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Takirig A Chance
On 'Myers
Woody Myers arrived this week to take up his post as New
York City's new Commissioner of Health. He's being greeted bya bewildering array of problems that seemingly defy solutions.
Unfortunately, one of those problems is his own prior record on
gay and AIDS issues in Indiana.
The debate over that record last January caused one of
our community's most painful, wrenching and divisive debates.
Since then we have, in effect, been waiting for the other shoe
to drop.
Now that Myers is here, we must face the fact that for better or worse he is and will remain our commissioner of healthfor the foreseeable future.
There are two stances the gay and lesbian community cantake. One is a stance of implacable opposition and non-cooperation towards a man many consider to be a homophobe and acivil liberties nightmare. The other is to attempt to cooperate,with him and educate him, and hope that he has been mellowed and matured by his nomination controversy. We strongly
urge the latter approach.
,
Myers, despite his abominable policies in Indiana, has yet todemonstrate that he will continue those policies in New York. We
Sincerely hope that he won't. And we' want to trust the mayor
when he says he will never allow policies inimical to gays, lesbians and people with AIDS to be implemented here.
For the moment it seems possible to avoid the kind of confrontation over AIDS issues we experienced with Stephen
Joseph under Mayor Koch. For the sake of thousands of afflicted
New Yorkers and everyone suffering from inadequate healthcare, it's certainly worth the effort;,
But the responsibility to avoid confrontation does not fallon our community alone. There is much that Myers himself cando .to heal the AIDS community.
For starters he can reach out to gays and lesbians, making
himself freely available to listen to our concerns and get to know
us. Secondly, he should stop dissembling about his record inIndiana. His statements that there was no quarantine during his
te~ure there are obviously false and contribute to a sense that heis dishonest and has something to hide. Finally, he can directly
and openly address and attempt to heal the rift his appointment
caused between some Black and some gay AIDS workers. ,As a person of color, Myers stands in a unique position toaddress the enormous health problems that lopSidedly affectminoriti~s in our city. Without substantial funds at his disposal,
his is primarily a bully pulpit from which to gather the moral
forces needed to fight against inadequate health care. We
should give, him a chance to do so. He might just surprise us.
And if he doesn't, the time for confrontation will arrive soon
,enough ....

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Disservice Agency
House covered up an
Gabriel Rote"o's two affair between a closetcoverstories
on ed official and a murCovenant House CRlt- . dered client, rather than
ter's Accuser Speaks"on the possibilitythat the(no. 39, Jan 21) arid
murderer
may have"Gay
Murder,and been responsible for a
Covenant House, (no. string of unsolved gay
39, Mar. 28) c'onvey a niurders, and the police
near-total disregard for ,aren't investigating than
the work of child care
Why wasn't this treatedworkers at our agency.
like a news story, whereHis character assassina- the issues could havetions of top officials of been fleshed out without
Covenant
House that cumbersome True
Confessions-style of jourobscure the work that
nalism ("OfficialX,"
we do for both straightand gay youth and seem 'secret
files," death
to imply that Covenant
threats from street peoHouse is an expendable
ple and closet caseswithorganization.
anonymous names)?
NEWS. SEXUAL POLITICS. HEALTH. THE ARTSAs present and forIt's easy-and often
mer assistant administra- necessary-to
attackHouse is' a peculiar
tors at the Covenant
Covenant House these tant to remember thatplace-alink between
House Nlneline,
ourdays. But it's also impor- by irs nature, Covenantnationwide crisis hotline
for youth, we know thatworkers here are trained
srOIlEWAI.t RIOrSBY ANDREA NATALIE
to be not only non-judgmenta!, but sensitive tothe needs of lesbian andgay callers. There aremany lesbian and gay
counselingservicesamong our referrals,
Including such organizations as the Hetrick-Martin Institute and the
National Gay and Lesbian CrisisLine.
OutWeek's determl- 'nation to scoop the New
York papers is transparently evident in the twocover articles and results
In journalism which Is an
Insultto the commitment
and dedication of workersat Covenant House.
HiroYoshikawa
Asst.Administrator,
NinelineN

Gay-Ploitation?
Re "Gay Murder andCovenant House" (Mar.
28): Why focus on the
fact
that
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New York City's underbelly and Bush's -1,000
Pointsof light. Some ofthe events which seem
seedy on paper areNsimply partof thedynamic that exists In
an organization which
deals on a dally basiswith drugs, prostitution

and crime. By exploitingthese sleazier elements
because of the suspicion that they all add
up to something moresinister, you are contributing to the most disturbing side effect ofthe downfall of Father
Bruce
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like Malcolm
renewed Image of gays media
as dirty old queers luring Forbes and Liz Smith areyoung Innocents Into a ridiculous. So what If they
are gay? They are from alife perversion. As a gay
generation that would
advocacy publication,
not have let them rise to
OutWeek needs to be
their levels If they had
more aware of how thehad.the ·wear It on a Teffects of Its sensationalism will reverberate In shiW attitude that we
now find necessary for
an alreadynarrowour own survival. They
mindedanq hostile
played by different rules;
world.
Don't 'get me wrong, compare Rock Hudson
and Cary Grant with LibI'm not against tabloid
journalism-I
think ·The ,I ----------------------------Secret Gay life of Malcolm Forbes· was righton target, and does ourcommunity a great service. That some people-Includingsomegays and lesblans--consider It disrespectful and·In bad taste to revealthat Forbes was gay,even after his death,pOints out how much
homophobia stili has tobe overcome both outside and Inside this community.
KarlSoehnleln
Manhattan

erace and Quentin Crisp.
Closet rattling may be
fun; It Is also gossip andtests the boundaries of
responsibleJournalism.
In any case, while
you search the bones ofForbes looking for clues,
you lose the opportunity
to have a real gay heroon your cover: Keith Harlng's,
angelic
face
appears
on 7 Days'
cover, . why
not

OutWeek? Shameyou.
Darrell B.Perry
Manhattanon

Signorlleresponds:
The premise of yourletter Is ageist and InsultIng. It suggests that ·oldpeople· like LizSmith arebeyond change. Andeven If certain people ofall ,ages are beyond
change, it Is Important

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As a new New Yorker, I want to tell you howmuch I enjoy your mag a. zlne.
I especiallyenjoy
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needs It.
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Manhattan
Testing the Boundaries
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then to show lesbian andgay youth the unnecessary and sad life that thecloset perpetuates.
Keep It (Out) Up
What courage andfortitude you displayedby showlng'the hypocrisyof Malcolm Forbes' exlstencel
Please keep doing
this kind of thing, It Is
Incredibly Important toshow society that weexist everywhere andthat even many of thepowerful are gays andlesbians.
It was sad anddestructive to others for
Malcolm Forbes to live In
hiding the way he did.
Perhaps others can learn
from thisstory,
SharonHarper
Manhattan
Fool for LoveI might as well add
my own opinion to thoseof the many others who
have expressed one on
your publication of -The
Secret Gay Life of Malcolm Forbes,
There are not one
but three pieces
In
OutWeek Issue no. 38 of
H

March 18. 1990. The'main one. by Features
Editor Michelangelo
Signorile. Is much better than most readers
would expect In a gossipy article of this kind.
From all the temporarycompanions
that
Forbes Is allegedtohave had. perhaps
the
piece
shouldhave been headed-The Not So Secret
Gay life of Malcolm
Forbes. And. I think.
that Is what Is wrong
with Signorlle's piece.
Far too many Individuals
claiming
to
have
had
experiences.
sexualandotherwise.
with thisfamousAmericanentrepreneur, For all I
know they all may betrue. more or less. butthat Is little reason toparadethem
oneafter another In trying
to provethis fineman's -secret life.
I
do believe this pieceshouldhave
beenmore ,In-depth
andless testimonial. nearly
all under
assumednames.
At the start of the artlH

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Finally. In spite ofcle (now entitled -The
Other Side of Malcolm-)
the great man's secretsecrets. he seemed to
we are told that the subject -was IMng a senseless have taken far toolie. which seems to be
many risks In escortingyoung
men aroundthe theme of the threepieces (the last being the town (and sometimes
editorial). He did not think on his motorcycle?).
so and. really.why should having sex with them In
his office (with or withany realistic
personexpect him-fatherof out the door closed).
many children. war hero and If we are to believe
the writers' allegations.
and true -capitalist tool:
to have
darling of the Internation- seemingly
al setto suddenly
solicited almost every
young male working forbecome an uncloseted.
-flaming faggot-?
' him. Oh. come on. OutI liked the second
Week.
peoplelikepiece by the man from Forbes do not become
millionaires and houseBall least of all. So damn
anti-Forbes, And one
hold words by being
wholly Indiscrete, A foolwonders about Its comhe was Indeed not,plete veracity.
Most of all. I liked
Stephen Wright
Manhattan
the editorial
with Its
calmness and. for the
Retoolingthe Spe/I-Checker
most port. good sense.
In Susie Day's colBut I wonder about
umn of Issue no. 39 the- role models who arecloseted gays.
Role word -Amerlca Is mismodels for whom? Sure- spelled. The name of
Iy. If they are In a closet place she refers to (theas deep and dark as one that really exists) Is
spelled A-M-E-R-I-K-A.
Mr. Forbes was. how
can they ever serve as Please correct this In
future Issues.
models for what you
call -the Gay NationKathryn Otter(sounds like a Native
Manhattan
American trlbel)?
Le~anRedund~?
I'm happy to learn
that at last we readers
have a new and vital
publication to competewith the almighty Advocate (of California).
Only one suggestion: -gayH'lncluded
both male and female
homosexuals
and.
therefore. -The lesbianand ...
Is somewhat
redundant.
Furthermore. our lesbian sisters
are far less out (as In
OutWeek)than male(homosexuals). So why
don·t you change thedescriptive line above
the title (OutWeek) tosimply -The Gay News
MagazlneH (preferred)',,','.'."V'or (second choice) to
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Sincerely,
TheEditor,But
not the Chief

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Still Amazed?
Onelittlenote on -Notes
on the Modern
LesblanH (no. 40,
Apr. 4)-1 am
hopeful that one
day lesbians will
cease
to
be
amazedthatsome lesbians liketo wear dresses.
Someday a ~,~~~~~~~!!!!!!!III!
dyke In a dress will
femme
Insteadofcause no more controprompting other dykes
versy than a dyke with a to marvel at and muse
kitty cat. I also hopeon that -curious creafemme lesthat In the future Out- tureH-the
Week will ask a selfbian.
Identified
femme
toSydney Pokorny
write about being a
Manhattan

Let me explain.
Moss Appeal
As a (lapsed) memTheVillageVoice
ber of the National WritNewYork,NY 10003
ers Union, I've been
DearEditor:
I think I have a radi- against editors havlng'so
muchunregulatedcal (no quotes) solution
to the, metastasizing Nat power to hire and fireand kill pieces, but are
Hentoff crisis. I believe'
never
any
The Village Voice should there
simply fire him, just as I Instances where such
believe CBSshould have decisions are app'roprlate? If the answer Is
fired Andy Rooney, notan editor
because they exercised , yes-thatshoul<;:1never have thetheir due rights of freespeech, but because the right to fire a wrIter she or
he no longer respects or
Voice, a leading liberal
newspaper, and CBS, a believes In-does
thismean that from now on,
leading television network,
simplyaren'tevery writer whose essay
appropriate places for or book Isrejected by anviciously and overtly
editor can scream foul In
nameof freehomophobic
biases of thethese arrogant buffoons. speech?

April4, 1990

O~EEK

9

Its eggs In thenests of otherbirds and whose
hatchlings eventually overwhelm
their hosts)?
Lawrence
Mass,M.D.
Manhattan

In 1981 I was the firstwriter to cover the AIDS
epidemic In any press. In
1982 I wrote the first feature article on AIDSfor amainstream publication
In New York. That publication was The Village
Voice. Entitled ~TheMost
Important New Public
Health Problem In the
United States," however,
It was considered to be
too alarmist and was
rejected by the editors.
~It's not a Voice piece,"
Karen Durbin explained. I
believe
DurbinandDavid Schneiderman
should have been shotat dawn, but I would
never have dreamt oftrying to fight them In thename of free speech. It
was within their right toreject my work, just as I
believe It's within thepurview of the current
editors of. the Voice andthe producers of 60 Mln-

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OUT~EEK

utes to disengage themselves 'from the unmitigated bigotry of Hentoff
and Rooney. In retaining
Hentoff and Rooney, I
believe, the Voice andCBSare exercising poor
editorial Insightand leadership. They're making
the same mistakes they
made when they rejected timely AIDS Information
piecesandpromoted such homophobic propaganda as
the CBStelevision documentary ~Gay Politics,
Gay Power."
Hentoff and Rooneyshould be able to say
and write what theyplease, in appropriate
settings such as The
National Review or the
New York Post. But why
must CBSand The Village
Voice continue to nurturethese
cuckoos(I'm
speaking o.f the European variety, which lays

April 11.1990

Forthe BenefHof AllTheVillage
Voice
NewYork.NY
10003
RE:
Nat
Hentoff's columnof February 27.
·SlIence = Blackand
Hispanic
Deaths·A few facts
we would like tobring
to NatHentoff's attention:1) AIDS
does not discrimInate. 2) Silence
does
equal
death,
but, Itdoesn't matter
whether you area personofcolor, white, female.
male or of any sexual orientation. 3) The media Is
just as criminally negligent as the government
in covering up the true
scope of the AIDS epidemic. 4) Gay whitemen do not control the
AIDS media coverage,
the pressdoes.
If Nat Hentoff considers himself a responsible
journalist, how can hepresent such a one-sided
picture of this Important
issue? He presents ACT
UPas a totally gay whitemale group concerned
only with themselves. He
Is wrong. We, as Latino
members of ACT UP,will
not be rendered Invisible.
We are an Integral partof ACT UP,of each of, Its
committees, of each ofIts demonstratlpns. We
were closely Involved In
the week-long series ofdemonstrations aroundthe unfortunate appointment of Woody Myers,
yet Mr. Hentoff falls to'acknowledge our contributions, our presence,
thereby further perpetuating the myth of ACT
UP'sracial exclusivity.
Mr. Hentoff, like government officials, would
like the various communities affected the most by
AIDS to fight amongst
ourselves for funding
crumbs. This cannot beallowed to occur, and it
Is to ACT UP'scredit andIntegrity that when ademonstration against
government Inaction Is
staged, It Is done for the
benefit of all communities, If Mr. Hentoff had
read any of our fact
sheets he would havebeen aware of this. If Mr.
Hentoff wants to be productive In the empowerment of all communities
affectedby AIDS, heshould encourage all to
do as ACT UP does,
demand more funding
and services and takedirect action to end the
AIDScrisis.
The Latlnato AI6s
Activist, A Caucus of ACT
UP,
MolsesAgosto
Cesar Carrasco
Mario de la Torriente
Joe Franco
Robert Garcia
Gilbert Matlnez
Fernando Mariscal
JuanM. Mendez
Candid Negron
Victor M. Parra
Mario Quinones
LuisSalazar
Krim vs. Kolata
The New YorkTimes
New York,NY 10036
Tothe Editor:Your article on a purported ~odd surge ofdeaths" among people
with AIDS who hadreceived the new experimental drug ddl throughan alternative expandedaccess program (NYT.
March 12) presentsa mIsleading assessment of
the facts
thathascausedunfounded
alarm.
Dldeoxylnoslne (ddl)
may prove to be an
Important alternative to
AZT. the only drug
approved so far for thetreatmentof diseasecaused by the AIDSvirus.
Currently. 700 people are
Involved In clinical trials
for ddl; an additional
8.000 people. many ofwhom are very sick andunable to qualify for thetrials. are receiving the
drug through their physiCiansas part of a special
expanded access program.
Accordingto theFood and Drug Administration. It Is AIDS and Its
complications that were
responsible for most of
the deaths reported In
both groups-not.
asyour article suggests. the'drug ddl. and certainly
not the programof
expanded access.
Specifically. your article does not take Intoaccount the significant
medical differences thatexist between the groupof patients In controlled
trials of ddl and the larger group receiving ddl
under the expanded
access program. These
two groups simply cannot be compared: thefirst has been carefully
selected for Itscomparatively stable health status
and therefore
longeroverage life expectancy;
the second Includes thelarge pool of patients suffering from multiple com7
pllcatlons
who
are
rapidly running out oftime. As AIDS researcher
Melanie Thompson. M.D.
of Atlanta
recentlyobserved. a difference In
death rates between
these two groups merelyshows that 'very sick 'oranges die faster thanwellapples.,All drugs hove a certain amount of toxicity.
and ddl Is no exception.
Further clinical trials will
better define the risks
and benefits of ddl ateach stage of HIV disease. However. In theopinionof the vast
majority of physicians
and scientists who areaware of the evidence 'to date. ddl remains apromising drug well suited to the expanded
access program.
The patientsforwhom expanded accessto ddl Is Intended-likethose who qualified for
expanded access to AIr
In 1986 and 87-havemadeapersonal.
Informed decision to risk "taking an unproven therapy. But they also know

only ,too well that their ments options.
Mathilde Krlm.Ph.D.
condition Is fatal In Its
Founding Co-Chalr
natural course and that
AmFAR
they hove no.other treat-'ightmtl:re of the Wee.

There once was a gov'nor called Cuomo
Ever deferring the crisis of homo
He said come back next year
and tickle my car.
Then I'll yank you round like a schlomo

April 11, 1990

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11

News

ACT UP Lays Siege toAlbany Over State AIDS
Funding
made the steep bail-$2,OOO
for those charged withmisdemeanors and $5,000
for Denenbergset by
Albany city court judge
Larry Rosen, who presided
at the arraignment.
ACT UP legal adviserDavid Barr told Out Week
that
the
bail
was
"outrageously expensive
and uncalled
for. The
tactic used by the judge
was the same as that usedagainstcivilrightsprotesters in the South in
the 1960s.
"One of the first ihings
we're going to do when
we go to court next week
is to ask for a reduction ofbail," Barr said.
A smaller
protestinvolving18
membersofPhoto: Gerri Wells...ALBANY, WHY NOT TAKE ALBANY. ..-ACT UP seizes the Capitol.
ACT UP disrupted proactivists in a speech last year, to retum to ceedings in the state Senate chambers on
by James Waller
Albany in 1990 "to shout and scream" if Tuesday afternoon. During that action,
ALBANY,New York-Nearly 1,000
demonstrators briefly seized the floor andhis promises to deliver necessary
demonstrators,
mostly members ofaddressed legislators, listing a nuInber of
responses
to
the
AIDS
crisis
were
not
met.
ACT UP but including contingents frominitiatives the Senate and Assembly could
Police arrested more than 80
other organizations, traveled to Albany
demonstrators throughout the course. take to provide some immediate relief forlast Wednesday to lay nonviolent siege
the state's AIDScare crisis.
of Wednesday afternoon and evening.
to the State Capitol Building. The
ACT UP member Heidi Dorow,Of
these,
30
whohad
participatedinaprotest, which coincided with the third
who took part in the Tuesday action,
blockade of the Senate chambers andanniversary of ACT UP's first demo on
said that the proposed
initiatives
refused to move when the Capitol was
Wall Street, was mounted, to disrupt
includeddecriminalizing
needleclosed to the public at 6:00 p.m. were,business' as usual and to bring thepossession,compellingallprivateheldovernight.
One
of
them,
Risa
governor's
and state legislators'
physicians
to accept
Medicaid
Denenberg, a registered nurse and theattention to the pressing need to
payments, distributing condoms inwomen's health columnist for thisadequately and appropriately
fund
prisons and other measures that could
magaZine, was charged with a felonymeasures to deal with the monumental
be instituted "without spending anforallegedly
defacing
government
AIDS crisis now facing New York State.
extra penny."
propertywithspraypaint.
The March 28 demonstration was
On Wednesday morning, demonAll 30 had been released by noon
called in response to Governor Mario
strators
first formed a picket outside
Thursday, though not until they, had
Cuomo's invitation, made to all AIDS12OUTTWEEK

April 11 ,1990

the Governor's Mansion, a few blocks
from the Capito!. Chanting "No more'status Cuomo'" and "You said comeback in a year; Time's up, Mario, we're
here," they were met briefly by thegovernor as he exited the mansion enroute to the Capitol, where he engaged
in budget negotiations with legislative
leaders for the remainder of'the day,
Cuomo and legislators were' working
against an April 1 deadline
forapproval of the budget for the 1990-91
fiscal year.
Cuomo's r~marks to protesters
consisted of his denying responsibility
for the current financial crunch that ,threatens
all 'state social-service
programs and urging demonstrators totake theircase to Republican
legislators who are intent on pushing
through the final phase of a state tax
cut, If implemented,
that cut will
worsenthe alreadysul?stantial
budgetaryshortfall,Cuomo was,however, quickly drowned out by
protesters' cries of "Shamel Shame!"
Contacted
late
Wednesdayevening, the governor's press office
told OUtWeek that Cuomo would makeno other official responseto thedemonstration.
Leaving the Governor's Mansion atabout noon, protesters
marchedrapidly' past Albany's Roman Catholic
CathedraloftheImmaculate
Conception
and then through theconcourse of the State Office Campus,
ending up on the steps at the front of
the Capitol, where they unfurledenormous white-on-blackbanners
proclaiming"Drug treamentondemand" and "Healthcare is a right." A
group of about five managed to gain
access, to the balcony overlooking thestairs and to unfurl a one-story highblack banner saying "Deaths of people
with AIDS are a capital crime" before
they and the banner were removed bystate marshalls.
'
Dollops of red paint were poured on
the staircase, and its stone bannisters andbronze lampposts were decorated withlong strands of red tape. A few
demonstrators, having dipped their palms
in the pools of paint, made red handprints 'on the stairs and handrails. A cloth scroll
containing a petition signed by PWAs
and their friends and demanding"Health care 'now" was unrolled,

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NGLTF Chief Heckles
BuSh at AIDS Speechby Cliff O'Neill

Midway through the
speech, a man reportedly
CRYSTAL CITY, Va.-President
George Bush got mixed reviews fromfrom the ACT UP/NY
repeatedly
shoutedAIDS activists for his ftrst major speech
criticismof Bush'son the epidemic, delivered here March
29, which included an emotional call optimistic reports on his
war on drugs and his
for compassion
towards all AIDS
proposed AIDS budget.
patients, but neglected to address a host
Later, NGLTF headof other health care and immigration
Urvashi Vaid stopped
matters. And the executive director ofBush in mid-sentence by
the National Gay and Lesbian Task
standing up only 20 feet
Force stood up in the middle of Bush's
from him carrying a sign
talk to let him know just what shethat read, "Talk is cheap.
thought of it.
AIDS care isn't."
Speaking before the National"Mister President,
Leadership Business Conference on
you don't understand,"
AIDS, Bush delivered his address to the
500 gathered business and labor leaders shouted Vaid. "You're notdoing enough. We needand the heads of many of the nation's
lesbian, gay and AIDS organi2ations. He , more than one speech
every 14 months. We
called for all Americans to put awayneed your leadership.""irrational fear" about AIDS transmission
As Secret Service
and to keep those with HIV and AIDS
officials moved to Vaid toactive in the workplace.
seat herself, Bush de"In this nation," he said, "in thisparted frOm his speech to
decade, there is only one way to deal
address the hecklers. 'with an individual who is sick. With
"Let
me
say
dignity, care, confidentiality
andcompassion,
and without discrimsomething about this," SPEECHES '# LEADERSHIP
ination. Once disease strikes-we oon't
Bush responded. "I can ACT UP outside Bush speech
Photo: PatsyLynch
understand the, concern
blame those who are suffering. We
that these peOple feel. And I hope if wekind of eneIBYfrom the White House to
don't spurn the accident victim who
do nothing else while I'm up here, I can
get the AIDS legislation now pending
didn't wear a seat belt. We don't reject
help them understand that not only do
before CongreSs through."the cancer patient who didn't quit
you care, but we care, too."
Speaking just prior to the president,
smoking. We try to love them and care
Vaid stood again with her sign
one business leader startled some byfor them and comfort them. We do not
towards the end of the speech and was
calling for an end to the homophobia
fire them, or evict them, or cancel theirescorted out of the building by Secretand racism and chiding Bush's 1991
insurance. "Setvice officials.
budget as short-sighted in terms of healthBush's speech was interrupted six
Afterwards,
Vaidcharacterized
theand AIDS education funding, calling
times with applause for its strong calls
speech as "pretty wordS," but stressed
it a "nothing less than a death sentence"for compassion and prompt passage ofthat she did not want to "dismiss" theto future IV-drug users.
an AIDS anti-discrimination
law
importance of it altogether. "When you"As business leaders, we should also
included in the pending Americans
have the president giving AIDS 101' make it dear that we expect more of ourwith Disabilities Act. Yet it was whatmessages," Vaid stated, "certain people
government than mere words," stated
was missing from the speech that
Robert D. Haas, chairman and chief
gained it harsh criticism from AIDS who don't listen to other people will hearit. But these are words that are notexecutive officer of Levi Strauss and Co.
activists staging a press conference
backedupbypolicy.
And
we
need
that
"We need a thoughtful comprehensive
afterwards.

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Nc\"sAddressing the Rifts in the AIDS Community

Blacks and Gays Gear Up
for the Myers Yearsby Nina Reyes
NEW
YORK-Amidst
thecontinuing controversy over Mayor
David Dinkins' choice of Dr. Woodrow
A Myers, Jr. for the city's new healthcommissioner, many involved charged
that media fascination with the rift
betweengay and Black AIDS
advocates created a perceptionofdivision that did not account for thecommon goals that activists shared,
and did not acknowledge the bridges
between communities that Black andgay activists had constructed.
Now, in the wake of Myers'
appointment, AIDS activists who live inboth the Black and gay communities
point out that the tensions revealed
during the Myers episode were merely, indicative of deeper, older problems
that arise when people with diverse
agendas work in coalition_"I don't think there's any more ofa schism than there would be under
any other circumstances," commented
MarVm Palmer, a member of ACI' UP's
Majority Action Committee, which
deals with AIDS issues affecting
communities of color. "But for a while
there was a lot of disappointment-theMyers thing brought a lot of tension to
the surface."
Myers, who was scheduled to besworn in last Friday, came to New
York from Indiana's departm,ent ofhealth. He is the city's first AfricanAmerican health commissioner, andwas, appointed in January with thesupport of many prominen~ BlackAIDS advo'cates,and over thevociferous
objectionsof civillibertarians and some gay activists.
Myers was chosen by a searchcommittee that included both Blacks
and gays. However, only days before
his appointment
was expected,
disturbing facts about his record on
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AIDS issues in Indiana surfaced in thepress.
According to gay, AIDS and civil
liberties advocates in Indiana, Myers
strongly supported laws requiring thatthe names of people who test positivefor HIV be reported
to health'authorities, that their sexual contacts
be traced, and that health officials beallowed to quarantine
individuals
engaging in what
they
deemedunsafe sex.
Myers
also
supportedtheclosingof gay bookstores
andbathhouses, and his apparent laxity inhandling
funds allocatedby theCenters for Disease Control enraged
activists who battled daily against theliinitations of a tight budget.
"Indiana's AIDS programs havelost literally hundreds of thousands ofdollars
becausethey
weren'texpended, even though they wereallocated by the CDC. Myers' inaction
on this issue is unconscionable,
it'sliterally costing lives," one Indiana
public health official told OutWeek.
Myers has denied many of thecharges and :µlegations.
While tbe mainstream
media
leaped to cover what some saw as a
racially motivated dispute, others thinkthat equal doses of racism andhomophobia-exacerbatedby thestruggle for political clout-<:ontributed
to what became the new mayor's firstpublic-relations nightmare.

