDS and homophobia.
Bothsong about ve
entitled "Meat"; dark tunnels with such a similar,
explore the brutally honest world of"Menstrual Hut," a song (you guessed it)
instruc!ional,"life7among-the-ruins"sexual desire, where speaking thea~out bleeding; a syrupy ballad about
tone, you may wonder if Lassell was
unspeakableis key, an in-your-face" straight fen1inists called "Honorary Heteroconscious of Sexton's' famous call forkind of theme which helped Sexton
sexual Lesbian'"; "Come and Die," abbut , life when he appropriated her title andbattle the moral forces which kept her
the virtue$ of death by orgasm; and afus.ed it into his own, mtimately, Sexdown as a woman, and, Similarly,
hilarious rap-within~-50ng called "Prison- ton's will to live has always been shadattempt to force Lassell down as a gay
ers of Pantyhose," which offers us suchowed by her later suicide, while Lasman. Such a personal price was too
wisdom 'as:
"So here's some advice fromsell's :'How to Choose Life" is condil,1igh for both poets, and the poems,
Girls in the Nose'/Women' unite, taketionedby remem"beredjoys andlash out from the page in self-defense.
back your hose.! Take them back to theprayers for· strength. By the end of"Confessional" is a loaded, easydamn store/Say, 'We won't wear themboth books,
you
feel
an
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sense
of
label
which I would never attribute to,Lassell, It implies sin, guilt and all theawe and exhaustion.
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pleasure of the "I"'s body. Th~'s almost
took on physical issues such as mentoo much "there" there, and each one ofstruation and masturbation, she washis epiphanies in these sex poems rings
well aware of her own vulnerability
with the suspicious Sincerity of a man"with such material and her excesses of
who says, "I love you" when he comes.
imagery attempted to protect herself
This may be the point, but how often
from the subjects at hand. Lassell, on
can it be made?'the other hand, writes about having
A lot of Decade Dance is impossisex with men with i bravado that
ble to critique, especially the poems inkeeps "confession" a non-issue for his"Rendezvous With Death," which tackpoems. Lassell's poems in "Street Meat" le the denial, anger and sorrow ofand "Eros Reclaimed" explode withAIDS invading the poet's personal
realism, but what he loses with such
realm. The elegies are effectively writ'sexual exultation is metaphor. Lassell's ten with the instructional second-perhustlers and dancers can only be "hardson personal poems being the mostas nails" or with "eyes like Marijyn's" ,successful.
them, Lassell formally
but can never be anything more thanconveys the mood of learning to do
nameless bodies paid. for sex. Of
things people at his age should notcourse, this is exactly what suchneed
to know how to do: "How to,
encounters are, and though Lassell is Prepare for the Death of.a Friend,"
shrewd enough to know the ephemeral"How to WatchYour Brother Die" and,riature of this subject,"How. to Visit thehis insistent dwelling on
Grave of a Friend."
it overdoes a good thing.
The use of the second
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is not over;' many more will die. The"Brother" p<;>emis the best of these(and the most anthologized) beca4se it
brings a foreign element into Lassell's •gay-specific world. By sympathetically
instructing the straight brother of a'man who dies from AIDS to confront
his own homophobia through such an
extreme loss, Lassell masterfully relocates the dead into memory, and thebrother's gay-identified world is reconstructed for the straight man's eyes,
ears and touch. The ironic, subtly bitt~r
closing does not overkill the poem
with anger, but ftrmly.comments upon
the straight man's privilege, perhaps
now realized, perhaps not.
The political poems in "13arricades
and Trenches" are also hard to critique,but at their best they a:e funny andacute, though they often run on toolong and would prove to be swifterand more cutting if tightened, It is,always risky to write in word play andpolitical satire, but for the most partthe humor pays off, and even when -it
doesn't, the attempt is always appreciated in our rather .humorless world of
American letters.
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Leave ,of Love," a,smart and moving persona poem about
Byron's unconsummated passion for a
Greek page.· ~ere Lassell leaves Lassell
behind and is dependent on his ~gi-,nation in 'two ways: as the persona of,
Byron and the imagining of unfulfflledsexual love. Though the poem breaks,
down near the end with a misplaced
forward glance at immortality (the veryuse of a historic persona already forces
the reader to consjderthe poem's juxtaposition with the present day), La~
sell's delicate ana passionate lines climax with "I have become myself inpraising you." This is, in a sense, oneof poetry's great missions: to discover
the true language of unfulftlled desire,the imagmings of a personal paradisethrough the tools of the everyday
world. Lassell's true talent emerges
when he steps out of ,himself with this, poem to discuss desire,' physically andemotionally, through Byron's unrequited love. A kind of desire that long outlasts any temporary gratifications found, in a Times Square porn booth. T_r ..

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My mother's'yard where I la,zed and sunbathed
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ripened in the representative sunlight.
What use was I to her, fictionizing, unemployed?
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dyke's music collection. With five albums
recorded on Olivia (her last album was not,and is not represented here), it must have beendifficult to select the. songs for this ~So while listeners will undoubtedly feel thatsome of their favorites were left out, the mostnotable omission, given how many women' are
in recoveI)', is that of the song "R.esdess.. SIill,other gems like "v.Ilentine Song,. "'!he Road I
Took to You· and "Sweet Darling~· are
all here, and the collection does its best to
include many of the singer's cOvers as well as
original compositioos. The Best ofMeg (1JrIstfan
will be a Welcome addition to the music coIleclions of many lesbians and a plSt.<Jue tIibute toone of the women who started it all. •Fro..... page
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musical talents. 'Ib celebrate her accomplishments, Olivia recently released 7be Best if Meg
to this woman with
Cbrtstfan, a 17-song ode,
the sweet, soothing voice and the inwaId,look-

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our lives. Even if you are the type who will
spend more time waiting in line for Cocteau
Twins tickets than 'listening to any new"women's music" album, there is still no better
balm for a bruised ego or a broken heart than
Christian's 1981 album Turning It 0VeI: And
Meg and Chris at Carnegie Hall, Christian's
1983 collaboration with Chris WijIiamson,remains a necessary part of any well-rounded,'ll'IHI IE IHIIT§'ll'(ID Il& ITIES (IDIF•

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Andy Humm Hosts:::::::?
-WORlAIDS AWARENESS DAY INCLUDING TAPES FROM .. :-7TH AVE. ON SALE AT ARMY
-RECEPTION FOR 'RED. HOT AND BLUE' AT THE BUilDING-UNITED NATIONS 3RD INTERNATIONAL WORLD AIDS DAY-MUSEUM OF MODERN ART MEMORIAL INCLUDING PROClOMATION BY THE MAYOR,-DIE-IN AT THE COMMUNITY CEr,lTER-'THE ELCTRIC BLANKET' AT COOPER UNION-BENEFIT CONCERT FOR UNITED AIDS-AND THE CITY GOES DARK-All ABOUT WOMEN WITH REBECCA lEWIN-STONEWAll CORAlE'S SPECIAL HOLIDAY PROG,RAM-LAVENDER HEALTH AND LIVING WITH AIDSNAMING NAMES POINTS A FINGER AT THE MEDIA

