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Insider Trading
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Look Out
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Going Out.
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Tuning In
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Community Directory
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Bashing the Panthers••

In an editorial last summer, OutWeek urged the fonnation of acorps of gay men and lesbians to guard our streets against the rising
epidemic of queer.bashing. Our immediate impetus had been aJune 16 incident during which lesbians and gays marching against
violence had been violently assaulted by bystanders
in the Village,,
Our larger motivation was the belief that only by destroying theimage of gays as passive "victims"6f assault could we possibly hopeto.challenge those engaging in the cowardly sport of queer·bashing.
: '. We took as our spiritual touchstone the Black Panthers, anorgaQization
born of the civil rights movement of the '60s, The,
mi~it;ancy·espoused and practiced by the Black Panthers fright·
ened and alienated many, but it fundamentally altered widepread
perceptions of Blacks and caused a new respect for their deter·
Qlination t~ ~chieve power and respect in our racist society.
In that spirit, we suggested that our new community groupqll itself the Pink Panthers, The "panther" reference sprang fromth~ Black Panthers; the "pink" was derived from the pink triangles
forced on gays by the Nazis, and since adopted as the queer color,
Several weeks later, we were pleased to report that such agroup had independently formed and adopted that name, And
under the energetic leadership of Gerri Wells, they have quickly
emerged as one of our community's most 'visible, feisty andeffective groups, complementing the fine legal and advocacy
work of the Anti·Violence Project, The Panther street patrols
have achieved widespread publicity that is indeed serving tocontradict the homophobic myth that queers don't fight back.
.. Now, in an incredibly offensive, ipsensitive, homophobic
move, Metro--Goldwyn·Mayer is taking the Pink Panthers to court
for allegedly stealing the name and besmirching the image of thePeter Sellers films [s~e article, page 12]. In addition to forcing thePanthers to change their now~stablished name, MGM is seeking
more than $300,000 in damages against the grass·roots organiza·tion. MGM's action is reminiscient of the the International
Olympic Committee's suit to force the Gay Olympics to change
iheirname, a d~cision upheld by the Supreme Court despite thefact that other groups are allowed to use the "olympic" moniker.
It's clear that such suits are inspired by homophobia and are
an assault on our entire community. In this case, it's additionallyoutrageous that MGM would stoop 'to such trivial harassment
because the Panthers are engaged in such untrivial work, thedeadly seri~us work of protecting queer lives in a society whose
vicious homophobia is often piqued by the hate spewed against
uS in Hollywood films.
The public can only suppose that MGM values theoreticalproperty rights against the civil rights of people getting bashedon. the street. That MGM has no concept of the depth and seriousness of anti·gay violence, That MGM is unaware of howtransparently such a suit reveals the extent of homophobia in
corporate H<;>llywood.
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defend those brave souls who every week jeapordize their safety
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BARNEYS DILEMMA•

As I was admiring thefabulously inspired window
displays at Barneys on Seventh Avenue during my annual
fit of post-Ch ristmas salehunting, I found myself in abizarre and somewhat surreal
linguistic dilemma that will no
doubt occur more frequently
as our community careens
headlong into the 1990s.
"Whoever designed thismust've been a fag," chortled
a fashionably dressed young
woman to the young man
beside her, indicating thegigantic blond wig intended toparody Madon na's Blond
Ambition creations. Panic
time! Should I address thecouple and yell, "Oh yeah?
Well I'm a fag, too! Got aproblem with it?" Or should I
just slink away, swallow mypride and tell myself that I
wasn't up to confronting theseparticular homophobes at thisparticular moment in my life?
It's a good thing I waited
to react. Ten seconds later,
both the woman and the man
were still squealing withdelight over the Madonna display, catching obscure references to lines from her songs
that no heterosexual could
possibly have appreciated, Alightbulb went off in my head:
Maybe these weren't homophobes after all. Could thesebe hip queers who hadn't
thought twice about using theword "fag" as a badge ofhonor, proudly claiming theBarneys window designer as
one of their own? I was
relieved and amused to discover the same pair emerging
from the Oscar Wilde Bookshop. later that afternoon,
gleefully whipping open a•

copy of OutWeek they had
just purchased.
This time, Madonna savedme from making a completefool of myself in public by mistaking pride for hatred. But thequestion still remains: What do
I do when I hear the words"dyke," ''fag'' or "queer" and I
am given no clues to the sexual orientation of the speaker?

LOVE ON THE LINE

I was glad to see Andrew
Miller take up the issue of HIV
positive/negative relationships
in his commentary, "HIV, Mon
Amour" [no, 79/80, Jan. 9]. I
have found it very easy tohave safe[r] sex with someone who's HIV status is·
unknown to me, but it isremarkable how quickly thatsrONEWlltt RIOrS·HI'(. I

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and Lesbian Crisisline forthree years and answered thatsame question for countless
hundreds of others. Politicallycorrect talk is one thing. But it
is when the possibility oftransmission, small as it may
be, is literally staring you in
the face that all the principles
we like to think our community possesses are really put tothe test. Obvious·ly, there
must be more public-discussion on this issue.
,Steve Panepinto
Manhattan'/.I ELI, OAI{N, Z

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HAVE
5 A v ED yo/) SOI1-

WHAT, INDEED?

I was brunching with myfriend, the news editor of awell-k,nown lesbian and gay
weekly, talking about an essay
he'd written for that week's
issue, As I walked home later,
I remembered an experience'/1. I CI1N'T SU')I'd blocked.
TO FIND ANY....------.,.
rIlAT'So/.s (.HI1If 6 E.
My lover, Jeff, died from•----- 9 ECAfiSE
AIDS-related complications in
YOfl HAVEN',1986, Before I learned of my•
LOOltb~,.
own seropositivity, I 'was dat•._I,
ing a man who stopped seeing
me because he felt that hedidn't want to risk becoming
involved with a survivor.
Although neither one of, us
knew my status yet, he feltthat my relationship. with ·Jeff
had put me at risk for AIDS.
T yjE
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PERSONAL/TIEr
My dead lover did not bodeAT
THE
well for his and my future. My. G YtVECOL
061>1"5.
disappointment
at being(The problem is compoundcomplacency
evapora~es
dumped precluded all analysis
ed by the fact that younger
when you know for sure that of his action.
hets are beginning to adopt your partner carries the virus.
And'as I was walking
queer fashions. A hip but Last spring, after having
down Houston Street, rememcertifiably straight female co- begun a relationship with a bering this experience, feelingworker wears a .studded
PWA, I found myself callingboth angry and sad, I realized
leather bracelet that bears a the GMHC hotline hoping they . I was humming that Tina Turnremarkable resemblance to cou.ld give me complete
er song, "What's love got to
my ex's cock-ring!)
assurance that kissing was do with it?",Michael J. Sierodzki- absolutely safe. And I was a
Roben Vazquez
Manhattan volunteer on the National Gay
Manhattan.
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INTO WHAT? ...

WHERE'S THE PARTY?
Prejudicedoes exist
amongst gays. It does notmatter how you and I slice it.
Not only was I disturbed about
reading about the Cubby
Hole's doors being permanently closed, I was, andalways will be, appalled about
reading about gay males notwanting to hang out with gay
women present and vice versa[no. 78, Dec. 26]. I used toenjoy going to the Cubby Holefor a beer or two. I also
remember .when the Cubby
Hole was dominatedbywomen. I felt comfortable in
the Cubby Hole, but now gay
men's bars are all over
Christopher Street and maybe
one or two lesbian bars.
Hey, I'm not prejudiced·
against gay men. I'm gay
myself. I'm just saying thatgay men have many bars in
the city to choose from, andI,!sb.ians do not, and I .don~ttnirir<we are being treated fairly. Especially in downtown
Manhattan. Once I stepped
into a man's bar for change ofa dollar, and you should haveseen the cold and ugly stares I
got. But if a gay male cameinto the Duchess 2 for a beer
and wanted to listen
goodmusic, I didn't see one dyke
give him· a dirty stare, If· thewomen didn't want him there,
they sure didn't make him feellike shit. This may sound petty
to all of you, but it doesn'tsound petty to me-a lot of
lesbians feel the same way that
I feel. It isn't fair that gay men
have practically all the bars on
Christopher Street, and lesbians only have two bars andmaybe a house party. Lord
knows, we should not fightamong each other, because weare still fighting for our gay
visibility
and rights-I
doadmit we all need each other,
But, still, I do feel that lesbians
are being short-changed for agood time, and it just isn't fair.

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Bronx,

GOD IS LOVEThe "12 Steps" and "[12]Traditions" printed in OutWeek [no. 77, Dec. 19] mentions "God" five ti mes, withnumerous references to "He,""Him" and "Himself." Whymention the "G" word at all,especially in a gender way? As
a recovering queer drunk, I
substitute love for the "G"word, as I ,do not appreciate
the masculine diety of AA.
Love is an androgynous
force, an interchange of energy between the creative (masculine) principle and the nurturing (feminine) principle.
Queers were born with a balance of both; however, society
represses the nurturing andyielding qualities. We are on
the brink of world war be'cause of the glorification ofmale strength.
I feel that my role as aqueer is to teach love to'the restof society, rattier than to perpetuate the dogmatic masculine
diety of a Judeo-Christian
mythology. The Neanderthals
buried their dead with wildflowers, showing love, 60,000 years
before Middle Eastern religions.
Love is in all of us, especially[we] intermediates who have agender balapce and havecrossed gender barricades.
Madonna is teaching.
love Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tseand the-other spiritual masters
taught love. It is simply therole of the queer, my dear!
Gays and lesbians must
integrate, as we have so muchto learn from each other. A·
balance within of male andfemale is a constructive goal.
Overly masculine societies areself~defeating, as are overly
feminine societies, We queers
must reach for an interdependence within ourselves as wellas in our environment.
Charles Merrill
Washington, DC
SNAP DAMONYour recent article on In
Living Color was well-written

and long overdue. I know
many gays who find the "Menon ... " sketches funny, as do
many of those quoted in thearticle, And though I don't see
anything clever about it, I cansee how, taken at face value,
some find it amusing. In a·
broader context, however, it isdefinitely homophobic, The
only recurrent gay cnaracterson a popular TV show (as far
as I know) are complete
stereotypes
and basicallyinterchangeable. Some may
argue: "So what? I know gays
like that. It's not homophobic." Well, let's look at where,or rather, who[m] it's coming
from. I now quote Damon
Wayans, from a Robert Townshend HBd special, doing his
stand-up routine:"[Oprah] had a topicgay-bashing. They're beating up homosexuals, This iswild, man. You know what itis-thefags ain't fighting
back. I used to do it, you
know. Every guy does it.
And it's just-you
hit 'emand [physical 'comedy' imitating a 'fag' who is beingslapped around]."We laugh with this man?
We wear him on • T-shirts? Wewatch his show? Well, countme out. I think it's time foranother "snap" boycott
Glenn Schwartz
Manhattan
HAY REVISION
In' Joe- E, Jeffrey's review
of The Trouble With Harry Hay[no, 78, Dec. 26]1 applaud thequestioning of Harry Hay's
assertion that he founded thelesbian and gay rights move- .
ment. Harry was a major player in the start-up of the Mattachine Society, bllt he quickly
grew disinterested when thegroup would not follow his
lead. If there is one person
who needs to be credited withfounding the modern gay andlesbian rights movement, it's
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and the well-developed gay
community in central Europe
are only now being eclipsed
by the postwar movement.
The Radical Faeries are
not the major creation ofHarry Hay's dreams andvisions. The history of many
Radical Faeriefounders can betraced from the Gay Liberation
Front in the late '60s andthroughout the '70s under anumber of titles-Radical Faggots, Freaking Fag Revolutionaries, Faggot Farmers, Sissies
in Class Struggle and Radical
Faeries (various spellings), .
Harry Hay will go down inhistory, but more for a historyof overstatement than anything else,
Herman R. Strumpf
Cincinnati
FAERIE HISTORY
While I consider it unfair
to judge this book [771e Trouble. With Harry Hay] from the twoitems that even Mr. Jeffreys
terms "picayune," he does raisecertain issues having to do withthe veracity of the book.
These have to do withrather major problems, The
first is not about Harry's claim
to have founded the Mattachine Society (I've known
many of the principals involved, and they aHagree withthat claim). I have a problem
with the claim that he is thefounder or father of gay liberation, That is because the Mattachine was an organization,and organizations are createdout of certain needs in anexisting social movement,such as the Gay Liberation
Front arising out of the~tonewall rebellion. The social
currents in modern times goback at least to Walt Whitman's call for a community ofloving comrades in his essay"Democratic
Vista"(anexcerpt accompanies this letter) through Edward Carpenter, Hirshfeld, et. al.
My main problem, though,has to do with an historicalthe Radical Faerie movementin 1975, several years before
he claims to have started it.
I was one of the original
group who put together RFD
magazine in 1974, having
been introduced to the Iowa
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from a collectiv.ein Fayetteville, movement (although it had
Ark.) I had been drawn to meet any number of names at the
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cover for RFD #5 and sent a
While at San Juan format for a coming-out cerePueblo, I described to Harry mony to the Wolf Creek coland John what many country lective, which was producing
gays were doing, theirthat issue. The ceremony,lifestyles, etc, I also told him which was performed at athat I was heading toward San Northwest gay men's gatherFrancisco to visit Arthur Evans ing that summer, involved aand others, then up to Wolf circle in which a mask was
Creek, Ore" to visit Whitman passed from man to man.
and Troxler, From there I went When someone received thatto Port Angeles, Wash., to mask, he would tel.! of his
visit Faygelle Singer (now Ben coming out, fears,·hopes, etc.
Miriam) at a collective called
Harry's article, which had
Elwha, When I returned to been rejected by the Iowa colWolf Creek, I discovered that lective, found a sympathetic. Harry and John had ju~t ear in Carl Whitman and was
arrived from N-ew Mexico to published in #5, part of it on
meet Carl and Alan, These _ the same page as a deSCription••of the ceremony that I had cre- and I value his friendship, But
ated. I understand that Arthur Harry prefers his own verEvans was also using a faerie . sions 6f reality, and if others
circle about that time. In any differ with him, he can imperievent, it did not originate with ously remove one from what
the organization that was start- he considers to be the "gayed several years later by Harry, community." ("Well," he might
Don Kilhefner and others.
say, "you're nothing but a hetThe Radical Faerie move- ero-identified man, you're notment was not created oppor- gay"), as one gets kicked out
tunistically by anyone person, of his family for a while if he's
but evolved spontaneously out been a bad boy,of the needs of cou ntry
I guess that we all havefaeries, many of whom had ways of covering our asses.
spiritual concerns, to commuOlaf Qdegaard, Hollywood
nicate and gather.
I offered to share this,and other, information conQUEERS BY AMYOTHER NAME ...
cerning the genesis of ,theQueers are a gas! Queers
Radical Faeries with Stuart
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and roommate, Jim Kepner, ' Queers are groovy! Queers are
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ic! Queers are fine! Queers are
Harry has been a close friend happening! Queers are real!
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Gayly,A Queertrain during my commute,.
etc. Several copies of th.emagazine can always b~
found on my coffee table ilt
home. I have found, though"that it is very uncomfortable
to have my young niece flip
through the magazine andsee very explicit phone-s,ex
advertisements.
I'm nofa
prude, and I'm not trying to,'shelter my niece from sex,
it's just that I don't feel that'some of these ads are appro;::priate for a little girl (or boy,for that !'latter) to see. Similarly on the train, I have aproblem reading a news article when part of the page, orthe facing page, is a pictur(l,of a nearly naked huma'1
being talking on the phone:It's offensive and, frankly, tfind it embarrassing,. .I
What it boils down to,though, is this: I value yourpublication very much. I'll takE!
it with or without the phonesex ads, but, Lord knows, I
wish it was without. Keep up
the great work guys/gals. I
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If Andrea
Natalie's"Stonewall Riots" (no, 78,
Dec. 26) expressed only antiwar sentiments, it would beeasy to accept. But its judgment that gay people whowish to join the military services are· petulant, selfish,heartless and believe that"queers need rights more than
Arab children need legs" is not
only unfair, it is misguided.
The cartoon implies that
Natalie agrees with the Department of Defense that homosexuality is incompatible withmilitary service. That view
effectively prohi bits gay people from full participation incitizenship, Whether anyone
should participate in a war is adifferent issue. Natalie mightargue that gay people shouldbe pacifists. If, however, gay
people are not included inthose' eligible for military service, we will not be taken seriously if we elect the citizen's
right to protest against war.
The protests of the ineligible
will be understood as the discontent of the inSignificant
and unimportant.
Joseph Kissane
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to do us proud once again. It seems
1 managed
that, during the call·in segment on her recent
1 ho~rlong HBO special, viewers were tickledlavender by her response to someone whophoned to ask her how she felt about gay people.
"HQW
I feel about gay people?" sherepeated. "I love gay people, and I have gays
and -lesbians in my family. We're n.ot talking
about lovemaking,"
she. continued. "We'ret~lking about who you make love to. I thinkgays and lesbians get the short end of the
stick, and I don't know why. I love them."
At which point, hubby, Tom Arnold, turned'
to Roseann, asking, "Are you a lesbian?""."M.ayb~," she rep.li~d~_, .
'How a~out .ari honorary lesbian, and adefinite dreamboat?
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While Anne Ruben.stein's
evaluation of the Choices
comic book on abortion ,and
NOW's role [no. 78; Dec. 26]
are generally favorable, I havea very negative reaction to thephrase . "thenice ladies at,
NOW" and the implicati()11that•
lesbians are somehow deval,..
ads from your p.ublication.
ued at.NOW.
I .have been ali attivist at
Needless to say, when myissue arrived this week, r was NOW-NYC since 1978· and adisheartened to read th~t you board member for the. last'four
would be putting those ads years. When I started working
back . in. I understand . the there, I was deep'.in'the closet,
financial need for the inclusion but the atmosphere a.nd,of those ads; I just wish that demonstrated concern for lesbian rjghts encouraged me to, \"'f:~there Was enoud'b "mainstream" advertising so that come out and become active in ~ '"'v
there wouldn't be a need to our community. I remain at . ,H
,NOW-NYC because I can conput those ads back.
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tinue the fight for all women's
I read OutWeekwhenev,
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I've been enjoying yourfine publication since its
inception and would like tocommend you on a job welldone. I think your magazine
has done more in 1990 toheighten gay political consciousness than has ever beenaccomplished by the New
York Native or the Advocate.
I was so pleased when
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sexism, racism and homoph'obia.
There are lesbians,.
working-and appreciatedin every phase of NOW's!lspiration ..
However, sometimes weare hampered in our efforts,to promote lesbian visibility,
even by OutWeek. This
week's "Going Out" section·does not contain the notices
Jor the NOW-NYC Lesbian
Rights Committee meeting'pn Dec. 18 or the generalrmembership meeting on Dec,
both notices were,20, thQugh,
Isent i,n well before your:deadline.(Thenext LRC!meeting is Jan, 15 at 6:30
'pm at 15 W. 18th St.) We areI·,
icurrently· asking for support:for domestic partnership legtislation, a lesbian agenda forpartnership legislators, a"program on lesbian invisibility for Women's History••

Month and other projects; wewelcome the participation of
any interested lesbian readers of. OutWeek.
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am delighted to hear that
NOW has decided to work on
lesbian issues. My last contact with the organization was
as a volunteer helping to
defend abol1ion clinics fromOperation Rescue back in
1988. I felt at the time quiet
but strong pressure not to be
too dykey. I also was unsurethat the men who joined us
from ACT UP were truly welcome. A great deal was saidby those running the clinic
defense not to be too loud,
too obstreperous, nor to
engage in civil disdbedience.
Ful1hermore, the women of
NOW pushed hard for

activists to use the mostmealy-mouthed language to. describe what we were doing;
we kept saying uchoice"instead of "abol1ion." Thus
my impression that NOW isdominated by "nice ladies" ofwhatever sexual orientation.
Nonetheless, NOW's comicbook is terrific, their proabol1ion work is invaluable,
and I'm glad to see they'rereading OutWeek.

JANE DELYNN'SVISIONI had some problems
with Jewelle Gomez' Nov. 21[no, 73] review of Jane
DeLynn's novel, Don Juan in
the Village. Rrst, I want to say.that I thought that there wasmuch good to be 'said about
the book. One story especially,called "Iowa," I found utterly
flawless, writing-wise and interms of content-it
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the heart-breaking,
experience of falling for astraight girl, never going after
her and much too late discovering that you could have "hadher"-it was terrifically moving. I read it one night before I
fell asleep, and believe me, I
fell With a real "pang." I don't
think that pang was my selfhate. It was identification withDeLynn's content as well as
being a profound tribute to thepower of her writing. It affected my sleep, unlike so much
writing which more oftencauses it. DeLynn's work
recalled the. fear I constantly
experienced in high school in
the '60s when I was always
falling for my girlfriends ortheir older sisters or the girls ayear or two ahead of me inschool. I had a hard time coming out, and it's not even constantly easy for me to be a lesbian today. Is this my self-hate,

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movement should not be led by men. The AfricanAmerican movement should not be led by whites. And
the AIDS movement should not be led by those whoA
are fortunate enough to have eluded this disease."production error in issue no. 79/80 rendered Desi Del
Valle's photo of Queen Latifah on page 43 uncredited.
Because of a copy-editing errqr in the sidebar to anews story about GMHC and Jeffrey Braff in issue no.
81, it was unclear that Rodger McFarlane's comment,"There were many specific board conflicts over his
Because of a news
activist role," referred to Braff,
department error, in the same sidebar, Paul Popham• 0 was incorrectly
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it a result • of incest, sexual
abuse, or is it possible-thatmllny of us sometimes find it
difficult to be lesbians and takeit out on ourselves and others?
Jewellefound Jane's book nei,
ther "enlightening" nor "entertaining," though I found it
both. Enlightening, because
she acknowledged so manythings which seemed uncomfortable,· unflattering
and'embarrassing about herself
and her sexuality. They weren't
the same as my own list of
uncomfortable things, but I
didn't find her repulsive, like
Jewelle did. It was liberating, infact. Taken in conjunction withthe parts of the book that"moved me," the total effect
was an experience I would
describe as "entertaining."
That's just how it was for me.
So how should we object
to a book, then? Because it's
really Jewelel's objections I'm
objecting too. For me, mymain objection to any book is
usually that the writing stinks.
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(this week's actions, rallies and zaps) ;:Scho~ls Chancellor· .Joseph Fer .. ndez
has propOsed an e
HIV/AIDS educa- ··'1"·
I tion program including condom availability In
the schools; this propo~1 is in' dange~ ¥»fbeing voted down by a Board. Of Education .
more concern~~ith morals and logistics .·1'
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ion oUtside public hearings on the .•1 chancellor's
proposal at the Board of Educa:'tion, 110 LivingstonSL, Brooklyn, at 5 pmon·l·
Wed., .Jan. 16. (Borough Hall stop on 2, 3, 4, 5
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liant. Both books disturbed me,
nature of the main character," I edge that I do it.
Eileen Myles angered me and were difficult
don't believe her. See, I'd simto finish, but the authorS knew
Manhattan
ply say the writing's good.
.~..what they were doing and did
Very clear. Strictly
toldthrough the narrator's point of Jewelle Gomez responds: I it well.. /loved them!
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I have no need to obliterdon't have to push any particview. Which is what Jewellehates;
By hating the style she's ular "writing school." I was ate the dark habits Qfany of us.
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My own CathOlic backgr.ound
stating my opinion thatgetting to hate the narrator
makes them too seductive totwice, because the style here OeLynn's book didn't work forgive up, I didn't intend to insult
does nothing but deliver the me because the style didn't
narrator at your adoring or work well (or she didn't work Jane OeLynn (I re~p'ect t~estruggle too much t/t§fwome,nabhorring feet. If I were to crit- it well) for· the qontent.
icize this book, I'd be inclined OeLynn's character was on a .have had to be .ab,!~tq,}Mrite)or
to focus on the things I .can sensual quest that was written anyone who Iikeshe,.;I'lJapk. I
give readers a lot of creOit forsee she's trying to~o but in a distinctly dry manner.·finding books that are imporAnd I'm sorry if Myles
failed, I'd assume she had atant to them-despite reviewS,
thinks I Jied, but I reiterate·
book in mind. I have much
more difficulty when I try to more bluntly it's the writing . not because of them, An»vsy, I
open di.sllgj~ement
track Jewelle's objections to style I don't find engaging. I appreciate,~,.<'
and value anyon'e.~honest
Jane's writing: "Neither opu- don't have a problem withlence nor privation stand in authors presenting r.epulsive enough to open a dis,Gu,$Sion.
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characters. In fact, I've written
counterpoint
to the Dan's,,.
a.,literary essay (Black Scholar,
positions," Well, gee-whiz,
All letters to -theedi-'1986) on the "bitch" as hero.
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which writing school is Jewtor must include aelle advocating? I mean, just In Sita, Kate Millet created-one
name, address and
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the
most
insecure,
self-hatto pick a name out of a hat,
daytime pho.ne,
ill,
Kafka's style is pretty skimpy, ing (my description, not hers)though names ·maywomen I've ever read about,mean and cerebral.
be withheld
at theMy discomfort with how and I think the book is brilliant.
author'S request." 'OutI've lived is often- what moves In Native Son Bigger Thomas,
UTeek reserves
theme to write. I can't begin to let is one of the most repulsive,.
right'
to edit letters.
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giant MGMpounced on the Pink Panthers last week,
claiming that the anti-violeace aCtivists. have smudged the prissy eat's pretty-inpink image...
,-,-..,.. .'. The complaint Charges the c<ithmu~n\ty patrol with trademark infringement
ahd deliberately misleading the public as
td the relationship between the comedic
detective movies of United Artists, a subs\diary of MGM-Pathe Communications
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gay and lesbian Pink Panther Patrols. It
was filed in Federal District Court in
Manhattan on]an. 7,"The Pink Panther motion pictures
were created and promoted in the spiritof light-hearted, non-controversia1 family
fun and entertainment, a purpose andhistory not in keeping with, the issues
the Pink Panther Patrol faces," the complaint aJleges.
"How dare they say we are tarnishing the Pink Panther name?" replied anoutraged Gerri Wells, who is the only
named defendant in the suit other thanthe patrol itself, "It"makes me furious!
We'te a community of volunteers!"
Mary CraigcaIkins, a spokesperson.f()rth~ litigatidn .department at MGM's
corPOrate headquarters in Los Angeles,
refused to comment on the legal action.
"MGM will not try its case in the papers,". she told OutWeek.
According to a source at MGM's
corporate headquarters in GIlifornia, themovie company decided to presS ahead...
with a suit only after repeatedly attemptTHINK PINK-Gerri Wells (left) and you
ing to contact the Panthers to discussknow who (above)the similarity between the logo adopted
by the Pink Panther Patrol and a paw,
print design used by UA in 1982 to pro- elected to ignore the legitimate property
mote one of the eight Pink Pantherrights of others," the lawsuit aJleges,
motion pictures,
MGM claims that the Pink Panther"While UA fully supports the rights paw prints, which were produced as stickof aJI minority groups, including gay and ers that led the way to select movie thelesbian 4ldividuals, the defendants have, aters screening the 1982 release, The Trailunfortunately, in the course of undertak- of the Pink Panther, are "nationally recoging to protect the personal and civil rights nized by the public as originating fromof the gay and lesbian community,and being associated only with plaintiff."