Myers, even after Myers' support forsuch controversial
measuresasquarantine and contact tracing wererevealed,' is that they wanted insurance
that
their
agendasand
theiragenci~dby extension, the city's
Black ,community-would
have
influence in the new administration.
"They felt that more money would
come their way," Wiggins continued.
"Communities
ofcolor don't get themoney that GMHC
[the Gay Men's
Health Crisis) andwhite organizations get.""It's a' fight for scarcity
ofresources," Keith Cylar, who works
with both the Minority AIDS Task
Force and ACI' UP, said SUCcinctly.
"That fight leads to a certain amount ofdivisiveness in the groups.»"I think that there's a perceptiJnthat in the Dinkins administration
people don't want to be perceived to
be kow-towing to white gay activists,"
said Allen Wright, a case manager at
the Brooklyn
AIDS Task Force,
touching on a theme that he thinks
boils down to infighting between
people who already do work together
on common
issues_ Wright alsosuggested that because some of thelegitimate concerns that gay activists
4ave brought up have been "deflectedby the call of racism," he has seen arenewedeffort among Black gay
activists to present those same issues
in a forum where raCism will not bealleged.
But Wright, who is Black, alsostressed that communities of color facea birth-to-death series of health care.crises, which are exacerbated by thefact that, emergency-room visits are all
too often the primary means of healthcare. "Ultima~ely, the approach toNews Focus·Scarcity of Resources·"When it comes down to it, it was
about
legitimacy
andmoney,"
contends Michael Wiggins, an AfricanAmerican member of ACI' UP, pointing
out that one reason Black activists
stood staunchly behind Dinkins andhealth care in communities of color
Of Sexuality, Race and the Media
has to be modified," he concluded.
Dinkins' own search committee
Several prominent Black activists
was divided over Myers. But the path
who participated in the selection ofof the fault-line
both inside andMyers made statements supporting
outside the search cOmmittee was not
Wright's point last January.
Thegoverned strictly by race and sexualemphasis of those speakers, however,orientation:some
gay activists
was more aggressive, and it served tosupported Myers, some Black activists
provoke anger among many gay
did not. AIDS activists charge that
activists. James R. Dumpson, chairman
media, however, even two monthsof the Black Leadership Commission
after Myers' appointment, would not
on AIDS, for example, told a reporter . leave the theme of "a coalition
for The New York Times, "I think it's
assunder" alone.
about time that we recognized that
"The media is doing a great
we're asking the mayor to appoint a
disservice to the complexity of thecommissioner'of health,
not aissues involved," claimed the Minority
commissioner of AIDS."AIDS Task Force's Cylar, whose
The executive director of Dumporganization
primarily
servesson's organization,
Debra Frasercommunities of color, and boasts a
Howze, phrased the same sentimentlargely gay staff. "People of color inmore frankly. "I told [ACT UP],"general are fighting to get their issues
Fraxer-Howze told Nat Hentoff at theaddressed in newsprint and you don't'
Village VOice, "that we share many ofsee it because
it doesn't
sell
your goals, but you have to realize
newpapers. 'that the demographics have shifted.
Resentment persists that ACf UP
Having an impact on AIDS policies isgets the press calls, the newspaper ink
no longer the franchise of the gay
and the sound-bites, while the AIDSwhite world."
related issues of people of color are
Repeatedcalls to the Black
unrecognized.
"That dynamic puts
Leadership Commission on AIDS for
people of color and ACf UP in conflict
this article were not returned,abecausethere's
a' scarcity
ofpattern that a number of activists
newsprint," Cylar argued, adding thatsaid is typical of that organization's
while he believes ACf UP has madeunwillingness
to enterinto aan extensive effort to incorporate
dialogue on this and other AIDS
issues that overwhelmingly
affectissues.
people of color, housing for homelesspeople with AIDS, "when people ofcolor see ACf UP, they see white.""I think a lot of people's feelingabout it is that there's a lot of media
distortion," agree'd another gay activist,
who did not want to be identified,pointing out that the coalition-building,work moves slowly forward, with orwithout media criticism.
In fact, there was almost universal
agreement among activists that themedia's slant on the Myers affair
muddied the waters without managing
to address the sub~tantive issues of
either gay activists or communities ofcolor. Moreover, in concentrating on
the controversy as a racially polarizedissue, the voices of gay people of color
went almost entirely unheard.
,"It's tp.e old question of are you
Black first, or are you gay first," Wrightpointed out. "If there is going to be aparticular
stance[on the Myers
controversy] in the Black gay camp.
[Black gays] are going to be divided on
th IS.
"All of us were very concerneothat there would be this breakage,"
admitted Rona Affoumado, execiJtive
director of the Community Health
Project, a gay community-based health
Clinic that serves a clientele she
estimates is 40 percent Black and
Latino, "and I think some of it was
because of the kind of reporting that

-BROUGHT TENSION TO THE SURFACEACT UP's MarVin Palmer-ARE YOU BLACK FIRST, OR ARE YOU GAYFIRST. --Allen Wright of the Brooklyn AIDS
Task ForcePhotos: IL Utt'WHEN PEOPLE OF COlOR SEE ACT UP,
THEY SEE WHITE.- -Kieth Cy/ar of the
Minority AIDS Task Forceo,S'. MYERS YEARS on peg. 41

April 11.1990

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17

News

AZT ,Maker To Promote
mv Testing in Gay Ad Blitz

EAT ME
Burroughs WeI/come's Retrovir, or AZT

by Duncan Osborne
NEW YORK - The manufacturerof the most widely-used AIDS drug in
the world is creating a public service
campaign aimed at gay men andurging its audience to get tested forHIV, the virus associated with AIDS.
And Jeffrey Braff, executive,
director of the Gay Men's Health Crisis,
has denounced
the move as "despicable," and referred to it as "selfinterest cloaked in compassion."
Burroughs Wellcome, the pharmaceutical giant that manufactures AZr,
has confirmedthat it retained
Johnston,
Zabor & Associates,amarketing research firm, to conduct
roughly 350 interviews of gay men andtheir physicians last month.
The one-on-one interviews were ahalf hour in length, and interviewees
were paid $25 for their participation,
which involved
discussing
theirreactions to a series of test ads for the
potential campaign. The interviews,took place in New York, Los Angeles,
San Francisco, Houston and Miami.

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Burroughs Wellcome's corporate
spokesperson, Kathy Bartlett, confirmedthat the company is conducting suchresearch, but said it has made no
decision concerning its ultimate use.
"Basically, because we know thatearly awareness may be important inpeople with HIV infection, Burroughs
Wellcome is looking at different waysthat we may be able to assist themwith information. The company has
research underway to look at thedifferent kinds of messages that may
be appropriate," said Bartlett.
Carisa Cunningham,a spokesperson for the GMHC, the country's
largest AIDS service organization, said
that such a campaign would raise
serious ethical issues.
Among them, Cunningham citedthe fact that Burroughs Wellcome, as
the manufacturer and distributor of
AZr, stands to benefit financially frompeople learning they are HIV positive.
She added that she had concerns
about the national
scope of theplanned Campaign.
"Discrimination is still a problem inmost places, and legal protections [forHIV positives] vary from state to state. It

is questionable,
ethically, to urge
people who are legally unprotected to
get tested without informing them ofwhat they are risking by getting tested,"
Cunningham said.
, In New York, participants for the
study were found through flyers
postedat the Lesbian and Gay
Community Center and at Identity
House, a community
counselingcenter. Interviews were later held at
the same locations_ Johnston, Zabor
also ran help wanted ads in theclassified section of this magazine.
The flyers and ad sought gay men
to "participate in research to create anational public service campaign."
Potenti,a! subjects were told to call thefirm collect and "ask for Mike_"
And in a letter from Rob Gringle,
the Johnston, Zabor employee who
conducted the intervieWs in New York,to Robert Woodworth, deputy director
for the Community Center, (iringle
wrote that his resear.ch was for a"projected national media campaign
with the goal of promoting positive,
healthful and life affirming messages
for those who are HIV positive."
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NGLTFJoins.

AIDS Confab
Boycott
by Rex Wockner
WASHINGTON-The
National
Gay & Lesbian Task Force M,arch' 18
threw its clout behind the boycott of
the Sixth International Conference on
AIDS ,in San Francisco and is urging its

i7,OOO members and gay and lesbianorganizations worldwide to join theprotest.
The decision was made by the
NGLTF board of directors at a meetingin Nashville. Board spokesman Rick

Rudy said NGLTF will rescind its
boycott only when gay and lesbianforeigners and foreigners infectedwith HIV face the same requirements
as everyone else seeking to enter the
U.S.
At
present,
allforeignhomosexuals are forbidden to visit theUnited States for any reason, andindividuals infected with HIV may
enter the country only to visit famijy,
receive medical treatment or conductbusiness.
Bothlaws
requireCongressional action to be changed.
"We believe the U.S. government
policy of denying entry to gay men
and .lesbians and people. with AIDS
and HIV is morally reprehensible,"
Rudy stated.
"We do not feel theconference can accomplish its task if
those most concerned are prohibitedfrom attending."
Technically, HIV-infected foreigners could attend the conference if theywent through the hassle of getting a
30-day "HIV waiver" from their local
U.S. embassy or consulate.
But
residents of most countries legitimately
fear revealing their HIV status tobureaucrats.
A second primary objection to the
U.S. policy is that it is downright silly
for the nation with the highest numberof reported AIDS cases to try to stop
HIV.at its borders.
As NGLTF executive
director
Urvashi Vaid put it, "AIDS is notimported into the U.S."
The conference,scheduled forJune 20-24, is being boycotted byscores
of
gay,
AIDS
and
governmental
entities worldwide,
including the European Parliament,
South
Africa's
Township
AIDS
Project, the U.S. National AssociationofPeople
With
AIDS,
the
International
League of Red Cross
and Red CrescentSocieties,
theCanadian
AIDS
Society,theAustralianFederationof. AIDS
Organisations, San Francisco's Shanti
Project and the NAMES ProjectInternational AIDS Memorial Quilt.
Calls for an end to travel
restrictions on the HIV-infected havealso been' put out by President
George Bush's National Commission
on AIDS, the U.S. Centers for Disease
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Lesbian' Coffeehouse
Ousted from Church
Relations withthe churCh had been
deterioratingforabout two years,
accordingto collective member Marcy J. Hochberg. "There
was always a small
contingent who had
a hard time with [ourbeing lesbiansl, butthree or four of usused to meet with
I.
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so they knew names
MOVING MOUNTAIN MOVING- AJIx Dobkin It her most recent and faces. We wereof mlny IppelfBnces It the coffBe house Photo: Jo~et Harper real people to them."by Joriat Harper
But church membershiphad beCHICAGO-Mountain
Movingcome increasingly less progressive andCoffeehouse, one of the oldest womenonly space in the U,S., has been evictedfrom the space it has been renting from a 'local church for over a decade. The allvolunteer lesbian collective which runs
the coffeehouse
believes it is being
forced out because the women in thegroup are gay.
The coffeehouselearned of thechurch's decision to evict them in, late
February through a note that had been 'left for them in the refrigerator of the
by Rex Wockner
church's basement kitchen. Signed by, CHICAGO-The
100 women
acting pastor Pat Morris and the chalnnan
creating a "Lesbian Agenda" for Chicago
of the board of trustees, it said thehuddled for the third time March ,12, atchurch's administrative board had voted
Lost and Found bar on the city's
to void "any standing arrangements" withnorthwest
side.
Despitesome'the coffeehouse as of April i, No reason
controversy over whether "white, middlewas given for the action.
class women" engage in "f!Sting," and"It's just homophobia, Absolutely,"complaints that the host-bar for next
said Kathy Munzer, who has been withmonth's meeting engaged
in racist
Mountain Moving for nine years. "We've
carding practices in the ,1970s, most felt it
been fighting it here for a long time."
Mountain Moving has produced its was the most productive meeting to date.
The purpose of the Lesbian Agenda
women~nly lesbian concerts and events
Ad Hoc Group, as the women ar.e
on Saturday evenings at the same School
known, is to hold lesbians responsible
Street neighborhood
location, a rented
for their invisibility in the media and inchurchhall
at theParishofReconciliation, for the last 12 years of its the gay community and to plot ways toresolve the problem, according to Joanne" 15-year history.

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more hostile to renting space to a lesbianorganization, she said. Some parishioners
believe their membership has declined inrecent years because they are perceived
as a "lesbian church,"though thecoffeehouse events only occurred one
evening a week, And there has been a"growing push" to oust Mountain Moving
since the church's pastor, Rev, Joann
Hanner, died of cancer last spring,
Hochberg said. Hanner had advocatedfor the coffeehousewith the church
board
Mountain Moving asked to remainin the church until the end of its season,
since the coffeehouse already had signed
contracts through July, but the request
was refused.
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April 11. 1990

Trapani, co-chair of the Illinois Gay &Lesbian Task Force.
"Rather than asking for visibility, wemust make ourselves visible," Trapani
urged. "We are invisible because we are
not demanding attention, We must tlke
responsibility for this. I'm begging you
to become involved.
We can't keep
blaming outside forces out there."The
meetingbegan
onalighthearted note with the presentation ofa "tit cup" to Renee Hanoverby
Razmataz bar owner Gwen Meyer.
At last month's meeting, held at
Razmataz, one woman said she wasoffended that the bar's decor includes
coffee mugs bearing the likenesses offemale breasts. In the midst of debate

about whether the mugs fuel sexist selfoppression by lesbians, Hanover had
quipped: "What the hell are tit cups, ~dwhere can I get one?" (She now has
one.)
The bulk of the March meeting
consistedof reports from "focus
groups."Highlights included theannouncement of a contest to design alesbian pride button, support from thefloor to move forward with plans fora
lesbian community center here, and thecontinuation of efforts by AIDS activist
Millie Leonard to convince Chicago
lesbians that they- could be at risk for
AIDS,
Observers have noted that Leonard
seems to be fighting an uphill battle,
fueled in part by the fact that the Centers
for Disease Control has yet to record
even one instance of woman-to-woman
sexual transmission of HIY.
"I'm not bringing this forward to bealarmist, but there has been a percentage
of IV-drug use and bisexuality in thiscommunity," Leonard said, "You arewhite, middle-classwomen who
probably don't use IV-drugs, and you
probably don't fisd-fuckl.
You areprobably in the clear, but I don't want
one more person to die from ignorance,"
Leonard's comments generated
heated dissent, both from women who
think those in attendance at the Lesbian
Agenda 'meetings do fist, and fromwomen who believe the assumption that
only poor or minority lesbians are at risk
for AIDSis "racist."
ACT UP's Mary Patten maintainedthat drug use and unsafe sex with meriby lesbians cuts across all class lines. She
also said lesbians are afraid to talk about
sex, due to "internalized
sexualoppression" and "need to deal with thesetaboos."A SUIVey distributed at the meeting
will attempt to gauge the sex and drug
habits of the women involved in the AdHoc Group.
It asks whether ~herespondeht has had sex with a man since1980, whether the man could have beena bisexual or an IV-drug .user, andwhether the respondent exchanges
sexual history information with sexual
partners.
Another woman objected to Patten's
remarks, stating: "I don't know any
lesbian who has AIDS. A lesbian who
sleeps with men is not'a lesbian, she's a
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Ne""sDaley Wears Down
Chicago Gays

·OLD WHITE BOYS· -Rick Garcia
Photo: Rex Wockner

by Rex Wockner
CHICAGO-Despite
an historiccoalition-building success, gays, lesbians/
women, Latinos, Blacks, Asians, Arabs,
immigrants and refugees lost a major battle in the Chicago City Council March 21
when Mayor Richard Daley's proposed
reorganization of the Commissions on
Human Relations fi'nallypassed.
The reorganization merges .the city'svarious offical "minority" adviSory gfoups,
into CHR, allegedly stripping them offundamental autonomy and individual
clout.
Activists had stalled Daley's plans fornearly six months, arguing that his aim
was to legislate away the power of theminority committees, counCils and commissions.
And at one point, the coalition
handed Daley an important defeat when
his plan was ore-referred" back to committee from the council floor.
But Daley finally pulled out all the
stops and extracted 32 votes from thecouncil. In the end, only 13 aldermen
opposed the reorganization.
"Now' we know who we can trust
and who will go with the mayor rather

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than the communities they supposedly
serve," said Rick Garcia, a member of
Action Network for Lesbian and Gay
Issues, which led the battle against thereorganization.
Minorities dislike Daley's plan
because it assumes that all minorities facesitnilar problems, which activists say isfalse.
"It's a case of old white boys knowing what's best for minorities," Garcia
said. "There is a complete lack of regard
for the cultural and ethnic diversity of
those groups."
It is now up to the administration,
Garcia added, to make the new Commission on Human Relations work.
In an interview, mayoral spokeswoman Avis Lavelle agreed that theadministration must now demonstratethat the plan will work, but she questioned the motivation behind gay 0pposition to the reorganization.
"1be effort to stop this legislation
became, in some quarters, much more apolitical than a philosophical battle,·
LavdIe said.
"If there's alienation out there, thenwe will lessen that by making this legislation work to everyone's benefit, eventhough right now there are some people
who are skeptical,· she added
A similar reorganization in New
York City elicited grumbling from politicos last month when the heads of thevarious offices were told to report to Victor Quintana, the director of the newlycreated Office of Constituent Affairs,
rather than directly to the mayor or a
deputy mayor. T

Penny Pullen
Plucked fromPower
by Rex Wookner
CHICAGO-Illinois
state representatiVe Penny Pullen, arch-foe of thestate's gay and lesbian citizens and thearchitect of what has been called theworst AIDS legislation in the country,
was sent packing by voters March 20 in
the state's Republican primary election.
Pullen, a 14-year incumbent, lost by
a mere 31 votes to unknown paralegal
Rosemary Mulligan in a race that focusedheavily on Pullen's vehement opposition
to abortion and Mulligan's "pro-chOice"views.

SUiveys show that Pullen's,district in
the Chicago suburbs near O'Hare Airport
is demonstrably pr<><hoiceand Mulligan,

argued that Pullen represents her own
views in Springfield, the state capitol,
rather than those of her constituents.
Numerous observers cited gay- andabortion-rights activist Terry Co5grove as
the key force behind Pullen's defeat. He
is executive director of Personal PAC,
which donated $30,000 to Mulligan's
campaign.

'the race saw an infusion of proand anti-abortion money from outside
the district, as political observers
Considered the race somewhat indicativeof the national mood on abortion.
"This election sends a message toevery anti-choice legislator in the
country," said Kate Michelman, executive

director of the National Abortion Rights
Action League, which gave Mulligan's
campaign $20,000.
"What this means in Springfield,"
Drake continued, "is that no legislator issafe. If moderate voters can defeat Pullen
in Park Ridge, anyone in the General
Assembly can be defeated. And that will 11~1:
reshape the tone of much of the debate :::1,
in Springfield'"...'
Gays and lesbians also watched, the.
election closely because of Pullen'saggressive anti-gay and anti-AIDScommunity work in Springfield At one
point, Pullen also sat on President• ,I~•>",' ,:'~"MEDICAID
Reagan's NatioruUCommission on AIDS,:.
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and activistsfeared she was h~ding for aI ~I~/ / -', ;/ " "-,if.:
L.Phyllis-Schlafly-likemove into the•. ",.. NOTARY PUBLIC.
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':-;;~:~'~f~~z~~".,IlI", 'Among the AIDS laws Pullen';'-'.11 _~shepherded
throughthe Illinois
M,ASTERCARD
legislature is one allowing doctors to run
lfiV tests on patients' blood without their
VISA / AMEX
knowledge. Gov. James Thompson
signed that measure into law in 1988.
LOTTO
Then in 1989, Pullen and Thompson~.,'(C"""'~_
made it a felony for an HIV-positive
individual to share body fluids withothers without first announcing his or her
lfiVstatus.
In pressing for the legislation, Pullen
argued that kissing fell linder the law's
purview. Violators can spend up to sevenyears in prison.
Gay issues did not come up during
the Pullen/Mulligan race until the final
week when the Pullen campaign falsely
stated that Mulligan had been endorsedby t~e Chicago area Republican gay
o~tion.
,Unsignedliterature
was also
circulated in the final week stating that
Mulligan would push for gay pride
parades down the main, streets ofsuburban Des Plains and Park Ridge.
There \Vas no response from the
Mulligan campaign to the gay baiting,and both the gay and straight mediaiwere unaware it had taken place until•.Iir~recently.
In an interview with Out Week,
Mulligan was hesitant to say anything on
f'''''~
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or anti-abortion
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became the first country in the world tohave legal, same-sex marriages, at least
two public figures have gone there to
wed.
Einar, the lead singer of the rockband the Sugarcubes, officially became
the spouse of Bragi, the bank's male bass
player, last month.
Hailing from Reykjavik, Iceland, theSugarcubes have become popular on the"alternative" music scene, with songs like

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March 24, Einar, sportingbright red lipstick, said simply,"We've known each other for
15 years and we thought itwould be a good thing to do.
We don't think marriage
should be only between men
and women. If people wantto marry each other forreasons other than religious[ones], because they're friends[or] they like each other, thenthey should be allowed to."Asked why he chose to
The Sugarcubes: Thor, Bragi, Einar, Siggi, Bjork and Magga ~ke the ceremony public,
ElOar answered that he andDeus, Birthday and Regina.
Bragi married "to confuse. Confusion isAsked about his wedding at a "Rockthe best statement," he said
Against Fur" benefit at the Palladium
According to Janet McQueeney, a()ut Takes
spokesperson for Second Vision, theSugarcubes' management Company, ,"It'skind of hard to say whether they're
actually lovers. It's hard to define it when
it's that close."
McQueeney added, "They nevergrow tired of each other. DO lovers dothat? No, they bicker constantly. They're
so much more than lovers."
However, Einar and Brag! did rent
the bridal suite in a hotel in Copenhagen
after their nuptials, "and had quite a party
that night," McQueeney said.
She also volunteered that band
members Thor and Bjork used to be
married, but that Thor is now married to
Magga, the other woman in the six-

member band.
McQue<jney wo.~ld not be pinned
down on whether {not Thor and Bragi
identify themselves as gay. But she didvolunteer that "Einar got his nipple
pierced in the bathroom of a Holiday Inn
in Daytona during spring break. He'squite pleased with himself," she said.
~adam
X and Andrew Milleror$1 M. Mapplethorpe grant
NEW YORK-On the first anniversary of the death of gay photographer
Robert Mapplethorpe, a gift of $1 million

has been made in his honor to B/!th
Israel Medical Center. The grant wasprovided by the Robert Mapplethorpe
Foundation, a not-for-profit philanthropic
organization
establishedat
Mapplethorpe's behest with money fromhis estate.
Beth Israel will use the funds tosupport a new program for people withAIDS who no longer require acute care
hospitalization, but who are not wellenough to function independendy. The
progI:aIIl will operate in a 28-bed facility,
to be named for Mapplethorpe, that BethIsrael plans to establish adjacent to its
current main campus near First Avenue
in Manhattan.
"We are extremely gratefulto the Robert Mapplethorpe
Foundation for enabling BethIsrael Medical Center to move
forward with this desperately
needed program," said BethIsrael's president, Dr. Robert
Newman.
Mapplethorpe, whose deathlast year preceded a controversy
over his work that landed on thefloor of the U.S. Senate andresulted in new government
funding
restrictionson,"homoerotic art," was diagbosedwith and treated for AIDSat BethIsrael. --Duncan Osborne

In our own

hands
WASHINGTON-"Fartoomany 'lesbians are losing theirlives to cancer and we need to
make' a concerted effort toprotect
theirlives, " TimMcFeeley, executive director of
the Human Rights Campaign
Fund, stated, before announcingthat Kathleen Stoll, Lesbian
Issues and Outreach Director for
HRCF, will spearhead a neweffort by the gay political action
committee
toincreasegovernment
fundingforpreventive health services andeducation about breast, uterine
and ovarian cancer.

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"Health issues are at the top of
HRCF's political agenda. In 1989, there
was an estimated 43,000 deaths due tobreast canrer, 6,000 deaths due to cervicalcanrer, 4,000 deaths due to cancer of theendometrium and 12,000 deaths due toovarian cancer. These statistics, cannot go
ignored," McFeeley said
"Wome,n who have n~ver had
childrenare at greaterrisk forgynecological cancers," Stoll explained, '"The
tragedyof these
often
preventable
deaths in the lesbiancommunity is another example of the
failure of our country's health caresystem. If proper screening and followup services for gynecological cancers
were available, lesbian lives would besaved daily."
HRCF will be working withRepresentative Henry Waxman (D-CA)
to build support in Congress for theBreast and Cervical Cancer Mortality
Prevention Act of 1990, introduced by
Waxman on March 8. The act would
establish a new Public Health Service
grants program to provide preventive
health screening and referral services for
low-income women for breast andcervical canrer.

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Who Discovered HIV?
(And Who Really Cares?).., Ann Giudici Fetlner
Like a recurring case of hives, theFrench/U.S. AIDS antibody test patent
brouhaha, settled by mutual agreement In
1987, reswfaces today courtesy of joumallst]obn Crewdson of the Chicago 'nibune In aaedes of near~~'a11ides. 0aimIng to
producz new ~alleging that Robert
Gallo stole the virus identified by Luc
MonragnIer, the arUdes and the dn:umsIances
surrounding them are merely a replay of 1985.
The only swpMe lies In the medla attention
generated by thls old, and often inaccwate1yInterpreted story.
A1most from the S1art of the epidemic, apeculiar kind of casting has taken'place. Luc
Montagnier of the Pasteur Institute In Parishas been assigned the role of dedicatedsdenIifIc genius from whom original research
has flowed. In contrast, the role of National
cancer Institute's Gallo Is ever that of an evil
vilIaln wOOse modus operandi Is to steal the
Ideas and work of others and then lie about
It. Both of these perceptions are Incorrect In
the extreme. SInce In the past I've played myown part In promulgating thls fiction, I want
to state the facts as I have come to know
them over the last four years.
,
I do believe that through haste 'andsloppy mangement, and also through theconfusion over uncharted terrltOty, the Pasteur
vfnls may very well have been included In thecell culture from which the first antibody test
was developed I do not, however, believethat there was either a need or intention of
pirating the French vfnls. DespIte the publicity
campaign launched by French sympathizers,
In MaJch 1987, an ~greementwas slgned that
reads: •...both InsUtut Pasteur and the UnitedStates Department of Health ~nd Human
Services disavow any statements, press
releases, charges, allegations of any otherpublished or unpublished utterances that
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improper, illegal, unethical or other suchconduct or practice by any scientists
employed by either of them..
Joint ownership of the mv test wasestablished with proceeds from the test
going Into a common pool from which 20
percent goes to each government and theremainder Into a research fund. A long,meticulous
chronologyof the events
surrounding the identification of the AIDS
virus was put together and signed by Gallo
and Montagnier and published In Nature.
Finis? Evidently not.

Inverted T-cell ratio Indicated a loss of the T-4
population.
In addition, at that time, Haitians
comprised the third largest group of AIDS
patierits, and ImV was known to be endemic
to the Caribbean. Por these reasons, retrovirus
scientists began joining the search for a causeof AIDS. The most important of them wasRobert Gallo of the National Cancer Indute(NCO, who first discovered ImV, the firstvfnls shown to cause cancer In humans.
In Paris, members of the depattment ofvirology at the Pasteur Institute, including

Photo: Rex Wockner

Photo: Bob Simonello!lmpact Visuals

THE DOCTORS IN OUES11ON-RobBIt Gallo fl.) and Luc MOlTtBgnisr
n.VilUlinOuntion
AIDS began to be identified as a specificentity In 1981. Because patients with ARC and
AIDS suffered from a range of Infections,·
some suspected that Epstein-Barr, CMV or
another wide-spread known agent, might be
implicated But none of these had previously
caused a simi1ar ~of illness.
However, several aspects of the disease
called attention
to the then-recently
discovered family of T <ell leukemia viruses(H1l..V). The clinical course suggested achronic or slow virus rather than an acuteone, like those which cause flu and IlUImPS'The immune suppression seen In patients was
simi1ar to that knQwn to occur in cats infectedwith FLV, feline leukemia virus. And theJean-Claude Chermann and Luc Montagnier,
long
time
collaborators
with
U.S.
retrovirologiSts,
began searching for aconnection between HnV and AIDS.'In May of 1983, Science magazine
published an extensive series of articles,
contributed by the above institutions andothers, about the known members of
leuIremla<auslng vfnls families. Researchers at
Harvard had found that one-third of AIDS
patients had antibodies that cross-reacted with
ImV infected cells. The NQ group reported
that HI'LV antigenS, or viral particles, were
present In two AIDS patients. And the Frenchwrote that they had found HnV antibodies In
an ARC patient, as well as a vfnls that killed
white blood cells.

By the time the articles were published,
the NCI group had Isolated a number of, viruses from AIDS patients. (A December 14,
1983 report from the government's researchfacility in Frederick, Maryland, desaibes theresults of taking electron micrographs of 33
virus samples sent for that puIJX>Se by Gallo'slab.) But as was also the case in France, there
were no cell cultures able to keep tPe newviruses growing. Without ample supplies ofviruses and their products, there was no way
to accurately identify the pathogens or to test
for the presence of specific antibodies.
The cause of AIDS, then, was an .iffy"
proposition until exactly a year later (St,tence
May, 1984) when overwhelming evidencecame from Gallo's lab: a cell line in Which to
grow large quantities of virus; an assay toscreen for antibodies; desaiptions of several
proteins specific to the new virus and theisolation of the virus from 48 patients with
ARC and AIDS.
PIdanIIy AbudOn April 23, 1984, the Public HealthService filed a patent for Gallo's cell line on
which the blood test Is based The patent was
granted a month later. Therein lay the seed of
the coming U.S./French dispute. (Patents on·lnventions" discovered by U.S. government
scientists return nothing but a $2,000 award to
the researchers. All income accrues to thefeds.)
Mean~'hne, unbeknownst to the U.S.,
the French had filed a patent with theEuropean Patent Office in September, 1983.
(To fulfill legal requirements, a notice of filing
was published in an o~eFrench trade
journal.)' And in December of '83, French
licensee Genetic System of Seattle flied a'patent in the U.S. Both applications werebased on a recent Montagnier paper titled, A

New Human T-Lymphotroptc Retrovtrus:
Characterizatton and Posstble' Role tn
Lymphadenopathy and Acqutred Immune
Deficiency Syndrome, which described thesingle virus. Both patents were turned down,
the U.S. one because it ·lacked commerdal
utility.",Included in the language of the U.S.
patent applicatlon Is a description of the cellline as •...useful for the production of vaccinesand for the detection of antibodies to the virusin blood samples.· Given that it took theexpertise of the NCI to turn any and all
discoveries related to (what is now called)
HIV into practical application, on what basis
exactly did the French insist owning a pieceofi~.

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When the French couldn't keep theirvirus alive, the Pasteur group sent it to
Gallo as they had in similar circumstances
many times in the past. There, among theother newly-discovered,'AIDS-related
viruses, Montagnier claims that his waseither mixed in with the 'One from which
the blood test was ultimately devised, or,alternately, contaminated the virus used tomake the blood test
One might
say "so what?" Ifcontamination did occur, the proceeds arebeing shared equitably: half to the ori~
obseIvation, half for turning it into the I1DJchneeded test If the whole thing is a chimera,then Gallo got messed-<>Ver. But two-and-Qhalf years later comes the Crewdson rehash,one of whose major U.S. governement
sources is C. McClaIn "Teddy Bear" Haddow,
a fonner ffliS Chief of Staff who is neveridentified by Crewdson as having beensentenced to jaU time for violating federal
conftict-<i-lnterest laws. Why?
..".,..

