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racism, pollution, unemployworkers collecting $5 donations Hawkins. They should apoloLENNY BERNSTEIN
ment, sexism and violence.
from two women. These women, gize to his family and to theIt's 'Monday, the day of the
The parade has ended.
no doubt, were duped by the people they've taken.
great distraction and abominaEach one of us must pri- "NAP line" and the shamelessJane Testation, New York's parade to vately consider now whether
use of Yusut Hawkins,
Brooklyn",honor our armed forces', and we were successfully diverted, NAP has lied and cheated
I'm filled with anger,
or whether we want to take and misled many people into
HAZING FRAT BOYS ,Over the weekend, I, action to help end a crisis,
thinking it is a liberal party, but
Thanks for your coverage
Magie L. Dominic
attended musical celebrations
its only politic seems congruentof the, "Club Faggots, Not
at Lincoln Center and Carnegie.
Manhattan
with Lyndon LaRouche and Seals" T-shirts at Syracuse UniHall that honored Leonard
versity [no, 102, June 12]. It's
Bernstein and Cole Porter,
important to note that thisNowhere in the testimonials on
srONEWAl.1. RIOrS
BV, ANDREA NATALIE
occurred in a city that passed a
the stage or in the extensive
fair-practices law prohibiting
biographicalbooklets wasdiscrimination against lesbians
there any mention of a power- .
and gays less than a yearAll
ful aspect of their lives (DO I
agcr-much to our surprise, on
AIA,proA! .
have to tell OutWeek readers. the first try through the city's
what?). , Yet Bernsteins' bio
Common Council. Syracuse's
says his Jewish heritage influMayor Tom Young may be a far'
enced his music and cites his
cry from David Dinkins, but hesupport for Amnesty Interna, did sign this law,tional. Naturally, there is no
For those of you readers
mention of Bernstein's apwho wish to write to the Crows'
pearance at GMHC's huge cirfraternity national office, incus fund-raiser at Madison'
addition to their Syracl,lse
Square Garden in 1983. Invishouse, the a:ddres~ is: Alphaible again!
Chi Rho, 109 Oxford Way, NepAt the CO!IJPorter tribute,tune, NJ 07753,,"
the Whiffenpoofs from Yale
Nancy Rhodes
I were guest singers, It would
Syracuse, NY
have been more honest to have
had the Gay Men's Chorus,
SIX DEGREES
Ten years and' 115,000
OF INFORMATION. deaths later, homosexuality,
A few weeks ago, you printremains a dirty and embarrassed a letter written by Stephen
ing secret. The lies, fraud and'Bam conceming homophobia in
deception continue.
John Guare's Six Degrees of
Hal Bramson
Separation [no. 98, May 15], He
Manhattan,LYNDONLAROUCH~
Jesse Helms.
condemned the play completely,
AND YUSUF HAWKINSWith the debut of Spike calling it "bullshit" and likening it
TIE A YELLOW RIBBONThe New Alliance Party,
Lee's movie Jungle Fever (dedi- to bashing,
The June Operation Wel- under the disguise of the cated to Yusut Hawkins), I tear
I noticed a few inaccuratecome Home parade seemed"Rain,bow Lobby" again seized that NAP stands to make a lot references to the text in Mr.
to be a carefully constructed'upon a tragedy in our city-theof money this summer duping , Bam's letter, He refers to people
three-ring circus, deliberately
racist beating and killing of people with its political bU72- from Utah as being from Ohio,
designed to dive rt attention
Yusuf Hawkins-to further its , words. (They seemingly appear he refers to two men spfmdingfrom the tragi~ reality of the own political power and fundliberal with all the right jargon.)'the night together when they do
AIDS epidemic, lack of health rilising goals.
I am infuriated that NAP not, and, in what must be a concare, homelessness, poverty,
At tables set up on 86th would stoop to a new low and .fused typo, he refers to a heterolack of education, drug abuse, Street and Lex, I witnessed NAP stain the name of Yusuf
sexual couple as homosexual.
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These mistakes made me doubt (to the extent of personal choice).
Mr. Born's reliability, I went out Recycling is a must, and mostand bought a copy of the play, current boycotts are observed.
gave it a careful reading and One nice thing about the office iscame to the conclusion that Six the plethora of political rags from
Degrees of Separation is homo- different political groups thatphobic in some ways, but gay- we all belong to or watch,
positive in others. ,One thing that is not tolerI wonder if Mr. Born was ated in this high-energy politicaltoo :influenced by The Silence
climate is sexual harassment.
of the Lambs, anpther big suc- For this reason, I have not been
cess, recently getting lots of able to leave issues 102 andpress, that is clearly and gross- 103 of OutWeek on the table inly homophobic.
But Six
the office, along with newsletDegrees is not so clear-cut, and ters and magazines that track
condemning it as such strikes , other (political) movements.
me as a kind of bashing,
Freedom' of speech andBruce Carmel freedom of artistic expression
Manhattan
are important issues: But ,I canno more leave a magazine fea"•••ANDANDREA
turing two nude men in the act
DWORKIN SAYS, ''PENof safer sex in the office than I
could allow two straight employETRATION = RAPE",I am in charge of the can- ees to kiss in the work-place.
vassing office for a statewide
H~rasslT)ent is harassenvironmental organization in ment. I am out at work. I intend
Vennont. Our offices are very PC to hang the new Red Hot and•A number of us here in
Hawaii believe that you aredoing a tremendous amount ofdamage to the gay movement. I
am sure.your heart is in the rightplace, but "Attack! Attack!" isnot always the best way; Positive journalism can be very
effective. In the meantime, have
fun with what has turned out tob,ea boring masturbation. Your
magazine could have been
GREAT!
Tommy Aguilar
Honolulu

Blue poster in my home. I justwonder if the shock value offeaturing it on your cover isworth the lack of exposure that
our issues might suffer due tolost straight readership. 'Tony Birks,
Assistant Director
Vermont Public Interest
Research Group
Brattleboro, Vermont
I HATE OUTWEEKAS
MUCH AS LIZ SMITH

What started out as a good
idea, very provocative, muchneeded kick-in-the-ass magazine
has now turned into a ranting
and raving rag! I am sick to deathof all your negative bitching andmoaning and your one-sided
journalism, As a person livingwith AIDS, I am fed up with yourattacks on the various organizations that started from nothing
and now are the main s.uPport
structure for persons with AIDS.

CANNIBALISM
AND MEDICINEWith all of the self-indulgence and cannibalism at themagazine last week, I didn't geta chance to respond to somefactual errors in a letter from
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Larry A. Waites [no. 104, June26]. He had some problems
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exception to his characterization of AIDS as a "manageable
chronic illness,", First, in my day job, I am
an editor working for a publishing consultant, not a design
consultant, as Waites wrote.
Second, Waites questioned•
my "training or expertise" inmedicine, and he is right that I
am not a doctor. However, as areporter; I spoke to a number of
AIDS dOctors, and others who
are affiliated with community
research efforts. All agreed that
Wailes' characterizations of fhedisease is overly optimistic,
though it is something to shoot'for, Asthma is "manageable,"and "chronic" AIDS, unfortunately, is not.
Third, when
AIDS does,
become chro(1ic and manageable, it will only be for people
who have access to health care.
t.ack of access qualifies it as
unmanageable in my book. ,And fourth, I clearly statedin "Gaydar" that I did not want
to discredit Dr. Waites, who isserving heroically in the middleof all th,is hell. I was simply
commenting on what !leems tome is premature optimism,
Michael Goff
"Gaydar" Columnist
Manhattany

RED HOT AND YOU
Bad enough. that lesbian
desire is ,completely absent
from their video project-but
beware girfs!-the producers of
Red Hot and Blue have reared
their ugly, sexist heads, again.
RHB's idea of (economically)"re-involving the gay community" does not include lesbians. 'Girls! We're supposed to
run out and encourage all our
brothers to bu.y,buy, buy RHB's
safer sex posters-and maybe
even buy them ourselves to give
to boys that we love and carefor-because those nasty people at RHB won't even START
making a lesbian version until. they recoup what it cost them tomake the two (TWO I) boy
posters!

But wait! What' would that"lesbian version" look like? Judging from their videos...maybe (nooffense to kd lang but great animosity to director Percy Adlon
for reducing lesbian representation to metonyrpies of an absent
dyke) it will be a simple yet very
feminine cotton nightgown. No
need for a woman, Just thenightgown will do.
The RHB project may be"perpetually conceptual," but it.,Iis also PERPETUALLYSEXIST.A SEX is still invisible.
philanthropic organization can't
Diana Arecco
use the old "fag affluence/dyke
Manhattan'
poverty" excuse for manufacturing two boy posters and no • Features Editor Vickie Starr
responds: Red Hot and Bluegirl poster. An album doesn't
included two videos dealing withgo gold and a video doesn't
race up the charts without fe- ' queer love: one for the boys
(Jimmy SomeNillej' and one formale consumption.
Despite the efforts of thou- the girls (kd lang). It also
sands of lesbians in the ten years achieved gender parity in thesince the AIDS crisis began, OUR more general categories of rap,
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included dykes, like the samesex couples of both genders-in
O'Connor's video imd footage of
ACT UP demos in Erasure'svideo. Whats more, there wasmany a' dyke heartthrob included besides kd lang (like Annie
Lennox, Debbie Harry, Sinead
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BUT THESEPARTICULAR DICKSWERE PRETTY UGLY...

In the '~Exposed" column
by Monica Dorenkamp in issue. , 103 [June 19], it seems the
only thing "exposed" is her
obvious hatred of men and their
penises, Her attempt at a review
of a short film entitled Dick, by
Jo Menell, leads us through various insulting remarks about the
male anatomy and very little
about the film.
She writes that " ...eamest
voyeurism quiCkly tum to dis'taste and thtm to complete. disgust, as you realize what a big
deal has been made over suchan ugly thing. And thesethings
are ugly."
A man's penis or any part
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Don't add to the separatismthat already exists,within the gay
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I was amused by the arr0gance of Mark Harrington's
reply to Jim Fouratt's letter tothe editor in last week's issue of
OutWeek [no. 102, June 12].
C'mon Mark, you don't have toknow how to spell Dr. Margaret
Fischl or Dr. Paul Volberding tQ,
figure out Which W3!f the windis blowin'. Harrington is agenius when it comes to detailand data-amasSing, but he fails
to grasp the larger picture. Just
because no deaths have beenreported from people taking
Zovirax doesn't diminish thelarger, uglier 'fact that deaths
have be,en reported from lymphomas, pacreatitis, anemia,
and many other grotesque side
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nucleoside analogues such as
AIr, ddl, and ddC.
AZT seems, at best, tohelp 10 ,percent of the people
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It is ironic to hear Harring- 'ton talk about "people with HIV
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NEW YORK-A gay man who disassaulted in the same area that evening
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appeared on N~w Year's Day was locatthe case appeared in New Yom Newsday,
and was treated and released fromed two weeks ago in the morgue of theto detennine why rio notice was taken of
Brooklyn Hospital. But when John
city hospital where he had languishedthe fact that Brown's name was inscribed
Brown, who was white, "became"for five months, comatose and unidention a bank card found in his pocket
Wayne Galloway, his personal possesfied, He was the victim of what appears
when be was bz:ought into the hospital's
sions, including the bank card that gave
to have been a brutal gay-bashing.
, emergency room with a fractured skull.
his real name, were sealed in a plastic
And for five months, while her
Because of the apparent oversight,
bag and not looked at again until six
brother, John T. J3rown, lay unconscious
Brown was identified by the hospital fordays after his death.
-at King~ County' Medical Center, Elizathe duration of his stay there as Wayne, According to police spokesperson
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G-dlloway, The misnaming came about
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fmd him. Her effort came to a conclusion
when hospital administrators,
in anthat "Galloway" had died, the deadOfl June 12, a week after Brown, 50,'attempt to identify the comatose victim,
man's fingerprints were taken at the
who-lived in Park Slope, died of serious , . contacted the police department, which
morgue and checked against police
head injuries sustained during
supplied them with the name "Wayne
reCords. The fingerprints were identified, an attack
early on New Year's Day.
Galloway," The real Wayne Galloway, a
as belonging to "John Brown."
The circumstances
surrounding'
Brown's death, which has spurred a Delat. ed homicide investigation,- raise serious
questions about the handling of the case
by New York City Police Department's
78th Precinct and the Emergency Medical
Services, or EMS,Hauser charged.
"We are going to treat this as we did
the Julio Rivera case," Matt Foreman,director of Ute New York City Gay and,Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, or AVP,
. ;'stated, referring to the murder in Queens
last sWnmei' which galvanized the lesbian
and gay community and focused consid¢rable media attention on gay-bashing.
"We think it's a vel)' important case.", The police did not begin investigating the suspicious events leading up to
Brown's death until last week, more than
five crucial months after he was foundunconscious on the corner of Lincoln.........
Place and Underhill Avenue in Brooklyn. ,And the public hospital in Brooklyn
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up when it called Galloway's relatives toreport the death, The family theninfonned the hospital that GallQway wasalive, Petrie stated,, In any case, it waS only after Brown
had been dead for five days that police, finally informed Hauser that her brotherhad been found. She and her family thenmade their trip to the Brooklyn city
morgue, where Hauser said prayers overher brother's body,
1he thing that hurts the most," Hauser told OuIWeek, "is that my brother may
have come through this if I was there."
Last week, Hauser, a 45-year-old
nurse from Millville,,,N),went public withher story of the toltUous obstacles, tangled bureaucracy and overt .homophobia
she encountered in her five-month crusade to locate her missing brother.
She said that she first became concerned when she received word, that
Brown hadn't shown up at his job· as anelevator operator
at a Park Slope build,ing on New Year's Day.
"John had worked there for years,
and he was never even late," Hauser
stated. "He was a very methodical,
responsible pe~n.
I knew there wassomething }Vl'ong."
Detectives
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78th
Precinct, however" were unconvinced.
Though Brown -was never seen after heleft his apartment in the the early morning hours of Januaty 1, Hauser recalled,
police refused to classify h~r brother as a
missing person for nearly a month.
"They said he did not meet the criteria," she continued. "I'd call them every
day, and they said, 'Listen, lady, he still
doesn't meet the criteria.'''According to Hauser, her statement 0,
to police that Brown was gay was
greeted derisively by officers at the 78th
Precinct. "Maybe he shacked up with anice piece of ass," one officer reportedly told her, Ano.ther police detect ice
speculated' that Brown might havekilled himself on New Year's because
he was homosexual, "They told me weshould just wait for him to wash up,"
Hauser recounted.
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For the next few weeks, without
police support,
Hauser regularly
made the lengthy trek from her homein New Jersey to Brooklyn to searchfor her brother. Sometimes, she said,
she was accompanied by her husband•

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and a younger sistet,~
She,was soon joined by members of
the lesbian and gay conununity, howev~
er, after John Hammond of the New Yom
Native publicized Brown's disappearance
and put Hauser in touch with Liz Garro,
the Brooklyn district attorney's gay andlesbian liaison.
For the next few months, Garroaccompanied the family to local hospitals,
morgues and" police stations, flashing her
official ID when Hauser ran into bureaucratic resistance. Months before Brown'strue identity was discovered, Hauser andGarro questioned nurses at the KingsCounty Medical Center, one floor below
the ward where Brown, listed as "Wayne
Galloway," lay unconscious,"The gay conununity's response has
been incredible," Hauser said, noting that
individuals from a number of different
conununity-based agencies helped her
track down leads, distribute fliers andbattle with institutionalized homophobia,"They've been with me a hundred percent," she added,.
But, according
to Garro, theresponse of the 78th Precinct to Brown's
disappearance was considerably morelethargic.
"From the beginning," she said, "thepolice, the hospital and the EMS havemade mistakes With this case."
According to EMS records, Brown'sbattered body was discovered at around'
5:23 am on New Year's Day. An EMS
ambulance arrived at the scene at 5:32
am, and, after waiting for a few minutes
for police to show up, started off to KingsCounty Medical Center. The report notesthat there were no police on the scene.
According to sources at KingsCounty, Brown arrived at the emergency room with severe injuries to his headand chest.
,On June 6, Cookie Hauser and Liz
Garro went to the hospital and demanded Brown's hospital records. At. that time,
both women said, they saw a, copy of
the EMS report, which stated that Brown
had been attacked and beaten withblows to his face, chest and head
The report said that Brown's ch..est
had been kicked in, and he had been
repeatedly hit in back of the head with ablunt object, Garro added.
Citing patient confidentiality laws,
neither police nor hospital sources would
reveatany
details to OutWeek about,
Brown's condition when he was found"•Hauser said that she was told by
one police officer that her brother may
have been hurt "stepping off a curb,"
Meanwhile, police pave begun abelated investigation into Brown's death.
police spokesperson Hugh &ny, confuming that an investigatiorfis indeed underway, said that the depamnent ha9 no c0mment on whether police suspected that theattack may have been a gay-l>ashing.
But AVP's Matt Foreman had nosuch hesitation. "Gay-~hingis a definite possibility," he asserted, n¢ng that
Brown's cash 'card was 'not taken andthat Brown was discovered, severely
beaten, in a gay area.
In an ironic twist, after !?otching
Brown's identification, leaving Hauser tofret five months for her brother's wellbeing, recendy, Hauser said, the KingsCounty Medical Center has begun to callher "four or five times a day," seeking insurance information about her brother anddemanding to be paid for their services,
Hauser said that she is consideringfiling suit against the hospital, the EMS
and the police department, based onwhat she termed the mishandling of her
brother's case,
Last week, HauSer expressed surprise at the growing C9ntroversy that her
brother's death has caused. "He was aquiet, ordinary person,." she said.
A lifelong resident of Brooklyn, 'Brown graduatedfrom Alexander
Hamilton High School in 1959 as captain of both the swim team and the tennis team. She said that Brown,a,Catholic, briefly studied for the priesthood and regularly attended church,"He could recite mass in English and
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She said that her brothersuffered,a depression in his early 20s, as hestruggled
to come to terms with his,
homosexuality, and that he chose tolead a rather soi'itary life in Brooklyn.
"There were some people in the family
that' hated hirI). for being gay," shesaid. "For me and my sister, it nevermade a difference.';And as Out Week went to press,
Hauser said that she was trying to
retrieve Brown's body from the morgueand 3rrange for the
Catholic burial her brother would have wanted, "This
won't be over until the people who did
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cot'nmemorate .past and present
educators. Other speakers..'.. ,leaders, showcase the diversity
include Carole Midgen 'andof talent in the community,
Roberta Achtenberg, both offocus on their political struggles'whom are openly lesbi~n'.
and have a rollicking good time.
members of, San Francisco's
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lesbi;m pride is stronger ,thanhunian rights agency.
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place nationwide, 'with New
But while all of this is,,-"York and Sat,IFranc~
expectbeing provided free to Prideed to be the most extravagant.
participants, .the cost to the
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ance, being raised through ,fOutWeek randomly selected ,a~erchandising"corpori'lte ~number of cities, and towns
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FEMALE TROUBLE-Two lovely ladies celebrate in Baltimore.
events, float fees and _grandPrideeventsabout , their•stand-seat sales.
,planned festivities.
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For Lopez, the city's celebratory
North America's lesbian and gay
director of the San FranCisco parade,
events are not ohly a symbol of the comcapital, San Francisco, will stage its
many participants
will be first-timemunity'S' p~ide and a 'reminderoflargest-ever Pride celebration this month.
marchers, The parade, San Francisco's
Stonewall, but also an opportunity to pr0,Six-hundred
thousandpeoplea;e20th celebration of Stonewall,is schedvide inforinationf~d education , ~o both ',..
expeCted to march and watch theuled for Sunday, June 30', kicking off on
the gay and the straight cOmmunities. "Itparade, titled "Hand-in-Hand Together". Market aI?-d,Spear streets at 11 am andis also a day to celebrate our unification
in a local adaptation of the international
ending at City HallPIaza, where an afteras well as our diversity," she added
theme, "Together in Pride.» This year's
noon's entertainment is planned. In all,
Chicago's Pride fYcY'ade'isexpectect
parade is expected to be double the size 'lS3 perfonners and speakers will enterto attract 100,000 marChers and' onlookof last
, year's, in part because the Los
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Angeles parade is being held on another
The keynote speaker,' Community
on the la&t leg of the 'route to the rally'weekend. Pride organizers predict that a
United Against Violence Dire~or Barsite at Lincoln ,Park. At the ,rally, particihuge contingent from IA will io,in in thebara Cameron, will address the ,rally on
pants will be provided with both enter7
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Rosher and Diana I.affery, and the Chi
Town Squares, as well as politicalspeeches. National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force Executive Director Urvashi Vaid
will be this year's keynote speaker.
The Lincoln Park rally will wind up
at 7 pm, after which, revellers canchoose from a plethora of parties.
Pride Committee President, Richard
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Chicago are traditionally very positive,
aided partly by die gay and mainstream
media's widespread pre- and post-parade
coverage. This free publicity allows thePride Committee to spend its resourceson things other than advertising. The
day's $10,OOO-plus price tag is raised

mainly through merchandising, with buttons being the big money-maker. No
grants are available to any parades in
Chicago, but municipal support is evident in the mayoral proclamation andparticipation in the parade.
Down south in Atlanta, meanwhile,celebrations promise to be more low-key
but no less vital. The city's 20th celebration of Pride will be held over two days
packed with music, sports, workShops,
vigils, dancing and romancing.
"Depending on the weather, we
expect anywhere between 8,000 and
15,000 people," said organizer Jack Pelham. "Because there is no system of registration and people ju& show up to march,
we can't predIct how many will be there."

It's not as many people as Pelham
would like, corisidering that Atlanta has a
gay and lesbian population estimated at
300,000. "This is the Bible Belt: Pelham
shrugged. "This is a very closeted area,
which is one ,reason why Pride 'is so
important. We have far too many people
in the closet, and we have to show them
what Pride means."
This years celebration will nonetheless be a considerable improvement overlast year's, which were half the size andbadly organized to boot, according toPelham. "No one was even sure when
the parade was to be held," he said "Outof 14 speakers, only four were gay."
This year, all but three of the ten,
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Case in point: Nan Bailey (left) and her lover, BarSLOPE-lOA lot of people met their Significant others in bara Berger (on bicycle), met in Front Runners, and now
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right), as he prepared to jog through Prospect Park in lesbian (they hope) of their own in December,the rain with the rest of the Booklyn continge(1t. "As a
Don't forget to cheer on all Ine Front Runners inmatter of fact," he added, laughing, "some met several Central Park at the tenth annual Gay and Lesbian Pridelovers here."
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comedienne par excellence, emceeing
with Rick Mitchell, a locallV producer,
The gay and lesbian choruses will provide aural stimulation, as will cabaret,
singer Bernadine Mitchell.
Pelham'said that Mitcqell,
who
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ones, especially if the latter are trying"to go mainstream." He points to bands
like the Indigo Girls pr .local resident
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Park. Additionally, organizers haveplanned a candlelight vigil to remember those who have died of AIDS andas victims of hate crimes. The vigil will
be held at John Howell Park, which isnamed for an openly gay man who
died , of AIDS,
Atlanta's Pride celebrations, thelargest in the Southeast, will mark how
far gay and lesbian liberation hascome, even in the traditionaIly conservative South, said Pelham. "It,may not
be all it should be, but it is certaitJ-ly
more than it has been-illld it will be
more in the future," he concluded.
Thousandsof miles across the,
Pacific, 'in Hawaii, pride is similarlybullish. Honolulu's seCond Gay Prideparade, on ,Sunday, June 30, is expected to attract 1,000 people and many
more spectators as it passes down
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The latter are expected ,to be w1!olIy~,
supportive, according to the chair of
the Pride Parade and Rally, Council,
Sharyle Lyndon, "Hawaii is very accepting of gays," she said. '.'Three of
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She expects 1).0 hostility from'locals
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Pride celebrations will continue fortwo days at Kapiolani Park, where aninternational food fair and a craft fair willtake place, along with a Pride dance,
sporting and musical events and aJapanese kite-flying tournament called
Rokkaku.
There will be the usual smat,
tering of politics, but the emphasis will
be on cdebration.
Last year's celebrations cost $3,500.
This year's bill has not been tallied but
ten fund-raisers are working hard toensure"that they will be covered. Funds
will a1so be raised through merchandising, There is no ~to march, .
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Neither the governor nor the
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The parade was started to encourage
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festival,and a round of parties lead up to
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Although the mayor will be out of
town, his liaison will appear as his rep;
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who was chosen because of her support
for the gay community.
The $20,000 cost of the parade andother Pride events will be raised mainly•
through fund-raising and merchandising,No grants from the city were available.
Local organisers have stayed with
the international theme, "Together in
Pride." One of the organizers, Joan
I.adiner, said that this speaks of reclaiming the self-esteem that queers havebeen robbed of all their lives. "We're giving them their pride back. We're saying
that, if you don't come out of the closet,. you are missing out on a decent qualityof life. The message is: Reach out there,
and find yourself. Take pride."North Carolina's Pride celebrations
are statewide, alternating between the
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel
Hill triangle,,-"This year, Durham is hosting the paradeon June 29, and there are statewide
events leading up to it The Ninth Annual
Stonewa1l Commemorative Supper takes
place on June 25 at the Brinkley Baptist
Church, and, on June 28, ,a pre-marchdance is being held at the Sheraton University Centre, which is expected to
attract between 500-600.
On the big day itself, following themarch, entertainment will be laid on at
the East Campus of Duke University by
an assortment of local bands, such as
The Capital Cowboys and Tracy Drach. A
local politican, Joe Herzenberg, a member of Chapel Board of Aldennen, will
speak, Unlike his predecessor, the pre.sent mayor will not be present and will
not proc1a,im pride, The $13,000 it will
cost to hold the parade and other pride
events will be raised through merchan' ', dising and fund-raising,, Despite this being Jesse Helms
country, most of the rednecks are
expected to stay home. "You always get, two or three fundamentalists yelling froma Street ~6mer, but, they don't really posea problem," said a local activist who is
involved with organizing the parade,
Last year's 2,000 attendence figure
will hopefully be improved on, he add¢.
uAttendance is steadily improving. Moreand more .people are coming out, andnew groups are fonning all the time."
Indeed, this is a nationwide phenomenon. Pride is growing, especiallyas a business, as evidenced by thes __ PRIDE

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by John Voelcker
It's Monday evening, two weeks
before Gay and Lesbian Pride, and Red
Mahoney has a problem: There are too
many T-shitts.
As chair of the Christopher Street
Festival Committee, Mahoney, with
Committee Director Jacques Garon,
assigns booth spaces to commercial vendors arid nQnprofit groups. Commercial,
vendors get 8-foot-bY-8-foot spaces,
while non profits are allocated spaces
only a little larger than card tables.
Mahoney's problem is that every
lesbian and gay group and every AIDS
organiZation wants to sell their T-shirts.
To ensure that, every group sells enoughto make the day profitable, he explains,
he has to limit the number of groups<

that can sell the most popular
items like T-shirts. He reached the
maximum allowable number of T-shirt
vendors in mid-May, and now he has toexplain to group after group why they
can't sell T-shirts at Pride.
The festival, which occupies thewesternmost blocks of Christopher Street
and extends along the intersecting sidestreets, is one of many traditional PrideDay activities in New York City. For
many years, the festival was run by Ed
Murphy, who was known as the "Mayorof Christopher Street," with Mahoney inan assisting role. Since Murphy's death a
few years ago, Mahoney has carried on
the tradition-with a few modifications.
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\pie more things to do, so the festival
could be a lot of different things todifferent people.",,
Each year, the mix of vendors
changes slightly, and Mahoney said thatthe number of nonprofit groups has
risen steadily. Tonight, he also has totum away a sausage vendor, explaining
to the man that next year he shouldcome down in April-not mid-June torequest a space. "We could fill thewhole street with sausage's and. Tshirts," he sighs.
The festival is run out of a ,cramped
cement-block office in the dingy, institutional Manhattan, Developmental Center,a facility for children with profounddevelopmental disabilities, at 75 Morton
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the day there, coping v,;ith a constantvariety of problems-predatory
pushcart vendors,. groups who show up\Jnannounced expecting to be pr,?vided
with a space and the' occasional homophobic remark by a vendor or two. ,After' the festival is over and thecrowds disperse, Mahoney, Garon anda score of volunteers must oversee thecleanup of Christopher Street" By thenext morning, Mahoney boasts, the \street is "the cleanest it's been all
year," even down to the removal of litter. and cigarette butts from planters infront of the buildings. The cleanup is~one largely I;>ystreet kids, Mahoneysays, who know there's always paid
work at theend of the festival.
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working on the development of an..
An-type µrug when he was dismissed .
'At first, Shell used thecontents of,
the invitation left"in, an office printer as .
a reason to terminate Collins, Later,,~.,
they cited his unauthorized use of the, ..
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Shell produced a re-evalu~tionoff•Collins' work performance,
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who issued the last week's decision infavor of Collins, "contradicted 19 yearsof positive evaluations and lauded
accomplishments.";•"All this was done by Shell,· con~ tinued Taber's decision, "in spite of its :repeated written and verbal assurances
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SHELLGAME WlNNER5-Jeffi"ey Collins (left) and.atto'f/ey Paul Wotman
judged only on their work performance. .,,in a fair, objective manner.·by Lowell,B. Denny III_of therapeutic products. Shell formed
Collins did not initially seek legal
SAN FRANCISCO-ln anothervicTriton to develop new drugs against
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a Calicancer, AIDSand other diseases.
his termination, but after Shell turned
fornia court has awarded over $5 milThe controversy
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Collins' sexual orientation surfaced inremained entrenchedin their decision,,
fired from his job after an overtly gay
the fall of 1985, when a copy of ahe sought legal advice.
party invitation was found, in his office,party invitation was accidentally left in
The two-week-longtrial came
The judge found that Shellan office printer. Collins' secretary
after the suit trudged its way throughbreached the contract it had with its
found it and, a few days later, turned it'
six years of court-calendar backlog.
employees and violated California state
in to the personnel director at Triton,
Judge Taber handed dOVin thelaw, which, as construed by earlier
The invitation was subsequently fordecision on June 13, awarding -Collins
state Supreme Court decisions, prowarded to the Shell Oil Company$5,323,229 in damages,
Of that,hibits employers from discriminating
offices in Houston, Tex,
$2,523,229 consists of lost wages, andagainst workers on the basis of the
The invitation allegedly notified$2 million represents punitive damemploye~' sexua1 orientation.
guests that only safer-sex activities
ages for emotional distress Collins suf"This decision is a victory for all
would be permitted at a planned party.
fered, Shell was ,also ordered to pay
those who work and who seek to have
Weeks later, after being told that
Collins $800,000 for firing him
their professional careers evaluated by
his work was unsatisfactory and that
because he is gay,their on-the-job performance and not
no one would follow his leadership"This case,· Judge Taber wrote inby their employer's moral judgment,·
once they knew of his private activities,
the court decision, "presents the relasaid attorney Paul Freud WOlman, who
Collins was fired from Triton.
tively new issue of how far a corporarepresented Dr. Jeffrey Collins in his
Collins begari working for Shell intion may go in demanding that its mansuit against Shell,
1967 and was promoted nine times
agerial staff, in their respective private
At the time of his firing, Collins
during his 19-year tenure with the corlives, deport and conduct themselves inworked at Triton Biosciences, a wholly
poration prior to being given a positiona manner acceptable to the corporaowned subsidiary of Shell, as director
at Triton. Collins, who is a doctor oftion's concept of propriety .•
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Regarding the- scenariO' at hand,
Taber centinued, Shell's resp<,:>nseto'
the invitatien "was a tetally inapprepriate everreactien,"
and it "deprived[She1l]ef the services ef an extremely
able, tetally deveted, ambitieus andpreud empleyee."
Wetman, Cellins' attemey, seught
to' alert gay-rights advecates to' theneed fer explicit state protectien, using
Collins' case as an example.
"Because Shell argued to' theceurt that they had the right to' fire Dr.
Cellins," he said, "I wish to' emphasize
the critical importance ef the [Califernia] Legislature passing AB 101, which
will make it explicitly clear that an
employer may net fire an empleyee
because the empleyee is gay."
AB 101 is the gay and lesbian civilrights bill, which,. proponentS fear, may
die in legislative cenimittee.
Shell's eptiens at ibis peint are to'
ask Judge Ta,ber fer a re-trial, to' appeal
9r to accept the,ceurt's decisien. Wetman stated that he doubts that are-trial
will be granted and feels certain that,
en appeal,. the bulk ef Cellins' award
will remain intact.
The suit marks at least the secend
time in recent menths that Shell'slawyers have been in ceurt to' defend
the cempany against charges ef gayrelated discriminatien.
Michael Remei, a fermer Shell
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he was gay and had AIDS,r,
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by Duncan Osborne .
ALBANY-Lobbyists
seekingenactment of a bias bill in New Yorkstate descended on the State Capitol
last week to pressure the Republicancontrolled Senate into passing thatpiece of 10rig-stalled legislation.
At a press conferencein thestate's Capitol Building, Dick Dadey,
executive director of the Empire State
Pride Agenda, recalled the ceremony
at which President George Bushsigned the Federal Hate Crimes Statistics Act into law last year and said, "I
am here today on behalf of the gay
and lesbian commuhity of New Yorkstate to urge the Republican~ontrolled