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that the Pink Panther Patrol should beforced to pay an unspecified amount ofdamages to MGM for trademark infringement, false designation of sponsorshipand injury to the movie-makers' business
reputation. Altogether, those three claims
add up to monetary damage "in an
amount not as yet ascertained"butthought to be in excess of $300,000,
LamWa Legal Defense has agreed
to represent the defendants in the suit,
Wells said.
MGM's fundamental and misplaced
conceit is in assuming that the patrol'sname was taken from the cartoon character, members of the Pink Panthers
charge. Instead, as Wells explained, "Wewent with 'panthers'
because of theBlack Panthers and the Gray Panthers. ""Shame on thetn;" she added. "I think
it's gay bashing on a corporate level,"
Another member of the patrol, whoparticipated in the design and productionof the Pink Panthers' distinctive pink.,andblack T-shirts, refuted the complaint's
charge that the patrol chose a logo "toprovide immediate recognition as well as. to cause confusion among 'the public as .
to the sponsorship or afftliation of theirgoods and services and to trade uponplaintiff's reputation and good will.""The pink comes from the pink triangle, and the panther comes from theBlack Panthers," he said of the design,
which features a paw-print cut out of apink triangle on the front, and "Pink
Panther Patrol" in three languages on thereverse. "That is the conceptual basis
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During his state of the city address
on Jan, 8, which dwelled primarily on
the city's financial woes, Dinkins stated,"It causes me great sadness that violence against gay people has risen
sharply, and we will redouble ourefforts to protect our gay and lesbian
citizens from these hate-based attacks."-Duncan Osborne".-',,-,-

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saw little that was new," said David
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saw little evidence that [Cuomo] is dealing with where the epidemic is gQing~"\" ..
":f.:""f :<Hansell and GMHC's executive
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offices calling on Cuomo to commit
more leadership,and more dollars, to•the fight against AIDS, .
The AIDSservice agencY prepared areport making 24 points they sought tohave Cuomo speak to in hiS annual Stateof the State address, but according toHansell, the gov:ernor touched on few ofthem and made no new proposals for
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to us" and claiming that, in his preliminary budget, "we are very generous" on
AIDS allocations, But Cuomo hedged on
the AIDS appropriations, adding, "If we
can keep them intact." Cuomo must submit his preliminary budget to the state
Legislature by Feb. 1:
Karen Polk, a spokesperson for thegovernor, disputed the characterizationof Cuomo as shirking leadership on•

GMHC Reports Record Revenues and_Caseload
NEWYORK-:-Reflecting the ever-swelling AIDS caseload
in New York state, Gay Men's Health Crisis turned in a record
year in pollars raised and clients served.
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AIDS service organization reported revenues slightly in excess
of $14,3 million, which it used to continue the agency's threefold mission-education,
advocacy and providing direct services to people with HIV,
Most of the multimillion dollar figure came from private
contributions, much garnered through special events such as
the annual AIDS Walk, as well as the dollar value placed on the
donated services of GMHC's corps of near1y2,000 volunteers.
New York City and Albany provided a total of 17 percentof the agency's budget, but the federal government provided
not a penny. The agency stays well above non-profit industry
average, spending 72 cents of every dollar on direct services.
GMHC currently serves olier 3,000 clients, 1,617 ofwhom signed on in fiscal year 1990. Clients took advantage ofthe agency's recreation program in record numbers, eating
meals, attending theater and sports events and using theagency's other free services.
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2,800 separate cases.
The non-profrt's education department distributed over onehalf million condom packs and more than one million pieces of literature to ensure that the condoms were used proper1y.GMHC's
hotline Jielded 56,835 calls. The department continues carrying
treatment infonnation to health care professionals and lay people.
And GMHC's ombudsperson
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About 60 percent of GMHC's new clients are white; theothers are split almost evenly between Blacks and Latinos.
Sixty-four percent of the group's new clients are from
Manhattan, 14 percent are Brooklynites, 11 percent from
Queens, less than 7 percent from the Bronx, and just over 1
percent from Staten Island. •From 1989 to 1990, advocacy became a larger part of
GMHC's mission, with the organization weighing in on legislation and policymaking at the federal and state levels.

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NEW YORK-After enduring a sentencing in which they were, on the one
hand, favorably compared with Gandhi
and Martin Luther King and, on the•other, slapped with days of community
service, the city's premiere safer-sex
activists last week embarked on a new.leg of their odyssey in search of justice.
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against them.
The Safe-Sex Six, as they have dubbed'
themselves, also reiterated their commitment
to pursuing an appeal.
"I submit that they were convicted fortheir convictions," the defendants' attorney,
Lori Cohen, told the judge before a courtroom packed with the defendants' supporters
and reverberating with chants wafting up to
the fifth-floor chamber from a supportive
picket outside the Criminal Court Building at1()()Centre St.
"We will not settle for this," added AIDS
educator Ann Nbrthrop, a defendant in thecase, 'We did not break the law."
The sentencing, which took place on
Jan. 7, followed conviction of the six activists
on Charges of disorderly conduct, disrupting a
religious service, resisting arrest and trespassing, Two of the six, Michael Wiggins andSharon Tramutola, were not convicted on all
four counts, and each received 56 hours ofcommunity service. Their co-defendants,
Charles King, Northrop, Kathy Otter and Rod
Sorge, were all sentenced to 70 hours of community service,
While the activists termed the sentencing
a "victory," since Criminal Court Justice Jo
Ann Ferdinand'rejected the assistant DA's recommendation that the activists also be fined,
the rancor that developed during the course.of the trial between the activists and the judge
had not entirely dissipated,"I knew that my trial would only serve to
make obvious the biases of our judicial system," commented Sorge in his statement
before sentencing, pOintedly referring to,
instances throughout the trial in which thedefendants perceived evidence of Ferdinand's
prejudice against them
"In the end, it is no surprise to me that
we are here," remarked Wiggins, anotherdefendant, with resignation. "You have done
your job. I and my fellow defendants will,continue to do our jobs as AIDS activists,""The court acknowledges the sincerity of[the defendants'] belief," responded Ferdinandas she handed down the sentences, noting
that, as Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King,
Jr., and other prominent figures in the historyof civil disobedience had been punished fortheir actions, so would she be sure to penalize the St. Patrick's defendants for their violations of the law, T

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Calif,-Five.
people werearrested on Jan. 7 during a .
prot~stwhich saw the inaU",
gura.rion of a California governor stopped for the firsttime in the history of thestate, The action was similar
in intensity to an ACT UP~
protest last November at the~. victory party for New York<:~r.. Gov. Mario Cuomo,~Nearly 200 members of.,.
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previously
scheduled for the Capitol
FLAGGING SPIRITS-Demonstrators are ejectedfrom inaugural celebration.
steps, had been rescheduled
because of rain.
•. The primary action of the day came
The raising of the rainbow flag took
on significance for the gathering because
as. Gov. Pete Wilson began his inaugural,speech, About a dozen Queer Nationals
last October, on National Coming Out
executeda plan which had been
Day, a similar flag had been raised over. rehearsed for weeks in San Francisco.
the state Capitol building, Flags for other
One man jumped on another while othminorities and special groups have flown..ers; with lightning speed, connectedon the building to honor special events- three-foot tubes together to fonn an 18and days. A furious Deukmejian ordered
the flag taken down.
foot-high flagpole. Attached to the top, was a four-foot-by-six-tbot rainbow flag.
Then, candidate Wilson announced
Within 15 seconds, the flag majestithat he would never allow the rainbow
cally rose above the crowd to the delightflag to fly over the Capitol. Gay and lesbian activists have demanded not onlyof hundred.s of gay men and lesbians•
and·to the shock of the new governor,
the flag but also that Wilson sign a prothe outgoing Gov. George Deukmejian,posed CalifOrnia law which provides for
White House Chief of StaffJohn Sununu,
non-discriffiination against gay men andthe entire state Legislature and hundreds
lesbians and that he support a statewide
of dignitaries,
domestic partnership bill which has

recently been introducedin the state Legislature.
Not more than 30
seconds after the flag
was raised, Sacramento
and Californ·ia
statepolice had formed awall of law enforcement
officers which
moved,
fully one-third of thespectators over and thenout the front"doorsof/the building,As the 'demonstrators were being pushed,
theyyelledandscreamed with such fervor that the governor's •speech was renderedinaudible, and the state's
lesbian and gay community became the focus of attention.
The demonstration in Sacramento
last week is the second time in threemonths a state governor has been
directly confronted by the raw power ofthe gay community. On election night,
last November, more than 300 activists
from ACf UP and Queer Nation stonned. the victory party for New York's Gov,
Cuomo. There, the cries of "Shame!"
made his attempts to deliver a victory
speech virtually impossible.
Franz Wisner, a spokesperson
for Wilson, declined to comment on
the incident.
In Sacramento, those arrested said
that they were subjected to beatings andhomophobic behavior, which lasted for
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ended, Qu~Nation members had beenejected from a public area of. the jail inwhat they called a nightmare of overreaction by law enforcement
Twoof the five arrested were,charged with obstructing a public meeting, with the remaining three also
charged with interfering with the opera~tion of police officers.
One Queer
National,
Dean
Tuckennan, had the word "homo" written on a piece of paper and put on thedoor of his cell. The alleged verbal
taunting for him was even more cruelbecause the deputies ridiculed thephysical handicaps associated with his
cerebral palsy,
Derek Boyle, 20, was continuallyasked if he was "homo" or "bi." He said,"They slammed me up against the wall,. slamming my head in a way that felt like
I was hit in the jaw," One deputy, heclaimed, looked at him and said, "Helooks like he takes it up the ass,"
Another allegedly said, "Watch out, he isa militant homosexual." He said that hewas then pushed down a corridor to a·cell where, he said, they "slammed myface against a window."
Irwin Keller, the legal advisor for
those arrested, was literally thrown outof the building. Keller was ejected following the removal of several Queer,
Nationals who were waiting for the
release of those being detained.
Keller said that despite the fact that
there were two urinals and a private toilet area in the restroom, Queer Nationals
were allowed in one at a time, A deputy
sheriff told Keller, "I don't want any lewd
and lascivious conduct in my jail," .
"They wanted some kind of retribution," Keller said. "The people thatwere involved were willing to risk the,consequences
Of the law, no more.
They were not opening themselves toanything that might bappen. If there ispunishment to be meted out, it is thejob of the court to do that, not the jobof the sheriffs deputies."
A spokesperson
fortheSacramento
CountySheriff's
Department declined to comment on
the allegations.
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Thursday at a press conference in San
Francisco that they would return toCalifornia's capital city, "We are going toS __RUCKUS

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legislator at a Jan. 4 ceremony in the Great Hall at Cooper Union.
New York State Supreme Court Judg~ Kristen Booth Glen officiated at the rite,,,
attended by a gaggle of the city's highest-level gay politicos, including Tom Duane,,Dave Taylor, Liz Garro and Marjorie Hill. Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes, Manhattan...BoroughPresident Ruth Messinger and Public Theater Director Joseph Papp were•also in attendance.
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Glick will represent Greenwich Village and parts of the East Village and theLower East Side, including Little Italy, Chinatown, SoHo, NoHo and TriBeCa in the".StateAssembly in Albany.
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request an "HN waiver" at their local
embassy before traveling to the US.
Under a compromise worked out lastyeat, the waiver is placed on a separate ..
piece of paper to be carried in one's
passport, rather than stamped directly
into the passport,
The seeds. for scrapping the HIV
ban were sewn last June when some foreigners boycotted the Sixth International
Conference on AIDS in San Francisco toprotestthe
Immigration'anc'. .,Naturalization Service policies.
.; ,The boycotters'
viewpointwa~
forcefully presented at the conference'~·closing plenary session when hundred,;of ACf UP members staged a deafening,half-hourlong disruption of an address by
Dr, Sullivan, '1ltey pelted Sullivan ,with paper and. 'coins, blew whistles and blasted portablefoghorns, Not a word of the ·secretary's
ad~
was'heard in the auditorium.
Bush and Sullivan (jenounced ,thedisruption at the time but now, sevenmonths later, have fully met theprotestors' demands,"The combined pressure of directaction groups, behind-the-scenes main··stream lobbying and the international
health community weighed extremely
heavy on the secretary," said National
Gay and Lesbian Task Force spokesperson Robert Bray, "He got the message
loud and dear,"
The revised immigration laws alsoloosen certain restrictions
on many
other categories of people, including the
Irish,
European
professionals,
Salvadoran refugeeS and Mexicans with•relatives here.
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ONNA,
NPIACATES,,BILOS ANGELES:--Madonna, whose·
video, "Justify My Love," was banned by
M1V, has apparently placated a rabbi•

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humpy, frequently shirtless, :kick-boxing actors Steven •Seagal and Jean~Claude Van •Damme squared off, who.
would win?
•That was the question :the ever-inquisitive
and.
increasingly
nonplussed:
Arsenio Ha" posed to the lat- •by AND~EW MILLER
ter pseudo-pugilist,
who •.
. appeared on his show Mon., •Jan. 7, to promote his new film, Lionheart.
:,"Above the belt," inquired Van Damme, "or below the •~In":. Funny,Rim Shots was just about to ask the same question. •last year."That'sbecause'GMHC's Tim Sweeney
runs GMHC. For a CO/Tlment . on ACT, UP,
Newsdayreporters
Karen Freifeld
andVivienne Walt shouldhave phoned ACT UP for
their Jan. 8 article on
GMHC's preemptorypress conference dishing th,egovernor.
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Now, Rim Shots
appreciates how difficult
it is to be a daily
STEVEN SEAGAL,
reporter with all these.
gay people swimming: about in the alphabet soup of gay groups. But if it's hand• some, blond, from Montana and wearing a suit and tie, it: probably speaks for GMHC.
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KILL:. While sitting in cars
parked in popular lov!lrs'
lanes in Queens, two heterosexual couples have been.
shot at With the same gUI) in:
ENEMIES, A LOVE STORY: "George Bush proved oncethe past ten months, result•. and for all that he is not an enemy of gay Americans." ..
ing in one fatality, according•
Thus spake Gary Bastian, head honcho at gay political club.~to police.
: Republicans for Individual Freedoms, in his year-end report.
. When24~year-old.. . •
Bastian cited Bush's signing of the AIDS-inclusive· Giovanni S!1lamone was: Americans with Disabilities Act, a gay-inclusive hate-crimes
killed early on Jan, 7, the city
JEAN-CLAUDE VAN• reporting law and his tacit support for the end of the US border,leapt into action. Police
DAMME• ban on people with HIV.
Commissioner Lee Brown,:.
held a press conference, a,special 24-hour hotline was.
PUMP IT UP: Put on your dancing shoes, click the heels,estabished and the lV news led with. the story all night. New:
together three times and repeat after me: There's no place like
· York's daily newspapers ran stories on page 4 (the Post), page • the Fifth Annual Night of a Thousand Gowns Charity Ball.
. 2 (Newsday), and page B1 (The New York Times). All invoked •This year's drag do is set for March 16 at the Grand" the .ghoSt oUhe Son of Sam.
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: Ballroom of the Roosevelt Hotel, and the proceeds from theIn 1990, gay men and lesbians in New York City were reg- • pricey $100 tickets will go to'the Lesbian and Gay
ularly shot; stabbed, beaten with baseball bats,.fists and nam- • Community Services Center, according to their majestie~ atmers, frequently hospitalized and killed at least twice. The Gay : !he imperial court.
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and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project documented 252, separate •.For more i~fo, call (212) 673-7633 or (212) 794-878.Q:i>· incidents of anti-gay bias-related physical assaults in New York :.
City through the end of November.
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ALL YOU PEOPLE LOOK ALIKE: "GMHC· executi~e direc- : Monday from five to midnight at the Limelight. Party promoter
tor Tim Sweeney woulan't say if ACT UP would disrupt.
Marc Berkley has promised that the entire ~e at the door of the· Cuomo's State of the State address, which opens the year's • club at Sixth Avenue and 20th Street will be diwied up among
legislative session tomorrow, as themilitant AIDS group did : more than 20 community groups,
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could inflame hatred against Jews,"I certainly did not have antisemitic
intent ·when I included a passage fromthe Bible on my record," Madonna said
in a statement. "It was :l; commentaIy on
evil in general. My, message, if any, is,

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pro-tolerance and anti-hate. The song is,after all, about love."
On Jan, 2, Rabbi Abraharn Cooper,
associate dean of the Simon Weisenthal
Center for Holocaust Studies here,.
denounced the dance mix of the new
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NEW YORK-HernanPoza, an
AIDS counselor with the New York City
health department, tells this joke whenhe speaks to groups about HIV-antibody
testing: During a counseling session, aclient asks about HN-positivity rates in
the five boroughs. The counselor gives
him the breakdown, noting Staten Island
has the lowest. The client replies, "Then
I'm having sex in Staten Island because
the chances of not getting infected are
greater." The point of this anecdote, Pozasays, .sitting in the office that he shareswith another counselor and a photocopier, is that when there is risk of being
infected with HN, even ever so slightly,
don't take it.
Some clients insist unprotected oral
sex, for example, is a safe activity. Pozasaid that every counselor in the officehas had at least one client infected thisway. "If you know your partner has
AIDS, would you go down on him without protection?" he asked. "The answer
from clients is usually, 'No.'"
Poza is a project coordinator, overseeing four other counselors at the dty's
Anonymous Counseling and Testing(ACT) site ~t 303 Ninth Ave" a grungy
brick building in the Chelsea section ofManhattan. Everyone tested with theirknowledge in New York must havepretest and post-test counseling. Poza,
who has a master's degree in social workfrom Hunter College, does this daily.
Getting tested at any of the nine
ACT sites spread throughout the dty is amultistep procedure: One must make an
appointment by calling the dty's AIDS
hotline at (718) 485-8111, At that time, aphone counselor will discuss the implications of taking the test and schedule atime and location. Currently, the wait to
get into theChelsea ACT site is about a•week: (At other sites, one can get an
appointment the same day.) The Chelseasite serves mostly gay men because of its
proximity to areas where large numbersof gays live.

At the appointed time, the client,in a day, it takes about a week for the
who is identified only by a number,
ACT site to get the results, The second
meets with a counselor before blood isweek allows for a buffer if there are any
drawn. Each counselor may have a difproblems, either at the lab or with theferent technique. Poza asks a series ofclient. "If people get results immediately,"
questions designed to make the client , Poza said, "it does not have the power
articulate knowledge and feelings aboutthat waiting two weeks has," While they
the antibody test. Is this your ftrst time
are waiting, clients with anxiety or moretested? What brings you here? What did
questions may return for more counselyou learn from the hotline? Are you
ing, Poza said
aware that this is not a test for AIDS, but
Poza, who has tightly curled black
for antibodies to HIV?' How would you
hair and a weightlifter's
torso, getsfeel if you test positive? Or negative?
exCited when discussing. his work.
What do you feel your risk has been?
Contrary to being depressing, his work
How do you feel about modifying risk
allows him to help others make c:hanges
behavior? If the• client agrees to testing,that may save their lives, "You can be a
and most do, a nurse draws blood in an
catalyst for people who are making
office set up to do so. Finally, the clientchanges," he said, "The information isreturns two weeks later for the result andthere to help people live their lives
additional counseling. The same counlonger and better, It's a privilege to beselor gives the result immediately andinvolved with this," The notion that someverbally, without "any hedging or chit
HN-positive people react hystericallychat about the weather," Poza said. At
when told of their result is a myth. "It can
the Chelsea site, about 90 percent ofbean intense reaction," he said, "but it's
those tested return for their result.
not a breakdown thing." After a positive
Although the antibody test can be done
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approaches to management of IllY infection as pOSSible, whether it be modern,holistic or spiritual medicine, He alsostresses the importance of safer sex andtaking' general good care of oneself, Andhe urges the client not to accept anythingon face value. "We urge them not to splay
themselves at the doctor's feet, but toquestion everything," Although the client
may bring a lover or friend for support;
they cannot be. in the counseling room
when the result is given. However, they
may join the client immediately afterward
and be part of the counseling session,
Poza said,
An issue often raised is whether thesexual orientation, personal beliefs or HIV
status of the counselor get in the way ofcounseling, Poza said that it shouldn't,
because the counselors tend to act neutrally and not give out this infonnation:"We won't be judgmental about anything,"
he said, "We have a straight woman who
can talk fisting with gay men,"
Most of the posters that cover thewalls at the ACT site are gay-oriented
because of the large gay clientele, The sitedoes get intravenous drug users and theirsexual partners as well as health care
workers worried about getting lllV fromneedle pricks,
Of the nine ACT sites, the one inChelsea has been operating longest, since
October 1986. The health department
operates 15 additional sites in hospitals,"With counseling, it's not medical or technical infonnation that's important," Pozasaid. "It's the repercussions. The session
serves to weave together what we know
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It is with Ii deep sense of loss that I
write this,. During Christmas weekend, Rich
Amato pa~sed away, As a gay man growing
up on Long Island, I knew of Rich for many
years. His name always seemed to come up. when the subject of gay rights or gay
activism was mentioned, Over the years, hewrote .countless articles for gay publications
onLl, and he served as the news editor forsome of those gay publications.
I finally met Rich through myassociation with ACT UP/LI. As
soon as he found out that several of!
, us had set up an ACT UP group on
LI, he was there. He helped us get
the publicity we needed in both theIgay and the straight media.-As a
result of my being an activist on LI,'
I got to see a lot of Rich, usually at,demonstrations, government hear1
i,ngs and ACT UP meetings. We
ta.lked ~b_Qut getting togethersocially but only found the time tosee one another as activists. When I
knew him, Rich was living with
AIDS, This limited his ability totravel on LI, as well as causing him
numerous hospitalif3tions,, Many times, ~ich's fight for
gay rights was a thankless one, LI• ••gays are very closeted, and mostgays did not support his fight for•
our rights. He tried organizing aG·ay Pride Parade on LI but met
with no gay community support.
Based on my own experience, he
was probably resented by many inou r community because of his
fighting for our visibility and rights.
.In spite of this, he fought for years.
He• singlehandedly set up and operated the
LI Human Rights Project. He was a true
warrior in our fight, and I will miss him forthat,' as well as for his strength and supportof my own activism, I will also miss thosesocial events, and all that could ~ave been.
I hope he now finds the peace that hedid not .find .while he was alive. I also hope•that LI one day becomes the·home for gays
and lesbians that he fought so hard for.
Act up! Fight back! Fight AIDS!
-Gary Konecky,"•

On Dec. 21, 1990, Rich Amato died of
AIDS-related complications. With his passing goes a virtual epoch of civil rights
activism in Suffolk County and throughout
Long Island. In a field so uncharted anduntried as gay and lesbian civil liberties, few
have left such a clear Signature a~ did Rich:I n the past several years, Amato
received awards from a host of progressive
and philanthropic organizations, For his,

lobbying work on the bill to extend Suffolk
Couoty's Human Rights Commission's protection to the gay community, Rich was
honored by the Long Island Progressive
Alliance. A year earlier,in 1988, the East
End Gay Organization awarded him theannual Elaine Benson Gallery honor. And in
1990, Rich was among the honorees at a.Long island Association for AIDS Care banquet. In addition, the New York state organization, FAIR/PAC, presented Rich with a1989 media award for his impressive jour•nalism accomplishments in Long Island's
gay periodical' PARLEE PLUSlEqual Ttmes:
The News.
And Rich's civil rights efforts transversed several decades. As New York state
NOW President Marilyn Fitterman said
upon his passing: "There was no aspect ofgay/lesbian/feminist
politics in which
Amato was not fluent." They had once
served together on the New Yurk state
Human Rights Commission Advisory Board and were close activist
allies ever since.
As a close associate and personal friend of Rich's, I haveworked with him on more projects
than could be named, from the /.~aforementioned County bill to the
Suffolk County Police Department's gay senSitivity-training program which Rich initiated someyears ago. And when I sang (I'm a
musician by trade) at his prefuneral service on Sunday, Dec.
23, the selection was, at Rich's
request, Holly Near's gay anthem:"We are a gentle, ang ry people,
and we are singing, singing for
our lives," The HIV epidemic towhich Rich eventually succumbed
has certainly brought new meaning to that song.
Rich was truly a humanitarianand certainly one of the most. knowledgeable people. in the country vis-a-vis gay politics. He is survived by his brother, Jim, and his
parents, Anna and Diego Richard,
all of whom where enormously
supportive of his gay civil rights. projects. He also leaves a circle of .
dedicated friends, both co-workers andpoliticos, and a beloved dog, Tai-Tai, whom
the family will adopt.
Rich died on the longest night of theyear. His educational and philanthropic
efforts to conquer the virus that killed him'long pre-dated his diagnosis. One canhope that the dawn of 1991 will begin todispel the ignorance and homophobia thathas surrounded the AIDS epidemic. It
would be Rich's dream come true,-Sandy Rapp••,