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David CeI.·1 Th. Big 1018, "about awoman's ongoing relationship wHh a
man who Is sexually liberating andsocially humiliating" and FrankMaya'IUnButhorlzsd Autobiography""a series of funny, scary, and partially
fictionalized biographical stories";.74ft., E 4 St, second floor; $10 Thursdays, $12 Fridays & Saturdays ($2less for members); THU-SAT at 10
pm; 475·7710 (thruDEC 8).WBAI Annual Holiday WBAI Craftl M-F, 1-5 pm. New York Open Genter
OutWeek IJstInp Editor
fair with over 300 craftspeople sell- Art-Gallery. 83 Spring Sl (212) 219I
Ing ceramics, precious metal jewelry, 2527. Dec. 9 through Jan. 13.
1S9 West 2S StreI,It
fiber clothing and outerwear, blown
New York, NY 10001
glass, wood, houseware and homl!- -VIS-A-VIS
GAllER.Y AT ST.
N.xttklldllllel Mo8day, Nov. 26
furnishings, toys and games, musical ClEMENT',S CHURCH presents A
Instrilments, quilts and tapestrie~, N.w Voice, photographs by Sus,an'Por Issue "6, whkh bias the ,rugs, pillows, candles, kaleidoscopes, lerher, Please call first. Gallery hours:. ItaJIds 00 Monday, December 3.
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handmade books and paper, leather M-F, 10 am to 6 pm and Sunday, 7-9
NEWADDRE88
bags and briefacases, pewter, more; pm. 423 W, 46th St. (212) 246-7277:
All listings should be sent to Outat Columbia UniversIty's F-errisBooth.. W•• k I.IIIlnOI.159 W. 25 81, NY, NY
Hall, 115 & B'way; FRI from 5-9 pm" -CENTERMUSEUM Of lESBIAN AND
10001. Please change your records,
WESSEL O'CONNOR GAllERY pre- SAl & SUN froml1 am - 6 pm; $6 GAY HISTORYAND ARCHIVESopens
sents Loring McAlpin's PUrpl, M,n: per day/$15 for all nlnl! days; 279- ImBg,s From th, Front: Photogra..
PAID ANNOUNCEMENTS
n.w sculplural,coflSlruCtlons, con- , 0707, 695·4465 (NOV 30 thr'u DEC I phyChBllBnglng AIDS, various works
Paid Announcements ~elp you with slsUng of objects "designed to exam· 16),
which all Incorporate photography In
advance publicity for events not yet Ine the cuHural symbology of current.
some way, juried by artists, photogra·
listed In,this week's calendar, or pro- male Identity" Including "wrestling-HAllWAllS CONTEMPORARYART phers, activists; work by Morganvide, extra
vis Ibillty.
Other pads, athletic lockers, a vanl/:y lable, CENTER presents Under S.lge, a Gw.nwald. Mark Johnlon, Trac.y ..
notices-calis
for ,volunteers,'male' paperback books, and' cocktail vault ,Installation by Michael Hunt Lin. Robert Mignon.
Rob.rlannouncements of ongoing services, bar accessories" wHh which the arlist Stolbach
whose over 200 drawings Vazqu.z. The Center. 208 W. 13 St.
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mlsceJlaneous messages-are also Inspects "the parameters of homoso~ confront the artist's "own personal (212) 62(>-7310.Through Jan. 18.
welcome, Rates: $2.50 per'lIne, 38- clal and homosexual Intimacy";
crisis over the AIDS epidemic, thecharacter maximum; or 7 cents per showing with Sianley SI.lIar·1
death of friends and his own fears." 5 GROVESTREET presents Bob,
character, paragraph ~tyle. lower the .umlnBllon of lb. mBI. nud, form; 700 Main St. Buffalo, NY. Through Brainard
and Bob KohelT's BrlclrfBc,
total to the nearest dollar amount. 580 B'way (below Houston); Gallery Dec. 17.
& Stucco, performers who both
Milkl! checks payable to OutWBBk. hours TUE·SAT, 10 am - 6 pm; 219appeared in Parting GlancBs, their
The Uvely Arts listings and Going Out 9524 (thruDEC 8) ,COOPERSQUARETHEATERpresents original comedy material includes two
Calendar continue to be free for those,James Dean Jay Byrd's My PBt jocks who learn they can vogue,
events which are current.
COOPERSQUARETHEATERpresents Homo, "a late-night inter-glliactic
retired SoUd Gold Dancers,Amlsh"
Eoln ,W.st'l HlstorlcBI Plflods, "a drag comedy that questions the rappers who put the "men back In
HOLIDAYPARTYI
drama about the position of racial, accepted definitions of what Is nor· Mennonite," an early Simon & Gar·
Join hundreds of professionalreligious, polltical,and sexual minOri- maf'; starring RuPaul and Mona funkel, and the Rocky Mountain Buttwomen & men of the Network ofties in a histOrical landscape dominat- Foot, and Joel Von Ornll!!ln.r,Boys who open at a gay'rode,o in
BUSinessand Professional
ed by a Celtic Irish CathOliC directe~ by Jon Michael Johnlon; 50 West Hollywood; videos serve'!ls ,Organizations for the 8thconservative majorlty"~ 50 E 7 St E 7 St (east of 2nd Ave); $10 gener- transitions between live routines; atAnnual Holiday Cocldall Party(Btwn lst/2nd Aves); $10 or TDF+$5; al/$8 In drag; FRIDAYSat 11 pm-Ish; 55 .GroveSt (west of 7th'Ave South);, (proceeds to benefit the,Center)
THU-SUN at 8 pm; closed NOV 22- 228-0811 (thru DEG21)$3 + 2-drink minimum; FRI at 8 pm;
25; 228-0811 (thru DEC9), on ru.... D.c 4 - 6:30 to 9:30 pm.
366-5438$50 per person before 11/23190.
BAGA DOWNTOWN opens p'reviews,
Call our 24-hour answerllne
PUCHONG GAllERY presents Bill' of Mac Wellman's Slne,,11y •FOrBv.r, AMERICAN PLACE THEATER pre(212) 517·0771, Costa: Icon, Bnd Portrait" new pho- In which "Jesus H. Christ appearS In seots I StBnd B.for. You NBkBd by
for Infonnation and Invitation.
tographs of male nudes; 36A 3rd Ave; the Southern town of Hlllsbottom,
Joyce Carol Oates, about ten'women
982-1811 (thru Dec 12)
made up entirely of KKK members dealing with life In today's America;
AudHlons for n.w
and some Mystic Fur Balls"; with with Ellzab.th Alley. Penny Temple·
Ulblan,IGay Singing GroupVILLAGE THEATRE COMPANY pre- Amy Brenneman. Frank D.al*. lach ton,
Nancy
Barrell.
Annie
women altos needed
sents Eric B.ntl.y's ArB You Now or Gr.nler*. Jan Hardlng-, Patrick
McGreevay. Marguerlle Kuhn, Bron- .
pop, folk, Jazz,classical and more
HBV. You EVIf Blln, a "Brechtian KelT*, Sieve Mellor*. Dan Morln*,
wen Booth; 111 W 46 St; $20; WEDclose harmony, a cappella style
tale of show business on trial";
leili. Nlpkow*. K.nya Scoll*. David' SAT at8 pm, also WED & SAT at 2Sun•• D.c. 2; Center, 208 W 13 St
directed by H.nry Fonte, with Ray Van negh.m* (*AEA member); 111 pm, SUN at3 pm; 840-3074
Elliot. (718) 824-7776 for appt.
Alh.rton. Barbar B.rcu. Mlch.lI.
Willoughby St, ,Brooklyn; $10 or
B.rk •• Mlcha.1 Curran. Millon
TDF+$5; THU-SAT at 8 pm; 718/596- CHARLES lUDLAM THEATRE preElllolI, Wally Dunn. Randy Kelly. 2222 (thru DEG22)
sents Ludlam'l CBmlllB, starring and..
T.lTence Martin. David McConnell •,directed by EvereU QUinton, withLIVELYARTS
Mlcha.1 John McGulnnels. Julia -THE NATIONALORGANIZATIONFOR Ch.ryl ReevlS. Ken Scullin. Georg
Also see the dally listings for show- Mclaughlin.
Rodn.y L. Nugenl.
WOMEN presents Women Phologra. Ostennan, Eureka. Bobb Reed. Jim
Ings of one or two days.
Dugg SmHh, Howard Thor.l.n; 133 pherl NOW, featuring' work' by Lamb. Clrl Claybourne.
H.M.
W 22 St; $12; WED-SA'F at 8 pm Berenice Abbott,Barbara Brodnlck, Kououkal. J.an·Claud. Valleux,
A (-) signifies a new listing(DEC 16 at'7 pm for a clOSing night Annie lelbovitz and others. Opening SI.v.n P.II,.l Sheridan Square; $25;
THE CLUB AT lA MAMA presents benefit); 627·8411 (thru DEC 16)
reception and a'uctlon on Dec. 17 TUE·FRI at 8 pm, SAT &SUN at 7 pm;
from 7-10 pm. Regular gallery hours: 691-2271,,,
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David ".venl'
Th' Bum 01 U" by
the writer of Breaksr Morant, starring
Tony Boldwyn and Richard V.nture,
directed by K.vln Dowling, about afather who tries to help with his son's
gay relationships while he looks lor a
new wile; 38 Commerce St; $27.50$32.50; TUE-FRI at 8 pm, SAT at at 7
& 10 pm, SUt\~t 3 & 7:30 pm; 989-'
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the William Rnn/James
Lapine musical, the third In Finn's
M.rvln »'110", an examination of the
Impact of AIDS on a gay male couple,
a lesbian couple, a heterosexual couple, and a child; 121 Christopher St;$27.50-$35; TUES-FRI at 8 pm, SAT
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Thom.s M. Disch's Th, C"dln.'
O"OXII, "a chilling look Inside thi
hierarchy of the modern CathOlic
Church exploring such Issues as
AIDS, abortion, tle.s to organizedcrime and homosexuality"; directedby R. J.ffrey Coh.n, starring G.org.,
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.); ~29-6160 (At presstlms, ths
thsatllrs landlord, Cardinal O'Connor,. was stili In housing court, trying tosvlct thsss blasphsmsfS, ·RX)I

THE COLUMBIA GAY HEALTHADVOCACY PROJECTpresents a Forum on
Wom.iI .nd A1D8. featuring G.orgi
B.lllinger Jr. 01 the Minority Task
Force on AIDS, Mydl. HI.rlon fromADAPT and a member of ACT UP's
women's caucus. Free, The Schiff
Room In ferris Boot/! Hall. Columbia
University, Broadway at 116 Street, 8
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MARC BERKLEY'S, KOOL KOMRADS
presents Kill ollh, Bpld" 'oy
Party, with videos of Brazilian men,Brazilian atmosphere, dancers; at PrI.
vate Eyes, 12 W 21 St; opens 10 pm;$7 genera11$5with Invite; '206-7n2
TUESDAY.DEC.4,

NYC DISTRICTING COMMISSIONMONDAY.DEC. aholds a PubliC H•• rlng on how todraw new lines for 51 City Council
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS districts by June 3, '1991; at John
Dining on Ih. Upper W"I Sid., Adams High, 101-01 Rockaway Blvd,
before the Indigo Girls Conc.rt at the Queens; 5:30 slgn·ln, hearing Irom 6Beacon Thealre (74 StlB'way, 496· 10 pm (NYCDC, 11 Park Place,7070); loin the meal even If not the #1616, NYC 10007)
music; 6 pm; SAL Info/rsvp 718/965·
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COMMUNITY RESEARCH INITIATIVE
Forum: MAl (Mycob.cterlum Avlum
BEACON THEATRE presents Indigo Intr.c.llula,.);presentations andGirls In Conc.rt; 74 St & B'way; 8 discussions by leading researcherspm; $22.50; 496-7070 (also tomor· on treatment, diagnosis, prevention
row)of MAl; all Invited; at the Center, 208
W 13 St; 6-11 pm; $20 suggested;
SOUTHERNERSG.m. Nighl: Scrab· rsvp 481-1050
ble, Bridge, Hearts, M()Ropoly, bringyour favorite board and card games; NETWORK (OF BUSINESS & PROon the Upper West Side; 8 pm; free; FESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS) 81h
David Gilbert, 674·8073
Annual Holiday Party, with a sumptuous repast Inlcudlng whole roast. GAYACTIVIST ALLIANCE IN MORRIS Vermont turkey, maple-gl82;ed cured
COUNTY, NJ W.. kly M .. Ung, ham, salads, cheeses, pastas, breads,
tonight discussing Melropolltan
pastries, coffee, tea, wines, cham·, Comm!!nlty Chun:~, Christ the Ube,. pagne, beers, lulces, soft drinks; cash
alor, and how some GMMC mem- liar, cocktail plano; at the Broadway
bers have had their spiritual needs Ballroom In the Holiday Inn Crowne
met by this mostly gay chrui:h; at Plaza, B'way and 49 St; 6:30·9:30
Morristown Unitarian Fellowship, 21 pm; $50 advance/$60 door; Info &,,sa OUTWEEK'o.c.rnb.r 12, 19_
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WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSIN BUSI,NESS Discuilion Circle: H''Iln, •SAGE presents a C.I.bratlon ill Gay 'Ulln,,, on III, BIde; with networkL.g.nd Col. Port.r, (a benellt lor Ing and "the Business Clinic"; at the
SAGEtonight) wrHten and directed by center, 208 W 13 St; 6:30-8 pm; $5;
Maurlc. Levin., with the evening's Info 718/237-2399 (E~ltor'S note:
host Jan. Pow.lI; cast Includ.s
WEB meets tonight and every first
Larry K.rt, L•• Roy R.aml, Julie Tuesday.)
Wliion I William Roy. Daugherty I
FI.ld. Ann Hampton caillway. Bobbl GAY MEN'S HE~l:TH CRISIS HIV
Baird. ChrllUn. Andre.l. J.lon
He.nh S'JIIlnarr. Bln.nts InfomaGr•••• M.ry Cleere H.r.n. P.ul., tlon .nd I.Igil IIIUII, tonight andL.ur.nc •• K.ren M.son; musical every 1st TueSday; 129 W 20 St, Bendirector Plul ~eblood; Luc.llle Lor- efits on the 3rd Roor, Legal on Lower
tel Theatre, 121 ChrlstQPhtr St; 8 pm; .Level C; 7 pm; free; 807-6655, TOD:
tlX/info 741-2247
645-7470

New Yorle's lesbian and u.y community"; Clty·wlde, and Bronx-based
groups will send' representatives;
Spanish and ASL interpreted. Hostos
CommunItY College. 500 Grand Concourse at 149 St., Room 513 (WCaccessible). 7 pm, 620-73'10.
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present 81nk or Bwlm; wlthSu 'Frl.drlch's Sink or Swim, J.nnller
Monlgom.ry'i Lovs With a Llttls I,
and S.dl, B.nnlng·s
Ms andRubyfrult, A N.w Ysar and Living
Insldl; Ms. Montgomery will attend.
$6 (members free). 41 White St.
(btwn B'way/Church). 7 pm. 925- '2111.