,. __III ". fight .gal"., AIDS,.,." ..-Lany Krlmer'1 .... rling.nswerIng machine'Part ci the the reason Americans haveaccepted the misapprehensions about AIDS
research grows from the self-immolation inwhich we love to indulge. Contrast this to thenationalistic chauvanism ci the French, press
and public alike. Some skepticism is also
generated by Gallo himself, whose legendary
propensity to shoot his mouth off to anyone
who can button-hole him is in sharp contrast
to Montagnier's smooth ability to work thepress.
But dragging the most important AIDS

researcher through this fiasco I believe to bepredicated on Montagnier's problems, athome: money first and always, reputation

second.
In its present
form, the jointlypatented AIDS test produced $3.5 million
each for the Pasteur and U.S. coffers in
1989. This money, plus the.Institute's
receipt of approximately half of all AIDS
research monies ~ France, plus $16 donfrom the recently-<ieceased
Dutchess of
WIndsor, has apparently still ,not put the
Pasteur on' a solid financial footing, nor has
it resulted in any Significant, patentable"inventions" for AIDS. In fact, aside fromthe publicity during the patent fight with
Gallo, the French researchers have attracted
attention only for Rock Hudson's futile
sortie to receive then-touted HPA-23, andthe identification of a second strain of mv

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in Africans.
On the other side ci the ledget; Gallo's
group has identified the first viruses shown tocause humancancers(the HTLVs);
Interleukin-2 (without which T<eIls can't begrown); mtv-m (HIV-l) and a cell line togrow it in; HBLV (the new herpes virus); thegrowth factor that apparently causes Kaposi's
sarcoma; plus many of the molecularrefinements on which the knowiedge ci AIDS
and the family ci retroviruses has been built
And there's I1DJchmore coming.
In other words, the Pasteur Institute has
invested considerable French resources withlittle to show. 1he coup de grace may havebeen the recently-signed agreement between
Gallo's NIH group and the biggest phannaceutical company in Europe, Merieux, tocoDaborate on vaccine development Merieux
owns the Pasteur vaa:ines and many oIhers. 'Accordingto Frenchsources,Montagnier is viewed with indifferent
regard by other scientists at Pasteur, and his
appearacnce
at the International
AIDS
Conferences have become increasingly
lame. One of Gallo's most vehement critics,
a fonner researcher in Gallo's lab, told me
In 1986 that "Montagnier--QS stupid as heis, and he's a petty little man-theonlyreason he's alive today is because Gallo's
kept him alive. Montagnier discovered aunique virus but didn't have the guts tocharacterize
it on his own. He wanted
Gallo to hold his hand."In the absence of any significant
scientific accomplishments In many years,
Montagnier is bucking to become director ci
the Institute and may be resurrecting thepatent dispute to position himself in the
popular press as a French martyr ci American
double«aling.
The progress being made In vaccine
development
by several
American~hers,
including Jonas Salk and Allan
Goldstein, together with the fact that theoverwhelming burden of drug development
is American, may also be lurking behind therenewed French campaign. Patent law
being somewhere outside of sensible, it isconceivable that, if this contretemps isreopened, vaccine development that haseven peripherally employed the blood test
may also be claimed in FranCe.
That's pure speculation,
but thedisinterring of this issue a]ld the way it isapparent1ybelng fueled from Paris, leads one
to look for an underlying agenda; In any
event, a pox on both of their houses, but let's
not allow real progress In AIDS treatment torest on personality allts and oontests.....

OUT TAKES from pe•• uthat same year.
The Charter Revision Commission,
now called the Mayor's Task Force on
Charter Implementation;,W,a5
given thejob of creating a new structure for thecity's government.
After much public debate,thatcommission
opted to redistributethecurrent powers of the Board of FSimate
to the city council. In an attempt to
make
the
city
councilmore
representativeof the city's diverse
population
the numberof council
districts will increase from 35 to 51,
The Districting Commission, a 15member
independentbody,
ischargedwith the task of creating
those 51 districts. The districts must
be roughly
equal
in population,
constituted
to make fair and effective
representationof minorities
possibleand they must not break up neighborhoods
with traditionaland historical ties.

As d Marth 15th, the ely cwncil's eightappoinImen1S to the I:>SOOing eo. 1.IIMoo.
have been made, lx.d: IXXle are qleflly 1JlY alesbian, acxnding to Magisaoo.
Mayor David Dinkins will make theseven appointments
to the commission
by April j5th. Jennifer
Kimball,anassistant press secretary in the mayor'spress office; told Out Week, "Mayor
Dinkins
wouldlike to try to have 'someone who is openly gay or lesbtm siton the commission."
CandidaScott Pie!, Executive
Director of FAIRPAC, said, "One would
presumeone would
get a more
sympathetic hearing with an openly gay
or lesbian person on the commission"
In addition
to working
for this
appointment,
Piel, Magisanoanc;iothers are assemblingdata from themailinglists of lesbian
and gayorganizatioO$. They say that these zip
code counts will demonstrate that gays
and lesbians have traditionally lived incertain neighborhoods.
They point to
Chelsea, Greenwich Vtllage, the Upper
West Side, Jackson Heights in Queens
and the Park Slope section of Brooklyn
as examples.
-Duncan Osborne T

AlBANY from pe.' 13
covering a portion of the staircase.
Though the hundreds of protesters

massed on the Capitol steps behind
responses from office workers, andbold black and white banners conveyed
eventuilily located the office of state
a powerful image, the tableau also had
Senator Joseph Bruno, whom they had
the eerie quality of a spectacle
specifically targeted for their action.
performed without an audience: no
Bruno,
a Republican
who
faces appearedat the Capitol's
represents a district including Renssa!aer
windows, and those watching theCounty' on the outskirts of Albany, haddemonstration from the foot of the stairs
been quoted in Wednesday's Daily
consisted of a few reporters and camera
News objecting to ACf UP's tactics,
people and a handful of bystanders. A which he claimed were violent andlone mounted policeman surveyed thecounterproductive. The senator was notscene from some distance away.
in, but the demonstrators managed to
At about 1:30, several affinity
intercept a call from him that camegroups-whose
nicknames included
shortly after their arrival. He agreed tothe "Cuomophobes"-leftthe area attal~, and two protesters - Jamie Leo
the bottom of the steps and entered
the building,converging
on the I
Capitol's main lobby, where many lay
down, blocking corridor entrances
and a central stairwell and escalatorbank. Protesters conducting actions
and
state
employees
working
elsewhere inside the Capitol reported
that the din raised by protesters in the
lobby
could
be clearlyheardthroughout the building.
One of those arrested early in theafternoon, Brad Lamm, was dropped on
his back while being carried to the police
van outside and was taken to a local
hospital for X-rays, but sustained noserious injuries. A number of protesters
suffered minor' cuts, bruises and injuries
related to the improper application ofplastic handcuffs used to restrain them.
There were no reports of injuries topolire officers or state troopers.
Meanwhile, inside the Capitol, one
affinity group --calling itself the "NewYork Action Tours"-was engaging in ~charade that enabled it to move into
areas inaccessible
to other, more
readily identifiable ACf UPers. Dressedas businesspeople,
the ,group's
members registered for one of theCapitol's regularly scheduled tours and,after paying visits to the Flag Roomand the "Million-Dollar Staircase," wereable to move onto. one of the upper,
offtce floors of the building.
, According to Marc Yankus, whoparticipated in the action, the tour
guide who had been leading the group
was astonished-and
furious-whenthe "businesspeople"
pulled fakeblood-soaked
sponges from theirbreast pockets and doused themselveswith the red liquid. They wandered
about,
chanting.
anddrawing
interested,and 'seemingly fearful,and Andy Velez - conversed with him
for 20 minutes.
Both Leo and Velez told OutWeekthat Bruno's
response
softenedsomewhat during-the conversation,that he seemed intereSted in learning
more about the ACf UP proposals for
initiatives that would require little
budgetary increase, and even that hemade a tentative protI).ise to meet witha few members of ACf UP during thecoming weeks.
Bruno's office was unable on
Thursday to conftrmwhether
such ameeting would actually take place, ~

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"I think that I'm a compassionate,broad-minded person and I look atthings from all aspects and give
people credit for being the goodpeoplethat they are. I, would
definitely be different [than Pullen]
and no one is going to make hystericalover anyone
issue," Mulligan told
OUtWeek. T

the coffeehouseholds its smaller
concerts.
As for the larger upstairs space, said
Morris, the church had "found ashtrays
and things that led them to believe thesanctuary was not being treated as ahouse of God."
Spurred by the eviction, thecoffeehouse has found a different spacein another North Side church, the United
Church of Rogers Park, and its 1990
schedule will not be interrupted. The
new church has sponsored other gay andlesbian groups, and has a gay-positive
atmosphere, said Munzer.
''They said they were excited about
having a lesbian coffeehouse. They wereactually welcoming. It's like heaven. It
will be good to get out of the old space,because we are not wanted there."Through the years the coffeehousehas become a choice venue 'for wellknown lesbian performers, and thosejustbeginning
theirconcerts.
Comedienne
Kate
Clintonandmusicians Alix Dobkin, Tret Fure, Lucie
Blue Tremblay and the Dyketones haveall performed there. Moutain Moving
has provided
philosopher
Sarah
Hoagland, cartoonist Alison Bechdel
and many lesbian poets, wr'iters andcomics with a place to show anddiscuss their work.
The women of the coffeehouseare planning "a little ritual" after their
final concert at the School Street
church, to put closure to their years
there, "to take our lesbian energy outof that place, to remove it," according
to Munzer. "I do feel sad. We've been
there a long time, and we've had somereally good times there. Imagine, after
12 years, to let us know they're kicking
us out by leaving a note in the
refrigerator." T

COFFEEHOUSE from page 20

lfSBIAN AGENDA from page 21

concerts in March and April. has been
distributed already, and Rev. Morris
verbally agreed to allow the coffeehouseto remain through April.
Morris, who assumed her post in
December
1989, said that church
members believe the coffeehouse is"incompatible to the ministries of thechurch." She said the church is alsoplanning to do "children's ministries" andit would be "inconvenient" to movearound the kiddie furniture she planned
to install in the church basement wherebisexual. We're so concerned about AIDS
but not about the things that kill us
directly."
The meeting ended with controversy
about the location of the April meeting--Augies/CK's bar on Broadway.
Hanover said she will boycott themeeting because the bar, previously
known as CK's, "overcarded women ofcolor in the 70s."
Several women defended
thedecision to meet at Augies/CK's,
reporting that the racist carding stopped

BURROUGHS from page 18

None
of
the
advertising
mentioned Burroughs Wellcome, andneither the Community Center nor
Identity House was informed of
Gringle's relationship to that company.
In interviews with two of theapproximately
60 people
who
participated in' the study in New York,
Outweek learned that interviewees wereshown three separate ad boards. One
pictured a middle-aged man, a second
showed two different men's faces, andthe last depicted a younger man.
The print copy in each varied instyle and length, but in each, the viewer
was encouraged to "take action," and to"know your condition." The messages
cautioned the viewer to practice safe
sex and to get tested for HN.
Burroughs Well come has comeunder fire in the past, when AIDS
activists charged the company withprofiteering and force'd it to reduce
its price of AZT, which is still theworld's most expensive drug. The
drug, giant continues to refuse todisclose financial data justifying its
pricing of AZT, but claims that AZT's
price reflects
the high cost ofresearch and development
for thedrug, the only treatment to inhibit
HIV itself. T
PULLEN PLUCKED from page 23

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April 11, 1990

long ago and that there has been apartial change in the ownership of thebar in the intervening years.
Other women noted that Augies is
now the major gathering spot for
Chicago's African-American, Latino andAsian lesbians.
"On the north side, that is where
we ... go," said Achy Obejas, who is
Cuban.
"We must not restrict ourselves towhite, middle-class north side bars,"
added Leonard. "This is the place toreach women of color.""There was a problem," explained
Marty Smith. "Let's go and let's find out.
Last week I saw Black women, white
women, brown WOmen--50me of themwere actually sitting at tables together.""Yeah, now they [the bar] know they
can make some money [that way],
Hanover interjected.
The Lesbian Agend Ad-Hoc Groupwill continue to meet monthly. T
BUSH AIDS SPEECH from page 15

Bush's statement that he has
proposed $3.5 billion in AIDSfunding for
fiscal 1991 was also criticized as a "mask"for "level funding" in the face of adoubling AIDS caseload. Without theinclusion of funds for mandatory HIV
testing of the military and Job Corps
volunteers and Medicare and Mtiicaid
programs, the '91 AIDS budget is aCtuallycloser to $1.7 billion.
Several members of the National
Commission on AIDS, three of whom
met with Bush earlier in the day for aten-minute meeting, were Significantly
more muted in their criticism of the
speech.
Saying she was "happy with [Bush's]level of concern," June Osborn, chair of
the National Commission on AIDS;called
the meeting. a "nice chance to start a
dialogue with the president." She statedthat although she brought up theimmigration issue, Bush did not say how
he felt on the matter.
"The longer I am in public life, thelower my expectations become," added
commissioner Belinda Mason, presidentof the National Association of PWAs."Hecertainly went farther than I had
expected him to, but certainly less far
than certain people in the communitythat are infected would have hoped," shesaid. T()bituaries
International Chrysis,
8JDger, Actreaa and Perform~
Dies of Cancer At 38
There are many types of beauty inthis world, but few people possessed theotherworldy beauty of International
Chrysis, who died of cancer on March 26
at Doctor's Hospital in New York. She
was 38 years old and lived
in Greenwich Village. Her
death occured several days
after the 16th anniversaryof the death of anotherspecial beauty, Candy
Darling, who passed away
at the same hospital.
Chrysis was widely
considered
New York's
foremost"transgender"
entertainer for much of thepast three decades. Her
career began in the featurefilm tbe Queen, which won
the Best Documentaryaward at the 1968 Cannes
Film Festival. Throughout
the 1970s, she headlined at
New York clubs like The
Blue Angel, La Vie En Rose and the
Rainbow Room. She also headlined in
London and Berlin nightclubs and in
Parisian revues;
Lately she had cultivated a younger
audience. of fans at places like Pyramid,
The World, Boy Bar and Mars. Her last
fUm, Sidney Lumet's Q & A, with Nick
Nolte, will be released in April.
When I learned of her illness lastmonth, I could only reflect on my bitter
feelingS that at 41, I've outlived most of
my contemporaries. And Chrysis, or Billy
Singleton, was a person whom I knew
since the early 60s.
Was Chrysis the son of a famous
judge who left New York fqr Miami
Beach? That was the rumor back thenbecause the first time I met her, Chrysis
was a plump little boy from the Bronx
who, even then, possessed a mostunusual face-thekind that wasHollywood material.
"During the 196Qs,Chrysis was liv.ing
with several of her 'sisters' in Little Italy.
One afternoon, while wearing a gorilla-fur
coat and wedgies and carrying an
unplucked chicken for dinner that evening.
a gang of 1cx:a1 hoods decided to have alittle fun and chase her. Running for her
life, she ran down into the Spring Street
station and jumped over the tumstile--a
move, that hadn't gone unnoticed by atransit oop who arrested her. The next day,at 100 Centre Street, a bedraggled Chrysis
still wearing the gorilla fur, which was by
now covered with feathers, a torn dress,

makeup smeared and mlssing one shoe,stood before a judge who carefully lookedat the sf1arges. "I see Mr. Singletonthat you
are here because you A) Jumped over a~~y~eandmarem~m~a woman."Chrysis looked at the judge carefully
and pointed to herself saying "Did you.ever see a woman look like this?"
The courtroom erupted into gales oflaughter and the case was dismissed.
At her sold out
benefit at La Mama tohelp pay her mounting
medical bills last month,
Chrysis looked as' farfrom death as the state of
Ohio. 'She laughed, sang,joined a chorus 'line andsimply radiated energy
when
she told heradoring public that "shewasn't going anywhere."
Her smile lit up theroom when a bevy of
aged
Latin
Quarter
beauties marched about
the small stage seremded
by a man dressed in a'white tuxedo singing I
Remember You. Chrysis
got up on the stage and I know now that
this must have been the culmination ofher life--a passport to legend.
Duringintermission,sheproceedeed to give me a litany of her
medical problems, with the underlining
problem being cancer of the liver. "But
I'm going to Europe with the new Hot
Peaches show," she confided. "Nothing
will keep me from doing that'"
Chrysis was a major talent. She hada small but sharp repertoire of songs
written expressly for her by East Village
composers and as she got older she grew
ever more beautiful and ethereal,
wearing her long hair down her
shoulders in soft brown swirls. A
memorial service is 'planned for Sunday,
April 8th at Ipm at the church center for
the United Nations, 777 UN Plaza, 1st
Avenue at E. 44th Street.
There will never be another Chrysis.
Your beauty will never light up the sky
again. Adieu, my friend.
-Jeremiah
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Positive Alternatives

AIDS, and Cancer:
Common Struggle for Right to Choose Treatment,

Iby Bob LedererP

eople with AIDS and people
with cancer have a lot incommon: not only the personal anguish and social stigma ofoften fatal diseases, but also nearlybare cupboards of viable conventional
treatments-often
painful and only
briefly life-extending chemotherapy.
Yet independent
clinics worldwide,using mixed treatment programs of innovative nontoxic drugs, nutritional
supplements, herbs, diet changes andother remedies, report dramatic improvements in thousands of people
withcancerandscoreswith
AIDs--often backed bylargescalestudies ofpatient histories.
Sadly, most doctors and medical institutions
know
littleabout-yetoften ridicule and stigmatizealternative and holistic
treatments. For several
years, a small but determined
grassroots
movement of people
with cancer and theiradvocates has been demanding theright of access to alternative treatments-I.e., self-empowerment. While
not nearly as large or effective as the
AIDS movement, it includes fightersjust as courageous,and they havegained important allies in Congress.
Many cancer' activists have watched
the AIDS movement with admiration,
hoping, some day to come together incommon cause.
This vision fmally took a step toreality at a historic conference, "AIDS
and Cancer Movements: Forging a
Common Front," in New York City on
February 24-25. To my knowledge, it
was the flCStjoint meeting ever heldby activists dealing with these two
diseases. About 35 people attended

from numerous groups nationwide.
The conference was co-convened bymyself and Ralph Moss, an activist anddistinguished author of several books
on cancer treatments.
Perhaps the fust to envision sucha conference was Ron Wolin, a leading cancer activist and committed progressive organizer. Ron died a week
after the conference,
having lived
seven vigorous years of unflagging
angry!loving activism beyond his "terminal" prognosis-largely
due to anunapproved nontoxic drug (a peptide
called antineop!aston). Ron's life partner and energetic activist compatriot,
Avis Lang, left his bedside to accept
the conference's lifetime achievement
award for Ron. She made a deeply

identical suppressive tactics by thesame medical officials. Medical societies have attacked, ridiculed, threatened and suspended physicians using
unconventional treatments-not
usually "quacks" making wild claims, but
the most cautious, scientific doctors.
The National Institutes of Health haverefused to do research into most alternative treatments. And most insurancecompanies arbitrarily deny reimbursement to "unapproved" treatments.
Ron Wolin's doctor, Stanislaw
Burzynski, M.D., of Houston, Texas,
administered his carefully researcheddrug to thousands of "terminal" cancer patients, obtaining an unheard-of
remission rate. In 1985, the Food andDrug Administration (FDA) raided his
clinic, seized patient
records and tied him
up in court for years.
(Much later he won
the OK for Phase II
effectiveness trials.)
Later, the Aetna Insurance
Company
sued him under the
racketeering law forseeking reimbursement for his patients.
Aetna's attorney was"patient
empowerment" advocate Grace Powers Monaco, a leading figure in the so-called"anti-quackery", campaign organizedby many of the above forces-plus
the profit:'hungry drug companiesto suppress competition from alternatives.

Medicalsocieties, have attacked, ridiculed, threatenedand suspended physicians
using unconventional
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moving call to fight harder against repression of alternatives, while struggling against racism, sexism and homophobia
in the ranks of both
movements.
Avis' call catalyzed a heated but
enlightened debate about these issues.
Between the AIDS and cancer activists, there were vast differences ofage, sexual orientation and politics;
but overall, white men were predominant, a problem the AIDS activists said
they'll deal with' by broadening thegroups planning future conferences.

Common Probl.ms, Common Enemies, But amidst all the differences
were, incredible commonalities: similar(sometimes the same) treatments, andGrac. Powers Monaco's Blacklist
It was Monaco's
latest effort
which catalyzed this joint conference.
In 1986, Monaco's for-profit Emprise
Corporation, formed with her insurance company consultant
friends,
won National Cancer Institute funding
for a computerized database-available to doctors, hospitals and insurance companies-offering
biased"evaluations"of alternative cancer

treatments. The goal: a blacklist to
discredit all but orthodox treatments.
Last year, Emprise got a $47,000
pilot grant form the National Instituteof Allergy and Infectious Diseases(NIAID) to do the same thing in the
AIDS field. The company is now
seeking a large grant (NIAID illegallyrefuses to release the amount) tocomplete the blacklist. Ominously.,
Monaco has been seeking the cooperation of PWAs and AIDS advocacy
groups in gathering data on possible
targets.
ACf UP/NY is leading a national
campaign to STOP THE B.LACKLIST.
Over 20 AIDS advocacy and service
groups have endorsed its "Open L~tter to the AIDS Community" (the list
grows weekly), urging noncooperation with the Monaco/Emprise project, and demanding that NIAID rejectfurther funding for it. The Open Letter further calls for NIAID to redirect
this money to AIDS community organizations to gather objective data on
alternatives.
In 1989, cancer activists unsuccessfully mounted a lobbying and letter-writing effort to stop further federal funding of the cancer blacklist,
focusing on Emprise's conflict of interest. Their generous sharing of documeqtation helped inform ACf UP's
campaign. The conference ended witha decision to form the "AIDSand Cancer Freedomof Choice
Task
Force"-a coalition of cancer, AIDS
and holistic health organizations. For
now, the Task Force will focus on thefight against the blacklist.
NIAID may make a decision on
the Emprise grant within weeks. Thus
we're at a crucial moment. The issue
here is not endorsement of particulartreatments; it's the right of access to 'the treatments of one's chOice, basedon honest, balanced information. The
victory we win here will send a,strong
message to the powerful forces be'hind the "anti-quackery" campaignand will advance self-empowerment
for people with every disease. T

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New York, New York 10011
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If you want a fighting chance, here's some good news:
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Political Science

Medical Apartheid Revisitedby Mark HarringtonN

ew York University is famous for its medical care.
If you can get in. NYU has
lucrative contracts with Bellevue toprovide medical staff and run clinical
trials in Bellevue's mosdy poor, largely
minority populations.
In 1986, NYU
used this affiliation withBellevue
to secureamulti-million dollar, fiveyear contract with the
AIDS Program of the National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases(NIAID) , promisingtoconduct its AIDS drug trials in Bellevue's diverse
population.
Yet by December
1988, only ten AfricanAmericans had enrolled in
NYU's many AIDS studies, and up tohalf the studies weren't even officially'
open to Bellevue patients. ACT UP
threatened to stage a demonstration at
NYU charging medical 'apartheid, andthe bureaucrats rushed the closed studies through Bellevue's bureaucracy to
avoid public humiliation.
As the sequel shows, however,just opening clinical trials doesn't meanthat anyone will sign up. In the subsequent year, only six more AfricanAmericans signed up for NYU AIDS trials, making a total of 16-just four
percent of NYU's 392 patients by January 13, 1990,1 !n a city where over 35

percent of the total AIDS cases are in
African-Americans.
Women at NYU have fared just as
poorly. Fifteen women (four percent)enrolled in the three and a half years
since NYU began its publicly-funded
AIDS trials. Yet New York has one of
the highest rates of female AIDS in the
country. NYU investigators haven't
even heard of Brooklyn's Women and
AIDS Resource Network (WARN),

tine, the Principal Investigator at NYU's
AIDS research unit, approached thencity Health Commissioner Stephen C.
Joseph, asking whether the city-run
anonymous AIDS Counseling and Testing sites (ACTs) could refer people
who tested HIY antibody-positive to
AIDS trials at NYU and elsewhere in
the city. Dr. Joseph refused to consider Valentine's request, blocking forover two years any chance for mostpeople to hear about
AIDS drug trials when
it would matter mostto them-at
the timeof their diagnosis as
HIV positive.
In this the city's
public health policy
has not changed muchsince 1914. Five years
after Paul Ehrlich discovered syphilis could
be treated with Salvarsan (a derivative ofarsenic), NYC's Bureau of Social Hygiene set up a public venereal cftseasediagnostic clinic-but it only screened
for exposure to syphilis and gonorrhea, declining to provide treatment.
An official maintained at the time that
"under no circumstances is treatmentof any character given,"zOver 16,000 New Yorkers have already died from AIDS. By 1993, thatfigure could well climb to 48,000. Yet
the city's governnient fails to make any
use wha~verof the many research
institutions providing experimental
AIDS therapies. The solution is complex, but the basic elements are clear:

As far as most r e searchersgo, ··outreach" may as well bein a foreign language.
which provides counseling and referrals to women and families in a borough which is a desert as far as AIDS
research goes.
As Jar as most researchers go, theword "outreach" might as well be in aforeign language.
They don't evenknow where to begin. A few sites list
trials on the back of the Village Vok;e:"Depressed about AIDS? Get free testing, treatment and counseling. Call ..."Such passive measures of outreach
don't encourage many white gay men
to enroll, let alone people in the outerboroughs who never read the Voice. .
Over two years ago, Fred Valen-

1. AIDS research must occur in ahealth care system which provides acontinuum of primary health care forpeople at all stages of HIV disease.
2. Drug trials can only become equitable if they are an option to everyone as part of their primary care, not a
privilege for those treated outside of
the Medicaid/HHC systems.
3. Public hospitals like Harlem
Sn POUTICAL SaENCE on peg. 41~ocONTROL
Commentary by Susie Day
Dear Cardinal O'Connor,
All my life, '1 have tried to be agood woman. Regular churc:h attendance.
Above average grades inschool. Plenty of exercise and theright diet. And long ago, I decided to
wait until marriage before giving
my body to another.
But
now, I may be too late forthat. You seeArrraugbgbuuurrrrbb. Htya, Cburcbman. Love your outfits.
Haven't I seen you on
tbe runway at Mtnsky's?
Heb, Heb.
Please, no.
Notagain. I'm so sorry, your'Eminence. ,I don't know
what's gotten into me. Well.
Yes. ~ybe I do. It's like thisI gotta bave me a woman, Btg
Daddy. A nun, yeab. Get me one a
tbem /esbo nuns I read about. All fresband datnty Itke Sally Field, but tnside,an antmal. OOGAH, OOGAH!!!
As you have probably guessed bynow, your Eminence, I am possessed.
Oh, this is so embarrassing.
There's
this big, stupid lesbian who's takenover my body.
Ebbb-yamotber sucks armyboots tn bell .. Nyab, nyab, nyab.
She makes me do vile, horrible
things. Things like coming in habitually late to work and talking back to myboss. Like forgetting to wear make-up
and deodorant. And a few days' ago, I
woke up with one of those radical,
short haircuts that makes me look likea cross between Joan of Arc and Mortimer Snerd. God only knows where
I'd been or what I'd done to get it.
God don't care. Sbe's an atbeist.
Yuck, yuck, yuck!
Then last night? After I ftnally got

up enoughnerve
to ask myboyfriend-a renowned CPA and Little
League coach-overto my place fordinner, my inner lesl;>ian forced me
to-I can't say. All right~' She made me
put on a medical exam gown and reenact my last gynecological check-up
right there on the table, while reciting
tuna melt recipes in a hideous,rasping voice.
Betty Crocker sucks
spatulas tn bell. Hubbbbbbbbbbbb.
I'm so worried. Everyone knows that agirl who exhibits thissort of attitude towarddating will have a hardtime getting and keeping
a man. So, when I heardthat you said at mass theother day that Satan and rockmusic are claiming souls allover
the country, I thought: here's someone who understands. Except, if I
were you, I'd forget aboutrock and concentrateon
women's music as a toolof the Devil.
Psssss. The Devtl is
a Lesbian. Pass it on.
See, a while back,somebody gave'me afree ticket to a Holly
Near concert, so I went.
And I said to myself, gee,maybe I, too, am a "gentle,
angry
person,singing,singing for my life." I now believe that my ordeal with Beelzebub
can be traced to that particular
moment of "raised" consciousness.
Next morning, the first signs offemininity malfunction started' to appear. I stumbled into the bathroom
and gazed into my mirror. The Sight ofmy pert dimples 'and carefully plucked
eyebrows, caused me to retch.
I

watched in horror, as my head began
to spin around, slowly at first, thenfaster and faster, until green slime
came spewing out of my mouth. I
looked like a lawn sprinkler from hell.
I don't know afterthis how I can everhope to marry and have children.
Why doncba try Imoc/ttng over a
sperm bank? Jesus. What a co-dependent.
Did you hear that, your Eminence?
And I am only one exmaple. Theremay be thousands of women like me,
fallen prey to the demonic folksinessof the feminist ·counter culture."
I just want to be normaL But it's
not going to happen if I keep feelingthis urge to growl at policemen on thestreet, and write perfumed mash notes,to Angela Davis.
Oh, God. And
today, I got this scathing letter fromthe John Poindexter Legal Defense
Fund, saying that,' although, their client
may have made a few errors in transactions, he was definitely not responsible for the four dozen boxes of ,crotchless panties that "I" had charged to his
account.
'
Capttaltsm sucks cbeckbooks tn
bell" UuUUrrrrrn1J.
,', . Oh, will you just shut up? So I
was wondering, your Eminence. C9uld
you see your way to helping me get ridof this -thIDg? I know this may soundawful, comiOg, from a woman who has
been staunchly Pro-Life since highschool. biology class-but
could theChurch please remove this obnoxious being growjng inside my
body? I guess what I want isa safe, legal exorcism.
No way, Joycbunks.
,I got a cute, perfectly
formed Itttle body. You'd
KILL yourself if you saw
tt lytng tn a trasb can.
Heebee.
I'm telling you, yourEminence-I'll
march onWashington, if I have to.
I'm sick of going to potlucks.
I don't want to chain myself topews and pass out condorns--.-it'sjust not me. I hate questioning authority-I never know what to ask it: And
what's so bad aJ>out Sex role stereotypes? You've got to make her goaway: PleaSe? I just want life .to be
simple again.
Signed,. ,Miss Arrraughghuuuurrrhh
T,.\

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37

TIDINGST
Exhibit on Nazi Germany,
New Dimensions
by Henry Yeager

Material dealing with thetreatment of gays andlesbians in Nazi Germany has been deleted from information given to teachers and guides foran exhibit on the world of Anne
Frank which opened in Salt Lake
City at the end of March. "We were
specifically told never to mention
the homosexuals," stated one person associated with the exhibit.
We have discussed it before inthis column: the ultimate defamation is denying our existence. It
happens
when The New York
nmes ignores major news items ofimportance to gays, or when thesexuality of a Willa Cather or a
Walt Whitman (and based onlargely unpublished sections of her
diaries, some would say Anne
Frank herselO is glossed over inbiographies and text books. Ac~
cording to an article in Bay Wtndows, a New England gay newspaper, it is happening again in thegood Christian state of Utah.
For its presentationin Salt
take City of the international exhibit The World of Anne Frank,
Gevena Steel, the corporate sponsor,
has deleted from the teachers' guide athree-page article on the treatment ofgays by the Nazis. Somewhere between 250,000 and 500,000 gays weresystematically rounded up and exterminated during the Nazi-run Holocaust.
The deletion from the teachers'
guide was made at the insistence ofthe state Office of Education, which
was concerned that the material violated a state law prohibiting the "promotion of homosexuality in the schools."

don't like fooling around with history.
I really don't think we should dosomething that ignores a pretty significant element of the Holocaust."
The anti-gay censorship is at thebehest of the Utah Superintendent of
Schools. If you want to make your feelings known, he's the one to write: Dr.
James Moss, Superintendent of Schools,
Department of Public Instruction, 250
East, 500 South, Salt Lake City, Utah,
84111. Or call him at (801) 538-7500.
On occasion, we report on thetwisted thinking about gays and lesbianspresented in publications of the Far
Right and the fuzzy-headed spiritualist movements. They may appear
laughable, but bigotry, no matter
how illogical, is still bigotry, and still
darigerous.
New Dtmenstons, a slick newmonthly, bills itself as "the psychology behind the news." The masthead lists among others as contributing writers: Pat Buchanan andAndy Rooney. Yeah, the same Andy
Rooney who, on his return to 60
Mtnutes, told us that he really didn't
mean to hurt gays with his bigoted
remarks.
The cover story of the current
edition of New Dtmenstons is "TheBattle of AIDS: Disease Control vs.
Hysteria Control." Mind you, thiscomes just after another cover story:"Sex for Trade: shocking new revelations pf gay sex scandals and p0litical manipulations rock the nation's capital," and a feature article:"AIDS Crisis: Special Report."
ObViously these people and theirreaders are obseSsed with gays. Their,agenda for AIDS, as presented in thecurrent issue, is testing, contact tracing
and isolation of those who are infecting others. "Isolation:" that means
quarantine. Safer sex practices andcondom use are termed "unscientific."
Furthermore, they are obsessed withthe details. of how gay men make love.