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partnership bill was, fonnally introducedon Nov. 20, producing ecstatic proclamations from supporters and legal
objections from opponents. Th~ Council sponsors announced that they would
pu~h for hearings on the bill this spring.
·The bill's introduction begins the fonnal·depat~ over domestic partnership in New
York City. It is important now to be clear
about what the bill would and would not
do, and why it is only a first step in
addressing our unequal treatment.
The bill is at once comprehensive
and limited---<:omprehensive in going as, far as the city can in legislating equality
between domestic partners and marital
couples, but limited because many
,important distinctions between domestic'partners and marital
couples are gov•
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· city has no authority to change,
The bill does two things: First, it sets
up a procedure for couples to fonnalize
anc::idissolve their domestic partnerships
in a way recognized by the .city;second,,·it makes unlawful discrimination against
domestic partnerships in all dty policies,
practices and progratn:?,
Fonnalizing a domestic partnershipwill be simple, The partners must sign a"'.".form in the presence of a notaty public,
swearing that they are domestic partners. who live together in a committed relationship and are jointl¥ responsible forthe living expenses of their household, It
is up to the partners whether diey me theform with the city or just keep it at home,although they may be required to produce the form if they want to take advantage of their partnership status to obtainsome benefits. If somebody who is living
in a partnership that is not formalized .
dies, .the surviving partner could supply
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evidence about the relationship to qualify
for benefits due a survivor, just as a surviving partner can prove that he or she isentitled to be treated as a family memberof a deceased tenant in a rent-regula:ted
apartment under state housing regulations. If domestic partners fonnalize theirrelationship, they have to take certain formal steps to dissolve the relationship~. Once the bill becomes law, a new
category of discrimination would be recognized. In any situation where the city
recognizes a marital relationship as thebasis for some benefit or policy; aTire dome$tic partnership biUsets up a procedure toformalize and dissolve
domestic partnerships andoutlilws discrimination against
domestic Parlnerships in aUcity policies.
domestic partner would qualify in thesame way as a spouse. For example, if acity hospital recognized the right of a
spouse to be consulted on medi~ careor to visit in the intensive care unit, it
would have to extend the same rights toa domestic partner. Similarly, if the
spouse of a city employee was entitled tosome benefit, a domestic partner of a dty
employee would be equally qualified,including the right to participate inemployee group insurance plans, Anybody who suffered discrimination would
be entitled to pursue a remedy at the City
Commission on Human Rights or thestate courts. The bill excludes city tax
laws from its coverage and makes clearthat it is not intended to change any.

rights under state or federal law,
. So far, so good, But the bill does not(because the city cannot) create the legal
equivalent of marriage for lesbians andgay· men, because the city's legislative
authority is.!imited by the concept of preemption, Certain subjects are reserved for
determination by the state, including
marriage and the many legal rights andresponsibilities flowing from marriage,
Only the state can legislate to recognize
non-marital relationships for purposes
governed by state law, such as the distribution of a person's assets if they die
without a will; the ways in which people
can jointly own property, rights peopk
may have with regard to the children ofth~ with whom they live and a host ofother legal issues.
That is why a long-term goal should
be to achieve recognition of the domestic
partnership concept at the state level.
The process has Degun with the rent-regulation rules adopted in response to theJuly 1989 Brascht decision and with a bill
introduced at the state level by Franz
Leichter, but much work remains to identify all the state policies and practices••
which would require adjustment and to
persuade regulators and legislators thatsuch adjustments should be made. Even
more work will be required at the federal
level, where many benefits and entitlements are defined in terms of spousal
relationships under public welfare programs, immigration laws and in manyother contexts.
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Getting back to our city bill, thefirst argument from the opposition(speaking through the City Council's
legal division) is the claim that the council does not have authority to go this far
and enact this limited bill. They contend
that the state's domestic relations law
has totally "occupied the field" of"domestic relations," divesting the city oflegislative authority over any domestic
relations topic.
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to that argument, but I don't think it
has much merit. The bill does notgive domestic partners any of therights conferred on marital partners bystate law, In legal effect, the bill only
forbids discrimination by the city, notby private persons or businesses.
There. is nothing in it to stop a private
employer or business from recognizing a domestic partnership on its own,
but the bill would not require it.
There are two tests to determine
whether local legislation is preempted:(1) Does the local law permit somethin~that state law forbids? (2) Does the local
law prohibit something that state law
specifically authorizes? Here's an example of how this test works: The citypassed a law banning discrimination by
private clubs which have more than acertain number of members and a budget above a certain amount, having
found that they were places where business activity was conducted and were
not truly ·private. The clubs' association
challenged the law's constitutionality,
arguing, among other things, that
because ·the state human rights law did
not forbid them from discriminating, thecity could not ·do so either. New York's
highest court rejected this argument: Statelaw did not forbid these clubs from discriminating, but it did not specificallyauthorize discrimination, so the city was
free to forbid it.
State law neither requires nor specifically authorizesthe city to discriminate against
domestic partnerships in its own policies
and practices, State law provisions dealing~with marriage are gender neutral(although they've been interpreted toauthorize marriages only between per,sons of the opposite seJQ, but nothing instate law directly forbids the city fromrecognizing additional forms of family
status (such as domestic partners), andindeed the city has already done so in a
, variety of contexts.
Opponents rely on state provisions
abolishing "common law mapiage," but.
such reliance is misplaced, since the billwould not· create a status akin to common law marriage (under which a man
and woman could claim the legal statusof spouses merely by living together
openly as a married couple). Common
la~ marriage doctrine entitled them to betreatedspouses under state law, but
the domestic partnership bill would haveno such effect.

to endorse this bill on fiscal grounds is 'A serious non-legal argument raised
deplorable, Every advance In civil rights
against the bill js that it would be costly
at a time of fiscal stringency, but this has .. costs money. Furthennore, nobody has
undertaken the serious stuoy that would
nothing to do with constitutionality.
determine how much it would cost.
When it comes to questions of social jus'That's why we need hearings on this billtice, the issues should be principle rather
and the testimony of experts as part ofthan money, and the refusal of thoseits consideration, ...
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Impellizzeri, Brooklyn's self-proclaimed
expert on anal interGourse~ As a mem- w • .~ben)f the City's Board of Education,
Impellizzeri made an open attempt on
Dec, 19 to ban the Hetrick-Martin Institutefor Gay and Lesbian Youth _and ACf UP
from any and all dealings with the school
system. The silence from the political~tablishment has been deafening.
Impellizzeri is the board vice president, and, as such, she gets a car anddriver, offices at the Board of Education·· and is allowed to live in anothercentury, The members of the board are,chosen by the borough presidents(each of the five borough presidents
selects one) and the mayor (whpchooses two).
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ImpelJizzeri,
who represents. Brooklyn Borough President Howard
Golden, accusedthe Hetrick-Martin,
Institute of "encouraging students toengage in anal intercourse and/or facilitating their doing so." She also lied,stating that that institute's AIDS educators do nothing to warn students about
the dangers of unprotected anal sex,
Impellizzeri is the Catholic church's,mouthpiece on the board, and she also
. went after ACT
UP for "violence and,rowdyism" and sought to banish them.from the sChools, too,.
.This church lady's resolution to
ban Hetrick-Martin and ACT UP fromthe school was immediately assailed by
an exasperated Chancellor Joseph Fernandez, who had already provided evidence ·to her that none 6f her charges
against Hettick-Martin were true,
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representative-Ruth
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appointee, Luis Reyes of Mapllattanvoted against her, Reyes condemned
the resolution as "gay-bashing" and"McCarthyism." The other three mem.
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rep~esentative
Carol GresSer and mayoral appointees
Gwendolyn
Baker (president)
andWestina Matthews (at-large)-abstained·on this brazenly anti-gay motion (theother two reps, Ninsa Segarra of theBronx and Michael Petrides of Statenthat the borough president is hopeless,and our community suffers.
Since Golden won't reprimand
Impellizzeri, we'll have to do it our. selves, Call her at (718) 935-3303 andtell her that we must have AIDS education and condoms in our schools, Let
her know that she's an out-of-date
homophobe, SaYI"Good night, Irene."
It's also important to lobby the
Board of Education members who
abstained (for whom the hottest placein hell is reserved), Contact Baker at(718) 935-3300, Gresser at -3304 andMatthews at -3393, And please don't
Impellizzeri is the board viceforget to thank Dr. Luis 0, Reyes(-3301) for his leadership in oppositionpresident. And as such,to this bigotry. ~f you'd rather write, allthese folks including the chancellor,she gets a car mid a driver,
who should also be thanked-are
atthe Board of Education, 110 Livingston
offices at the BOard of .
St., Brooklyn, NY 11201.
This gay-bashing resolution was
Education and is allowed to
ImpelJizzeri's shot across the bow inlive in another century ..
her war against condoms and safer-sex
education, She was attempting to sensationalize the issue and to provoke
the gay and lesbian activist community•
into actions that could jeopardize the'chancellor's entire AIDS education plan~sland, were absent).
Not surprisingly, the school boai"d isincluding condom availability in thean appointed body with. no openly lesschools. GMHC, Hetrick-Martin, thebian or gay member,·As usual, 'we were
Department of Health, the Minority
denied the right to speak for ourselves.
Task Force on AIDS, the New· York
After the proposal, Howard GoldAIDS Coalition, ACT UP and manyen was asked by his staff to issue aother AIDS groups have been hard atstatement condemning his appointee's
work for years now pushing the.
actions, So far he has refused to do soschools into a more effective role inand is said to be angry that staffers
preventing HIV infection among adohave raised the issue with him, We
lescents~ We need to join their effoIt$.
. When you call the board members,
should recall that Golden went against
lobby them on behalf of the' AIDS eduthe gay arid lesbian rights bill in 1974
cation plan,
when it almost passed, reading Leviticalcondemnations of homosexuality as· an
The hearing on the plan will be"abomination" before he voted, As borheld on Jan, 16 at 110 Livingston St. in
Brooklyn, The cast of characters willough president, he has failed to propbe reminiscent of those present for
erly recognize our community, and we
the City Council hearings on the gay
have been severely shortchanged byand lesbian rights bill, The right-wing
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This, of course, is much morethan a gay and lesbian battle, But weshould be at the hearings, especiallythose of us who· are parents, students,
teachers, AIDS educators and activiSts,
ACT UP will be demonstrating out
front. If you're.not planning to testify, I.
suggest you join them, All of us have a
stake in the future of gay and lesbian
youth, And as a group that has dealt
with AIDS so heroically and sanely, we
have a lot to teach the rest of the city
'about contairiing the crisis,
Howard Golden must demand
Impellizzeri's resignation from the•board. She must no longer repr.esent
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Democratic Oub. The way the Republi.
cans are going, we need the loud voicesof peace activists in. all houses 9f gov·
ernment. Mason should benefit:'in
the•gender gap that gives an e..pge to .
•.,women candidates in Manhattan,. Whilethat worked against us when it gave
, thelistless Carol Greitzer her edge overgay.
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small-hotel hospitality. Where strangers
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Leader Peggy Shephard and David
Givens, chair of Community Board 11,• Christopher Park at She-ridan
Square will finally be getting George
Segal's sculpture Gay Liberation, The
sculpture should have been put there:years ago, but in order to h:j.vehad thesculpture placed in the park, former
Parks Commissioner Henry Stern had
to be placed elsewhere, We won the, ,fight to have the sculpture in the park .
.during Stern's tenure, but Stern
wouldn't budge on his opposition.
, Remember Henry; Stern? He was parks
commissioner when Parks Department,employee Katherine Herzog sued thecity' for anti-lesbianbias. Stern's
response and performance in the matter were a disgrace. Now Stern is president of Citizens Union, a group which
has a history of denying preference ratings to lesbian and gay candidates, So
homophobia vacated the Parks Depart.,
ment and found a home with Citizens
Union, .Betsy Gotbaum, current commissioner of the New York City Parks
Department, is to be c.ommended forbringing the sculpture to its rightful,home. Thanks, Betsy,.
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hen queer talk of. politics
and disease is momentarily exhausted, conversation
returns to weightier issues.
Specifically, body image,
Who's fat and who's thin,
The queasy subtext: Who's perfect and who's unacceptable, bydint of their pec size or waistline. This is no mere parlor game.
Among the countless mortals living among queer gods andgoddesses, few are content with their physical appearance. My
friend John is an award-winning writer and adorable WASP.
When the tire forming around his belly became oppressive, heran off to a health club. Now, weightlifting competes for timewith work on his new novel. Roy, a dear pal with boyish good
looks and a frame of respectable dimenSiOns, coaxes friends
weekly to feel the progress of his Megafitness Gym biceps. My
own beau, Dave, is a handsome blond, His thin frame is enviably proportioned, yet he still strips down with a groan anddismisses my hoots of approval, And there's a similar story forevery other friend
Obsessed as they are, these people know the score. In
our queer
community, appearance counts. If .you're looking for.
compassion or justice, try another culture, It is a nice but naive
notion that AIDS has moved us to greater love for one another,
If anything, the epidemic has moved us to worship these values even more so, to run from the hellish sight of wastingbodies to embrace the youthful, the lean, the muscled, theattractive. Chubby, fat and obese queers register for outcast

owtasays, AIDSgives that standard pathetic twist,"People get their self-worth from the attentions of others,"
he explains, "and they thrive on it. Finding out that they'reHIV-positive has not had the effect of re-evaluating the way
they get their self-worth, Instead, it has made them frenzied
about getting as much attention and self-worth as they tan in ashort time, And it freaks them out absolutely to think thatthey're going to lose that one thing that gives them self-worth."Phil (not his real name) says that he was "a sexual nonentity" in high school. Then he began working out, obsessively.
He sculpted his thin, short frame into a tight, highly defm~dmachine. Now he considers himself a sex symbol. So do others. He makes extra money dancing in his scanties at an East
Village club. He is ambivalent when it comes to talking aboutbody image. Gyrating on top of the bar, Phil obviously basks
in the adulation, "It's not entirely unpleasant," he admits. "I
don't mind being objectified, to some degree, As a man, I feelit's liberating striking a blow for gender equality--to be purelya piece of meat.""Of course, I expect to be appreciated for more than that,"he adds quickly, "I'm not interested in someone who's incapable of appreCiating my other qualities."
Phil splits his time between East and West Coast life. His
relationships are numerous, their duration brief. Phil fmds himself the victim as well as the champion of his ausade for physical beauty, "Our predilection for muscled bodies comes obviously from society's emphasis on physical perfection," he says,"It should be gotten beyond rather quickly, because it ends up'ueer communit,'

trims t,status, Likewise for extremely thin folk. We are a communitythat has given its approval to a culture of ,body fascism.
The impact of this issue can be measured vividly: Neverbefore in researching an article have I been told so often touse aliases or to accept statements off the record, and been
simply denied an interview. Body fat is serious business,

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twinkle and blink, vying for attention with the pom films on
the television, Jim, a tall, dark-haired man of 25, is talking
body image with a couple of friends. Like Jim, these guys havelittle to wony about. They are better than average-looking, andthe body definition beneath their T-shirts is apparent.
Jim (an alias), the son of an international diplomat, has
lived around the world. He insists that appearance is an
oppressive factor in the American gay community.- Europe has
no parallel. He chalks it up to a masculinity-standard foisted
upon us by straights-and readily accepted,
In a queer community where self-esteem
comes from another's adulation of you, hebYjust aping that superficiality. At a point, it isn't liberating, and it
leads to rotten objectification and not-niceness."
What of lesbians? Do they fare better? Legend says yes,
The traditional vignette has portrayed lesbians in love, theirmiddles expanding effortlessly. Deb Brown (her real name) isa 2S-year-old lesbian, She lives in Copiague, il, where a different breed of lesbian dwells. Brown calls them "mall girls" andidentifies them by big hair and slacks.
Brown works in the state health department's AIDS,epidemiology program, At night, she's a waitress. Between the
two jobs, there is little time for eating, Although she considers
herself "fairly big," the two jobs keeps her weight steady,Brown has battled weight gain for several years, but she scoffs
at the fat dyke stereotype: "The myth of fat lesbianS began
because heterosexuals needed an excuse for why women
wanted to be with women," She claims to see more compassion in the women's community for overweight peopl~.
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It was the only program she found effective; within 45 days, .
she .shed 25 pounds, On her own, she lost 25 more.
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Her succinct appraisal of the body~image obsession? "A
lot 'of people are just way too superficiill, It's existed before,
and it will continue."· Siobhan (not her real name) is a 35-year-old lesbian livingin Manhattan, Her 165 pounds cover a five~foot-seven-inch
frame, She has been in a relationship for eight years withanother woman, but she is vulnerable to the same standard as
single lesbians, and women in general.
"This culture treats fat as a moral , issue, which is completely out of place, Lesbians don't take the same moralizing
arid punitive position as those in the general culture. Gay men
do-I think it may have to do with being men.".,.she feels that the lesbian world claims a different party lineon" body-fat policy, "I've not found a lot of discrimination
against fat with lesbians, Women are a lot more willing to overlook physical specifics in the search for an ideal personality,".
In .the past year, Siobhan has bought the same pair of pantsin three sizes. Her lover doesn't care, Neither does she, Quite aswitch· from her last relationship, which lasted six years. The
woman was anorexic, She was also sadistic. If Siobhan's
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the sedate, somewhat-closeted queer bar scene of her natjlle
city, She doesn't feel that lesbians dress up for one anotlj,er,
She is vague about the existence of body fascism in the clubs,. Her preference, when pressed, is "well-toned people, but
not muscular." I ask her what her feeling is when she sees anovetweight lesbian? "She's probably a nice person," Ovidia
giggles, Would she be attracted to her? She stops, her eyes
narrowing, "How ovetweight?" She expresses an interest in
the bartender downstairs, who is not thin but not fat. "She's
heavy, .Heavy is nice, Then I don't feel bad, I think bigger
than me is good."
Has Ovidia ever turned down a woman because she is
overweight? "Only because she was short, If she were weighed
the same and taller, she wouldn't be ovetweight, would she?"
Sharing a table with Ovidia are her friends, Bill and Leah,
both from Iowa City, Bill is a timid, rosy<heeked, man-boy·with glasses and unruly brown hair. He is dressed in a sweater,
shirt and slacks. Bill admits that he feels oppressed by "gay culture" standards: "I feel a little bit inadequate about the appearance of my body, but I'm too lazy to do anything about it."For some, the societal standards of queer body image area constant remder of inadequacy, Siobhan recognizes a lifelong struggle with the time-honored ideal,"When I can't find clothes that fit, that's oppression," shesays, "When I listen to fat jokes, that's oppression, When people ask me why I can't diet, that's oppression.",•

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Village, On the video screen, David Lee Roth is ogling. a fleet of bodybuilder women, Few patrpns are.
.. watching; they're more concerned with making small
talk, The manager, a strong-featured, dark-haired woman in apullover; is gu;uding the door for under-21s and hetero men
who are merely shopping for kicks. Both levels of the bar are
filled' comfortably with a variety of women, Some are the "mallgirls" of Deb Brown's part of the woods, Others are lipstick lesbians in faShionable evening attire. Some of the women are, overweight. Others are not.
. ,. Ovidia, 29, is a thin, nicely dressed woman with a sharp
but pleasant English accent. She comes from Singapore, Speak40 OUTWEEK.January 23, .._..

For others predisposed to obesity, living in the queer
community means a tortured existence, Consider Ron, 27, who
asked that an alias be used. He is a gentle-eyed, brown-haired 'man with expressive hands, At an attractive weight of 160
pounds, Ron seems at ease with his tall body. But there are
emotional scars, At one point, he carned an extra 70 pounds,
His family background is an emotional minefield, all issues
concerned with weight. Ron was raised in a Jewish middle-class .
family near Los Angeles. The only problem was, his parents
wanted to be slim WASPsinstead and were unable to cope withthe reality of the situation: His father weighed 350 pounds; hismother was bulimic, The obsession with image maintenancetook its toll. Ron became a battered child, He began overeating
to cope with his problems, Naturally, they worsened.
"I had a choice: I could either hurt other people, which iswhat my parents did," he recalls. "Or I could hurt myself, And'
I did, I ate compulsively and got fat."
As a fat young adult, Ron even attempted suicide, Therapy was needed in tandem with a diet plan. Slowly, the sup-

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Anorexic males are often
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are the same for gays andlesbians as they are for het~
erosexuals, The pressuresof Sexual identity facilitate.the eating disordeF, .
"One pressure I. infer
is the lack of long-term
unions, the fear to tellfolks," he says, "There. is asense of being separate
from one's f~ly. There!sa greater tendency
toobsessionality,because
they have always felt dif"ferent. They have to com~tefor all, those years
of.perceived separateness."
Losing weight takes
its emotional toll, Personal revelations flood in as
bar~.
the weight-the,only
rier between the individual and reality-is shed, Ron fquod
powder diets to be most effective, and he bought, every, fad
product from Dick Gregory's Bahamian Diet to SlimFast,
Over-the-counter
drugs like Dexatrim did not work. A short .
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stint with bulimia came in desperation,.
As the weight came off, Ron began to realize dire fears of
intimacy. Now that he was physically attractive to many ··more
men, he was scared to death of their advances. He waS ·alSO•
angry with his newfound admirers: "I resent people Who'.are
attracted to me, I still want to be loved for the way.1 was, I•
feel I'm bluffing people."." ,The sensitivity of a shunned person remains with him"
Ron feels great compassion for other overweight people: "f••still identify with the underdog. I still have a fat person's:
personality."'..
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Patrick Giles, 33, works at Gay Men's Health Crisis andis an activist with Queer Nation, These qualities ·are 'not
immediately apparent. What is apparent to everyone whomeets him is that Patrick is very large, In fact, he weighs
more than 300 pounds,
Giles will not mince words about his condition, Nor will heapologize for it. He has already distinguished himself in thepages of OutWeek with an article about big men in gay ~~ty,
Or rather, their status as outcasts looking in, "Weight bigotry ispresent in SOciety," he says, "but it is intensified in queer socieo/..". Giles has seen both sides of the experience, An anorexic
child, he became a fat teenager. Then the native Brooklynite,slimmed down at the age of 16, "when I realized. wasn't
going to have i:nuch chance as a queer unless I looked a lot
better than I did." The 190 pounds fit nicely on his six-footthree-inch frame. He hit the bars in triumph, "I was totallylionized for about three years. I was a youth in heat. on ,theI'..
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Ron's inability to accept his homosexuality. Since he was not
attracted to women, he gained weight to keep them away,
xperts in the field of eating disorders recognize
the plight of homosexuals,
Dr, Ellen ShorHaimoff is a clinical psychologist practicing in
Gramercy Park, a fashionable area of Manhattan's East Side,
Her associate is Regina Hausler, PhD, a licensed psychologist.
Both women have counseled people with bulimia andanorexia for several years. In fact, back in 1978, a weekend
workshop they held for bulimic females attracted many lesbians, The workshop was so successful that it ran for two years,"If you have mixed feelings about your homosexuality,and you have the extra burden of an eating disorder, yourself-esteem is really going to suffer;" Shor-Haimoff says, "Ifyou hide who you are, you're really going to hurt yourself,"
Among their clients, Shor-Haimoff and Hausler have seen
many gay men. These men were wrestlers,. bodybuilders,dancers and models. They were in the business of body anddefinition, where their bcidies were their busineSs, They were
living under the constant pressure of maii::ltaining perfection,
lest they lose their job, Says Shor-Hamioff, "They sufferedfrom the same tight restrictions that Society usually puts on
women insofar as looks [are concerned]'"Hausler says ·that there is no essential difference between
eating diosorders for heterosexuals and homosexuals: "Theyboth have something they keep as a secret. They can't get to .
this secret that they consider so terrible, so they introduce aneating disorder as a 'Way to avoid dealing with the problem,"
Dr, Steven Levenkron, a psychotherapist pradking on theUpper East Side of Manhattan, is the author of several books on
the subject of eating disorders, including The Best Little Girl in
the World. Karen Carpenter came to him to be treated for heranorexia. Levenkron says that he has observed eating ,disorders
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he suffered slipped vertebrate, and a doctor ordered him to'join-a gym, Giles was walking a half-mile each day on the trackat the loCa1 Y. After he lost 50 pounds, he observed the same
phenomenon: Suddenly, he waS getting compliments again ..
While big men have their admirers (called by the dubious
term "chubby-chasers"), Giles identifies bigotry in their preferences, as well. At a meeting of Girth & Mirth of New York,
Giles was asked home by an admirer. The next morning, theman admitted that he was disappointed by the sex, He expected Giles to behave passively, not fggressively, "I really· don't
like the way we did it," he said to Giles, "You have sex like athin man."Ernie Harffis a mem.
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policy. has never been chal·lenged. Harff agrees with
Giles· that big men suffer
most at the hands of theirown queer brothers and sisters: "The discrimination isevident: Before we point
the finger at anyone else
who has prejudices against.us, we have to put our own
house in order,". Girth &. Mirth does notpreach about weight loss.
Its purpose is· to provide a
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has its merits, Harff says,
DR. STEVEN LEVENKRON .
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more attention to dress,
But Harff is quick to mention that losing weight is
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who they are, Overealers
Anonymous s~with thepremise that overeating is, adisease, and that you mustovercome it. The approachis based on the 12-stepmodel from Alcoholics
Anonymous, and can bevery strict. Since confiden,
tiality is the cornerstone ofthe program, the source of this infonnation requested anonymity,
He says that Overea:iers Anonymous people· bring theirown feelings of self-loathing into the program, to the pointthat they discourage other members, It is necessary to workwith a sponsor on a personal food plan. However, he says,
some people refuse assistance unless you give up certain
foods, Others commit you to exercise. My source lost 30
pounds in a month and was taken to a victory dinner by othermembers, Incredibly, they told him that he wasp't going tofeel better, despite the weight loss, Moreover, he would probably have hanging flaps of skin, "They just demolished my

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Sunday afternoon at
the Athletic Complex, ahuge fitness center on Park
Avenue at 34th St. Despite
the raw, rainy day, men andwomen are jockeying forthe exercise cycles and stairmachines, hoping to absolve themselves for theexcesses of Saturday night.
According to one employee's estimations, the· clientele here is 65 percent gay.
Overweight people come.t:Q.
,here, and they need morez•help with exercises. "Theya:>c:want to lean up, lose
UJ.. weight. They're not so interested in muscle," Other-&.
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patrons are kind to them.
DR. REGINA· HAUSLER
Alan, 27, is a recent
arrival from New Brunswick, Canada, His face is boyish andSpiegel-cataIog handsome. He has a husky but solid frame and. an eager face, Alan resembles a chubby man in transition, His
goals are simple: to have a great body by summer, He start<,:dthe mission a year ago. His incentive? Going to clubs like Private Eyes and the Men's Room, where boy-beauty proliferates,
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don't necessarily have to have a great body." He goes backto the exercise cycle,
And so does everyone else.
Don't look for an upheaval in body-image trends. The
new queer generation promises to uphold the same values as
their predecessors. And we're not dismissing them as empty-

Giles peeled off his shirt and began to dance
wildly .... Soon, those closest were laughing at the••mountain of.