OPEN CIRCLE gathere to Cellbrat.
A DIFFERENT LIGHT BOOKSTORE
the God/d'lI on the Full Moon, at presents fill 180 R•• dlng 8.rI.s:
the Center" bring percusSion Instill" B.rblra WII.on: B.udl AII,rnoon.
ments; 208 W 13 St; 7-7:30 pm Free, but seating Is limited. 548,Hud(begins promptly; arrive early); $2 son St. (btwn Charles!Perry Sts), 8(OC, Box 4538, Sunnyside, NY pm, (212) 989-4850.
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THE KATHRYN BACHE MILLER THE,LAMBDAINDEPENDENT ATRE presents Mlcltl.1 Cunningham
reading from his novel, ;4 Hom. at
DEMOCRATS
C.ndlll.t.
Nlglit!EndoFllmlnt "Itlng
to gl18t till End 01 Ills World, Also leatured:and grill the candidates vying In the Mary Caponegro (St" Cafs.and'29th City Council District's special Other Storl.s) a~d Patrick McGrath
February election, encompassing(Splds,.,. $7 general admission. $5
much 01 Park Slope, Br<!oklyn students and seniors. Dodge Hill.
Heights. Cobble & Boerum Hills; at Broadway at 116 street 8 pm, (212) ,Park Slope MethOdist Church, 8 St & 854-n99.
6th Ave, Bklyn;7:30 pm; 718/3841285
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS
Pool I Ping !»tng Night, bllll.nII at
BEACON THEATRE presents Indigo 7th/FIatbush Aves, Park Slope, Bklyn;
Girl. 'In Concert; 74 St & B'way; 8 8 pm; then drlnkl/.oclallzlpg.
Thepm; $22,50; 496-7070
Roost. 7th Ave. at 8th St. ,0 pm-Ish;
SAL Info/rSvp (718) 965-7578
NATIONAL GAY & LESBIAN TASKFORCE and THE MAYOR'S OFFICE GLAAD presents Lllblln Invillblilty,
FOR THE LESBIAN & GAY COMMU· a 'panel leaturlng women In the
NITY present a Community Forum on media. The Center,208 W. 13th St. 8
Creltlng Ch.ng.: A N,w Yoii' P,r- pm, (212) 966-1700,',',p'~/'I' on N,,'on.' LIIIII.n .nd
B.y Or,.nlzln,., with Dr. M.rJorle
Hili. 8usan All •• ; B.rry Dougla'.
Kathy Acey. Rlch,.rd Bum •• G.org.
B.lllnger. Sandy Low •• M.n Foreman. Jacqul. Bllllop. Ken Dawaon.
Llil Wlnt ..... Yv.ttl Burton. Rob.rt
Vallluez, Others; at the Center, 208 W
13 St; 8 pm; 620-7310

WOW CAFE R.adlng: po.t M.llnd.
Goodman and fiction wrll .... Dorothy
Alchllon.
Phyllis Flchtenholtz.
lucinda Zoe and L.lII Ron.n. $6,
59 E, 4 St, 8 pm. 480-8067.
EAGLE BAR Movll Night: Pre"yWom.n, -wIth Rlch.rd Ger •• 142
Eleventh Ave. (at 21 8t). 11 ,pm. 691·
8451.

WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVES ,COMMU·NITY CENTERDlsOlllllon .nd 80clll
Group for I.IlIIlIn. In Hilith care; THURSDAY,DEC.II
675 Woodfield Rd, West Hempstead,
L1;8 pm; $3 more Ill1ess If; 516/483- CENTERMUSEUM OF LESBIAN AND
2050.
GAY HISTORYAND ARCHIVES opens
WEDNESDAY.DEC.5

Im',11 From th, Front:PhoIO,,.phy Chall,n,ln, AlDB,various works

CENTERFirst-Ever Orl.ntallon In theBron~, "your best Introduction towhich all Incorporate photography In
some way, lurled by artists, photographers, a~tlvlsts; .work by Morgan,

Gwenwald, Mark Johnson, Tracey QUEER NATION Town Meellng: The , am, $45, 982-4138 (advance tickets
Lilt, Robert Mignon,
RobertCenter. 208 W. 13 St. 8:30 pm; 242· only, none sold althe door),
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBI~NS
Vazquez. The Center. 208 W, 13 St. ' 6334.
presents Gooly Indoor Spo..... Mlnl'(212) 620-7310. Through Jan. 18.
AIDS CENTEROF QUEENS COUNTY golf, thumb-wrestling arena, darts
FRIDAY,DEC.7
AID8 Information Exchange: M.dl·
and more. 267 9th St., #4L. BrookSOUTHERNERS Dinner at Levee,c.' Upd.t.; 97-45 Queens Blvd,
lyn, Info: (718) 965-7578,,
entrees from $7-$13. Limited to ten GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS pre·Rago Pari(. 9-11 am. Rsvp necessary
people, rsvp now with David Gilbert. sents a three-day Grief and Healingat (718) 896-2500
GAY MEN'S HEALTHCRISIS DanclRrst Ave. at 1st St. 7 pm. (212) 674· Worbhop for volunteers. Follow·up
a·thon; five hours of dancing with
8073on .Jan. 10. For Info or registration, ' GAY FATHERS FORUM Reunionhourly fifteen· minute breaks forcontact Joseph Ripple at (212) 337· Meeting and Dance; at the Center, entertainment; dancers register and
THE NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL - 2586.
. 208 W 13 St; 7 pm; Center 620fI~d their own sponsors (starting at
FESTIVAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY
7310; member Info, 979-7541, 288- $2 per hour, COllect money In
FILM presents Women's HOliday SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIAN~ 3236
advance, $250 or more gets Dance·
Party, featuring food, drink and hot presents Dining Out: M!dtown, Joina·thon sweatshirt); Javlts Cemer, 36\
videos. $l5. 80 VariCkSt., 14C, 7 pm us before the Holly Near concert
SAGE Women's 5~+Rap Group:
St & 11th Ave; dancers arrive 6 pm;
to midnight. (212) 966-5656(even If you're not goIng). 6' pm. A,ln, """",
at the Center, 208 W dance from 7 pm to midnight; 807Info: (718) 965-7578,
13 St; 1:30 pm; 741-2247
6310 (TOO 645-7470)
WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVESCOMMU,NITY CENTER 8peclal Evenl: Tup- SLOPE, ACTIVITES FOR LESBIANSWOMEN'S ALTERNATIVESCOMMU· STEPHENBAYNEpresents his Decaper~are Book Party Fundral .. r, sees HOlly Near at Town Hall. 123 W, NITY CENTER Dilcullion
anddent Lawye,.ln Heat, a multl~medla
where you can get some holiday
43rd St. 8 pm. Info: (718) 965·7578.
80clal Group for 81ngle Lelblanl;satire. [See Dec, 14 and 15] The
shopping done without all the traffic,,,
675 Woodfield Rd, West Hempstead, Knitting Factory, 47 E, Houston St.
, 675 Woodfield Rd. West Hempstead, SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS L1; 8:30 pm; $3 more It/less It;
7:30 pm. (212) 219-3055,
LI. $3-more
It/less If, 7·8 pm,
presents Game Nighl: Charades,
516/483·2050(516) 483-2050,
7:30 pm. 267 9th SI., #4L BrOOklyn.
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS, Info: (718) 965-7578.
8ATURDAY,DEC. 8
presents a 30+ 8om'ethlng Potluck.
CENTER Women's Program: Cele,
Food and fun., In Pari( Slope for lesbrallon of Bulch/Femme Identltl .. , IDENTITY HOUSE Women's Friday
BI·WAYS NEW YORK HOUle Party,
blans over 30. 7:30 pm. ,267 9th SI.,
with writers and activIsts speakIng
Discullioil Group: Po"ry/Wrltln,
459-4784#4L. Brooklyn, Into: (718) 965-7578,, from their own experience, Including , Ev.nln" bring your personal expres· ,Jewelle Gomez, Jill Harris, Amber
slons of coming out: poetry, jourGAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS preBRONX LESBIANS UNITED IN SISHollibaugh, 8ue Hyde, Joan Nestle,n,als, SCUlpture, song, art, etc.; a sents a two·day Grlel and Healing
TERHOODp~ents a Winter BLUe8
others; open mike (or audience par- weekly rap group, all women welWorklhojl for volunteers, FOllow-up Potluck Cabaret, featuring a flurry of