Senate to follow the lead, of a Republican president in doing what we allknow to be right."./ But even as lobbyists stumped'for
support of the bias legislation, a Senate committee made history by, passing a piece of lesbian and gay civilrights legislation.
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The Coqunittee on Investigations,Taxation and Government Operations
approved Senate bill 2236, whichamends state civil rights law to include
sexual orientation as a protected class.
Now the bill must make it through theRules Committee, chaired by Majority
Leader Ralph Marino, Republican fromStaten Island, before it can come to thefull Senate floor for a vote.
'In the Asserhbly, the lesbian andgay rights bill is ready for a vote, but
advocates say that they are firming up
yes votes before they bring the bill to
the Assembly floor.
At the bias bill press conference,
the Pride Agenda's Dadey was joinedby State Attorney General Robert
Abrams; Gov. Mario Cuomo; Dr. Marjorie Hill, director of the Mayor's Officefor the Lesbian and Gay Community;
Howie Katz, bias bill coordinator for
the New York City Gay and Lesbian
Anti-Violence Project;, State Sen. Manfred Ohrenstein, a Democrat from
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representatives from labor unions andthe state's ~rimina1justice system.
Hate crimes legislation would create enhanced penalties' for assaults andacts of intimidation conunitted against
a person on the basis of the victiln'srace, creed, age, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or disability.
After' the press conference, lobbyists called on a dozen Republican
senators to obtain their support for
the legislation proposed 9Y Cuomo
more than three years ago and,passed each year by the ISO-member
state Assembly, The day after the lobbying blitz, the Assembly again
approved the legislation, this time by,a vote of 123 to 17.
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In Manhattan, Mayor David Dinkins held a press conferencetoannounce the results of the city's Bias
Documentation Project. That project,organized by the city's Human Rights
Commission, sought to document thebreadth of anti-gay bias crimes, Dinkins
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June 11 Geraldo show. The show's guests included Frank Joseph, Nonetheless, the editorial pages and opinion pieces of t~e Post. 'founder of Wake-Up, America, who, by way of introduction, stated, remain 'appallingly homophobic. Syndicated columnists Ii~e Patrick .
"God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve," Other guests Buchanan and local columnists like Ray Kerrison contin4e to spew
included Allen Phillips, whose caption read, 'Was Gay, Is Now Het- lies onto the Posts pages, with little or no editorial balance f~om,,
erosexual," and Joanne Highley, whose caption read, "Was Lesbian, other colummsts."
Recently, GlAAD met with Post Editor Jerry Nachmar:i to disNow Counsels Gays and Lesbians.",~.,
If a single show could embody the w.orst aspects of talk-show cuss these issues ,and to formally request that the Post hire an .'e)(ploitatlon of gays and lesbians, this was it. In all of our experi- . openly gay or lesbian columnist. Nachman would ,not commit to' ,ences monitoring the media, few shows compare to this one,in its hiring a columnist but did agree to guarantee publication of op-e~"
its spreading of lies and hatred. Geraldo is viewed by a great num- submissions by GLAAD and other community groups. GLAAD, bar of geographically isolated ~ys and lesbians who are desperate believes that Nachman's personal Isensitivity and intelligence' on " for accurate information about homosexuality and vulnerable to this gay issues are partly 'responsible for the Posts coverage. But
Nachman is hypocritical to cite the First Amendment as the rea- ,kind of t\vj$led logic and hatred. The "homosexu,ality-is-a-sickness"
approach IS directly responsible for the fact that' gay youth are three son that the Post continues to run hate-rriongerin'g columnS, '~attacking gays:"• ,,_.
times as likely to attempt suicide than their straight counterparts.
, We urge you to write to Nachman and list your reasons why'
" , GlAAD-has met with Geraldds producers, demanding a new show
rebutting the IiI!S spread by this one. But we need your help to make it an openly gay or lesbian Post'columnist is overdue. Wtite to: Mr. -,flappen. Call Ge.aldo Rive~at (212) 332-0500, or fax a message to him Jerry Nachman, ~ditor, New York Post, 210 SoLlt~ St., New York, 'af(212) 581~8196.-0r, better,write to: Geraldo Rivera, Inves~gative NY 10002, (You can ric your letter to the posts publisher, ,Pllter,c.
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'The mayor of Guadalajara's wealthiest suburb and the governor of the st1;teof Jalisco joined Covarrubias Ibarra inpromising to take all stepS necessary to•
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Lesbian and Gay Association, to be held
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N~ YORK-Declaring that the local, state and ~ederalgovemments have blatantly violated the United Nations' declaration, of human rights, more than 350 demonstrators marched to theUnited Nations last week in an appeal for financial and humanitarian disaster-relief assistance from the UN.
, The action, which cited the multiple epidemics of AIDS,
syphilis, tuberculosis, homelessness and drug addiction ~ evidence of the government's "unwillingness to fund adequate
health care and social services," was led by ACT UP and the
Women's H~ Action Mobilization, or WHAM I.
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Sixteen protesters were arrested when police abruptly
attempted to disperse the crowd, according to ACT UP
spokesperson Stuart Tom, and one activist taken into custody, aperson with AIDS, was charged with assault. The remaining
arrestees were charged with disorderly conduct.
Both the disaster-relief agency and the World Health Organization responded to ,the appeal, and WHO, in a statement that
expressed "solidarity" with all groups that seek to promotehealth, stated, "Governments have a responsibility for the healthof their. peoples which can be fulfilled only by the provision' of
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were founded by gay men. Britain's most visible AIDS activist, Simon Watney, said
that he was "astonished" by the singer's ''very generous gift."I
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gay magazine MAsok!1as risen from the dead with 18 improved
I HUNGARY-The
I pages of news, features and the sort of picbJres that cannot be imported ,into Canada.
I It is published by Lambda Budapest, which is a resurrection of the now-defunct
I Homeros Lambda. Lambda recen1Iy registered with the ,Budapest govemment--a cruI cia! fonnality throughout the former Eastern 61oc, MA50k seeks photos of "mouthI watering young men with very little or no cIothing--with faces. We've got models
I here," explained MAsok Editor Takacs Gabor, "but none of them allows his face to be
I , in the photo." Write MAsok, Lambda Budapest, Pf 701, Budapest, Hungary.
Istate radio
has relented and now allows the word "lesbian",I ICELANI>-Icelandic
tobebroadcast.
Formerly,
the
word
was
banned by "language consultants" becauseI
I it was not Icelandic. The original dictum was probably not based on ~omophobia, as
I the island has a history of fierce resistance to fdreign words in order to protect the
I purity of the language, Which is spoken by only about 250,000 people.
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Irish Family Planning Association has been fined $1,000 for
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Dublin record store. By law, condoms may only be sold inselling
condomsI
I ' pharmacies and to persons over the age of 18, ACT UPJDubiin 'and others protestI ed the ruling. "Condoms should be available in pubs, clubs and, outside Working
I hours, in places and at times when people are likely to have unplanned sex," said
I activist Rachel Martin.
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are the third-least-popular group in Italy after Gypsies andI ITALY-Homosexuals
politicians,
accordingtotheDenomskopea pollsters, Thirty-one percent of survey
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second Leningrad gay and lesbian group has been denied registration
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I with the city council. Registration Of a group is advantageous in the Soviet Union in
I order to increase apcess tei scarce resources (such as paper, and copy machines)
I and decrease the threat of police harassment, The council turned down the group
I 'Banks of the Neva because Russian Peilal Code Article 121,1 criminalizes anal sex
I between men. Organizers plan to forge ahead with efforts "to unite, lesbians andI- gays, fight discrimination, establish a library and publish a newspaper:~Iia has given birth to an indigenous gay and lesbian movement. The ~erI.
ation
for
SexualEquality's initial demands indude an end to discrimination against sexualI
minorities,arepublic-wide
gay-rights law, safer-sex education, the opening of queer:I
I. d.ubs and repeal of a law that criminalizes male aI)aI sex. ~eration President Dimitri
I Dukovik said that the organization has 30 active members and a mailing list of 300.
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I NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD"Ihis reflects the attitude that people withI AIDS are a threat. In. fact, people withI AIDS are the best source of infonnation on
I the AIDS crisis and best qualified to judge
I a health commissioner on that issue."I
The search committee's
leading
I choice to fill the post is Dr. Linda RanI dolph, director of the Office of Public
I Health at the New YOlk State ~t
I of Health. In addition to her medical
I ,degree, Randolph holds a master's degree
I in public health, having specialized in
I maternal and child health. Randolph has
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everything else seems to' be these days,by the city's budgetary aisjs, The Department of Health's shrinking' budget, andrumors that the ety's various health agencies are slated for reorganization, may
make the health commissioner position
less attractive to possible candidates,
The city's charter requires that thehealth..
er be an MD and hold amaster's degree in either public health, puJ>.
lic. or business • . . .'With!a health-field concentration. Any cmdidate must also have eight years' experience.
The seven-member search committee, whiCh has already met once, will bechaired by Dr, June Jackson Christmas, amember of the Mayqr's Advisory Committee on Appointments. Other searchcommittee members are David Hansell,
deputy executive director for policy at
GMHC; Debra Fraser-Howze, executive
director of the alack Leadership Commission on AIDS; Dr., Randall Bloomfield of
the Health Science Center; Dr. Daniel
Korin from the Bronx Lincoln Medical
Center; Alan Rosenfield, dean of theColumbia School of Public Health; andVIrginia Tong, assistant executive directorof the Chinatown Health Oinic.

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William weld.
The governor, who has been widely
praised for publicly vowing to defend
the state's lesbian and gay civil rights law
and for; appointing
gay and leSbian people to prominent positions in
his administration, repOrtedly cancelled
his scheduled appearance at the dinner
because of the picket.
Protesters, shouting "Sell outs!" atpeople who went into the Greater
Boston Lesbian and Gay Allian<;e'sannual post-Pride reception and dinner, which
was held at the Harvard dub of Boston,called Weld an enemy of poor people,
working people and people with AIDS.
"Shame on the Alliance for this di,s."graceful reception!" remonstrated one
demonstrator,
dressed in drag as a
Republican lady, who identified herself as"Dyke Muffy," Mike Duffy, an openly gay
Weld appointee,
heads the agency
charged with enforcing the state's antidiscrimination laws.
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health care from the subsidized healthinsurance system, while he raised thesalaries of his cabinet members andrefused to impose cigarette and gasoline
taxes. Activists from ACT UP and Lesbians, and Gays Against Weld, the group thatorg.mized the picket, claim that the Medicaid cuts will kill many people with AIDS
who cann~ afford costly AIDS drugs.
But Don Gorton, chair of the
Alliance and another Weld appointee,
said that he was frustrated that demonstrators were critical of the Alliance's
association
with Weld, which he charac,terized as "a relationship that has been
beneficial to the community."
Another Weld supporter, openly
gay African-American Republican Abner
Mason, who is seeking a seat on the
Boston City Council, said as he crossed
the picket line -to a}tend the Alliance dinner, "1 respect what's going on, but 1
can't agree with them entirely."
Protesters shouted back at him,
"We'll remember in November."
The Alliance dinner drew approximately 75 people.
--Carrie Wofford

NEW YORK-Two prominent coalitions of people with AIDS have joined- ' Associatogether to call on the National, tion of PeOple With AIDS to reorganize
its board of directors to allow for morewidespread national representation. The
action followed April's NAPWA board
meeting at which less than half of theorganization's 12 national regions wererepresented.
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The People With AIDS Coalition in
New York and the Boston Living Centerare urging NAPWAto facilitate representation at the next board meetingin Octo,ber, scheduled to take place in Los
Angeles, from those regions not represented at the last gathering.
I.a'ny Gutenberg, president of New
York's PWAC, wid OutWeek that, inregions, the groundwork necessary to organize elections for NAPWA
board members has, not beef! done. He
believes that, as AIDS groups pay dues
to NAPWA, the national association had

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a responsibility to inform them, at thetime of the .last board meeting, that they
were not being represented.
However, he acknowledged, thelocal groups themselves have a -duty toensure that NAPWA is accountable tothem. "It reflects back on' us that we
didn't demand that they report back tous," he acknowledged.
, When Gutenberg showed up as aspectator at last month's NAPWA board
meeting in Washington, he was unawar<~that the r~gion which includes New
York, ,New Jersey and:Eastern Pennsylva-

NAPWA TreasurerPeter Uitden.<,;bosch pointed out that as all NAPWA
filling the position himself, but four ofher
regions remained without representat:.on,board members are PWAs, and some ,of
1bat such a situation came to passthose members are occasionally incapadwithout all local AIDS groups even being
tated, by their illness, it is perpetually difaware of it, ~ccording to Gutenberg, says
ficult to ensure that all regions are represomething about the lack of communicasented, Each region is mandated to electtion between national and local AIDSa board member, ,an alternate and a, secorganizations. The districting system itself,
ond alternate board member, and all
he added, may be part of the problem.
three individuals are SUpposed to attend"I don't know if it is the best way
national board meetings. At the April
because, after all, the reality is that the panmeeting, only Florida had all three repredemic is not spread evenly, and there has tosentatives present ,be oome attempt to recognize this," he said
, Uitdenbosch is taking seriously thecalls for pereStroika. "We would like to see•changes to erlS41'e full representation, andwe will nlake sure that those representaIN CELEBRATION
OF LESBIANAND GAY PRIDE
tives will be involved in regional elec,
tions," he stated. "However, this has also to
do with regional coalitions living up todectrepreserltatives.
,their responSibilityto,.
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on Pride Day to remember someone you love who died from AID.S
It is up to them to organize
locally."I,
and to support People Living With AIDS. The People With AIDS
J.R. McEvoy of the Boston Living
Coalition provides a unique forum for education, outreach,Center and Gutenberg have also chastised
NAPWA's executive committee for,advocacy and support for both the newly diagnosed and the longits decision to fIre Executive Director
tenn sUIVi~orsof AIDS.
Michael Meridan without infonDing thefull board of directors. According toNewsline - a 72 page monthly magazine written by & for PWAslHIV
Gutenberg and McEvoy, this decision
SIDAhora - a 72 pg. qtly. Spanish magazine written by & for PWAsIH~
was made less than three days after the
PW A Hotline - 10:00 AM-8:00 PM Mon-Th; 10:00 AM-6:00 PM Fri
board of directors gave Mendan's perfor'Speakers Bureau -'Putting aface on AIDSfor thousands of people
mance a vote of confidence. ,Public Forums - Topics relating to living successfully with AIDS'
But UitdenOOrli .denied that, saying
Th.e Living' Room ~A drop-'in center, meal program, socials, teas, etc.
that the afflIlllation waS approvM only.,'
for the NAPwA staff.
Books - Surviving & THriving with AIDS: volume II is a352 page book.
"Meridan was stood down because
Support Groups -Helpfora wide variety of people
he interfered in board matters," UitdenAIDS Treatment Info. Bureau'- Free, easy to read treatment info.
bosch stated. "Staff should not interfere. Sister to Sister Proj. - Life skills for wom~n of color with AIDSIHIV
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Art interim director, Paul Sathrum,
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has been appointed while a nationwide,
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"I always wanted to jump up and scream, 'I'm gay,' but I sup-'pressed that. Then I saw my love( was out to her family, and her family
was more conservative, Pentecostal. "Whatthe heck,' I told myself. '1
tell my kids what to do, I pay the rent I'm doing this for myself.'''Thirty-one-year-old Lynette Rivera left her husband four years ago
and took her three children to go live with her 20-year-old lover, Iris: "Itwas hard because [my husband] Hector's macho ego was like, 'A
woman?I' He couldn't deal with it"
Now, however, her h~sband has to deal with it Lynette was diagnosed with AIDS in 1989 and needs to make legal arrangements for thecare of her children, ages 2, 4 and 6. "I would prefer Iris to have them,but I'm getting a lot of flak about raising kids in a homosexual lifestyle,I'm trying to get Hect~r and Iris to be friends."\, "I tell Hector, 'You gotta look past thefactthat we're lovers, You
gotta look at that she's a mother to them.' My kids have always loved
her." When Lynette and Iris hold hands at the children's bus stop, othermothers aren't too pleased. ButLynette's 6-year-old son is just" proudthat he has two mommies and a daddy, and other kids only have one
mommy and a daddy," she says. lynette knew that s.hewas a lesbianat the age of 6, but had difficulty finding support and strength. "For awhile, I didn't know how to tell Hector. Then Iris just gave me an ultimatum: Either I stop being afraid of what people think or she'd leave."
Lynette plans to marry Iris during Gay Pride weekend. They willcelebrate where they met, at Poe Park in the Bronx, "where all the lesbians hang out" It was at Poe Park that lynette- was adopted by her
gay "family," and where, like the other latina lesbians, lynette, aPuerto Rican, was baptized with lesbian godparents, "It's a ritual
butch/femme Latinas ,do," she explains, noting affectionately that Iris"is ve,ry,very butch," "It's just like a heterosexual community, My gay
father she's just so strong, out to everybody, I feed off that strength,"
Lynette is also feeling stronger and prouder about her AIDS diagnosis. She is frustrated that the US government counts her as a heterosexual woman (no statistics on lesbians are collected) and that GMHC
does not have services for her as a lesbian.
"Now that I have my little buddies in ACT Up, I'm going to start gettinQsomething done around here," she declares emphatically. "I wantothers to know there's someone like me out there, ~ One of her eight 'siblings is also gay and has AIDS, and lynette is grateful thatthey support each other,,.lynette and Iris came out to their families by inviting both sets to a
picnic. "They freaked out," Lynette recounts. "I have to flaunt it and let
my family know it's not going away, She is my family. We are family, I'm
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May, he and his date were greeted with "just your typical stares."
Later, although, many of his peers joined Michael and his date,
Darryl, to dance to Madonna~s "Vogue,",
The. prom was Michael's way of coming out to his teachers andfriends at the Person Senior High School. ,"No one at high ,scHool
knew before then," he claims.
' ,"So many people realize they're gay in high school, but when it
comes to prom time, they tend to do it the hetero way: I althought,
Well, if I were a girl I'd invite a guy , why shouldn't it be OK for me
to invite a guy?"
Although tWo police were present in case of trouble, Michaelentered tile prom without any support, He did not tell his motherabout the prom until the following day. ~ichael came out to his six
siblings and his mother (his father died when he wa,s 9 years old) on
January 1, 1990, "I really wanted to talk about it, and there reallywasn't anyone to -talk with," Michael explains, describing his isolated tee.nage life in Roxboro, NC. The only other person Michaelknew was his ~O-year-old lover, with whom Michael had just broken
up, a~er discovering that the woman his lover lived with was actually the man's wife, .
_"Later that winter, Michael connected with a new lesbian andgay youth grqup in nearby Ourham and served on a number of panels on issues facing gay youth, including a panel at the 1990
Lesbian and Gay Health Conference in Washington. After his graduation, Michael a1;tendedthe New Pacific Academy, a summer program in San francisco for young gay, lesbian and bisexual activists)
which,he f.ound supportive,.
Now, however, Michael finds himself isolated again. During his
first year at Appalachian State University, in the rural town ofBoone, NC, Michael was shocked, by the conservative attitudes. '"All these queens are very closeted," he laments. "Even interracial
relations are attacked.",
For th~ yearbook photo, half the members of the gay groupturne.d their backs to the camera, and Michael had a hard time finding even 'one-other volunteer to join him on the gay float for theHomecoming we,ekend,"What can you ever gain by hiding in the closet?", this wise
20-year-old wonders, "You only live once, so you have to make thebest of,it you can, Be proud of who you are, so you don't have tolive in fear."

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Sometimes geography means everything. Thirty-two-year-old
Shirley Yee came out just two years ago when she moved to Seattle
for a job.
"1 guess I h-admQ'dea calculated decision to [come out] then,I'd led a fairly straight life in Indiana and was simply afraid to losefriendships, Since I,didn't have anyone to talk to about it, I decided
it might be easier to wait until I moved to Seattle, [with its] strongle.sbi,an community and Asian community." The year before shecame out, she had started "finally coming to terms with my Asian
identity and trying to reclaim that ..
Shirley grew up in "a white Republican suburb" in New Jersey,
where her Chinese-American family was one of the few Asian families around. "I spent my childhood denying my Asian identity andonly in recent years reclaiming it," Shirley says.,,In the fall of 1989, Shirley attended the first intenlstional conference of Asian Pacifica Lesbians in Santa Cruz, where she had
her first contact with other Asian lesbians. "It was just mindblowing experience, very affirming, strengUlening: It hit home forme how important it was,to have connections with Asians." .
"I don't go to the bars that wouldn't be a place for'me to meet[other Asian lesbians]. Asian women at bars are often white-idEmtified, and there's a hesitancy to connecting to other Asians [because
it would] bring you clOSerto coming out to your own community.". She returned to Seattle to help start the Asian Pacifica Lesbiansof Seattle: "The major goal was to stop'the isolation that Asiiln
lesbians often feel," she says,',
Coming out to her family has been difficult, heightened by the"cultural emphasis on family and loyalty," particularly in the UnitedStates, which Shirley finds "frankly hostile to Asians." Shirley told
her mother (her father is dead) and one brother, who has been
"pretty cool," but not ~er two other si~lings, who, she fears, would
be uncomfortable,.
,"It was very hard to come out," Shirley says: "Even though I
talk about my partner, there's a,.$ilence about that with [my mother]."
An assistant professor at the University of Washington in
women's history and'African~American women's history, Shirley is
beginning to expand her studies to ,race and gender. "It's just so .
important, particularly for a woman of color, to deal with the internalized racism we inevitably grew up with, Reclaiming your ethnic
identity-and. sexual identity is the way to survive'in this country,"

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anniversary together with a party, But it wasn't a party for them. It
was a party for Michael's daughter, Laura, who had just graduatedfrom college, "Money was short, so we chose the party for her overthe party for us," George explains. "We [always] do for the kids."
George and Michael have been "doing" for the kids throughout
their 20 years together, Both of Michael's children lived with themin their teenage years. And before that, George says, the kids came"anytime that it justified and we had the moneyl"
George met Michael in a bar, ,"but, " George qualifies with achuckle, "we were properly introduced."
Church is very important to George, and he i:!ttends religious
services ~quite regularly:" He's found a tew churches with openly
gay congregations, but healso still subscribes "to the old Metho•
dist doctrine in which I was trained," George was reared by very
strict "country Methodist" parents with five siblings on a farm inWestern Texas, near Lubbock, He even went to a seminary to study
for the ministry.
"I feltthat being gay was wrong religiously," he says. "I
couldn't handle the fact that I was gay, but I was finding my way to
the gay bars and cruising areas [anyway]."
Now he finds acceptance in religion. "I have a great deal of 'pride going into a religious service with other gays-[who] express
themselves openly as gay and are proud of who they are, living life
in a manner that is pleasing to Qur Maker:'
Fifty-three-year-old George; who came out at 18,finally sat
down with his parents eight years ago to explain it He wasn't sureif they would know what "gay" or "homosexual" meant Two of his
five siblings are also gay, although George is the only I'tru!y openly
gay" family member, ,"Pride/to me means others can hold their heads high. Pridemeans being able to go out in public and just be ourselves. So manyof us just don't recognize we are truly equal," he says solemnly. "Iwork to help people recognize equality is there, and they just haveto claim it and live it. If someone inakes a slur, it~ just because they
don't know better."George tr,ies
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real estate salesperson, George worked for 16years in one com"pany as an openly gay man. During the, interview for his newer job,he told them right away he was gay.
"I find that, once people getto know me, they find they have noproblem with me or that I'm gay, even if they have a problem withgay people,"
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her. "My mom asked me,when I was going to get married. My father said homosexuality is
unnatural, that AIDS is a scourge," 'she say~ i'1dignantly,,
But being judged as strange is nothing new to Jigna. "I've.always felt queer," she says. "Because I'm a scientist in a maleenvironment,
becau,se I'm Indian in a white environment, [and].
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because I cOllsider mys~lf a bisexual dyke, I'm queer twice in thegay community and the,straight community."
The Hindu-raised astronomy researcher is out and proud
about her queerness. "I'm out at work. They all bought raffle. tickets to send me to ~he National Lesbian C~mference. They'rf;lpretty
cool ,abou~it."', Ji,gna.moved to San Francisco to take fI job with a gOV~Jnment
astronomy lab and apply for PhD programs in women's studies andscience after gradua!ing last May from MIT. "MIT was such a~omfortable environment It didn't matter whether you identified asgay, lesbian or bisexual."
Jigna is "~ot really out" wit~ her 16-year-old brother and 11YElar-o~dsister, partly because she only came olr't two summers
ago at an astronomy camp. "I slept,wi~h 'a woman a
divorcbthe las.t night [of the program]," 'Jig ria r,ecounts. "Ialmost missed my plane the next dayl"
Since th.en, Jigna has experienced the "thrill" of Gay Pride inboth San Francisco and Boston. tThat was so exciting, I'm very
excited ,about this year's [parade]."Jigna plunged headfirst into San Franciscan queer life, joining Queer Natiqn ,in January, which "was scary at first" Although
she is frustrated by hqw male and white the organization is, Jigna ,has found community in the bisexual affinity group, Mostly, she
thinks that "you start change-with yourself, with being happy withyourself.""You feel really lonely if you're not out," she says. "Being
Indian and qu~er, I felt I was the only one. I've always looked atmyself a$ not fitting in. That's changing. Now I'm not afraid to say
who I am and what I believe in."
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rod~o-riders. But then few women compete at all in the- "rough.
stock" events: steer-riding, chute-dogging (what"the old-timers
called 'bull~dogging': You start hanging onto the steer in the chute,then you drag it out and throw it down") and calf-roping with the
big boys. '""Candy Bell joined the Arizona Gay Rodeo Associa~ion this past
January. Her lasfofficial participation in rodeos was in 1979when
she was selected as the ~Rodeo Queen" of Bolder, Mont, judged'
for horseman~hip, speech, fund-raising and, of course,'modeling.
Looking back, Candy finds her rodeo"'queen days "bizarre, It's a'big,difference from participating in the rodeo," she explains.
Now 32,-C~ndy, came out to her family i~'1985when she was
27 years old, announcing that she was leaving her marriage of two "years. When her parents offered help in reconciling with her husband, her mom asked, "Is it another woman?" Candy respondedwith "Yes, but not him." Looking back, she muses,, "That's not one of
the regular ways to come outto your parents, I supp'ose."
But it was one way to make life easier for Candy's youJ,lgersister, now 27, who came out as a lesbian this year. Their other Sib-,'lings, two brothers, "ignore jt they think it might go away," Candylaughs. Although her parents objected to Candy's first relationship,with a woman who was physically abusive, noW they are "accepting" of her lover and are even planning a visit'to Arizona.
,.An ethnic mix of Swedish, British and French, Candy's familycame from Montana and Idaho. Her dad rode in rodeos until hemarried Candy's mother; her brother lind cousins al'so ride. "I had .'always ridden in 4H rodeos when I was younger," she recalls.
"One tHing I found in the gay rodeo is the people are evennicer, They'll come up and talk to you. It's really neat" She treasures the atmosphere of 'tjust being able to be yourself and accept~
ing yourself as a whole person." Caridy will spend Gay Pride competing in Oenver's gay rodeo.
Candy al}d her lover, Jody (who sells crafts wares at rodeos); , ..
live with their six horses on four acres of corrals-and "plenty of ,room to ride" in the surrounding mountains. Although the rural .
neighborhood is "redneck and family-oriente,d,;., we're out," shesays proudly .
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Martin Hiraga no longer feels isolated. The change reflects 35
years of searching for a community accepting of his identity. "I'
really str.uggled to find my place in the gClYcommunity," he says,
As an Asian-American gay man diagnosed with ARC in 1987,
Martin felt ignored by drug recovery programs and white gay AIDS
organizations
who professed ignorance about his "cultural context"•
Martin describes marching with a gay and lesbian Asian groupin New York's 1989 Pride n;aarch,as"the firsttime I'~ gotten real permission justto be Martin.~ Two years earlier, at the National Marchon Washington, Martin "met the first Asian gay men I could talkwith," men with whom he could share his fears of being shunned byhis family and his frustration with the gay community's racism.
, The sor;!of a Japanese-American father al;ld an Okinawan-, 'American mother who practiced as Roman Catholic lay missionaries
in Bolivia (South, America), Martin always felt out of place,he says,.
At age 18, he became a Mormon , "as a rebelhon," herecounts. At 24, Martin was finally kicked out of his Mormon university, Brigham Young, after enduring aversion therapy and drug
addiction. HIfinally said, 'Fuck it,' and came out with a blast," herecalls, and he told everyone he knew.
"Coming out puts [Asian Americans] outside the context of ourfamilies, which have been the root of who we are, Having ",IV puts
me further outs,ide," because traditional Asian parents expect theirsons to care for them in old age. Still, Martin has been open withhis parents because, he says, "I didn't want to lie to them."
As a "little queer boy," Martin used to dress in his sisters'
kimonos, and, ,he says, "I was fucking boys when I was 15, But I
never connected the word 'gay' or 'homosexual: with what I wasdoing," partly because the visible gay men he saw were white.
,"How I actually came into the gay community was through[musicians] Meg Christian and Cris Williamson, with their songs ofstrong women,~ saysthe self-defined pro-feminist. Now he wears a'Nobody Knows I'm a Lesbian' T-shirt.
After leaving Rochester, NY, in 1990 because he found that thegay community "cannibalized Asian men," Martfn has lived in
Washington, DC,wherehe has a network of gay and lesbian Asianand Pacific Islander friends. He works nights educating gay Asianmen about AIDS. "It feels like coming home, I finally have a [community] to come home to," he says of his new-found acceptance.
By day, Martin works as a sign-language interpreter (he is deaf
in one ear) with Deaf Pride, a deaf self-empowerment organization
which, he says, helped him learn to take power in his health care,. For Gay Pride this year, Martin will speak at the Rochester rally"as an Asian man who is proud, a gay man who is loud and proud, and [a man] who is not willing to take other people's racism andtheir homophobia anymore. I'm finally OK with me.". .J~'!tf':;';':'