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and Alan will tell you, "I'm doing it for me, basically." He
does this for himself six days per week. He even quit smoking and drinking, Talk shifts to his lover, whom Alan
describes as "totally out of shape." His lover feels insecurethat Alan is suddenly into bodybuilding, Alan laughs andadds that he doesn't try to i:nake him feel If!Ss insecure, At
clubs, he dances while his lover sits and drinks. He thinks
and offers. this bit of introspection: "Basically, we don't havea whole lot in common."'A year after he began his new regimen, Alan is getting
come-hither looks from the same guys who snubbed' hisweightier frame, But he feels no resentment. "I just laughbecause they don't recognize me." The first thing people ask
when they meet him is, "Where do you work out?"
When quizzed about body types,. Alan balks, "I'm notheaded non-political queers, either, Just drop into a meetingof ACf UP/NY, Body fascism goes hand-in-hand with AIDS
activism, as well,
In a perfect world, how would the overweight fare?
Patrick Giles had· a taste of that fantasy last summer during
Gay and Lesbian Pride Day. He was on the pier for the annual dance, It was nearing dusk, As the energy heated up, thedeejay played the Pointer Sisters' "Jump." Giles peeled off his
shirt and began to dance wildly. Soon, those closest werelaughing at the mountain of flesh gyrating in their faces, until
they noticed the grace and excitement of his dancing, The
jeering gave way to whoops of applause, as Giles spun andwrithed to the music in the setting sun on the Hudson.
"I'd like that to happen more often," he says, his voice
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Brad, 34, is a flightattendant.
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seen .and heard it alL "Every gay man has aflight-attendant
story," he says, rubbing his
short-cropped blond hair. Like the passionatenight that guys spend with an attendant who
promises to return on the next flight but
disappears
into thin air. Or the infatuatedchump who discovers that his beau-on-the-go
is servicing paramours in several other cities.
Tales of airborne romance and crashlandings fill several volumes. And queer flight attendants
abound, Brad estimates that 70 percent of male flight attendants
in the industry are gay.
"Bobby" is 35 but easily resembles a twinkie ten years his
junior. He was night-schooling for a masters in economics in
Vtrginia when a friend convinced him to apply for a flight~endantjob. It seemed more enticing than his daily grind as a bank teller.
Thirteen years later, he's still with the same airline as Brad.
Bobby also copes with the stereotype of the flighty
attendant, having been put to the test one time when he dyed
his brown hair platinum blond, "People began speaking vel)'slowly to me, and they asked me fewer questions. I was accusedof having one brain
cell.",
If you're open to 1V commercials for flight school, the lifeof a flight attendant probably means a world of fascinating
people and glamorous travel to foreign cities. More likely, itmeans l<l;St-minute flights, sleep where you can get it and an
etemally disrupted life, Some men welcome it Brad says that alife in the friendly skies is the ideal escape for the adamantly
unfettere~, "I've seen a lot of flight attendants use the job to run
from life in general and from relationships specifically, When thegoing gets tough, it's like, 'Gosh, I've got a flight to catch.'''Rt;lationships are possible, but it requires saintly patience on
both sides, Bobby says. "The person has.to accept that nortnal
life for you is leaving town evel)' week." After the first five years
in the douds, Bobby realized that his career was the reason for astring of failed relationships. One fatal attraction took to checking
up on him by telephoning hotels in destination dties, Bobby had
enough. From then on, he decided that if a beau groused, he got
dumped. "You have to be :with someone confident enough thatthey won't think you're fucking on layover."For those living the erratic lifestyle, camaraderie is strong.
And the queer fly-guys bond, predictably, with the straight female•aflight attendants, a matter which irks the pilots
to no end. Most of the pilots are straight. Bradand Bobby agree that most of them also arehomophobic, "The female stewardesses would
rather go out to dinner with us than go out
with the pilots and get hit on," Bobby says. "It'sdifficult to deal with the cockpit."
Since AIDS, the rift has grown. Brad
recalls that one pilot suggested to the homeoffice that all flight attendants be forced to takethe HN test. A pilot in Bobby's circle asked·
that male flight attendants not serve meals to
the cockpit. In both cases, the proposals were
rejected by more levelheaded higher-ups.
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IIflight, Bobby had caught a pilot's eye, The
officer quizzed others about the boyish
attendant. The pair met over a raucous dinner with the rest of thecrew and later returned to the hotel to lend. new meaning to the. tenn "layover." The next day, a female flight attendant told Bobby
that she knew the pilot from her hometown. He lived down thestreet from her, with his wife and two kids, Bobby was unruffled.
"He must have done this before," he recalled. "He was good."
Guising at 50,000 feet requires discretion, Bobby says, When
recognition passes between a queer passenger and a flightattendant, "it's sometimes difficult for them to warm up .to you. They
don't want it to look obvious that you're paying more attention tothem than the others." Bobby usually invites the passenger to chatin the galley or in the back of the aircraft. If the chemistry is right,
plans are made for .a rendezvous back on terra firma. Mile-highencounters are possible, but not wise, "I have no intention of risking
my job for some dumb trick in the baduoom," says Brad
But occasionally, flight-boys arrange 'for midair trysts, On
overseas jaunts, they are allowed a two-hour break and repair tothe flight-attendant bunk. "At least you can get a blowjob,"
Bobby offers, although he usually would we1cmne theoportunity to catch up on sleep, Chances are that he and his
flight~ttendant pals were out 'til 6 am that morning at one of
New York's queer nightspots.
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The past month, Bobby has been working flights to Saudi
Arabia. Arr!ong the passengers are soldiers heading for duty,
Occasionally, the machos in stripes have made Comments about
the queer flight attendants. The women attendants fare betterand make a game of collecting soldier pins and badges to wear,
A recent flight was different. As the soldiers were deplaning,
one guy hung back and timidly approaci)ed Bobby. He reachedinto his shirt, pulled out the pair of dogtags on the regulation silver
chain and gave one to Bobby. "If you wear this, then I know I'll
come hick alive," he said, They hugged briefly, Bobby's tears 1nIking
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name (at least officially) to 101 Avenue A.
and gone 24-7-365 to the queer side ofnight life. With a different party
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No, I mean the party
downstairs, Loris'! lesbian Luv Lounge. I got•
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puddle that quickly, Not
that I wasn't speechlesswhen I met her. I had some
sort of attack of New-Kidson-the-Block disease-:--"Oooh,
she's so cute."
SYDNEY: I heard she was at
Clit dub East, too.
LIZ: Where the go-go girls are
caged and the other girls want to be?
SYDNEY:Julie an,j Jocelyn3 better watch
out. Andrea Dworkin4 might show up and try toliberate the girls from their cages.
liZ: Or at Temple, she could just shout down James Brown
songs.
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SYDNEY: He is truly a fierce deejay,
Where else can you get serious, classic souland still iDe surrounded by queers?
liZ: Of course, you can go the Controversy and be surrounded by queers in examining robes smashing yolk-dyed eggs into
the vagina of Kember Pfhaler.5 And then.
you're surrounded by eggshells, Th~people
who brought you the "satanic,,6 Disco Interruptus now do all the things they're just not
at liberty to do at Roxy anymore,
SYDNEY:Yeah, like the guy who chariged
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1, Lori E. Seid, theater person and dyke about
town.
2! Lesbian hero and clever, witty musician,3, Proprietors of Clit dubs, East and West,4, Feminist, whose work in the anti-pornography campaign and book InterCOUTSe has earned
her the reputation of being anti-sex. If you have
met her, it may become apparent why,
5. Lead Singer of the band Karen BIac~.
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Franco Zeffrrelli's new ftlm, Hamlet,makes two contributions to the legacyof Shakespeare's ,melancholiest baby.
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2: "Yo! Ric!"
The second,and doubtless
more long-lasting, addition is a
first -rate action
adventure epic.
Hamlet, obviously, has it al.lghosts, duels andmorevillains
than the Catholic
church. Zeffrrelli
hurls
him$elf
headlong.
into
his story, just as
he did with hisfilm versions of
The Taming of
the Shrew andRomeo and juliet,
Narrative clarity
is so' totally thepriority that heinvents a prologue for Ham-

let's pere's funeral, setting up the conflict
and the central trio of characters wailing widow Gertrude (Glenn Close), leering Uncle Claudius (Alan Bates) and ourboy Hamlet hidden inside a cowl. Onceagain, Zeffrrelli gives the drama the fullcinematic treatment, expansive settings,
costumes detailed to within an inch of
their lives, symphonic cinematography.
The result is consistent visual absorptioncompensating for any strains on the written material and the verse part in particular, The mobility of Zeffirelli's camera,
after all, got around Elizabeth Taylor's
voice in Shrew, Leonard Whiting's acting .
in Romeo and juliet and, now, Gibson's
utter inability to cormnunicate· more than
one emotion at a time.
And there's the rub. In many crucial
regards, the Zeffirelli Hamlet is miles
ahead of Olivier's hallOWed, stately andsomnambulistic 1948 version. The newfilm reverberates
with a genuinely
Shakespearean liveliness. Elsinor is abustle, and the constant activity becomesa character of i~s own, Everyone isalways checking behind doors before
speaking, Rowdy King Claudius has a.goblet perpetually in hand. Zeffirelli's
largely deft literate tinkering with thescript even smooths out a couple of Mr..
Will's clunkers. Claudius' opening
address to the Danish court, for example, broken up into swiftly successive
scenes in different parts of the castle, has
never played better.
.
But the straightforwardness
claims a sacrifice: The lateral workings of Hamlet's mind. Gibson's is a
Hamlet incapable of procrastination.
This man does things. The action
speeches are played straight into the,•camera, and Gibson makes every one ofthem a rouser, Hamlet's madness isalmost an aside, and, stranger still, his
antic disposition (a Gibson tradem;lrk,
too) doesn't appear until the final scene,
He hasn't a melancholy bone in his
body, Gibson is actively bad only when
Zeffirelli freezes him into Hoe-eyed portraits of despair, With the exception of"To be or riot to be," in fact, most of theelegiac speeches are gone, (The big line
itSelf, ironically, is Gibson's best, mostoriginal moment.) The few arias that are
retained give up the ghost; they're theononly times Zefftrelli cuts away from hisstar. The paradOxical result is a Hamlet
who seems neutralized by his machismo,
There are compensations. The Gibson aspect of Hamlet plays well (themmusings can go on) and looks great. He
gets no competition in the eligibleyoung-man department. Horatio andLaertes are virutally identical, as rangy as
Gibson is chiseled, and the other Danish
boys are nowhere near the hunks thatwere the teams of Capulet and Montague, The character division is heaven,
Helena Bonham-Carter's Ophelia has avoice as deep as Hamlet's. Bates· as 'Claudius and Ian Holm as Polonius, 'when Zeffterelli lets them, are shrewd,
understated, and chilling. Paul Scofield's
single scene as the Ghost rocks the castle
turrets. The downbeat is up do~, Miss
Thing dips into those Shapespearean syllables with drunken-sailor gusto, The
only American in the cast has the mOst
overpronounced "a"s: Her willow grows"a-sl-a-ahnt" that brook. You get afirst~
Gertrude too hollow to fightover. Hamlet's more-lucid actions should
not include slapping his mother."

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THE BAD PLAY. Choreographed and directed by Stephanie Skura. Written by Ana Maria Simo.
Set and prop design by Jamie Leo. Through Jan. 27. PS 122. 150 First Ave. (212) 477-5288.

by Sarah Schulman
Some people's lives are just one big,bad play. But it takes gifted artists tomake an emotional, inventive and entertaining work out of their own personalnightmares. Stephanie Skura, Ana Maria
Simo and Jamie Leo have successfully
collaborated on a rich rendition of theglossy, ghoulish grotesquerie of insular
upward-mobility that has come to be
known as suburban life in the early '60s.
Based on Skura's actual family, Simo's
accomplished saipt, typically morbid in
its precision, outlines a brief family
drama rife with betrayal, bulimia andbisexuality-the essential components ofnuclear family life,
Mrs, Binder (Saskia Noordhoek
Hegt) lives in a storybook world until
she discovers her eye-surgeon husband(Eric Diamond) having sex with hisnurse, After brutalizing her own mother(Karl Anderson) and engaging in a num- .
ber of exquisitely written and rendered;pathetic attempts at winning back his
attention, she takes to her bed with hy&:terical blindness. Their daughter,Lynette(Jennifer Green), responds by gorging on food and then vomiting it into
the, brand-new kitchen sink. Lynette is
further confused by a constant flirt
between her nerdy, sexy sex-partner
Judy (Barrie Raffel) and the clean-cut
boy next-door(also Karl Anderson).
All
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points by their Cuban maid, Maria(Karen Langevin).
Hegt is, a marvelous, broad performer with a long his~ory in avantgarde theater. Her mother is a Medea ofMiddletown.
Able to play for bothlaughs and guts, her story keeps theheart of the piece intact, allowing for
Skura's constant inventive
variations. Jennifer Greenand Eric Diamond are both
attractive perfonners, able toexpress humor and a certain
suburban blankness without

any duplicitous strain:. ,!(1
Skura's direction is just wonderful :~ ,from beginning to end, making dear .by ~comparison the inferiority of most new- ~fonn directors. Writers wanting to work '"in performance art often have to choose
between clunky kitchen-sink theatrical ~.
blocking or staging so diffuse as to if
obscure the emotion of the work. And
Simo's script is delicate enough to havebeen easily susceptible to either. But,
instead of massacring the script, Skura.
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signal code on mercury movement style,she choreographs the spoken text sothat every scene is differently staged,
IDutthe emotional content is highlighted by the differences. Skura puts thecharacters through inappropriate emotions, Busby Berkley chorus dance-bits,a marvelous trio for Lynette and her
two lovers on the family couch andoccasional taped bios of the performers
in-between sets. And throughout, the·lighting (by Mary Louise Geiger) is
intentionally too dark, the costumes (byLiz Prince) are falling off, and thesound (by Aural Fixation) is constantly
missing cues,,

While the script and characterizations focus on the pathology of subur~
ban reality, the drunken cinematic element of the suburban
fantasy is
beautifully injected by Jamie LeQ's
whimsical and thoughtful set design.
Constructed by Leo and his assistant,
Kathryn Thomas, the sets are a cardboard, ghostlike representation of theLife magazine images of America that
Simo grew up with in Cuba, Down tothe cardboard Coke foam that appears
when cardboard ice cubes are added to
cardboard glasses, Leo's work is excellent and deserving of acclaim,
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Simo's work, and this is a characteristically excellent script. My· only cOI).cern
about The Bad Play has to do with themaid, Maria, who has the least-revealed
emotional life. We never really knowwhat she thinks of herself and the world
into which she has been plunged. Simo
avoids all opportunities to allow Mariato delve into her own variation on suburban fantasy, With the exception of abeautifully written, tender moment at
the beginning of the play when she tries
to explain a washing machine in a letterto her sister back home, Maria remains
as opaque to the audience as she is to
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by Joe Clark .

Adam Sherburne, who favors wordy
Imagine it's 1990... and you'repolitical diatribes recited at a measured
straight. You are musicians overflowing
pace. Consolidated's sound is like megawith opinions
about injustice andwatt dub ~;and it works,
inequality. Your values are high, but so
You can-and $hould~ce
to it,
is the. ethical price of spreading yourbut for best results do so with your mind
. message. Once you sign a recording
in gear, You'll fmd no pussyfooting allecontract,. how do, you handle the congories in Consolidated's music, no "ladies
tradictions?
first" or "fight the power" evasions.
,. For hints on resolving that dilenuna,
When Consolidated confronts sexism or
consult the San Francisco trio called Conracism, you know it-illld they namesolidated, a band producing music mostnames, Even the song titles, like "Stop; ,~(:ijly described as a .manifesto you can. the War Against the Brack Community,". ···dance to, Though a serious rap influence
don't beat around the .bush,~: : 'pervades most tracks on The Myth of
In its endeavor to "advocate a new.(I)j '.~.
.Roc-kConsolidated's • second LP-theresponsibility;" the group operates at a
. ban!i's synthwork and percussion owe . high-cultural bandwidth. Its message is
9tiavy .debts to 'the industrial genre.
about reappraisal,urging ~veryone~;" M!i!ter,rhyine and tempo are ancillary(white men in particular) to reconsider
if ·:".conSiderations in the output of vocalist
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enjoyable fashion, the multiple oppressions inflicted by the white American
male, .with sexism and racism leading thelist One track on the album even suggests Consolidated's disdain for species
ism and animal exploitation,.. .:So where are the queers in all this?,". On the cuttmg-room floor, as it tumS
out, but not for lack of trYing, Sherburneis quick to say that one overtly anti~
homophobic song didn't make it onto
The Myth of Rock because it was "weakmusically." The band expects to make up
for it on its forthcoming release, "We'll
say right here that the whole concept of
the next album will be a unity of oppressions," Sherburne explains, admitting tba,t"the concept of oppression is one thathas become clearer to us from haVing
conspicuously omitted a few groups." .
Sherburne hopes that this kitchensink approach will speak to some hard~
to-reach homophobes, "If you're somewhite guy, some frat guy," Sherburnesays with anger, "who thinks, 'I'm not
racist, and hey, I want to put this down,'
but then it's still cool for me to be homophobic or to mistreat my girlfriend or myfemale acquaintances, that's what we're .
trying to tie in."Big plans. But Consolidated has no
illusions about· its actual ability to sway
people, Sherburne thinks that musicians
have inherent limits in getting a point
across, "In the pop medium, how much.
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more could we hope to impact?" Sherburne asks. "I mean, we could be
involved in politics, or we could be
involved
in social work, and we [have]•seen that they're every bit as wrought in
hypocrisy and self-defeat of their own'
agendas as music and pop <;)llture."That unusual two-steps-forwardl
one-step-backward
attitude pervades
Consolidated's live show, the lefty audiences for which lend the impressionthat 'the band is preaching to the converted. The boys,· as expected, are aforceful presence onstage, what with thewillfully intense Sherburne delivering his
dirges, Phil Steir banging away on
drums and Vince Clarke-like android
synth-player Mark Pistel shufHing discs
and DATs to keep the sarµples flowing.
But the fun really starts after the show,
when Consolidated gives the mike overto the crowd to hear what they have tosay, It's part of the band's commitment
to communicating their beliefs with min.imum distortion.
Message music like this has a built••,

in potential for failure, as Sherburne is all
too aware from experience. ''We go right
into the first cut," Sherburne explains,"and there's thfee kids with Consolidated
T-shirts up there sieg-heiling. We go:'Wait a minute, We've obviously failed,
so let's stop the music before it evenstarts and try to separate this.'"The band sees failure and contradiction as inescapable. Buzzwords like"myth," "dysfunction" and "culture" populate The Myth of Rock Though defmedin vague doublethink tenns ("Dysfunction is nonnaicy," Sherburne will say, or:. "Culture is nothing. Everything is culture, and it's all destroyed"), these con. cepts are a refuge the band takes fromthe daily be1:(ayalsof life in a cold, cruelworld. Even when Consolidated singsabout the deceptions of manufactured
myths or the devolutionof culture into "product + promotion = profit,"
the band knows that it
is itself subject to thevery contradictions
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lyrics describe.
It's a dilemma the band accepts anq
subverts simply by making no. bones
about it, as nearly every song on The
Myth of Rock mentions the hypocrisy. of
preaching from the debased pulpit ofpop music. This is the kind of self-reference you'd otherwise find only in asemiotics class, but here it also has an
American Bandstand-likeappeal. In
other words, it's ·got a good beat.
. In a soundscape strewn· with bands
trying to be different like everybody else,
Consolidated· manages to be uQique,
Politically committed yet fully aware pf
their liffiitations, band members professno agenda other than their own con,sciousness-raising. As. Sherburne says',half in jest, "Our motto is, 'If we qinreach one member of the band ... '",Whether Consolidated
fails or succeeds at ·that
mission, it does ffianage
to hit very large nails
not quite on the head.
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by James Waller"The man of contradictions," Yukio
Mishima was fond of instructing his
friends, "is like a god." ContradictorineSs was a mark of godhood that Mishima4he 20th anniversary of whose suicide was marked this past Nov. 25 andwhose 66th birthday
would have
OCCUiTedon Jan, 14---pursued with selfconscious saqmrai vengeance. Enigmas
are not only fascinating, they're frustrating, and thinking about the enigma
caHed Mishima
can give you. aheadache. Indeed, the details of hisdeath can tUrn your stomach.
When I first read, in my late teens,of Mishima's death by seppuku, ritual. disembowelment, I imagined it to havebeen an elegant, gorgeously clean gesture, I knew that the rite of hara-kiri,properly
performed,
involved the
spreading of a white cloth on which thesuicide knelt while plunging a dagger
iqto his intestines, and the image that I
carried in my mind had the same sim-pie, geometrical precision as theJapanese flag--J,l circular bloodstain
in the center of a snowy field. As it
happens, hara-kiri is a terrificallygrisly affair, and Mishima's death,complicatedby mishap,
was
extraordinarily messy.
On that November morning 20
years ago, Mishima and his four
closest disciples. members of theprivate army of student-soldiers that
he had founded in 1968--commandee red the office of Lieut. Gen.
Kanetoshi Mashida,. the chief of theTokyo headquarters of Japan's SelfDefense Forces, Mashida, who had
granted the group an interview
expecting Mishima to request permission for his paramilitary force to .
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demand that he be permitted to address
The incident
the troops stationed at the headquarters,
triggered a virtual
Mishima threatened suicide if Mashida
worldwide tsunami
did not comply, and so about 1,200 menof journalistic atwere hastily assembled on the parade
tempts to figure out
ground outside the building.
Mishima's action.
While Mashida was kept under,(The New York
guard by Mishima's deputies, Mishima
Times Ihdex, forprogressed
to a balcony facing the
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parade ground, By this time, the Tokyo•.separate entries
remedia had been alerted to the exceedlating to the event
ingly strange goings-on, and 'whileduring the month, Mishima tried to shout his message tothat followed),Twenthe troops gathered below, several 1V
ty years later, theand military helicopters circled oversensationalismofhead. The noise effectively drowned out
Mishima's suicide
his speech, in which he urged the solhas mostly died,diers to mount a coup to overturn the
but the puzzle his
Japanese Constitution; which had been-.'
life and death emimposed by the United States after
body remains as
World War II, and to restore the counmindbendingly
try's leadership to the emperor,,
alive as ever.
The few words of Mishima's mesYukio Mishima
sage to penetrate the helicopters' drone;,:v.
was a homosexual
were hardly· well received by the("gay" seems inapuncomprehending SQldiers,who continPOSTURI~G-Mishima and his entourage
propriate)who,ually interrupted him with jeers. Aftermarried-past
theabout ten minutes, Mishima gave up,
Japan, When he died, Mishima had
age of 30 and long after he'd begun
cried, "Tenno heika Banzai!' ("Long live
haps ten times as many readers inpracticing his homosexuality-andthe Emperor") three times and retreated·
Europe and North America as in his
fatheredthreechildren,
Stylistically,histo Mashida's office,native country, But it probably isn't sonovels and other writings veer wildly
His suicide which he had appar-.
astonishingthat so many ordinary
between a severe, understated Classiendy intended to commit aU alongcism and a wordy-and
purple. Japanese came to gawk at that display
quickly ensued and was as botched aof Mishima memorabilia, given how sucromanticism, Thematically, those of
job as the speech, Though. Mishima
cessfully he'd made himself into a culMishima's novels that have homosexualmanaged to summon the superhumantural phenomenon.
ity as their subject are really much morestrength necessary to insert his ritual•
Just what category of phenomenon
about relations between men anddagger into, and then drag it across, his
Mishima belonged to it's difficult to say:women, (Perversely chaste love affairs
abdomen, his lieutenant, a 25-year-old
During the last 15 years of his life,
between heterosexual
women and.. student named Hissho Morita, was lessbesides manying, siring offspring, buildyoung homosexual men provide the... successful at carrying out his duty as
ing himself a glitzy (and kitschy) Westchief dramatic interest in Confessions of. Mishima's second, He and Mishima had
ern-style house (and entertaining there,. a M.ask and Forbidden Colors). Mishima
made a pact beforehand that Morita
lavishly and often), traveling extensively
was addicted to Western culture everywoµld be responsible for ceremonially(including some weeklong jaunts tothing from Greek philosophy to crewcut
decapitating Mishima after the latter had
New York for the purpose of cruising
hairdos and wayfarer sunglasses yet
disemboweled himself, Terrified, tremthe Greenwich Village bars) and penhe
killedhimself
inagruesomely
inept
bling and weeping, Morita struck atning an enormous number of novels,,Mishima three times before managing to ' gesture intended, on the face of it, to•plays, short stories and essays, Mishima
protestpostwarJapan'sdefilement
by
sever
his
leader's
head,
On
the
first
and
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found time to act in a couple of gangWestern mores. Mishima was also an, : second attempts, Morita's sword slashedster'movies, direct a few of his own
indefatigable self-promoter; his efforts to
Mishima's arm and back, prolonging
I
plays, become a body builder and an
advertise himself put those of siInilarly'and intensifying his anguish, Morita thenexpert in the martial art of kenndo andmotivated American novelists (Mailer,
knelt to commit suicide himself (thisenshrine himself in the role of minor (if
Tom
Wolfe
and
Capote,
among
the
most
was part of their pact), but he evidently
obvious) to shame, A month before he . well-known) player in Japanese right•
lacked.Mishima's
resolve and sheer
wing politics.
died, he designed and helped to orgaphysical power.and was unable to inflict
You'd think that the labor of connize,anexhibit
that
drew
more
than
on himself anything more than a superstructing a Significant, sensitive, exten100,000 visitors, and this at a time when
ficial cut. He cried out, begging somesive literary oeuv,re-andMishima's
sales of his books· had plummeted in
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BROTHERS UNDER THE SKIN...Not all
headbangers are simply big-haired lugheads,
While Motiey Crne's Tommy Lee graces the"Killer Kwotes" page of heavy-metal mag Rip's
January ish complainingthat Madonna's
Blond Ambition tour featured "too many fagson that stage for me, dude," Warrior Soul's
Kory Clarke, also "kwoted," is much more of a
freethinker, Describing a guest spot he did ona recent radio show, Clarke counters: "The first caller asks,'Are you guys fags?' Then we went to a commercial, When wegot back [on the aid; I wanted to say, 'Let me confirm it to ya,
honey. We're gay, we're Black, we're Jews, we're Italians.
We're all human, Why don't you get your shit together?'"
Unfortunately, the show's producer didn't think the response
was a good idea, so it was left unsaid, It just ain't easy being
right these days.