ticipation. $3 suggested, 208 W, 13 come; 544 6th Ave (14115 StS);
on Jan, 10, For Info or registration,
lesbian poetry, entertainment andSt; 8 pm, (212) 620-7310.
6:30-8:30 pm; $7; 929-7178
contact Joseph Ripple at (212) 337- , dancing, $10. The Women's Coffee2586,
house at the Center. 208 W. 13th SI.
CENTERSTAG~ sees Flddl" on th.
COLLECTIVE FOR LIVING CINEMA
7:30 pm to 1 am. BLUeS Into: (212)Roof.$64. Gershwin Theatre. 222 W. presents Jerry Tartaglia'S Eee.
409-2692, .
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/ADVANCED HEALTH SOLUTIONS
51 St. 8 pm, (212) 620·7310.
Homo, R.msmbranes, and Final
Health 8emlnar lor HIV POllllve
Solutions; 41 White 'St (btwn
an~ the Worried wen, "learn seltWOW presents N"~/... ,.nd, Ih.
GAY
MEN & LESBIANS IN' B'way/Church); 7 pm; $6 (members
hypnOSiS, mental Imaging and how Mond.y MDb, a new play'by ~lIse
BROOKHAVENWomen's Group Dis- free); 925·2111
to visualize recovery to promote a Tribble, Directed 'by Claudia G!orGUllion. Old South Haven Church (S.
healthier Immune system and supdano. "A romantiC comedy set ('n'the,Country/Beaverdam
Rds), " WOW presents N.r~/"•• nd th. port greater health and well-being"; bohemlan-1920s," [Also Dec, 7] $8.
Brookhaven, LI. 8 pm. (516) 751·
Mond.y Mob, a new play by Elise 853 B'way, Suite 1511; 10 am - The WOW Cafe, 59 E. 4th St. 8 pm.
2901. (meets 1st & 3rd Thursdays).
Trl~ble, Directed by Claudia Giornoon; $60 (Insurance reimbursable,(212) 460-8067, 'dano. "A romantic comedy set In the advance regIstration gets a disGAY WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVE pre-' bohemian 19208," [Also Dec, 8J $6, count); 677·8734, 877·8017 (alsoGAY MALE SIM ACTIVISTS Lllth.,.
sents Deborah Ann Light, 55,
The WOW Cafe. 59 E. 4th SI. 8 pm. JAN 12),,,,, .wIth a flea market 01 leather
Hedgewltch, with an MA In Religious (212) 460-8067.
clothing and s/m gear, auction of
StudIes, a presenter of wOri(shops at
IDENTITY HOUSE Men'l 8aturday
homoerotIc artworks (IncludIng
women's festivals and pagan gather- BODY POSITIVE presents Friday
Discuilion Group: Flndln, Frllnd·
some by Tom 0' Finland), raffle,,
Ings, on Th. Tlm.I." Wom.n: Th. Nighl 80clals: The Inaugurallon , ,hlp In Our Community, a weekly
contests, snacks, lots of leathermen;(Joddsll .nd OUflslvll, for women Party 10 celebrate our new space. rap group, all men welcome; 544 6th admission Includes buffet and one
only. $5 (Includes refreshments),
Free, Middle Collegiate Church. 50 E. Ave (14/15 Sts); 11 am • 1 pm; $7; , drink, all men and wom~nwelcome;
Universalist Church. Central Park 7th St. 8-10 pm. (?12) 721-1346.
929-7178, at the Eagle, 21 St at 11th Ave;,6-10
West and 76 st. 8 pm (doors open
pm, auction at 8 pm; $12 nonmem7:45). (212) 595-8410. (GWA meets GAY MEN OF AFRICAN DESCENT ' CENTER KID8 Winter Holiday Getbers/$8 members (with card); 727the first Thursday of every month,8afer 81x Pllyshop:
Toglther In the East Village, an 987,8
Oct.-June).
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with discussion and exercises to Indoor picnic, bring lunch for your"explore IdeaS/Waysof keeping safer family and maybe some holiday
CONGREGATION BETH SIMCHAT'
NATURAL HISTORY GROUP Ths sex saUsfying and enjoyable"; at the snacks for the kids; 12:30 pm; leave
TORAH GIla Champagne Preview 01
GrI.n Clollt: lesbians and gays
Center, We'st Wing II, 2nd f:loor, 208 message with 620-7310
Ihl 3rd AntlquIs 8how, a benefit for
acllve In worldwide ,prof88slonal
W 13 St; 8 pm; 62q-7310
CBST's AIDS Outreach programs; a 'hortlculure and landscape; slide,
SAGE HOliday Brunch at Rogers and show today and tomorrow with 25,
pre~entatlon lecture by Prof. J: C. GAY OFFICERS ACTION LEAGUE Barbero, 149 8th Ave; 3-course meal
metro area antiques dealers, with art
Raulston. $2. The Center, 208 W. 13 Last DIY to Buy Titkets for thewith soup or salad, dessert, drinks;
glass, art potterY, ,sterling sliver flatSt. 8 pm. (212) 620-7310. 'Christmas Party at the Center, Satur- ons ssating only at 1 pm; $15; rsvp ware and holloware, fine jewelry, colday, Dlc. 15, 208 W 13 St, 8 pm - 1 early at 741-2247
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B'NAI 'JESHURUN,,,_(Arts a. Ern, 5IIi Fifth AVe, llkh A. NYC 10017;661-4500)
2:311 PM WBAI·FM AIDS: P/Iths to Se'-EtrfJowermBnt treatpresents a Chlnuah Plrty for peoCCIY (Rick X. Box 7!IJ, NYC,101111) ,ment and health issues with BGII ~NIck CillanllII,!Jle with AIDS, or HIV, their loved•• (Gay Broadcas1ing System, BlIII:h PeaSlDn, 178 7th Ave,
Belly lIIb; 99.5 FM (:1:00)."' on,.; family. and friends, regardless,', Ste.A-3.NYCloo,,;243-15701'
I:aI PM The G,y Dring Game Showwith T-r
SeeII and
GCN (Gay Ca,bleNibMI/1(, Lou M~IeIta, 3Z Union Square &st;,,H' ctf, tellgIous, ',ff!Uat!pl! .. , Events........
v.~ Manhattan Cable, CH C/16(:30)
S,uit81217;471-4221l)','''Incll!de, traditional fodds, s,QOQS'and_ PM (lCN Be Our Guest entartainmentfor and about1helesbiari/gay community; Manhattan Cable, CH 0/17 (:30)
stories. ofCllanukah, ReservatlC)ns , CMIC (Gay Mail's Health Crisis, Jean Carlomusto, 129W 2l) St,
NYC10Q11;1117-7517) ,10:30 P~ GMHC Living With AID~ healtb and politics; Man
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Free.'B'nal~8$hurunsyna· - , R8 PROD (Rob,n Byrd Prod., Box 3m, NYC 101121;9118-2973),~,. '.
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, ,gogu8,Ves~. 257W.,llath St. 2.pm,. 11:ao PM GCN G,y U.S.A.: news and entertainment from" "", (212) ,78,N600. '", .k",:>"around1h&country;
Manhattan
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Mldllgbt GCN Men in RIms. male erotica, Interviews with,:,_r.:_ . " ..
-"','!~_ _ ",;-. _ . WMlColY (30 Rockafeller Plaza, NYC 10112;l1li4--4444)
adultfllmstars; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:30),
CENTER2ndSIlurday plncI, with
WNEf·lY (35Il W!iII St, NYC lOO19;~)
12fJDAM RB PROD Men For Men:RHln Byrd presents gay
OJ Karin .rd, cash bar, Juice bar;
WNYW-lY (FOlr, 1211AV/AM, NYC 1_ &2400)
male porno stars; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:30)
208 W 13 S~;9 pm,'- 1 am: $8 gen- , WPIX·lY (220 E 42 st NYC 10017;949-1100),
eralJ$8 members, students, seniors,
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7
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Wlrrln Gluck, IIg~ts by Rlchlrd
Slblll; 555 W 33 St; midnight .' 9am; .15; 947-0400
SAINT AT LARGE -Sllnl',' Siturday>Nightl II Thl Rlti, with OJ, lights
by RlchlrdSlblll;
cash bar; freesoda, Juice,cookies, fruH; 254 W 54
St; 10 pm - 11; $15 at.the door;
674-8541"',0'" SUNDAY,DEC.8,=~~A~tf~J~~~,;.~'\,