,

Following an uproar, the material was
restored for teachers; whether they are
permitted to teach it remains in question. State school board guidelines
state: " the acceptance of or advocacy
of homosexuality as a desireable or acceptable sexual adjustment or lifestyle"may not be taught.
The sponsor, Geneva Steel, is not
the villain. Indeed, their chairman isquoted in Bay Wtndows as saying: "ITo sum up their "psychology be- 'hind the news," here's one quote, chosen more or less at random: "1he realityof the insanity and degradation of thehomosexual lifestyle, and the plague it
is chiefly responsible for spreading, is, too much for people to face. They havedeveloped a strange affection for sickness and death. Many onc(! normal
people are now spreading ,the militanthomosexual message throughout society with fanatical political zeal."' .
Your writing to New DlmenstOns isprobably not going to change anybody's mind, but if you'd like to let off
steam, write to Mark Masters, Editor,
New Dimensions,
111 N.E. Evelyn
Ave., Grants Pass, Oregon,' 97526. Orcall him at (503) 479-6812. T
POunCAL SCIENCE from ,. •• 3&
and Kings County must be brought
into the research! AIDS care system.
4. The City Department of Healthand Health & Hospitals Corporation(liHC) must lead a citYwide ,effort tolink research centers (mainly at private
hospitals) with municipal health clinics
and HHC hospitals.
Progress in expediting the approval and availability of new AIDS
drugs is worthless unless people withHIV can get health care on demand.
Achieving the goals spelled out above
will require an unprecedented degreeof cooperation among all groups working on AIDS issues. How can this beachieved, given the legacy of mistrust
which followed upon the crisis of January 1990: the new administration's
badly bungled selection of a newhealth commissioner, and the mediafed divisiveness which engulfed New
York AIDS organizations? T
This article is based In part upon researcb conducted by Garance FrankeRuta and otbers In ACT UP's Women ~Action Committee.
l.NIAID Division of AIDS, "Demographic Information for Patients Accrued as of January 13, 1990."
2.Allan M. Brandt, No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal DIsease
In tbe Untied States since 1880. Oxford
University Press, New York, 1987, p.
45.
3.Bruce Lambert, "AIDS Deaths
Near Another Awful Record." The New
York Times, 3.25.90.

nrenewed effort to reach out to-peopleof color and gay people? Some say yes,some say no--even within the same
ACT UP and Communities of Color
organization.
Cylar, at the Minority
Although no one reached for thisAIDS Task Force, for example, says
~rticle expressed support for Myers, . that his organizationis ~ uniqueand several criticized Dinkins for
position, considering the large number
having made the wrong decision inof gay people on staff, but that in theappointing Myers, virtually everyone
last few months the organization has
agreed that the issue now is how Black
engaged in open dialogue with gay
and gay organizations
will movegroups. Wearing his ACf UP hat, heforward working together on the
points out that ACf UP has worked
common grounds of their agendas.
hard to identify ~d advocate for issues"We're all struggling, we're allof particular concern of people oftrying to do what we can," Affoumado
color. "That effort has been very wellsaid, noting that coalition work for an
received on a lot of different levels,·organization like hers is a pragmatiche contended.
response to t~e different needs of
ACf UP's Wiggins is more critical
CHP's clients.
of ACf UP's efforts in reaching out to"Our agendas are not perfectly
communities of color. Referring-to thematched," Cylar pointed out. "But ACf
organization'scomuiitment
to prlntUlg
UP in its own way is respected in
all of its literatures in bOth English andcommunities of color. Although they
Spanish, Wiggins said, "Even thoughwill hardly go out and join in an ACf
the group voted it in, they don't think
UP demonstration; they recognize theof it. It's always a second thought. It
value of it."'comes [up] 72 hours before it goes to
ACT U}>'s Wiggins, however,print."
disagrees with Cylar's assessment of
Wright, although he points out
ACf UP's reputation in communities ofthat he does not work on a policy
color. "I don't think ACf UP will everlevel at the Brooklyn AIDS Task Force,
come to a point where they are'said,"I 'don't see our organization
acceptable in the eyes of people ofmaking a concerted effort to reach out
color. I don't think they're capable ofto the gay c'ommunity generally,it." he stated. "They are aware of thealthough we have gay clients." At the(act that the Black community
issame time,' he 'sees his organization
powerful,that strategicallyit'sopen to "that kind of interaction thatimportant what other people think. But
community-based organizations have"it's not a consistent effort. It's not aregardless of the community in whichgroup-wide effort.... ACf UP realizes
anotherorganization
is based.
on one level that AIDS is the result of"Certainly I think the agencies are
oppression-but
that's on the level oftrying to work together," he concluded.
gay rights. 'The public trade of epithets has"You can't wipe out AIDS unlessclearly benefitted no one, and the city
you attack sexism, unless you attack
has acquired a health commissioner
racism," Wiggins cqncluded, "and ACfthat many in the AIDS community do
UP won't do that."
not support.
But the outstanding
ACf UP; of course, is not the only
issue-which
seems still to be ,theorganization that has been criticized
more crucial question-is
whether orfor insensitivity to the concerns of
not mutual respect exists or will eXist
people of color, but because it. has
between gay- and Black-communityworked hard to spotlight its activities,
basedorganizations
or people
public perceptionof ACT UP'scommitted
to fighting AIDS. That
relationship with communities of color
question
will be answeredasis, many think, a meaningful test oforganizationsincommunities
how the gay and lesbian community isdisproportionately
affected by AIDS
continue 'to address the societal
responding to the the AIDS-related
issues of communities of color. flaws-political,
economicandsocial-that.
the AIDS epidemic has
In the aftermath of the Myers
affair, have organizations in the gay
exposed. T-filedjrom BostOn·
and Black communities
made aMYERS YEARS from ....

was done. It all came out so fast."

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, Photo: Ken Collins
James Holobaugh first came to theattention of the gay and lesbiaJ? community when a remarkable story appeared
last month in The New York Times withthe headline: "Gay Cadet Is Asked To
Repay R.O.T.C. Scholarship."
The article recounted how the 24year-old Holobaugh had been "a top
performer
in his ROTC program at
Washington, University ...and had evenappeared in a ROTC recruitment advertisement. .." until he announced that he
was gay.
" After his coming out, which was

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voluntary, a,hearing was held at which it
was recommended that the Army disenroll Holobaugh and order him to repay
the $25,000 scholarship he had recieved
as a top member of the ROTC program.
Many observers, including some who
agree with the Army's anti-gay stand,were shocked by the cruelty and insensitivity of asking Holobaugh to repay his
scholarship, and the case gained national prominence.
Unfortunately,
his case is notunique. The Pentagon's longstanding
policy against allowing open gays andlesbians to .serve in the military has
recently been expanded to include anyone who even admits to a same-sex
attraction, whether that person is sexually active or not. But while the military
now routinely discharges anyone open
enough to admit to a homosexual
nature, thousands of closeted gays andlesbians continue to serve effectively, if
not honestly, in the nation's defense
forces.
Others besides Holobaugh are challenging the Pentagon's repressive policy,
frequently in the courts. But the homo-phobic legacy of the Reagan
years hangs heavily overthe federal judiciary, andthe courts have not been
sympathetic to such cases.
Just last month two landmark cases of gays discharged from the military
for being gay were rejected
for considerationby theSupreme Court. Thus, earlier anti-gay
rulings areallowed to stand.
The focus of lesbian and gay challenges to military homophobia is, therefore slowly shifting from the courts toother arenas, particularly the Congress.
Congress, if it so chose, could effectively
pressure the military to abolish its antigay stance. The basis of that stance wasseverely shaken last fall when a major
study, commissioned by the Pentagon toshow that gays are increased security
risks, instead demonstrated
just theopposite.
Interestingly, the Pentagon attempted to repress the study, keeping it secret
even from members of Congress, and it
took openly gay Congressman Gerry
Studds to force the report into the opeQ.
Such shenanigans
have repeatedly
served to embarrass top military officials
and are helping to create a climate
where ultimately the Congress may be
the agent that reverses the military's
homophobic discrimination.
But perhaps the greatest weapon
gays and lesbians have in the battle
against military prejudice is the characterand excellence of the individuals at thefront lines. James Holobaugh is a fineexample of such excellence. Meeting
him, it's hard to imagine anyone more
ably suited to a pOSition of leadershipand command. He fairly exudes qualities
like honesty, ethical behavior, loyalty
and bravery.
Particularly bravery. That virtue, inthe face of overwhelming odds, is a rare
quality in any person, and one the inilitary by its nature should revere. The
story of Holobaugh's lonely coming out
and his immediate challenge to the system that sought to oppress him is thevery stuff of fortitude. AIone, unaided
and unguided, without role models or
the support of family and friends, heunderstood the inequity of the military's
policy and challenged -it head-on. Whena group of 24 congressmen wrote a letter recently to the ROTC protesting the

GR: I heard you werevery good in ROTC.
•
JH: I was one of the
top -performers. I was second in' command of my'
Battalion at UniveI:sity ofMissouri. I did well.
GR: What does second in command of thebattalion mean?
JH: In ROTC real
Army officers are yourinstruc.tors. They have a"fundamentally
unfair" treatment of command system. We do the same thing
as the actual cadets in ROTC. People
Holobaugh which reflects "an appallingmean-spiritedness which has no place" who are in their last year in ROTC are
the commander and down the line. I
in the military, every gay and lesbian
was second in command.
person benefited.
GR: How did you like being in that
Whatever its political outcome,Holobaugh's story is an inspiration to position? .
JH: I enjoyed' it. And I was in a lot
those in our community who long toactivities in ROTC.
come out swinging at whatever injustice of extracurricular
They have drill and rifle teams. They
they experience in their own lives.
James Holobaugh recently talked to have an organization called Raiders, foroutdoor field and tactics training. You gome at the aUlWeek office.
beyond the classroom as far as raids andGabriel Rotello: Tell me about yoursel(.
patrols. It's kind of like what a lot of
Jim Holobaugh:
Originally I'm from people pay to do; go out and playsouthwest New Jersey. I live in Con- Army.
necticut now. I initially went to the UniGR: Tell me what happened when'versity of Missouri and transferred to you d~ided you were gay.
Washington University in Saint Louis in
JH: When I took the scholarship I
the fall of 1988. I'll graduate in May.
really had nO idea that I was gay. SomeGR: When you were at the Univer- one asked me the' other day: when Isity of Missouri were you in the ROTC took the scholarship didn't I have to say
there?
if I was gay or not? I don't even rememJH: Yes, in fact that's where I took ber. I'm sure there's a questionnaire.
most of my ROTC classes. AIthough I There's a billion forms 'you fill out. I
had two years left when I transferred to don't even remember and had 'I even,'
Washington University, I only had one
been thinking at that time about it, it
semester left of ROTC because I had
wouldn't have probably been an issue
doubled up on some courses at Univer- for me.
sity of Missouri.
In early '89 I began going through
GR: What made you decide to go the process. No one just wakes up in theinto the ROTC in the fll'Stplace?
middle of the night and says: "I'm gay."
JH: I saw it as a great opportunity. I It's kind of hard to describe. I guess mostwas awarded a tour-year ROTC scholar- gay people know what I'm talking about.
ship my senior year in high school
You just begin to accept the fact that yes,
which are pretty selected scholarships.
indeed, you are gay. I went through that
[ROTC] enabled me to gain experience
process in late '88, in early '89.
as an Army officer, finance my education
Initially I thought the Army would
and serve my country as well.
never find out. I was planning on going
GR: Had you had an ambition to be in the reserves, serving one weekend ain the Army for a long time?
month two weeks out of the year. But
JH: My dad wasn't in the Army or then I began to fear, well there might beanything, it was something I was _inter- some 'homophobic' guy in the reserve
ested in. I didn't know a great deal
unit who might fmd out about me and 'about it when I took the scholarship.
cause me a lot. of problems after I was
But I was ve,ry interested in it. I was def- commissioned. I was afraid I could beinitely looking forward to being commis- court-martialed.
I really dJdn't know .
sioned.
what could happen. This was in earlyJames Holobaugh told
the ROTC he was gay.

And all hell broke loose.

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regardless of the costs.
. '89 I asked the lieuSo I called the sametenantcolonelat"I began to fear there might be some homoattorney I called before
Washington u. to see aphobicguy
inthereserve
unit
who
might
find
in St. Louis and went tomilitary attorney andsee her and she 'pointed
he tried to get one toout about me and cause me a lot of problems/'
out to me, you want to
see
me,
but
he
be commissioned
andwouldn't
seeme
you'reresigning
yourbecause I was sup~commission and you don't have to doat heart or the Army's?
posed to be, commissioned an officer
JH: I don't know. I don't see how this just because you're gay. The lightand military attorneys only see enlisted
he could advise me to tell them, well I bulb clicked on and I thought yeah, I
personnel.
don't. So I rescinded my ftrst letter to
So I called a private attorney in St. don't know ...
them and said I was confused as to my
GR: Did he tell you what the conseLouis who specwizes in gay issues andrights before, I want to be commisshe told me what her fee was and I quences would probably be?
JH: He told me that I wouldn't be sioned, I always wanted to be commiscouldn't afford that.
sione<!- commission me.
commissioned. But I was sufficiently
GR: What was her fee?
GR: In the ftrst letter you told themJH: It's not that bad. [laughs] It's scared and it seemed like the right thing
only $70 an hour which I realize now is to do and I took his advice. And it was why you were asking not to be commissioned.
chicken feed. Anyway, I thought, well the right thing to do, to be hon~t about
JH: Oh yeah. I clarified to them,
it.
I
don't
think
it's
somethingyou
I've got to talk to somebody.
too, the reason I initially declined my
GR: What was going through your should have to hide.
GR: Did it cross your mind that if commission, because that's what the
mind?
you
decided not to take his advice that captain told me to do. I really didn't
JH: I wanted to know what to do. Ifknow.
he would have informed on you'?
I should keep my mouth shut, what
GR: Then what happened?
JH: I actually didn't. I thought thatwould happen if they found out. I knew
JH: They began disenrollment prothe Army had a problem with gays, but I if I didn't say anything he would have
kept it a secret. But I was wrong. I ceedings against me. So really the ftrst
didn't know exactly what the conseletter they accepted the fact that I still
quences would be if they found out that found out when I did go to the colonel
to tell him I was gay. He said that it was want~ to be commissioned, they didn't
I was gay. I wanted to be commissioned
so I didn't want to tell them that I'm gay either that very day that I saw the cap- base everything on the ftrst letter andignore everything after that.
tain or the next day, that the captainunless I absolutely had to, unless the
GR: Now you were still in school?
came into his office and said, "Jimrisk was too great.
Holobaugh has given me reason why he ' In ROTC classes?
I couldn't get any ad~ce from anyJH: I had completed ROTC.
body, so I went to a captain whom' I cannot be commissioned. He talked to
GR: You were just taki.g regular
me in confidence so I will not tell you
had for a class and who I felt I could
university courses.
what that reason is, unless he doesn't
trust. He seemed like a pretty liberal
JH: Exactly. Waiting for them toguy. I knew given his background that come to you by the time he's to be comhe probably wasn't a total idiot on the missioned, but if he doesn't come for- come up with some sort of decision.
GR: When were you scheduled toward by that time I will have to tell you
subject. I told him I'm gay and I asked
be commissioned?
him what I should do, Should I keep my what that reason is." So even if I hadn't
JH: May of '89. Nothing happened
mouth shut, is no one ever going to fin~ taken his advice, the military would
all summer and then I was in St. Louis
have found out.
out about this and if they do, what
all this fall of '89 and nothing happened
GR: That's incredible! How does
would happen, what are the chances
until fmals week and then they give methey would fmd out; and he told me that that make you feel that he did that?
JH: At ftrst I was kind of shocked, a ring and say we're going to have an
I'd be better 'off if I said something now,
informal board. I was getting ready tothan if they found out after I was com- and I thought maybe he was just doing
leave for Connecticut in a week and ait for brownie points with the colonel,
missioned. I took his advice·. It seemed
half and I'm right in the middle of fmals
but I really don't know why.
like the right thing to do. .
and here they are bringing this up on
GR: How old is this guy?
GR: What do you think motivated
JH: He's a captain, so he's less than me. Come on, is this planned this way,
him to say that?
or what? So we had this infonnal board
JH: I got the impression that he 40, I'm sure.
and I had my attorney in st. Louis preGR: So what happened then?
didn't really agree with the military poliJH: [The captain] told me I had to ' sent. I didn't really answer a lot of quescy of barring homosexuals,that hethought' a person's sexuality was some- write a letter to the colonel declining my tions, I didn't answer any questions, regarding homosexuality at all. And fromcommission and so I wrote a letter-I
thing you should be able to express,
that it wasn't any big deal. But also he talked to him on the phone actually and that little board a guy by the name of
had to support the Army's policy. It he told me what to write. I turned' that Captain Boyle made a' recommendation
wasn't iiiS' position to change the policy, letter into Lieutenant Colonel 'Bates and to Lt. Colonel Bates that I should not becommissioned and, in addition to notthen I was scared because Bates camebut he thought he had to enforce it.
, GR: When he gave you that advice, across as a real homophobic guy and I commissioning me, I should be required
do you think he had your best interests thought I'm going to see an attorney to return all the funds that they spent on

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me as a cadet. Bat<:s}H: I had very few, I.agreed with Boyle, he
could count them on one"They match you up your first day with yourdidn't have to takehand. There was a gay
Boyle's recommenda--organization on that camwarrior buddy."
tion, but he agreed
pus, but I had neverwith it and sent it on
been to a meeting, I still
ilp to his commander
haven't, as a' matter ofat Fort Knox. That's
fact.
where we stand now, waiting for a fmal
GR: If they rule against you, are
GR: Why have you said that people
decision from Fort Knox.
there already plans made for what you have questioned whether or not you
GR: Is there any precedent for ask~ would do? Do' you plan to go to the were gay?
ing someone to return their scholarshiop
Supreme Court?
}H: It's idiotic to think tha~ an 18money?
}H: We have to wait and see. If they
year-old could think up a six-year plan
JH: I don't
know. The Armywant me to pay back the money, they'll to defraud the Ariny of $25,000. And I
spokesman is saying that this is the ftrst ,have to sue me for the money. I'm not can't imagine someone who's really
he knows of someone being asked to going to voluntarily give it to them. So , straight going through what I'm going
pay back. I don't know. They're really that would put it in court. As far as ftght- throughto defraud the Army fortight-lipped abOut how many gays they ing for my constitutionalright to be$25,000.
kick out of ROTC so I don't really know.
commissioned, no decision has been
GR: So it becomes a kind of integral
GR: Did this become public while
made on that. There are cases ahead of part of their case to prove that you
you were iil school?
me, such as Joe Steffan and the twoalways knew that you were gay. '" ,}H: No,' this didn't become public
cases the Supreme Court just refused to}H: Or to prove that I'm not gay atuntil it broke in The New York Times. I hear.
all. It's also another theory of theirs that
didn't even tell my Dad I'm gay until a
GR: What have your friends' reac- I wasn't gay at all and I'm just saying I'm
couple of months ago, that's how hid- tions been?
gay to get out of serving the military.
den it was. In fact, I told my family I
JH: Generally, they've reacted pretGR: But if they think that you~re notdecided I really don't want to do this, ty well. A lot of them didn't ftnd out I'm really gay, then why did they not comand I'm gonna see if I can pay back my gay until they read it in the paper. But a mission you? What then is the crime youscholarship and go on with my life. I lot of real close friends I told beforecommissioned?
don't want to be commissioned. That's hand and they knew, and they're all}H: You probably know about thewhat I told them. They believed that and supportive. I can't think of anyone that I. study, that the military did. They cite
I was hoping I could get through this know very well who has turned away soine evidence in there that supports thewithout having to tell everybody. But from me because of this.
fact that you can't choose to be gay or
the more I thought about it the more I
GR: How is your family?
straight, but a lot of people don't recogrealized that this is really a crock, what's
JH: Not only are they having to nize that fact until the age of 20.
happening to me and I thought I should\:leal with the fact that their son is gay,
GR: Or the age of 40, or the age oftell people about it.
that's not easy to deal with for a lot of 50 or the age of six.
GR: Did your lawyer in St. Louis people, unfortunately, but it's also have
JH: It's very likely someone cancontinue to pursue this?
to deal with the fact that all our neigh- enter the Army and not have accepted]H: She was my attorney all. thebors know too. It's making it hard. [My the fact they're gay until after.
way through last December, but I was father] is also is kind of scared for me, I
GR: Have you ever read militaryrunning out of funds fast, I was paying think, about my career. But basically my history of other cultures?
her out of my VISA and I was really get- dad has always been pretty easy going,
JH: Openly gay?
ting in deep fmancially. I came back to he hasn't set down a lot of rules.
GR: Openly gay, the Spartans, like
Connecticut, after December. I had writGR: It doesn't sound to me like you that, the lovers who fought together side
ten a letter .to Bill Rubenstein [ACLUl, have much of a support network for by side.
and he hesitated to get involved because
what you're doing. It sounds like yourJH: In a way, they do thatJoday,
I already had an attorney and he didn't
kind of out there. It doesn't sound like they don't push sex or anything. For
want to step on her shoes. But after I you were living a gay lifestyle.
instance, between your junior and seniorcame back out here I met, by chance}H: I wasn't. I have quite a few gay
year in ROTC you have to go to a six$'ough a friend, Mark Molinski who is friends, a lot more now than I dia six week officer training camp and they
the attorney for Joe Steffan and I told months ago. It's sort of like put thatmatch you up your ftrst day with yourhim what was going on and he took my whole process in fast-forward,
andwarrior buddy, and you do c:verythingcase. And in the meantime I received a' everything's happening fast. I feel jike I with your warrior buddy. Your bunks areletter from Bill Rubenstein asking me have a support network. Without it, on top of one another, he has half of the
how things were going and I told him I without knowing I had people behindtent, you have the other half, you have
couldn't afford [my private lawyer] any- me, it would be very tough to do, to go to constantly know where your warrior
more and Mark Molinski was going to public about this.
buddy is. The reason they do that is totake my case and h~ said the ACLU was
GR: When you did this initially in build some sort of bond between you
interested. So l talked to him and he St. Louis; went initially to that captain,
and this guy. Of course they don't ask
ended up taking it.
did you have gay friends?
you to have sex with him.-"

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Shooting the Moon,

Photo: IL. Lin

Having Spun Into Orbit More than Once, Judy
Came Lands at the Duplex and Tells All About
Everything from Laugh In to Lesbianism
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Back in the mid-60s, my personal
beef?," Judy was advertising "here comes just how. When we were just about toget married, he says to me, "You're
awkward years, Judy Came was one of the judge" and "Wanna buy a walnetto."
the biggest stars on television. Desilu
But, like I said before, Judy mainly fasci- gonna have a shower." I say, "What?"
Productions had carted her across the nated me, because I instinctively knew We didn't have -that in England. He says
Atlantic to play a transplanted English she was "loose." And for a budding sex- that I would get together with the girls
teenager in an hour-long series called
ual r¢legade like myself, this was quite and sit around and they would bring me
presents. I said, "How divine."' He said
Fair Excbange which, along with The an inspiration. It was wonderful therePatty Duke Sbow, soon became my win- fore to interview her in her Greenwich
Maggie Eastwood, Clint's wife, would
dow into female adolescent angst, Then Village apartment last week and to find have all the friends over and I wouldin 1965 she was re-incarnated as Paul out that she had indeed boffed some of wear a nice little dress and get presents.
Ford's daughter in an otherwise forget- . the hottest men of her time ...and a cou- "And then Clint," he says, "Will give atable series called The Batleys of Balboa.
shower for me, forthe boys." And I said,ple of the women as well.
All I remember from that one is the
For someone who'd once been on "F'me, you'll have your boys' shower andcredits in which Judy was waving her the top of the show business heap,
I'll have a girls' shower." I said, "Whatwhite sailor's hat from the gleaming
will you do at your boys' shower?" Andappearing in an intimate little swatbox
bridge of a yacht. 'like the Duplex might seem a bit of a he said, "We'll go our for a drink, go out
I have far clearer mempriesof comedown.
on the town, and watch blue movies."
But for Judy, whose
thumbing through fan magazines at the endured almost 20 years of catastrQphic We didn't have porno then, we had blue
local luncheonette.
While my friends
mismanagement, ravaging addictions, a , movies. And I said, "Can I go with you?
were more interested in the adventuresnear fatal car accident and aimost com- The boys' shower sounds like muchof Spider-Man and The Fantastic Four, I plete obSCUrity, Judy Carne's Ultimate
more fun!" And he said, "Judy you're
was fascinated by the wedding of Judy
Comeback is a huge break from the past, sick." But I liked the idea' of the boys'
Carne to Burt Reynolds, a gorgeousa monumental
leap forward, and a shower much better, but he kept saying,hunk, whose only claim to fame had"You're sick, you're sick." He said that to 'tremendous act of faith.
been a short stint replacing Dennis
Jaffe Cohen: Now in your new show at me all the time.
Weaver on Gunsmoke. Was she ever
The Duplex you take the theme "getting Jaffe: The old double standard.
lucky! Judy couldn't have done any bet- into trouble." I almost ~ot the feeling Judy: Yeah, I was just pissed that I was
ter for herself even if she'd nabbed my that you should' change that to "being
missing those films.
own personal wet dream, Lee Majors ahead of your time" because so many of Jaffe: Now you and Burt were friends
from The Big Valley.
your problems were ~useyour indi- with all the 1V Western stars at that
Then in 1967 Judy starred in Love vidualism was so far ahead of what ,time? I had a crush on all these guys
on a Rooftop, the San Francisco version
women were supposed to be thinking or when I was a kid. Lee Majors in The Bigof Barefoot in tbe Park with the oh-so
feeling.
Valley...
adorable Peter Deuel. In the era of Gid- Judy Carne: I was always the flower Judy: He came along a little later. He
get and .That Girl, Judy was still my child before the expression. Free love was one of the guys who showed up at
favorite. You have to understand thatand all that.
the door along with Ryan O'Neal after I
Judy was British, which meant that she Jaffe: And your problem with Reynolds broke up with Burt. Sparks were coming
was foreign, and, therefore, probably
was that he expected a more docile
out of his eyes. "Oh they're getting ahaving sex. I mean, who could havewife.
divorce" There they were all at the front
imagiried Marlo Thomas shtupping?
Judy: Oh yes, he was very macho. Now door. And very good friends of Burt at
Judy, on the other hand, had a subtle
before we married I was wearing very the time.
way of letting us' know that she andboyish clothes and Sassoon had done
Jaffe: Who were some of the others?
Peter were actually doing it in that big the same thing for my hair that he'dJudy: Doug McClure.
brass bed, both onscreen and off.
done for Mia Farrow in that Roman
Jaffe: From the Virginian.
So Love on the Rooftop was my Polanski ftlm...
Judy: Bob Fuller from Laramte.
Jaffe: Rosemary's Baby. 'favorite show that year. Unfortunately,
Jaffe: Handsome men.
its competition, Petticoat Junction, ran Judy: And I said, "Oh yes would you do Judy: Oh, gorgeous. Hal NeedhaJ!l, athat for mine." So I was very ...
even stronger in the ratings so Judystunt man who later directed Smokey
went back into limbo until surfaCing a Jaffe: I think the word we're looking for and tbe Bandit. Burt's closest friend.
is androgynous.
year late( on Laugb In. Now, for those
And we'd all go out to Hal Needham'sof you who were not yet on the planet, Judy: Oh yes, thank you very much.
ranch and that one from Bonanza,
this 'show was the M1V of its day. It was Androgynous. That's the word.
Michael something ..,totally new; before Laugb In. sophisticat- Jaffe: Which I think is very healthy to Jaffe: Landon.
be.
ed 1V comedy consisted of The Dean
Judy: Right, Michael Landon, So ~e'd all
Judy: Absolutely. So with Burt this boy- ' go out there and Hal would get his horsMarNnSbow.
And Judy was right in the middle of ish thing was unacceptable. Once we es oUJ. Now, Hal had these air condimarried he made me grow my hair; wear tioned barns. Hal would say, "Hey theit. She was the "Sock it to Me Girl."a bra,
Along with Goldie Hawn she danced
money they're earning me ..."
around in a bikini like a billboard paint- Jaffe: So he had' a picture of what he Jaffe: The horSes were in there having
ed with the slogans of the day. Before wanted.
little cocktails.
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Dear Readers:Dear Readers:
I do hereby

confessthat I
entered into negotiations with theauthors of the box in the corner ofthis page, promisingthem moreroom in exchange for a statement of
support for our continued struggle. I
do also confess that this act, motivated by the basest self-interest, didundermine the noble efforts of ourofficial
negotiator,
Dr. Sandy.
Because my selfish insl,lbordination
has resulted in a severe curtailment
in the ability of this movement. toexpress its aims thoroughly, I freely
submit my resignationfrom thepanel of experts.
-Dr. Jenny