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"My first lover took me to San Francisco's Gay Pride in 1979.
When I saw that, I realized I would never feel alone,"Three weeks later, Rocky Montes came out to her family. "I
was scared I'd lose them-my first lover lost hers," Rocky recalls.
But her family reacted warmly: "My mother said,'ls that what
you're all worked up about?'"
Since then, her.family has supported Rocky's lifestyle,"Mymother taught us that we have the right to be," says this strong, .
almost defiant, 32-year-old woman, "She gave me basic strength
about who I am. Being a lesbian is p'art of that""I discovered I was a lesbian when I decided to have sex, I
went the traditional route and,then said, 'No, that isn't for me.'"Now, when Rocky returns home to her American Indian family, her lovers are treated as a husband would be: They're served
meals, like any man, "Traditiohal families play roles, so when I go
home we play the roles," she explains, Once, when she broughthome a more feminine girlfriend, Rocky was served dinner withthe me'n,,Growing up in California as the daughter of a bee-keeper"
Rocky says, "My mother and father raised us to be proud. We grewup very poor, but we did not lack for love, That's one of the things
that makes me so strong tod'ay."
Rocky took that strength and pride and transformed it into hercurrent identity as a loud and proud leather-dyke, ~Everybody ,knows," she shares triumphantly,~llost a job in a corporation
because my boss found out, but I still refuse to stay in the closet"
For the past year, Rocky has worked on phone-sex lines in her
hometown of Denver, Colo, Her goal is to start her own line nextyear, which will at first be directed at straight boys: That;s where
the money isl" she -explains,
adding, "I willprobably include a les.
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A descendant and member of the Muno tribe, Rocky danceswith the Two Spirited-Thunder People Native American Dance
Troop, a troop of Native American lesbians who perform traditionaldanc~.
_"Being a woman of color and being a Native person is likewalking on a tightrope every day,". she notes, "Throw being a lesbian in'on top [of that], and the tightrope just gets tighter,· I ,understand People who can't walk the tightrope, Perhaps its easier
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the members' wives had been beaten beyond recognition. Jeyhan
was chased out at knife point for challenging the community.
Whenever he shows up at his local mosque in Santa Clara! Santa
Cruz, Jeyhan says,!"1 normallyvoice issues and am asked to leave.",
Although he was born in the US, Jeyhan was raised a Sufi 'Muslim in Kavkhaz, Turkey, near the Soviet border, where his grandfather had been the head sheik.
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"I don't recognize anything going on in the mosque now, [compared to] what I was brought up with. They seem to confuse religion
with politics~ Intolerance seems to be the norm.", Jeyhan does not, however, encounter as much intolerance'
over his homosexuality. "In Islam, you must be marrie~, and J consider myself very married," he says of his 20-year relationship witha Japanese-American man.
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People accept me and welcome me into their home with my lover
for the holidays.","Bisexuality was quite prevalent" in Jeyhan's upbringing in /Turkey, he says. "It seems an unspoken code that young boys will
be with older boys or with older men,",,, "Comin'g out was never an issue because that's how I was. To
me, there was never anything different." Now 42 years old, Jeyhan
knew that he was gay when he was 8, but entered an arranged
marriage at 14,"Who I am is a gay Turkish man who i,screating with my artwork." A tapestry-weaver, Jeyhan manipulates traditional weaving
techniques to make tapestries of old Turkish and Arabic calligraphied manuscripts and documents, He uses" ebru" for the background, which is like marblizing,but with m~re intricate designs,
such as flowers, His works are shown in fund-raising exhibitions for
Muslim organizations in San Francisco, Vancouver, los Angeles
and Singapore.
, ,IA member of the Lavendar Crescent Society, a gay and lesbian
Arab group in San Francisco, Jeyhan expresses concern about the
majority of "Muslims who are gay [but] don't wantto have anything tod.owith anyone from the old country, They're out drinking and doing
debauchery," Jeyhan follows Muslim law and avoids alcohol and pork.
Although he stopped attending Gay Pride marches because hesaw too many divisions and separations, feeling proud is still important to him, "You are a human being, and you should go ahead andbe who you are. If not, it affects your creative ability,"•

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HIthink I came out when I was born," declares Alberto Rosell.
All the time, since year one, I had crushes on boys,"
Now 42 years old, Alberto remembers going to bars at age .16:
"You used to walk out of gay bars and be afraid of who saw you, I
remember when you'had to wear a cQat and tie to be served liquor,
and the gay bars were piano bars with slow dancing."
Alberto still goes to bars a lot but is glad for the differencei~
acceptance as well as music. "I think the straight world and gay
world are mixing very well, more than before,"
Translating this belief into his work life and family life, he isout both at home and'at work, where he~buysempty lots, builds
houses and sells them. "I act the same way in front of [people atwork] as I do-in front of everbody. If you respect them, they'll
respect you back."
Alberto was born in Hav~na, Cuba, and moved to Miami Beach,Fla" in 1960, when he was 13. Now, he's back in Miami Beach,where he says the gay life is flourishing, after living in Atlanta,
where he spent 15 years attending 'engineering school and livingwith a lover'.'
When he was 35, Alberto finally talked about being gay with his'family. "One of the most important things in life is family. How can
you live with them and lie? I'was very lucky," he continues, "I havea lot of friends who have a lot of problems with family, nFriends are equally important to Alberto, and he has many ofthem, "There's nothing like getting ~round a pool, [having a] cook~out, or boating," he says, As for lovers; Alberto says, "I won't haveanother one" after three long-term relationships. But he laughs,"Never say 'never,' right?" .
"My life is my life," he states. HIt's about time, 'eh?"
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miles from our families in Burbank, Calif., and they were giving us alot of grief," she adds.' ,". ' ,,Nancy answered Utah's,homophobia by helping to start Queer
Nation/Salt Lake City'ti:lis 'past February, In April, ·they held the,ir first
demonstration against the Mormon church, "We were just terrified,
We thought we: were going to be arrested," she explains. H~eing OLlt
is scary, But it's extremely empowering, and it's become more andmore necessary to me. To be queer and radical is also getting to be,lots offun. I didn'tthink
it would be so much fun,",, Nancy fell in love with her first lover at 19, "It was quite ashock," she recalls, She came out to her family when 'that first rela-,tionship ended,',"My mother asked, 'Are you a I-I-I-Iesbian?' and I said, 'Well,nmother, as a matter of ,fa ct I am: The 'story is that her mother 'answered, "Of course, you are, dear, We'd all be with women,ifwe
could,
butwe can't." 'fhen, according to Nancy, her mother said,
"Oopsl'l and covered ~er mouth, "She denies it now, of course,"
Family ties are important to Nancy, and she traces her lesbian
lineage through her' Spanish and Mexican her-story to her grandmother whQ lived with another woman in Paris in the 1920s,"Whenher family foul'ld out, they sent her to Cuba for her brother to arrange
almarriage;" Nancy recounts,'""
Nancy is outather job as a registered nurse at the University
Hospital Children's Medical Center. "It's been tremendously
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tant for me to come put I was ,scared-and closeted for three years
at work,but I have not gotten one negative comment I have mostly
felt ,intense shame that I did not come out sooner,", HIknow kids who have committed suicide
andMormonfriends,
who have undergone shock therapy. Why do they see usas not partof the family?" Na'Ilcy asks. "We are the family, I'm mad as hell-and
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that I'm gay. It was part of my healing. It's important for the healing ofpeople around me, the healing in my family."
Healing is more than a metaphor for Angukcuaq (Richard)
LaFortune, a 30-year-old member of the Yupiit Nation from, the,Southwestern Alaska tundra near the Kuskokwim River,
According to hi$ people's four genders, Angukcuaq is "arnaruaq," aword that, loosely translated, means "similar to a woman,",
Middle genders are like the "berdache" of other Native peop'les~aswritten ,about by Walter Williams in Spirit in the Resh. The middle genders cross-dress and maintain same-sex partners (who don't crossdress "because then you wouldn't have the harmony of the genders,"
according to Angukcuaq) and hold roles as spiritual leaders.
Angukcuaq traces his sexuality not to the European psychoiogical classification of the 1800s,but rather to a 50,OOO-yearhistory of Yup'ik
middle genders "a different kind of people" which "couldn't be polarized into homosexual ["s: heterosexual identities]," Angukcuaq tells.
But despite the spiritual importance of middle genders for the
Yup'ik, homophobia from schools, churches and the US government
have been "inherited" by traditional Nations, "It's no longer sociallyacceptable for people to admit they're gay and lesbian or to fulfill therole by, for example, cross-dr~ssing."\"It's a really hars~ thing to live with [Western] homophobia
beGause it's never been here,· Aogukcuaq explains. "All these,changes in the last couple-hundred years have been very traumatic."
In response to the trauma and need for healing, Anogukcuaq
helped start American Indian Gays and lesbians in Minneapolis four
years ago the only gay Native American group in the middle part ofthe continent As a spiritual circ;le, "they focus on the tradition of
spirituality and their relationship to the Spirit World.""Part of the reason our group exists is to keep these traditions
alive..., to help peopie remember what the traditional roles are,· he says,
HIt'simportantto deal not only with historical aspects but [also] with how
people ar~ translating the historical role into a contemporary experience" thereby providing Mtfealingand wholeness and sobriety."
Because "the decimation of 80 percent of our people" is a truth
whose impact never lessens, Angukc;uaq's people are now concernedwith "trying to get the message out that we're approaching the markof a horrible commemoration of half a [mil/enium] of holocaust-andit's continuing, Somehow, we've survived for 500 years."
Having incorporated traditional medicine into his life over the
past 15 years, Angukcuaq now works on HIV outreach for the state
Indian Health Board. In June, Angukcuaq will present a panel on tra.
ditional healing at the "Two Spirits and HIV: A' Conference for the
Health of Gay Native Americans" (sponsored by the Gay and Lesbian
Native People in New York, July 1-3, the American Indian Community
House, 212-779-3151).
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the streetfl'om Harneen,. her lover of three years, '''It's a wonderfulrelationship," she notes, "and it's thEi perfect liying arrangemen~;', Susan works'. as a school bus' driver and a steel worker .and is.
an el,ected steward and'the chair of the Occupational H;ealth,1-'
Committee ,of her unjon, the United Steel Workers of America, ,, ',lo'c'~'18751.She also helped to form th'e Gay and lesbiaQ labor•,~~,
ACtivists Network, or GAlLAN,through which she campai,gnedt,"',against an anti-tax refer.endum las~ year-and against the current
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It probably did not hurt his sense of gay pride to ~ave beenraised by his gay father during his teenage years. MHissexuality ,had nothing
to do with mine," Carl explains carefully. "Mine was an,individual choice."
His father is "not as comfortable" being out as Carl is, Carlsays, "so I do the lobbying for both of us. It's difficult. Sometimes ,there are events- I want him to go to," but his father's'being closeted
professionally gets in the way.
Carl's mother attended a conference Carl h!!lped organize
recently, "The Brothers and Sisters Are Gonna Work It Out," inwhich , Carl led a discussion on homophobia.
His three sisters "are"just as supportive as if not more than my mother," he declar.es.
Carl, 25 years old, is involved with the James Baldwin/Pat
Parker Society in Detroit, a 2~year-old African-American gay and 'lesbian organization named after the famous African-American gay
and lesbian writers. Carl alld the members of the group perform,
outreach in the Black gay and lesbian community to promote"brotherhood and sisterhood" and to work for social justice,.. The group has struggled to find "corefortable language"
beca,use, Carl explains, 7som~ of the wom'en are not comfortable withthe men calling each other, 'Girl:" Since men tend to be stronger in
expressing opinions, the grtlUp is wClrking toward "an equal voiceamon'g'everyone: It's as if there's an invisible round table.""
Carl came out at 13 with his first lover, who was-19. "We were
together for seven years, and he never touched me sexually until I
was 18," Carl stresses. "He was my friend before he was my lover."A state employee in fiscafservices, Carl is active (and out) in
his labor union because of the union's foc,us on social , justice. "Ihave strong,beliefs that equal rights means who you are, no matter
whiltyou wantto be." He places strong belief in his union motto,"An injury to o,ne is an injury to.all. Until we become united as one,then divided we do fall," Applying this logic to his work with theBlack gay and lesbian community, he confesses that "[confli!;t]among the raqes bothers me most a~out the gay community. God
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When Alix Dobkin wrote her classic lesbian-separati,st album
Living'With Lesbians, she might well have had the Ozark women's
land of Arkansas in mind, For, the pasffour years, Bea Howard has
lived among 20 lesbians, , on,241 acres near Fayetteville. Her log
cabin (built by women) utilizes solar-powered electricity, and, forwater, she collects rain in sisterns.
Having spent most of her life in Manhattan, Bea says that she"grew up with no trees. I love the land ..., I'm learning aboutflowers and plants."
By July, the mortgage on the land will be paid off, just in time
for the women to celebrate their tenth anniversary, Bea~sdaughter and grandchildren will,travel from the East Coast to share the 'celebratory moment "They're really accepting of my lifestyle,", she happily declares.,'
Leaving her marriageof 17 years, Bea came out in 1975 at ag,e ','44. "I, knew I was a h!sbilin for many years, but I didn't have theguts to get' Out of the marriage," she said, A consciousness-raising group helped her find the courage. "It was the women's movementthat gave me strength and I'm forever grateful to Betty
Friedan," Bea waxes feminist
Two years later; she met her lover and left the marriage, Now
60, Bea spent the first 25 years' of her lesbian life as a schoolteacher'for mentally retarded children in 'Manhattan and Rockland, , County, f'lY, raising her children' quietly with her lover and herlover's chil,dren. "I never Went around and told people I was a'. lesbian," Bea explains, "but my hair was always short, and I
didn't hide it",. She and her lover, Berrill, bought a duplex house and moved
in with their five children (ages 10 to 19): "We had the boys on one
side, the girls on the other, The girls had the cats, and the boys
had the dogs. We were a typical suburban family,"'
But typical they weren't, if only for the fact that they shared 'their lesbiariism'with'their parents and children, "I told my kids
right away, I had to tell them because I want to be close to them,"
Bea explains,' ''When she tried to tell her daughter, La'ura, the response was,"I don't want to hear it;" and she 'plugged her ears-literally. She
knew what I was 'going to say," Bea explains, Now an adult,
Laura's attitude has "come a long way," Bea says with pride.
Laura hopes to join the "My Mother Is a Dyke" panel a't the
Passages Conference in Washington, DC, a gathering for old lesbians. "We're beginning to close the gaps that existed between us, b"ecause of my lesbianism.""I think everyone should be out, but it takes a while, It's hard
to do," Bea concludes. "I'm leaving my mark by just living my life,"
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firsthand knowledge of the men who love men.
, On the road three weeks to four weeks at a time, Craig has
been amazed by the gay subculture. "Truck drivers do this real big
charade: They play straight and make fun of homosexuals, Theseso-called straight men would just about do anything with anyone,"
Craig continues. "Their big thing is to ask, if you're r;narried that's
the telling thing,".
"Truck drivers can't wait to get back to their buddies on theroad. They call g~y guys their 'good buddies:" But even if there's agay sµbculture among the drivers, being openly gay hasn't been
easy for him. In the same breath that they try to pick him up, "theygo around p.ointing at all the 'homos.'" Once i,n driving class, awoman asked if Craig was gay. "I said no, I denied it, and. I r,eallyhave regretted that. We never say anything. You know, but you don't
talk about it It's all this denial.""I don't th,ink it's unnatural to share love feelings with the people you feel love for. Men who go both ways are more balaflced.~
Now 29 years old, Craig'came ,out at 18 and told his parents.
His parents sent him first to a .psychiatrist ("who said it didn't matter") and thim to a prostitute ("so I could find out all about
women"), but, finally, now "we'r~ talking about it." Craig and his
mom watched the movie, Victor/Victoria in order to talk about
Craig's',sexuality" .'•As a ~ormer waiter, caterer, real estate agent and even a
Greenpeace staff m_ember,Craig chose 1ruck dr,iving "to get away,
to have time by myself. I've always been a very private person."
Even if he is private, Craig has some public ideas about gay
rights. Attacking what he calls "government-sanctioned fag-bashing," he sent Sam Nunn an angry letter about equal rights, "Whyam I less equal under the' law?," he asked,"Gay people are hospital administrators-they'reattorneys,
they're judge~." And they're truck drivers. "We're everywhere,"
Craig proclai.ms.
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like people to know who I am and what I'm doing.·- Twenty.seven-year old Becky Benson knows what it means
to be honest in the face of lies. In June 1990, Becky tried to open
minds'in Raleigh, NC, when she opened a clothing store near the, c.. I1lPUS pf the state college :iri downtown Raleigh.
, "Open Mind;" the store's name and logo, was printed across
II b~ght pink tri(!ngle, Although she. intended her products to be"everybody's clothes," not everybody appreciated the store or the,gay IInd'l(is~illn fliers posted inside.
',"People ip Raleigh hated it." she says angrily,; "It got a reputation as a fag store. And gay, people are afraid to wear my logo,-,
because a pink lJ'iiangle means they're gay:
' ,Now BeckVis struggling for business~ She closeddown'thestore on May 31 butwlli continue to sell through mail order and at
festivals,-where she has always done well.
Having grown up in L A, Becky moved to Raleigh in 1988 after
living ,in 'South Carolina and Alabama. She' came out in college in
1985, although, she 'says, "I knew I was gay when I was l()i.-but I
tried not tQ know.~ She got her start when a T-Shirt she made' as ajoke (with the motto, "It's More Than Just a'Phase~) became popular.
Pride kept Becky from taking down the gay fli~rs or changing
her logo,. despite harassment from "trat boys." "Even though I
knew that's why people weren't coming into my store," she confirms, "I didn't take that stuff down. I'd rather go out of business,I,"
than take dOllYnall my gay stuff.",~".
," Becky h,opes that the existence of her store gave others thestrength to come out. In the world according to Becky, "Nothing
will change unless you're out." She has always been out at her
jobs;;she'd rather be outlhan makEfmoney.
Becky's mother, who is "really supp'ortive,· wants Becky andher lover of two years, Catherine, to move someplace more
accepting. But for now, Becky wants "to regroup my funds andget my confidence back. I'm still real upset about [what happened]. I think that Raleigh just needed a push,·, slle notes .
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describing his relationship with his lover, Bob, whom he m~t in 1979
through the lesbian and gay academic union 'at the Universityof ',,Cincinnati, where they both taught,
Veterans of the Radical Faerie gatherings in San Diego, Santa
Fe'and Short Mountain, Tenn" Shane says, "We see:the Radical, Faerie [movement] as essentially the think-tank, the generation' of. ,energy and 'activist thought. n,,,'
They attended their first Faerie gathering in Santa Fe.in order
to meet Harry Hay, one of the first US gay activists, whom they bothrespected,'","Bob loves getting around naked," Shane says, "He ~~Iieves
the best way to show that one is willing to be sensitive is t6 make" oneself vulnerable and open, and the best way to ~o that is[through nudity], And I agree with that too," he says,,
Unfortunately, because unlike his 69~year-old lover, 45-year-old- •t,Shane is not retired, he acknowledges that-"in one's professional•
life, one can't do that." As a' professor.pf environ,mentalhe$.lth sciences at UCLA, Shane,is "out to the dean and the head of mydepartment Most people know," Shane explail1s" because he pLiblished an interview with Harry Hay in the gay student newspaper •.
Shane came out at 15-in his native Australia where he would•
watch'men walking on the Bondi Beach in Sydney, Of his coming
out, Shane says, "My family didn't like it too much," ,, An only child, Shane was born to a family of many cultures, His
father's ,family had left China for Australia during the 1860gold
rushes,and his mother came from Ireland: Shane maintains his.
Australian citizenship and holds a Green Card for work in the US.
,UAtthe time ,Ileft Australia, [in] 1971,it was quite conservative.
, The gay movement had not really begun. When I returned in thelate 70s," he recalls,"1 found a tremendous .difference, because
Oxford Street had grown into the, Castro Street of Sydney,"
Shane came to the United States after ten years in Canada,
where he worked with a "homophile association" in Ontario in 1975.
In 1980,he -got involved with gay rights in Cincinnati and helped
coordinate a delegation to the 1987 March on Washington, whichfell on his birthday, October 11.
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tennis club, attends peace rallies. and is part of a coalition targeting,
police chief, Darryl Gates.
""It would have been impossible to achieve what we have with,-c: out each oth,er," he says of his relationship with Bob, "I think that
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3t-year"0Id Rogelio Parris proudly states, Born in Panama,.'Rogelio,, has spent his last to years New York, currently-living with hislover, an up-and-coming fashion designer.
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it" ,','. Take it orleave,'- ..Eighteen-year-old Lydia Anne Rosado agrees with Rogelia's
sentiment. "Gay Pride-Day is important because it brings up ourissues and the problems that we are having, so that people noticethem again, .Sometimes these things seem to be forgotten during'. the Year.'We need to remind ourselvesof what ga'l pride is•..
. Lydia, who grew up in Long Island, will spend this'year's Gay
Pril:le Day at one of the woni~n's clubs' dancing with her girlfriend,
Tanya, no dou'bt "We'also might march with the Clit Club in thisyear's parade:'. 'Tanya Dessereau likes Gay Pride "because it gives straightpeople a chanc,e to see that we look justJike them. They see that
we are normal people and that maybe the persoll next to them
could be gay. And it shows people that it's not just about sex:
Nqw 23, Tanya grew up in the Bronx and came out to her family,
four years ago, "My family's not thrilled about' [my being' gay],biJt
they accept it They'd like to see me married, and they'd prefer it bewith a man. But they don't turn me away.
Former OutWeek staffer and hunt cover boy Milael
Maldonado is our fourth que~r family member featured here. While'C
he was not available this week for comment, we are fairly certain.that we will find La Misael and his bevy of followers at New York's
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It's early evening, I'm standing in my deceased grandmother's,kitchen, eating and talking with my Canadian aunt and cousin. I've
just returned from a day in New York, editing the "Out in America"
interviews, They've spent the day packing up my grandmother's.books and furniture for shipping to their farm in Canada,'. I sh~re with my 17-year-old cousin the story of Michael
Woods'taking a male date to his high school prom, "No wayl" sheexclaims, "I don't think there are any gays at my school.". _, Many of us, I think, grew up around neighbors.or family who
thought that we didn't exist And not all of us are brave, One young.' mav in Texas, who had just lost his job in the Republican partyI
because he was gay, refused to be interviewed for fear of incurring further oppression, A lesbian who owns a store in Brooklyn
feltthat she could not risk losing business by coming out. And yet,,it is in the face of denial andlinvisibilityth~tthe
18 lesbian, gay andbisexual women and men intervie~ed here perform outrageousacts ohveryday re~elliori by coming out.
Gay Pride, then, means visibility,,
This y~ar:~interviews are longer than last year's, in order tos~are more of these people's lives, As' a result, what comes'
across most strongly for me is broader politics, Ethnic pride (oranger over cultural annihilation), class Rolitics and spirituality
contribute, as much to the personal politics of thoseinterv!ewed.,as does their sexuality.
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Bec,aus!! I ben~fited from gay parenting and a strong le,sbiancommunity when I first came~ut, I sQmetimes take Gay Pride for,granted. Writing, "Out in America" follpwed a year of my feelingless strongly about
lesbian and, gay politics arid more strongly.
about gov,ernment injustices arid genocide, This feature hashelped me to remember the importance of integrating gay pride
into our broader politics,. . Although the intervi~wees have come out to different people,
in different degrees and different ways, for all of them, gay pride
meant integrity
not only self.respect but also respect and love
for the family members and friends to whom they came out
As labor activist Susan Moir suggests, broader politics or no,being QP~nly lesbian or gay can result in a base of support, a chosen family.
Gay pride, then, als.o means family and community.
I extend thanks to the following people who helped make thisproject possible: John Burnside, Nima Eshghi, Harry Hay, Happy
Hyder, ~ennis Leiba, Marc Loveless, Unda MerediftJ and Duncan
Thague.
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I might, supply details); But my gay friends----their eyes•,
grow wide with disbelief, and they almost always say, "But I didn't
know Jim Morrison was gay!" My pat answer has always been
"Well, he was 8!ly when he slept with me." I used to leave it at that.
,But not anymore. Not after yet -another cinemallc attempt by
OliverStone
to revise contemponiry
hist9rY to conform to his own.
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Stone is engaging in a bit of subtle,gay-bashing by not even acknowledging Jim's occasional taste
for pretiy,arlolescent boys. Prsx>fof this loathing for the'lesbian and gay community will makeitself evident in his upcoming film on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, where all the bad guys
communists. Wait ~d watch.
are dirty, little, hom~al
In the meantime,I'M OUTING JIM MORRISON, for reasons Jim would both approve .of and,endorse, I can't say that Jim was exclusively gay, but I can state with certainty that he was not the,•'exclusive heterosexual misogynist Oliver
Stone portrays him as, either, I can tell
you firsthand about at least 'o?e sexual
encounter. he had with another" man. ,I met Jim in the spring of 1967, ina head shop on Bourbon Street in the
French Quarter of New Orleans, I was
17, a runaway child from an affluent
family, I was----and remain-a devoted
anarchist and practitioner of the craft of
Wicca (having, been inducted into acoven at age 8). I was also an androgynous blue-jean baby with shoulderlength auburn hair, dark almond-shapedeyes and a great ass'. I was precocious,
flirtatious and difficult as hell. AIDS, ofcourse, had not yet draped its sliroud
around the ,shoulders of the sexual revolution, and I was a stalwart soldier in thatforward guard. That spring in New
Orleans, music was good, the highs werecheap, and the love was, if not free,largelydiscounted. In those days, a lot of
people were having a lot of sex withother people. It was, as the saying goes,no big deal,
I feel foolish admitting it now, but
ort that spring afternoon when Jim and I
picked each other up, I did not know
who he was. I preferred the Jefferson
Airplane, Dylan, Joplin and the Stones;
What I did know was that he was gorgeous, whoever he ,was, and if he wasn't
a famous rock star, he certainly shouldhave been. His storm of chestnut hair
shimmered in the early afternoon lightand fell freely and loosely around hisangelic face. Long and lean, he had
poured himself into skin-tight jeans anda black T-shirt at least one size too small.
I remember that he was wearing snakeskin boots with rundown heels and was
smoking a cigarette.
He was slouched against a glass
counter containing various and sundry
drug paraphernalia. Our eyes met immediately, His lids were heavy-he looked
sleepy or stoned Suddenly, the cornersof his pretty moutll crinkled into a sly
Smile (the proverbial cat siZing up the
caruuy). That was all the encouragement
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,I took him back 10 the apartment
on Calle U~linas where I was, staying"
with friends.
We smoked and listened tomusic he selected: an \album of African
tribal chants, a vintage Leadbelly and,
oddly, an early Frank Sinatra album. We
made inane conversation about music,. New Orleans and the South in general(he said that he ha~ just fallen in love, with a group called the Doors, loved
New Orleans and disliked the South ingeneral but Florida specifically). He said
that he was a, writer and filmmaker andwas in New Orleans to do research on a
project- abo4t the music that developedout of French Quarter-bordellos.
At one,point, in a lull in the. conversation, he
asked if I had
any whiskey. I .locateda,'bottle, and we slowly siippedinto a very
mellow, smoky stratosph~re all our own.
Due to the condition we were in, I
still can't recall who sedu~ed whom, but
I'm fairly sure that I did most of the legwork. But seduction is a fIne and subtle
art, and each artist has his or her own
technique and style, so his sullen 'andlaid-back style was' probably only
enhanced by my bold openness. I
asked him if he was' gay. He never••answered that question. Instead, heasked if my friends were coming home.. anytime soon. I said no, Then' he rose
slowly to his feet and _began removing
his clothes.' "Good," he said, "I'm hot.
Let's cool off." And with that he disrobed completely and began dancing
slowly and sensuously about the room
to the crooning of Frank Sinatra (to thisday, I still get a little giggle from thenotion of playing out a gay seduction
scene with a famous rock star to, theslick tones of Frank Sinatra it was so ...somiddle-class and midqIe-aged!).,,We danced about the room separately' for a while, naked and glistening
with sweat in the deepening sl,ladows of
the fading afte~oon. Two cocks of thewalk preening for one another. It was agentle, playful seduction consumated ona pile of floor pillows,, 'Funny how memory works, filing
seemingly inSignificant details. I stillrecall the sweet smell of anisette cookieS
wafting up from the Italian bakery downstairs. I can still hear the dip-clop ofhorses pulling tourists in carriages,

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by Linda.- Yablonskaya,

I feel his tongue
burning down my throat
and the car' is in aseizure and he's smacking me in the face torouse me from thts sleep,
leaning in close again
like something on thescreen of a drive-in
movie, his /ips forming
the whispered sounds,"Where were J!ouf" andhad a cop car'pullelJ up
in that moment and had[possession of a gun, I'dhave not thought twice
about openingfire.
-Closeto the Knives

Some people write theway , they talk, but David
Wojnarowicz writes like apainter and paints like awriter, ,weaving unforgettable, intensely eroticizedimagery throughout his text
and imposing outraged textual fragments onto his
images.
His book Closeto the;

Knives: A Memoir of Distntegratfon; is an incantatory,
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title chapter, in whichthat freeze-frames
he records the events"tabloid moments"
and passions
surinto a slowly revealrounding him at theing personal history.
time of his lover,, Drawn from WofPeter Hujar's, death,narowicz's journals of the past 15"I just felt like nobody gave a shit
years, it becomes a phantasmagoric
about how much death and illness
journey of flesh and soul through athere was, especiallyhetero1?exuals...,..
hidden queer America, telegraphed
and I was just so sick of having thesethrough both his anger at, and tenone-dimensional
images be on TV
derness for, the human form aQd . about homosexuals or lesbians andsenSibility,
just sick of' the, way the 'epidemic,
Blessedly unencumbered by bullwas treated in the press." . ,shit, Wojnarowicz is like a Ulysses covSeveral chapters examine these
er!ng the urban slaughterfront-startissues head-on; one, inJact, brought
ing out as as boy-hustler turning thehim great notoriety in 1989, when,dark comers of ,New York piers and
NEA Chair John Frohnmeyer
took,alleys and becoming a successful artist
offense, and last year" Reverend
negotiating the frontiers of death in
Donald E. Wildmon's American Fami•
urban hospital rooms and Western
Iy Association attacked him ov~r a
desert towns. Libidinous, confrontapicture in his traveling Tongues oftional and compassionate,
he preFlame exhibit.
The artist faced down,
serves ,the rawness of his experience
Wildmonin federal
court-his,in language both brutal and poetic.
reward, $1.
..'"The tning I tried to do in the
Wojnarowicz is not--interested in'book," Wojnarowicz explains
in an
restraint. After his own AIDS diagno,interview, "was to go after a form ofsis, about three years ago, he "lostwriting that for me mirrored the fragany reason ~o ~ithhold stuff in thementation I feel on a daily basis ..., toform of privacy. It's just too ridic~try to show the emotional depth oflous to consider my,own privacy inwhat was going on-and, hopefully,the face of mortality and death." ButoPen some eyes." He searched for a " he adds: "It's not easy for me. I'm soway "to give grief form.",'
exhausted, by living in this SOciety.
He has hit a nerve. In the month
It's weird.' Over and over, I feel like_since its publication,
Close to theone big blank ....I feel like I'm losing
Knives has sold out its first printing
reason to keep lllaking things ...."and made the top five on the Village
But, no , matter ,how uncomfortVoice Literary Supplemenfs best-sellable David Wojnarowicz is living in
er list.
'the. world,
his kind of. writing, ,his,'!Pis sl;lrprises no one more thanway of making art, has a significantly
the author. "I thought the thing would
liberating effect 00 not only , his own
witherlike: a raisin and disappear," heconsciousness but that of his audi,
says. Certainly, his past experience
ence as well. "Whenever I do a readhas not been one of acceptance, in or
ing," he reports, a little aQ1~zed,out of die art world.
"people take license to speak, to"People are scared to death of
reveal personal things for the firstme," he relates. "They think I'm thistime. I don't know how to handle it."windmill of terror. You wouldn't. In the end, Wojnarowicz writes as
believe the kind of crap I get fromhe speaks in a boom-bol', six-footpeople! They are just so much infour voice that, in measured tones,
denial, they-can't handle anything
fantasizes a seizure of power, a bloody
that has anger in it, and they're
couP. for the powerless because forfrightened to approach me. I've beenhim "there really is no difference
getting this since I wrote that AIDS
between memory and sight, fantasy
text (included in the book) two and a
and actual vision."T
half years ago, and, I think, Jesus
Christ-havethese people never
Close to the Knives: A Memoir ofbeen angry in their lives?"
Disintegration is available from VinWhen Wojnarowicz wrote thetage Books/or $11. ',.,believe the•,'kind of crap,"

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boots, Her novel, The Revolution of
Little Girls, recently published by
Knopf, is an account of a lesbianmuch like herself, a Southern expatriate, stubbornly sober but still ruefullysanguine about her years of drugging
and drinking.
When asked,she
acknowledges the qualities
in Ellen,that she sees in herself, but she
hasn't been seeing any imaginary, little girls lately.
"But it's true that I'm not wrapped
too tight sometimes," she says with alaugh, "I've gone through my life on
my knees.' I'm, on my feet now, but
I'm not graceful. The Revolution of Little Girls is coming out on my tenthanniversary of sobriety, and I'm pretty
happy about that."
So where have you been since
you Wr0te Redneck?
,"I've been at home in Connecticut, teaching and getting well. After
Mourning the Death of Magic, it tookme 13 , years to write another novel. I
thought I never would. I was so busted up from alcohol and drugs, I had
to back my way into writing a novel.
"Fiction looks easy, 1 like to say,'It's just 26 letters and a space bar.'That's all you're working with, andmost of us can type. We don't talkabout. it, but the purpose of work is
the unfolding that goes on in thewriter. Fiction requires a very longapprenticeship, and that's not a popular thing to say. 1 published my first.-»"..