9:IIIIPM GBS Outin the Wi: convnui1ity news, discussion"
Interviews. BQ Cable, CH 5& (1:00)
11:11PM Tomorrow/Tonight I.lvel: entertainmen1; Manhattan(1:00)and Paragon Cable, CH
CClV The Closet CISe Shaw. Klosflt KDps;Manhflt·',tan /Paragon
Cable,
CH C/1~ (:30),,

vier!!es, GoaIIo AltIIlD con tarnas y noticla. para lacomunidad latina gay y lesbiana; 99.5 FM (:15)
MI PM ~AI·FM AlPS In Focus. ......
AIcIIey, producer; politlcs/cultura pf,1he AIDS pandemic; 99.5 FM (:15)
1. AM RB PROD The Rtitl. BynI Show. maleand female
strippers; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:00)

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8om

IIdJIIgIII, 1O:m PM RB PROD Thella6l. BrnI Shaw. male and female,
strippers; ~anhattan Cable,1:H V/35 (1:011)*II PM WBAI·FM The ~Stuff. Featuring Dr.lIwrMIce
D. MIll, author of Dialoguils of theSexual Revolution,
Vots. land II. and KaaIIII L Woodwwd, NfIWSWfIfI[(sreligion editor and author of Making Saints: How the.
C6tho/(c Church Dfltflmines Who Becomes a &int Who 'Doesn'tand Why. As a bonus, Judy Garland I1Icordswill
be played in honor of VrtD Russo.
10:30 PM The Brend, ,nd G/end, Show. Manhattan/Paragon Cable. CH 0/17. (:30)
11:ao P.,.· GBS Out in the !!D's: news, information andInterviews; Manhattari/Paragon
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Dlvld Rot ••••• rg;iive call-)n; 99.5 FM(2:00)
PM GCN, ~,yU.S.A~ news e?d I!ntartainment fromaround 1he country; Bo, Unity, ACV Cable, CH 56 (1:011)(For Manhattan Cable, saa TlIURSDAY)
11. PM Gay rn male porn; Manhattan Cable; CH V/35
AM RB PROD ThellobldJynI Show. ,male a. female·
strippers; Paragon Cable, CH ('J16 (1:011)
1:30 AM RB PROD Thellobl" BynI SI!ow. rnale a. female
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CONGREGATION ,BETH SIMCHAT
7SlPM WBAI.fM ~wilhhostAlnlloltcMlllwilhfour
TORAH3rd AntlquII Show, a benelesbian entrepreneurs crl8C~g hciw1Dbe1ha boss in }'Our'..WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5
fit for ,CBST's AIDS, Outreach
pro0INI1 business;altemal8Swith ThfIG.tySllow;99.5FM (1111)
Mldllgllt RB PROD 'Thellobl. Bn Shaw. male and female,
10:30 PM RB PROD Men For Men:lIoIIinBynIpresems gay
strippers, live call-in show; Manhattan Cabla, CH V/35
grams; ,a show today and tomorrow. male porno stars; Manhattan Cabla, CHV/35 (:30)
with 25 metro area ~nUques dealers,
THURSDAY. DECEMBER 6'
PM GBS Way Out/; entartainmentfor and about1heles·
1:ao PM WBAI-FM This Wsy Out; the intllrnational gay!les·with art glass, art pottery, sterling
biari/gay community; Rich VoIo, producer, 254-7685; Man·
blan news magazine; 99.5 FM (:30)
sliver flatware and holloware, fine.
hattanCable, CH ('J16 (:3»
1:30 PMWBAI·FM An Aftemoon Outing. local news and inforJewelry, collec,tlbles; at CBST, 57
mation about1he gay/lesbian community with Lany G.......
Bethune St; In'the courtyard and upl~_
the ramp, Westbeth Complex (nearWest St); 10 am -5 pm; $2.50;
helm's film); Snug Harbor Cultural Hollda, Tea DancI, with hot hors
CBS11nfo, 929-9498; show managCenter, In the Galleries, 1000 Rich- d'oeuvres, open, bar, dancing. 4-8
er,486-1256
mond Terrace, Staten Island; 3 pm;· pm. $35. rsvp (718) 353-3006,
free; 718/44&-2500.
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THE GIRTH & MIRTH CLUB pre·FREELANCEACTING GROUP prese,nts Brunch It Ihl Dugout. $7,95 CENTERWlntlr Socii I Ind Trli of sents Hom,,1for the HoI/d.", "a•price Includes ',one drink. The L1fl, seasonal socializing, entertain·
buffet of entertainment" with gay
Dugout. Christopher ,and Wee·- ment produced by the Center Dance entertainers from New York brlngha~ken streets. 12 pro.
Committee; cash bar; unveiling of Ing comedy, drama" monologues,
the Trle of Llfl,' which 'Is adorned 'performance art to the Center; 208
SLOP~ ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS by ornaments bearing the names of W 13 St; 5 and 8 pm shows; $5; no,, presents Brooklyn BQtlnlcl1 Glr· those we wish always to (emember; rsvp,lnfo from 924-7602.
dlnl DIY. 12 pm. SAL Info: (718)
208 W 13 St. 4·7 pm .. 620-7310" 965-7578.',,(for Info o~ to purchase an orna- DYKES AND LEZZIES FEMINIST"THEATRE AND SCHOOL presentsment). . .
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Dyke Repl, staged readings of stu- '. ' Group:' I.f. '''~at the Center, 208 .MOSAIC BOOKS Fill Rladlng
dent works which ,deal with tiomoW 13 St; 3-4:30 pm;'459-4784
Serlll: Clnen. Will SIIII & LOlt phobia, racism, self-pride, power,' POIII wHh Merchlntl of JIzz. 167 plays and ecology. [Also Dec. 10.]NEWHOUSECENTERFORCONTEM- .Ave. Bat 10 St. 4 pm. 475.8623$7. The Alexander Room at the Cen.
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Columbia Dances (SaniE BuT DifferenT.'3rdSAT, next is Dec 15; OJ"- , Karin Ward, W pm -308m; $5) EarJH,~I!, 116 5t/B'way;629-"989' 41.9419 N,Highway, Southampton; U;,516/283-5001 •. '..' , .
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Eyes (ShesGape Saturday Night Parties fo; Women, opens 9
rick Road, Rockville Centre; U;516/536-4800' pm; $8 before' 10/$10 afterl12W 21 St; info '645-647,9: club 206~7772 'b~Mindbender (Larry Tee & Lalloma)27 St & 11th Ave'.
*ROlW (Locolflotiorr, gayboy~, gUvs, men; non-'gayw,onien, s6m'eles~:bians; mix depends ori"pal:tv) ~15 W 18 St (btwn 10/11 Aves); 645-5156
IRoxy (Men on Wheels, gay roller skating; starts 8 pm) 515 W 18 St; 645-5156',
Wednesday , ',' ,,'"I Saint At Large ('Saint' SaturdayWights, cash bar;Jre,e soda & fruit; 10*Be,tter Davs (primarilY gay men of color) 316W 49 St (8/9 Aves); 245-8925,
pm - ??;$l~;rieict ~e.c 8) ~i
The Ritz~2~ W 54;67+'8'541 \, ,'"IThe Building (Dallas' The Boys' Roori'r,House music, downtown crowd,' ", +Silyer Uning(yvdrile,n's $at) ,115Cherry Lane, Aoral Park;LI; 51,6~9641 ",go-go boys and a 6O-foot ceiling; $101$7with invite) 51 W 26 St; 576-1890 "Sound FactOry (mostlv gay; serious HQus~/Club dancing, nOl!.lcohol"+ Excalibur (Ladies Nig~ $1 drinks) corner 10th/Jefferson behind foot- ,',:
opens] 1 pm) 530 W-27,Sf(1Oth/11th Aves);' 643-01:28, ',ball stadium ' Hoboken 't.NJ' 201-795-1161 "' .''bStingray's(Brand new club, brandnew sound system, everything. else'..
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*Umelight (Disco 20D0with Michael Alig, Larry Tee &'lahoma;10 pm,, ';isa surpris~e:$8;) ~1, ",\51st St. (212) 664-866h~~O;Coo~ no longerselVedJ) 6th Ave at20St; club 807-7850 ,
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Private Eves (YM.VA Night; students, prof Is, woinen; performer:!; $7;',ITheBuilding (D:allas'TheMen's RQom, stude/lt!i, professiohals;rnen;'d.oor often benefits a gay/lesbian organization) 12 W 21 St; 206~7772 'go-go boys ,&60-ft .•ceiling)5fW 26 St; 576-1890""'
Silver Unilig (2-4-ldrinks, also open Tues-Sun, women SAT) 175 Cherry, -ceCateSociety,(Society Suri'iJaysTea Danrie, Hi NRG DJs, Society
Lane, Floral Pk, U; 516/354;9641.",Dancers;
5 p,m-n; $10) B'way at 21St; 529-8282.'/","
Stutz (2~4-1 drinks, also open d~ily)202 Westchester Ave,White Plains;'
Monster (Sunday Tea Dance at 4 pm; danCing also on' btherriightsfrO'm
914/761-3100", \ ''. 10 pmf80 Grove $fiat Sheridan Sq.; 92H557;',"",';
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N~vember 2~; iffy door) 10 EGOSt, at Fifth Ave; 755-6010 ', Every Night (or almost).
Excahbur ($1 drinks, also open Tues-Sun, women WED) corner 1OtI\fJef+ Bednick (lesbian club,closed MON & TUE) 121 Woodfield R~,W., 'f~rs~n behind ~otball stad!um, Hoboken, NJ; 201-795~1161'. Hempstead; L!;'516i486-9516,,".,'"
H~tfleld s (2-4-1 dnnks, female Impersonators; also open mghtly, wome~,,*~Iub
E.lweiss'("1Vs~ TSs,gays, bi's, singles, <;ou!!l~s ,all welcome":
Tt,JEfor lesbians,'butope'n to all TUE-SUN nigbt) 167 W'~9; 868-6~
on TU!: & FAil 126-10 fiueens Blvd; Kew Gardens,fiueens; 7181261-8484
IIlS:-nialj da~ce,f1obr) Sheridan Square' & 1fh,AVe;;242?1408 ,*Roxy (Disco lriter'!ljJt~s, DJs P~.trick"Butts & Sister Dirile,nsion and, " ·.Duc~ss~erfor~ance artists In,entertalnment breaks; $10)515 W 18; ~5156,
419 (niQhtly Gay HOt{sep,atty,'opens 6 pm).419 N, Highway, (Ate 2'],), ':i:::b~mgrav s ~Bra,nd new club, .brand new sound system, everything else
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Better Davs (Michael Patterson's Fridays, catering to niulti:raciar'cr'owd",, Iy known as the Pyramid-eome,sunder,newserious,House/Club dan"cing, OJ Robert Owens) 316W 49; 246-~976 'which will throw for queer$ seven days a wellk.' The.highlights:', ' Ch!lnnel &9 (Wednesdays, beginning Dec. 5), Back by popular, ''-Clit C'ub (Jocelyn & Julie, Every Friday P~tty, go-go girls; lesbo videos;
opens 8 pm, billiards &$1 drinks till'10 pm; $5)432 W 14 St; 4m-1114' .', 'demandl Hostess: Linda~lmpson. OJ: Dany Johnson, $5.
Columbia Danees (1st Friday of evelY month, Earl Hall, 10 pm - 2 am; next
. Cheap (Thursday, beginning'Dec. 6). Cheap drilJk$' and,cheap',
is Decemb!lr 7) 116th St& Bway; 854-3574 days'',
ql!eers. No cover:,,~'• •. '''. "':' ','; ';".',"+ Hatfield's (women's nights ara TUE & FRI)'12&-10 Oueens Blvd., Kew
Meston Frida,V(Fridax~, begj!,ningDec.~). DJ: Nqbody.'sJlussy. 'All
Gardens, Queens; 718/261-8484'.,
the meat you c;an eat'and all the,mosic YQuc,an'swalloVi/,' $5. ,'r,*Mike Todd Room (Sister Dimension's Panty Girdles) 123 E 13 473~7171 "~ntroversv (Saturdays"beginning Dec. 8) Host; Pat(ick Butts,and '+ Millltnnium (Ladies' Nightll770 NY Ave (Rte 110), Huntington, U;, the p,!ople Who ~rihQ you Disco Interruptus. ~AIIthe scandal
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Private Eyes (YMVA Night; students, 'professionals, men) 12 W 21 St,
btwn 5th/6th Aves' 206-7772
queer and obsessive. Ruff musjc for ruff dykes and fags, "b$tingrav's (Brand n~w club, brand new sound system, everything else·'
Cag~d~o-go a~im~ls. DJs: Craig and Victor. Opening nightis a surprise. Free, 7':"'10pm, $] after.) 641 W. 51st St. (212)664-8668
admlsslon:'$O.99. ",,",,+ Visions (women's party) 56-01 Queens Blvd, Woodside, Queens; .info
T~ple (Mondays, bIl91~nI~g Dec. 10). Host: BllhKlub,. .'718/846-7131 club 718/899-9031
CUt Clu" (Tuesdays, beginning Dec. 11). Hostesses: Jocelyn,and",,Julie. Hot lesbian go-go action
Sat ur'd'·ay,. on the Lower East side, $5.
Barefoot Boogie (2nd & 4th SAT; adulll1/kids,smoke & alcohol free; 8::11pm _,12:30am, $4; next is Dec 8)434 6th Ave (btwn !Vl0 SIs), 4th Roar; 832-6759..
NOTES: b[new infol -ce[attraclsTVe] +[wolTHln] I [man],'Center (2nd & 4th SAT,9 pm -1 am, $8; next is Dec 8)208 W 13 St; 620-7310" 1µesday'.,