I do hereby confess that I did
promise Dr. Sandy that I could produce damaging testimony from one of
the coward Bradley Ball's former
lovers. My failure to locate any such aperson reveals that I have misrepresented my ability to serve our mission.
Because misrepresentation is a tool, of 'the anti-depressant-abusingvermin,Bradley Ball, and is therefore' inimical
to our goals, I resign from the panelof experts of my own volition.
-Dr. Yves
Dear Readers:
I do hereby confess that lastThursday night when it was my turnto protect
our newly liberated
workspace from possible counterinsurgency by the reactionary supporters of the gin-drinking swine, BradleyBall, I did pilfer candy corn belonging
to Dr. Sandy. My treasonous action
indicates that I do not possess thenecessary loyalty and discipline forthis worthy endeavor and I am voluntarily resigning from the panel ofexperts so that they may march on,
purified, to noble destiny.
-Dr. Monica
Dear Readers:
I do hereby confess that I did
drink a Beefeater martini last night. I
acknowledge this is proof that mydedication to our cause has been corrupted by the self-loathing influenceof the cockroach, Bradley Ball and I
willingly resign from the panel ofexperts to avoid bringing further
shame upon them. please do not let
my inability to adhere to the pighstandards of our program:--so magnificently exemplified by the courageous
Dr. Sandy-<ieter your generous contributions. I am but one. The Experts
fight for all of you.
-Dr. Todd
Dear tteaders:

We do hereby confess that wehave never actually forsworn ourallegiance to' the monstrous autocrat,
Bradley Ball, and have conspired toorchestrate
the downfall of Dr.
Sandy. We did continually hide the
Scotch Tape in the workspace. We
did repeatedly make personal telephone calls on Dr. Sandy's private
line. We did often fail to learn thewords to the Experts' Anthem, "Love
Letters in the Sand." We are not worthy of the name experts and do
resign from that august body of ourcollective free will.
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Forbes expo~, that everyoneEVERyONE-who is in the closet be pulled out,no matter what, and that we should all
start doing it as soon as possible. Later on
I spoke with some friends who'd decided
that they wanted to start wheat-pasting
the faces of famous closet cases all overand especially in front of theirhomes and the places where they dobusiness. TIlat same day I did an interview with a San Francisco radio station.
"The genie is out of the lamp," said the
By Michelailgelo Signorile ,talk show host, refening to our bringing out
Malcolm Forbes. "Yes, the genie is out of
I recently received, a telephone callthe lamp and there's no stopping it now."
from a 17-year-old male reader. He told
Wds I supposed to reel guilty? I,tblnk so.
me all about his experiences with a cerMaybe there is no stoppingit.
tain well-known newspaper wri~r who'dMaybe people are now running away
recently interviewed the likes of Donald
with all sorts of crazy icbs. Maybe everyTrump and Marilyn Quaylehow they
one will be pulled out of the closet kickmet on the "Buddy System" phone sex
ing and screaming. Maybe there's a witch
line and how this writer invited him over.
hunt Maybe we're invading their privacy.
The young man then recounted to me
Maybe I did a honible thing.
every intimate detail of what he and the
And maybe that's all bul!shit Maybe
writer did. Though it may have helped
those are all the tired reasons closet cases
stimulate my otherwise lackluster day, he , have come up' with for centuries. Maybe
told me some pretty detailed
actionif these reasons weren't smashed, things
which I certainly had no need to know.
would stay the same for another few hunThe young man then gave me the writer's
dred years. Maybe it was time. Maybe
address and telephone number. I asked
we've touched on the nerve of something
him what he expected me to do.
that people have been bursting to do.
"Well,' he said, "you have to investiI am sick and tired of all of the shit
gate him. You have to record all of this.
we have to put up with. How many more
He is doing bad things. He's arrogant andwomen will be raped because they're leshe brags a lot about knowing all of thesebians? How many more drag queens will
famous. people.
He keeps trying to
be bashed over the head whUe walking
impress young guys like me with this shit·in the streets? How many more queers
I replied that, though distasteful, ' will be stabbed and left to die someI didn't see all of this asthat much of a crime.
But he begged to differ.
"He is trying as hard as
he can to be one of them,'
he stated. "He would never
put himself on the line orever stand up against homophobia. He'd never come outof the closet or admit tobeing gay. Look, I've neverreally even thought about
these things before. But I'm
getting all this from your columns. We where by monsters who hate "fags"? And·
how may more people in this community
have to tell the world that he is gay.'
will die of AIDS at the hands of this negThis would be the thir~ person in
ligentgovemment?
that day alone who was calling me with
MEANWHILE TIfESE SELFISH BASinfonnation about a closet case.
TARDSSIT QUIETLYAND WAIT TO SIGN
The next day a gay reporter at an
THAT NEXT MILLION DOLLAR CONinfluential West Coast daily was telling me
TRAC!'. They're running companies andthat a colleague of his advocated, amidst
selling real estate and voting in Congress.
all of the controversy surroundingthe

Manhattan

Though they're invisible as gays and lesbians, their faces flash out at us all day
long on the television, in the newspapers,on the streets. They're doctors, artists,
actors, lawyers, directQrs, models, producers, editors, politicians, writers, athletes,
designers, gossip columnists. AND TIfEIR
Sn.ENCE IS KILLING US.
I met a man the other night in aclub. He was a typical Upper East Side
sort who, like many, had disagreed withme a year ago, but now was saying that
he understood,
shared and supported
many of the aims, motives and tactics that
I and others have. He brought up a sadthought: If Rock Hudson, Perry Ellis,
Calvin Klein, Bari:y Diller, Liz Smith,David Geffen and Malcolm, Forbes had
held a joint press conference
back in1982 at the beginning of the AIDS crisis,
think of the effect it would have had 'Think of the power it would ha~eunleashed. Think of the visibility It would
have created TIfINK OF TIfE' UVES IT
MAYHAVE SAVED.
But no. They ran away like sewer
rats scampering to their slimy hen holes ofhiding where they could safely make moremoney, occassionally throwing us so~e
blood money or organizing a benefit ,toappease their guilt And meanwhUe myfriends died, and your friends died andtheir friends died. Some of them evendied. But that didn't ~tter. Not eYetl theirown friends and themselves mattered.
THAT IS HOW S~LFISH AND At THE
SAME TIME SELF-HATING1HESE PEOPLE
ARE. They are beneath contempt, as oneof them recendy said of me.
We must now start theball rolling. This is a revolution and they are the few inour community, who, as in all
revolutions, are given privileges in return for selling out
their own people.
But we'rerising up
rapidly. Change is coming.
And we must give them an'ultim:atum: EI1HER YOU JOIN
US OR WE WILL BEGIN
IMMEDIATELY TEARING DOWN EVERY
WAll, EXPOSING YOUR HYPOCRISIES.
We are on the move, joining fon:es, arming
ourselves for battl~dwe're about'to
rDaIce a major assault on the ALMIGHTY
CLOSET. We'll end its tyranny and bury
this arcru;ic relic~ And it's your decision
which way you want to go. But don't think
too long. Time is running out T

We're about to makean assault on the
ALMIGHTY CLOSET.

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With Liz and Sydney

Out on the Town
Ul: We were waiting all week for theSirens MC Club (that is motorcycle club,not master of ceremonies) party at Cavecanem, So we puttered around the house,
watched The Outsiders (another channel
five boys-in-their-underwear-show that can
only go three episodes before (!)Iety character dies a tragic, violent death), andwalked over only to find the party wasfrom six to ten. The regular San<:tMchSister
Sunc:I8ynight girl party hosted by Brenda
and Marguerite was on, and now thatspring is here the pool is filled, and thewalls are wet, so dress to undress andbring a towel.
Sydney: Earth Day-April 23, 1990,
The only special interest day (with thepossible exception of the Harmonic Convergence) to be hyped by VH-1 and the
lucky recipient of David leigh and Lee
Chappell's first locomotion benefit. Since
the decor is themed and changes weekly,vaguely earth-related articles like globes,
fake white doves and a slab of ice (a melting polar ice cap, perhaps?) filled theRoxy.Considering all the glitter, plastic andmetal decorations adorning club andpatrons alike had a half life ten times
longer than the Roxy, the hard hitting sensationalistic approach of recreating various
natuRlI disasters should have been used.
The ice carving was pretty, but it cried out
for someone to throw a can of motor oil
on it and park a replica of the Exxon
Valdez on top, A miniature Chemobyl or
Three Mile Island display complete withmutant vegetation would have driven the
point home. And for the sake ofoverkill-slides
of love Canal and toxic
waste dumps should have been flashedover the dance floor.
locomotion or "00II kids on the blocknight" showcases the latest in new nightlife
talent. The door, the largest mob scene
west of TorJl)kins Square, is staffed by thelanky Uncoln Palsgrove IV and newly-proclaimed girl of the minute, the busty Toni
Senecal. f\fter the agita-inducing door
scene outside, all is well inside. One tapeplays on infinite loop all night long in the
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body holds hands" Toczek; so named
because she forces those chosen for
entrance to link arms as they fight their ~up the stairs. Of course this is the only
place in town to witness Toni doing her
impersonation of Cat Woman doing the bus
I

top and lip synching to 60s girl groups withsome friends,
Uz: Those three CRIZY queens, leila
lokskl, Sister Dimension and Kenny, Kenny have brought their celebration offoundation garments, Panty Girdles to
I Quick. In the lounge, Scott
Currie's
parties with golfcourses, the promise of volleyball and rock n' roll OJ
Andy Andersen·can
only
add to the drag, vogue anddance that Fridays are. Yes,
there are straight people here,
but the club and staff fosters awelcoming protective atmosphere that it's OK to be ¥.tlatever you are, especially in a
B-cup 18 hour sort of way.
Sydney: As long as we are on
this "of th~ moment" thingSister Dimension is happening.
Playing the best mix of hiphop, house and disco she
could make even a bingo hallhop.
"
Uz and Sydney: captainof the love Machine Larry Tcc
and his new Julie McCoy, bewigged club kid Susan Anton,
will be launching a new clubwithin the next month or so.
What was the Underground will
now be either
a. La palace De Beaute, b. Please Please Pleasec. (simply) Palace (pronounced pal-ahss)
ONE MINUTE AND COUNTING-The divine OM
larry promises lots ofstop. In the final changing of the guard, defchanges including kinetic decorations like adumb blonde 'Nanna be, Julie Jewets has mechanical "Birth of Venus" installation. We
been replaced by another bottle blonde.
can't wait to see that
But he is no dummy; he's Chauncy.
We were saddened to leam that we
liz and I thought, it time to name a 00II
lesbian girl of the minute and here she ' lost another valued member of our community. World famous cabaret star Interis~M. The vivacious and outgoing sisterof sappho can be found barechest~d at national Chrysis has died of cancer.
any number of places around town. Her Among her many performances, we will
favorite hobbies include spontaneously go always remember her show at last sumgo dancing on top of bars in a silver mylar mer's Wigstock as nothing short of specbra, wearing' men's jockey shorts as a halter tacular. '...

JUDY CARNE from pe,e 49paraplegics, people who had browhen the big ,bucks came in. Success is ken C2. And it became an inspiraa trap and without the workshop thing tion to me. I had broken it clean
we all dreaded it and it got very hard to across and the fact that the nerves
go to work.
didn't sever was a miracle. And it
Jaffe: Can we talk a little bit about the was a lucky break. I call it a lucky
drugs? How did it start? Or rather how
break because it forced m~ to sit
did it escalate?
back and take stock of my life,
JUdy: It was lovely part of the 60s. You ,And for a year, you know I was inknow the weed, the mescaline, Monter- that steel halo, that cage over myrey Pop. In fact when I did The Gera/do head and I started writing then.
Show, Michelle Phillips was there from Jaffe: Now you started out so
the Mamas and Papas and she said, to '. young in show business, so as ame, "Didn't we first meet at Monterrey
little girl you got in the habit ofPop?" And I said, "Yes, Cass got me letting other people tell you what
there." Cass had told me I had to see to do and now that you're at thethis group. ·Com~ on! Come on!" It was halfway point you're saying ...
Big Brother and the Holding Company. Judy: I'll do it myself, thank you.
She wasn't even called Janis Joplin then. Jaffe: You say something very
So that was a wonderful thing to be at, interesting towards the end ofand that was like the non-destructive,
your book. You' say that yourdrugs. The hash. A little bit of pharmabiggest problem has been that all
ceutical speed, sometimes. So when that your life you've tried to pleasecame to an end at the end of the 60s, other people.
those of us who liked getting high, as Judy: Yeah. A people pleaser. Too
the harder drugs in the early 70s came much so because I forget about
in all went, "Well that's fme, now I'll go me. It's lovely to be so personal.
over here and try this." And a lot of peoIt's a showcase, you see. This will
pie who had more sense, who had more attract the right people; The rightstable lives, were in relationships. But part. The sitcom idea. I can provefor me at that time there was nothingthat I'm well. Like I said; my talentoutside the work. Do you know what I was never criticized. This was themean? Having a relationship. Having a fastest way for me to go downchild. I didn't have that. So it gets to the that road to getting that dramatic
point, "Hey why am I getting up in the part.
morning? What for?
Jaffe: Like...Lady Macbeth ...
Jaffe: There was nothing to balance it Judy:
Yeah, yeah. Now that
all out.
would be lovely. No it would
WET'N'WlLD
Judy: Absolutely. So it was so easy to have to be something completely
One of Judy's regular stints on Laugh In - takstart in with the hard drugs. Then of different, like if they were ,doinging it from a bucket of water course when you get in on that path, all the Edith Piaf story. You know.
the people you attract are ,more ,and That kind of part. Tragicomedy.
more losers and you get isolated and
The laugh that comes out of pain. And have done differently?
you look around and all your friends are there are some great things going on. Judy: Well, maybe I should have hadheads and then the career goes down.
That's how I knew it was the time. I was better management. More, protedion.
But you know, Jaffe, I never think like
Jaffe: Now you were bust~d for drugs on VH-l the other day and Bobby
in 1978.
Rivers, a very 'nice man said that the that and I'll tell you why. We all say, if
Judy: In Cincinnatti, right.
right show for me would definitely be we could change anything, what would
we do. Well, we can't. We can't. You
Jaffe: We'll let them read about it in for the after midnight crowd.
can't do it all over again and so for me I
your book.
Jaffe: Actually I could see you reaching
think it's a very dangerous thing to
Judy: Right.
out to the MIV crowd.
think. Well if only I'd had nothing to do
Jaffe:, And that same year you had you Judy: Defmitely.
accident.
Jaffe: As a kind of crazy Auntie Marne with her or with him. If only.
Regrets ...never.
JUdy: Right, and I broke my neck. C2. type character to these hyped up kids.
The second verterbrae where the nerve Judy: Yes. Yes. I'd love to reach out to Jaffe: Je ne regrette rien.
endings are. So they really didn't hold that audience, to develop a kind of a Judy: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, 10vely!!But
you see I've always been like that. T
out much ho~ for me. They gave me a crazy eccentric character.
50-50 chance of living and a 75 against Jaffe: Now you seem to have a good
25 chance that I'd ever walk again. And attitude about all this. A good sense of (judy Carne's' Ultimate Comeback is
I got wonderful mail from people all humor. But if you could use your imagi- playing Saturday nights in April at The.
over the world, allover America from nation for a moment. what would yOU Duplex (212)255-5438.)

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, ARTIST DAVIDWOJNAROWlCZ-ron

Prsuh,im'l Silence. Death

La Vie En Rosa"artists in New York fighting AIDS." By opening up the film,
von Praunheim and collaborator Phil Zwickler provide a wider
array of artistic responses to the epidemic, but also lose someof the specific power of experiencing WJjnarowicz's vision by
itself.

by Karl SoehnleinI

first saw excerpts from Rosa von Praunheim's new film
st/ence - Death at a Soho gallery last fall, as part of A Day
Without Art. The 20-minute segment featured artist David
Wojamowicz

in interviews and performances

andinclud-ed parts of his own experimental films. Rarely has so muchsadness, fury and passion about AIDS been expressed by one
artist. In the 'context of the day's focus, this work-in-progress
was a necessary reminder of the denial, passivity and negligence regarding AIDS found both in the art world and society
asa whole.
In the newly complete version of St/ence - Death, theWojnarowicz segments have been edited into visits with other

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Much of Stlence - Death is quite moving-graphic artist
Bern Boyle describes visiting a photo booth everyday for three
years, documenting his personal struggles on a microscopic
level. But often the filmmaker's choices. of inclusion are puzzling: Why is Allen GinsbetB given a forum to talk about thekinds of sex he likes? Why does the narrator recite a list ofcelebrities who lend their names to AIDS benefits (surely
whatever Brooke Shields and Sophia Loren have done pales
in comparison to the work of WJjnarowicz, Keith Haring, etal)? And why, why, why does the film begin with an unnecessarily long and tasteless "performance"by Emilio Cubriero,playing a PWA who graphically shoots a gun up his ass? As
Swiss artist Peter Kunz says of his own work, "AIDS is such a
tragedy that you cannot express it all, you can only express
part of it." There are tlIDes in St/ence - Death that the filmmakSM ROSA on pal' 67

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Film

Jamie's Got a Gun...
by Monica Dorenkamp

I

eCaS~ing alone of Blue Steel isenough to make you want to see it;,
Jamie Lee Curtis stars as a rookie
cop (bang! bangO. The opening shots(camera, not gun)-aftera series of fragmented close-ups (the kind of picture
where you're not immediately sure what it
is you're looking at) in which the camera
lovingly explores the body of a gun, all ina very sensual blue light---w-e of Jamie Lee
dressing up to play her role, donning her"blues," her cop uniform. (And the imageof her hands buttoning up the blue shirt
over a white bra solicited scatteredapplause at the preview screening I attended.) Jamie Lee is going to play cop, so
you'd better not break the law.
But it's not long before we realize thatthings here are kind of serious. In a grocery
store holdup that happens in dream timeeffectively building suspense and frustrationas Jamie Lee takes what seems hours to'reach the "Police! Freeze!" po;nt- she overreactS a bit. It's her first unstaged encounter
AT THE READY-Jamie LII Curtis as Officer Megan Turnerwith another gun, and maybe she just wants
to prove that hers is bigger. She empties, it completely into ly) in a city murder brings Turner back into action. Nickthe thug who, of course, dies. "Jesus, Turnerl" (that's her Mann (Clancy Brown), the homicide cop, in charge of thename-Turner, that is, not Jesus), her partner exclaims on his case, wants high visibility for Turner, wants her back on
alas!-too-late arrival on the scene (he's been in the bathfoom the force. He is, of course, willing to take all responsibilithe whole time). As all stare disbelievingly at the dead body, ' ty. Meanwhile Turner and Eugene (Ron Silver) convenobody notices a prostrate, grunting and panting Ron Silver niently meet during a rainstorm in which he convinces her
picking up and pocketing the hoodlum's gun. He does so first to share his cab, then to go to dinner with him. -And
with all the lust to touch that we may have felt during the why not? He's respectable looking. It isn't until they start
opening credits; except this gun is just a gun, not the highly making out that he seems at all weird. "Hold your gun,"he says, in' what is surely the kinkiest scene in the film.
aestheticized "blue steel" of the opening shots.
She laughs it off at flfSt, and then, amazingly, complies.
So almost before her castration anxiety can even begin,
Turner has her gun 'taken away from her and is assigned to Yeah, why not? Jamie Lee plays cop.
The premise is all quite bizarre. It isn't long before
a desk job until she can learn to use it safely. And now thetitle begins to take on its other meaning. "Blue steel" is not Turner learns what we already know-'-that Eugene is thejust something cops carry around in their holsters; it's an person carving her name on bullets and then using them.
attitude, a state of mind, as they learn to "steel" themselves The rest of the film turns into her desperate attempt toagainst the daily horrors and risks of their jobs. By the end convince anyone else of that; as well as the filmniaker's
attempt to show how a seemingly mild-mannered stockof the film, Thrner's learned this lesson well.
S•• JAMIE on page 6&
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Television

Rays Of Hope
ForOscar?

applause-but Spike had his own pitch to
make: he was was selling Nike shoes in thecommercial breaks.
Meanwhile, back at the ceremony, thereal focus seemed to be flesh and Vaseline.
My friends and I tried in vain to keep
count of the number of presenters wholooked like they'd combed their hair with
Alaskan crude before stepping onto thestage, but we lost track once the pirates inSpandex bounded into view. There theywer~bouta dozen nimble young men,by Bruce C Steele
all flopping and hopping around like somany rpale Paula Abduls, while Geoffrey
Holder kept losing track of the lip synch
can just imagine Charlton Heston, for the soon-to-be Oscar-winning song,
member of the NRA, arch-conservatiye Under the Sea, from The Little Mermaid.
supporter of the GOp, saying, "Listen,if Thank God it was all so tasteful; no one
there's a good chance I'n be presenting the could mistake the un-Cola king for Rob
Academy Award for the best documentary Lowe, despite Holder's lack of shirt.
feature to a bunch of gay AIDS activists,
Many of the women presenters seemed
can't I at least do it from 10,000 miles to have fullen prey to a shoulder-strap thiefaway?"
backstage, and Julia Roberts must have had
On Oscar night, through the magic of her entire bra stolen. As one of my womensatellites and Pan Am, Chuck and his guests noted, "1hey seem to be doing a lot
toupee announced the documentary win- of unusual things this year". Fmally, Jodie
ners from Buenos Aires; the producers of Foster appeared, absolutely stunning in a
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt brown bob and tasteful black dress, reading
accepted their award in Los Angeles.
cue cards as if they rea1ly meant something.
Of c;ourse, at least one of the produc- When she was joined by newly-anOinted'ers is straight. While Robert ~pstein dedi- Best Actor Daniel Day Lewis, who strodecatoo the award "to all those fighting AIDS, across the stage in his parson's coat andespecially the gay and lesbian community," Oscar Wilde tie with more presence 'thanBill Couturie made sure the one billion anyone save Jodie herself, it Seemed for apeople watching the Oscars telecast
moment that everything was right with the
he was happily married to a loving sup- Oscars, that it all mattered, that great talentportive woman. Apparently the ftlm was could indeed be recognizedby thehis wife's idea anyway, ThaOks, Kathy. And Academy against the odds. After all, Day
thanks to the Academy. Common Threads, Lewis, a young British outsider, drew thewhiCh I have not seen, may now be made only standing ovation except for the obligamore widely accessible, as happened with tory (and deserved) acclamation for 8O-yearthe previous gay-th~med Best Documen- old Jessica Tandy.
tary, The Times of Harvey Milk.
The feeling was not to last, of course.
The Academy certainly was OD'ing on Diana Ross (or was it Michael Jackson insentimentalized social issues at last week's drag?) appeared shortly thereafter to lead an
Oscar presentation-mostof the awards absurd worldwide satellite-sing-along of I
went to movies ostensibly about breaking Somewhere Over the Rainbow. We'd barely
down the barriers of prejudice (Driving recovered from that embarrassment beforel
Miss Daisy, four awards; Glory, three; My Warren Beatty and Jack -Nicholson shewed
Left Foot, two) and political naivete (Born up--la,st summer's comic book villain andon the Fourth of July, two). But outside of this summer's comic strip hero-tosee
Epstein's brief remarks, the activism was which of them could squint the hardest
largely limited to clips from the nominated while announcing, ho hum, Driving Missfilms. Kim Basinger, wearing a bizarre white Daisy had won Best Picture after all. At myhoop dress, did babble briefly about rpe apartment, the guests filtered out, anothermovies that "tell the truth" in order to plug anticlimax endured.
Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing-to tepid
S.. OSCAR on peg. &7

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MusicPorcelain and Passion.
1,

wo years ago, an· exchange student from Thailand tried to win
my heart shortly before she
went back to her home country. Oneof her best ploys was when she took
me into a record store to buy me a
new album by a British woman singer
I'd never heard of. This, my friend
said, was what romantic music should
truly sound like. And though she never
did manage to get me into bed, thealbum my friend gave me, the selftitled debut by the very talented Julia
Fordham, subsequently went on to
become one of my favorites. And thewomen's community wasn't too far
behind me in discovering Fordham's
many powers. Soon the singer andher hit "Happy Ever After" hadreached near-cult status in Chicago's
lesbian community.
Well, time marches on, and though
there have been much publicized andwell-received new releases by women
singers like Tracy Chapman and Melissa
Etheridge, there had been no news in
the American music mags about anupcoming Fordham album. So it waswith much surprise and extreme delightthat r stumbled across Fordham's newrelease, Porr:;e/alnin my favorite record
store recently. Flushed by first glance at
the album's cover, which displays theback of a red-velvet-robed Fordham
clawing at a wall and flashing a neckvampires will drool for, I rushed home
to play it. And what a delight! The
promise so apparent in Fordham's
debut has blossomed into what isundoubtedly the best album released
yet this year.
Porcelain is a softly searing collection of ten love songs that span a fullrange of emotions from despair to exu-

R.USHED BY RRST GLANCE
Julia Fordham is truly romantic
berance. From the slightly swaggering"Lock and Key" to the dream-like, bittersweet, "Girlfriend," Fordham singsabout female vulnerability, tears, passion and wanting someone else's loverwith scarcely a 'male pronoun in sight.
Happily, Forciham also fuels the female
fires by expressing womanly desires inways the lesbian folk-song circuit could
well take note of,

Dtd I happen to mention that I
Joveyou?
Did I happen to mention it's
you who sees me through?
Did I happen to mention that
I'm waiting for your move?
I need, I need another goodfriend 'Like I need, /tke I need a hole In
my headI want, I want, I want your l0vIng In my heart 'And I want, I want, I wantyour loving In my bed.

Needless to say, with lyrics likethese, Porcelain has quickly become
the album of choice for lesbian entertaining of the more, shall we say, intimate nature.
Even The New York Times hascaught. on to Julia Fordham, recently
devoting more than half a page to h~
and Tanita TIkara, another young British
star. And why not?! Fordham deserveswide recognition for her sweetly husky
voice which she shapes 'round her
deeply affecting, extremely personaland intelligent-lyrics. At 27, she has
two successful ,albums under her belt,
both of which she wrote all the lyrics toand co-produced. And because I'm by
far the only one to think so, I'll comeright out and admit for us all that everything about Fordham, from her singing
to her "porcelain"-like skin, is complet~ly sexy.
As I listen to Porcelain for about
the hundredth time, I wonder if myfriend in Thailand knows this album
is out. I want her to be able to hear
Fordham sing, seemingly just for her,"Your Lovely Face," one of thealbum's most beautiful and haunting
songs,

I'm standing In my kitchen, I'mdriving In my car
Lying on my bed In my room,
wondering where you are
I keep meaning to call you, but
I never find the time
Doesn't mean to say that you're
not weaving through my mind
W1Jat I wouldn't do right now
to see your IoveJyface ...
Maybe somewhere in Thailand, .
my friend is listening to this album
right now,. thinking of me. Just to, besure, though, I'd better send her acopy of Porcelain. Then I guess wewill have truly come full circle .... T.

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Theater

Putting on the Dog.'lby Michael Paller

ou aren't creating a damn state. You're creating a nightmare, a tragedy. So stop it." Thesewords, now being spoken collectively (as itwere) by the citizens of the Soviet Union to their government, were the theme of several savage satires by Soviet
writers written between 1917 and the middle 1930s. Stalinwould prove their point by executing those writers who
hadn't quit writing in frustration, died peaceably or killed
themselves. The above sentence in particular comes from
Heart of a Dog, Mikhail Bulgakov's 1925 novella which has
been adapted for the stage by Deloss Brown and is currently being presented by esc.
Brilliant, irascible Professor Philip Philopovich
Preobrazhensky (Bill Raymond), who is relentlessly disinterested in the Soviet experiment in SOCiologygoing on allabout him (the time is 1925), is instead experimenting on astray dog he's found in the street. He attempts, through thesurgical implantation of a human pituitary, to tum the dog
Oace Alexander) into a perfect man., The experiment fails
as totally as the one represented by the vulgar, power-hungry young representatives of Leninism, Shvonder Oosh Pais)and Svetlana (Leslie Geraci), organizers of the collective
which has taken over Preobrazhensky's apartment building.
Pooch was the perfect dog--l.oyal, trusting, reliable. As
Poochkov, he is transformed into an antisocial socialist, biting
his fleas, lapping his vodka, pawing women and killing catswith such ruthless glee he is eventually named director of thefeline division of the local Purge section. At the same time,
he is the victim of the hectoring professor, who badgers him
about being an imperfect human with the same mercilessness
with which the Leninists treat their human experiments.
Bulgakov's lesson is that at heart, people are people just as
surely as dogs are dogs, and any utopian experiment whichfails to take this into account will end in a ilightmare.
Russians dearly love a conversation, especially a longone. This may make for fascinating nights and classic novels,
but it is a problematic strategy for plays. Brown's adaptation
rambles and repeats itself; at times almost interminably. The
director, Robert l.anchester, addresses the problem by keeping the pace necessarily brisk. But a play's authentic pace isthe result of the inner lives of the characters expressing themselves honestly within the world of the play, and these innerlives are more than occasionally violated by a need to do theplay faster. So while there are many moments which areboth genuine and funny, there are many which ring with the.