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novel when 1 was 27. 1 don't r~ally
like it now, don't Jike any of thework I did in the '70s, It took ~e a'long time to get to where 1 had any
idea of what 1 was doing, things like'Don't change the 'point of view' ina chapter.
"I used to think that you got to
50,000' words, and you
stopped, because thatwas what it said in thecontract: 200 pages, I'm
finished. Aristotle' saida story has a begin-I.

ning, middle and end'. 1 didn't. My
work was all middle" land that's partof the reason it has taken me 'so longto do another book.:1 really had tolive loo,g enough to know that' stories•(had ends.",While eacb part of '!be RevOlutionof Little Girls is about Ellen's"relationshipwith themeri ,in her life, .
her father, brother,boyfriend and teacher,the major 'engagementof Ellen's life, is thatwith
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one person whose approval Ellen willonion, finding one transparency laid
She smiles and reveals that she's•
always want, That hungerforover another, and going deeper andwell into, the next book. "I started,
approval, I tell, her, is one most Southdeeper down in the story. It's how
my second novel before this one. It's
erners will admit is ~lways there.
time and memory work, how layered
about the four years when Ellen
Blanche Boyd agrees. "We want
our experience is. r'believe our lives
fhanged her name to'Rain, and it;severybody to like µs," she says, "andare complicated and layered, andcalled Rain and Wonderland.
Itthat has to be balanced against thethis approach is a way of talking
starts, 'In 1971, I played the Ten ofpart that has a very clear position ina~out that. After a' while, you realize
Hearts in an outdoor production of
the world,·that everything takes place in the
Alice in Wonderland. I had just left
Integrity, I tell her. The thing I
greater now, all t!:lOsestories are set
my 'husband,changed my namelike most about Ellen is , the sense
in one week."
from Ellen to Rain and gone off tothat she has a real concept of her
What does Blanche Boyd want
Vermont to be a radical feminist.
own integrity. She cares about rightnow?
Crescent Moon Dragonwagon played
and wrong, and the responsibility"To stay sober, to be part of
the Re'd Queen. Crescent was wantwe have to each other. She reminds
what's good in the world, not hurt
ed for bombing the Bank of America
me of what I like best in my friends
anybody
and take care of myself.. I
in Honolulu, but none of us knew,
who stayed down South, gOQd, old
keep it real simple, try to lo'ok atthat yet. '",girls who are completely matter-ofwhat I'm grateful to have and not at
OK, I tell her, I throw my hands
fact about their sexuality but slow towhat I don't have. I was always told
up. A novel about a radical feminist
talk about tneir emotional lives.
that I was talented, and that's a big
and lesbian collective full of women
There's a reserve, in Ellen I recogseduction because it makes you' feel
who run away from the straight
nize. It's not how I've lived my life,
different, special, and that can put
world, seduce each other, lie to eachbut I know it well.
you out of balance in a way that' canother and, half "the time, don't know-"Well,I never used the word 'lesbe trouble. I need to feel ordinary. I
they are lying but, are convinced thatbian' in Redneck or anything. It's how
am ordinary, It's funny ...Before I got
they are the most revolutionary creaI am in the world, not what I talksober, I would have sold my grandtures since Jesus walked the Jordan:
about. I've always said that heterosexmother to be a better writer, done
You're talking about a whole decadeuals doa!t go around being defensive,
anything. But now it's not the mostof my life.
talkini about the fact that they're hetimportant thing in my life."""And mine," she says and looks
erosexual.' In Revolution, Ellen's not a
And what's next?
me right in the eye ....
lesbian, Ellen's Ellen. Ellen's normal
for Ellen. But it's like she says, 'Some- '.
- times• she thinks there are three categories in the world':""men, women,, ~.
and het,~'\THE
REVOLUTION
OF
LITTLE
GIRLS
byBlancheMcCrary
Boyd.
"Metaphorically, Tbe Revolution
AlfredA.
Kropf.
$19
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205
pp.
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of Little Girls is about the South, ahorribly flawed culture. You can't
builg, §omething happy- there because
by Jewelle Gomez
Ellen slips through the complicayou're standing on something rotten.
tions of real life as many of us do-with
But it's like my sister said, 'The. South
After the Tarzan serial at the movies
little acknowledgement of the real trauis just like the rest of the country,
every Saturday afterno'on, my friend
mas we're facing, When her' father isonly more 'so.' [Village Voice editor]
Hutch and I would climb the mimosa
killed in a car accident, she tries to
Richard Goldstein . once said to metree in his backyard and take offour
remember what she had for breakfast
that he wou,ld never go ~ack to theshirts and eat bananas, Neither of us
on the day he died. When talking about•
South after having b~en in the civil,wanted toplay jane.
her own; or her mother's, addictions,rights movement, but I said to him,
So begins the winding tale in . she depicts a gradual progression from
'Where do you think you're living?
\Blanche McCrary Boyd's new novel.
numbing to disabling with a casual
G\,>.uptown, go to Harlem.' What's
And as the narrator, Ellen Lorraine,, detachment instantly recognizable towrong with the South is wrong everyconunents, "The real world was suspi,many survivors.
where, there!s just this projectioq on
cious of girls who did not want to
But' it is her comic flare that
the South."play Jane." It' is this wry, 8-year-old
enhances both the euphoria and theWhat about the curious structure . wisdom that ,provides the rudder forabsurdity of life. When,' as an adult,of this novel, the ~)Verlapping andEllen's tumultuous journey throughshe hears her mother make unpleasintricate series of stories that make up
the next 25 years. The storms areant comments about her lesbianism,
the chapters?
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thtlsc;. many of us have weathered:~he responds: "Momma, those diet
, "I'm not really interested
in
how to hide the first hickey, loss of virpills are bad for you. They make you
chronology. I just couldn't climb into
ginity, death ofa parent, child abuse,talk in italics. Did you know you talkthat straightjacket. I think of reading
marriage, divorce, addictive behavior,in italics?"
the book as being like peeling anfinding acceptance as an adult.
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denial, striving, 'and givihg upthat are its bi:tter~ignature.
,,•back and forth through an _adolescencein Charleston, and adulthood return visits, and that fluidity allows a subtle intimacy to grow between the reader andEllen, As a child, she puzzles over tpe
rumors of integration, asking a young, Black maid, i'''Barbara...do coJored people want to go to school with us?''''We has our own schools,' shesaid, but she wouldn't look. at me.
"I tried to keep talking to, her but
no matter what I said, she 'Wouldn'tlook
at me again.",A-s an adult, she visits a retired
English teacher to comfort him about his
failing sight and let him know that
she like him-is gay. For 20 yea~, he's
remained silent about his relationship,with a former student" now dead ofcancer.
The fragile bond Ellen offers is ',difficult for the elderly' marl, too accustomed to hiding, to accept. He has only
one offering-music he'd shared withhis dead ,lover:"After dinner I lay sprawled on his
sofa drinking cup after cup of ,instantcoffee while he played me his scratchy
opera records. He sat in a pink Victorian wing chair with his head tilted back,and once tears ran down his face. 'Can
you hear it?' he kept saying. 'Can you
hear, it?''''I hearit,' I said.",
It's through such precise and poetic
descriptions of Ellen's encounters thatBoyd (enders her inner life so complex
and touching.
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Ellen grows up as part.of a suburban middle class at tiffie when the US
is g~ring up to prove its hegemony inSoutheast Asia, when Mro-Americans
are fighting
to, worship.,.' ip
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their choice, and white girls afe definitely expected to play Jane. A common'
entertainment for Ellen's family was toattend frequent re-releases of Gone,

The desperately heroic plec!ge of
Scarlet Q'Hara-"As God is my witness, I'll never go hungry again",I>ecomes Ellen's ominous' credo - asher
hungers within steadily build. A bullying uncle physically (and possibly sexually) abuses Ellen and her younger
sister, Marie. Both remain ~ocked insidetheir terror until Ellenfmally, questions
Marieduririg a period when she's ,hospitalized for an asthma attack, theyre~ember their uncle burning themwith matches and delivering bruisingpinches, 'yet Ellen knows amnesia hasblocked many, of the other tortures.
from their consciousness.
later, when Ellen,asks her motherif she knew of the uncle's abuse, theaxis of the exchange shifts subtly until
the daughter is comforting her mother.
Ellen asks, "Why did you let him?' ,'''1 don't know, ..scared. Honey; hewas my brother.'"'Me tQQ.I w~ scared too.'"I stroked her shoulder, and after awhile, took her back up
to bed .... She looked
afraid and old ....For the,rest of the night I lay
awake ,on the sofa, burning. Matches flared in my..

mind and were extinguiShed. I smelledsulfur. There were other memories I will
not name, Sometimes I heard my own. screammg...
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Boyd'S writing is subtle arid chilling. She, is able to preserve the hardedged reality qf the unexplored psychological deprivations and horrors that canafflict the lives of young children; especially of girls, who are so devalued insociety. She is especially good at laying
bare the panicular form that abuse cantake in our middle class----the combination of niceti'es
and' crudeness, self",
knowledge
anddenial,striving
and giv.
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Boyd has made it•..possible to see thisworld through Ellen's eyes without sentimentaliZing her character's, insights or
flailing
attempts at survival, The child's,
sneaky consumption of spirits of amonia in Coca-Col scalates to alcoholism,
and pill' consumpt n'. Witl} a ~ilky,
sharp wit that refuses to ever ,ask for
sympathy, Boyd ,elates ...'her,eventual
recovery and her anXiety·over wh~theror not where her mother lives can reallybe her'home.
If I wanted something more from,this novel, it was that the author give us· •a deeper insight into Ellen's reactions to,her marriage and its ending, to fmdingh~r new lesbian life, to making herself
into a writer. While she gives us poig-,
nant descriptions of her encounters withher childhood sweetheart, now run tofat and ,baldness, she is very cryptic
about these other turning points.
But asking that makes me feel
greedy, for Boyd'S given so much. The
world she evokes of a' young,
white
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,
Southern beauty-queen-hopeful-isfullof surprise, anger, love and pain. Thereis a gothic hunger lurking inside"Ellenthat mirrors the voraciousness of US
culture as it devours the potential of its
women, children, Mro~Americans and'"lesbians. Boyd's appreciation of, andanxiety. about, 'Yhat it, means to be awhite Southerner gives this stOry an
important place in that raucous Southern literary tradition that includes Tennessee Williams and Dorothy Allison.
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work, it has the,exhilarating
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scene's positioning very early in the film
asserts 'Finnigan, 'spar~ing a flurry of'opportunity for many interviews.
insures that the. ' ~;cpro.~eritaly'!lrJd cr95s~talkon, raCism.
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women and no men,
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this film should fea, .' To, replace' the departing mem-,
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bians. In fact, no les, town paper inviting pOets to audition
Frances Bergenbians are visible.
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British,their fathers, boyfriends and/or hus- no means perfect, one of the most. ..
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led to believe) they have to look like in
BuddhistD~vid Siegel ,and the Dark
even the most promising of the big stuorder to win, and keep, the various
Star baby; 17-yearold Minphay Chiou,
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potpourriof sexuality, romantic
angst, family relations and, yes, polibe sexual, they do sometimes become that real life (and, specifically, the heteroso. The women are, after all, looking at sexual; nuclear family unit) is as constructtics. In pr¢senr,ation, the gang displays' a definite Beat' quality, coupledeach other's bodies, and, halfway
ed as soap-<Jperalife (and vice v~rsa).
through the film, you get the feeling thatwith a relaxed, informal approach
If nothing else, though, we should
most of their food problems would be be happy for the return of Cathy Moriarty
that borders on anarchy. One poet
resolved if only they were lesbians. I to the screen after a brief absence, Here,reads, the test shuffle aboutonstage,
don't mean to suggest that only body- she joins Carmen Maura (The Law of.
swapping
grins arid distractedly,switchiilg
seats. Then; in the blink ofimage problems produce food disorders Desire) and Karen Black (Come Back to,(as the film inconsistently implies) or the Rve and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy.
an 'eye,' eilch one has read and theshow 'is over,that lesbians never have food dis6rders Dean) in a list of brilliant movie portrayand are somehow free of the politics of als of.transsexuals by non-transsexuals.
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When I attended an evening of
lesbian short films recently as part of
the New Festival, I went with theintention, of seeing what lesbians infilm are saying about themselves
across the globe. The work was generally very good-technically competent,
personal, sorpetimes ambitious andsophisticated. What was most interesting about the evening, however, was
not the work but the audience. Packed
to the brim on a hot, humid Tuesdaynight, a range of women danced up
and down the aisles greeting eachother and' creating bottlenecks at the
popcorn counter, It was a tonic to see
so many unknown faces at an eveningof short films by mostly unknown lesbian filmmakers.
From the moment the lights went
down, th<;re was a palpable sense of
excitement and anticipation. '''Girls,
girls and more girls" seemed to be thesotto voce chant rumbling underneath'the upholstered chairs, Once the films
began, it was like a call-and-response
session poignantly illustrating the deep
desire lesbians have for seeing ourselves on-screen. Most material wasreceived with applause, hoots andhollers or respectful silence. Material
that did not conform to conventional
narrative structure and instead utilizedvisual symbolism, unorthodox editingor cryptic dialogue was, however,largely met with either befuddlement
or outright. derision.
State of Mind, Angie Black's 12µlinute striking and challenging exploration of female desire, violence andmysticism is a good example. It is
upsetting and brilliant. Although her"message" is hard to decipher in conventional'
terms, her insistence on,
exploiting 'the technical aspects of themedium to their, utmost and her obvious commitment to a particularized
vision made her film stand out. Stateof Mind is sheer celluloid audacity,
The audience clapped in
confusion at the film's end .
.Everyone seemed to be asking: What was that? Was thata lesbian film?
My companion summed
up the pulse of our peers•

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quite succinctly when she groaned:. "Oh, brother! What the hell!" and lifted
one hand as if to bat away an imaginary pest.
All of us know the cliches about
being an artist and having a "personal
vision"-the skill and struggle it takes
to make manifest an interior universe
for consumption in the outer world,
the courage needed to defy social orpolitical convention for the sake of anindividual voice. But what happens toyou if what you say as an artist does ,not conform to the multifarious desiresof our many communities? When you
come, from a community, as an artist,
do you belong to that commmunity? Or
can you simply say who and what you
are-you alone as an individual artist
with a unique vision?
It could be that the ethos of lesbian/feminist politics leaves us ill. to manage, nurture d'r
equipped,develop ambitious individual voices ,when those voices do not conform towhat we so desperately seek in artistic
representation. That the con:lmunities
from which we come seek instead tobind us to a particular politic may
inhibit the expression of our individual points of view. In other words, wereally do seem to have a problem withdifference, especially when those differences show up in a medium as
powerful, as expensive and as mysterious as film.
It seems that the nature of "thebusiness" is simply not part of ourpolitical utopia-it's patriarchal,..lacist,
misogynist, homophobic and just plain
mean. But the good things about lesbian/feminist politi~
consciousnessof, and commitment to, eliminatingsuch racism, homophobia and sexism,
for example-may be a bad thing if
they_keeps us perpetually marginalized
and outside of those industries on
which we unfortunately depend to
feed our growing culture. And if noth~ing ever seems "right enough" to a'•

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it may alsQ be
because we are hesitant to attempt to'succeed on our own terms outside of
our queer world. Lesbian and gay
artists aren't just hated, by the straightworld, they are also vilified by the lesbian and gay community when they
do not seem to "represent", anything or
anyone.but themselves as liIrtists.
Our com!nunity
is u~iquely,
alfDost path~logically, adept at critical
discussion, once work has beencreat-'~d, but seems, less committed to ~upporting creative production in its formative stages. Clearly, ,artists havepolitical responsil?ilities, just as, theirwork should be assessed for its,covert
or. overt political message, but therehas,to be some,place wher~lesbian'.
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Fusion slapped a reStraining prder onand gay artists are free to develop
their craft as a craft and not simply as ' Megatone, claiming that the inclusion of"Menergf.' violated earlier agreements.
a temporary panacea for a hungry
Undaunted, Cowley replaced the 'cut,'community. There must be some quiet
and the album saw worldwide r<>pularplace where we can let our imaginaity within the dance community.
tions roam beyond the imperfections
Unfortunately, stardom arrived as
we are seeking to change in our politiCowley's health began to decline. The
cal meetings, our protests, our jobs
battle with illn<';SSdating back to a South,
and our relationships. It may not be
American touF with Sylvester had started
what everyone wants to see, nor may it
to tum, and doctors provided insubstan-'be about everyone who is lesbian ortial answers. But, while Cowley langay-but what a joy to experience theguished at UC Medical Center, Sylvester
sharp, cold slap of a truly individual
visited constantly, insisting that Patrick
vision in a landscape so devoid of our
had to pull through so the two could
real power, ...
collaborate on a new project. As soon
as Cowley'S condition improved, theMaria Maggenti is an MFA candiduo began 'work on a new single.
date at the NYUfilm school. She conReleased on the Fourth of July, in 1982,
tributesfrequently
to,OutWeek.
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"Do You Wanna Funk?" proved Mega•
tone's biggest-selling record.
Meanwhile, Marty Blecman, alo g
with. Tip Wirrick and longtime fri nd
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John Hedges continued writing ma ,erial and recruiting new talent. When:,
Blecman and, a prospective vocalist fellout over an expensive gown the artist,,
by Kurt B. Reighley
wanted to wear for an album cover,synthesizer ,musk. When B1ecman
Sylvester grabbed the new tracks for
The music business'dependsheard Patrick's work on the single inmor.e than many industries
on thehimself, leaving Fantasy Records forpiogress, tentatively titled"Energy," he,unreliablelawsofsupplyanddemand,'tacked
an
"M"
onto
th,e
title,
redubbing
Megatone.
The result, the album 41/1.
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the song "Menergy" (complete withIn 1978, the mov:iesoundtrack Saturday
Need, yielded the hits "Doh't Stop" andappropriate gay lyrics).
Night Fever, a double J.P collection of,"TellMe",-and, according to co-producThe duo was certain that they had . er Hedges, was "the-easiest record I'vea,rtists in,cIuding the Bee Gees, ~nd
Yvonne E1liman,broke uncounted sales
a' hit, but none of the labels they
ev~r done in my life ...just fun, andapproached responded. Finally, tiny
records, 1qe next year saw the market
absohitely no egos."
flooded with' new dance acts,
jUst
in
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When Cowley died in November
fusionRecords
pickedup"Men~rgy,",,
but,'in·theeight
months
the
label
took
time to see nationwide
recordsales
1982,
the label was confused and,devas•
tate'd, but Blecman decided to use
to press and distribute the single, Cowdecrease by $400 million. By 1980, mostmusic to fight Patrick's killer. Not only
,ley wrote and recorded enough mateof the major labels were forced ,to cut
would the Patrick Cowley "megamedback, chopping ~eir dance divisions ,~o 'rial to fill an album. When "Menergy",stormed up the dance cha,rts to pUmley", bear sticker informing the cona mere fraction. ,But San Francisco club
ber
one,
Marty
and
Patrick
decidedtodeejay Marty' Blecr~~lnstill had,packedsumer.
about the 'new threat of AIDS,,
release the full LP elsewhere. "We realbut Blecinan promised proceeds fromhouses to entertain ,and decided to take'matters into his own handS.
ly wanted to have our own' record
the record sal~s to the newly estab,label, but
we didn't know exactly whatlished GMHC. But as the "new wave"
Working yvith local synthesizer,
wh,iz Patrick, Cowley, who, by 1981,
to dq at the time," Blecman admits inepidemic began to impact on g".tyclub
had already made'a name for hi~lf,
attendance, Megatone encountered seriDavid Diebold's
Fran. Tribal Rite~San,,Blecman started work on a disco sinous financial troubles.
cisco's Dance Mustc Phenomenon(Time_Warp, 1988), Cowley considered
gle ,in tribute to the hig~-energy clubs.
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accepting a recording offer from the
keyboard contributions to the work ofnoto~ious Moby Dick label, but, at the,including the money promised to charioutrageous diva Sylvester resulted inlast moment, a benefactor provided
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the sensational hits "(You , Make Me
Blecman with $20,000 a new label:
avoided settling things amicably with
Megatorie'Records, 'Feel) Mighty Real" and "Dance (Disco
GMHC. "Things got comHeat)" for Fantasy Records. In thepletely out of hand, like a
Megatron Man
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music community, Cowley:s p~votal
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Blecman remained dedicated to.' thelabel. .By 1984, mest ef Megatene's,
d..ebts had; been s~ttled, and record
returns remained at a mirl.imµm.Meanwhile, almost alief the tiny
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feunded in the early '80s felded" Recegnizing the uncertain popularity ef highenergy dance music during $e AIDS
crisis; Marty laid eff the majerity ef his
staff, settling in fer a leng, lean haul.
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label president Jehn Hedges. "[AIDS],
devastated,eur
Bves, eur artists andeur recerd, sales.' A seven-album deal
between Sylvester and Megatene withWarner Bres. RecerdS cellapsed after
the singer succumbed to. AIDS-relatedc«mplicatiens .in 1988, fell ewing .'themainstream success'ef "Semeene Like,
Yeu" and the album Mutual Attraction.
Hedges feels that, despite theincrease ef hemephebia during the epidanic, the label's gay-owi1ed and -operated status "didn't hurt us at all.' Megatene centinues to. feHew Blecman's
policy ef small pressing runs to. minimize returns, Mest importantly, Hedges
remains faithful to. the trademark highenergy Megatene $Ouod."'We'llstay with
it,' he inSists. "Dance music ...changes
names, but sounds the same.', And, altheugh Hedges admits thatthe label "ceuld use a star right now,',the recent Megatene release ef"White
Rabbit" from David Diebold and Kim
Cataluna climbed to. the tep ef the Billbeard Het Dance Club Play charts.
Despite tight flnances,Megatene centinues to. seek new talent and releaseproduct en a regular schedule. And, as
the music industry struggles threughthe latest recessien, and independent'
labels werldwide go. under,' Megatene
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guitar riffs of the decade.,,
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offices in the US and started signing
American bands, among them Scrawl.
Lucinda Williams and Two Nice Girfs,
continuing testimony to Rough Trade's
decidedly equal-opportunity approach.
Unfortunately, the label's current difficulties mean that you may have problems finding some of this music in yourfavorite store, since much of it islocked away in the Rough T~de vaults
pending a settlement of one sort oranother. And new releases, like Two
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lea~iqg a whole chunk- of the recorded
history of the '70s and, '80s to wait a,few years befor~ it (hopefuily),fmds a
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Rough Trade Records Closes its Doorsby Madame X
These are sad days indeed when along-lived
independent , label goes.
under. Independent' record companies
are here to counterbalance the mammoth majors; usually the poi~t is not tomake a quick buck but, to release
albums .by, artists who, in one way <;>r
another, don't fit 'the, corporate mold.
Thus, it is distr~ssing to,witness RoughTrade closing its American branch andstruggling to keep its original British..
based operation going. Foundedby,Geoff Travis in the late 70s, the label,
now faced with severe cash-flow probiems,
is trying to sell the rights to the,Smiths' catalogue i,norder to stay afloat.
Rough Trade was alwaY11sympathetic to sexuaUyproyocative. bands(the mime itself being ,t st,lple .of gay
male lingo). Take, for instance, the Virgin Prunes, who mixed campy cabaret
and goth antics under Gavin Friday's
inspired leadership. And few havecome close to the Raincoats'feminist"statements in the last ten years: Nothing is said these days that Gina Birch,
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the Rough Trade aesthetics: ,They
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to make sounds unheard of at thetime, dancing around the melodies
when they c01Jld h'ave embraced
them in a pop manner or destroyedthem like the fledgling industrial
movement (to which Rough Tradealso contributed by putting out earlyreco'rdirigs by Cabaret Voltaire)"
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White's article on the state of gay male literature. Not content to feed us Janet Maslin's
bland apologias for Thelma and Louise, theTimes has now forced us to deal with their hapless efforts at
queer arts coverage,,
Don't get me wrong. They should twist, themselves into
human pretzels to get. our stories. Let's just say that this one
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THE LAST PICTURE SHOW...
The New Festival has closed out its marathon
New York gig with more than 140 filmS andvideos screened in a three-week period. Next, it
heads out CI'OSS<OuotIy
iri September with a five-dty (Q~eIand,
Philadelphia, Miami, Denver, San Diego) celluloid ~nanza. For
those unable to wait, a sampling of films will screen August S-ll
at Southampton College. Only New York audiences have beeh
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In a London dance club, the bouncer lifted
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I left the 'women's room and said,"Just checking for balls, love."In the playground where I worked as a day
camp counselor, a surly teenage male with a boom,box asked,"Are you a woman or a man?"
I said, "Sometimes I don't really know.",

In a taxi stopped in froqt of a pub fa~ous
for its bitters in Cambri~ge, England, the driversurveyed my femme friends, turned to me and said,"That'll be three-fifty, sIr."•

In the bathroom of the Information Centerat· Cumming Nature Reserve, I was picking mud frommy boots when a woman entered and said,"Sorry. I thought this was the women's room."
She left, then re-entered and said, ,"Sorry. I thought..."I said, "I know what you thougnt.",

In line for the ATMat Marine Midland bank,a woman said,"You dropped your paper, sir. I mean ma'am."
I picked up my bookmark, She turned to her
friend and .said,,"You can never tell these days."
In line to vote for the mayoral elections,of Rochester, New York, old Mr. Noble said,•"Hello, Joey."
My mother ~aid, "That's my daughter."Mr. Noble said, "How ya doin', Joey?"
Mrs. Noble said, "His eyesight's not so goodanymore.",In line for the concession stand at a Moody
Blues concert in Canandaigua, New York, a wide-eyedlittle girl asked,"Are you a boy or a girl?"
Her mother shushed her.
I said, "A little bit of both."