Completion Fund awards a total of $5,000
annually for the final production work on
gay and lesbian projects. This year's winners
are now in and include: Peter Adair andJanet Coles's Absolutely Positive ($2,000);
Catherine Saalfield's Among Good ChristianPeoples ($2,000); Paris Poirier's Last Call at
Maud's ($1,000), If you weren't in this roundof lucky winners, be sure to submit an application to Frameline in 1991. The deadline is quite aI way
off-0ct, 15, Call (415) 861-5245 for additional information,

DESPERATELY SEEKING SIBLlNGS~..Manuscripts ofall sorts ("humorous, tragic or poignant") are being sought by
the editors of a gay siblings anthology. The deadline .for submissions is July I, 1991. All queries and queeries should bedirected at Don and Molly Martin, 1016 E. 7th Ave., Olympia,
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precious of these pieces of S/M merwork comprises just that-wouldn't
chandise, In one particularly striking
allow one also to fashion a splashy
image, Mishima is completely wrapped
media image recognizable everywhere
in a black rubber garden hose and lyingor, for that matter, to organize, train andcommand a private army of more thanface-up atop a large mosaic zodiac,. A
80 student-soldiers.
During his last
length of the tubing has ~en passed
through his mouth, and he is biting it,
years, Mishima did all three, Looking at"Meaning" is hardly discarded in thispictures of Mishima (there are a lot of
picture; it is rigidly controlled, Mishima's
pictures of Mishima) , you get the feelfantastic eyes dominate. the image:ing that if he'd ever competed in asimultaneously vacant, imploring arid trihouse ball, he'd have dragged hometrophies for "realness" in· three or fourumphant.
different categories.
What has the subject of thatphoto this man-boy sex-slave to do
Consider the following juxtaposiwith the ~ishima of another photo,tion, In 1961 and 1962, the photogrataken just a few years later? In this secpher Eikoh Hosoe made a series of picond photograph, which appears to havetures of Mishima that were collected andbeen shot in the studio of a staid, oldissued in the form of a book, Barakei,~hioned portraitist, Mishima is seatedor, in the English translation, Ordeal by
Roses (reissued in 1985 by Aperture and . in an upholstered chair, Surrounding
him, stand four young members of his
still in print). Mishima authored theparamilitary force, which he dubbed
book's rather florid preface, in which heTate no kai, the Shield Society, All areclaims that, in Hosoe's images, "objects. wearing the double-breasted uniforms
are stripped of their various meanings,"
and military caps (with visors andWhich isn't at all true: the book looks
badges) that Mishima ~esigned. Thesealmost like a catalog in which "familiar
are the four students who later accomobjects" candles, mirrors, Renaissancepanied Mishima on his death-mission;
paintings, ladders, clocks, benches, chilHi~ho Morita stands at his right hand.
dren, women's bodies---are purveyed as
The postures of these self-styled sol~
the gizmos, thingamajigs and backdrops
dierseven Mishima's, seated-are
for the rites of S/M-and
S/M of arigid, their jaws set, their faces vacantdecidedly fey stamp.
(but this time sternly.
Despite their sometimes-cloyingso). It's very muchself-cOnsciousness, the photo~ostofan "official" portrait,
them photomontages,
actually-are
antique in cast. Curiousextraordinary. They could hardly be
ly, it's in this second
called portraits, for Mishima himself, as
photo that Mishima's
the catalog's model, is merely the mostprofound physical beauty really shines.
The boys are 20 years younger than he,but next to his, their faces look drab, too
crabbed with individuality, uninteresting,I' think that there's no way of making senSe of these photos except to seethem bbth as exercises in drag or, better,
camp, Mishima's triple obsession withyouth (male), beauty (male) and death(of young, beautiful males) constituted aform of aesthetic, as well as moral, seriousness, Mishima detested the prospectof old age, with its inevitable concomitants of physical deformation, spiritual·disappointment and enervation, and as
he grew older, he worked hard to transform himself into the athletic, non-intellectual type of young man of whom hehad been so enamored in his youth. As
he put it in his autobiographical essay,
Sun and Steel, he sought in the gruelingphysical training to which he subjected
himself the discovery of a "language ofthe body" that would silence "the corruption of words" that had stolen his
youth from him, Also, his eroticism
demanded that he die young or, to put it
crassly, at least leave a good-looking
corpse.
Mishima therefore killed himself
none too soon, before the depredationsof age, which can't forever be forestalled, had set in,Though it had sev¢raltimes been. prefigured
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Mishima's suicide left most journalistic
two-glorious martyrdom and exalted
commentators baffled as they attempted
male beauty-are perfectly melded, If
to assign it a place within the context ofyou read Confessions of a Mask as more
postwar Japanese politics. What theyor less straightforward autobiography, it
were incapable of understanding wasseems that the young Mishima dependthat whatever political meaning Mishied on early 20th-century Western psyrna's death did have was completely
chology to interpret his homosexuality
devoured by its personal meaning as thefor him, conceding with the psychoanalysts that "in the overwhelming majority
outcome of a lifelong aesthetic-eroticof cases of inversion lsic],...the inverted
longing. Mishima, the sublime reacand the sadistic impulses are inextricatioruuy, yearned for a return to an age
when the personal (eroticized heroism)
and the political (allegiance, duty).. cohered. That's not an uncommon nosMISHIMA'S CORPUS
talgia for fanatics of the right or left;
what separated Mishima from mostother fantasists was that he was couraActs of Worship, Kodansha
geo\ls-and,finally, ridiculousAfter the Banquet. Perigee Booksenough to attempt its realization .
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When he was informed of Mishima's
suicide, then-Japanese Premier Sato
Directions
uttered a comment that was inadverDeath in Midsummer and Other
tently quite intelligent. "He was out of
Stories. New Directions
his mind," he said.
Five Modem No Plays, Tuttle
Mishima was certainly' out of his
mindl bunt was no pedestrian brand of
Forbidden Colors: Perigee Books
madness. He was, I think, the victim of
Runaway Horses, Vintage
an extraordinarily pernicious $train of
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace
camp, if it's possible to think ofcamp-especially,
as seems true inWith the Sea. Perigee Books
Mishima's case, when it's emptied of its
Sound of Waves. Perigee Books
ironic component---as a spiritual disSpring Snow. Vintage
ease. When I juxtapose two other phoSun and Steel. Kodansha
tos of Mishima-the picture of him as
Saint Sebastian taken during the last few
Temple of Dawn. Random House
years of his life and a news photo taken
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion.
just after his suicid6 it strikes me how
Perigee Books..
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Perigee Books",'·offreedom--that is, control-in model"'. . ing one's life that a writer, say, has in.. 'composing a novel. Viewed from thisbly entangled with one another." Deathangle, Mishima's death shows the same
horribly ludicrous quality as the death of . and beauty, beauty and death, The
death portrayed in Renaissance paintan elegant drag queen who is brutalings of Saint Sebastian (and in the photo
Iy-that is, unaesthetically-murderedof Mishima as the martyr) is of a scrupuby one of her tricks.
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The Renaissance painters who
lously clean, aesthetic sort. Death has an
took up the theme of Saint Sebastianicy, frozen orderliness. The body of theI·'," ';,
did so not so much with the aim ofsaint bears its wounds like carefully! ',glorifying martyrdom as of portraying
applied makeup.
I(the nude human body and-by stickWhat a contrast, then, with thei, o'il)g to this ostenSibly
photograph taken by a:d!,ligioµs su bject~ofjournalist of lieut. Gen.
ci!'cumventing. theMashida's office in the
church's disapproval of
immediate aftermath ofsu;ch depiction.
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posed image it appeared. in Life maga"zine in December 197O--there is only
pathetic chaos. The general's office isthat of an ordinary government bureaucrat: credenza, radiator, drooping flag,
telephones. A couple of men, perhaps
plainclothes police-standnear theoffice· doorway, staring at the squalor
before them, Afternoon sun pierces oneo( the windows, casting a harsh, brightrectangle of light on the debris-strewn
carpet. At a comer of this rectangle,
slightly blurred in the microftlm versionof the photo that I've looked at, are thetwo' heads-Mishima'sand Morita's.
Someone has set them upright, side byside: the only bit of formal order in thisbanal scene of the detritus violence
leaves behind,In Mishima's actual death, reality
impinged cruelly on fantasy. Mishima
can't but have known that his final
gesture would fail politically and beperverted and attenuated by the heapof journalistic "interpretation"
that,would follow, What makes the gestureprofoundly interesting is the way inwhich its very messiness, lack of consequence and blandly comic irrelevance are prefigured in Mishima's great
novels. Mishima's best books Forbidden Colors, 1be Temple of the Golden
Pavilion and the magnificent tetralogy,
The Sea of Fertility, whose composition
occupied his last five years• are, all ofthem, about how reality escapes anddefeats any attempt to impose on it adefinite order, whether that order bemoral, ideological, aesthetic or erotic.
It is possible that that was the very lesson Mishima meant his death to convey, Who knows? Mishima's tetralogy,
the fmal chapters of which were delivered to his publisher on the morningof his suicide, is nothing if not an
extended (and Buddhist) joke about
the vanity of making life an intellectual
project. If that was also the meaning of .
Mishima's death, he may indeed havebeen godlike, achieving in a breathtak.ingly iiunic way: the very thing his art
tells us is impossible, But there's something so scarily unironic about Mishirna's life that I doubt it. Mishima, thephenomenon-theartifact of his own
viciously serious camp sensibility---andMishima, the divinely. gifted writer,
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Here's a pop quiz: Name the
Hollywood ftlms with the following plots:
A young advertising executive whose
wife has died finds himself uninterested inwomen. One night, quite dnmk, he winds•

up in a working<iass bar he's netJer been
to before, where an attractive, vivacious
older man tries to pick him up. Somehow,
unplanned, he winds up s/eiping off thebooze on the older man's sofabed. In the
middle of the night, he wakes up on thereceiving end (jf one tem.ftc blowjob. Stillhalf drunk, he lets himselfgo. Mutually
enthusiastic lovemakingfollows ....
A handsome,middle-class highschool boy has only one t1Ue.friend, hischildhood buddy in whom he confides all
his deepest secrets, The boy chases after abeautiful upJJer<iassgirl, and they have abrief hetero romance before both realize it
isn't working out. The boy soon acknowledges that his truest love is his best .friend,
who has secretly been lusting after him
since puberty. The two boys fall into eachother's anns ....

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out to tryst with Dan Duryea rather tlian
Joan Bennett? What if psychiatrist aaude
Rains helped Bette Davis realize that she
was a spinster because what she reallywanted was a woman, in Now, Voyager?
Perhaps Kate Hepburn, who always
looked good in drag, could have played
the Paul Henreid role.
FtIm versions of plays by Tennessee
Williams and Edward Albee have beenplaying this game in reverse for
decades----5tripping gay characters of theirsexual orientation (even of their gender)
but leaving them with their alienation. So
it's no surprise that projecting lesbian andgay personas onto straight characters inthe Hollywood
classics
often produces intriguingand credible storylines thatwill never see celluloid,
In the "legitimate"theater, gay playwright Craig Lucas'
current hit, Prelude
to a Kiss, makes thesex-switching quite
literal,whenabride's soul entersan old man's body.
But as gay and lesbian moviegoers, wedon't have to write
plays
or movie
treatments
or film
reviews-to
get inon the gender-swapping fun. We do it. mentally every time,;
we respondemotionally to a movie
that depicts socially forbidden
pas.-.sion between heterose~uals,
Many times I've
wonderedat myown .sniffling reSponse to a ftlm that
I know, objectively,
wasn't very good,

If these pitches sound more likepremises for gay male pornography(which they could be), it's because I'vechanged the gender of one central character in each tale. But except for switching a few pronouns, last fall's White
Palace could easily be remade as a gay
romance, with nary a line of dialog
altered. And John Hughes' Some Kind of
Wondeiful---my second scenario-would
work well as a coming-out story: Withher nro-pageboy haircut and proto-ACf
UP wardrobe, Mary Stuart Masterson
seems just a stand-in for Eric Stoltz's
repressed gay desire anyway 0 wish).
In fact, almost any straight storyline
built around the concept of forbidden or
repressed sexual desire can be turned
into a lesbian or gay romance-withvery
little rethinking. Whatever banier is erected to complicate the hetero relationship--generally class, age and/or family
differences--can always be replaced with
one unilateral prohibition: the taboo ofhomosexual paSsion.
What if Romeo had been a willful
lesbian rather than Simply
NO TEARS Gay wish·fulfillment
a boy from the wrong
Cry-Babyfamily? What if Edward G.

For example, I was entranced by Mannequin, an inconsequential 1987 movie
in which Andrew McCarthy carries onwith a department store dummy who's
alive only when they're alone together,
What a metaphor for gay desire, I
thought. The secrecy, the misunderstandings, the rejection by one's "normal"
friends! How appropriate that the only
person in the movie
who understands.
.
poor Andrew is the Black queen who
dresses the windows!
As I look back now, I can see anendless parade of such films, Some very
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I sat on the smooth steps of the swimming pooland cried, pulling the green yucca spear
out of my right arm; my body rigid, my blood
forming a loose aura in the clear water.
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let's go inside," It was· summer, we spent every day in the pool.
No one was home, Mom left her work number next to a pan of deepdish brownies on the kitchen counter. The spear
had punctured a good-sized hole and the chlorinated waterburned in the wound. I waited for the oozing to stop, The bloodI•began to clot. Stan put a Band-Aid across the dried bloodas I crouched over the bathroom sink staring at his facein the mirror, He pulled off his O,P, swim trunks, still dripping water.
He was thirteen, just starting to get pubic hair-I'd noticed in the pool.a few months before when herwas skinny-dipping, Each spearof dark hair was proof of a manlmess I thought would never be mine, his deep
voice the most obvious evidence of this deepchange that occurred in boys tougher than me my blood
too sweet, my touch too soft each girlish quaUty a spear
through my brother'S heart, his faceblank when I failed at baseball and basketbalL The pool
was my saving grace, I learned to swim better than anyone else; water•embraced me like' a brother might. Stan wrung the waterout of his trunks over my head and let out a deep
wild laugh,His eyes, like small green pools,. ..
,looked glazed, the white parts red as blood, ,.
He dragged me to our bedroom; his facestolid and tight, and threw me onto the floor, His dick like a spear,
my mouth was an empty hole. He stuck a ftnger up my ass to spear
my insides, then he stuck his dick up. The water'in my eyes rolled down my cheeks, streaking my face.
I begged him to stop. He came deep
·inside of me, did he come inside of me? It felt like blood
running out of me, but it wasn't red like in the pool.
Floating out back in the swimming pool was the stained yucca spear.
The Band-Aid on my arm leaked blood drops, like those that had clouded the clear water.
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ADVANCE LISTINGSTHE NE'lWORKOF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
presents a•
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shares. The Share-a-thon benefits the Gay
and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project. Shareseekers: $15. Share offerers: $25. The
Center. 208 W, 13th St. 6-9 pm. Info:(212) 517-0771.
•-THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIALRESEARCHpresents Photography: A Gay
Perspective. This class, limited to 18 students, is taught by Steve Morrison, andwill be divided between lecture and workshop, Lecture topics: the history of gay
representation in the arts; current issues.facing gay artists, including censorhip andpolitical realities; contemporary gay artists.
Workshop combines critique of students'
work with discussion of technical subjects.
Students are asked to examine their own
pasts as sources for discussion of theirwork, and an individual approach is suggested for each studenfs direction. $330.
The 12 weekly sessions begin Monday,
Feb. 4, and run from 7:45-9:30 pm. For
more info, contact the New School at (212)741-5600.

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Also see the daily listings for showings of
one or two days.
A (6) signifies a new listing
6MERCE CUNNINGHAM STUDIO presents
Tb. Crombllng Earth, a collaborative per. formance of dance (Patrick Leader), music(Laura Sewell) and text (Albert Zayden).
Dancers incluced Matthew Carmody, Calla
Jo, Jennifer Schmidt, Henrika Taylor andFawn Wong. Set by artist Dana Kane.

CENTER MUSEUM OF LESBIAN AND GAYHISTORY AND ARCHIVES opens Imag.,
From the Front: Photography Chall.nglng
AIDS, various works which all incorporate
photography in some way, juried by artists,
photographers, activists; work by Morgan
Gwenwald, Mark Johnson, Tracey Lilt,
Robert Mlgnott, Robert VazqueL The Center. 208 W. 13 St. (212) 620-7310.
Through Jan. 18.
TWEED (Theatre Works: Emerging/Experimental Directions) presents The History of
Pornography, a multimdedia performancework that explores the pornographic phenomenon in Western civilization. Media
include music, movement, text andimagery. Written and directed by Kevin
Malony. Music by Carol Llpnlk, video by
Malthew
Caldwell,film by David,
Flanigan, projections by Nancy Hyland
and llna West and choreography by John
O'Malley. $8. Tuesday through Friday
evenings at 8 pm, Saturdays at 7 and 10
pm and Sundays at 7 pm. The Ohio theatre. 66 Wooster St, between Spring andBroome streets. Info: (212) 575-3030. Jan.
12 through Jan. 26.
6ARTISTS SPACEpresents Relramlng theFamily, a group exhibition and video program exploring 1I1emythology of the American family co-designed by Connie Butler
and Micki McGee; and A Project, a conceptual instalation mirroring Simone de Beauvoir's 1971 Manifeste in support ofwomen's· reproductive freedom, co-organized by Kathe Burkhart and Chrysanne
Stathacos; and Installallon by Francois•
Morelli. Opening recetion: Jan. 17 from6~ pm. Gallery hours: Tu-Sa, 11 am to 6
pm. Artists Space. 223 West Broadway.
Info: (212) 226-3970. Through Feb. 23.
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6DON'T TELL MAMA presents Tb, Songsth, Girt' Sang, a musical revue conceived
by David Perkins and directed by Mark
Cole. Their flyer says: "Did you ever wonder why the female characters always getcall

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Switchboard of New Yorkdaily. noon to midnight.

CALENDAR(212) 777-1800•

Lights by Nicole Werner. This is the formal debut of nearly two years' work inclubs, gallerie~ and performances spaces.
It promises to be "a dense, lean ,show,
sometimes funny, often thought-provoking, always on." $10 or TDF plus $5. For
information and reservations: (212) 9824056. Jan, 17-19.

information,

the best songs in Broadway musicals? Did
you come to New York hoping in yourheart of hearts you would be cast as Nellie
Forbush in South Pacific and sing, "I'm inLove With a Wonderful Guy," only to end
up in the male choius singing "There is
Nothing Like a Dame"?" Their answer: arevue in which four men-Jay Montreal,
Allan Palmer, David Perkins and RobertHanyrnan--sing Broadway show tunes all
originally written for female characters.
$10, with a two drink minimum. Don't Tell
Mama. 343 W. 46th St Sundays, Jan. 27
through Feb. 24. 10 pm. Reservations:(212) 757-0788 after 4 pm.
THE GLINES presents Landscap. With
Mal, Flgu", a farce about two gay men
and their sexual fantasies, written by John
Crabtree. Director: John Wall. Cast Marlin Outzen, Rob Parker, Jimmy O'Neill.
$15, Courtyard Playhouse. 39 Grove St at
Bleecker Street Wednesday through Friday
evenings at 8 pm, Saturdays at 6 and !lpm, Sundays at 7 pm. Reservations: (212)869-3530. Through March 3.
ROYAL COURT PRODUCTIONS presents
Lips, a revue in gender illusion. $10. Producers Club Theater. 358 W. 44th St., suite
7. Fridays at 11 pm. Info: (212) 689-5789.
55 GROVESTREETpresents Cam Brainard
and Bob Koherr's Bricldac, cI Stucco, performers who both appe~red in Parting
Glances, their origiria:i comedy material
includes two jocks who learn they canvogue, retired Solid Gold Dancers, Amish
rappers who put the "men back in Mennonite," an early Simon & Garfunkel, andthe Rocky Mountain Butt Boys who open ata gay rodeo in West Hollywood; videos
serve as transitions between live routines;
at 55 Grove St(west of 7th Ave South); $8+ 2-drink minimum; FRI at 8 pm; 366-5438
AMERICAN PLACE THEATER presents I
Stand B.fo" You Naked by Joyce Carol
Oatel, about ten women dealing wi1l1life intoday's America; with Elizabeth Alley,
Penny Templeton, Nancy Barrett, Annie
McGreevey, Marguerite Kuhn, Bronwen
Booth; 111 W 46 St; $20; WED-SAT at 8pm, also WED & SAT at 2 pm, SUN at 3
pm; 840-3074
CHARLES LUDLAM THEATRE presents
Ludlam's Camll/., starring and directed byEverett Quinton, wi1l1Cheryl Reeves, Ken
Scullin, Georg Ostennan, Eureka, Bobb
Reed, Jim Lamb, Cart Claybourne, H,M,
Kououkas, Jean-Claude Vass.ux, StevenPell, 1 Sheridan Square; $25; TUE-FRI at 8pm, SAT &SUN at 7 pm; 691-2271
CHERRY LANE THEATRE presents David
Stevens' Tb, Sum of U" by the writer ofBreaker Morant. starring Tony Goldwyn
and Richard Venture, directed by Kevin
Dowling, about a father who tries to help
with his son's gay ,relationships while helooks for a new wife; 38 Commerce St;$27.50-$32.50; TUE-FRI at 8 pm, SAT at at
7 & 10 pm, SUN at 3 & 7:30 pm; 989-2020
LUCILLE LORTEL THEATER presents
Fa/,.tto/and, the William. Finn/James... Lap- .
ine musical. The third in Finn's Marvin
Trilogy, Falsettoland examines the· impact
of AIDS on a gay male ~(lUple, a lesbian
couple, a heterosexual couple and a child.
121 Christopher St $27.50~35. Tu-f at 8
pm. Sa at 7 and 10 pm. Su at 3 pm. (212)924-8782.
RAPP THEATRECOMPANYrevives.
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Thomas M. Dlsch'l Tb, Cardinal o.toXBS,"a chilling look inside the hierarchy of 1I1e
modern Catholic Church exploring such
issues as AIDS, abortion, ties to'iJrganizedcrime and homosexuality"; directed by R,
Jeffrey Cohen, starring George McGrathas the Cardinal; 220 E 4. SI; $10 (TDK ok);
FRI & SAT at 10 &11:30 pm, SUN at 2 pm
(RT= 35 min.); 529-6160.

MONDAY, JAN. 14
GAY ACTIVIST ALLIANCE OF MORRISCOUNTY presents Womyn'l Network andMen's Rap Group at 7:30 pm, before their
General MeeHng at 8:30 pm. Tonight, it's a
White Elephant Sale. Bring the presents
you got and don't want, or the gifts youbought and now don't want to give. Proceeds to benefit GAAMC. Morristown Unitarian Fellowship. 21 Normandy Heights
Rd. Morristown, NJ. For further info anddirections, call (201) 285-1595.
BRONX AIDS TASK FORCEPlanning MeelIng. Topic: setting ta~k force goals andobjectives for 1991. Guest speakers: Janet
Goldberg of the South Bronx Neighborhood AIDS Project and Eileen Grtgg of 1I1e
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•. AIDS CSP. One Fordham Plaza, suite 800,
The Bronx. 2-4:30 pm. (212) 295-5605,
SAGE presents Letting Go, a closed discussion group, at 6 pm; and Adult Survivors of Sexual Abuse at 7 pm. All events
happen at the Center. 208 W. 13th Sl Sage
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Booth's St"pJ,eha", a '90s black gay
love story directed by Michael ThomasNewton. Slarring Carmelo Ortiz, John Pettresl, Henry Sanabria, Lawrence Edward
Joseph and Brockton Pierce. $5 suggested
donation. The Center. 208 W. 13th st. 8
pm. Info: (212) 893-9852. [See Jan. 15]
THE LIMELIGHT presents Get Out andGive, "the party with a cause.' It's thebasic disco scene, including OJ Dinah inthe chapel, but all door proceeds will go toa list of lesbian, gay and AIDS organizations, ranging from ACT UP to SAGE andeverything in between. Happy hour (2-4-1
drinks) from 5 pm to 12 am. Doors open at
5 pm. The Limelighl 20th Street at Sixth
Avenue. (212) 807-4850 .
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MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER Membership Committee Meeting. 7:30 pm. Call
Chris for meeting location and otherdelails. (212) 601-0806.
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ACT UP/NY Weekly Meeting. Cooper
Union, East 7th Street at Third Avenue.
7:30 pm. Info: (212) 564-2437 ..
AIDS AND ADOLESCENTS NETWORK OFNEW YORK presents Su~stance Abuse
Committee. 121 Sixth Ave, 6th floor. (lorA train to Canal Street) 3 pm to 5 pm, Info:
Michele Fontaine. (212) 691-2900.

TEE General Meeting. On the agenda: su~
port for domestic-partnership legislation, alesbian agenda for lesgislators, a programon lesbian invisibility for Women's History
Month and other projects. 15 W. 18th Sl
6:?0 pm. (A note to LRC members and others concemed with lesbian invisibility: Tworecent.LRC evenfll were not listed in "Going
Out, " despite having been sent to OutWeek
before deadline. I never received thesenotices; whether they were lost in the mailor in the transition from Rick X to myself. I
don't know. I do, however, apologize for the•mix-up, and .had no intention of contributing to lesbian invisibility in either our community or the world at large. For more on•
this, see Nan Du Bois' letter in this weeks
OutWeek. -OP)The hearing is from 3-7 pm, ACT UP's
demo begins at 5 pm. ACT UP info: (212)564-AIDS.