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POSED DOG-TORALPhoto: Paula Court
Bill Raymond, Anthony Fusco, Jace Alexandersound of wooden nickels---illld so are unfunny.
Tom Kamm's set for the professor's house is steeped at
peculiar angles-reflecting Bulgakov's and Preobrazhensky's
feelings for the skewed society being erect~d
so is Bill
Raymond's performance. He often finds himself in odd geometric relationships to the floor, walls and furniture, as if they
are about to pull him down to the level of the pygmies who
surround him so· intolerably. He can't help pulling sheep
faces, cow faces, mule faces; alive to every sensory element,each word and action onstage affects him like a jolt o( electricity shot through an overloaded ganglion. It is a peH-ormance which at moments lacks discipline, but an excess ofinvention is generally preferable to the theatrical brain death
dished up by so many of our theaters for up to $60 a serving(soon it will be $1(0). So much life for $20 is a bargain.
There are no bad performances, but one senses that
more care couid have been taken to add the details ofhuman behavior that every traditional play, even satires,See DOG on pelle 66

DanceForest scales to a series of solos, eachmore
powerfulthan the last.
Appropriately enough, each soloist
bequeaths the stage to a successor.
Cunningham makes the most ~werful
woman-who
else?-Martha Graham,solemn, foot-sliditlg-to-a-point entrance,arms broken akimbo, the works.
All right, so Ram Forest, what withthe jungle motifs, is for the C~
impaired, The
pieces were, too,and thank God. Inventtons, of themarine green 1xxly suits, was as squarein its outline as it was fractured in its filigree. Trfals seemed to me perpetuallyon the verge of breaking into a ballet
unti1 each sidelong reference to the ballet vocabulary segued straight into apurebred Cunningham riff, and wasn't
that a nifty flip of the claSsicalcoin?
But somewhere in 'there, some"thing clicked After all those years of
waiting for a QlOningham dance to go
somewhere, I finally realized that they'realready there. We have to catch up andthen, even harder for the instant gratification generation, we have to keep up,
too. ' Which is why Cunningham can beso damned exhausting. There are notransition steps. Everything has weightand import. There may not be anythingso mundane as a fiXed point of visualreference, but that doesn't mean you
can't be aware of everything at once.
We live, after all, in New York City.
Like the Big Apple, the Cunningham
world is full at every moment.
Completeness is a bitch, but Points
In Space converted me in one moment.
Four men rush on. Three cluster downstage and splinter each other into separate dances. The fourth holds sway instasis in the opposite upstage comer, hisface lifting to iDfinity. He serves-the forma! function of balancing the portrait ofhis brothers and the metaphorical one
poeticizing the proceedings. Maybe
that's why this year I didn't even missthe sex. This is what comes after, which
is usually better anyway.
The jokers in the pit, however,were back, bringing with them the. soundS that will kill even the rosiest
afterglow.' In fact, the season's world
premiere, polarity, was a veritable

new

A CUNNING POSE
Photo: Lois Greenfield
Mlchlel Cole, Victoria Rnelyson, Alan Good, Robert Swlnston In Inrntlolll

Have Merce-y
by Otis StuartI

t:s that time of year again.
Merce.
Oh,my.
The Cunningham company carneback to City Center, four new works
in tow. I went back. Again.
I know. I know, But, maybe, I
thought, maybe this time I'll win.
Maybe I won't miss what I always missat Merce, like anything even remotely
resembling a sexual overtone. (Call meirresponsible, but it helps.) Maybe thistime I'll even get past the aural a~ing from the pit and forgive

Cunningham for annually forcing upon
me exactly the noises I've tried to civilize out of my life, all that static andscreeching and stearnpipe hissing, thebodily emissions we instinctively
attribute to someone clse,
Scrunched back against my seat for
Rain ~osedamned Warhol pillows, again I-grumbling,armed foranother bout of shallower-than-thou,post-Meece anxiety ...maybe I was tired.
I saw it. Ram Forest. I saw the lushness of its physical freedom. I saw how
the interlocking encounters of its tribeof dancers galvanized the partidpants
into a chain of being as alive as the forest that the physicality evokes. I saw thetender, reflector surfaces of those ballooning piµows make this a tropical forest, too-glistening,malleable, both
moist and hot I even saw jokes. Rain

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BooksAncient Evenings

rience. He writes: "Sex, like food andclothing, provides material with wliich
the soul can talk about the truIy important things in life, such as whether wewill come into money, wbelher my son
torical framework; andwill recover from an illness, whether my(2) that ideas about sex
wife will be fuithful and hard-working,and gender cohere withwhether I will win or lose a lawsuit.
other culturally embedThese are the issues that matter.· Sex,
ded values.
In thesehe shows, was not categorized as a sepprovocative
essays,arate sphere of activity, moral interest or
Wmkler evokes the variintellectual debate as it is today.
ous challenges faced byIndeed, if we are to trust his interpretaAthenian democracy attion of the sources, sexual intercourse
the height of its empire,
was viewed as nothing more thanand shows the special
another variant of social intercourse,
place sex and gendermuch like a lawsuit or business venture.
occupied in those strugFundamentally, Wmkler argues, sex
gles. !be Constraints of
was about power: the power of men
Desire is a Singularover women, of masters over slaves, ofachievement.
men over boys, of citizens over non-dtiThe "constraints ofzens.
Artimidoros, in his Dreamdesire" in Wtnkler's title
A~
a kind of Greek equivalent toare not, of course, theFreud's Interpretatton
of Dreams,
traditional Freudian kind.
observed that dreaming about "being
These are material conpenetrated by an acquaintance is profstraints such as hunger,
itable for' a woman, depending on what
scarcity and under-popusort of man is entering her. For a man
lation, not the expression
to be penetrated by a richer, older manof a timeless conflictis good, for the custom is to receive
between "nature" andthings from such men. To be penetratrepressive civilization.
ed by a younger, poorer man is ba~ forEvenso, Winkler's
it is the custom to give to su~. "emphasis on constraint
Sex pointed toward public life,
can be seen as a reaction to late 19th
and away from the trivialities of subjeccentury interpretations of Greek culture
tive, private experience, even in thewhich viewed sex as largely unreinterpretation of dreams. Sex was notpressed and unrestrained.
Winkler
about personal truth, intimacy, shared, argues that because Greek culture existexperience or love. It was about
ed within its physieal limits (as any culhonor and shame and public spiritedture necessari1ymu~), Greek notions ofness within
Greek
democracy.
deSire must be similarly circumscribed.
Moreover, it was penetration,not
Michael Schwarz
But this argument does not address theanatomical gender, that determined thecentral question of how desire was actuvalence of sexual experience. People
then introduction to John Wmkler's ally experienced by Athenians. The
were not homosexual or heterosexualcollection of essays tbe Constraints
question we should be asking, in my
in Greek society: they were insertiveof Destre: !be Anthropology of Sa' opinion, is not Simplywhat function did or receptive, dominant or passive.
and Gender in Ancient Greece, we are sex and gender play in Greek society,
Despite a we1l-deserved reputation
led through a thicket of theoretical and but how and under what circumstances
for democracy and 'pederasty, then,practical obstacles to understanding
did the Greeks experience desire. Byancient Greece must be thought of as
Greek ideas of sex and gender. Later, asking the second question, we are best
yet another variety of traditional patriarWinkler, a Professor of Classics at able to answer the first, and do not run
chalculture, with all of the unpleasantStanford University, presents us with a the risk of confusing stale "rules" about
nesses that go along with this. Unlike
brilliant and almost commonsensicalsexual propriety with actual practice.
other historians of sex and gender,argument: (1) that to understand genWmkler, of course, gives us a samWmkler does not use this as a platfonn
der ~tsand sexual meanings
pling of both the structural context for
to attack Greek culture, Rather, Wlnider
we must view them as existing in a his- sex and gender and its subjective expe8M DESIRE011 peli.

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BooksComposing Ourselves",,"

conscious effort to reclaim our past. And as such it
deserves landmark status.
Today, Blitzstein 0905-64) is best remembered for his
depression-era labor opera, The Cradle Will Rock (936),
Originally a collaboration with director Orson Welles andproducer John Houseman. A deliberate attempt to write
an American opera that would speak intelligibly to theby K Robert Schwarz
masses, The Cradle Will Rock, with its populist, pro-union
message ·and its stirring, anthemic songs, achieved a sort of
instantaneous cult status.
r..
'But, as Gordon reveals, there was more to Blitzstein-'ver.Stop to think juSt how many, American classicalthan The ,Cradle Will Rock. There was a collaboration with,',composers
have been gay? Aaron Copland, Vrrgil
Lillian Hellman, a translation of Kurt Weill's Threepenny,Thomson, Marc Blitzstein, David Diamond, Samuel
opera, an unfinished attempt to write an opera about 'theBarber, Gian Carlo Menotti, Leonard Bernstein, Henry
Sacco and Vanzetti trial. And, of course, there was theCowell, LOu Harrison, Ned Rorem, David Del Tredici-thecomposer's unashamed gay identity. While Joan Peyser's
list could go oil and on. Ever stop to wonder why noBernstein treats its subject's sexuality in lurid, sensationalmention of these composers' sexuality is to be found in theized terms, and writers on Copland and Thompson denystandard history texts? Why the word "gay" is mysteriously
sexuality altogether, Gordon embraces Blitzstein's gay
absent from their entries in the defmitive encyclopedia,
identity as an important strand in the fabric of the composThe New Grove DIctionary of Amerlian Music?' Smells like
er's life. And I suspect that Blitzstein would have apprecia whitewash, doesn't it?
,
ated Gordon's honesty. Just feel the self-pride exuded by
You better believe it is. Entrenched homophobia in - this coming-out letter of 1929, written by the composer tothe classical-music world, combined with timidity
thehis sister:part of several generations of composers, has resulted in a
It is imperative at last that I., .Iet out what has been
, conspiracy of silence concerning the gay and lesbian rolesecret and furtive in me for so long .... Now I accept whatin American music. (Among women, the situation is far
I am; really, knoWing all it involves.... In this light, it isworse. So invisible are lesbians on the classical-music
absurd to assert that there are no sins; there are definitescene that-althoughseveral of the most prominent livingly cardinal sins-sins against oneself, against one's law.
women C'omposers are members of the tribe-I hesitate to
Despite its candor, Mark the Music is far from perfect. It
name them here.l_emphasizes the personal and anecdotal over the purely musi~t!y~me~sicOiogists have begun fighting gay
cal, and whenever it attempts real musical analysis, it turns
inVisibility, while -Others' continue with business as usual.
embarrassingly simplistic. And it is burdened by a compulVivian Perlis' Copland: Since 1943, which stubbornly
sive attention to detail that slows the narrative to a crawl. But
ignores issues of sexuality, exemplifies the latter tendency.
these shortCOmingsare far outweighed by the new standard
But Eric Gordon's Mark the Music: !be Life and Work ofof truthfulness it setS for the field of biography.
Marc Blttzstein, the first biography of an American comIf only Vivian Perlis had felt compelled to abide by aposer to fully encompass its subject's sexuality, makes asimilar standard, Copland: Since 1943 would have been a

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VIctor Kraft ..., be remonstrated witb Marc and David. ~stop tbat!" Copland said, ever concerned to keep unsullied bis
own status as the dean of American music.
If Copland: Since 1943 were really-an autobiography,
Perlis could claim that she was merely respecting her subject's wish for privacy. But the state of Copland's healthover the past decade could' not possibly have allowed him
to have had much of a handin the preparation of either ofthese two vohimes. Seen inthat light, Perlis' deliberate
obscuring of Copland's per.
sonal life woui<;lseem to serve
no purpose at all.
'And ,thisdenialof
Copland's sexuality has another, unintended effect: it turns
him into a bland, lifelessciph~r, a far cry indeed fromthe vitality of his musjc. Whatreader can care about a man
devoid of passions, drives andflaws? As Ned Rorem states in
the interview he gave Perlis,"People are inclined to sanctify him as though he, had noter.nperament or sexual urges
at all. it diniinishes Aarordo
avoid discuSsion of his various
temptations."
But avoidanceis whatPerlis engages in. Copland's
one-time lover Victor Ki-aft is
his constant companion
inthese two volumes, yet Perlis
can do no better than todescribe him as ~n "intimate
friend"--eventhough ROrem
states that Copland's relationship with Kraft was "pretty,
much de-romanticized by thetime I knew them bo~." Can
Perlis really believe that her
subject's gay identity-no matter how submerged-is entireDUET-Aaron Coplimd and Marc Blitzstein, 1945 Photo: Victor Kraft ly
irrelevant
tohis
psychological and composiand transcribed interviews with dozens of fellow com- tional makeup? Could any gay or lesbian, for that matter,
whether denied orpose,rs and friends. And in two volumes and over 800 honestly say that one's identityembraced-is peripheral to one's creative pursuits?
'pages, ,Copland's sexuality is barely mentioned.
I don't mean to suggest that Perlis' efforts have been a
To be fair, Perlis was dealing with a very different sortof subject than was Gordon. Copland, unlike Blitzstein, is failure. Far from it: her two invaluable volumes, filled withalive, and he has been notoriously reticent about his pri- fascinating oral .history and lavishly illustrated with photos
and documents, will provide a whole generation of musivate and emotional life. The following 1939 anecdote
cologists with raw mate~l.
But those. scholars will stillfrom Mark tbe Music shows just how different Copland's
have to write a critical, unauthorizedbiography ofstyle was from Blitzstein's:
Copland's
life,
one
that
embracesallfacetsof his identity.
Out of bis affectton for David {Diamond], Marc would
openly bug and kiss bim, not caring wbo noticed, so mucb so And they will have Gordon's biography of Blitzstein to use
as a role model. ...
tkat when Copland went up {to Saratoga] with bis boyfriend
far better book. The second part of a two-volume "autobiography," Copland: Since 1943 begins where Copland:1900 tbrougb 1942 (St. Martin's Press, 1984) ended. But
neither of these two books are autobiographies in the literal sense of the term. Instead, they are a skillful,mixture of
flrst-person narrative (edited from interviews the composer
gave Perlis in 1975-76), Perlis' own historical interludes,

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MERCE from page 61
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aware
not only of our own
trader by day needs to kill and then expectations, but of the filmmaker's
tour de computer force for composerorgasmically smear the blood of this awareness of them. (Even the appear[sic] David Tudor. No quick trick,victim all over his, body by night.
ance of Oliver Stone's name as co-proTudor required a handout to explain
Easy tasks? Well, not difficult. 'ducer seems something of a joke.)that even the dancers didn't know
Turner's story is ftlled with .all the
The ftlmmaker is, not surprisingwhat was going to happen-how
predictable frustrations and tensions
ly, a woman, Kathryn Bigelow, whose
those people must count-becausehe(how the law works against the law- earlier ftlm Near Dark is something ofwould be directing currents of soundabiding, for example) which are made a cult classic. In Blue Stee~ Bigelow
against the dancers of his choice via
more frustrating and tense by theirreinforces narrative conventions evencunning grey strips on their costumes.
predictability (don't these people ever as she disrupts them (she also wrote,
The resulting whooshes, whoops, andgo see movies?). Her problems trying with Eric Red, the screenplay), allowslurps were not anywhere as whimsito establish her authority, played out ing us to indulge the best of our'cal as one might have hoped from thein terms of masculinizing herself"yeah, go get him!" instincts while,
free spirit of it all, but the dance kept
getting and keeping her gun-are
making us self-conSCiously aware ofmostly out of their way. (Me, too.)
reinforced in a subplot about her(and hence, challenging) the processHappily, the dancers were back,father, who at one point disgruntledly
es of representation in which suchtoo. Alan Good, the rock Byron.
complains, "My only daughter, a cop" instincts are grounded.
Robert Swinston, who can do anything,
and who regularly beats up her mothBut whether you think the film is
includling make a deadpan expression
er. One of the best scenes is whenreally doing all of that or not, it is cerlook antic. And the women. Tough,she arrests him for doing so.
tensile Patricia Lent. Helen Barrow oftainly worth seeing Jamie Lee play a
Eugene's story is perfect.
No cop. Bang, bang. T
the magenta hair, who flies. Victoria
messed-up-childhood
explanations I
I Finlayson was the hot spot. She did
here. No explanations at all, really. He
Katherine Kerr's monster role in Points
is simply a psychopath, the sort that DOG from pa.' &0
in Space, the one with the dead-drop
the best shocker films produce; as con- requires. Alexander pitches his dog atback flip to the floor that is as comtrolled as is poSSible, but always ready a low level at the outset, builds
plete an act of trust in a partner as I
to lose it. A real "I don't really want to Poochkov to a height guaranteed toever hope to see. Funny thing. She
be doing this, but I can't help it" type. drive the professor batty, then winds
tore through it, made it big and soaring
And indeed, how could he resist when
without losing the transcendent calm
him down again as the experimenta gun falls inches away from him? And fails. Anthony Fusco as Bormenthal,that was Kerr's center in,the role. How
about that? I'm getting emotional
why wouldn't he try to show his grati- Preobrazhensky's assistant, does theabout Cunningham.
tude to the woman who made it all best he can to keep up with man andpossible, to Turner who empowered
Oh,my. T
beast, and Anna Levine Thomson is an
him even as she dis-empowered her- increasingly confused and lovelorn ser- I----------------lvant, overlooked by the distracted
DESIRE from page &2
self? Eugene is a true villain-of-ourtimes. Something of a yuppie, he tries Bormenthal.
As the doorman andsees a self-conscious patriarchy as a lens
to work out his aggressions on his secret policeman
Josef, William
on what he calls the "bluff' of male sexNautilus. It is here-whileworking
Newman's reassuring presence andual slavery in Greece. Ancient Greek
out-that we first witness' him in con- deep, soothing voice remind us thattexts portray an image of women as
we never really know whom we're"like slaves" in their relation to men. In
versation with voices (:1 la Jeannereality, Wmkler argues, it is preciselyd'Arc) which simply won't leave him dealing with-in any society.
alone. Twilight Zone time.
There is no American theatricalbecause women were so feared that
There is a lot going on in Blueequivalent to the aggressive, almost
men reacted so violently to any suggestion of their power.
Steel and a lot that is so cliche and con- brutal humor of Bulgakov and his conThis argument, familiar to modem
ventional that it may initially be tempt- temporaries, who were reacting to areaders as an anti-feminist defense of
ing to dismiss the movie as just another brutal time. Only the Marx brotherSand W.e. Fields on film come close.
women, has a defmite feminist sub-textof its type (or types, since it blendsin an anthropological context. Wmkler
more than one). It is not long into it But there was joy in their committed
does not discount the domination of
before you begin to think you're watch- destruction of American middle classing Halloween all over again. And, in a values. Bulgakov and company felt lit- ~en over women, but rather shows thesense,' you are. More than anything, the tie of that. They produced an anguishedrelative symmetry of gender relations
demand to tear down'the society Lenin
within an admittedly asymmetricalfilm seems to be self-consciously parodarrangement. Men had the power in
ic; you can't help but feel that everyone and Stalin were building, because it
ancient Greece. But their power existed(especially Ron Silver, who plays his was rotten. Their outrage was deeply
held and of the moment- and,so theirwith limits and constraints that must bepart with such evident relish to such ateased from male writing about gender.
ridiculous extreme) is enjoying him/her- plays were infused with an inunediacy
Wmkler's essays "leave no doubt as
self immensely. The editing too, by Lee and a clarity that current Americanto the violence" and passion of ancient
Percy, seems slightly off, making us playwrighting so seriously lacks. T
JAMIE from .....

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desires, while at the same time distinguishing between elite prescriptive texts
and sources of a more earthy nature.
The Constraints of Desire is an enormoos success. And part of the proceedsfrom the book are being donated to the
San Fr.tncisco AIDS Foundation.T
ROSA from PIIII n
ers should have stuck more closely tothis principle.
Von Praunheim a..'1dZwickler havealso collaborated (along with Robert
Hilferty and Steven Weiss) on another
AIDS documentary
called Positive.
Opting here for a more narrative form,
the filmmakers follow various HIV-positive people (including Larry Kramer,
Michael Callen and Zwickler himself)thro~gh the ten years of ~e AIDS ep~delDlc. These are the film s heroes; Italso has its villains-Ed Koch, Ronald
Reagan and closeted gays who, in
Kramer's familiar litany, ".are contributing to their own genocide." Though thelast half hour of the film moves into a
more general activist agenda-focusing
on ACf UP at the International AIDS
Conference in Montreal last year-it is
the power of personal experience thatmakes PosftWe a success.
•
Like Silence - Deatb, the film isoverstuffed; the inclusion of a long
scene from the play jerk£r and an interView/performance with dirge singer
Diamanda Galas both seem better suited
to the other film. But because it focuseson how gays and lesbians have cometogether in the face of overwhelming
odds, Pasittve has a strong "community"
feel which makes it both humane andcompelling. There's a wonderful segment where Zwickler gets his hair cut
by a dreadlocked PWAand the two chatabout hospitalization, medication andboyfriends. Zwickler's presence is consistently gruff and lovable; like
Wojnarowicz in Stlence .. Deatb, he is
the film's anchor and moral conscience.
Being shown with SiJenci! .. Deathis Fear of Disclosure, a collaborative
video
between
ZwicklerandWojnarowicz that's short and to thepoint. Zwickler reflects on what he sees
as ,a growing "sexual apartheid"
between gay men who are HIV-positive
and those who aren't. He recounts withclarity, poignancy and just the rightamount of, outrage how disclosing his

OSCAR from palll 58
Frustrated, I rewound my videotapeof the ceremony back to the beginningto show my lov~ the "100 Years at theMovies"montage he had missed by c0rning home late. Thankful for small pleasures, we snickered at Ray Parker's voice
singing "I ain't 'fraid of no ghosts" overan old clip of Ronald Reagan. Alas, someghosts-Reagan
and his pal Chuck
Heston, for examplHlnger. But by thetime you read this, my tape of the Oscars
telecast will have begun to disappear
under new episodes of The Stmpsons. T

positive status ended the possibility of a
relationship with a stranger, even tbougb
tbey would bave only practiced safer sex
anyway. The visual collage of dancing
go-go boys and glowing, spinningg10pes is sexy, striking and confrontational. Fear of Disclosure manages to
provoke and probe more in five minutes than most fihns do in several hours.
A lesson could be learned here: single
issue - big impact.
In addition to tbe Festival showings,
botb.films will run for tbree weeks at tbe
Public Theater begtnning May 4. T

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THE BALLROOM presents C"rl.s
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Day; hors d'oeuvres, juices, soft drinks,
wine, music ensemble;
at GLAAD
Offices, 110Va rick St 17th Ave S.I, Ste. 3E(north of Canal); 6:30-9 pm; $25
advanceJD) door/$15 students; 517-0380
JUDITH'S ROOM BOOKSTORE presents.........
WI......
, Sexl., till
Iy. 681 Washington St (at Charles St~ 7
pm; free, but limited seating; 727-7330(wheelchair accessiblela--

MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER/NY
Au ... Puaover Seder, at the Center,
208 W 13 St; 7 pm sharp; info 222·9794,

245-6366.

SAGE Wa .. '. !iOf. R., Grol,: Stilly
IIufe; at the Canter, 208 W 13 St; 7:30

GlY Tv. gay male porno clips; Paragon Cable, CH, J/'l3; 11:30 am (MON/TUEITUESDAY, MARCH 21
WNET-TV Bom in Africa: profiling popular African singer
Philly Bongoley luteaya, who died of AIDS at 38, but who
led an education crusade through Uganda before he did; CH
13,10-11:30pm
GIS Out in the 90's: live news coverage, discussion andinterviews;' Manhattan and Paragon Cable, CH C/16; 11 pm
to midnight'WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28
ME

HI PROD The Robin Byrd Shuw: male and female strippers;
Manhattan and Paragon Cable, CH J/Z3; midnight· 1 am
TNT libeled L6dy. the 1936 romantic screwball comedy with
William Powell, Spencer Tracy, Myrna Loy and Jea,n Harlow; 3:30-5:30 am (WED/THUI

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Chronicle: -AIDS": news magazine; 1:30-2 pm

THURSDAY, MARCH 29

CIS-TV 48 Hours: Teens in Trouble: with suicidal yout~s,
Toughlove, and -a visit to a San Diego hospital where 60-70

percent of the kids are victims of molestation-; CH 2, 6-9 pm(Editor: GIAAD members maywentto keep an eye on this onal
GMHC Living With AIDS: health and politics; Manhattan
Cable, CH J/Z3. 9:30-10:00 pm; Paragon Cabla, CH J(l3; 11:30
pm - midnight.

a

8CN Pride
Progress: news, health, sports; Manhattan
Cable, CH J!23; 111'.30-11:011
pm,
GCN The Right Stuff. media, entertainment" advice; Manhattan Cable, CH J/Z3; 11:00-11:30 pm
HI PROD Men For Men: Robin Byrd presents gay maleporno stars; Manhattan Cable, CH J/Z3; 11:30 pm - midnight

FRIDAY, MARCH 30
WBAl-FM Rompiendo el Silenci(l todos los vlemes, tratando de temas Y noticlas que afactuan a la comunid'ad gay Y
lesbiana; 99.5 FM, 2:30-4:30 pin (14:30-16:30 hraal
Th. a,y Olting
7:30-8:011pm 'GI,;,e Show; Manhattan

WNlC- TV BIYWltl:lr.'thelifeguards, appropriately,
CH 4,6-9 pm

Cable, CH J/'/3;

final episode for this series about
Involves a massive earthquake;

WNET-TV Uncommon Women Ind Others (from 19781, byWendy Wasserstein, with Jill Eiken~erry, Swoosie Kurtz,
Meryl Streep; CH 13,9-10:30 pm
GIY Tv. male porno clips; Manhattan
11:30 pm

Cable, CH J/Z3; 11-

WNIC-TV Olvid Lettermln talks to director John Waters;
CH 4, 12:30-1:30 am (FRI/SAn
HI PHOD Robin Byrd Show. male and female strippers;
Manhattan and Paragon Cable, CH J/Z3; 1-2 am (FRVSAn

SATURDAY, MARCH 31
HI PROD The E,,/y Byrd: Robin Byrd presents 'male/female
strippers; Manhattan Cable, CH J/'/3; l1-midnight

SUNDAY, APRIL 1
WBAI-FM The GIY Show. tonight, -April Fools In the Gay
Community: with RickX (The Closerc"se ShwA discussing
Manhattan Cable censorship of safe-sex education, Coorsand the -gay- bars, other embarrassing topics; with Larry
Gutenburg; 99.5 FM, 7:30-8:30 pm (every other Sunday, alternating with OutLoolcsI
GCN M.n " Films: malll erotica; Manhettan
11:30 pm - midnight

April 11, 1990

Cable, CH J(l3;O~WEEK69

pm; membership info, 741·2247
JUDSDN MEMORIAL CHURCH presents
Concert, the a capellasinging group whom 7 Olrs called "thebest local boy·group singing"; a benefit
for Judson's yearlong Centennial ·Cele·
bration; 55 Washington Square South; 8
pm; $10; reservations
777·'0033 (also
SAT, APRll7 at 8 pm)

n. Rlrtationll.

COLUMBIA LESBIAN, BISEXUAl, GAY
COAUTION First Frld.y D.ne., in Earl
Hall, Columbia U., 116 St 8t Bway ('1/19
train); 10 pm • 2 am; photo ID to drink;

854-3574, 854·1488

SATURDAY! APR. 7
BIG APPLE VOllEYBALL FEDERATION
Big AI,I •• VoileyII.U Tourwam.nt, themetro area's largest annual gay inter·national athletic
event, with forty
teams, over 300 players; at two sites,
Huntar College (68 St III Lexington Ave)and High School for the Humanities (18St btwn 8th/9th Aves); 8am ·8 pm, both
tod.y .nd fDIIIorrow; info 580-4633
DIFF'RENT SPOKES Pleal •• tvill., aride through central Westchester,
medium difficulty; 212/533-1079
DIGNITY/BIG APPLE O.y of Pr.yer, led
by Frs. Charles Scheidt and Don Mid·dendorf, theme is "A Gay and Lesbian
Look at the Liturgy of Holy Week"; atthe Center, 208 W 13 St; 10 am ·5:30 pm;$10 donation; 818-1309 (open to all)SAGE Brunch at nzl•• o, with entree ofEggs Florentine, Pasta Primavera, orCheeseburger/fries;
plus drink anddessert; 165 8th Ave 1111119
Sts); noon or
2 pm seating; $12; 741·2247 (checks to
SAGE·BR, 208 W 13 St, NYC 10011)

a male Marilyn Monroe"; also RII,IIIO
Nicky Para iso's confessions
and songs; 37 E 1st St (btwn 1st/2nd'Aves~ 8 pm; $6 or TDF; 673·6752

771.",y,and Mr. Zwicider. who will be present at
the screening;
Public Theater, 425
Lafayette St (off Astor Place); 7 pm; $6;
741·!iJ57 (will repeat SUN, APRIL 15,2 pm)

ASIANS III FRIENDS NY ..........
"Hn at the Manila Bar!Restaurant.,
31 W 21 St (5th/6th Aves); 6·8 pm;
George, 924-1287

JUDSON MEMORiAl CHURCH presents
T",FllrtlldolS
I. COIC.rt, 8 pm, see
APRIL 6GAY WOMEN'S
ATHLETIC
CLUBF•• dral .... at Cave Cal.;
24 1st Ave(at 1st St); 8 pm; $5; club 529-9665

1990 DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAl OF NY
presents D.vld
rowlcz • P.II
Zwlckl."1
Fe" of DI.c/o .. ,., about
desire in the age of AIDS; and Rou"..
Pr •••••I.
•
P.II
Zwlckl.r'.
SlIMe..".,." "a scalding look at the
response of artis13 to the tragedy of the
AIDS epidemic and society's failure todeal with it"; Mr. Zwickler will be pr.·sent at the screening; Public Theater,
425 Lafayette St (off Astor Place); 7 pm;$6; 741·5357 (repeats SAT, 4/1ht 2 pm)

1990 DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL OF NY
presents Ell •• S,lro's DI.n."
E,o: AIDS Info Upfront, about a South
Carolina cosmetologist who has taken
a personal and committed approach to
the AIDS crisis; and M.rlo. T. Riggs'
Ton,u.. Untied, a video collage about
the black, gay, male experience; at the
May Theater, 66 5th Ave (near 13 St); 8
pm; $6; 741·5357

H."