On 12th Street in Brooklyn, a Catholic schoolgirl
in a brown plaid uniform smoking a Camel passed me a~dexhaled"'"Faggot.""
At the West 4th subway stop, my friend Kate wasgoing uptown and I was going downtown. As we passed
through the. turnstiles, a homeless' mali said,"Goodnight, gentlemen."
We kissed each ,other goodbye.
Kate said, "Goodnight, sir."
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attendance the following year. Prideserves as inspiration for those who areafraid to come out, as well as an opportunity for reaffirmation for those whoare already out Unfortunately; with thegrowing reputation and attendance atsome of the bigger parades, some ofthe smaller ones are suffering, throughlosing their participants to the betterestablished ones.
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happening in July.
One of the problems inherent in trying to organize a parade in a small town
is the conservatism that is usually prevalent. It's a lot harder to be out, loud andproud in Little Rock, Ark., where evenlast year'~low-key celebrations' will not
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Episcopalian church.
But, I suppose that lesbian photographers are OK. As reported in theTimes~usually unreadable "Chronicle"
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and sweat pants with the presidential
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who served in the war."!'low sick does this make you? Will
Leibovitz, who m4st be a millionaire at
this point, photograph anything for a buck even the
freaks who are fucking over,her and her kind big time?,(But, of course, she will, as evidenced byher shots of Andrew Dice Clay in Vanity
Fairs puff piece on him ~ year.)According to "Chronicle," the photo,shoot was for a 'possible cov~r story in
VaniO' Fair. I just can't wait for that one.
Wtll Editor in <::hief Tina Brown do thiswith dignity and put Bush on the spot
regarding the AIDS crisis, the anti-gay
stance of the military, his mghtening positions on abortion and his administration's,
disregard for people bf color and allother minorities? Will she make sure that
his constant pandering to the religious
right is pointed out? Wtll she note' that
this world leader WOULD RA1HER SEE
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QUEER EDITORS AND PHOTOG,. RAPHERS ON HER STAFF STRIPPED OF
TIlEIR,RIGHTS AT BEST, AND LYING
DEAD IN AN OVERCROWDED HOSPITAL AT WORST, TIiAN CHALLENGE
TIlE HEINOUS, BIGOTED POSITIONSOF ZEALOTS, EVEN THOUGH HE
KNOWS THAT THOSE POSITIONS
ARE WRONG?
Or.will Brown give us something simi•-' Jar to the' puff piece on the ossified
Reagan~, whose tired carcasses
scandalously graced the cover of
VaniO' Fair at the height of their•straight-hy
talking about
AIDS as this disease that
doesn't really affect us readers. Discussiqg HIV transmission, he tells us that "bodyfluids are body fluids ... 'whom we choose to exchange, them with, or how,seems to,, be less important
than how often. So as a hetmurder spree of a presidenCY---Qreign durera, I 'have to be (grudgingly) grateful to
ing which one of the greatest epidemics of
the women who wouldn't
let meall time was completely ignored andexchange mine with theirs nearly as often
allowed by our leaders to mushroom outJofas I wanted." WHAT ABOUf CONOOMS?
control, With no mention of that fact in the
Or are those just annoying, little things"
VaniO'Pair article?
that only they have to use?
, Perhaps obsessively trendy Tina
Sensationalizing gay sex clubs for thewill invoke some of her newly acquired,mere sake of hetero curiosity, Guest takes
hip political astuteness on this one.'us back to the Spike, the Hellfire and the
Let's wish her well, and give her the. 'Mineshaft. It seems that he wants to show
benefit of the doubt. I mean, we canwhere all of that AIDS stuff began-inalways cut off h~r head, if and when thetheir clubs, brought on by them. And hearticle fmaIly comes out.
goes out of his way to serve up fake libSpeaking of rolling craniums, perern1 prattle to make it seem that he's not ahaps we should send Esquire honcho
moralist, although he sums up by basica1-'
Terry McDonnell to the sidelines forly saying that nothing's changed with.
regard to sex and th:,lt AIDS
really hasn't affected us readers
all that much. Thank you for'this brilliant observation, Anthony Hayden Guest.
I say, "Off with his head!" Will
someone please pass the chainsaw?
And keep it plugged in-there's a
lot more in Esquire this month. Pete'
printing that grotesque, offensive and
Hamill serVed up one of those anti-PC
just plain old dumb current cover story,
pieces, entitled "A Confederacy of Com"Sleeping Around," written by Anonyplainers," which was remarkable similar
mous (who; according to "Page Six" into John Taylor's in New York (What do
the Post, is really writer Anthony Hayden
these people ,do? Drink cocktails andGuest, who didn't use his name because
whine on about how their straight,
he has a contract to write exclusively forwhite male butts are in danger and thenVanity Fair and, most likely, was afraid
plot similar stories in an attempt to getthat Tina Brown would have his head on
all of us "minorities" off their backs?)a pewter platter).
The terrifying thing about Pete,
From the start, Guest gives a creHaplill is that they cut his head off
dence to that babbling fool, Frank Rocco,
about ten years ago-but sOmehow hethe one-time owner of the World (whostill, manages to chum out drivel. Thererefused to put condom dispensers in the ' should be a law against this sort ofclub), a man who has been saying forthing. I mean, do we have to protect theyears now that "paranoia about AIDS is
freedom of speech of the dead too?
over." It's all downhill from there.· Guest
Jesus, these people are just soooOO.<'O.
obsessively reminds us that he's straight
politically correct, you know?
\(sexually adventurous, but not one of
I tell you, what will go down inthem, you know) and also seems tohistory as "The Last Gasp of the White
obsessively remind you that you'reMale' Heterosexuals" is upon us rightnow (of course, there's no,,
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,ty. But still
JOhnsoo decided
to give him phonies. Maybe I shou1d,~for example, be,,
And one man whom I thought was
half a column, ·take his word for' every- more eamest,about that junket\ that a wholemore ,enlightened but who has turned out .thing and promote this hateful freak. The bunch of us writers went on to, Brazil sevto be just' another. one of the threatened,
years ago: You remember. it. was theicing on the cake, hO\\jever, c01peS fromlittle bOys (in the end, th~y'll all sticktime you 1;>roughtthe wife of a rich British
several people who tbld ,me that they
together no matter what-tru~t
me .onindustrialist:
and thenasked the rest of us
were appalled when they hellrd Johnson,,'that) is Richard Johnson at the Daily News.
,to please not write about that fact?
in public, using the word "faggy."
for several years, Johnson wrote, Now listen to me, :Richard.I've 'known
Don't mess with me, you feeble"Page Six" until last year; when i~looked, , you for a long time. And I've heard ,as , straight boy. It's not my first time at thelike the POst
guillotine.~, was going to go under. f-Ie much dirt on YOll,Mr. Newly Marned Man,
then jumped ship and, became a producer at one of those widely unwatched Fox ,,,1V entertainment and gossip shows an~also beg,µl writing a colunm for the vast,
ly unread weekly, the NeW Yom Observer.
•, It 'seemed that he was pretty mudi _',finished, as far as being in mix of thatgOSl?ip dialogue that occ'llrs in print in ,,New York like nowhere-else.
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dvertising
is thea,qout himself, homoshe said it ali herself, OK?) jumped ship
opiate of the massphobia and the industhen
and went to , Newsday. And Jo~on
es, and the media's deal
try's "fears .toward thetook over her space at the News, happy,'
with the devil. It's that gray matter invad- , gay and lesbian consumer market.". A bit
I'm sure; to get out, of Gossip Siberia.
ing everything, telling you that happinessmodestly, he says, "I've never positioned,
At "Page Six," he covered a Iqt of. is, 'fqund in powdered soap; and a soul at . myself as a role model for. anyone'." But,peace comes with four-wheel drive: And .
gay issu~ but, in the style of the page,:.;j:=».~~w.;::.,.~... ·.·,:;·~""':::wn~;.%~~~;m·~,:..
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commentary.
.neVer really , offe~ed his own
like Hollywood and professional sports,,,,
But Johnson now babbles and spouts
it is sold on the myth....,
, of the hetero
endleSsly. And Suddenly,you realize thatnation. Last week, we perused Advertishe's a homopholx; in disguise who tries
ing Age, finding loathsome colunmist Sid
to play it both wa,ys but we ,can see
Bernstein who wrote, "I don't like the':right through him.
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guessed
it
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becauSeofit$
implicatiOIi',. olice, in the 0bseroer; he ran an article
tha,t AIDS' is a major problem 'of thethat claimed
that Keith Haring ~knovying- advertising' business." He, went on to ',Iy" spread HIV after he contracted' it But,argue tl}at it still isn't a concern for the
proof enough has come with this Daily"general. population.",News'column. He has, in the past several 'Things are clearly different at themon)hs, complairied that the city funded
competition, Adweek, however . .In the"a movie about, drag queens" (referring to' June 10 issue" they ran a feature on
Jennie Livington's ,Paris [sBuming, forJack Sansolo, president of Hill, Holiwhich she got sbme money from the city- . day, ,Connors, Cosmopolous, describing
owned WNYC), has tbld' us how people,
him as "one of the highe'st~ranking
in the' audience. ",Winced"while watching
openly gay executives' in all of American
two men kiss in the off-Broadway play . advertising," and probably most other'Theof Us, has sensationalized, theindustries as ,well. When, he waS intro-'
duced as the new president three years
postering of the sexy Reel Ho~and Blue•safer-sex posters ("[put up by] ACf UP, ago, the agency's CEO said, "WhoSISSjV ,\the militant gay rights 'group.,., some of ' would ever have thought that a Boston:I!l--',.
,- the same people' who have disrupted
Brahmin and an Irish Catqolic wouldat St.Patrick's Cathedral") and, mostname a gay Sephardic Jew from, therecently, has once again promoted that
Bronx president?" Sansolo's slightly sar,
homophobic artist who defamed gays
castic response' was, "I didn't expect
two years ago in a Vanity Pair in~erview Jack Connqrs ~o'tell everyone that I'm' a(not naIning him makes him so angry).
Sephardic Je\V." We like this man.
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including ourwith his uncompromising
attitudetakes. W€celebrate their victories. It is , favorites', Patrick Budtanan,
Ray Ker,,
toward homophobic clients:' "If 'that's . time to look ~yond, our own narrowrison, Pete Hamill, Bill Buckley,
the way they feel, I' don't, want, to work'
spaces and to embrace the intern;ttional
MGM, The Silence of tbe Lambs, thewith them. I won't work with them."'struggle." Here, on our isoliltionist conllibernians and Daryl Gates.
And, it clearly hasn't hurt SaflSolo, , tinent, riationalis~ continues to be, one, . ,But, the big problem' with theirIor his firm. & president, he heads upof the most blinding and prevalentawards is the' name. Calling our enemies
their Infmiti car account in LA, and he...·isms" around. How olien do you skip
"sissies" is, 1 must say, self-loathing andplayed a role in the agency's decision toto the front section of the Times, justsexi&,. It validateithe taunts and slights ofwithdraw from the bidding on the Carl's
because it doesn't seem relevant? ,our youth, denying how great it is to be
Jr. accoul1t becauSe the company's chair
Not so ,auspicious,
hQwever, wasqueer_ Since the word, "sissy" gener3Jly;.
,,had "right of rigqt-wing politics."
the Advocate's second annual Sissy
connotes ~erhinacyand, ultimately, has a~, cancel your sub to Ad Age, skipAwards. The editors obviously had fun
negative homosexual
connotation, this is,in an OutWe,ek kind ofCarl's Jr. and buy an Infmiti. It will,maketrashing
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way, but, in the end, the write-ups
Nation Awards on virulent homophobes,. 1be .,4dvo(:ate auspiciously introcome off like "ethnic" jewelry ordered, Actually, ,it'sUrvashi
Vaid and
duced a new international network offrom the International Male catalogue.
Robert Bray at the NGLTFwho should.
~,'correspondents with their. cover story
Sure, they llid a stellar job compiling the'be feted' with a Big Sissy award, alongon global activism and the editor's·"most cowardly, cretinous and deflhitely
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All those homophobes- would jointhem in saying that sissies are bad. Whatis, this? We should all be butch and,'macho-likethose dudes at' the..
Adwcate. In the~ cover,photo, Cardinal
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caricature, the insult is turned back on us.
, The coVer image does ,not celebrate gender-fuck with our drag-queen heterOsexuals. It buys into them, saying that there issomething cowardly and damning abQut
being effeminate..And, most egregious ofall, it implies that there is something bador weak about being, a woman. If that's
where these guys are starting from, L. don'-t know why any woman would
bother working • there. A cover story on
dykes in sports is notenough.
,Next year, perh'lps the Advocate'could hire Nicolas cage to help themout. In the current Details, he chronicles his trip to revisit Jack Kerouac on•
the road, In a section lamer,lting the'"hole in the soul of my generation;" hewrites: "Transvestites are 'perhaps the,only true freedom 'fighters. They are•fighting for the right to be different. We
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A crazed pubescent males, the moguls reasoned, aren't thehood was over when she found herself cheering the gruesome
highway death of Blair's boyfriend's pony, in Sarah T, Fortrail

only ones with disposable income in this great country of ourS:' . of a Teenage Alcoholic.
thus, the return of "women's movieS." They don't cost $50 milWe love B-movie qlleens, but we're also obsessed by ,the•lion in special effects,' Straight couples can use them for dating
forgotten actresses, trapped for all eternity in supporting roles.
purposes, and they're so gooey,
Take the aforementioned,P,].
that, if you stepped on one, it'dSoles. She always played the badstick to your shoe. Not that we're~, 2:}girl, the one who gets 'into troucomplaining, since we skipped~
ble because she goes out withthem all anyway: Steel Magnolias,<tc~the, boys. Soles fo(got about~ Ghost, White Castle, Working
babysitting in Halloween, unlike
Girl, Pretty Woman, the whole
goody-two-shoes Jamie Lee Curdumb bunch.
tis, who took care of her
No, we prefer "men's"
screeching brats and survived.
movies, whatever that means,
Soles also hung out with thewhere every so often something'Ramones in Rock 'n' Roll Higb
a little unpredictable happens.
School PJ. was the dark side of
And the actresses we love play
the suburban dream, the bratthe, other women, the ones who
who smokes while tooling,
get shot, the evil babysitters, the de-praved cheerleaders. We
around in the wrong guy's Camaro.
rooted:for PJ. Soles, not Amy Irving, in Carrie; we thought thaiDigging deeper in the cinematic archives; we find ,ourselves
lallrie Metcalf was cooler than her. suburban sister, Roseanna
delighted by Yvonne De au-Io and bored by Marilyn Monroe,
Arquette, in Desperately Sefking Susan; we were_mad with chachanneg by ROSarindRussell and irritated by Katharine Hepburn.
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The underdogs, the unknowns, the pariahs: They're so mucp
Escape From New York Madame X actl)ally went out of her way
more iIiterestlng, more hUmarl;' than idolS prefabricated by theto see every fljc~ SeasOn'H~bley ever made, ev~n if it meantindustry, Madame X, for example, fias founded an AlIa Nazimova
staying up until 4 am to catch a particularly obscure late show.
Appreciation Society, of which she"~.the sole member, dedicated ', And Linda Blair...How could we forget Linda Blair? The to the Sapphic stage and movi<factre5$..of the'20sand '305. NaziExorcist was all right, but her later work really shone. Take
mova's flamboyant life ind~cled a close ,friendship with N,ancy
Savage Streets, an, early-'80s piece of straight-io-video soft-:eore . Reagan's mom-:..:-sosays l<i.tty 'Kelley. With . women like that on
exploitation in whidl Blair plays a high school girl' who goes
fUm, why waste oUr affections on wholesome closet Cases_likeon a rampage to avenge her deaf-mute sister, raped on. the 'Debbie Reynolds or Hollywood. zombies like Greta Garbo?
high school gym floor by the local thugs. We squealed gleefully, NO,t that we're overwhelriled' with cinematic nostalgia,
as our heroine shot them all one by one with a crossbow.
Stupid (but woman-positive!) B-movies continue tq be made.
Thelma and Louise pales by comparison.
~'.
Divas still get dropped into doPey sup-'Plus, Blair doesn't die in the end.
" portiilg roles. Why botherwith Sophie's,
Then there were Blair's magnificent
Cb.oice when you can see La Streep in
1V movies of the mid-70s.' Probably some
She-Devil? Julia Roberts is an insuffer•kinQ,of argument could be made about 1V
able twerp, but when she. portrays Il
mo;vies as:a major force sl)aping the, conroc~ musicIan along" with ]usPne Batesciousness. of a generation of Anlericans,man ~ the hilari9us Satisfaction, you, find yourself clutch,ing your Kool-aid arigbt up there with Watergate and the oilcrisis,and Linda 'Blau-starr~&in the best of',bit tighter. _,~.
them, The reform-school-girls'1V movie"
By the tifue yourea9 this, we11 havewith the broomstickscene! The kidspent many evepings at the Gay and les.
napped-by-crazy-but-poetic-escaped-conbian Film Festival,b(eing-we're,viet 1V movie with the helicopter-surveilsure-moved
and inspired by all thatlance sex scene! (Was that masterpiece,celluloid by us and about us ...OK,- OK"really entitled Sweet Hostage?) ,Anne, a
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government
has reversed its announced
immigration policy and will now bar
anyone with HIV from entering the U,S,This policy is out of step with interna·
tional. norms. And puts us in league with
Iran, Iraq, and, South,
Africa,The policy is med, ically unjustifiable. By
upholding 'these barriers, Presid~nt Bush issurrendering to Jesse,'"
K'-'
Helms fmd others who trade in fear - andrejecting the considered advice of his own
top health officials at the U.S, Centers for
Disease Control and the Department of
Health and Human Services,
This policy can still be correcteq, The
U,S, can prove it is a fair and just nation
with a rat~qnal and responsible health~policy - but only if you act by August 2,
That's the deadline for a new round,public comment on the proposed cruel anddiscriminatory immigration policy.

Barriers to vi~itors or immigrants withHIV have nothing)o do with a coherent
policy on AIDS, In fact, all 'the restrictions do
is stigmatize people with HN, and distract our
nation from truly urgent medical'needs,
Where's the logit? rhe U,S, doesn't barother'visitors orilI)migrants with lifethreatening illnesses.
A<;:cordingto healthoftkials including
Secretary of Healthand Human Services
Louis Sullivan, the only disease that poses athreat sufficient to bar entry to the U.S, is TB,, Where's the risk? The U.S. already has
far more recorded
HIV infections and AIDS,
cases than ,other countries, We should con·cel1.trate.on reducing the infection rateinternally,.- not pretend the threat comesfioin outside, HI\', unlike TB, simply dmnot
be casually transmitted,
What's the fear? Fearmonge.rs have raised
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the public. HIV restrictions on(yfrighten
undocumented ,persons now living in the",,United States ,away', from timely diagnosis
and treatment. Faced with deportation anda break-up of their families:long-time'
residents who are infected - the vast
majority while they've ~n in the U,S,are driven underground, away from care.
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pOlicy into agreement with'international standards, mail the coupons
below immediately,.
'Policymakers must' know how strongly
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,I was sitting at home,shellacking cockroaches and carefully gluing them onto my new
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for beauty, right? As I started
shaving my shoulders,the,"party began, A neighbor cameover to borrow a cup of ~odka.
Friends popped over to' say
hello. Friends of friends arrived. Brothers and sisters offriends of friends just happened
to be in the neighborhood andneeded eyelash adhesive. Aftera few shots of tequila, we were
all dancing gaily around myapartment
to' a Milli Vanilli
album and squirting ourselveswith Debbie Gibson's Electric
Youth Perfume.
Pretty soon, there weredrag queens flash dancing in
the hallways, and the front
desk issued its fll'St warning,
I packed up my things.
Purses are dull; kids and lunchboxes are passe. These days, I
cany everYthing in a b\lcket of Kentucky Fried Chicken. That's
real chic. Tl'\lst me on this one.
We went to a loft party somewhere in TriBeCa. After a few
more tequila shots, I suddenly developed a passionate newinterest in linoleum and got down on the floor to inspect it
more closely.
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Somebody with very big boots kicked me, and a shower,of little ccx:kroach carcasses fell to the floor.
'Wanna see my toasters?"
I looked up to see a wild-eyed, overly made-up bikerchick standing in front of me.
"Vh, I beg your pardon?""My toasters? Want to see them?" She lifted her skirt and, 10
and behold, there were four tattoos of toasters on her rear end.
"I really like toasters.", "I'm a blender man, myself," I said, rolling my eyes,
She went on to tell me of her extensive collection of
antique toasters and the stories she's written about them.
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she has doors that open likethis. She's very unpredictable. And there's Yvette.
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and stared at the floor,
ignoring everybody. You
know, you glue a couple·'of bugs to your face or
cover yourself in theatrical
blood once in a while, andyou would be amazed at
the nuts who :feel free tocome up and start a con- ~versationwith you. It's ~hard to be me. •My life,is so sordid.
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eat things like c~acio and ~arugala. I want to be in a ~CI1
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without getting blood and mud and cUm all over it by the end
clthen~.
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Instead, I find myself acting like a pagan and giving handjobs to sailors at the parade and rolling around in the gutters ofTimes Square.
Of course, he was a very handsome sailor with a very
handsome penis. And I do love Times Square. Where would'
we be without the Port Authority?
You know, I really do have a great deal of freedom-I dowhat I want, when I want, where I want. If,1 want to dress up
like Barbara Cortland one day or Broom Hilda the next,
nobody can stop me.
And it's very cathartic, you know, dressing the way I do. I
have an outlet for a lot of repressed energy. If I didn't do what I
do, I would probably be an ax murderer or something by now.
So, you can keep your nouvelle cuisine and your crisp white linen suits, I
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Send announcements and listings to: 159 W. 25th St." 7th floor,
New York, NY 10001. Next deadline: Mond~y, June 17, for IS,sue, '#105, available in New York on Monday, J",ne ,24.

ART IN GENERALpresents POIIUoDl 01
Authority, instaflations1by Leone"
Macdonlld, Glenl) LI.lon and Judith
Welnperaon; Among Good Chrllllan
P80plll, photographic and video.installation by Catherine laalfleld, Jocelyn
Taylor and Jacqueline Woodlon; The
Whole/Hole Serl .. , an installation by ,Bonnle'Yan .~Ien; Dlverie .'Yolgel, an
audiotape by COllttO Coait: National ,Women Artllt. 01Color; aQd Pa~ and,Pr .. ent, a window installation by
Suull:, Wid ... 79 Walker Sl Info: (212)219-0473. Through June 29.
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the British comic famous for his "anal _pyrotechnics." $10 plus a one-drink
minimum. 15 Sl Marks PI. We-Sa at9
pm. Reservations: (212) 674-1851 .
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Annul Rlt,d X Elhlbltlon. This year's
exhibition will feature work by lesbian
photographers
Prlnny Alavi and
Iho.hlnl. Alavi will be signing copieSof h.er poster, ~HeJ Erection,"' at the•reception on June ,14from !HI'pm, andAnal. Iprt_l. will be signing copies ofherbook, Poet Pom ModtHTIist and will,
be available,fot "tits-on-your-helld
Polaroids." 224 E. 68th Sl We-fr from1-:5 pm and Sa from 1-6 pm. Info:(212) 288-7741. June 14 through June
27.
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presents GraphIc,
PrIde, an exhibit Qfbroadeid!l8, posters;
buttons, shirts, stickers and banners
usedin the lesbian and gay pride movement from 1970-91.. Bridge Gallery, 66
W: 12th St. Info: (212) 741-8778-, "Through June 28.
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WI'" Ih."y Mati. $8. 167 ludlow Sl
Fr at 10 pm. Reservations: (212) 4201466~Through June 28.
PRIDE PRODUCTIONS presents'
Moliere's ham.d Ladl", adapted by
Dougla. Garland, Sta~ring DavId Eye, •~rtln C. Luedroll, Carter Allen Winkle,
Gary Andre, •• , Dan Plragon, Mlrk
fliingo, Arthur Jlme', DaYld I, MIIII,J.... Ph Clanclarulo and Randy Moore.
$10 or $5 plus TOE Westbeth Theatre
Center.151 Bank Sl,betwesn West andWashington streets. We and lh at 8
pm, Fr and Sa at 7 and 9 pm.
Reeervatione:(212) 27!H200. ThroughJune 29.
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and photographybyChrlltopher Ciccone, Lull d, J"~I,, Rlnlldo HopI, Corrad~ L~vl, LorJn,
McAlpin, Rldge.ay Bennett, Adam"
Rollton, Stephen Scholleld and JOII
Ylllarrubla. The show is designed tobring together diverse artist~ "in joyful,
celebration of Gay Pride '1991 and in
painful acknowledgmentof the decade•long struggle with the AI D~ pandemic."
5130Broadway. Tu'-~a from 12-5 pm. ,(212) 219-9524. Through' June' 29.

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stretched across telephone poles on Christopher
Street. You've waitedy.ear,You:ve thought about
getti~g out of town. You've decided you just couldn't
live with yourself,if you did, And deep down, you', love it l.t'sOUT, LOUD and PROUD, and so are you,dammit So get your queer heinie over to Union ,Square on Saturday June 29, from
2 pmuntil 6 pm,,
for the HERE WITHOUT FEAR, sponsored by those
hard-working fags and dykes at Heritage of Pride,
See'lesbian Assemblywoman Deborah Glick talk pOlitics; hear the Anti-Violence Project's Matt Foreman
bash back; watcH as the baton-twirling queens from 'the Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corps spin out of con~trol; witness the Imperial.Court of New YOrk in aU its
splendoG and laugh, sigh, giggle, ooh and aah'as
Reno, Dark Star Crew, Lea Delaria, Frank Maya,
Casselberry-Dupree, the ~lirtations, Crystal Waters

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.'-', Avenue. Info: (212) 967-7711 ext
3078, Through June 30.
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pr88ent~ Public,
SpaclI!Pr.lvate Thoughli, an exhibition', ',featuring the work of Stanley BlnOl, and Robert Mlrahall. Opening reception June 6 from 6-8' pm. '50 First
Ave., at 9th Street. Th-Su from 12-6
pm. (212) 228-4249. June 6 throughJune 30.
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PANYpresents Kalll,l Kalllrt Ka'll"
Written and directed by Guy Bernota,"
Original music by Dale J.flrl .. and
Tom Blbla. With SIeve R. Blrron, BathJ

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Campbell. Steve Dlefender1er, Jam.. -K.
Doyle, WI!If EI.enberg, lranka JakubIak,
Eve Marlowe, Dawn Ouellette, Charlotte
ParaoM,Jeff Prine and Brian Revll. $10
or TOF. Gene Frankel Theatre_ 24 Bondst. We, 'Fr and Sa
at 8 pm- and Su at,-3',,Pm. Reservations: (212) 242-36~7.
Through June 30. ' . _,T. SCHREIBER STUDIO presents Enid
Rudd'i O,ar"t COUs/If,a two'woman
play ilealing with the mystery and questof pow~r and sexuality. Directed by Terry
SchreIber. Starring Gwendolyn Lewll
and Glnette Molina. Free. 83 E. 4th SI.
Th-Sa , at 8 pm and Su at 3 pm.
Reservations: (212) 420-1249. ThroughJune 30.
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C"lbrat'ng
Wom,n, lI'phcitography
exhibition. Alavi will be pr~senting her.'
poster, "Her" Erection at the reception.
119 W. 57th SI., suite 420. Mo-Sa from
12-6:~0 pm. Reception:, May 7 from5:30-8 pm. Info; (212) 757-8651.
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wit and good looks. Then it's on to the meat, of the" matter on Sunday at 1,2:30 pm when the 22nd 'ANNUAL LESBIAN AND
GAY PRIDE MARCH. kicks.,'- off from Columbus 'Circle arid he,ads down Fifth
Avenue to Greenwich Village, where the biggest,queerest, sausage-hawkingest little street festival will
already be in progress, Buy T-shirtsl Stand Should!:lrto-shoulder with complete strangersl. Cruise cute
girlS and boys I Pick them up and head west to theCbristopher Street Pier at 4 pm for DANCE FIVE, theworld's'large.st outdoor danc!! party. Conga until 9:30.
pm, when , sex-arid-rock-and-r611 goddess Nona
Hendryx grabs ~he stage, Then on to 'the many afterthe-dance dances scattered below Fourteenth Street.
And for Chrissakes, T~ke Monday off. Tell your boss·
it's, a holiday, We are,,,•

THE CARNEGIEHALL,MUSEUM presenIBiIB Inaugural ExhIbition, f~turing mel'(1orbilia of gay Russian composer Peter
IIyleh Tchalkonky, Included in the exhibition are pages from Tchaikovsky's origi- ,nal manuscripts,
some of his diaries and,letters, and letters to him. 881 Seventh
Ave., at 57th Streel 11 am to 4 pm. Info:,(212) 903'9750. Through June 30. '9thS't" between. Second and Third
avenues. Th-Sa at 8:30 pm and Su at
7:30 pm. Reservatio!1s)212) 689-9357.
Through June 30.
THE CLUB -AT LA MAMA E.T.C. presenl1
the FllrlaUon.;"the , WfHld's mOlt
famous openly gay, politically active gay!llen's a cappella signing quintet" $12.
74A E. 4th SI. Th-Su at 10 pm.
Reservations: (212) 475-7710. ThroughJune 30,.
CLUB TROCADEROpresents Four on the
Floor in an evening of comedy and silly
music honoring Gay Pride. Four on the
Floor are Heldo 0., Lynda Lyday, SUllnaGalardi and Michele Balan. $10
two-drinkminimum. Cucina Della
Fontana. 368 Bleecker St., at Charles
Streel Fr and Sa'at 8,and 10 pm, and,Su.
1It7
pm. Reservations: (212) 242-0~36,,
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WILD PLUM GALLERY presenIB NatuI'I1
photog(aphs by the late
Bob Keane. Proceeds will benefit thePeopls'With AIDS HealthGroup. Madison,
Sl Sag Harbor, Long leland. Recsption:
June 2 from 5-7 pm. Daily hours: 11 am
to 6 pm. Info: (516) 725-2969. June, 22
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Robert Patrick'. fb, H.unt,d ,Holl andHarvey Rerateln'l Sat, Su, Directed by
ErlcConcklln,"Starring Harvey Flerateln
and,Ja.on Wortlman (The Haunted Host..
only). ,The Haunted Host, written and sel,•, THE H,ELL'S ,KITCHEN AIDS PROJECT
in 1964, tellslhe story of a'"Greenwjch
Village playwright haunted by the ghost
presents C",br.tlon,
01L/~', an art
exhibi~ by People With AIDS. The Adamof his young protege when the dead
Clayton Powell, Jr. State Office Building. ' man's double walks i'1to his life:'
163 W, 125th ,SI. Mo-Fr from 9-5 pm . , $1'8.50/$22.50/$27.50
on We and Thand.
,Through June 30.
$22.50/$27.50/$32.50 on weekends. 100,
Seventh Ave. S. We and Th at 8 pm, Fr at
BLUE PEACH PRODUCTIONS presents
8 and 11 pm, Sa at 7 and 10 pm and Su
Aaron Mack Schloff'1 fb, Shard Stoty, at 3:30 and 7:30 pm. Reservations: -(212)"a multigeneration-patriarchydisaster
6g1-6226 or (212) 564-8038. Throughsaga and a comedy." $10. The Pelican
July 14.
Studio Theatre" 750 Eighth Ave., at 46th
,St. We-Sa at 8:30pm, with additional
THE ,CENTERpresents Naw Yortlln June,a history of the lesbian and gay pride
performances Th and Fra\.6 pm, and Su,
at 3 and 7:30 pm. Res,ervations: (212)march.
The show includes banners, plae,595-94;3.
ards, flyers, posters, costumes, organizational records, various other documents
and memorabilia. 208 W. 13th SI. Info:
THE PLAYGROUND THEATRE presents
Carl Wallon'. Jut Oaw'. P.aradl".
(212) 620-7310. Through Julyj19.
Directed by John Morace. Staring Elmer
Lang, David
Huberman, Pierre Brulatour
VILLAGE PRODUCTIONS presents Our,
and Marlu
Townlhend.
Set in a
Town (0 Sappho, 0 W'IIdel part 2).
"tawdry" bar in Chicago's uptown, andFeaturing the work of Keith Angora, Kevinfeaturing a a cast of "marginal caharacBrofsky, Janis Astor del Valle, Barbara
ters," including the Bardman, Betty
Kahn, Ai Luongo, Carol Polcovar, Walter
the Drag Queen, and Harry the HerVeasy and Raven Hall. Directed by Sethmaphrodite.
$8 or TDF plus $2. 230 E.
Gordon. Performed' by April Dawnr"/.. ~":'" .""