EAGLE BAR Movie Night: BIni on a WI",
with Mel Glblon and Goldie Hawn; 142. .'11th Ave (at 21 St);11 pm; 691-8451

SAGE presents Men'l 5O-plul Rap Group
at 5:30 pm, Volunteer Orientation at 6 pm,
and Sage Plul II, a rap group for men who
are over 50 and HIV-positive, at 7 pm. All
events happen at the Center. 208 W. 13th
Sl Sage info: (212) 741-2247.

THURSDAY, JAN. 17

GAY MEN'S
HEALTH CRISIS presents,
Health Seminars: Nutritional Illues and.
Benellts Information. For more information, call the GMHC hotline at (212) 8076655 (TDD (212) 645-7470 for the hearing
impaired). 129 West 20th Sl 7 pm.

NEW YORK ADVERTISING AND COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK Meeting and
Forum: Larry Kramer, "The Artful Comunicator"; leam how author and activist Larry
Kramer makes people listen, even when
they don't want to hear; at the Center, 3rd
Floor Network Room, 208 W 13 SI; 6:309:30 pm (socializing before 8); $5 members/$8 nonmembers (first drink free);
517-0380.

SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS Planning Meeting. All these events don't takeshape by)hemselves. This is your chancet6 ccintli'bute ide~s, ask questions, air'f'i~l.
gripes or get behind the scenes. SAL
promises no minutes, no secretary's reportand no power struggles. 7:30 pm. Pleasecall 24 hours in advance to confirm all SAL
activities: (718) 965-7578.
THE CENTER presents Eric Stephen
Booth'l St"pl,ehall, a '90s black gay
love story directed by Michael Thomas·
Newton. Slarring Carmelo Ortiz, John Pettrell, Henry Sanabria, Lawrence Edward
JOleph and Brockton PIerce, $5 suggested
donation. The Center. 208 W, 13th St. 8
pm. Info: (212) 893-9852. [See Jan. 14] ..

TUESDAY, JAN. 15
BRONX AIDS COMMUNITY SERVICEPROJECT presents Women Peer Education
Training II. Bronx AIDS Services, Inc. One
Fordham Plaza, suite 800. The Bronx.
10-12 am. (212) 295-5605.

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MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER
Newlletter
Editing. 225 W. 34th SI.,
11500. 8 pm. Call Lidell to confirm. (212)736-5295.

Join in the creation of the first association
for lelblan and Gay Accounting Profelslonall. Tonight's meeting focusses on anorganization name, membership requirements, annual membership fee and CPE
course availability. The Center, 208 W. 13th
Sl6:30 pm. Info: (212) 924-3838.

THE CENTER presents Growing Older:
Lesblanl and Our Parenti, The forum willaddress emotional and practical concems
that affect most adult children of older parents, giving special attention to concerns
unique to lesbians, Topics include: Forum
topics include: the emotional and psychological aspects of dealing with aging parents, conflicts between families of origin
and families of choice, dealing with the
medical establishment, ageism and wills.
$3. The Center. 208 W. 13th St. 7 pm. Info:(212) 620-7310.
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS presents
Eroticizing Saler Sex. This workshop is
free and requires no registration. The Center. 208 W. 13th Sl'8-1D:30 pm.

SAGE presents Sagerclze aU 1 am, FVTeam C at ,6 pm, Men Couplel' Group at
6:30 pm, and Men's 40-plul Rap Group at
8 pm. All events happen at the Center. 208
W. 13th St Sage info: (212) 741-2247.
NEW YORK ADVERTISING AND COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK presents a Career
Worllihop WHh Kate Wendleton. Wendleton is the director of the New School's
Sunday Career Center and the author of
The Five O'Clock Club Guide to Changing
Jobs. $35 for members/$45 nonmembers.
The Center. 208 W, 13th SI. lOam to 1
pm. Info/registration: (212) 517-0380.
BRONXAIDS COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECT presents Speakers Bureau Training
I. Bronx AIDS Services, Inc, One Fordham
Plaza, suite 800. The Bronx. 10-12 am.
(212) 295-5605.
ARTISTS SPACE Opening Reception for
R8Iramlng the family, a group exhibitionand video program exploring the mythology of the American family co-designed by
Connie Butler and Micki McGee; A ProJect.
a conceptual instalation mirroring Simone
de Beauvoir's1971 Manifeste in support ofwomen's reproductive freedom, co-organized by Kathe Burkhart and Chrysanne
Stathacos; and Installation by Francoll
Morelli. Artists Space: 223 West Broadway. fHI pm. Info: (212) 226-3970. [SeeLively Arts for gallery hours.]
GOTHAM VOLLEYBALL LEAGUE presents
Tryoutl for Competitive Division (highest
level of play) and Intermediate A (thirdlevel). $75 for a 13-week session. 351W.
18th St., 7th floor gyms. 7:30 pm. Info:(212) 666-4327 or 836-9219.

SLOPE ACTIVITES FOR LESBIANS is lak- GAY ACTIVIST ALLIANCE OF MORRIS.COUNTY Executive Committee Meeting.
ing a Field Trip: Growing Oldel'-lelblanl
and Our Parenti at 7 pm. [For complete 7:30 pm. Call the GAAMC Gay Helpline at
details, see The Center's entry in today's (201) 285-1595 for more info.
SAGE presents Sagerclze at 11 am; Sagenighl] Then, at 7:30, it's Pool Night. FeaPIUI, a rap group for men who ,are over 50
turing free pool, ping pong, billiards, air SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS preand HIV-P09i1ive,at 6 pm; and FV Team A.
hockey and shooting hoops at. Brownstone sents Hobby Night Come share your interalso at 6 pm. All events happen at the Center. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 16
Billiard. Seventh Ave. at Flatbush. After- ests or obsessions with other SAL gals.
208 W. 13th Sl Sage info:·(212l. 741-2247.
THE BOARD OF EDUCATIONPublic Hear- wards, socializing at The Roost Seventh They ask that you bring samples of yourAve. at 8th Sl The evening begins at 8:00 particular ·diversion" if you can. If you
Ing on Chancellor J.oseph Fernandez's
NY PUBLIC LIBRARY Fall Reading Serlel:
Thomas M. Disch, The Cardinal Detoxes, AIDS Education Initiative. They'll be lalking pm. Please call 24 hours in advance to don't have a hobby, here your chance topick one up. 7:30 pm. Please call 24 hours
The 'Genocides, .Camp Concentration. NY about how New York's students are laught confirm all SAL activities: (718) 965-7578.
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in advance to confirm all SAL activities:
about AIDS, and condom availability in
Public Library. 42nd Street entrance.
(718) 965-7578.
Celeste Bartos Forum. 6 pm. Tix: (212) high schools. If you haven't registered to A DIFFERENTLIGHT presents Bruce NUIItestify, then join ACT UP's Youth Education baum, reading from his book Good Inten930-0571.
Life Line for the demo outside. The Board· tions. 548 Hudson Sl 8 pm. Info: (212) ASIANS AND FRIENDS NEW YORK 011cUlllon Group. Held at the home of a·
THE NOWINYC lESBIAN RIGHTSCOMMIT- of Education. 110 Livingston Sl Brooklyn. 989-4850.
BRONX AIDS TASK FORCEMonthly MeetIng. Bronx AIDS CSP. One Fordham Plaza,
suite 800. Bronx. Info: Thelma Crawford.
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member, ·"this popular event provides aforum for discussion of topics which areimportant and relevant to our lifestyle, cultures and relationships." Space is limited.
Call for reservations and location. 7:30--9
pm, (212) 674-5638 ..
AFRICAN-AMERICAN WIMMIN UNITEDFOR SOCIETAL CHANGE Weekly Meeting.
The Center. 208 W. 13th St8-10:30 pm.

FRIDAY, JAN. 18
BRONX AIDS COMMUNITY SERVICEPROJECT presents
ATI Training (see Isa•. 'Martinez) from 10-12 am, followed byTeen Peer Educallon Training III. Bronx•
AIDS Services, Inc, One Fordham Plaza,
suite 800. The Bronx. 3:30-5:30 pm.
(212) 295-5605.
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SAGE presents Men's 50-plus Rap Group
at 6 pm, Women's 4O-plus Rap Group at 7
pm and Women's 50-plus Rap Group at
7:30 pm. All events happen at the Center,
208 W. 13th St Sage info: (212) 741-2247.
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS presents SAL 3D-Plus Night. Instead of
potluck and games, it's going to be arestaurant and/or movie. 7 pm. Call, withyour suggestions and, as always, pleasecall 24 hours in advance to confirm all
SAL activities: (718) 965-7578.
THE ANSWER IS LOVING Women Talking
Women's Talk: 8th Vear Anniversary
Party, with dinner, dancing, singing,laughing and "maybe a few tears to validate our accomplishments"; 1964 E 35 St,
Bklyn; 7:30 pm; $15; Ruth Berman & Con-·
nie Kurtz, 718/998-2305 (Note: non-alcohol party). GAY MEN OF AFRICANDESCENT presents•
Stili Fighting for Our Rights, a memorial
to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The evening
promises dialog with a "number of prominent lesbian and gay civil rights activits." .
The Charles Angel Room, The Center. 208
W. 13th St8 pm. Info: (212) 620-7310.
BODY POSITIVE presents a Friday Night
Social for HIV-positive people and friends.
Free. Middle·Coliegiate Church. 50 E. 70thSt, off Second Avenue. Info: (212) 7211246. [Friday Night Social's are held the•first and third Fridays of each month.)
THE CENlER presents Transexualltles: Our
Own Voices. Transexuals share thier life
experience through fiction, poetry and personal testimony. $3 donation. The Center.
208 W. 13th St8 pm. Info: (212) 620-7310.
A COALITION OF LESBIAN AND GAY PEOPLE OF COLOR ORGANIZATONS presents

What Lesbian and Gay People of Color
Ought to Know About Ibe Pe"lan GuH, aninteractive tsach-in. Among the questione
addressed: What if there's a draft? What
. implications would war have on the fight forrights for lesbians and gay men in the mil~tary? How is the peace movement mobili~
ing? The Center. 208 W. 13th 5t8 pm.
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER presents a C-R Se.. lon: Interracial Frtendships at 7:45 pm, The Center, 208 W. 13th
St You can also join MACTINY in a Marchon Washington to commemorate Or. Mar·lin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday. Buses leave. the Center at 6 am and retu m by 10 pm.
Tickets are $20 for students and otherswith fixed income, $25 for all others. Call
John Daly at (212) 777-1246 for info.

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FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH IN BROOKLYN presents a screening of DryKI.".
Only. "This hilarious new video explores
the lesbian subtext of classical Hollywood
films." Rrst seen at the 1990 Lesbian and
Gay Intemational Rim Festival, 50 Monroe
Place at Pierrepont, one block north ofMontague. Brooklyn. R to Court Street; 2.3, 4 and 5 to Borough Hall.
GAY FATHERS FORU,M Theater Party to
Fa/lltlo/and, the William Rnn/James lapine musical, the third in Finn's Marr/n
Ttf/ogy, an examination of the
impact of'.
AIDS on a gay male couple, a lesbian couple, a heterosexual couple, and a child; attl]e Lucille Lortel Theater, 121 Christopher
St; 8 pm; member info from 979-7541,
288-3236

SATURDAY, JAN. 19
SAGE presents Support For Vou, abereavement group for men and woomen
dealing with loss, at 11 am; Astrology
Worllshop at 1 pm; and a Zodiac Social
Gay Synogogue from 1-5 pm, All events
happen at the Center. 208 W, 13th St.
Sage info: (212) 741-:1247,

make an informed choice for yourself
about whether or notto lake the test? This
new workshop will give you the. infonnation you need and can help you work out
the many issues involved in this important
decision." The workshop is free, and open
to lesbians, gay men and straight womenand men. Registration Is required. The
Center. 208 W, 13th St 1~ pm, R~gistration: (212) 807-6655, TDQ (212) 6457470 for the hearing impaired.
GAY MEN OF THE BRONX invites you to
The Botanical Gardin: The Conllrvatory,.
Tour. 2 pm. For complete details, conlact
Chris at(212) 601-0806 (English) andRobert at (212) 882-3403 (Spanish).
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS presents WomBn's Theater/Dinner/Etc.!
Night. Dinner and en~ertaiment for nonsmoking lesbians, preferably those over
35, but SAL ea~ ifs 'flexible." 7 pm-ish,
At 7:30, ifs a SAl. Under,3DNight Party.
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This is something new for SA!:s younger
crowd, Bring snacks, beverages andgames. Please call 24 hours in advance toconfinn all SAL activities: (718) 965-7578.
ASIANS AND FRIENDS NEW YORK presents ,their Thlrd·Saturday Social. Comecelebrate 1991 and welcome newly elected board members. Refreshments served.
The Center. 208 W, 13th St 8 pm. Call the
HotUne for more info: (212) 674-5064.
FRANKLIN FURNACE presents SClrlet
O.'s App.aran~.. CanB. D.~./r/ng.
'Scai1et 0, invites you to explore yourself
through sex. Appearances Can Be D/lCeiving challenges the audience to explore
thei r fears and find sexual arousal in them.
Ms, O. employs monologues, characterizations, slides, demonstrations and audience participation to investigate various
sexual stereotypes such as 'sluta: 'submissives' and 'dominants.' The moral ofthis performance is: 'Don't label yourself.".

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THE LATINO GAY MEN'S ALLIANCE General Meeting. The group hopes to facillitate interaction among Latino gay men of
all nationalities in a supportive social environment and to foment the discussion ofissues pertaining to the Latino gay community. Refreshments will be served. 65
South Oxford St, #3. Brooklyn. 1 pm. [DeKalb, Fulton, Nevins and Lafayette are theclosest subway stops.) Info: Rafael RuizAyala at (718) 834-8785 {)r Luis NievesRosa at (212) 966-6336.
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS presents
ThInk About II: Deciding 10 Take Ihe Tesl
"Do you have the knowledge, decisionmaking skills and support that you need to

THE ANGELIKA FILM CENTER presents
lbe Culture God of the 1960s: The Filmsof Andy Warhol. This lix-week seriel
begins today, and runs every Friday andSaturday at Midnight throughMarch 2.
,This weekend's films: Ea1, a 39-minutesilent film showing artist Aobert Indiana
Ilowly eatiting one mushroom, pairedwith Empire, 49 minutes excerpted from
Warhol's eight-hour filming of the Empire
Slate Building, The Angelika Film Center.
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611 Broadway. Midnight (212) 995-2000.
. [See Jan. 19)

sentI Indoor Blach Party. Bring yourbathing luitl, Inflatable mattresses andbeach cuisine. SAL promises beachmovies, games (like Twilter) and prayers
for an early Ipring. 12 noon. Then, at 5pm, join SAL as they go a benefit dance
for the Lesblln HB"tOry Archives. [Seethe Sisters entry on this date for complets
details,] Please call 24 hours In advance toconfi nn all SAL activities: (718) 965-7578,
SAGE presents Women's Drop-In, Every()f1ewelcome. The Center, 208 W, 13th St
2-5 pm. Sage Info: (212) 741-2247,
LESBIAN FEMINIST LIBERATION present
Lesbians and Blal-Related Violence, featuring Eliza Randolph of the Gay and LesbianAnti-Violence
Project, and a
discussion of experlences of bias-related
violence based on race, gender and sexuality. $4 donation includes refreshments:
The Center, 208 W. 13th St 3 pm. Info:(212) 627-1398.
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CENTER STAGE presents David Bradshaw
and Cosmo Buono. The pianists will present the New York premiere of Debussy'~
Sacred and Profane Danclls and Ravel'stranscription of Prelude to the Aftemoonof a Faun, the American premiere of Johan
Kvandal's Duo Concerlante, Opus 41, andother works. $22, Alice Tully Hall. Lincoln •Center. Broadway at 66th Street. 3 pm.
Info: (212) 620.-7310,
BODY POSITIVE presents an HIV-Posillve
Til Dance, for all HIV-positive people andtheir friends. $10 suggested donation.
Flamingo East. 219 Second Ave., near
. 13th Street. 3-6 pm. Info: (212) 7211346.
GAY MEN OF THE BRONX presents a Tea
Dance. $6. 20/20. 20 W. 20th St 5 pm.
For complete details, contact Chris at(212) 601-0806 (English) and Robert at(212) 882-3403 (Spanish).
SISTERS presents a Benefit LesbianDance for the Lesbian Herstory Archives,
To make it more fun, they're having a contest "If you think you're the most butch,
most femme, most pc, most pi, mostandrogynous or heaviest leather dyke in
New York City, prove it and tke home aprize!' $10. The Center, 208 W. 13th St
5-10 pm.
. GAYMEN & LESBIANS IN BROOKHAVEN..
Men's Group DlscUlllon;
Old South
Haven Church (S. Country/Beaverdam
Rdl), Brookhaven, LI; 6 pm; 51617512901 (meets 3rd SundaYI)SUNDAY, JAN. 20
SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS pre-SHESCAPE presents a Party for Women at
Shanghai Red'l in Weehawken, NJ. The... nu• ." 23, 1_1

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. clull is built on . a Hudson
River pier and .
,has great views of the Manhattan skyline.
Shescape promises a special guest deejay, All women are invited. $8 with invitation/$10 without. Shanghai Red's, Pier
0- T. Lincoln Harbor. Weehawken, NJ. For
info and directions, contact Shanghai
Red's at (201) 348-6628.

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Tuning In: A TV/Radio Guide for OutWeek Readers
Information must be received by Monday to be included in the following
week's issue, Send items to OutWeek listings, 159 W. 25 St, NY,NY 10001.
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ME (Arts & Ent, 555 Fifth Ave, 10th R, NYC 10017;661-4500)
CC1V (Rick X, Box 7~, NYC 101(0)GBS (Gay Broadcasting System, Butch PeaS1Dn,1787th Ave,
Ste. A-3, NYC 10011;243-1570)
GCN (Gay Cable Network, Lou Maletta, 32 Union Square East.
Suite 1217;477-4220)
GMHC (Gay Men's Health Crisis, Jean Carlomusto, 129W 211
St, NYC 10011;807-7517)
RB PROD (Robin BYrd Prod., Box 3m, NYC lOOll; 988-2973)
WABe-TV mW63St, NYC 10023;456-7777)
WBAl-FM (505 8th Ave, 19th A, NYC 10018;279-0707)
WCBS-TV (51 W52 StSt, NYC 10019;975-4321)
WNBe-TV (30 Rockefeller Plaza, NYC 10112;664-44(4)WN£T-TV (356W 58 St, NYC 10019;500-3000)
WNYW-TV (Fox, 1211AV/AM, NYC 10036;556-24110)
WPIX-TV (220 E 42 ST. NYC 10017;949-1100)

THE ANGELIKA FILM CENTER presents
1960s: The RIms
The Culture God. of the.
of Andy Warhol. This six-week series
begins ,today, and runs every .Friday andSaturday at Midnight through March 2.
This wee.kend's films: Eat, a 39-minutesilent film showing artist Robert Indiana•
slowly eatiting one mushroom, pairedwith Empire, 49 minutes excerpted from
Warhol's eight-hour filming of the Empire
State Building. The Angelika Film Center.
611 ,~r9adway. Midnight. (212) 9952000. [See Jan. 18]

MONDAY, JANUARY 14•

10:00 AM WABC-TV Sally Jessy Raphae/The scheduled topic
is lesbianism, but friend who was in the studio audience·MONDAY; JAN~ 21
told me that if you looked toobutch, you weren't called on
to speak. Call in and flex your muscles on the air. CH 7
MEN OF ALL COLORSTOGETHERinvites
1:30PM \'YUSB 90.1 FM The Word Is Out Marc Gunning hosts
you to the Annual March and Rally toa w~ekly lesbia~, g~y and bisexual variety ~how~eaturing
Commemorale Dr, MartIn Lulher Klrig
mUSIC,ne~, editDnals, comedy and g~est Interviews.
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'2:00
PM WUSB 90.1 FM Lavender Wimmm News, songs andJr.s Birthday. ThiS event makes a goodmusic produced by women forwomen,compliment to. Fri~ay's march on Wash- '.{ Jr.~~,JlJ!ll
WUSB90.1 FM This Way Out More queer news.
ington, This isn't a MACT-sponsored . ~\ 8:;i11.PM Manhattan Cable The Brenda and Glennda Show
event, so they recommend you contact
Brenda and Glennda host a queer kiss-in on the steps ofthe mayor's office for the lesbian and gay
Buffalo's city hall ..CH 0/17
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'ty t (212) 566-7385 f
7:00 PM WNBC-lV Nightly News An inSide source says
~ommunl a. .
or morethatTom's going to be talking about gay teen suicide
mfo. 2 pm. At 7 pm, lOin MACT for aduring the American Family segment, which focuses on
FinancIal AffaIrs PlannIng MeetIng. 251
two mothers-one whose gay son successfully commitE. 10th St, #4. Call James for more info.
ed suicide, the other whose son tried and failed. CH 4(212) 995-8063.
8:00 PM WIND-TV No Way Out ...of the closet should be
the subtitle for this 1987 Kevin Costner-Gene Hackman
flick. Anyway, if you wantto see a movie in which the
GAY ACTIVIST ALLIANCE OF MORRIS
villain does what he does 'cause he's a closet-case,
COUNTY presents Womyn's Hetwori( and.
this is your best bet forthe week. CH 9
Men's Rap Group at 7:30 p.m, before
9:00 PM GBS Out in the 90's: community news, discussion,interviews. BQ Cable, CH 56(1:00)
their. Ge.neral Meeting at 8:30 pm.
11::11 PM TomorroiN/Tonight Livef. entertainment Manhattan
Tonight's discussion iocuses on •Aniand P.aragon Cable, CH 0/17 (1:00)
mals: their protection and care." MorrisMidnight CCTV The Closet Case Show. Kloset Klips; Manhattown· Unitarian Fellowship. 21 Normandy
tan /Paragon Cable, CH C/16 (:30)
Heights Rd. Morristown,
NJ. Info:
1:10AM HBO 7heAccusedJolf18 Nlster and KeI¥McGilrlS.Fromthis
rro.ne could have COll1l WHAM's1ips for men 11: 'ilon't rapel'
GAAMC Gay Helpline: (201) 285-1595.

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ACT UPINY Weekly Meeting. Cooper
Union. East
, 7th Street at Third AVenue.
7:30 pm, Info: (212) 564-2437.
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TUESDAY, JAN. 22
BRONX AIDS CoMMUNITYSERVICE•PROJECT presents Women Pear Education TraInIng III. Bronx AIDS Services,. Inc. One Fordham Plaza, suite 800. The
Bronx. 10-12 am. (212) 295-5605.
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10:00 PM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and female
strippers; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (1:00)
11:00 PM !iBS Out in the 90's: news, information andinterviews; Manhattan/Paragon
Cable, CH C/16 (1:00)
11:30 PM MTV Hype The program includes a segment on
body piercing which, judging from r~cent ACT UP
and Queer Nation meetings here in NYC, could becalled , a queer art.
4:10 AM TNT-TV Girls on Probation This 1938 movie
qualifies as camp classic of the week; it's about two
girls who run afould ofthe law, one innocent, theother guilty. Ronald Reagan stars.

NY PUBLIC LIBRARY Fall Rea~lng
Serlel: tonight with Samuel R. Delany,
Triton. Stars in My Pocket like Grains ofSand, The Fall of Towers; NY Public
library, 42 St entrance, Celeste Bartos
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16
8:00 AM HBO A Chorus line The movie version of Michael
Bennett's musical offers one ofthe few opportunities
that a character will talk about being gay on TV thisweek. It's not Broadway,but ...
6:00 PM WFOX-TV Golden Girls Blanche's visiting brother(Monte Markham, if that name means anything to you, isto tell herhe's·gay.1 could learn to like this show. CH 5

Midnight RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and female
strippers, live call-in show; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35

THURSDAY, JANUARY 17
1:00 PM WBAI-FM This Way Out, the international
gay/lesbian news magazine; 99.5 FM (:30)
1:30 PM WBAI-FM An Afternoon Outing: local news andinformation about the gay and lesbian community with ..
Lany Gutenburg; 99.5 FM (:30)
4:00PM HBO The TIlIIhAboutAlexHBO's been running thisshow into the ground in recent weeks; it's about a strajght
boy's reaction tXJlearning that his best friend is gay,
4:00PM SHO Kids-7VAccording tXJ7VGuide,"The crew's
investigation of AIDS separates UII; faC1l!from the fears.' ,.
8:00 PM The Gay Dating Game Show with Tommy Saeli and'·""Lahoma Van Zandl; Manhattan Cable, CH C/16 (:30) L
10:00PM GCN Be Our Guest entertainment for and about the ,~!,;
lesbian!gaycommunity; Manhattan Cable, CH 0/17 (:30).. ' (,10:30 PM GMHC Living With AIDS: health and politics; ~:',;~ •.
Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:30) .'.. '11:00 PM GCN Gay U.S.A.: news and entertainment fromaround the country; Manhattan Cable, CH V!35 (1:00)
Midnight GCN Men in Films: male erotica, interviews with'.
adult filmstars; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:30)
12:30 AM RB PROD MenFor Men: Robin Byrd presents gay
male porno stars; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:30).
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 18
7:00 AM MAX The Women Joan Crawford, Rosalin·d RUs- ., ,sell, Norma Shearer. TV Guide would call this a movie
about 'gssipy females and divorce.' Well, pooh on ,.",
them. Watch, enjoy and learn.
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9:00 AM WCBS-TV Geraldo Scheduled topic: overly
aggressive women. In-this world, that statement's an
oxymoron, CH 2
12 Noon WFOX-TV Three's Company Does anyone'besides me remember this show's homophobic, sexist
premise: I n order
to convince a landlord to let him live,with two women (Joyce DeWitt and Suzanne Somers),
Jack (John Ritter) pretends to be a swi~hy fag. CH 5
2:30 PM WBAI-FM Rompiendo elSilencia: todos los ' ..
viernes, Gonzalo Aburto con temas y noticias para lacomunidad latina gay y lesbiana; 99.5 FM (:15)
7:00 PM WBAI-FM AIDS In Focus, Miehael A1ealay, producer; politics/culture of the AIDS pandemic; 99.5 FM (:15)
1:00 AM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male andfel1,lale
strippers; Manhattan Cable, CH V!35 (1:00)~ j--

SATURDAY, JANUARY 19
4:00 AM A&E- TV The Fox This is the only moyie I,
really wantto see this week. It's about the effectof a 'male intruder' on a lesbian relationshipinpost-WWI England. The book was good anyway, •,if a little filled with 'ithyphallic'references.
8:30 AM WBAI-FM Any Saturday with David
Rothenberg; live call-in; 99.5 FM (2:00),
7:00 PM GCN Gay U.S.A.: news and entertainment fromaround the country; BQ, Unity, ACV Cable, CH 56 (1:00) ,(For Manhattan Cable, see THURSDAY)
11:00PM Gay W male porn; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35
1:00 AM RB PBOD The Robin Byrd Show. male &female ,strippers; Paragon Cable, CH C/16 (1:00)..
1:30 AM RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male & female'
strippers; Manhattan Cable, CH V!35 (1:00)

SUNDAY, JANUARY 20
7:30 PM WBAI-FM OutLooks, with hostAurelio ItcMI with fou~lesbian entrepreneurs discussing howtXJbethe boss in ~ur
own business;alterna1!lSwith The GayShow, 99.5FM (1:00) ..,10:30 PM RB PROD Men For Men: Robin Byrd presentS gay
male porno stars; Manhattan Cable, CH V/35 (:30).
11:00PM GBS Way Out/; entertain·mentfor and about the les- .
biarVgay community; Rich Volo, producer, 254-7685; Man)·; ,hattan Cable, CH C/16 (:30)"';.~'.