PEOPLE'S VOICE CAFE presents Nil.
Silver, who addresses such topics as"child abuse, junk food, politically cor·
rect behavior, lesbian relationships andWicca"; on a bill with S•• ro. Slg.1 •S•• ROIIIo; 133 W 4 St, Washington
Square Church Parlor; doors open 7:30
pm, show at 8 pm; $6; info 71111428-2183,
clubnight m·2528
GAY III LESBIAN UNION AT NYU Crud.,Lewd .nd Rud. p.rty/D.nc.,
with OJ
Pat Butts; Loeb Student Center, 566
laGuardia Place (at Wash. Sq. South); 9
pm • 1 am; $3 students1$5 general (bringphoto IDs)

M.n on the807-6799

TUESDAYL APR. 10
p.SIOftr
CONGREGATIONBETH SIMCHATTORAH C.. _ •• lty Seder by advanceregistration only; 929·9498
OPEN CIRCLE G.t.erl.go. til. F.II
Mooa 10 CelHrate ... God/desI; at thi

A DIFFERENT LIGHT R•• dllgl.rI•• :......
Lock. aliOll, hi",. a taleof growing up gay in Sidney, Australia;
548 Hudson (btwn CharieS/Perry); 8 pm;
free but limited seating; 989-4850
GAY MALE S/M ACTIVISTS Meed.g•• d ~:
W I.Foe ... a slide pro·gram including photos of interest to S/mmen, "from the teasing fetishism of
fashion photography to the cream of
explicit erotica to the challenging com·positions of the avant·garde";
at theCenter, 3rd Roor, 208 W 13 St; 8:30 pm(doors open at 8~ $5; 727·9878
EAGLE BAR Movie Nlg.t FrltI.; til.
VIR: JalHI Tlka ........
"
14211th Ave (at 21 St); 11 pm; 691·8451

CENTER 2IId THldays: Ed Sikov, jour·nalist, writer, author of Sertlwblll Com,dy, presenting L4ughing Hystllriellly:
SflX, R'prflssion Ind Amflriclln Film
Comfldy, iIIustreted with videotaped film
clips; 208W 13 St; 8 pm; $3; 620-7310

THURSDAY, APR. 12

P.... Sulld.,

Vo".,,,,"CONGREGATION B'NAI JESHURUNAIDS OUTREACH PROGRAM P.ssover
Seder for PWAs; 257 W 88 St; 1 pm; 787·
7600 (rsvp by April I; open to persons of
any or no religious affiliation)
CENTER a nd SAG E Benefit Auction, at
the Center, 208 W 13 St, 2 pm, Center
620·7310, SAGE 741·2247

the Center, featuring drag performers
Vee Martense, Electra St. Jill, and La
Gran Scena's Bruce Hopkins; 208 W 13
St; 8 pm; $20 members/$25non·mem·
bers; 620·7310 (open seating, tickets
available at the Center all this week)

JUDITH'S ROOM BOOKSTORE presents
Shey Youngblood, SI, M.m. Stories
and A.N. Holmes, J.cA; 681 Washing·
ton St (at Charles St); 3 pm; free, but
limited seating; 727·7330 (wheelchair
accessible)

DIXON PLACE presents Th. Sto" 01 0,, Oliver Wadsworth's "subjective,non·linear examination of Oscar Wilde's life
ana ileath, ami a surreal connection to1990 DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL OF NY
presents Rosa VOII Pr ... hel ...
Phil
Zwiclder's I'ositiv., portraits of AIDS
activists, Larry Kramer, Michael Callen

70 . OUTTWEEKCHURCH OF THE HOLY APOSTLES
T•••• r.e, in loving m.mory of those
who have died from AIDS, the offering
will benefit Holy Apostles AIDS Ministry• Bethany House; at the Chapel of theGood Shepherd, General TheologicalSeminary, 175 9th Ave (2fV21 Sts); 8 pm;

GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS HIV Health
S-I.er.
IlIUrane. lafomIadOll; 129 W
20 St, 3rd Floor; 7 pm; free; 807·6655,
TDD 645-7470 (this and avery 2nd TUES)BIG APPLE VOLLEYBAll FEDERATION
Big Appl ••Toum ....
see
APR7

New Dec.d., a benefit for'CCTV Thfl ClosM CIIs. Show. tonight, anearly·nude Scott Heron is the d.ncing
SlIlomfi in Sarah Schulman's adaptationof Wilde's play; a quick visit with artist
Russell Maynor and Roxy guy David
Leigh; MCTv. CH C1I8, midnight

SPECTRUM presents Hilell
De •• ,
singing Sfllrchin' and LovfI Pllins; 802
64th Street, Brooklyn (N Train to 8th Avestop, Bay Ridge); 71111238-8213

HEAL P•• el: EMT/I'LS French Tlltn,yfo, AIDS, ARC, HIV+, deveh;ped
byAndre Lefesvre and Gerard Laumond;'with doctors and patients discussing a
recent study and personal experiences;at Hillman Health Center, 3rd Floor, 16 E
16 St; 4-6 pm

H•• ,.",.

HERITAGE OF PRIDE G.neral ... bers.l, INiedllfl, atthe Center. 208 W 13 St,
8 pm, 691·1774 (also MAY 14, JUNE 111

Center, 208 W 13 St; exactly 7·7:30 pm(come early to be on time); $2 donation(info from OC, Box 4538, Sunnyside, NY
11104),SUNDAYLAPR,8

THE CENTER presents

P.1SOft!' RIIt Seder

WOMEN AND FRIENDS O.nc •• t til.
C•• ter, this and every first Saturday
through May; 208 W 13 St; 9 pm • 1 am;$81$6 members, seniors and students;
620-7310

CENTER KIDS sees Cind.,.II., at The
Little People's Theater Company, 38
Grove St; 3 pm; $5.50; for member info,
leave message at 620·7310

DIGNITY/BIG APPLE Uturgyfor p.llion(p.lm Sund.y); at the Center, 208 W 13
St; 8 pm; 818-1309

MONDAYL APR. 9

W.'••

April 4, 1990

1990 DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL OF NY
presents S.....
AI•• 1IayaIoed'. I_
M.dn.ss, about three families withadult schizophrenic children; and Usa~."• CI.ldle Hoover'1 ."".""".
,hasis: M." IIIto Wom.1I, "an intimate
and painful portrait of 39-year·old Gary,on his 4-year journey toward a full sex·change operationand new female
identity"; Public Theater. 425 Lafayette
St (off Astor Place); 9 pm; $6; 741·5357(repeats THU, 4/12 at 9'.30 pm; SAT, 4/14
at4 pm)WEDNESDAY, APR. 11
HISPANIC AIDS. FORUM Ro •• dte.'e:l.ItIno Ado/.. cents UlllIIf In the Age ",AIDS, a discussion of prevention strata·
gies; at Assn. of Puerto Rican Exec.
Directors, 140 W 22 St, 3rd Floor; 9 am •1:30 pm; Elsa 966-6336,. 1'."

CII• .t.. UtlI.'s

BlrdIdey

ASIANS III FRIENDS NY attend NY
0,•• I.t'l C.... To., ••••• t in thePenta Hotel, 7th Ave at 33 St; noon or 7
pm; Xenon, 5161338-4834
SAGE in Brooldyn, at the Brooklyn Pub·
lic .Ubrary, Kings Highway Branch, 2115
Ocean Ave at Kings Hwy; 1-4 pm; 741·
2247
ASIANS 8t FRIENDS NY attends a Tllel
New Ye.r C.I •• retlol at Dusit Thai
Restaurant, 256 Bleecker St (6thflthAves); food and entertainment
at $20per person; 8 pm, rsvp with George,
924·1287
THE CENTER NATIONAL MUSEUM OFLESBIAN 8t GAY HISTORY O, .. I.g
ReceptiOll for ... CaItOollIllow,
showcasing the work of 40 cartoonists whodeal with the lesbian and gay experi·ence; curated by Jennifer Camper,
Howard Cruse, Mark Johnson; 208 W
13 St; 6·8 pm; $2 suggested; 620·7310(exhibits thru MAY 25)

DANCING OUT
Monday.

Private Eyes (Marc Berkley's Kool Komrads; male strippers) 12 W 21 Sf,club200-m2

1Wenty/lWenly (T-Dance, 4 pm - 2 am) 20 W 20 St (!i18 Aves); 727-8841
Woody's (Dean Johnson's original Rock & Roll Fag Bar, alternate Sundays, call first) 4th St at 2nd Ave; 982-3686

Every Night (or almost)Tuesday-Love Macfiine at Underground, 860 Bway, near l?th St; 254-4005

VVednesday*,

Better Days 316 49 St (8/9 Aves); 245-8925
Private Eyes (Jeffrey Sanker, & Dallas's Club Bad) 12 W 21 St, btwn
5tW6th Aves; 200-7772-Pyramid (Tennesse's 'House Nation) 101 Avenue A, btwn 6th/7th Streets;
420-1590
Silver Uning (2-4-1 drinks, also open Tues-Sun, women SAT) 175 CherryLa., Roral Pk, LI; 516/354-9641
Stutz (2-4-1 drinks, also open daily) 202 Westchester Ave, White Plains;
914/761-3100

Thursday-Boybar (has a new wave drag show) 15 1/2 St Marks Place, btwn
2nd/3rd Aves; 674-7959-Copacabana (lastThu. of the month has Susanne Bartsch party) 10 E 60
St, at Fifth Ave; 755-6010
Excalibur ($1 drinks, also open Tues-Sun, women WED) comer 10th/Jefferson behind football stadium, Hoboken, NJ; 201-795-1161
Grand Central (2-4-1 drinks, also open Wed-Sun) 210 Merrick Road,'Rockville Centre, LI; 516/536-4800
Hatfield's (2-4-1 drinks, female impersonators; also open nightly, women
on TUE & FRI) 126-10 Queens Blvd, Kew Gardens, Queens; 718/261-8484
Mars (mixed straight/gay; Patrick & Chauncey party, 3rd Roor) Westside
Highway and 13th St; 691-6262*Quickl (Chip Duckett Thursdays) 6 Hubert St (on Hudson, 5 blocks
below Canal); 925-2442

Friday*Boybar 151/2 St Marks Pl., btwn 2nd/3rd Aves; 674-7959-Carmelite's (Chip Duckett's Boy+Boy) 150 E 14 St; club 673-9015
Columbia Dances (1st Friday of every month) 116th St & Bway; 854-3574
dap,
Private Eyes (preppies and young professionals) 12 W 21 St, btwn 5ttv'6th
Aves; 200-7772*Quicki (Scott Currie + Panty Girdles party) 6 Hubert St (on Hudson, 5
blocks below Canal); 925-2442'

Saturday
Barefoot Boogie (smoke & alcohol free) 434 6th Ave (btwn 9/10 Sts); 8326759-Boybar 151/2 St Marks Place, btwn 2ndl3rd Aves; 674-7959
The Canter Dances (2nd and 4th Saturdays) 208 W 13 St, btwn 7tWBth
Aves; 620-7310
Girth and Mirth Club at the Center (3rd Saturdays, heavy men & theiradmirers) 208 W 13 St; 620-7310
COI..... bia Dances (3rd Saturdays, Same But Different Dance, throughJune 16) 116 & B'way, 10 pm - 3 am; info 629-1989
Private Eyes (Jeffrey Sanker & Dallas's Club Bad) 12 W 21 St, btwn
, 5tW6th Aves; 200-7772"Roxy (mixed gay/straight/TVs/clubkids) 515 W 18 St (btwn 10111 Aves);
645-5156.
Saint At Large (ad hoc parties at different locations); 674-8541
Sound Factory (mixed gay/straight, Acid House, no alcohol) 530 W 27 St(btwn lOtWllt~ Aves); 643-0728

Monster (West Village) 80 Grove St at Sheridan Sq.; 924-3557
Spectrum (closed Mon & Tue, WED free, THU free & 2-4-1 drinks, FRI
m/f strippers, SAT guest star show, SUN live show & free 9-10 pm)
80264th St@8thAve, Bay Ridge, Bldyn; 718{238-8213'

DANCING OUT fQr Women
Tuesday
HIltfieId'sl~

10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens; 718/261-8484

VVedn'esday',

Bedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 51&1_9516&cllibur(Ladies Night, $1 drinks) comer 10th/Jefferson behind footballstadium, Hoboken, NJ; 201-795-1161'
Twentyll\Nenly (Shescape After Work, 5-10 pm) 20 W 20 St (btwn
5th/6th Aves); info 645-6479, club 727-8841

ThursdayBedrock 121Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 51&1_9516
Big Hulll Club (Her Planet, 8 pm - 2 am; began 3129) 804 Washington Sf,
4 blocks below 14 St; info 727-7616

Friday,Bedrocll 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 51&1_9516-Carmelite's (Chip Duckett's Girl+Gi~ '150 E 14 St; club 673-9015
Cheeks 2000 Long Beach Road, Island Park, LI; 51&1431-5700
Hatf.. ld'sl26-10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens; 718/261-8484
Roxy (Shescape party) 515 W 18 St, btwn 10th/11th Aves; info 645-6479,
club 645-5156
Visions ~1
Queens Blvd, Woodside; info 71!11846-7131; club 71111899-

9031

SaturdayBedrock 121Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 51&1_9516
The Center (Women & Friends 1st Saturdays, Feb. thru May) 208W 13
St; 620-7310
Mars (last Saturdap, Her Planet, 4(JJ this month) 13 St & West Side
Hwy, 691-6262
Silver Uning 175 Cherry Lane, Roral Park, U; 51&1354-9641
Stlrz 836 Grand Boulevard, Deer Park, U; 51&1242-3857
Twentyfl\venly (Shescape party) 20 West 20 Street (btwn 5t1V8th Aves);
info 645-6479, club 727-8841

SundayBedrock 1~1 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 51&1_9516
Cave Ca...... (SandWich Sister Sundaysl241st Ave at 1st St; 529-9665

Every Night (or almost)

Cubby Role (tiny dance floor) 438 Hudson St@ Morton St; 243-9079
Duchell " Sheridan Sq. & 7th Ave South; 242-1408
Spectrum (closed Mon & Tues; good gay!lesbian mix, see Every Night,
above, for details) 802 64th St, Bklyn.; 7181238-8213

NOTE:

SundayAll phon! numbers are area code 212" unle .. otherwise nalld.

Better Days 316 W 49 St (8/9 Aves); 245-8925*Mars (Chip Duckett's Mars Needs Men) Westside Highway and 13th St;
691-6262.
·Pyramid (Hapi Phace's Backdoor Cabaret) 101 Avenue A, btwn 617
Streets; 420-1590• • TVa welcome.

Send corrections/ldditions

to:Rick X. P.O. Box 790, New York, NY 101.

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BISEXUAL YOUTH
Informal locial & support group for Bi18xual
kida/youth. Monthly meeting/potluck lunch held
1:00pm on fourth Sunday of the month at members
homes. Call NY ABN for this month's location. This
group is part of the New York Area Bisexual Network.

AIDS CENTI;R OF QUEENS COUNTYSOCiAl SERVICES. EDUCATION. BUDDIESCOUNSElING. SUPPORT GROUPS
Volunteer Opportunities(718) 896-25OO(voice)(718) 89&-2985(TDD)ACT UP (AIDS Coli/ilion .. UnI_1i Po_rI
498A Hudson Street, Suite G4 NYC 10014(212) 989 -1114
A diverse, no~partisangroup of individuals united inanger and committed to direct action to end 1IIe AIDS
crisis, Gen. meetings Mon. nights 7:30,
at 1IIe Ccimmunity Center 208 W.I3th.

BWS-BRONX WBIANS
UNlTm IN SISTERHOOD
Social, political and support networking group for
women and 1IIair friends. Regular social events andmeetings on 1IIe first and third Frida.,. of every mon1ll.
At The Community Center, 208 W. 13 Street, from 8:308pm. For more info call Lisa at (212) 829-9817.

AlDEClAPIJI-8Y(Asian lesbians of 1IIe Eest Cpast/
Asian Pacific lesbian Network-New York)We are a political, social and supportive network of
Asian Pacific lesbians. Planning meetings on 1IIe 1st
Sunday and social events on the last Friday of eachmonth. Call (212) 517-5598 for more information.

BODY POSITIVE
If you or your lover has tested HIV+, we offer support
groups, seminars, public forums, reference library,referrals, social activities and up-to-date national
monthly, 1'HE BODY POSITIVF ($2!i{yaar).
(212)721-1348.
208 W. 13th St, NYC, NY 10011

ARCS IAIDS-Rel .. d CormlUllity Servic.)
for Dutchell, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan,
Ulster and Westchester counties. AIDS education,client aervicea, crisis intervention, support groups,
ca8e management, buddy and hospital visitor program.
214CantraI /lw. 'Mi18 Plana, NY llm1(914) 9IBQOI
838 Broact.vay ,Newburgh, NY 12291 (914)562-5111i
AlDSlina (114) IU-GI07
ATR (AIDS TREATMENT REGISTRY,INC.)
Publishes a bi-monthly Directory of clinical trials of
experimentsl AIDS/HIV traatments in NY/NJ, and has,educational materialf/seminars
for trial participanta.
ATR also advocates for improvementa in the trial system. P.O. Box 30234, NY, NY 1011-0102. (212) 288-4198.
Publications free/donation requeated.
BAR ASSOClAnON FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
lawyers Referral
Service for the lesbian and Gay Community
Full ,Range of legal Services (212) 459-4873
BAR ASSOClAnDN FOR HUMAN RIGHTSFree Walk-in legal Clinic. Tuesday 6-8 pm
leabian & Gay Community Centro Ground Roar
BIDS (BISEXUAL DOMINANCE &SUBMISSION GROUP)
Share SIM experiences and fantssias with fJ1hers ina positive, non·judgementsl
atmosphere. First Sunday of the month, 4:45pm at 1IIe Community Center
208 W. 13 Street, NYC. This group is part of 1IIe New
York Area Bisexual Network.
BISEXUAL PRIDE DISCUSSION GROUP
Topical discuaaions on illues of interest to the community in a congenial atmosphera, followed by an informal
dinner at a friendly local restaurant Every Sunday, 3:00
• 4:30pm at the Community Center 208 W. 1.3Street,
NYC. Part of the New York Area Bisexual Network.
BIWAYS,NEW YORKMonthly social events for the Bisexual communityand friends. Call NYABN for details of upcoming
events. (718) 353-8245
BIPAC (BISEXUAL POUJlCA!
ACTION COMMITTEE)
Political action on illues of importance to 1IIe Bisexual/lesbia,yGay
community. Mon1llly meeting/potluck
held 8:00pm on fourth Thursday of the month at memo
bers homes. Call NYABN for this mon1ll'slocation.
(718)353-8245

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ClRCll OF MORE UGHT •Spiritual support and sharing in a gay!lesbian affirmative group. Wast·Park Presbyterian Church
185 West 88th Street
Wed: worship sarvice 8:30 pm, program 7:30.
Marsha (212)304--4373
Charlie (212) 891-7118.
COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT
208 West 13th Straet, NYC, New York 10011
For Appointments and Information(212) 875-3559 (TIYNoice)
PROVIDING CARING, SENSITIVE AND lOW COST
HEAlTH CARE SERVICES TO THE LESBIAN AND GAYCOMMUNITY,COMMUNITY RESEARCH INrrtATIVEPWAII, PWARCs & 1IIeir physicians tsking the initiative to seek promising intervention against AIDS in a
resp. manner. For more info or to volunteer pleue
call (212) 481'-1050.
CONGREGAnON BETH SIMCHAT TORAH
NY's Gay and lesbian Synagogue Servicea
Fridayat 8:30pm!iT Bethune Straat
For info. call: (212) 929-9498.

DlGNITYIBIG APPLE
A'community of lesbian and Gay Catholics. Activitiea
include liturgies and socials every Sat, 8:00 pm, at
1IIe Center, 208 W. 13 Street, NYC.
Call (212) 818·1309.

RIONT RUNNERS
A running club for lesbian and gay athletesof allabilitiea. fl!n Runs of 1-8 maes held every Sat at
108m and Wed .. at 7pm in Centrll Parkand lIVery Tuea. at 7pm in Prospect Park.
For information: call (212) 724-9700.
THE RIND FOR IllMAN DIGNITY
National Gay and Lesbian Crisis Line
'AlDS 800' -1-8IJO.SOS-GAYS
Educational Resource Center; Positivelmagea
Media Center; NY State ArIa Program
888 B'way SLits 410 NYC, NY 10012 (212)52lHIDI
TIE GAY ARllCAN AMERICANSOF WESTCHESTER(Tha G.A.A.)
is a community baaed support group formed in
Westchester County. Various activities sra planned
for the coming months.
Please call 814-378-0727 for more info.
GlAAB
Gay & La"an Alliance Agaill8t Defamation
8OVarickStreat, NYC 10013 (212)988-1700
GlAAB combata homophobia in 1IIe media and ela&where by promoting visibility of theleabian and gay
community and organizing grallroota raaponsa toanti-gay bigotJy.
Do you have 30 minutes a month
to fight homophobia 7
Join the GlAAD PhoneTrael
Call (212)-988-1700 for information.
GUB
Gay Ind lesbian Independent Broadcastensinvites
you to tum into OUTlOOKS on WBAI-NY, 88.5 FM
every other Sunday, 7:30-8:3Opm. Join u. avery other
Tuesday it 7:30pm to become a membet of GUB. No
axperienc. needed.
505 8ghth Avenue, 18th floor. (212) 74lHM05.

,

GAY & WBIAN HEALTH CONcaNS
An office of the NYC Dept of Health, provideslinkages betwn NYC Health & Human Svcs, and 1IIe lesbian & Gay community, focusing in All healthconcerns; raaource information for health .ervice.
consumera and providers. 125 Worth Street, Box 87,
New York, NY 10013. For info call (212) 58&-4885.
GAY & WBIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY
Sliding scsla fees • Insurance accepted.
Inetitute for Human Identity.
(212) 789-8432

DIGNITY NEW YORK
lesbian and gay Catholics and friends
AIDS Ministly, Spiritual DlIVelopment
The Cathedral Project
Worahip Services & Social-Sun. Ev81. 7:3Opm·St
John's Episcopal Church 218 West 11th Street 0
Waverly-875-2179

GAY MAll l1li ACTMSTS
Dedicated to safe and responsible S/M since 1981.
Open meetings w/programs on S/M techniquaa,
lifestyle issues, political and socill concerns. Also
special evants, speakera burelu, workshops, demos,
affinity groups, newsletter, more. GMSMA -Dept 0,
498A Hudson Straet, Suite D23 ,NYC 10014.
(212) 727-8878.

mGE
Education in a Di.. bl" Gay Emil1llllll8nt
For the physically disabled lesbian and Gay
Community.
(212) 98IH921
P.O. Box 305 Village Station, New York, NY 10014

GMAJ)(GAY MEN OF ARllCAN DESCENT)
80 Varick Street, NYC 10013 a support group of Gay

FEMME SUPPORT GROUP
For lesbians who self identify as Femme. For info andmeeting timea call lisa at (212) 829-9817. No men pleal.e.

Men of African Descent dedicated to consciou8n8ll'
raising and 1IIa development of the Lesbian and Gay
Community. GMAD is inclusive of African, AfricanAmerican, Caribbean and Hispanic/latino men ofcolor. Meetings are held, weekly, on Frida.,.. For
more information, call 716-802-0182. 'GAY MEN'S HEAInI CRISIS HOTUNEFOR INFORMATION ON SAFER SEX AND HIV-RELATED HEALTHSERVICES. AND FOR INFORMATION ON
ONE-TIME. WALK-IN AIDS COUNSELING SERVICES
21Z-I07.21Z.... 7470 11IDIFor the tINri ..... pai..... )Mon.·Fri. 10'.30 a.m. to 9 p.m. S.t 12:00 to 3:00
GIRTH. MmH CWB OF NEW YOIIKSoci.1 club for heavy. chubby g.y men & their .dmirelll. Monthly soci.ls .t the ·Center'. w •• kIy b.rnights Thullld.ys at th. 'Chels.a Tr.nsf.r'. monthly
Fat Appl. R.vi.w. bi-monthly FAR. panplll. For mora
information c.1I Erni •• t914-89IH735 or wri1B: ,G&M/NY, Dept O. P.O. Box 10. Pelham. NY 10803.
HEAL (Health Education AIDS LiailOn)
Weekly info. and support group for tr.atm.nts for
AIDS which do not co~promjsethe
immune systemfurther, including alternativa and holistic approaches.
Wed 8pm. 208 W. 13111St (212)674·HOPE.
HETRICK-MARTIN INSTIJUTE
for lesbian and gay youlh. Counseling. drop-in cen·ter (M-F. 3-8pm). rap groups. Hanf.y M~k HighSchool. AIDS and .af.r .. x information.
raf.rrals. professional.ducation.
(212) 833-892O(voic.)(212) 833-8928 m for d.af
HISPANIC UNrrED GAYS .l£SBlANS
Educationals8lvices. political action. counseling and.0cialactiviti88 in Spsnish and English by and for theLatino Lesbian and Gay Community.
G.neral me.tings 8:00 pm 4th Thursday of .very
month at 208 Wast 13111Str •• t
Call (212) 891-4181
or write H.U.G.L. P.O. BOl(226 Canal Stre.t Station.
New York, NY 10019.
'
LAMBDA lEGAL DER:NSE
AND EDUCATION RIND
Prac.dent·s.tting
litigation nationwide forlasbians, gay men and paopla with AIDS. M.mbarship ($35 and up) inc. newsleu.r and invitations to
special events. Volunteer night on Thullldays.lntske
c~lIs: 2-4pm Mon thru Fri (212) 99S-8585
LAVA (l£SBIANS ABOUT VISUAL ART))
Call for slides for Lesbian Artists' Exhibition. GlY &Lesbian Community Center. NYC. For mora inform.tion, send SASE to :Miriam Fougere
118 Fort Green. PlaceBrooklyn, NY 11217.
THE l£SBIAN AND GAY BIG APPlE CORPS
Get your instrument out of the'clOlet and come playwith us. Symphonic. Marching. J.zz. Dixielanil. Rock,Rute Ensembles and WoodWinds.
123 Wast 44th St Suite 12L New York. NY 10038. (212) 889-2922.
1HII1AN a:GAY
COMMUNnY SERVICES CENTER
208 W.st 13th Shat Naw Yorte;NY 10011(212) 82G-7310
IIIm-11 pm evaryday,
A pI.ce for community organizing .nd netwOrking,"social sarvices. cultur.1 programs. and soci.levents
sponsored byth. Center and morath.n 150 community organizations.,l£SBIAN AND GAY LABOR NETWORKAn organiz.tion of Lasbiansand Gays who ara activa
in thair labor unions_ working on domestic psrtnelllhip
benefits and AIDS issues. For more information call(212)923-8890.
l£SBIAN AND GAY RIGIfTS PROJECT
of the American Civil Ubertiel Union
ICNOWYOUR IIGHIS/WE'IIE
EXPANDING na(212)
exl545944-_.

!1SB1ANS AND GAYS OF RA18U11(
Brook!yn'.soci.1 org.nizltion for both glY men .nd
lesbians. P.O. Box 108. Midwoocl Station
Brooklyn. NY 11230 -(718) 85&-9437.l£SIIIAN HERSTOIYARCHIVES
P.O. Box 1258
New York, Naw York 10118
217/874-7232
Sinc. 1974. the Archival h.. inspirad, Ihlpad Ind
rafl.cted La.bi.n Hval .varywhara. Call to arrlnga aviM or to volunte.r for ThullldlY worknightL
LONG ISLAND ACT-UP
P.O. Box 291. NIiw Hyde Park, NY 11040
Support u. for chlnga on Long III.nd.
(518)33&-41182(518)897-5238 N.... u(518) 928-5530 Suffolk
MEN OFALL COLORSTOGETHER NY
A multi·raci.1 group of gay men against racil/ll. Meatinguvery Frid.y night at 7:45 .tthel.aabi.n.nd l3.yCommunity Sarvic .. Canter. 208 W. 131h Street For
mora info. call: (212) 245-83l1lIor (212) 222-9794.
IIElIOPOUTAN TENNIS GROUP(IiTC)Our 200 member lasbiln .nd gaytannia club includ ..
plaYSIllfrom beginning to toum.ment 1M. Monthly
tennis psrti88. Winter indoor league. ecm. pI.y with usl
For information: MfG. Suite KII3. 4911-AHudlOll St., New
York, NY 111125.(718) 852-8582.
IIDCA (Man crt Color AIlS Prnention Prot-)
Provides •• fer a.x .nd AIDS .du~ltion information
to gay and bi.. xu.1 M.n of Color; coordinltea a network of paar-aupport group. for lilY .nd bisaxuII
Men of Color in .115 boroughs of New YorkCity.
- - -303 Ninth Ave. New York, Ny 10001
or call (212) 239-17911.
NATIONAL GAY AND l£SBIAN TASK FORCE
is th'a national gr.nroots politicil org.nizltion for
I.sbian •• nd g.y m.n. Mambelllhip is $3IVY".r.
,"ue-oriented
projects addran violence. sodomy
laws. AIDS. glY rights ordin.nce •• fl1l1l1ies. media.
etc. through lobbying, education. org.nizing .nd
dir.ct .ction.
NGLTf 1517 U Str •• t rm. Wlahington. bc 20009.
,(202)332~
NEW YORK ADVER11SING
AND CO..... NlCAnONS NEIWOIKNYACNi. the community'.I.rgest
glY Ind lesbi.n
prof.ssion.1 grouP. welcoming .11in
communicationl-.nd
th.irfriandl. Monthlyin.et·ing •• 3rd Wad 8:30pm It th. Community Canter. Memballi' n,wslattar. job holline. InnuII dir.ctory. Phone(212) 517-03811for IllOn. info. Me!1lion OutWeak for
one fl'8a nawSiettar.
N.Y. WOMEN'S SOmALL GUU
For .xperienced. Seriou. Softban PIIY"IlI. COichea, .nd Managelll: We pilY mQd/fut pitch weakend. in
Manhattan and Oueans. Try-outs begin Feb. llthru
April- or until f!lled.(212), 25&-1379 Jlnet
NINTH SlIEET CENTER
Sinc. 1973. a commurtity dedie.ted to'damonatrlting
that. homosexuallifeatyt.
i•• r.tion.l. d.sir.bla .
choica for individuala di... tiafiad with the rew_rdl ofconvention.living.
PtyChoiogic.lly - focuaiacl rap,'
gro,ups. Tu••.• Sit. 8 to 10 pm. paer counaaHing IVlilable. 319 E. 9 Street, New York, NY 10003. for info caD(212) 228-5153.
.
NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY
LOVE ASSOCIATION (NAIIBLA)
Dedic.ted to s.xual freedom .nd e.paci.11y inlllratad
in g.y intergen.rational
rel.tionahipe. Monthly Bulletin .nd r.gular chapt8r maeting. on the tim S.turd.y of each month. Y•• rIy membelllhip is $20; write
NAMBlA PO' Box 174. Midtown Station. New York,NY 10018 orc.II(212) 807·8578 for information.