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Ston~wa'lllnn (formerly New Jimmy's)presents,
Extraordinary
Women,afab
photoexhibitof "the,most glamorous" transvestites a~d transsexuals of
New York and Amsterdam by artist Remsen Wolff,
Ston!lwallinn
ownerJimmy
pisano remarked,"Transvestites, tran~sexiJals, gays and lesbians
stood shoulder-to-shoulder here, so it's appropriate
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week to catch PrinnyAlavi photography exhibition,
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and, other sensual works, 119 W. 57th St., suite 420, 'Monday through Saturday from nool1"'to 6:30 pm,,', (212) 757-8651, Through June 30.

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Joanna Joseph, Alan Lang, Marlean,neMerjngolo and Mark Spina.$10 plus a
two-drink minimum. The Duplex. 61
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presents Jame~ Chapman's Our Young
Bluk M.n, Are Dying IInti Nobody
present Allee Auslen: The Larky Lit ••S"m, toa .look at some of .'those.From ,her blo, Alice Austen sounds likemen whose lives and deaths are reflected ,the Gertrude Stein of Staten Island. Visitin drug-abuse, crime, pOlice-brutality,'her house, now a museum, and see plcalcoholism, poverty and AIDS statistics.
tures that she took of upper middle elas.'$20.500 Greenwich st, suite 201. Th-'sa ,men and women. 2 Hylan Blvd. Staten
at 8 pm and Su at 3 pm. Reservations:
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world's most famous. Th.!l Flirations, "the.
openly gaYi politically active gay men's a cappellasinging
quintet" will .be,at La Mama through the end.
\'of the week. They're reportedly not only goldenvoiced but silver-tongued as' well, sodol1't be surprised if they ask you for a date. From the, stage, 74A
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\'Goodman~s photographs entitled Essence of Family,
Pictures of Pride, The subject? You guessed it, pride,
61 Christopher St. (212) 255-5438, Through Sept. 2, ..
,,'I love New York in'June; How 'bout you? After
trekking around the Village and dancing your dogs
off, don't forget to stop by the Lesbian and Gay
Community Services Center's new National Museumof Lesbian and Gay History for its "New York in
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John GII!'el' Body lind Soul, a new gay
romantic cOl)1edy asking the question"'What do you do when the love pf yourlife returns-andyou wish he hadn't?"
Performed by DavId. Boldl, Eddie Cobb,
Randall 'Denman, Dougln Glblon andMarlin Oulzan. $20,,39 Grove SI., at
Bleecke,r Street We-fr at 8 pm, Sa at 6
and 9 pm and Su at 7 pm. Reservations:(212) 869-3530.

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Federman's creative adaptation of threeplays by'SamuII
Backlit;entitled,
SlImu.' B.ckett " Mut,
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167 LUdlow st Reservations: (212) 420·
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THE WPA ,THEATRE presents R.d Sell"on SunlIt, a new play by and starring
CharI IS Busch. creator of Vampire
Lesbians of·Sodom and Psycho Beach
Party. Directed by Kennllh 'Ellloll.
Starrdng R'alph Buckley, Roy Cockrum,
Andy Halliday, JuUe Hal,ton, Mark
Hamilton,
JudithHanlin,Arnie'Kolodner. 519 W. 23rd St Tu-Th at 8 pm
and Su at 7:30 pm-$22, Fr and Sa at 8pm and Su a,t3 pm-$26. Reservations:(212) 206-0523.
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THEATER BY THE BLIND presents TIIII.,cI Soli by Lanford -Wilson. Theater Off ,Park, 224 Waverly Place between Perryand West 11th Streets; through June 30.
Tu-'sa, at 8. Matinees Sa at 2:30 and 'Su at
3. Reservations: (212) 279'4200. 'STONEWALL INN presents Remsen. w'olH's photographic exhibition,
Extraordlnllry Wom.n, a loving look at.
",some of the glamorous transvestites andtranssexuals of New York arid,__--I Amsterdam. 53 Christopher St ThroughBLUE
AN,GEL THEATER
presents
June 30,,,
PlIg'lInt, New York's nightly, audienee,
ART IN GENERAL presenlll Among GDod
Ilarticipation, !l1usical beauty contest.
$50 includes show and dinner, $30 for
Chrillian PlOpl", a video/photo installashow only on Tu-Th/$32.50 for showtion by artists Calherlne Saaln,ld,
Jacqueline Woodlon , and Jocelyn
only on Fr-Su, 323 W 44th SI. '(u-Fr at
8:30 pm, Sa at 7:30 and 10:30 pm 'and
Taylor. An examination of church dogma,
su~t 3:30'and 7:30 pm, Reservations:
as it relates to queere. 79 Walker SI. Info:'(212) 262-3333.
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Gall S.
Goodman's E".nc. 01Fllmlly, Plctur"o'-Prld" an art display of 47 glassframed photographs taken duriOg various,,
gay and lesbian pride events held in New
Yor~ City between June 1989 and Juoe
199p. 61 Christop{ler St Info: (212) 2555438. Through sept 2.

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tries to 'help Wi~his 8O'n.'sgay relation'ships whM looking for a new wife. 38
Commerce St $22.50-$32.50.
Tu..,fr al8.
,PI)1, Sa at 7 and 10 pm, Su at 3 and 7:30
pm. Falher's Day Special: (212) 989:
2020.'

CHERRY LANE THEATRE presents DavId
51IVelll' 171.Sum of U" Starring Robert
LansIng and Malt Salinger. Directed by
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THE LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITYSERVICESCENTERpresents N.w Yo~, In Jun.; A Hillory 01th. L"bliln 1If/d,,
Gil' Pride March. Banners, fliere,~posters, and 'other tchotchkes of historical Import. 208,w.13th Stlnfo: (212)620-7310.
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Parry. Mayor David Dinkins and Manhatlall
Borough President Ruth Messinger join agalaxy of glittering community notables,
including the Lavender Light GOllpl Choir,
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DlSlJIlCT OF SOUTH BEACH. AND DIRECTlY ACROSS FROM lliE OCEAN. OFFERS
OVER 60 BEAUTIFUL ART DECO ROOMS Willi COLOR:TV. AIR CONDITIONING AND
PRIVATE TELEPHONES.
OUR FUll SERVICE RESTAURANT. BAR AND SIDEWALK CAFE IS OPEN FROM 8:00 1N.
TO t.tDNIGHT WIllIlliE t.mT SPECTACULAR VIEW OF OUR OCEAN PLAYGROUND,)FOR ROO.VA1lOHS CAll: 1..a00.395-B£A0I

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C-D-E-F-Gay, a one-night stand comdedy
event written and performed by Bill•
Graber. 74-A E, 4th ,St $10, at 8.

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New York's favorite gay comedy trio. W.
78th St. and Broadway, at 8. Info: (212)595-0850.
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GAY MEN OF THE BRONX Dilcallion
and Rap S.. llon. Topic: Being Gay In the
Bronx. 1 Fordham Plaza, suite 800. 6-8
pm. Info: Rusty at (212) 293-6042,

AIDS CENTER OF QUEENS COUN1Y presents Client Orientation Meeting. ACQC.
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS presents a
97-45 Queens Blvd., suite 1220.
Rego,
Park, NY. 6:3(H!:30 pm. Info: (718) 896Health Seminar: Medical Treatment •.
. 1?9 W. 20th 51., third floor. 7 pm. For
2500.
more Information, 'call the GMHC hotlineat (212) 807-6655. TOO (212) 645-7470
GAY ACTIVIST ALLIANCE IN MORRIS•
for the hearing impaired;
COUN1Y presents Womyn's Network andMen's Rap Group at 7:30 pm, before,•
THE LESBIANS IN THE CREATIVE ARTS
their General Millingat 8:30 pm.
GROUP of the GAY AND LESBIAN COMTonight's topic: 'Gay and SmilingTh rough 33 Years of Activism." Barbara
MUN,I1Y .GENTERpresent an Arts Showconsisting of comeqiennes, poete, sign·Gittings, founderof the New York chapter,
ers, dancers and- a play. Highlight8of Daughters of Bilitis, discusses activist
includecomedienne
SUzann.
in the early days of the lesbian .and gay
WeatenhoeHer; Scotch and,Milk. a playrights movement 21 Normandy Heights,
poet Eleanor
Rd. MOrristown, NJ. Info: GAAMC Gay. by Mary Yasllladea;
L.vlne; P98t Merced .. Rolle; folk singer
Helpline: (201) ,285-1595.
H,lIary Kay;, danc~rs
Leah iUvira,.
ACT UP General Me~lng. Cooper Union.
Maryanne Stewart, and Heath.r Flnby; ,and photographer Prlnny AlavI. $5. The
Fourth Avenue at 7th Street. 7:30 pm.
Center, 208 W. 13th 51. 7-9 pm; Info:
Info: (212) 564-AIDS.
Cindy at (212) 696-3975.
ONE DREAM THEATRE presents two one..;.
LESBIANS AND GAY MEN OF NEW
act monologues: Th. Impollibl. H.art.
written and performed by Brenda
BRUNSWICK pr~sent Annual Gay andVeager, and Lett." to Michael, written
Lesbian Pride Night. Bring yourmusical,and poetic talents. Friend's Meetingand performed by David Mager. $7. 232
House. 109 Nichol Ave. New Brunswick,
Weet Broadway, at North Moore Street.
9:30 pm. [See June 25]
NJ. 8 pm. Info: (90!1) 247-0515.
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together with another? Nothing short of fabulous~ness.
So don't miss the collaborative work of artists,
Jacqueline Woodson, Catherine Saalfield and.
'Jocelyn Taylor in a video/photographic installation.
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"Among Good Christian Peoples currr-ntly on show at
Art in General, 79 Walker St. (212). 219-0473, Until
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and Paddle Anoclallon Party. 28 Ninth
Ave., downstairs, between 13th and 14th
streets, 8 pm to 3~., (212) 733-3144.

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GeneralMembershIp MellIng. All interested persons invited. The Center. 208 W. 13th Sl
8 pm. Info: (212) 691-1774.

TUESD~t,dUNE 25

SOUTHERNERS presents a Worklnl
EvenIng lor Pride Day. The Center. 208
W. 13th SI. 8 pm. Info: the Southerners
Hotline at (212) 674-8073.
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Wondered what Miss.' America does after the songends, the curtain falls, and she kicks off her heels
and slips out of her one-piece beach wear? Wished
you had entered a Miss Teen Universe Pageant 20
years ago, when you were still eligib'le and your buns
hadn't begun to sag? Then rush over to the BlueAngel Theater, where audience's participate nightly in
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ALAN HERTZBERG in conjunction with
THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY,MEDIA NETWORK and THE AMERICANCIVIL LIBERTIES UNION LESBIAN AND
GAY PROJECT 'presents Pride and
PreJudice, a film and lecture series onhomosexuality.'Today's
topic: "Sissy'
Eastern Writers.' Film: James Baldwin:
The Price of the Ticket. Moderator:
PatrIck
Merta, former editor of the New,
York Native. Panel: MIchael Danneny,senior editor, St. Martin's Press; SInh
Mlchaaal Rlher, poet and co-founder ofBlack and White Men Together; Gabby
Hau from RFD magazine; Donald
VIning, autobiographer and publisherand
Doric Wilson, playwright Donnell library
Cen'ter Auditorium.
20 W. 53rd St.
2:3(µ,j:3O pm. [See June 26-29]

GIRL SCOUT INTERNATIONAL present8
Club des Femmes, a women's party. $6.
The Grolier. 29 E. 32nd St, between Parkand Madison avenues. 9 pm. Info: (212)679-2932.
,,ONE DREAM THEATRE presente two oneact monologues: Th. ImpDlllbl. H8IIrt.
written and performed
by Brendl'
Veag.r, and Lltt." tD Mlch"I, written
and performed by David Mager, $7. 232
West Broadway, at North 'Moore Street.
9:30 pm. [See June 24]
THE EAGLE presents Out In th. "6.
Night. A portion of the bar proceeds will

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includes, Pageant (the one-of-a-kjnd show) and, dinner. 323 W. 44th St. Tuesday through Friday at
8:30 pm, Saturdays at 7:30 pm and 10:30 pin andSundays at 3:30 pmand 7:30 pm; Reservations:,(212) 262-3333'.

benefit GBS and Outin the '90s. The
Eagle. 142 Eleventh Ave., at 21st Street
10 pm. Info: (212) 691-8'l51.
CELLBLOCK 28 presents Rlk McShane
Pump Plrty. 28 Ninth Ave., downstairs,
between 13th and 14th streets. 8 pm to 3
am. (212) 733-3144.

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Lesbian nuns, ~tigmata. The ~panish Inquisition.
,. Car,men Maura. You dug it at the New Festival, now
catch Miguel Picazo's Extramuios at the Cinema
Village on Third Avenue. 'lOAtale 01 spiritual and sensual love, deception and intrigue behind the walls ofa 16th cent'ury 'convent." 100 Third Ave at 13th St.
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THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY,MEDIA NElWORK and THE AMERICANCIVIL LIBERTIES UNION LESBIAN AND
GAY PROJECT presents, Pride Ind
Pr'Judlce, a film and, lecture series onhomosexuality. Today's topic: ·Coming
Out Post-Stonewall" Film: Word
, Is Out
Moderator: Florlnce Volkman Plncu,
clinical psycholagist. Panel: Dionne
Freeney, YES,the Center; and Dr. Hlrold
Kooden, psychologist; Betty Powell,Black lesbian feminist, educator andactivist.
Donnell Library Center
Auditorium.·20 W. 53rd St 3-6 pm. [SeeJune 25, 27-29],SAGE presents Frlldom,
Glorious
Fr.. dom, a talk by Fr. John McNeill,
noted moral theologian, gay activist andauthor, The Center,208 W. 13th St 8 pm.
Info: (212) 741-2247.
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Martlnlz, Jutln Gocka and Frink
Runylon from Santa Sarbara; Kathleen
Wlddoll; Elizabeth Hubbard, Marl,
Masters, LIsa Brown and Keith Douglls
Pruitt from As, the World Turns; LInda
Dina from Another World, Todd McKie,
Hunter Tylo and Darlene Conley fromThe Bold and the Beautifut, Charloll,
Ross from Days of Our Lives; William
Christian from All My Children. Jam ..
R,ynolds from Generations; Kristoff St
John from The Young and the Restless;Mlchall Zaslow, Fra .. Dlcopoulas, Jean
Clrol, Maur .. n Garrett a,nd Ashl.yP,ldon from Guiding Light. Special
appearances by Edward Alner, Dr, Ruth
Westhelm.r and Joy ,Behar. Open bar,hQrs d'oeuvers and dancing. There will
also be an auction. $75. 151 ,E. 50th St
8:30 pm. Tickets: Paula Campbell at
AmFARat (212) 719-0033,•

NADA presents Gay Nation, a band featuring Chris Cochrane and Scan Hlron,in a performance entitled The Gay Nation
Revue. The revue will feature a revolving
list of guest musicians and perfQrmers,
in,lcuding ,Dancinolll,
Kathy Danger,
Richard Elovlch, Jen Green, Almon
GrImstead and LInda Austin. $7. 167
Ludlow St. 10 pm. Reservations: (212)42G-1466.
THE EAGLE presents,

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Women's Support
Group. $3 donation. The Center. 208 W.
13th St6:30-8 pm. Info: (212) 459-4784.
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OPEN CIRCLE presents Cilibrati
thl
God/dill. Please arrive early, as the ritual begins promptly, and pelase bringpercuSsioninstruments. $2 donation. The
Center.208 W. 13th St 7-7:30 pm.

CELLBLOCK 28 presents Hot Ash.. 28
Ninth Ave., downstairs,
between 13th 'and,
14th streets. 8 pm to.3 ani. (212) 7333144.

142 EleventhAve., at 21st Street 1,1pm.
(212) 691-8451.
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Center.208 W. 13th St 8 pm. Info: (212)727-9878.

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palette remains
unpiqued, just hold on till the steamy..
. days of July, when nude pictures of Madonna are
rumored to be scheduled for an appearance at theMuseum of Modern Art. A picture's worth a thousand words. And
you said that art couldn'·t imitate,,life, ..,THE THIRD ANNUAL BRONX AIDSFORUM presents Treat",lnt ChoIces:
Being an Informed Consumer. The program hopes to update,service providers,
advocates and consumers regarding curTHE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN IDENTITY
rent HIV and AIDS treatment options andpresen~ Outing Versus ComIng Out lb,
to ideotify service gaps, barriers to care
Polltlcallnd Psychologicalldlnllly;aand strategies to alleviate these problems. Workshops include: ·Pediatric/
panel discussion featuring BlYerly,
Decker, Dr. MlrJorle Hili, Gabrlll
Adolescent AIDS Treatment Modalities,'·Clinical Trials,' ·Altemative Treatments,'
Rot.1l0, Charle. SIIVlm.ln and Pedro
Velasquez. The Center. 208 W. 13th St'·HIV Treatment and Its Interaction With
8-10 pm. Info: (212) 799-9432~
Other Drugs: ·Access/Barriers
toTreatment· and ·Nutrition Information. and Choice·.· $12. Bronx Community
TATOU presents Mlchul Fairman'sD,ytlm, Car,,: A Shall of Supporl: aCollege. Gould Memorial Librarybenefit for the 'American Foundation for
Rotunda. Unver8ity Avenue and WestAIDS Research. Hosted by Sally JIIsy
181st Street. 8 am to 4:30 pm. Info:
Raphael. Featured performers include
Bronx, AIDS Services at (212) 295-5598,
FlnolaHugh..
,and Klmblrly
McCullough from As the World Turns; A.
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INTEGRAL YOGA INSTITUTE presents
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Street,.
Halha Yoga Clall. Hatha Yoga refers,topm. Info:
TIONS present An Evening ill Lpve and
GAY PROJECT presents PrIde and , and Sheridan Square. 6:30,
- the physical postures. deep felaxatlon .
(718) 441-4105.
Dancing. With candle,light. a,greenhouse~reJudlce, a film and le.cture series onIand breathing practices which revitalize
and a roof /leek. Hosted by Dallon, 'homosexuality, Today's topic: "Where, Do•,/
and strengthen the body and calm the,We Go From Here?: Plannng Gay Lib for
CONFERENCEFOR CATHOLICLESBIANS Wilson. Koumbaya is, a cultural center.
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presents lbe Place of catholic L.. blana,the ,19~Os." Film: Ttle Times of Harvey
and performance space for lesbians aQd mind. This class is especially for those ,Milk. ,Moderator: Oayld Rothenberg, gay , In the Hlatory of Ihe ~hurch, and In thewhci are HIV-positive. IYI. 227 W. 13th
gay men of African heritage. $5. 117 W.
activist and radio commentator, Panel:
St12-1:30 pm, (212) 929-0586.
Lesbian Community, a apecial prid~
26th St., between Sixth and Seventhmonth version of their monthly ,meeting. ' avenues. 10 pm until sunrise.
Rlchird Bums, executive director of the,, Lesbiim and Gay Community Services
ALAN HERTZBERG in .conjunction
with
The Center, 208 W. 13th St., at 6. Info:..
.,(718) 680-6107.
THE COLUMBIA PEP BOYS present the, THE NEW, YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY,
Center; Jam .. Cradle, Men of All Colors
Together; Dr. MarjorIe
Hili, director of. I
Second Annual Gay and L8Iblan Pride
MEDIA NETWORK and THE AMERICAN,
the Mayor's Office for the Gay andCenter. Columbia ,CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION LESBIAN AND
THE AMERICAN
CIVIL
LIBERTIES UNION Dance, a benefit·forthe.
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LESBIAN AND GAY PROJECT, AIVF,
University Earl Hall: Broadway at 116th) ,GAY PROJECT presents Pride and. ..\"MEDIA NETWORK AND THE NEW YORKS~ 10 pm.
' PreJudice, a film and lectu~,e series on
RuJllilisteln, ACLU Lesbian and Gay
homosexuality. Today's topic: "Toward
Donnell. . Library , Center
FI,LM AND VIDEO COUNCIL present•,Project.
, a
Maintaining an Independent Lesbian
Auditorium. 20 W. 53rd St. 12:3~3:30
Media Symposium asking the question,
THE NETWORK OF GAY AND LESBIAN
Identity,: 'Film: 'Women Like Us.
,pm. [see June 25-2~, 28-29]• , "Now that the community is under attack,
ALUMNAE present a Party benefitting,
Moderator: Join Nastle, co-,founder of
what'kind of product ia necessary?"
Net-GALA' Featuring a screening of One,
the Lesbian Herstory Archives, writer andNation Under God, a documentary on
DIGNITY/NEW YORK presents a Gay
Diaeussants Include, Allredo B,Jar, film,
PrllIl'Reflactlon. The evening includes afundamentalist groups trying to "cure" ' •activist. Panel: Candice Boyce, Africanmaker,. Latino Collaborative;'Don
pr.ayer service and religious commemoAmerican Wimmin Unitedfor Societal
Deroaby, executive director 01 the Media . homosexuals. The party is open to all.
,,, 'Change; Morgan Gwenwald, pho~ograration, but is not Catholic mass. Church
Network, Ada Gay Grlllen, Third World$10/$5 for students, and recent gradu\".'.
of St John. West 11th Str8j!t a1Waverly." Newsreel, Alan Hertzberg, gay activist,
pher and activist; Ann ,Kwong, Asian
ates. The Limelight Sixth Avenue af 20th
, 7:30 pm. Info: (212) 662-9088. ,,producer
andvideomaker,
Jame'
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Lesbians of the East Coast;, and Muriel
Street. 10:30 pm. Info: Laurie at (718).
,858-7190.',
gay'Asianactivist, Marie Ne.thui, head
Miguel, ~piderwoman Theatre. The,
QUEER NATION Weakly Milling. The , of ~e Dpnnell Library Media Center, Hye" Center.
208 W. 13th
St. 3-6' pm., [See',,,I
Center. 208 W. 13th.St. 7:30 pm, Info:
Jung 'Park. dir~ctor 01 Downtown
SPIKE-E. presents Pleasure Planet toJune 25-28](212) 9788-8720.
Community lV, John' Rowe, president 'ofhelp kick o{ Gay Pride Weekend, Themed
the New York Film and Video Council, , "Reinventing the meaning of love," (tharsNORTH
AMERICAN MAN/BOY LOVE,.
JULI µS' p-resents Foot Friends Bar
John. Scagnottl, executive producer 01 Coct~au, by the way); the party will fea- ASSOCIATION presents an OpenNight, for men into b'are feet, socks,
Before Stonewall; Gr.ta Schiller, filmReception. Panna II Restaurant. 93 Rrst
ture OJ's John Hall ;IIld Aldo Hernandez.
sneakers, shoes and boots, 159 W. 10thofmaker; Su.ail Slone ShapIro, indepenAve., betWeen5th and 6th streets. 5-7:30
RuPaul will be performing in Retum,
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St~r Booty. The Sound Factory will be
pm. Info: (212) 807-8578.
dent producer, ,NFLCP;Chu,k
She~ood,,,(212) 675-7352.
executive director, Cape Cod Community
servingalcoholat
this
partY.
$20/$15.
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TV, NFLC'P, Ellen Spiro, vide'omaker,
The Sound Factory. 530 W., ,27th St. 11
PARTICULAR·PRODUCTIONS presents a,"-FRI,DAY, .JUNE ,28
pm t09 am.
Marc We'u, executive produc~r of Point
Lllblan Pride Concert, featuring Jamie, Info: (212) 260-3701.
,
of View and,Deborah Zimmerman ofAnderson,Allx Dobkin. with Mane and,
ALAN HERTZBERG in conjunction with
Women Make Movies. $f Downtown
SATURDAY, .JUNE, 29
Marina. Also scheduled: the Le.blan
THE NEW YORK PUBLIc LIBRARY, , Community TV, 82 Lafayette St., twoCountry LIne Dancers. $15, The Center.
, MEDIA NETWORK and THE AMERI,CAN blocks south of Canal Street 7-10 pm.,
HERITAGE OF 'PRIDE presents Here208 W. 13th St 7:30 and 9:30 pm. Info:..
, CIVIL LIBERTIESUNION LESBIAN AND.
Wlthoui Faar, the one arid only LESBIAN(718) 643-3284 •.
,GAY PROJECT presents PrIde .and
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR,LESBIANS pre- , AND GAYPRIDE RALLY.Keynote speakers,
PraJllIllc'e,
a film and lecture series onsenm a Le.blan Pride Party; the perfectare Larry Kram'er and Sandra Lowe.
KOUMBAYAand FUEGOpresent an Aller,
hom'osexualiiy. Today's topic: "Aging andthe Rally Dance lor Women, featuring
way to start Gay Pride Weekend. Bring
Entertainment and other speakers include
the Homosexual CommunityJ
Film:,
Dart Slar ,Craw,lb, Rlrlatloni, ' ,Plitt, I,
House and reggae music, candlelight, a>snacks, ~everage8 and music. 7:30 pm.
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Bumln,', own JennIe
L1v1ngl.oil,
Reno,
Please call 24 in advance for all SAL
greenhouseand a roof de~k. Surprtse,
Kochman, executive
director of SAilE.
Frank Maya, Cry.lal Water •. WOMEN
activities: (718) 965-7578. lguest performers will be appea~ng' from,'
Panel: Geny Fal,r,' SAGE; MarllnABOUTpresents Si:ouU,ng.
For more info or
Wa81ilngton, DC. Hosted- by ' MOl,.
Duberman, historian; RIchard Plant, histHE NEW YORK CITY
to join Women About, call (212) 642'5257.
Gonzalez.
Hlldliy
and Dealr ...
.. GAY MEN'S CHO,
,torian; and Dnls Plall, activist,. The
RUS and theDENVER WOMEN'SQHOo
Koumbaya Is a cultural center and perfor'
Center. 208 W. 13th St.2-5 pm. [SeeYORK presents
mance space ,for lesliiarls and gay men of
RUS present Diversity, a joint concert. ..... FRONTRUNNERSINEW'.
J~ne25-27, 29]
its Tenth Annlveraary Gay Pride Run. Irs
Under the direction of Gary Miller andAfrican heritage. $5. 117 W. 26th St..
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Dibble Kenyon, the two groups will sing. of Central Park. between Sixth and Seventh avenues. 8•
YOUTH ENRICHMENr SERVICES preboth together and separately. $1Q-$50,$8. Check in at the International Runningpm.
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Alice Tully Hall. Lincoln Center. Broadway
Center.
9 E. 89th St 7:30-9 pm, The run,
Celeb rail on. The Center. 208 W. 13t St
at 66th St. 8 pin. Reservations: (212)
begins at 9:30 pm. Info: (212) 724-9700.
WOMEN AND FRIENDS present their,,
6-10 pm. Info: Dionne Freeney at (212).., Flnt Lublan PrIde Danca. $10/$15.
874-6nO. [~ee June 29] ,620-7310.
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GI RTH AND MI RTH presents its very
Borough of Manhattan Community•..
INTEGRITY pre8ents its ,Northeast
own gay pride benefit, an annual party
College. 199 Chambers S,1.8 pm. Info:,
THE CHRISTOPHER STREET FESTiVALRegIonal Convention. Opening reception
to benefit an AIDS service organization.
(212) 620-7310.
COMMimE present8 the SllIh Annual
and full day of workshops. ,Even~s run
Buffet dinner and dancing. The Center,,
Candlenght Mlrch, to honor the deadthrougb June 30th. St. Luke-in-the-Reld8 208 W. 13th 51. $10 members/$12 non- THE NEW YORK CITY GAY MEN'S CHOand 8upport the living. The parade begina
Church, at Hudson and Christopher Streets.
RUS and the DENVER WOMEN'S CHOmembers. 8:30 pm-l am. Info: (914)
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Out Lod and Proud. Look for them at the New,.
Brunswick train station at 9:54 am.lnlo: (908).. 247~15.
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The Hangout (J's) 679 Hudson ' St,242-9272, WOMEN ABOUT presents Pride March Brunch, Fruit andbagels provided. Central Park West at 72nd St under the
Women About banner, 10:30 am. For more info or to join
Women About, call (212) 642-5257.

Barbary Coast, 64 Seventh Ave. (14th St.) 675-0385
The Break, 232 Eighth Ave, (22nd St.) 627-0072
Cellblock 28, 28 Nirrth Ave., 733-3144 (M-W)
Chelsea Transfer, 131 Eighth Ave. (bet 16th and17th) 929·7183 'Kelly's Village West. 46 Bedford St, 929-9322
Marie's Crisis, '59 Grove St, '243-9323

SLOPEACTlVIES FORLESBIANS marches lIut Loud and,proad. Join SAL's contingent in the march down Filth, Avenue: Look: lor them with th.e women's groups, ormeet at the 0 train entrance at Seventh Avenue and'
Aatbush at 11, am: Info: (718) 965-75780.,

Eagle's Nest, 142 Eleventh Ave. (21st St) 691-8451
Lavender and Lace, atthe Vault, 28 Ninth Ave.,
255·6758 (Fr, 7-11 pm andSu, 3-8 pm, women)
Private Eyes, 12 W. 21st St (bet Fifth and Sixth
avenues) 206-7770
Rawhide, 212 Eighth Ave., (21st St), unlisted ,Spike, 120 Eleventh Ave., 2'43-9688

The Monster, 80 Grove St (Seventh Ave.) 924-3558,
New Jimmy's 53 Christopher St., 463-0950
Ninth Circle, 139 W. '10th St, ib·9204
Reeds, 8 Christopher St., 675-7333
Sneakers, 392 West St., 242-9830
Two Potato, 145 Christoph!lr St., 242-9340
Ty's, 114 Christopher St., 741-9641 '

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8tteeet8 at 11:45 pm. '. West Village

WITCHES~ANDPAGANS FOR GAY RIGHTS marches Out
Loud'and!P,~oud. Meet them with the other religious
groups ne,ar Central Park West.and Columbus Circle.
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Uncle Charlie's, 56 Greenwich Ave., 255-8787',,

Boots , & Saddle, 76 Christopher St; 929·9684 'The Comeback Bar, ,507 West St., 242-2432
Crazy Nanny's 21 Seventh Ave. S., 366-6312(women)..