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AIDS. Call (212) 25&-8554
and Woodwinds. 123 West 44111 , usl For information: MTG, Suite
K63,4!J6.A Hudson St., New Y!)rI!:,
St. Suite 12L New York, NY
NYC GAY. LESBIANNY 10025. (718) 852-8582.
10036 (212) 889-2922.
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ANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECTHERRAGE OF PRIDE. INC.
Counseling.
advocacy, and infor, MOCA (Men of Color AIDSLESBIAN & GAY
Organizers of New YolI(s Lesbian
mation for survivors of anti-gay, Prevention Program.)
COMMUNITY
and Gay Pride avan1B: 1I1e March.
and anti-lesbian violence, sexual
Provides safer sex and AIDSSERVICES CENTER
1I1e Rally and 1I1e Dance on 1I1e
assault, domeatic violence, andeducation information to gay and
208 Wast 13th Street New York.
Pier. Can'(212) 891-1774 for meetother types of victimization. All
bisexual Men of Color; coordiNY 10011 (212) 820-7310 9am, ing schedule or more information.
services fraa and conlidential.24
nates a networl!: of peer-support
11pm everyday. A place for com201 West 13111Slraet, NY, NY10011.
hour hodinel212) 807-0197
groupa for gay and bisaxual Men
munityorganizing
andnetwooong. social services, cul- , of Color in all 5 boroughs of New
HE1RICK-MARTINPEOPI£ WITH AIDSYork City303 Nirlh Ave,"New Yorl!:,,tural programs. and S\lcial events
INSTITUTE
COAUflON
NY100010r call (212) 23&-1796.
sponsored by the Center andfor lesbian and gay youth. Coun(212)532~I~otmora than 151 coornunity organiseling, drop-in center (M-F, 3.
"lina (212) 532-«111BMondaythru FriNAnONAL GAY AND I£SBIAN6pm), rap groups, Harvey Milkzallons.
day 10am-8pm Meal programs,
TASKFORCE
lfigh School, AIDS and safar sax
is the national grassroots poI'l1ical support groups, educational andI£SBIAN AND GAY lABOR
information, nafarrals, professionreferral services fo( PWA's and,organization for lesbians and gay
NETWORKal ed u cati on. (212) 633-8920
PWArc'&
men. Membership is $3OIyear.
An organization of Lesbians and(voice) (212) 63U926 TTY for deaf
Issue-oriented projects address
Gays VIf10 are active in their labor
violence, sodomy laWs, AIDS, gay
PEOPLE WITH AIDS
lIiOllswodci1g IJ1 domestic per1nerHISPANIC UNITED
rights ordinances, fammes, media,.
' HEALTH GROUP
slip benefits and AIDS issues. For
GAYS. LESBIANS
etc.
1I1roughlobbying.
education,
Undergroundbuyar's club inporting
more iiormatia1 cal(21~Educational services, politicalorganizing and direct action.
not-vat-approved medications andaction, counseling and social
NGllF 1517 U Straat tNI,Wallhnutritional supplements. 31 WastLESBIAN AND GAY RIGKrS
actM1iea in Spanish and Engliih by, ing1Xln,DC2IXXl9.(202)332-8483.'
ZOIhSt. 41hRoor (212)!m«l8O
PROJECTand for 1I1eLatino lesbian and (>ay'of 1I1e American Civil Liberti ..
" , CO""lIunily. General meetings am
aYlYORKAIMRTlSINGJ\fI)PINK PANTHER PATROL
Union KNOW YOUR RIGKrSI
pm 41h ThuR!day Of svery month atNEIWOIIK
ComrmIity a1reat pe1IOI in East and
WE'RE EXPANDING TIEM (212)
201 West 13111S1raet.
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Wast
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944-9800, ext. 545
Call2Dl-& 7824 or writB H.U.G.L,
gay and lesbian, profassional group,
violent crime a!l\lM gays and I..
P.O. Box 226 Canal Sbaat Station,
welcoming all in communicabienS. Wast Village weakly InaetI£SBIANS AND GAYS OFNew Yorlc.'NY10019.
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tion&-llnd 1I1eirfriends. Monthly
ingsatTues.~ngsatCOliTIlI.lity
RATIUSH
meetings, 3nd Wed 6:30pm at 1I1e Canter. Can for time and Info: 212Brooklyn's social organization for'IDENTITY HOUSE
Community Center. Members'
47S4l63. For East'dlage pe1IOI info,
both gay men and lesbians. P.O.
Now in our 70th yaar, we provide
newsletter,job hotline, ann.ual
cal 212-24&a1l1., 'Box 106, Midwood Station
peer counseling, therapy rafer~irectory.
Phone
(212)
517-«lOO,for,
Brooklyn, NY 11230· (718) 85&rals and groupa for,1I1e lesbian,, PROFESSIONALS IN
more info, Mention OutWeek for9437
gay and, bisexual community.
RlMIVIDEO
one free nawsleUilr.
Callus at (212)'243-8181. Visit us
338 Ca nal Street, 8th Roor, NYC
I£SBIAN HERSTORY
at 544 6th Ave., batween 14111ARCHIVES
N.Y. FEMMES
10013212-&-3351
15111Strealll,lIiIanhatbin.
P.O. Box,l25B NewYorl!:, NewYorl!:
Support and discussion group for, ,QUEER NAnON
10116212/874-723i2Since 1974,1I1e
lesbians who self identify as
INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN
Archives has inspirad, shaped andFemme and are primanly attractsd
The Lesbian and Gay direct
IDENTITY'reflected Lesbian lives everyto butch women. For membership
action group dedicated to fightSliding scala feas • Insuranca
whana. CaD to arrange a visit or to
information can Lisa (212)629-9817.
ing homophobia and Gay ind
accepted. Gay & Laabian PayvolunIBarforlhursdaywor1<ni!t1ts.,'
Lesbian invisibility. Anyone ~anchotherapy , (212) 799-9432
N.y. \\'OlEN'S SOFIBAU.GUIlD
suggest an action and should
For experienced, serious Softball
LONG ISlAND ACT-UP
come to meetings prapared to
INTEGRITY/fft'
Playars, Coaches and Managers.
Meets Tuesdays atBpm at 181 Post
organize and implement it QN,
lesbian and Gay Episcopalians
Weplay
mod/fast
pitch
week~ in Vllastbury, NY.Support us forBox 1524, Cooper Station, Newand friends. Eucharist and proends in Manha~n and Qu8llns.
change on Long Island. Mailing
York, NY 10003. Call 212,463gram every Thursday, 7:30pm.
Try-outs begin Feb. ll111ru Apriladdress:
PO
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7208 for meeting info.,"
St Luke's Church, Hudson andor until filled. (212) 25!>-1379Janet
111m 516-338-4862.
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LSM(Senior Action in • Gay(718) 720-3054
Since 1973, a community dedicatis a ~IIld i1orma1cn ~b'Enviro, •• 18IIt)'ed to demonstrating that a homoIasIialsIlld tislDlliai WQ,s, i'Diras\LAMBDA
SocialService Agency. providing
sexuallifestyleisarational,
edi1~~mdaga.ciaI£GAL DEFENSE
care, activities, & educational
daairable choice for individuals
ciJh,!WM. iBshas, IIiBr1nI gander
AND EDU,CAnON RIND
services for gay & lesbian seniordissatisfied with 1I1e rewa rdil ofindantitias,
costumesandsO
forth.
Precadem-setling litigation nationcitizens. Also serves over 180
convantionallivilg. Psychologically
Membership is available only towide for lesbians, gay men andhomebound
seniors & older- focussed rap groupe. Tues., Set, 8
women
18
years
and
older.
Actualpeople wi1l1 AIDS. Membership
PWA's .208 West 13th St'NYC
to 10 pm, peer counselling ava~IDCp8rianceis
not
raqU.adbit
gni1a($40 and up) inc. newslattar and10011, (212) 741-2247
able. 319 E.9 Street, New York, NY
i1Brastllldlllopll1ni1dara.Formrinvitations to special own1s. Volinlam. for info cal (212)22&-5153.
maiI1 pease VIdI: 1n1b9B, MI'I8ar right on Thursday&.
SET1IAN GAYs.
rayHi SIa1iIJ1,NaN'roik,NY11l1!i1Intake calla: 2.,
Mon thru Fri
lESBIANS AND BISEXUALSNORTH AMERiCAN MAN/BOY(212) 996-8!iB5.
LOVE ASSOCIAnON (NAMBlA)
For all of us interestedin, MEN
Dedicated to sexual freedom andreaching out to each , other in
OF AU. COLORS lAVA
especiallyinterated
ingay
inlBre)(uberance
to spontaneous-'
TOGETHER NY(LESBIANS ABOUT
generational relationships. Mon1hIy explore and expand upon
A multi-racial group of gay men,
VlSUALART)
Iy
Bulletinandregularchapterthe Seth/Jan"
Roberts ·Phiagainst racism. Meetings ev'!ry\Call for slides for lesbian Artists'
meetings on 1I1efirst Saturday oflosophy· as it realtes to our
Friday ni!# at 7:45 at 1I1elesbian
Exhibition, Gay & Lesbian Comeachmonth.
Yearlymembershipislives,
personally,sexually
and Gay COlilliunity Services Canmunity Center, NYC. For more
$20; writs NAMBlA PO Box 174,
and politically,
Call AI (212)
ter,208 W. 13th Street For more'
information, send SASE to : Miri,
Midtown Station, New Yorl!:, NY
979~5104,
info. call:,(212) 245-8386 or (212)
am Fougere, 118 Fort Greene·10018 or call (212) 807,8578 for
SUNDANCE
222-9794.
Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217.
information.
METROPOUfAN TENNISOIRDOOR ADVENTURE
THEI£SBIANNORTHERN UGKrS,GROUp(MTG)
SOClEIYAND GAY,
ALTERNATIVES
Our 200 member lesbian and gay
A non-profit club offering OutBIG APPI£ CORPS
Improving
Qualityoflife
for
PeDtennis club includes playars fromdoor activities'for every season
Get your instrument out of-the. pie with AIDS/HIV. THE AIDS
beginning to tournament level.
including hiking, biking, skiing,closet and come play wi1l1 us,
MASTERY WORKSHOP: ExplorMonthly
tennisparties.
Winterwater activities and o1l1er outSymphonic, Ma rching. Jazz. Dixing !he possibilities of a powerfuland hoisIic appr08chaa.
Wed 8pm.
208 W. 13th St.
(212)874-HOPE.

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call (212) 598-4728.
THE OUTREACHUSING
COMMUNAL HEAUNG(TOUCH),
Community volll1l8ars providing aweekly buffet supper for the,BrookIvn AIDS community. TOUCH
meets Monday eves. 5pm to
6:30pm- at downtown Brooklyn .
Friends Meeting House (1 III
Schermerhom St near Boenim
Place).llnltad 1ransportation may
be arranged. Info: (718) 622-~756:
TOUCH walcOmas conllibutions offilJds, food and volll1l8ars.

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ULSTER COUNTY GAY AND 'LESBIAN AWANCE
Meats first,and 1I1ird Monday ofeach month at 7:30 pm at 11111
Unitarian Church on Sawkm Road in
Kingston. For Information, call
914-826-3203.

WHAMI
Women',

H•• 11I1Action And
Mobilization.
A direct action group commitedto demandi!1g, sec~ring anddefending absolut~ feproduc-.,tive freedom and quality liealthcare for all women. We ml!etevery Wed. at 6:30pm at 105, E
22nd Stre~t; 4111floor, 212-7135968Mailing addr888: WHAM I,
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Barbary COBS!,64?th .Ave. (14th St.), 6?5-0385 ,
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Rounds, 303 E. 53rd St., 593~0807

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

South Dakota, 405 3rd ,Ave (at 29 St)., 684-8376
Star Sapphire, 400 E. 59th St., 688-4710'

The Townhouse, 236 E. 58th St., 754-4649',

Candle Bar, 309 Amsterdam Ave., 874-9155

Twenty-Nine Palms, 129 Lexington Ave., 686-8299

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

D.1's Fat Cat, 281 W. 12th St., 243~9041 ,,G.H. Club, 353 E. 53rd St., 223-9752,

WESTSIDE, Crazy Nanny's,'21 7th Avenue South, 366-6312(Women)
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Badlands, Christopher & WestSt., 741-'9236';,' ., , .
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Boots & Saddle; 76 Christopher St 929-9684
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Cellblock 281 2B 9th Ave, 733-3144 0.0..' club".
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Tys, 114 Chnstopher.741-9641.
The ,C'ubbyhole, 438 H'udson (Morton
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Tunnel Bar, 116 1st Ave (7th, St.), 777-9232•,

BROOKLYN (718),After Rve Plus, 5 Front St:, 852-0139•

Spectrum, 802 64th St. (at 8th Ave), 745-9611 ,,Sweet Sensations, 632220th St., 435-2580
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Breadstix, 113-24 Queens Blvd., Forest Hills,
236-0300
Friend's Tavern, 78-11 Roosevelt Ave., Jackson
Hgts, 397-7256,

Hatfield's, 126-10 Queens Blvd., Kew GardeQs,
261-8484 .
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I' . ALL TAXES INCLUDED•
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Magic Touch,73-13 37th Rd,Jackson Hgts,429-8605

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Grand Central, 110 Merrick Rd, Rockville Centre,, 536-4800,

233 West H3rd,S!" New Xotk. KY. IIIn24(212) 799·8574,,

PaI.b1{s, 2401 JermaIem f4ie., ,tWr1h Bellrrae, 7I5-ml\

SilverLinirg, 175C1"erry Lane,New Hyde Parlc,li4-0041,

Station House PUb,3547 Merrick Rd, Seaford,
785-9808

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Cherry's, Bayview Walk, Cherry Grove, Rre Island,597-6820Club Swamp Disco/Annex Restaurant, Montauk
HwY, Wainscott, 537-3332

tgroup's forming: male
couples, men's, ana women'.
sliding scale fees.'
insurance accepted, 118 W. 72nd Stree~, Suite 1
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Kiss, 161 Fannardie Dr., Lake Ronkonkoma,467-9273
Club 608, 608 Sunrise Hwy., W. Babylon., 661-9580"UNION,~

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Millennium, 1770 NY Ave, Huntington,
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Charlie's, West, 536 Main St., E. Orange, 678-5002',

Feather's, 77 Kinderkamack Rd., River Edge,
342-6410
Friendly's Bar, 6310 Park Ave., West New York,854-9895