NOIlllEllN
U8H1'1 AIJEIINAIIVf,S
Improving Ou.lity of Life fur Pecipll with AlDSlHIV.
THE AIDS MASTERY WORKSHOP: ExpIorinllthe pol,ibnitiel of I pcIWIrfullnd c .... tive lit. in the floe of
AIDS. CIII (212) 2!iH554
NYC GAY.willAN
ANI1-VlIUNCE PIOJECT
Counasling. Idvoc.cy •• nd information for IUMvInof Inti-g.y .nd .nti-llIbi.n vio .. nc •• I8XU.I .... ~dom8llic violenca. Ind other typaa of victimization. 'All .. rvic .. free Ind confidenti.l.
24 hour hotlina (212) 807-0197
PEOPlE WITH AIDS COAUTION(212) 532~I-800-~oIIine(212)532-Gfi111
MondlY thru Frld.y 101m-tpm
M•• I progral1ll. IUpport groupe. educational.nd
rafemsl .. rvic .. for PWA',.nd P'WArc' ...
PEOPLE WITH MIS HEAIJH 8IOUP
Und.rgrolIId buysr'a dub importing not-yftilppl'OV.cl
medicationa .nd nutritional.uppllll18llla. 31 Weat 2111h,
St 4th Roar (212)532-GZ8D

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SAGE: ISallier AcIlon
Socill Servic.i'gancy.
provicIing Clr., .ctivitieI••
educational .. rvices for lIlY a ...... n aanior citiz8ni.
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For an of UI intar8lllld in ra.ching out-to,eich otherwith exuberancall! 'JIC!IIt8neoully explore .nd
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THE ouriIEACliUIIN8 COIMJNAL HEAIJNI (TOUCH)
Conmunityvolll'llll8lW prrNiding • wMldybulfatauppar
forb BrooklynAIDS cClllllllllity. TIIUCII_
Monday, -.
5pn 10 It3Opm- stcbwlllMn ~FriIndiMaatirig HOIII8(110 Schtrmelhorn St 1IIIi" BoenIn
Place~ Umited tnnapor1ltioli may be .nanged.1nfu: (718)1122-2758. TOUCH YiIII~
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MlI8ts tim .nd third MoncIiyof .. ch month.t 7:30 p.m •• tthe Unitari.n,Church on Sawkill Road
in Kinglton, For information. c.U,(914) ~WHAMItw-n' .........Actieft llllillmllft)
A non-p.rtinn
COiIition committlld to damal!cing.
.. curing .nd defendinglbsoluta
reproductive free- ,dom Ind qu.lity h.. 1th c.re for .11_"We meat.very Wed .• t 8:30 pm .t the ViI.g.lndef'!l'!d4l."l,-,Democrats. 224,Wast Fourth Street'loff Sherid.n Sq.). ,We Ir. not .flifilt8cl ~VID: (212)713-_
MII.lilg ,.dd ..... : WHAMI. P.O. Box 733. NYC llJD011
WOllEN'S AIJEMIA1M,';1''.
co.uNnY~(W~!""
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Anon-profit, l.aabi.n communiW canter .. rvinQ "":",
Queans. N.... u .nd SUffolk'countiaa. Thur. niOI!ti,
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Barbary Coast, 64 7th Ave. (14th St.), 675-0385
The Break, 232 8th Ave. (22nd St.). 627-0072.

Marie's Crisis, 59 Grove St. (7th Ave). 243-9323

South Dakota, 405 3rd Ave., 684-8376 ,The Monster, 80 Grove St. (7th Ave.), 924-3558

Star Sapphire, 400 E. 59th St., 688-4710

Ninth Circle, 139 W 10th St., 243-9204

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

Ramrod, 1B5 Christopher St., unlisted.

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

Chelsea Transfer, 131 8th Ave. (bet. 16th & 17th),
929-7183

Sneakers, 392 West St., 242-9830.

Eagle's Nest, 14211th Ave (21st St.), 691·8451

Two Potato, 145 Christopher St., 242-9340.

Private Eyes, 12 W. 21st St. (bet. 5th & 6th},
206-7770

Ty's, 114 Christopher,741-9641.

The Bar, 68 2nd Ave. (at 4th St.). 674-9714

Uncle Charlie's, 56 Greenwich Ave., 255-8787, Boy Bar, 15 St. Mark's Pl., 674-7959

WESTSIDE

The Pyramid, 101 Avenue A. 420-1590

Rawhide, 212 8th Ave., (21st St.). unlisted.
Spike, 120 11th Ave., 243-9688

EAST VILLAGE

Tunnel Bar, 116 1st Ave (7th St.). m-9232
Bike Stop West, 230 W 75th St., 874-9014

WEST VILLAGE
The Annex (to Cellblock 28), 673 Hudson St. (bet.
13th & 14th). 627-1140
Badlands, Christopher & West St., 741-9236
Boots & Saddle, 76 Christopher St., 929-9684

BROOKLYN (718)

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

After FIVePlus, 5 Front St., 852-0139

Don't Tell Mama, 343 W 46th St., 757-0788

Spectrum, 802 64th St. (at 8th Ave), 745-9611

Sally's Hideaway, 264 W 43 St., 221-9152

Sweet Sensations, 6322 20th St., 435-2580

Town & Country, 9th Ave at 46th St., 307-1503

Cellblock 28,28 9th Ave, 733-3144
The Cubbyhole,
243-9079

Candle Bar, 309 Amsterdam Ave., 874-9155

Trix, 246 W 48 St. (bet.Bdwy& 8th Ave), 664-8331

438 Hudson (Morton

St),

QUEENS (718)

The Works, 428 Columbus Ave (at 81stl.
799-7365

Breadstix, 113-24 Queens Blvd., Forest Hills,
236-0300

Duchess II, 70 GroveSt 17thAve.),242-1408

EASTSIDE

Hatfield's, 126-10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens,
261-8484

J's, 675 Hudson St., 242-9292

Brandy's Piano Bar, 235 E. 84th St., 650-1944

Hideaway, 87-36 ParsonsBlvd., Jamaica, 657-4585

Julius, 159 W 10th St., 929-9672~.H. Club, 353 E. 53rd St., 223-9752

Love Boat, 77-02 Broadway, Elmhurst, \29-8670

Keller's, 384 West St. (at Christopher), 243-1907

Johnny's Pub, 123 E. 47th St., 355-8714

Kelly's Village West, 46 BedfordSt.,929-9322

Magic Touch, 73-13 37th Rd, Jackson Hgts,
429-8605

Regent East, 204 E. 58th St., 355-9465

The Locker Room, 400 W 14th St. (9th Ave).
459-4299

Rounds, 303 E. 53rd St., 593-0807

D.T.'sFat Cat, 281 W 12th St., 243-9041

STATEN ISLAND
Sandcastle, 86 Mills Ave., (718) 447-9365

Make your bar STAND OUT in the
OUTWEEK BAR GUIDE

and get free advertising(if you respond by May 10th)for information, call 111·337·1111/I0/lDnl 11. 199[]

WESTCHESTER (!M)_

Playroom, 500 Nepperhan Ave., Yonkers,
96~6000

The Cubbyhole
438 Hudson Street
at Morton(212) 243-9079

Stutz, 202 Westchester Ave, White Plains,761-3100LONG ISLAND-NASSAU(516) ,

A neighborhood bar for

Bedrock, 121 Woodfield Rd., West Hempstead,
486-9516

both gay men & women

Blanche,47-2 Boundary Ave., Farmingdale,694-6006
Cheeks, 2000 Long Beach Rd, Island Park,431-5700...

Grand Central, 210 Merrick Rd, Rockville Centre,
536-4800
Pal Joey's, 2457 Jerusalem Ave., North Bellmore,
78~5031
Silver Lining, 175 Cherry Lane, New Hyde Parle,
354-9641

LONG ISLAND-SUFFOLK ~Bunkhouse, 192 N. Main St. Sayville, 567-9834_CASTLECAREwcBrmct\II..mctvP TheaIer DInner
DmerICocktalls

ImemaIionaI CUisine
Live EnIertai1ment
765 8th Avenue
New YCItc, N.Y.10036(212) 9560100

APARTMENT CLEANING
67-69 MORTON ST #.E
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Club Swamp, Sizes, 8 E. Main St., Bay Shore,
66~5175
Kiss, 161 Farmardie Dr., Lake Ronkonkoma,
467-9273
Mr:s, 608 Sunrise Hwy., W. Babylon., 661-9580
Starz, 836 Grand Boulevard, Deer Park, 242-3857
Thunders, 894 W. Jericho Tpke., Smithtown,
864-1410

NEW JERSEY (201)Charlie's West,678-5002

536 Main St., E. Orange,

The Den, 12-16 Hiram St, New Brunswick,
54~7329
Feather's, n Kinderlcamack Rd., River Edge,
342-6410.
Friendly's Bar, 6310 Park Ave., West New York,854-9895
Le Mannequin, 67 Orchard St., Elizabeth,353-9694
The Station, 308 Watchung Ave., Plainfield,
755-4000
Excalibur, 10th & Jefferson, Hoboken, NJ,
79~1023.

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nights or travels, or does not spend
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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S.O.S.: Mon. Apr. 2nd, 7:311-:1:00,Sat.
April 12, 6:00-10:00, Mon. May 7, 7:001:00, Sat May 19, 6:00-10:00
Paddles, 540 W.21 (212)799-8275

CO-OPS/CONDOS
Helping
Our Community
Buy and sen Real Estate
Since 1980

FORESKIN LOVERS

Andrew Weiser (212) 721-4480
The Corcoran GroupThe New York City chapter of the UncircumcisedSocietyUSA)seeks newmaleo~America
members (N~C(with orwithout foreskin) to join its swellingranks. Call for more club information or
to make reselVations for the new members party. (212) m-4208.

RTNESS INmUCTOR
One-on-one, gym or homeFree Weights, Nautilus
Cardiovascular Conditioning
Diet Maintenance
Charies Buster 212-315-5097
Member ACSM and IDEA

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forever. (212)929-0661

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166 East 35th St (near 3rd Ave.)
212-683-4550
Do you have a pinched nelVe?
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DR. CHARLES FRANCHINO
30 Fifth Avenue,
New York, NY 10011,
call for info (212) 673-4331.

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William De Bonis DDS.
Suite 704,
200 West 57 Street,
New York, NY 10019,
Office hours by appointment 'only call
212-333-2650. 'ELECTROLYSIS

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1-_72&-8919
orwritl:
1111Mutl'" Woltshop
Post OIIiee Box 1&02
New Albany, Indilnl 47151-7602

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Kenneth HI,
226 West 4th Street
New York, NY 10014
Lower Level, By Appointment Only.

(212)m-llSO
Certifl8d E1ectJologist
Member LG.P.E.

FOR SALESHOCK 'EM, MAKE 'EM SMILE
Your photo on at-shirt
Color laser reverse transfers
Pix returned with order$19.95 Mastercard Visa
Amherst Copy, 37 East Pleasant Street,
Amherst, MA 01002.
State MED-LG-XL

GAY MARRIAGEBlROPEAN GWM sroDENT
27 seeks a lesbian for friendship and amarriage of convenience. Would be
your willing accomplice: profeSSionallyand socially. If interested, please writa
Outweek Box2291

GROUPS
MEN'S GROUP
Ongoing group dea6ng withproblems related to positive
self-esteem and male intimacy
Ucensed psychotherapist
Call for consultation.
(212) 941-9830

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HELP WANTEDGROUP MASSAGE
MEN'S MASSAGE GROUP
Gat tog ather with a group of men to
give and receive massages. Taught by
Terry Weisser, Licensed Masseur andteacher at the Swedish Institute. Sundays, 7-10pm, $20.00,
call (212) 463-9152.

HEALTHCONDOMS STOP AIDS
SS1 Participate in the Niltional Condom
Study, a confidential mail survey fundedby the U,S, Public Health Service. Callcollect 2031744-7474 M-F, 9am-3pm EST.

'DEVElDPMENT ASSOCIATE(PART-nME)
Available immediately. Responsible forassisting Direct9r of Development with
fund-raising program for a borough-wide,
community-basedorganization. Skills
required: Strong grant writing experience
and/or strong special event experience.
Qualifications: 1) Fundraising experience;2) ~xcellent written and oral skills; 3)
Detail oriented; 4) Able to work independently; 5) Flexible schedule. To apply:
Send cover letter, resume and salaryrequirements
to: Howard Goldberg,
Deputy Director, ACQC, 97-45 Queens
Blvd., Suite 1220, Rego Park, NY 11374.
ACQC is an equal oppurtunity employer.

ADMINISlRATIVE COORDINAtOR

HELP WANTEDOUlREACH PROJECT
working with street yollth/young adults
in Times Square area. Counseling &knowledgeof AIDS issues helpful.
Spanish-speaking
preferred.
4-day
week includes Saturday or Sunday &evenings. BA. or equivalent experience
with youth. Salary 22,000; good benefits+ 4 wks vacation. Send resume toVinelle Smith, Personnel, 2 Lafayette
St,3rd Floor, NY, NY 10007.

Responsible for organizing and implementing fiscal and administrative functions of a multi-contract
government
funded non-profit organization. Skills
required:1) accounts
receivable/
payable; 2) general ledger and payroll;3) vouchering and reporting; 4) personnal matters; 5) contract monitoring.
Qualifications:
Bachelors degree inbusiness or administration;
relevant
experience. To apply: Send resume andsalary requirements to: ACQC, 91-45
Queens Blvd., Suite 1220, Rego Park, NY
11374. ACQC is an equal oppurtunity
employer.

DATA ENTRY
Gay Community Center.seek pIt data
entry for evenings. Excellent typing req.
Donor Database exp. helpful..Resumes
to Accting, Lesbian & Gay Community
Center, 208W.13th St, NYC, NYloo11.

TREPHONE SAlES
Experience needed. Driver's license aplus. Paul. 212-517-2850.

Scrub Tech or O.R. Nurse. Laser Medical. Paul 212-517-2850.

LEGAL SECRETARY
for small labor law finn in Penn Station
area. WordPerfect + dicta phone expo a
MUST. Typing, filing, tel. & gen'l officeduties. $26K-$28K, dep. on expo (212)268-1000. Ask for Bill.

HELP WANTEDALCOHOLISM PROGRAM ASSISTANT
Crisis intervention & addictions coull!!lling skills. Word-processing essential. CAC
training/experience
preferred. Salary
low/mid 20's. Resumes to Personnel, Lesbian & Gay Community Services Center,
208 West 13th Street, NYC 10011. Womenand people of color encouraged to apply.

RECEPTIONIST POSmON AVAILABLE
at non-profit lesbiaiVgay psychotherapy
center, Hours- evenings and Saturdays.
Institute for Human Identity.
Call Marlene or Henry, 212-799-9432.

.' WRITERSIREPORTERS
OliTWEEK needs an energetic,
deadline-oriented news hound tocover both NYC and national gay
and lesbian news'scenes.
Excellent writing skills and ,familiarity with the lesbian andgay community essential.
Familiarity with news writing aplus.
Send resume, salary requirements
and samples of your work to:, Andrew Miller
OUTWEEK
159 West 25th Street, 7th floor,
NYC, 10001.
No phone cails, please.
WO_.rut peopk 0/ color lite strollgly_ru:ourtllg_d to tlpply.

RECEPTlONISTJFlLE CLERKBusy private practice; must type withcomputer knowledge; full-time w/benefits after 90 days; good personality tohandle pressure, call Frank after 1pm
M-F. 212-787-7820.
PASTORAL SEARCH

Not-for-profit AIDSAgency has a key position
available for experienced Administrator to
manage computerized fiscal system for four
million dollar annual budget.,Direct budget
development process for all public and private sources; fiscalmanagement ofallagency
assets, contracts, grants. Good supervisory
skills necessary. BS.required.MApreferred.
For consideration, send resume with salary requirements to:

Falth Temple, a nondenominational, Evangelicalchurch with a special ministry to adiverse population is seeking aqualified candidate, supportive of
our special outreach to the gay
and lesbian community, to serveas pastor.
Please forward resumes on or. before April 1st to:
Pastoral Search. Dimitri Triantafillakis
executive Director

5521 5th Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20011.

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24 West 30th Street
New York, NY 10001
No phone all. plea ••E.... I OppcxIunlty Err4>1o)'er

OUTGOING SOCIAL PEOPLE
ne.eded to distribute flyers advertising'phone sex lines with g:'y bars. Must be
friendlyand personable. Fun work, flexible
hours. Call Mr. Goldstein at ~3440

April 11, 1990

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HELP WANTEDMOVERSJ.ICENSEDPAINTING

CO-DIRECTOR
SAGE: Senior Action in a Gay Environment, Inc. a non-profit organization,is seeking an 'individual who will havefull-time financial responsibility for thissocial service agency caring for gay
and lesbian
seniors
in the NY
metropolitan area. This person musthave three years, or more work experience in fund-raising strategies, public
relations activities and preparation of
grant proposals for foundations andgovernmentsl
agencies. This person
must have previous experienceinfinancialmanagement
and budget
preparation for business and/or nonprofit organizations. SAGE, Inc. is anequal opportunity employer.
Please direct all inquiries and resumes
to: Chair, ,Search Committee, SAGE,
Inc., 208 West 13th Street, New York,NY 10011. Confidentiality respected.

HYPNOSIS

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All levels taught by patient, experienced
professional. Beginners welcome. ConvenientWest End Avenue location. Reasonable rates.
(212) 799-3747.
(Message answered promptly)

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Ever dream of having a nude photo taken,of yourself or your lover, but didn't
know who would take it? Here's yourchance-reasonablerates.
Call (212) 734-7157.

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Develop new habits
Turn obstacles into creativity, selfesteem, motivation, stress-reduction.
Certified hypnotist
Master practitioner of NLP. Stephen
Dym, 212-475-1517.

PHONE SERVICES

ANAL WARTS, RSSURES, HEMORRHOIDS
treated in minutes with lasers call for a
free consultation. Laser Medical
Assoc., Jeffrey Lavigne M.D.,
call1-800-MD-TUSCH.

INSURANCE

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(212) 581)..9724

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Try Brownstone Brothers instead.
Profe ssional and Reliable.
Serving the Gay Community 15 years.
Sensitive, fun people who get the job
done right with no bullshit.
Ucensed DOT 10166.'Insured.
, Reasonable storage rates.
Pianos-Art-Antiques
Packing. Moving Supplies. 426 E91
Call 289-1511.
Mention OUlWEEK for SpeCial Discount Free Estimates.

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April 11, 1990,

12- DONKEY DICKof .!lJ!Jll:t..kind
Bernard Granville

208 W. 13 Street, New York, NY 10011;
for info call (212) 675-3559.

+It you have sex with other men, no matter how infrequently,
always use latex .condoms.
Because once is all it takes to transmit the AIDS virus.
So protect yourself ... and your partner. For more information, call:

AIDS Hotline 718 485-8111.

(i;iCity of New York, Edward L Koch, Mayor

Stephen C, Joseph. M,O .. M,P.H .. CommiSSioner. Department of Health,April 11, 1990

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PUBLICATIONSREAL ESTATEHELP ADOLESCENTSDIS11NCTIVE DECO APARTMENTS

achieve responsive, fair schooling. New
study discloses 25 ways gay and les·bian teens can get better treatment
from peers and adults at school. Send
$5 to Studllnts, 1455 Chapin Street NW,
Washington, DC 20009-4510.

Fully renovated apartments in the art
deco district of Miami Beach. Perfectfull·time residences or the best inaffordable second homes.
VINTAGE Propertiel, 1520 Euclid
Avenue Miami Beach, FL33139.
(305)534-1424.

SUMMER SHARESWATER ISlAND
ARE ISlAND
Beautiful sunny bayfront house with
fireplace, very charming 3BR, 2 bath,full or half shares available.
(212)242·5380

LOFT IN THE COUNTRYUL$TBI COUNTY BfAUTY
1.5 hours NYC: New Paltz·High Falls·
Stone Ridge. True Country places innicest settings. Real estate values inscenic emerged community, Contact:
Greg Farrell atTown Squire Realty. (914)
331·8991 (212)983-7263.

SERVING THE GAYCOMMUNITY OF MANHATTAN
Buying, Selling Real Estate
Call Tony Czebatul(212)460-9999
WALSCOTT CO.

WASHINGTON D.C.
8 Bedroom renovated Victorian guest
house, well·establishedbusiness, gay
clientele. Located in prestigious DuPont
Circle, metro·accessible. $750,000
includes most furnishings. No brokers.

(202)462·0709.
HATE BROKERS?
At last there's an understanding, quali·
fied real estate professional who will
help you buy or sell your Manhattan coop or condo. I have 1000's of apartments
and 1000's of customers.
Please call Phillip (212)308-0870.
Leave message.

Fire Island Pines

SEXUAL HEALINGEROTIC MEN
Joseph Kramer and Matthew Simmons
invite you to a sacred sex seminar. (Nolecture.) Celebrate our tribal joy witherotic rituals based on Tantric, Taoist,
and Native American traditions. Learn
25 erotic massage strokes and how toenhance and prolong orgasm. Relearn
sex as sacred, playful, non·addictive,
non-compulsive and non·stop. April 7, 8
or 14, 15 9am·6pm. Cost $195. You areinvited to a day ofTaoist Erotic massage
on April 16, 9am-6pm. Learn to give andreceive a llJ2hour transformative geni·
tal massage. Cost $60. For brochure andregistration, call Body Electric at (415)653-1594 or Bob Yohn at (212)929-4019.

ERonC MEN AND WOMEN
Joseph Kramer and Annie Sprinkle will
host their popular Tantric Group Rebirth(clothed) on April 6 at Spm. Cost $20.
-Healing and Empowerment through Self
Erotic Massage- a clothed evening with
Joseph Kramer, April 10, Spm. $15. No
reservations necessary for either event
Place: 135 West 14th. For brochure or
information, call Body Electric School(415)653-1594 or Bob at (212)929-4019.

SUMMER SHARESARE ISlAND PINESTAUSSICREAL ESTATE AGENCY

Exclusive SeasoniJI Rentals
2BR and 3BR from $12,000
3BR bayfront at $16,000
also all price ranges, Including
waterfronts and swimming pools
POBox 5335
R,./1Und P/n., NY 11782(518) 597-6900
POBoxtU52
FDR Station, NYC, NY 10150(212) 355-6739

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Apr!1 11, 1990

on the beach.
One bedroom available for half or fullshare-$l,500
in 4 bedroom house, allainenities. To share with fun·loving,cool, professional guys.
Call evenings 664-7630 or 633-9430.

Gorgeous secluded Dutchess
CoJRhinebeck country home. 2 bed·room, stream, privacy, perfect for couple, artist/writer. Available alt. week·
endl/Weekly. Open to situation. $750
mo. Call. days 212-572·6084

F.I. PINES. RJlJ. SHARES IN 2,
BR.HOUSE.
Lrg. rooftop deck, outdoor shower; fire·place, all amenities, Prefer intellects
looking for gracious living lit comfortable with nudity.
Long season. 212·570-1059.

TANNING:. lET 1IIIr HEADHY,'SEXY ILOW.~.
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(212) .28·11 81
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THERAPY,

THERAPY FOR GAY COUPLES
Has love become stressful and confusing?
Wann, supportive psychologistrl/overs
with 8 and 12years' therapeutic experience
will help you discover your deepest feelings and mutually creative energies.
Our innovative approach includes roleplaying, visualizations and dream analy·
sis. ~est Village location.

John-Thomas Alexander, Ph. D.
Michael R... _rg, M.A.. M.Ed.
(212)'Z.2I13

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11IW.12M Shit. Suite 1
New York, NY 11m3
(2121Jll.1U2
Non-Profit La,bian/Gay

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20 yearsSpecializing

HomoseXUality
Licensed

ClinicalIII,

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233 W. 83 St., New York. N.Y. 10024(212) 799·8574(212)691-2312

Sliding Scale Feel

COMPASSIONAlE, CARING THERAPIST
Supportive individual &: couple
therapy by institute-trained
licensed psychotherapist Helpwith relationships, gay identity,
dealing with your family, and lifein the age of AIDS. Sliding fees.
NY and NJ offices:(212)724-7205 (201)567-2445.
ARI FRIDKIS,C.S.W.

DAVID UNDIEY UllIN.

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Psychotherapist and Alcoholism
CounselorTo the Gay ~mdLesbian Community
Individuals and Couple.
Licensed - Insurance Reimburllible

Fna baH on ability to p.,
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PSYCHOTHERAPY

212-5iZ-1881

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Lic.nad, Experienced Therepist~thic
Approech til Be.. 1n Probl.nl
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Walter J. Alvarez. CSW
BHrI c.tifiH Dipl_t
SohWVill ... Loc:ati"n(212) 941-9830

OUTWEEK
CLASSIFIEDSAS LOW AS $15.00
A WEEK!
...IF YOU PLAY YOUR CARDSRIGHT. ..

212.337.1222·
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TRAVELTEXAS

RENT MY PARIS APARTMENT
Furnished modern studios near bars,
metro, sleeps 2 non-smokers. Next to
Notre Dame S600Iwk or Place des Vosges $7QO,1wk. Quiet kitchen linens phone
etc. included.
212-410-4601 Ask for Peter~I~~~
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CARtS Gum HOUSE-where Strangers Become Friends.·
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Catering to gentle, sane, sober adultvisitors of all ages. Write for information: Carrs Guest House, 68 Bradford St,
Provincetown, MA 02657. Or call (508)487-1650.

VERMONTCOUNTRY COUSIN
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1824 Greek Revival house, music nn,
w/Cathedral ceilings, Rumford fireplace, outdoor hot tub. A truly traditional B&B. Weekly and wkday specials.
Contact Rt 1D Box 212 Shaftsbury, VT

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NYC 10011

WANTED
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the labor market Ph,212/673-3697.

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(516) 798-1753

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CHRIS (212)427-3210

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Convenient Soho location. Rick 718-7820952. No calls after 10 P.M.

ITAUAN GREYHOUND
gives safe, slow, sensuous bodyrub
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$7!i1in $10010ut. noon to 9pm
Serious onlyl No phone sexl
Convenient West Village location I
Call Michele 212-242-4979.

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by well-built bi male 6'3-, 1951bs.,
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safe fa'!lasies. Call Peter (212) ~9401.

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HAND30ME STUDENT
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sensual massage and much more. Sexy,
intelligent and hot
Call anytime.
ALEX
212-581-9252

RUBDOWN WITH MUSCLE
11/2 hour deep rub by sexy guy
In/OutMan: (212)1G4-OO9'1.

MUSCLE MAGIC
Strong deep sensual massage byhandsome muscular nude athlete.
BRAD(212)876-6014

Austrlliln Body MeChanic '9 Y88rs experience with Swedish &Shiatsu. For tune-ups ring Joseph.
(212)633-2698
Samto10pm
ITAUANBOY,SENSUOUS BODY RUB
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l.yout 24 hours. Phillip.
(212) 645-9107

MIDWESTERN BOY
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for bodywork. Very friendly. Call fori.yout appts. 10am-4am any day.
Also available with Chris,
Damon (212) 496-6710.

COMPLETE SENSUOUS BODYRUB
by well-built bi male 6'3-, 1951bs.,
clean-cut and discreet Married andmature men are welcome. Into erotic
safe fentasies. Call Peter (212) ~9401.

HOT MUSCUWSTUDBODYRUB RELEASE
Serious pro-nude w/oil Swede,
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sensual, fluid, deep tissue massage byhandsome young expert Lower East
Side. $55 in, out negotiable.
, Call John (212)475-6550.

ITAUANBOY
Gives best rub
Complete satisfaction
Vinnie(212) 255-2303.
Stress He.... i...Body Work
Various Techniques Available
Legit Calls(212) 721-4547

Rubdown by Handsome
Young Athlete
Call Steve at(212) 268-9539

HOT TORSO
Athletic bodywork from boyish 150# 5'927 yo with very muscular build and anice tan line. Clean cut and friendly.
Also available with Damon.
Noont04am.
CHRIS (212) 496-6716

BODYnJNER

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Call Scott at 969-0232.

SENSUOUSIIASSAGE

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Quality bodywork by strong handsome
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