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Altar, 161 w: Broadway, 571-7272.
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Julius, 1.59W. 10th St., 929-9672•
Keller's, 384 West St/Christopher, 243-1907

Drs Fat Cat281 W. 12th St, 243-9041
Pandora's Box, 70 Grove St (Seventh Ave.) 242-'
1408 (women),
Dugout, 185 Christopher St., 242-9113,

Candle Bar,309 Amersterdam Ave., 874-9155
Cat's, 730 Eighth
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ilia Pride Live On 4, a multicultural
lesbian and gay pea- 1\,
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$10. 246 W. 14th St. Doors open Iro~ 6-10 pin only.
(212) 675-1567.
'·KOUMBAYA and PYRAMID PRODUCTIONS present an
Alter thl Plrade Party. ",Celebrate Gay Pride, womenWith women, men with men and Black love: With candle
light, a greenhouse and a rool deck. Hosted by Dallon
Will on, D.lli .. and' Hadley. Koumbaya is a cultural
center and performance space lor lesbians and gay 'men
01 Alrican heritage, 117 W, 26th St, between Sixth andSeventh avenues, 8 pm.
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CELLBLOCK 28 presents L.. blan and Gay Pride Day
Plrty. "A co-sexual event ior gay, straight. butch andlem into ..." 28 Ninth Ave" downstairs, between 13th and14th streets. 8 pm to 3 am. (212) 733-3144,
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biggest dance party lor· women, attracting them Irom allover the country, and will feature a guesi OJ, go-go, dancers and other surprises. $101$8. The Palladium, 126
E. t4th St, betwsen Third and Fourth avenues. 7 pm to 2
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360 W, 42nd St, (Ninth Ave,)967-0659, GIi~ts,, ~.
Sally's Hideaway, 264 W. 43rd St,221-9152
Town '& Country, Ninth Ave, at 45th St,307-1503
Trix, 246 W. 48th St, ( 664-8331
The Works,,428 Columb.us Ave. (at 81st), 799-7365(area code 718)
Breadstix, 113-24 Queens Blvd" Forest Hills,. 236-0300
Friend's Tavern, 78-11 Roosevelt Ave., Jackson
Heights,391-7256
Hatfield's, 126-10 Queens Blvd"Kew Gardens, 261- 'East Side

8484,

Bogart's, 320 E. 59th St, 688-8.534
Brandy's Pi~no Bar, 235 E, 84th St,650-1944
Club 58, 40 E. 58th St, J18-1546
G.H. Club, 353 E, 53rd St, 223-9752
Johnny's Pub, 123 E. 47th St,355-8714
NY Confidential, 306 E, 49th St,308-8390•
Rounds}303 , E. 53rd St, 593-0807
South Dakaota, 405 3rd Ave., (29th St) 684-8376
Star Sapphire,:tOO E. 59th St,688-4710
The Townhouse, 236 E. 58th St, 754-4649
Twenty-Nine Palms, 129 ,Lexington Ave., 686-8299

Hideaway,87-:36 Parsons Blvd., Jamaice,657-4885
Love Boat, 77-02 Broadway, Elmhurst, 29-8670
Magic Touch, 73-13 37th Rd" Jackson Heights,
429-8605

Queens,Station House
Pub,3547Merrick Rii,Seaford,
785-9ID-

I~Long Island
283-5001

Club Swamp, Disco/Annex Restaurant, Montauk
Crew's Quarters, 36 A.Pines Blvd., upstairs, Rre
Island,597-6873,:
Ice Palace, Cherry Grove Beach Club, Fire Island,_597-6600
Kiss, 161 Farmardie Dr., Lake Ronkonkoma, 487-9273
Club 608, 608 Sunrise Highway; W, Babylon, 661-9580 "Millennium, 1770 NewYork Ave,; Huntingdoni3511402
Sterz,836 Grand Blvd., Deer Park, 242-3857
Thunders, 894 Jericho Turnpike, Smithtown, 864-1410'(area code 914)
Playroom, 590 Nepperhan Ave., Yonkers, 965-6900
Stutz, 202 Westchester Ave., White Plains, 761-3100

East Village

Lqng Island

The Bar, 68 2nd Ave., (4th St) 674-9714 'Pyramid, 101 Ave. A; 420-1590
Tunnel Bar, 1161stAve., (7th St) 777-92Zl.

Nassau~•(area code 718)'
Aft!!r Five Plus, 5 Front St, 852-0139
Spectrum, 80,2 64th St, (Eighth Ave.), 745-9611
Sweet Sensations, 6322 20th St, 435-2580• ':tNew Jersey(area code 516)
Bedrock, 121 Woodfield Rd., West Hempstead,48&-9516 (women),
Blanche, 47-2 Boundary Ave., Farmingdale, 694-6906
Grand Central, 210 Merrick Rd., Rockville Centre,

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Hwy, Wainscott, 537-3332(area code 718)
'Sandcastie, 86 Mills Ave., 447-9365

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Cherry's, Bayview Walk, Cherry Grove, Fire Island,597-68Z0'

Staten Island
Westchester,.

Suffolk(area code 516)
419,419 North Highway (At 27), Southampton,,\(area code 201)
Charlie's West, 536 Main St, E. Orange, 678-5002
Feather's,77 Kinderkaniack Rd., River Edge, 342-0410
Friendly's, 6310 Park Ave" W, New YOrk, 854-9895'Excalibur, 10th a'nd Jefferson, Hoboken, 795-1023
Nite Lite, 509 22nd St, Union City,863-9515
Vibrations, 165 Cedar Lane, Teaneck, 836-5518
Yacht Club, 366 Berksire Valley Rd" Jefferson,,69?9780

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Pill Joey's, 2457 Jerus'illem Ave., N. Bellmore, 785-

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III&NSCounty Social. Seriveces Educa,lion" Buddi8JI' Counseling· aupport Groups Valu ...... Opportu~.
tiei'(718) 898-2500, (voice) (718)896-29II5(TPD),,"ACT UP (AIDS COAiJTION TO 'UNlJ:ASH POWER).. 498A Hudaon Street, Suite G4
NYC 10014 (212) 584.2437 A
diverse, non-partisan group ofindividuals united in anger and'committed to direct acti'on toend the AlPS cri.is, Gen; meet,ing. Mon. ni!lht. 7:30, in The
Grut Hall, Cooper Union, on
Cooper,Square between Astorand St Marks Place's. '.

ARCS (AlDS-RELATm
CiHmulitySarvi_)

for Dutchess, Orange, Putnam,
Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster andWestchester
counties. AIDS
education, client services, crisis
interv,entiol1, support 'groups,
case mimageme'nt, buddy andhospital visitor, pr!lgram. 214
CenlralAve., White Plains, NY
10608 ,(914',99;1-0608 838 Broadway, N,e,wburgh,NY 12250 (914)582-5005 AIDSline (914)993-

AFRICAN AMEIIICAN•WIMMIN UNITED FOR 'SOCIETAL CHANGE
Lesbian.'" Gay, Community Center 208West 13th Street, NY.,NY
Meeting everi Thursday 8:00 P.M'

AIDS RESOURCE CENTER (ARC),Supportive housing for,homelessPWAs (Bailey House andapartments). Non-judgmental
pastofal"carefor PWAs andlove~ ones. Volunteer opportunities. (212)481-1270,,,24 West
30th St, NYC 10001 'ALOEC/APlN-NY(Ksian Lesbians of the Ea,t
, Coa.t/Asian
Pacific Lesbian
Network-New York) We are a,political, social Ind supportive
n.twork of Asialf'Pacificlesbians. Planning meetings on the
1st Sundavandsocial eventson the last. Friday of eachmonth. Call (212)517-5598 formore information.
• AMERICAN GAYIlESBIAN ATH8STS
AGA. IncJ701 7th Avenue, Suits
8WINew York, New York 10038
A• non-profit,
educstional orga•~Izatlon dedicated ,to preservIng separation between state

BISEXUAL INFORMATION &COUNSEUNG SERVlCE.INC.
A professionally staffed, nonprofit organization for bisexu:.Is, their families and partners,
facing problems of,a psychological or medicillkind. We also
work with those in doubt about
their sexuality. Confiden\iality isprotected by law. For i,nformation'phcine:,,(212) 49&-9500'',
i, 81SEXUAL PRIDEDISCUSSION GROUP
Topical discussions on issues ofinterest'to the comm unity in acongenial
atmosphere,
followed by an informal din!)er at'a friendly local re~tauraht.
Every Sunday;, 3:00- 4:~Opm at.the Community Centsr 208 W. 13
Street, NYC. Part of the New
York Area Bisexual Network.

activities,
and up-to-datenational monthly, 'THE BODY
POSITIVE' ($25Iyear). (212)721, 1348. 209!! Broadway, Suite 308,
NY, 10023 ,',BROOKLYN'S lESBIAN AND 'GAYPOLITICAL CLUB LAMBDA
INDEPENDENt DEMOCRATS
l.I.D. e,ndorses and works forcandidates in local, state andnationalelections,lobbies'for
legislation, and conducts community, outreachll)rough street fairs andmsetings on special,topics. Join
us. 338 Nin1l1StL Suits 135 Brooklyn, NY11215 (718) 98&8482
CENTER FORANTI-VlOLENCE.

Teen HOTT-liNE for HealthlOlili
Monday,to ifhursdl!.y, 7pm to
9pm. At other times,-Ieave a message and we'lI call you backl..

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INmATIVE. NY (CRIi 'The Communiiy Research Ini- ,tiative of New York (·CRI NY· is"a' not-,for~profit, communit\(based center for AIDS and H.IVrelated clinical research.'C'r,eated in 1987 by people.w'ith "AIDS and their physicians, CRI
NY ,tests promising exp~riinental, trJatments
which many
restore or stab[lize immune _unction, and treatments
andpreventions for AIDS anp,HIVrelate,d opportunisticIl)fectlons.There is no changeforj
participationin CRI studies.,.Many laboratory
tests\and~physicals are provided fr!le of. charge to partici'pa'nts. Ch>ild 'care can also be provided. All 'Identifying information is kept"
confidential. Call (212)481-1050

EDUCAnOIWBROOKLYN',, WOMENS MARTiALARTS
anon-profit
organization teach.
ing self-defen,sa and karats for 17
ASIANS, , & FRIENDS- N Y
years. 5 week courses in selfA not-for-profit' organization'
defense for'women. C'ommunity
which promotss friendships withBISEXUAl WOMEN'S
workshops in self-defense. OngoSUPPORT GROUP
Asian/~acific Islander, Asiining classes in karate & tai chi for
American, and non-Asian gay
Discussion & CR Group meets
WomBn. Cou'rses & workshops inmen through abcial, cultural, eduevery 2nd & 4th Wednesday,
SD for lesbians & gay men. Slid,cational.-and s.ervice a.ctivitias
8:30 - 8:00 pm at the Community
ing fee scale ,according to, CONGREGATIONBETH
and programs. CalLour Hotline:
Center, 208 We'lit 13th Street,income.
Call
for
more
info.
718212-874-5838, or writs to: P.O.Box
Part of NYABN.
SlMCHATTOIiAH '783- 1n5. 411 5th Ave" Brooklyn,
8828, NY, NY 10163-6023.
NY's Gay and Lesbian SynaNY
11215.
gogue
Services
Friday at 8:30pm "BIWAYS NEW YORKc,..
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57 Bethun!l Street For info. call: 'Monthly social'events
for the(212) 92~949Ii.
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Bisexuar,corrmunity and frie,nds.
CIRCLEO~ MORE UGHT 'Publishes a quarterly Directory ofCall NYABNfor details of upcomSpiritual support and sharing in a',"
ing events. (212)45!H784
clinical trials of eXRerimental
gay/lesbian affirma.tive group.
CONGREGATION
AIDS/HIV treatmeots\in NY/NJ,, B'NAI JESHURUN, West-Park PresbYterian Church ',,185
West'86th
Strse~We'd:wor'
and Philadelphia, and has educaBIPAC (BISEXUAL POUTICAL 'Monthly Spiritual Gath~rinss and
ACTION COMMITTEE) ,tional matsrilils{ saminars for trial
ship service',8:30 plil, program
free catared fastiveluncheOlls for,,partiCipants. ATR al$o advocates
7-:!IJ. Ma rsha (212) 304-4373 ,Char- . all Pe'ople Wjth AIDS, lheir lovers 'Political action on issues "ffor improvements in the trial sysand,families, ~rogram includes
lie (212)!l9H118.
importance to the Bisexual/lesmusic and discussion led by our'tsm. 259 W. 30th St, 9th fl.; NYC,
bian/Gay communitY. Monthly
1!XX11.
(212) ~198.
PublicQtiGrn$ meeting! potluck held 8:00pm on"
Ra bbis. Call•"
COMMUNrTv COUNSEUNG. (212)787-7800,
free/donation requested.,, CENTER ,fourth Thursday of the month at,members homes'. Call,NYABN
Gay Affirmative Psychotherapy
DIGNITY-BIG APPLE,
for this mo,nth's location, ((212)
for Individuals, 'C9,uple~ andBAR ASSOCIATION FOR
A,community of Lesbian and Gay~784 '
Groups by licensed clinical
HUMAN RIGHTS
Catholics, Ac1ivities include litursocial workers andpsyc~oloLawYers Referral Servic!! for, giesand socials ev'e,;, ~at.', 8:00
gists.$pecial
experience e in ' pm, at the Center, 208 W. 13lI)e Lesbian and Gay Community, BISEXUALYOUTH
addictions, stress management,
Full R,nge of Legal Services
Strest;NYC.Call (212l al&:I300.
Infonnal ~ocial & support groupdepression, careeJ counseling,(212) 4~9-4873 Free Walk-in
for Bisexual kids/youth. Monthly
relationshipc'oncerns, AID,S
Legal Clinic, Tuesday 8-8 pm. . meeting/potluck
lunch held
DIGNITY NEW YORK
anili,ety and coming out issues'.
Lesbian and 'gay Catholics and' ,Lesbian & Gay Community
1:00pm on fourth "Sunday of the
Slidingfeescale.'
Insurance,
friends
AIDS Ministry, Spiritual'month at members homes. Call
Centro Ground Roor
accepted. Viliage'IQca,tion. For
Developm,ent The Cathedral ProNY ABN for this month's location.
jectWorship Services & SocialBIDS (BISEXUAL DOMINANCE
This group is psrt·ofllie New York ' ,immediate appointment, call 212,353'2888. A staff niember will
Sun. Eves. 7:3Opm-~ John's. Epis& SUBMISSION GROUP) ,Area Bisexual Network.
retuin your call within 24 hours.
copal Church 218 West 11th Street'i Share S/M ;experiences
and
BLUS-BRONX LESBIANS- @ Wave(1~7!>-2179
fantasies with others in a posiUNITEDIN slSTSIHOODCOMMUNn:Y HEALTHPROJECT 'tive, non-judgmental,atmo.
Is an acti,ve, visible, multicul-208
West 13th Street,. NYC;New DROP-iN COME OUT
sphere. 'First Sunday of the. RAP GROUPSYork 10011 For Appointments arid
month', 4:45pm at the Community . tur membership organization
For L.sbian,s and Bi •• xual
tha is addressing tha social
Informa~ion(tI2J" 875-3559
Center 208 W. 13 Street, NYC.
Woman. Fridays starting April, ..
(llYNoice)PROVIDING CARING,
This group is pa rt of the New ' and political needs of the Bronx
5th 8:30-8:30 p.m: ForGey andLesbian cbmmunity. Regular
SENSITIVE AND LOW COST
York Areil Bisexual'Network.
meetings, the 3rd Frf. 8:30-8 pm
HEALTHCARE SERVICESTOTHE , Bisexual Men. Saturd~ys start- '•ing April 8th, 11:30 a.m.-I :30 pm '@ 208 W. 13 th St. and the 2nd,
-LESBIAN'ANDGAYCOMMUNITYBIJOUX (THE BISEXUAL.
*$5.00 Donation Rap Group for
Wed, 8:3O;-8pm at One Fordham
JEWISH GATHERING)
L.. /lia.n and Bi-$exual WomenCOMMUNiTY HEALTH
Plaza, Bronx. Call, lisa 21~-~29Comel'Noshl Schmoozel
Meet,9817.(English) or Miriam 212over 4~lst $ 3ed Satµrday 8-8 ' I'PROJECr. HEALTH INRJRMAother Jewish bisexual (and,409-2692 (Spanish))p.m. *$5,00 Donation Rap Grqup'nON UNE foR THNS ' 'allies) and share your interests
for blbianand Hi-sexua,
at a ·shoW-llnd-tell.·SecondDp you have questions about, BODY POSITIVE
Woman Every Saturday.2:30Friday of aa ch month, 8pm atyour health? Your Body? Coming
5:00 p.m. *$5:00 Donation·Rap'f you or your lover has tested
The Community Center 208 West, Out? Safer Sex? Feelli~e you
Group for gay and Bi-Sexual
HIV+, we offer support groups,
13th Street, Part of ,the New
I,have no one to talk to? Not any
Men Every Sunday 2:3,0 - 5:00'
semina rs, publi c forums, referYork Area Bisexual Network. formorel No\y you can call themore info. Call (201)440'3902.
p,m. *$5:00 Dohation
ence'library,referrals, social
HOTT-lINE. 212-255-1517The
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ADULTSURVIVORS OF "SEXUAL ABUSE($ponlO,.d by SAGE)'
Mondays, 7:00 p.tn. to 8:30 p.m.
S~ge ~oom. a't the Center
Experimental lhera"Group
for Woman (Ag8jl 21 and up) to.upport the recovery process
and free you from the pain andsilence of S8xual,a~use.
In asale setting, we .hara f"aling',, devalop ralation.hips with innerchildren,and explore
and
rel8a~e beliefs aod patterns'that ,block
This re-inter.'. growth.
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asSISts' In'uncovering your self worth andinner strength. Paychothera-', pisti Joyce Z. Meyers, CSW.,
and Robbye Stuart-Russ,ell,
MA/facilitate the group,~-"'and church and upholding theci!Iil rights of Lesbian and Gay
Atheists: M~etings the,firsts
Sunday Community Center, 1 to
3 P.M. 'Dial" a' Gay 'Atheists(718)899-1737,24 hours.

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, ,Box 305 Village Station, New
York. ~Y 10014

FM every other Sunday, 7:308:30pm and,join us every Tuesday ,af 7:30pm to 9pm to bscome a',member of GLIB. No I\xparienceneeded. 505 Eight~ Avenue, NY,NY 10018 Attn: Outlooks or call
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bias within the Korean community. For more information call
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UniDn KNOW YOUR RIGHTSI.WE'RE EXPANDING THEM (212)944-9800; ext!i45 'HERITAGEOF PRIDE-INC.
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LAnNO GAY MEN OF NEW
bian and'GayPridll'8vents:the, AND GAY EXPERIMENTAL ,GAY" IlSBIAN,RLM fESTIVAL'
YOl!K(lGM /' NY)
March, th.e Rally and \he DanceHEALTHCONCEI!HSIs dedicated to consciousnesson the ,Pier. Call \(212) 691-1774
An office of the NYC~Dept. ofwill be held at Anthology Film in.
.,raising, education, support and,for muting schedule or,n;ora
Health, provides linkages betwn'September 1991. Submissions
empowerment
for Latino gay
LESBIAN" GAY TEACHERS
information.
208 West 13thl
NYC Health & Human Svcs, andwill be accepted until June 30.
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ASSOClAnONNYC
men. We a re inclusive of Latino
the lesbian & ,Gay/community,
Street,NY,NY 1001 t .'Please se!1d your 18 or Super - 8,
gay'men of all nationalities, col- , The lGTA has lieen in existence',pri!]ts or video transfer (only film 'focus,ing in All hea th concsrns;
sirice 1974, We promote theors and ages. We meet wQekly
for health
INSTmtrE , FOR LESBIAN AND. Will beahow at the festival) with ' 'rssource information,needs and rightS of Gay/lesbianand publish a monthly calenderservices
consumers
and
GAYVOUTH.
return postage to Jim Hubbar,
educators, students and par~of events. For'more information
providers. 125 Worth Street, BoxCounseling. drop-in'centar (M-F, 3503 Broadway, Rm 503, New
call (718) 834-8785, or write to I ents. We re currently in active, 87; New Yorle, NY 10013. For info
f$PI!l), rap groups, Harvey Milk
York, NY 10012 Early applicanegotiations with the Board of'
P.O. Box 7108 Grand Central
call (212) 568-4995.
,'
High School, AIDS/and safer sex
tiqns and premier~s will .be
Education conc~rning the multiStetion N.Y.,N.Y.10163.
information, referrals, prOf~onalgiven 'priority. Fo~ further info
cultural ~urriculum, sen.aitivity,
education. (212) 633-8920 (voice)plene call (212)925-5883.
'
GAYMALE siM ACTIVISTS,
trainingof gu'id,ance councllo'rs,
lAMBDA
lfGAL
DEm4SE(212) 633:8928 T1Yfordeaf.
ilsdicated, to safe and responSibis)'social workers, and teachers
AMI B)UCA1ION RJNDFRONT RU,.NERS' SIM sincs 1981. Opsn msstingsand many other issues. We also
Precedent-setting
litigation
A ru.nriing club for Is.s~!an a~d" ~/prog~am$ 'onS~~ tschniqu~s, . · HISPANIC UNITED GAYS" LEshave a friendly working relation-nationwide forlesbians, gay
ga,y athletos of all a,bllities. funlifestyle ISSUes,pohbcalan~ social
BIANS',,'
ship with the U.F.T. For moremen and p~ople with AIDS~
Educational services, political'Rulls of,l-8 miles held every Sat
concerns. Also special events,
Membership ($40 and up) inc. ' information call (718) 62&-4699action, coun'seling and social
at 1Oam:a rid Wed~. at 7pm inspeakers bur"au, workshops,(718)598-1864
and invitationstoactivities in Spanish and English by , newshitter
Cantral p'arle lind every Tues. atdemos, affinity groups, newsletter.
,,epecial events. Voluntser ni,ght.
7P!1' in Prospect Parle. For informore. GMSMA - Dept'-O, 496A , and for 1I:telatino l.asbian and,Gay
LESBIANS AND GAYS
on
Thursdays,
Intakecalls:
2'
mation:,call{2121724-97oo.
Col1111unity.General mee1in~ 8:00.
~.Hudson Street, - Suite D23',NYC, 'OF FlATBUSH,
4pm Mon thru"
10014.(212)
TD-!I87&.
'Pf!l41h Thursday of avery month at(212) 995-8585.
,. Brooklyn's social organi~a~ion
208 West 13th Street· Call 201-653GAYAFRICAN AMERICANS OF,<,LAVA'
for both gay men and lesbians. '~4 orwrita H.U.G'.L,P.O.Box 2211
WESTCHESTER(lHE e.A.A,.)''GMAO (GAYMEN
P.O. Bpx 106, Midwood Station
LESBIANS ABOUT
Canal Strqt Station, New York.NY, ' is a community based suppqrt ..
OF AFRiCAN DESCENT)<VISUAL
AliT
Brklyn, NY 11230, (71\11859-9437 ,group formed in, Westchester
80Varick Street, NYC 10013 a , 10019.
.'
Call for slides, for lesbian Artists'
County.'Various
activities ale
support grqup. of ~ay Men of
LESBIAN HERSTORY,ARCHIVES
Exhibition,
Gay&lesbi'an
ComIDENTITYHOUSE'
planned.for the cQming mpnths.'
African .Descent dedicated to
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P.O.
Box
1258 New York, New _munitvC'anter,
NYC.
For
more
Now
in
our
20th
'yaar/weprovideCall 914-378-0727 fpr more info.
cons,ciouspess-raisingand theYork 10116212/874-7232Since
information,
sen,d SASE to :'peer cou,nseling, therapy refer,,~dev810pmentof the lesbian and
1974, the Archives has inspired,
Miriam Fliugera, 118 Fort Greene
rals' and groups for the lesbian,, ,". GAY CHRISTIANS,
Gay Community. !>MAD is inclushaped and reflected lesbianPlace, Brooklyn, NY 11217. I
COUNTYI sive of African,
African-Ameri- - gay a~d bisexual community.
.- OF,QUEENS,.'
lives everywhere.
Call toCall Us at(212) 243-8181, Visit us
Se,rvices hel4 once a month atcan, Caribbean and Hi'spanicl
arrange a visit or to volunteer'LESBIAN AND GAY
at 544 6th Ave., between 14thUNITARIAN
UNIVERSALIST
Latino men of color. Meetings
for Thursday worknighll;.
, ADULTEDUCATORS
151hStreets, Ma,nhattan.
CHORCH OF FLUSHING, 147-54
are held"weekly, on Fridays. For
Meet with tither lesbian,S and,Ash Avenue, Rushing; New York.
information, call 71&-802-0182,"" nt thlll--"7
UFEUNEgays who worle in adult eduqaINTERNAnO~L
GAY&
11355, in the evenii.~.:.:.... ....rlt~•,THE NATIONAL LESBIAN AND
tion as tea chers, administrators,_lfSBIAN,HUMAN RIGHTS
Thursday of each month,. For
GAYrilJEN'S
HEAlrH,,'GAYTOLl·FREE SERVICE
counselors, tutors, etc., to dis, COMMISSION, CRISIS HOTUNE .
more'info caI71B-3~394,I,
P.O.
, '1-8OO-lJFE 66
works to'focus the spotlight of ' cuss issues such as coming out
Box 4154, College Point" NY,113,58., FOR INFORMATION ON_SAFER,
to staff and' students, materials
world opinion on the oppression,
SEX AND HIV-RELATEDHEAlTHlOST PEER SUPPORTof gays and lesbians throughout, , and curriculum, worleshop and,SERVICES, AND FOR INFORMAr • GAY FATHER'S FORUMSERVICES(LPSS).
conferencEI'
pa
rticipation.
We
the world. Currently organizing
TION ON ONE-TIME,WAlK-IN
A support,org"aniza~on
fQr gay
lost Peer Support Services, ameetthe first Friday of every·AIDS COUNS,ElING SERVICES · an Inti symposium 'on Gay andfather's, their lovers, and others
new program to prqvide counsalmonth at 8:00 pm at the lesbianlesbian issu,es to be held in
212-807-&&55 212145-7470 TDD
in childfnurturing,ituations.
and gay Community, Center 208 ' ing and support to the lesbian,Moscow and lenin-grad in 'July- Monthly mjeetings include a,(For the Hearing hnpaired) Mon.gay and bisexual community of
1991, in addition to many other,West 13tf1Street Call Bryna Dia7
, Fri. 10:30' a.rri. 10 9 pm. 12:00 10 3;00
potluck sU.pper, support groups
Greater Westchester, is planning, exciting projects. For more info " mond it (212)'932-7902 (days) for" on~aried specialized
topics,ill;. first volunteer training. Thosewrite IGlHRC, 2978 Folsom
information
spII.kers, and socializing.MeetGAYSTAMP COLllCTION
interested in bec9ming group
Strest;SF
CA 94110, or call'ing"lst Friday each month; 7pm,
One of the collections on exhibit(415)647~0453.
'.
facilitatorsand."peer counselors
THE LESBIAN AND GAY
at The:Center, 208 W. 13th St., '''. wili be Alternate lifestyles'lmt
shouldcall the lost switchboard,BIG
APPl£'CORPS" West of 7th Ave. Contribution:~.
of the ,Closet. Thi$.is the onlyat (914)948-4922
for furthQr
INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN
Get your instrument out of theBring a main course for 4 people'
gay/lesbian stamp collelltion ofdetails. 'Expetienceand
beginclos'et and come play with us.
IIENTTIY INC.
(or pn' a $5food charge,) For
its kind . .It has won 9 goldning volunteers welcomed.
.
New York's non-profit lesbian
Symphonic, Marching, Jazz, Dix-, information call: 212-979-7541 orawards so far. For information
ieland, Ro'ck, Flute Ense,mbles
and gay psychotherapy canter.
212-28&-3238'.
on GlHSC, send a SASE to:
LONG ISLAND ACT-UP
and Woodwinds. 123 West 44th
Licensed p'sychologists, psychia",- ,GlHSC;
P.O. Box 230940, HartMeet:STuesdilys at8pm at 18fpost
triats, and clini,cal social worleers.
St Suite 12lNew York. NY 10036
G~AY"
IlSBIAN',, ford,CT 08103-1i94o
Ave. 'in Westbury, NY.Support us
Sliding sC,ale faes.lnsurance(212) 889-~.
AWANCE AGAINST DEFAMA110N,
for change on long .Island. Mailing
accepted. Individual, couple, alid
80 Varick Strtet" NYC 10013 (212)
GIRTH" MIRTH
addrass: PO Box 514,Westbury, NY
,
IUIB
OFNEW
YORK
familytherapy.
Varietyof.Men'slfSBIAN,,'GAYCOMMUNITY
986-1700 GLAAD combats homo. SERlllCES CENTER,
1159Q. 516-33&-4682.
'
and women's groups forming
phobi a in thll media and e'18e- , Social club for heavy, chubby
continuo,usl)t. 118 W. 72nd S:treet
208 WeSt 13th Stroet New Ydrle,, wherll by promoting visibility of'gay men & their admirers.
NYJOOll (212) 620-1310 9amLSM
212-799-9432
Monthly socials at the 'Center',th8le8~ian and gay community
is a support and information
llpm e'veryday.'A,placa
forweekly bar nights Thursdays'at
and organizihg
grassrootsgroup' for lesbians and bisexual,
INTEGRITYJNY
community organizing .and net:
the 'ChelseaTransfer',monthly
response to anti-gay bigotry. Do
women interested in fantasy,
lesbian and Gay Epjscopalians
working, sociai'services,
culFat Apple Review, bi-monthly
you have 30 minut,s a month to'rols-playing,
bondage, discipline,
andfriends.
Eucharista~d
proturalprograms,.a~dsocialfighthQlllOphobia7Jointhe GI,AAD FAR pen pals. For mom infoO'llaSIM, fetishes, alte.mate gender
grem every Thursday, 7:30pm. St
eve9ts sponsonid by the Centertion call Ernie at 914-899-7735 orPhon,eTreelCan (212"986-1700 for
identities, costumes'and so10rth.
and more than 150 community
writ8: G&fvVNY,Dept 0, P.O. Box · luke's qhurch, Hudson andinformation.'
Membership is' available
only to'Christopher Sts.INFO: P.O. Boxorganizations. ', 10: Pelham; NY 10803.
,
5202, NY'NY10185(718) 720-31!i4
women 18 years and older .
GUB-GAY AND lfSBIAN/•
A.ctual experience'is notHW(Health Education',,
LESBIAN AND GAY
INDEPENDENT IMOADCASTERS
requi~ed but.genuina intersst
KLGHKOREAN lESBIAN,AIDS Uaisonl ,,LABOI\NETWORK.' Gay and lesbian Independentand an open mind are. For inforAND GAYORGANlZAnON), An organization of lesbians andWeekly info. and support group, Broadcasters invites you to tune
Is a group of lesbian'andgay'mation please "'(rite: P.O. Box,for treatments fDrAlDS which
Gays who, are~ctivein their
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information call Donna'Bersch ,:of Planned Parenthood/HUB at(212)~5001'.'
i', grams, support groups, eauca ..
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,tion to not just focus qn AIDS
but on someone' work
, .andlirtistic vision, We ara interested in r,aceiving responses 'from those people i'n the fol~lowing dis'ciplines-painting.
drawfng, ~culpturing, illustration, arcl!,itecturiand environ-;mental design, inteqor design
a'1d graphic design. Shourd
be interested plesse call Eric
Strauss at (718)855-8491,