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Umeliglt (OutWeek's Get Out and Give party, All proceeds go to lesbian andgay and AIDS organizations, DJ Dinah in the chapel. 5pm to midnight. $5
donation suggested) 47 W. 20th St., at Sixth Ave. (212) 807-7850
Private Eyes (Marc Berkley's Kool Komrads;strippers; downtown
crowd, students, professionals; $7) 12 W 21 St, club 200-7772.
Temple (BillieKlub's new party. A different theme every week.) 101 Avenue A

Tuesday+ Clit Club (Jocelyn and Julie add a second night of hot lesbian action in
the East Village. $5.) 101 Avenue A+ ""Club Edelweiss (lVs, TSs, gays, bi's, singles, couples"; TUES espe·
cially for lesbians; but open to all TUE-SUN night) 167 W 29; 868-6989+ Grand Central (women's night is TUES, also open Wed·Sun) 210 Merrick Road, RockVille Centre, LI; 516/536-4800 .
Kilimanjara (According to none other than La Dolce Musto, Tracks Tuesd'ays here are "tres gay:) 531 W. 19th St. 627-2333,,l.
IRoxy (Men on Wheels, gay roller skating; starts 8 pm) 515 W 18 St; 645-5156~Wednesdal .

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t-crChamel69 (This week s show. New Queens on the Block, feauturing female
impersonators making their stage debut Doors open at 10 pm. showtime is 1
am. Linda Simpson, DJ Dany Johnson, East Village cl'O\l\ld,$5.) 101Avenue A
IThe Building (Dallas' The Boys' Room; House music, downtown crowd,
go-go boys and a 6O-foot ceiling; $10/$7 with invite) 51 W 26 St; 576-1890. + Excalibur (Ladies Nigh~ $1 drinks) corner 10th/Jefferson behind football stadium, Hoboken, NJ; 201-795-1161""Ul1!8light (Disco 2tn1with Michael Alig and Larry Tee;10 pm, $10;
Coors no longer served!) 6th Ave at 20 St; club 807-7850+ Private Eyes (Shescape AftelWork Party. 5-10 pm; $5 before 7 pm/$7
after; 2·4-1 drinks before 7) 12 W 21 St; info 645-6479, club 200-7772
Private Eyes (YMVA Night; students, prof Is, women; performers; $7;
door often benefits a gay/lesbian organization) 12 W 21 St; 2oo-m2
Silver Uning (2-4-1 drinks, also open Tues·Sun, women SAT) 175 Cherry.Lane, Floral Pk, LI; 516/354-9641"(2-4-1 drns, also open diiM:m\M!stchester /!ow, Vv'IWe Plailt914'161-311Xl

ThursdayCheap (It's a new party, promising 'cheap drinks and cheap queers: No
cover.) 101 Avenue A""Copacabana (last Thu, ofthe month Susanne Bartsch party, next isNovember 29; iffy door) 10 E 60 St, at Fifth Ave; 755-6010.
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WED) corner 10th/Jefferson behind football stadium, Hoboken, NJ; 201·795-1161
Hatfield's (2·4-1 drinks, female impersonators; , also open nightly, women
on TUE & FRII 126-10 Queens Blvd, Kew Gardens, Queens; 718/261-8484.r.No House (Mixed gay/straight, malelfemale crowd, featvring technopop, newwave, goth and punk music, but no house, $7.) Private Eyes, 12 E, 21st St.
-crRoxy (Disco Interruptus, DJs Patrick Butts & Sister Dimension andperformance artists in entertainment breaks; $10) 515 W 18; 645-5156
Stingray's (Brand new club, brand new sound system, everything els!! isa surprise, No cover tonight.) 641 W, 51st St, (212) 664-8668

Friday..

IABC (Chip'buckett's ABC Fridays, DJ Merritt; ballroom, balcony, billiards,
boogying; $101$7 w. invite; opened Nov, 16) 17 Irving Place at 15 St+ail Club (Jocelyn & Julie, Every Friday Party, go-go girls, lesbo videos; opens 8
pm, billiards &$1 drinks between8and 9 pm;$5)432W 14St;400-1114
COI.... bia Dances (1st Friday of every month, Earl Hall, 10 pm - 2 am; next
is January 4) 116th St & Bway; 854-3574 days
+ Hatfield's (women's nights are TUE & FRI) 126-lO Queens Blvd" Kew
Gardens, Queens; 718/261-8484•
IMeat on Friday (The West Side sensation adds a second, East Village
night .. DJ Nobody's Pussy. $5.) 101 Avenue A '..:'<Mike Todd Room (Sister Dimension's Panty Girdles) 123 E 13 St; 473-7.171+Millemilm(Ladi8$' Nig~ 1770NY Ave (Rte 110),Huntington, U; 511V351-1402. Privata Eyes (YMVA Night; students, professionals, men) 12W 21 St. ;m.rm
Stingray's (Brand new club, brand new sound system, everything else is,a surprise. Free, 7-10 pm. $7 after.) 641 W, 51st St, (212) 664·8668+ Visions (women's party) 56-01 Queens Blvd, Woodside, Queens; info
718/846-7131, club 718/899-9031.

Saturday,.

Barefoot Boogie f2nd & 4th SAT; adultslkids, smoke & alcohol free; 8:3:1pm •
12:3) am, $4; next is Dec 8) 4346th Ave (btwn 9/10 Sts), 4th Roor, 832-6759
Center (2nd & 4th SAT. 9 Pfll -1 am,$8; next is Dec 8) 208 W 13 St; 620-7310+ Center (Women & Friends, 1st SAT; 9 pm • 1 am, $8; next is Decem·berl)208W13St;620·7210,• Club West End (Michael Fesco's SaturdaYs; midnight - 9 am) 547 W 21 St
Columbia Dances (SamE BuT DifferenT, 3rd SAT, next is Jan, 19; DJ
Karin Ward, 10 pm ·3 am; $5) Earl Hall, 116 St/B'way; 629·1989
Controversy (Hosted by Patrick .Butts and the people who bring you
Disco Interruptus. $2,99) 101 Avenue A .
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•419419 N. Highway, Southampton, LI; 516/283-5001
Love Zone (dancing & performers) 70 Beach Sf, Staten Island; 718/442·5692
I Meat (DJ Aldo Hernandez, every Saturday; go·go boys, videos; opens
10pm; $5) 432 W 14 St; 353-3866.Private Eyes (Shescape Saturday Night Parties for Women, opens 9pm; $8 before 10/$10 after) 12 W 21 St; info 645-6479, club 200-7772*Roxy (Locomotion; gay boys, guys, men; non-gay women, some lesbians; mix depends on party) 515 W 18 St (btwn 10/11 Aves); 645·5156+ Silver Uning (women's Sat) 175 Cherry Lane, Roral Park, LI; 516(354-9641
Sound Factory (mostly gay; serious House/Club dancing, no alcohol,
opens 11 pm) 530 W 27 St (lOth/llth Aves); 643-0728
Stingray's (Brand new club, brand new sound system, everything else is.'~a surprise, $8.) 641 W. 51st St. (212) 664-8668
Tilly City (Featuring cheap drinks, cheap women and cheap thrifts. $6) Novv at 70
Grove St reet at Sheridan Square (Pandora's Box), (212)242-1408.

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SundayIThe. Building (Dallas' The Men's Room, students, professionals, men;. go-go boys & 6O-ft, ceiling) 51 W 26 St; 576-1890 .
""Cafe Society (Society Sundays Tea Dance, Hi NRG DJs, Society
Dancers; 5 pm· 11; $10) B'way at 21 St; 529-8282
FUCKI (DJs Craig and Victor, "caged go-go animals' and "ruff music forruff dykes and fags: $2,99) 101 Avenue A.«>Kelly's (DJ Moaning Usa spins the records for dancing dykes, Doors
open at8 pm. $3.) 46 Bedford St, (212) 929-9322,*+Mars (Lahoma's Home for Runaway Boys, DJ LanyTee, emcee Ru-Paul,lVs
and women welcome. $1l)'$5with invite.) 13111St..at the West Side Highway. Monster (Sunday Tea Dance at 4 pm; dancing also on other nights from
10 pm) 80 Grove St at Sheridan Sq,; 924-3557 .
20/20 (Michael Fesco's Tila Dance,opens 4 pm; $6; free Mimosas & BMs
from 4-6, buffet at 7:30)
20 iN 20 St; 727-8841•

Every Night (or almost)+ Bedrock (lesbian club, closed MON & TUE) 121 Woodfield Rd, W.
Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516_*Club Edelweiss (lVs, TSs, gays, bi's, singles, couples all welcome";
TUE for lesbians, but open to all TUE·SUN night) 167 W 29; 868-6989+ Pandora's Box (new management/may not be dancing) Sheridan
Square & 7th Ave; 242-1408..
419 (nightly Gay House Party. o'pens 6 pm) 419 N, Highway (Rte 27),
Southampton, LI; 516121J3-:5OO1
Grand Central. (closed Mon, 2·4-1 drinks Thursday) 210 Merrick ' Road,. Rockville Centre, U; 5161536-4800
Magic Touch (ethnic mix: Anglo/Latin/Asian)73-13 37th Rd, Jackson
Heights, Queims; 718/429-8605
Monster (West Village) 80 Grove St at Sheridan Sq,; 924-3557
Spectrum (good mix of gay men & lesbians; closed Mon-Tue, WED free,
THU free &2-4-1 drinks, FRI male/female strippers, SAT recording·stars, SUN variety show & free admission 9·10 pm; Coors served)
80264th St@8th Ave, Bay Ridge, Bklyn; 7,18/238·821-3 .
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AIDS CENTER OF QUEENSCOUNTY SOCIAl SERVICESEDUCATiON08UDDIESoCO!JNSEUNGoSUPPpRT GROUPS
VolunlHr Opportunities(7181 896-25OO(voice) (71818962985(TDDI'
ACT UP (AIDS Coalition toUnla.sh Powerl .

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lC!n4(2121564-2437
A diverse, non-partisen group of
indNiduals unitod in anger end committed to.direct action to end the
AIDS crisis. Gen. meetings Mon.
nighls 7"3), in The Great Hall,Cooper
Union, on Cooper Squarn between
Astor and St,Ma rks Place's.

BAR ASSOCIATION FOR
HUMAN RIGHTS
Lawv.ers Referral Service for thelesbian and Gay Community Full
RangeoflsgalS9IVi~(21214$4873 Free Walk-in Legal Clinic.
& Gay
Tuesday 6-8 pmLesbian.
Community Centro Ground Roor,

BIDS (BISEXUAL DOMINANCE& SUBMISSION GROUPI
Share SIM experiences and far>tasies with others in a positive, nonjudgemental
atmosphere.
First
Sunday of the month,4:45pm at theCommunity Cen18r 2Qj IN. 13 Stroet,
NYC . This group is part of the New
YorkArea Bisexual Network.

BROOKLYN'S LESBIAN AND
GAY POUTICAL CLUBLAMBDA INDEPENDENTDEMOCRATS
liD. endorses
IIld works fa- card•
datDs in local, SIa1B and nricnaI aections, lobbies for legislation, andc:mcix:B camu1tycureach1ilrllug1
sIraatflirsllldmaoli"gsmspacialilp-

AIDS RESOURCE"CENTER(ARCI
Supportive housing for homeless. PWAs (Bailey House and apartments). Non-judgemental pastoral.',carn for PlNAs.and loved ones. VolOOtear opportunities. 12121481-1270,
24WastDh
St,• NYC 10001•

BISEXUAL IM'ORMAllON &COUNSBJNG SERVICE. INC.
A profassionaly staffed, non-profit
organization for bisexuals, theirfamilies and partners, facing problems of a psychological or medical
ltind. We also work with those in
doubt about their sexuality, Confi.
dentia!ity is. pralBctad by law. For
infomilitlon ph~:(~2)
496-!!iOO,
ALOEClAPLN-NY(Asian Lesbiansof the East
Coaa\IAlia\1 Pacific .... bian NetWOIk-New York) We arn a political, social and supportive networkof Asian Pac.ific lesbians, Planningmestings on the ·lst Sunday andsocial ewnts on the last Friday ofeach month. Call (212) 5J7-5598 for.mor'ainfo!Tl18tion.

, BISEXUAL PRIDEDISCUSSION GROUP
Topical discussions on issues ofinterest to the conmunity in a congenial atmosp/lern, followed by aninfonnal. dinner at a friendly local
restaurant
Every Sunday, 3:004:30pm at the Community. Center2Qj IN. 13 Street, NYC, Part of the
NawYorkAraa BisexualNatwork.

~RCs (AIDS-Related
Community S.rviC88~
for Dutchess, Orange, Putnam,
Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster andWestchester.
counties,
AIDS
education, client services, cri~is intervention, support groups,
csse management,
buddy andhospital visitor program.
214 &anlnll /Iw., White Plains, NYllml(9141~
838 Broadway, Newburgh, NY
12250 (9141562-!miA1DSline (9141993-Oli07

BIWAYS NM YORKMonthly social events for the
Bisexual community and. friends.
Call NYABN for deta~s of upcom- 'ing even1s. (21214!i&-4784,.....-..
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BIPAC (BISEXUAL pounCAL
ACTION COMMmEEl
Political action On issues of importance to the BisexuaVLssbiarv'Gay
cOOlTllllily. MoothIy I11II81iVpaduck
held 8:00pm on fourth Thur$day ofthe month at members homes. Call
NYABNfa-1his 1TlOI11h~location.
((2121459-4784
BISEXUAL YOUTH
Infonnel social & support groupfor Bisexual kids/youth. Monthly
meeting/potluck
lunch held
1:00pm on fourth Sunday of themonth at members homes. Call
NY ABN for this month's location ..
This group is part of the New
York Area Bisexual Network.

ATR (AIDS TREATMENTRESOURCES, INC,I
Pubishes a bi-mQn1h1y Dirnctory ofclinical trials of experimentel
AlDSIHIV traatrnants in NY/NJ, andhas educational materials/seminars for trial participants. ATR also
adwcates for improvements in thetrialt;YSfBm P.O. Box30234, NY,NY
101Hl102. (212128&4196, Publications frae/donation rnquested.

BWS-BRONXUSBIANS
UNITED IN SISTERHOOD
Social, political and support notWorki1g group for WIlI118I1 and theirfriends. Regular social evants andmell1ings on the first and third Fridays of ewry month. fU The Commlrity CantBr, 2Qj IN. 13 Street, from~For mora info call Usa at(212)112!H1117.

.January 23, .._ics. Join us. 336 Ninth St Slitel:!iBrcnd>,fl.rirl1215 (7181ges-8482
CIRCLE OF MORE UGHT
Spiritual support and sharing in a
gay!lesbian affinnative group.
Wast-Park Presbyterian Church le6
Wast86lh Street Wad: worship sar";ee fl3l pm, program 7:31 Marsha(212)3J4.4373 Cherie (212)001-7118.

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ASIANS&FRIENDS-NMYORK
A' not-for-profit
organization
Which prom011ls friandships with
Asian/PacificIslander, AsianAmerican, and non-Asian gay
men through social, cultural, educ8~onal, and service activities
and programs, Call our Hotline:
212-674-5064, or write to: P.O. Box8628, NY, NY 10163-80Z3"

66 OUTWEEKBODY POSIT1VE
If you or your lover has tested
HIV+, we offer support groups,
seminars, public forums, rafarence
library, referrals, social activities
and up-to-date national monthly,"THE BODY POSITIVE" ($2!i(year~(2121721-1346,
2IIl5Broa6ivay,SliteDl,NY,111rl3..

COMING OUTTO PARENTS?
Let us help '100 and '/011" famiy dealwitt) !tis upheaval PAmlTS·AND
FRIENDS OF l£SBlANS AND GAYS
maeIs nmt-/ym1ha 4f1 ~3lD
pm, in Duane Church, 201 IN. 13111
Stna Wo cal Jaao I..,(212)4fI3{gNYs Gay and Lesbian Synagogw
Services
Fridayat
8:30pm 57
Bethune Straet For info. can: (2121
929-9498.
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CONGIiEGAnON•B"NA1
JESHURUN
Monthly Spritual Gatherings andfree catered fas1iveluncheOns for
all People With AIDS, their lowrs
and families. Program includes. music and discussion lad by our
Rabbis, Call (2121787-7800
DIGNITY'
BIG APPLE
A community of Lesbian and
Gay Catholics. Activities include
liturgies and socials every Sat,
8:00 pm, at the Center, 2Qj W. 13
Street, NYC,Call(2121818-1309.
DIGNITY· NM YORK
Lesbian IIld 'Ff ~and friarKis
AIDS 1'kisIJy, sp~~
The Caf1edral Prqect WorsI1p Ser";C8S & Social-Sln Ews. ~John's Episcopal Church 218 West
l11hSlraet
CWaw~2179 ,EDGE Education in • Diubled
Gay &M,Di.lllnt
For the physically cflS8b1ed Lasbianand GayCarmtril'ft
P.O. Box 3!i \/Ilage Station; New
YOlk,NY lC!n4 .

FRONT RUNNERS
A ruming dub for leslian and 'Ff
COMMUNITY HEALTH, athIe1Bs of aliabiitias.1U1 Rlr1s 011PROJECT.
8 mlas held I!N9ry Sat at lOam andDWest 13th Stroot, NYC, New
Weds. at 7pm i1 Cantnli Park. andYork 10011 For Appointments and_I'{ Tues. at7pm in Prospect Park.
Information(212) 875-3559
For infoon8tion: cal (2121124-8100.
ITTYNoicelPROVlDlNG CARING,SENSITIVE AND LOW COSTHEALTHCARE SERVICES TO THE
THE GAY AFRICAN AMERICANS
lESBIAN AND GAYCOMWNnv
OF WESTCHES'rER(The G.AA.)is a community based support
COMMUNITY HEALTH
group Ioi11i9d in \I\IestchesIIIr COInPROJEcr,HEALTHINFORMAty. Various aclivi1ies arn plalli9d fanON UNE FOR TEENS
the COli illg months. PlMse csQ 914Do)lOu haw questions about )lOur
316-f11l1fa-mora i1fo.
health? Your Body? Coming Out?
Safer Sex? Feel like you have no
GAY FATHER'S FORUM
one to talk to? Not any moral NCNV
A support organization for gay
you can call the HOTT-UNE..
fethel's, their lowrs, and others in
212-2$-1517
ch~d-nurturing situations. MonthThe Teen HOTT-UNEfor Healthl
Call Monday to Thursday, 7pm to " Iy mell1ings includea potluck supper, support groups on varied
9pm fU oIhertimas, leaw a messpecia6zad topics, speakers, andsage and we'll cal you backlsocializing.Meetings:
1st Friday
each month,7pm, at The Center,
COMMUNITY
2Qj IN. 13th St., Wast of 7th /lNe.
RESEARCH INIT1ATIVE
Contribution: $8. Bring a main
CRI tests experimental drugs andcourse for 4 people (or pay a $5
1n!a1menIs for AIDS and HIV rala1Bd
food charge.l For infonnation caU:
illnesses. MonthlY treatment and
212-979-7541 or212-288-3236
rBwarch group fa- HIV+incividuals.
Treatment and resaarch nw.aoUer,•
GlAAD
forums and public seminars. Call
Gay & .... bi.n Alli_
Alice Spears or Ken Fornataro at...
DI6mJjan(2121481-UBlfa-info and maiing is!.
80 Varick Stroot, NYC lC!n3(2121
968-1700 GlAAD combats homoCONGREGAnON BETH
jilollia in the mecia and elsawhern
SIMCHATby pi til I01ing visibility of the lesbian
TORAH

and gay COillilurity and organizing
grassroots response to anti-gay
bigotry, Do you have 30 mutes amonthtofi~homophobia?Join'".
G~D PhoneTrasICan(212~9681700forinfonnatiOll,
GUB
Gay and Lesbian Independent
Broadcasters invites )IOu to tune
into OI,l1LOOKS OIl WlW-NY. 995 .
I'M every other Sunday, 7:30aalpm and join us 8V9lYTU9Sday
at 7:00pm to 9:00pm to become amember of GUB. No experiencen99dad.!Ui Ei~
AwnIl8, NY. NY
10018 AtIn: Ou1looks or call (2121
245-8388- ask for GUB.
GAY & l£SB1AN HEALTH
CONCERNS
An office of the NYC Dept of .
Health, provides linkages betwn
NYC Health & Human Svcs, andthe Lesbian & Gay community,
focusing
in ALL health concerns; resource infonnation for .
health sltrvices consumers and.
. providers.
125 Worth Street,Box 87, New York, NY 10013, For
info call (2121588-4995.
GAY MALE SIM ACTMSTS
Dedicated to safe and responiible S!M since 1981. Open meetings w/programson S/:;.:.
techniques,
lifestyle issueil,political~nd
social concerns.
Also special events, speakerS
bureau, workshops,
demos,
affinity groups., newslett~~,more, GMSMA -Dept. 0, 498A
Hudson, Street, Suite 023 ,NYC
10014.(2,121n7-9878.

GMAD (GAY MEN OfARIICMDESCIM)

80 Varick SIreet, NYC 10013 a Slip-

port group of Gay Men of African
Descent dedicated to cons.ciou8n88&-raising and the d8lllilopnem
oIthe .... bian and Gay Colllllll1itot
GMAD is inclusive of African,
African-American, Canbb8an and
Hispanic/Latino
men of color.
MeaIings arn held, weekly. OIl Fridays. For morn infonnatiOll,
can 71&«12~182.
GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISISHOTUNE
RIll IMURMmlN ON SARR sEx,•=~Zio~~O
ON&nr.E. WAI.J(-IN AIDS COONSB.JNG SER\llCES
212-807.a1S5212~7470 TOO...n(For ... llMliIlU ....
Mon.-Fri, 10:30 a.l1I.lO 9 pm.
12:00to 3:00

GIRTH & MIRTHCWB OF NEW YORK
Social club for heavy, chubby. gay men & their admirers.
Monthly socials at the ·Cen·
ter', weekly bar nights Thurs·

,days at the 'Chelsea Transfer',monthly Fat Apple Review, bimonthly FAR, penpals,
For more information
call
Ernie at 914-899-7735 or write:
G&M/NY, Dept 0, P.O, Box 10,
Pelham, NY 10803,
HEAL(lItiehh 61uca1ion AIDS LiailOll)
Weekly info. and support groupfor trea1ments for AIDS which do
not compromise the immune system further, including aitemativeand holistic approaches.
Wed 8pm.
208 W, 13th St.
(212)874-HOPE.

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HERITAGE OF PRIDE, INC.
Organizers of New Yor1(s lesbianand Gay Pride events: the March,
the Rally and the Dance on thePier. Call (212) IrIl-1n4 for meeting schedule or more infonnation.
2flI West 13th Street NY, NY10011.
HETlIICK-MARTlN
INSTTTUTE
for lesbian and gay youth. Counseling, drop-in center (M-F, 38pm), rap groups, Harvey Milk
High School, AIDS and safer sex
infonnation, referrals, professional. education,(212) 833-8920(voice) (212) 833-8928 TTY for deaf
HISPANIC UNITEDGAYS 8. LESBIANS
Educational services, politicalaction, counseling and social
activities in Spanish and English by
and for the Latino Lesbian and Gay
Coim lunity. General meetings aoo
pm 4th Thursday of wery month at
2flI West 13th Street.
Call201-<<i3-7824or write H,U,G.L.
P.O. Box 228 Canal Street Station,
New York,NY 10019.
IDENTITY HOUSE. Now in our 20th year, we provide
peer counseling, therapy referrals and groups for the .lesbian,gay and bisexual community.
Call"us at (212)243-8181. Visit us
at 544 6th Ave" between
14th,
15th Streets, Manhattan,
INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN
IDENTITY INC.
New York's non-profit lesbian
and gay psychothera py center,licensed psychologists,psychiatrists, and clinical social
workers. Sliding scale fees.
Insurance accepted. Individual,
couple, and family. tharapy.
Variety of Men's and women'sgroups forming continuously.
ll1iw. 72nd Street
212-799-9432
INTEGRITY/NY,
lesbian and Gay Episcopalians
end friends. Eucharist and program every Thursday, 7:30pm.
St luke's Church, Hudson andChristopher Sts.INFO: P.O. Box5202, NY NY 10185(718) 720-3054
lAMBDALEGAL DEFENSEAND EDUCAnON RIND
Pnlcadant-setting li1igation nationwide for lesbians, gay men andpeople with AIDS. Membership($411 and up) inc,. newsletter andinvita1ioOs to special even1s. Valli!1IIerni~ on Thursdays.
Intake calls: 2-4prn Mon thm Fri. (212)9E1i-8!B5.
lAVA(LESBIANS ABour
VISUAL ART)
Call for slides for Lesbien Artists'
Exhibition, Gav & Lesbian Community Center, NYC, For moreinfonnation, send SASE to : Miriam Fougere, 118 Fort Greene
Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217,

Membership is available only to .
woman 18 years and older. Actu~1
IDql8IB ... is I'd~!lit garU1e
i1Iarastlnl opan rri1d aIB.l1ri"lorrnriCIl
vdI: m.b IID.","rayHi Slatin,Naw'lblk,NY101!BMEN·
OF All COLORSTOGETHER NY
A multi-ra cial group of gay men
against racism. Meetings every
Friday night at 7:45 at the lesbianand Gay Coojllunity Services Canter,208 W. 13th Street For more
info. call: (212)245-6368 or (212)222-9794.