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Excaliblir, 10th & Jefferson, Hoboken, NJ, 795-1023
Nite Lite, 509 22nd St., Union City, 863-9515
Vibrations, 165 Cedar Lane, Teaneck, 836-5518'
Yacht Club, 366 Berkshire Valley Rd., Jefferson,697-9780•,throughNovember 11, 1990
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ATTORNEY AT LAW
REAL ESTATE; COOP/CONDO,
CLOSINGSBANKRUPTCY; INCORPORATIONS;,
WILLS'11 E.28TH STR~ET,SUITE 700 NYC(212)-447-0636

Will clean your home forthe holidays or with after. party cleanup
available da,y, eve, weekend
rate. $40 end up
Call Kri. J212) 219-0598

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I'm doing re.earch for a book on the'Mineshaft. Anyone with info
. (memorie. and memorabilia) about
their experience. at, and opinions Oil;the old days et the Mineshaft, pleasecall Walter at 337-1245 or 228-1070,
for an interview. '",ANTHONY SANTONIC"EERY REDHEAD ELF

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CAsTLE CARE

CllBS,, By Village C.C. Inc.
Gay qwn&d, reliable.
Office open Monday through Friday
Cleaners available 1 days.
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Exotic, Sexy New Meeting Place
Meets Thurs Dec 11,25 8PM-12M
Watch Demos, For Xprts & Novice.
For details write to John Strong
at POB 457, New York, NY 10018
Info: call NYBC at 212-767-(1329,. APIRTlflT,ClfAIIIB•
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CHARLES mEET,STUDIO'. This is for real. Sunny, quiet, charming, with wood·burning fireplace. 1
month sublet with option to lease.
$700. '
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CLEANING

Man's best friend. Apartment or commercial cleaning
Dependable efficient affordable
Monday • Sunday days or evenings.,
212 982·9829 .
.',CIIIIPRICTIRFREDERICK JAMES, D.C•
CHIROPRACTOR
Praventive and rehabilitative care
, 853 Broadway, Suite 1717
New York. NY 10003
212-473-2273,'

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ARTHUR LOVEJOYUCENSED ELECTRICALCONTRACTOR
Repairs and New Installations.
Commercial and Residential.
CourtB'OUS, Professional
Service.
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Available Eves. end Weekends.
(718) 782-4735

Women andpeople of color encouraged.
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Serving the Tri~StateArea Since 1985 'Call for a free brochure Moh.-Fri. 7 pm-11 pm,'In NY, NJ8c CT (212) 580-9595,

NO nME TO GO TO THE CLUB?
seasoned personal trainer will help
you begin an exercise program and, achieve your fitness goals at yourhome. Free consultation/evaluation .
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EATING
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What If you could eat
whatever you want.
wh.never you wantand still keep yournatural shape?
Call Ross Ja~obs(212) 929.()661

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AIDS/HIV community based organization seeks highly organized, selfmotivated, energetic individuals withsuperior interpersonal skills tohandle day-to-day operations ofsmall office. Responsibilities:
coordination and supv. of amdmin,
operetions, maintenance of accounts.
and budgets, procurement expense, control, as well as some secy andclerical duties., Some knowledge of
AIDS 'and HIV infection preferred,
Computer literacy absolutely
essential, prefllrably both Macintosh
and IBM, Salary $23,000. Excellent
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Michael Stanton, Executive Director, 'Body Positive of NY
2095 Broadway, Suite 306
New York, NY 10023,

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perso nals section-Manmate
4.5"
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SWISS WIFE
Wanted for Gay American Profes'sional Man- in his mid
40's. Write to,
Outweek Box 3715,,

QUALITY DENTImV AT AFFORD- 'ABLE FEESWE CATER TO COWARDS
Serving the gay community
for over 10 years.
237 First Avenue, Suite 407 (212)473,
9002,

GAYIAIIIIGIAFFORDABLE ELECTROLYSIS
Perman!lnt Hair Removal
Airflow Technique /I.B. ProbeCOMPLIMENTARY CONSULTATIONPROFESSIONALLY OPERATEDPRIVATE GR. VILL OFFICE(226Wast 4th St., NY NY 10014 lower,
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Kenneth Hay! Certified/Electrolysis, Member I.G.P.E.
By Appointm!lnt Only.
(212) 727·18aG

GIIIPS 'VACUUM PUMPERS
Int'I non-profit network for big tools,
bodybuilders and vacuum pumpars,for free info SAS~ to: BIG, 584 Castro
St, #601, San Francisco, CA 94'114
COMING-OUT GROUP
for WOMEN and MEN and a gay male
couples group now forl!ling. Call
Institute For Human Identity:(212) 799-9432
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Send your ad intoday" ..or fax it to212-337-1200

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OufWeek has several:::

freelance pOsitions for talented
reporters who ~an explafn
AIDS-related medical issues
and the politics, behind them in"AP-objective" style for ageneral gay and lesbian
readership. Journalism
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IIIIRIIGII• EStablishinga proud and.
positive identification aslesbians witWOour community• Distribution of information
about existipg services in otherboroughs, and an assessmentof needed services for thegay and .lesbian community
within otir borough.

IIRITI.
The Center for Anti·Violence Education!
Brooklyn Women'sMartial Arts
A non·profit organization teaching self·
defense and martial arts for 16years ,Classes
and workshops thr~ughout the NYC
area• 5·Week Self·Defense Course for Women• Karate and Tai Chi Chuan Classes for Women• Self-Defense Workshops for Lesbians and Gay Men ,• Children's Self Defense Classes
I I • Workshops in the Community and the Workplace

Sliding fees Free childcare,• Outreach to other gay andnon-gay groups alike forcoalition building," We envision BLUSas a community
organization that wUlcontinue to growand change in its efforts, according to, the neec!s of its members. We invite
you to become part of the effort, tomake Ithe Bronx lesbian community astronger and more visible presence.
We are' everywhere and proud to be
Bronx lesbians,•,JOIN US!
We meet In Manhattan 6; the Bronx at•

The lesbian &: Gay Community Center. tat &:3rd Fridays of every. month. 6:lIO-8:00pm, 1 Fordham Plaza. 8th floor.
. BroD AIDSSenlces,Room.
2nd Wed. of every month. 6:30-8:00pm.

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BLUS P.O, Box 1244. Bronx. NY 10462••'

Call for more info and to register (718)788-1775
421 5th Avenue, Park S10 e, Brooklyn 11215

IIOIGAlJOHN MONTANA. MD• Organizing activities and agroup which fosters educational,
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opening avenues of communication
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Prompt and Professional
Storage Available
Last Minute Jobs
(201) 434-5309
Beeper (212) 461-2349.

blueS') , IS a multl-raclal.group of I-:-:~~~~~;';;;";;;;"_
women of all ages, committed to INSUflANCE...
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promoting. solidarity with, and... of every kmd

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To promote vitality and reduce stress.
PWA's and partners especiallywelcome. CAll TOM:,(212) 741-1683

Bronx Lesbians United in~isterho~d (BLU,S, p'ronounced

We begari in 1988, in. response to
the lack of a visible and organizedpresence of lesbians in the Bronx.
The group is dedicated to outreach,education, and the identification of'the unique needs of the Bronx lesbiancommunity. We have targeted thefollowing needs:

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Bronx, .
Lesbians
United in
Sisterhood,"

int medicine
30 Fifth Avenue NY, NY
505·7730
VISA/¥Cacce~ed

IAIl DROIR••GANYMEDE GAUERY

M8i1 order catalogue of fine art .
celebrating the male form - photos,
oil, sculpture, pen & ink, acrylic$9.95 pGr copy, Ganymede Gallery
Pru Box 66-W, Boston, MA 02199.
Must be 21. Tel..617-437-9598.

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Phone8 answered
perso(1ally
212·929·5067,

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Extra for Box Delivery
Yes Fully insured DOT 11221
Yes Piano Artwork AntiquesNo(212) 447-5555

Hrving til.Gay Community,

TIRED OF HOMOPHOBIC 'MOVERS?
Try Brovimstone Brothe~ instead.
Professional and Reliable.
Serving the Gay Community 15
years. Sensitive, fun paople who get
the job done right with no bullshit
Ucensed DOT 10166. Insured.
Reasonable storage rates.
Pianos·Art-Antiques 'Packing. Moving Supplies. 428 E91
Call 289-1511.
Mention OUTWEEK for Special
Discount Free Estimates.

PIIITIIG
PERFECTIONISTS I
Special attention to detail.
Courteous * Reliable * Reasonabla *Plastering and light renovations
Spectrum painting'718-768·7729

PUBliCATIIISUViNG A GOOD UFE WITH AIDS
Based on over,7 years of living.
Send $9.95 to T.M. Publications
P.O. Box 310743
Tampa, Fl 33680
Allow 4-6 weeks for delivery.

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HOOSE FOR"SALE - STAnN ISlAND
Circ~ 1859 - Italianate Mansion"The louis DeJonge House" CENTER
HAll PLAN.
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Many rooms - fireplaces' in each,
french doors;, stained glass windows,
dumb Wiliter; servants calling tubes,
gas chandeliers, Harbor Vievvs, on 1
Acre Knoll~On National Register", $4I!5,000
Pearl, Foreman Realty 718-273-6880

DISTINCTIVE DECO APARTMENTS,.Fullyrllnovated apartments in the, art
dei:o·distri~ of Miami Beach. Perfect, full time resid'enc~s or the best in.
'; .. .!Iffordable
second homes.'
VINTAGE PROPERTIES, 1601
Jefferson Avenue,. Miami Beach, FL, 33J39.
(305) 534-1424.

THIIIPY••,JHIIAPY,

Competent & CompauionBte, Psychotherapist, Stewart
M. Crane,~CSW•-

SUPPORTIVE GAYTHERAPIST,MICHAEL A. PANTALEO,* FEAR OF INTIMACY* AIDS ANXIETY* DEPRESSION..
* ACOA I&SUES* COMING OUT

C.S.W., C.A.C.
Indlvidual,Couple/Group(J(6ces: Greenwich Village,212/645-0646
Teaneck. N.ew Jersey 201/836-4206,INDIVIDUALS---COUPLES
Holistic Psychotherapy for
Personal/.Transpersonal issues
to help you enhance yourself
and 'your intimate relationships,
1~ years experience with Gay Men,
Call David Rickey 212fL42-~ ,.Exper/enced ·L(censed·Insurance Ra/mbursable·Chalsaa Offlca
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212·691·231,2,----J. David Lindsey Griffin~
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Supportive 'indiyidual & couple
therapy by institute-trained, licensed psychotherapist. Helpwith relationships, gay identity,
dealing with your family, lind lifein the age of AIDS. Sliding fees.
.,.. NY alid NJ offices: '(212) 769;.8796' . (201) 567-2445.
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724-5188
135 We.st70th Street

Save 50% + on major Airlines Eur.
from $199 RTfS. Amer from $1!10RTf
Far East from $450 RT plus LA! .
,Caribbean & morel Europe lastminute from $99 RT Now Voyager(212), 431-1616

GAY COUNTRY. INN"

New York's Non-Profit
Lesbian/Gay
Psychotherapy Center
Groups forming: male
couples, men's, andwomen's,'

118 W.72nd.M'··

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With 20 chlirming rQoms, 10Qscenic
mountain acres, hot tub, x-country ,skiing, peace + privacy, we're yourperfe,ct vacation chQiceJI Downhill
nearby, mid·week, discoui1ts.
Highlands Inn, aox"1~01<' Bethlehem
NH 03574 (603) 869-3978, Grace,
Ii:mkeepe,r.