N.Y.WOIIIIEN'S SOmALL
,
GUlLO
.
MAJlANATHA: RIVERSIDERSPEOPLf WITH AIDSFor experienced, serious ,SoftFOR lESBIAN/GAY CONTASK FORCE .
'.
IOllli GIIOUP
ball PI~yers:- Coa~hes and'CERNS..
'. MO,nthly"
ANNOUNCEMENT,Unde~groundbuyer's club
.Managers. We play mod/fastprogram meeting on
. .
The'
legal
Action Center· importing. not-yet ..approved
pitch weekend~ in Manh,attan, second SundaY for gay/le$,bianlocatedit
153
WaverlyPiace,--a-nd,Queens.
Try-outs
begin
medications
andnl!!ri1ionalsup,Christians and friends. Educa-'
NY; NY 10014; has begun two': Feb: 11 thru April-' or until
plementS. 31 West 28th St 4th
tional, political, and social
new p,rograms. All ,their serRoor (212)532-0280
filled. (212)255-1379 J~net '~ctivitielsi:heduled, 12:30 p.lI)..
vices arQ ,free. The HIV/AIDSRiverside Church, 490 Ri.v.r,
PINK.PANTHER, PATROL , ' Legal Seivice Project provides
NbRTH AMERICAN,ide Drive, Sunday worllhip ,WHAMI-WilMEN~S HEALTH'
free 1egal'servic8s to people
Community street patrol in,
MAN/BOYLOVE , ' ,10:45, a.m .. F.or info.,call (212) ,,'withHIV/AIDS. Their scope of ,ACrION:AND MOBIUZATION. '.East and West Viiia !fe 'dedi.ASSOCIATION (NAMBlA) .
·222-~(eXt.
290),• 'A direct a ction, group com!TIitservice is wide, encompassinllcated to deterring'violent'
Dedicated to sexual freedom
tad to demanding, securing andchjld c,areand custody, discrime against gays and les .. 'and aspecially'interest~din,,
MEN OF ALL COLORS
defending absolute reproduc- ,crimination, ,housing, healthy
bians" For info' and meetinggay intergenerational
relaTOGETHERNY
tive freedom and qu,lity healthheijlth planning, confidentiality
time ,f!lr Wes, Village, calltibnships. Monthly Bulletill
A multi-racial group of gay men
care fo'r all wo!TI8n, We meetandemployment.
The212-~75-4383. for East VUlage, ,and regular c~apter meetings
Igai~~ racism . .Meetings every
every Wed. at 6:3Opl)'lat 105, E
HIV/AIDS Agency Training andon th'e first Saturday of each.. Patrol info, call 212-248-8566.
Friday night at 7:45 af the Le6-,
22nd
Street, 4th floor. 212-713"
Auistancli' Project provides
71i A, Ci'reenwich Ave., Boxbien.and Gay' Community Sermonth. Yearly m!lmbership is'5968Majling address: WHAMI,
technical assistance to public
107, NYC 10011 '$20; write NAMBlA. PO Box
vices 'Centar,208 W. 13th Street, PO Box 733, N'(C 10009'"
and private agencies'about.' For more info. caii:
174, Midtown Station, New.. (212)245,
legal and policy issues on, PROFESSIONALS IN
York, NY',1'0018 or call (212)8388 or(212) 222-9794. ",, , RIJNVIDEO,
WOMENS ALTERNATIVE
HIV/AIDS end drug atlUse .
807-8578 for information.
COMft'!UN ,CENTER(WACC)
They provide training..indivi~~
336 Canal Street, 8th Roor, NYC,
.METROPOIJTAN TENNIS
A non-profit, lesbian commu-,.ual consultations, l!nd ,model
10013 212~3351
NORTHERN UGHTSGROUP.jMTG)
nity. cente'r serving' Queens,policy guidelines, arico,ng otherOur 20P member lesbian and
1\I1BINAT1VES,,
Nassau and, Suffolk Counties:
items.
If you have any further.
i
QUEER NATION
Improving Quality of life'for
gly~tannis club includes playThurs.
nig,ht week!y discusquestions,pleaseconta
ct
Ms.
Qu'eerNation'isa,multi-culPeople with AIDSjHIV, THE'er.from boginning to tourriasion groups: 8:30 pm, for other
Catherine O'Neil at (212)243- ,tural direct action group ~ediAIDS MASTERY WORKSHOP:
menflilvel. ~onthly tennis
a,c.tivities please cQnta ct us at ',1313, The iAlSocietion,ofcated to fighting homophobia,,parties. Winter indoorleaguB.
'Exploring the possibilities of a51,8-483-2050. 'Nurse.,in
AIDS Cara
powerful a'nd creativ~ life in the .. queer invisibility, and all forms,,Collie play with usl For infor,- , (ANAC)
has monthly meetings v,'ithof oppression that ~ny queers,
face at AIDS. Call (212)255-8554
mation: MTG, Suitll K83, 496-A, ,. AnENTION WOMEN SOfT ..
,speakers
and networking
might face. Anyone'can sug ..
Hu~s,on St., NeW' York, NY, BALL PLAYERS
opportunities. For meeting info,
gest an action and shouldNYC GAY'; LESBIAN
10025. (718)852-8582.
There is a Manhattan softballpleasecontact
Jan!!tVaccoine to'meeti'ngs prepared to'
ANTI-VlO~CE PROJECT,
league looking fO,rplayers;
cariello at (212)340-8724
organize-and implementit ON,
Counseling, adv,ocacy, andMOCA. .,(MEN OF COLORAIDS
especially experienced pitch- ', 'information for s'urvivors of
208 W. 13th St., NeVI(York; NY
PR~ON
PROGRAM.)
ers.lf interested please call
THE OUTREACH USING COM'10011. Call 21'2-978-6720 for
anti-gay and anti-lesbian viaProvides,safer sex and AIDS
Mary at •(718)3n-7'l79 Hope
.MUNAL HEAUNG (TOUCH)
meeting ,info.
leO,oe, S8xualassau!t. domestic
education. information to,gay
to,hea rfrol)'l you 'soon.
" 'Cbmin~nity volunteers provid- 'violence, and othertypas ofand bisexual Men cif Color;, ing.a weekly buffet supper for
victimization., All services fre,e .
SAGE:
cO'qrdjnates a netWork of.WRESTUNGFOR GAYS
the Broo~lyn AIDS q,ommO~(SENIOR ACTlOI\land confidential.24 hour hotPaar-support groups fo~ g'a,y, "LESBIANS.
nity~ :rOUCH meets Monday
IN AGf4,YENVIRONMENT)line (212)807-0197
lind bisexual Men of Color in
Watch the men of the knights
eves. 5pm to 6:3Opm- at down-'•
Social ServiJ:e Agency. proIII 5 boroughs of New York,,
wrestling , club ina'ction,everY
town ,Brooklyn Friends Meetviding care, activities, & edu ..
City ;Jt13 Ninth Aye, New York,PARENTSIFIIIENDS OF.,
Sunday
at
7:30
PM
at
the'
GAY
ing
House
(110
Schermerhoml£SBIANAND
GAYS.
c~tional
se~vicesforgay
NYl000lor
c811.(212)239-1796.
&,.
,'St. neapBollrum Place). lim ..·, " CENTER:The club ,also,corilesbian senior citizens. Also,
let P/FLAG help you and yourduct tr8iningcla~es'on
sltar..
itedtrlinsportation
may beserves over 160 homeboundfam~y delilViith 1I1eupheaval of, .. ' NATIONAL GAYAND~",nate Sa,turdays aftemoon.(1~tarranged. Info: (718)822-2756.
senrors & older PWA's :208,',your coming out. Our meetings, LfSBIAN TASK FORCE&
3rd
Saturdays
for
men
2nd',
'
,TOUCH welcomes con~ribuWest 13th St NYC 10011, (212)
are free: monthly ,on'the 4th
is the 'n..ticmal grassroots polit& 4th Saturdays for,wome'n)tions of funds, food and volun741-2247 .
.
'Sunday, at 3:00'pm, tn Duane~ ,\ ical organization for lesbians
for !TIOrainformation pleasetaers.
Church,201
Wast131h.lnf07
call,
and gay \11en. .Membership is>,call:.718,639-5141, SETHIAN GAYS,. Jeanne, 212..463..062!f,$3OIyear.
Issue-onentedpro.
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ULSTER COUNTY GAYANDLESBIANS AND BISEXUALS"cta,
address
violence,, LESBIAN AWANCE,, For all at us intarastad in reachPEER COUNSWNG FOR SURsodomy laws, AIDS, gay rights
Meets first and third Monday ,ing out to each other in exuber, .V1VORSOF BIAS ASSAULT,
ordinanclls, families, media,
of each month •at 7:30 pm at "ance to spont8ne'ouslY explore 'DOMESTIC VlOLfNCE AND
atc. through lobbying, aduc~the, Unitarian
Church on
SEXUALASSAU~T.
and expand upon the SetlVJan~,ion, organjzirg
and direct'$awkill
Road in Kingston. For·
Roberts·Philosophy·
asit·
action. NGLTF 1517 U Street
Th. N.w York City Gay and,·,Infcirmation, call 914...628-3203 'L.,bian Anti-Violence 'Pro ..
relates to our lives, personally,'NW, Washiiigton, DC 20009.
sexually and politically. Call AI
j.ct'(AVP)
is offering frae(202\332-8483" " J-',
U~ITY94(212) 725-1289,x287
peer counseling for lesbians
NEEDS YOU to become a part
I'MONlllLY/P:t'EASE"
and gay men, who are surNEW YQRKADVERTISING '\ '.-f::>.:-·\::·:::~:(':::'::,::::::iY~\f;::t::t}lh~H?t~:t:i,of itl Organizers
for Gay
SUNDANCE OUTDOOR
vivors of, bias assault, dpmesAND COMMUNICATIONS
Game.s IV, to be held in New
ADVENTURE SOCIETY
tic violenceand sexual,NETWORKYork in 1994. Olympic-style
A non-profit club offeriDg Outassault. ,Trained volunteer
NYACN is the community'si·',·',;~ISSI(jNS·fQ:!.
sports and cultural event isdoor activities for every seapeer counselors will be availlargeat gay and lesbian pro:)?\{:::~:;::;::;::.::.;-:::~::::~':~:~::~:::!:::::\~~::j:::::)~:t::;n)I'argest in world. Theme isson includi99' hiking; biking, .
able from'& to'8 PM every!aisional group, welcoming all.,.".,.
ROGWO PA'RiUS'·······'
INClUSION,ev!lryone
isskiing; water activities arid
In communications
and their
W.dn •• dayand Thursday atneeded.,ISOpPO,RT
THE'
other outd,oor activities for thethe AVP offic .. , 208 W .. tfriands. Monthly m8e~ngs, 3rd- by volunteering, joinGAMES,'Gay/lesbian community. For
13th Str •• t, AVP offers free
Wad 8:30pm at the Ccimmicnity
ing or making a donation. Callinformation or complimentary
co,unaaling, advocacy andCenter. 'MemberS' newsletter,•."..·.".,..159W;25 ..,....'.',".'..
212-732-3812 or write UNITY, Newsletter call (212)598-4726.
jOb'hotHne; annual directory.
informatipn and referrals to'94, PO Box 202; NY,NY 10036.
Phon. (212) 517-11380for moresurvivors of bias a888'ult;
TASKFORCE
info.' Mention OutWeek forf domeStic violence ana sexual,'VISUAL ARTS PROJECTANNOUNCEMENTS'
assa ult Call (212) 807.... 97 forDne free newsletter.
,.
? ' ,, Women's HIV Suppo,rt,Group at
In Honor of Artistic Vi,ion
mora infonnatiolL
349 East 1491hStreet Room,609,
Effectad by A.I.D.S.
N.V. FEMMES
on Thu,l'sdays 11:00 - 12:30. This
The Visual Art~Projects
is~,, PEOPLf WITH
Support and discussion groupinterested in documenting and··is an on going closed group for
AIDS COAUTION
for lesbians who salfidentify as
women who are HIV infected.
colle~ting art work (slides) by(2,12)532-029lVl ..800-828-328«V
Famme and are primarily
2-3 individual consolations a r'a
those people who have AIDS ' .
Hotline (212) 532-0568Monday
Ittracted to butch women. For
required befbreadmittanceor Arc. It is the Proj ect's intanthm Frlday lOarrHlpm Meal promembership inf9rmation call
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Switchboard of NY needs you,
Women and men are needed as volunteers now if you are a good listenerand can give at least 6 hours permonth, please call the,Switchboard at
212-777-1800 For more information,

Hotel Sutton. Please contact Bill in Ft.
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Seek male to share with 3 othermales, Own AlC, furnished Bd/rm, 1/2
block All subways. $325/mo (includes
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NYBC* BONDAGE CLUB,,Now Saturday ,and Tuesday meetings
Meet Sa/Tu Jun 11,25 Ju19, 13,23
watch demos: For EJfperts & Novices
For details write to NYBC, Midtown
Sta, PO Box 457, t-Jew York, NY 10018,
Or'caU718-965-4187 after 8pm,

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Looking for Lesbian single or couple
for own room in beautiful garden",duplex. Washer/Dryer, Dishwasher,
Ft Greene, 1/2 block to C(A) Train.
$500 single, $600 Couple. Util. inc I.
POC preferred. Avail July 1st
Diana/Katrina 337-1233,718-230-3004

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WORD IS.OUT 'for the best apartment cleaningCall...WORD OF MOUTH APARTMENT
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repairs and New Ins1:idlations.Commercia I and Residential.Courteous, Professional Servic'e.Available Eves. andWeekends,(718) 782-4735 ••DENTISTS, ' ,,•. MARRIAGE
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For stable gay couple. F/T,heavy PIT, 'live out Michael (212)924-8035,~-

VOCAL COACHING
Piano & Composition Recos for all
instru.ments scaled rates all styles
demos how to choose studios andmake contracts all ages recos for
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aspects of 116page publicatio.n. Must
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resume and letter to Mr. Rotello;OutWeek, 159W, 25 St, NYC 10001, or. Fax (212) 337-1220.

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anywhere in the United State, ,Sliding
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Get this relaxing and theraputic mas·sage from a medical student who,knows what he is doing, OUT only.
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Supportive individual & couple therapy by institute-trained licensed
p.sychotherapist Help with rel,ationships, gay identity, dealing with yourfamily, and living in the age of AIDS,
Sliding fees,. NY and NJ offices:(212) 769-8796 or (201) 567-2445,
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Union Sq. Office / Free Consult
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In our community since 1978

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COMPASSIONATE, CARING
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political lesbian ot the left persuasion
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EmpOWering therapy byexperi
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Inrlividu~ll,C(J~plc, Group ThC'rapy• Work conflicts• Self esteem• Depression ,• Recovery form" addictions,• Lesbian/gay identity issues• P~oblems of relationship• FEAR OF INTIMACY• AIDS ANXIETY• DEPRESSION• ACOA ISSUES• COMING OUT
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GROUPS CURRENTLY FORMING:-Women's Coming - Out Group- Men's 'Exploring Sexual Identity'
Group- Bereavement Group ,- Gay Male Couples' Group
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insurance accepted.New }fJrk'1~c;ychotherapy
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around Jackson Square. I remember thesweaty leathery smell of feet trapped too
1001gin boots on a hot day. Funniest ofall. I clearly remember a slight, faded
scar just beneath his lower lip, the kindthat probably comes with a childhood
accident. That, and he had a lovely patchof soft golden fuzz at the base of his
spine just above his ass. Funny, and a little sad to think about now.
We stayed in touch off and on
through the years: a phone call fromtime to timel a quick note, short meetings when he was in New York. I don't
know if he was still sleeping with pretty,
young boys: I never asked, and he neveroffered the infonnation.
In 1979, I moved to Paris to be witha lover, 1bree days later, I made a pilgrimage to Jim's grave in Pere-Uichaise, I
was older then, wiser maybe, decidedly
less promiscuous. It was hard imagining
Jim dead that day, once a legend in his
own time and now the most popular
tourist attraction in a city of the dead.
What a monstrously mythic creature our•times must have required. He would definitely have' appreciated the joke.
The gravesite brought it all home
to me, though, The shoddiness andramshackle condition of one of the•world's most famous cemeteries, theway it has been left to go to rack andruin. There is a musty, timeless elegance
to ,it. All I could help thinking was: "My,~hat a dump. But, at least you're ingood company."
I left a bottle of Bordeaux and astring of Czechoslovakian glass Mardi
Gras beads on his grave. And a poem I
wrote for him that day we first
met-three short lines, inscribed Simply"For Jim, upon the occasion of breaking
on through." It read:Your ~ are great gray places
where rain could be born .
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fashion, food and contemporary culture.
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penpals, friend,
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Brooklyn~Brolin
long walks andjuSt mean~riough &, quiettalks, newman enoughto keep,', plays and 0111
me on my to es. •.'books, chocolate,
Brooklyn accent aplus. Purpose: to ' , travel, and cooking,I play piano I,Ind
finaly fall in love,chess and live 2
monogamy, pickett'hours frorn'Manfence,t,all. Geohattan, Joe, PO Box
graphic? pickens
1092 Bettilehem,slim in New York to?
PA 18016 ./Lets talk: David 213821-4066

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Tom was a compl.ex, faSCinating
personality, and I studied him avidly for the
Anthony (Tony) Papp, 29; jewelry andfour years of our friendship. A brilliant
metal artist, died at home in New York on
strategist, a witty and charismatic public
Saturday, June 1, 1991, of AIDS, He was the
speaker, Tom could sell fire to the devil
son of producer Joseph Papp and family
himself and 'come out of the meeting laughtherapist Peggy Papp.
ing. And he di~ shake hands with the devil,
Mr, Papp's art was.influenced by the
many times, during his endless meetings
Russian Constructivists and took new direcwith drug company and government repre- 'tions'in form and surface applications. His
sentatives on behalf of the two organizawork, which includes necklaces, bracelets,
tions he helped to found.
brooches and such objects as boxes and
Tom was man who traveled light in
bud vases, features a technique called "marlife, His personal attachments were few andriage of metals" -the combining cif different
were tightly choreographed, He was a maemetals,such as sterling silver, 18-karat
stro of perfect timing and total control. It took
gOld, brass and copper, in an inlaying proguts to be Tom's friend, even as he wascess to create a painterly effect.
reminding you that he had no friends. He
He became interested in wearable art
once told me that he pitied anyone who loved
while attending Parsons School of Design,him, blinding himself to the fact that we were
After finishing school and "sitting at a jewlegion. There was definitely something wrong
eler's bench for five years," he began show.
Tom Hannan
withthe mirror in Tom's house, because heinghis work in such art jewelry galleries as
Tom Hannan, one of the founders of thedidn't see himself when he looked in it.
the Sheila Nussbaum Gallery in Millburn, NJ,
Community Research Initiative and the PeoTom was determjned to "keep things
Artwear In Soho, Quadram Gallery in Boston
ple With AIDS Health Group, died at home o,nsimple" in his life, ever more so after the deathand the Helen Drutt Gallery in Philadelphia.
June 4, 1991, after living with AIDS for fourof his lover, Stephen Roach, in early 1988, "I
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never meant to outlive him by so long," he told,
me. Subtlety and underreaption went a long,
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way in dealing with Tom Hannan. So did the,the largest 'Limg Benefits· Company in the World), unspoken word, He always admired someone
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Anthony(Tony)Papp

Isman Gallery in New York praised his craftsmanship and the fluidity of his designs andcalled him a "master of patina." He opened
his own gallery, the Tony Papp Gallery, in
Trump Tower in December 1986. For the
past several years, his work lias been displayed in numerous shows around the country, and he has ,taught his technique at several art schools in the metropolitan area,;
In addition to liis father and mother, heis survived 'by a sister, Miranda Adani; his,
stepmother, Gail Merrifield Papp; his half sisters, Susan Lippman and Barbara Mosser;
his half brother, Michael Faulkner; and his
companion, Rosemary Jordan.
There will be private memorial service. Donations in his memory can be madeto the People With AIDS Health Group, 31 W.
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,Les Kinsolving,apopularBaltimoretalk-,
radio maniac, has
it in for queers.
For weeks before
the opening of the, 203rdGeneralAssembly of the
Presbyterian
Church USA, Kinsolving regaled Baltimoreans with the shocking' news of thechurch's upcoming "Sex Convention,"
during which the Presbyterians werecommitted, Kinsolving proclaimed, tothe wholesale dumping of the Christiantradition's confinement of right sexual
relations within the bounds of heterosexual marriage. Kinsolving'~ declarations delivered in a gruff, made-forradio , voiee and bolsteredby aformidable, if paranoiacly skewed,
understanding of lesbian and gay polities-madefor weirdly entertaining
radio; one only wishes .his delusions
regarding the power we wield were true.
To apply the term "Sex Convention"
to the gathering, heldiit Baltimore's harborside Convention Center, June 4-12, isimaginative, to say the least, for the voting commissioners, delegates and otherattendees who fllled,the convention center's halls were an altogether wholesomelooking lot: Overwhelmingly gray-haired,well-scrubbed, ordinary middle-classwhitefolk. Presbyterians joke that they
like to do things "decently apd in order."The protocol that guides
their yearly con,fabs is astonishingly rule-ridden: It's a,procedure that doesn't, lend itself to the. making of a revolution.
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But it's just dandy for stifling one.
Four years ago, the assembly cOlIlll1is. sioned a special committee to prepare awide-ranging report on human sexuality
for the denomination's consideration.
The committee's 200-page majority
report-theologically upstart and contain,

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ing a series of recolIlll1endations that
were, in Presbyterian tenns, earthshaking-was released a few weeks before
the convention opened, engendering an
intense call-to-armswithin the denomination's large conservative wing. Suddenly,
the Presbyterians' meeting was being,accorded media attention of a kind, as
lesbian Catholic theologian Mary E. Huntput it, "usually resetved for US invasionsof small Third World countries." (Hunt's"Oh, the church willchange," James
Anderson said, "but it may
be the last institution to,change. The society ingeneraleven themilitary . they'llchange first."
address, at a Saturday luncheon sponsored by Presbyterians for Gay and lesbian Concerns, was in striking contrast tothat delivered by another Roman
Catholic, John Cardinal O'Connor, at a
Presbyterian right-to-lifers'meeting a few
days earlier.),
The special committee on humansexuality had done its job thoroughly,
exploring the impact of the life of thechurch on a gamut of emotionallycharged issues ranging from domestic
violence to clergy sexual misconduct. But
not surprisingly, all the attention was
drawn to what the report had to say
about homosexuality: To wit, that gay
and lesbian people should be accorded
full rights and responsibilities within the
church, including the right to beordained to the church's three pastoral
roles minister, elder or deacon. The
standing cOlIlll1itteeselected to evaluate
the special committee's report was
besieged by petitions, called "overtures," :~from scores of 10C<l1 church-governing ~bodies around the country demanding ~that the report be trashed, Forty of the ~petitions even called on the assembly to ~refuse to print the report in its minutes,~
Setting church unity as its priority,
the standing committee performed, moreor less, as the report's detractors wanted,
The report was resoundingly ~eated on .
the assembly floor on Monday afternoon,
though its appearance in the minutes,
was sustained. In its place, the assembly
adopted the standing committee's package of resolutions that, while acknowledging "the pain felt by many persons ofevery perspective on these sensitive
issues" (note the careful avoidance of the"H"-word), blandly parroted the church's
traditional positions on sex outside ofone-man/one-woman marriage.
Even a nondescript resolution to"honor all committed covenant relationships"--churchspeak for, according samesex unions some vague sort ofrespect-died in committee. Allthe soundand fury-including a wrenching Thursday-evening committee session in which
several church leaders, speaking in favorof the human sexuality report, chose to'come, out to their colleagues had, again,signifiednothing.
Or maybe not quite nothing, since
there's cause to wonder just how long
mainline Protestant denominations cancontinue repressing the differences intheir midst without cracking. Certainly,
an unsettling, schizoid feeling pervaded
the assembly, In the convention center's
multifloor lobby, delegates and vis itors-middle-aged men in pastel suits,
ladies in crisp A-line skirts and lowheeled sandals meandered past a tor-'
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Quilt. In th~ exhibit hail, the booths for
porters, some carrying black banners that1
Presbyterians for Lesbian and Gay Conread "Never Again" and "Silence =.
,the center for anti-violencecerns and the Presbyterian AIDS NetDeath." As the procession moved forwork (which had arranged,
with
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was
joined
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some
of
the
vqtingeducationlbrooklyn.
Names Project, for the Quilt's presence)delegates on the floor and by many ofwomen's martial arts ,were uncomfortably situated nearby thethe visitors from the observers' galleries.
booths belonging to Presbyterians for
When it reached the dais, the crOss was
Biblical Sexuality and Pro-life Presbyteriraised aloft, to allow those following tokarateans. On the morning the hUIilan sexualipass beneath, then laid on the floor. The
ty committee's resolution came to themyaisles were filled with demonstrators;
self-defense)•
assembly floor, there was a demonstraview was blocked, and, when I heard a
tai chi for women,tion outside the center's main doors: A
metallic sound ring out, I couldn't ·at firstring of people, abOut a hundred, strong,tell what was happening. Then I looked
self-defense for lesbians
shook Bibles and chanted homophobic
overhead, at one of the big-screen moniand gay men
slogans. fnside,'Gordon Stewart, the liktors above the <j1ais.,The camera had,able man who had .chaired the standing, been turned on the 0'05S, and one of the••committee wanted to "honor '.the unity
demonstrators was slowly hammering
self-defense and kar,ate
and diversity of the church and keep thenails into it.
'.for children
conversation going~; outside, one of theThough my skepticism has since·demonstrators held aloft a placard that
returned, at that moment, I tpought that I
free childcareI available
read "Dialogue Is Sin,"understood why so many Christian lesA few days before the flOOrvote,I'dbians and gays refuse to abandon the•·sat in the 24th-:floor suite of Baltimore's
struggle.
Others' contempt must look a,sliding scale fees
· Orpni Hotel that had been rented by Preslot less fearsome when you've got abyterians for Lesbian and Gay Concerns,
gospel lesson to teach. T-'
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an advocacy organization With semi~ffi•Park Slope, B.rooklyn
cial status within the church, ra.*ing withJames Waller, a native of Baltimore,
its current/president, James Anderson,
leaches a course on homosexuality and '718-788-1775"Oh, the church will change,·
religion at the N,ew School. He is a jre.........
Anderson, a dean at Rutgers University,
quem contributor to OutWeek.
told me, "but it may be the last institution
to change, The society in general even '.
the military--:-they'll change first," Anderson's animated face and upbeat manner
exuded the cheerfulness that's a necessary trait if you're working against such- great odds. During my stay in Balitimore,\
I found myself wondering how so many ~.
,\lesbian and gay Presbyterians found the, strength to continue to fight their battle,• NewsI may have found a partial answer\
on Monday afternoon, After the electron• Interviews
ic vote had been computer-tallied and• 1.100eoCoverage
the status quo reaffinned, the assembly's,
new moderator, the Rev. Herbert Valen•
AIDS
Updatestine, stepped back to the podium andannounced
that he was taking "amoment of personal privilege," In a quavering .voice that mixed fatigue with
TeleVision That·Matters
think) nervousness, Valentine told theassembly that he was going to allow ato the Lesbian & Gay Community.
"silent demonstration" by "a group ofpeople" who were in deep pain on
account of their continued exclusion.
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umor has it that there,'·iare lesbian backrooms
in San Francis~o you
knqw, club,s with darkrooms where -women,are doingit. with
women they may never, speak to again., I've
heard no firsthandreports from one, so
this may be merely
urban folklore: True or•not, it expresses New
Yorkers' secret belief.
that we're not nearly as,· cutting edge as they are on the left Coast.
In any case, the inevitable response to this tale is.to wonder
when a dyke backroom will open here, Reactions range Jr9m
anticipation ("Hope I'm on that mailing list!") to cynicism("Women won't actually do anything in a backroom but standaround gossiping") to horror ("No real lesbian would do that!"):Me, I'm already wonying about what it all means.
One utof}ian possibility: If lesbians had backrooms,
our,primary relationships would be stronger. Gay men tend to couple up with less alacrity than lesbians, but their, relationships
last longer, because they have a whole set of social institutions including backrooms-whichallow for sexual expression without a monogamous relationship and, "cheating" withinone. A gay male couple, like a married straight couple, candefine itself without reference to sex alone. Lesbians, on the, ,other hand, often act as though one night of passion leads
inexorably to joint cheCking
accounts. Thus, a single fling can
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destroy a reasonably happy, cominitted couple. Badcrooms
and similar institutions might give our primary involvements
stronger boundaries by ~edrawing .them in new;, places in
our liVes.'",.
Well, that's utopia for you: It would require a complete,rearrangement of 'our society's gender role$. In the, meantime, 'maybe a lesbian ,backroom would mean the cooptation of wOqlen's culture by l:he patriarchy. Would we havethought of it if gay men hadn't thought of it ftrst?'Would
women who look like Linda Evangelista get more attention
than women who don't? Would we overemphasize penetI'ation, sex toys, orgasms? Would straight men write porn
about it?
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Maybe, gender roles will determine how we act in'new settings, like backrooms, as inm<?re familiar ones"likepotlucks and softball games. Will we, go secretly hoping tomeet the woman we'll many? Will w,e prefer friends toacquaintances, and prefer acquaintances to strangers? Will
the careful etiquette of male backrooms not work for us?
WJll we be able to invent new rules?Will.we
wony. too.
much about others' pleasure and, not at all about o~r ow,n? ..
Will there be a shortage of femmes?
. _ ',,- On the other hand, maybe a lesbian backrooIl} would
represent a victory over puritanism, a new. developmentiQ,
the ongoing struggle over what gender differ~nce and sexual orientation are supposed to mean. Would)~' open!up
women's repr~derotic potential? Woul'd we begin to dis~cover just what we are capable of? Would we be empow-.
ered, transformed, liberated? Would it be fun? '",', ' ,
The answer to all these questions is...probably: Maybe.
I dunno. But aren't you dying.to find out for yourse1t? ~.
-Anne Rubenstein
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