THE LESBIANAND GAYBIG APPLE CORPS
Get your instrument out of thecloset and come play with us.
Symphonic, Marching. Jazz. Dixieland, Rock, Aute Ensembles
and Woodwinds. 123 West 44th·
St. Suite 12l New York, NY
10036 (212) 869-2922.
. LESBIAN 8. GAY
COMMUNITYSERVICES CENTER
2flI West 13th Street New Yor!(,
NY 10011 (212)820-7310 9am11pm everyday. A placII for c~munitY
organizing
andnetworking. social services, cultural programs, and social events
sponsored by the Center andmore than l!il COIIIIIUni\y organizations.
LESBIAN AND GAY lABOR
NElWORKAn organization of losbians andGays who ani ac1iva in their labor
Irioosworlcilg IIIdome61ic par1nerslip benefits and AIDS issues. For
more i1IixrnatiCIl cal (21:$l3m1.
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lESBIAN AND GAY RIGHTSPROJECTof the American Civil Liberti.
Union KNOW YOUR RIGHTS/
WE'RE EXPANDING THEM (212)944-9800, al\l545
LESI!IANS AND GAYS OFRATBUSH

Brooldyn's social 'organization forboth gay men and lesbians, P.O,
Box 108, Midwood Station
Brooklyn: NY 11230. (718) II5&9437

LESBIAN HERSTORY
ARCHIVES·
P.O,Box 12!iBNaw York,New Yol1c
10118212/874-7232Since 1974, theArchives has inspirad,.shaped andreflected lesbian lives everywhenl. CaR 1D arrange a visit or 1Dvolunteer for ThursdayworlcnigTts.
LONG ISlAND ACT-UP
Meets Tuesdays at 8pm at 181 Post
Ave. in WestbuTy. NY. Support us forchange on long Island. Mailingaddruss: PO Box 514,Westbury. NY.
ll!i91. 51&a-4116Z.

LSM
is a aopportlnl ~~bIasIBJs 1nl1iso" '" WIll a I ilIIon&adi1~~tindaga,ciacirb, ~ fBiIhes, -genderindenti1ies, costumes and so forth.

METROPOUTAN TENNISGROUP(MTG) .
Our 200 member lesbian and gay
tennis club includes players frombeginning to tournament level.
Monthly tennis parties. Winterindoor league. Come play withusl For infonnation: MTG, Suite
K63,49&-A Hudson St., New Yol1c,
NY 10025. (718)852-8562.
MOCA (Men of Color AIDS
Prevention Pnlgram.)
Provides safer sex and AIDS
education information to gay andbisexual Men of Color; coordinates a netwol1c of peer-support
groups for gay and bisexual Menof Color in all 5 borougha of New
Yol1cCity303 Ninth Avo, New Yol1c,
NY l00010r can (212)239-1796.
NAnONAL GAY AND LESBIANTASKFORCE
is the national grassroots politicalorganization for lesbians and gay
men. Membership is $3O/year.
Issue-oriented projects addrossviolence, sodomy laws, AIDS, gay
righl& ordinances, femmes, media,
etc.1!1rough lobbying. education,organizing and direct action.
NGLlF 1517 U Street Nw, Washing1Dn, DC:mJ!I. (202~-6483.
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NE11MJIII(NYACNis the CO" I "unity's largest
gay and lesbian professional group,
welcoming all in communications and their friends, Monthly
meetings, 3rd Wed 6:30pm at theCommunity Center. Members'
newslatter, job hotline, annual
diroc1Dry, Phone (212)51HXlIII'for
more info. Mention OutWeek for0118 free nawsl8IIBr.
N,Y.FEMMESSupport and discussion group for
lesbians who ,selfidantify
asFetrme and ani primanly auracted
to butch woman. For membership
information call lisa (212j.829-!II17,
N.y.1IIIOW:N'S SOFT1IAU. GWJ)
For experienced, serious Softball
Phiyers, Coaches and Managers.
We play mod/fast pitch weeke~ds in Manhattan and Queens.
Try-outs begin Feb. 11 thm Aprilor untlllilled. (212)2S5-1379JanetNIVIH SIIIEET CEN1BI
Since 1973, a community dedicated to demonstrating that a homosexual lifestyle is a rational,
desirable choice for individuals
dissatisfied with the rewards ofconvan1illlal illing. Psyc:holo!jcally- focussed rap groups. Tues.. Sat, 8
to 10 pm. peer .counselling available. 319 E. 9 Slraat, Naw York,NY
llDl3, for info cal (212)22&-51!R
NORTII AMERICAN MAf4lBOY
LOVE ASSOCIAnON (NAMBlA)
Dedicated 1D sexual freedom andespecially i'rIImItad i1gay iilBrgooerational ralationslips. Mon1I-Iy 1Mlatin and regular chaplBr meetings
on the first Satlrday d each fTIOIl1h.
Yearly membership is $20; write
NAMBIA PO b 174,Md1lMIn Station, New Yor!(,NY 10018 or call(212)807-8518 for infonnation.
NORTIIERN UGHTSALTERNAT1VES
Improving Quality of life for People with AIDS/HIV, THE AIDS
MASlERY WORKSHOP: Exploring the possibilities of a powerfuland creative life in the face of
AIDS. Call (212) 255-8554,

citizens. Also serves over 180
homebound seniors 8. older
PWA's ,208 West 13th St. NYC
10011, (212) 741-2247
SETHIAN GAYS,
lESBIANS AND BISEXUALSFor all of us interestedinreaching out to each other in
exuberance to spontaneously explore and expand upon
the Seth/Jane
Roberts ·Philosophy· as it realtes to ourlives, personally,.
sexually
and politically. Call AI (212)979-5104
SUNDANCE
OUTDOOR ADVENTURE

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A non-profit club offering Outdoor .activitios for every SBason
including hiking, biking, skiing,water activities and other outdoor ac~vities for the Gay!le&bian community. For infonnationor complimentary Newsletter
call (212)598-4728.

,NYC GAY 8. LESBIANANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT
Counseling, advopacy, and infor. THE OUTREACH
mation for survivors of anti-gay .
USING
and anti-lesbian violen~e, sexual
COMMUNAL HEAUNG
assault, domestic violence; and(TOUCIf).
other types of victimization. All
services free and confidential.24
Community volll11Bers providing ahour hotline (212)80HlI97
weekly buffet supper for theBrooId-,foAIDS community. TOUCHPEOPLE WITH AlQS
meets Monday eves. 5pm to
COAlJTlON
6:3Opm- at downtown Brooldyn(212)532~HlOO-82&-32In'Hot~
Friends Meeting House (110line (212)532-ail8Monday thm friSchennemom St. naar Boerum
day 10am-8pm Meal programs,
Place). Limitsd transporllltion 'lJ8Y
support groups, educational andbe arranged. Info: (718) 822-2156.
referral services for PWA's and
TOUCHwelcomas contiibutions ofPWArc's.
fIIlds, food and voIunI!Iei's.,
PEOPlE WITH AIDS. HEALTH GROUP
Underground buver's club inpor1ing
not-yat-approved medications andnutritional supplements. 31West
261h St. 4th ROOf (212)532-G280

PINK PANTHER PATROLCor Ilmnty street patrol in East and .
West Wage dedicated 1D de1Bning
violent crime agailst gayS aiKIla.

bians. West Village weekly meetings atTues. --;ngs at Cor II"ooity
Center. Call for time and Info: 21241!K163. For East IJilage paI1ioI info,
cal 212-241H&l8.
PROFESSIONALS IN, RlMIVIDEO
338 Canal Street 8th Roor, NYC
10013212-645-3351
QUEERNAnON
The lesbian and Gay direct
action group qedicated to fighting homophobia and Gay andlesbian invisibility. Anyone cansuggest an action and should
coma to meetings propared toorganize and implement it QN,
B~x 1524, Cooper Station, New
York, NY 10003, Call 212-4837208 for meeting info.

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ULSTER COUNTY GAY AND. lESBIAN ALUANCE
Meets first and thir'd Monday ofeach month at 7:30 pm.atthe Uni·blrian Church on Sawkm Road in
Kingston, For Information, call914-<<l6-3203

WHAMI
H•• lth Action And
Mobilization.
A direct action group comniited to demanding, securing anddefending absolute reproductive freedom and quality hea·Jthcare for all women: We meet
every Wed. at 6:30pm at 105; E
22nd Street, 4th floor, 212-713_Mailingaddress: WHAMI,PO Box 733, NYC 10009,
Women'.

WOMENS ALTERNA~,COMMUN ITY CENTER (WACC)
A non-profit, lesbian community center serving Queens, Nassau and Suffolk Counties.
Thurs. night weekly discussion
grolips, 8:30 pm, for otheractivities please conta·ct us at
51&-483-2050.

SAGE:(Senior Adjon i.n. Gay
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l?ocial Service Agency. providing
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Brandy's Piano Bar, 235 E, 84th St., 650-1944
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Johnny's PUb, 123 E. 47th St., 355-8714,

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Trix, 246 W. 48 St. (B'way/8th Ave), 664-8331"

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We seek individuals to fill the following positions:

COORDINATOR, CRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES: Coordinate the activi·
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$5 in; out negotiable. Call John•
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Athletic bodywork frOin boyish 150# 5'.9"
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Also available With Damon. No!)nto 4
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8 • 10:30·pm'he Center
208 West 13th

Bronx
Lesbians
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Bronx Lesbians United in
Sisterhood (BLUS, pronounced"blues'), is a multi~racial group of
women of all ages, committed topromotingsolidarity with, andopening avenues of communication
among lesbians in the Bronx, and theother outer boroughs.

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the lack of a visible and organizedpresence of lesbians in the Bronx,
The group is dedicated to outreach,education, and the identification of
the unique needs of the Bronx lesbian. community. We have targeted thefollowing needs:,

Wednesday,·January 16
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about existing services in otherboroughs, and an assessmentof needed services for thegay and lesbian community
within our borough.

•GAYME·N's HEALTHCRISIS•• Organizing activities and agroup which fosters educational,
cultural and political awareness.
• Outreach to other gay andnon-gay groups alike forcoalition building.

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organmation that will continue to growand change in its efforts, according to
the needs of its members. We invite
you to become part of the effort tomake. the Bronx lesbian community astronger and more visible presence,
We are everywhere and proud to be
Bronx lesbians.

JOIN US!
,We meet in Manhattan & ihe Bronx at.
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The lesbian &: Gay Community Center, 1st &3rd Fridays of every month. 6:30-8:00pm
1 Fordham plaza, 8th Floor,
Bronx AIDS Se"lces Room,
2nd Wed. of every month. 6:30·8:00 pm,

Contact 212/829-9817 or 212/409-1131·\
BLUS P.O. Box 1244. Bronx. NY 10462
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r the. ri" .men - ~rsibili~~dcvcl• If ou're»!lO"'y.0.,~ferablyin N~ ~ me 80""
can talk. Ext. 1240

NJ BM, 30 Y,O., 5'61', 1471bo. loonn.for a fnend. Blac~or Latino for a greattime, have a nice rourd butt. I am. abottom penon and look:i.mt for SOllX()I£with a'J&>dick. Ext. ~3Of,

·CATNIPFOKBLACKCATSonl~!A
supc:r special treat iov!n&.l,Y,.,given'"ahaMs~ ardent GWM: ~ Hr., 155 ,brlbl. topman. Ext. 1308,.

CWM, 34, 150 LBS, S'9"~ hand!lOFDC'!,masc .• top, has performam., DrObIcl!}S,
IOCbCU1c, yng., boltom, 18-3()"'y.o'.l~th
ptticooc to tum me back 00. Ext.UA9

BM, 28... 5'7", 149 LBS, ~fC8S.•loo~ lor Whites Blacksor -Latinos~ll bWlg. tall ;;;;l hand'omefor g;;;;;ltuncs poss. relatu:msh., 18-40 y.o ..
Ext. i300
GWM,37, SEEK.lNG g"!"PS""DC8 andparties. Let's organize it. Iam bot, bl.mg
and well developed! Ext:1302••

GREAT BODY &. GREAT MIND,
secksbot GWM.lam29
160lbo 5'11",
brlbr, ~. aUt., ~.
You: 25-35 y.o.,smooth, hunWdlS,
horny. Ext. 1303.

HAIRY GOODLOOKINGITALIAN,32, 6', 190 Ibsjjlovcs theatre/travel, seeDv.cry' I;flusc: B tyPeS" for ex~ric~hfes'grcatjO)'sorjUSlforfun!"Ext.1301,.

IF YOU LIKE TITS &. BUTT ....thcn
you'lIli~me: 5'8" 35 300 lbo "GM'
who's \Ie . dralsionale 1t1 tot that·ry't'
pashandle·1 IIt ·13~
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GWM,}O, 6'1", handsome. clean c:ul,seeb fnend. lOshow me NYC Gay Scene.
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GWM.
51 y.o,. 5'7', husky '/~ hair. bm e~
MAllC.,
agressl've -typo Y ou: ~SS y.o.
of blDnor. amocre. Serious only! Ext. 1277•
intcll., CI1I~ c"".",,,.. I")". I~ walDo
BOYS AT HEART, especially those and.mol'Cdlvcne.mtcrca~; looking.fora
MADONA &. MARAL YN DOl for me caf1!l&. honc8t\!.UXlCJ'C •. mtcll. rauonal .give II!"
who can or want to sUck tmir oWn dick&. Ella. GWM. boyishMe'real cute GWM 38 'with BilGHM, who'diJe.ctiCll in'fu; life. If ,,~... ~ 8 ..J~~8~;brlbr\~f.,seeks
souDd . ~ Ixdy. lCt's &0 &uY.
you a~ able to laµgb. at life - r,:.ve it a GWM • ..:::u-~J...fit. good ooking. no"Dot
Ext.1306-.
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DCClC8sary. PIcue, DO fC!!ll'} DO drup. I'ATfR
46 YO SUBMITS to maIcI ano.... rall_potlIIC8!!!
1!.X\,126S
GWM,~,SEEKS lifeloog ",Ia~"""mp.- 'BD TM' • L' b· f' . b A.
with GM. 18-28. S' 10- -. small butt, no
JcmaJEi,":'J.Ule Me JclLS +. THREE
FOUR OR MORE! Two fems. airlrwIs, attitude. Ext. 1247
Safe only. DO hcaVlC8. Ext. I264
GWM''-' __ ,L_,~
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THE VERY FATTEST' Goodloo .
oodloo .
for bot li_.
You: HOT MUSC. GBM seeks massive
GWM' 32 5'11' 180 Ib, seeks ~~I<;anc:ul, '~',.goodbod".GiveU8
GBMBB. Me: 30, 1951bo. 5'10'. sexyobese:maSc. guyS, 350 +'. ~ ~igger acall!!
bighollcm. You: 6' +, 230lbo + ..
cbcst &. arms. Ifvou »in me ! I!.xt. 243
you IUC the rUler my call. Ext. 1266"
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bluc eyes, attractive,
athlctic, looking for young goodlooking&.uY witn nice long half.
EXlI.2II3SLAVE WANTED:
Obedience,sincerety, trust, luttnble attitude, mostimportant
begincrs
lnUncd,limitsrc8~ and ~.
Must do what
told!! Ext. 1276,

J. VARGAS! We mel in Hobok. Cal!.
bveyournumbcrthis"timc!!!
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SEND OR FAXl2121. 989·9332 AREA DIALOGUEYOUR AD NOW IT'S PUBLISHED FREE!
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ANYPROBLEMS, CALL CUSTOMER SERVICE 9AM·5PM. M·F 1·212·255·8827

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HI WM,24,5'10",
1M LBS,darkblood,
blue eyes. IXlllorn, secks Puerto Rican,
Domiri.ican, age 18-25, Must be safe anddiscreet. I am new to New York City,
attractive,..All-American-,Midwestern. Exl. 1284
GOOD LOOKING. BOYISH, TRIM,
26 y.o., 1361bs, 5'15". rcdIblord, seeks
30-«> y .'1., al~ractive, prof.1 fot fun.
romance, 1l\telhgcnt conversatlon and hoi.
sex. Ext. 1263

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GWM, seeks a·man
who is cariJ>& &. 10VC8:t<Lgocul' Me'
5'10:, 180lbi,.ble~,
illY·, waiiin&lo
bcwiDcdanddnic02gh\guy!Ext.1305

YOUNG STUDS SOUGIJT! You: i824 :I .0., ~t shaee, clean shaven.
S' 10- +. excel. body intO~,wiki" safe
sex. Me: 27, Gcnnan-Amcncan,
6 ,170Ibs, work-out body, clean shaven, vet)'baridsome. 8- +, UDCUl, army baitcut. s,
Ext. 1139 ',GWM, 32, 6', 185 LBS bmIbm,
goodlooking. gOOdshape,.... iiendowed,,t.aI;an, prof. always bomv. ...bsimilar for s;re horny sex! Ext. 1272

WM,37,S'8",
165LBS, baIdsql£,pm
hair, blue eyes, masculine, H1V +,as~omaticM.D.,
enjoy motorcyclil]g ..gardeging. movie., cooking. No
onc-rugnters. Ex(. 1262

GPRMi.c~,d S'l1", average, blk ~,sta~, . ,lgves beach. ~walb, talb,
relationship oncntcd sceb same, noheavy drogs/.JIlO~rs. Ext. 1282.

NICE JEWISII DOCfOR,
37, y.o.,1)hy,\ci"!,, seeks intelli~enl. goodlookllutt;WM • .u-30 HlY.'W.th.foodbody.1
am 5' 1O~, weh built: Ext. 261

ATTRACfIVE
MAN! lam19,studcnt,
loo!cing fot "attractive Italians who arc
caring, warm, lovin2.life as] do. I am thatsomeone: whO C8.rcsf Ext. 1213

SEXY ·LATINO TOP.SOUGIIT
byelite Oricnlal.botlom,25.
5'1!.·, 130 IbS,·
for hot, fun tunes. You: 2O--'Uy.o.,.nocommitment ncOessary, but discreet.
Ext. 1160•

RAREFINDINNYC!G~,
29,6'1",
165Jbs, bllbl. I am a fit~masc., smartt
handsome, p'=;rsonablcman who's lOts.0~.1 am looking for a lovin& ~lati~hip
WIth another man, race urumportanl.
Ext. 1135

LOOKINGFOR YOUNG,
masc .•.
strai2htlbi men for early ~ormidaayget-to..&cthers,
East
sidc
Manhattan. I am·European, 44, 6'2". 186
lbo. Ext. 1232

DOWN ON YOUR KNEES and "",,0
wide! GWM,.27.
husky wasp nci::ds
regular fro service. You: under 40 y.o:,>dian, pass. rccip., if iI" big young '":::clcan=::.. .:;l'::!xtxt::,...!l26:::!!T_

COCK HUNGRY LATINO, looking
for Bi/GM, 20-40. to fOt'CC feed myhtm&1)' hole. Mc: 6', 170 Ibs, musc.
RCClprocatioo welCOii£/not nee., Will
answerall
serious~pties8,9,10" +extra thick!! Ext. lZ!'9

men. 1"8-22 y.o~oy

COUPLE INTO 3S0MES,
mixtwescan be ~GWM, 30, 5'lO" .. 165N&' G
Indian, 20 •• dark, 5·.·, 150 N. secking
str. acting top, ~40 y.o. Ext. 1239
BEEFY BOY, 26 musc., s~
Irish'!.alian, 5'9', 165lbO.loo~
for Latino,musc., borse-hwg men. Ext. 1234
SAFE
1I0T
GROUP!
Muscular.
altracti." lop, 25. 155 lbo, 5'8". bmlbl,
seeks similar DCK, healthy young guys forsafe fun all togeUler.
Ext. U93

GOODLOOK.lNG
MAN, youthful 34,
New Jersey, 6', 17S Ib8, sensitive.
lookin2. for yOlDl&,s~clean shaYeD.
urdcrwcar, bot.
massage. Ext.
SICILIAN BOTTOM, bot, DOl hung,seeb dom. beer belly aver 210 lbi.
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animal to take care of, only tops
and over 30 y.o.!! Ext. 1.269

CBM,)O,"
170LBS seeksvery:masc,
11IU5C,~lop,dBMlBi. (8.35 y.o., HlV·!
Ext • ..:70.
HISPANlC,U,S'7",1501b8,cducatcd,

handsome, enj9)'s movies, dancin2. sockS
masc. inlell., handsome male.
Ext: 1271

C"ali Me!

.COUPLE INTO 3 AND 4 SOMES!
GWM's,
mid 30's, -bmlred., slim,
attractive, acc~
~ bodys for safe botsex. Exl. 1274

GBM,3?,140LBS~SEEKShuskyWMI
ltalianlPK,
forromanoc:, andpossible relationship.
y hot buns ~... for ~ right hungry person.
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GlN, HlY+, 31,seeks similar. 1 el!i~ theatre, mavic8.
arts. I am S'8-, 140 11::i8. so"let's meet!
F.,1. 1253

nOT JOCK TOP! 30 years old,
goodlooking,lilY·.
sec..
youngerbrother to." submit to LT sPankiil£,
fordling and/or greek:. Ext.

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BOTIO M with slJECr butt desires
dOminant, rnasc. top, lor safe fun. Forcel¥ to wear panties! be rriadc. Ext. 1115

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phobia. Anyone who fights against theideals and assumptions of white, middle-class patriarchy begins to remind us
of ourselves, We willingly embrace andunite with people with whom we may
have little in common except the experience of oppression.
For me as a moviegoer, this means
I often react more strongly to. well-donestraight love stories with some elementof social rebellion than I do to crude,
openly lesbian or gay fllms like Men in
Love or Fun Down Tbere. Among 1990
releases, for instance, I certainly pre..ferred the irreverent wit and romance offor gay desire. Consider Moonstruck andCrossing Delancey, with their upper ..dassprotagonists enchanted by working-classmen, or Sugarbaby, in which a blond
bodybuilder is seduced by that oversizedparagon of non-traditional sexuality, Marianne Saegerbrecht. One of my favorite
examples is the cult and just-plain classic
Harold and Maude, a gleefully twisted
tale of one boy's socially unacceptablesexual awakening. There's a marvelous
triptych near the end of the movie in
The Unbelievable
Truth-aboutawhich Harold's love is cond~mned, instraight couple no one wants to see gettum, by psychiatry, by the military andtogether-tothe frigid depictions of gay
by the church, Screenwriter Colin Higgins(who was gay, I believe) therebysuc. sexuality in . The Kmys or Last Exit to
Brooklyn.
For all the hoopla overcinctly ..representec;f three traditional
opponents of healthy homosexual love,
Henry and june, the June character andtwo of which remain avidly anti-gay
the lesbian-tinged scenes struck me as
almost 20 years later.
absurd caricatures,without sensual
Except when the author is uncloset~
intensity; in contrast, the corny erotied and the metaphor made concrete, as
ciSm of John Waters' Cry-Baby seems aperfect projection of gay wish-fulfillwith Prelude to a Kiss, it's impossible toment, in which we conquer society
judge when the projection of gay desirefrom the outside through the sheer
onto straight relationships is the;,w'~i~ Cifforce of our feelings:
an auteur or only of us voyeurs. It usualI loved Longtime Companion efmal
ly doesn't matter-no
one is going to. scene excepted), but let's face it-themarket a movie like White Palace specifsatisfaction of seeing one couple surically to lesbian and gay viewers, whatvive doesn't change the fact that theever the fllmmaker's intent. Yet among
movie is about AIDS, not about
1990 Hollywood releases, White Palace..best depicted the aching confusion of aromance. For passion, I prefer White
Palace, When I saw that film a couple
person sexually attracted to someoneof months ago at a Cineplex Odious,
society deems inappropriate, as well as
the theater was having projection probthe extreme discomfort of that person's
lems: The soundtrack was tinny, andlover when surroundedby his suspithe focus was· soft. I, on the other hand,cious, alien and even hostile family andhad no projection problems at all~I
friendS. And, happily, White Palace also
knew early on that I'd be casting myself• celebrated the joyful consummation of ain the Susan Sarandon role, complete
desire that has survived and defeatedwith sexual virtuosity. (And why not?)social condemnation,(Of course, theThe political and psychologicalcouple has to move to New York to
inlplications of such projection I leave tolive happily ever after.) Edward Scisothers to consider-I'm
talking about
somands, which can easily be read as aenjoying a well-made movie here, agay parable (spare me the hairdresser
purely hedonistic goal. To that end,
jokes), tackles similar issues of forbidden
mental manipulation of Hollywood's hetdesire but, in its faitytale fashion, forbids
ero fantasies is often more emotionallyseiual consummation, as if its misundergratifying than the latest uncloseted indestood artist -hero were too pure to needpendent feature. Maybe on some· cold
physical love.
winter night, I'll even get up the nerve to
The equation of gay. desire withrent Pretty Woman. I know one or two
sexual repression of other sorts says alesbians who secretly adore the movie.'~
lot about •how we are forced to conBrnce C. Steek is a regular contribstruct our identities in a hostile environutor to OutWeek :s- arts section. He is alsoment, and why our activist groups areactive in the New Yom City gay and ksso often mired in questions of sexism,bian grot!{J Lavender Heigbts,
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