DISCOUNTED AIRUNE TICKm
Planning to go to Rio, Paris, Nairobi,
or anywhere else in the world? We'll
get you there for less, Contact NUVUAdventures toll free at 1·800-9
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by legally adopting an infant or toddler
into their loving, nurturing, financiallyseture home. Even though'w8 are
OlJr friends .fevorite babysitters, we
anxiously await our own child to',',f1urture. .. 'Call David & Terry Collect.
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auction cit'7pm.
Preview of selected works
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149 Wooster St.
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a nice tan line. CllIlin cut and friendly.
after beeps witt phone
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by attractive, sensitive, considerate, an~ talented guy in mid-40's.
, 1 1/2 HOUR RUBDOWN
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Deep and relaxing' by goodlo'oking guy.
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Also do couples. Reasonable. $50 In/
East Chelsea, call 9-6, 7 days a
Out $75" ,week. $75 for 1 1/2 hrs. $90 for' 2
Marc (212)864:-0091.
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TROPICAL ISLAND HANDSSWEDISH AND SHIATSU MASSAGE
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256FT 21NS TALL 180 LBS
BIlliONAIRE BOYS
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If you haven't tried us,, lately, you don't know what
MIDWESTERN BOY
you're missing. In/Out 24 hour
5'10", 150# 19 y-o college student withbeautiful body and cute face available
Call Philip (212)473-1939
for boqywork. Very friendly. Call for in/out appts. 10am-4am any day. AlSOCHAMPION' BB (STUDBUCK)
available '.
5'7· 200 Ibs. Massive rippling thighs,with Chris.
Blond German masseur ', '. Damon (212) 496-6710
Gentlemen, for discreet & reliable,
fun call SONNY 212-675-1182,TREAT YOURSELF!
ATHLETIC MASSEUR"Sweet man with great hands" seeks
Handsome/cleancut/greatnudeclients for nude nonsexual -vigorous&
ma~sage, also into. wrestling
Swedish/Esalen massage. $50 an hour.
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CA certified. Gary 212-228-2243.
John 212-741-3282
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Blue Eyes, 6', 170#; 42" c, 32"w
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the,activists found themselves staring at a group ,that included
not one new face,representing' an organization that bad not
yet signed onto the list,of boycott supporters. Nevertheless,presQrning the lack of response constituted something of an
imprimatur or, at worst, a dearth of opposition-the coali~ti,on, composed ofa group of mostly male, entirely white
repres~ntatives from the orgaflizations that have joined theaction, forged ahead. ',.While no one contacted for comment contends that
Channel· 13 is doing a superlative job representing the broad
spectrum of lesbian and gay concerns, a number of individuals spokeagairist the boycott. ,"Th~re's a tendency for ~he initial breakthrough toalways be bland, bOring and white," remarks Robert
Garcia, a,
gay activ:istandvideo-makerwho
approaches'theboycott. ,- with a great deal of skepticism,"and that's what I am con,cemed about." Although he agrees that a public-affairs pro"gr.imfeaturing the talents of openly queer writers, directors,
producers and public personalities is eminently desirable, healso notes the disparity between the multifaceted, muiticultural, hip queer world hI' which he resides ;md the standardfare ptiblic-affairs programing on which he suspects the boycotts' proponents probably model their ideatprogr.im. While
supporters. of the boycott have stated their commitment tomulticulturalism, so far, efforts to diversify the project's primary proponents have been unsuccessful.
, ' Other a~tivists point out that since the boycott is focusedon convincing lesbians, 'gay men and their supporters towithhold fmancial contributions from Channel 13 unless anduntil the station airs a gay and lesbian public-affairs' progr.im,
it provides w~thier, ·less ~ibility-oriented queers with theopportunity to use the pledge drive as a referendum forum
to reject the, activists' agenda and undercut the credibility of
those who boast that 'a .united lesbian and gay community
supports the, activists' demand for a weekly multicultural
queer public~affairs progr.im. Although the boycott obviously
also offers ,more affluent queers a unique chance to participate in an activist-directed effort, the political and tacticalgulf that haS, lorig separated community-oriented lesbians andgay men from' queers who do not rabble-rouse may notprove so easily br:idged,'
Still another segment of the c'ommunity argues thatinstead ofI attacking WNET, which has, by most accounts,'been more responsive to queers than the networks, activists
within tbe community should turn their energies toward
more heinous offenders, whose commerciaf sponsors havealready pro,ven susceptible to the"ili,reat,of,boycott.
,. Perhaps' instead of boycotting, .g!j\'t~QeI13, this group
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But perhaps the most potentially troublesome problem
or8lIDizers of the boycott face is indifference even within
the group of activists that tend to enthUSiastically embraceevery proposal that comes up on the floor of Qu~er Nation,
While a media release stated that Queer Nationals have gathered over 3,000 signatures on a .letter in support of the boycott proponents' demands, among the people surveyed forthis article, the overwhelming response to the impending
action was formidable detachment. Even ACf UP, which hasendorsed the boycott insofar as the floor voted to put thegroup's name on a press release, has made no substantive
commitment to the action, "We agree, but we're not going toactively participate," explains David Chestnut, ACf UP's representative to the Channel 13 coalition.,,

his is certainly not the frrst time that Channel 13 hasheard from segments of ,the community on the issueof gay and lesbian programing. According to independent produ,cer John Scagliotti, in 1980 he waswithin inches of closing a deal with Channel 13 for a 'regularly scheduled lesbian and gay program thatwas to be nationally broadcast. 'tIowever,. Ronald Reagan was elected, and the Corpora'tion for Public Broadcasting, which, according to Scagliotti,
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GLAAD'sdescription of progress, were under development.
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Schwartz recalls, it turned out that Channel 13 was again
stall,ing. "Chancey ha,d misrepresented his level of commitment to lesbian and gay p~ograming," Schwartz concludes.
In this most recent episode, Channel 13, with such apoor record of response to queer applications in ,the past,
could hardly fail to offer something enticing to activists,should th~ station decide to take up negotiations in goodfaith. And considering that the lesbian and gay community
hardly has a stellar history of resolving boycotts with grace
and unanimity, it would seem that the' coalition of organizations, committed at this time to a singul~ goal, might also
discover that there is, still room for compromise somewhere
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healthy 37yr old
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number apprecl·94114
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travel and mature
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San FranciscO, CA
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94142·1791
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my lover In an auto
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072103,0·128,
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Glades, FL 3.3430
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well-organized pressure can reap results.
for a boycott of Channel 13's upcoming membership drive, But
Independ~nts have repeatedly appealed to Congress for recogniWNBT's reSponsibility is to approach its viewers as constituencies,tion as a source of programs that would realize public TV's not consumers. The boycott's emphasis on Channel 13 members'
promise of dsking controversy and building new audiences, In rights to influence program content neglects members of the public without the means to write checks durlrig Pledge Week.
the late '70s, and early '80s, after vigorous .lobbying by indepenAn alternative issuggesced by; reCent events In LOs Angeles, .
dent producers for increased
fundingfromthepublicTVsystem,when KCEl', their local PBS station, decided to cancel the indeand another act of Congress (in 1978) granting that demand,
pendently produced news magazine South Africa Now, In
CPS supported production of many now-claSsic independentfums, including Befqre Stonewall. But, 'as outlined earlier, PBS response to the announcement of the station's plans, members ofoperates with no obligation to distribute the work CPB proKCET's own community advisory board, community activists andduces. And like most independent rums and videos they pick up others banded together to demand its continuation. They won., .
(usually without paying an acquisition fee), PBS has hardly
The community advisory board structure was designed to allow
advertised the rare lesbian or gay projects, although several of input in the dedsions 1liade at public TV stations. Marjorie Hill, New
the shows established by co?S0rtia of public TVstations-theYork City's director of the Office for the Lesbian and Gay Community,I .
'dramatic series American Playhouse and the American Masters has recently joined WNET's New York Community A~
Board,
proflle series have underwritten'acouple of films with gay and a gay and lesbian show should be at the top c;i her agenda fa
protagonists: ,for example Andre's Mother, Longtime Companion
that body. In addition, Channel 13'8 three other advisory
and James BaldWin: The Price of a 7Ycket,
board&-New Jersey Community, triIS1lIeS and Priends of 13 (130 peoOver time, Independent prod\lcers became impatient with end- ple)-and corporate officers can be targeted. Other public oftlcIals;
elected representatives at all levels of
have an 1nterest·1n',less broken promises made bY. various public TV representativ~
the. of public lV, They, too, should be enlisted In a camand dedcIed to return to Capitol Hill to restate, their case--successfully, As a result, the 1988 legislation directed CPB to aeate an paign to enhance gay and lesbian prosramIng, And, mindful c;i theIntricate relations between PBS and the local statI<)ns.-Qs well as theautonomous "Independent production service,· with an annual budget of at least $6 million to be "used exclusively In pursuit of [CPB's] leading role played by WNBT on a national Ieve1-PBS's program
obl~tion to expand the diyersity and ,innovation of programing
chief, Jennlfer lawson, should hear &om 'the lesbian and gay lobby.
avaUable to public broadcasting," Now on the veIge of announcing
Already, lawson has told the press that sexual preferences will beI.
to mul .
.
She and her colan initial funding cycle, the St. Paul-based Independent 1Y Service included in PBS's
has yei to declare how it Will interpret "diVersity and innovation."
leagues need to tum these words into action Given their concern
However, the involvement of gay men and lesbians in the indepenwith the. decJ.ining audience figures, PBS would be M;e to make adents', campaign underscores our interest in this project.
~oncerled effort to serve its potential gay and lesbian audience.
, Still, nowhere in the entire spectrum of public TV institutions .
On yet another front, public 1V's obligation to work with ,independent producers suggests that WNET
should be pushed to recogcan we locate a consistent, unambiguous commillllent to lesbians,
and gay men, Notably, public TV series that are supposed to treat nize the expertise of independent lesbian and gay film. and videocontroversial public affairs and cultural events that exceed the makers, Indeed, it Is often the work c;i this group· that has filled theboundaries set by the conventions of network TV have either
hours set islde for the inevitable June specials, This ml8ht suara;rtteethat whatever Channel 13 offers the lesbian and gay public in response
excluded lesbian and gay content (the trendy perfon'nance series
Aiive From Off Center is a prime example, along with the left·lib- to current aitldsms will not be just a baing talk show, If New York's
little public 'T.V station, WNYC, can engage Independent Jo1m Scaglioai, eral independent documentary, series POV) or blatantly ,fueled
homophobia, as In the case of the 1987 Frontline program AIDS: as co-producer for a gay and lesbian magazine series-which' will
A Public Inquiry, which' portrays a destitute, African-American gay showcase perfonnance, politics, health repons, short fihns and documentaries, with a liVe studio audience-why can't big WNET fund andman with AIDS as a witting inenace to public health,
We might look to the example set by the British lesbian and broadcast an ambitious lesbian ~ gay series? Or more? T
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